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Identifier	Subject	Date	Office	Classification	Tags
07MADRID1692	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/GRC: ADDY, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Harold Addy, Colin Bidwell, and Mario Vargas from NASA's Glenn Research Center, to travel to Madrid and Seville, Spain on September 21 to September 30. The purpose of this visit is to participate and chair the Society of Automotive Engineers International [...]	2007-08-31 14:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA

07MADRID1693	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/HQ: FELDHAKE, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Glenn Feldhake, David Struba, and Wayne Whyte from NASA's Headquarters, to travel to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain on September 16 to September 28. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Space Frequency Coordination Group Meeting. 2. Post under [...]	2007-08-31 14:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1694	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA DIAN SEIDEL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dian Seidel, Meteoroligst from NOAA to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about September 28 to October 06. The purpose of the visit is to meet with collaborators at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and [...]	2007-08-31 14:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1695	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA RICHARD FEELY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Richard Feeley, from NOAA to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about September 24 to September 29. The purpose of the visit is to attend and lecture at the Atmospheric CO2, Ocean Acidification and Ecological Changes Workshop. 2. Post understands that no [...]	2007-08-31 14:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1696	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA STEPHANE VRIGNAUD [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Stephane Vrignaud, NOAA Fisheries Representative to the European Union to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about September 19 to September 19. The purpose of the visit is to meet with Spanish Veterinary authorities. 2. Post understands that no assistance i [...]	2007-08-31 14:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1697	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA delegation: Gerald Scott, Enric Cortes, Shannon Cass-Calay, John Walter, Guillermo Diaz, Clarence Porch, Mauricio Ortiz, Eric Prince, and Craig Brown to travel to Madrid and San Sebastian, Spain on or about September 23 to October 18. The purpose of th [...]	2007-08-31 14:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1698	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VA: GUADALUPE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, Physician from the VA Medical Center to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about September 10 to September 15. The purpose of the visit is to attend the 7th International Meeting on Therapy on Liver Diseases Conference. 2. Post und [...]	2007-08-31 14:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1699	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FEDERAL RESERVE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Christopher Laursen, Senior Supervisory Financial Analyst, from the Federal Reserve Board to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about September 3 to September 8. The purpose of the visit is to present at the International Organization of Securities Commissions [...]	2007-08-31 14:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN OTRA SP
07MADRID17	ETA ATTACK: FIRST DEATH CONFIRMED, ZAPATERO FACING [...] (C) Summary. Authorities confirmed late on January 3 that they had located the body of Ecuadoran immigrant Carlos Alonso Palate in the wreckage of the airport parking garage bombed by ETA on December 30. Alonso Palate becomes the 818th victim of ETA terrorism and the first ETA victim since Ma [...]	2007-01-04 16:37:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV SP
07MADRID1700	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AID: BARBARA ROTHSTEIN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Barbara Rothstein and Mira Gur-Arie from DCHA/DG to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about October 20 to October 26. The purpose of the visit is to attend the 3rd International Conference on the Training of the Judiciary. 2. Post understands that no as [...]	2007-08-31 14:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1701	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DRS. CHANOCK, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Stephen Chanock, Senior Investigator, National Cancer Institute, Dr. Jim Ostell, Branch Chief, National Librry of Medicine, and Dr. Gilles Thomas, Senior Investigator, NCI, NIH, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about September 5 to September 9. The [...]	2007-08-31 14:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1702	SPAIN/NATO: GENERAL SANZ ON HIS CANDIDACY [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Spanish Chief of Defense General Felix Sanz Roldan told me August 30 that he feels positive about his chances as a candidate for Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. King Juan Carlos and President Zapatero both offered Sanz their personal support, and Sanz said that he ho [...]	2007-08-31 15:16:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR PREL NATO SP
07MADRID1703	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA:PETER DEVARIS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Peter Devaris, Manager to travel to Sevilla, Spain on or about September 20 to October 7. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the 2007 Society of Automotive Engineers Aircraft & Engine Icing International Conference. 2. Post un [...]	2007-08-31 15:17:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1704	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA:JOE ALLEN BROWNLEE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Joe Allen Brownlee, Aerospace Engineer to travel to Sevilla, Spain on or about September 21 to September 30. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the 2007 Society of Automotive Engineers Aircraft & Engine Icing International Confere [...]	2007-08-31 15:17:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1705	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA:KEVIN MORGAN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Kevin Morgan Mattison, Aerospace Engineer to travel to Sevilla, Spain on or about September 21 to September 29. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the 2007 Society of Automotive Engineers Aircraft & Engine Icing International Conf [...]	2007-08-31 15:17:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1708	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) John Fleming, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ford's European division signed an agreement with union leaders at the group's Valencia plant on Wednesday in which Ford has pledged to invest 400 million euros to maintain production through 2013. In turn the unions have agreed to " [...]	2007-08-31 16:14:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EIND ENRG ETRD SP EINV EAGR SMIG
07MADRID1709	TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION TO SPAIN OF [...] (S) On August 30, EconOff delivered reftel points to Ivo Pascual Herrera, desk officer within MFA's Terrorism Sub-Directorate. Pascual told EconOff that his office would notify Post next week on Spain's position as well as on any information GOS may have regarding the referenced individuals. [...]	2007-08-31 16:22:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PREL EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC SP
07MADRID1713	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL LYNCH [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Stephen Lynch, Member, House oversight and Government Reform, and acompanying congressional delegation per reftel to travel to Rota, Spain on or about September 15 to September 16. The purpose of the visit is to perform oversight of [...]	2007-09-04 14:00:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OREP SP AFIN
07MADRID1717	SPAIN: NO ATTENDANCE AT FIRST LADY'S LITERACY AND [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-06 15:51:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA
07MADRID1721	SPAIN PARTICIPATION 2007 USNATO/USEU POL-MIL [...] Country clearance is requested for Pol/Mil officer E. Strother Murray, the designated participant for Embassy Madrid, to travel to Brussels, Belgium from September 18 to 21. The purpose of travel is to participate in the USNATO/USEU Pol/Mil workshop from September 19-21. 2. The following [...]	2007-09-07 07:58:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT MARR NATO OTRA
07MADRID1722	ODYSSEY UPDATE: DHS DELIVERS CUSTOMS INFORMATION [...] (SBU) On September 6, DHS-ICE Attache delivered the Odyssey Customs import documents to Director of Aduanas Nicolas Bonilla, as requested by GOS via the Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA) on July 24. The DHS-ICE Attache advised Bonilla that the information was confidential and to be u [...]	2007-09-07 10:49:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EWWT PBTS PHSA SCUL SP CA
07MADRID1723	ODYSSEY UPDATE: DHS DELIVERS CUSTOMS INFORMATION [...] (SBU) On September 6, DHS-ICE Attache delivered the Odyssey Customs import documents to Director of Aduanas Nicolas Bonilla, as requested by GOS via the Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement (CMAA) on July 24. The DHS-ICE Attache advised Bonilla that the information was confidential and to be u [...]	2007-09-07 10:49:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EWWT PBTS PHSA SCUL SP CA
07MADRID173	SPAIN/CIA FLIGHTS: JUDGE ORDERS DECLASSIFICATION [...] (C) Summary. National Court Examining Magistrate Ismael Moreno requested on January 31 that the Spanish Ministry of Defense and the National Intelligence Center (CNI) declassify any information related to the transit of CIA aircraft through Spanish territory, as well as any information indicating w [...]	2007-02-01 17:43:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINR SP
07MADRID1734	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) For the first time, on 9/5/07, Economy and Finance Minister Solbes conceded that there was more "uncertainty" about prospects for the Spanish economy, although he was quick to add he still thinks that Spain will grow by "close to" 3% in 2008, which is still higher than the eurozone average [...]	2007-09-10 11:03:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EIND ENRG ETRD SP EINV EAGR SOCI
07MADRID1735	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) For the first time, on 9/5/07, Economy and Finance Minister Solbes conceded that there was more "uncertainty" about prospects for the Spanish economy, although he was quick to add he still thinks that Spain will grow by "close to" 3% in 2008, which is still higher than the eurozone average [...]	2007-09-10 11:03:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EIND ENRG ETRD SP EINV EAGR SOCI
07MADRID1736	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA ROLAND DRAXLER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Roland Draxler, from NOAA to travel to Huelva, Spain on or about September 23 to September 29. The purpose of the visit is to provide a series of lectures. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are reminded that bearers of [...]	2007-09-10 14:09:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1737	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOT/NHTSA NGUYEN AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Nha Nguyen, General Engineer, International Policy and Harmonization, and Ms Barbara Hennessey, Phusical Scientist, Office ofApplied Vehicle Safety Research, from the National aHighway Traffic Safety Administration, DOT to travel to Sebastian, Spain on or a [...]	2007-09-10 14:09:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID1738	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VA: ROBERT MARTIN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Robert Martin Patterson, Overseas Military Coordinator, VA Medical Center to travel to Rota, Spain on or about October 1 to December 22. The purpose of the visit is to provide counseling to US military personnel regarding Veteran's Benefits. 2. Post u [...]	2007-09-10 14:09:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1739	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/GSFC: WILLIAM [...] Embassy grants country clearance to William Danchi from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Madrid, Spain on September 17 to September 22. The purpose of this visit is to attend Herschel proposal meetings and to attend the Herschel observations planning workshop. 2. Post und [...]	2007-09-10 14:10:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID174	SPANISH POLDIR ON AFGHANISTAN, KOSOVO, MEPP, LATIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Apparently buoyed by recent contacts with top US diplomats and the prospect of a visit by the Secretary, a very agreeable MFA Political Director Rafael SIPDIS Dezcallar told DCM on February 1 that Spain strongly supports the Comprehensive Approach in Afghanistan and is implemen [...]	2007-02-01 18:03:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP AF VZ YI
07MADRID1740	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/GSFC: ROBERT [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Robert Calvo from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Madrid, Spain on September 16 to September 23. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Interstellar Boundadry Explorer Mission pre-ship review. 2. Post understands that no assistance [...]	2007-09-10 14:10:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1741	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/JPL: WARREN MARTIN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Warren Martin from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to mas Palomas, Spain on September 17 to September 27. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 27th Anual Space Frequency Coordination Group meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistan [...]	2007-09-10 14:10:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1742	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. MERINO [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Maria Merino, Chief of Surgical Pathology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about September 6 to September 8. The purpose of the visit is to lecture at the Hospital Clinico San Carlos. 2. Post understands that no ass [...]	2007-09-10 14:10:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1743	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. PURCELL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Robert Purcell, Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about September 8 to September 15. The purpose of the visit is to present at the Seventh Internatio [...]	2007-09-10 14:10:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1744	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA VERA L. TRAINER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Vera Trainer, from NOAA to travel to Vigo, Spain on or about September 24 to September 29. The purpose of the visit is to attend a conference of the Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms. 2. Post understands that no assistance is requ [...]	2007-09-10 14:10:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1745	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA WILLIAM HOGARTH, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to William Hogarth, Kimberly Blankenbeker, and Cheri Sexton McCarty, from NOAA to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about September 6 to September 8. The purpose of the visit is to meet wit the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna Secret [...]	2007-09-10 14:10:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID175	SPANISH POLDIR ON VENEZUELA AND PRESS FREEDOMS [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-01 18:08:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SP VE
07MADRID1750	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA:ROBERT PAUL BUSTO [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Robert Paul Busto, Aerospace Engineer to travel to Sevilla, Spain on or about September 22 to October 6. The purpose of this visit is to participate and present at the 2007 Society of Automotive Engineers Aircraft & Engine Icing International [...]	2007-09-10 15:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1751	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA:PAUL PELLICANO [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Paul Pellicano, Icing Specialist to travel to Sevilla, Spain on or about September 22 to September 29. The purpose of this visit is to participate and present at the 2007 Society of Automotive Engineers Aircraft & Engine Icing International C [...]	2007-09-10 15:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1752	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA:GEORGE SOTEROPOULOS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: George Soteropoulos, Aerospace Engineer to travel to Sevilla, Spain on or about September 22 to September 29. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the 2007 Society of Automotive Engineers Aircraft & Engine Icing International Confer [...]	2007-09-10 15:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1753	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA: KAREN PEIO [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Karen Peio, System Engineer to travel to Sevilla, Spain on or about September 24 to September 28. The purpose of this visit is to participate and present at the 2007 Society of Automotive Engineers Aircraft & Engine Icing International Confere [...]	2007-09-10 15:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1754	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA:THOMAS HADLEY BOND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Thomas Hadley Bond, Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor to travel to Sevilla, Spain on or about September 22 to September 30. The purpose of this visit is to participate and present at the 2007 Society of Automotive Engineers Aircraft & Engi [...]	2007-09-10 15:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1756	SPAIN WOULD LIKE MORE INFO ON STANDING COMMISSION [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-10 17:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC SP
07MADRID176	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USEU BRUSSELS AMBASSADOR C. BOYDEN [...] COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED FOR USEU BRUSSELS AMBASSADOR C. BOYDEN GRAY TO VISIT MADRID, SPAIN Q DURING THE PERIOD 13 Q 14 MARCH 2007 Q 2 NIGHTS. 2. THE PURPOSE OF THE VISIT IS TO DELIVER REMARKS AT THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN SPAIN TRANSATLANTIC ECONOMY CONFERENCE. 3. CONTROL [...]	2007-02-02 08:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	MGT ALL EUN SP
07MADRID1767	SPAIN WILL SUPPORT FELICE GAER FOR UN CAT [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-11 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA UNHRC SP
07MADRID177	ILSA: SPANISH MFA ALREADY IN TOUCH WITH REPSOL [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-02 09:08:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC IR SP ENRG
07MADRID1770	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL BOEHNER [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Representative John Boehner, House Republican Leader and accompanying congressional delegation per reftel to travel to Rota, Spain on or about September 16 to September 17. The purpose of the visit is to visit troops and facilities [...]	2007-09-12 15:25:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OREP SP AFIN
07MADRID1773	SPAIN DISAGREES WITH U.S. APPROACH TO THEMATIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Spanish Deputy DG for Human Rights Fernando Fernandez-Arias told Poloff that Spain respectfully disagreed with most of the content of reftel demarche, but would entertain the idea of a religious intolerance resolution in the Third Committee if absolutely necessary. He said the EU [...]	2007-09-12 17:24:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL UNGA
07MADRID1774	SPAIN/CT OVERVIEW: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Mr. Ambassador, the visit to Madrid of your interagency delegation comes during a time when the Spanish government is already in a heightened state of terrorist alert, both from the Basque terrorist group ETA and from Islamist extremists threatening to strike at the heart of t [...]	2007-09-13 13:34:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL SP
07MADRID1779	COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR JAMES DUDLEY [...] Country clearance is requested for Madrid's Economic Counselor, James Dudley, to travel to Brussels, Belgium from September 24 to 26. The purpose of travel is for consultations on September 25 and 26. 2. Please designate a control officer. Assistance with appointments and access to the Em [...]	2007-09-14 12:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT OTRA
07MADRID1780	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/JPL: BIDUSHI [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Bidushi Bhattacharya from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on September 17 to September 23. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Herschel Observation Planning meeting at the European Space Agency. 2. Post understands t [...]	2007-09-17 08:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1781	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/JPL: PHILLIP [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Phillip Appleton from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on September 20 to September 21. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Herschel meeting at the European Space Agency. 2. Post understands that no assistance is requ [...]	2007-09-17 08:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1782	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/GRC: JOHN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to John Oldenburg from NASA's Glenn Research Center, to travel to Seville, Spain on September 22 to September 29. The purpose of this visit is to attend and chair a session at the Society of Automotive Engineers International Conference. 2. Post understan [...]	2007-09-17 08:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1783	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/LARC:WILLIAM [...] Embassy grants country clearance to William Wilson from NASA's Langley Research Center, to travel to Albacete, Spain on September 23 to September 28. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the first International Conference on Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks. 2. Post understan [...]	2007-09-17 08:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1784	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FCC: SANKAR PERSAUD [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Sankar Persaud, Electronics Engineer, Federal Communications Commission to travel to Mas Palmas, Spain on or about September 17 to September 27. The purpose of the visit is to attend the Space Frequency and Coordination Group Meeting. 2. Post understan [...]	2007-09-17 08:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1785	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USDOC/CEN BRIAN MONSELL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Brian Monsell from the U.S. Census Bureau, to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about September 19 to September 23. The purpose of the visit is to attend consultations on seasonal adjustment between the Bank of Spain and the U.S. Census. 2. Post understand [...]	2007-09-17 08:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID1786	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NTSB BOWER, DANIEL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Daniel Bower, Vehicle Performance Division, from the National Transportation Safety Board, to travel to Seville, Spain on or about September 22 to September 28. The purpose of the visit is to attend the SAE Aircraft and Engine International Icing Conference [...]	2007-09-17 08:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID1787	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA CASSANDRA BARNES [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Cassandra Barnes, NOAA Program Analyst to travel to Murcia, Spain on or about September 23 to September 29. The purpose of the visit is to attend the Marine Protected Association Symposium. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Vis [...]	2007-09-17 08:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1788	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA TERESA ROWLES [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Teresa Rowles, NOAA Scientist to travel to Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain on or about September 15 to September 21. The purpose of the visit is to attend and participate in the Thesis Defense and Health Meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistance [...]	2007-09-17 08:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1789	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA THOMAS PETERSON [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Thomas Peterson, NOAA Scientist to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about September 19 to September 25. The purpose of the visit is to attend the Universitat Rovira I Virgil's Seminar on Climate Change. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required [...]	2007-09-17 08:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1790	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. LAURA [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Laura Beane-Freeman, Research Fellow, NIH, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about September 19 to September 22. The purpose of the visit is to attend the Formaldehyde International Science Conference. 2. Post understands that no assistance is re [...]	2007-09-17 08:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1791	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. MARK [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Mark Rohrbaugh, Director Office of Technology Transfer, Office of the Director, NIH, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about September 16 to September 19. The purpose of the visit is to attend and present at the 13th European Congress on Biotechnolog [...]	2007-09-17 08:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1792	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DRS. KOUPRNA, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Nataly Kouprina, Staff Scientist, Dr. Dmitiri Lokinov, Staff Scientist, and Dr. Teruhiko Suzuki, Visiting Fellow Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, to travel to Santander, Spain on or ab [...]	2007-09-17 08:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1793	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to John Singleton, from NNSA to travel to Valencia, Spain on or about September 23 to September 30. The purpose of the visit is to attend the 7th International Symposium on Crystalline Organic Metals, Superconductors and Ferromagnets. 2. Post understands [...]	2007-09-17 08:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID1794	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to David Funk, from NNSA to travel to Tenerife, Spain on or about September 22 to September 29. The purpose of the visit is to attend the 9th International Conference on Laser Ablation. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors a [...]	2007-09-17 08:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID1795	SPANISH MUSLIM LEADER'S 9-11 MESSAGE [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-17 11:00:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER KISL PGOV SP
07MADRID1796	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA: BRUCE EMERSON [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Bruce Emerson Tarbert, to travel to Sevilla, Spain on or about September 19 to September 25. The purpose of this visit is to attend the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences Conference. 2. Post understands that no Embassy ass [...]	2007-09-17 12:10:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1797	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA: DAVID LUSKER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: David Lusker, Supervisory, Aviation Safety Inspector, to travel to Sevilla, Spain on or about September 18 to September 23. The purpose of this visit is to conduct part 61 flight checks for two USAF pilots. 2. Post understands that no Emb [...]	2007-09-17 12:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1798	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA: MARGARET NANCY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Margaret Nancy Langsted, to travel to Sevilla, Spain on or about September 22 to October 1. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Society of Engineers 2007 Aircraft and Engine Icing International Conference. 2. Post understands that [...]	2007-09-17 12:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1801	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) The European Commission released growth forecasts on 9/11/07. The Commission maintained its 3.7% GDP growth forecast for Spain in 2007 compared with 2.5% for the eurozone and 2.9% for the UK. Fourteen private sector entities also maintained an average growth forecast of 3.8% for Spain in [...]	2007-09-17 15:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EIND ENRG ETRD SP EINV EAGR SOCI
07MADRID1802	SPANISH OPTIMISTIC ABOUT SYRIA BORDER PLAN, NOTE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Spanish DG for the Mideast, Mediterranean and Africa Alvaro Iranzo told DCM September 13 that Spain had received generally positive EU feedback to its non-paper on a Syrian border force, noting that certain EU members, including the French, had expressed a desire to wait until a [...]	2007-09-17 16:24:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN SP SY IS LE
07MADRID1803	SPAIN LOWERING EXPECTATIONS ON MFO CONTRIBUTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-17 16:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KMFO PREL XT IS IT JA EG SP
07MADRID1804	SPAIN'S STANCE ON JOINING AND CONTRIBUTING TO A [...] (SBU) On September 13, MFA's Deputy Director for Multilateral Economic Issues Juan Luis Munoz de Laborde told EconOff that Spain would postpone joining or contributing financially to the Partnership for Democratic Governance (PDG) until it became clearer what role and form the fledging organiz [...]	2007-09-17 20:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SP OECD EAID EUN
07MADRID1805	SPAIN STILL INTERESTED IN GUANTANAMO DETAINEES, [...] (S/NF) Based on Reftel A request, Embassy Legatt on September 4 met with Javier Zaragoza, Chief of the Spanish National Court, to discuss the case of Guantanamo detainees Jamil El Banna and Omar Deghays. Legatt reminded Zaragoza that the GOS requested the extradition of El Banna and Deghays in 2004 [...]	2007-09-18 07:56:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET//NOFORN	PHUM PREL PTER PINR SP UK JO LY
07MADRID1806	CONGEN BARCELONA ACTION ON ROSALINI CASE AND [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified. 2. This is an action cable. See para. 3. 3. ConGen Barcelona called the Audiencia Provincial de Barcelona on 9/12/07 and learned that Dugan Rosalini's case has been postponed until sometime in early April, 2008. The case is being handled by [...]	2007-09-18 09:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP CASC ECON SP
07MADRID1807	SPECIAL 301 DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified. 2. Per ref B instructions, Embassy delivered the Special 301 demarche to Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade Subdirector General for EU Trade Policy, Inigo Febrel Melgarejo, on 9/5/07; Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade Deputy Head of Ser [...]	2007-09-18 09:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV ADCO SP
07MADRID1808	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR S/CT AMBASSADOR DAILEY [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Dell Dailey and an interagency delegation to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about September 20 to September 22. The purpose of the visit is to participate in consultations with host government [...]	2007-09-18 12:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OREP SP AFIN
07MADRID1809	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. HUESTIS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Marilyn Huestis, Chief, Chemistry and Drug Metabolism Section, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, to travel to Santiago de Compostela, Spain on or about September 24 to September 30. The purpose of the visit is to attend and give the opening speech [...]	2007-09-18 12:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1810	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/HQ: DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA delegation: David Struba, Wayne Whyte, Brad Kaufman, Glenn Feldhake, Badri Younes, Tom Vondeak from NASA Headquarters, to travel to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain on September 16 to September 28. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present a [...]	2007-09-18 12:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1811	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA: DAVID LUSKER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: David Lusker, Aviation Safety Inspector to travel to Seville, Spain on or about September 18 to September 23. The purpose of this visit is to conduct flight checks for two USAF pilots. 2. Post understands that no Embassy assistance is requ [...]	2007-09-18 12:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1812	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NRC: TAI HUANG AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Tai Huang, Reactor Engineer, and Jose March Leuba, Research and Development Staff Member, from NRC to travel to Madrid, Cofrentes, and Valencia, Spain on or about September 19 to September 26. The purpose of the visit is [...]	2007-09-18 12:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID1823	EMBASSY MADRID PROPOSAL FOR U.S.-SPAIN RENEWABLE [...] Summary: Consistent with our Mission Strategic Plan, Embassy Madrid is launching an initiative to increase linkages between Spanish and U.S. government and private sector leaders in the area of renewable energy. Spanish firms are world leaders in renewable energy technology, and there is inc [...]	2007-09-19 16:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ECON ENRG EINV KGHG KPAO SENV SP
07MADRID1832	SPAIN: ICAO DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SPLIT-CURRENCY [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-21 16:17:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ICAO SP PREL ECON
07MADRID1834	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) First Vice President and Finance Minister Pedro Solbes would like to make this benefit prospective (not clear from media reports as of exactly when),but all the opposition parties want to make the benefit applicable to parents of children born as of January 1, 2007. (Comment: Usually the [...]	2007-09-21 16:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EIND ENRG ETRD SP EINV EAGR SOCI
07MADRID1835	SPAIN EQUIVOCAL ON RCFS REGISTRATION, BUT MAY DO [...] (C) Charge spoke September 20 with Jose Maria Pons, Director General for North America and Europe, about the need for Spain as Chair-in-Office (CiO) to allow the registration of the Russian Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) for the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM). Charge expres [...]	2007-09-21 17:14:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER OSCE RS SP
07MADRID1838	SPAIN SUPPORTS MINUSTAH RENEWAL, WILL ATTEND KEY [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-24 17:33:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PREL UNSC UNGA HA SP
07MADRID1839	SPAIN WILL ATTEND COLOMBIA MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-24 17:34:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL PTER PHUM UNGA CO SP
07MADRID1840	DISRUPTING TALIBAN FINANCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-25 08:44:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PTER KTFN EFIN KPAO SP
07MADRID1844	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS: TORRES [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Ivette Torres, Physical Specialist, USGS to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about September 22 to September 29. The purpose of the visit is to attend the annual meeting of the International Consultative Group on Nonferrous Metal Statistics. 2. Post under [...]	2007-09-25 15:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1845	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS: SHEDD [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Kim Shedd, Physical Specialist, USGS to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about September 22 to September 29. The purpose of the visit is to attend and participate in the 20th Annual General meeting of the International Tungsten Industry Association. 2. Po [...]	2007-09-25 15:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1846	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Turab Lookman, from NNSA to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about October 17 to October 19. The purpose of the visit is to visit the University of Barcelona and participate in collaborative discussions on Los Alamos projects. 2. Post understands that [...]	2007-09-25 15:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID1847	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/RW: RENEE JACKSON [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Renee Jackson, from DOE, to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about October 13 to October 23. The purpose of the visit is to meet with ENRESA officials to discuss possible activities for cooperation under the USDOE/ENRESA bilateral agreement. 2. Post under [...]	2007-09-25 15:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID1848	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NSF: J SILVERTHORNE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Jane Silverthorne, Program Director in the Division of Biological Infrastructure , NSF to travel to Tenerife, Spain on or about October 02 to October 06. The purpose of the visit is to attend the PGEM6 Conference. 2. Post understands that no assist [...]	2007-09-25 15:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA NSF SP ORP OTRA TPHY
07MADRID1849	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOT: WILLIAM LINDQUIST [...] Embassy grants country clearance to William Lindquist, International Economist, Office of Europe and Eurasia, US Department of Treasury to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about September 26 to September 30. The purpose of the visit is to participate in meetings of donors in Kosovo in preparatio [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN OTRA SP
