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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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07DHAKA1808 BANGLADESH CYCLONE SIDR SITREP FOR NOVEMBER 19
[...] (U) Summary: The official death toll in Cyclone Sidr rose to about 3,500 by early afternoon November 19, with local media quoting the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society chairman as saying the number could go as high as 10,000. A round-the-clock Embassy cyclone control room is now staffed by State, [...]
2007-11-20 00:49:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1814US MILITARY OPTIONS IN SUPPORT OF USAID/OFDA IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Members of the Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team, Defense Attach, Office of Defense Cooperation chief, USAID/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) and EMBOFF participated in briefings with host Armed Forces Division on 19 NOV, and the same group (less USAID/OFDA) [...]
2007-11-20 17:30:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID SOCI PINR PREL BG
07DHAKA1815 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidhr Assessment Cable #1: USAID/OFDA
[...] Summary. Heavy rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has caused severe flooding and destroyed crops and houses throughout southern Bangladesh, resulting in the death of 2,625 people and affecting more than 4 million others, according to the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the U.N. World Food [...]
2007-11-20 18:37:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1816 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidhr Assessment Cable #1: USAID/OFDA
[...] Summary. Heavy rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has caused severe flooding and destroyed crops and houses throughout southern Bangladesh, resulting in the death of 2,625 people and affecting more than 4 million others, according to the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the U.N. World Food [...]
2007-11-21 01:29:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1817 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidhr Assessment Cable #1: USAID/OFDA
[...] Summary. Heavy rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has caused severe flooding and destroyed crops and houses throughout southern Bangladesh, resulting in the death of 2,625 people and affecting more than 4 million others, according to the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the U.N. World Food [...]
2007-11-21 04:12:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1818 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidhr Assessment Cable #1: USAID/OFDA
[...] Summary. Heavy rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has caused severe flooding and destroyed crops and houses throughout southern Bangladesh, resulting in the death of 2,625 people and affecting more than 4 million others, according to the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the U.N. World Food [...]
2007-11-21 07:34:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1819 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidhr Assessment Cable #1: USAID/OFDA
[...] Summary. Heavy rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has caused severe flooding and destroyed crops and houses throughout southern Bangladesh, resulting in the death of 2,625 people and affecting more than 4 million others, according to the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the U.N. World Food [...]
2007-11-21 08:20:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1820 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidhr Assessment Cable #1: USAID/OFDA
[...] Summary. Heavy rainfall from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has caused severe flooding and destroyed crops and houses throughout southern Bangladesh, resulting in the death of 2,625 people and affecting more than 4 million others, according to the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the U.N. World Food [...]
2007-11-21 09:13:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1822ADDITIONAL LEAHY VETTING FOR UNITED NATIONS STAFF
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the United Nations Staff Officers Course to be held December 2 - 13, 2007 in Rajendrapur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Post vetting was completed on November 14, 2007. Post requests that vett [...]
2007-11-21 10:12:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1823ADDITIONAL LEAHY VETTING FOR UNITED NATIONS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the United Nations Logistics Officers Course to be held December 2 - 13, 2007 in Rajendrapur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Post vetting was completed on November 15, 2007. Post requests that [...]
2007-11-21 10:12:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1826BANGLADESH REQUESTS IMMEDIATE US MILITARY SUPPORT FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. CDA a.i. received a broad request from the GOB for immediate U.S. military resources to participate in the response to Cyclone Sidr. U.S. military planners already present in Bangladesh will now begin developing specific operational plans for implementing this request in conjun [...]
2007-11-21 12:59:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID SOCI PINR PREL BG
07DHAKA1830 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #2: USAID/DART's
[...] Summary. Storm surge from Tropical Cyclone Sidr has affected more than 1.5 million families in Bangladesh as of November 22. Although the Government of Bangladesh's (GOB) early warning and preparedness programs have significantly reduced the humanitarian impact of the cyclone, severe rainfall [...]
2007-11-22 13:17:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1832 DIRECTOR OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE VISITS BANGLADESH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore November 20 visited Bangladesh to assess damage from Cyclone Sidr and offer USG support for relief efforts. During her visit she conducted an aerial survey of cyclone-hit regions, met with the Bangladesh [...]
2007-11-23 11:17:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL OVIP ECON PINR EAGR SENV BG
07DHAKA1833IMPRESSIONS FOLLOWING OVERFLIGHT OF SIDR AFFECTED AREAS
[...] SUMMARY: DATT, Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) Chief, CONOff and six members of III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF)'s Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team (HAST),accompanied by a Bangladesh military officer, November 20 flew in a host nation military helicopter to survey damage from [...]
2007-11-24 15:48:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SOCI PNR PREL BG
07DHAKA1834IMPRESSIONS FOLLOWING OVERFLIGHT OF SIDR AFFECTED AREAS
[...] SUMMARY: DATT, Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) Chief, CONOff and six members of III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF)'s Humanitarian Assistance Survey Team (HAST),accompanied by a Bangladesh military officer, November 20 flew in a host nation military helicopter to survey damage from [...]
2007-11-24 15:48:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SOCI PINR PREL BG
07DHAKA1835 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #3: The Impact
[...] Summary. In response to Tropical Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, USAID deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) to assess the humanitarian situation on the ground, provide recommendations on priority needs, and coordinate relief efforts with the U.S. Department of Defense, USAID/B [...]
2007-11-24 15:48:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1836FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION: PLANNING FOR THE NEXT
[...] (SBU) Summary: In only a week's time, the United States has been able to develop and implement an impressive humanitarian response to the devastation caused by Cyclone Sidr, which laid waste to large stretches of Bangladesh's southwestern coastal region when it made landfall on November 15 [...]
2007-11-24 15:51:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBG EAID MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PINR PREL
07DHAKA1837BANGLADESH CHIEF ADVISOR STRESSES CARETAKER
[...] (C) Summary: During an hour long one on one meeting, on the eve of Cyclone Sidr's arrival November 15, Fakhruddin Ahmed( Bangladesh,s Chief Advisor explained his goals for the caretaker government and asked for inturoational support for the massive reforms underway. Frank and open, he came a [...]
2007-11-25 11:45:00Embassy DhakaSECRETKDEM PGOV PHUM PINR BG
07DHAKA1838 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #4: The Adverse
[...] Summary. In response to Tropical Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, USAID deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) to assess the humanitarian situation on the ground, provide recommendations on priority needs, and coordinate relief efforts with the U.S. Department of Defense, USAID/B [...]
2007-11-25 13:10:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1843BANGLADESHI MEDIA FEELING HEAT FROM CARETAKER
[...] (C) Summary: Bangladeshi media are under pressure. The Caretaker Government and especially the military apply pressure -- usually discreetly but sometimes not -- to limit coverage that is critical or provokes opposition to their policies. In recent months, authorities have shut down an all- [...]
2007-11-26 10:27:00Embassy DhakaSECRETBG KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR
07DHAKA1847 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #5: USAID/DART
[...] Summary. Tropical Cyclone Sidr made landfall in southern Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, leading to 3,061 deaths, affecting more than 6.8 million people, and damaging more than 1.2 million homes, according to the Government of Bangladesh's (GOB) Disaster Management Bureau and the U.N. World F [...]
2007-11-26 11:59:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1848JOINT INTERAGENCY PLANNING MEETING BETWEEN USG AND GOB TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Planners from the US military elements in Bangladesh and, along with representatives from USAID's Bangladesh mission, USAID/OFDA, and DOS attended a joint, interagency planning and coordination meeting with the Bangladeshi military and civilian agencies November 25 at Armed For [...]
2007-11-27 00:39:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID SOCI PINR PREL BG
07DHAKA1860 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #6: Summary of
[...] Summary. The impact of Tropical Cyclone Sidr in southern Bangladesh has led to 3,243 deaths, affected more than 7 million people, and damaged more than 1.2 million homes, according to the Government of Bangladesh's (GOB) Disaster Management Bureau and the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) as of No [...]
2007-11-27 13:16:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1870 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #7: USAID/DART
[...] Summary. In conjunction with USAID/Bangladesh and the Government of Bangladesh's (GOB) Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE),USAID's Disaster Response Team (USAID/DART) assessed water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions in Dublar Char, Khulna Division, which the Bangladesh military i [...]
2007-11-29 12:04:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1879 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #8: USAID/DART's
[...] Summary. From November 28 to December 2, the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) advisor from USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART),along with a USAID/DART communications officer and staff from USAID/Bangladesh, traveled to cyclone-affected areas in Barisal, Patuakhali, Khu [...]
2007-12-02 13:54:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1882FOOD SITUATION - CDA, A.I. MEETING WITH FOOD AND
[...] (C) Summary: CDA a.i. and ADCM met with the top civilian officials of Bangladesh,s Ministry of Food and Disaster Management. They reviewed current food shortage statistics and causes. The GoB officials explained that without sufficient Government food stocks, open market prices for grain are [...]
2007-12-03 08:10:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON POL BG
07DHAKA1884LEAHY VETTING FOR COMBINED STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Combined Strategic Intelligence Course to be held January 10 - February 29, 2008 at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, DC. Post vetting was completed on December 3, 2007. P [...]
2007-12-03 10:07:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1885 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #9: Shelter and
[...] The USAID'S Disaster Assistance Response Team's (USAID/DART) shelter and livelihoods advisor recently completed a three-day assessment in the cyclone-affected districts of Bagerhat and Pirojpur. These two districts, along with Borguna and Paktuakhali, are among the districts hardest hit by Cyc [...]
2007-12-03 12:54:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1890SEDITION TRIAL AGAINST JOURNALIST (ONCE AGAIN) SET
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The sedition trial of journalist Salahuddin Shoaib Choudhury is percolating again, with a new trial start date set for December 5. There are two avenues for dismissal of the case: the government drops the charges, or Choudhury prevails in his appeal to the High Court Appellate Bra [...]
2007-12-04 10:47:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PINR BG
07DHAKA1891 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #10: USAID/OFDA
[...] Summary. To reduce the effects of perennial flooding and cyclones in Bangladesh, USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) has invested in preparedness and mitigation programs for a number of years, including the pre-positioning of water purification units to provide clea [...]
2007-12-04 11:50:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA1899LEAHY VETTING FOR SIGNAL CAPTAIN CAREER COURSE,
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Combined Strategic Intelligence Course to be held January 15 - July 10, 2008 at Fort Gordon, Georgia. Post vetting was completed on December 5, 2007. Post requests that vetting [...]
2007-12-06 10:30:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1900LEAHY VETTING FOR SPECIALISED ENGLISH LANGUAGE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Specialised English La.guage Training to be held January 9 - March 14 at Lackland Air Force Base, TX and the Expolsive Ordnance Disposal Course to be held March 15 - October 9, 2 [...]
2007-12-06 10:30:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1902DEFINING THE USG ROLE AS BANGLADESH BEGINS ITS
[...] (C) Summary: The prompt and effective response to Cyclone Sidr's devastation has saved many thousands of lives and averted a potential political crisis for Bangladesh's weak Caretaker Government. The USG response during this initial phase was a model of Diplomacy-Defense-Development workin [...]
2007-12-06 11:11:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALBG EAID MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PINR PREL
07DHAKA1903BANGLADESH'S POST-CYCLONE ECONOMY: DOWN BUT NOT OUT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Cyclone Sidr couldn,t have come at a worse time for Bangladesh,s economy. When the storm hit on November 15, Bangladesh already was suffering from weak export markets, debilitating inflation, meager investment and an agriculture industry reeling from severe monsoon flooding. Eco [...]
2007-12-06 11:12:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDBG EAID ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR PGOV PINR
07DHAKA1910ANTI-TERRORISM LEGISLATION FACES HURDLES,
[...] (C) Summary: Prepared with USG assistance, a series of amendments that would strengthen Bangladesh,s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Act and a draft Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) are being held up in the Law Ministry, in contravention of instructions from the Chief Adviser that they be enacted by the [...]
2007-12-09 09:39:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER PREL PGOV KCRM KTFN SNAR BG
07DHAKA1914 Country Team, USAID/DART, and U.S. Military Coordination
[...] Summary. In response to Tropical Cyclone Sidr in southern Bangladesh, the U.S. Government (USG) organized an interagency response under the leadership of the Department of State that included contributions from USAID and the Department of Defense (DOD). USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Te [...]
2007-12-10 03:14:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA192AMBASSADOR CALLS ON ADVISORS FOR EDUCATION AND
[...] (SBU) The Ambassador and USAID officer (note taker) met separately on January 31 with Geeteara Safiya Choudhury, Advisor for Industries, Jute and Textiles, Social Welfare, and Women and Children's Affairs and with Ayub Quatri, Advisor for Education, Primary and Mass Education and Cultural A [...]
2007-02-05 07:54:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID KDEM BG
07DHAKA1920INDIAN EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER VISITS BANGLADESH
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee December 2 visited cyclone-affected areas of Bangladesh and met with government leaders to discuss bilateral issues including trade, water-sharing and security. Mukherjee announced a temporary waiver of India's ban on rice exports [...]
2007-12-11 03:37:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ECON EAGR BG
07DHAKA1921GOB and Political Party Representatives in Barisal talk
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Local government and political party officials in Barisal gave positive reviews of the Government of Bangladesh's initial response to Cyclone Sidr, as well as the role played by the U.S. Government, including the U.S. military. The Barisal branches of the main political parties [...]
2007-12-11 03:37:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV SOCI PINR PREL BG
07DHAKA1925 USAID/OFDA Cyclone Sidr Situation Report #11:
[...] Summary. With the approach of the one-month anniversary of the November 15 cyclone in Bangladesh as well as improvements in humanitarian indicators, USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) will demobilize. USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) will now [...]
2007-12-11 10:13:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ASEC CASC AMGT SOCI ECON PINR EAGR SENV
07DHAKA193COURTESY CALL BY AMBASSADOR WITH ADVISER FOR LOCAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Adviser for Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives, and Labor and Employment looks forward to continued donor support for development, described his efforts to curb corruption, and affirmed the government's commitment to holding elections as soon as possible. E [...]
2007-02-05 07:55:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV ELAB BG
07DHAKA1932VOTER REGISTRATION CONTINUES TO MOVE FORWARD
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Voter registration is continuing apace, although delays because of slow procurements and Cyclone Sidr have brought the project back into line with its original schedule and future significant delays could jeopardize the government's elections timeline. On the ground, the registra [...]
2007-12-13 03:42:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA1933Trip Report- from Barisal through SidrQs destruction to
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Three weeks after cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh, the response has transitioned from the critical first phase, which included U.S. military aircraft assisting in relief supply movement, to the second phase, which will be more centered on longer-term rebuilding and economic rehab [...]
2007-12-13 04:06:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID SOCI PINR PREL BG
07DHAKA1944PRESIDENT PARDONS RAJSHAHI PROFESSORS AS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On December 10, President Iajuddin Ahmed granted clemency to four Rajshahi University professors convicted of violating the Emergency Powers Rules by fomenting student protests in August. The families of four Dhaka University professors being held on the same charges are hoping [...]
2007-12-17 11:12:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA1952007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - BANGLADESH
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-05 09:03:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV OPIC KTDB USTR BG
07DHAKA1950TWO NEW STUDIES SHINE LIGHT ON PUBLIC OPINION IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Two recent studies -- a statistical poll conducted by the country's largest Bangla-language daily, Prothom Alo, and a new perception study by the Asia Foundation -- cast some light on public opinion as we approach the one-year anniversary of the state of emergency. The two compl [...]
2007-12-18 11:02:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA1953GOVERNMENT, EMBASSY LIAISONS HOLD FIRST MEETING ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY. At a meeting on December 13, the Bangladesh government's designated point of contact on Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-related issues agreed, in principle, to share names of those officers disciplined for "gross human rights offenses." He also shared statistics on those disciplined, [...]
2007-12-18 11:34:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA1955LEAHY VETTING FOR SQUADRON OFFICER SCHOOL AT
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Squadron Officer School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama from February 20 - May 16, 2008. Post requests that vetting be completed by January 25, 2007, to provide sufficient tim [...]
2007-12-19 05:14:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1959RESPONSE TO 2007 DOL REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON
[...] SUMMARY: This cable responds to a request for information regarding child labor in Bangladesh. (REFTEL) Post is forwarding other primary sources of information by email and courier directly to the Department of Labor. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) The following sections repeat the original query f [...]
2007-12-19 09:27:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ELAB KOCI PHUM SOCI AA BG
07DHAKA1973LEAHY VETTING FOR MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CAPTAIN
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Military Intelligence Captain Career Course at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona from March 24 - September 22, 2008. Post vetting was completed on December 26, 2007.Post requests that vetti [...]
2007-12-27 02:26:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1974LEAHY VETTING FOR ATA CRISIS RESPONSE COURSE,
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following 24 candidates have been selected for participation in the ATA Crisis Response Course to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in January 2008. Post vetting was completed on December 23, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by Jan [...]
2007-12-27 02:33:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1978GOVERNMENT ADVISER RESIGNS OVER STOLEN ARTIFACTS
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Two priceless 7th century artifacts en route to an exhibit in Paris disappeared from Zia International Airport cargo facilities December 23. Bangladesh,s contribution of artifacts to the Paris exhibition has been the subject of months of controversy here. In response, on Decembe [...]
2007-12-27 09:22:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA1979SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL WILLARD'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at the one-year mark of the Caretaker Government as Bangladesh begins to rehabilitate areas of the country hit by Cyclone Sidr, while at the same time continues to prepare for nationwide elections at the end of 2008. Bangladesh largely survived the immediate cri [...]
2007-12-27 11:09:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON PGOV PREL MOPS BG
07DHAKA198SENIOR FIGURES FROM BOTH PARTIES ARRESTED
[...] (C) Summary. Seven former ministers and at least nine other senior figures from both major political parties have been arrested, apparently on suspicion of corruption. Tariq Rahman, the son of the former prime minister, is reportedly hunkered down at home and may face imminent arrest. Popula [...]
2007-02-05 12:04:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM BG
07DHAKA1985UNHCR DISCUSSES LONG-TERM PLAN TO RESOLVE ROHINGYA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. At a recent meeting, UNHCR and representatives of concerned embassies discussed ways of moving towards a long-term resolution to the Rohingya refugee situation. With a non-political caretaker government in power, the group noted this may be an opportunity to push for a final reso [...]
2007-12-31 09:42:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PREF BG
07DHAKA1986CORRUPTION TRIAL AGAINST SHEIKH HASINA CONTINUES
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The corruption trial of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League recommenced with hearings on the framing of charges, when the prosecution presented its evidence for defense examination. Sheikh Hasina used her courtroom appearance to pass a public message through he [...]
2007-12-31 09:52:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA1987BANGLADESH: COMMITTEE FOR THE ELIMINATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-31 10:05:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNGA
07DHAKA237MEETING WITH HOME SECRETARY KARIM
[...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging meeting the Charge d'Affaires a.i. and the Home Secretary discussed USG concerns over recent changes in Bangladesh's visa regime for visitors, U.S.- GOB counterterrorism cooperation, the recent wave of anti-corruption arrests, allegations of police torture, the s [...]
2007-02-12 02:33:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPREL PGOV PTER KDEM BG
07DHAKA24AMBASSADOR AND BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION MET WITH
[...] (C) The Ambassador and British High Commissioner Anwar Chowdhury met with Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on January 6. They apprised her of approaches made to them by prominent Awami League (AL) members, supposedly backed by a faction within the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP),ad [...]
2007-01-07 11:52:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BG
07DHAKA241TERRORIST FINANCE: HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL
[...] (S/NF) Per Ref A request, Post assessed whether the GOB would object to U.S. designation of Human Appeal International (Human Appeal) under E.O. 13224 and/or UNSCR 1267. Post does not believe the GOB would object to designation under either authority. 2. (S/NF) According to information in [...]
2007-02-12 09:11:00Embassy DhakaSECRET//NOFORNEFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL ECON
07DHAKA244KHALEDA ZIA FRETS ABOUT ARRESTS
[...] (C) Summary. Beleaguered ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia told Ambassador that "most" of her senior figures arrested on corruption suspicions are innocent, complained that Awami League "godfathers" of violence have avoided arrest, and reiterated that her party wants elections within six months. [...]
2007-02-12 10:13:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PHUM BG
07DHAKA25AWAMI LEAGUE LED NATIONWIDE BLOCKADE OBSERVED WITH
[...] (U) Summary: As of 1800 local, the first day of a planned three-day Awami League led nationwide blockade forced shops and businesses in Dhaka to close and stopped intra-city traffic, but triggered only sporadic clashes with police, limited injuries and no deaths. Chittagong port was operationa [...]
2007-01-07 12:35:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM BG
07DHAKA2522006 END USE MONITORING REPORT
[...] Per reftel A, Econoff visited the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) laboratory in Dhaka on February 12 to verify the INL-funded equipment and discuss their use in the lab. The DNC was helpful in arranging the visit and the lab's chief and his deputy were cooperative and willing to answer a [...]
2007-02-14 06:44:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR AFIN BG
07DHAKA254HASINA GIVES GOVERNMENT 120 DAYS TO HOLD ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary. Sheikh Hasina says the interim government has 120 days -- the constitutional duration of the state of emergency -- to hold elections and prevent her supporters from hitting the streets. She dismissed rumors of her imminent self-exile and the political potential of Nobel prize la [...]
2007-02-14 09:32:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KGOV BG
07DHAKA275GOVERNMENT TAKES STEPS AGAINST LABOR TRAFFICKING,
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Government officials and international organization representatives take seriously allegations of labor trafficking and migrant labor violations. The Home Ministry asked for more information on specific allegations, and agreed to follow up with the inter-ministerial anti-traffick [...]
2007-02-19 11:36:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCOR KDEM KCRM KWMN KFRD PREF ELAB BG
07DHAKA283BANGLADESHIS STILL UPBEAT ABOUT GOVERNMENT BUT
[...] (S) Summary. Bangladeshis remain highly supportive of their government's reformist agenda, but the success of its anti-corruption drive is critical -- if the drive falters, so does the rationale for delaying elections and hobbling political parties. Government hints of an election in late 200 [...]
2007-02-20 10:12:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPGOV PREL KDEN BG
07DHAKA2842007 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW - BANGLADESH
[...] Summary: Bangladesh is establishing the legal framework needed to comply with its obligations under the TRIPS agreement, but has not yet implemented the patent or trademark provisions of TRIPS. Although new laws have been drafted, they have not been enacted. Enforcement of intellectual pro [...]
2007-02-20 10:37:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON KIPR BG
07DHAKA289INDIAN VISIT SIGNALS SUPPORT FOR BANGLADESH
[...] (C) Summary. The Indian foreign minister's upbeat visit to Dhaka has fueled Pakistani apprehensions that Indian influence is on the rise in Dhaka. Under these circumstances, it is hard to see the Indian government, widely perceived to be very close to the Awami League, supporting Sheikh Hasi [...]
2007-02-22 10:49:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BG
07DHAKA299CODEL CHABOT MEETS WITH HASINA AND ZIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia reiterated to Congressman Chabot their desire for prompt elections, supported anti-corruption in principle but objected to the mechanics of the current campaign, complained the government ignores them, maintained party reform is already underway, and [...]
2007-02-25 08:17:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BG
07DHAKA301BANGLADESH: DEMARCHE ON U.S. WTO TAFT GOODS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-25 09:07:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD WTO BG
07DHAKA305CONGRESSMAN CHABOT CALLS ON ACTING FOREIGN AFFAIRS
[...] (C) Summary. The acting Foreign Affairs adviser told Congressman Chabot that the government is committed to early elections once the proper environment is in place, assured him that journalist Shoaib Chowdhury would receive fair treatment, and hoped that new visa requirements for visitors in B [...]
2007-02-26 00:51:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CVIS CASC BG
07DHAKA309COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR RLA NANCY LANGSTON
[...] Country clearance is requested for Nancy Langston, Regional Legal Advisor with the Department of Justice, to travel to New Delhi, India, from February 27 - March 2, 2007, in connection with the Indo-US Counterterrorism Working Group meeting. 2. Traveler information follows: Name: Nancy L [...]
2007-02-26 03:17:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA KJUS BG
07DHAKA311ARMY CHIEF ENVISIONS ELECTIONS IN 18-24 MONTHS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-26 05:53:00Embassy DhakaSECRETMARR PGOV PREL KDEM BG
07DHAKA32AMBASSADOR AND BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER MEET WITH
[...] (C) The Ambassador and British High Commissioner Anwar Chowdhury met with Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on January 6. They apprised her of approaches made to them by prominent Awami League (AL) members, supposedly backed by a faction within the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP),ad [...]
2007-01-08 11:28:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BG
07DHAKA329ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION PLOWS AHEAD
[...] (SBU) Summary. The reconstituted Anti-Corruption Commission is off to a quick start. It summoned 50 individuals to its office to declare their wealth, threatened arrest if declarations were found to be false, arrested seven individuals even after they made their declarations, and announced pl [...]
2007-02-28 07:53:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA33NATIONWIDE BLOCKADE CONTINUES
[...] (C) Summary: The AL-led alliance's nationwide blockade continued for a second day as police and protesters clashed in Dhaka and roads in and out of Dhaka remain blocked. Police reported protesters used small bombs equivalent to large firecrackers and, in one instance, police received small wea [...]
2007-01-08 13:02:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER CASC BG
07DHAKA333DEBATE OVER DETENTION OF ALLEGED CRIME LORDS
[...] (SBU) Summary. The appellate panel of the Supreme Court has stayed a lower court order to release four of the dozens of people detained on corruption suspicions. The government's appeal against the original order is scheduled for March 5. End Summary 2. (SBU): On February 28, a Supreme Cou [...]
2007-02-28 09:32:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM BG
07DHAKA335BANGLADESH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] This Anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report covers efforts by the Bangladeshi government (GOB) from March 2006 to March 2007, and address the questions submitted to Post by G/TIP (reftel). Paragraph two begins text. Embassy point of contact is Luke Zahner, Political Officer, telephone: 880- [...]
2007-03-01 02:10:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BG
07DHAKA34NATIONWIDE BLOCKADE CONTINUES
[...] (C) Summary: The AL-led alliance's nationwide blockade continued for a second day as police and protesters clashed in Dhaka and roads in and out of Dhaka remain blocked. Police reported protesters used small bombs equivalent to large firecrackers and, in one instance, police received small wea [...]
2007-01-08 23:58:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER CASC BG
07DHAKA342AMBITIOUS ARMY PROPOSAL FOR NATIONAL VOTER ID CARD
[...] (S/NF) Summary. An ambitious army proposal for a national voter ID card could, if accepted, further delay elections. End summary. 2. (S/NF) Post has obtained a Bangladesh army proposal for creating national and voter identification cards that was presented on February 17 to Chief Advisor Fa [...]
2007-03-01 08:30:00Embassy DhakaSECRET//NOFORNKDEM PGOV MARR PREL BG
07DHAKA349HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Military Intelligence Captain Career Course being conducted at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, from April 9 to September 24, 2007. Post vetting was completed on March 4, 2007. Post requ [...]
2007-03-04 08:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA35HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR BALANCED BUFFALO COURSE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following units have been selected for participation in the 2007 Balance Buffalo exercise in Sylhet, Bangladesh from April 23 to May 22, 2007. Post vetting was completed on January 3, 2007. Post requests the department conduct Leahy vettin [...]
2007-01-09 05:01:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA350HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Air Defense Artillery Captain Career Course being conducted at Fort Bliss, Texas, from April 16 to October 4, 2007. Post vetting was completed on March 4, 2007. Post requests t [...]
2007-03-04 08:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA351HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR PACIFIC AREA SPECIAL
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Pacific Area Special Training Course being held in Honolulu, Hawaii from April 10-13, 2007. Post vetting was completed on March 4, 2007. Post requests that vetting be complete [...]
2007-03-04 08:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA352HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR APCSS COURSE, APRIL 11 -
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction (SSTR) course to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, from April 11 - May 10, 2007. [...]
2007-03-04 08:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA353HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR EXECUTIVE SEMINAR ON
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Near East/South Asia Center (NESA) Executive Seminar on Combatting Terrorism to be held in Washington, DC, from April 10-25, 2007. Post vetting was completed on March 4, 2007. P [...]
2007-03-04 08:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA365FORMER GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE RELEASED ON BAIL
[...] (C) Police told embassy contacts that on February 28 former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mubarak Hussain was released on bail from Dhaka Central Jail. The charge of violating Bangladeshi immigrations laws for entering the country without a passport is still pending. No trial date has been set. [...]
2007-03-05 09:28:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKAWC PTER PREL PHUM BG
07DHAKA367FORMER GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEE RELEASED ON BAIL
[...] (C) Police told embassy contacts that on February 28 former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mubarak Hussain was released on bail from Dhaka Central Jail. The charge of violating Bangladeshi immigrations laws for entering the country without a passport is still pending. No trial date has been set. [...]
2007-03-05 23:58:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKAWC PTER PREL PHUM BG
07DHAKA38COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR RLA NANCY LANGSTON
[...] This is an action request (please see paragraphs 2 - 5). 2. Country clearance is requested for Nancy Langston, Regional Legal Advisor with the Department of Justice, to travel to Kathmandu, Nepal to prepare a Trafficking in Persons (TIP) program from January 14 - 20, 2007. 3. Country cle [...]
2007-01-09 09:58:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA KJUS BG
07DHAKA381TERRORIST FINANCE: BANGLADESH ADDRESSES ILLEGAL
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered points reftel to Mr. Swapan Bishwas, Deputy General Manager, Anti-money Laundering Department of the Bangladesh Bank (the country's central bank). Mr. Biswaw affirmed Bangladesh's commitment to preventing the illegal movement of currency. He cited the following as ev [...]
2007-03-07 05:33:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER LE BG
07DHAKA39AMBASSADOR AND BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER MEET
[...] (C) Summary: In a January 7 meeting the Ambassador and the BHC advised Khaleda Zia of approaches by some within the political parties advocating scenarios, backed by the military, to force Zia and Hasina into political exile. Although acknowledging some dissent within the party, Zia bristl [...]
2007-01-09 11:10:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BG
07DHAKA396TARIQUE RAHMAN AND OTHERS ARRESTED;
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-11 09:27:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM BG
07DHAKA41RAB MAKES SEVERAL JMB ARRESTS - INVESTIGATIONS
[...] (C) On January 7, members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) raided at least four separate locations in Narayanganj, which is an area approximately 15-20 miles southeast of Dhaka and arrested six members of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). The raids were based on information derived from [...]
2007-01-09 11:49:00Embassy DhakaSECRET//NOFORNPTER PGOV PREL KISL BG
07DHAKA410GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES STRICT ENFORCEMENT OF
[...] (U) The Caretaker Government on March 8 announced it would strictly enforce the ban on political activities until further notice, effective immediately. The announcement effectively shuttered party offices and ended the government's informal tolerance of limited political meetings and "ind [...]
2007-03-12 08:59:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA411MILITARY-LED BODY TO COMBAT CRIMES AND CORRUPTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-12 09:05:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM BG
07DHAKA412 BANGLADESH REPORTS ON UN DEMOCRACY FUND
[...] SUMMARY. One project in Bangladesh was awarded under the United Nations Democracy Fund, the "Clean Candidate, Clean Election Campaign, 2006" proposed by Brotee Samaj Kallyan Sangstha. The project is on hold, however, because the elections scheduled for January 22, 2007 in Bangladesh were can [...]
2007-03-12 09:06:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL UN NGO OIIP BG
07DHAKA413JOURNALIST SHOAIB CHOUDHURY'S TRIAL POSTPONED
[...] (SBU) The sedition trial of journalist Shoaib Choudhury, scheduled to start March 8, was postponed to April 23 after the court accepted a last minute, hand-written petition by Shoaib's lawyer to stay the trial until the High Court ruled on a separate, pending petition in the case. A hearin [...]
2007-03-12 10:59:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA422BANGLADESH: SANCTIONS FOR PURCHASING CONTROLLED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-13 09:12:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPARM PREL ETTC IR BG
07DHAKA423SHEIKH HASINA TO TRAVEL TO THE U.S.
[...] (C) Summary. Sheikh Hasina told us that after a three-week visit with family in the U.S., she will return to Bangladesh, even if she has to smuggle herself across the border. End Summary. 2. (C) On March 13, Awami League President Sheikh Hasina came to the Embassy to renew her visa and pay [...]
2007-03-13 10:16:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM BG
07DHAKA428 EMBASSY DHAKA OBSERVES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
[...] Summary: In commemoration of International Women's Day, Embassy Dhaka released an Op-Ed by the Chief of Mission, held a Gender and Development Fair, and will co-host a "Women Working Together" program with six other missions. End Summary. 2. Embassy drafted an Op-Ed in the Ambassador's name [...]
2007-03-14 23:59:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM BG KWMN
07DHAKA43BANGABHABAN BLOCKADE
[...] (SBU) The Awami League (AL) led alliance's nationwide blockade entered its third and final day on January 9 with the focus shifting to an attempted blockade of the Presidential compound, Bangabhaban, located in southwest Dhaka. In the early morning, scores of police and soldiers surrounded Ban [...]
2007-01-09 12:13:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA44RAB ARRESTS 2 MORE JMB MEMBERS, SEIZES EXPLOSIVES
[...] (U) Television news carried reports today (January 10) of a Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) raid at 0400 local time that two men were arrested and explosives seized near the diplomatic area. This follows other recent arrests of JMB members on December 29 and January 7. (reftel) 2. (S) The t [...]
2007-01-10 09:54:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPTER PGOV PREL KISL BG
07DHAKA445RIHS REGISTRATION RENEWED
[...] (SBU) On March 13, local media reported that the the NGO Affairs Bureau of the GOB has renewed for five years the registration of the local chapter of the Kuwait-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS). 2. (SBU) We are attempting to confirm this report with GOB officials. Meanwhil [...]
2007-03-15 09:53:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER KCRM PREL BG
07DHAKA446RIHS REGISTRATION RENEWED
[...] (SBU) On March 13, local media reported that the the NGO Affairs Bureau of the GOB has renewed for five years the registration of the local chapter of the Kuwait-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS). 2. (SBU) We are attempting to confirm this report with GOB officials. Meanwhil [...]
2007-03-16 06:43:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER KCRM PREL BG
07DHAKA447RIHS REGISTRATION RENEWED
[...] (SBU) On March 13, local media reported that the the NGO Affairs Bureau of the GOB has renewed for five years the registration of the local chapter of the Kuwait-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS). 2. (SBU) We are attempting to confirm this report with GOB officials. Meanwhil [...]
2007-03-16 06:43:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER KCRM PREL BG
07DHAKA457BUSINESSMEN AND POLITICIANS REACTION TO SECOND
[...] (C) Summary. Businessmen are starting to express concern about the lack of transparency with the government's anti-corruption lists, particularly as they pertain to several well-regarded businessmen. Meanwhile, an Awami League politician says his inclusion on the lists is being used by senior [...]
2007-03-19 09:28:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKCRM KDEM PREL PGOV BD
07DHAKA458BNP SECRETARY GENERAL OUT TO REPLACE ZIA
[...] (C) Summary: BNP Secretary General Bhuiyan confirmed to us he aspires to take over the leadership of his party once the military persuades Chairperson Khaleda Zia to leave Bangladesh. He is also considering leading a new national government, replacing the current caretaker regime, to carry ou [...]
2007-03-19 10:17:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM BG
07DHAKA459BUSINESSMEN AND POLITICIANS REACTION TO SECOND
[...] (C) Summary. Businessmen are starting to express concern about the lack of transparency with the government's anti-corruption lists, particularly as they pertain to several well-regarded businessmen. Meanwhile, an Awami League politician says his inclusion on the lists is being used by senior [...]
2007-03-19 23:49:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKCRM KDEM PREL PGOV BD
07DHAKA460BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT RENEWS RIHS REGISTRATION
[...] (SBU) On March 20, NGO Affairs Bureau Assistant Director A.K.M. Humanyun Kabir confirmed to us that his agency had renewed the registration of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA) gave its concurrence (reftel). Kabir said that the GOB never [...]
2007-03-20 10:21:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER KCRM PGOV PREL BG
07DHAKA476ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN DEFENDS
[...] (C) Summary: Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Hosain Mashhud Chowdhury unequivocally maintained that the ACC has a solid basis for investigating each of the 100 individuals identified in two lists of individuals suspected of corruption. During a March 19 meeting with the Ambassador and [...]
2007-03-22 07:35:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA480BANGLADESH'S FIRST CONFIRMED CASE OF AVIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 22, Bangladesh announced its first confirmed case of Avian Influenza (H5N1). The GOB has taken preliminary steps to address the avian influenza infection discovered at a commercial poultry farm north of Dhaka. With NO/NO human infection in Bangladesh and NO/NO additi [...]
2007-03-23 10:58:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALTBIO KFLU BG
07DHAKA484MINORITY ACTIVIST KILLED BY ARMY SOLDIERS
[...] (SBU) Another allegation of torture and extra-judicial killing made its way into the local press this week. According to newspapers and witness reports, army and police personnel removed four members of the Christian Garo minority in the Madhupur Forest area from a micro-bus in the early after [...]
2007-03-25 08:13:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA485HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR INTERNATIONAL MARITIME
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the International Maritime Officers Course scheduled for May 30-August 10, 2007 in Yorktown, Virginia. Post vetting was completed on March 25, 2007. Post requests that vetting be com [...]
2007-03-25 08:55:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA489RUMORS SWIRL ON ZIA'S DEPARTURE
[...] (C) Summary. Senior party leaders say that Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairwoman Khaleda Zia is ready to leave Bangladesh, provided her two sons are allowed to go with her and her exile, probably in Jeddah, is guaranteed to be comfortable. If Zia does go and Awami League President Hasina s [...]
2007-03-25 10:35:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM BG
07DHAKA496BANGLADESH: AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA;
[...] Embassy Dhaka,s State point of contact on avian and pandemic influenza is Carter Wilbur, ESTH officer. Contact information is: Email - wilburcw@state.gov, Phone - (8802) 885-5500 xt 2206, FAX - 882-4008. 2. Embassy Dhaka,s DOD Point of contact on avian and pandemic influenza is LTC Ran [...]
2007-03-27 08:46:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU MARR MASS CASC BG
07DHAKA505ARMY CHIEF SPEAKS OUT
[...] (C) Summary. The army chief's populist, politician-bashing speech yesterday has boosted rumors he intends to become president once the incumbent's term expires in September. End Summary. The General Speaks Out ---------------------- 2. (SBU) On March 27, Chief of Army Staff General Moeen [...]
2007-03-28 09:50:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR KDEM BG
07DHAKA508HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ATA-EIC TRAINING COURSE,
[...] This is an action request. See para 3. 2. The following candidates has been selected for participation in the ATA-EIC training starting on April 9 - May 25, 2007. Post vetting was completed on March 28, 2007. Due to the start of the course on April 9, 2007, this list requires clearance by c [...]
2007-03-29 04:05:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PINR PINS PREL MASS KCRM SNAR BG
07DHAKA524HEAD OF LAND-RIGHTS ORGANIZATION IMPRISONED, BEATEN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Shahidul Islam, director of the non-governmental organization Uttaran, was detained at his organization's training center in Tala in southwestern Bangladesh by army personnel on January 27. At a meeting with POLOFF on March 22, Uttaran officials provided first-hand details of Is [...]
2007-04-01 06:59:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA529AMBASSADOR RAISES DEMOCRACY CONCERNS TO FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Affairs Adviser Chowdhury and the Ambassador discussed USG concerns about Bangladesh's democracy, custodial deaths, Shoaib Choudhury's sedition trial, and continuing registration problems for American visitors to Bangladesh. End Summary. 2. (SBU) On March 28, the Ambas [...]
2007-04-01 08:13:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM CVIS PTER BG
07DHAKA53DIPLOMATS COORDINATE STRATEGY ON BANGLADESH
[...] This is an action cable. Please see para 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Key diplomatic missions in Bangladesh are coordinating their responses to the ongoing political crisis. The U.S., United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, the European Commission, Germany (representing the European Union presidency) [...]
2007-01-11 08:15:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM BG
07DHAKA537HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR EXERCISE FLASH BUFFALO
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following units have been selected for participation in Exercise Flash Buffalo to be conducted in Chittagong, Bangladesh from May 20 to June 2, 2007. Post vetting was completed on March 29, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by A [...]
2007-04-02 04:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA538BANGLADESH: DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S DEFENSE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-02 07:29:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KNNP PARM BG
07DHAKA541BANGLADESH TO ACT AGAINST BANK SEPAH
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-02 09:00:00Embassy DhakaSECRETEFIN KNNP IR BG PARM
07DHAKA542UNHCR REPORTS FURTHER PROGRESS ON ROHINGYAS
[...] SUMMARY (C) The government continues to take steps to improve conditions in the official Rohingya refugee camps, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Bangladesh. A government adviser made the first-ever minister-level visit to the camps in March. Mea [...]
2007-04-03 04:11:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF BG
07DHAKA546JMB EXECUTED; GOB TARGETS POLITICAL PROTECTORS
[...] (C) Terrorists Executed: Bangladesh (GOB) hanged six top leaders of the militant group Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) on March 30, keeping execution details (time and place) secret. Sentenced to death in September 2006 for killing two SIPDIS judges in 2005, the six exhausted their appe [...]
2007-04-04 04:04:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA547ELECTION COMMISSION TO PREPARE NEW VOTER LIST IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Election Commission will take at least 18 months to prepare a new voter list with photographs, Chief Election Commissioner Huda told the Ambassador, and the voter list would be prepared in tandem with a project to introduce national identification cards. The Commissioners also [...]
2007-04-04 06:00:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA55TERRORIST FINANCE: PRESENCE OF REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC
[...] (S/NF) Per Ref A request, Post assessed whether the GOB would object to US designation of the Kuwaiti-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society branch in Bangladesh (RIHS-B) under E.O. 13224 and/or UNSCR 1267. Post does not believe the GOB would object to designation under either authority. I [...]
2007-01-11 09:19:00Embassy DhakaSECRET//NOFORNPTER KTFN ETTC PREL EFIN BG
07DHAKA550HIGH COURT TO HEAR APPEAL IN JOURNALIST'S SEDITION
[...] (SBU) The trial of Salahuddin Shoaib Choudhury, the Bangladeshi journalist charged with sedition, remains postponed pending a High Court Appellate Branch ruling on Choudhury's appeal on the denial of a petition to dismiss the case. The Attorney General's office, which will represent the govern [...]
2007-04-04 09:28:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA56MILITARY SAYS NO TO POLITICAL ROLE,
[...] (C) Summary: Political factions, leading business organizations and civil society are seeking international support for military solutions to the present political crisis, creating intense pressure on the military to act. Our embassy, the British High Commission and other missions in Dhaka [...]
2007-01-11 09:25:00Embassy DhakaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA560MILITARY AMBITIONS IN BANGLADESH
[...] (U) COAS Presses Political Agenda: Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Moeen Uddin Ahmed on April 2 renewed his populist attacks on Bangladeshi politicians and called for a "new brand of democracy." Moeen made the remarks in his keynote address to a regional conference hosted by the Bangladesh Po [...]
2007-04-05 09:06:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM BG
07DHAKA569 BANGLADESH MOVES ON BIRD FLU, BUT NOT AS QUICKLY AS DONORS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. GOB actions do not have a sense of urgency, and the FAO/WHO approved National Response Plan is not being closely followed. The donor community is trying to develop a means to urge GOB action; key to that is the current FAO technical assessment reported septel. END SUMMARY. [...]
2007-04-09 04:28:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU PREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA57MILITARY SAYS NO TO POLITICAL ROLE,
[...] (C) Summary: Political factions, leading business organizations and civil society are seeking international support for military solutions to the present political crisis, creating intense pressure on the military to act. Our embassy, the British High Commission and other missions in Dhaka [...]
2007-01-11 09:25:00Embassy DhakaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA575ECONOMIC REFORM - THE FIRST 90 DAYS
[...] (C) Economy Priority: The Caretaker Government singled out the economy as a justification for the January 11 declaration of a State of Emergency in the wake of the economic disruptions from political unrest in late 2006. While the resulting political stability is the largest factor behind r [...]
2007-04-10 03:34:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL ENRG BG
07DHAKA576THREE MONTHS LATER: DEMOCRACY IN BANGLADESH
[...] (C) As the Fakhruddin Ahmed government hits its 90-day mark, the future of Bangladesh's democracy remains uncertain. Elections, the government now admits, are at least 18 months away, both big political parties are reeling from government pressure, the army chief has called for radical const [...]
2007-04-10 04:01:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPGOV KDEM PHUM MARR BG
07DHAKA577ANTI-CORRUPTION DRIVE - THE FIRST 90 DAYS
[...] (C) Corruption Top Priority: The Caretaker Government appointed following the State of Emergency declared January 11 made combatting corruption the cornerstone of its promise to prepare for and conduct free and fair elections. In its first 90 days, the government has had some notable succes [...]
2007-04-10 05:41:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA587HOME SECRETARY ON JMB EXECUTIONS, KIBRIA AND OTHER
[...] (C) Summary. On April 5, Deputy Chief of Mission and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Secretary Abdul Karim met to discuss issues, including the recent Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) executions, GOB changes to its visa regime, trafficking in persons, the restarting of the Kibria investigati [...]
2007-04-11 09:37:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV EAID CASC PHUM BG
07DHAKA588HOME SECRETARY ON JMB EXECUTIONS, KIBRIA AND OTHER
[...] (C) Summary. On April 5, Deputy Chief of Mission and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Secretary Abdul Karim met to discuss issues, including the recent Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) executions, GOB changes to its visa regime, trafficking in persons, the restarting of the Kibria investigati [...]
2007-04-11 09:45:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV EAID CASC PHUM BG
07DHAKA59STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED IN BANGLADEH - SITREP
[...] (SBU) At 1920 local, media reported that the caretaker government under President Iajuddin Ahmed had authorized a state of emergency. Embassy has confirmation from multiple sources. Media reported that a night time curfew, 2300 to 0500 will be imposed beginning tonight, January 11, and remain [...]
2007-01-11 13:22:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA608BIRD FLU: BANGLADESH PERMITS INTERNATIONAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. The GOB agreed April 9 to allow foreign technical advisors to assist with the Avian Influenza response. This breakthrough opens the door for multilateral and bilateral assistance to implement the recommendations reported in ref (A). END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Early Assessment: [...]
2007-04-15 08:37:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALTBIO KFLU EAID PREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA611 REO VISITS DHAKA Q REVIEWS ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
[...] SUMMARY. REO John Adams and FSN Jay Pal Shrestha visited Dhaka March 7 Q 14 as part of a series of regular regional visits. They met with embassy personnel, GOB officials, and NGOs to assess major environmental issues facing Bangladesh. They also visited USAID projects in the field, and par [...]
2007-04-16 01:28:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID BG
07DHAKA612DEA ADVANCE VISIT TO DHAKA PREPARES FOR SUMMER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. DEA Special Agents Tom Brown from the New Delhi regional office and Dan Perez from Quantico met various Bangladeshi law enforcement agencies in preparation for a two week Basic Drug Course to be offered to counter-narcotics officers. Bangladesh's status as a regional transship [...]
2007-04-16 01:29:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA623YUNUS EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR GOVERNMENT AGENDA,
[...] (C) Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Mohammad Yunus offered praise of the caretaker government in a meeting with the Deputy Chief of Mission, POLOFF and Staff Advisor Manpreet Singh Anand of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on April 8. Yunus acknowledged mistakes had been made -- such as mass demol [...]
2007-04-16 04:00:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PHUM KGOV BG
07DHAKA626FAO TRANSBOUNDARY ANIMAL DISEASE EXPERT ASSESSES
[...] (SBU) FAO Technical Assistance: Dr. Laurence Gleeson, Regional Manager of the Food and Agriculture Organization's Emergency Center for Transboundary Animal Diseases, visited Dhaka April 4 to assess the avian influenza outbreak that began in February (ref B) and to make recommendations. He pr [...]
2007-04-16 06:21:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU EAID PREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA629BANGLADESH ANNOUNCES ELECTIONS BY END OF 2008
[...] (U) Election timeline: Chief Advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed announced April 12 that elections will be held by the end of 2008. The announcement was part of his nationwide address reviewing the Caretaker Government's accomplishments in its first 90 days and reaffirming the CG's commitment "not (t [...]
2007-04-16 08:41:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA63STATE OF EMERGENCY - SITREP 02 01/12/07
[...] As of 1240 local the situation remains calm. Embassy personnel are safe and accounted for. No AmCits have contacted Embassy for assistance. A countrywide 2300-0500 hrs daily curfew remains in effect until further notice. 2. Former Bangladesh Bank (the country's central bank) Governor F [...]
2007-01-12 06:00:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC CASC KDEM BG
07DHAKA639HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR COUNTER-TERRORISM FELLOWS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Counter-Terrorism Fellows Program in Washington, DC from July 21 to September 30, 2007. Post vetting was completed on April 15, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by M [...]
2007-04-17 09:21:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA640HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR INTERNATIONAL LOGISTICS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in International Logistics Executive Advanced Development Course in Athens, Georgia from June 1 to July 27, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by May 10, 2007, to provide su [...]
2007-04-17 09:22:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA641HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AIR COMMAND AND STAFF
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Air Command and Staff College Course in Montgomery, Alabama from June 11, 2007 to June 9, 2008. Post etting was completed on April 15, 2007. Post requests that vetting be complet [...]
2007-04-17 09:22:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA642HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AIR WAR COLLEGE COURSE,
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Air War College Course in Montgomery, Alabama, from May 29, 2007 to May 27, 2008. Post vetting was completed on April 15, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by May 10, [...]
2007-04-17 09:24:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA643HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR COMBINED LOGISTICS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in Combined Logistics Captain Course in Fort Lee, Virginia, from May 22 to November 2, 2007. Post vetting was completed on April 15, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by May [...]
2007-04-17 09:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA644HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR SENIOR INTERNATIONAL
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Senior International Defense Management Course in Monterey, California from June 23 to July 20, 2007. Post vetting was completed on April 15, 2007. Post requests that vetting be [...]
2007-04-17 09:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA646FORMER PM ZIA REPORTEDLY AGREES TO QUIT BANGLADESH
[...] (C) Zia Agrees to Leave: Former Prime Minister and leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party Khaleda Zia has agreed to leave Bangladesh and not return, according to press reports and sources close to Zia. Her decision comes less than 48 hours after the arrest of her youngest son, Arafat " [...]
2007-04-17 10:34:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA65BANGLADESH: DEMARCHE STATE OF EMERGENCY
[...] (C) As instructed reftel B, post immediately reached out to the interim Chief Advisor, Fazlul Haque. In the interim, the President named Fakhruddin Ahmed as the next Chief Advisor. Fakhruddin Ahmed will be sworn in on January 12 at 1900 local. Ambassador and other Chief of Missions will atte [...]
2007-01-12 08:42:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV BG
07DHAKA654AMBASSADOR CALLS ON CHIEF ADVISOR
[...] (U) Ambassador Butenis and Econoff (note taker) met April 16 with Chief Advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed to discuss elections and political reform, governance, and anti-corruption. Fahim Munaim, Press Spokesman for the Chief Advisor, and Shahidul Islam, Director General Americas & Pacific Wing, Mi [...]
2007-04-18 09:51:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KCRM BG
07DHAKA655SHAMSHER CHOWDHURY OFF-MESSAGE: MFA CORRECTS
[...] (S) Summary: MFA Director General Islam confirmed that the MFA directed Ambassador Chowdhury to personally ask the airlines not to permit Hasina to board any aircraft but only to inform the U.S. of his actions, admitting he exceeded his instructions in requesting USG assistance. Separately, A [...]
2007-04-19 11:06:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPHUM PREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA656HOME SECRETARY ON SHEIKH HASINA, KHALEDA ZIA, AND
[...] (C) On the heels of a brief April 18 introductory call by the New Delhi based Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Legal Attache, the Home Secretary touched on Sheikh Hasina,s imminent return, rumors about Khaleda Zia,s imminent departure and continuing allegations of death and abuse attribut [...]
2007-04-19 11:09:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM PREL KCRM PGOV BG
07DHAKA66SENIOR MILITARY OFFICIAL DISCUSSES STATE OF
[...] (S) Summary: A senior military official told the Ambassador the military approached President/Chief Advisor Iajuddin Ahmed to press him to declare a state of emergency and resign as Chief Advisor. The military moves were motivated both by UN statements that military participation in a one [...]
2007-01-12 10:07:00Embassy DhakaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL KDEM BG
07DHAKA663AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES DEVELOPMENTS WITH COAS MOEEN
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 16 meeting with Ambassador Butenis and DATT (note taker),Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Moeen Uddin Ahmed described the military's successes in support of the civilian government, cited the need for political party reform, provided assurances the military would remai [...]
2007-04-22 09:10:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF KDEM PMIL BG
07DHAKA673HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR PEACE SUPPORT OPERATION
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates has been selected for participation in the Peace Support Operation Instructors Course at Monterrey, California, from May 6 to 18, 2007. Post vetting was completed on April 23, 2007. Post requests that vetting be complete [...]
2007-04-24 04:12:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA681SEDITION CASE CONTINUES TO TWIST IN THE WIND
[...] (C) The sedition trial of Bangladeshi journalist Salahuddin Shoaib Choudhury will likely be postponed again, at least until May, because of an outstanding dismissal petition his lawyers have filed with the High Court Appellate Division. Choudhury recently told POLOFF that his lawyer, Barriste [...]
2007-04-25 09:38:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA683GOVERNMENT UNVEILS ELECTORAL REFORM PLAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Election Commission briefed donors on its plan for electoral reform. The head of the Commission's Secretariat laid out a roadmap for preparing a new voter list SIPDIS with photographs. The new, computerized database resulting from this project will serve in the longer term [...]
2007-04-26 03:26:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA684AMBASSADOR VISITS MADHUPUR, DISCUSSES CUSTODIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. No charges have been filed and no action taken in the case of Choilesh Ritchil, the Christian Garo activist from Madhupur who was killed by the army on March 18. This was the situation as described to the Ambassador by Garo activists when she visited the Pirgachha Catholic Missio [...]
2007-04-26 04:12:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA685BANGLADESH - THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
[...] (C) Summary: The interim government formed following the January 11 declaration of the State of Emergency has pursued an aggressive agenda of political and economic reform coupled with an anti-corruption campaign and institutional change all designed to create conditions conducive to free, [...]
2007-04-26 04:36:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA690HASINA, ZIA MAY RETURN OR STAY AS THEY CHOOSE
[...] (U) Government Relents: On April 25, the government issued two press notes announcing that Awami League President Sheikh Hasina is free to return to Bangladesh and that Bangladesh Nationalist Party Chairwoman Khaleda Zia is under no pressure to leave. The April 25 note on Hasina referred to th [...]
2007-04-26 07:28:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KDEM PREL BG
07DHAKA70NEW INDIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER CALLS ON AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) India,s new High Commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty paid a courtesy call on the Ambassador on January 10. (He presents his credentials to the Government of Bangladesh on January 16.) The discussion covered the current political crisis, the efforts of the international community to su [...]
2007-01-15 09:04:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BG
07DHAKA703BANGLADESH SPECIAL 301 2007
[...] (U) POSITIVE RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE. Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Abida Islam, Director of America and Pacific Wing, Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 30. Ms. Islam acknowledged the expressed USG intent to increase engagement on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues and agreed [...]
2007-04-30 09:02:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD KPIR BG
07DHAKA711HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR BOARDING OFFICER COURSE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates has been selected for participation in the Boarding Officer Course in Charleston, South Carolina from July 4 to August 15, 2007. Post vetting was completed on April 29, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by M [...]
2007-05-02 07:51:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA712HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR COMBAT ENGINEER OFFICER
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates has been selected for participation in the Combat Engineer Officer Course at Camp LeJeune from June 6 to October 1, 2007. Post vetting was completed on April 29, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by May 20, [...]
2007-05-02 07:51:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA713BANGLADESH: SHIP RECYCLING - INTERNATIONAL TRADE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-02 07:51:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEIND PHSA SENV ETRD BG
07DHAKA714HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR GROUND SUPPLY OFFICER
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates has been selected for participation in the Ground Supply Officer Course at Camp LeJeune from July 5 to September 8, 2007. Post vetting was completed on April 29, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by June 1, [...]
2007-05-02 07:51:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA715FUNDING SUPPORT REQUEST TO ATTEND 2007 DRL
[...] (U) EMB Dhaka requests funding for Luke Zahner, POLOFF responsible for human rights and democracy issues, to attend the DRL conference being held in Washington July 18-20, 2007. Airfare from Dhaka to Washington and return is approximately $4,300 and per diem costs approximately $1,700. 2. ( [...]
2007-05-02 07:52:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM KDEM BG
07DHAKA716BOMBLETS EXPLODE IN THREE BANGLADESH CITIES
[...] (SBU) On the morning of May 1, three small devices exploded within minutes of each other near railroad stations in the cities of Sylhet, Chittagong, and Dhaka. Police told us that one rickshaw driver was seriously injured in Chittagong and a small boy sustained minor injuries in Sylhet. 2 [...]
2007-05-02 08:55:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER KDEM PHUM ASEC PGOV BG
07DHAKA717BANGLADESHI JOURNALIST'S SEDITION TRIAL POSTPONED
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The start of the sedition trial of Bangladeshi journalist Salahuddin Shoaib Choudhury was postponed again, this time until June 23. Choudhury also received two phone calls on April 30, one from Police Special Branch and one from an officer with military intelligence. END SUMMARY. [...]
2007-05-02 09:34:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA725PARAMILITARY TRAINING EXERCISE - BALANCE BUFFALO,
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following units have been selected for participation in Operation Balance Buffalo in May 2007. Post vetting was completed on May 1, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by May 15, 2007, to provide sufficient time for processing. [...]
2007-05-03 09:05:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA726HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR NEAR EAST/SOUTH ASIA
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Near East/South Asia Center for Strategic Studies Executive Seminar starting on May 30, 2007. Post vetting was completed on May 1, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed [...]
2007-05-03 09:11:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA727HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR NEAR EAST/SOUTH ASIA
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Near East/South Asia Center for Strategic Studies Executive Seminar starting on May 30, 2007. Post vetting was completed on May 1, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed [...]
2007-05-03 09:16:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA729DEMARCHE ON U.S. WTO TAFT PROPOSAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-03 09:26:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON WTRO BG
07DHAKA730LABORATORY CAPACITY IN BANGLADESH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. H5N1 continues to spread in Bangladesh, with confirmed poultry infections reported in nine of 64 districts but still no confirmed human cases. Numerous meetings between donors, experts, and the relevant GOB ministries have raised the question of Bangladesh,s laboratory capaci [...]
2007-05-04 07:27:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALTBIO KFLU EAID PREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA733BANGLADESH: CITES COP 14 PREPARATION: GAUGING
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-06 06:24:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV ETRD BG
07DHAKA734BANGLADESH: DEMARCHE ON WTO ARTICLE XXI PROCEDURE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-06 06:24:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON WTRO BG
07DHAKA737BANGLADESH DEFENSE PROCUREMENT AGENCY SAYS NO NEW
[...] (C) On May 3, econoff met with Brigadier General Helal Uddin Ahmed, Director General of the Directorate General Defence Procurement, the main procurement source for all branches of the Bangladesh military, at Brigadier Helal's request. Econoff had met with Helal in August 2006 to deliver re [...]
2007-05-06 07:44:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALETTC IR PARM PREL BG
07DHAKA738 DEPT OF ENERGY TEAM CONDUCT ASSURANCE VISITS AT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A three person team from the U.S. Dept of Energy visited Bangladesh to inspect USG funded security upgrades and to determine if further upgrades are necessary to ensure adequate protection of radiological materials. Overall, the team concluded that progress had been made since [...]
2007-05-06 23:18:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP PARM OTRA PREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA739TRAFFICKING TRAINING FOR IMAMS AMD LAWYERS
[...] (U) Summary. In an innovative training program on investigating and prosecuting human trafficking cases, the Embassy provided training to imams and human rights lawyers to help them understand what law enforcement needed in order to prosecute trafficking cases. End Summary. Trafficking Prose [...]
2007-05-06 23:37:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV PREF CASC BG
07DHAKA743 TRIP REPORT OF VISIT TO POULTRY FARMS IN SAVAR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On May 2, Econoff visited two poultry farms in the Ashulia area of Savar district north of Dhaka. Both farms had their entire stocks of egg-laying chickens culled due to H5N1 in late March or early April. The two farms demonstrated widely different levels of preparation and so [...]
2007-05-07 01:31:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU PREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA744 DEPT OF ENERGY TEAM CONDUCT ASSURANCE VISITS AT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A three person team from the U.S. Dept of Energy visited Bangladesh to inspect USG funded security upgrades and to determine if further upgrades are necessary to ensure adequate protection of radiological materials. Overall, the team concluded that progress had been made since [...]
2007-05-07 01:31:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP PARM OTRA PREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA750RETURN OF SHEIKHA HASINA TO BANGLADESH
[...] (SBU) On May 7, Awami League (AL) leader Shiekh Hasina returned to Bangladesh. AL Secretary General Abdul Jalil told us that the government gave permission for 16 Awami League representatives, up from ten reported in the media, to receive her at the airport. Jalil vehemently rejected any sug [...]
2007-05-07 09:26:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA758BANGLADESH: REQUEST FOR DETAILS AND
[...] (SBU) On May 6, Econoff delivered demarche (reftel) to Ms. Abida Islam, Director, America and Pacific Wing, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. (S) On May 9, Ms. Islam reported to Econoff that Bangladesh Bank (the central bank),through its Deputy Secretary Ruhi Rahman, (8802) 955-4940, issued [...]
2007-05-09 06:57:00Embassy DhakaSECRETKNNP EFIN PARM BG
07DHAKA759BANGLADESH: DEMARCHE ON KEY U.S. OBJECTIVES AT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-09 06:57:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU TBIO AORC PREL BG
07DHAKA775 HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS COURSE, MAY
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Disaster Preparedness Course starting on May 23, 2007. Post vetting was completed on May 10, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by May 21, 2007, to provide sufficient t [...]
2007-05-10 08:44:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA776 BANGLADESH CROSSES 100,000 BIRDS CULLED, INFECTIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Publicly, the GOB is claiming the H5N1 outbreak "has remained under control of the government except in a few places of the country," but as Bangladesh crosses the 100,000 birds culled mark, with ten districts reporting H5N1 infections in poultry and new infections reported week [...]
2007-05-10 08:46:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU PREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA778HASINA'S RETURN SETBACK FOR GOVERNMENT REFORM
[...] (C) Summary. Hasina's triumphant return to Bangladesh marks a dramatic setback to government efforts to force the two ladies into exile and create a new political landscape. Taking Hasina, and by necessity Zia, to trial may be Plan B but is fraught with risks for an increasingly risk-averse g [...]
2007-05-12 04:48:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM BG
07DHAKA779HASINA'S RETURN SETBACK FOR GOVERNMENT REFORM
[...] (C) Summary. Hasina's triumphant return to Bangladesh marks a dramatic setback to government efforts to force the two ladies into exile and create a new political landscape. Taking Hasina, and by necessity Zia, to trial may be Plan B but is fraught with risks for an increasingly risk-averse g [...]
2007-05-12 04:49:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM BG
07DHAKA787BANGLADESH: US PROTOCOLS IN THE ASEAN REGIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-13 08:29:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ARF KNNP PTER BG
07DHAKA79BUSINESS SUPPORTS STATE OF EMERGENCY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Business leaders support the January 11 declaration of a state of emergency, expecting it will allow commerce to return to normal under conditions of political stabilty. They believe the general public accepts the state of emergency, say the new Chief Advisor is well regarded [...]
2007-01-16 09:42:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PGOV PREL KDEM BG
07DHAKA795KIBRIA'S SON DISCOUNTS NEW INVESTIGATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-15 09:21:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER KCRM PGOV BG
07DHAKA80MORE JMB ARRESTS AND SEIZURES
[...] (SBU) Local media report that the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) used confessions from Hasan Ali (alias Hridoy) and Shoeb (alias Jahir Nuruzzaman or Zahir Nuruzzaman),who were arrested January 10 (ref B),to raid another Jamaatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh (JMB) house on January 12 in Karatia Bazar [...]
2007-01-16 09:58:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPTER PGOV PREL KISL BG
07DHAKA803AMBASSADOR URGES GOVERNMENT TO RETURN JOURNALIST'S
[...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador is pressing senior government officials to allow journalist Tasneem Khalil and family to travel to mitigate the negative international reaction to his case. End Summary. 2. (C) Early May 11, security officials (apparently from the military intelligence organizat [...]
2007-05-17 06:49:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV BG
07DHAKA81STRINGENT EMERGENCY POWERS YET TO BE TESTED, MAY
[...] (SBU) Summary: On January 11, President Ahmed issued an Emergency Power Ordinance that gave the government sweeping powers of arrest and detention, restricted individual liberties ranging from freedom of commerce to freedom of the press, authorized the confiscation (as needed) of private prope [...]
2007-01-16 10:05:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV KDEM ASEC PHUM BG
07DHAKA811HASINA DOUBTS GOVERNMENT SINCERITY ON ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary. Awami League president Hasina says she fears the government will delay elections until a "king's" party can be guaranteed a large majority, but she insists she has no interest in agitating for elections or an end to the ban on political activity. She called on the government to [...]
2007-05-17 09:29:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV BG
07DHAKA816RIHS LICENSE CANCELED IN BANGLADESH
[...] (U) On May 18, local media reported that the Government of Bangladesh canceled the recently renewed registration of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) because of the Kuwait-based NGO's alleged support for Islamist militancy in Bangladesh. 2. (SBU) On May 20, an authoritative of [...]
2007-05-20 07:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KISL PGOV BG
07DHAKA819TERRORISM UPDATE IN BANGLADESH
[...] (S) Summary: Although there has been no major terrorist incident in Bangladesh since December 2005, the steady stream of alleged militant arrests since December 2006, the seizure of bomb-making material across the country, and the May 1 "cracker" bombs at three city railroad stations indicate [...]
2007-05-20 09:20:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPTER KISL PGOV PREL BG
07DHAKA83BANGLADESH: DEMARCHE TO CHIEF ADVISOR ON STATE OF
[...] (C) Early January 16, citing time constraints and the imminent naming of an adviser with responsibility for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chief Advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed postponed his meeting with the Ambassador scheduled for later the same day. As an interim measure, mission sent a letter [...]
2007-01-17 03:34:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM BG
07DHAKA848USARPAC COMMANDER BROWN'S MEETING WITH BANGLADESH
[...] (C) Summary. In his meetings with COAS General Moeen and other senior Bangladeshi military officers, USARPAC Commander LTG Brown stressed the importance of returning Bangladesh to democratic, elected governance as soon as possible and noted the difficulties the Thai generals have encountered by [...]
2007-05-24 07:38:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PHUM PGOV BG
07DHAKA86AS JUDICIARY FINALLY SEPARATES, ERSHAD CASE ENDS
[...] (SBU) On January 17, Jatiya Party president Ershad confirmed to us that a district court has ruled that his time served has fully satisfied the sentence he received for his conviction in the Japanese boat purchase corruption case. Ershad, who ruled Bangladesh from 1982 to 1990 as a military di [...]
2007-01-17 09:17:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KDEM PGOV BG
07DHAKA867NEW ARRESTS NET HIGH-PROFILE POLITICAL PLAYERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The latest wave of high-profile political detentions includes Awami League General Secretary Abdul Jalil, other Sheikh Hasina loyalists, and two reputedly corrupt former BNP ministers, Lutfozzaman Babar and Altaf Hussain Chowdhury. Meanwhile, the government has asked the high cou [...]
2007-05-29 10:46:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KGOV BG
07DHAKA87NEW SLATE OF CARETAKER ADVISORS NAMED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ten advisors for the new Caretaker Government have been selected and are in the process of taking office. With a few exceptions, the advisors are viewed as non-partisan and distinguished members of society. END SUMMARY A New Team of Advisors ====================== 2. (S [...]
2007-01-17 10:09:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BG
07DHAKA872BANGLADESH: NOMINATION OF NEW WORLD BANK PRESIDENT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-30 07:48:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN IBRD BG
07DHAKA875ZIA PLEADS FOR SONS
[...] (C) Summary. Khaleda Zia urged the Ambassador to support her embattled sons Tarique and Koko, asserted she was ready to leave Bangladesh but the government failed to get her a Saudi visa, said she has no contact with the military, and is mystified by the military's actions and objectives. Loc [...]
2007-05-30 09:38:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM BG
07DHAKA880DETAINEES REMANDED INTO CUSTODY FOLLOWING LATEST
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Several high-profile political figures appeared before judges on May 29 following their detention the day before. Awami League General Secretary Abdul Jalil and former BNP Home Minister Lutfozzoman Babar were both remanded into custody for four days for interrogation about corr [...]
2007-05-30 23:30:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KGOV BG
07DHAKA881DETAINEES REMANDED INTO CUSTODY FOLLOWING LATEST
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Several high-profile political figures appeared before judges on May 29 following their detention the day before. Awami League General Secretary Abdul Jalil and former BNP Home Minister Lutfozzoman Babar were both remanded into custody for four days for interrogation about corr [...]
2007-05-30 23:30:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KGOV BG
07DHAKA889HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR INFANTRY CAPTAIN TRAINING
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Infantry Captain Training Course to he held at Fort Benning, Georgia, from June 27 to December 13, 2007. Post vetting was completed on May 30, 2007. Post requests that vetting [...]
2007-05-31 08:11:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA890HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR PEACE SUPPORT OPERATION
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Peace Support Operation Instructors Course to be held in Dhaka from June 17 to 28, 2007. Post vetting was completed on May 30, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by [...]
2007-05-31 08:11:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA906CONTINUED INFLATION LEAVES PUBLIC SIMMERING
[...] (C) Summary: The military-backed caretaker government continues to face popular discontent over price rises, especially for basic food commodities. Recent press reports highlight public concerns as did the Centre for Policy Dialogue in a June 2 public presentation on the state of the Bangl [...]
2007-06-04 08:07:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV BG
07DHAKA907"KING'S" PARTY COULD UNDERMINE FREE AND TIMELY
[...] (C) Summary. The military continues to court primarily BNP politicians for a new "king's" party, but its failure to displace the "two ladies," the absence of credible leadership for the party, and mixed signals about General Moeen's political ambitions have confused and frustrated potential r [...]
2007-06-04 09:11:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR PHUM BG
07DHAKA909DAILY STAR JOURNALIST'S PASSPORT RETURNED
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 11, Daily Star journalist and Human Rights Watch (HRW) researcher Tasnim Khalil was detained by Directorate General Forces Intelligence (DGFI) for questioning about alleged anti-state activities, including blog entries and articles he wrote critical of the government. Since [...]
2007-06-05 08:20:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KGOV BG
07DHAKA912ADDITIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR PEACE SUPPORT
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following additional candidates have been selected for participation in the Peace Support Operation Instructors Course to be held in Dhaka from June 17 to 28, 2007. Post vetting was completed on June 3, 2007. Post requests that vetting be c [...]
2007-06-06 00:59:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA913HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR NAVAL COMMAND COLLEGE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Naval Command College Course to he held in Providence, Rhode Island from July 27, 2007 to June 28, 2008. Post vetting was completed on June 3, 2007. Post requests that vetting [...]
2007-06-06 01:05:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA914HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR NAVAL STAFF COLLEGE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Naval Staff College Course to be held in Providence, Rhode Island, from July 25, 2007 to June 24, 2008. Post vetting was completed on June 3, 2007. Post requests that vetting b [...]
2007-06-06 01:07:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA915HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ARMOR CAPTAIN CAREER
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Armor Captain Career Course to be held at Fort Knox, Kentucky, from August 3, 2007 to February 4, 2008. Post vetting was completed on June 3, 2007. Post requests that vetting b [...]
2007-06-06 01:09:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA919HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ASIA-PACIFIC CENTER FOR
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) Comprehensive Responses to Terrorism (CSRT) course in Honolulu, Hawaii, from July 31 to August 22, 2007. Post vetting was comp [...]
2007-06-06 02:32:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA93AWAMI LEAGUE HOPES FOR ELECTION IN EARLY APRIL
[...] (C) On January 18, Major General (R) Tarique Ahmed Siddique, head of security for Awami League president Sheikh Hasina, presented to poloff a one-page Caretaker Government "work schedule" that culminates in the holding of parliamentary elections on April 3. He said he generated the document [...]
2007-01-18 09:41:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV BG
07DHAKA951GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION INTO DEATH OF INDIGENOUS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The retired judge appointed by the government to investigate the death of Garo activist Choilesh Ritchil in Madhupur on March 18 has had Ritchil's body exhumed for autopsy. Meanwhile, the recent wave of anti-corruption arrests in Dhaka has netted the Chief Conservator of Forests, [...]
2007-06-12 08:33:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BG
07DHAKA952FOUR MONTHS INTO STATE OF EMERGENCY, BANGLADESH'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY. As Bangladesh passes the four-month anniversary of its state of emergency, the human rights record is mixed. According to local NGOs, deaths caused by law enforcement officials, including "crossfire" killings and deaths in custody, have gone down. While there have been many alleg [...]
2007-06-12 08:34:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV KDEM PHUM BG
07DHAKA956UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FACES CORRUPTION CHARGES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 7, police filed corruption charged against Sigma Huda, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons and the head of two prominent Bangladeshi non-governmental organization. Huda's husband, a former minister, was arrested in January on corruption charg [...]
2007-06-13 08:31:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KWMN PHUM BG
07DHAKA957GOVERNMENT PROPOSES DEVELOPMENT FOCUSED BUDGET FOR
[...] Summary: The Bangladesh government released a draft fiscal year 2008 (starting July 1, 2007) budget on June 7. In his budget message, Finance Advisor Mirza Islam identified seven key development and economic growth challenges and the government's plan for meeting those challenges. Agricult [...]
2007-06-14 00:00:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV BG
07DHAKA971HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR USCENTCOM COMBINED
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the USCENTCOM Combined Planning Group training course in Tampa, Florida, from July 15, 2007 to Jaunary 14, 2008. Post vetting was completed on June 14, 2007. Post requests that vet [...]
2007-06-15 07:50:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA972HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR BOARDING OFFICERS COURSE,
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in Boarding Officers Course to be held in Charleston, South Carolina from July 4 to August 17, 2007. Post vetting was completed on June 14, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed [...]
2007-06-15 07:53:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA973HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR INTERNATIONAL SHIPYARD
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the International Shipyard Management Course to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii from July 13 to September 7, 2007. Post vetting was completed on June 14, 2007. Post requests that vetti [...]
2007-06-15 07:59:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA976 STEPS AND STUMBLES FORWARD IN BANGLADESH'S BIRD FLU
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In early June, Dinajpur became Bangladesh's twelfth district to report H5 infection, but the first where local officials initially identified the infection in local backyard birds instead of in commercial poultry farms, showing that Bangladesh continues to refine its Avian Influ [...]
2007-06-17 05:08:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU PREL PGOV BG
07DHAKA977FAREWELL CALL ON JAMAAT ISLAMI CHIEF
[...] (C) Summary. Jamaat Islami amir Nizami stayed rigidly on point in assuring the Ambassador that his party remains committed to democracy, dialogue, and moderation. JI members, he said, have not been approached about joining a so-called king's party, but quipped he wishes the party well so the [...]
2007-06-17 05:17:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL BG
07DHAKA984CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER LAYS OUT PLAN FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Election Commission is preparing to announce a roadmap for elections in mid-July. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Huda clarified the role of the army in the voter registration process, discussed how planning for the registration process was proceeding, and assured the Ambass [...]
2007-06-17 08:09:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KGOV KDEM BG
07DHAKA989BANGLADESH: PROMOTING TRANSPARENCY AND
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-18 03:14:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDUNDP KUNR PREL EFIN EAID BG
07DHAKA990BANGLADESH: ICAO ASSEMBLY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-18 04:32:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON ETRD BG
07DILI101AUSSIES BRIEF ON REINADO OPERATION
[...] (C) Summary: International Stabilization Forces (ISF) commander Brigadier Malcolm Rerden and Australian Ambassador to East Timor Margaret Twomey briefed Emboffs March 9, reviewing the current status of ISF operations to apprehend Major Alfredo Reinado and summarizing a meeting Rerden has just [...]
2007-03-12 08:57:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALKPKO MOPS PGOV PREL TT AU NZ
07DILI106CONTINUED SYMPATHY FOR REINADO IN WESTERN DISTRICTS
[...] (C/NF) Summary: In a March 11-13 visit to East Timor's western districts Emboffs and US Defense Representative found that dissident military leader Major Alfredo Reinado retains strong backing across the region, though it remains unclear if his supporters would be willing to go beyond their cur [...]
2007-03-14 12:54:00Embassy DiliSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL MAAR ASEC KPKO AU TT
07DILI11NEW ELECTORAL LAWS GO INTO EFFECT, BUT MANY ISSUES
[...] Summary: The three main laws that will govern East Timor's presidential and parliamentary elections this year were finally promulgated last month. While the final versions do contain a few compromises of note, the overall process resulted in laws that fall significantly short of reflecting a n [...]
2007-01-15 09:48:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM UN TT
07DILI110AUSTRALIAN AND PORTUGUESE INTERESTS CONVERGE
[...] (C/NF) Summary: In separate discussions, the Portuguese and Australian ambassadors downplayed concerns about support for military dissident Major Alfredo Reinado in the western districts. Their views converge on one matter, that Alfredo is a fugitive from justice who should surrender or be ca [...]
2007-03-15 02:14:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKPKO MOPS PGOV PREL KJUS KDEM UN TT
07DILI115RAMOS-HORTA CONCERNED BUT ANA PESSOA DISMISSIVE OF ELECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta complained to a gathering of diplomats March 21 that the elections law amendment passed by Parliament that same day includes a provision allowing political party symbols on presidential election ballots. The decision, which Ramos-Horta said viola [...]
2007-03-20 11:12:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM UN TT
07DILI119SECURITY SECTOR CONCERNS INTENSIFY
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Recent decisions made by both the Government of East Timor (GOET) and the United Nations Integrated Mission to Timor-Leste (UNMIT) have possibly made the security environment in Dili more problematic in advance of national elections next month. Dili is now a city where armed [...]
2007-03-22 10:43:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL MAAR ASEC KPKO AU UN TT
07DILI120SECURITY SECTOR POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: As detailed in reftel, Post has become increasingly concerned regarding the direction of developments in the security sector, including both the East Timorese armed forces (F-FDTL) and the East Timorese National Police (PNTL). In light of these concerns, we have reviewed our policy [...]
2007-03-23 09:58:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MAAR ASEC KPKO UN TT
07DILI121ELECTION POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Our overarching policy continues to be focused on supporting a credible elections process that expresses the will of the Timorese people. The UN Elections Certification Team (UNECT) continues to provide detailed analysis of the many metrics that can be measured in making this de [...]
2007-03-23 10:45:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM UN TT
07DILI124PRESIDENT SIGNS ELECTION LAW AMENDMENT, BUT TIME RUNNING
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Xanana Gusmao March 26 signed into law the controversial election law amendment, paving the way for ballot printing to start later this week. The amendment addressed several key legislative problems identified by the UN Election Certification Team (UNECT) and had thre [...]
2007-03-27 10:32:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM UN TT
07DILI129PRESIDENT GUSMAO ESTABLISHES NEW PARTY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Following months of preparation accompanied by widespread speculation, President Xanana Gusmao formally announced the establishment of his new party, currently known as the National Congress for the Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT). Gusmao's hope is that with his name and reputatio [...]
2007-03-29 10:39:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM UN TT
07DILI131PRIMER ON APRIL 9 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN EAST TIMOR
[...] (U) Summary: On April 9 Timorese citizens are scheduled to go to the polls to select from eight candidates who they want to serve as their next president, replacing the iconic Xanana Gusmao. Most observers believe that the election will go to a run off, as the winner must win by a margin of ov [...]
2007-03-30 10:55:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM UN TT
07DILI132SECURITY SECTOR UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary: Post remains concerned by developments in the security sector following a United Nations Police (UNPOL) request to the GOET to deploy elements from the East Timorese Defense Force (F-FDTL) into the capital city of Dili. While the Commander of the F-FDTL, Brigadier General Taur Ma [...]
2007-03-31 08:41:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALKPKO MOPS MARR PGOV PREL ASEC UN TT
07DILI136ELECTORAL CERTIFICATION PRIORITIES
[...] (C) Summary: The United Nation's Electoral Certification Team (ECT) has published its Fifth report dated 16 March 2007 regarding the 2007 parliamentary and presidential elections in East Timor. While the comprehensive report by the independent body concluded that major corrective steps in the [...]
2007-04-03 11:45:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL UN TT
07DILI14SUSPECTED INTERNATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKERS DETAINED
[...] (C) Summary: UNPOL has arrested a Nigerian and a Lebanese national in Dili suspected of involvement in an apparent attempt to traffic young Timorese women to Syria, possibly for prostitution. The Nigerian detainee, found in possession of a large number of fraudulent documents, is confirmed to [...]
2007-01-16 11:23:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPHUM KJUS KPKO KCRM ASEC UN SY NI LE TT
07DILI141THREE FRONTRUNNERS FOR EAST TIMOR'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE
[...] (C) Summary: As the East Timorese presidential campaign wraps up, opposition candidate Fernando "Lasama" de Araujo has emerged alongside establishment candidates Jose Ramos-Horta and Francisco "Lu'Olo" Gutterres as a serious contender in the 9 April presidential election. While current Prime M [...]
2007-04-05 09:30:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM UN TT
07DILI143ALKATIRI CONFIDENT HIS MAN WILL WIN
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 5 meeting with Charge d'Affaires, ruling Fretilin party Secretary General and former Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri strongly asserted Fretilin would not be involved in any violence surrounding the presidential campaign, and expressed confidence that Fretilin candidate Fra [...]
2007-04-06 07:58:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KJUS MARR TT
07DILI148INITIAL ELECTION RESULTS ANNOUNCED, BUT DISPUTES LOOM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Amidst emerging disputes over the counting of votes after a calm and smooth election day, East Timor's National Election Commission (CNE) today announced provisional results for the first round of the presidential elections, indicating Fretilin candidate Francisco "Lu'olo" Guterr [...]
2007-04-11 11:28:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM TT
07DILI15PRELIMINARY HEARING OF F-FDTL SUSPECTS IN APRIL-MAY
[...] (U) Summary: On January 12, a preliminary hearing was held for 12 suspects in the April-May, 2006 violence, 11 of whom aQ members of the armed forces (F-FDTL). This marked the first judicial step that has been taken to date vis-`-vis any member of the F-FDTL. As a result of the hearing, three [...]
2007-01-16 11:26:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM KJUS ID UN TT
07DILI150ELECTION COUNT INCOMPLETE, BUT PREPARATIONS FOR RUNOFF
[...] (C) Summary: The National Election Commission (CNE) yesterday, April 12, began the national tabulation of votes for Monday's presidential election poll. According to IFES representatives working closely with the CNE on this process, there are a number of problems with the district tabulation, [...]
2007-04-13 11:14:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM TT
07DILI151COUNTING PROBLEMS DELAY OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The National Electoral Commission (CNE) has delayed the originally scheduled announcement of the provisional national results for the April 9 presidential elections due to multiple problems with the tabulation and documentation of votes. According to its interpretation of the la [...]
2007-04-16 13:11:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM UN TT
07DILI154EAST TIMOR STABLE THROUGHOUT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary. The government of East Timor conducted its first round of presidential elections April 9 largely without a significant security incident. In fact East Timor has been remarkably calm over the past two months, aside from the occasional martial arts group fight and minor clashes b [...]
2007-04-17 10:08:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALKPKO MOPS MARR PGOV PREL ASEC UN TT
07DILI156CNE CONFIRMS LUOLO VERSUS RAMOS-HORTA RUNOFF
[...] Summary: Defying worries that the national tabulation might stretch on for days, the National Election Commission today, April 18, announced at a late afternoon press conference that it had completed the tabulation and announced the provisional national results, reaffirming that Francisco "Lu'o [...]
2007-04-18 13:14:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM TT
07DILI158GUSMAO DISCUSSES ELECTION RESULTS AND CNRT STRATEGY WITH
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 18 meeting with Charge d'Affaires, President Xanana Gusmao described the results of the April 9 first round of the presidential elections as essentially a loss for the ruling Fretilin party with its candidates' performance reflecting a broad based desire for change. He [...]
2007-04-20 14:32:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV MAAR KDEM AU TT
07DILI164SECURITY OUTLOOK IN ADVANCE OF PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF
[...] (C/NF) Summary. With the start of the campaign period for the second round of the presidential election, East Timor for the most part remains calm. Within this context, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) met with International Stabilization Force (ISF) commander Brigadier Mal Rerden April 23 to discu [...]
2007-04-25 08:31:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL MARR ASEC KPKO UN TT
07DILI166NATIONAL BUDGET PLAGUED BY EXECUTION CHALLENGES AND
[...] Summary: During an informal briefing for donors last week, the International Monetary Fund's Resident Representative in East Timor painted a bleak picture of budget execution to date for the fiscal year (FY) 2006-2007. Of a $329 million budget, while $211 of it has been committed, only $84 mil [...]
2007-04-27 17:06:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON EPET EFIN TT
07DILI173RESISTANCE ALUMNI TURN OUT FOR CNRT'S FIRST NATIONAL
[...] (U) Summary: The National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT) held its first national congress April 28-30, under the slogan "The land has been liberated, it's time to liberate the people!" Delegates elected President Xanana Gusmao as the party president and Dionisio Babo Soares as its [...]
2007-05-02 14:46:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM TT
07DILI176EAST TIMOR WILL NOT SUPPORT BELARUS CANDIDACY AT UN HUMAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-07 09:12:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNHRC TT
07DILI182FRETILIN UNDER FIRE FOR CAMPAIGN IRREGULARITIES
[...] (C) Summary: East Timor's ruling Fretilin party has come under increasing scrutiny in relation to allegations of illegal campaign activities in advance of the May 9 presidential runoff. While some are likely exaggerated for the purpose of campaign rhetoric, others appear to be much more solidl [...]
2007-05-08 04:35:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM TT
07DILI185LOWER TURNOUT BUT TECHNICALLY IMPROVED ROUND TWO VOTING
[...] Summary: The second round of East Timor's presidential election concluded May 9 without incident. There were visible improvements compared to the first round with regard to logistical preparations. The Embassy will urge all parties to use established legal mechanisms for filing complaints, t [...]
2007-05-09 10:16:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM KPAO PREL PGOV ASEC UN TT
07DILI189LANDSLIDE RAMOS-HORTA VICTORY GIVES OPPOSITION MOMENTUM
[...] (SBU) Summary: It is now a virtual certainty that Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta has won the May 9 runoff in a landslide, having picked up the vast majority of votes previously cast for the losing candidates of round one, while ruling Fretilin party candidate Francisco "Lu'olo" Guterres gaine [...]
2007-05-11 11:49:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM TT
07DILI19PRESIDENT GUSMAO DECLINES TO MEET ON JOINT DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Summary. President Gusmao has declined to meet the Australian, Japanese, Portuguese, and U.S. chiefs of mission to receive the Ref B joint demarche previously delivered to former Prime Minister Alkatiri (Ref A). Through his Chief of Staff the President conveyed that he was well aware of th [...]
2007-01-17 11:39:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AS JA MZ PO TT
07DILI197ELECTION AND GOVERNMENT TRANSITION UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: With the victory of Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta in the presidential race now officially confirmed by the Court of Appeals, plans are in place for his inauguration on May 20. Deputy Prime Minister Estanislau da Silva will assume the Prime Ministership until June 30, while the [...]
2007-05-18 12:49:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ASEC TT
07DILI204MANAGING PORTUGESE AND LUSOPHONE INTERESTS IN EAST TIMOR
[...] (C/NF) Summary: As the international community grapples with how best to assist East Timor in re-establishing security, strengthening the public sector, and stimulating economic growth, one of the most delicate issues confronting the major players is how to manage Portuguese, Brazilian and ot [...]
2007-05-25 07:58:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID TT PO
07DILI218EAST TIMOR'S PARLIAMENTARY CAMPAIGN OFF TO VIOLENT START
[...] (SBU) Summary. Campaign-related violence in the district of Viqueque left three dead over the weekend of June 2 - 3. Viqueque is a Fretilin stronghold and tensions erupted as former President Xanana Gusmao led his new party in campaign rallies there. With help from the International Stabiliza [...]
2007-06-05 06:20:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM AS UN TT
07DILI219POLITICIZATION, CRONYISM PERSIST IN NATIONAL POLICE
[...] (C) Summary: Following the disintegration of the Dili District-based National Police (PNTL) in late May 2006, and numerous allegations of PNTL officers being involved in the violence that beset Dili at that time, the new United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor Leste (UNMIT) put into place a [...]
2007-06-05 07:59:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ASEC KPKO KJUS UN TT
07DILI220POLITICIZATION, CRONYISM PERSIST IN NATIONAL POLICE
[...] (C) Summary: Following the disintegration of the Dili District-based National Police (PNTL) in late May 2006, and numerous allegations of PNTL officers being involved in the violence that beset Dili at that time, the new United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor Leste (UNMIT) put into place a [...]
2007-06-05 08:00:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ASEC KPKO KJUS UN TT
07DILI223CNRT LEADER XANANA GUSMAO ON ELECTIONS
[...] (U) Summary: In a June 5 meeting with Charge and Poloff, a relaxed and confident Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao, former President and currently leader of the National Council of Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT),which hopes to oust the ruling Fretilin Party in East Timor's parliamentary elections on June [...]
2007-06-06 10:42:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC KDEM PHUM TT
07DILI230FRETILIN REASSESSES, PREPARES FOR POSSIBLE OPPOSITION ROLE
[...] (C) Summary: The results of East Timor's April-May 2007 presidential elections clearly demonstrated ruling party Fretilin's weakness heading into the June 30 parliamentary elections. Fretilin, which has dominated East Timor's politics since independence, was caught by surprise by the extent to [...]