07MADRID1850	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/GSFC: SARA HEAP [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Sara Heap from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Granada, Spain on October 1 to October 6. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the Spectroscopy in Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution Conference. 2. Post understands that no a [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1851	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA DIAN SEIDEL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dian Seidel, NOAA Meteorologist to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about September 28 to October 6. The purpose of the visit is to meet with collaborators at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. 2. Post u [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1852	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA RICHARD FEELY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Richard Feely, NOAA Supervisory Oceanographer to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about September 24 to September 29. The purpose of the visit is to give an invited lecture at the Atmospheric CO2, Ocean Acidification and Ecological Changes Workshop. 2. [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1853	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DRS. FOJO, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Antonio Tito Fojo, Senior Investigator, Medical Oncology Branch, Dr. Whoon Jong Kil, Posdoctoral Fellow, and Dr. Patrick Mansky, Director Integrative Medicine Consult Service, NIH, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about September 21 to September 27. [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1854	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. HOLLAND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Steven Holland, Chief, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, to travel to Malaga, Spain on or about September 26 to September 30. The purpose of the visit is to serve as part of the facult [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP

07MADRID1855	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. MURPHY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Philip Murphy, Senior Investigator and Laboratory Chief, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about September 26 to September 30. The purpose of the visit is to speak at the Innovative Chemokine-ba [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1856	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. CHENG, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Orlena Cheng, Biologist, Laboratory of Pathology, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Mr. Peter Jensen, Biologist, NINDS, and Dr. Eugene Major, Laboratory Chief, NINDS, NIH, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about September 29 to [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1857	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. LEVENS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. David Levens, Chief of Gene Regulation, Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, to travel to Baeza, Spain on or about September 29 to October 03. The purpose of the visit is to speak at the Current Trends in Biomedicine Workshops. 2 [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1858	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/JPL: MICHAEL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Michael Hansen and Armond Salazar from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on October 12 to October 19. The purpose of this visit is to attend technical meetings in support of Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex operations. [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1859	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/JPL: DRAIN, HALE, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Tracy Drain, Amy Hale, and Benhan Jai from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on October 13 to October 19. The purpose of this visit is to attend the MARS Reconnaissance Orbiter Project Public Outreach Presentation to planetarium [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID186	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. ANTON [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Anton Simeonov, Group Leader, NIH Chemical Genomics Center, National Human Genome Research Institute, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on February 19 to February 21. The purpose of this visit is to attend the attend and present at the MedChem Europe Confe [...]	2007-02-05 12:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID1860	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARY DOETSCH [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Mary Doetsch, Regional Regugee Coordinator, to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about October 1 to October 16. The purpose of travel is to work temporarily from Madrid as discussed in emails. 2. Post will arrange access to computers and embassy per reftel [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF OTRA SP
07MADRID1861	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC: LINDA BRADLEY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Linda Bradley, Geneticist, COCHP/NCCDPHP, HHS/CDC, to travel to Seville, Spain on or about October 8 to October 11. The purpose of the visit is to present and attend at the Clinical Validity & Utility of Genetic Susceptibility Testing on Common Disorders M [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1862	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/FDA: DR. ALBERTO [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Alberto Gutierrez, Deputy Office Director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA, HHS, to travel to Seville, Spain on or about October 7 to October 11. The purpose of the visit is for program development and to attend the European Commissions Wor [...]	2007-09-25 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID187	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/HQ DAVID STRUBA [...] Embassy grants country clearance to David Struba and Ronald Carbery from NASA HQ to travel to Madrid, Spain on February 12 to February 16. The purpose of this visit is to attend international meetings on the Unified S-Band. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visit [...]	2007-02-05 12:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
07MADRID188	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMBASSADOR DAVID GROSS [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador David Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Comunications and Information Policy/EB/CIP/State, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on February 10 to February 14. The purpose of this visit is to speak at the 3GSM World Congress. [...]	2007-02-05 12:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ECPS ETRD SP
07MADRID189	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE: STEPHANIE CLARKE, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Stephanie Payne, Allison Bennett and Whitney Creer to travel to Port of Algeciras, Spain on February 18 to February 22. The purpose of this visit to conduct a site visit to the Port of Algeciras to check status of operations and to meet with [...]	2007-02-05 12:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID1890	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/JPL: DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Charles Acton, Nathaniel Bachman Boris Semenov and Edward Wright from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on October 21 to October 28. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Spacecraft Planet Instrument C-Matrix events at the E [...]	2007-10-01 08:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1891	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/JPL: BEYER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Patrick Beyer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on November 2 to November 9. The purpose of this visit is to conduct a review of the Madrid Deep Space communications complex operations and development tasks. 2. Post unde [...]	2007-10-01 08:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1892	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS: VAN WAGTENDONK [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Jan Van Wagtendon, Research Forester, USGS to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about September 28 to October 7. The purpose of the visit is to attend and present at the Forest Fires: Suppression or Adaptation workshop. 2. Post understands that no assistan [...]	2007-10-01 08:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1893	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS: NIELSEN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Jennifer Nielsen, Research Fishery Biologist, USGS to travel to San Sebastian, Spain on or about October 5 to October 14. The purpose of the visit is to attend and represent the American Fisheries Society as President at the International Meeting on Tagging [...]	2007-10-01 08:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1894	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA STEVEN MURAWSKI [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Steven Murawski, NOAA Scientist to travel to Alicante, Spain on or about September 25 to September 28. The purpose of the visit is to attend the Marine Protected Area meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are reminde [...]	2007-10-01 08:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1895	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USPS PATRICIA BARNWELL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Patricia Barnwell, Program Manager, International Postal Development, USPS, to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about September 29 to October 3. The purpose of the visit is to attend the Postal Development Action Group and Development Cooperation Action Grou [...]	2007-10-01 08:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC USPS OTRA SP
07MADRID1896	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA25/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Ronald Nesse, William Kilmartin and William Johnson, from NNSA to travel to Algeciras, Spain on or about October 7 to October 11. The purpose of the visit is to conduct Port site visit and to meet with Spanish customs. 2. Post understands that no assis [...]	2007-10-01 08:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID1897	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. CURTIS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Curtis Harris, Senior Investigator, NIH, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about October 3 to October 7. The purpose of the visit is to attend and present at the First International Liver Cancer Association Annual Conference. 2. Post understands [...]	2007-10-01 08:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1898	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DRS. BUDHU [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Anuradha Budhu, Staff Scientist, and Dr. Snorri Thorgeirsson, Senior Investigator, NIH, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about October 4 to October 8. The purpose of the visit is to attend and participate in the First International Liver Cancer Asso [...]	2007-10-01 08:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1899	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/GSFC: ROBERTO [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Gregory Frazier and Roberto Calvo from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Madrid, Spain on October 7 to October 13. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Interstellar Boundary Explorer Transponder Mission Pre-Ship review. 2. Post und [...]	2007-10-01 08:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID190	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SEC: ETHIOPIS TAFARA, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to US Securities and Exchange Commission Officials: Sherman Boone, Assistant Director, Ethiopis Tafara, Director, Roel Campos, Commissioner, and Estee Levine, Legal Adviser to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about February 2 to February 9. The purpose of this v [...]	2007-02-05 12:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID1900	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/GSFC: MICHAEL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Michael Powers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Madrid, Spain on October 7 to October 13. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Interstellar Boundary Explorer Transponder Mission Pre-Ship review. 2. Post understands that no as [...]	2007-10-01 08:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1901	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/JPL: BHANJI AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Alaudin Bhanji and Peter Hames from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on September 29 to October 6. The purpose of this visit is to address and make some decisions on some critical issue facing the Madrid Deep Space Communications [...]	2007-10-01 08:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1902	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) The government proposes to spend Euros 289.8 billion and collect Euros 301.6 billion in taxes, which represents a projected budget surplus of 1.15% of GDP. The budget surplus assumes Spain will grow by 3.3% in 2008, which is still a reasonable, albeit somewhat optimistic, forecast given th [...]	2007-10-01 11:51:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EIND ENRG ETRD SP EINV EAGR SOCI
07MADRID1903	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA: WILLIAM GEISER, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employees: William Geiser, Leslie Mauney, Robert Loveland, Michael Gunning and David Levine, Aviation Safety Inspector to travel to Rota, Spain on or about October 18 to October 19. The purpose of this visit is to conduct certification of navigation ai [...]	2007-10-01 12:33:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID1909	SPAIN: UPDATE ON MEGAPORTS NON-PROLIFERATION [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 17-18, representatives from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) visited Spain to assess the implementation of the Megaports program at the Port of Algeciras and negotiate a cost-sharing expansion to Spain's other leading ports: Barcelona and Valenci [...]	2007-10-01 17:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EWWT ENRG PARM PREL SP
07MADRID191	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA: MICHAEL MCNERNY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA Aviation Safety Inspector, Michael McNerny to travel to Madrid, Spain on March 05 to March 8. The purpose of this visit is to perform surveillane of Fedex Express Line station operation. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Vi [...]	2007-02-05 12:46:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR SP
07MADRID1911	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL THOMPSON [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Mischa Thompson and Ms. Janice Helwig, Staff Advisors for the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe to travel to Madrid and Cordoba, Spain on or about October 8 to October 13. The purpose of the visit is to attend and chai [...]	2007-10-02 10:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OREP SP AFIN
07MADRID1914	SPAIN/CT: PROPOSAL TO CREATE A SOUTHERN EUROPEAN [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. In order to confront the sustained terrorist threat to the United States and our European allies, we must find innovative, flexible and proactive approaches to strengthen the effectiveness of international cooperation in the fight against terrorism. My Mission inter-agency team has [...]	2007-10-02 15:47:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER SNAR SP
07MADRID1916	TERRORIST FINANCE: SPAIN ON SAUDI FIVE UPDATE [...] (C) On October 1, EconOff delivered reftel points to Ivo Pascual Herrera, desk officer within MFA's Terrorism Sub-Directorate. Pascual expressed appreciation for the update and reported that Spain had no position concerning the designations of the reftel A Saudi nationals under domestic and U [...]	2007-10-03 08:58:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER SA
07MADRID1918	SPAIN STRAPPED FOR FUNDS FOR LEBANON TRIBUNAL, MFO [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-03 15:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	UNSC PTER PREL KMFO XT LE IS IT JA EG
07MADRID1919	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TREASURY: BRADLEY J. [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Bradley Waring, Director of Conglomerates, Office of Thrift Supervision, US Department of Treasury to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about October 16 to October 18. The purpose of the visit is to participate in the Joint Forum Working Group on Conglomerate [...]	2007-10-03 16:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN OTRA SP
07MADRID1920	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMBASSADOR WILLIAM [...] Embassy grants country clearance to U.S. Embassy Berlin Ambassador William Timken, Jr., to travel to Spain on or about October 5 to October 19. The purpose of the visit is for personal business. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are reminded that bearers [...]	2007-10-03 16:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER OTRA SP
07MADRID1921	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ELAINE SAMSON [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Elaine Samson, Senior Country Officer for Spain and Andorra, to travel to Madrid, Barcelona and Andorra, Spain on or about October 8 to October 14. The purpose of the visit is for consultations. 2. Post has made reservations near the Embassy and will s [...]	2007-10-03 16:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC OTRA SP
07MADRID1922	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DRS. BURGESS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Shawn Burgess, Investigator, and Dr. Ivan Ovcharenko, Investigator, NIH, to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about October 7 to October 10. The purpose of the visit is to speak at the Deciphering the Regulatory Genome: Development, Evolution and Disease wo [...]	2007-10-03 16:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1923	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA SUSAN SOLOMON [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Susan Solomon, Senior Scientist from NOAA to travel to Valencia, Spain on or about November 7 to November 18. The purpose of the visit is to attend the Twenty-Seventh Session of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2. Post understands that no assis [...]	2007-10-03 16:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA SENV TPHY SP
07MADRID1924	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA BIGELOW, MILLER, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Keith Bigelow, Timothy Miller, Jana Yonat Swimmer, and Jason Link, NOAA Scientists to travel to San Sebastian, Spain on or about October 6 to October 20. The purpose of the visit is to participate in the meeting with international scientists: Tagging and Tr [...]	2007-10-03 16:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS KSCA OTRA SP
07MADRID1925	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC: TIMOTHY HOLTZ [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Timothy Holtz, Medical Officer, NCHHSTP, HHS, CDC, to travel to Madrid and Gran Canarias, Spain on or about October 23 to October 27. The purpose of the visit is to attend the bimonthly Green Light Committee meeting of STOP TB. 2. Post understands that [...]	2007-10-03 16:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1926	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC: FREDERICK [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Frederick Angulo, Deputy Branch Chief, CCID/NCZVED, HHS/CDC, to travel to Segovia and Madrid, Spain on or about October 16 to October 19. The purpose of the visit is to present at the MedVetNet meeting on Microbial Ecology of Antimicrobial Resistance. [...]	2007-10-03 16:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ETRD OTRA SP
07MADRID1927	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/JPL: JOHN SIMMONDS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to John Simmonds from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on October 15 to October 19. The purpose of this visit is to transit through Madrid for a meeting in Munich. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visi [...]	2007-10-03 16:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1928	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/KSC: DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA delegation as listed in reftel from NASA Kennedy Space Center, to travel to Madrid and Moron, Spain on October 14 to October 26. The purpose of this visit is to support STS-120 Operations at the Transoceanic Abort Landing Site. 2. Post understands [...]	2007-10-03 16:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1929	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/KSC: DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA delegation as listed in reftel from NASA Kennedy Space Center, to travel to Madrid and Moron, Spain on October 11 to October 27. The purpose of this visit is to support STS-120 Operations at the Transoceanic Abort Landing Site. 2. Post understands [...]	2007-10-03 16:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1930	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/HQ: ANTHONY CARRO [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Anthony Carro from NASA Headquarters, to travel to Madrid, Spain on October 3 to October 12. The purpose of this visit is to support the Space Communication Navigation Study Group. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are [...]	2007-10-03 16:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID1931	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/EE: SILVERSTEIN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Alison Silverstein, Consultant to DOE, to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about November 1 to November 2. The purpose of the visit is to articulate international group research focus - renewable energy smart grid demand side management. 2. Post understan [...]	2007-10-03 16:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID1932	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/EE: JENNIFER OWEN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Jennifer Owen, Senior Advisor, Legislative Affairs from DOE, to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about October 8 to October 12. The purpose of the visit is to participate in a congressional staff tour on behalf of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable [...]	2007-10-03 16:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID1933	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA RESOLUTION ON RAPE AS [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-03 16:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI
07MADRID1934	SPAIN SUPPORTS CONTINUED PRESSURE ON BURMA [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and background materials separately on October 2, to Fernando Fernandez-Arias, Spanish Deputy Director General for Human Rights, and Jose Luis Garcia Galan, Deputy Director General for Southeast Asia, and thanked them for the several statements already iss [...]	2007-10-03 16:33:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BM EUN
07MADRID1935	SPAIN ON SUPPORT FOR MALI AND COMMUNITY OF [...] (U) Poloff spoke with Juan Manuel Linares, Spanish Deputy Director General for the United Nations, October 2 about Spanish support for the Community of Democracies and specifically for Mali's effort to organize a successful Ministerial meeting in November. Linares said that of course Spain i [...]	2007-10-04 07:12:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV SP
07MADRID1936	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL O'MALIA [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. Scott O'Malia, Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Committee and accompanying Staffdel to travel to Madrid, Seville, Port of Algeciras and Granada, Spain on or about October 6 to October 12. The purpose of the visit is [...]	2007-10-04 14:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OREP SP AFIN
07MADRID1937	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/EE: LISA EPIFANI [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Lisa Epifani, Assistant Secretary for CI, from DOE, to travel to Spain on or about October 6 to October 12. The purpose of the visit is to participate in a congressional staff tour on behalf of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to review [...]	2007-10-05 08:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID194	SPAIN: TELEFONICA'S VIEW OF VENEZUELA AND REST OF [...] DCM, accompanied by ECONOFF, met February 5 with Jose Maria Alvarez-Pallete Lopez, President of Telefonica International, to discuss Chavez's telcoms (e.g., CANTV) nationalization threats and their potential impact on Telefonica's Venezuela operations/investment. Alvarez-Pallete said that Tel [...]	2007-02-06 11:05:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECPS EFIN ETRD PREL
07MADRID1942	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) Spanish Employers Federation (CEOE) Economic Commission President Jose Luis Feito says the Spanish economy can withstand a dollar/euro exchange rate of 1/1.4 because most Spanish exports go to Europe and, besides, exports are not as important a component of Spanish GDP as they are for coun [...]	2007-10-06 08:50:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EIND ENRG ETRD SP EINV EAGR SOCI
07MADRID1943	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA25/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Ronald Nesse, William Kilmartin , Lindsay Guthrie, and William Johnson, from NNSA to travel to Algeciras, Spain on or about October 7 to October 11. The purpose of the visit is to conduct Port site visit and to meet with Spanish customs. 2. Post unders [...]	2007-10-06 08:50:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID195	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMBASSADOR MARK DYBUL, [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to S/GAC US Delegation; Ambassador Mark Dybul, Kristin Pugh and Robert Mayes, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on February 10 to February 15. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 3GSM World Congress and participate in Steering Committee [...]	2007-02-06 11:46:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ASEC EAID KHIV OTRA SOCI SP
07MADRID1950	EMBASSY ASKS MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY, TOURISM AND [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified. 2. EconCouns and EconOff met with the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade's (Joan Clos) Chief of Staff, Marc Murtra, and Industry Advisor Bruno Fernandez Scrimieri, on 10/4/07. EconOff queried Murtra on the Ministry's thinking on the Rosalini [...]	2007-10-09 15:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP CASC ECON SP
07MADRID1952	SPANISH DEMARCHES ON ODYSSEY ONCE AGAIN [...] (SBU) On October 9, Foreign Ministry Deputy Director for North American Affairs Fernando Prieto presented a nonpaper to desk officer Elaine Samson and EconOff reinforcing the GOS' desire to obtain broader access to the Odyssey import documents into the U.S. and requesting that the U.S. conduct [...]	2007-10-10 12:06:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PBTS PHSA SCUL SP UK
07MADRID1953	SPAIN TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF ALL FOUR BIOTECH VARIETIES [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-10 13:23:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD TBIO PREL SP ECPSN
07MADRID1954	SPAIN TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF ALL FOUR BIOTECH [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-10 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD TBIO ECPSN PREL SP
07MADRID196	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SECDEF ROBERT M. GATES [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Delegation traveling with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates to travel to Seville, Spain on or about February 7 to February 12. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the USNATO Defense Ministerial meetings. 2. Contro [...]	2007-02-06 12:50:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ASEC EAID KHIV OTRA SOCI SP
07MADRID1963	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA: PAUL RICHARD [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Paul Richard Durrence, Aviation Safety Inspector to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about October 15 to October 19. The purpose of this visit is to conduct recertification inspection of CASA to comply with the airbus special exemption. 2. [...]	2007-10-11 15:58:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID197	SCENESETTER FOR SECDEF VISIT TO SPAIN [...] (C/NF) Mr. Secretary, welcome to Spain. Your visit to Spain will be brief, and it will be focused on NATO issues rather than on the host. Nonetheless, the trip provides an important opportunity to discuss key initiatives with your Spanish counterpart, Defense Minister Jose Antonio Alonso, an [...]	2007-02-06 14:16:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR SP
07MADRID1977	SPAIN DETAINS ODYSSEY EXPLORER IN DISPUTED [...] (C) The Bahamian-flagged Odyssey Explorer sailed out of Gibraltar at 9:38 am local time the morning of October 16 and was immediately approached by the Spanish Navy and the Guardia Civil approximately 3.5 nautical miles south of Gibraltar in disputed waters. The Spanish authorities detained t [...]	2007-10-16 17:59:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PHSA SCUL SP UK CA ECON
07MADRID198	SPAIN: EU CONSTITUTION HELPS THOSE WHO HELP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Spain hosted a January 26 conference at the deputy foreign minister level of the 18 nations that have ratified the EU Constitution Treaty. While most efforts at reviving the EU Constitution impasse have focused on stripping away enough objectionable content to satisfy the Frenc [...]	2007-02-06 14:42:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN SP
07MADRID1982	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) The President of the Bank of Spain, Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez, forecasts 2008 GDP growth of 3% or possibly somewhat less. The IMF currently forecasts 2.7% growth for Spain in 2008. (Comment: The lower central bank forecast is perhaps most interesting, as Fernandez was appointed to h [...]	2007-10-17 16:08:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON EFIN EIND ELAB KIPR SP EINV
07MADRID1987	EUR ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S OCTOBER 15 MEETING [...] (C) Summary: A/S Fried and CDA Llorens met October 15 with Spanish FM Miguel Angel Moratinos. A/S Fried briefed Moratinos on 2 2 talks on CFE and missile defense, including the possibility of major progress on CFE in time for the OSCE ministerial Spain is hosting in November. A/S Fried prepa [...]	2007-10-18 17:16:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PARM PREL SP KV CU
07MADRID1996	TERRORISM FINANCE: SPAIN NOTIFIED OF DESIGNATION [...] (U) As requested, Post informed the GOS via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Terrorism Sub-directorate of the UN listing of the three Saudi nationals (reftel). EconOff had previously provided identifying information on these individuals but re-supplied that information. EconOff requested tha [...]	2007-10-22 07:10:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL SA SP
07MADRID1997	HIGH-LEVEL SPANISH GOVERNMENT PARTICIPATION IN [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-22 07:54:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ENRG EPET KPAO KSCA SENV SOCI TRGY KGHG
07MADRID1998	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) The index closed on October 18 at 15,501 points, its highest level ever, despite lingering fears of the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis. Analysts say that the good results posted by Telefonica, Santander, BBVA, Iberdrola, Endesa and other energy companies, plus the U.S. Fed's intere [...]	2007-10-22 08:14:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON EFIN EIND ELAB KIPR SP EINV
07MADRID20	SPANISH RESPONSE TO GALILEO DEMARCHE [...] ESTHOFF made reftel points January 5 to MFA Deputy Director General for International Economic Relations Juan Luis Munoz de Laborde, asking about the status of Spanish ratification of U.S.-EU GPS Galileo Cooperation Agreement and whether Spain plans to mandate that GOS entities utilize Galile [...]	2007-01-05 14:52:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA SENV KTIA SPCE SP
07MADRID2018	SPAIN/CT: S/CT COORDINATOR DAILEY DISCUSSES [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-23 13:34:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PTER PREL PGOV SP
07MADRID2020	SPAIN/OSCE: INTRODUCING PHILIP REMLER AS CANDIDATE [...] (C) In an October 22 meeting at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs with MFA Director General for Europe and North America Jose Maria "Pepe" Pons (who is the focal point for OSCE issues during Spain's chairmanship),EUR DAS David Kramer introduced Philip Remler as the U.S. candidate to head [...]	2007-10-23 15:43:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL SP
07MADRID2021	SPAIN: INL ACTING A/S SCHWEICH BRIEFS SPANISH [...] (C) SUMMARY. During an October 9 visit to Madrid, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) Thomas Schweich met with representatives from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Intelligence Center Against Organized Crime (CICO). [...]	2007-10-23 16:04:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PREL PGOV SP
07MADRID2023	SPAIN/CT: S/CT COORDINATOR DAILEY DISCUSSES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 11. 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY. Counterterrorism Coordinator Ambassador Dell Dailey led an interagency delegation to Madrid on September 21 for meetings with Spanish security, law enforcement, diplomatic and intelligence officials to discuss the evolving [...]	2007-10-24 07:58:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PGOV SP
07MADRID2026	EMBASSY MADRID UPDATED CONTACT INFO [...] (U) Updated contact information follows, including after-hours and emergency contact names and telephone numbers, for all section heads at Embassy Madrid. American Embassy Madrid (IVG Prefix: 559) Regular Hours: 09:00-18:00 (GMT 2:00) Embassy Switchboard: (34) (91)587-2200 Embassy After H [...]	2007-10-24 15:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER PGOV PREL SP
07MADRID2029	SPAIN: FM MORATINOS ON EQUAL TREATMENT FOR [...] (SBU) Per refs, Ambassador Aguirre discussed GOS action on the official status of certain religions with Foreign Minister Moratinos on October 24. Ambassador Aguirre stressed that it was important to the USG and the U.S. Senate that the GOS provide equal treatment for all religions with "not [...]	2007-10-24 16:05:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KIRF SP
07MADRID2030	SPAIN: BURMA HUMAN RIGHTS/SANCTIONS DEMARCHES [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-25 10:40:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM CVIS ETRD BM SP
07MADRID2033	SUPPORTING ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR INTERPOL [...] (S) DCM delivered ref A demarche October 25 to Spanish Secretary of State for Security Antonio Camacho. Camacho was SIPDIS quick to say the red notices were fully justified and that Spain had supported Argentina in the INTERPOL Executive Committee earlier this year. He said Argentina could [...]	2007-10-25 15:36:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC KJUS PGOV PREL PTER IR SP
07MADRID2034	EUR A/S FRIED'S OCTOBER 14-16 MEETINGS IN MADRID [...] (C) Summary: EUR Assistant Secretary Fried visited Madrid October 14-16. The visit was in preparation for the November 29-30 OSCE ministerial. A/S Fried met with FM Moratinos (septel),Presidential foreign policy and security advisor Carles Casajuana, MFA DG for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcall [...]	2007-10-25 15:41:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PARM PREL SP CU
07MADRID2035	COUNTER-TERRORISM: DCM'S OCTOBER 25 CONVERSATION [...] (S) DCM met October 25 with Spanish Secretary of State for Security Antonio Camacho and congratulated him on the Guardia Civil's October 23 arrest in Burgos of six suspected Islamic terrorists from the self-proclaimed "al-Ansar" group. The six are accused of fund raising, recruiting terrorists [...]	2007-10-25 16:49:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PREL PTER SNAR SP
07MADRID2039	DEMARCHE TO SPAIN ON DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN [...] (C) On 10/26/07, DCM spoke with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary of State Bernadino Leon (acting Foreign Minister while Miguel Angel Moratinos is traveling) about the new Iran sanctions. Leon said that that Spain supported U.S. leadership in dealing with Iran's possible acquisition of nu [...]	2007-10-26 11:49:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR PARM EFIN SP
07MADRID2040	DEMARCHE TO SPAIN ON DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN [...] (C) On 10/26/07, DCM spoke with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary of State Bernadino Leon about the new Iran sanctions. Leon was quite aware of Secretary Rice's and Secretary Paulson's 10/25/07 press conference from media SIPDIS reports. He said that Spain supported U.S. leadership in [...]	2007-10-26 13:53:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR PARM EFIN SP
07MADRID2041	SPAIN: NATIONAL COURT VOTES IN FAVOR OF THE [...] (C) On October 26, the Fourth Section of the Criminal Division of the Spanish National Court made public its 2-1 vote to accept the extradition to the U.S. of Syrian arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar. Judge Teresa Palacios presided over the October 4 extradition hearing and voted against remanding [...]	2007-10-26 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	CJAN CIVS KCRM PGOV PREL PTER SP
07MADRID2044	SPAIN CONCERNED WITH NEW U.S. MARITIME CARGO [...] (SBU) Summary. Although GOS officials are in favor of increasing security measures at Spanish ports, they are concerned that their ports will be unable to comply with the new scanning requirements mandated under Title XVII of the 9/11 Act. Spanish officials have told Post that the requiremen [...]	2007-10-29 10:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT ETRD AMGT PTER SP