2007-06-14 13:44:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM TT
07DILI232PROMULGATION OF PROBLEMATIC AMNESTY LAW UNLIKELY FOR NOW
[...] (C) Summary: The National Parliament on June 4 approved a Law on Truth and Measures for Clemency for Various Infractions, stipulating that amnesty be provided for a wide array of offenses so long as they were committed between April 20, 2006 and April 30, 2007. If promulgated, the law would ha [...]
2007-06-20 10:38:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KJUS TT
07DILI234EAST TIMOR PRESIDENT RAMOS HORTA LOOKS AHEAD
[...] (C) Summary. In a June 20 meeting with Charge and Poloff, East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta expressed satisfaction with the ongoing parliamentary election campaign and confidence in connection with various post-election political scenarios. He confirmed that he had requested that the Inter [...]
2007-06-21 10:04:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AS PO ID TT
07DILI239UPDATE ON USAID/OFDA-FUNDED ACTIVITIES IN EAST TIMOR
[...] USAID/OFDA Bangkok-based Regional Advisor for Asia and the Pacific (RA) traveled to East Timor June 4 - 7, 2007 to monitor ongoing USAID/OFDA-funded emergency and mitigation programs, and assess the humanitarian situation in Dili. Outbreaks of violence continue to be a part of daily life in Di [...]
2007-06-26 07:18:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDEAID TT
07DILI241EAST TIMOR'S OPPOSITION PARTIES PREPARE TO GOVERN
[...] (SBU) Summary: With East Timor's ruling FRETILIN likely to lose its parliamentary majority following the June 30 elections, the four main opposition parties are looking at the very real possibility of being in a position to form the next government. These include: former president Xanana Gusmao [...]
2007-06-27 11:31:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM TT
07DILI243EMBASSY DILI EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE MEETING, JUNE 28
[...] (SBU) Embassy Dili's Emergency Action Committee (EAC),chaired by Ambassador, convened at 1030 June 28 to assess the security environment in preparation for post's participation in observing national elections throughout East Timor on June 30. Regional Security Officer (RSO) noted that in meeti [...]
2007-06-28 08:01:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC AEMR CASC KDEM TT
07DILI247FRETILIN, CNRT LEAD AS PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION COUNT
[...] (SBU) Summary: East Timor's parliamentary elections went remarkably smoothly despite last minute logistical challenges brought on by an unseasonable period of heavy rains in the days leading up the June 30 poll. International observers, including US mission teams present in almost all district [...]
2007-07-02 10:46:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM TT
07DILI251AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS, DISCUSSES ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Hans Klemm presented his letter of credence to President Jose Ramos-Horta on July 4 in a ceremony hosted at the President's office. In a meeting following the ceremony, both vowed to strengthen bilateral relations. Ramos-Horta expressed his appreciation for U.S. suppo [...]
2007-07-05 12:31:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM TT
07DILI252GOVERNING COALITION AGREEMENT TO BE SIGNED TOMORROW, GUSMAO
[...] (SBU) The last ballot from the June 30 election was counted at the Dili district counting center at mid-day day July 5; results of the completed count are reported in paragraph 2. At approximately 8:00pm local time the same day, we learned that former President Xanana Gusmao's party, the Natio [...]
2007-07-05 12:32:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM TT
07DILI255ELECTION RESULTS GIVE WAY TO RENEWED POWER STRUGGLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although the announcement of the validated election results are still pending, East Timor's electorate and parties have virtually without exception already accepted the results announced at the end of the counting process on July 5. The question that all are now grappling with is [...]
2007-07-09 12:52:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM TT
07DILI258EAST TIMOR'S GOVERNMENT FORMATION DEBATE CONTINUES
[...] (C) Summary: The mutually exclusive positions of FRETILIN and the Alliance of the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction (CNRT),the Social Democratic Association of Timor and the Social Democratic Party (ASDT/PSD) coalition, and the Democratic Party (PD) described in reftel appear to r [...]
2007-07-13 10:41:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM TT
07DILI264USG ENGAGEMENT WITH TAUR MATAN RUAK
[...] (C) In October 2006, a UN commission of inquiry recommended that the Timor Leste judicial authorities prosecute Brigadier General Ruak, chief of the local defense force, as a result of his actions during the spring 2006 crisis. The Timor Leste prosecutors reportedly began an investigation, but [...]
2007-07-23 07:31:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL MAAR ASEC KPKO UN TT
07DILI274PRESIDENT TO ASK GUSMAO-LED COALITION TO FORM COALITION
[...] (C) Summary. President Jose Ramos Horta told the ambassador on July 31 that he will ask this afternoon the CNRT-led coalition to select a prime minister as the initial step towards forming a new government. The widespread expectation is former president Xanana Gusmao will be the new prime min [...]
2007-07-31 06:33:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KDEM TT
07DILI281BITTER POLITICAL DIVISION WILL LIKELY HAMPER NEW GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Summary: President Jose Ramos-Horta on Wednesday, August 8 formally swore in the new government formed by the Alliance with a Parliamentary Majority (AMP),with former President Xanana Gusmao stepping into the role of Prime Minister. With a new government in place, the country may be able [...]
2007-08-08 12:30:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ASEC TT
07DILI285TIMOR-LESTE'S NEW CABINET
[...] (SBU) Summary: Newly appointed PM Xanana Gusmao laid out an ambitious program for the government formed by the Alliance with a Parliamentary Majority (AMP) in his August 8 inaugural speech. Effective implementation will be challenged by difficult relations with the outgoing ruling party FRETIL [...]
2007-08-13 09:39:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM TT
07DILI3LOBATO TRIAL TO RESUME AMID RUMORS OF DEMONSTRATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: The trial of former Minister of Interior Rogerio Lobato on charges of illegal arms distribution is due to resume on January 9. It had originally opened on November 30, but was adjourned the same day and delayed until this month, apparently because key witnesses / co-defendants had [...]
2007-01-05 09:34:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS ASEC TT
07DILI306THE STATE OF FRETILIN
[...] (C) Summary: In the days immediately following the August 5 announcement of the new government, led by the four-party Alliance with a Parliamentary Majority (AMP),supporters of the previous ruling party FRETILIN launched a campaign of violence and intimidation primarily concentrated in the thr [...]
2007-08-31 09:53:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ASEC TT
07DILI310AUSTRALIA, PORTUGAL BRING AID TO TIMOR-LESTE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-05 10:45:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID TT PO AS
07DILI313TIMOR-LESTE'S NEW CABINET COMPLETE
[...] (C) Summary: Following Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's initial appointments to Timor Leste's new Cabinet (reftel),President Ramos Horta swore in additional members on August 31. In a move that grants him authority over the National Police (PNTL) and Defense Forces (F-FDTL),PM Gusmao assumed t [...]
2007-09-07 09:47:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM TT
07DILI318PRESIDENT'S UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE: TIMOR-LESTE
[...] (U) Timor-Leste is a newly emerging democracy, independent since 2002. Its new government, freely elected in June 2007, is fully committed to safeguarding human rights and promoting democracy. It is constrained, however, by a lingering culture of political violence and low capacity on the pa [...]
2007-09-13 08:24:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL KDEM TT
07DILI327PACOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL KEATING MEETS TIMOR-LESTE'S LEADERS
[...] (SBU) Summary. In his September 19 visit to Timor-Leste, USPACOM Commander Admiral Timothy J. Keating extended an offer to provide training and assistance appropriate to the country's security needs. PACOM, he said, would work with Timor's leaders to identify which programs and forms of train [...]
2007-09-25 09:32:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS TT
07DILI330DRAFT UNGA RESOLUTION ON RAPE - DEMARCHE TO TIMOR-LESTE
[...] (U) We met on September 28 with Joao Camara, Secretary General of Timor-Leste's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Francisco Cepeda, Director of Multilateral Affairs, to urge that Timor-Leste support our draft UNGA resolution condemning the use of rape as an instrument of state policy. Drawing o [...]
2007-09-28 12:32:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM UNGA AORC KWMN TT
07DILI338COMMISSION ON TRUTH AND FRIENDSHIP HOLDS HEARINGS IN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-05 06:51:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KJUS KAWC TT ID
07DILI348DEMARCHE TO TIMOR-LESTE ON IAAC CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-23 08:09:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC UNGA UN TT
07DILI351TIMOR-LESTE TO PRESS FOR ASEAN ENGAGEMENT ON BURMA
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, Ambassador met October 26 with Timor-Leste Foreign Minister Zacarias Albano Da Costa to urge that Timor-Leste, as a candidate for accession to ASEAN, explore ways to press Burma. We stressed the importance of the issue to the United States, and expressed our appreciation for [...]
2007-10-26 09:39:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEAN PO SG TT BM
07DILI352TIMOR-LESTE WILL VOTE FOR RESOLUTION CONDEMNING CUBA
[...] (SBU) Ambassador met October 26 with Foreign Minister Zacarias Albano da Costa to urge that Timor-Leste vote against Cuba's UNGA resolution condemning the U.S. embargo (reftel A). Citing the President's recent speech (reftel B),we said that the Castro regime is continuing its longstanding prac [...]
2007-10-26 09:46:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNGA PREL PHUM ETRD CU TT
07DILI358EMBASSY DILI RESPONSE ON GREAT WHITE FLEET COMMEMORATION
[...] (SBU) Embassy Dili is strongly engaged with USPACOM in developing a robust schedule of ship visits to Timor-Leste. In conversation with Ambassador, GOTL leaders have recalled U.S. ship visits in the pre-independence era, and have requested our help in reviving Dili's status as a regular port [...]
2007-11-08 10:07:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO MARR MASS TT
07DILI359CHALLENGES IMMENSE AS GOVERNMENT PASSES THREE MONTH MARK
[...] (SBU) Three months after taking office, Prime Minister Gusmao can tally several accomplishments: selecting some energetic and skilled ministers, a couple of key legislative victories and the proper identification of policy priorities all linked to resolving causes or consequences of the 2006 c [...]
2007-11-08 11:16:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV TT
07DILI362PRESIDENT RAMOS HORTA DESCENDS ON OPPOSITION TERRITORY TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. On a November 6 - 8 trip, President Jose Ramos Horta traveled into FRETILIN territory to defend the Alliance for a Parliamentary Majority (AMP) government, promote his anti-poverty program, and counter the opposition FRETILIN party's criticisms of against his government. He pra [...]
2007-11-14 10:31:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPINR CVIS PREF ASEC TT
07DILI370REBEL REINADO HANGS TOUGH IN TIMOR-LESTE
[...] (C/NF) Summary. During November, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao suffered setbacks in his efforts to rein in fugitive rebel Major Alfredo Reinado and his supporters - a group consisting primarily of several hundred "petitioners" dismissed from the Armed Forces of Timor-Leste (F-FDTL) in 2006. Gus [...]
2007-11-26 11:42:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC TT
07DILI379TIMOR-LESTE: FRETILIN SETTLES INTO OPPOSITION ROLE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: FRETILIN's leaders remain optimistic that Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao's government will be short-lived. FRETILIN is confident that it can undermine Gusmao's coalition by frustrating the realization of the government's policy objectives and highlighting its lack of governing exp [...]
2007-12-12 15:17:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV TT
07DILI385TIMOR-LESTE: REINADO ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-20 09:38:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC TT
07DILI395USS PORT ROYAL CONDUCTS SUCCESSFUL VISIT TO DILI
[...] (SBU) Summary. The USS Port Royal visited Dili on December 10-12, a visit that all of Post's contacts characterized as extremely successful. The ship's engagements with the host nation, the United Nations Integrated Mission to Timor-Leste, and the Australian-led International Stabilization [...]
2007-12-28 05:28:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MOPS PREL TT
07DILI61RICE SHORTAGE: POLITICAL AND SECURITY IMPLICATIONS IN TIMOR
[...] (U) Summary: A severe rice shortage in East Timor has caused both a dramatic increase in the price of rice and in many cases a total lack of availability at any cost. Although the UN has emphasized that the rice shortage does not translate into an overall food shortage, the immediate political [...]
2007-02-22 09:57:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAGR EAID ASEC CASC KPKO TT
07DILI66RAMOS-HORTA'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY IN CONTEXT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta, a political independent, officially announced his candidacy for president on February 25 in the eastern town of Laga. Ramos-Horta is widely known to be the candidate supported by President Xanana Gusmao and his newly established political party, [...]
2007-02-26 13:57:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM TT
07DILI7MOUNTING CONCERN ABOUT F-FDTL BEHAVIOR
[...] (C) Summary. UNMIT is seriously concerned about arrogant and undisciplined behavior by increasingly visible armed F-FDTL elements in Dili. According to the Deputy SRSG, UNMIT is submitting a formal complaint to Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta and plans to raise the issue with the UN Security [...]
2007-01-08 08:30:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO MARR ASEC UN TT
07DILI70REINADO'S LAST STAND: REBEL LEADER SURROUNDED
[...] (C) Summary: As of 9 p.m. local time February 27, a large contingent of the mainly Australian International Security Forces (ISF) in a western East Timor town had cordoned off escape routes for dissident F-FDTL Major Alfredo Reinado and his group, who on February 25 seized 15-25 assault rifles [...]
2007-02-27 13:28:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MAAR KPKO UN AU TT
07DILI8EAST TIMOR: OBSTACLES TO ACCOUNTABILITY
[...] (C) Summary. While there are indications that East Timor's Prosecutor-General genuinely desires to pursue justice for crimes related to the April-May 2006 events, he is said to be under strong pressure from the political elite not to do so, and to fear for his personal safety. He is therefore [...]
2007-01-12 12:12:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KJUS ID UN TT
07DILI83UPDATE ON REINADO STANDOFF AND SECURITY SITUATION
[...] (S/NF) Summary: At day's end March 2, there had been no significant change to the situation on the ground in Same, where dissident military leader Alfredo Reinado remains surrounded by Australian Defense Force (ADF) soldiers. ADF reinforcements have arrived in East Timor, but there are indica [...]
2007-03-02 12:00:00Embassy DiliSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL MAAR ASEC CASC KPKO UN AU TT
07DILI89TURMOIL IN DILI AS REINADO HUNT CONTINUES
[...] (C) Summary: Dili remained calm but very tense March 6 as the unresolved Reinado operation and the expected March 7 Roserio Lobato court verdict kept the population on edge. No serious injuries or deaths were reported although there were widespread disturbances the night of March 5, continu [...]
2007-03-06 14:16:00Embassy DiliSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL MAAR ASEC KPKO UN AU TT
07DILI92EX INTERIOR MINISTER LOBATO FOUND GUILTY, FOR NOW
[...] (U) Summary: A Dili District Court on March 7 sentenced former Interior Minister Rogerio Lobato to seven and a half years in prison on murder and weapons charges. His co-defendants, Francisco Salsinha, Francisco Xavier Viegas, and Marcos Piedade, each received a four month suspended sentence. [...]
2007-03-07 10:36:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KPAO ASEC TT
07DILI93EAST TIMOR ELECTION HICCUPS PERSIST - CORRECTED COPY,
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent briefing for the Embassy, USAID contractors and grantees working with East Timor's electoral process expressed an array of concerns about the election process, especially over the ineffective role of UN advisors to the National Electoral Commission (CNE) and the State [...]
2007-03-07 11:55:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM UN TT
07DILI94EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR MARCH 8, 2007
[...] Summary: -- Engaging with GOET on Reinado issue; -- Reinado relays new "peaceful resolution" conditions; -- Lobato verdict clarification; -- Security update. End summary. Engaging with GOET on Reinado issue ----------------------------------- 2. (C) Embassy Dili has been reaching out t [...]
2007-03-08 10:38:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MAAR ASEC KPKO UN AU TT
07DILI95GUSMAO EXPOUNDS ON REINADO, ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: In a March 8 meeting, President Xanana Gusmao told Charge d'Affaires (CDA) he will no longer talk directly with Major Alfredo Reinado because of Reinado's history of stubbornness and duplicity in the President's direct negotiations with the rebel soldier. The strategy remains for [...]
2007-03-08 10:52:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV MAAR KDEM KJUS KPKO UN AU TT
07DILI96DILI BISHOP SYMPATHIZES WITH REINADO
[...] (C) Summary: Bishop of Dili Alberto Ricardo da Silva told us in a March 9 meeting that he was reluctant to get involved in convincing dissident military leader Major Alfredo Reinado to surrender because he feared for the safety of Reinado if he surrenders to GOET authorities, and that the Cath [...]
2007-03-09 10:24:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS UN AU VT TT
07DJIBOUTI1076DJIBOUTI OFFERS SUDAN PEACEKEEPERS
[...] (C) The President of Djibouti has instructed his armed forces to prepare for a possible deployment of peacekeeping forces to the Darfur region of Southern Sudan. The size of the proposed force is expected to be a reinforced company of 150-200 troops, including a police or military police platoo [...]
2007-09-20 13:42:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALMASS MOPS PK PREL SU DJ
07DJIBOUTI1147DJIBOUTI MAKES TIP PROGRESS, CABINET APPROVES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Djibouti's Council of Ministers approved a comprehensive anti-trafficking draft law on October 2, and have presented it to the National Assembly for adoption. A foreign national convicted of pedophilia was recaptured by police, after fleeing the country on bail, and subsequently [...]
2007-10-10 13:34:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR DJ
07DJIBOUTI1150 U.S. DEVELOPMENT AID IN DJIBOUTI SCORES SUCCESSES,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID assistance to Djibouti over the past four years has increased food security and raised agricultural incomes in Djibouti and its neighbors. It has helped to stave off famine and is reducing the risk of fatalities due to flooding. USAID re-established its presence and prog [...]
2007-10-10 15:52:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EAID DJ
07DJIBOUTI1177COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ETHIOPIA DESK OFFICER
[...] U.S. Embassy Djibouti grants country clearance as requested in reftel and we look forward to your visit. Visitor: JOHN WYSHAM Title: ETHIOPIA DESK OFFICER - STATE SecClear: TOP SECRET Purpose: Official Business Arrive: 10/21/2007 - ET 306 Depart: 10/22/2007 - ET 307 [...]
2007-10-17 13:17:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT OTRA DJ
07DJIBOUTI1230DJIBOUTI STRIKES (FRANCE) BACK; TENSIONS COULD
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Djiboutians made an unprecedented show of support for their president, Ismail Omar Guelleh, during a government-organized rally on October 20 with over 20,000 people thronging the streets to express an anti-French sentiment over the celebrated Borrel Affair. Anti-French songs in t [...]
2007-10-29 07:32:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL DJ
07DJIBOUTI1349Declaration of Cholera Epidemic in Djibouti
[...] Summary: The Minister of Health, Mr Abdilla Miguel declared a cholera epidemic in the poor parts of the city of Djibouti and other periphery areas last Friday, the 16th of November and requested international assistance to help with epidemic response. The Ambassador concurs that an adequate re [...]
2007-11-20 15:23:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID
07DJIBOUTI1414DJIBOUTI REPLACES DUBAI AS A FOOD FOR PEACE
[...] (C) In a November 26 meeting, Djibouti's President Ismael Omar Guelleh warmly thanked USAID Assistant Administrator for Africa Kate Almquist for the U.S. decision to make Djibouti the new site for pre-positioned Food For Peace aid in the region (replacing Dubai). Guelleh called the decision a [...]
2007-12-02 13:23:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRET//NOFORNDJ EAID ECON ET FAS MAS MOPS PINR PM PREF
07DJIBOUTI1470DJIBOUTIANS TELL ADMIRAL FALLON USG PRESENCE
[...] (C) Summary: Admiral William J. Fallon, Commander, United States Central Command, visited Djibouti December 11-12. Accompanied by the Ambassador and Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) Commander Hart and staff, Admiral Fallon met with Djiboutian Prime Minister Dileita, with D [...]
2007-12-17 16:19:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRET//NOFORNDJ ER ET PGOV PINR PREL PTER MASS
07DJIBOUTI1472RECOVERING MANPADS IN THE HORN: VIEW FROM DJIBOUTI
[...] (S/NF) We reviewed the proposed action plan (ref A) in light of our recent experience (ref B). Based on that review and experience, sustained attention to the manpad threat is a critical element of our CT efforts. The best strategy in Djibouti is to ensure continued close cooperation with D [...]
2007-12-22 12:49:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRET//NOFORNPARM MARR MASS ASEC PTER PINR DJ
07DJIBOUTI425EAST AFRICA REGIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVE (RSI),
[...] (S) Summary: East African regional ambassadors and interagency representatives agreed to institutionalize the East African RSI by requesting dedicated, line-item FY09 regional funding for East Africa, along the lines of the Trans-Sahara Counter Terrorist Partnership. In this second RSI (th [...]
2007-04-10 13:38:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRETPTER PREL PINR KPAO PGOV EAID XW YM
07DJIBOUTI437DJIBOUTI AIMS AT BECOMING REGIONAL SERVICE HUB
[...] (U) In his annual address to Djibouti's National Assembly, Prime Minister Dileita Mohamed Dileita praised President Ismail Omar Guelleh's new anti-poverty initiative (below) and called for Djibouti to become a hub for regional services. He touted Djibouti's new oil, bulk, and container terminal [...]
2007-04-12 08:13:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON DJ
07DJIBOUTI465DJIBOUTI BACKS SOMALI RECONCILIATION, OPPOSES
[...] (S) Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, Djibouti's Foreign Minister, called in Ambassador on Saturday to voice concern over violence in Mogadishu. He reiterated that the Government of Djibouti (GODJ) opposes attacks on the Transitional Federal Government (TFG),supports the reconciliation process, and ba [...]
2007-04-23 12:41:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRETPREL IGAD SO DJ
07DJIBOUTI708DJIBOUTI OFFICIALS SEEK U.S., NOT CHINA, FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Djibouti's Minister of Energy told Emboffs he welcomed U.S. assistance and put a high priority on partnership with the United States, rather than China or other potential partners, in the area of energy and mine development. Djibouti's geothermal energy development looks promising [...]
2007-06-20 13:16:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EMIN EINV DJ
07DJIBOUTI892TWO VIEWS ON SOMALILAND: HOSTILE FORCES TARGET
[...] (C) In a August 1 meeting, the Charge d'Affaires (CDA) and Poloff met with Amcit Youssouf Oday, a part-time resident of Hargeysa, Somaliland, who stressed that "hostile forces" in Somaliland are implementing Qstrategic plan to dominate the economy as part of a wider agenda to gain political inf [...]
2007-08-09 11:24:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALECON SOCI PNAT SO
07DOHA1007QATAR TO STUDY REQUEST FOR LEADING ROLE IN LEBANON
[...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche October 22 to MFA Assistant Minister for Follow-up Affairs Mohamed Al-Rumaihi, stressing U.S. support for a Qatari leadership role in a joint EU-Arab Lebanon border mission proposed by Lebanese PM Siniora. Charge also emphasized our desire that Qatar garner [...]
2007-10-22 14:21:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV LE QA
07DOHA1009QATAR MFA WARNED THAT VISA SUSPENSION LOOMS IF
[...] (C) Charge d'Affaires, accompanied by P/E Chief, informed MFA Assistant Minister for Follow-up Affairs Mohamed Al-Rumaihi October 22 that November 1 would be the last day Embassy Doha could issue U.S. visas due to a shortage of visa foils, which the Embassy must receive by classified diplomati [...]
2007-10-23 15:07:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALADCO ADPM PREL CVIS ASEC ACOA ATRN KRIM QA
07DOHA1020QATAR GIVES ORAL ASSURANCES THAT DIPLOMATIC POUCH
[...] (C/NF) Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Al-Mahmoud convoked Charge October 25 to discuss delivery of U.S. diplomatic pouches (see reftel for background.) Al-Mahmoud informed Charge that following the GOQ's review of the bilateral discussions on this matter, the GOQ had taken the dec [...]
2007-10-25 14:42:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNADCO ADPM PREL CVIS ASEC ACOA ATRN KRIM QA
07DOHA1021QATAR AIRWAYS SECURITY UPDATE
[...] (C) Econoff visited Doha International Airport October 29 to observe security screening procedures for the direct Doha to Washington/Dulles flight (see reftel for background). The flight had 90 passengers flying out of the economy terminal and another 20 from the separate first and business c [...]
2007-10-29 13:32:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALEAIR ASEC KSAC QA
07DOHA1040SENIOR MFA OFFICIAL OUTLINES QATAR'S FOREIGN POLICY
[...] (C//NF) Summary: MFA Assistant Minister for Follow-up Affairs Mohamed Al-Rumaihi in an October 23 presentation to a group of recently promoted senior U.S. military officers (CAPSTONE) gave a noteworthy overview of Qatar's foreign policy and made some significant remarks about domestic policy. [...]
2007-11-04 13:42:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV KDEM QA
07DOHA1042PRIME MINISTER OFFERS "SINCERE ADVICE" ON IRAQ
[...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Crocker briefed Qatar's Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ) October 31 on the progress in Iraq and asked his assessment of building on this progress with the help of Arab states. HBJ said Qatar was a friend of the U.S. and wanted us to succe [...]
2007-11-05 10:03:00Embassy DohaSECRETPREL PGOV MASS IZ QA
07DOHA1043INFLATION, HOUSING COSTS TAKING TOLL ON QATARI
[...] SUMMARY: Double-digit inflation in Qatar has become the norm, with increases in the housing sector felt most acutely. The high cost of living dominates public and private discourse. The government has begun to take steps to address inflation, though they have been ineffective thus far, and the [...]
2007-11-05 12:35:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN AFSN ALOW AMGT APER ECON ELAB QA
07DOHA1046SUPPORTING ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR INTERPOL
[...] (C) Poloff approached the MFA International Organizations, Conferences and Treaties Department October 28 regarding Government of Qatar (GOQ) participation in the November 5-8 INTERPOL General Assembly in Marrakech, Morocco and inquired about GOQ thinking regarding Argentina Red Notices (reft [...]
2007-11-05 13:50:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL KJUS PTER ASEC PGOV IR QA
07DOHA1047QATAR-ISRAEL COMMERCE CONTINUES QUIETLY
[...] (C) The Israeli Trade Representation Office in Qatar opened in 1996 but, despite its name, focuses less on promoting trade than on facilitating political engagement, such as Shimon Peres' January 2007 visit to Qatar and various civil society interactions. (Note: See reftel for more backgroun [...]
2007-11-06 10:09:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL KBCT USTR QA IS
07DOHA1050QATARI IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCRS 1737 AND 1747
[...] (C) The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the Embassy via diplomatic note on October 25 that the GOQ examined the list of Iranian entities and individuals listed in the annexes to UNSC resolutions 1737 and 1747 and found "no accounts or financial transactions with the individuals an [...]
2007-11-07 12:23:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALKNNP EFIN PARM QA
07DOHA1052QATAR FORGES ITS OWN "WAHABI" PATH
[...] (C) Summary: Qatar's brand of Islam, according to three sources, is both traditional and progressive. It is traditional in that it is based on scripture and standing interpretations, but progressive in its tolerance for various Islamic schools of thought and moderate social strictures. Even [...]
2007-11-08 13:51:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF KISL QA
07DOHA1053QATAR'S DEPORTATION DETENTION CENTER - NO APPARENT
[...] (U) Summary. A visit to the Qatar Deportation Detention Center (DDC) 30 October revealed little to no improvement over the previous year. What appear to be obvious trafficking-in-persons (TIP) victims continue to be administratively apprehended, detained and deported. End Summary. ------ [...]
2007-11-08 13:51:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL ELAB KWMN SMIG QA
07DOHA1054DEMARCHE ON QATAR'S HOLD ON UNSCR 1267 TERRORIST
[...] (C) Econoff and British Political Secretary James Lynch delivered Ref A demarche November 8 to Adel Al-Khal, Director of International Organizations, Conferences and Treaties at the MFA. Al-Khal explained that at the time of the UN 1267 Committee meeting, the Qatari mission at the United Nati [...]
2007-11-08 14:44:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPTER ETTC KTFN UNSC QA IZ
07DOHA1071QATARI MFA AND CENTRAL BANK VIEWS ON IRAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmad Al-Mahmoud told Charge November 14 that Iran's acquisition of weapons of mass destruction would be a "disaster" for Qatar, the U.S. and the region. Qatar agreed that a peaceful and diplomatic resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue was [...]
2007-11-15 09:52:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC KNNP PARM EFIN IR QA
07DOHA1073GCC FOREIGN MINISTERS PREPARE FOR UPCOMING SUMMIT
[...] (C) The Foreign Ministers of the GCC member states met in Doha November 11 to discuss the agenda for the heads of state summit, scheduled to take place in Doha December 3-4. Omani DCM Salim Abdulla Al-Alawi told Charge and P/E Chief November 14 that it appeared certain King Abdullah of Saudi [...]
2007-11-15 15:03:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GCC QA
07DOHA11SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY FORE'S JANUARY
[...] (C) Embassy Doha is pleased to welcome you to Qatar. The Government of Qatar remains a key ally of the U.S. in the war on terror and supports a significant U.S. military presence in the country. Qatar's Amir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, took power from his father in 1995 and embarked on [...]
2007-01-03 13:44:00Embassy DohaSECRETPREL AMGT PGOV ASEC CMGT QA
07DOHA1104QATAR CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR DOWNPLAYS CURRENCY
[...] (C) Qatar Central Bank Governor Sheikh Abdulla Bin Saoud Al Thani told Charge and Econoff November 25 that recent press commentary speculating on an imminent move by GCC countries' to depeg or revalue their currencies is overblown. Sheikh Abdulla said Qatar's economy had been well served by [...]
2007-11-26 10:33:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALEFIN QA
07DOHA1112QATARIS AMBIVALENT ABOUT IRANIAN THREAT FOR NOW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Qataris by and large remain ambivalent about the Iranian threat, especially with respect to Iranian intentions to acquire nuclear weapons. Key Embassy contacts paint a composite picture of Qataris' welcoming, on an emotional level, Iranian nuclear weapons capability to counter [...]
2007-11-29 06:01:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR QA
07DOHA1115BOEING DELIVERY, FCS OPENING HIGHLIGHT COMMERCIAL
[...] State-owned Qatar Airways took delivery today of its firs... [...]
2007-11-29 13:54:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDBTIO ECON BEXP BMGT EAIR QA
07DOHA1127GCC SUMMIT OPENS IN DOHA WITH LOW PUBLIC
[...] (SBU) The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit opened December 3 in Doha with all six heads of state, plus Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad in attendance. Though not on the written agenda, Ahmedinejad delivered a largely non-inflammatory speech that included a twelve-point proposal to a [...]
2007-12-03 13:46:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN GCC QA
07DOHA1133GCC SUMMIT WRAPS UP IN DOHA WITHOUT NOTABLE
[...] (C) The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit officially closed December 4 with a brief and low-key ceremony and with no notable achievements. Neither the Iranian president nor the UAE president attended the closing. (According to press reports, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad departed [...]
2007-12-04 13:30:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN GCC IR QA
07DOHA1134BAN ON SAUDI POULTRY DUE TO AVIAN INFLUENZA MAKES
[...] The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) announced November 13 the reoccurence of Avian Influenza in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Based on the OIE finding of H5N1 in the KSA, Qatar's Minister of Municipal Affairs and Agriculture, Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Khalifa Al-Thani, issued a M [...]
2007-12-04 13:30:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON PREL TBIO SENV KFLU QA SA
07DOHA1136QATAR LIKELY TO BE ONE OF THE FIRST GCC STATES TO
[...] (C) P/E Chief delivered Ref A demarche December 5 to MFA Director of GCC Affairs Yousef Al-Jaber. Al-Jaber said the GCC heads of state discussed how to proceed on stabilizing Iraq in their December 3-4 Doha summit. According to Al-Jaber, the GCC states believed that the security situation i [...]
2007-12-05 11:59:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ IR TU QA
07DOHA1141READOUT ON GCC SUMMIT FROM THE DOHA ORGANIZER
[...] (C) MFA Director of GCC Affairs Yousef Al-Jaber (strictly protect),who was the organizer of the December 3-4 Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in Doha, provided P/E Chief December 5 a readout of the event and the preparations leading up to it. Had it not been for Iranian President Mahmo [...]
2007-12-06 13:04:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN GCC IR QA
07DOHA1172SCENESETTER FOR DECEMBER 18 GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE
[...] (S) In November, Qatar's Amir told the Commander of CENTCOM, Admiral Fallon, that he wants the Qatari leadership to seek ways to deepen its military partnership with the U.S. at all levels. While a desirable goal given the considerable equities we have in our relationship with Qatar, the Amir' [...]
2007-12-12 14:19:00Embassy DohaSECRETMASS MARR PREL QA
07DOHA1174VODAFONE AND QATAR FOUNDATION BEAT AT&T FOR MOBILE
[...] (U) United Kingdom-based Vodafone and its local partner, the Qatar Foundation (QF),won Qatar's second mobile phone operating license. The winning consortium plans to start operations in 2008 and would compete with government-owned Q-tel, currently Qatar's sole mobile telephone provider. Vod [...]
2007-12-13 13:33:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EINV BTIO QA
07DOHA1187DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SHARING DRAFT IRAQ UNSCR
[...] (SBU) Poloff approached the MFA International Organizations, Conferences and Treaties Department December 11 regarding Government of Qatar (GOQ) support for extending the mandates for the Multinational Force - Iraq (MNF-I),Development Fund for Iraq (DFI),and International Advisory, and Moni [...]
2007-12-16 11:00:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL UNSC EFIN MARR QA IZ
07DOHA1195QATARI MFA OFFICIAL OFFERS ADVICE ON POST-NIE
[...] (C) Summary: U.S. Representative to the IAEA Ambassador Gregory Schulte briefed MFA Assistant Minister for Follow-Up Affairs Al-Rumaihi December 11 on the recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran and U.S. policy toward Tehran in the wake of it. As Qatar prepares to leave the UN Securit [...]
2007-12-17 12:25:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL PNUC ETTC IAEA IR QA
07DOHA1199QATAR LOOKS EAST TO SINGAPORE AS A MODEL FOR
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Qatar (GOQ) has over the past two years been building a strong, strategic relationship with the Government of Singapore (GOS),particularly in the areas of security and economic development. Both small, prosperous states surrounding by much larger neighbors, the [...]
2007-12-17 13:29:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALEFIN MARR ECON PREL QA SN
07DOHA1214EMPOWERING QATARI WOMEN TO TACKLE FAMILY VIOLENCE
[...] The Qatar Supreme Council for Family Affairs (SCFA) organized November 25-26 a workshop on combating violence against women, a subject once considered taboo in Qatar. Even today, the Qatari Criminal Code does not define punishments or penalize offenders in this regard. Likewise, Qatar has not [...]
2007-12-30 06:31:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN QA
07DOHA135QATAR FINANCIAL CENTRE: SOLID REGULATIONS,
[...] Summary. On 28 January Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) regulatory officials told EmbOffs that the Authority has licensed 17 financial services firms and focuses on corporate governance as the primary risk in evaluating applications. The Authority, which regulates the QFC as a sort of financial fr [...]
2007-02-07 12:18:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN QA KTFN
07DOHA137C-NE6-02072 SHIA IN QATAR QUIET ON POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary. Shia amount to 5% of Qatari citizenry. They are well-represented in the business sector and also hold some important government positions, though not the most senior. Their mosques are un-regulated, and Sunni and Shia frequently pray together. Shia would like more official oversig [...]
2007-02-07 13:51:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL KISL IZ IR QA
07DOHA163SECURITY GAPS IN QATAR'S ONSHORE OIL FACILITY
[...] (U) Summary. On January 30 Ambassador and Emboffs visited Qatar Petroleum's Dukhan compound and oil field. Qatar Petroleum is undertaking a major infrastructure upgrade at Dukhan to improve the administrative and living spaces. No armed guards were present at the compound and the area was prot [...]
2007-02-14 13:39:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALECON EPET QA ASEC PTER
07DOHA168PUTIN VISITS DOHA BUT NO TANGIBLE RESULTS
[...] (C) Summary. Russian president Vladimir Putin met with the Qatari Amir in Doha February 12. The two agreed on the need for a Middle East peace conference, the date and locale of which was undefined. The two also agreed on holding discussions on an OPEC-like organization for gas producers at th [...]
2007-02-14 14:45:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL EPET UNSC RU IR QA
07DOHA174C-TN6-01921: SASOL CHEVRON FIRST OF MANY IN QATAR
[...] (U) Summary. Sasol Chevron's Qatar Country Manager and Public Relations Executive told Emboffs February 6 that the GTL industry is in the phase that liquefied natural gas was 15 years ago, and they expect GTLs will follow the same course. Sasol's Oryx plant will produce 34,000 barrels per day [...]
2007-02-19 10:38:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EPET QA EINV
07DOHA201QATAR PETROLEUM'S CONFIRMATION OF SECURITY PROCEDURES
[...] Saad al-Kaabi, director of oil and gas ventures at Qatar Petroleum (QP),submitted by e-mail the following document in response to reftel. The QP document confirms, line by line, all of the security procedures noted during the January 31 videoconference between QP and U.S. energy, transportatio [...]
2007-02-22 13:12:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET ETRD ASEC QA
07DOHA202RISING COSTS END EXXONMOBIL GTL PROJECT
[...] (U) On February 21 Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum (QP) terminated plans to build a gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant because of increasing costs to build the facility. The plant was supposed to be become the world's largest GTL plant, producing 154,000 barrels per day of base oils and synthetic fuel [...]
2007-02-22 14:31:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EPET QA
07DOHA206QATARI MFA DOES NOT WANT NATO/ISAF TO BECOME A
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Qatari Deputy Minister for Follow-Up Affairs Mohamad al-Rumaihi told Ambassador and DCM February 25 that U.S. personnel supporting the NATO/ISAF Afghanistan mission out of Al-Udeid Air Base are covered by the bilateral Defense Cooperation Agreement. He nevertheless complained tha [...]
2007-02-25 14:57:00Embassy DohaSECRETMARR NATO PGOV PTER QA XF
07DOHA212QATAR ESTABLISHING A TOURISM NICHE
[...] (U) Summary. The acting Director General of the Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) told Emboffs that in developing a tourism sector, Qatar is not looking to become a mass-market destination like Dubai but is aiming to be a niche market for East to West travel. The government has dedicated USD 18 bi [...]
2007-02-26 09:32:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDECON QA
07DOHA224U/S HENRIETTA HOLSMAN FORE'S FEBRUARY 15 MEETING AT QATARI
[...] (SBU) Under Secretary of State for Management Henrietta Holsman Fore met February 15 with Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Qatar's second-ranking MFA official) Ahmed al-Mahmoud to discuss consular notification of arrested Americans, Iran, Iraq, and other regional issues. Al-Mahmou [...]
2007-02-28 04:18:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CASC QA
07DOHA260QATAR: INPUT FOR THE SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (U) The following is post's input for the seventh annual Anti-Trafficking in Persons Report. Answers are keyed to reftel questions. 2. (SBU) Paragraph 27. Overview of a country's activities to eliminate trafficking in persons: A. (SBU) Is the country a country of origin, transit, or des [...]
2007-03-08 09:25:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB QA
07DOHA271QATAR'S LEADING BANKS SUPPORT ERO DIVERSIFICATION
[...] Summary. In iscussions with senior management of Qatar's top two banks, Qatar National Bank and Doha Bank, Emboffs learned that the private sector anticipates Qatar's continued diversification away from the dollar as the country becomes more involved in the global economy. Bank officials also s [...]
2007-03-12 10:37:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDECON FIN QA
07DOHA285INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES ON QATAR'S ENERGY SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary. Security officials from ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and KBR operations in Qatar told Emboffs of their current security measures and future plans. The companies do not have direct influence on the security of the plants they are invested in but some hope to change this in the futur [...]
2007-03-15 14:24:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALASEC ECON EPET QA
07DOHA311POST ACTION PLAN FOR ENGAGING QATAR ON ENERGY
[...] (C) Qatar's intention to become the world's liquefied natural gas (LNG) and gas-to-liquids (GTL) leader by 2012 necessitates a robust energy infrastructure security program that it currently lacks. While the Qataris have adequately prepared a production and shipping infrastructure for the boom [...]
2007-03-25 13:35:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALEPET ASEC ECON PREL QA
07DOHA321QATAR GAS SLOWLY MOVING FORWARD ON SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary. QatarGas is in the midst of improving its security procedures with new equipment, better training, and more security personnel, the goal is to be ISO 28000 compliant in the next two years. While undergoing physical improvements, the QatarGas head of security is also trying to rais [...]
2007-03-26 13:39:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALECON EPET ASEC EWWT QA
07DOHA330QATAR AIRWAYS CHAIRMAN SEES MORE BOEINGS AND
[...] (C) Summary: At a recent meeting with Ambassador, Akbar Al Baker, CEO of Qatar Airways (QA),discussed QA expansion plans for the near future, which he said now include the purchase of 60 Boeing 777 aircraft, up from an original buy of 20. According to Al Baker, QA will fly to Los Angeles and [...]
2007-03-28 13:05:00Embassy DohaSECRET//NOFORNASEC CVIS EAIR PREL QA KHLS IR
07DOHA335INFORMATION EXCHANGE: QATARI BORDER DATABASES AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. THIS CABLE PROVIDES DETAILS OF QATAR'S USE OF IMMIGRATION DATABASES AND BIOMETRICS SYSTEMS AT PORTS OF ENTRY. IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS AT QATAR'S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SCREEN ARRIVING AND DEPARTING PASSENGERS FOR PREVIOUS PASSENGER RECORDS AND FRAUDULENT, LOST OR STOLEN TRAVEL DOCU [...]
2007-03-29 13:34:00Embassy DohaSECRETPGOV ASEC PTER KVPR CVIS PINR KHLS QA
07DOHA339RARE PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION IN QATAR: SOLIDARITY
[...] (U) The Qatari Central Municipal Council organized a "rally" the afternoon of March 28 to show solidarity with Iraq. It lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes. The event took place at a central location along the city's corniche. Participants numbered a maximum of 400 and mostly included high-school and [...]
2007-03-29 14:50:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC PREL IZ QA
07DOHA351FOREIGN MINISTER ASSUMES PRIME MINISTERSHIP
[...] (U) Qatar News Agency announced today that the Qatari Prime Minister, Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani, who is the Amir's brother, has resigned. The First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ),has replaced him while retaining the foreign affairs portfolio. T [...]
2007-04-03 14:29:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL QA
07DOHA353QATAR ESTABLISHES LARGEST NATIONAL PARK IN THE COUNTRY
[...] Summary. On January 22, 2007, the Government of Qatar (GOQ) passed a law establishing the largest national park in the country. Post and the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) have supported the project since its inception in 2000. The GOQ is now requesting further assistance from the U.S. to dev [...]
2007-04-04 08:18:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV PGOV QA
07DOHA359SECURITY OBSERVATIONS AT QATAR'S ENERGY PORTS
[...] (C) Summary. Security at Qatar's most important ports, Ras Laffan and Mesaieed, currently meet the basic standards for infrastructure protection but many improvements could be made. Both ports are in the process of upgrading security with new equipment including x-ray units for passenger cars [...]
2007-04-04 14:37:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG ASEC PGOV QA
07DOHA368QATAR CENTRAL MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS SEE
[...] Summary. Qatar held national elections for the third session of the Central Municipal Council (CMC) April 1. The turnout (nearly 50 percent) was higher than many predicted. One of three women running for the council was re-elected in a landslide. Voting ran smoothly without significant problem [...]
2007-04-05 14:32:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KMPI PREL QA
07DOHA385GAS EXPORTING COUNTRIES FORUM: NO GAS CARTEL
[...] (U) Summary. Ministers at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF),representing the world,s top gas producers, rejected the idea of forming an OPEC-style gas cartel. The decision came after member countries, which together hold more than 70 per cent of natural gas reserves, discussed a propos [...]
2007-04-10 13:56:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALEPET PGOV RU IR QA
07DOHA388LAUNCH OF RASGAS TRAIN 5 MAKES QATAR WORLD'S
[...] Summary. Qatar recently launched RasGas Train 5, the world,s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facility. The start-up of Train 5, which will produce 4.7 million tons of LNG per annum (mtpa),will increase Qatar's total LNG production capacity to approximately 30.7 mtpa, making it [...]
2007-04-12 10:31:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDEPET ECON PGOV QA
07DOHA420DEMOCRACY FORUM: LEBANESE PRESIDENT AND SYRIAN
[...] (U) The Amir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, opened the seventh annual Forum on Democracy, Development, and Free Trade April 23 with a speech that focused on the need for democratic reforms in the Arab region. He described a "sort of lassitude" in Arab movement toward reform in the region [...]
2007-04-24 14:16:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM LE SY QA
07DOHA433FORMER ARAB KNESSET MEMBER BISHARA SPEAKS AT DOHA DEMOCRACY
[...] (U) Former Arab member of the Israeli Knesset Azmi Bishara was a featured speaker on the "Political Reform: National Programs and External Projects" panel of the Doha Forum on Democracy, Development and Free Trade on April 24. Speaking without notes, Bishara asked how a state could be built on [...]
2007-04-29 04:34:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL IS KPAL QA
07DOHA439QATARIS WILL SUPPORT KOSOVO RESOLUTION ON PRINCIPLE
[...] (C) Summary. Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs told S/R Frank Wisner that Qatar "will support the same position you support" on Kosovo. He appreciated consultation on the matter. He said a Serbian envoy had tried to convince him to back a "middle way" -- but the Qataris were not swa [...]
2007-05-01 10:58:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC XH QA
07DOHA495WADAH KHANFAR LOSES POSITION AS MEMBER OF AL
[...] (C) Summary: In a long-awaited move, the Amir has appointed a new board of governors for the Al Jazeera Network (AJN). Highlights include: the retention of Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer as chairman; the replacement of Wadah Khanfar as a board member and possibly as manager of the entire AJ Network; [...]
2007-05-16 08:55:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALKPAO PREL QA ALJAZEERA
07DOHA507QATAR INCLINED TO SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE TO BELARUS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-17 12:58:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL QA
07DOHA508QATAR "FIFTY-FIFTY" ON SUPPORT FOR HARIRI TRIBUNAL
[...] (C) Assistant Minister Mohamed al-Rumaihi, who holds the MFA's UN portfolio, told the Ambassador May 17 that Qatar was "fifty-fifty" on supporting the Hariri assassination tribunal. He said the tribunal was "important to approve," but then outlined reasons why Qatar believes the decision shoul [...]
2007-05-17 13:03:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER LE SY QA
07DOHA511SCENESETTER FOR MAY 24 GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE IN
[...] (C) Embassy Doha is pleased to welcome the Gulf Security Dialogue delegation to Qatar. This second GSD meeting and the first in Doha will mean a lot to the Qatari leadership. It will strengthen our mil-to-mil relationship and help in our efforts to moderate the Qataris' more objectionable fore [...]
2007-05-18 12:52:00Embassy DohaSECRETPREL MARR PARM IR IZ QA
07DOHA556QATAR STRONGLY HINTS IT WON'T SUPPORT THE SPECIAL
[...] (C) During Gulf Security Dialogue discussions in Doha May 24, Acting PM A/S Mull expressed the hope that Qatar would vote for the UN Security Council resolution establishing the Hariri Tribunal under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter. Qatari MFA Assistant Minister Mohammad al-Rumeihi replied, "We wi [...]
2007-05-24 14:05:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER UNSC LE SY QA
07DOHA575QATARI-U.S. GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE MAY 24
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-31 14:32:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR KNNP EPET IR ASEC IZ SU LE QA
07DOHA577SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR GREGORY SCHULTE'S VISIT
[...] (C) Embassy Doha is pleased to welcome you to Qatar. This visit - your second - will mean a lot to the Qatari leadership. It will strengthen our cooperation on UN Security Council issues and help in our efforts to move Doha to take stronger positions on Iran and its nuclear activities, about w [...]
2007-06-01 10:05:00Embassy DohaSECRETPREL KNNP UN IR QA
07DOHA581QATARI-U.S. GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE MAY 24
[...] (C) Summary. State/DOD Gulf Security Dialogue delegation met with Qatari MFA, MOD, and MOI officials May 24 in Doha. The Qataris acknowledged the importance of maintaining ambiguity on whether there might be a military attack in response to Iranian plans to develop a nuclear weapon. Noting per [...]
2007-06-03 08:25:00Embassy DohaSECRETPREL MARR KNNP EPET IR ASEC IZ SU LE QA
07DOHA594QATAR LIKELY TO SUPPORT FURTHER IRAN SANCTIONS IF
[...] (C) Summary. The GOQ's Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mohamed al-Rumaihi, who holds the UN portfolio, told Ambassador Greg Schulte June 4 that Qatar would likely support additional Iran sanctions in the UN Security Council if the sanctions did not exceed unspecified red lines. Rumaihi [...]
2007-06-06 11:27:00Embassy DohaSECRET//NOFORNPREL KNNP IR QA
07DOHA606NEW INDICATIONS THAT ELECTIONS WILL TAKE PLACE IN
[...] (U) The Qatari Amir, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, issued a decree June 6 which extended the term of the current Advisory Council to June 30, 2008. The term had been set to end June 30 of this year. The Advisory Council consists of 30 members appointed by the Amir; it had been extended, with some [...]
2007-06-07 14:00:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM QA
07DOHA641BEGINNING OF THE END? KHANFAR STILL AT THE HELM OF
[...] (C) Summary: Wadah Khanfar remains Director-General of the Al Jazeera Network (AJN),but no longer has responsibility for financial and administrative issues. Although Khanfar placed a positive spin on the recent AJN board reshuffle in a meeting with Emboffs, our assessment is that his position [...]
2007-06-18 12:29:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALKPAO PREL QA ALJAZEERA
07DOHA705DELEGATION TO LEBANON: ARAB LEAGUE INITIATIVE
[...] (C) Summary. MinState for Foreign Affairs Al Mahmoud told Ambassador July 2 that a special Arab League delegation that involved him had attempted to mediate between Lebanese factions during a June visit to Beirut to deal with the Lebanese political crisis. The group made no progress, for the i [...]
2007-07-05 07:16:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL LE QA
07DOHA709SOMALIS MEET IN QATAR, REJECT RECONCILIATION
[...] (C) Summary. A local NGO affiliated with Islamic hard-liners hosted Somali activists in Doha for a conference June 7-8 2007. Sheikh Sharif of the Islamic Courts movement and Sharif Hassan, former parliamentary speaker, participated. The event was paid for through a hard-line Sunni organization [...]
2007-07-05 14:39:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MOPS XF AL QA
07DOHA710SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ASSISTANT TO THE
[...] (C) Embassy Doha is pleased to welcome you to Qatar. This is your third visit here, and the most senior USG visit since Secretary Gates met the Amir in January 2007. Your meetings SIPDIS can help define the tone of bilateral engagement on a range of issues over the coming 18 months, help s [...]
2007-07-05 16:25:00Embassy DohaSECRETPREL PINR IZ LE QA
07DOHA713DEMARCHE TO OIL EXPORTERS: QATAR "ON THE SAME PAGE"
[...] (C) Minister of State for Energy and Industry Mohamed al-Sada agreed with Charge in a meeting July 9 that statements in support of high oil prices made it difficult for the U.S. Administration to oppose the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act (reftel). Al-Sada nevertheless made the poin [...]
2007-07-09 14:28:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALEPET PREL QA
07DOHA723QATAR TO CONSIDER GCC+2 MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-15 13:33:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL XF QA
07DOHA764FREEDOM AGENDA: SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (SBU) Qatar's April 1 municipal elections, the country's third, served as a focal point for democracy promotion in 2007. Ambassador and Emboffs engaged in a program of support and undertook the following activities: -- Ambassador hosted a series of salons at his residence to discuss election [...]
2007-08-01 10:23:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KMPI KDEM SCUL KPAO QA
07DOHA771UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ATTENDANCE - QATAR
[...] GOQ contacts have told us that the Qatari Amir will lead his country's delegation to the UNGA. The GOQ has not yet formed the full delegation, and specific travel plans have not been made. Post will report as information becomes available. 2. Currently available information: A. Attendan [...]
2007-08-02 09:13:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OVIP UNGA QA
07DOHA78SUNNI AND SHI'A DISCUSS RAPPROCHEMENT IN DOHA
[...] (SBU) Summary. Prominent cleric Yousef Qaradawi called on Iraqi Shi'a and Iran to take steps to end sectarian violence in Iraq at Doha's Conference for Dialogue of Islamic Schools of Thought. Shi'a and other clerics said that Muslims must unite in the face of a common (some mentioned Zionist) e [...]
2007-01-22 13:16:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KISL QA
07DOHA863SUBJECT: QTEL CHAIRMAN DISCUSSES PLANS FOR IRAQ,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA and Econoff met August 29 with Sheikh Abdulla bin Mohamad Al Thani, Chairman of government-controlled QTel, and Dr. Nasser M. Marafih, QTel CEO, to discuss QTel investments in Iraq and elsewhere in the region, as well as ArabSat broadcasts of Al-Zawraa. QTel continues a rap [...]
2007-08-30 11:04:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALECPS EINV KPAL KPAO PGOV EG IS IZ KU QA
07DOHA871(C) SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE'S
[...] (C) Embassy Doha welcomes you on this brief stop in Qatar. You last met with Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ) in Washington in December 2006 in your capacity as DNI. In April 2007, HBJ also became Prime Minister, long an inconsequential portfolio held by the Amir's brother. D [...]
2007-08-31 10:23:00Embassy DohaSECRETPREL QA
07DOHA897DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE'S MEETING WITH QATARI
[...] (SBU) Deputy Secretary John Negroponte met the evening of September 9 at the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Al-Mahmoud, the number two official in the Qatari MFA. Joining Al-Mahmoud were Assistant Minister Mohamad Al-Rumaihi, Director of Eu [...]
2007-09-12 10:50:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALIAEA IR IS IZ KWBG PREL QA
07DOHA922NEW QATAR LABOR MINISTER PLEDGES COOPERATION ON
[...] (SBU) Summary. State Department Special Representative for Social Issues Ambassador Grover Joseph Rees used his visit to Qatar September 4-8 to engage GOQ officials on the issue of forced labor and trafficking-in-persons (TIP) among the large migrant worker population. During a meeting with [...]
2007-09-20 14:24:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL ELAB QA
07DOHA964QATAR WILLING TO CONSIDER SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND
[...] (C) Summary: In September 18 meetings at the Ministry of Finance and Central Bank, a U.S. Treasury delegation led by DAS Saeed told the Qatari Finance Minister and Central Bank Governor that the USG remains committed to an open investment climate in the United States and invited Qatar's part [...]
2007-10-03 06:55:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALEFIN EINV QA
07DOHA972QATARI TEXTILES AND APPAREL PRODUCTION
[...] (U) Textiles and apparel production is not a significant part of Qatar's hydrocarbon-based economy. Until recently, there were a handful of textile factories in Qatar, many of which were started by investors from the Asian subcontinent as a means to avoid textile quotas from the global multifi [...]
2007-10-04 12:37:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KTEX QA
07DOHA978TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF DESIGNATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-08 13:37:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL IZ QA
07DOHA979QATAR AIRWAYS U.S. FLIGHTS - GETTING SECURITY RIGHT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Barely two months after the inauguration of direct Doha to U.S. flights via Qatar Airways, an assessment by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inspectors found several major areas of concern for the flights, including insufficient passenger screening, particularly for wo [...]
2007-10-09 09:41:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALASEC KSAC EAIR QA
07DOHA980QATAR AGREES TO GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE IN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-09 11:51:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PINS PREL QA
07DOHA982CODEL BOYD MEETING OCTOBER 5 WITH QATARI HEIR
[...] (SBU) A congressional delegation led by Rep. Allen Boyd of Florida, and accompanied by charge, met Qatar's Heir Apparent, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, October 5 in Doha. In addition to Boyd, the Delegation included Rep. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Rep. Wayne Gilchrist of Maryland, Rep. B [...]
2007-10-10 13:01:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV QA
07DOHA983UPDATED DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY FOR QATAR
[...] (U) Embassy Doha continues to use a combination of programmatic and diplomatic means to assist the GOQ in its efforts to build and sustain democratic institutions. In line with the Mission Strategic Plan, Post has expanded its areas of emphasis to include: promoting democratic elections, pro [...]
2007-10-10 13:23:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KMPI AMGT KDEM ECON KPAO QA
07DOHA986QATAR NOMINATION FOR THE 2008 SECRETARY'S AWARD
[...] Embassy Doha nominates Amal Abdullatif Al Mannai to receive the Secretary of State's Award for International Women of Courage for 2008. Amal Al-Mannai has been informed of her nomination and was flattered by the news. Requested information follows: Full Legal Name: Amal Abdullatif Al-Mann [...]
2007-10-11 12:35:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN KPAO PREL PHUM QA
07DOHA999NEW QATARI MINISTRY OF LABOR AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS
[...] (U) Summary. As of October 1, the Qatari ministry formerly known as the Ministry of Civil Service Affairs and Housing officially became the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. Dr. Sultan bin Hassan Al-Dhabit Al-Dousari remained Minister during the transition. Most of the functions of the [...]
2007-10-21 10:51:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR ELAB QA
07DUBAI103RAS AL KHAIMAH CUSTOMS: FACILITATING TRADE FIRST PRIORITY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-11 13:19:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ETRD ECON IR AE
07DUBAI155FUJAIRAH CUSTOMS: BUDGET, TRAINING AND LEADERSHIP PROBLEMS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-05 11:02:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ETRD ECON KCOR AE
07DUBAI179DUBAI TO DEPORT 200 WORKERS FOR ENGAGING IN VIOLENCE DURING
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The UAE Ministry of Labor announced that more than 200 workers would be deported for having participated in violence and instigating other workers to protest. Nearly 8000 workers, principally South Asian construction workers, had been involved in a two-day protest in which they de [...]
2007-03-14 13:21:00Consulate DubaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB PHUM PGOV PINS SOCI AE
07DUBAI211HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CRITICIZES THE UAE'S DRAFT LABOR LAW
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Human Rights Watch (HRW) representatives criticized the United Arab Emirates' draft labor law in a press conference held in Dubai on March 25. HRW's primary complaints were that the draft labor law does not permit laborers to organize and strike, and the draft law does not cover do [...]
2007-03-27 09:51:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALELAB PHUM ECON SOCI AE
07DUBAI281MINA SAQR - RAS AL-KHAIMAH'S MAIN PORT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-26 08:24:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALECON EINV EWWT PINS KU AE
07DUBAI282NEW UAE-OMANI BORDER FENCE AIMED AT STOPPING ILLEGAL
[...] (SBU) Poleconoffs met with Fahem Abdullah al-Habsi, the Customs Center Manager at Saqr Port in Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) on March 28. During the course of discussions about Saqr Port (reftel A) al-Habsi commented on the UAE-Oman border on the Musandam Peninsula and illegal immigrants. 2.(C) Accor [...]
2007-04-26 08:33:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PBTS MU AE
07DUBAI333RAS AL KHAIMA TO CONFISCATE ABANDONED VIKTOR BOUT AIRCRAFT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-16 14:40:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALECON EAIR ETTC PGOV PINS SOCI KCRM LI AE
07DUBAI355DUBAI RULER DISCUSSES IRAN AND IRAQ WITH SENATOR LIEBERMAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-03 11:14:00Consulate DubaiSECRETPREL PGOV PINS KNNP IR IZ AE
07DUBAI363MOHAMMAD GERGAWI DISCUSSES IRAN, IRAQ AND ISRAEL WITH
[...] (S) SUMMARY. Senator Joseph Lieberman (I, CN) met with Mohammad Gergawi, UAE Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, on May 29. Gergawi, also a close advisor to UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Dubai ruler Mohammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MbR),described education as a primary weapon again [...]
2007-06-07 13:23:00Consulate DubaiSECRETPREL PGOV PINS KNNP IR IS IZ SY AE
07DUBAI394FORMER DUBAI DIAMOND EXCHANGE CEO ALLEGES SLACK CONTROLS ON
[...] This is an action request for EB/ESC, see paragraph 14. 2. (S) SUMMARY: The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE),Noora Jamsheer, expressed concern to ConGenoff about the integrity of the UAE's adherence to the Kimberly Process (KP) to stem the trade in co [...]
2007-06-20 10:08:00Consulate DubaiSECRET//NOFORNEFIN EMIN PTER ETTC KCRM VE IR AE
07DUBAI411ANWAR GARGASH OUTLINES ROLE OF NEW UAE HUMAN TRAFFICKING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Dr. Anwar Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs (FNCA) discussed the role of UAE's new Human Trafficking Committee (HTC),which he chairs, with the Ambassador and Consul General on June 21 in Dubai. While Gargash said the UAEG was disappointed by the c [...]
2007-06-25 09:40:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI AE
07DUBAI423MOHAMMED GERGAWI DISCUSSES MBR FOUNDATION
[...] (C) Summary: UAE Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Mohammed Gergawi discussed potential areas of cooperation between the USG, U.S. educational institutions, non-governmental organizations and the Mohammad Bin Rashid Foundation (MbRF) in a 90 minute meeting with the Ambassador and Consul Gen [...]
2007-06-28 11:37:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALECON SOCI SCUL AE
07DUBAI425GERGAWI DISCUSSES MBR FOUNDATION FUND,
[...] (C) Summary: UAE Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Mohammed Gergawi discussed potential areas of cooperation between the USG, U.S. educational institutions, non-governmental organizations and the Mohammad Bin Rashid Foundation (MbRF) in a 90 minute meeting with the Ambassador and Consul Gen [...]
2007-06-28 13:05:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALSOCI SCUL AE EAID PTER
07DUBAI491CODEL GRAHAM MEETS WITH DUBAI EXECUTIVE OFFICE HEAD NABIL AL
[...] (C) Summary: In an August 12 meeting with a CODEL led by Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC),Nabil al Yousuf (Director of UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Dubai Ruler Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum's (MbR) Executive Office) outlined elements of Dubai's strategic plan and highlighted recent gro [...]
2007-08-19 14:25:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON OREP IN AE
07DUBAI570PHILIPPINES TRAFFICKING CONCERNS IN DUBAI -- ABUSED VISITOR
[...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with Philippine Labor Attache Virginia Calvez (September 11),Acting Consul General Maria Louella Duarte and Consular Officer Rafael Palencia, Jr. (September 18),Pol/EconOff discussed trafficking in persons concerns. While they claim that trafficking with l [...]
2007-09-30 19:08:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN RP AE
07DUBAI581ACTING PHILIPPINE CG BRIEFS AMBASSADOR LAGON ON TRAFFICKING
[...] (C) Summary: On September 25, Ambassador for Trafficking in Persons Mark Lagon met with Philippine Acting Consul General Vicente Bandillo and his staff at the Philippine Consulate General in Dubai to discuss trafficking concerns. CG Bandillo noted that easy access to UAE visitor visas compou [...]
2007-10-10 13:27:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN RP AE
07DUBAI59UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' JANUARY 23 MEETING WITH UAE VICE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-28 08:12:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS MARR AE IR IS LE
07DUBAI614FURTHER DETAILS ON ANNOUNCED AND UNANNOUNCED, PLANS FOR
[...] (U) This is an action cable; see para 12. 2. (SBU) Summary. During a November 1 meeting in the newly established offices of the Mohammad Bin Rashid Foundation (MbRF),Nabil Alyousuf (Director General of the Dubai Executive Office and defacto managing director of the newly established MbRF) [...]
2007-11-01 11:11:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM AE
07DUBAI629ACRIMONIOUS BEGINNING FOR NEW DUBAI GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED
[...] (SBU) Summary. The much-anticipated opening of the Dubai Foundation for Women and Children (DFWC) shelter (the first official government-sponsored shelter for abused women and children in the UAE) and its merger with the unofficial City of Hope (CoH) shelter has been marred by acrimonious accu [...]
2007-11-15 13:08:00Consulate DubaiSECRETPREL PHUM KCRM ELAB CASC AE
07DUBAI661TREASURY PDAS SAEED DISCUSSES SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS WITH
[...] (C) Summary. Department of the Treasury Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Ahmed Saeed met with senior executives from the Dubai-based Sovereign Wealth funds (SWFs) and financial institutions including Dubai International Financial Centre Authority (DIFC),Dubai International Capital, Dubai [...]
2007-12-09 12:36:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV TC AE
07DUBAI88U/S BURNS SPEAKS ON GULF SECURITY AT DUBAI THINK TANK
[...] Summary. Under Secretary Nicholas Burns spoke to an audience of roughly 100 local officials, academics, and journalists at the independent Dubai-based think tank, the Gulf Research Center (GRC) January 23, after which he took questions from the audience. Burns discussed how the US views the c [...]
2007-02-06 13:12:00Consulate DubaiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV OPRC MARR AE IR IS LE
07DUBAI92RULER OF DUBAI UNVEILS NINE-YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-07 06:51:00Consulate DubaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB PGOV SOCI AE
07DUBLIN102IRELAND'S VIEWS ON KOSOVO (IN ADVANCE OF THE
[...] (C) Summary: The Irish Government strongly supports Special Envoy Martii Ahtisaari's efforts in Kosovo and his recommendations for a status solution, which it sees as bringing peace and stability to the whole of the Balkans, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). While the Ir [...]
2007-02-09 12:57:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN KPAL IE
07DUBLIN103IRELAND'S VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE FEBRUARY 12-13
[...] (SBU) POLOFF delivered demarches (Refs C through F) on February 8 to Pat Kelly, European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),and Jim Kelly, Director, Europe Office, Political Division, DFA. Ireland is generally in agreement with U.S. positions on the Balkans, Israel/Palestine [...]
2007-02-09 13:03:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD EUN KPAL IE
07DUBLIN171IRELAND - SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ireland's awareness of and positive performance on trafficking in persons (TIP) issues increased significantly in 2006, while the overall estimated number of suspected trafficking victims remained small. Numerous public awareness campaigns, sponsored by the Government and NGOs [...]
2007-03-02 08:39:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAP EI
07DUBLIN175IRISH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE MARCH 5-6 EU GAERC
[...] (C) POLOFF delivered demarche (Ref A) on March 2 to Pat Kelly, European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs. The Irish Government values U.S.-EU cooperation on energy and climate issues, in the Western Balkans, and in Darfur. The Government also welcomes the formation of a Palestinia [...]
2007-03-02 13:42:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALKPAL PREL PGOV ENRG IR IE
07DUBLIN191SCENE-SETTER FOR PRIME MINISTER BERTIE AHERN'S ST.
[...] (SBU) An imminent, potentially historic opportunity to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly sets the political backdrop for this year's St. Patrick's Day visit to Washington by Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach, "TEE-shuck") Bertie Ahern. Building on the 2006 UK/Irish-brokered talks among the [...]
2007-03-08 17:04:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON ETRD EINV EAIR MOPPS MARR IE
07DUBLIN261IRISH BANKS ALERTED ON UNSCR 1747
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-30 14:57:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIR KNNP PARM EFIN KTFN ETTC SA AE EI
07DUBLIN286SCENE-SETTER FOR THE APRIL 19-20 VISIT OF EUR PDAS
[...] (SBU) Embassy Dublin eagerly anticipates your visit and the opportunity to join your discussions with ranking Irish Government officials and others on the full range of bilateral and U.S.-EU issues. Your visit comes at an historic moment in U.S.-Irish relations, with the scheduled restoratio [...]
2007-04-13 16:37:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER MOPPS MARR ECON SENV EI
07DUBLIN287DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S DEFENSE INDUSTRIES
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-13 17:28:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KNNP PARM KN IR EI
07DUBLIN29IRELAND CONDUCTS LITTLE CIVIL SOCIETY AND
[...] (U) POLOFF spoke with Stephen Dawson, Deputy Regional Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Department of Foreign Affairs, on January 11. 2. (SBU) Ireland maintains a two-officer mission in Iran led by Ambassador John Deady. Dawson indicated that while Ireland supports democra [...]
2007-01-12 14:17:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IR
07DUBLIN30IRELAND FOLLOWS IRAQ POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT WITH AID
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-12 16:52:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MOPS PGOV PREL IZ EI
07DUBLIN32IRELAND CONSIDERING APPROACH TO LEBANON CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-12 17:09:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EAID XT LE JA CA NO EI
07DUBLIN369IRELAND OPPOSES U.S. FINANCING REFORM PROPOSAL FOR
[...] (SBU) The Irish Government strongly opposes USG proposals for OECD financing reform, according to John Rowan, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Counsellor for EU Common Policies, JHA, and the OECD, to whom Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche on May 10. Rowan explained that Ireland had [...]
2007-05-11 11:21:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON OECD EUN EI
07DUBLIN374NO INDICATION OF BANK SEPAH OR BANK SEPAH
[...] (C) To date, there has been no indication that Irish banks or financial institutions have found assets belonging to Bank Sepah, Bank Sepah International, or other entities designated in the Annex to UNSCR 1747, according to Ray Farina, Chief of the Financial Sanctions Unit in the Irish Centra [...]
2007-05-11 16:10:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALEFIN KNNP IR PARM EI
07DUBLIN391AER LINGUS DECIDES AGAINST BOEING FOR NEW
[...] On May 16, Aer Lingus CEO Dermot Mannion told the Ambassador that the carrier had effectively decided against Boeing for a planned purchase of 8-12 long-haul planes, which could have netted the U.S. manufacturer roughly USD one billion. Mannion noted that he had ended talks with Boeing on Ma [...]
2007-05-17 16:11:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAIR ETRD PREL EI
07DUBLIN409IRELAND LIKELY TO ABSTAIN ON OIE CHINA/TAIWAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-24 17:55:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAGR AORG TW CH EI
07DUBLIN512DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES UNDER E.O. 13382:
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-25 16:56:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KNNP PARM EUN KN IR EI
07DUBLIN526IRELAND: NO INFORMATION ON MAHAMEDOU OULD SLAHI
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-29 13:00:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC EUN KTFN PREL PTER EI
07DUBLIN529IRELAND TAKES EU TRANSPORT COUNCIL LINE ON
[...] (SBU) Ireland adheres to the June 8 EU Transport Council conclusions about including aviation in emissions trading and incorporating third-country carriers into a trading scheme, according to Ethna Brogan, Irish Department of Transport Principal Officer for Aviation Security (and environmental [...]
2007-06-29 16:34:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ETRD SENV ECON EI
07DUBLIN532IRELAND TO CONSIDER DARFUR HYBRID OPERATION
[...] (SBU) Ireland will discuss the possibility of contributing personnel to the UN/AU Hybrid Operation for Darfur at a July 19 inter-agency meeting involving the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and the Irish Police, according to Eamonn Mc [...]
2007-07-03 13:48:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO UNSC MASS SU EI
07DUBLIN537IRELAND: IDENTIFIER INFORMATION ON UNSCR 1737 AND
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-06 15:45:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALEFIN IR KNNP PARM EI
07DUBLIN565IRISH SEE NEED FOR ACTION, BUT PREFER DIALOGUE
[...] (C) POLOFF delivered Ref B demarche on July 19, 2007 to Pat Kelly, European Corespondent, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Kelly indicated that the Irish Government largely sees eye to eye with U.S. positions, with the exception that, in general, the Irish prefer to continue political di [...]
2007-07-20 09:11:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALKPAL ENRG ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL SOCI EI
07DUBLIN60IRELAND FAVORS CLUSTER MUNITIONS TREATY, WILL
[...] (C) Summary: Ireland supports movement toward an international treaty restricting the use of cluster munitions (CM) and will participate in the February 22-23 CM conference in Oslo, according to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Ireland, however, continues to see the Convention o [...]
2007-01-23 18:51:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALMOPS PARM PREL NATO EI
07DUBLIN69IRELAND HAS RESERVATIONS ABOUT EU AVIATION
[...] (SBU) Ireland and several other EU Member States have reservations about the Commission's proposal for a directive to include international aviation in the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS),according to Dick Davis, Department of Transport Assistant Principal Officer for Air Navigation Serv [...]
2007-01-25 16:30:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON SENV EUN EI
07DUBLIN70IRELAND DOES NOT OFFER EXPORT CREDIT SCHEMES TO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-25 18:40:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EFIN MNUC EXIM UNSC OECD IR EI
07DUBLIN735CODEL LARSON'S VISIT TO IRELAND
[...] On September 17, CODEL Larson and Ambassador Foley met with Irish officials to discuss ways Ireland is addressing climate change and the secret to the success of the Celtic Tiger. Minister of Communications, Energy, and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan briefed the CODEL on, among other things, Ire [...]
2007-09-20 11:54:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG EFIN EI
07DUBLIN737IRISH RESPONSE TO THE 2007 IRFR AND OTHER
[...] (SBU) POLOFFS delivered the 2007 International Religious Freedom Report (IRFR) to John Kennedy, Principal Officer, Office of the Secretary General, Department of the Taoiseach on September 18. Kennedy expressed concern regarding the focus on anti-Semitism in the 2007 IRFR. He said that many of [...]
2007-09-20 16:16:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIRF KPAO OPRC PGOV PHUM EI
07DUBLIN748SCENESETTER FOR FOREIGN MINISTER DERMOT AHERN'S
[...] (SBU) The twin political successes of restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly (May 8, 2007) and the re-election of the Fianna Fail party into power (May 24, 2007) will be the backdrop to Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern's meeting with the Secretary on October 3. The Government of Ireland has [...]
2007-09-27 12:36:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON ETRD EINV MOPPS MARR EI
07DUBLIN750IRISH MINISTER WILL NOT ATTEND CD MEETING IN NY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-27 15:42:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PGOV EI
07DUBLIN751IRELAND MAY CONTRIBUTE TO SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-27 15:44:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALUNSC PTER LE EI
07DUBLIN756IRISH RESPONSE TO U.S./FDA ORPHAN PRODUCT
[...] Econoff spoke with Patrick Gaule, First Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs, who said that the Irish government has no objections to the awarding of the grant. ICON Labs is a client of Enterprise Ireland, the government's state development agency. FOLEY [...]
2007-10-01 14:01:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TBIO OTRA TPHY EI
07DUBLIN757IRISH WANT TO KEEP PRESSURE ON THE BURMESE REGIME
[...] (SBU) POLOFF presented reftel points on October 1, 2007 to Ms. Islolde Moylan, Director, Asia and Oceania Division, Department of Foreign Affairs. Moylan reported that Irish Ambassadors have been intensively demarching China, India, and ASEAN countries to encourage them to take action against [...]
2007-10-01 15:04:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM EI
07DUBLIN759IRELAND ON U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON "CONDEMNING
[...] (SBU) On September 28, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Gavan O'Leary, Deputy Director, Human Rights Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs. O'Leary said that Ireland is supportive of any initiative to improve womens' rights and mentioned that in general, Ireland would be supportive of legisla [...]
2007-10-01 16:08:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EI KWMN PHUM SOCI UNGA
07DUBLIN766IRISH RESPONSE TO TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION
[...] (C) On October 4, Econoff delivered reftel demarches to Gary O'Doherty in the Department of Foreign Affairs United Nations unit. O'Doherty said that he would pass on the information to the appropriate agencies within the government of Ireland and alert us immediately if they come across any i [...]
2007-10-04 14:49:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER EI
07DUBLIN777 IRISH PRIME MINISTER BEATS BACK VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE, BUT
[...] (SBU) Summary: During September, the Mahon Tribunal continued to investigate allegations that Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern was given cash in return for favors in the early 1990s - grilling him during three days of hearings. Political opponents, scenting blood, introduced a vote of no co [...]
2007-10-10 13:13:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EI
07DUBLIN779IRISH RESPONSE -- DEMARCHE ON EU REGULATORY
[...] On October 9, Econoff delivered Ref A demarche to Tom Teehan, Chief Inspector in the Irish Department of Agriculture, who said that he would inform other interested parties in the government of our position on this issue. He said that he was not in a position to discuss the outcome of the vot [...]
2007-10-10 15:11:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO ETRD EUN ECON EI
07DUBLIN782IRELAND RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-11 12:27:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KTEX EI
07DUBLIN796IRELAND AGREES WITH USG ON UZBEKISTAN
[...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel to Ruaidhri Dowling, Deputy Director of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on October 16, 2007. Dowling responded that the Irish Government largely agrees with the US on Uzbekistan and that Ireland is taking a "princi [...]
2007-10-17 09:04:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALEI PHUM PREL
07DUBLIN817EEB A/S SULLIVAN'S VISIT TO IRELAND
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 5, Daniel Sullivan, Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs met with SIPDIS Irish government officials, members of the NGO community, and the AmCham to discuss the making of the Celtic Tiger, the economic path forward for Ireland, and assistan [...]
2007-10-25 15:24:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID ECON EINV EI
07DUBLIN821IRISH VIEWS ON BURMA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: POLOFF DISCUSSED REF A AND DELIVERED REFS B AND C WITH ISOLDE MOYLAN, REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR ASIA AND OCEANIA, AND CONLETH BRADY, DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR ASIA AND OCEANIA, DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (DFA) ON OCTOBER 26, 2007. MOYLAN AND BRADY REAFFIRMED THAT IRELAND REMAINED LARGE [...]
2007-10-30 07:17:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALEI PGOV PHUM
07DUBLIN822IRELAND'S POSITION ON UNGA'S THIRD COMMITTEE
[...] (SBU) Poloffs met with Irish Department of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director of the Human Rights Unit, Gavan O'Leary, on October 26, 2007 regarding reftel on the Third Committee. No Action Motions ----------------- 2. (SBU) In regards to the "no action" motions, O'Leary said that the Euro [...]
2007-10-30 07:18:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL KTIA UN EI
07DUBLIN823IRISH RESPONSE TO US DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN
[...] (C) POLOFFS DELIVERED REFTEL ON THE GOALS AND DETAILS OF NEW U.S. DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ORGANIZATIONS AND BANKS TO EMMA MADIGAN, DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR EUROPE AND UN COORDINATION, AND STEPHEN DAWSON, DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA, DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, ON OCTOBER 26, [...]
2007-10-30 07:18:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALEFIN EI KNNP PARM PREL
07DUBLIN825IRISH RESPONSE TO DAVID WALKER'S IAAC CANDIDACY
[...] (U) POLOFF met with Department of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Europe and UN Coordination, Emma Madigan, on October 30. In response to the request to support David Walker in the UN Independent Audit Advisory Committee (IAAC),Madigan said that Ireland was aware of the qualifications of [...]
2007-10-30 16:51:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC PREL UNGA EI
07DUBLIN826IRELAND LIKELY TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF CONDEMNATION OF
[...] (SBU) POLOFFS DELIVERED REFTEL ON OCTOBER 26, 2007 URGING A VOTE AGAINST THE CUBAN UNGA RESOLUTION ON THE U.S. EMBARGO TO GAVAN O'LEARY, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RIGHTS UNIT, IRISH DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (DFA). O'LEARY RESPONDED THAT IRELAND'S DEFAULT POSITION FOR THIS ISSUE WOULD BE HO [...]
2007-10-30 17:09:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEI ETRD PHUM UNGA
07DUBLIN827IRELAND LIKELY TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF CONDEMNATION OF
[...] (SBU) POLOFFS DELIVERED REFTEL ON OCTOBER 26, 2007 URGING A VOTE AGAINST THE CUBAN UNGA RESOLUTION ON THE U.S. EMBARGO TO GAVAN O'LEARY, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RIGHTS UNIT, IRISH DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (DFA). O'LEARY RESPONDED THAT IRELAND'S DEFAULT POSITION FOR THIS ISSUE WOULD BE HO [...]
2007-10-30 17:09:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEI ETRD PHUM UNGA
07DUBLIN828IRISH VIEWS ON HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION ON CUBA
[...] (SBU) Poloffs met with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Human Rights Gavan O'Leary on September 26 to encourage Ireland to promote democratic transition in Cuba. O'Leary noted the suggestions and promised to discuss the points with his Human Rights and Americas Desk [...]
2007-10-31 13:37:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNGA PHUM EI
07DUBLIN844IRELAND SUPPORTIVE OF FATF STATEMENT AND GUIDANCE
[...] (U) Summary: Irish officials say they will ensure that the recent FATF warning of risks associated with Iran-related financial transactions, and FATF guidance on implementing targeted fiancial sanctions aginst Iran, (reftel) reaches all concerned parties. Department of Finance officials noted [...]
2007-11-14 13:45:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MNUC ECON EI
07DUBLIN849IRELAND'S 2008 LISBON REFORM TREATY REFERENDUM:
[...] (SBU) Ireland's unique position as the only European Union (EU) member state compelled to hold a national referendum on the recently agreed Lisbon Reform Treaty puts great pressure on the Irish Government to secure a strong positive vote for the Treaty. The public and most political parties r [...]
2007-11-15 12:46:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN EI
07DUBLIN851IRISH VIEWS ON THE NOVEMBER 19-20 FOREIGN
[...] (C) POLOFFs delivered demarches (Refs A and B) on November 16, 2007 to Pat Kelly, European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Ireland is disappointed in the continued intransigence of Iran and is steadily moving toward endorsement of sanctions within an EU or UN framework. [...]
2007-11-16 16:48:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALIS PREL PGOV KNNP MNUC IAEA IR PARM AORC EI
07DUBLIN854IRISH VIEW OF FINANCIAL SANCTIONS ON BURMA
[...] (C) Summary: Ireland supports additional financial sanctions on Burma, provided they do not adversely affect the welfare of the Burmese people, but does not believe that the EU has the stomach for significantly more forceful measures at this time. End summary. 2. (C) ECONOFF presented r [...]
2007-11-20 16:57:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETRD PGOV PREL ECON EI
07DUBLIN862IRISH RESPONSE -- DEMARCHES ON BIOTECH ISSUES
[...] (U) Summary: The Irish government recognizes the scientific basis of USG biotech positions and recently agreed that the importation of genetically modified (GM) animal feed is acceptable under its GM-Free Ireland policy. The debate over whether the government will approve the growing of GM p [...]
2007-11-26 12:25:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD EUN TBIO EI
07DUBLIN869IRELAND WATCHING VENEZUELAN SITUATION CLOSELY
[...] (U) Poloff delivered points contained in reftel demarches on November 27 to Karen Miller in the Americas Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs. Miller welcomed the information and told poloff that Ireland was concerned about the recent developments in Venezuela and was monitoring the [...]
2007-11-28 11:24:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV EI
07DUBLIN871IRELAND PROACTIVELY ADDRESSING HUMAN TRAFFICKING
[...] Summary: Ireland is demonstrating firm commitment to meeting its international obligations on human trafficking, moving forward with key legislation and the creation of a new Government unit dedicated to combating trafficking in persons (TIP). End summary. 2. On November 27 poloffs met [...]
2007-11-28 12:50:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG EI
07DUBLIN876IRELAND FACING NEW IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRATION
[...] (U) The surge in immigration to Ireland during the past decade has presented the Republic with economic opportunities as well as social challenges. Foreign nationals now constitute upwards of 15 percent of Ireland's inhabitants, compared to 10 percent in the U.S. Ireland has used the immigra [...]
2007-11-30 12:24:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSMIG PGOV PREL KHLS EI
07DUBLIN883IRELAND: NIE HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR CONTINUED
[...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche on December 4, 2007 to Michael Gaffey, Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Department of Foreign Affairs. Gaffey welcomed the NIE acknowledgment that Iran is not an immediate nuclear threat. The report's finding, he said, that pressure from [...]
2007-12-05 13:39:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM EI
07DUBLIN886IRELAND'S 2008 BUDGET -- NOT AS DRACONIAN AS
[...] (U) Summary. On December 5, Finance Minister Brian Cowen presented the government's 2008 budget to a packed Irish Parliament. Budget pundits had predicted a fairly austere budget, given the Irish economic slowdown -- they were wrong in their predictions. On the broad macro numbers, Cowen pr [...]
2007-12-07 14:07:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EI
07DUBLIN887PHILANTHROPY IN IRELAND: A NEW MISSION INITIATIVE
[...] Summary. On November 28, The Ambassador met with Pat Carey, Minister of State for Drugs Strategy and Community Affairs at the Department of Community, Rural, and Gaeltacht Affairs. The discussion centered on the Ambassador's intention to hold a symposium on February 21 to support the Irish [...]
2007-12-07 16:24:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EI
07DUBLIN888SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S TRIP TO IRELAND
[...] (C) Summary: During his November 28 ) December 2 trip to Ireland, Secretary for Homeland Security Michael Chertoff met with Irish Transport Minister Noel Dempsey and Defence Minister Willie O'Dea together and later with Justice Minister Brian Lenihan to discuss DHS's proposal to move to full p [...]
2007-12-10 07:23:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON EI
07DUBLIN889EMBASSY DUBLIN'S TERRORIST FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] Embassy Dublin's Terrorist Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) is Dwight Nystrom, Econ Officer, 353-1-630-6274, nystromdd@state.sgov.gov (classified),nystromdd@state.gov (unclassified). The Deputy TFCO is Ted Pierce, Political Officer, 353-1-630-6273, piercets@state.sgov.gov (classified),[...]
2007-12-10 09:13:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN
07DUBLIN898IRISH GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO REPORT ON
[...] (U) On December 11, the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern issued a statement responding to a report by the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) on alleged "extraordinary rendition" flights through Ireland. (Note: the IHRC was set up under the "Good Friday" Agreement by the Irish [...]
2007-12-12 15:43:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL
07DUBLIN899PRIME MINISTER DISMISSES IHRC CALL FOR INSPECTION
[...] On December 12 in the National Parliament (Dail),Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Bertie Ahern categorically rejected Opposition and Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) calls for the random inspection of U.S. aircraft when they are alleged to be transiting Ireland on "extraordinary rendition" fli [...]
2007-12-13 13:33:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL EI
07DUBLIN905IRISH ANTICIPATE SERIOUS EU ACTION ON IRAN IN
[...] (U) POLOFF delivered policy guidelines on the Iran NIE (reftel) on December 13 to Michael Gaffey, Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Department of Foreign Affairs. Gaffey took the points on board, saying that Ireland fully agrees that unified international pressure must be main [...]
2007-12-14 15:06:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC PARM EI
07DUBLIN907SUSTAINABLE ENERGY: A NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR
[...] (U) Summary: Ireland is moving quickly to increase its use of renewable energy and position its business sector to take advantage of the boom in green technology. Rising dependence on foreign sources of energy, EU environmental obligations, and growing energy costs that threaten to diminish Ir [...]
2007-12-14 16:04:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET ECON EI
07DUBLIN916TOUR D'HORIZON WITH IRISH FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) Ambassador Foley met with Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern on December 19 to discuss a wide range of issues. In recent days, Ahern has tamped down the public reaction to a report of the Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) on extraordinary renditions. Ahern indicated that the 3500-stron [...]
2007-12-20 15:46:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ECIN PBTS EAIR ECON PKFK EUN
07DUBLIN919DELIVERY OF DRAFT U.S.-IRELAND PRECLEARANCE AGREEMENT
[...] (SBU) Per Ref A, on December 18, 2007, Post delivered a hard copy of the draft U.S.-Ireland Agreement on Air Transport Preclearance to the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs under cover of a diplomatic note. The texts of the diplomatic note and draft agreement follow. 2. (SBU) Departmen [...]
2007-12-27 16:35:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON PGOV PREL EI
07DULIN903IRISH VIEW OF ARGETED SANCTIONS ON KEY BURMESE
[...] (U) POLOFF dlivered reftel demarche on December 13 to IsoldeMoylan, Director, Asia & Oceania Division, Departmnt of Foreign Affairs. Moylan had just returned rom a meeting of the EU Burma Expets Group in Brussels. 2. (C) According to Moylan, the Experts Group split into two camps; one g [...]
2007-12-14 14:28:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM EI
07DURBAN54ANC SECURES SIMPLE MAJORITY IN KWAZULU-NATAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The African National Congress (ANC) gained a simple majority in the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) legislature for the first time following the recent floor crossing period. Previously, the ANC controlled 40 out of 80 seats, and governed in a coalition with the two members of the Minority Fro [...]
2007-09-26 15:00:00Consulate DurbanCONFIDENTIALPGOV SF
07DURBAN59BUTHELEZI PREACHES MORE OF THE SAME AT IFP ANNUAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) held its 32nd Annual General Conference from October 12-14 in KwaZulu-Natal. IFP President Mangosuthu Buthelezi presided over the conference, which was attended by over 3,000 delegates. Buthelezi criticized the ANC-led government, and detailed his o [...]
2007-10-17 13:11:00Consulate DurbanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM SF
07DURBAN61DURBAN POLITICAL UPDATE - ISSUE 1
[...] (U) IN THIS ISSUE: - Situation Remains Tense in Ezinqoleni Municipality - President Mbeki Visits Inkatha Freedom Party Stronghold - KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health's Head of Department Suspended 2. (U) RECENT CABLE TRAFFIC: - DURBAN 54: ANC Secures Simply Majority in KwaZulu-Natal - DU [...]
2007-10-19 15:13:00Consulate DurbanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM SF
07DURBAN62DURBAN ECONOMIC UPDATE - ISSUE 1
[...] (C) IN THIS ISSUE: - Plans for New Durban Airport Approved - Plans for Current Durban Airport Still Under Debate - Succession Debate Hindering Public Service Delivery in Durban - Construction of New Durban Stadium on Target - Environmentalists Accuse eThekwini Health Department of Cover-up [...]
2007-10-23 15:48:00Consulate DurbanCONFIDENTIALECON EAIR EWWT PGOV SENV SF
07DUSHANBE1030TAJIKISTAN A DECADE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
[...] (SBU) Ten years after peace accords ended the 1992-1997 civil war, President Emomali Rahmon has taken a great deal of credit for pulling Tajikistan out of conflict and setting it on a path which he claims could be a model for other post-conflict societies. At a June 25-26 conference commemor [...]
2007-07-06 07:26:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EAID SNAR TI
07DUSHANBE1031AFGHAN VIEWS FROM NORTH OF THE BORDER: PROSPECTS FOR
[...] Summary. Not far from the nearly-completed U.S.-funded Nizhniy Pyanj bridge at the Tajik-Afghan border, Afghan traders ferry goods from Pakistan, China, and Iran into southern Tajikistan. The opening of the Nizhniy Pyanj bridge will open the door for more trade while decreasing the opportuni [...]