07MADRID2045	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (SBU) In meeting with Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade Deputy Director for EU Trade Policy, Inigo Febrel, USTR Director for EU Affairs, David Weiner emphasized President Bush's personal engagement on Doha matters, and that the USG does see a possibility for a successful conclusion of the [...]	2007-10-29 14:33:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON EFIN EIND ELAB KIPR SP EINV
07MADRID2046	EUR A/S FRIED'S OCTOBER 14-16 MEETINGS IN MADRID - [...] (C) Summary: EUR Assistant Secretary Fried visited Madrid October 14-16. The visit was in preparation for the November 29-30 OSCE ministerial. A/S Fried met with FM Moratinos (septel),Presidential foreign policy and security advisor Carles Casajuana, MFA DG for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcall [...]	2007-10-29 15:00:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PARM PREL SP CU
07MADRID2047	IDENTIFYING TOOLS FOR POSSIBLE USE AGAINST IRANIAN [...] (S/NF) This message is keyed to reftel A's para. 5. 2. (S/NF) The Bank of Spain regulates banks. The Executive Service of the Commission for the Prevention of Money Laundering and Monetary Offenses (SEPBLAC) is the Spanish government entity that focuses on preventing and investigating mone [...]	2007-10-29 17:14:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	KNNP IR PREL PARM EFIN ETTC SP
07MADRID2048	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SPAIN IN SUPPORT OF U.S. [...] EconOff relayed reftel demarche on October 29 to Juan Luis Munoz de Laborde, MFA's Deputy Director for Economic Multilateral Relations. EconOff asked that Spain support the U.S. candidacy for Category A membership to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) council. Munoz de Laborde exp [...]	2007-10-30 10:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC IMO EWWT PHSA UK
07MADRID2049	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Hector Lorenzana, from NNSA to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about November 18 to November 25. The purpose of the visit is to collaborate with Complutense partners and to participate in a discussion at the Universidad Politecnica. 2. Post understands t [...]	2007-10-30 13:56:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID2051	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SPAIN ON ICAO MONTREAL [...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel demarche on October 29 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Deputy Director for Economic Multilateral Relations Juan Luis Munoz de Laborde as well as to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Works' Deputy Directorate for Civil Aviation Operations. Both Ministr [...]	2007-10-30 17:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAIR ICAO KNNP OTRA KTIA PARM XX SP
07MADRID2054	SPANISH RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANIES RECOMMENDED FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-31 16:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ENRG EPET KPAO KSCA SENV SOCI TRGY KGHG
07MADRID2055	SPAIN: RESPONSE TO S/CT REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON [...] (SBU) Embassy Madrid offers the following responses to REFTEL request for information on the government of Spain's policies toward and capabilities for collection of biographic and biometric data for terrorist screening purposes. For ease of reading, we have opted to rewrite each question set [...]	2007-10-31 17:18:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CIVS ASEC KHLS SP
07MADRID2056	DEMARCHING EU STATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION ON [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel points October 31 to Spanish MFA Director General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar. He noted that the U.S. and Spain shared a strategic goal -- a free and democratic Cuba -- but differed sharply on tactics. The U.S. nevertheless wanted to work collaboratively with t [...]	2007-10-31 17:53:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA CU SP
07MADRID2058	SPAIN: VERDICTS HANDED DOWN IN THE TRIAL OF THE [...] (U) Spain's National Court on October 31 returned guilty verdicts on 21 of the 28 people accused of involvement in the March 11, 2004 train bombings in Madrid (known in Spain as 11-M),which killed 191 and injured over 1,800. An additional seven individuals were acquitted. A 29th defendant h [...]	2007-10-31 18:07:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV PREL SP
07MADRID2063	DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION DISCUSSES PKK TERRORISM, [...] (C) PKK: DCM met October 31 with MFA Director General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar and delivered reftel points. Dezcallar said Spain shared U.S. concerns regarding the PKK and understood the delicacy of the situation between Turkey and Iraq. He emphasized that Spain wanted to be helpfu [...]	2007-11-02 15:16:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN SP
07MADRID2065	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) Second Vice President and Finance Minister Pedro Solbes said the announcement of the European-harmonized inflation rate was a "bad figure without redeeming features." The 3.6% was an unexpectedly steep increase from the September figure of 2.7%, which itself was already 0.6% above the eur [...]	2007-11-05 09:20:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS EFIN EIND ELAB EPET SOCI SP EINV
07MADRID2066	SPAIN/INCSR: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-05 11:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM EFIN SP
07MADRID2070	SPANISH ROYAL VISIT TO CEUTA AND MELILLA BACKFIRES [...] (C) The strong Moroccan reaction to the November 5-6 visit of the King and Queen of Spain to Ceuta and Melilla seems to have caught the Zapatero government completely by surprise. When Morocco recalled its ambassador, Spanish FM Moratinos and his number two, Bernardino Leon, were reportedly spendin [...]	2007-11-05 18:31:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MO SP
07MADRID2071	ICCAT GRANTS ACCREDITATION TO ANTALYA,TURKEY [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-06 08:30:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ASEC ICCAT

07MADRID2072	TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON [...] (SBU) This message is sensitive but unclassfied. 2. (SBU) The information provided in this message is keyed to the questions in reftel's para. 5. 3. (U) The June, 2006 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) mutual evaluation of Spain found that Spain's "structures for dealing with terrorist [...]	2007-11-06 15:30:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER SP
07MADRID2077	MFA SECRETARY OF STATE FOR IBEROAMERICA TRINIDAD [...] (C) According to a November 6 readout provided by Trinidad Jimenez' Chief of Staff Juan Carlos Sanchez to the DCM, Jimenez found the situation in Venezuela "extremely bad" during her October 31 visit. She described Chavez as being in "another world." The polarization of the country was increasing a [...]	2007-11-06 18:38:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP VE
07MADRID2078	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EUR SENIOR ADVISOR [...] Embassy grants country clearance and warmly welcomes Farah Pandith, EUR Senior Advisor to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about November 6 to November 14. The purpose of the visit is to attend and conduct Muslim outreach meetings. 2. Post will assist with meetings and logistics as requested [...]	2007-11-07 09:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT OTRA SP
07MADRID208	SPAIN: ZAPATERO'S DECISION ON AFGHANISTAN FIRM [...] (C/NF) President Zapatero is highly unlikely to in the near term reverse his statement that Spain will not augment its troop presence in Afghanistan, thereby nixing the possibility of staffing the ISAF XI HQ in Kabul (with some 120-150 personnel). This conclusion stems from Ambassador Aguirre,s con [...]	2007-02-07 14:38:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR PGOV PREL SP
07MADRID2083	SPAIN'S 2008 PROPOSED BUDGET COMBINES SPENDING [...] Summary. With only four months left until general elections, the PSOE government has successfully side-stepped attempts led by conservative opposition Partido Popular (PP) representatives in the Chamber of Deputies to derail its 2008 proposed budget. The Administration's budget focuses heavily [...]	2007-11-07 14:13:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SP ECON EFIN PGOV
07MADRID2084	FATF/IRAN STATEMENTS DELIVERED TO SPAIN [...] DCM shared on 10/31/07 reftel points on the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) statements on Iran with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Political Director Rafael Dezcallar. Embassy is also sharing reftel points with Ministry of Economy Secretary of State David Vegara's office. 2. Comment: Our [...]	2007-11-07 15:47:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL MNUC ECON KTFN IR SP
07MADRID2090	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL PEARSON [...] Embassy grants country clearance and warmly welcomes Daniel Pearson, Professional Staff Member, and accompanying delegation to travel to Valencia, Spain on or about November 10 to November 20. The purpose of the visit is to attend the Intergovernmental panel on climate change. 2. Post wi [...]	2007-11-08 16:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OREP OTRA SP
07MADRID2092	NATO MILITARY COMMITTEE VOTE - SPANISH MAKE FINAL [...] (C) DCM met November 7 with Secretary of State for Defense Policy Luis Cuesta. Cuesta raised the CHOD Sanz' candidacy for Chair of the NATO Military Committee, noting that all three countries seeking the post -- Italy, Poland, and Spain -- had much to recommend them. However, he noted that It [...]	2007-11-08 19:27:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR SP
07MADRID2093	SPANISH AGAIN BRING UP CARRASCOSA CASE AND MAY [...] (C) The DCM met November 5 with Secretary of State for Justice Julio Perez Hernandez to thank him for Spain's efforts in the Al-Kassar extradition case (REFTEL A). Perez Hernandez raised during the meeting Spain's continuing concern over the long-running case of Maria Jose Carrascosa, a Spani [...]	2007-11-08 19:29:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KOCI PREL CASC SP
07MADRID2094	SPANISH SHARE U.S. CONCERNS ABOUT ODIHR MISSION TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-13 09:15:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM RS SP
07MADRID21	ETA ATTACK: POLICE FIND SECOND BOMB, RESCUERS FIND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Basque police located a second vehicle containing explosive material in Vizcaya on January 4; they believe the vehicle had been abandoned by ETA. President Zapatero visited the airport bombing site and expressed his continued resolve to achieve an end to violence in Spain. Z [...]	2007-01-05 15:49:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PGOV SP
07MADRID210	FM MORATINOS ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C/NF) Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos called Ambassador Aguirre February 7 to discuss Spain's commitment to Afghanistan in advance of the February 8-9 NATO ministerial in Sevilla. The Ambassador had previously spoken with Defense Minister Alonso and National Security Advisor Casajuana on t [...]	2007-02-07 17:52:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR PREL PGOV SP
07MADRID2101	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade sponsored a November 7-8 "Conference on Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Environment" that included representatives from the USG (Associate Register of Copyrights David Carson),France, the UK and Korea, as well as representatives of c [...]	2007-11-14 15:35:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD KIPR PTER SOCI TBIO
07MADRID2102	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Rajat Sapra, Masood Hadi, and Kenneth Sale, from NNSA to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about November 21 to December 02. The purpose of the visit is to attend and present at the European conference on Synthetic Biology: Design, Programming and Optimis. [...]	2007-11-14 16:04:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID2105	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SPAIN ON EU'S LACKLUSTER [...] Embassy EconOff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade Subdirector General Teresa Zapatero Martinez and to Ministry of Environment Subdirector General for International Relations Amparo Rambla Gil on 11/13/07. AgCouns delivered the demarche to the Ministry of Agr [...]	2007-11-15 08:53:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD TBIO ECPSN PREL SP
07MADRID2106	DEMARCHE: IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM, VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloff met November 14 with Deputy Director General for Andean Countries Ramon Santos and Deputy Director General for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Ignacio Sanchez de Lerin Garcia-Ovies regarding U.S. concerns over Bolivia's support for Iran's nuclear program (ref A). Sanch [...]	2007-11-15 12:36:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PGOV PREL SP
07MADRID2118	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Arthur Rodgers and Keith Nakanishi, from NNSA to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about November 24 to December 04. The purpose of the visit is to attend a meeting at the Institute of Earth Sciences in Madrid. 2. Post understands that no assistance is req [...]	2007-11-15 16:50:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID2123	ROYAL SMACKDOWN OF CHAVEZ MEETS WITH SPANISH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Judging from the reaction in Spain, King Juan Carlos seems to have been speaking for many when he asked Venezuelan President Chavez to shut up at the Iberoamerican Summit (ref a). His angry rebuke of Chavez has gone over well with the Spanish public, and the recording of it is r [...]	2007-11-16 15:29:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SP
07MADRID2125	SPANISH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF NOVEMBER 19 GAERC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel non-paper to MFA Deputy DG for European Common Security Carlos Fernandez-Arias on November 15. Fernandez-Arias emphasized that Spain was mainly in agreement with the U.S., but he highlighted subtle differences on several topics. //KOSOVO// 2. (C) Fernandez- [...]	2007-11-16 17:52:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL PGOV SP
07MADRID2126	SPAIN SEEKS TO BE PART OF INNER CIRCLE ON CLIMATE [...] In a Nov. 8 meeting with DCM, GoS Secretary General (Vice-Minister) of Environment for Prevention of Pollution and Climate Change Arturo Aizpiri emphasized Spain,s desire to be part of the inner group of countries focusing on a solution to global climate change. Aizpiri noted the GoS' concer [...]	2007-11-16 18:09:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KGHG SENV SP
07MADRID2128	USG REPRESENTATIVES REITERATE INTEREST IN WORKING [...] (U) Summary: Associate Register of Copyrights David Carson, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Senior Counsel Michael Shapiro and Deputy Chief of Mission Hugo Llorens used the Spanish government organized Madrid November 7-8, 2007 "Conference on Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Environment" [...]	2007-11-19 09:03:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV ADCO SP
07MADRID2129	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE - NOVEMBER [...] (U) The 0.7% quarter-on-quarter GDP growth figure was lower than the second quarter's 0.9%, so it tracks with other signs of a slowdown. The Spanish government forecasts full-year 2007 growth of 3.8%. (Comment: The big question is how much lower growth will be in 2008. The opposition conser [...]	2007-11-19 10:38:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD KIPR PTER SOCI TBIO SP
07MADRID2131	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL JONES [...] Embassy grants country clearance and warmly welcomes Daniel Jones, Staff, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and accompanying delegation to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about November 30 to December 02. The purpose of travel is in conjunction with matters of concern to the committee. [...]	2007-11-19 11:21:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OREP OTRA SP
07MADRID2132	SPAIN SEEKS TO BE PART OF INNER CIRCLE ON CLIMATE [...] In a Nov. 8 meeting with DCM, GoS Secretary General (Vice-Minister) of Environment for Prevention of Pollution and Climate Change Arturo Aizpiri emphasized Spain,s desire to be part of the inner group of countries focusing on a solution to global climate change. Aizpiri noted the GoS' concer [...]	2007-11-19 11:21:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KGHG SENV SP
07MADRID2135	TOP SPANISH LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL GETS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Joan Mesquida, Director General of Spain's Unified Command of the Spanish National Police and Civil Guard, traveled to Miami and Washington the week of November 5 to meet with various members of the U.S. interagency involved in the fight against terrorism and narcotics traffickin [...]	2007-11-20 06:52:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER SNAR SP
07MADRID2140	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Otto Anatole Von Lilienfeld-Toal, from NNSA to travel to San Sebastian, Spain on or about December 4 to December 09. The purpose of the visit is to establish and continue a variety of collaborations with leading experts. 2. Post understands that no ass [...]	2007-11-20 10:35:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID2142	SPAIN SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit. We realize much of your time will rightly be occupied by the OSCE ministerial, but we are certain that when you engage on bilateral issues, you will find the Spanish keenly interested in what you have to say. The country is absorbed with [...]	2007-11-20 18:55:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP
07MADRID2145	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL HASTINGS [...] Embassy grants country clearance and warmly welcomes U.S. Representative Alcee Hastings and accompanying delegation to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about November 25 to December 02. The purpose of travel is to attend the Organization on Security Meeting and the 15th OSCE Ministerial Council [...]	2007-11-21 12:55:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OREP OTRA SP
07MADRID2148	SPAIN/IRAN - UNION FENOSA VICE PRESIDENT CONFIRMS [...] (C) Charge called Union Fenosa Vice President and CEO Honorato Lopez Isla on 11/20/07 to find out whether an 11/16/07 Financial Times story ("Tehran in talks with European companies over big LNG project") reporting that an Union Fenosa subsidiary, Socoin, had been awarded a euros 32.5 million engin [...]	2007-11-23 08:10:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ENRG ETTC PREL EPET EINV SP IR
07MADRID215	SPAIN/COUSO CASE: JUDGE THREATENS TO OBSTRUCT US-SPAIN JUDICICIAL COOPERATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-08 18:12:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR CJAN KJUS SP
07MADRID2150	SCENESETTER: SPAIN WELCOMES SECRETARY PETERS [...] (SBU) I welcome you to Spain on behalf of our 362 American and Spanish colleagues serving the United States at Mission Spain. Your visit comes just three months before the general elections, an exciting time for the country in what appears will be a very close race between incumbent President [...]	2007-11-23 18:18:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SP ECON OREP PREL
07MADRID2155	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE - NOVEMBER [...] (U) There is much media speculation that Second Vice President and Finance Minister Solbes will run for a parliamentary seat, perhaps as the number two to President Zapatero in the Madrid area. (Comment: Getting Solbes to stay, and to run, is all about shoring up the PSOE's centrist and center [...]	2007-11-26 13:25:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD KIPR PTER SOCI TBIO SP
07MADRID2158	SPAIN AGREES TO TELL BOLIVIA TO BACK OFF ITS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-27 14:07:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BO SP
07MADRID2159	DEMARCHE ON DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA [...] (C) Charge d'Affaires delivered ref a demarche November 23 to MFA Secretary of State for Iberoamerica Trinidad Jimenez and the Director General for Iberoamerica Javier Sandomingo. Drawing also on information provided by WHA/AND concerning Chavez' ties to Iran and increased narcotics trafficking fro [...]	2007-11-27 14:16:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM VE SP
07MADRID2160	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USOSCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance and warmly welcomes the USOSCE delegation on reftel to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about November 26 to November 30. The purpose of travel is to attend the OSCE Ministerial Council. 2. Kevan Higgins is the point of contact and can be reached at embassy [...]	2007-11-28 06:52:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OREP OTRA SP
07MADRID217	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR S/GAC BRITISH ROBINSON [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to S/GAC US Delegate British Robinson, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on February 10 to February 15. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 3GSM World Congress and participate in Steering Committee meetings. 2. Hotel reservations ha [...]	2007-02-09 09:42:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ASEC EAID KHIV OTRA SOCI SP
07MADRID2179	ASSISTANT SECRETARY DANIEL FRIED BILATERAL WITH [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Fried met with Montenegrin Foreign Minister Milan Rocen on 11/29/07 on the margins of the 11/29-30/07 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ministerial in Madrid. Rocen was not willing to commit on when Montenegro might recognize Kosovo - [...]	2007-11-30 14:57:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV NATO PREL OSCE
07MADRID2180	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA25/NNTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to William Kilmartin, Eric Alderson, Leslie Carroll, Mark Ekman, Adrian Pidlusky, and Richard Lucero, from NNSA to travel to Barcelona and Valencia, Spain on or about December 01 to December 09. The purpose of the visit is to perform a port visit under the Se [...]	2007-11-30 16:49:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID2181	SUPPORT FOR NEW DELHI CONFERENCE ON AVIAN AND [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-30 18:21:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID TBIO PREL
07MADRID2182	OSCE MINISTERIAL: U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH TURKISH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a November 29 bi-lateral meeting, U/S Burns and DAS Bryza met with FM Ali Babacan and the Turkish delegation at the OSCE Ministerial in Madrid in a productive exchange on critical issues: Annapolis Summit, Kosovo final status, and Turkey's relations with Cyprus. On Annapolis Su [...]	2007-11-30 18:24:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE TU
07MADRID2183	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE - NOVEMBER [...] Table of Contents: EFIN: Inflation up again PGOV: Solbes agrees to run with Zapatero PGOV/SENV/KGHG/ENRG: Socialist climate change policy ideas in flux PGOV/ELAB: Opposition conservative PP proposes labor market change EAGR: Livestock producers receive subsidies; biotech could address pro [...]	2007-12-03 13:05:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON ELAB ENRG ETRD KGHG KIPR PGOV SENV
07MADRID2188	SPAIN/CUBA: TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT [...] (U) The information in this message is keyed to questions posed in reftel A, paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) What is the nature of investments (and names, if known) that host country businesses have in Cuba? Information on Spanish foreign investment in Cuba is limited, in part because Spanish compan [...]	2007-12-04 08:38:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL SP CU
07MADRID2189	SPAIN/ETA: RARE POLITICAL UNITY IN WAKE OF ETA [...] (U) Spanish political leaders from virtually every stripe have presented a united front in the aftermath of the December 1 shooting in the French town of Capbreton that left one Spanish Civil Guard officer dead and another in a coma. The officers, part of a bilateral counterterrorism initiativ [...]	2007-12-04 09:18:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV SP
07MADRID2194	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA241/NNTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Armando Alcaraz, from NNSA to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about December 07 to December 12. The purpose of the visit is to attend the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Temporary Working Group Sampling and Analysis meeting. 2. Post [...]	2007-12-04 16:29:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID2195	SUDAN - UNAMID DEMARCHE REQUEST TO FOREIGN [...] (C) On December 4 the Ambassador raised the issue of helicopters for UNAMID with FM Moratinos, emphasizing the urgent need given UNAMID's lack of air mobility assets and the enormous and rugged terrain in which UNAMID must operate. He underscored that UNAMID's effectiveness was critical to th [...]	2007-12-04 18:54:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO UN SU SP
07MADRID2197	A/S FRIED MEETING WITH POLISH U/S WASZCZYKOWSKI [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Fried met with Polish Under Secretary Witold Waszczykowski on 11/30/07 on the margins of the 11/29-30/2007 Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ministerial in Madrid. Waszczykowski said that while Poland does plan troop level reductions in [...]	2007-12-05 09:52:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO OSCE EUR
07MADRID2200	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA241/NNTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Armando Alcaraz, from NNSA to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about December 07 to December 12. The purpose of the visit is to attend the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Temporary Working Group Sampling and Analysis meeting. 2. Post [...]	2007-12-05 15:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID2201	CLIMATE CHANGE-SPAIN SEEKS TO WORK WITH U.S. AT [...] (SBU) On December 4, DCM delivered ref a points on USG climate change objectives to Spanish Secretary General (Vice-Minister) of the Environment Arturo Aizpiri. Aizpiri said he was optimistic about the prospects for progress in Bali. Spain,s objective was the EU one of setting a negotiating [...]	2007-12-05 17:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KGCC SENV SP
07MADRID2202	UNDER SECRETARY BURNS NOVEMBER 30 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Nicholas Burns met with Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg on the margins of the Organization of Security and Cooperation (OSCE) Ministerial in Madrid. Burns agreed with Schwarzenberg that NATO members must coordinate a strong message and plan for dealing w [...]	2007-12-05 17:48:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR NATO PREL SP CZ
07MADRID2203	A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH SPANISH DG PONS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Assistant Secretary Fried and Spanish Director General for Europe and North America Pepe Pons met briefly on November 28 to review OSCE activities and other bilateral issues. The Spanish received our messages regarding the need to protect the integrity of the OSCE and its [...]	2007-12-07 06:19:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP
07MADRID2207	OSCE MINISTERIAL: U/S BURNS'S MEETING WITH KOREAN [...] (U) November 28; 6:20 p.m.; Madrid, Spain. 2. (U) Participants: United States Under Secretary Burns Special Assistant Sumona Guha E. Strother Murray (Embassy Notetaker) Republic of Korea Deputy Foreign Minister Shim Yoon-joe Kang Kym-gu, Director, European Regional Cooperation Divi [...]	2007-12-07 12:02:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD OSCE PARM PHUM PREL ABLD ROK
07MADRID2214	UNCITRAL DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN SPAIN [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-07 16:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC UNCITRAL UN SP
07MADRID2216	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE - DECEMBER [...] (U) The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) held its 19th Business Roundtable with the GOS in Madrid on December 4. The EIU tried with mixed success to get the high-level participants to talk about the prospects of a hard landing versus a soft landing scenario for the Spanish economy. President [...]	2007-12-10 09:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EWWT KIPR PARM PGOV SP
07MADRID2223	SPAIN SENSITIVITIES RULE OUT GREAT WHITE FLEET [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-11 16:12:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO MASS MPOS SP
07MADRID2225	U/S BURNS MEETING WITH SPANISH FM MORATINOS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Under Secretary Burns and Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos met November 28 to review OSCE activities and other bilateral issues. U/S Burns delivered our messages regarding the need to protect the integrity of the OSCE and its institutions, particularly ODIH [...]	2007-12-11 16:31:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP
07MADRID2232	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA22/NNTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Adam Bernstein, from NNSA to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about December 16 to December 19. The purpose of the visit is to attend and present at the High Pressure Xenon Detectors workshop. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. [...]	2007-12-13 16:37:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY OTRA SP
07MADRID2235	SPAIN WANTS MORE COMPENSATION IN BANKING OR [...] Summary: Spain recognizes that the U.S. has made a serious offer to resolve the WTO internet gambling case. However, Spain is looking for more compensation in banking or insurance. Moreover, as Spain appears to be relatively liberal on internet gambling, the public order argument for maintai [...]	2007-12-14 09:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD WTRO SP
07MADRID2237	SPAIN SUPPORTING COUNTRY-SPECIFIC RESOLUTIONS IN [...] (U) Poloff spoke with Fernando Fernandez-Arias, Spanish Deputy Director General for Human Rights, on December 12 regarding upcoming UNGA plenary votes on Third Committee country specific resolutions. Poloff thanked Fernandez-Arias for Spain's support and leadership in gaining approval for th [...]	2007-12-14 12:28:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UNGA SP
07MADRID2238	SPAIN/ISLAM: GOS SURVEY FINDS MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Spain released its second annual survey of first generation immigrants of Muslim faith on December 11. The results, which generally described a tolerant and fairly content Muslim population in Spain, closely corresponded with those of the 2006 survey. Eighty-t [...]	2007-12-14 12:39:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KISL KIRF KPLS SP
07MADRID2239	SPAIN WELCOMES PROPOSED NWC FIELD STUDIES ON ISLAM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Mission Spain warmly welcomes the May 2008 proposed thematic trip on Islam in the West and is pleased to comment on the feasibility of such a program in Spain. Home to nearly one million Muslims, most of them immigrants, Spain is an ideal destination for subject study tou [...]	2007-12-14 12:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KISL MARR MOPS SP
07MADRID224	SPAIN ADVISED OF TRAVEL AND DOCUMENTATION PLANS [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-09 17:23:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF SMIG CU SP
07MADRID2240	DCM HOSTS CIVIL AVIATION SECURITY DISCUSSION [...] (U) Summary. On November 14, the DCM along with various sections of the Embassy hosted an interagency group of key representatives from Spain's civil aviation security sector. The DCM expressed the Embassy's appreciation for GOS security efforts and pledged to continue and increase dialogue an [...]	2007-12-14 12:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SP ECON PREL ICAO EAIR AORC
07MADRID2241	SPAIN WILL NOT RESOLVE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ISSUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After high-level engagement with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Justice, and Economy and Finance, it is clear that Spain will not act to extend full benefits and privileges to the Church of Latter Day Saints, the Buddhists, and the Jehovah's witnesses prior to the March 20 [...]	2007-12-14 12:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KIRF SP
07MADRID2242	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL TAYLOR [...] Embassy grants country clearance and warmly welcomes U.S. Representative Gene Taylor, Member of the House armed Services Committee and accompanying delegation to travel to Rota, Spain on or about December 17 to December 18. The purpose of travel is to study the reconstruction eforts in Iraq. [...]	2007-12-14 12:47:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OREP AFIN
07MADRID2243	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL TAYLOR-CORRECTED [...] Embassy grants country clearance and warmly welcomes U.S. Representative Gene Taylor, Member of the House armed Services Committee and accompanying delegation to travel to Rota, Spain on or about December 17 to December 18. The purpose of travel is to study the reconstruction eforts in Iraq. [...]	2007-12-14 12:54:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OREP AFIN
07MADRID2247	DEMARCHE ON U.S. VIEWS TO RESOLVE KOSOVO STATUS [...] (C) Deputy Chief of Mission delivered reftel demarche to MFA Political Director Rafael Dezcallar November 13, stressing the urgency of bringing closure to the issue of Kosovo. Dezcallar said Spain has never been enthusiastic about a declaration of independence and hoped the entire affair woul [...]	2007-12-14 14:58:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YI SP
07MADRID2248	U.S. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON IRAN'S [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-14 15:01:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC IR PARM SP
07MADRID225	SPAIN ON HAMAS-FATAH AGREEMENT ON NATIONAL UNITY [...] (C) POLOFFS RELAYED REFTEL POINTS TO MFA SUBDIRECTOR GENERAL FOR THE MIDDLE EAST ALBERTO MORENO AND TO MFA SUBDIRECTOR GENERAL FOR FOREIGN POLICY CARLOS FERNANDEZ ARIAS (IN THE OFFICE OF DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR FOREIGN POLICY RAFAEL DEZCALLAR) ON THE USG'S DESIRE TO COORDINATE ON A RESPONSE PRIOR [...]	2007-02-09 17:23:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KPAL KWBG PREL SP
07MADRID2250	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE - DECEMBER [...] (SBU) The Ambassador spoke on December 10 to the Circulo de Confianza, a blue-chip collection of important businessmen that also includes a few politicians and government officials. The Circulo meets periodically for off-the-record conversations with prominent individuals. Spaniards have a t [...]	2007-12-14 17:23:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP EAGR ECON EIND EINT EINV ENRG KIPR KNNP
07MADRID2251	SPAIN: AL-KASSAR NEARING EXTRADITION TO U.S., BUT [...] (U) The Penal Section of the Spanish National Court approved on December 13 the extradition of Syrian arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar to the U.S. The decision of the panel was 11-1 in favor of extradition, with the lone dissension coming from the head of the tribunal Judge Javier Gomez Bermudez. [...]	2007-12-14 17:56:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV SP
07MADRID226	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMBASSADOR SUSAN MCCAW [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Susan McCaw for personal travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about February 11. 2. Embassy understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are reminded that bearers of diplomatic and official passports coming to S [...]	2007-02-09 18:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA AMGT SP
07MADRID2265	POLITICAL STRATEGIES DEVELOP FOR MARCH GENERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: As we head into the holidays, the polls continue to suggest a close race in the March general election, with President Zapatero and the Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol (PSOE) perhaps enjoying a slight lead over Mariano Rajoy and the Partido Popular (PP). Recent conversations with key [...]	2007-12-18 13:16:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP
07MADRID2266	SPAIN FIVE YEARS AFTER ELECTRICITY MARKET [...] (SBU) Summary. Five years after all consumers were given the right to choose their own electricity providers, two companies control 80 percent of the Spanish electricity generation and distribution market. This market dominance by Endesa and Iberdrola has remained consistent over the past fi [...]	2007-12-19 08:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SP ENRG PREL EPET SENV
07MADRID227	SPAIN'S VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF FEBRUARY 12 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff met with MFA Subdirector General for Foreign Policy and Common Security Carlos Fernandez-Arias on February 9 to discuss Spain's views in advance of the February 12 GAERC meeting. Fernandez-Arias said that the EU's external statements of unity on Kosovo would not reflect [...]	2007-02-12 08:11:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN SP YI SR BK AL IS IR AF
07MADRID2272	TERRORIST FINANCE: SPAIN ON DOMESTIC DESIGNATION [...] (C) EconOff delivered reftel demarche to Area Specialist Laura Martinez from the MFA's Directorate of Counter-Terrorism on December 18. Martinez expressed appreciation for the information and said that she would share it with law enforcement and intelligence channels. She agreed to provide a [...]	2007-12-19 18:06:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL SP
07MADRID2277	FAVORABLE SPANISH REACTIONS TO USG ROLE IN BALI [...] (U) Spanish officials and commentators have praised the USG's role in contributing to the success of last week's UNFCC conference in Bali. Environment Minister Christina Narbona told reporters that the U.S. had taken a "very important step" toward reducing future emissions, and she valued the [...]	2007-12-20 16:08:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KGHG SENV SP
07MADRID2282	AMBASSADORâ€™S MEETING WITH SPAINâ€™S CELEBRATED AND [...] (C) The Ambassador met on December 14 with Judge Baltasar Garzon, a high-profile investigative magistrate in Madrid's powerful National Court (Audiencia Nacional). Garzon was upbeat in his comments and said that he has a good understanding of U.S. law enforcement and counterterrorism policy, even t [...]	2007-12-21 12:04:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER SP