2007-07-06 09:29:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD PGOV PREL TI
07DUSHANBE1046FY07 BFIF REPORTING FROM DUSHANBE
[...] Embassy Dushanbe submits the following report per Ref A regarding participation in the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) program. Post thanks the Economic Bureau for its support for these two successful programs. 2. Dushanbe - Regional Transportation Infrastructure Conference [...]
2007-07-09 09:40:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN BEXP BTIO ECON TI EINV ETRD ADPM
07DUSHANBE1051NEW TV STATION AIRS AS MEDIA ENVIRONMENT CONTINUES TO
[...] (U) Tajikistan's new "Simoi Mustaqili Tojikiston" or "Independent Television of Tajikistan" is a mysterious private television company which started broadcasting in June 2007. The station reportedly broadcasts to Dushanbe and surrounding areas daily for two hours in the morning and for six h [...]
2007-07-10 07:55:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE1056JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES FIGHTING TO IMPORT LITERATURE UNDER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Jehovah's Witness Associate Counsel Gregory Olds expressed concern that that Customs officials' recent seizure of a shipment of his organization's religious literature represents a worrying shift in the Tajik government's attitude towards religious freedom and censorship. Durin [...]
2007-07-11 10:47:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TI
07DUSHANBE1057TAJIKISTAN PROMISES CONTINUED ANTI-TIP REFORMS
[...] (SBU) PolOff delivered the Russian translation of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to Abdurahmon Azimov, head of the Interagency Commission Against Trafficking in Persons, July 5. (Note: PolOff had previously delivered the Trafficking in Persons report to the Ministry of Foreign Affai [...]
2007-07-11 13:20:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE1077JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES FIGHTING TO IMPORT LITERATURE UNDER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Jehovah's Witness Associate Counsel Gregory Olds expressed concern that that Customs officials' recent seizure of a shipment of his organization's religious literature represents a worrying shift in the Tajik government's attitude towards religious freedom and censorship. Durin [...]
2007-07-17 13:10:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TI
07DUSHANBE1078TAJIK OFFICIALS ATTEMPT TO ARREST AND DEPORT AMERICAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The government of Tajikistan continues to squeeze nongovernmental organizations and religious groups, its latest target being the Jehovah's Witnesses. On July 13, two men identifying themselves as officers of the State Committee on National Security detained an Am [...]
2007-07-17 13:16:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF TI
07DUSHANBE1080OSCE IN DUSHANBE: BORDER MANAGEMENT AND MANDATE ISSUES
[...] ( C) Summary: OSCE Head of Center Pryakhin told Ambassador that the Tajik government had approved only one our its four proposed border management programs -- creation of a comprehensive border management strategy -- and deferred the other proposals for further study after the strategy is c [...]
2007-07-18 12:08:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID SNAR TI AF OSCE
07DUSHANBE1086RED CROSS REDUCES MISSION; TAJIK GOVT PROHIBITS FULL PRISON
[...] (U) SUMMARY: International Committee of the Red Cross will recall its international director and reduce the organization's status from mission to office in fall 2007. The decision is a result of the Tajik government's failure to cooperate with International Committee of the Red Cross and al [...]
2007-07-20 05:01:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ICRC TI
07DUSHANBE1088JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES CONTINUE TO DEFY SOVIET-ERA RELIGIOUS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following a scheduled court hearing, Greg Olds, Jehovah's Witnesses Associate General Counsel and Vladimir Voyevodin, a Jehovah's Witnesses lawyer from Almaty, Kazakhstan met with PolOff July 20 to update the Embassy on the legal case pertaining to the group's confiscated reli [...]
2007-07-23 05:45:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF TI
07DUSHANBE1090JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES CONTINUE TO DEFY SOVIET-ERA RELIGIOUS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following a scheduled court hearing, Greg Olds, Jehovah's Witnesses Associate General Counsel and Vladimir Voyevodin, a Jehovah's Witnesses lawyer from Almaty, Kazakhstan met with PolOff July 20 to update the Embassy on the legal case pertaining to the group's confiscated reli [...]
2007-07-24 12:23:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF TI
07DUSHANBE1091TAJIKISTAN'S WATER USERS ASSOCIATIONS: SUSTAINABLE
[...] Summary: Winrock International's water users' associations provide an example of the kind of "bottom-up" assistance that delivers substantial and sustainable benefits to Tajikistan's poorest. During a July 20 site visit in Rudaki District, 30 miles outside Dushanbe, PolOff saw first hand how [...]
2007-07-24 13:01:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON EAID EAGR TI
07DUSHANBE1092VAKHDAT: IN THE SHADOW OF THE CAPITAL
[...] Summary: During a July 20 visit to Vakhdat city, just twenty kilometers outside Dushanbe, the mayor and first deputy chairman underscored their district's need for macro-level economic assistance, while representatives of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) revealed a greater [...]
2007-07-24 13:02:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON EAID TI
07DUSHANBE1093TAJIK REGION STILL GRAPPLES WITH POST-WAR DECAY
[...] (SBU) Summary: A July 18 trip to the southern Tajik city of Vakhsh revealed a range of economic problems, including unpaid teachers and impoverished cotton farmers. While thousands fled Vakhsh during the 1992-1997 Tajik civil war, the government has attempted to lure refugees back to the are [...]
2007-07-24 13:42:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EAID EAGR TI
07DUSHANBE1101TAJIK JOURNALISTS TRY TO FIGHT LICENSING RESTRICTIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the government steadily tightens its noose on the media, international organizations and local nongovernmental organizations held a conference July 19-20 to frankly discuss TV and radio licensing problems in Tajikistan. Conference participants, including, surprisingly, offi [...]
2007-07-26 08:56:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE1111TAJIK GOVT CLOSES UNREGISTERED MOSQUES
[...] (U) Local police closed down an unregistered mosque in Zarafshon neighborhood in Dushanbe July 26. Embassy staff witnessed the closure of one mosque as authorities locked the mosque's doors, prohibiting people from worshipping and angering the local community. Police continued to patrol the [...]
2007-07-30 13:58:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE1117TAJIKISTAN'S SALAFI MUSLIMS GROWING IN NUMBERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In Tajikistan, despite the government's fear of religious extremism which has led it to close down mosques, forbid girls from wearing hijabs in schools, and propose a new law on religion that could curtail practice of all faiths, the Salafi school of Islam is growing in size. I [...]
2007-08-01 12:23:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF TI
07DUSHANBE1128TAJIK GOVERNMENT TRYING TO STRONG ARM U.S. FIRM
[...] (C) Summary: Although the antimony mining venture Anzob LLC privatized in 2006, the Tajik government is trying to dictate the firm's selling price and select its buyer. The First Deputy Minister of Energy and Industry admitted that a letter ordering Anzob to sell its product to a Tajik compa [...]
2007-08-06 06:44:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL TI
07DUSHANBE1130SETTING THE SCENE FOR THE OPENING OF THE TAJIK-AFGHAN BRIDGE
[...] (SBU) The August 26 opening of the U.S.-constructed bridge between Afghanistan and Tajikistan launches an era of great possibilities and potential by creating a new transportation and trade link between Central and South Asia. The $37 million state-of-the-art bridge quite literally symbolizes [...]
2007-08-06 13:06:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL TI AF
07DUSHANBE1136TAJIK IMAMS DEFY LOCAL AUTHORITIES
[...] (U) Following a campaign to shutter - and in some cases bulldoze - unregistered mosques in Dushanbe last month, indications that the scope for freedom of religion in Tajikistan is dwindling continue to surface. However, some members of the country's religious leadership are resisting governm [...]
2007-08-08 10:12:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KIRF TI
07DUSHANBE1149PUTTING THE BRAKES ON TAJIKISTAN'S BACKSLIDING
[...] (C) Summary: By comparison to some of its neighbors in Central Asia, Tajikistan does not stand out as particularly authoritarian, corrupt or incompetent. Yet even in this context, where the bar has been lowered considerably in terms of good governance, the Tajik government's policies and re [...]
2007-08-10 12:41:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EINV EAID KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE1155TAJIKISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER'S
[...] (U) Embassy Dushanbe welcomes Assistant Secretary Boucher and Senior Advisor Caitlin Hayden to Dushanbe for the Assistant Secretary's third visit to Tajikistan. SIPDIS 2. (U) By now, you have received two reftels describing the current environment in Tajikistan. Ref B contains some ge [...]
2007-08-14 12:31:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON TI
07DUSHANBE1157TAJIKISTAN: DEMARCHE ON PROMOTION OF STANDING COMMITTEE
[...] PolOff informed Ismatullo Nasreddinov, Head of the North America and Europe Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on August 10 of the U.S. support for Steve Carr's candidacy to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement's Standing Commission. Post also delivered a formal diploma [...]
2007-08-14 21:08:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PHUM ICRC
07DUSHANBE1163TAJIKISTAN'S SUGHD REGION HAS HIGH POTENTIAL, BUT LIMITED BY
[...] SUMMARY: The great potential of northern Tajikistan's Sughd Region -- as well as the enormous challenges it faces -- were on full display during PolOff's August 12-13 visit to Khujand, Istaravshan and Konibodom. The region's reputation for economic dynamism and entrepreneurship appeared just [...]
2007-08-16 10:43:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON TI
07DUSHANBE121A TRUE TRAVEL STORY FROM HELL
[...] SUMMARY: With 67 returning Kazakh hajjis and nearly one hundred tired and hungry expats on board, Turkish Airlines flight 1344 bound for Dushanbe, Tajikistan, could not land for nearly two days due to fog, rain and snow, uncooperative Central Asian governments, indecisive Turkish Airlines rep [...]
2007-01-19 07:33:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL TI
07DUSHANBE1242007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR TAJIKISTAN
[...] (U) Following is our submission per the referenced telegram for the 2007 Investment Climate Statement for Tajikistan. ---------- BEGIN TEXT ---------- 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- TAJIKISTAN Tajikistan presents selected opportunities for savvy investors who are willing to put in si [...]
2007-01-19 12:10:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC USTR TI
07DUSHANBE1252007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR TAJIKISTAN
[...] (U) Following is our submission per the referenced telegram for the 2007 Investment Climate Statement for Tajikistan. ---------- BEGIN TEXT ---------- 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- TAJIKISTAN Tajikistan presents selected opportunities for savvy investors who are willing to put in si [...]
2007-01-19 13:28:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC USTR TI
07DUSHANBE1253BRIDGE OPENING SPURS DISCUSSION OF FURTHER COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: "This new bridge is as important for us as oxygen," Tajik President Emomali Rahmon told Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, who led the U.S. presidential delegation to the opening of the new U.S.-funded bridge linking Tajikistan and Afghanistan across the Pyanj River. Rahmon [...]
2007-09-04 03:57:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EAID ECIN ELTN TI AF
07DUSHANBE1254TAJIKISTAN: PEACE PARK DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] PolOff discussed the creation of a Transboundary Peace Park with Deputy Minister Rustam Latipov at the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection (reftel). Latipov fully supports the creation of the Park and conservation of the Pamirs. Tajikistan will host a multi-national conferen [...]
2007-09-04 09:02:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDSENV PGOV PREL TI
07DUSHANBE1255TAJIK-AFGHAN BRIDGE OPENS IN STYLE
[...] (U) On August 26, after 19 months of construction led by the Afghan Engineering Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, $37 million in U.S. funding, 19,100 cubic meters of concrete, and countless demarches and interventions by the Embassy to secure building materials and licenses, Tajik [...]
2007-09-04 11:04:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EAID ECIN ELTN TI AF
07DUSHANBE1270TAJIKISTAN RESPONSE ON 2008 NTE CHAPTER ON THE ARAB LEAGUE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-06 14:13:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDKBCT USTR ETRD ECON EFIN
07DUSHANBE1285TAJIK COMPLACENCY WORRIES INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
[...] Summary. The Tajik government's relaxation of monetary and fiscal policy worried International Monetary Fund Mission Chief Carlos Pinerua at a quarterly briefing for donors on the Tajik economy Sept 4. Locally, the real estate, construction, and consumer markets continue to expand rapidly. [...]
2007-09-07 15:38:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE1289TAJIKISTAN: RECENT ACTIVITIES AGAINST NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
[...] (C) A September 6 cyber attack and brief encounter on September 7 with State Committee for National Security officials indicate that change is in store for the National Democratic Institute. PolOff met with National Democratic Institute Harry Bader on September 7 to discuss the recent events. [...]
2007-09-11 13:17:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC TI
07DUSHANBE1334TAJIKISTAN: IMPRISONED DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIRMAN TO BE
[...] (C) Rahmatullo Valiev, Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan, met with the Deputy Chief of Mission September 18. Valiev has been leading the party while its Chairman, Mahmadruzzi Iskandarov, remains in jail in Dushanbe, and met with us to discuss Iskandarov's possible release [...]
2007-09-20 04:02:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE1345DUSHANBE IFTAR: A FRANK DISCUSSION ABOUT RELIGION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Participants at a September 18 Iftar hosted by Ambassador discussed the Draft Law on Religious Organizations, the mosque registration process, and the recent mosque closures in Dushanbe. Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan leader Muhiddin Kabiri and Center for Strategic [...]
2007-09-21 14:26:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KISL TI
07DUSHANBE1349DUSHANBE: OSCE HUMAN DIMENSIONS MEETING DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (U) Embassy Delivered reftel demarche to the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for America and Europe, Ismatullo Nasreddinov, on September 20. Nasreddinov said that Tajikistan would send its Presidential Adviser on Social Issues, Mansur Saffidinov, to the conference along with repre [...]
2007-09-25 04:29:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ECON OSCE TI
07DUSHANBE135INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING BUREAU LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The International Broadcasting Bureau's Jim Lambert briefed Minister of Transportation and Communications Abdurahim Ashurov January 23 on the history of its broadcasts and transmissions from Tajikistan and proposed that the United States and Tajikistan negotiate and sign a bilate [...]
2007-01-26 13:48:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYABLD ECPS OIIP PGOV PREL KPAO TI
07DUSHANBE1385 TAJIKISTAN - ANOTHER RUMOR OF REVOLT
[...] (C) Summary: A former member of Parliament says that he is organizing a revolt. We doubt he has the means to make this happen, but rumors of uprisings and/or invasions from Uzbekistan have cropped up repeatedly over the past year. The Government of Tajikistan may try to profit from these rumo [...]
2007-09-27 04:57:00Embassy DushanbeSECRETPREL PGOV PTER TI
07DUSHANBE1412SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT FIGHTS FOR CONTROL OF OPEN WORLD
[...] SUMMARY: Deputy Chief of Mission and Cultural Affairs Officer met with Speaker of Parliament Sadullo Hairuloyev October 2 to ask him to consent to the participation of four members of the Tajik Parliament in the Open World program. Hairuloyev initially provided several reasons why the participa [...]
2007-10-03 05:50:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO TI
07DUSHANBE1420 TAJIK PRESIDENT FIRES SENIOR ANTI-NARCOTICS OFFICER TO
[...] (S) Summary: President Rahmon has fired a senior anti-narcotics officer who pressed for prosecution of a distant relative and Major from the State Committee for National Security (i.e. the KGB) who were arrested while transporting heroin in a government vehicle. XXXXXXXXXXXX End Summary. 2. (S) [...]
2007-10-04 15:52:00Embassy DushanbeSECRETPREL PGOV SNAR TI
07DUSHANBE1421TAJIKISTAN LEANING TOWARD SUPPORTING RESOLUTION CONDEMNING
[...] (U) On 26 September 2007, PolOff raised the issue of supporting the draft resolution condemning the use of rape as an instrument of state policy (reftel) with Ismatullo Nasreddinov, Chief of the Department of European and North American Affairs at the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On 3 O [...]
2007-10-05 05:12:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM AORC SOCI KWMN UNGA TI
07DUSHANBE1422SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE ISLAMIC RENAISSANCE PARTY OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan's Seventh Congress on 25 September 2007, the party's delegates elected Chairman Muhiddin Kabiri to another four-year term. Kabiri outlined his plans to continue modernizing the party and to attract additional support from young [...]
2007-10-05 06:52:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KISL KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE1432TAJIKISTAN INL DUSHANBE 2007 SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT
[...] In the absence of INL regular quarterly reports, the Narcotics and Law Enforcement Section in Dushanbe herein reports on activities for the period of January - September 2007: ---------------------------------- Narcotics and Law Enforcement Activities --------------------------------- Jan [...]
2007-10-10 07:15:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR ASEC PREL KCOR KCRM TI
07DUSHANBE1437RAHMON SHOWS OFF DUSHANBE FOR THE CIS SUMMIT; DUSHANBE
[...] (U) Summary: The Summits of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Economic Cooperation Organization, and Collective Security Treaty Organization, held October 5-7, brought Dushanbe to a standstill, disrupting communications and commerce, and costing a fortune. The Government of Taji [...]
2007-10-10 13:55:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE1456PRICE OF FLOUR IN TAJIKISTAN DOUBLES
[...] (U) Summary: The price of flour has risen 100 percent in Tajikistan in the last few weeks. Flour is a staple of the Tajik diet, and the price rise follows a regional trend of sharp inflation in foodstuffs. The government has sought to deflect responsibility for the price increases, but disco [...]
2007-10-12 12:20:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON TI
07DUSHANBE1460PRIVATE POWER STATION IN EASTERN TAJIKISTAN RECOVERS FROM
[...] Summary: Pamir Energy, the private energy company serving all of Gorno-Badakhshan in eastern Tajikistan, has largely bounced back from its catastrophic accident in February 2007 when its main hydropower station Pamir 1 flooded, but continues to face cash flow problems due to inefficient distrib [...]
2007-10-16 09:23:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDENRG ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EAID TI
07DUSHANBE1466A TASTE OF YAK IN REMOTE MURGHAB
[...] (U) Summary: Remote, harsh and cold, and sparsely populated by residents with hardened wind-battered facial features, Murghab sits atop an 11,778-foot plateau in an area that defines remote in eastern Tajikistan. EconOffs drove to Murghab in eastern Tajikistan in early October to see how resid [...]
2007-10-17 12:36:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD PGOV EAID PREL TI
07DUSHANBE1467CONTINUING TROUBLES FOR NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE IN
[...] (C) Summary: The National Democratic Institute Director in Tajikistan, Harry Bader, has received another one-month, two-entry visa, further blocking his efforts to obtain registration for his organization. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had previously promised Bader a three-month visa, which [...]
2007-10-17 13:17:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE1481RENEWED PROMISE TO BEGIN OPERATIONS ON TAJIK-AFGHAN BRIDGE
[...] (C) Summary: Since the August 26 ceremonial opening of the U.S.-built Tajik-Afghan bridge, Tajik security authorities have blocked opening the bridge for operations. Recent interventions by the Embassy appear to have led to a new compromise among Tajik government agencies which will allow a [...]
2007-10-18 14:21:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALEAID ELTN PGOV MASS TI
07DUSHANBE1516SETTING THE SCENE FOR COMMANDER, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND'S 1
[...] (C) Executive Summary. Embassy Dushanbe looks forward to your upcoming visit to Tajikistan. Besides the opening of the bridge between Afghanistan and Tajikistan in August, little has changed since your introductory meeting with President Rahmon in June. As this is your second visit, you will [...]
2007-10-19 13:36:00Embassy DushanbeSECRETPREL PGOV MASS MCAP OVIP TI AF
07DUSHANBE1523FM ZARIFI ON OPENING THE BRIDGE AND DUSHANBE SUMMITS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At an hour-long meeting October 22 requested by Ambassador, Foreign Minister Zarifi: --admitted that the government had not decided which agency would be in charge of the facilities including the U.S.-funded bridge at the Nizhniy Pyanzh border, but said they were working tow [...]
2007-10-24 05:46:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ELTN MASS TI
07DUSHANBE1525INL DUSHANBE FUND CITE FOR ICITAP TRAINING PROGRAM
[...] (U) The Narcotics and Law Enforcement Section at Embassy Dushanbe requests the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs to utilize the following fund cites to provide funds to continue the Senior Law Enforcement Advisor position and begin the Law Enforcement Training Progr [...]
2007-10-24 11:32:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN SNAR ABUD
07DUSHANBE1526DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR UN
[...] (U) Per reftel, PolOff delivered the demarche on David Walker's candidacy to Jamshed Khamidov, Deputy Head of the Department for International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan. PolOff handed Khamidov a printed copy of Walker's biographic information, and Khamidov [...]
2007-10-24 12:11:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC TI UN UNGA
07DUSHANBE1531GOVERNMENT OF TAJIKISTAN OUTLAWS JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
[...] (SBU) Summary: In line with its increasingly restrictive controls on religious practice, the Government of Tajikistan has banned the Jehovah's Witnesses from activities in the country. Representatives of the organization have told us that they will appeal the government's decision, and that the [...]
2007-10-26 05:43:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL TI KIRF
07DUSHANBE1556CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR UN IAAC
[...] (U) Post received a further response from the Government of Tajikistan concerning subject demarche. The Tajik Government has decided to support David Walker's candidacy for the United Nations Independent Audit Advisory Committee. Jamshed Khamidov, Deputy Head of the Department for Internation [...]
2007-10-31 07:14:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC TI UN UNGA
07DUSHANBE1561OSCE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION CONFERENCE IN DUSHANBE
[...] (U) Summary: Delegations to the OSCE Central Asian Regional Transportation Conference in Dushanbe October 23-24 agreed to promote streamlined transit routes and enhance public-private partnerships in the transportation sector. The joint statement released by the delegations underlined the role [...]
2007-10-31 16:26:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECIN ELTN ETRD TI
07DUSHANBE1562SENIOR ANTI-NARCOTICS GENERAL FIRED BY PRESIDENT, THEN
[...] (S) Summary: A senior anti-narcotics officer who was fired after he pressed for prosecution of a State Committee for National Security officer (and distant relative of the President) has been temporarily reinstated. He has told the embassy that his reinstatement is only until a replacement is [...]
2007-11-01 06:58:00Embassy DushanbeSECRET//NOFORNPGOV SNAR PREL TI
07DUSHANBE1581GERALD METALS RESOLVES DISPUTE WITH TAJIK ALUMINUM, RENEWS
[...] (SBU) Gerald Metals Inc. of Connecticut, and the Tajik Aluminum Company ("Talco") have resolved their four-year, $24 million dispute over non-delivery of aluminum for which Gerald had pre-paid. Now Gerald Metals is exploring new opportunities in metal trading with Talco. The two sides reached [...]
2007-11-02 16:38:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EINV ETRD TI
07DUSHANBE1582UNSEAMLY TAJIK TEXTILES MARKET
[...] (U) Comment: Tajikistan's junior-size textile and apparel industry struggles to gain investment that would better utilize in-country cotton production. Despite the government's continued pleas for more processing capacity, private companies must weave through a maze of customs, taxation, and r [...]
2007-11-02 16:41:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON EFIN EINV EIND ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE1584A LOOMING COTTON CRISIS IN TAJIKISTAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: International banks have begun calling in part of their $360 million in agricultural loans to Tajikistan, which lacks the ability to pay, threatening a liquidity crisis in the banking sector here. Behind the scenes of this week's Sixth Ministerial Conference of the Central Asi [...]
2007-11-02 17:48:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAGR ECON PGOV PREL EINV ETRD TI
07DUSHANBE1589WEEKEND UPDATE ON TAJIK LIQUIDITY CRISIS
[...] (U) This report provides an update to reftel concerning the cotton sector finance crisis in Tajikistan. President Rahmon Reacts to Donor Demands --------------------------------------------- ------------ 2. (C) According to Annette Dixon of the World Bank and Juan Miranda of the Asian [...]
2007-11-05 13:15:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAGR ECON PGOV PREL EINV ETRD TI
07DUSHANBE1595THE ROAD TO KHOROG: THE TAJIK/AFGHAN BORDER
[...] (SBU) Summary. The 1,344-kilometer Tajik-Afghan border is known for narcotics trafficking, unrelenting mountains, and as a boundary between the former Soviet Union and South Asia. EmbOffs traveled two-thirds of the remote Tajik-Afghan border in the eastern part of the country, finding poverty- [...]
2007-11-07 16:44:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV SOCI ELTN TI
07DUSHANBE1598MINISTER OF EDUCATION DECLARES UNPOPULAR PUBLIC SERVICE
[...] Summary: PAO and CAO met with Minister of Education Abdujabbor Rahmonov November 5 to coordinate cooperation between the Embassy and the Ministry. Rahmonov was extremely defensive regarding the headscarf ban in schools and demanded at length that the United States open a university in Tajiki [...]
2007-11-08 11:52:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KPAO TI
07DUSHANBE1599DEMARCHE ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: A discussion with the Foreign Ministry regarding the Jehovah's Witnesses and the National Democratic Institute produced a little sympathy but no breakthroughs from the Ministry, and highlighted the need for more personal diplomacy at all levels to educate the Tajik Government ab [...]
2007-11-09 07:05:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE1600TAJIK DRAFT LAW ON RELIGION SEES THE LIGHT OF DAY
[...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff attended a November 7 OSCE-initiated forum on the draft Law on Religion. While government officials emphasized the necessity of such a law and the "transparency" of the drafting process, religious groups and non-governmental organizations expressed deep concerns about the [...]
2007-11-09 07:33:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE1607TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL PROTECTIVE SERVICE - A PEEK INSIDE
[...] (S/NF) The Regional Security Officer met November 7 with Major General Kasim GAFAROV, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for National Security (GKNB),to discuss future Anti-Terrorism Assistance training, such as VIP protection training and vital installation security courses. Duri [...]
2007-11-13 07:34:00Embassy DushanbeSECRET//NOFORNASEC TI
07DUSHANBE161INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN TAJIKISTAN
[...] In response to reftel, Post submits the following five names of the most influential women in Tajikistan. -- Khairinisso MAVLONOVA Title: Depuity Prime Minister Organization: Government of the Republic of Tajikistan In a country with one female minister and where most women are relegated [...]
2007-01-31 14:12:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KWMN TI
07DUSHANBE1611FATF/IRAN STATEMENT - TAJIK SUPPORT ON THE FINANCIAL FRONT
[...] (SBU) Post delivered the demarche (reftel) regarding the Financial Action Task Force warning on Iran's financial system to Tajik officials, who promised to pass the warning through "quiet channels" to Tajik financial institutions. 2. (SBU) EconOff delivered demarche to Zamira Hurshedovna, He [...]
2007-11-14 03:45:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL MNUC ECON TI
07DUSHANBE1612MCC DEMARCHE - TAJIKS STILL MISSING THE POINT
[...] (U) Summary. EmbOffs delivered the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) scorecard to a variety of Tajik officials, who roundly ignored its implications and instead attacked the legitimacy and methodology behind the indicators. Kyrgyzstan's pending Threshold Program caught the attention of se [...]
2007-11-14 04:21:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC TI
07DUSHANBE162BEWARE OF GARM! WINTER IN CENTRAL TAJIKISTAN
[...] (U) Introduction: Jan 22-24 EmbOffs visited the Rasht Valley in central Tajikistan to get a taste of rural life in the winter. A series of cables surveys border conditions (Ref A),the economic and social situation, health needs and assistance programs in central Tajikistan. End Introduction [...]
2007-01-31 15:28:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EAGR ELAB ENRG PGOV PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE1650IED KILLS ONE AT CONFERENCE CENTER IN DUSHANBE
[...] (SBU) Per REF A, at approximately 0800 local time on November 14, an improvised explosive device detonated outside Kokhi Vahdat, a prominent conference hall in the center of Dushanbe along the main street (Rudaki Avenue). The Regional Security Officer observed more than 100 Ministry of Inter [...]
2007-11-15 13:46:00Embassy DushanbeSECRET//NOFORNASEC PTER PINR TI
07DUSHANBE1651TAJIKISTAN'S 3,600 MEGAWATT MIRAGE - ROGUN DAM PROJECT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Tajikistan is still actively seeking a partner with the estimated $2 billion needed to complete the 3,600 megawatt Rogun dam. During a November 10 visit to the site, project engineers gave EmbOffs a tour and their perspectives of the thirty-year-old project. [...]
2007-11-15 18:53:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE1665NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE TAJIKISTAN DIRECTOR GRANTED
[...] (C) Summary: The Tajikistan Director of the National Democratic Institute has been issued a six-month, multiple entry visa, after having received short-term visas for several months. The six-month visa was a prerequisite for obtaining registration for the National Democratic Institute. Embass [...]
2007-11-21 03:10:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE167NGO STANDOFF WITH THE TAJIK MFA OVER REQUEST FOR PERSONNEL
[...] (SBU) Tajikistan's international nongovernmental organization community is wrestling with how to respond to a recent Ministry of Foreign Affairs request to provide information about their local employees and tax status. The Ministry sent a letter in early January -- received by only three [...]
2007-02-01 12:12:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EAID TI
07DUSHANBE1680ALL THE KING'S MEN
[...] (C) Summary: One year after President Rahmon's re-election, Tajiks from the Kulyob region hold approximately two-thirds of the top positions in government. While this consolidation of power has been ongoing for several years, some in President Rahmon's party have started to question whether hi [...]
2007-11-23 12:16:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE1684THE LOW-DOWN ON TAJIKISTAN'S LAW ON RELIGION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Tajikistan's draft law on religion does not appear to be on the fast track any longer. Government officials will revise the current draft, and it is unlikely that the proposed law will not be considered by parliament until next year. While future drafts may take into account so [...]
2007-11-23 13:09:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE1686CENTCOM COMMANDER VISIT BUILDS RELATIONS, FOCUSES ON
[...] (C) Summary. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Admiral WiIliam J. Fallon's 6 November 2007 visit to Dushanbe yielded a second meeting with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and first-time discussions with Defense Minister General-Colonel (U.S. 3-star equivalent) Sherali Khairulloyev and [...]
2007-11-23 14:08:00Embassy DushanbeSECRET//NOFORNPREL MASS PGOV TI AF IR
07DUSHANBE1687NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE TAJIKISTAN DIRECTOR GRANTED
[...] (C) Summary: The Tajikistan Director of the National Democratic Institute has been issued a six-month, multiple entry visa, after having received short-term visas for several months. The six-month visa was a prerequisite for obtaining registration for the National Democratic Institute. Embass [...]
2007-11-23 14:13:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE1688HIP HIP HURRAH FOR PRESIDENT RAHMON
[...] (C) Recent events -- the celebrations of the sixteenth anniversary of President's Rahmon's election as Chairman of the Supreme Council of Tajikistan, and a World Cup Soccer match against Singapore -- highlighted the nascent cult of personality springing up around President Rahmon. Publicity fo [...]
2007-11-26 03:35:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV TI
07DUSHANBE1689PRESS TV: IRAN'S PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ENTERS GLOBAL STAGE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Iran's 24-hour satellite English language news station, Press TV, began operations in July 2007. It has moved quickly to establish itself through widely dispersed correspondents, a large staff in Tehran and London, aggressive recruitment of guests, and generally high quality con [...]
2007-11-26 08:28:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PREL IR
07DUSHANBE171TAJIK FOREIGN MINISTER ZARIPOV'S BILATERAL WISH LIST FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Minister Zaripov invited Ambassador February 1 to meet newly-appointed Ambassador to the United States Abdujabbor Shirinov, and to discuss his ideas for additional cooperation in 2007, including the opening of the U.S.-funded bridge at Nizhnii Pyanzh and the Millennium [...]
2007-02-02 10:40:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID KPAO TI
07DUSHANBE1717DRYING OUT IN DUSHANBE
[...] (SBU) Summary: An October decree by Uzbek President Karimov governing the transit of alcohol and tobacco products has created a beer shortage in Tajikistan. Tajikistan is highly reliant on Uzbek roads and rail lines to import products from Russia, and Uzbekistan has generally allowed goods to [...]
2007-11-30 03:26:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PGOV ECON ELTN TI
07DUSHANBE1724NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Tajikistan, while concerned about Iran's nuclear programs, is unlikely to publicly support calls for Iran to stop Uranium enrichment. Iranian investment and business ties are more important to Tajikistan, and the Government of Tajikistan will not jeopardize them [...]
2007-12-04 12:42:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM IR TI
07DUSHANBE1731EMBASSY DUSHANBE,S RULE OF LAW PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Dushanbe,s rule of law priorities have become more sophisticated as we learn the depth to which reforms are necessary. An inter-agency advisory team recently visited Tajikistan to assess the criminal justice sector, and the team will soon provide recommendations on prog [...]
2007-12-06 06:37:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALKJUS PGOV PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE1734TAJIK COTTON DEBT CRISIS UPDATE
[...] (C) On December 6 Pol/Econ Chief spoke with Katherine Kelm of the Asian Development Bank (protect),about the status of efforts by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund, to resolve the problems of Tajikistan's $400 million cotton debt (reftel),and the prospec [...]
2007-12-07 07:30:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAGR ECON PGOV PREL EINV ETRD TI
07DUSHANBE1735EMBASSY DUSHANBE,S RULE OF LAW PROGRAM
[...] (U) This cable is being retransmitted to correct the classification from Confidential to Sensitive But Unclassified. SIPDIS 2. (SBU) Summary: Embassy Dushanbe,s rule of law priorities have become more sophisticated as we learn the depth to which reforms are necessary. An inter-agency ad [...]
2007-12-07 07:31:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDKJUS PGOV PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE17382007 CONTINUED DETENTION DETERMINATIONS REGARDING
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche, on the continued detention determination of JummQan, to Ismatullo Nasreddinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries at the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nasredinov indicated that he would forward the information we provided to [...]
2007-12-07 11:43:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR PTER TI
07DUSHANBE1742TAJIKISTAN - TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER
[...] Dushanbe terrorism finance coordination officer is pol/econ chief D. Matt Purl, telephone 992-37-229-2000, ext. 2501. Unclassified email: purldm@state.gov, Classified email: purldm@state.sgov.gov. 2. Dushanbe deputy terrorism finance coordination officer is pol/econ officer James Ricker, [...]
2007-12-12 17:18:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PTER TI
07DUSHANBE1746TAJIKISTAN - TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER
[...] Dushanbe terrorism finance coordination officer is pol/econ chief D. Matt Purl, telephone 992-37-229-2000, ext. 2501. Unclassified email: purldm@state.gov, Classified email: purldm@state.sgov.gov. 2. Dushanbe deputy terrorism finance coordination officer is pol/econ officer James Ricker, [...]
2007-12-13 10:53:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN PTER TI
07DUSHANBE1752DEMARCHE REQUEST - MISSING AMCIT ROBERT LEVINSON
[...] (S) PolOff delivered a demarche regarding Robert Levinson on December 14 to Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Foreign Ministry,s Department of European and American Affairs. He said he would forward the information on Levinson to his colleagues at the Department of Asian and African Affairs, w [...]
2007-12-14 12:09:00Embassy DushanbeSECRETCASC KDEM KISL KJUS KPRP PGOV PREL
07DUSHANBE1772 5000 Tajiks Made the Hajj; It Wasn't Cheap
[...] (SBU) Summary: This year, approximately 5000 Tajiks made the Hajj, accompanied by 100 interpreters, doctors, and expediters. Countries must apply to the Saudi authorities for spaces at the Hajj, and Tajik authorities initially underestimated the number of applicants they would have, creating bu [...]
2007-12-26 11:24:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE180TAJIKISTAN'S RASHT VALLEY CALM-- FOR THE TIME BEING?
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite serving as the headquarters of the Islamist opposition during the Tajik Civil War, PolOffs encountered a quiet Rasht Valley during their January 22-24 visit. Local government leaders argued Islamic extremism did not exist in Rasht, due to the "increased religiosity" of [...]
2007-02-05 14:13:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYFOR SCA CEN
07DUSHANBE199FLOOD SHUTS DOWN TAJIKISTAN'S PAMIR I POWER STATION
[...] (SBU) Pamir Energy, the Aga Khan-supported energy company that serves Tajikistan's remote Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, suffered a major disruption February 5 when the powerhouse at Pamir I hydro power station flooded, causing local employees to shut down the 28 MW station (and run for t [...]
2007-02-06 11:56:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EAID ENRG TI
07DUSHANBE206TAJIK PITCHES INITIATIVES FOR THE OSCE
[...] (U) Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for International Organizations, Nuriddin Shamsov, called in the deputy chief of mission February 5 to discuss Tajik issues at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The resident Organization for Security and Cooperation in Euro [...]
2007-02-07 09:36:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID TI OSCE
07DUSHANBE224PANJ DISTRICT IN THE RUNNING FOR TAJIKISTAN'S MOST
[...] Summary: In a country with widespread poverty, Panj district ranks at the bottom even by Tajik standards. No internet access exists anywhere in the district. The district's only newspaper comes out every ten days because of the time needed to create type-set for four pages on an old printin [...]
2007-02-09 12:36:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID ECON EAGR TI
07DUSHANBE225CORRUPTION ON THE FOREFRONT OF TAJIKS' MINDS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: "Anti-Corruption" has become the Tajik government's new buzzword, as President Rahmonov and his cabinet publicly tout new initiatives to combat a problem that pervades every sector, ranging from health and education, to traffic police, to privatization and licensing. Despite the [...]
2007-02-09 12:57:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON KCRM TI
07DUSHANBE226NO NEWS FLASH: SCHOOLS IN PANJ, TAJIKISTAN NEED HELP
[...] Summary: In Panj district in southern Tajikistan, the educational system fails to meet the basic needs of a poor rural community. A February 8 visit to a secondary school in the district capital and a primary school in a rural village demonstrated that Panj students still need better teachers [...]
2007-02-09 12:57:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID ECON EAGR TI
07DUSHANBE238IMPROVING CONSUMER CONFIDENCE IN THE TAJIK BANKING SECTOR
[...] Summary. The Tajik banking sector continues to develop rapidly, with over 35 percent growth since 2005. However, consumer confidence in the banking system remains weak, resulting in an extremely low deposit rate and little money available to feed economic investment. Tajikistan's top banker [...]
2007-02-12 11:42:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV EIND EAID ETRD PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE239DONORS TRY TO SPELL RELIEF IN TAJIKISTAN'S COTTON SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: World Bank-contracted agricultural economist Garry Christensen outlined a new World Bank approach to resolving Tajikistan's $300 million cotton debt crisis -- an approach which could anger many farmers, but could garner the support of the Tajik government and investors. Infig [...]
2007-02-13 11:45:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON EAID PGOV PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE242TAJIKISTAN'S NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN OF COURAGE
[...] Post nominates Zebunisso Rustamova for the Secretary of State's Annual Award for International Women of Courage for her work in building a brighter future for vulnerable women and children of Tajikistan. Ms. Rustamova's information is as follows: Name-- Zebunisso RUSTAMOVA Title: Directo [...]
2007-02-14 03:50:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO
07DUSHANBE252VISIT TO DUSHANBE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS SHELTER
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 14, 2007, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Officer visited the INL-funded and International Organization for Migration (IOM)-administered Trafficking in Persons Shelter located in Dushanbe. This was an unannounced visit following up a previous visit on 18 Ja [...]
2007-02-15 13:52:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KWMN SNAR IOM TI
07DUSHANBE254MAKING A SPLASH IN TAJIKISTAN WITH WATER ASSISTANCE
[...] Summary: Tajikistan's new water minister Masaid Hamidov appreciates U.S. support for rural water users' programs and water systems rehabilitation, but requested training exchanges to the United States as the best "hands-on" way to expose his staff to new technologies. The World Bank and Asia [...]
2007-02-16 12:15:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD PREL SENV KPWR EAID PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE256TAJIK-AFGHAN BRIDGE OPENING COULD HELP HIGHLIGHT SUCCESS IN
[...] (C) The U.S.-funded bridge between Tajikistan and Afghanistan serves as the most visible symbol of our efforts to link South and Central Asia and establish lasting trade and transportation ties between the two regions. In Tajikistan, where the Chinese, Russians and Iranians have all donated [...]
2007-02-16 12:42:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID TI AF
07DUSHANBE262TAJIK GOVERNMENT AND NGOS BEGIN DIALOGUE, BUT OUTSTANDING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Two related issues from the Tajik government have kept non-governmental organizations in the spotlight (or crosshairs) and unsettled a number of U.S. assistance implementers. A draft Law on Public Associations passed by the lower house of Parliament February 14 could strengthe [...]
2007-02-20 13:41:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EAID TI
07DUSHANBE265TAJIK POLITICAL PARTIES: DOWN, BUT NOT DEAD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tajikistan's political parties are slowly getting back on their feet after being completely marginalized in the November 2006 presidential election. In a series of meetings with party leaders in January and February 2007, PolOff discussed each party's direction leading up to t [...]
2007-02-21 14:12:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE298TAJIKISTAN 301: RECOMMEND REMAIN ON WATCH LIST
[...] Tajikistan has taken significant steps over the past year to protect intellectual property, but much work remains in order to change its position on the Special 301 List. Therefore, post recommends that Tajikistan retain its Watch List status. 2. Recent advances include: an amendment to t [...]
2007-02-27 13:02:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ECON ETRD TI EINV
07DUSHANBE299NEW SUGHD GOVERNOR PRIORITIZES TRANSPARENCY
[...] The Sughd region's new governor is instituting transparent practices and other democratic principles in the local government. In his first speech as Governor, Abdukhir Nazirov told the Sughd public that his priority was to make the government's actions transparent. Tajikistan's three regions [...]
2007-02-27 13:13:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE301GOVERNMENT OF TAJIKISTAN DEMARCHED ON CND VOTE ON
[...] Embassy International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Officer and Senior Law Enforcement Advisor delivered demarche regarding the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs upcoming vote on dronabinol (REF A) to the Head of the Tajik Drug Control Agency, General Rustam Nazarov, on 21 February . [...]
2007-02-27 18:18:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDAORC SNAR UNCND TI
07DUSHANBE313TAJIKISTAN'S 2006-2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] Please note that Post's paragraph designation corresponds with reftel. OVERVIEW A. Tajikistan is an origin country for trafficking. International trafficking for the purposes of sexual and labor exploitation is a problem. The most common destination countries include the United Arab E [...]
2007-03-02 13:48:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE314FEBRUARY 2007 BORDER WRAP-UP REPORT
[...] (SBU) An interagency Department of State and Defense team conducted a demining policy assessment visit February 5-7. The purpose of the trip was to obtain an initial assessment of the landmine problem, and make recommendations to the PCC sub-group regarding the viability of allocating resourc [...]
2007-03-05 04:46:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINR SNAR TI AF
07DUSHANBE335AGAINST THE GRAIN - IMPROVING THE INVESTMENT CLIMATE IN
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The newly-formed State Committee on Investments and State Property will seek to attract foreign direct investment to Tajikistan. However, the committee has few tools and resources to fully realize its well intentioned programs. U.S. technical assistance will support the committ [...]
2007-03-07 11:56:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ECON EFIN EIND EAID ETRD PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE337TAJIK RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN NON-COMPLIANCE WITH
[...] (C) PolOff delivered ref demarches regarding the Iranian government's non-compliance with United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1737 to Ismatullo Nasredinov, Chief of the American Countries Branch, Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nasredinov replied that the Tajik government op [...]
2007-03-09 04:59:00Embassy DushanbeSECRETKNNP UNSC AORC ETRD TRGY IR TI
07DUSHANBE34ENERGETIC FOREIGN MINISTER FULL OF IDEAS -- PUSHING
[...] (C) Summary: Tajik Foreign Minister Zaripov visited the Embassy January 4 to sign the condolence book for President Ford and ended up canceling his follow-on appointments to discuss a number of issues with the Ambassador. Zaripov asked the Embassy's assistance to accelerate and expand U.S. [...]
2007-01-05 12:15:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID EINV ENRG PGOV OVIP TI
07DUSHANBE348TAJIK GOVT REACTION TO RUSSIAN MIGRATION LAW (C-RE7-00278)
[...] (U) In a meeting with PolOff March 1, head of the State Social Protection, Employment and Migration Agency Anvar Boboev appeared optimistic that Russia's new migration law would make it easier for Tajik labor migrants to travel to, register, and obtain work permits in Russia. Prior to the gov [...]
2007-03-09 11:28:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG ELAB ECON PINR TI RS
07DUSHANBE351DUSHANBE LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: DCA, MINISTRY OF INTERIOR
[...] This is an action cable. See paragraph 4. 2. Post has been asked to conduct a human rights review for the following personnel from the Drug Control Agency Under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan and Tajik Ministry of Interior appointed to attend drivers training courses organized [...]
2007-03-12 15:35:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL SNAR TI
07DUSHANBE355TAJIKISTAN'S INDEPENDENT MEDIA PROCEEDS WITH CAUTION AFTER
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Tajikistan's independent media is breathing slightly easier after the presidential election. In a lunch hosted by EmbOffs March 1, eight independent journalists opened up about the media environment. Most admitted that although the government has relaxed pressure on independen [...]
2007-03-13 11:17:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE359OSCE OK IN TAJIKISTAN - AMBASSADOR FINLEY MEETS WITH TAJIK
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During their meeting March 7 with Tajik Foreign Minister Zaripov, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),Ambassador Julie Finley, and Ambassador Jacobson discussed the future of the OSCE in Tajikistan. The Tajik Perman [...]
2007-03-13 16:17:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE368POISON PEN LETTERS LEAD TO CHURCH HARASSMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A disgruntled employee dismissed from the nongovernmental organization Operation Mercy published two poison pen letters in local media under a false pseudonym. The writer made allegations that Operation Mercy sold humanitarian aid for profit and imported religious literature a [...]