07MADRID2292	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE - DECEMBER [...] (U) The PSOE government can point to another piece of good news on the economic front as the campaign approaches. Eurostat statistics for 2006 showed Spain's per capita GDP passing Italy's for the first time. This puts Spain in eighth place among the 13 Euro countries, with a per capita incom [...]	2007-12-21 14:12:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EIND ELAB ELTN KIPR PGOV TBIO SP
07MADRID2294	SPAIN SYMPATHETIC TO U.S. IN ARGENTINE FRACTURE [...] (C) Deputy Chief of Mission spoke December 20 to Spanish Director General of Foreign Policy for Latin America Javier Sandomingo and presented points in ref A. The DCM expressed concern over the limitations placed on the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires (ref B),saying the restrictions served neith [...]	2007-12-21 15:36:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CJAN ASEC KJUS SP VE AR
07MADRID2295	SPAIN WOULD WELCOME MEPI PROJECT UNDER AOC AUSPICES [...] SUMMARY; Polcouns met December 19 with Spanish Deputy Political Director Felix Costales to discuss the possible association of MEPI's Civic Education Partnership Initiative (CEPI) with the Alliance of Civilizations (AoC) as a means to fulfill the Secretary's commitment to contribute to the Ao [...]	2007-12-21 16:19:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SOCI KMPI UN SP
07MADRID2297	SPAIN: DCM COMPARES NOTES WITH MOD SEC-GEN LUIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Deputy Chief of Mission and Spanish Ministry of Defense Secretary General for Policy Luis Cuesta reviewed the past year in U.S.-Spanish cooperation and addressed ongoing issues at their December 19 meeting. Saying it helped to have helpful counterparts, Cuesta agreed 2007 had [...]	2007-12-26 06:58:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV MARR SP
07MADRID2298	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL LIEBERMAN [...] Embassy grants country clearance and warmly welcomes Senator Joseph Lieberman, and accompanying delegation to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about January 10 to January 14. The purpose of travel is for matters pertaining to the authorizing committee. 2. Mark Marrano is the point of contac [...]	2007-12-26 11:12:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OREP AFIN
07MADRID2299	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL SHELBY [...] Embassy grants country clearance and warmly welcomes U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee and accompanying delegation to travel to Spain on or about January 7 to January 9. The purpose of travel is to meet with high-level off [...]	2007-12-26 11:13:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC OREP AFIN
07MADRID2301	CODEL MARTINEZ (JANUARY 4-12) [...] Embassy warmly welcomes Senator Mel Martinez, and accompanying delegation travel to Madrid, Spain on or about January 10 to January 11. The purpose of travel is for matters pertaining to the authorizing committee. 2. Political Counselor William Duncan is the point of contact and can be r [...]	2007-12-28 09:37:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN
07MADRID2302	SPAIN SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MARTINEZ [...] (SBU) Summary: I warmly welcome Codel Martinez to Madrid. When you arrive, Spain will be emerging from the Holidays and starting to focus on what is likely to be a very competitive March 9 general election. Although the media here prefers to focus on the allegedly frosty U.S.-Spain relation [...]	2007-12-28 12:04:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL SP
07MADRID2304	SPANISH FM MORATINOS ON KOSOVO [...] (C) The December 27 Spanish press carried an interview with Former President Jose Maria Aznar in which Aznar asserted Kosovo's independence would have pernicious consequences for Europe. He said Spain had not participated in NATO operations in the Balkans in order to create an independent Kos [...]	2007-12-28 18:04:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YI SP
07MADRID2305	SPAIN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (IPR) STRATEGY [...] (SBU) This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Given the USG's Special 301-related concerns with respect to the protection of copyrighted materials in Spain, the Embassy has developed a short, medium and long-term IPR strategy for Spain [...]	2007-12-28 18:04:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ECON ETRD SP
07MADRID2306	REAL ESTATE MARKET DOWNTURN RAISES UNEMPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. As commonly predicted, housing sales and construction in Spain have steadily decreased this year, with sales of new and used homes down by almost 20 percent since the first quarter of 2007. Real estate developers are taking the brunt of this downturn, while other players have h [...]	2007-12-28 18:10:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SP PREL
07MADRID2307	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE - DECEMBER [...] (U) An Expansion Ipsos poll conducted December 14-16, 2007 showed that 50% of those polled thought that the economy had worsened during President Zapatero's tenure, 26% thought that it had not changed and 20% thought that it had improved. Curiously, however, 43% of Spaniards still think that th [...]	2007-12-29 17:10:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EIND ELAB ELTN KIPR PGOV TBIO SP
07MADRID2313	SPAIN SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LIEBERMAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-31 13:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP PREL SP
07MADRID246	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT [...] (U) Finance Minister Solbes lays out a mostly rosy scenario for Spanish economy and says Spain does not share the same economic vulnerabilities as the U.S.: While speaking to a packed 1/24/07 Europa Press event, Solbes was mostly upbeat but acknowledged that Spain needs to improve its producti [...]	2007-02-13 09:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID EAIR ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD TBIO SP
07MADRID247	SPAIN ON EXTRABUDGETARY FUNDING FOR IAEA [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-13 11:14:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	IAEA KNNP ENRG TRGY MNUC AORC SP
07MADRID256	SPAIN DEMARCHES CHINA ON MINUSTAH MANDATE [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-13 17:19:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SP
07MADRID266	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC: ENRIQUE PAZ [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Enrique Paz Argandona, Senior Service Fellow, NCEH, CDC, HHS to travel to Valencia and Madrid, Spain on February 14 to February 17. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Forum "Public Health: New demands and challenges. Proposals for the futur [...]	2007-02-14 15:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID267	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/KSC NASA [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA delegation from NASA's Kennedy Space Center as listed in reftel to travel to Madrid and Moron, Spain on March 3 to March 31. The purpose of this visit is to attend Embassy meetings and to support STS-117 Operations at Transoceanic Abort Landing Site. [...]	2007-02-14 15:01:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
07MADRID269	SPANISH DEPUTY DEFMIN ON UPCOMING PENTAGON VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. DCM met with Secretary of State for Defense Francisco Pardo on February 13 to review plans for Pardo's upcoming, defense-sales-focused trip to the US. DCM and Pardo briefly discussed bilateral defense sales, the GOS reaction to press coverage of US military flights stopping in S [...]	2007-02-14 16:18:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR SP
07MADRID273	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. EDWARD [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Edward Trimble, Senior Investigator, Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program, NIH to travel to Madrid and Valencia, Spain on March 1 to March 3. The purpose of this visit is to give a speech at the Sixth International Symposium on Advanced Ovarian Cancer. [...]	2007-02-15 15:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID274	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/KSC NASA [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA delegation from NASA's Kennedy Space Center as listed in reftel to travel to Madrid and Zaragosa, Spain on March 4 to March 25. The purpose of this visit is to attend Embassy meetings and to support STS-117 Operations at Transoceanic Abort Landing Site [...]	2007-02-15 15:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
07MADRID275	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA: GUILLERMO DIAZ, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA personnel; Guillermo Diaz, Gerald Scott and John Watson to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about February 18 to February 24. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas Sub-Committee [...]	2007-02-15 15:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID276	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Alan Perelson to travel to Segovia, Spain on April 15 to April 21. The purpose of this visit is to chair a scientific session at an international conference on HIV dynamics and evolution. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required [...]	2007-02-15 15:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP

07MADRID277	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Steven Dazeley and Robert Svoboda to travel to Madrid, Spain on March 2 to March 11. The purpose of this visit is to attend collaboration meetings at CIEMAT-Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales. 2. Post understands tha [...]	2007-02-15 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID278	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Scott Hulse, Ronald Hansen, Christopher Joines, Eric Moore, and Luc Murphy to travel to Rota, Spain on March 2 to March 7. The purpose of this visit is to provide technical support to Department of Defense customer. 2. Post understands t [...]	2007-02-15 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID279	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Michael John Murphy, and Philip Alexander Pincosy to travel to Tarragona, Spain on April 13 to April 24. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the International Symposium on Ballistic. 2. Post understands that no assistan [...]	2007-02-15 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID280	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA: MICHAEL CAMERON, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA personnel; Michael Cameron, Peter Boveng, John Bengtson, and Roderick Hobbs to travel to Valencia and Barcelona, Spain on or about February 24 to March 12. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the "Workshop to Develop Monitoring Plans for Ar [...]	2007-02-15 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID281	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC: MARCIA KALISH [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Marcia Kalish, Microbioligist, COGH, HHS/CDC to travel to Madrid and Segovia, Spain on or about April 16 to April 22. The purpose of this visit is to attend a workshop and co-organize and session chair for the 14th International Workshop on HIV Dynamics an [...]	2007-02-15 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID282	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC: MATTHEW [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Matthew Kuehnert, Epidemiologist, NCPDCIP, HHS/CDC to travel to Madrid, Spain on March 4 to March 7. The purpose of this visit is to facilitate U.S. Government input into the European Union Standards and Training as representative on Vigilance and Surveill [...]	2007-02-15 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID283	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SEC: ALISON FULLER AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to US Securities and Exchange Commission Officials: Alison Fuller, Assistant Chief Counsel and Susan Olson, Senior Counsel to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about February 27 to March 2. The purpose of this visit to attend the annual IOSCO Standing Committee m [...]	2007-02-15 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID284	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN BYERLY [...] Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to John Byerly, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Afairs, Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about February 20 to February 24. The purpose of this visit is to be a panelist and a [...]	2007-02-15 15:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA EAIR ASECARP EUN SP
07MADRID288	SPAIN: POINTS DELIVERED ON FREEZING ASSETS OF [...] (C) ESTHOFF delivered REFTEL points February 12 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Deputy Director General Ignacio Sanchez, urging Spain to freeze the assets of Iranian entities not specifically listed in the Annex to UNSCR 1737. ECONOFF presented the same points February 12 to MFA International Te [...]	2007-02-16 11:23:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL EFIN ETTC KNNP SP
07MADRID296	SPAIN: DISAGREEMENT ON DSP-83 SIGNING AUTHORITY [...] SUMMARY: MOD is concerned because Spain's $1.2 billion program to sell frigates to the Norwegian navy is being delayed by an inability to reconcile US and Spanish technical legal requirements regarding signature of end-user nontransfer documents. Post requests DDTC guidance on how to move fo [...]	2007-02-16 16:53:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS ETTC PREL SP
07MADRID299	SPAIN ON DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES UNDER [...] (C) ESTHOFF passed reftel points February 16 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Deputy Director General Ignacio Sanchez, notifying Spain of our designation of three additional Iranian entities under E.O 13382 and asking Madrid to freeze any Spanish assets held by these three entities. Sanchez told [...]	2007-02-20 16:20:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PARM IR SP
07MADRID312	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT [...] (U) A Financial Times survey shows over two thirds of Spaniards would like a return to the peseta: The FT also found similar majorities against the euro in France and Italy, but a smaller majority opposed to the euro in Germany. Majorities in all these countries thought the euro was good for [...]	2007-02-22 08:34:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID EAIR ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD SENV TBIO
07MADRID318	SPAIN: TOUR D'HORIZON WITH MFA LATIN AMERICA UNDER [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-22 11:59:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SP
07MADRID324	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. RAFAEL DE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Rafeal de Cabo, Investigator, Laboratory of Experimental Gerontology, National Institute on Aging, NIH to travel to Cordoba and Seville, Spain on March 11 to March 24. The purpose of this visit is to lecture at the University of Cordoba and to particip [...]	2007-02-22 17:19:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID325	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Alan Burns to travel to Barcelona, Spain on April 14 to April 22. The purpose of this visit is to speak at the Atomic Force Microscopy BioMed Conference. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are reminded tha [...]	2007-02-22 17:19:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID326	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Paul Demmie to travel to Tarragona and Barcelona, Spain on April 15 to April 21. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 3rd International Symposium on Ballistics. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors ar [...]	2007-02-22 17:19:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID327	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. ELISE KOHN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Elise Kohn, Section Chief, Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, NIH to travel to Valencia, Spain on March 2 to March 3. The purpose of this visit is to give a presentation at the Advanced Ovarian Cancer Therapy Update Symposium. 2. P [...]	2007-02-22 17:19:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID328	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. JACQUES [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Jacques Normand, Director, AIDS Research Program, Office of the Director National Institute of Drug Abuse, NIH to travel to Valencia and Barcelona, Spain on February 18 to February 25. The purpose of this visit is to meet with Spanish Drug Abuse/HIV re [...]	2007-02-22 17:20:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID329	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/GSFC SHAHID HABIB [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA employee Shahid Habib from NASA's Kennedy Space Center as listed in reftel to travel to Madrid Spain on March 17 to March 25. The purpose of this visit is to attend, participate and serve as a session chair at the World Meteorological Organization Secu [...]	2007-02-22 17:20:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
07MADRID330	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA: CHESTER KOBLINSKY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA personnel; Chester Koblinsky to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about March 17 to March 22. The purpose of this visit is to attend the International Conference Secure and Sustainable Living. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. [...]	2007-02-22 17:20:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID331	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA: SUE MOORE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA personnel; Sue Moore to travel to Valencia, Spain on or about March 3 to March 7. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Workshop to Develop Monitoring Plans for Arctic Marine Mammals. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required [...]	2007-02-22 17:20:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID332	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USOSCE DIANA BROWN AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USOSCE Deputy Political counselor Diana Brown and Political Economic Officer Robert Carlson to travel to Zaragosa, Spain on or about March 12 to March 14. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the OSCE Preparatory Conference for Economic and Envir [...]	2007-02-22 17:20:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	APER ASEC OSCE OTRA SP
07MADRID333	SPAIN ON AGENDA FOR THE OSCE TOLERANCE CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-23 07:50:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM OSCE SP
07MADRID336	SPANISH ASSISTANCE IN AFRICA: NOT THE SAME AS PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following on the 2006 conversations and correspondence between Assistant Secretary Frazer and Spanish Director General Alvaro Iranzo, Emboffs met February 20 with Cristina Diaz Fernandez-Gil, Deputy Director General for Spanish International Cooperation in Africa and Asia, to d [...]	2007-02-23 08:51:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EAID SP XA
07MADRID338	SPAIN: TOUR D'HORIZON WITH MFA LATIN AMERICA UNDER [...] (C) Summary: Over lunch, the DCM and MFA State Secretary for Latin America Trinidad Jimenez engaged in a review of the situation in Latin America. Jimenez sees the region as emerging from a very dynamic political and electoral season in 2006. Spanish objectives in 2007 are to help manage th [...]	2007-02-23 12:26:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SP
07MADRID339	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA: LARRY LA VERN KING [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA Employee, Larry La Vern King to travel to Barcelona, Spain on March 20 to March 22. The purpose of this visit is to perform a line station inspection. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are reminded that bearers of [...]	2007-02-23 12:27:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR SP
07MADRID340	INFORMING SPAIN ON THE WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff met with MFA Subdirector General for North Africa Manuel Gomez-Acebo on February 21 to discuss recent developments on the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara. Gomez-Acebo noted that he recently had spoken with NEA DAS Gordon Gray about the visit to Washington of a [...]	2007-02-23 12:45:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS SP UNSC WI
07MADRID341	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Bette Korber to travel to Valencia, Spain on April 16 to April 22. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Dynamics and Evolution conference. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visit [...]	2007-02-23 18:08:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID345	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA:GORDON MICHAEL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA Employee, Gordon Michael McKay to travel to Madrid, Spain on February 27 to February 28. The purpose of this visit is to perform an international check airman inspection on US Airways. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visi [...]	2007-02-26 09:06:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR SP
07MADRID350	SPAIN WITH EU ON SOMALIA PEACEKEEPING [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-26 15:17:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO MOPS PHUM PREL EUN SO
07MADRID36	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH: DR. STEVEN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Alasdair Steven, Chief, Laboratory of Structural Biology Research, NIH to travel to Palma de Majorca on January 22 to January 26. The purpose of this visit is to present at the Twenty-Third International Papilloma Conference. 2. Post understands th [...]	2007-01-10 14:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID362	UNHRC: SPAIN WILL SUPPORT SLOVENIA, AMENABLE TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-28 10:30:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNHRC SP
07MADRID37	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH: DR. SCHILLER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. John Schiller, Senior Investigator National Cancer Institute, NIH to travel to Barcelona, Spain on January 14 to January 17. The purpose of this visit is to present at the Twenty-Third International Papilloma Conference. 2. Post understands that no [...]	2007-01-10 14:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID38	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VA: IRENE PEDERSON [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Irene May Pederson, Overseas Military Coordinator, VA Central Office to travel to Rota, Spain on January 15 to June 04. The purpose of this visit is to provide counseling to U.S. Military personnel regarding Veterans Benefits available upon separation from [...]	2007-01-10 14:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID382	SCENESETTER FOR MUSLIM OUTREACH COORDINATOR FARAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Your visit to Madrid is a welcome opportunity to broaden our knowledge of and relations with the Islamic community in Spain. In your meetings with community leaders, private citizens, and government officials, we believe you will take away an impression that the large and growi [...]	2007-03-02 11:22:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV SCUL OVIP OPRC SP
07MADRID383	SPAIN HOSTS MINISTERIAL WITH ARAB NATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Director General for Middle East Affairs briefed PolCouns February 26 on events surrounding the February 23 Spain-Arab Nations Ministerial in Madrid to inaugurate Spain's newest cultural/international center, "Casa Arabe." Approximately 14 Arab Foreign Ministers attended t [...]	2007-03-02 11:22:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KISL SP
07MADRID386	SPAIN TO SUPPORT U.S. MTCR UAV/CRUISE MISSILE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-02 15:38:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC MNUC KSCA SP
07MADRID39	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/GSFC, DOMINIC [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dominic Benford from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to travel to Granada, Spain on January 20 to January 24. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Goddard-Institut De Radioastonomie Millimetrique Superconducting Millimeter Observer Collaboration P [...]	2007-01-10 14:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
07MADRID391	SPAIN ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] (U) This is an action request for ISN/WMDT -- see paragraph 3. 2. (C) ESTHOFF passed reftel points February 26 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Deputy Director General Ignacio Sanchez, urging Spain to endorse the Global Initiative's Statement of Principles and to participate in the third meet [...]	2007-03-02 16:20:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL KNNP SP
07MADRID394	SPAIN'S VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF MARCH 5-6 GAERC [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA Subdirector General for Foreign Policy and Common Security Carlos Fernandez-Arias on March 1 to discuss Spain's views in advance of the March GAERC meeting (ref A). Fernandez-Arias said that the GAERC discussion would be mainly theoretical and analytical this month, a [...]	2007-03-02 17:11:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP
07MADRID395	SPAIN ON RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST MISSILE DEFENSE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-02 17:14:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	EZ MARR PL PREL SP
07MADRID396	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT [...] (U) An EU Directive from 1991 requires Member States to treat waste water in towns containing over 2,000 inhabitants to specified standards by December 2005. Spain codified this directive into national law via its 1995 Water Treatment Plan. But it is clear that Spain has failed to implement [...]	2007-03-02 17:56:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID EAIR ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD SENV TBIO
07MADRID40	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/BNLEE: MENDEZ [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Emilio Mendez, Director, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory EENS to travel to Madrid, Spain on January 13 to January 18. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Awards Ceremony of the Spanish Research Prizes. 2. Post [...]	2007-01-10 14:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA SP
07MADRID402	SPANISH BACKTRACK ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (C) During a March 2 meeting scheduled to discuss other disarmament-related issues, MFA Disarmament Affairs Deputy Director General Ignacio Sanchez sheepishly informed ESTHOFF that the information he had provided on January 24 regarding Spanish policy on cluster munitions (REF A) had been in [...]	2007-03-05 13:00:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PARM PREL NATO SP
07MADRID403	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA: JEFFREY STUART [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA personnel; Jeffrey Stuart to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about March 11 to March 19. The purpose of this visit is to attend Bilateral meetings with Saudi partners at the World Meteorological International Conference on Social and Economic Benefits o [...]	2007-03-05 13:16:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID404	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. JUDITH [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Judith Rapoport, Senior Investigator, Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH to travel to Cordoba, Spain on March 21 to March 26. The purpose of this visit is to receive the Castilla del Pino Award for achievement in psychiat [...]	2007-03-05 13:16:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID405	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. ROBERT [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Robert Jensen, Senior Investigator, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH to travel to Barcelona, Spain on March 15 to March 18. The purpose of this visit is to attend and serve as a speaker at a meeting of the European [...]	2007-03-05 13:16:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID406	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. SHYAMAL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Shyamal Peddada, Senior Investigator, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH to travel to Valladolid, Spain on March 25 to March 31. The purpose of this visit is to lecture, and meet with international experts at the University of Val [...]	2007-03-05 13:16:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID407	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/KSC NASA [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA delegation from NASA's Kennedy Space Center as listed in reftel to travel to Madrid and Zaragoza, Spain on March 4 to March 25. The purpose of this visit is to attend Embassy meetings and to support operations at the Transoceanic Abort Landing site. [...]	2007-03-05 13:16:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
07MADRID408	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/KSC NASA [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA delegation from NASA's Kennedy Space Center as listed in reftel to travel to Madrid and Zaragoza, Spain on March 4 to March 25. The purpose of this visit is to attend Embassy meetings and to support operations at the Transoceanic Abort Landing site. [...]	2007-03-05 13:16:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
07MADRID409	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FWS: DR. EDGARD [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Edgard Espinoza, Deputy Director at the National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Laboratory to travel to Baeza, Spain on March 17 to March 24. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Sixth Masters course on CITES management at the Andalucia Inter [...]	2007-03-05 13:16:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID41	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS: THIELER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Robert Thieler, Research Geologist, USGS to travel to Malaga, Spain on January 15 to January 20. The purpose of this visit is to participate and present at the Scientific Planning Discussions at the First Meeting on Climate Change Regional Impacts: Andalus [...]	2007-01-10 14:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TPHY KSCA ECON SENV SP
07MADRID410	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA: KELLY, REED, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA personnel; General Kelly, Deputy Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmoshphere, Michelle Reed, Advisor to the Deputy Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, Jennifer Lewis, Program SIPDIS Analyst, Lixion Avila, Senior Hurricane Specialist and Dr. Ro [...]	2007-03-05 13:16:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID411	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA:FLIGHT INSPECTION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA Employees: Michael Ryder, Thomas Page, Wiliam Hoffman, Kenneth Holloway, and Marvin Pittman, to travel to Rota, Spain on or about March 19 to March 20. The crewmembers will be certifying navigation aids for the Department of Defense. 2. Post unders [...]	2007-03-05 13:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR SP
07MADRID412	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA:DONALD WAYNE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA Employee: William Hughes, Technical Center and Donald Gallagher, Mathematician, to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about March 17 to March 24. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the International Civil Aviation Organization Visual Aids Working [...]	2007-03-05 13:48:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR SP
07MADRID422	HOST NATION SENSITIVITY TO USAFE MANPOWER [...] (S/NF) Reftel is EUCOM request for Embassy Madrid's assessment of host nation sensitivity to USAFE's planned manpower reductions at the Spanish air base at Moron. We are responding in these channels to underscore that the country team has an interest in trends regarding US military presence [...]	2007-03-06 12:25:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MARR SP
07MADRID425	SPAIN: AFRICOM SHOULD ENGAGE AFRICAN UNION [...] (C) At a meeting on a range of issues with Spanish Director General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar on February 2, the DCM raised the recent announcement of the creation of U.S. Combatant Command Africa (AFRICOM) and told Dezcallar that the U.S. would appreciate Spain's input, advice and [...]	2007-03-06 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS SP XA
07MADRID426	SPAIN: NO SURPRISE CUBA VISIT IN THE WORKS [...] (C) At an unrelated meeting with Spanish Director General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar on March 2, DCM raised the topic of a possible visit to Cuba of Foreign Minister Moratinos, and he noted that he had told Secretary of State for Latin America Trinidad Jimenez that such a visit could [...]	2007-03-07 09:37:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP CU
07MADRID43	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA: FLORES [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA Aviation Safety Inspector Operations, John Flores to travel to Madrid, Spain on January 19 to January 29. The purpose of this visit is to attend CASA 295 SFAR-88 meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are remin [...]	2007-01-10 16:37:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR SP
07MADRID432	SPAIN/ETA: RELEASE OF PRISONER TRIGGERS POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary. Just two months after ETA's December 30 bomb attack at Madrid's airport set off a bitter debate regarding the Zapatero Government's handling of the Basque issue, Zapatero has drawn fresh criticism for allowing a hunger striking ETA member to serve the remainder of his sentence in house [...]	2007-03-08 09:27:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV SP
07MADRID438	SPAIN: NEED UNSCR ON KOSOVO; MUST ENGAGE SERBIA [...] (C) The DCM met with Spanish Director General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar on March 2 to discuss his recent visit with Foreign Minister Moratinos to Belgrade and Pristina as Chair-in-Office of the OSCE. The DCM emphasized the need to support the Ahtisaari plan and maintain EU and U.S. [...]	2007-03-08 14:57:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP YI
07MADRID440	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/HQ ADOLFO [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Adolfo Figueroa-Vinas from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to travel to Madrid, Spain on April 21 to April 29. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the University of Alcala de Henares. 2. Post understands that no assistance is requir [...]	2007-03-08 15:21:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
07MADRID441	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/HQ STEPHEN AMBROSE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Stephen Ambrose from NASA Headquarters to travel to Madrid, Spain on March 17 to March 23. The purpose of this visit is to attend the World Meteorological Organization Sustainability Workshop. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. [...]	2007-03-08 15:21:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
07MADRID442	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC: DR. SUSAN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Susan Swedo, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH to travel to Cordoba, Spain on March 22 to March 25. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the Childhood Onset of Adult Psychiatric Disorders meeting. 2. Post understands that no [...]	2007-03-08 15:21:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID443	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA: RODERICK HOBBS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA personnel; Roderick Hobbs and Peter Boveng to travel to Valencia, Spain on or about March 3 to March 12. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Pan Arctic tracking of Beluga Whales Coordination meeting and the First International Workshop o [...]	2007-03-08 15:21:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID444	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CM:NANCY BUTTE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Nancy Butte, from Baylor College of Medicine to travel to Valencia, Spain on May 8 to May 12. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Stable Isotopes in Paediatric Nutrition and Metabolism meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistance [...]	2007-03-08 15:21:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID445	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NETL: SARKUS AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOE personnel Thomas Sarkus, Jeffrey Hoffman to travel to Madrid, Spain on March 10 to March 12. The purpose of this visit is to participate in a due diligence trip of the Futuregen Technical Committee, Pertinent to Screening Suitable Technologies and Equip [...]	2007-03-08 15:21:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID446	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/JPL DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA delegation; Robert Barry, Ian Harris, Manuel de la Torre, Rebecca Heninger, Joseph Kahr, Orin Serviss, and Richard Welch from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to travel to Madrid, Spain on March 4 to March 10. The purpose of this visit is to attend Pr [...]	2007-03-08 15:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
07MADRID447	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/GRC MICHAEL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Michael Piszczor from NASA's Glenn Research Center to travel to Madrid, Spain on March 10 to March 19. The purpose of this visit is to participate and present at the Fourth International Conference on Solar Concentrators for the Generation of Electricity o [...]	2007-03-08 15:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
07MADRID448	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA:ROBERT BONANNI AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA Employee: Robert Bonanni, Civil Engineer, and Alvin Lee Logan, Electronics Engineer to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about March 16 to March 26. The purpose of this visit is to participate in International Civil Aviation Organization Visual Aids Panel [...]	2007-03-08 16:18:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR SP