2007-03-15 12:17:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE376TAJIK GOVERNMENT RETAINS STRONG CONTROL OVER ISLAMIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mufti Domulloh Khudoyberdi of Tajikistan's Council of Ulamo called PolOff to his office March 16 to retract his statements during a meeting with the Ambassador and visiting U.S. OSCE Ambassador Julie Finley March 7. The Mufti explained that he would like to convey additional in [...]
2007-03-20 07:47:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KISL TI
07DUSHANBE381TAJIKISTAN: LIGHTS OUT AND EVERYONE HOME-AND COLD
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Even as Tajikistan seeks to become a regional energy exporter, most of Dushanbe has had only four to six hours of power each day for the last month. Many parts of rural Tajikistan have remained without any electricity throughout the winter, but the fact that the capital is exper [...]
2007-03-20 12:17:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON ENGR EAID TI AF
07DUSHANBE43TAJIK BANKING DINNER TURNS INTO SERIOUS TALK TO RESOLVE
[...] (C) Summary: In Tajikistan, singing and dancing alongside the President's brother-in-law while discussing business earns the United States diplomatic goodwill. At a private dinner January 8 to talk about banking supervision and economic reform, President Rahmonov's brother-in-law Hasan Sadu [...]
2007-01-09 12:23:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EINV ETRD TI
07DUSHANBE430TELECOM IN TAJIKISTAN: SCENE-SETTER FOR USTDA CONFERENCE IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. While Tajikistan's presence at the upcoming US Trade and Development Agency Telecommmunications Conference in Almaty will be thin, the vibrant and competitive Tajik telecom sector continues to attract both consumers and foreign investment. Nine major companies serve approximat [...]
2007-03-28 11:35:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EINV ETRD PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE433NDI IN TAJIKISTAN: A GLIMMER OF HOPE?
[...] (C) Summary: After getting the cold shoulder from the Ministry of Justice, National Democratic Institute (NDI) received an encouraging sign from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Deputy Foreign Minister Saidmuddin Yatimov suggested that a visa for National Democratic Institute Tajikistan Di [...]
2007-03-29 11:50:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE44TAJIK FOREIGN MINISTER PITCHES HIGH PROFILE BRIDGE OPENING
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a January 4 meeting with the Ambassador (reftel),Tajik Foreign Minister Zaripov proposed a high profile opening for the United States Government funded bridge linking Tajikistan and Afghanistan across the Pyanj river. The Embassy fully supports a strong public diplomacy pa [...]
2007-01-09 12:26:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID MASS KPAO TI AF
07DUSHANBE443TAJIKISTAN KICKS OUT FAITH-BASED NGO'S EXPAT STAFF
[...] (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Consular Department Chief Bahrom Kholnazarov summoned Paul Linge, Country Director of Operation Mercy, March 29 to inform him that Operation Mercy's foreign, non-Tajik, staff would have to leave Tajikistan within ten days. Kholnazarov instructed Linge to [...]
2007-03-30 12:59:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE45IT'S ONLY NATURAL - TAJIKISTAN AND UZBEKISTAN AGREE ON GAS
[...] (U) Summary. On December 27, 2006, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan reached lopsided agreements on trade of natural gas and electricity. While the electricity swapping arrangement favoring Uzbekistan will continue, the new natural gas agreement nearly doubles the price of gas paid by Tajikistan. U [...]
2007-01-09 13:10:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN EAID PGOV TIUZ
07DUSHANBE467COCHRAN INTERVIEWS PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO FARM LIFE IN
[...] "I would like to learn more about artificial insemination," a number of Tajik dairy farmers repeated in recent interviews for an agricultural exchange program. Alexander Simon of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agriculture Service in Almaty spent March 26-30 in Tajikistan intervi [...]
2007-04-02 12:17:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON EAID ELAB PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE500TAJIKISTAN: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER REPORTS ON PRISON
[...] (C) Fayzinisso Vohidova, a lawyer with the Center for Economic and Legal Support in Khujand, described to PolOff March 29 the horrendous prison conditions, corruption and human rights abuses she saw when she secretly snuck into prison #23 in Khujand, Tajikistan's second largest city. 2. [...]
2007-04-03 11:45:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL ICRC TI
07DUSHANBE501TAJIK FOREIGN MINISTER ON IRAN, KYRGYZSTAN, CIVIL SOCIETY
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Zaripov, following his trip to Astana March 27-29 for the EU Troika meetings with Central Asian Foreign Ministers, met Ambassador April 3 to discuss a full range of bilateral and regional issues: Iran: Tajikistan supports UN Security Council Resolution 1747, [...]
2007-04-03 12:25:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON PGOV PHUM KDEM ENRG EAID TI IR KZ RS
07DUSHANBE502TAJIKISTAN: FREE AND FAIR LOCAL ELECTIONS? APRIL FOOLS!
[...] SUMMARY: Three districts in Tajikistan's southern Khatlon region held local by-elections April 1 for seats in the national parliament vacated by parliamentarians appointed to Ministries and other positions. Despite the lower profile of the April 1 elections as compared to the November 2006 [...]
2007-04-03 13:07:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE509TAJIKISTAN BANKERS EXCHANGE: ANOTHER SET OF CONVERTS
[...] (U) Summary: "Washington is the city of smiles!!" At an International Visitor Program exchange debrief March 28, Tajikistan's top bankers marveled as much about the technical and practical lessons observed in the U.S. banking system, as about at the openness of U.S. society and economy, and [...]
2007-04-04 12:36:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EAID KPAO TI
07DUSHANBE512HIGH LEVEL OF INTEREST IN U.S. POLICIES AT A TAJIK-RUSSIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite several swipes by Russian Ambassador Ramazan Abdulatipov at the United States, participants in a conference on Tajik-Russian relations showed sincere interest in U.S. policy goals. While the March 28-29 conference on "Russian and Central Asia and the Conditions of Geop [...]
2007-04-05 03:26:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON KPAO TI RS
07DUSHANBE517TAJIK ISLAMIC LEADER POINTS OUT WEAKNESSES IN CENTRAL ASIA
[...] (U) Summary: At an April 5 conference on "Kazakhstan's Role and Place in Central Asia" participants took a few gentle stabs at the United States, particularly over the security situation in Afghanistan but otherwise remained neutral. Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) leader Muhi [...]
2007-04-06 11:04:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI KZ
07DUSHANBE518FAITH-BASED NGO GIVEN BREATHING ROOM
[...] (C) Summary: Operation Mercy got a reprieve April 5 when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the expatriate members could remain in country on their current visas. Consular Department Chief Bahrom Kholnazarov gave ConOff no reason for the about-face, but we strongly believe this to th [...]
2007-04-06 11:22:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CASC KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE525TAJIKISTAN AT THE CROSSROADS
[...] (SBU) Five months after the presidential election secured President Rahmonov a third seven-year term, Tajikistan seems to have stalled on the road of reform. Throughout 2006, Rahmonov assured international visitors and his public alike that "after the election," new blood and new ideas would [...]
2007-04-09 07:20:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EAID TI
07DUSHANBE527SETTING THE SCENE FOR DAS FEIGENBAUM'S APRIL 12-15 VISIT
[...] (C) Seven months after your last visit, you will find a Tajikistan that has set aside the promises of the November 2006 election, to a government less worried about international perceptions and more confident in tightening its control over society and the economy. President Rahmonov's minis [...]
2007-04-09 09:58:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EAID TI
07DUSHANBE555EMBASSY DUSHANBE REQUESTS FOR EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOW
[...] Embassy Dushanbe requests one Embassy Science Fellow for either of the two proposed projects listed below. Tajikistan is a country with a predominantly Muslim population and is a member of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Post appreciates OES' initiative to give special considerat [...]
2007-04-12 10:31:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TSPL SENV AMGT OTRA APER TI
07DUSHANBE584HIGH LEVEL OF INTEREST IN U.S. POLICIES AT A TAJIK-RUSSIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite several swipes by Russian Ambassador Ramazan Abdulatipov at the United States, participants in a conference on Tajik-Russian relations showed sincere interest in U.S. policy goals. While the March 28-29 conference on "Russian and Central Asia and the Conditions of Geop [...]
2007-04-18 05:38:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON KPAO TI RS
07DUSHANBE586DAS FEIGENBAUM MEETS WITH TAJIK FOREIGN AFFAIRS ADVISOR ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Hot off his trip to the United Arab Emirates with President Rahmon, Presidential Foreign Affairs Advisor Erkin Rahmatulloev met with SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum April 14. First Deputy Foreign SIPDIS Minister Yatimov also sat in on the meeting. Rahmatullo [...]
2007-04-18 07:32:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TI
07DUSHANBE590DAS FEIGENBAUM VISITS NEW ANTI-CORRUPTION AGENCY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: At the top of the agenda for many Tajik officials is attracting private business to Tajikistan. However, Tajikistan's current legal and regulatory environment, infested with corruption, deters American businesses. In a meeting with Sherkhon Salimov, Director of the new State A [...]
2007-04-19 03:42:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE591CONFERENCE ON U.S.-TAJIK RELATIONS ALLOWS PRAISE AND CRITICISM OF US ROLE IN REGION
[...] Summary and Comment: The April 13th conference "15 Years of U.S.-Tajik Relations" offered few surprises in terms of opinions or positions, but did provide an open forum for real debate and discourse about the U.S. role and policy in Tajikistan and the region. Some Tajik government officials pr [...]
2007-04-19 07:01:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PINR TI AF SNAR
07DUSHANBE604TAJIKISTAN'S SUBMISSION FOR G/TIP MANAGED FY 2007 ESF AND
[...] Tajikistan was ranked in Tier Two for trafficking in persons in 2006. Despite the government's will to combat trafficking in persons, its limited capacity and resources means that Tajikistan is in danger of falling into the Tier Two Watch List category. International organizations and nongov [...]
2007-04-20 12:54:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL TI
07DUSHANBE622TAJIKISTAN GOVERNMENT TO STUDENTS: NO MINISKIRTS OR HIJABS
[...] SUMMARY: First it was gold teeth, then it was graduation parties and students driving to school, now girls in Tajikistan are fraught over the fact they will no longer be allowed to wear jewelry or miniskirts to school. In remarks to the press, President Rahmon said that students at public sc [...]
2007-04-24 09:22:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE623TAJIKISTAN CRACKS DOWN ON RELIGION, CANCELS JEHOVAH'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A deputy mayor of Dushanbe city along with officers from the State Committee on National Security shut down a Jehovah's Witnesses meeting of members and supporters on April 2. On April 3 and 4, the State Committee on National Security summoned one of the group's leaders for qu [...]
2007-04-24 12:11:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE628SETTING THE SCENE FOR DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
[...] (C) You will be pleasantly surprised by the veneer of Dushanbe's active consumer economy, which hides the underbelly of massive corruption and industrial decay. The government, including the recently renamed Foreign Minister Zarifi and President Rahmon (going back to their Tajik roots),insis [...]
2007-04-25 12:53:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL TI AF
07DUSHANBE629TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR CALLS IN AMBASSADOR OVER REUTERS
[...] (SBU) Senior Presidential Advisor for Foreign Affairs Rahmatulloyev called in Ambassador April 24 to discuss an April 23 Reuters article, in which she said corruption is the major impediment to Western investment in Tajikistan. Rahmatulloyev said President Rahmon personally pays attention to [...]
2007-04-25 13:18:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM ECON ENRG TI
07DUSHANBE637TAJIKS, WORLD BANK AND CONSULTANTS ON DIFFERENT PAGES FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Tajikistan's April 24 energy roundtable underscored the fundamentally different perspectives of the World Bank and its consultants, and the Tajik government in approaching a project aimed at bringing 1000 megawatts of Tajik and Kyrgyz electricity to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The [...]
2007-04-26 11:30:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EFIN ENRG TI AF
07DUSHANBE640TAJIKISTAN: POLITICAL PARTY NARROWLY ESCAPES CLOSURE
[...] (SBU) Rahmatullo Zoyirov, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan, breathed a sigh of relief when on April 24 the Supreme Court acquitted him of charges of not properly reporting on his party's activities and providing the necessary documents to the Ministry of Justice. 2. [...]
2007-04-30 07:41:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE643TAJIK MINISTRY OF INTERIOR OFFICIALS EVICT RESIDENTS, TAKE
[...] On April 26 Ministry of Interior officials forcefully evicted residents who illegally occupied a rundown 52-unit building in Dushanbe. When PolOff arrived on the scene, at least 30 police officers had surrounded the area, and one fire truck and an ambulance were poised and ready for emergenci [...]
2007-04-30 17:02:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE646WE'RE STILL SPECIAL - 301 WATCH LIST POINTS DELIVERED TO
[...] Post delivered talking points in Reftel A to Tajik government officials April 30 regarding Tajikistan's maintaining its "Watch List" status on the Special 301 Report for 2007. EconOffs personally delivered points to Alisher Karimov, Deputy Head of Customs Control in the Customs Service and Gen [...]
2007-04-30 17:10:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KIPR TI
07DUSHANBE675TAJIK AND KYRGYZ LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL FOR VETTING
[...] This is an action cable. See paragraph 4. 2. Post has been asked to conduct a human rights review for the following Tajik and Kyrgyz personnel appointed to attend the International Narcotics Enforcement Management Seminar in Florida on June 5-21, 2007 organized by the Department of Justice [...]
2007-05-07 06:26:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL SNAR TI KR
07DUSHANBE690PROVING WHY SABIT IS "SPECIAL" IN TAJIKISTAN
[...] (U) Summary: We may be neighbors, but we aren't well connected. This theme underscored a Central Asian Transportation Infrastructure Conference May 7, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce along with Embassy Dushanbe, to highlight the Special American Business Internship Training prog [...]
2007-05-10 11:11:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON EFIN TI AF KG UZ KZ
07DUSHANBE723COMMERCE DEPARTMENT TO TAJIKISTAN: KEEP WORKING ON IT
[...] Summary: In a series of high-level government meetings in Dushanbe May 6-9, Department of Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe and Eurasia Paul Dyck drilled home the SIPDIS message about providing a stable and open business environment in order to attract foreign investment. In [...]
2007-05-16 16:55:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ECON PGOV PREL TI
07DUSHANBE743TAJIK WOMEN IN POLITICS? AS LONG AS DINNER'S STILL ON THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tajik women active in political dialogue and the public sphere have had mixed success in establishing a meaningful discussion group or changing the profoundly discriminatory culture. In a meeting with visiting Central Asian Affairs Director Pamela Spratlen, members of the loc [...]
2007-05-18 07:05:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM EAID KDEM KWMN TI
07DUSHANBE762TAJIKS SUPPORT FIBER OPTICS CONFERENCE, BUT WANT "EQUAL
[...] (SBU) Tajikistan supports the idea of a U.S.-organized conference on regional fiber optic projects (reftel),but Minister of Transportation and Communications Adburahim Ashurov expressed greater interest in more international assistance to support the state-owned operator Tojiktelecom. Ashuro [...]
2007-05-24 12:25:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECIN EFIN ECPS EINV ETRD EAID KG TI
07DUSHANBE764TAJIK NGO LAW NOT AS BAD AS IT COULD HAVE BEEN~BUT STILL NOT
[...] (SBU) Tajikistan finally has an official new law on non-governmental organizations. After multiple drafts, months of negotiations and parliamentary discussions, diplomatic interventions and civil society hand-wringing, President Rahmon signed the Law on Public Associations May 12. However, th [...]
2007-05-25 03:10:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID TI
07DUSHANBE776LEAHY VETTING FOR TAJIK LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
[...] This is an action cable. See paragraph 4. 2. Post has been asked to conduct a human rights review for the following participants from various Tajik law enforcement agencies appointed to attend "Precursor control in Central Asia" and "Regional Cooperation in Precursor Control between Afghan [...]
2007-05-30 10:38:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL SNAR TI
07DUSHANBE778IN TAJIKISTAN, A LUMP OF COAL IS NOT SUCH A BAD THING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Nothing would please the Tajik government more than big lumps of coal in their stockings this Christmas, preferably from a U.S.-financed mine that fuels a thermal power station. At a May 29 roundtable meeting on "Integrated Development of Coal and Power Projects and Reconstruc [...]
2007-05-30 12:12:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON ENRG EAID TI AF
07DUSHANBE783TAJIKISTAN MUST COMPLY WITH INTERNATIONAL NORMS TO SUCCEED
[...] (SBU) Summary. Tajikistan needs to take steps to sign and abide by international standard agreements if it wants to develop its electricity sector through exports to Afghanistan and beyond. In a series of meetings with top energy and economic officials May 28, Senior Advisor for Regional Eco [...]
2007-06-01 05:31:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON ENRG EAID TI AF
07DUSHANBE785NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY IN TAJIKISTAN: NO
[...] Summary: Embassy Dushanbe strongly opposes granting National Endowment for Democracy funds in Tajikistan to the "Center of Democratic Transformation" to open a Women's Leadership School, as included in the June 2007 list of project proposal (ref A). This local non-governmental organization h [...]
2007-06-01 05:58:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE786PERSIAN POWER: TAJIKISTAN'S DEVELOPING TIES WITH IRAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Tajikistan has characterized its ties with Iran as purely economic, but growing political, military and diplomatic relations indicate that more than investment and trade is bringing the two countries closer together. In the last eighteen months, Tajik President Rahmon and Irania [...]
2007-06-01 13:11:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ENRG EAID TI AF IR
07DUSHANBE790JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES' LITERATURE SEIZED, MEMBER INTERROGATED
[...] (C) Tajikistan's Jehovah's Witnesses face increased pressure from the Tajik government and fear their recent problems may signal the government's move to shut down the religious group entirely (reftel). On April 26, State Committee on National Security officials prohibited customs authorities [...]
2007-06-04 10:55:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TI
07DUSHANBE796TAJIKISTAN: FEMALE STUDENT CHALLENGES BAN ON HIJAB IN
[...] SUMMARY: In an unprecedented case, a young female university student, Davlatmoh Ismailova, is suing the Tajik Institute of Languages and the Ministry of Education for expelling her for wearing a hijab to school. This is the first time a student has brought a case against a university and the [...]
2007-06-05 10:18:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KWMN KIRF TI
07DUSHANBE801TAJIKISTAN'S LAKE SAREZ- IS HYDROPOWER THE ANSWER?
[...] Ten years after the First International Conference on Lake Sarez Problems in 1997, the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (Central Asia Office) and the Government of Tajikistan's Committee on Emergencies and Civil Defense conducted the Second International Conference [...]
2007-06-05 11:59:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ENRG SENV TI
07DUSHANBE803TAJIK PRESIDENT TRYING TO SPOIL THE PARTY-OR AT LEAST
[...] (U) Summary: In an effort to help Tajiks better manage their personal finances, President Emomali Rahmon has proposed a draft "Law on Observing National Traditions and Rituals" to regulate wedding and funeral ceremonies and avoid citizens overspending on lavish events. The law limits the num [...]
2007-06-06 07:44:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PHUM TI
07DUSHANBE855TAJIKISTAN SUPPORTS PRESIDENT BUSH'S CLIMATE INITIATIVE
[...] Rustam Latipov, Tajikistan's Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Environmental Protection and the leading government official responsible for environmental issues, expressed support for President Bush's new international framework initiative on climate change. PolOff delivered points per reft [...]
2007-06-08 12:48:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ENRG SENV TI
07DUSHANBE860AFGHANS IN TAJIKISTAN -- READY FOR BUSINESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: While a common perception amongst Tajik officials and academics is that the Afghans are all poor, coming from a war-torn country with little education and healthcare, Afghan businessmen are surprisingly successful and growing wealthy in Tajikistan, and they have an equally dim vi [...]
2007-06-10 07:45:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PGOV EAID TI AF
07DUSHANBE862LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND TAJIK
[...] (SBU) Summary: A recent meeting with recipients of European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) small and medium sized enterprise loans shed new light on the obstacles facing small businesses in Dushanbe. Interviews with the owners of furniture, clothing, and household linens stores [...]
2007-06-11 08:13:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV ETRD EAID TI
07DUSHANBE877TAJIKISTAN TO AFGHAN REFUGEES: YOU CAN STAY, JUST NOT HERE~
[...] SUMMARY: On May 31, Tajik security officials rounded up over 150 Afghan refugees and asylum seekers in the capital of Dushanbe. Reports from those detained suggest that authorities held the refugees for most of the day without food, water or access to sanitation facilities. The authorities [...]
2007-06-12 12:43:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PGOV PHUM UNHCR TI AF
07DUSHANBE882TAJIK WOMEN LEADERS FRUSTRATED BY CULTURAL ATTITUDES AMONG
[...] SUMMARY: Leaders of Tajikistan's political parties discussed how women are marginalized in politics and the frustrations they share trying to empower women, at a roundtable with PolOff June 4. All pointed out that Tajik cultural norms are oppressive to women, but sometimes it's the women the [...]
2007-06-13 06:20:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN TI
07DUSHANBE883TAJIKISTAN'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY INFIGHTING CONTINUES
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Democratic Party of Tajikistan's power struggles and legal battles over the past year have been confusing enough to rival a daytime soap opera's complicated plot. Rahmatullo Valiev, Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party met with PolOff June 7 to discuss the latest round of [...]
2007-06-13 06:49:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSHANBE886SETTING THE SCENE FOR COMMANDER, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND'S JUNE
[...] (C) Executive Summary. Embassy Dushanbe welcomes you on your first trip to Tajikistan. This will be an important step in forging personal relationships with key Tajik leaders. We enjoy friendly relations with this small but strategic country on the Afghan border. In addition to DoD and CENT [...]
2007-06-13 09:46:00Embassy DushanbeSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL ECON EAID TI
07DUSHANBE894DONOR DISAGREEMENT ON TAJIK COTTON SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. Fissures within the donor community threaten to derail efforts to resolve Tajikistan's $400 million cotton debt. The Asian Development Bank favors a donor bailout of the cotton sector, in order to save industry investors and prevent a potentially fatal breakdown of the nascen [...]
2007-06-14 14:27:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EFIN ECON EAID PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE924U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL ASSAULTED AND MEDEVACED
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On June 17 at 0115 hours, three temporary duty military personnel and one private American citizen were severely beaten outside a local night club. Members of the team estimated the assault lasted for twenty minutes and around thirty attackers participated. They subsequentl [...]
2007-06-18 13:54:00Embassy DushanbeSECRET//NOFORNASEC AMED CASC PREL TI
07DUSHANBE926TAJIKISTAN REPORT ON SECTION 527
[...] Post is pleased to report on the satisfactory resolution of the single outstanding U.S. company dispute in Tajikistan. There are no new investment disputes between the United States and the Republic of Tajikistan. Details of the resolved case follow. 2. Claimant designation: Claimant [...]
2007-06-19 12:47:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEINV KIDE ECON PGOV TI
07DUSHANBE928AMEMBASSY DUSHANBE - EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE MEETING
[...] (S/NF) The Ambassador convened a meeting of the Emergency Action Committee to discuss Independence Day security planning (ref A),an explosion at the Supreme Court building in downtown Dushanbe on June 16, and an assault against members of a U.S. Central Command planning team on June 17 (ref [...]
2007-06-19 13:32:00Embassy DushanbeSECRET//NOFORNASEC PINR PTER TI
07DUSHANBE932TAJIKISTAN'S RASHT VALLEY: TEN YEARS AFTER PEACE
[...] SUMMARY: Ten years after the civil war, citizens of Rasht Valley endure gloomy times as corruption and economic decay have stifled democratic progress. PolOff met with government officials, religious leaders, nongovernmental organization workers, and local civilians during a visit to Rasht V [...]
2007-06-21 05:35:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN TI
07DUSHANBE933AMBASSADOR' S MEETING WITH HYDRO-POWERED FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met Foreign Minister Zarifi June 20 to discuss a laundry list of outstanding issues, including the upcoming completion of the Nizhniy Pyanzh bridge, our demarches on Afghan refugees (Ref A) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's upcoming summit (Ref B),and the [...]
2007-06-21 11:32:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV EAID KDEM TI AF IR
07DUSHANBE935CANARGO PROSPECTS FOR GAS IN DUSHANBE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The heads of U.S. oil and gas prospecting company CanArgo recently visited Tajikistan in order to push the Tajik government to sign a contract on development of oil and gas fields in the southern Kulob region. CanArgo has signed a protocol with the government on development of [...]
2007-06-22 10:14:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV EIND TI PGOV
07DUSHANBE967PENJIKENT, TAJIKISTAN: ISOLATED BY REGIONAL BUREAUCRACY AND
[...] Summary: A June 20-22 trip to Penjikent and Aini districts in western Tajikistan illuminated how bilateral problems with Uzbekistan strangle the economy and trade for Tajik districts in the Zarafshan valley. In Penjikent city, officials and citizens expressed support for President Rahmon, but [...]
2007-06-26 11:34:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID ECON EAGR ENRG TI UZ
07DUSHANBE969EXTENDED MEETING WITH PRESIDENT RAHMON DOMINATES CENTCOM
[...] (C) Summary. In an unexpectedly long meeting with the Tajik President, which dominated Admiral Fallon's visit June 19, Emomali Rahmon hailed U.S.-Tajik relations as one of the first priorities in Tajik foreign policy and stated that Tajikistan is interested in further development of these rela [...]
2007-06-28 11:25:00Embassy DushanbeSECRET//NOFORNPREL MASS PGOV TI AF IR
07DUSHANBE98910 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF TAJIKISTAN'S PEACE ACCORDS: BUT IS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a two-day UN-hosted conference on ten years of peace and reconciliation in Tajikistan, Tajik and foreign dignitaries discussed the roles they played in ending Tajikistan's 1992-1997 civil war. Instead of using the conference as an opportunity to expand political dialogue a [...]
2007-07-03 06:34:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
07DUSSELDORF10MUSLIM COORDINATION COUNCIL EMERGING
[...] (SBU) Summary: The 2006 initiative by Federal Interior Minister Schaeuble to set up a "German Islam Conference" as an official forum for exploring ways to achieve a better integration of Muslims in German society (reftel) has spurred efforts among major Muslim groups to form a single, overarc [...]
2007-03-29 07:57:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KISL GM
07DUSSELDORF13A VISION AND A WAY FORWARD FOR CG DUESSELDORF
[...] Summary: After a thorough review of CG Duesseldorf operations, we have developed a roadmap for the long run that differs radically from the past and implements the Secretary's transformational diplomacy directives. Our vision is to continue advancing vital US interests in Germany and Europe [...]
2007-04-20 15:30:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT ECON CMGT PGOV BEXP GM
07DUSSELDORF16REQUEST FOR A NEW CONSULAR AGENCY -- COLOGNE
[...] Summary: Mission requests the establishment of a new consular agency to be located in Cologne, North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW),the most populous and politically and economically important state in Germany. The American Citizen Services (ACS) unit of the U.S. Consulate General Duesseldorf will c [...]
2007-05-09 13:13:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDCMGT CASC AFIN GM
07DUSSELDORF2NRW SPD TRIES TO EMERGE FROM CRISIS WITH A NEW LEADER:
[...] (SBU) Summary: The SPD in North-Rhine Westfalia (NRW) has placed its hopes in Hannelore Kraft, SPD floor leader in the Landtag, to lead the party out of the crisis it has been in since being ejected from power in 2005 after 39 years. The party chose Kraft, its third leader since 2005, at a s [...]
2007-01-25 17:47:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON GM
07DUSSELDORF22A TALE OF TWO MOSQUES: A SNAPSHOT OF MUSLIM INTEGRATION IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The ongoing dispute surrounding the construction of a new mosque in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW),the "capital of Islam" in Germany, has become a symbol for the challenges that continue to exist between Muslims and mainstream German society. While all the main poli [...]
2007-06-25 15:53:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KISL GM
07DUSSELDORF24COLOGNE "TRAIN BOMBER" INDICTMENT REACHES D\SSELDORF HIGHER
[...] (U) Almost eleven months after two Lebanese nationals unsuccessfully tried to blow up two regional trains originating in Cologne, the Federal Public Prosecutor on June 11 brought criminal charges against one of the men, Youssef Mohammad El-Hajdib. German police arrested the 22-year old El-Haj [...]
2007-06-29 13:55:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KCRM MASS KOMC IR GM
07DUSSELDORF30DUESSELDORF COURT CARVES OUT NICHE IN TERRORISM CASE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Duesseldorf Higher Regional Court has emerged as one of Germany's major legal institutions for trying high profile terrorism and other sensitive cases (e.g. mafia, espionage). Following the "Caliph of Cologne" and al-Tawhid trials in recent years and an Al-Qaeda insurance f [...]
2007-10-05 16:05:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KJUS KLIG KISL KCRM KOMC IR GM
07DUSSELDORF31NATIONAL MUSLIM GROUP SPOKESMAN WELCOMES GERMAN GOVERNMENT'S
[...] (U) In an October 16 conversation with Duesseldorf Pol/Econ Officer, Bekir Alboga, the new spokesperson for the Muslim Coordination Council (KRM) commented positively on a dinner he attended in Berlin the day before hosted by Federal Interior Minister Schaeuble, to celebrate the end of Ramadan [...]
2007-10-17 15:46:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KISL GM
07DUSSELDORF32USING COMIC BOOKS TO COMBAT EXTREMISM
[...] (U) As part of its expanding efforts to combat Islamic extremism and to educate German Muslim youth about western style democracy, the North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) Office for the Protection of the Constitution (OPC) recently released its second manga style comic book "Andi 2" (http://www.andi [...]
2007-11-20 12:44:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KISL PTER KPAO GM
07DUSSELDORF33THE SPD AFTER ITS HAMBURG CONVENTION: THE VIEW FROM NRW
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the weeks following the national convention in Hamburg, senior NRW SPD leaders are projecting a renewed sense of confidence as the state party retained its major national role and emerged more unified after a period of internal dissonance. State SPD chair Hannelore Kraft spu [...]
2007-11-27 08:11:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV GM
07DUSSELDORF34IN LANDMARK CASE, DUESSELDORF COURT CONVICTS THREE FOR
[...] (U) After a trial lasting more than 18 months, the Duesseldorf Higher Regional Court on December 5 convicted Syrian national Ibrahim Mohamed Khalil (32) and the Palestinian brothers Yasser Abu Shaweesh (34) and Ismail Abu Shaweesh (30) for belonging to and/or supporting al-Qaeda -- AQ (Ref B). [...]
2007-12-06 16:26:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KJUS KLIG KISL GM
07DUSSELDORF37CIVIL LIBERTIES ADVOCATE TO CHALLENGE EU DATA RETENTION LAW
[...] (SBU) Former Federal Interior Minister Gerhart Baum (FDP) told Pol/Econ Off that he plans to challenge the German law that implements the EU data retention directive this coming January. The law itself extends the amount of time personal data can be kept and was approved on November 10, 2007, [...]
2007-12-17 15:00:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KISL PTER KPAO GM
07DUSSELDORF38HIGH PROFILE ISLAMIC TERRORIST TRIAL OPENS IN DUESSELDORF
[...] (U) Summary: A high profile Islamic terrorist trial opened before the Duesseldorf Higher Regional Court on December 18. With the help of an accomplice, Lebanese national Youssef Mohamad El-Hajdib, known as the "suitcase bomber," has been charged with attempted murder in an undetermined number [...]
2007-12-18 15:13:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KISL PTER KPAO KVPR GM
07DUSSELDORF4NRW MINISTER-PRESIDENT RUETTGERS TO WASHINGTON: MAKING NRW A
[...] (SBU) Summary: North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Minister-President Juergen Ruettgers will travel to Washington DC, Pittsburgh, and New York City February 12-17 to follow-up on his 2006 trip to the U.S. His primary goals there are to make and renew political contacts and to expand cooperation on [...]
2007-02-08 12:15:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON ENRG ELAB GM
07DUSSELDORF6CDU NRW MINISTER PRESIDENT RUETTGERS PLEASED WITH US VISIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Minister-President Juergen Ruettgers told the CG his recent visit was "very successful." His second trip in 12 months, he signed an agreement on energy and environmental cooperation with Pennsylvania. He was pleased with his meetings with Senators [...]
2007-03-01 11:06:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV ECON PGOV GM
07EFTOATHENS174AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES AIR SAFETY AND SECURITY WITH
[...] (U) Summary: On January 18th, Ambassador called on Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (HCAA) Governor Ioannis Andrianopoulos to discuss air safety and security, as well as the recent announcements by Continental Airlines and USAirways that they would be beginning direct service from the U.S. t [...]
2007-01-26 10:44:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR GR
07EFTOATHENS298DESIGNATION OF US AIRWAYS FOR PHILADELPHIA -
[...] On February 2, post sent a diplomatic note to the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, designating US Airways to operate on Philadelphia to Athens on route D, as requested reftel. We are sending copies of the diplomatic note to EB/TRA J. Riefman and DOT S. Hatley. RIES [...]
2007-02-09 13:54:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR GR KTIA
07EFTOATHENS299DESIGNATION OF CONTINENTAL AIRWAYS FOR NEW YORK
[...] On February 2nd Post sent a diplomatic note to the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Designating Continental Airlines to Operate on U.S. Route A from New York (Newark). We are sending copies of the diplomatic note to EB/TRA/AN J. Reifman and DOT S. Hatley as requested reftel. RIES [...]
2007-02-09 13:54:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR GR KTIA
07EFTOATHENS373YEAR 2007 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: GREECE
[...] Summary. 2006 was a year of strong effort by the GoG on IPR. Responding to the IPR action plan delivered in March as a result of the 2006 Special 301 process, the GoG stepped up cooperation with local IPR representatives, created special working groups to discuss IPR problems and coordinate [...]
2007-02-22 05:30:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR GR
07EFTOATHENS404GREEK NGOS' WORK IN IRAN, BALKANS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Econoffs recently met with two Greek NGOs to talk about their work in the Balkan region and Iran. The European Public Law Center (EPLC) aims to promote democracy and the rule of law in the EU and the surrounding region. Founded in 1995, EPLC also has conducted projects in Iran. [...]
2007-02-23 13:30:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM KPAO PGOV PREL GR IR
07EFTOATHENS543GREECE TO SUPPORT U.S.-EU OPEN SKIES PLUS AGREEMENT
[...] Ambassador delivered reftel points during the U.S.-Greek Economic and Commercial Cooperation Council meeting in Athens on March 12. On March 14, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Skylakakis informed EconCouns that Greece SIPDIS would support the U.S.-E.U. Open Skies Plus Agreem [...]
2007-03-14 14:41:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAIR GR
07EFTOATHENS781GREECE RESPONSE TO PROPOSED APRIL 30 SIGNING OF
[...] (U) Post was informed by Hellenic Ministry of Transportation on April 17 that the GoG has already approved the US-EU Air Transport Agreement (ATA) and granted the Greek EU PermRep the authority to sign the agreement at the COREPOR meeting the week of April 23. We were told that the GoG will [...]
2007-04-19 06:36:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON GR
07EFTOBAGHDAD1098REFERRAL OF INTERPRETER ANSAM SHIHAB AHMED
[...] Embassy Baghdad would like to refer Ansam Shihab Ahmed to the US Refugee Admissions Program. 2. (SBU) Biographical information: NAME: Ansam Shihab Ahmed DOB: 27 November 1972 POB: Iraq Passport Number: S 285869 Gender: Female Marital Status: Single (divorce) Dependents: N/A 3. [...]
2007-03-29 07:06:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IZ
07EFTOBAGHDAD1116REFERRAL OF INTERPRETER ESSAM HAMMOUDI AHMED
[...] Embassy Baghdad would like to refer Essam Hammoudi Ahmed to the US Refugee Admissions Program. 2. (SBU) Biographical information: Principal applicant NAME: Essam Hammoudi Ahmed DOB: July 1, 1980 POB: Iraq Passport Number: S 1647887 Gender: Male Marital Status: Single Dependents [...]
2007-03-31 15:19:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IZ
07EFTOBAGHDAD867US REFUGEE ADMISSIONS PROGRAM REFERRAL OF LOCALLY
[...] Embassy Baghdad would like to refer the following locally-employed staff to the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) 2. (SBU) Principal applicant (PA): NAME: Nabil Al-Bassam (a.k.a. Nabil Sh. Ibrahem) DOB: July 22, 1970 POB: Diyala Passport Number: S 487540 Gender: Male Marita [...]
2007-03-12 08:40:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM IZ
07EFTOBUENOSAIRES1049NEW AGREEMENT PUTS BEEF BACK IN MARKETS - FOR NOW
[...] (SBU/NF) To counter increasing shortages of beef products in Argentina, Economy Minister Felisa Miceli and Argentine beef producers agreed May 9 to raise wholesale beef prices by approximately 12% on average. The agreement affects prices for cattle sold at the main beef wholesale market in Arg [...]
2007-05-24 22:31:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAGR AR
07EFTOLAPAZ1740UNCERTAINTY IN BOLIVIA'S MINING SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Proposed changes to the mining code and tax regime worry international and U.S. mining companies in Bolivia. Although the GOB's stated aim is a 50-50 split in profits between the GOB and private companies, the head of the mining association and U.S. company representatives have informed [...]
2007-06-25 21:12:00Embassy La PazUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EMIN SENV BL
07EFTOOTTAWA1217CANADA: DEMARCHE REQUEST FOR ROME RULE OF LAW
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-22 18:58:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKJUS IBRD AF CA
07EFTORABAT171SCHOOL TAX AGREEMENT UPDATE
[...] (SBU/NF) Summary: Following completion of consultations with Department offices and the five officially supported American schools in Morocco, Mission has moved to engage senior GOM officials on the issue of concluding a bilateral agreement to give the schools legal status and shield them from [...]
2007-01-31 11:59:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AMGT ASCH KREC MO
07EFTORABAT264AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER JETTOU ON
[...] (SBU/NF) Summary: In a meeting with Ambassador to discuss our desire to conclude a bilateral schools' agreement, Prime Minister Jettou took on board our concerns about the precarious financial situation of American schools in Morocco and committed to finding a solution to the tax conundrum they [...]
2007-02-09 11:21:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EFIN SCUL MA
07EFTORABAT521PM ADVISOR CATEGORICALLY REJECTS TAX CONCESSIONS
[...] (SBU/NF) Summary: In a meeting to follow up on the Ambassador's February 7 meeting with Prime Minister Jettou on our desire to conclude a school tax agreement governing U.S. schools in Morocco, the Prime Minister's Finance Advisor Abderrezak Lazrak reiterated the Government of Morocco's desire [...]
2007-03-23 14:05:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AMGT ASCH PGOV EFIN SCUL MA
07EFTOSANAA2300YEMENI SEAS MORE DANGEROUS THAN EVER FOR EAST AFRICAN REFUGEES
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-12 05:48:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PREL PGOV YM
07EFTOSANAA588HELPING ROYG COPE WITH SOMALI REFUGEES AND AN
[...] (U) This is an action request for the Department. Please see paragraph four. 2. (U/NF) In mid-March, UN Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees Erika Feller visited Yemen to underscore the need for additional resources to cope with the continuing influx of refugees from the Horn of Afri [...]
2007-04-07 11:28:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF YM
07EFTOSANAA784LETTER DELIVERED FROM PRESIDENT BUSH ON SAADA
[...] (U) Per ref A instruction, post delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the President's Office the text of the letter found at paragraph two from President Bush to President Saleh regarding Saleh's requests for assistance in relation to the conflict in Saada on April 28 (ref B). 2 [...]
2007-04-30 13:43:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MASS YM
07EFTOUSUNNEWYORK181ERITREA SUSPECTS RECIPROCITY AT PLAY REGARDING
[...] This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. Eritrean PermRep Ambassador Araya Desta, accompanied by DepPermRep Tesfa Seyoum, called on USUN Host Country Minister-Counselor and Deputy on March 6 to discuss his Mission's long-standing requests to purchase bot [...]
2007-03-06 21:03:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDOFDP KREC ER UN
07FRANKFURT1182FRONTEX: EU Border Control Cooperation at Frankfurt Airport
[...] SUMMARY: In a February 19-March 9 joint operation, FRONTEX border security guards from seven EU countries are screening passengers at Frankfurt Airport to curb illegal entry to the EU. FRONTEX officials are pleased with the operation, which has netted fifteen detentions, mainly from South Amer [...]
2007-03-12 09:58:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG ASEC EAIR PBTS PREL GM
07FRANKFURT1199FRONTEX: EU Border Control Cooperation at Frankfurt Airport
[...] SUMMARY: In a February 19-March 9 joint operation, FRONTEX border security guards from seven EU countries are screening passengers at Frankfurt Airport to curb illegal entry to the EU. FRONTEX officials are pleased with the operation, which has netted fifteen detentions, mainly from South Amer [...]
2007-03-13 08:36:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG ASEC EAIR PBTS PREL GM
07FRANKFURT1218Blue Lantern Level 3: Pre-License End-Use Check Completed
[...] (SBU) On March 8, ConGen Frankfurt Pol-Econ officer and Pol-Econ specialist visited MSI Aircraft Maintenance Services International GmbH, located in Ruesselsheim (near Frankfurt) to conduct a Blue Lantern pre-license end-use check on application 050025683 (export of EC-135 helicopter spare part [...]
2007-03-13 15:08:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKOMC ETTC GM
07FRANKFURT1245MEETING WITH DRESDNER BANK ON SUSPECTED DPRK
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Post called the attention of Dresdner Bank to information that it may have facilitated (intentionally or not) a transaction for OFAC-designated Tanchon Commercial Bank. Dresdner representatives promised to look into the report and asked for more information (ACTION REQUEST IN PAR [...]
2007-03-14 16:01:00Consulate FrankfurtCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN ETTC GM
07FRANKFURT1289Blue Lantern Level 3: Post-Shipment End-Use Check Completed
[...] (SBU) Consulate Pol-Econ officer visited Roeder Praezision, located in Egelsbach (near Frankfurt) on March 1 to conduct a Blue Lantern post-shipment verification check for licenses 05-982891 and 05-984718. P-E officer met at length with General Manager Oliver Baer and Defense/Public Contracts [...]
2007-03-16 14:51:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKOMC ETTC GM
07FRANKFURT1315Neo-Nazi Influence In Elite Frankfurt Police Unit
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Media revealed this week that at least three members of an elite Frankfurt-based police unit that provides close personal protection to public figures (among them Jewish leaders and CG Frankfurt) had neo-Nazi affiliations. ConGen Frankfurt was told the allegations first emerged [...]
2007-03-19 14:23:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC SCUL GM
07FRANKFURT171NATIONAL FDP MEETS IN STUTTGART, SEEKS TO REPRESENT "THE
[...] SUMMARY: At this year's annual "Three Kings" gathering of the national Free Democratic Party (FDP) on January 6 in Stuttgart, party leader Guido Westerwelle used the occasion to stake out a middle-of-the-road course for his party -- seeking to change the reputation of the FDP as a party for th [...]
2007-01-12 12:10:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV GM
07FRANKFURT1842Baden-Wuerttemberg Minister President Survives Controversy
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Baden-Wuerttemberg Minister-President Guenther Oettinger (CDU/Christian Democrats) came under intense fire over an April 11 eulogy for former CDU state head Hans Filbinger (forced to resign in 1978 over his Nazi-era service as a military judge). The Jewish Central Council called [...]
2007-04-17 13:54:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR GM
07FRANKFURT1872Fast Cars and Hot Times in Southwest Germany
[...] SUMMARY: The southwest German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) -- an economic powerhouse and conservative bulwark with a growing environmental movement -- is waking up to climate change now that a recent study shows that a dramatic temperature rise is underway in the region. In response to t [...]
2007-04-19 13:57:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG PGOV GM
07FRANKFURT220FURTHER STEPS AGAINST PKK: RAIDS, ARREST, PRISON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: German efforts against the PKK were again apparent this past week in southwest Germany with targeted raids, an arrest of one suspected PKK leader, and the sentencing of another to two years in prison. END SUMMARY. Anti-PKK Raids and an Arrest ---------------------------- [...]
2007-01-17 08:46:00Consulate FrankfurtCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC KTFN KCRM GM TU
07FRANKFURT258EnBW Opens Latest Chapter in Germany's Nuclear Energy
[...] SUMMARY: With its request to lengthen the life of thirty-year-old nuclear power plant Neckarwestheim I (scheduled for decommissioning in 2008),EnBW -- southwest Germany's largest energy supplier -- is posing an indirect challenge to the "Nuclear Phase-Out" plan legislated by Germany's then [...]
2007-01-18 15:06:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV PGOV GM
07FRANKFURT2892Moncrief Sues BASF Over Gazprom Gasfield Contracts
[...] SUMMARY: U.S.-based Moncrief Oil International has filed suit against German chemical giant BASF in a German regional court seeking EUR 6.3 billion in compensation for BASF's alleged role in a cancelled Gazprom concession. Moncrief signed a contract with Gazprom in 1997 to exploit 40 percent o [...]
2007-06-20 05:38:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EINV GM RS
07FRANKFURT3022Hesse State Election Preview: SPD Gaining Ground?
[...] SUMMARY. Six months before Hesse state elections (January 2008),both major parties have presented their economic programs. Following an ambitious program from Social Democratic challenger Andrea Ypsilanti, Hesse Minister President Koch has presented a slightly populist program which is light [...]