07MADRID449	SPANISH INTERIOR MINISTER RUBALCABA ON DE JUANA [...] (C) Summary: During a March 7 lunch with Spanish Minister of Interior Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, Ambassador Aguirre heard the Spanish government's defense of its recent controversial decision to allow convicted ETA assassin Inaki De Juana Chaos to serve out the rest of his sentence under house arrest [...]	2007-03-08 19:33:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP
07MADRID452	SPAIN ON IRAN, MEPP, WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The DCM met with MFA Director General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar to discuss a variety of issues on March 2. Dezcallar said that he would look into moving along the internal approval process for the draft NCIS agreement. He offered a brief summary of Foreign Minister M [...]	2007-03-09 10:35:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KPAL MO IR WI
07MADRID457	AMIA CASE: SPAIN WILL SUPPORT ARGENTINE POSITION [...] (C) Per reftel instructions, the Ambassador contacted Argentine Ambassador Carlos Betinni on March 8 to advise him that the USG planned to approach the Spanish Government to express support for the Argentine position on the AMIA case at Interpol. On March 9, the DCM, accompanied by Legat and [...]	2007-03-09 16:50:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL KJUS SP
07MADRID475	SPANISH ATTENDANCE AT INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH [...] (U) ESTHOFF passed reftel points March 9 to several senior officials at Spain's Agency for International Cooperation (AECI),encouraging senior level attendance at the March 16 ICI meeting in New York. POLOFF passed same request to MFA's Iraq office. Both ESTHOFF and POLOFF encouraged thei [...]	2007-03-14 08:45:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL SP
07MADRID482	PROGRESS MINGLED WITH COMPLACENCY: MUSLIM [...] (U) Senior Advisor to A/S Fried Farah Pandith did not have the opportunity to clear this message. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In her March 4-7 visit to Madrid, Senior Advisor to A/S Fried for Muslim Engagement Farah Pandith met with a broad variety of concerned parties, including represe [...]	2007-03-14 17:04:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PREL PGOV SP
07MADRID483	OUTGOING SPANISH DEP DEFMIN ON AFGHANISTAN, BILAT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a farewell meeting, outgoing Deputy Defense Minister Francisco Pardo told DCM on March 13 that his recent trip to the US was useful. He said that he continues to worry about how to manage the "asymmetry" in the bilateral defense relationship. Pardo reiterated the Zapatero gov [...]	2007-03-15 08:34:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR SP
07MADRID49	SPAIN: ADDENDUM TO 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON [...] (SBU) As stipulated in Reftel A, post is providing an addendum to Reftel B that updates significant terrorist-related developments in Spain that occurred after submission of the Spain section of the 2006 Country Reports on Terrorism. 2. (SBU) On December 30 the terrorist group ETA exploded [...]	2007-01-11 12:18:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC SP
07MADRID490	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Tom Little to travel to Madrid, Spain on April 21 to April 27. The purpose of this visit is to attend meetings at the Associacion de Normalizacion y certificacion Headquarters (AENOR). 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. [...]	2007-03-15 18:12:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID491	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/JSC KEITH TUCKER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA's Keith Tucker from NASA's Johnson Space Center to travel to Barcelona, Spain on April 7 to April 19. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Structural Technical Interchange meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. V [...]	2007-03-15 18:13:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
07MADRID492	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/JPL DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA delegation; Randel Lindemann and Jun Liu from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to travel to Madrid, Spain on March 18 to March 24. The purpose of this visit is to attend a technical interchange meeting to support upcoming critical design review for M [...]	2007-03-15 18:13:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
07MADRID493	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA/JPL DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA delegation; Alaudin Bhanji, and David Recce from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to travel to Madrid, Spain on March 16 to March 24. The purpose of this visit is to meet with Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex and Ingenieria Y Servicios Aeroes [...]	2007-03-15 18:13:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA OTRA SP
07MADRID494	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FWS: ROBERT GABEL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Robert Gabel, Chief for Division of Scientific Authority, at the National Fish and Wildlife Service to travel to Baeza, Spain on March 13 to March 22. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Sixth Masters course on management access, Conservation [...]	2007-03-15 18:13:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID495	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/FDA MARGARET ANNES [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Margaret Annes, and Cynthia Lee, Investigators, Division of Field Investigations, Office of Regulatory Affairs to travel to Boecillo, Valladolid and Burgos, Spain on March 17 to March 31. The purpose of this visit is to conduct drug inspections and audit d [...]	2007-03-15 18:13:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID496	SPAIN STILL SUPPOORTS U.S. - EU OPEN SKIES PLUS [...] (SBU) EconCouns reconfirmed on March 15 that the GOS will vote in favor of the U.S.-EU Open Skies Plus Agreement. Civil aviation authorities also noted to EconOff on March 15 that Spain will do everything possible to push the UK to take a more conciliatory approach. 2. (U) Iberia Airlines r [...]	2007-03-15 18:34:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAIR KTIA PREL SP
07MADRID497	SPANISH COMPONENT OF U.S./FDA ORPHAN PRODUCT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-16 07:55:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO OTRA TPHY KSCA SP
07MADRID498	SPAIN STILL SUPPORTS U.S.-EU OPEN SKIES PLUS [...] (SBU) EconCouns reconfirmed on March 15 that the GOS will vote in favor of the U.S.-EU Open Skies Plus Agreement. Civil aviation authorities also noted to EconOff on March 15 that Spain will do everything possible to push the UK to take a more conciliatory approach. 2. (U) Iberia Airlines r [...]	2007-03-16 08:29:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAIR KTIA PREL SP
07MADRID502	SPAIN HAS DOUBTS ABOUT SOME UN REFORMS [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Spanish MFA Subdirector General for the UN Juan Manuel Gonzales de LINARES Palou on March 15. Linares appreciated USG concern on this matter and said that the most important point of UN reform was to do no harm to the organization. He agreed with th [...]	2007-03-16 14:25:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ACABQ AORC APER PREL UNGA SP
07MADRID51	SPAIN: ADDENDUM TO 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON [...] (SBU) As stipulated in Reftel A, post is providing an addendum to Reftel B that updates significant terrorist-related developments in Spain that occurred after submission of the Spain section of the 2006 Country Reports on Terrorism. 2. (SBU) On December 30 the terrorist group ETA exploded [...]	2007-01-11 14:28:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC SP
07MADRID510	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT [...] (U) Visits to Spain in January 2007, primarily from Britain and Germany, but increasingly from France, Italy, and Scandinavia, were up 4 percent over January 2006. According to the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Tourism, tourism volume to the Canary Islands fell slightly, but increased in C [...]	2007-03-19 11:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EIND ECON EFIN ETRD SENV TBIO SP EINV UK
07MADRID512	SPAIN: MISSILE DEFENSE OUTREACH [...] (C) Post is engaging the GOS on missile defense as requested in ref A. DCM raised the issue with MFA political director Dezcallar on March 2, as described in ref B. Dezcallar said that Spain has no objection to the program but expressed concern that Russia had not been sufficiently consulted [...]	2007-03-19 14:02:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR SP
07MADRID514	ZIMBABWE: SPAIN WOULD SUPPORT BUT NOT LEAD IN UNHRC [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Sub-director General for Human Rights Fernando Fernandez-Arias on March 19. Fernandez-Arias said that Spain is appalled by the abuses in Zimbabwe and he noted that Spain has issued a strong condemnation of the abuses on March 15. (NOTE: Text of c [...]	2007-03-20 08:20:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNHRC PHUM PREL ZI EUN SP
07MADRID520	SPAIN/IRAQ: SOCIALISTS FIRE UP ANTI-WAR RHETORIC [...] (C) Summary. In a volatile political climate leading up to regional/municipal elections in late May, the ruling Socialist Party (PSOE) and far left political allies have ramped up criticism of the war in Iraq, in part to counteract opposition Popular Party (PP) attacks on the Zapatero Government's [...]	2007-03-21 12:35:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP
07MADRID521	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. ROBERTS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. David Roberts, Chief, Biochemical Pathology, to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about April 3 to April 4. The purpose of this visit is to give a seminar at Hospital Universitario de la Princesa. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. [...]	2007-03-21 13:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID522	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DRS. CHEN AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Daofen Chen, Program Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS),NIH and Dr. Leonardo Cohen Senior Investigator, NIH, to travel to Seville, Spain on or about March 23 to April 1. The purpose of this visit is to attend the [...]	2007-03-21 13:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID523	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DHHS: DAVID ATKINS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to David Atkins, Medical Officer, Center for Outcomes and Evidence, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality to travel to Bilbao, Spain on April 14 to April 19. The purpose of this visit is to participate and present at a workshop for local scientists. [...]	2007-03-21 13:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID524	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/FDA: DAVID [...] Embassy grants country clearance to David Cummings, Chemist, and Christopher Joneckis, Senior Advisor for Chemistry Manufacturing, Office of Pharmaceutical Science, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA, HHS to travel to Barcelona, Spain on March 25 to March 29. The purpose of this vi [...]	2007-03-21 13:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID525	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Scott Hulse, Ronald Hansen, Christopher Jones and Eric Moore to travel to Madrid, Spain on April 20 to April 30. The purpose of this visit is to provide support and cross training to current contractors for the Deparment of Defense. 2. P [...]	2007-03-21 13:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP OTRA SP
07MADRID526	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS:FIERSTEIN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Judith E. Fierstein, USGS, research geologist to travel to Tenerife, Spain on March 21 to March 30. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Density Currents and Topography workshop. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. [...]	2007-03-21 13:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID527	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA: LAWRENCE BUCKLEY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA personnel; Lawrence Buckley to travel to Cadiz, Spain on or about March 17 to March 24. The purpose of this visit is to attend and participate in the International Symposium on Parameterisation of Trophic Interactions in Ecosystem Modeling. 2. Po [...]	2007-03-21 13:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID528	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. HOLMGREN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Miguel Holmgren, Chief, Molecular Neurophysiology Unit, NIH to travel to Tenerife, Spain on or about March 28 to April 1. The purpose of this visit is to give a seminar at Hospital Universidad de La Laguna in Tenerife. 2. Post understands that no a [...]	2007-03-21 13:02:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP

07MADRID529	SPAIN COURTS ALGERIA AND MOROCCO DESPITE WESTERN [...] (U) This is an action request message (see paragraphs 3 and 11). 2. (C) NOTE: The conversations in this message took place prior to receipt of reftel on briefing Spain and other countries on our latest Western Sahara efforts, which we will report via separate telegram. END NOTE. 3. (C [...]	2007-03-21 13:57:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS UNSC SP WI
07MADRID535	SPAIN WILL STICK TO EU APPROACH ON ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Poloff presented ref. A demarche to Antonio Sanchez-Benedito Gaspar, Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for Sub-Saharan Africa, on March 22. Consistent with ref. B, Sanchez-Benedito said that Spain is in agreement with the U.S., is very concerned at the current state of affairs in Zimba [...]	2007-03-22 14:45:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SP ZI
07MADRID536	SPAIN FAVORS UN UMBRELLA FOR WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Poloff delivered ref. A demarche to MFA Deputy Director General for North Africa Manuel Gomez-Acebo on March 21, asking Spain to intervene with the Polisario Front (PF) and encourage them to agree to direct negotiations with Morocco under U.S. auspices at a neutral location. Poloff empha [...]	2007-03-22 14:51:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS UNSC SP WI
07MADRID545	SPAIN/CUBA: FM MORATINOS PLANNING TO VISIT HAVANA [...] (C) Summary. MFA Director General for Iberoamerica Javier Sandomingo informed DCM on March 23 that Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos plans to visit Cuba, though no date has been fixed. Sandomingo (strictly protect) shared this with the DCM during a readout of the March 17 visit to Mad [...]	2007-03-23 17:10:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CU SP
07MADRID546	GOS ACKNOWLEDGES US CONCERN ABOUT IRAQ WAR COMMENTS [...] (C) The combination of the anniversary of the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom with the fervor of the Spanish campaign season led to a brief flurry of anti-US rhetoric from public figures associated with the government. As reported in reftel, magistrate Baltasar Garzon wrote an op-ed on March [...]	2007-03-23 17:13:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP
07MADRID547	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SEC OFFICIAL SHERMAN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Securities & Exchange Commission: Sherman Boone, Assistant Director to travel to Madrid, Spain on March 26 to March 27. The purpose of this visit is to attend and participate in the Issue Mapping Sub-Committee of the Technical Committee of the IOSCO meeting [...]	2007-03-23 18:00:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN OTRA SP
07MADRID548	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DRL CORTNEY DELL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DRL Officer Cortney Dell to travel to Madrid and Barcelona, Spain on March 25 to April 1. The purpose of this visit is to participate in a Visitors Program for Young North American Opinion Leaders. 2. Post understands that no Embassy assistance is requi [...]	2007-03-23 18:00:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA PHUM SP
07MADRID556	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA25/NNTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Lewie Gasaway and Jason Piller to travel to Cadiz, Spain on April 09 to April 14. The purpose of this visit is in support of the Material Protection, Control, and Accounting Program. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. [...]	2007-03-26 17:06:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP OTRA SP
07MADRID557	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. NORA VOLKOW [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Nora Volkow, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about April 17 to April 19. The purpose of this visit is to speak at La Caixa Foundation Science Museum Drug Addiction Lecture. 2. Post understands tha [...]	2007-03-26 17:06:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID558	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC EARL FORD [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Earl Ford, Team Leader, Epidemiology and Analysis, Division of Adult and Community Health, NCCDPHP, HHS/CDC to travel to Barcelona, Spain on April 24 to April 29. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Second International Congress on "Prediabetes" and [...]	2007-03-26 17:06:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID559	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/FDA PAULA TROST, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Paula Trost, Julie Bringger, Malgorzata Mikolajczk, Investigators, International Biologics Group, Office of Regulatory Afairs, FDA, HHS to travel to Madrid, and Barcelona, Spain on April 14 to May 5. The purpose of this visit is to conduct a regulatory insp [...]	2007-03-26 17:06:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID560	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. FERRE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Sergi Ferre, Staff Scientist, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about April 13 to April 23. The purpose of this visit is to discuss ongoing research collaborations. 2. Post understands that no assistance is re [...]	2007-03-26 17:06:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID561	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DRS. DOO AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Drs. Edward Doo, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH and Dr. Jose Serrano, NIDDD, NIH to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about April 10 to April 16. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Eu [...]	2007-03-26 17:06:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID562	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DRS.COMBS AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Drs. Combs, Staff Scientist, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH and Dr. Robert Balaban, Scientific Director, NIH, Molecular Neurophysiology Unit, NIH to travel to Valencia, Spain on or about April 9 to April 16. The purpose of this visit is to [...]	2007-03-26 17:06:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID564	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-27 12:19:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP EAGR EAIR ECON EFIN EIND ENRG ETRD KNNP
07MADRID566	SPANISH CIO FINDS WAY TO INCLUDE 2 NGOS IN OSCE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points on the importance of including two NGOs in the 29-30 March meeting of the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension meeting to MFA OSCE Chairmanship coordinator Ambassador Jose Angel Lopez Jorrin on March 28. Lopez Jorrin consulted, then replied that Spain has re [...]	2007-03-28 12:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM OSCE SP
07MADRID568	SPANISH FM WILL ONLY ATTEND SECOND HALF OF GYMNICH [...] (SBU) Poloff spoke with MFA Deputy Director General for Foreign Policy Carlos Fernandez-Arias on March 28 to discuss Spain's views in advance of the Gymnich. Fernandez-Arias said that Foreign Minister Moratinos would miss the first two sessions on the Balkans and the European Neighborhood Poli [...]	2007-03-28 14:56:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EUN KPAL PREL XG IS IR ZI SP
07MADRID571	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EPA: MICHAEL DEANE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to EPA personnel; Michael Deane, Senior Policy Advisor to the AA for Water and the Administrator on Infrastructure Finance to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about March 31 to April 4. The purpose of this visit is to attend a Water Conference. 2. Post un [...]	2007-03-28 17:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA SENV SP
07MADRID572	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC WALID HENEINE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Walid Heneine, Ph.D., Distinguished Consultant, CCID/NCHHSTP/DHAP, HHS/CDC to travel to Madrid, and Segovia, Spain on April 17 to April 21. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 14th International HIV Dynamics and Evolution Conference. 2. Post und [...]	2007-03-28 17:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID573	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel S. Gnanakaran to travel to Segovia, Spain on April 16 to April 23. The purpose of this visit is to attend the HIV Dynamics and Evolution Conference. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are reminded that b [...]	2007-03-28 17:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP OTRA SP
07MADRID578	SPAIN ON VIOLATIONS OF UNSCR 1701 ARMS EMBARGO [...] (S) Poloff delivered REF A points to MFA Middle East Desk Officer Sergio Carranza on 3/23, sharing the points that were marked as releaseable to the Government of Spain. Carranza inquired as to the reliability of the information, noting that Spain was highly sensitive to information of this na [...]	2007-03-29 13:55:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PARM PREL PTER UNSC LB SP
07MADRID596	SPAIN ON TAKING GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-02 15:16:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC XG SP
07MADRID598	SPAIN/KOSOVO: UN RESOLUTION KEY TO SPANISH TROOP [...] (C) The DCM met with Spanish MFA Director General for Europe and North America Jose Maria PONS Irazazabal on March 29 to discuss Spain's support for the Ahtisaari Plan's proposals for Kosovo. Pons told DCM that Spain is committed to supporting the EU common position and strongly supports the [...]	2007-04-02 15:42:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EU SP
07MADRID60	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT [...] (U) Greenpeace Spain recently posted its calendar year (CY) 2006 environmental report card for Spain. In its analysis, posted to their Website (http://www.greenpeace.org/espana/),it announced that one of the most important developments in Spain during CY 2006 was a reduction in biotechnology [...]	2007-01-12 13:23:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAGR TBIO SP EINV EAIR UK
07MADRID606	SPAIN/HSPD-6: CONSULAR AFFAIRS AND TSC VISITORS [...] (SBU) Alcy Frelick of CA/P/IP and Richard Kopel and Mary Draper of the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) visited Madrid March 27 to meet with officials from Spain's National Center for Anti Terrorist Coordination to discuss implementation the HSPD-6 terrorist lookout data exchange between the U. [...]	2007-04-03 16:21:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER CVIS KHLS PREL PGOV SP
07MADRID61	SPAIN RECEIVES DEMARCHE ON PRESIDENT'S IRAQ POLICY [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-12 13:37:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IZ SP
07MADRID612	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EPA: TALA HENRY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to EPA personnel; Tala Henry, Toxicologist, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about April 15 to April 20. The purpose of this visit is to attend the OECD QSAR Expert Group - Steering Group and Ad Hoc meeting [...]	2007-04-04 13:10:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA SENV SP
07MADRID613	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA: BRADLEY BARR [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA personnel; Bradley Barr, Senior Policy Advisor to travel to Almeria, Spain on or about May 5 to May 12. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Protected Areas Categories Summit. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID614	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA: LORI SCHWACKE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA personnel; Lori Schwacke to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about April 9 to April 13. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Pollution 2000 Phase II Workshop sponsored by the International Whaling Commission. 2. Post understands that [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID615	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA: ROBERT EVANS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA personnel; Robert Evans to travel to Madrid and Tenerife, Spain on or about April 22 to May 2. The purpose of this visit is to attend the workshop on problematic ozone time series and attend the Science Advisory Group meeting in Tenerife. 2. Post [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID616	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VA: GUADALUPE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to VA personnel; Guadalupe Garcia Tsao, Physician, VA Medical Center, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about April 11 to April 15. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 42nd Annual Meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID617	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/FDA EDWIN MATTHEWS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Edwin Matthews, Pharmacologist, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA, HHS to travel to Madrid, Spain on April 16 to April 20. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Organization Ad Hoc Group meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistance i [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID618	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: CUCCHISSI AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA DELEGATION as listed in reftel, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on April 13 to April 27. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Antenna Calibration and Measurement Equipment Training for Deep Space Communications [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID619	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: THOMAS DUXBURY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA Personnel: Thomas Duxbury from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on April 2 to April 4. The purpose of this visit is to attend a Mars Express Science Operations Working Group meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistan [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID620	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: KARTIK SHETH [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA Personnel: Kartick Sheth from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Tenerife, Spain on April 21 to April 29. The purpose of this visit is to attend and speak at the Pathways Through an Elective Universe Conference. 2. Post understands tha [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID621	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA DELEGATION as listed in reftel, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Bilbao, Spain on April 6 to April 17. The purpose of this visit is to attend a quality and design review for MARS Science Laboratory's high-gain antenna and the Rover [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID622	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA (JSC),KEITH [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Keith Tucker, from NASA's Johnson Space Center, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on April 8 to April 13. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Structural Technical Interchange meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visito [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID623	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DRS. PALMER, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Sarah Palmer, Staf Scientist, HIV Drug Resistance Program (DRP),National Cancer Institute (NCI),NIH; Dr. Zandrea Ambrose, Research Fellow, DRP, NCI, NIH, and Dr. Frank Maldarelli, Staff Clinician, DRP, NCI, NIH to travel to Segovia, Spain on or about [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID624	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Shyamasundaran Kottilil, Clinical Fellow, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about April 12 to April 17. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 42nd Annual Meeting of the European Associati [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID625	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. JOHN WILBUR [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. John Wilbur, Senior Investigator, Director, National Library of Medicine, NIH to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about April 23 to April 26. The purpose of this visit is to take part in a workshop on Natural Language Processing. 2. Post understands [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID626	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/CDC JACQUELINE KATZ [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Jacqueline Katz, Branch Chief, COGH/NCIRD, CDC, HHS to travel to Barcelona and Zaragosa, Spain on April 7 to April 14. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the IX National Congress of Virology at Zaragoza University Centre for Prionic Disea [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TBIO KSCA SP
07MADRID627	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/NPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Scott Hulse, Ronald Hansen, Christopher Joines, George Leroy, and Eric Moore to travel to Rota, Spain on April 20 to April 30. The purpose of this visit is to provide technical support and cross-training to current contractors for the Departme [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP OTRA SP
07MADRID628	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/NPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Thomas Leitner to travel to Segovia, Spain on April 17 to April 20. The purpose of this visit is to chair a session at the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Dynamics Evolution Conference. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. [...]	2007-04-04 13:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP OTRA SP
07MADRID629	SPAIN: CUBA TRIP RESULTS NOT YET CLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Spanish Foreign Minister Moratinos said that his April 2-3 visit to Havana, during which he met with Raul Castro and other government leaders, has opened a new stage in Spain-Cuba relations. Moratinos had two principal objectives for the trip: re-engagement with the Cuban governm [...]	2007-04-04 15:08:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SP CU
07MADRID630	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT [...] (U) Financial Times Columnist Martin Wolf says "The pain in Spain will follow years of rapid economic gain" - but he argues the pain may still be years away. Wolf addresses the issue of whether current account deficits matter inside a monetary union. His answer: "no, because there cannot be a [...]	2007-04-04 15:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP EAGR EAIR ECON EFIN EIND ENRG ETRD KNNP
07MADRID634	UNDEF: CLUB DE MADRID PROMOTES ARAB DEMOCRATIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Spain-based NGO Club de Madrid is using UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) funding to help fund a project aimed at promoting freedom of association in several key Arab nations, the "Dialogue on Democratic Values in the Arab World." The Club de Madrid is pleased with its relationship [...]	2007-04-04 15:58:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL UN NGO OIIP
07MADRID635	DCM OBSERVES MUHAMMAD'S BIRTHDAY AT MARBELLA MOSQUE [...] (U) SUMMARY: During a visit to the Costa del Sol in Andalucia, the DCM toured Marbella's beautiful Rey Abdelaziz Al-Saud Mosque and, at the prompting of Imam Alla Bachar, gave impromptu remarks to the assembled congregation of approximately 50 believers on March 31. Alla Bachar gave a sermon [...]	2007-04-04 16:11:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KISL PREL PGOV SP
07MADRID64	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EPA: GERALD ANKLEY AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Gerald Ankley, Research Toxicologist and Joe Tietge, Biologist to travel to Madrid, Spain on January 21 to January 26. The purpose of this visit for Mr. Ankley is to co-chair the Madrid OECD meeting, and Mr. Tietge will be presenting at this meeting. 2. [...]	2007-01-12 15:23:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID640	SPAIN/CUBA: ENGAGING MEMBERS EU TO REINFORCE [...] (C) Summary. As discussed in reftels, Spanish FM Miguel Angel Moratinos and a top-level MFA team visited Havana April 1-3 and concluded political, economic, and cultural agreements with the Cuban Government. In effect, FM Moratinos undertook a major reorientation of Spanish policy, inverting [...]	2007-04-09 16:00:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU SP
07MADRID649	SPAIN/CUBA: ENCOURAGING EU MEMBERS TO HOLD FIRM ON [...] (C) As discussed in reftels, Spanish FM Miguel Angel Moratinos and a top-level MFA team visited Havana April 1-3 and concluded political, economic, and cultural agreements with the Cuban Government. In effect, FM Moratinos undertook a major reorientation of Spanish policy, inverting Spanish p [...]	2007-04-10 16:46:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU SP
07MADRID65	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA: DAVID ZILKOSKI [...] Embassy grants country clearance to David Zilkoski, Director National Geodetic Survey to travel to Madrid, Spain on January 18 to January 23. The purpose of this visit is to meet with Spain integrated ocean observations system partners to discuss common issues and potential partnership. 2 [...]	2007-01-12 15:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID650	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: JOHN WATERS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to John Waters from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on April 7 to April 15. The purpose of this visit is to attend a critical design review for the MARS Science Laboratory Mission. 2. Post understands that no assistance is req [...]	2007-04-10 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID651	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. WILLIAM LAU [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. William Lau, Investigator, Center for Information Technology, NIH to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about April 22 to April 26. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Second BioCreative Challenge Workshop. 2. Post understands that no assi [...]	2007-04-10 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID652	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. HINNEBUSCH [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Alan Hinnebusch, Laboratory Chief, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about April 19 to April 21. The purpose of this visit is to present a talk at the Centre for Genomic Regulation. 2. [...]	2007-04-10 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID653	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/NPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Dennis Baum to travel to Tarragona, Spain on April 14 to April 24. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 23rd International Symposium on Ballistics. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are reminded tha [...]	2007-04-10 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP OTRA SP
07MADRID654	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EPA: JOE NABHOLZ [...] Embassy grants country clearance to EPA Official; Joe Nabholz, Senior Biologist, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about April 14 to April 19. The purpose of this visit is to provide technical advice to the OECD about their development of [...]	2007-04-10 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA SENV SP
07MADRID655	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TREASURY: JONATHAN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Department of Treasury personnel; Jonathan Jones, Senior Financial Economist, to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about April 15 to April 19. The purpose of this visit is to attend a meeting of the Risk Modeling and Management Group, A Subgroup of the Basel C [...]	2007-04-10 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID656	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SEC OFFICIAL GEORGE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Securities & Exchange Commission: George Lavdas to travel to Madrid, Spain on May 7 to May 10. The purpose of this visit is to attend a meeting of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO): IOSCO Standing Committee no. 2 meeting. [...]	2007-04-10 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN OTRA SP
07MADRID657	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA: TERESA ROWLES [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA personnel; Teresa Rowles, Fishery Biologist and Margaret Krahn, Supervisory Research Chemist to travel to Valencia and Barcelona, Spain on or about April 9 to April 13. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Special Workshop organized by t [...]	2007-04-10 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID658	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USPTO: BERESFORD [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Lynne Beresford, USPTO Commissioner to travel to Alicante, Spain on April 22 to April 24. The purpose of this visit is to attend the office of Harmonization for the Internal Market. 2. Post understands that no Embassy assistance is required. 3. Vis [...]	2007-04-10 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN OTRA SP
07MADRID659	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: LISA MAZZUCA [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Lisa Mazzuca from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC),to travel to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain on April 21 to May 1. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the Pathways through an Eclectic Universe conference. 2. Post understand [...]	2007-04-10 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID66	SPANISH PROPOSAL FOR NCIS/OSI AGREEMENT [...] (C/NF) As previewed in reftel, MOD has proposed a radically shorter, less detailed draft agreement that would govern the actions in Spain of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and USAF Office of Special Investigations (OSI). Although only OSD can fully evaluate the text that MOD t [...]	2007-01-12 15:59:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR SP