2007-06-26 08:12:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR TBIO GM
07FRANKFURT3043States, Industry Still Pin Hopes on Galileo Project
[...] SUMMARY: The EU's Galileo positioning/navigation/timing (PNT) project, despite its well-publicized woes (reftels),remains a beacon to state officials and industry/research in southwestern Germany,, home to ESA/European Space Agency's "Houston" (the Darmstadt control center) and much high-tech [...]
2007-06-26 13:21:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDTSPA SENV KTIA SPCE GM
07FRANKFURT320Opel/GM Europe Upswing, Return to the U.S. Market
[...] SUMMARY: Led by German subsidiary Opel, General Motors (GM) Europe posted a profit of $186 million in 2006 (through September) en route to its projected first full-year profit in Europe since 1999. Opel in particular has reason to celebrate since it will soon produce more Saab/Vauxhall model [...]
2007-01-24 06:33:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDEIND ELAB ECON GM
07FRANKFURT3223Kurt Beck: Profile of a Pragmatic Social Democrat
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Social Democratic/SPD national chairman and Rheinland-Pfalz Minister-President Kurt Beck rose to power as a centrist leader combining political bridge-building with charm appeal to a working-class and often rural base. Having achieved prominence via hard work and charisma rathe [...]
2007-07-09 10:42:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR GM
07FRANKFURT3233Lackluster NPD Demonstration in Frankfurt: "The Nation not
[...] SUMMARY: On July 7, 500 to 700 NPD supporters demonstrated in Frankfurt under the slogan "the Nation not Globalization," repeating themes of far-right protesters of the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm in early June. The Frankfurt city government licensed the demonstration in the Neue Borse, an indus [...]
2007-07-10 07:40:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KCRM ASEC GM
07FRANKFURT4380Left Party Stumbles in Hesse
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With the Left Party's national leadership focused on broadening its voter base, particularly in the west, it scrambled to undo damage caused by the Hesse Left's election of communist Pit Metz as its candidate in the January 27 state elections and his subsequent resignation. The [...]
2007-09-26 08:48:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL GM
07FRANKFURT445Stuttgart Ansar al-Islam Trial Continues
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ongoing trial in Stuttgart of three suspected members of Ansar al-Islam is now expected to last at least until April - and perhaps even until the fall. The Federal Prosecutor has charged the three with plotting to assassinate then-Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi during a visit t [...]
2007-01-31 10:27:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ASEC KISL IZ GM
07FRANKFURT4614Muslim Community and German City Sign Innovative
[...] SUMMARY. The German city of Wiesbaden and nine Muslim community organizations signed a long-discussed, groundbreaking integration agreement September 27. The agreement, wherein the city and the Muslim community pledge to cooperate in a number of areas, is the first of its kind at any level in [...]
2007-10-16 10:18:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV KISL GM
07FRANKFURT4624THE ECB STEPS IN AS GERMANY'S LARGEST BANK FEELS SUBPRIME
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 3 Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest commercial bank, announced it would write off 2.2 billion euros ($3.12 billion) in losses based in investments in U.S. mortgage-backed securities, ending several weeks of speculation about the bank's exposure to subprime debt. The f [...]
2007-10-17 08:57:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON GM
07FRANKFURT4823SPD's New Direction to Face Test in Hesse Election
[...] At the October 26-28 Social Democratic Party (SPD) national convention, the party's decision to adopt a platform advocating greater "social justice" bolstered the prestige of the Hesse SPD. Facing a state election in January 2008, Hesse SPD candidate Andrea Ypsilanti gained influence and esteem [...]
2007-11-02 11:53:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL GM
07FRANKFURT4944Commerzbank Announces Third Quarter Write-Offs
[...] Summary. The release of third quarter earnings reports has shed further light on the extent of the damage caused by subprime investments in the German banking industry, with Commerzbank, Germany's second largest private bank, reporting larger write-offs than originally anticipated. While Com [...]
2007-11-15 13:20:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON GM
07FRANKFURT4996 Why Beck Stayed Home
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Social Democratic Party (SPD) Chairman Kurt Beck has decided against taking the Vice Chancellorship left open by Labor Minister Franz Muentefering's surprise resignation (ref A). Beck will continue instead as Minister-President of the state of Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P). In the view [...]
2007-11-23 06:35:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR GM
07FRANKFURT501Islamic Religious Classes in Baden-Wuerttemberg: Positive
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In September 2006, Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) became the latest German state to offer Islamic religious instruction in public schools. On January 17, the Consul General and state officials observed a class at the Rosensteinschule in Stuttgart, one of twelve elementary schools taking [...]
2007-02-02 13:55:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SCUL KISL GM
07FRANKFURT5173Frankfurt Stock Exchange: Meeting Global Capital
[...] SUMMARY: The Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FSE) is the world's third largest and the sixth by market capitalization. Known for its high-tech trading technology, it has played a lead role in cementing Germany's reputation as a financial and economic power. However in an increasingly securitized w [...]
2007-12-07 10:25:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON GM
07FRANKFURT5275Hesse Enters Energy Debate
[...] SUMMARY: The Hesse state government intends to introduce a bill in the upper chamber of the German federal parliament (Bundesrat) in early 2008 offering an alternative strategy for energy deregulation in Germany. Under the plan, the federal government will be able to force energy suppliers to [...]
2007-12-18 11:23:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV GM
07FRANKFURT5291Headscarf Laws Withstand Challenge in Germany
[...] Summary: The Hesse State Constitutional Court upheld a state law last week that prohibits civil servants from wearing religious symbols and attire. One of eight similar laws in effect in Germany's federal states, the law as applied allows state institutions to prevent civil servants, includin [...]
2007-12-19 08:54:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV KISL GM
07FRANKFURT531Naturalized Islamic Fundamentalists: Hesse Court Reverses
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On January 18, the Hesse Administrative Court in Kassel ruled in favor of four naturalized Germans of Turkish origin after the state stripped their citizenship for not having reported being members in the fundamentalist Islamic group Milli Goerus (IGMG). Striking down an earlier f [...]
2007-02-05 15:31:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SCUL KISL GM
07FRANKFURT594RAF Parole/Clemency Bids Divide Body Politic, Legal System;
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the controversial parole bid of German "Red Army Faction" left-wing terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt -- a case with implications for other incarcerated RAF members -- the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe has recommended that the Stuttgart Regional Court grant Mohnhaupt pa [...]
2007-02-08 11:40:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KCRM ASEC GM
07FRANKFURT671Social Democratic Leader on Trans-Atlantic Relations, U.S.
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 1, national SPD Chairman and Rheinland-Pfalz Minister-President Kurt Beck spoke with the Consul General at the state chancellery in Mainz, praising trans-Atlantic relations, raising concerns about military stationing issues, and offering his take on goals for the Germ [...]
2007-02-12 14:14:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR GM
07FRANKFURT694Muslim Extremists Deported from Baden-Wuerttemberg
[...] (U) SUMMARY: State authorities deported two Islamic extremists from Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) in late January according to reports from the state interior ministry. B-W Interior Minister Rech cites the deportations as evidence of his state's strong anti-extremism efforts. The deportees hail fr [...]
2007-02-13 14:07:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER SMIG ASEC KISL GM
07FRANKFURT731TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT MEETS BUNDESBANK
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Kimmitt met February 12 with Bundesbank President Axel Weber to review the state of Germany's economy, financial market regulation, and key transatlantic economic issues. D/S Kimmitt and Weber agreed on the need for open investment regimes [...]
2007-02-15 11:17:00Consulate FrankfurtCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EINV ETRD GM
07FRANKFURT732TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT MEETS
[...] (C) At a meeting with Commerzbank CEO Klaus-Peter Mueller and board member Martin Blessing on February 12, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt discussed implementation of UNSCR 1737 and the need for banks to &know their customers8 in Iran. Mueller outlined Commerzbank actions to comply wi [...]
2007-02-15 11:17:00Consulate FrankfurtCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EINV ETRD GM
07FRANKFURT782LEADING GERMAN HUMAN RIGHTS NGO SEEKING USG
[...] (U) This is an action cable (action request in paragraph 9). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Conservative German human rights NGO "International Society for Human Rights" (IGFM/ISHR) would like to partner informally with the USG and U.S. organizations on Iran, North Korea, and persecuted Christians. The [...]
2007-02-16 13:57:00Consulate FrankfurtCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PREL GM IR KN CU CH
07FREETOWN109MANU RIVER UNION BEGINS SLOW RECOVERY
[...] (C) During a February 8 meeting, Manu River Union (MRU) Secretary General Aliou Diallo told the Ambassador and DCM SIPDIS that after one year on the job, he continues to struggle to rehabilitate the MRU, but that he is cautiously optimistic about future prospects. He said that he has succes [...]
2007-02-15 16:29:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID EFIN SL
07FREETOWN112TFG01: SIERRA LEONE PRESIDENT KABBAH SAYS CONTE'S
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Sierra Leone President Kabbah on February 15. Kabbah was eager to discuss the situation in Guinea. Kabbah emphasized that the United States has great credibility in Guinea and agreed that Conte must cede power to a transitional civil authority in line with [...]
2007-02-15 20:20:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL SL GV LI
07FREETOWN113TFG01: SIERRA LEONE OFFICIALS CONFIRM THEIR BORDER
[...] (SBU) On the morning of February 16, Post learned separately from Sierra Leone's Office for National Security (ONS),the Immigration Office, and the Ministry of Defense that the border between Sierra Leone and Guinea remains open. Also, nineteen American missionaries crossed safely into Sierr [...]
2007-02-16 14:55:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASC PREL GV SL
07FREETOWN12SIERRA LEONE: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR
[...] Per reftel instructions, Post submits the following update to its 2005 Worst Forms of Child Labor report. 2. Background: Child labor is prevalent in Sierra Leone. Many children are employed in family businesses, subsistence farming, street trading, and domestic work. Within the country, [...]
2007-01-05 12:43:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID SL
07FREETOWN122TFG01: SIERRA LEONE ISSUES STATEMENT ON GUINEA
[...] (C) Summary: Presentation of Ref A demarche requesting a Sierra Leonean statement on Guinea to President Kabbah's private secretary on February 20 and to the Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the following day was overtaken by the Sierra Leonean and Liberian Presidents' visi [...]
2007-02-21 20:32:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALGV PREL SL LI
07FREETOWN131 RESUMPTION OF NONIMMIGRANT VISA SERVICES
[...] Embassy Freetown publicly announced on February 20 that it had resumed nonimmigrant visa processing after a ten-year hiatus. Residents of Sierra Leone no longer must travel to neighboring Guinea to apply for nonimmigrant visas at Embassy Conakry as they have done since Freetown last processed [...]
2007-02-23 16:11:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS CMGT KPAO SL
07FREETOWN132 CONSULAR NOTIFICATION OBLIGATIONS
[...] The Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) recognizes its obligation to provide consular notification and access, and regularly notifies the Embassy when an Amcit has been detained or arrested. 2. Post can find no evidence that there is a recognized private right of action against the GoSL for [...]
2007-02-26 08:13:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDCMGT CASC SL
07FREETOWN143SCSL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REVIEWS COURTS OPERATIONS
[...] (C) The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) Management Committee (MC) traveled to Freetown February 18-22 to meet with SCSL staff to discuss the Court's Completion Strategy and budget, ongoing concerns about identifying adequate sources of voluntary contributions to sustain the Court, the s [...]
2007-03-02 12:59:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALKDEM KJUS PGOV PREL UNSC SL
07FREETOWN152 Sierra Leone: Exercising Avian Influenza Response Plans
[...] Summary: Sierra Leone launched a National Avian Influenza Emergency Preparedness and Response Action Plan in June 2006, but resource constraints have prevented effective implementation or testing. An Avian Flu Action Committee meets every few weeks, under the authority of the Avian Influenz [...]
2007-03-05 19:21:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU TBIO KSTH SL
07FREETOWN153CHINA INFLUENCE INCREASING IN SIERRA LEONE
[...] (C) China continues to expand its presence and influence in Sierra Leone as it looks to exploit the country's vast mineral wealth and fishing resources. Sierra Leone and China have enjoyed diplomatic relations since 1971. GOSL officials traveled to China last year for the China-Africa Summit [...]
2007-03-05 19:23:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD EFIN ENRG CH ECON SL
07FREETOWN165SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sierra Leone continues to make progress as it recovers from a devastating decade-long civil war that destroyed much of the country's infrastructure. In a little over a year, the level of awareness of trafficking in persons has risen considerably. However, trafficking remains a s [...]
2007-03-08 17:41:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SL
07FREETOWN202ESTIMATED TWO MILLION SIERRA LEONEANS REGISTER TO
[...] (U) On March 18 Sierra Leone concluded a three-week voter registration period for the national elections to be held July 28, 2007. Deemed a success by the United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL),preliminary results estimate that between February 26 - March 18 nearly 2 milli [...]
2007-03-23 16:50:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SL
07FREETOWN205SIERRA LEONE'S DIAMONDS REGAINING SOME SPARKLE?
[...] Sierra Leone's legal export of alluvial diamonds lost some luster in 2006 with declines from 2005 of 17.25% in value and 12.31% in volume, ending seven years of dramatic increases. This decline was partially offset by a 3.99% rise in the value of kimberlite exports, but overall diamond exports [...]
2007-03-27 17:36:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EMIN SL
07FREETOWN223SIERRA LEONE RESPONSE: BUILDING INTERNATIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-05 08:42:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL ZI SL
07FREETOWN246SIERRA LEONE: UNHCR DELIVERS USG MESSAGE TO
[...] On April 17, Mr. Abid Mir, Deputy Representative, UNHCR Sierra Leone, informed Poloff that his office had received reftel USG announcement and had passed the information to all field offices. Mir said that repatriation is going well. He commented that as the June 30 deadline approaches, there [...]
2007-04-17 19:35:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF SL
07FREETOWN258FREETOWN DELIVERED U.S. DEMARCHE ON NPT PREPCOM
[...] Embassy Freetown delivered points concerning the Non-Proliferationn of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Prepcom and presented a non-paper to the Sierra Leone Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 24, 2007. Post will report any response septel. HULL [...]
2007-04-25 18:19:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL KNNP ENRG MNUC SL
07FREETOWN265DEMARCHE FREETOWN DELIVERED: PREPARING FOR WMO
[...] Embassy Freetown delivered points concerning preparation and USG priorities for the World Meteorological Organization Congress to the Sierra Leone Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 26, 2007. Post will report any response septel. HULL [...]
2007-04-30 16:44:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TPHY SL
07FREETOWN281ELECTION DATE SLIPS AS PARLIAMENTARY PENSIONS
[...] (SBU) While there has yet to be an official announcement, Embassy Freetown has learned that the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) intends to delay the upcoming Parliamentary and Presidential elections from July 28 until on or shortly after August 11. National Electoral Commission (NEC) Chair D [...]
2007-05-04 20:03:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SL
07FREETOWN288PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE DISCUSSES DEPARTMENT'S
[...] (SBU) On April 18, the Ambassador opened a one-day seminar organized by Sierra Leone's Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights. The seminar's agenda was based on the 2006 State Department's Country Report on Human Rights in Sierra Leone. Convened for the third consecutive year, most speakers [...]
2007-05-09 15:45:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM SL
07FREETOWN289FREETOWN DEMARCHE DELIVERED UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) On May 8, DCM met with Sierra Leone MFA Director General Ambassador Umaru Wurie to convey points reftel concerning U.S. concern over the Human Rights Council candidacy of Belarus. She emphasized the U.S. desire to support candidates who show a genuined committment to human rights. Ambassad [...]
2007-05-09 16:48:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL
07FREETOWN29SIERRA LEONE: RESPONSE TO TERRORIST INFORMATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-10 17:02:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS KVPR SL
07FREETOWN290SIERRA LEONE: AMBASSADOR'S ASSESSMENT ON UN HUMAN
[...] (C) We received an assurance from the Sierra Leone MFA Director General, Ambassador Umaru Wurie, that he would send instructions to the Sierra Leone UN PermRep not to vote for Belarus in the upcoming Human Rights Council election. Per Ref B, this assurance was provided at the time of the demar [...]
2007-05-10 14:00:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNHRC SL
07FREETOWN293SIERRA LEONE: DEMARCHE ON KEY U.S. OBJECTIVES AT
[...] On May 8, PolOff met with Deputy Minister of Health Ibrahim Sesay to deliver reftel points. Sesay said Minister of Health Abbator Thomas and a small delegation would attend the Assembly. Sesay promised to forward the points to Thomas as she had already departed Sierra Leone for Geneva via Lond [...]
2007-05-11 12:02:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL TBIO AORC SL
07FREETOWN294SIERRA LEONE INSTRUCTS SUPPORT FOR BOSNIA AND
[...] (C) Acting on guidance Ref A, on May 11, DCM spoke with Sierra Leone MFA Director General Ambassador Umaru Wurie to underscore U.S. support for the HRC candidacies of Bosnia and Slovenia. Wurie stated that he instructed the Sierra Leone Perm Rep in New York to vote for Bosnia and Slovenia. As [...]
2007-05-11 14:43:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM
07FREETOWN326DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HCOC ANNUAL DECLARATIONS
[...] On May 22,Ambassador and DCM met with Sierra Leone MFA Director General, Ambassador Umaru Wurie and delivered demarche per reftel to encourage Sierra Leone to submit the annual declaration on space and ballistic missile policies prior to the sixth annual HCOC meeting. 2. Ambassador Wurie s [...]
2007-05-25 12:17:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA MTRRE SL
07FREETOWN330SIERRA LEONE PASSES NEW REFUGEE ACT
[...] (U) On May 16, PolOff met with representatives from UNHCR to discuss Parliament's recent passage of a new Refugee Act and to receive an update on the current status of Liberian refugees in Sierra Leone. On May 3, Parliament passed a new Refugee Act that creates a legal framework for the GoSL to [...]
2007-05-25 16:58:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV SL
07FREETOWN333SIERRA LEONE: VIEWS ON UNICEF COUNTRY PROGRAM
[...] In response to reftel, post generally agrees with the UNICEF draft country program document for Sierra Leone. Post has a positive working relationship with UNICEF. Post recommends UNICEF include additional information on the Trafficking in Persons Project within its Sierra Leone Child Protecti [...]
2007-05-29 14:44:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PREL SL
07FREETOWN340SIERRA LEONE: 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-30 18:20:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEINV PGOV KIDE SASC OPIC SL
07FREETOWN341SIERRA LEONE: AGOA FORUM IN ACCRA JULY 18-19
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-30 18:22:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV EFIN EAID SL
07FREETOWN349SIERRA LEONE: US COAST GUARD PORT SECURITY VISIT
[...] (SBU) U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Liaison Officer Doug Schneider visited Sierra Leone March 26-29 to introduce and discuss USCG port security programs and implementation of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) International Ship and Port Security Program (ISPS) Code with GOSL officials. L [...]
2007-06-01 16:23:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR EWWT PINS PREL SL
07FREETOWN355PARAMOUNT HELICOPTER CRASHES KILLING TOGOLESE MINISTER
[...] On the evening of June 3, a helicopter operated by Paramount Airlines crashed while attempting to land at Lungi International Airport killing a reported 21 people, including Togo's Minister of Sport. News reports state most victims were members of a Togolese delegation attending a soccer match [...]
2007-06-04 13:26:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ATRN EAIR CASC SL
07FREETOWN360SIERRA LEONE: DEMARCHE ON NEW WORLD BANK
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-05 16:28:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN SL
07FREETOWN367SIERRA LEONE SIGNS DEBT RELIEF AGREEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-07 17:21:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KTIA EFIN SL
07FREETOWN375SIERRA LEONE DELEGATION TO AU JUNE/JULY 07 SUMMIT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-13 15:32:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KSUM SL
07FREETOWN376AMBASSADOR DELIVERS TIP REPORT
[...] On June 12, the Ambassador delivered reftel points and a copy of the 2007 report to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General Ambassador Umaru Wurie. The Ambassador explained why Sierra Leone received a Tier Two ranking and encouraged the GOSL to continue its efforts against trafficking. Wu [...]
2007-06-13 15:33:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG ELAB SL
07FREETOWN379PARLIAMENT PASSES CHILD RIGHTS ACT BEFORE DISSOLVING
[...] (SBU) On June 6, Parliament passed the Child Rights Act. The legislation had languished in Parliament for months reportedly due to members' inability to reach a consensus on language to address guarded traditional initiation rituals, including female genital mutilation (FGM) and male circumcisi [...]
2007-06-14 15:30:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SL
07FREETOWN386IN THE NICK OF TIME: PARLIAMENT PASSES THREE GENDER BILLS
[...] (U) On June 14, just days before it officially dissolves, Parliament unanimously passed three bills related to gender issues. The three pieces of legislation include: the Devolution of Estate; the Registration of Customary Marriages and Divorce; and the Domestic Violence Bills. With President A [...]
2007-06-20 10:47:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PHUM PINR SL
07FREETOWN387SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE DELIVERS FIRST VERDICT
[...] (U) On June 20, three judges in Trial Chamber II of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) delivered a guilty verdict against three former leaders of the renegade Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) who were on trial accused of war crimes and other serious violations of international h [...]
2007-06-20 19:38:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PHUM PINR SL
07FREETOWN391MEDIA PLACEMENTS FOR MAY 2007
[...] Post and Mission Activities/Press Releases: A. On May 4, PEN Sierra Leone, a literary club, in collaboration with the United States Embassy in Freetown, celebrated the 37th anniversary of Earth day with an essay competition. In a prize ceremony at the Embassy, the Ambassador said the cele [...]
2007-06-21 14:12:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO SL
07FREETOWN403SIERRA LEONE EMBRACES EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
[...] On June 28, the GoSL launched the Sierra Leone Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (SLEITI) by inaugurating its EITI National Steering Committee and establishing an EITI Secretariat at a ceremony at the Presidential State House. SIPDIS Endorsing EITI at the ceremony, President Ahma [...]
2007-06-29 13:27:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ECON ETRD PREL PGOV SL
07FREETOWN404PRESIDENT KABBAH WELCOMES LIBYA'S QADHAFI TO SIERRA LEONE
[...] SUMMARY: Libyan leader Qadhafi visited Sierra Leone June 25-27. On his first visit to Sierra Leone, Qadhafi was warmly welcomed by President Kabbah and other top level GoSL officials. Qadhafi addressed a large gathering at the National Stadium where he formally donated 19 passenger buses to th [...]
2007-06-29 13:56:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PINR SL
07FREETOWN412SIERRA LEONEAN EDITOR ARRESTED IN CONTROVERY OVER
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-03 13:06:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO PGOV PHUM PREL SL
07FREETOWN42SIERRA LEONE: 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] Sierra Leone is not a state sponsor of terrorism. During the reporting year, there were no judicial cases involving terror suspects. There were no developments that would impact U.S. counterterrorism efforts. 2. There was no significant support for international terrorism or for specifi [...]
2007-01-17 14:45:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EFIN KCRM KPAO PTER KHLS SL
07FREETOWN421SIERRA LEONE ELECTIONS ON TRACK AS CAMPAIGNING
[...] (SBU) The official campaign period for Sierra Leone's August 11 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections began on July 10. With the elections under a month away, no party has emerged as the clear favorite to win. Indications are there could be a runoff in the presidential election between the [...]
2007-07-12 17:25:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PINR SL
07FREETOWN422SIERRA LEONE: EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL
[...] PolOff spoke with representatives from the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL),UNHCR, UNICEF, and the United Nations Integrated Office for Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) concerning UN efforts to combat Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) and Trafficking in Persons (TIP) by UN peacekeepers and civili [...]
2007-07-16 10:17:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UN KPKO SL
07FREETOWN424SIERRA LEONE: ICAO ASSEMBLY DEMARCHES DELIVERED
[...] On July 2, PolOff met with Mohamed Bangura, Acting Director for the Sierra Leone Civil Aviation Authority, to deliver Reftels A and B demarches soliciting support for USG positions at the September ICAO General Assemby in Montreal. Bangura said he would take the points under consideration and [...]
2007-07-16 14:38:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAIR ECON ETRD SL
07FREETOWN436BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON SIERRA LEONEAN PRESIDENTIAL AND
[...] (U) The National Electoral Commission has announced that seven political parties are registered to participate in the presidential election on August 11. The following is biographic information on the presidential and vice presidential candidates from the three main political parties, the Sierr [...]
2007-07-23 16:09:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PINR SL
07FREETOWN439SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE HANDS DOWN SENTENCES IN THE
[...] (U) On June 20, the three judges of Trial Chambers II at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) found Alex Tamba Brima, Brima Bazzy Kamara, and Santigie Kanu, three former Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) leaders, guilty of 11 of 14 counts of crimes against humanity (reftel). On Jul [...]
2007-07-23 17:20:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR KAWC SL
07FREETOWN443SIERRA LEONE: ENSURING ROBUST IMPLEMENTATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-24 17:23:00Embassy FreetownSECRETPARM KNNP SL
07FREETOWN444SIERRA LEONE: PRESSING FOR UNIVERSAL ADOPTION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-24 17:39:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL SL
07FREETOWN445SIERRA LEONE SUPPORTS USG IOM DG NOMINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-24 18:07:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC EUN PREF SMIG SL
07FREETOWN446SIERRA LEONE: 62ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY -
[...] (SBU) On July 24, the Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General Ambassador Umaru Wurie. Sierra Leone will hold its presidential election on August 11. The official result from the election is expected on August 23. If no presidential candidate receives [...]
2007-07-24 18:10:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KSEP OVIP UNGA SL
07FREETOWN447DEMARCHE REQUEST: HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE RESOLUTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-24 18:13:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNESCO SL
07FREETOWN453SUPPORT FOR SIERRA LEONE POLICE END USER
[...] Sierre Leone will hold its national elections August 11. As part of election preparations, police advisors from the United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) are working closely with the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) to increase its preparedness to respond to political violence. P [...]
2007-07-26 16:00:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PINS SOCI ASEC SL
07FREETOWN459FREETOWN GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RACHEL M.
[...] Freetown welcomes the visit and grants country clearance for political officers, Rachel M. Conway, Cheryl O. Igiri, and Leslie A. Payne to travel from August 09 through August 13, 2007 for consultations with embassy officials. Visitors are urged to read the entire contents of this telegram, a [...]
2007-07-30 18:33:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA LI IV SL
07FREETOWN46IRAQ: GUIDANCE ON PRESIDENT'S POLICY ADDRESS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-18 18:05:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MOPS PGOV PREL SL
07FREETOWN464SPECIAL COURT DELIVERS GUILTY VERDICT IN CDF TRIAL
[...] (U) On August 2, Moinina Fofana and Allieu Kondewa of the Civil Defence Force (CDF) were found guilty of war crimes committed during Sierra Leone's decade long civil war by a majority of the three judges of Trial Chamber I in the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). Fofana was convicted on f [...]
2007-08-02 20:13:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR KAWC SL
07FREETOWN471EMBASSY PLAN TO MONITOR SIERRA LEONE NATIONAL
[...] (SBU) Sierra Leone will hold its Presidential and Parliamentary elections on Saturday, August 11. Post has devised the following plan to monitor voting centers in nine of the 14 districts on election day. Seven monitoring teams, comprised of one to three Direct Hire American Embassy staff acco [...]
2007-08-07 13:29:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC SL
07FREETOWN476SIERRA LEONE: CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE ELECTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-10 12:14:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNGA SL
07FREETOWN477SIERRA LEONE: PROMOTION OF STANDING COMMITTEE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-10 12:18:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PHUM ICRC SL
07FREETOWN478SIERRA LEONE: TERRORISM FINANCE - DOMESTIC USG
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-10 12:20:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PREL PTER KTFN SL
07FREETOWN479SIERRA LEONE CALM BUT ANXIOUS ON THE EVE OF
[...] (SBU) Sierra Leone will hold its presidential and parliamentary elections on August 11. These are the second national elections since the end of the decade-long civil war in 2002, and the first since peacekeepers departed in December 2005. Seven political parties are running for the presidency [...]
2007-08-10 16:31:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM SL
07FREETOWN481SIERRA LEONEANS ENTHUSIASTICALLY VOTE IN PEACEFUL
[...] (SBU) On August 11, Sierra Leone conducted successful presidential and parliamentary elections. As of late evening on August 12, preliminary partial unofficial results showed the All People's Congress (APC) leading with nearly 45 percent of the presidential vote followed by the ruling Sierra L [...]
2007-08-13 17:44:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM SL
07FREETOWN482NEED TO CONTINUE ECOWAS LOGISTICAL SUPPORT FOR
[...] The Economic Community of West AfricaN States (ECOWAS) has played a prominent role in providing logistical support to Sierra Leone's 2007 Presidential and Parliamentary elections held on August 11. The ECOWAS Stand by Force equipment and training depot, located in the Sierra Leone armed forces [...]
2007-08-15 10:54:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM SL
07FREETOWN484SLOW ELECTION RESULTS CERTIFICATION RAISES CONCERN
[...] (SBU) The slow process of certifying the results from the August 11 Sierra Leone presidential and parliamentary election results has election stakeholders concerned about escalating tensions threatening stability while Sierra Leoneans wait for the official announcement of the final results, wh [...]
2007-08-15 17:09:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM SL
07FREETOWN487SIERRA LEONE: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON TEXTILES
[...] In response to reftel request, there is no textile/apparel manufacturing industry in Sierra Leone. There is only limited local production consisting of individual artisans who produce traditional hand-woven cloth to sell in local markets. All other textiles, much of which come from China, are [...]
2007-08-16 16:06:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KTEX SL
07FREETOWN493OPPOSITION PARTY VOICES CONCERN ABOUT RUNOFF
[...] (C) During an August 17 meeting with the Ambassador, All People's Congress (APC) presidential candidate Ernest Bai Koroma voiced concern about the 2007 national elections turning into a replay of the 1967 elections, when the national elections, which the APC had won over the ruling party, were [...]
2007-08-17 19:12:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM SL
07FREETOWN501PMDC CANDIDATE MARGAI BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON
[...] (C) During an August 23 meeting with the Ambassador, People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) presidential candidate Charles Margai appealed to the international community to implement additional mechanisms to ensure that the anticipated presidential runoff election scheduled for Septemb [...]
2007-08-23 18:39:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM SL
07FREETOWN503NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION FINISHES NATIONAL ELECTIONS
[...] (U) On the evening of August 23, the National Electoral Commission released the official preliminary results of the August 11 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. NEC Chairperson Dr. Christiana Thorpe announced the certified results will be published on August 25. 2. (U) In the parliam [...]
2007-08-24 13:10:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PINR SL
07FREETOWN508NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION ANNOUNCES CERTIFIED
[...] (U) On August 25, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) released the official certified results of the August 11 Presidential and Parliamentary elections (Ref A). Presiding at a news conference at the NEC Media Center located at the British Council, NEC Chairperson Dr. Christiana Thorpe anno [...]
2007-08-27 15:33:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM SL
07FREETOWN534FREETOWN DELIVERED DEMARCHE ON US CARGO SCANNING
[...] Embassy Freetown delivered reftel points regarding the new 100 percent scanning requirement for U.S.-bound maritime cargo to the Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ambassador Umaru Wurie, on August 30, 2007. Amb. Wurie was responsive and noted t [...]
2007-09-04 17:21:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EWWT AMGT PTER SL
07FREETOWN535FREETOWN MONITORING PLAN FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RUN-OFF
[...] (SBU) Sierra Leone will hold a run-off Presidential election on Saturday, September 8, 2007 between APC candidate Ernest Koroma and SLPP candidate Solomon Berewa. Post has devised a plan to monitor 8 of the 14 electoral districts on election day. Five monitoring teams comprised of one to thr [...]
2007-09-04 19:48:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC SL
07FREETOWN542POLITICAL PARTIES COMMIT TO PEACEFUL SIERRA LEONE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-06 11:39:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SL
07FREETOWN547SIERRA LEONEANS CAUTIOUSLY PREPARED TO CAST
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The official campaign period for the Sierra Leone run-off presidential election ended at 6 p.m., September 6, amid relative calm. Civil society successfully conducted an impromptu peace march without disruption and with only minor traffic congestion in Freetown. Both candidate [...]
2007-09-07 20:14:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SL
07FREETOWN551FREETOWN COM SEPARATE PERMISSION TO BE ABSENT FROM
[...] Per reftels, Post Freetown provides the following information for funding the travel and per diem for Ambassador June Carter Perry to attend the 2007 AF Chiefs of Missions Conference to be held in DC: a) ITINERARY: DEP FNA 11 Oct 2105 SN 239 ARR BRU 12 Oct 0530 SN 239 DEP BRU 12 Oct 1210 U [...]
2007-09-10 13:57:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT OTRA KCOM SL
07FREETOWN552SIERRA LEONE HOLDS SUCCESSFUL PRESIDENTIAL RUN-OFF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sierra Leone successfully held the second-round Presidential run-off election on September 8, thanks in large part to the professional and impartial conduct of the Sierra Leone security services and National Election Commission (NEC). Though observers reported isolated inciden [...]
2007-09-10 17:25:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SL
07FREETOWN566NEC PROCLAIMS APC CANDIDATE ERNEST KOROMA SIERRA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 17, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) announced that opposition APC Candidate Ernest Bai Koroma had won the September 8 Presidential run-off election. He will be sworn in the same day at 1700 GMT at the State House. Jubilant APC supporters thronged the streets, [...]
2007-09-17 16:36:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PINR SL
07FREETOWN573IT'S OFFICIAL: ERNEST KOROMA SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT
[...] (U) At 1700 GMT on September 17, Ernest Bai Koroma was officially sworn in as the President of Sierra Leone at the State House in Freetown. Outgoing President Kabbah, Vice President (and unsuccessful SLPP Presidential candidate) Solomon Berewa, and Foreign Minister (and SLPP Vice Presidential [...]
2007-09-18 17:34:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PINR SL
07FREETOWN58SIERRA LEONE: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPORT
[...] The Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) Ministry of Trade and Industry is actively working to increase trade and investment. 2. Investment Laws: A new Investment Code went into effect in 2005. It is designed to put Sierra Leone at par with western countries concerning the protection of compa [...]
2007-01-24 17:46:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEINV KTBD OPIC EFIN USTR ETRD SL
07FREETOWN581FREETOWN DELIVERED SECOND DEMARCHE REQUEST - UN
[...] Per reftel A, Post informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of our urgent interest in seeking Sierra Leone's support for Ms. Gaer's candidacy to the UN Committee Against Torture. Charge spoke with the MFA Director General, Umaru Wurie, who did not convey GoSL intentions in this matter. [...]
2007-09-25 15:55:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNGA SL
07FREETOWN583FREETOWN NOMINATION: 2008 SECRETARY'S AWARD
[...] Embassy Freetown is pleased to nominate Sierra Leone's Chief Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Christiana Thorpe, for the 2008 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. We believe SIPDIS Dr. Thorpe has shown exceptional courage and leadership throughout her career, most especially du [...]
2007-09-25 17:51:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PREL KPAO PHUM SL
07FREETOWN586IMPLEMENTING TRADE BILLS PASSED BY OUTGOING PARLIAMENT - A
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Sierra Leone's last parliament unanimously passed three trade promotion bills before the expiration of its term ending June 25, 2007. These bills include the Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency Act, the Registration of Business Act, and the General Law (Business S [...]
2007-09-26 17:40:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM ECON PINR SL
07FREETOWN589AMBASSADOR PERRY'S ARRIVAL AT POST
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-28 12:50:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN APER SL
07FREETOWN591POST ELECTION SIERRA LEONE: VIOLENCE SUBSIDES AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The week following the announcement of Ernest Koroma as the new President of Sierra Leone had its bumps but was positive overall. Incidents of violence broke out in the immediate aftermath but soon decreased significantly as people returned to their everyday lives. The media w [...]
2007-09-28 18:31:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PINR SL
07FREETOWN607RUTILE AND BAUXITE PRODUCTION: A BOOST FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Rutile and bauxite production are rapidly growing industries in Sierra Leone, with great potential to quickly become the country's most profitable exports. Since resuming operations in 2005, the Titanium Resource Group (TRG),responsible for the large majority of Sierra Leone's bau [...]
2007-10-09 10:27:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EMIN BEXP SL
07FREETOWN611SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE SENTENCES FOFANAH
[...] (U) Summary: On October 9, the Special Court for Sierra Leone sentenced Moinina Fofanah and Allielu Kondewa, former leaders of the Civil Defense Force, to 6 and 8 years in prison, respectively. Time already served in detention was counted toward the sentences, meaning that Fofanah will comple [...]
2007-10-10 18:32:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV KDEM PINR KAWC SL
07FREETOWN612AMBASSADOR PERRY PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO SIERRA
[...] (U) Ambassador Perry presented her credentials to President Ernest Bai Koroma on Monday, October 8, 2007 at State House in Freetown during an informal session. She also presented the Letters of Recall of her predecessor, Ambassador Thomas N. Hull, III. The meeting was attended by Vice Presiden [...]
2007-10-10 18:34:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALAMGT APER PREL SL
07FREETOWN613EMBASSY FREETOWN ORGANIZES SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY IFTAAR
[...] On October 9 Embassy Freetown organized a successful Iftaar program at a new community Islamic and vocational school, the Umar Bin Alkhatab Institute for Vocational and Technical Training and Arabic Islamic Studies. The Ambassador and embassy staff attended the Iftaar and shared take-home meal [...]
2007-10-11 14:18:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KISL KPAO SL
07FREETOWN615 SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT SEEKING MORE MONEY AND
[...] (C) Summary and action request: In a meeting with Ambassador and emboffs on October 10, Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Stephen Rapp, reviewed the budget and timeline for the Special Court. Rapp expects that the court will require at least an additional $49 million to contin [...]
2007-10-11 16:19:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALKAWC KDEM PHUM PINR PREL SL
07FREETOWN616NEW PARLIAMENT OPENS WITH POMP AND CEREMONY
[...] (U) Summary: Amid impressive fanfare, and on schedule, the third parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone was officially opened on Friday, October 5 with an opening address by President Ernest Bai Koroma. Ambassador, DCM and AF/W Director Tom Dougherty attended the ceremony. The new [...]
2007-10-11 18:14:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON KDEM PGOV PREL SL
07FREETOWN634POST ELECTION ATMOSPHERICS IN BO - SOME TENSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: An October 16-19 visit to Bo by Embassy officers provided insight in to the dynamics of local adjustments to the new political reality. Some conflicts between APC and SLPP supporters have occurred in Bo, most recently on October 15 when APC supporters threw stones at the homes o [...]
2007-10-22 16:43:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL SL
07FREETOWN637FREETOWN DELIVERED DEMARCHE: CANDIDACY OF DAVID
[...] (SBU) Post delivered demarche October 23 during a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Charge and political officer left copies of a dipnote with points drawn from reftel. 2. (SBU) A new government was elected to office in Sierra Leone in September. The new Minister of Foreign Affa [...]
2007-10-24 14:36:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC UNGA SL
07FREETOWN638UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-24 16:07:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIA PHUM PREL UNGA SL
07FREETOWN639PRESIDENT KOROMA INVITATION TO PRESIDENT BUSH TO
[...] The Government of Sierra Leone has announced that the inauguration of President Ernest Bai Koroma will take place in Freetown on November 15, 2007. Embassy Freetown has been asked to convey the following invitation from President Koroma to President George W. Bush, received October 24. The acc [...]
2007-10-24 18:46:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OPDC SL
07FREETOWN640HANDOVER AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-24 18:47:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SL
07FREETOWN65SIERRA LEONE: SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL FINAL
[...] (S) Embassy Freetown concurs with reftel FY07 program proposal "Improvements and Theater Maritime Safety and Security Information System Network" for $12.51M. HULL [...]
2007-01-26 14:16:00Embassy FreetownSECRETAL MK UP SL
07FREETOWN651CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR UN INDEPENDENT AUDIT
[...] (U) Charge and Poloff made demarche to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zainab Bangura, on October 23 (ref B). Poloff followed up with a meeting with the Acting Director General at MFA, Mr. Andrew Bangali, on Friday October 26. Mr. Bangali was aware of the candidacy of Mr. Walker and had been in c [...]
2007-10-29 18:23:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC UNAUS UNGA SL
07FREETOWN652DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS
[...] (U) Political officer delivered demarche and fact sheet on Iranian sanctions to Andrew Bangali, Acting Director General, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 26. Bangali said that the information would be provided to the Sierra Leone National Security Council and passed on to the Cent [...]
2007-10-29 18:24:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KNNR IR PARM EFIN SL
07FREETOWN665STRIKE BY CENTRAL BANK WORKERS
[...] (U) The employees of the central Bank of Sierra Leone went out on strike on Monday, November 5 in protest over salaries and benefits. The workers say they intend to come to work each day, stand in front of the headquarters building until 2:00 pm and then return home. The action potentially brin [...]
2007-11-07 10:22:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID ELAB PREL SL
07FREETOWN670SIERRA LEONE SCORECARD AND REACTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Following recent elections, a new government has been installed in Sierra Leone. In the course of making introductory calls on the new cabinet ministers, the Ambassador discussed the MCC and provided copies of the scorecard to key Ministers. The delivery of the scorecard was se [...]
2007-11-09 11:43:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV ETRD KMCA MCC SL
07FREETOWN675AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NEW MINISTER OF FINANCE
[...] (U) Summary: During an introductory call the newly appointed Minister of Finance and Ambassador Perry discussed a wide range of topics including: the strike by workers at the Central Bank, the urgent need to provide electricity to Freetown, the high rate of interest, weakness in revenue collec [...]
2007-11-09 14:14:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EFIN PGOV EAID SL
07FREETOWN676SCENE SETTER FOR A/S FRAZER TRAVEL TO SIERRA LEONE
[...] (U) The inauguration of President Ernest Bai Koroma is an important milestone in the recovery of Sierra Leone from years of conflict and upheaval. Your visit to this country at the time of peaceful transition from one elected administration to another is an opportunity to underscore U.S. comm [...]
2007-11-09 17:07:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREL SL
07FREETOWN684IMF TEAM COMMENTS ON SIERRA LEONE ECONOMY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-19 14:10:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN EFIN PREL SL
07FREETOWN685SIERRA LEONE 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-19 14:11:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN SNAR SL
07FREETOWN686PROMISES OF ELECTRIC ENERGY FOR FREETOWN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-19 14:20:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ENRG PREL SL
07FREETOWN688SIERRA LEONE INAUGURATION - ASSISTANT SECRETARY
[...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer, as the U.S. representative to the inauguration, met with President Koroma on inauguration day. Koroma reaffirmed that he will focus on efforts to fight corruption, strengthen justice and the rule of law. Assistant Secretary Frazer replied that th [...]
2007-11-19 17:17:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON PREL PGOV SL
07FREETOWN689BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON NEW SIERRA LEONEAN
[...] The initial group of cabinet Ministers in the new government has been announced by President Koroma. The process of confirmation by parliament has been completed for most nominees. Three Ministers were confirmed on October 19, and 12 more confirmed on October 24. Biographic information for 15 [...]
2007-11-19 17:17:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SL
07FREETOWN70SIERRA LEONE: LIST OF INFLUENTIAL WOMEN
[...] Per reftel request, Post submits the following names and contact information for five influential Sierra Leonean women leaders. Dr. Kadi Sesay Minister of Trade and Industry Ministry of Trade and Industry Freetown, Sierra Leone Tel: 232-22-235-127 Fax: 232-22-227-985 Mrs. Abbator Thom [...]
2007-01-31 16:29:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PHUM PREL SL
07FREETOWN709WORLD AIDS DAY: WHERE IS SIERRA LEONE?
[...] SUMMARY: As World AIDS Day approaches (Dec. 1),it appears that Sierra Leone's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate is reportedly low, officially at 1.53%, although some sources believe it to be higher. Th military's prevalence is higher. Efforts to combat HIV/AIDS are coordinated by the National HIV/A [...]
2007-11-28 16:44:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDKHIV SOCI TBIO PREL EAID SL
07FREETOWN71POLICE AND YOUTH CLASH AFTER GASOLINE INCIDENT
[...] (SBU) Early on the morning of January 27, Sierra Leone Police (SLP) clashed with a group of youths in the Cole Farm area of Freetown near many Embassy residences after officers attempted to arrest a taxi driver whom they thought was in possession of illegal fuel. There are conflicting accounts [...]
2007-01-31 18:07:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASC PGOV SL
07FREETOWN713DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH
[...] On November 29, 2007, poloff delivered dipnote and points, per reftel, to Bakie Doherty, Americas desk officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Mrs. Doherty says no decision has been reached, but she will present our viewpoint to the appropriate parties withi [...]
2007-11-30 06:33:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA IS SL
07FREETOWN714SIERRA LEONE'S PARTICIPATION IN NEW DELHI
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-30 06:50:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL SL
07FREETOWN737SIERRA LEONE: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] Per reftel, Post designates Political/Economic Officer Amy N. LeMar as Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) for Sierra Leone and Regional Security Officer Bryan Scruggs as Deputy TFCO. TFCO Amy Lemar is not due to arrive at post until January 2008. 2. Contact information: Name: [...]
2007-12-11 16:24:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN SL
07FREETOWN745POST CONVENES EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE MEETING
[...] In response to reftel, Ambassador Perry convened an Emergency Action Committee Meeting (EAC) on December 18, 2007 to discuss our current political and security situation in Sierra Leone heading into the holiday season. The Ambassador expressed concern over the current situation of rising fuel [...]