07MADRID660	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: MOSELEY AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Samuel Harvey Moseley and Bernard Rauscher from NASA Headquarters, to travel to Madrid, Spain on April 22 to April 26. The purpose of this visit is to attend the James Webb Space Telescope Near Infrared Spectrometer Science Team meeting. 2. Post unders [...]	2007-04-10 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID661	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: MICHAEL MEYER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Michael Meyer from NASA Headquarters, to travel to Madrid, Spain on April 11 to April 14. The purpose of this visit is to attend the critical design review of the Spanish contributed REMS instrument. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. [...]	2007-04-10 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID662	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: DE LA TORRE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Manuel de la Torre Juarez and Claire Quinto from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on April 8 to April 15. The purpose of this visit is to attend a critical design review of the Rover Environmental Monitoring System Instrument f [...]	2007-04-10 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID663	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: JACK FISHMAN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Jack Fishman from NASA's Langley Research Center (LARC),to travel to Puerto De La Cruz, Spain on April 23 to April 29. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Ozone Scientific Advisory Group meeting. 2 [...]	2007-04-10 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID667	SPAIN: MOD POLICY DG ON NCIS/OSI, AFGHANISTAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: MOD Director General for Policy Major General Benito Raggio told PolCouns on March 26 that he is glad to see a positive conclusion to negotiations over regulations for the activities in Spain of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and USAF Office of Special Investigati [...]	2007-04-11 12:58:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP RU YI
07MADRID67	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA: THOMAS WEATHERMAN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA Aviation Safety Inspector Operations, Thomas Weatherman to travel to Barcelona and Madrid, Spain on January 24 to January 26. The purpose of this visit is to conduct a recertification inspection. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. [...]	2007-01-12 16:00:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC EAIR SP
07MADRID672	SPANISH EX-DEFENSE POLICY DIRECTOR REFLECTS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Francisco Torrente, a retired admiral who stepped down in January as MOD Secretary General for Policy, told DCM during a private lunch on March 26 that Spain would staff the NATO-ISAF headquarters in Kabul beginning in summer 2008, after national elections. He acknowledged that th [...]	2007-04-11 16:41:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	PREL PGOV SP AF
07MADRID686	SPAIN APPRECIATIVE OF MISSILE DEFENSE BRIEFING [...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of ongoing USG efforts to engage the Spanish government on missile defense, Missile Defense Agency deputy director Brigadier General Patrick O'Reilly met with MOD and MFA officials, as well as opinion leaders and an influential opposition member of Parliament, on March 30. [...]	2007-04-13 10:17:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR SP
07MADRID687	SPANISH MFA READOUT OF MORATINOS TRIP TO CUBA [...] (C) SUMMARY: With FM Moratinos traveling in Central Asia as OSCE chairman and thus unable to meet with the Ambassador, MFA Secretary of State for Latin America Trinidad Jimenez gave DCM an initial readout on April 12 of Moratinos' trip to Cuba. Jimenez said that the trip's objective was to r [...]	2007-04-13 10:29:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU SP
07MADRID69	SPAIN: DEFMIN ON SECDEF/NATO MINISTERIAL, SUB [...] (C/NF) Ambassador Aguirre met with Spanish Defense Minister Alonso January 11 to touch base on the upcoming visit to Seville of SecDef Gates in connection with the February 8-9 NATO Defense Ministerial. The two, who meet frequently, were to meet briefly for coffee but the session lasted an ho [...]	2007-01-12 17:10:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR PGOV SP
07MADRID692	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT [...] (U) Finance Minister Solbes, Central Bank Chief Ordonez and Secretary of State for Economy Vergara traveling to Washington this weekend to campaign for bigger IMF Quota: Spain's IMF quota share is 1.41%, below Belgium's 2.13%. The Spaniards are aware that China, Mexico, Russia, Turkey and Bra [...]	2007-04-13 16:32:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP EAGR EAIR ECON EFIN EIND ETRD TBIO SP
07MADRID7	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS: MOODY AND MARTIN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to John Moody, and Deborah Martin, Research Hydrologists to travel to Barcelona, Spain on January 30 to February 6. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present a paper at the International meeting of fire effects on soil properties and will also conduct [...]	2007-01-03 17:49:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA PHYTRP KSCA ECON SENV SP
07MADRID707	SPANISH POLDIR: MY TRIPS TO KABUL, TEHRAN, HAVANA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Spanish MFA DG for Policy Rafael Dezcallar told DCM on April 17 that his recent trip to Afghanistan left him newly optimistic because NATO-ISAF is on the offensive and Afghan ministers and troops are starting to play a serious role. He said that the GOS will soon begin an initiat [...]	2007-04-18 15:37:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL SP IR AF CU AG MO WI IZ KZ UZ
07MADRID71	SPAIN: UNVIE AMBASSADOR SCHULTE RAISES AWARENESS [...] (U) UNVIE Ambassador Greg Schulte visited Madrid January 10-11 to raise the awareness of GOS officials and the public regarding the threat posed by the ongoing Iranian nuclear weapons program. On the government side, Schulte met with National Security Advisor Carles Casajuana, Deputy Foreign [...]	2007-01-12 17:32:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL MNUC MASS PINS PTER SP
07MADRID717	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT [...] (U) In what was billed by the GOS as the first annual "State of Economy" message, Zapatero praised the performance of the Spanish economy and released a report. He deliberately did not choose parliament as the venue for delivering the message as he reportedly wanted to avoid criticism from th [...]	2007-04-19 17:49:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP EAGR EAIR ECON EFIN EIND ETRD TBIO SP
07MADRID722	SPAIN STRONGLY SUPPORTS U.S. PROPOSAL TO LIMIT [...] ESTHOFF made reftel points April 19 to MFA Special Envoy for the Antarctic Treaty Ambassador Juan Martinez-Cattaneo Hingston, urging Spain to support U.S. proposals to limit Antarctic tourism at the May thirtieth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) in New Delhi. Martinez-Cattaneo, w [...]	2007-04-20 07:26:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC KTIA SENV TPHY KSCA AY SP
07MADRID723	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: DAVID RECCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to David Recce from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on April 20 to April 28. The purpose of this visit is to participate in a technical review of the Madrid deep space communications center commercial power project. 2. Post un [...]	2007-04-20 08:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID724	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: COMPTON TUCKER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Compton Tucker from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Mallorca, Spain on May 8 to May 10. The purpose of this visit is to attend a Symposium on Climate Change. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are remin [...]	2007-04-20 08:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID725	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS: CRAIG ALLEN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USGS personnel; Craig Allen, Research Geologist to travel to Seville, Spain on or about April 27 to May 24. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the 4th International Wildland Fire conference, conduct fieldwork, attend various meetings, and [...]	2007-04-20 08:58:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID726	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Herbert Van de Sompel to travel to Barcelona, Spain on May 7 to May 13. The purpose of this visit is to present and attend the European Library Automation Group conference. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visit [...]	2007-04-20 09:21:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP OTRA SP
07MADRID727	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA25/NNTRAV: [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NNSA personnel Alon Daniel to travel to Barcelona, Spain on April 27 to April 29. The purpose of this visit is to meet with Spanish Police Advisors to discuss the American University's research project on nuclear smuggling. 2. Post understands that no [...]	2007-04-20 09:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP OTRA SP
07MADRID728	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. JORGE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Jorge Sztein, Staff Scientist, National Eye Institute, NIH to travel to Barcelona and Madrid, Spain on or about May 6 to May 19. The purpose of this visit is to serve as faculty at CIEMAT in Madrid and at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. 2. P [...]	2007-04-20 09:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID729	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USAID: CILIA DE COCK [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USAID Personnel; Cilia de Cock and Carlos Costa, USAID Consultants to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about May 8 to May 14. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the International Nut & Dried Fruit Annual convention. 2. Post understands that no [...]	2007-04-20 09:23:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID SENV SP
07MADRID73	SPAIN INFORMED ABOUT SPECIALTY STEELS SOUGHT BY [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-12 18:33:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	ETTC MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL SP
07MADRID730	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: GEOFFREY TOON [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Geoffrey Toon from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Tenerife, Spain on April 27 to May 6. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change Infrared Working Group Meeting. 2. Post under [...]	2007-04-20 09:23:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID731	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GAO: JAYETTA HECKER, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to GAO personnel; Steven Cohen and Matthew Rosenberg, (the others are listed in case of substitution) to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about April 23 to April 27. The purpose of this visit is to conduct a review of public-private partnerships in the constructi [...]	2007-04-20 09:24:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID736	EU AND CUBA: MESSAGE DELIVERED TO SPAIN [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-20 16:06:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU SP
07MADRID739	SPANISH MOD POLDIR ON NCIS/OSI RESOLUTION, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Secretary General for Defense Policy Luis Cuesta told DCM on April 18 that MOD appreciates US patience with its plans for signature and announcement on April 24 of regulations for the activities in Spain of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and USAF Office of Special [...]	2007-04-23 12:41:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SP AF
07MADRID74	SPANISH INVITATION TO BUCHAREST EXPORT CONTROL [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-12 18:34:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KSTC PARM PREL RO SP
07MADRID741	VENEZUELAN RCTV OWNER MARCEL GRANIER IN SPAIN [...] (C) As described in ref A, DCM talked with MFA Secretary of State for Latin America Trinidad Jimenez on April 12 about the possibility that the GOS would act discreetly to encourage Hugo Chavez not to close RCTV. Based on that conversation, Jimenez, who was aware and concerned about the closu [...]	2007-04-24 08:02:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SCUL SP VZ
07MADRID75	SPAIN ON URGING BRAZILIAN PSI PARTICIPATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-12 18:35:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM KNNP EWWT PHSA BR PO SP
07MADRID750	SPAIN AND US SIGN NCIS/OSI REGULATIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: As required by the 2002 revision of the bilateral Agreement on Defense Cooperation (ADC),Spain and the US have signed regulations for the activities in Spain of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and USAF Office of Special Investigations (OSI). Defense Minister Alon [...]	2007-04-25 14:35:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR SP
07MADRID753	SPANISH ENCOURAGE LONGER MINURSO RENEWAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: NEA DAS Gordon Gray discussed the Western Sahara over lunch with a team of high-level MFA officials April 19 in Madrid. Alvaro Iranzo, the Spanish DG for North Africa, told Gray that the Spanish want a UNSCR which impels the two sides to negotiate without preconditions. While favoring [...]	2007-04-26 07:57:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS SP MO AG WI
07MADRID78	MIDDLE EAST CONFERENCE: MORATINOS URGES EXPANSION [...] (U) Summary. Participants in a high level event to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 1991 Madrid Middle East Conference recalled the spirit of the 1991 Conference, discussed the problems facing current Middle East peace negotiators, urged deeper USG engagement in resolving the Israeli-P [...]	2007-01-16 16:09:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS SY LE SP
07MADRID783	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOC: THOMAS MARTIN AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOC personnel; Thomas Martin and Maisha Cryor, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about May 13 to May 19. The purpose of this visit is to verify questionnaire responses in the antidumping duty review on chlorinated isocyanurates from Spain. 2. Post un [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD SP
07MADRID784	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: BRIAN REHM [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Brian Rehm from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Madrid, Spain on May 19 to May 26. The purpose of this visit is to upgrade the Science Instrument Development Unit. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID785	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/FDA BILL TACKETT [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Bill Tackett, Investigator, Office of Regulatory Affairs, FDA, NIH to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about May 5 to May 11. The purpose of this visit is to participate in a regulatory inspection of a medical device. 2. Post understands that no assis [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID786	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. ALLEN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Allen Minton, Chief, Physical Biochemistry Section, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, NIH to travel to Seville, Spain on or about May 15 to May 28. The purpose of this visit is to participate in a Federation of European Biochemical Societies wor [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP

07MADRID787	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. KASTNER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Daniel Kastner, Clinical Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about May 5 to May 9. The purpose of this visit is to participate and present in the 21st European Immunog [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID788	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. KUNOS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. George Kunos, Scientific Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about April 26 to April 28. The purpose of this visit is to attend a presentation at the Second International Congress on Pre [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID789	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: JONGELING [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Andre Jongeling from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on May 19 to May 26. The purpose of this visit is to take part in training at the Madrid Deep Space Network Complex. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID790	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. MERINO [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Maria Merino, Chief of Surgical Pathology, NIH to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about May 14 to May 20. The purpose of this visit is to give a lecture at a meeting of the Spanish Society of Pahotlogy. 2. Post understands that no assistance is re [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID791	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Nasa delegation as outlined in reftel from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, to travel to Madrid, Spain on or around May 5 to May 13. The purpose of this visit is to attend atlas inner stage meetings with Construccionnes Aeronauticas. 2. Post understands th [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID792	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: BUCK [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Robert Buck from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on June 1 to June 15. The purpose of this visit is to attend the annual antenna inspection of all complex and metrology antennas. 2. Post understands that no assistance is re [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID793	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: WITKOWSKI [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Mona Witkowski from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid, Spain on June 8 to June 16. The purpose of this visit is to attend the annual antenna inspection of all complex and metrology antennas. 2. Post understands that no assistance is [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID794	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOE personnel: Andrew Brydon to travel to Vigo, Spain on May 21 to June 5. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 2nd Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic. 2. Post understands that no assistance is requ [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA SP
07MADRID795	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOE personnel: Christopher Mauche to travel to Madrid, Spain on June 4 to June 6. The purpose of this visit is to attend the SMM-Newton: The Next Decade workshop. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are reminded that bea [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA SP
07MADRID796	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/BPA: REDING [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOE personnel: Jerry Reding to travel to Madrid, Spain on April 24 to April 28. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Primary International Forum of Overhead Transmission Lines. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors ar [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA SP
07MADRID797	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA25/NNTRAV [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOE personnel: Whitney Creer, Allison Bennett, Craig Stinson, Stephanie Clarke, Cody Hostick, Adrian Pidlusky to travel to Algeciras, Spain on May 14 to May 20. The purpose of this visit as the second line of defense Megaports Initiative Program team is to [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA SP
07MADRID798	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/INTEL: DAY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOE/INTEL personnel: Christopher Day to travel to Barcelona, Spain on April 24 to April 29. The purpose of this visit is to increase knowledge of LNG and industry contacts. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are reminde [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA SP
07MADRID799	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOC: MICHAEL HARRISON [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOC personnel; Michael Harrison and Peter Scholl, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about May 6 to May 13. The purpose of this visit is to verify questionnaire responses in the antidumping duty review on chlorinated isocyanurates from Spain. 2. Post [...]	2007-04-27 17:39:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD SP
07MADRID8	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR UNVIE AMBASSADOR [...] Embassy grants country clearance and warmly welcomes UNVIE Ambassador Gregory L. Schulte to travel to Madrid, Spain on January 10 to January 11. The purpose of this visit is to participate in Iran Public Diplomacy outreach discussions with Senior Level GOS officials and the media. 2. The [...]	2007-01-03 17:49:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA AMGT SP
07MADRID800	SPAIN/COUSO CASE: JUDGE CHARGES US SERVICEMEN WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. National Court Judge Santiago Pedraz issued formal charges of murder and "crimes against the international community" against the three US servicemen named in the legal case filed by family members of Spanish cameraman Jose Couso, who was killed by US fire during the capture of [...]	2007-04-27 19:55:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR PGOV SP
07MADRID801	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA JOANNE TILLEY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Joanne Tilley, Aviation Safety Inspector to travel to Madrid, Spain on May 11 to May 23. The purpose of this visit is to perform certificate management surveillance of Boeing suppliers. 2. Post understands that no Embassy assistance is req [...]	2007-04-30 07:04:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID802	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA JOHN TAMBURI [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA: John Tamburi, Aviation Safety Inspector to travel to Madrid, Spain on May 23 to May 25. The purpose of this visit is to perform an FAA inspection. 2. Post understands that no Embassy assistance is required. 3. Visitors are reminded that bear [...]	2007-04-30 07:04:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID803	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA RONALD GLEITER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Ronald Gleiter, Aviation Safety Inspector to travel to Madrid, Spain on June 6 to June 16. The purpose of this visit is to attend a working group session. 2. Post understands that no Embassy assistance is required. 3. Visitors are r [...]	2007-04-30 07:04:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID807	SPANISH VIEWS ON NPT PREPCOM [...] (U) ESTHOFF passed reftel points April 24 to MFA Deputy Director General Ignacio Sanchez, requesting Spanish thoughts on the U.S. agenda for the May PrepCom for the 2010 NPT RevCon. Sanchez, who had clearly given considerable thought to the U.S. nonpaper, relayed GOS views to ESTHOFF during [...]	2007-04-30 11:16:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG MNUC PARM PREL KNNP NPT SP
07MADRID81	SPAIN/ETA POLICY: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION FIND [...] (U) In a lengthy and oftentimes vitriolic debate in the Spanish Parliament on January 15, President Zapatero and opposition Popular Party (PP) leader Mariano Rajoy traded verbal blows over the GOS' anti-terrorism policies and the way forward on forging an anti-terrorism pact among the parliame [...]	2007-01-16 16:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER SP
07MADRID815	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VA TANYA JOHNSON [...] Embassy grants country clearance to VA employee: Tanya Johnson, Overseas Military Coordinator to travel to Rota, Spain on or about May 19 to September 30. The purpose of this visit is to assist U.S. military personnel. 2. Post understands that no Embassy assistance is required. 3. [...]	2007-05-03 06:56:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID82	SPAIN/COUSO CASE: JUDGE ISSUES DETENTION ORDER [...] (U) National Court Examining Magistrate Santiago Pedraz issued international detention orders on January 16 against three U.S. servicemen, Sgt. Thomas Gibson, Captain Philip Wolford, and Lt. Col. Philip de Camp, accused of murder and violating international law in the death of Spanish cameraman [...]	2007-01-16 17:09:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR SP
07MADRID824	SPAIN: MISSILE DEFENSE IS NRC ISSUE, NOT OSCE ISSUE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-04 11:46:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM OSCE EZ PL RS SP
07MADRID834	SPANISH VIEWS ON WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-04 16:33:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TPHY SP
07MADRID835	SPAIN ON BELARUS UNHRC CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-04 17:22:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC SP
07MADRID836	SPAIN'S IDEAS FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) Please see action request in paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: During a conversation with DCM on May 3 that focused on missile defense (reftel),MFA PolDir Rafael Dezcallar raised four issues related to Afghanistan. Dezcallar wanted to know whom in the Department MFA should contact regarding [...]	2007-05-07 06:37:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AF SP
07MADRID837	SPAIN ON ZIMBABWE CHAIRMANSHIP OF CSD 16 [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-07 07:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV UNCSD AORC PREL ZI SP
07MADRID838	MUSLIM INTEGRATION IN BARCELONA AND ANDALUCIA [...] (U) Senior Advisor to A/S Fried, Farah Pandith, cleared this message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On her second visit to Spain, Senior Advisor to A/S Fried for Muslim Engagement, Farah Pandith, traveled to Barcelona, the Andalucian cities of Cordoba and Sevilla and Madrid from April 19-24, meeting [...]	2007-05-07 07:16:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PREL PGOV SP
07MADRID848	SPAIN SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. INTERNATIONAL WHALING [...] ESTHOFF made reftel points May 8 to Spanish IWC Commissioner Carmen Asencio, urging Spain to support U.S. IWC priorities. Asencio said Spain would endorse the aboriginal subsistence whaling quota for Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Sea bowhead whales and agreed with the U.S. positions on the Revised [...]	2007-05-09 11:33:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD SP
07MADRID853	SPAIN ON U.S. CITES COP 14 PRIORITIES [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-09 12:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ETRD KSCA SP
07MADRID859	ENGAGING THE NEW FRENCH GOVERNMENT ON FOREIGN POLICY: FIVE IMMEDIATE ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign policy played only a negligible role in the presidential election campaign that concluded May 6, and Sarkozy has relatively little experience in foreign affairs, despite his tenures as Interior and Finance Minister. Nonetheless, Sarkozy's personality is such that he wil [...]	2007-05-10 13:41:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV SP
07MADRID862	SPAIN/CUBA: VISIT OF WHA DAS MADISON [...] (C) Summary. In a May 4 meeting with visiting WHA Deputy Assistant Secretary Kirsten Madison, MFA Director General for Ibero America Javier Sandomingo defended Spain's decision to ramp up contact with the Castro Government, though he acknowledged that Spain "made mistakes" in the course of FM [...]	2007-05-10 16:54:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU SP
07MADRID863	SPAIN: LEGAL SUIT AGAINST FORMER SECRETARY RUMSFELD [...] (U) The AFP news wire service reported April 30 that the left-wing Spanish NGO "Seville Social Forum" had filed war crimes charges against former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld in an Andalusian court for his role in the war in Iraq and for the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. The lawyer [...]	2007-05-10 17:20:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MARR SP
07MADRID867	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA25/NNTRAV [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOE personnel: Gary Varnado to travel to Madrid, Spain on May 20 to June 3. The purpose of this visit is to support the International Atomic Energy Agency by serving as a trainer/instructor to representatives of the Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear. 2. Pos [...]	2007-05-11 12:14:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA SP
07MADRID868	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA25/NNTRAV [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOE personnel: Whitney Creer, Allison Bennett, Craig Stinson, Stephanie Clarke, Cody Hostick, Adrian Pidlusky, Dennis Torres-Mendoza and Dung-Zoom Le to travel to Algeciras, Spain on May 14 to May 20. The purpose of this visit as the second line of defense [...]	2007-05-11 12:14:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA SP
07MADRID869	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DHS/NNTRAV DECORPO, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DHS personnel: James Decorpo, Joe Foster, Lilia Ramirez from the Science and Technology Directorate to travel to Toledo, Spain on May 5 to May 10. The purpose of this visit is to participate in NATO meetings on prediction detection of improvised explosive [...]	2007-05-11 12:14:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP OTRA PARM SP
07MADRID87	CUBA: SPANISH PAPER SAYS CASTRO OPTED FOR RISKIER [...] (U) Summary. Spanish daily "El Pais" reported today that Fidel Castro and his inner circle opted for a riskier surgery during his initial medical crisis in hopes that he could avoid a second surgery and the need to wear a colostomy bag during his recovery. Citing sources in the hospital where [...]	2007-01-17 12:09:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL CU SP
07MADRID870	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: KENNETH CARPENTER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Kenneth Carpenter from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Madrid, Spain on May 26 to June 2. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the First Network for UV Astronomy conference on Space Astronomy. 2. Post understands that [...]	2007-05-11 12:14:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID871	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: RICHARD MUSHOTZKY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Richard Mushotzky from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Madrid, Spain on June 3 to June 9. The purpose of this visit is to attend the X-ray Multi Mirrow working group meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. V [...]	2007-05-11 12:14:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID872	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: JEFFREY CERRO [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Jeffrey Cerro from NASA's Langley Research Center, to travel to Madrid, Spain on May 25 to May 31. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the 66th Society of Allied Weight Engineers International Conference on Mass Properties Engineering. 2. Po [...]	2007-05-11 12:14:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID873	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA delegation as outlined in reftel from the Kennedy Space Center, to travel to Moron and Zaragoza, Spain on or about May 25 to June 5. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Microwave Scan Beam landing System flight inspection at the Transoceanic Abo [...]	2007-05-11 12:14:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID874	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA delegation as outlined in reftel from the Kennedy Space Center, to travel to Madrid and Zaragoza, Spain on or about May 27 to June 13. The purpose of this visit is to attend Embassy meetings and to support STS-117 operations at Transoceanic Abort Landin [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID875	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA delegation as outlined in reftel from the Kennedy Space Center, to travel to Moron, Spain on or about May 24 to June 13. The purpose of this visit is to attend Embassy meetings and to support STS-117 operations at Transoceanic Abort Landing sitethe At [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID876	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA DELEGATION [...] Embassy grants country clearance to NASA delegation as outlined in reftel from the Kennedy Space Center, to travel to Madrid, Spain on May 11 to May 12. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Atlas Inner Stage meetings with construcciones Aeronauticas. 2. Post understands that no ass [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID877	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USDA: JOHNSON, MERRIE, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to US Forest Service Personnel; Merrie Johnson, Director, Paulette Ford, Research Ecologist, and Jason Steinmetz, Forestry Technician-Dispatch Coordinator to travel to Seville, Spain on or about May 12 to May 18. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Wild [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID SENV SP
07MADRID878	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. HEE-YONG [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Hee-Yong Kim, Lab Chief, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH; to travel to Salamanca, Spain on or about May 19 to May 23. The purpose of this visit is to attend and give the Porcellati lecture at the European Society for Neurochemis [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID879	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. PAVLAKIS, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. George Pavlakis, Senior Investigator, National Cancer Institute, NIH; Mr. Yakob Habtesion, Health Specialist, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID),NIH; and Dr. Lanling Zou, Biologist, NIH to travel to Malaga, Spain on or about [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID880	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. KLINMAN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Dennis Klinman, Senior Investigator, National Cancer Institute, NIH to travel to Malaga, Spain on or about May 22 to May 26. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the Third International Conference on DNA Vaccines. 2. Post understan [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID881	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. MATTSON [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Mark Mattson, Senior Investigator, National Institute on Aging, NIH to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about May 18 to May 21. The purpose of this visit is to present the opening lecture at the 17th Annual European Society of Neurochemistry Meeting. 2 [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID882	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USAID: FRANKLIN MOORE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USAID Personnel; Franklin Moore, Agriculture and Trade, Office of Environment and Science Policy to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about May 13 to May 18. The purpose of this visit is to participate in a CGIAR Alignment Forum, Executive Committee-12 meeting. [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID SENV SP
07MADRID883	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USGS: ZHU [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USGS personnel; Zhi-Liang Zhu, Research Physical Scientist to travel to Seville, Spain on or about May 13 to May 26. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the 4th International Wildland Fire conference, conduct a presentation, and discuss r [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID884	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOI: CLARK [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Lisa Clark from the Bureau of Land Mangement to travel to Seville, Spain on May 13 to May 17. The purpose of this visit is to present at the 4th Annual International Wildland Fire conference. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3 [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TPHY SP OTRA
07MADRID885	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/FE KIGHT [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOE Office of Fossil Energy: Gene Kight to travel to Madrid, Spain on June 23 to June 30. The purpose of this visit is to attend and participate in the Power Gen 2007 Conference. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are r [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA SP
07MADRID886	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOE personnel: Gary Varnado to travel to Barcelona, Spain on June 8 to June 17. The purpose of this visit is to attend the International conference Meteoroids 2007 conference. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are remin [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA SP
07MADRID887	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USAID: PHIL ROURK AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USAID Personnel; Phil Rourk and Beatriz Cascos de Zacapa form USAID Export Promotion Program to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about May 12 to May 24. The purpose of this visit is to promote exports of Salvadoran products to the European market. 2. Post [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID SENV SP
07MADRID888	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: GEORGE VOELLMER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to George Voellmer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Pico Veleta, Spain on May 22 to June 7. The purpose of this visit is to observe a run at Instituto de Radio Astronomia Milimetrica. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID889	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: MAX COLEMAN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Max Coleman from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Seville, Spain on May 27 to May 30. The purpose of this visit is to continue interpretation activities of the Rio Tinto results. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID890	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: DOMINIC BENFORD [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dominic Benford from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Pico Veleta, Spain on May 28 to June 8. The purpose of this visit is to observe a run at the Instituto de Radio Astronomia Milimetrica. 2. Post understands that no assistance is requ [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID891	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: EDWARD WOLLACK [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Edward Wollack from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Pico Veleta, Spain on June 1 to June 14. The purpose of this visit is to observe a run at the Instituto de Radio Astronomia Milimetrica. 2. Post understands that no assistance is requ [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID892	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: RANDAL KOSTER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Randal Koster from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on June 2 to June 9. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present a paper at the World Climate Research Programme/Climate Observation and Prediction of the Earth Sys [...]	2007-05-11 12:15:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID893	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: NICHOLAS WHITE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Nicholas White from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Madrid, Spain on June 2 to June 6. The purpose of this visit is to attend the XMM-Newton: The Next Decade Workshop. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors [...]	2007-05-11 12:16:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID894	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA DOUGLAS DARRYL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Douglas Darryl Tilford, Aviation Safety Inspector, to travel to Seville, Spain on May 11 to May 23. The purpose of this visit is to perform certificate management surveillance on Boeing suppliers. 2. Post understands that no Embassy assis [...]	2007-05-11 15:10:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID895	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA BRUCE CONZE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Bruce Conze, Aerospace Engineer to travel to Madrid, Spain on May 6 to May 12. The purpose of this visit is to perform surprise A380 noise tests. 2. Post understands that no Embassy assistance is required. 3. Visitors are reminded t [...]	2007-05-11 15:12:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID896	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA RICHARD YHAP [...] Embassy grants country clearance to FAA employee: Richard Yhap, Aviation Safety Inspector to travel to Madrid, Spain on May 20 to May 27. The purpose of this visit is to perform certificate management surveillance on Continental Airlines substantial engine maintenance contractor, Iberia. [...]	2007-05-11 15:12:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA SP
07MADRID897	SPAIN: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ELECTION [...] (C) DCM raised with Spanish MFA PolCouns Rafael Dezcallar May 10 the USG's strong desire for Spain's support in countering the Belarus candidacy for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council and its active efforts in favor of the candidacies of Slovenia and Bosnia. DCM underscored that the requ [...]	2007-05-11 16:20:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC SP
07MADRID899	SPAIN/COUSO CASE: UPDATE; CONVERSATIONS WITH KEY [...] (SBU) DCM Llorens met with Spanish State Secretary for Justice (Deputy Minister-equivalent) Julio Perez Hernandez on May 10 to express USG's strong concern about the formal charges filed in Spain against the three US serviceman named in the legal case filed by family members of the Spanish ca [...]	2007-05-11 16:30:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PGOV PREL SP
07MADRID900	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NRC CHAIRMAN DALE KLEIN [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Dale Klein, Chairman US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to travel to Madrid, Spain on May 20 to May 24. The purpose of this visit is to attend bilateral meetings with the Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear, tour the Equipos Nucleares facility in Cantabria, and [...]	2007-05-11 16:31:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP TRGY SP OTRA
07MADRID902	SPAIN ON OECD ENLARGEMENT AND FINANCING REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-11 17:36:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON OECD SP EUN
07MADRID907	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) MINISTER OF INDUSTRY CLOS HOSTS AMBASSADOR AND AMERICAN BUSINESS COUNCIL FOR WORKING LUNCH Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism Joan Clos hosted the Ambassador and an executive group from the American Business Council (ABC) for lunch May 10. The ABC groups the largest U.S. investors [...]	2007-05-14 13:00:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP EAGR EAIR ECON EFIN EIND ETRD TBIO SP
07MADRID910	SPAIN/COUSO CASE: PROSECUTOR APPEALS CHARGES [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-14 15:51:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR SP
07MADRID911	SCENESETTER FOR US-SPAIN HIGH LEVEL DEFENSE TALKS [...] (C/NF) Dan, welcome back to Spain. I appreciate your patience and efforts to finally resolve the NCIS/OSI issue and I'm glad that you've made this High-Level Defense Committee (HLDC) meeting a priority. Now that the Permanent Committee is back on track, handling routine issues at the staff lev [...]	2007-05-14 17:44:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR SP
07MADRID924	SPAIN: VISIT OF INL DAS MCCAMPBELL; OPPORTUNITY [...] (C) Summary. During a visit to Madrid to attend the 25th-annual International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC),INL DAS Christy McCampbell on May 7 met with senior officials in Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and USAID-equivalent Agency for International Cooperation (AECI). During her [...]	2007-05-16 17:01:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR EAID PREL SP
07MADRID937	VAN WALSUM IN MADRID MAY 18 [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Deputy Director General for North Africa Manuel Gomez-Acebo on May 17. Gomez-Acebo told Poloff that UN Personal Envoy Peter van Walsum had postponed his planned May 16-22 tour of the Maghreb on May 15 and would instead be in Madrid May 18 for a me [...]	2007-05-17 14:55:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS AG MO WI SP
07MADRID94	SPAIN SUPPORTS LEBANON CONFERENCE BUT WILL NOT [...] ESTHOFF passed reftel points January 10 to several senior level contacts in the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI),urging Spain to dispatch a ministerial-level delegation to the January 25 Lebanon conference in Paris and to announce additional financial support for Lebanon a [...]	2007-01-18 14:03:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EAID LE SP
07MADRID945	SPAIN ON KEY U.S. OBJECTIVES AT THE ANNUAL WORLD [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-18 12:07:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO SP
07MADRID947	SPAIN ON FUTURE OF RCTV [...] (C) Though not an action addressee on ref A, Post continues to press the GOS to use high-level contact with the BRV to support Venezuelan press freedom, specifically RCTV. As described in ref B, Post helped arrange meetings for RCTV owner Marcel Granier with National Security Adviser Carles Ca [...]	2007-05-18 13:42:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SP VZ
07MADRID95	FOLLOWING UP WITH THE GOS ON SPANISH FIRM'S [...] (S) ESTHOFF passed Ref A points January 12 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Deputy Director General Ignacio Sanchez, strongly urging Spain to address U.S. concerns regarding the sale by the Spanish firm Maquinaria CME, S.A. of computer numerical controlled (CNC) milling machines to Iran. Sanchez [...]	2007-01-18 15:28:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC MNUC TSPA SP
07MADRID950	DEPUTY FM LEON ON KOSOVO, IRAQ, IRAN/VENEZUELA, [...] (C) Summary. Charge met with MFA Secretary of State Bernardino Leon on May 17 at the Charge's residence. Leon said Spain was looking forward to the visit of Secretary Rice and said that there was concern that the visit not be manipulated by "either side" of the Spanish political spectrum. C [...]	2007-05-18 17:27:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP
07MADRID951	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: LESLIE DEUTSCH [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Leslie Deutsch from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Escorial, Spain on June 16 to June 23. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Interagency Operations Advisory Group meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistance is requir [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID952	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: PHILIP LIEBRECHT [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Philip Liebrecht from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Madrid, Spain on June 16 to June 22. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the International Operations Advisory Group. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID953	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: JAMES COSTRELL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to James Costrell from NASA Headquarters, to travel to Madrid, Spain on June 17 to June 23. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Interagency Operations Group meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visitors are reminded t [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID954	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA/JAMES BURKHOLDER [...] Embassy grants country clearance to James Burkholder, Research Chemist from NOAA to travel to Valencia, Spain on May 20 to May 25. The purpose of this visit is to paticipate in a site visit to Fundacion de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterraneo. 2. Post understands that no assistance is r [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TPHY SP OTRA
07MADRID955	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USG: ELIZABETH KIM, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USG personnel; Elizabeth Kim, Craig Vogt, Anhar Karimjee, Roza Guillaume, Thomas Fredette, Joseph Wilson Todd Bridges, Jeff Summers, and Jennifer Winston to travel to La Coruna, Spain on or about June 18 to June 22. The purpose of this visit is to attend t [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID956	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOE Kevin Boyack to travel to Madrid, Spain on June 23 to June 29. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics. 2. Post understands that no assistance is requ [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA SP
07MADRID957	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOE Castrillo Boixo to travel to Barcelona, Spain on June 6 to June 30. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the Biennial Pedro Pascual Benasque Center for Science Workshop on Quantum Information. 2. Post understands that no assistance [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA SP
07MADRID958	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/NA10/DPTRAV [...] Embassy grants country clearance to DOE Alberto Roura Crumols to travel to Barcelona, Spain on June 23 to July 1. The purpose of this visit is to participate in collaborations on an ongoing research project related to the stability of De Sitter Spacetime in Semiclassical Gravity and its impli [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG OTRA SP
07MADRID959	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. SIMON [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Simon Metenou, Research Fellow, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about May 29 to May 31. The purpose of this visit is to coordinate the development of vaccines against Malaria in Pregnancy an [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID960	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. FRANCIS [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Francis Collins, Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about May 25 to May 26. The purpose of this visit is to serve as speaker at the Jimenez Diaz Memorial Lecture. 2. Post understands that no ass [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID961	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. BARRY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Barry Horwitz, Senior Investigator, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about May 27 to May 31. The purpose of this visit is to give a talk and chair a session at the Workshop on Brai [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID962	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. AMAR KLAR [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Amar Klar, Senior Investigator, National Cancer Institute, NIH to travel to Madrid and Salamanca, Spain on or about May 21 to May 27. The purpose of this visit is to meet faculty and give talks at the Centro Nacional de Biotechnologia in Madrid and Centr [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID963	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NIH/FIC DR. ARAI [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Andrew Arai, Senior Investigator, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about May 23 to May 24. The purpose of this visit is to present a lecture at the EuroPCR 2007 conference. 2. Post understands that [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID964	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/FDA STEVEN GENDEL [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Steven Gendel, Microbiology and Stephano Luccioli, Medical Officer Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA, HHS to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about May 28 to May 31. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the Approaches to Risks [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID965	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/FDA GREGSON JOSEPH [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Gregson Joseph, Investigator, Office of Regional Operations, FDA, HHS to travel to Madrid, Spain on or about June 1 to June 8. The purpose of this visit is to attend the EuroPCR 07 Annual Meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID966	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS/FDA ASHLEY BOAM [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Ashley Boam, Branch Chief, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about May 21 to May 28. The purpose of this visit is to attend the EuroPCR 07 Annual Meeting. 2. Post understands that no assistance is requi [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA TBIO SP
07MADRID967	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: AKBAR SULTAN AND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Akbar Sultan and Karlin Toner from NASA Headquarters, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on June 28 to July 6. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Seventh USA/Europe ATM Research and Development Seminar. 2. Post understands that no assistance is requ [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID968	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: JOSEPH NUTH [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Joseph Nuth from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Barcelona, Spain on or about June 9 to June 16. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present at the Meteoroids 2007 conference. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID969	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: NURIA CALVET, [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Nuria Calvet from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Villa Franca del Castillo, Spain on or about May 28 to June 1. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Herschel Observing Time Allocation Committee meeting. 2. Post understands that no [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID970	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: SUSAN WELCH [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Susan Welch from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Madrid Spain on May 27 to June 9. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex Design Review. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3 [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID971	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA: DAVID STRUBA [...] Embassy grants country clearance to David Struba from NASA Headquarters, to travel to Madrid Spain on June 16 to June 21. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Interagency Operations Advisory Group 11 meetings. 2. Post understands that no assistance is required. 3. Visit [...]	2007-05-21 08:22:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP TSPA
07MADRID973	SPAIN POINT OF CONTACT INFORMATION FOR GLOBAL [...] (SBU) ESTOFF and POLOFF delivered REFTEL A points on May 10 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Deputy Director General Ignacio Sanchez and met again on May 18 with Sanchez and MFA Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Carlos Torres to discuss Spain's participation in the Global Initi [...]	2007-05-21 11:43:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KGIC PARM PREL SP

07MADRID974	SPAIN TO IMMINENTLY SUBMIT ANNUAL DECLARATION FOR [...] (SBU) ESTOFF and POLOFF made reftel points on May 18 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Deputy Director General Ignacio Sanchez and MFA Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Carlos Torres, urging Spain to submit to the Immediate Central Contact their HCOC Annual Declaration (AD) on s [...]	2007-05-21 11:44:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA SP
07MADRID975	SPAIN AGREES WITH BROAD DEFINITION OF UNSCR 1747 [...] (SBU) ESTOFF and POLOFF delivered reftel points on May 18 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Deputy Director General Ignacio Sanchez and MFA Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Carlos Torres, conveying Department views on the need to interpret broadly operative Paragraph 5 of UNSCR [...]	2007-05-21 11:46:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR SP
07MADRID976	SPAIN ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS/LIMA TEXT [...] (SBU) ESTHOFF and POLOFF made reftel points May 18 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Deputy Director General Ignacio Sanchez and MFA Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Carlos Torres, urging Spain to support U.S. positions as the international community charts the future of the [...]	2007-05-21 11:57:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS NATO PARM PREL SP
07MADRID977	DEMARCHE CONCERNING SPANISH AND AUSTRIAN TRANSFERS [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-21 11:57:00	Embassy Madrid	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL ETTC IR AU SP
07MADRID979	SPANISH PARTICIPATION IN OSCE PPP CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-21 14:59:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCE PREL PTER SP RU
07MADRID981	MADRID WEEKLY ECON/AG/COMMERCIAL UPDATE REPORT - [...] (U) Spanish economy grew by 4% on an annualized basis during the first quarter of 2007, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE). The composition of the growth (exports, domestic demand, construction etc.) will be released in the next couple of weeks. Analysts will be looking [...]	2007-05-21 16:41:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP EAGR EAIR ECON EFIN EIND ETRD TBIO SP
07MADRID984	RUSSIANS ON SPANISH OSCE CHAIRMANSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Polcouns discussed OSCE issues with Russian Political Counselor Alexey Dementiev and Advisor Dennis Gonchar on May 18 at the Russians' request. Dementiev indicated Russia's strong support for the U.S. led Global Initiative and offered to increase U.S.-Russia coordination through [...]	2007-05-22 15:07:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE SP RS
07MADRID99	SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOT: KEVIN ANDERSON [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Kevin Anderson, Special Assistant for International Affairs to travel to Valencia, Spain on January 18 to January 25. The purpose of this visit to attend a meeting of the Accord Implementation Group (AIG) of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS [...]	2007-01-18 17:29:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA SP
07MADRID999	3RD US-SPAIN HIGH LEVEL DEFENSE COMMITTEE REVIEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the third bilateral High Level Defense Committee (HLDC) meeting, held in Madrid on May 17-18, DASD Dan Fata and MOD Secretary General for Policy Luis Cuesta discussed shared strategic interests including the NATO-ISAF operations in Afghanistan, multi-lateral missions in Kosovo [...]	2007-05-24 15:28:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO SP AF RS YI LE IR PK IS
07MANAGUA1021	ANOTHER CONVERGENCIA MEMBER QUESTIONS ORTEGA,S [...] (C) Summary: Azucena Ferrey, a former Contra and longstanding Christian Democrat currently associated with Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) political ally Convergencia, tells us that a number of Convergencia members are disillusioned with the Ortega administration. Ferrey, who di [...]	2007-04-23 14:34:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1028	IN SEARCH OF OPPOSITION UNITY [...] (C) Summary: A group of democratic-minded Nicaraguans are attempting to create a political opposition force to counter President Ortega's apparent determination to turn Nicaragua into an autocratic regime along the lines of Chavez's Venezuela. The group proposes to establish a new national d [...]	2007-04-23 20:11:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1029	NICARAGUA: NO PROPERTY RESOLUTIONS IN FIRST [...] (SBU) Summary: In the three-month period following the January 10th inauguration of President Daniel Ortega, the Government of Nicaragua has failed to resolve any claim involving the restitution of or compensation for U.S. citizen property illegally expropriated in the 1980s. Since 1995, when [...]	2007-04-23 21:06:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON NU
07MANAGUA1036	LIBERAL MAYORS REJECT ALEMAN, PLEDGE TO SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: A group of mayors from the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) meeting with leaders of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) strongly rejected any role for convicted PLC leader Arnoldo Aleman in the Liberal unification process. The mayors plan to form local commissions ahead of th [...]	2007-04-23 23:32:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1043	NEW MOVIMIENTO DIRECTOR: CIVIL SOCIETY AND [...] (C) Summary: The new Movimiento por Nicaragua (MpN) executive director, Violeta Granera, is convinced that the Ortega government's apparent disorientation is a ruse to divert attention from the Sandinista National Liberation Front's (FSLN) clear plan to gain political and economic power and [...]	2007-04-24 15:38:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NU PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07MANAGUA106	ORTEGA BLAIMS "NEO-LIBERALISM" FOR NICARAGUAN [...] (U) Summary: New Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega assumed office on January 10 singing the praises of his Bolivarian "twin" Hugo Chavez and proclaiming the failure of "neo-liberalism." Ortega repeated his campaign promises to alleviate poverty through national and regional "unity," joining [...]	2007-01-17 17:40:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1065	EMISSARY OF LIBERAL MAYORS' GROUP CLAIMS [...] (C) Summary: Elvin Sandigo, Executive Director of the Association of Patriotic Mayors (ASALPAT),claims that his organization is no longer an organ of the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC). According to Sandigo, the 58 Liberal mayors that form ASALPAT's membership support Liberal unification [...]	2007-04-25 21:56:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1067	ORTEGA,S FIRST 100 DAYS -- AUTOCRATIC TRENDS DRAW [...] (C) Summary: In its first 100 days, President Ortega's government was characterized by a blur between party and state; autocracy and secrecy; dependency on Chavez; disregard for law and human rights; the dismissal of thousands of government employees; and, a pointed effort to financially "sta [...]	2007-04-25 22:35:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KDEM NU SNAR IR
07MANAGUA1069	FORO LIBERAL SEEKS LIBERAL UNITY VIA [...] (C) Eight Liberal Forum (Foro Liberal) members, who invited the Ambassador, DCM, and PolCouns to meet over breakfast on April 24, are seeking to foster Liberal unity at the municipal level and through the National Assembly's Nicaragua Liberal Alliance (ALN) and the Liberal Constitutional Part [...]	2007-04-26 14:57:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1083	NICARAGUAN EDUCATION SYSTEM IN CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the past month, Nicaragua's chronically under-funded and fragile education system suffered turmoil over wage disputes, worsened by political rivalries. Teachers demanding a larger salary increase have paralyzed schools throughout the country through partial or complete wor [...]	2007-04-27 14:49:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV ECON ELAB NU
07MANAGUA1097	NICARAGUAN POLICE CHIEF SHARES VIEWS ON POLICE ROLE [...] (C) Summary: Police Chief Aminta Granera is committed to counternarcotics and enforcement efforts as well as ensuring public safety, although she has no faith in the Nicaraguan judicial system and receives little assistance from other government agencies. During meetings with Emboffs, Graner [...]	2007-04-27 23:05:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NU PGOV PINR SNAR
07MANAGUA1113	LIBERAL DEPUTIES AGREE TO WORK ON JOINT [...] (C) Summary: Liberal National Assembly deputies from the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) and Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) recently pledged during a meeting with poloffs to jump-start negotiations on a joint legislative agenda and methods to coherently oppose objectionable proposals from [...]	2007-05-02 21:33:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1135	NPT PREPCOM POINTS DELIVERED TO NICARAGUAN FOREIGN [...] On April 24, post faxed reftel points in English to the Foreign Ministry's Director of Multilateral Affairs, Magda Enriquez, who speaks and reads English. On April 26, post's Spanish translation was sent to the MFA. The Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Samuel Santos on May 2, the earlies [...]	2007-05-03 20:49:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT NU
07MANAGUA1174	THE OPPOSITION'S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS: A [...] (C) Summary: Two former presidential candidates, Eduardo Montealegre of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) and Edmundo Jarquin of the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS),are working on forging a political alliance to counter President Ortega,s increasingly authoritarian inclinations. The [...]	2007-05-07 22:30:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1183	MADRIZ - ORTEGA PROMISES REMAIN UNFULFILLED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Citing higher gas prices, no new jobs, and political favoritism, the citizens of Somoto and Totogalpa, Madriz spoke to the Ambassador of growing dissatisfaction with President Ortega's administration. While local opposition leaders are talking, they have not unified or capitali [...]	2007-05-08 16:12:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM ECON PGOV PINR NU
07MANAGUA1195	IN SEARCH OF OPPOSITION UNITY - PART II [...] (C) Summary: The group of prominent democrats introduced in ref B reports that they are planning a major declaration of opposition unity some time in late May. Despite past declarations of support from the three defeated ex-Presidential candidates however, several seem to be waffling in their [...]	2007-05-08 22:16:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1207	NICARAGUA: NEW PROPERTY SUPERINTENDENT ON PROSPECT FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EconCouns and Econoff met with Property Superintendent Mireya Molina on April 25 to stress the importance of accelerating resolutions for confiscated and expropriated American citizen properties in Nicaragua. As of the date of that meeting, the Office of the Property Superintend [...]	2007-05-09 21:45:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA1217	NICARAGUA: OIL CONCESSIONS TO U.S. COMPANIES [...] (C) Summary: On 10 August, 2006, a court in the Southern Autonomous Atlantic Region (RAAS) accepted a writ of injunction/relief against the Attorney General for signing oil exploration concessions with two U.S. companies without having properly consulted with the governments of the Autonomous [...]	2007-05-10 22:24:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ECON PREL NU
07MANAGUA1223	ORTEGA APPOINTS ANOTHER PSEUDO-MINISTER OF DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: President Ortega recently appointed former spokeswoman for the Nicaraguan Supreme Court Ruth Tapia Roa to the post of Secretary General of the Ministry of Defense "with the rank of minister." Tapia's chief qualifications appear to be her relationship to former Sandinista military [...]	2007-05-10 23:00:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1230	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: APRIL [...] (U) Summary: In April of the 2006-2007 waiver year, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) did not resolve any Embassy-registered property claims. No claims have been resolved so far in CY 07. Since January 1995, 2,509 Embassy-registered property claims belonging to 654 American citizens (Amcits) have b [...]	2007-05-11 22:49:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA125	ALN NEGLECTING DISGRUNTLED LIBERALS [...] (C) Summary: The Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) is missing an historic opportunity to capture disgruntled Liberal voters from the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC),claims Liberal Matagalpino Eugenio Rodriguez. According to Rodriguez, Liberals in key northern areas are upset with the PLC [...]	2007-01-18 17:18:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1265	NICARAGUA: NICARAGUA'S COASTAL LAND LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the last decade, there has been a significant increase in Nicaraguan beachfront property investments, including many investments by American citizens. Land laws do not discriminate between foreign and domestic owners, but investor uncertainty in the face of a history of tang [...]	2007-05-15 22:28:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON EWWT USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA127	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES BILATERAL CONCERNS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador recently met with Arturo Cruz, Nicaragua's Ambassador-designate to the United States. During the conversation, Cruz first insisted on the importance of President Ortega's participation in the annual Prayer Breakfast; he later reconsidered and suggested Ortega decline the inv [...]	2007-01-18 17:57:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM MARR MOPS PGOV PINR PREL SNAR IR NU
07MANAGUA1272	NICARAGUA UNDECIDED ON UNHRC VOTE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-16 21:02:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNHRC NU
07MANAGUA1273	NICARAGUA'S IRAN-VENEZUELA RELATIONS [...] (S) Summary: Given President Daniel Ortega's close relationship with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the restoration of diplomatic ties with Iran, and the visit of President Ahmedinejad to Nicaragua, the Embassy has not formally engaged the Nicaraguans on the Venezuelan-Iranian alliance (Ref [...]	2007-05-16 21:06:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER VE IR NU
07MANAGUA1310	AMBASSADOR DELIVERS DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1747 [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-22 21:22:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR NU
07MANAGUA1311	GON RESPECTS VENEZUELAN DECISION TO CLOSE RCTV, [...] (C) On May 21, the Ambassador raised with Foreign Minister Samuel Santos the demarche points on press freedom contained in refetel. The Ambassador expressed concern that the imminent closure of Venezuelan television channel RCTV is an act that violates the OAS' Inter-American Convention on H [...]	2007-05-22 21:42:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL NU VE
07MANAGUA1318	FOREIGN MINISTER DOWNPLAYS GON ENDORSEMENT OF [...] (C) On May 21, the Ambassador raised with Foreign Minister Samuel Santos the Nicaraguan government's (GON) position vis a vis North Korea (DPRK),specifically noting our concern over President Ortega's recent public remarks virtually endorsing the DPRK's efforts to become a nuclear power, a p [...]	2007-05-23 15:24:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KGIT XE NU
07MANAGUA1327	TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IMPROVES ABILITY OF NEWLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After several years of planning, a vetted unit has been created in Nicaragua to investigate high-profile financial, corruption-related, narcotics and transnational crimes. The unit has been initially funded by illicitly acquired assets of corrupt former Nicaraguan officials t [...]	2007-05-23 23:12:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV OPIC KCOR PGOV SNAR KCRIM KJUS NU
07MANAGUA1340	MONTEALEGRE UNDER INTENSE PRESSURE TO MAKE DEAL [...] (C) Summary: Opposition leader Eduardo Montealegre of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) is under intense pressure to make a deal with convicted ex-President and Liberal Constitutional Party Leader (PLC) Arnoldo Aleman to unite the Liberal forces. During a recent session with Washington vi [...]	2007-05-24 23:36:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1350	MISKITOS READY TO MOBILIZE BUT LACK RESOURCES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Diverse anti-Sandinista Miskito groups in Nicaragua's North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) are slowly unifying into a single movement. Significant challenges remain, but the group is convinced of the need to win the municipal elections in four key RAAN municipalities in 2008 [...]	2007-05-28 16:40:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM NU
07MANAGUA1356	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR RAISES U.S. CITIZEN [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 18, the Ambassador called on Attorney General Hernan Estrada to discuss upcoming deliberations for a waiver of Section 527 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995). The Ambassador noted that the new government had not resolved a single prop [...]	2007-05-29 20:54:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA1359	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR RAISES U.S. CITIZEN [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 18, the Ambassador called on Attorney General Hernan Estrada to discuss upcoming deliberations for a waiver of Section 527 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995). The Ambassador noted that the new government had not resolved a single prop [...]	2007-05-29 21:55:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA1377	GROUP VOICES SUPPORT OF NICARAGUAN POLICE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: A group of fourteen prominent Nicaraguans, who call themselves the "Grupo de Opinion" (Opinion Group) are voicing their support of the Nicaraguan National Police and the Armed Forces in order to prevent them from being co-opted by President Daniel Ortega. Rafael Cordoba, a memb [...]	2007-05-30 22:28:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1392	POST REQUESTS EXTENSION OF RLA PROGRAM [...] This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador requests serious consideration by State INL and DOJ-OIA of a continuation of the highly effective Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) position at Embassy Managua. Over the past three years, the RLA program has allowed this po [...]	2007-06-01 14:53:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV KCOR KCRIM SNAR KJUS NU
07MANAGUA140	CENTAM AMBASSADORS CONCERNED ABOUT NICARAGUA'S [...] (C) Summary: Central American ambassadors in Nicaragua were startled by the populist rhetoric and procession of infamous guests surrounding the inauguration of President Daniel Ortega (reftel),but maintain a cautious optimism that regional and international agreements will constrain the Orteg [...]	2007-01-18 23:43:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1409	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: MAY 2007 [...] (U) Summary: In May of the 2006-2007 waiver year, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) did not resolve any Embassy-registered property claims. No claims have been resolved so far in CY 07. Since January 1995, 2,509 Embassy-registered property claims belonging to 654 American citizens (Amcits) have bee [...]	2007-06-04 19:40:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA1427	MRS DEFECTORS PLAN NEW CAUCUS IN ASSEMBLY, [...] (C) Summary: While Liberal infighting grabs the most headlines in Nicaragua, post-election squabbling has also fractured the reformist Left. Many FSLN party activists who left the Sandinista Front to support former Managua mayor Herty Lewites' presidential bid later became disenchanted with t [...]	2007-06-05 20:53:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1431	NICARAGUA: FACING CHALLENGES IN ADDRESSING CASH [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 24, Econoff delivered reftel demarche on illicit cash couriers to representatives of the Nicaraguan inter-agency Anti-Terrorism Working Group (ATWG). ATWG representatives responded that cash couriers are an issue of growing concern in Nicaragua, but current laws and the [...]	2007-06-05 20:55:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL NU
07MANAGUA1432	NICARAGUA GEOGRAPHICAL ASSISTANCE DISTRIBUTION PROJECT [...] (U) Summary: At the Ambassador's request, post has developed an online application that graphically displays all USG assistance projects directed at specific localities from 2000-2003 to the present. The Geographical Assistance Distribution (GAD) Project also shows the geo-political breakdown [...]	2007-06-05 23:16:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID AINT MASS PGOV PINR SOCI NU
07MANAGUA1482	OPPOSITION LABOR PUSHES FOR LIBERAL UNITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Liberal labor federation Permanent Workers' Congress (CPT) seeks to form a "Pro Unity Committee" to create a unified Liberal platform and break the political impasse between the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) and the Liberal Constitutionalist Party (PLC). CPT leaders wor [...]	2007-06-12 18:23:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL ELAB