2007-12-18 17:39:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PTER SL
07FREETOWN746EXPLOSIONS IN DOWNTOWN FREETOWN
[...] On December 20, 2007, the Embassy Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened to discuss a series of deadly blasts that rocked downtown Freetown earlier the same afternoon. Present were the Ambassador, DCM, RSO, CON, CLO, DAO, LEGATT, USAID, POL, and PAO. The blasts occurred in the bottom floor [...]
2007-12-20 18:28:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PTER SL
07FREETOWN747AMERICAN COMPANY EXPLORING POTENTIAL FOR IT
[...] SUMMARY: Poloff met a four-person team visiting Sierra Leone to explore the possibility of software development outsourcing to Sierra Leone on November 30. The team, representing an envisioned start-up business named "Blue Ocean IT," was headed by AmCit James Kane, Managing Director of US f [...]
2007-12-20 18:28:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD PREL SL
07FREETOWN749SIERRA LEONE: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR UPDATE
[...] This cable responds to reftel request for information for the Worst Forms of Child Labor Report. Most new information since the previous year's report is a result of the passage of the 2007 Child Rights Act. --------------------------------------------- ----- A) Laws and regulations ----- [...]
2007-12-20 18:33:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI SL
07FREETOWN754FREETOWN MEDIA PLACEMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 2007
[...] Summary: Embassy Freetown's outreach in November 2007 included articles surrounding A/S Frazer's attendance at the inauguration of President Koroma, newly-arrived Ambassador Perry's courtesy calls on Ministers, the opening of two new American Shelves in Freetown, and the Embassy's commemoratio [...]
2007-12-21 13:43:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO SL
07FREETOWN79SIERRA LEONE 2007 NATIONAL ELECTIONS: SETTING THE
[...] (U) This is the first in a series of cables intended to set the context for the July 28, 2007 Presidential and Parliamentary elections, only the fifth multiparty elections in Sierra Leone since its independence in 1961. Post welcomes any comments or suggestions. ---------------------------- [...]
2007-02-02 15:45:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PHUM ELECTIONS SL
07FREETOWN91MANU RIVER UNION SECRETARY GENERAL FEARS RETURN TO
[...] (C) Meeting in his downtown Freetown office on February 8, Manu River Union (MRU) Secretary General Aliou Diallo briefed the Ambassador and DCM on efforts to resuscitate the MRU, which will be reported septel. When the conversation turned to the crisis in Guinea, Diallo, who returned February [...]
2007-02-08 18:48:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALELAB PGOV PREL GV SL
07FREETOWN93FREETOWN GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR
[...] Post welcomes the visit of Mark Stamilio, U.S. Department of State, Special Advisor to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues. Mr. Stamilio will travel to Freetown to represent the USG during a UN Management Committee visit to the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) February 18-22. A [...]
2007-02-09 12:54:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA AMGT ASEC APER SL
07GABORONE1249BOTSWANA-BASED DELIBERATIONS OVER AFRICOM
[...] (S/NF) Summary: In an understated and impeccable Botswana fashion, GOB Minister of Foreign Affairs Merafhe politely received the AFRICOM demarche from the Ambassador on October 10 and promised to get back to us quickly, possibly by October 12, with a firm GOB reply. Merafhe appeared genuinel [...]
2007-10-10 17:07:00Embassy GaboroneSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR BC
07GABORONE1261BOTSWANA GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO AFRICOM SURVEY
[...] (S/NF) Mompati Merafhe, Botswana's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC),convoked the Charge (accompanied by ODC Chief) Monday morning October 15 to his office in order to present the GOB's formal reply to our recent demarche on AFRICOM (Ref A). Minister Merafhe s [...]
2007-10-15 09:19:00Embassy GaboroneSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR BC
07GABORONE1341DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR ARGENTINA
[...] (SBU) After speaking with Argentinian Ambassador R. Carlos Sersale di Cerisano, who is accredited to Botswana but is resident in Pretoria, Poloff delivered on October 30 Reftel demarche to the GOB's Director of Multilateral Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperarti [...]
2007-11-02 05:13:00Embassy GaboroneUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKJUS PTER ASEC PREL PGOV BC
07GABORONE1343DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-02 07:57:00Embassy GaboroneUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PREL PARM EFIN ECON MNUC BC
07GENEVA1057JOINT U.S.-JAPAN MEETING WITH WHO DIRECTOR-GENERAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-30 05:31:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AORC
07GENEVA1060 WHO: Meeting on Options for Increasing the Access of
[...] Summary. The World Health Organization (WHO) convened subject meeting April 25 to discuss strategies to expand access to influenza vaccines, including stockpiling options and increased vaccine production. Participants included representatives from donor countries, countries affected by the H5 [...]
2007-04-30 08:13:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO AORC
07GENEVA113Republic of Congo-Brazzaville and Darfur
[...] (U) Mission has received a diplomatic note from the Permanent Mission of Congo in reply to our dip note 367-06 informing us of the visit to Darfur of its Geneva Ambassador. The Government of the Republic of Congo expressed its concerns regarding the humanitarian and security situation, and t [...]
2007-01-17 16:50:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC OPDC PREL KPKO UNSC SU
07GENEVA114Jamaica Candidature - Rights of the Child
[...] (U) Mission has received a diplomatic note from the Permanent Mission of Jamaica informing us that the Government of Jamaica will present the candidature of Mrs. Mary Clark for election to the Committee on the Rights of the Child at elections to be held in New York in February 2007. 2. ( [...]
2007-01-17 16:51:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC AORC UN JM
07GENEVA115ITALY CANDIDATURE - HRC
[...] (U) U.S. Mission Geneva received a diplomatic note from the Permanent Mission of Italy requesting U.S. Government support for the Italian candidature to the Human Rights Council at elections to be held in the United Nations General Assembly in May 2007. 2. (U) Mission has responded that th [...]
2007-01-18 06:43:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC AORC UN IT
07GENEVA116ITALY CANDIDATURE - HRC
[...] (U) U.S. Mission Geneva received a diplomatic note from the Permanent Mission of Italy requesting U.S. Government support for the Italian candidature to the Human Rights Council at elections to be held in the United Nations General Assembly in May 2007. 2. (U) Mission has responded that th [...]
2007-01-18 06:44:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC AORC UN IT
07GENEVA1163WHO: TAIWAN ISSUES AT THE 60TH WORLD HEALTH
[...] Summary. Ambassador Tichenor and Japanese Ambassador Fujisaki met April 24 with Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO),as requested reftels, to urge Chan to improve the participation of Taiwan's experts in the technical work of the WHO. Chan promised to f [...]
2007-05-10 15:07:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM
07GENEVA1170UN EXPERT GROUP ON DARFUR
[...] (U) Summary: MissionOffs met May 3 with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to discuss follow-up to A/HRC/4/L.7, the March Human Rights Council consensus Darfur resolution. The group created by that resolution, the UN Expert Group on Darfur, met in Geneva April 24-27 [...]
2007-05-11 10:40:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC SU
07GENEVA1371Five manslaughter incidents - Geneva 2007 Communications
[...] (U) Mission has received a communication from Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions regarding five incidents of manslaughter. It is number 12 on the Geneva 2007 Communications Log. 2. (U) Begin text of letter: Excellency, I have the honour to address you [...]
2007-05-30 15:05:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC
07GENEVA1418Amine Mohammad Al-Bakry, detainee - #40 in Geneva 2006
[...] Mission has received a communication from Leila Zerrougui, Chairperson-Rapporteur for the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding the case of Amine Mohammad Al-Bakry, a Yemeni citizen, detained at the US Air Force Base of Baghram, Afghanistan. Letter dated 11 December 2006 referenced in [...]
2007-06-04 14:31:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC
07GENEVA1478ILO - BURMA: CONFERENCE SEES MINIMAL STEPS BUT LITTLE REAL
[...] SUMMARY. The ILO Committee on the Application of Standards considered the situation of forced labor in Burma in its special sitting during the 96th International Labor Conference, June 4, 2007. The Burmese ambassador said nothing about real steps in ending forced labor. He focused solely o [...]
2007-06-07 11:03:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PHUM PREL ILO
07GENEVA1656HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING, JUNE
[...] (SBU) The Human Rights Council (HRC) held the first organizational meeting of its second year June 19-22 to follow up on institution-building in preparation for the next Council session (Sept. 10-28). In a worrisome indication that negotiations in Geneva are unlikely to be more transparent th [...]
2007-06-25 15:39:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM UNHRC
07GENEVA1713SRI LANKAN PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE LOBBIES
[...] (C) Recently arrived Sri Lanka Permanent Representative, Dayan Jayatilleka, used an introductory courtesy call with Ambassador Tichenor June 27 to lobby hard against any kind of resolution on Sri Lanka in the Human Rights Council. Jayatilleka stressed that Sri Lanka saw all country resolutio [...]
2007-07-03 09:47:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM UNHRC PINR CE
07GENEVA1754Air strike in Afghanistan - #18 in Geneva 2007
[...] Mission has received a communication from the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston, regarding the U.S. led Coalition air strike in Zarghun Sha, Afghanistan. This communication has been sent via e-mail to IO-RHS and is number 18 on the Geneva 2007 [...]
2007-07-10 09:58:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC
07GENEVA1755Death in Custody of Ahmed Ali Abdullah - #19 in Geneva 2007
[...] Mission has received a communication from the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston, regarding the death in custody of Ahmed Ali Abdullah. This communication has been sent via e-mail to IO-RHS and is #19 on the Geneva 2007 Communications Log. [...]
2007-07-10 09:59:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC
07GENEVA1803ECOSOC LAUNCHES ANNUAL MINISTERIAL REVIEW,
[...] (SBU) Summary. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivered strongly-worded remarks at the July 2 opening of the UN Economic and Social Council's (ECOSOC) High Level Segment, stating that "existing trade barriers, agricultural subsidies and restrictive rules on intellectual property rights...make [...]
2007-07-18 11:50:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EAGR ETRD SENV ECOSOC UN
07GENEVA1948Ahmed Belbacha - #22 in Geneva 2007 Communications Log
[...] Mission has received a communication from the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture, Manfred Nowak, regarding Ahmed Belbacha who is detained at Guantanamo without charge or trial. This communication has been sent via e-mail to IO-RHS. It is #22 on the Geneva 2007 Communications Log. [...]
2007-08-13 15:05:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC
07GENEVA1992DAS SINGH AND AMBASSADOR REES' GENEVA MEETINGS -
[...] (C) Summary: On an August 6-8 visit to Geneva, IO Deputy Assistant Secretary Singh and Special Representative for Social Issues Rees highlighted deep U.S. disappointment with the UN Human Rights Council and explored increasing the use of alternative fora, such as the UNGA Third Committee and t [...]
2007-08-22 15:12:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM UNHRC KUNR PREF UNHCR
07GENEVA2048DAS SINGH AND AMBASSADOR REES' GENEVA TALKS -
[...] (SBU) Summary: IO Deputy Assistant Secretary Singh and Special Representative for Social Issues Rees used a human rights-focused August 6-8 visit to Geneva to also address a range of humanitarian, refugee, and health issues, as well as UN reform. DAS Singh also underscored the importance the [...]
2007-08-29 08:31:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALKUNR PHUM PREF UNHRC
07GENEVA2110EU CONSIDERS CONDEMNING SRI LANKA IN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action cable. Action request in para 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The EU is considering whether to table a resolution in the Human Rights Council condemning Sri Lanka's recent human rights record. To avert a resolution, the Sri Lankan Government sent its Human Rights Minister and two [...]
2007-09-10 05:54:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PTER UNHRC CE
07GENEVA2184HUMAN RIGHTS HIGH COMMISSIONER ARBOUR DISCUSSES
[...] (C) Summary: In a September 14 meeting with the Ambassador, High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said she had felt obliged to attend the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) conference in Tehran even though she would have preferred another venue, given Iran's poor human rights record. She [...]
2007-09-19 05:33:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNHRC IR CE
07GENEVA2373HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SIXTH SESSION:
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Human Rights Council held the first part of its sixth regular session on September 10-28. It largely completed the institution-building process that had occupied much of its first year of existence, laying the groundwork for mechanisms such as universal periodic review (UPR) [...]
2007-10-11 15:39:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM UNHRC
07GENEVA2375UN REFORM: US BLOCKS WIPO BUDGET OVER ACCOUNTABILITY
[...] (U) At the WIPO 43rd General Assemblies, the US succeeded in its goal of forcing discussion of a confidential internal audit report alleging misconduct on the part the Sudanese Director General Kamil Idris. However, on the last day of the 10-day meeting, the African countries rejected a propo [...]
2007-10-11 20:31:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON AORC WIPO
07GENEVA2421DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FORCIBLE RETURN OF CHINESE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-26 13:58:00US Mission GenevaSECRETKIRF KISL PHUM PREF PREL
07GENEVA2431SECOND DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FORCIBLE RETURN OF
[...] (S) Per ref a, PolCouns demarched Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) Secretariat staffers Safir Syed (assistant to Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak) and Michael Wiener (assistant to Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion/Belief Asma Jahangir) on October 30. Syed and Weiner, [...]
2007-10-30 16:46:00US Mission GenevaSECRETKIRF KISL PREF PREL PHUM
07GENEVA2447ICRC PONDERS BROADENING ITS ROLE IN DPRK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told us of their interest in expanding their work in North Korea. ICRC efforts are currently limited to medical assistance, but it hopes that progress in the Six-Party Talks might create the conditions to increase [...]
2007-11-02 17:43:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNHRC PREF KN CH
07GENEVA2492A/S FRIED MEETS WITH ANTONOV ON CFE IN GENEVA
[...] (C) Summary. On November 7, A/S Dan Fried, accompanied by A/S Paula DeSutter and an interagency team, met in Geneva with Russian MFA Director for Security and Disarmament Anatoly Antonov, accompanied by Mikhail Ulyanov and Sergey Federyakov to resume discussion of the U.S. paper on elements [...]
2007-11-15 10:24:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPREL RS GG MD NATO
07GENEVA2507WHO INTERGOVERNMENTAL MEETING: USDEL BILATERAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Special Representative on Avian and Pandemic Influenza John Lange met November 21 with Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari on the margins of the WHO Intergovernmental Meeting on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: Sharing of Influenza Viruses and Access to Vaccines and O [...]
2007-11-21 21:25:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALKFLU TBIO EAID WHO
07GENEVA2541UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW: A NEW MECHANISM IN THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A new human rights mechanism is scheduled to get underway in April 2008, with the human rights behavior of a first tranche of 16 countries to be reviewed under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. Over the next four years, all UN member states are to undergo such review in [...]
2007-11-30 16:28:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM UNHRC
07GENEVA261CZECH CANDIDATURE - HRC
[...] (U) U.S. Mission Geneva received a diplomatic note from the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic requesting U.S. Government support for the Czech candidature to the Human Rights Council at elections to be held in the United Nations General Assembly in 2008. 2. (U) Mission has responde [...]
2007-02-02 16:00:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC AORC UN EZ
07GENEVA2626Human Rights Council Session Highlights Troubling
[...] Summary: The Human Rights Council's resumed Sixth Session of December 10-14 highlighted the pernicious dynamic of previous sessions in which important resolutions were held hostage to negotiations between the European Union and Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). That dynamic was e [...]
2007-12-17 16:51:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC
07GENEVA385FRENCH CANDIDATURE - HRC
[...] (U) U.S. Mission Geneva received a diplomatic note from the Permanent Mission of France requesting U.S. Government support for the French candidature to the Human Rights Council at elections to be held in New York in 2008. 2. (U) Mission has responded that the information contained in the [...]
2007-02-20 08:09:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC AORC UN FR
07GENEVA525VISIT OF UNDER SECRETARY DOBRIANSKY - STAKEHOLDER
[...] Summary. Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula J. Dobriansky visited Geneva February 28 as head of the U.S. delegation to the World Health Organization (WHO) Consultation on Polio Eradication, resulting in continued global commitment to eradication and establishment of miles [...]
2007-03-06 10:41:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO WHO
07GENEVA551RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT WORKING GROUP
[...] The inter-governmental Right to Development (RTD) Working Group completed its Feb. 26-March 2 session with an unusual compromise "consensus" agreement on the chair's conclusions and recommendations that left it up to various states to decide whether or not the report opened the door for a new [...]
2007-03-07 14:57:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC
07GENEVA617WORKING GROUP ON FOLLOW-UP TO DURBAN DECLARATION
[...] (U) Summary: The intergovernmental working group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action met for the first part of its fifth session March 5-9 chaired by Chilean Permanent Representative Juan Martabit. Main areas of contention remain the inclusion [...]
2007-03-14 06:59:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM UNHRC
07GEORGETON514VAT TX BRINGS IN THE MONEY FOR GUYANA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-23 19:08:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV ETRD GY
07GEORGETOWN1042INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT, PART I
[...] (U) Post presents its 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control Guyana: I. Summary Guyana is a transit point for cocaine destined for North America, Europe, and the Caribbean, but not in quantities sufficient to impact the U.S. market. In [...]
2007-11-26 18:31:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR GY
07GEORGETOWN1075INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT, PART II
[...] (U) Post presents its 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part II, Money Laundering and Financial Crimes. Begin text: Guyana is neither an important regional nor an offshore financial center, nor does it have any free trade zones. Money laundering is perceived as a serio [...]
2007-12-11 11:19:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR GY
07GEORGETOWN108GUYANA'S NEW VAT AND TAX RECIPROCITY - REQUEST TO CONVOKE
[...] Action request para 8 and 9. 2. The Government of Guyana (GoG) instituted a 16% VAT on 1 January 2007. Preparations for the VAT were insufficient at best (Reftel). The GoG's public education campaign was misleading on many points causing confusion and discontent among the public and the un [...]
2007-01-26 12:24:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT ABLD AFIN EAID EFIN GY
07GEORGETOWN109RIO GROUP SUMMIT SET FOR MARCH 3 IN
[...] (U) Summary: The 2007 Rio Group Summit of Heads of State will be held in Georgetown, Guyana on March 3, preceded by a Foreign Ministers meeting on March 1, and a National Coordinators meeting on February 28. GoG insiders characterize the Summit as unlikely to attract a large turnout and larg [...]
2007-01-26 18:17:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPREL ECIN PINR XM VE GY
07GEORGETOWN110GOVERNMENT PULLS ADS FROM INDEPENDENT DAILY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Citing the paper's supposedly falling circulation figures, GOG recently stopped placing state advertisements in the independent Stabroek News. During the 2006 election campaign, President Jagdeo and ruling party officials repeatedly accused Stabroek News of criticizing the gover [...]
2007-01-26 20:15:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM GY
07GEORGETOWN111CARICOM CRICKET SECURITY REQUEST - LETTER TO DOD A/S
[...] (SBU) Post received diplomatic note from the CARICOM Secretariat requesting post to transmit the following letter from CARICOM Acting Secretary General Amb. Lolita Applewaite to Assistant Secretary of SIPDIS Defense Peter W. Rodman. The letter request DOD consider deploying maritime assets [...]
2007-01-26 20:44:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOPDC MASS MCAP PREL PARM ASEC XL GY
07GEORGETOWN117Guyana Immigration CWC Training Reveals Security
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At GoG request, U.S. Embassy Consular officers participated as trainers in a recent Cricket World Cup Border Security Training Course for Guyanese Immigration and Customs Officers. The training made it clear that while some senior officers have basic knowledge of APIS and the Ca [...]
2007-01-30 14:46:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPBTS SMIG CVIS ASEC KFRD KHLS GY
07GEORGETOWN138GUYANA PASSES WORLD CUP LEGISLATION - BETTER LATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guyana's National Assembly unanimously passed four bills allowing Guyana to participate fully with the nine other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries in a Single Domestic Space for the upcoming Cricket World Cup (CWC). The four bills were: (1) Immigration (Amendment) Act [...]
2007-02-06 20:29:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPBTS SMIG CVIS ASEC KFRD KHLS GY
07GEORGETOWN141GUYANA PREPARES FOR FIRST PETROCARIBE OIL DELIVERY
[...] (U) Petrocaribe is making its formal debut in Guyana in May amid unrealistic expectations. Optimistic Guyanese government leaders are prepared to reap its promised benefits but unprepared for the logistics and ramifications of doing business under the untested program. GoG officials also exp [...]
2007-02-07 20:16:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALEPET PREL ENRG PBTS XL VE GY
07GEORGETOWN147Guyana Finally Moves Towards Machine Readable Passports
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After more than ten years of delays, Guyana will finally begin issuing machine-readable passports (MRPs) this summer. After having bid on the project eleven years ago, Canadian Bank Note (CBN) was awarded the contract in December 2006. The company says that they will be ready to [...]
2007-02-08 17:29:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS SNAR SMIG ASEC KFRD KCRM GY
07GEORGETOWN152JAGDEO HITTING CRITICS WHERE IT HURTS
[...] (C) Summary: An escalating conflict between the GOG and the independent Stabroek News over a recent withdrawal of government advertisements (reported reftel) illustrates President Jagdeo's mounting willingness to lash out at critics with more than verbal attacks. As more groups condemn the ad [...]
2007-02-08 18:32:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM GY
07GEORGETOWN153ER Medical Team Cancels CWC Support Trip to Guyana
[...] The serious lack of adequate medical facilities, equipment and trained medical staff in Guyana, especially for emergency care, is one of Post's greatest concerns as crisis management preparations are made for the upcoming Cricket World Cup (CWC) matches. A severe nursing shortage across Guyana [...]
2007-02-08 19:26:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR CASC CMGT
07GEORGETOWN175GUYANA'S 2007 BUDGET: THE VIEW THROUGH ROSE-TINTED
[...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Finance Ashni Singh presented the GoG's 2007 budget to parliament on February 2 under the banner of "Building a Modern and Prosperous Guyana." He said spending would hit US$500 million, or about 2.9 less than last year. At the same time, he forecast GDP growth at [...]
2007-02-14 20:26:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EAID GY
07GEORGETOWN207RIO GROUP SUMMIT RSVPS SLOW IN COMING
[...] (C) Summary: With the 19th Rio Group Summit less than a week away, Guyana has only received one definite confirmation of attendance from a head of state. Although President Jagdeo and the local press have touted the Summit as a prestigious event in its own right and an important "dry run" for [...]
2007-02-21 18:08:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPREL ECIN XM GY
07GEORGETOWN209ANOTHER CARICOM CRICKET SECURITY REQUEST - LETTER
[...] (SBU) Post received a diplomatic note today from the CARICOM Secretariat requesting post transmit the attached letter from CARICOM Secretary General Edwin Carrington to Assistant Secretary of Defense Peter W. Rodman. The letter requests DoD give urgent consideration to deployment to the reg [...]
2007-02-21 19:28:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MCAP OPDC PARM PREL MASS XL GY
07GEORGETOWN211MAKE HASTE SLOWLY - CARICOM INTER-SESSIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Rudy Insanally told the Ambassdor that the Heads of Government participating in the 18th CARICOM Inter-Sessional in St. Vincent on February 12-14 were determined to "make haste slowly" on a range of issues including governance, trade, economic development and re [...]
2007-02-22 16:36:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPREL ECIN EAID EAGR ENGR EAIR SMIG CARICOM XL
07GEORGETOWN267SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (SBU) The following is Embassy Georgetown's submission of information requested in reftel for the 2007 Annual Trafficking in Persons Report. --------------------------------------------- -- Begin Report: Overview of country's activities to eliminate trafficking in persons: ----------------- [...]
2007-03-12 20:47:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD GY
07GEORGETOWN279DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN REFORM: INTERNAL
[...] (U) Poloff and DCM delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Elizabeth Harper, Director General of Guyana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Harper promised to look at the points closely and discuss it with the Minister of Foreign Affairs (who concurrently serves as Guyana's Permanent Re [...]
2007-03-15 19:24:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC ACABQ UNGA GY
07GEORGETOWN282VULNERABILITY OF FRC REGIONAL SUPPORT PERSONNEL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-16 17:05:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER ODIP AODE AMGT KLIG
07GEORGETOWN283JAGDEO ON HUMAN RIGHTS, DRUGS AND VENEZUELA
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with President Bharrat Jagdeo in his office and at his request on March 15 to discuss the INCSR and Human Rights Report. Jagdeo objected to the methodology and tone of both documents, describing them as on-going irritants, and said he hoped to discuss their o [...]
2007-03-16 20:35:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON PBTS KCRM VE GY
07GEORGETOWN288Civil Document Vulnerability Compromises Visa Security -
[...] (U) Georgetown continues to wrestle with excessive fraud in all aspects of consular services. Longstanding issues such as sham marriages and engagements, corruption in the issuance of passports and civil documents, as well as more recent concerns involving fraud in HIV testing, complicate adjud [...]
2007-03-20 21:01:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS SMIG KCRM KFRD GY
07GEORGETOWN293Foreign Policy Decision-Making in Guyana and CARICOM--A
[...] (SBU) In late November 2006 post delivered a Diplomatic Note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) proposing an arrangement for the deployment of armed Federal Air Marshals (FAM) on flights between the United States and Guyana to bolster counterterrorism efforts in the region (ref A). Despi [...]
2007-03-22 20:25:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECIN EAIR CARICOM GY
07GEORGETOWN295EAB REPORT ON 2006 ELECTIONS: FREE AND FAIR, BUT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: More than six months after election day, the local Electoral Assistance Bureau (EAB) released its Final Report on Guyana's 2006 National and Regional Elections. The EAB declared the elections "free and fair" and found the Final Declaration of Results was "largely representative o [...]
2007-03-23 12:27:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM OAS GY
07GEORGETOWN319Cuban Doctors Fearful in Guyana
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-30 17:55:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM CVIS PREL SMIG CU GY
07GEORGETOWN324Cuban Doctors Fearful in Guyana
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post has interviewed six applicants for significant public benefit parole (SPBP) under the Cuban Medical Personnel program. Five came to Guyana as conscripted members of the Cuban medical brigade. As they await a decision on their applications, some of these doctors fear that [...]
2007-03-30 20:56:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM CVIS PREL SMIG CU GY
07GEORGETOWN338GUYANA STOCK MARKET OFFERS LITTLE HOPE FOR LOCAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: The four year-old Guyana stock market is handicapped by the tiny number of listed companies, low trading volume, and regulatory problems. These make the market an unattractive alternative to saving accounts, real estate, and migration. End summary. 2. (U) The Guyanese Asso [...]
2007-04-04 19:51:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON AFSN AFIN APER BEXP ELAB GY
07GEORGETOWN358DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S DEFENSE INDUSTRIES
[...] (U) Poloff delivered demarche on Designation of Iran's Defense Industries Organization Under E.O. 13382 on April 5th to Jacqueline Hamer, Director of Multilateral and Global Affairs at the Ministry of Foregin Affairs. Ms. Hamer thanked us for the information, but made no comment regarding the [...]
2007-04-10 18:35:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM KNNP GY
07GEORGETOWN363NEW VENEZUELAN AMBASSADOR STILL A NO SHOW
[...] (C) Dario Morandy Figuera, publicly announced last month by Venezuela's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) as the new Ambassador to Guyana, has still not formally arrived in Guyana. Although he did visit Guyana during the recent Rio Group Summit, he had to return to Caracas as the GoG had yet [...]
2007-04-11 20:43:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPREL GY VE
07GEORGETOWN386HAPPILY NEVER AFTER: PRESIDENT TO DIVORCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ending public speculation regarding the status of their relationship, President Bharrat Jagdeo and First Lady Varshnie Jagdeo yesterday announced the end of their nine year marriage. The announcement came as a shock to no one-rumors of adultery, separation, and domestic violence [...]
2007-04-17 20:38:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV GY
07GEORGETOWN388GUYANA GOVERNANCE REFORMS: SLOW AND NOT TOO STEADY
[...] (C) Summary: The President's Advisor on Governance recently reported some limited progress on constitutional and judicial reform, local government elections, and the appointment of parliamentary committees, but she was skeptical about the GOG's ability to follow through in a timely manner. Gi [...]
2007-04-19 16:59:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM GY
07GEORGETOWN391GUYANA-CARICOM ATTENDENCE AT THE CONFERENCE ON THE
[...] (U) Per MFA Director General Elisabeth Harper, the tentative GoG delegation to the Conference on the Caribbean will include -- President Bharrat Jagdeo -- Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Rudy Insanally -- Minister of Foreign Trade & International Cooperation Dr. Henry Jeffrey -- Chief Execut [...]
2007-04-23 11:19:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KSUM CARICOM GY
07GEORGETOWN400DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN CORRUPTION AND CRIME
[...] Guyana: Charge raised the UNCAC and UNTOC April 19 with MFA Director General Elisabeth Harper and MFA Acting Director for Americas and Asia Audrey Wadell. Harper said the Cabinet sub-committee on governance discussed the UNCAC the week before. Wadell was aware of the UNTOC questionaires and s [...]
2007-04-24 20:36:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PTER PGOV KCRM KCOR CARICOM GY
07GEORGETOWN403DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GUYANA ON CARICOM-U.S.
[...] Charge raised the CITIA with MFA Director General Elisabeth Harper April 19. Amb. Harper noted that CARICOM had recently recirculated the CITIA and said that the GoG had signed off on it. In response to the U.S. proposal to release the statement bilaterally if CARICOM remains unable to agree [...]
2007-04-25 11:21:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MASS PARM PREL CARICOM GY
07GEORGETOWN404CARICOM ON CITIA STATEMENT AND CONFERENCE ON THE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-25 17:45:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETTC PARM MASS KSUM CARICOM GY
07GEORGETOWN406CARICOM ON CITIA STATEMENT AND CONFERENCE ON THE
[...] (SBU) DCM delivered the CITIA demarche to CARICOM A/SG Granderson April 24. In his introductory chatter Granderson noted the difficulty the CARICOM Secretariat has in preparing for the multitude of high-level CARICOM meetings and in following up on action items afterwards. In response to CIT [...]
2007-04-25 20:33:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC PARM MASS KSUM CARICOM GY
07GEORGETOWN407GUYANA NOT CAPABLE OF ASSISTING IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-25 20:57:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ GY
07GEORGETOWN435CARICOM: LITTLE PROGRESS ON CONFERENCE ON THE
[...] (SBU) After a month of trying for a substantive discussion with CARICOM Secretariat on the agenda for the 20/20 Conference, Secretary General Carrington told Ambassador that CARICOM agrees with the broad themes suggested by the U.S. and wished to add another "Migration and Development" that mi [...]
2007-05-04 19:53:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ETTC KSUM CARICOM XL
07GEORGETOWN445LOCAL ELECTIONS IN 2007: MAYBE YES, MAYBE NO
[...] (U) Summary: Rhetoric about local elections, more than ten years overdue, is heating up. The ruling People's Progressive Party (PPP) wants them before the end of 2007; the opposition People's National Congress (PNC) wants a new voters list first. In the end, it may come down to what Presi [...]
2007-05-09 16:49:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM GY
07GEORGETOWN447DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNHRC CANDIDACY OF BELARUS
[...] (C) Poloff delivered demarche on UN Human Rights Council Candidacy of Belarus on May 4, 2007 to Jacqueline Hamer, Director of Multilateral and Global Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Hamer stated that Guyana was currently looking at many different candidates for UNHRC seats, bu [...]
2007-05-09 20:11:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM PREL UNHRC GY
07GEORGETOWN455MAKING THE USNS COMFORT A SUCCESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Guyana's capital and populated coastal areas benefit from one of the more impressive primary health care delivery systems in the low-income world. On the other hand, Guyana's hinterland areas are in great need of the primary health care services the USNS Comfort's ashore team co [...]
2007-05-11 13:12:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID MASS MOPS PREL TBIO XK XL GY
07GEORGETOWN464 Commercial Land Lines to Guyana Out of Service
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-11 20:05:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDACOA CMGT ASEC AMGT KRIM GY
07GEORGETOWN501GUYANA CONCERNED BY THE GROWING IRAN-VENEZUELA
[...] (C) DCM delivered demarche on the growing Iran-Venezuela relationship to MFA Director General Elisabeth Harper on May 18. Amb. Harper took particular note of the points on weapons technology cooperation. She said that given the Venezuelan claim on two-thirds of Guyana's territory, Guyana "v [...]
2007-05-18 18:12:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PTER VE IR GY
07GEORGETOWN502DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT
[...] (U) DCM delivered demarche on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism to MFA Director General Elisabeth Harper on May 18. Ambassador Harper noted that Guyana has long been sensitized to the fight against terrorism as Guyana was itself victim of two terrorist attacks: the 1976 bombing [...]
2007-05-18 18:12:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER PARM RU GY
07GEORGETOWN506 Commercial Land Lines to Guyana Back In Service
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-21 19:50:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDACOA CMGT ASEC AMGT KRIM GY
07GEORGETOWN511Foreign Medical Assistance in Guyana
[...] Embassy Georgetown is committed to working with the Department, the Pentagon, and Southcom to carry through successfully the President's mandate that the USNS Comfort's visit will aid "people who might not otherwise get the basic health care they need to realize a better tomorrow." The Guyanes [...]
2007-05-22 17:40:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDEAID MASS MOPS PREL SOCI TBIO KPAO GY
07GEORGETOWN514VAT TAX BRINGS IN THE MONEY FOR GUYANA
[...] Summary: The returns are in from Guyana's newly instituted Value-Added Tax (VAT),and the government of Guyana is in the enviable position of adding more dollars to its reserves than initially projected. Leaked news of the positive returns re-ignited issues debated when the tax made its debut i [...]
2007-05-23 19:08:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV ETRD GY
07GEORGETOWN535DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPORTANCE OF INTL SUPPORT FOR
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered demarche on Importance of INTL Support for CT Objectives Under UNSCR 1267 on May 17, 2007 to Leslie Dowridge-Collins, Acting Director of Multilateral and Global Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Dowridge-Collins said that the MFA acknowledges the importanc [...]
2007-05-30 18:22:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PTER GY
07GEORGETOWN536DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1747
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered demarche on Implementing Operative Paragraph 5 of UN Security Council Resolution 1747 on May 17, 2007 to Leslie Dowridge-Collins, Acting Director of Multilateral and Global Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Dowridge-Collins said that the MFA acknowledges t [...]
2007-05-30 18:24:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM ETTC GY
07GEORGETOWN556GOVERNMENT REACTION: GUYANA AND THE JFK TERROR PLOT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: With emotions ranging from defensiveness, to apprehension, to contrition, President Bharrat Jagdeo initiated multiple conversations with the Ambassador through the weekend regarding the JFK terror plot, distancing his government from the Guyanese involved and reiterating that Guya [...]
2007-06-04 20:42:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER PGOV PREL CVIS GY
07GEORGETOWN578UPDATED GUYANA ATTENDENCE AT THE CONFERENCE OF THE
[...] Guyana has substantially changed its delegation to the Conference of the Caribbean. Per MFA CARICOM Desk Officer Nikki Cole, the final GoG delegation to the Conference of the Caribbean will be: -- President Bharrat Jagdeo -- Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Rudy Insanally -- Minister of Fore [...]
2007-06-11 19:05:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KSUM GY
07GEORGETOWN582SECOND UPDATED GUYANA ATTENDANCE AT THE CONFERENCE
[...] After checking with the MFA three times yesterday, and sending GEORGETOWN 578, Poloff was contacted by MFA and told that they have now added Kwabena Frinpong, Head of Policy Coordination Unit in the Office of the President, to the GoG delegation. 2. Guyana has substantially changed its del [...]
2007-06-12 13:38:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KSUM GY
07GEORGETOWN584DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROMOTING TRANSPARENCY AND
[...] Poloff delivered demarche on Promoting Transparency and Accountability at the UNDP on June 12 to Jacqueline Hamer, Director of Multilateral and Global Affairs at Guyana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Hamer thanked us for the information and stated that she would forward it to Guyana's repr [...]
2007-06-12 15:14:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EFIN EAID KUNR GY
07GEORGETOWN587CARICOM RESPONDS TO CITIA DEMARCHE
[...] Post received a Diplomatic Note from CARICOM Secretariat June 12 forwarding for USG consideration a draft press release on small arms, light weapons, and ammunitions incorporating numerous amendments made by CARICOM member states to the earlier draft prepared by the USG. The note was recieved [...]
2007-06-12 20:25:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MASS PARM PREL CARICOM XL
07GEORGETOWN59VAT AND CASINO GAMBLING CAUSE PUBLIC DISCORD AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: The PPP/C government,s sloppy implementation of VAT and heavy-handed efforts to legalize casino gambling are giving rise to public discontent and fueling internal dissent within the party. End Summary. 2. (U) The difficult introduction of VAT in Guyana was reported reftel. [...]
2007-01-16 19:39:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALEFIN KCOR SNAR PGOV GY
07GEORGETOWN607GOVERNMENT THREATENED BY ANOTHER DRUG SCANDAL;
[...] (C) The GoG is threatened with yet another narco-trafficking scandal. An anonymous letter to the Commissioner of Police threatens to release audio and video surveillance recordings that link government and PPP figures to cocaine trafficking unless the Commissioner removes a corrupt senior pol [...]
2007-06-19 16:36:00Embassy GeorgetownSECRETSNAR PGOV PREL MARR PINR KCRM KCOR GY
07GEORGETOWN616CARICOM ON VACATION IN AUGUST
[...] The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat informed post by Diplomatic Note that the Secretariat will be operating with a skeleton staff during August 2007 to facilitate the annual vacation of CARICOM staff. 2. Washington agencies should expect CARICOM to be less responsive than normal d [...]
2007-06-22 18:33:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL CARICOM XL
07GEORGETOWN642DEPORTEES: PROPORTIONALLY, GUYANA DEPORTS MORE
[...] The issue of deportation was raised by President Bharrat Jagdeo and other heads of government at the Conference on the Caribbean. Caribbean interest in deportation is normally presented as a concern over the impact on small nations of the large number of deportees they must absorb. However, [...]
2007-06-29 14:05:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS SMIG PREL CASC GY
07GEORGETOWN690SHOWDOWN LOOMS AT UPCOMING PNCR BIENNIAL CONGRESS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: At next week's People's National Congress Reform (PNCR) Biennial Congress, a contest for the leadership of the party looms between incumbent Robert Corbin and long-time party stalwart Vincent Alexander. While Alexander has been very public in his push for a change in leadership, [...]
2007-07-18 18:52:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM GY
07GEORGETOWN713PNCR'S RETURN TO POLITICS AS USUAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Robert Corbin was returned unopposed as Leader of the People's National Congress Reform (PNCR) after Vincent Alexander and his team of supporters formally withdrew from the elections for party leader and members of the Central Executive Committee (CEC). Alexander's withdrawal, [...]
2007-07-23 20:12:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM GY
07GEORGETOWN776GUYANA PREPARES TO ENTER BIO-ENERGY FIELD
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Guyana recently hosted a two-day, regional agro-energy seminar to discuss the current world bio-energy market and the prospects of developing bio-fuel opportunities in Guyana, Barbados, and Jamaica. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) pledged US $850,000 to Guyana to help j [...]
2007-08-16 18:50:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EAGR EAID EFIN ECON GY
07GEORGETOWN795JAGDEO PROMOTES LT. COLONELS TO DEFENSE GENERAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Bharrat Jagdeo announced that Coast Guard Captain Gary Best, one of four officers promoted to O-6 rank last week, will be appointed the next Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defense Force (GDF). The other three new colonels will take senior positions in the GDF General Sta [...]
2007-08-24 13:44:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MCAP PGOV PINS PREL GY
07GEORGETOWN805REQUEST TO REPROGRAM INL FUNDS
[...] (U) Post requests to reprogram INL Allotment No: 0107-05-01 ($100,000). 2. (SBU) Post was granted US$100,000, pursuant to INL Allotment No: 0107-05-01, in September 2005 to fund a proposed Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) project to create a vetted DEA unit in Guyana. As of this date, no fun [...]
2007-08-29 15:06:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR AFIN AMGT GY
07GEORGETOWN812PRESIDENT PARDONS TREASON ACCUSED MARK BENSCHOP
[...] (U) SUMMARY: President Jagdeo paradoned Mark Benschop, the treason accused detainee who has been imprisoned since 2002 for alleged involvement in storming the Office of the President. Benschop, whose first trial resulted in a hung jury in 2004, reluctantly accepted the pardon, but vowed to co [...]
2007-08-29 19:41:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM GY
07GEORGETOWN818MCC SIGNING CEREMONY'S REVEALING INSIGHTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 23rd, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Deputy Chairman Rodney Bent participated in a signing ceremony for the US$6.7 million two-year Guyana Threshold Program contract. The event was covered by all television and radio news programs and reported in each of the thr [...]
2007-08-31 19:19:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEAID EFIN PGOV PREL GY
07GEORGETOWN975DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN
[...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel talking points to MFA Director General Elizabeth Harper on October 25. Amb. Harper replied that she would relay the information to the appropriate financial authorities within the GoG for their action. ROBINSON [...]
2007-10-26 20:36:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KNNP IR PARM EFIN GY
07GRENADA132WTO DOHA INDUSTRIAL GOODS TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS DEMARCHE
[...] (U) Charge d'Affaires Karen Jo McIsaac delivered the points contained reftel to Grenada's Prime Minister Keith Mitchell on September 20, 2007. The is also the Minister for Finance. Mitchell was interested to hear that there is a proposal on the table for the small vulnerable economies. While [...]
2007-09-20 20:34:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD WTRO GJ
07GRENADA150GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: OCTOBER 7 - 13, 2007
[...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly activity report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin GWAR text: NO PRISONERS IN COURT FOR OPENING OF OCTOBER ASSIZES The October assizes, opened on October 9 without any of the [...]
2007-10-24 12:55:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SOCI KPAO ASEC GJ
07GRENADA151GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: OCTOBER 14 - 20, 2007
[...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly activity report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin GWAR text: A. Grenada's Private Sector Warms to VAT Private sector entities are expressing confidence in the eventual imple [...]
2007-10-24 17:53:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAGR PGOV GJ
07GRENADA156SCENESETTER CABLE FOR WHA/CAR DIRECTOR'S VISIT TO GRENADA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Embassy Grenada warmly welcomes November 12-13, 2007 visit to St. George's of WHA/CAR Director Velia de Pirro. Director De Pirro is visiting Grenada at a time when the United States is seen by Grenadians as losing its dominance in the Caribbean and China is filling the voi [...]
2007-11-06 21:21:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON ASEC EAID GJ
07GRENADA157GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT OCTOBER 28 - NOVEMBER 03,
[...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly activity report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin GWAR Text: A. Cuba's Ambassador In Grenada Attacks Embargo Unchallenged The Cuban ambassador to Grenada, Margarita Delgado [...]
2007-11-07 15:58:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EPET EINV PGOV GJ CU VE
07GRENADA160GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT FOR NOVEMBER 4-10
[...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly activity report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin GWAR Text: A. PM calls for speed from World Bank During a recent World Bank team's visit to Grenada, Prime Minister Mitchel [...]
2007-11-15 16:30:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EFIN SOCI EPET ECON GJ
07GRENADA164WHA/CAR DIRECTOR DE PIRRO VISITS TO GRENADA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: WHA/CAR Director Velia De Pirro met with a range of local government officials and community leaders during her November 12-13 visit to Grenada. In her meetings, De Pirro reiterated continued U.S. engagement in the region and stressed the importance of demonstrating support for [...]
2007-11-21 13:07:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV CASC CVIS KCRM EFIN ASEC GJ
07GRENADA165DAO CARACAS VISITS GRENADA OCTOBER 29
[...] (SBU) Defense Attache Officers Colonel Lee Bauer and Commander Stephen Leslie visited Grenada on October 29, 2007. They discussed ongoing U.S. - Grenada counter narcotics cooperation and the Grenadian desire to acquire new boats for its coast guard with the junior Minister for National Security [...]
2007-11-23 21:19:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL GJ
07GRENADA167GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT FOR NOVEMBER 18-24, 2007
[...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly activity report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin Text: A. Grenada Teachers Up the Ante The President of the Grenada Union of Teachers (GUT) announced that if there is no pa [...]
2007-11-28 20:56:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ELAB EAIR GJ
07GRENADA168GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT FOR NOVEMBER 25 - DECEMBER 1,
[...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly activity report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin Text: A. Potential "Gay Cruises" Continue to Roil the Airwaves The question of whether so-called "gay cruises" will be allow [...]
2007-12-06 20:20:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM SOCI
07GRENADA173GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT DECEMBER 2 - 8, 2007
[...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly activity report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin Text: A. New Chinese Ambassador Sworn In China's second envoy to Grenada, Ambassador Zhang Wanhai, presented his credential [...]
2007-12-11 21:03:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON EAID GJ CH PE
07GRENADA181GRENADA WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: DECEMBER 9 - 15, 2007
[...] (U) Embassy Grenada's weekly activity report (GWAR) provides a little detail about events of interest that do not merit longer reporting at this time. 2. (U) Begin GWAR text: A. Urias Peters Wins Again Under the Shadow of Darkness, Peters' radio drama about the impact of HIV/AIDS on fam [...]
2007-12-18 23:35:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SCUL ELAB GJ
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