07MANAGUA1495	LABOR - POTENTIAL KEY TO OPPOSITION UNITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: There is growing unrest and resentment towards President Daniel Ortega among organized labor, sparked by turmoil in the education sector earlier this year. Human rights NGO Nicaraguan Permanent Commission for Human Rights (CPDH) hopes to capitalize on the situation by working w [...]	2007-06-13 23:18:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL ELAB
07MANAGUA1528	NICARAGUA: 2007 EXPROPRIATION REPORT [...] (U) This cable provides proposed language for the Nicaragua chapter of the 2007 Report on Investment Disputes and Expropriation Claims. Embassy will e-mail comprehensive annex with details of confiscated property claims by June 15 per reftel request. Property Confiscation Claims ----------- [...]	2007-06-15 21:17:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON PGOV KIDE OPIC CASC NU
07MANAGUA1537	ACTING MINISTER OF DEFENSE PLANS MINISTRY PURGE, [...] (C) Summary: According to an internal memorandum obtained by post, Acting Nicaraguan Minister of Defense Ruth Tapia Roa plans to fire the few remaining officials from the previous administration and replace them with Army-approved loyalists. She also alerts President Ortega to the Army's "new [...]	2007-06-18 15:38:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PARM KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1541	NEW ACTING MINISTER OF DEFENSE RECEIVES AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Ambassador met with Ruth Tapia Roa, the new Secretary General and acting Minister of Defense (reftel),on June 4 to discuss issues of mutual concern. Although Tapia's office delayed granting the appointment for several weeks, the meeting was cordial. She led the meeting on behalf of the [...]	2007-06-18 22:52:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1543	CIVIL SOCIETY UNDER SIEGE, CLAMOURING FOR [...] (C) Over the past 2-3 months, the political section has received over a dozen proposals from civil society organizations concentrated in three areas: human rights defense, organized labor, and indigenous (Miskito) groups. Each organization claims to oppose President Daniel Ortega and seeks fi [...]	2007-06-18 23:22:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EAID KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL NU
07MANAGUA1547	TEACHERS HOPE TO FORM FIRST "SUPER" UNION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Democratic teachers' unions hope to form a national alliance ("Central") in order to gain negotiating power with the Ortega government and more effectivley contest the alliance between Education Minister Miguel De Castilla and pro-Sandinista teachers' union ANDEN. Union leaders [...]	2007-06-20 16:15:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL NU
07MANAGUA155	EX-SANDINISTA VP SERGIO RAMIREZ: RECENT ORTEGA [...] (C) Summary: Sergio Ramirez, a renowned author and Vice President during the 1980s Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) era who is estranged from the FSLN, paints a discouraging map of the course the new Ortega government has set over the past week. He recently warned the Ambassador [...]	2007-01-19 21:19:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1562	CHINANDEGANOS CONCERNED ABOUT ORTEGA, OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: The politically active citizens of Nicaragua's north-western department of Chinandega are concerned about President Ortega's centralization of government and attempts to establish local citizens' councils. Members of the private sector note that economic activity is generally dec [...]	2007-06-21 16:26:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON KDEM MCC NU
07MANAGUA157	REGIONAL AMBASSADORS SHARE THOUGHTS ON ORTEGA [...] (C) Summary: Ambassadors to Nicaragua from Spain, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia are concerned that the authoritarian tendencies and lack of experience of many officials in the Ortega administration, combined with the "destabilizing" influence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, may nega [...]	2007-01-19 22:35:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1588	USG COMMITMENT TO GOOD RELATIONS WITH SANDINISTAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In May 29-June 1 meetings in Managua, WHA/CEN Office Director John Feeley reaffirmed with senior FSLN leaders that USG policy is to pursue productive and positive relations with the Ortega government. At the same time he communicated that President Ortega's increasingly anti-US [...]	2007-06-26 19:11:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV NU
07MANAGUA1592	FSLN TO USE PRN TO FURTHER DIVIDE LIBERALS IN 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Nicaraguan Resistance Party's (PRN) internal problems continue. The Supreme Electoral Counsel canceled internal PRN elections, citing irregularities and internal struggles. There is a serious rift between PRN president Salvador Talavera and vice president Julio Blandon. T [...]	2007-06-28 17:27:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV NU
07MANAGUA1615	VENEZUELA'S BANDES OPENS ITS DOORS IN NICARAGUA [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 21, President Ortega officially opened the Venezuelan Bank for Economic and Social Development (BANDES) in Nicaragua. He personally handed out USD 9.65 million in loans to six cooperatives for small agricultural projects and USD 10 million in grants to five parastatals. [...]	2007-07-02 16:15:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV PREL NU VE
07MANAGUA1621	FIVE PILLARS OF FSLN STRATEGY [...] (C) A document leaked to the press recently revealed that the FSLN has readied a plan called the "Five Pillars of the Revolutionary Project" to be formally announced on the July 19 celebration of the 28th anniversary of the Somoza overthrow. The 5 Pillars are: direct democracy and civilian po [...]	2007-07-02 16:39:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1622	ORTEGA ADMINISTRATION AT SIX MONTHS [...] (C) Summary: During his first six months in office, President Daniel Ortega has expanded executive powers and used them to destroy or give away pieces of Nicaragua's cultural patrimony; to threaten opposition media and freedom of expression; to fire large numbers of government officials and r [...]	2007-07-02 17:35:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON NU
07MANAGUA1624	DEMARCHE ON WTO ARTICLE XXI PROCEDURE [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered reftel points in May to Director General for Trade Sonia Somarriba, who promised to respond later as to whether Nicaragua would seek compensation. Since, the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Development (MIFIC) has undergone high-level changes, including the minister an [...]	2007-07-02 22:20:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON WTRO NU
07MANAGUA1661	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: JUNE 2007-FIVE RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) Summary: In June of the 2006-2007 waiver year, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) resolved five Embassy-registered property claims belonging to one American citizen, the first resolutions in CY 07. Since January 1995, 2,514 Embassy-registered property claims belonging to 655 American citiz [...]	2007-07-05 20:03:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA1663	ALN DEPUTY SUBJECT OF FSLN/PLC WITCH HUNT [...] SUMMARY: Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) deputy Alejandro Bolanos Davis' seat in the National Assembly hangs by a thread. Led by Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) magistrates, the Nicaragua Supreme Electoral Counsel (CSE) voted to strip Bolanos of his seat over supposed citizenship irregu [...]	2007-07-05 22:55:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV NU
07MANAGUA1672	UPDATE ON NICARAGUA'S FOREIGN DEBT [...] (SBU) Summary: Nicaragua continues to reduce its foreign debt load. The commercial debt buy-back program, which will reduce foreign debt claims by USD 1.3 billion, is almost complete. Despite strong lobbying efforts with Iran and Libya, no additional countries have forgiven non-Paris Club bil [...]	2007-07-06 21:15:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EPET PGOV PREL NU
07MANAGUA1689	NICARAGUA: SECTION 527 WAIVER OBSERVATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that the Secretary of State issue an annual waiver to Section 527 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of FY 1994/1995. Between August 1, 2006, and June 30, 2007, the Government of Nicaragua resolved 34 Embassy-registered claims for 18 U.S. citizens. While [...]	2007-07-10 16:37:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA1719	UPDATE ON NICARAGUA'S DOMESTIC DEBT [...] (SBU) Summary: Working with the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Technical Assistance (OTA),Nicaragua is taking the first steps in addressing its excessive domestic debt burden. The OTA designed National Debt Management Strategy aims to develop an internal market for government debt to [...]	2007-07-13 20:22:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV PREL NU
07MANAGUA1720	ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF "CUADERNO SANDINISTA, NO.1" [...] (SBU) Summary. "Cuaderno Sandinista No. 1," a propaganda piece produced by the FSLN Department of Political Education, claims to outline a new plan of reconciliation and national unity for Nicaragua. The plan is anchored by three pillars: improving the well-being of citizens, equitable econom [...]	2007-07-13 20:23:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV PREL NU
07MANAGUA1741	U.S. Q NICARAGUA TRADE GROWING UNDER CAFTA-DR [...] (SBU) Nicaraguan exports to the United States increased by 17.4 percent, up from $733 million to $910 million, during the first 12 months of CAFTA-DR. Excluding maquila, data show Nicaragua exports were up 8.2 percent, from $541 million to $585 million. In addition to maquila, other sectors [...]	2007-07-17 22:00:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PREL NU
07MANAGUA1748	U.S. - NICARAGUA TRADE GROWING UNDER CAFTA-DR [...] (SBU) Nicaraguan exports to the United States increased by 17.4 percent, up from $733 million to $910 million, during the first 12 months of CAFTA-DR. Excluding maquila, data show Nicaragua exports were up 8.2 percent, from $541 million to $585 million. In addition to maquila, other sectors s [...]	2007-07-18 15:24:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PREL NU
07MANAGUA175	PLC DEPUTIES FORM NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE WITH THE [...] (C) Summary: A group of National Assembly deputies from the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) recently expressed a willingness to work with the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) on legislative issues and reported they have formed a negotiating committee with the ALN. The deputies, including [...]	2007-01-23 14:41:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1750	NICARAGUAN PUBLIC SEES COUNTRY ON WRONG PATH WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Nicaraguan public opinion has continued to sour on President Daniel Ortega, with his approval rating taking a 60-point nose-dive from a positive 51 percent job approval rating in February to a negative 10 percent approval just four months later, according to the latest CID-Gallu [...]	2007-07-18 21:53:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PHUM ECON NU
07MANAGUA1751	MURDER OF NICARAGUAN NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSIONER [...] (C) Summary: Comisionado Manuel Guillermo Obando, member of the Nicaraguan National Police (NNP) Vetted Unit, an anti-drug investigation unit supported by the US Embassy Managua INL and the Drug Enforcement Administration was found murdered July 12, 2007. Two of his neighbors are under poli [...]	2007-07-18 22:57:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR KCRM NU
07MANAGUA1753	ENERGY CRISIS FORCES GOVERNMENT TO CUT WORK WEEK [...] (U) Summary: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has mandated a shortened workday for all executive branch offices in Managua in accordance with a recent agreement establishing a nation-wide blackout schedule. The agreement signed by the Nicaraguan Energy Institute (INE) and Spanish-owned energ [...]	2007-07-20 12:46:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON PGOV NU
07MANAGUA1758	NDAA SECTION 1206: COUNTRY TEAM NICARAGUA APPROVES [...] (U) The U.S. Country Team Nicaragua has drafted and approved an FY2008 proposal for the use of funds appropriated under Section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act that is intended to strengthen the counter-terrorist capability of the Nicaraguan Army's Rapid Reaction Task Force. Th [...]	2007-07-20 18:40:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MASS KTIA NU
07MANAGUA1771	NICARAGUA AND THE IMF HAVE A PRGF AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: The IMF and GON have almost completed a three-year Poverty Reduction Growth Facility (PRGF) agreement. After finalization of some budgetary numbers, the PRGF will go before the IMF Board in October. Characterizing the agreement as "plain vanilla," IMF ResRep Humberto Arbulu Neir [...]	2007-07-23 14:47:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV PREL NU
07MANAGUA178	LACAYO: FSLN INTEREST GROUPS COMPETE FOR DOMINANCE [...] (C) Summary: Antonio Lacayo, secretary minister of the presidency during Violeta Chamorro's presidency and her son-in-law, believes that the power struggle among competing Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) interest groups will "test" the new Ortega government and could be exploited [...]	2007-01-23 15:43:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL ENRG EPET
07MANAGUA1783	ZERO HUNGER- NOT A LONG TERM SOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary: President Ortega has held several splashy ceremonies promoting his Hambre Cero (Zero Hunger) program, which aims to end hunger in Nicaragua within five years by offering standardized packages of livestock and other goods to families living in extreme poverty. The program has com [...]	2007-07-24 21:44:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PGOV NU
07MANAGUA1784	MRS CELEBRATES A DAY OF ANTI-DANIELISMO [...] (C) Summary: While the FSLN celebrated its high holy day on July 19, 2007, the Movimiento Renovador Sandinista (The Sandinista Renovation Movement, or MRS),a Sandinista break-off party, turned their modest celebrations into a day of protest against the growing authoritarianism of President Da [...]	2007-07-24 21:47:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NU PREL EAID PINS
07MANAGUA1789	LAND DISPUTES THREATEN TOURISM SECTOR INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: A U.S. investor reports that local FSLN members, with backing from senior FSLN official Lenin Cerna, have orchestrated a land invasion and smear campaign to derail a USD 88 million tourism development along the southwest coast of Nicaragua. In retaliation for going public with a [...]	2007-07-26 15:16:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA179	FOREIGN MINISTER SANTOS STRUGGLES TO JUGGLE THE [...] (C) Summary: Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos (Refs. E-H) is struggling to juggle the demands and impositions of anti-U.S., populist, authoritarian-minded allies against the concerns and expectations of the U.S. and other like-minded governments. We reminded Santos that any dangers [...]	2007-01-23 15:56:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA181	BONILLA: LIBERALS MUST MEND THEIR DIFFERENCES OR [...] (C) Summary: Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) lawmaker Yamileth Bonilla, who heads the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, believes that President Ortega's efforts to consolidate his power only days after assuming office have shocked the ALN and rival Liberal Constitutional Party [...]	2007-01-23 17:00:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1817	UNSC IRAN SANCTIONS: BUSINESS AS USUAL IN NICARAGUA [...] (S) On July 26, per reftel instructions we met with Foreign Ministry Director General for the Americas Orlando Gomez and urged that Nicaragua not continue business as usual with Iran. We also highlighted Nicaragua's requirements under UNSCRs 1737 and 1747, especially the prohibitions under [...]	2007-07-30 17:12:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	PARM PREL KNNP IR NU
07MANAGUA182	HUMAN RIGHTS NGO TERMS ORTEGA GOVERNMENT "WORST [...] (C) Summary: Members of the Permanent Human Rights Council (CPDH) believe that the turn the Ortega government has taken since it assumed power is the "worst-nightmare scenario." They recently warned the Ambassador that President Ortega will not leave office for at least ten years unless Nic [...]	2007-01-23 18:37:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA1825	NUCLEAR TERRORISM CONVENTION DEMARCHE DELIVERED: [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-30 23:06:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL NU
07MANAGUA1826	62ND UNGA GENERAL ASSEMBLY: NO DETAILS YET FROM [...] (U) On July 26, POLOFF met with Orlando Gomez, Director General of the America's Division at the Ministry of Foreign Relations (MINREX) to deliver points as directed in REFTELs. Gomez responded that while the Foreign Minister had recently raised the issue of whether to attend UNGA with Presiden [...]	2007-07-30 23:07:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	KSEP PREL OVIP UNGA SOCI TSPL NU
07MANAGUA1846	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: JULY 2007 [...] (U) Summary: In July of the 2006-2007 waiver year, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) did not resolve any Embassy-registered property claims. Since January 1995, 2,514 Embassy-registered property claims belonging to 655 American citizens (Amcits) have been resolved. There remain 679 registered [...]	2007-08-06 14:04:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA1847	NICARAGUA: NEW TRADE MINISTER TAKES PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO [...] (SBU) New Minister of Trade, Industry, and Development (MIFIC) Orlando SOLORZANO Delgadillo says he will focus on areas of common interest between Nicaragua and the United States, including trade and economic integration. He mentioned several specific areas of concern regarding CAFTA-DR, inclu [...]	2007-08-06 16:18:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PREL NU
07MANAGUA1865	PROPOSED U.S. TOBACCO TAX WOULD JEOPARDIZE JOBS [...] (SBU) In an August 2 meeting with he Ambassador, representatives of the Nicaraguan cigar industry voiced concern that a proposal to increase cigar taxes in the United States will snuff out growth in their sector. They warned that the tax would jeopardize the jobs of 15,000 direct employees and [...]	2007-08-08 16:17:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PREL NU
07MANAGUA1866	2006 REPORT ON THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF DEMOCRACY [...] (U) The newly-published 2006 Report on Political Culture of Democracy in Nicaragua presents important data on the long-term patterns of public opinion regarding democracy, corruption, economic well-being, and the effectiveness of national vs. municipal government. Produced under USAID auspices, the [...]	2007-08-08 17:40:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1873	EMBASSY MANAGUA ASSESSMENT OF CENTRAL AMERICA [...] (C) Due to recent political changes in Nicaragua, it remains to be seen whether the GON will continue to cooperate with the U.S. on broad high-level security policy. Even so, day-to-day operational cooperation remains strong, particularly with the National Police and the military. We believ [...]	2007-08-08 23:46:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS PREL XK
07MANAGUA1880	AMBASSADOR'S AUGUST 6 MEETING WITH EDUARDO [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Eduardo Montealegre leader of Nicaragua's Liberal Alliance (ALN) at Montealegre,s request on August 6. Montealegre expressed his doubts about the possibilities of forming a strategic liberal alliance with Liberal Constitutional Party of Nicaragua (PLC) before the [...]	2007-08-09 18:14:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1904	CATHOLIC CHURCH LEADER IN NICARAGUA ON HUMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Monsignor Bernardo Hombach, Catholic archbishop of the diocese of Granada offered his assessment of the human rights situation in Nicaragua, citing a corrupt judicial system, a government run on political patronage, and illegal narcotics trafficking as the gravest challenges facin [...]	2007-08-13 22:49:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KCRM KDEM PGOV NU
07MANAGUA1921	MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR THE PLC [...] (C) Nicaragua's Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) stands at a pivotal juncture. An upcoming vote (date TBD) on the issue of Citizens' Councils in the National Assembly will auger whether former President and convicted felon Arnoldo Aleman's power over the party is waning. At stake too are [...]	2007-08-15 20:41:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1922	NICARAGUA: FINANCIAL SECTOR UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: Despite President Ortega's increasingly anti-capitalist rhetoric, the GON has not significantly changed economic policy vis a vis the previous administration. As a result, the financial sector has remained stable. The exchange rate continues on its 5% crawling peg and foreign res [...]	2007-08-15 20:47:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PGOV NU
07MANAGUA1933	Implementation of Nicaragua's 2007 Budget [...] (SBU) Summary: President Ortega's 2007 $1.5 billion national budget, approved by the National Assembly in March, does not differ markedly from the October 2006 version presented by the Bolanos administration. The Sandinista budget did shift additional resources toward health, education and agr [...]	2007-08-17 17:00:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV NU
07MANAGUA194	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary. In a January 22 introductory meeting with the Ambassador, newly minted Minister of Finance and Public Credit Alberto Jose Guevara Obregon sressed that the clear intention of the Ortega administration is to maintain macroeconomic stability. Guevara reported that he is talking to [...]	2007-01-24 18:58:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID EINV NU

07MANAGUA1944	ORTEGA RAMPS-UP CITIZEN COUNCILS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Legal reforms pushed through the National Assembly early in the year have enabled President Daniel Ortega to put in play his "direct democracy" gambit through Citizen Councils (CPC). Under the control of the First Lady, Rosario Murillo, Ortega plans to have nearly 17,000 CPCs ( [...]	2007-08-20 17:09:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM NU
07MANAGUA1947	QUESTION: "SHOULD YOU BUY REAL ESTATE AND RETIRE IN [...] (U) Summary and Introduction: For two years, Grace Brunton occupied a one-of-a-kind job at Embassy/Managua, that of Economic Officer-in-charge of helping American citizens obtain settlements from the Nicaraguan government for property expropriated during Sandinista rule in the 1980s. Despite t [...]	2007-08-20 20:56:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA1952	NICARAGUA: GOVERNMENT SEIZES EXXON FUEL STORAGE [...] (C) Summary: After close of business on August 17, local police showed up at Esso/Nicaragua's Corinto I fuel storage facility located at the Port of Corinto and on a judge's order seized the facility. Exxon officials believe that the pretext for the seizure was a tax issue involving the exem [...]	2007-08-21 00:28:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD EPET NU
07MANAGUA196	FM SANTOS CLAIMS OIL CONCESSIONS WILL MOVE FORWARD [...] (C) Summary: Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos informed us that the government of Nicaragua (GON) will facilitate the opening of oil exploration concessions on the Atlantic Coast that have been stalled for legal reasons. Santos also used the occasion to request assistance for the milit [...]	2007-01-24 19:37:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NU
07MANAGUA1963	FEAR AND LOATHING ON NICARAGUA'S ATLANTIC COAST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Our contacts on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast ("costenos") support the Ambassador's non-combative engagement strategy with President Ortega's administration. With many households almost wholly dependent on remittances from family members working in the U.S., costenos are fearful of [...]	2007-08-22 13:12:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM NU
07MANAGUA197	NICARAGUA LETTER TO USTR SCHWAB AND SECRETARY OF [...] (U) On January 18, 2007 the Embassy received an original letter in English dated December 12 and addressed to U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab and to Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johannes from the Minister of Development, Industry, and Trade Alejandro Arguello and Minister of Agricultur [...]	2007-01-24 20:22:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR FAS WTO NU
07MANAGUA1980	NICARAGUA: IMPORT SAFETY DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) On August 20, Econoff delivered reftel talking points to Julio Cesar Bendana, Director for Competition and Regulatory Efficiency at the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Development. Bendana expressed interest in establishing a dialogue on product safety (imported and domestic goods). He [...]	2007-08-24 22:42:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PREL NU
07MANAGUA1987	IRANIAN ASSITANCE TO NICARAGUA [...] (SBU) Summary: From July 31 to August 5, an Iranian technical delegation headed by Iranian Deputy Minister of Energy Hamid Chitchian visited Nicaragua to follow-up on assistance promises made by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The two government will meet again in November in the first meeting [...]	2007-08-27 21:10:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL ECON PGOV CVIS NU IR
07MANAGUA2000	NICARAGUAN ECONOMY COASTING - BUT STRAINS ARE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador's Second Economic Roundtable reviewed the performance of different economic sectors and painted a picture of an economy coasting on the achievements of the Bolanos administration, early signs of a slowdown, and increasing strains between the GON and businesses. The [...]	2007-08-30 14:11:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV ETRD EPET EINV NU
07MANAGUA2001	BOLANOS-DAVIS CASE: SILENCING CRITICS MADE EASY [...] (C) National Assembly Deputy Alejandro Bolanos-Davis met with us on August 24 to give us his reaction to his seemingly permanent expulsion from the National Assembly, the next moves in his case, and his overview of Nicaraguan politics. Bolanos-Davis is convinced that the Ortega regime will not [...]	2007-08-30 14:43:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2003	BRAZIL AND NICARAGUA: I SAY ETHANOL, YOU SAY HYDRO [...] (SBU) Summary: President Luiz Ignacio "Lula" da Silva's August 7-8 visit to Nicaragua was the first by a Brazilian head of state in over 100 years. While Lula's focus for the visit was ethanol and business opportunities that take advantage of CAFTA, Ortega tried to interest the Brazilians in p [...]	2007-08-30 16:04:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID ECON PGOV NU IR
07MANAGUA2006	NICARAGUANS SEEK NEW GROUND RULES FOR PROPERTY CLAIMS [...] (SBU) Summary. In an August 23 meeting with Econoff, Attorney General Estrada said that in processing property claims, his government will now distinguish between those who were U.S. citizens at the time of expropriation and those who were not. In the meeting, Nicaraguan officials alleged tha [...]	2007-08-30 16:49:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA2008	NICARAGUA NOMINATES ANTI-U.S., FORMER AMCIT AS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Nicaragua plans to nominate former Foreign Minister, Miguel D'ESCOTO Brockmann, a gratuitously anti-U.S., former AMCIT, and former Catholic priest, as the GRULAC candidate for President of the 63rd Session of the UNGA (2008-2009),Foreign Minister Samuel Santos told us on August 2 [...]	2007-08-30 19:30:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OPDC PINR CVIS UNGA VT NU
07MANAGUA2009	NICARAGUA NOMINATES ANTI-U.S., FORMER AMCIT AS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Nicaragua plans to nominate former Foreign Minister, Miguel D'ESCOTO Brockmann, a gratuitously anti-U.S., former AMCIT, and former Catholic priest, as the GRULAC candidate for President of the 63rd Session of the UNGA (2008-2009),Foreign Minister Samuel Santos told us on August 2 [...]	2007-08-30 19:30:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OPDC PINR CVIS UNGA VT NU
07MANAGUA2016	NICARAGUA: GOVERNMENT STILL CONTROLS EXXON FUEL [...] (C) Summary: Ten days after the government seized one of Esso/Nicaragua's fuel depots at the Port of Corinto, it refuses to return the facility to Esso without preconditions. The government wants Esso to honor third party contracts involving the use of the depot; for safety and liability rea [...]	2007-08-31 00:06:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EPET ETRD NU
07MANAGUA202	SECRETARY LEAVITT,S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] (C) Summary: On January 9, 2007, in a meeting at Sandinista Party Headquarters, the U.S. Presidential Delegation (Presdel),led by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt, discussed with then SIPDIS President-elect Daniel Ortega a new regional health-care training initiat [...]	2007-01-25 14:55:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA2021	NICARAGUA: DOLE PITCHES NEMAGON SETTLEMENT TO [...] (C) Dole Food Company President and CEO David DeLorenzo met with President Ortega on August 28 to deliver a new proposal for the settlement of health claims related to the pesticide Nemagon. DeLorenzo reports that Ortega was receptive to the proposal, which would include payments to affected [...]	2007-09-04 16:32:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV SENV SOCI ELAB NU
07MANAGUA2024	MANAGUA SITREP 1 AND COM DISASTER DECLARATION MESSAGE [...] (U) This cable includes a COM Disaster Declaration Message. PLEASE SEE PARA 4. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. At 5:15 am local time on Tuesday, August 4, 2007, Hurricane Felix made landfall 20 miles north of the city of Puerto Cabezas on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Initial reports from the regio [...]	2007-09-05 01:11:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV CASC MASS AEMR KPAO NU
07MANAGUA2025	MANAGUA SITREP 1 AND COM DISASTER DECLARATION MESSAGE [...] (U) This cable includes a COM Disaster Declaration Message. PLEASE SEE PARA 4. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. At 5:15 am local time on Tuesday, August 4, 2007, Hurricane Felix made landfall 20 miles north of the city of Puerto Cabezas on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. Initial reports from the regio [...]	2007-09-05 01:35:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CASC MASS AEMR KPAO NU
07MANAGUA2031	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: AUGUST 2007 [...] Summary: In August 2007, the first month of the 2007-2008 waiver year, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) reported the resolution of one Embassy-registered property claim. Since January 1995, 2,515 Embassy-registered property claims belonging to 656 American citizens (Amcits) have been resolve [...]	2007-09-05 22:08:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA2032	MANAGUA SITREP 2: HURRICANE FELIX AFTERMATH, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Today we were able to make our first on-the-ground assessment of damage to Puerto Cabezas. Lack of potable water and adequate shelter are the most severe problems. Structural damage in Puerto Cabezas is extensive, but was mostly to building roofs; aside from a hospital, few structure [...]	2007-09-06 01:22:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV MOPS AEMR KPAO CASC NU
07MANAGUA2043	NICARAGUAN OPPOSITION IN UNISON: FACT OR FICTION? [...] (C) On September 4, leaders from the two main liberal opposition parties in Nicaragua, the Liberal Alliance of Nicaragua (ALN) and the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) announced that they had signed an agreement to pursue a common legislative agenda. A few days later, on September 7, both [...]	2007-09-07 00:38:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR NU
07MANAGUA2044	MANAGUA SITREP 3: HURRICANE FELIX USG RELIEF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. We continued our field assessments today. The hardest hit area seems to be a triangular-shaped area (Puerto Cabezas-Sandy Bay-Rosita) where the devastation has been extreme. Sandy Bay and surrounding communities were virtually destroyed. Interior towns of Bonanza, Siuna and [...]	2007-09-07 02:59:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV MOPS AEMR KPAO CASC NU
07MANAGUA2055	NICARAGUA: EXXON AT IMPASSE WITH GOVERNMENT OVER [...] (C) Summary: Since our last report, Exxon and the government converted their earlier exchange of letters into a memorandum of understanding, with the Government of Nicaragua adding some potentially troubling language. On September 3, the negotiators for the two sides submitted the memorandum t [...]	2007-09-07 22:00:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EPET ETRD NU
07MANAGUA2059	MANAGUA SITREP 4: WIDE MEDIA COVERAGE AS U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Our plan to distribute relief supplies outward from Puerto Cabezas went into effect this morning. We began moving supplies to Sandy Bay and the surrounding area. As of late afternoon, we had also transported 25,000 lbs of supplies from Managua to Puerto Cabezas with JTF-B heli [...]	2007-09-07 23:23:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV MOPS AEMR KPAO CASC NU
07MANAGUA2086	NICARAGUA UNLIKELY TO SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON IPR ISSUES [...] Summary: Econoff delivered Ref. A talking points to Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Development (MIFIC) officials on September 6 to inform them of the World Health Organization (WHO) Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) process on public health and IPR issues and to seek their support for p [...]	2007-09-11 23:00:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD ECON NU
07MANAGUA2100	MANAGUA SITREP 6: U.S. RELIEF EFFORTS CONTINUE [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-13 02:59:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV MOPS AEMR KPAO CASC NU
07MANAGUA2102	MANAGUA SITREP 6: U.S. RELIEF EFFORTS CONTINUE [...] (SBU/NF) SUMMARY. Following the re-activation of the Samuel Roberts' two SH-60 helicopters on September 10, a total of 19 sorties have been carried out, delivering relief supplies, medical supplies, doctors, and security personnel to nine outlining communities in the Northern Atlantic Autonom [...]	2007-09-13 14:31:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV MOPS AEMR KPAO CASC NU
07MANAGUA2110	ALN PUSHING THE LIBERAL UNITY ENVELOPE [...] (C) The Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance party (ALN) is pushing its fellow opposition Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC) to prove that its true intentions are to cooperate against the Sandinista regime of President Ortega. As reported reftel, The ALN and PLC have signed agreements covering both a [...]	2007-09-13 22:40:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2116	NICARAGUA: GOVERNMENT RETURNS EXXON FUEL DEPOT [...] (C) Summary. Exxon representatives informed the Embassy that Esso/Nicaragua's Corinto I fuel depot was returned to Esso/Nicaragua during the afternoon of September 13. This triggered the signing of a memorandum of intent between the government and Esso/Nicaragua, stating Esso's willingness to [...]	2007-09-14 01:14:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EPET ETRD NU
07MANAGUA2117	MANAGUA SITREP 7: U.S. RELIEF TOPS USD 1.4 MILLION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 13, U.S. SH-60 helicopters carried out 13 relief flights and delivered nearly 26,000 pounds of relief materials as well as medical and security personal. The morning of September 14, two JTF-B CH-47 Chinook helicopters will arrive in Managua and begin operations. [...]	2007-09-14 01:16:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV MOPS AEMR KPAO CASC NU
07MANAGUA2135	NICARAGUAN CIVIL SOCIETY ALLIANCE UNITES AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: Some ten thousand Nicaraguan opposition members, political leaders, and regular citizens turned out for a rally organized by the pro-democracy civil society organization Movimiento por Nicaragua (MpN) on Sunday, September 9 in the streets of Masaya to voice a united opposition to [...]	2007-09-18 20:33:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2148	MANAGUA SITREP 8 (FINAL): SUMMARY OF RELIEF [...] (U) SUMMARY: U.S. military assets concluded emergency relief operations on September 17. Assets flew a total of 136 sorties and transported some 595,000 lbs of relief supplies and materials over a 10-day period. On September 17 the Government of Nicaragua (GON) disaster team (SINAPRED) clos [...]	2007-09-19 23:20:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV MOPS AEMR KPAO CASC NU
07MANAGUA2150	NICARAGUA ON ICAO: NO RESPONSE ON SPLIT-CURRENCY [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-20 14:55:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR NU
07MANAGUA2152	Nicaraguan Port Authority signs grant with USTDA [...] (U) Summary: On August 23, the National Port Authority (EPN) signed a $510,000 grant agreement with the United States Trade Development Agency (USTDA) for technical assistance in drafting a National Ports Law. The new law will allow, for the first time, public-private investment in the country [...]	2007-09-20 16:06:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EWWT PREL ECON PGOV NU
07MANAGUA2168	NICARAGUA: OPIC MOSBACHER ANNOUNCES HOUSING [...] (C) On September 12, OPIC President and CEO Robert Mosbacher announced that his agency will expand an existing mortgage facility with local bank Bancentro to fund the reconstruction of houses destroyed by Hurricane Felix. In a subsequent meeting, CEO Mosbacher explained to Free Trade Zone (FT [...]	2007-09-21 15:42:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EPET EFIN NU
07MANAGUA2169	CHECKBOOK DIPLOMACY? TAIWANESE PRESIDENT VISITS [...] (C) Summary: On Aug 26-28, President Chen Shui-ban of Taiwan visited Nicaragua as part of an effort to retain Nicaragua's diplomatic recognition of his country. For the Nicaraguans, the visit was an opportunity to secure more assistance and foreign investment. Throughout the visit, Chen repe [...]	2007-09-21 19:42:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ECON PGOV ETRD EINV ENRG TW NU
07MANAGUA2185	SILENCING CRITICS: ATTACKING THE OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (S) The anti-democratic forces of the Ortega government combined with the corrupt powerbroker Arnoldo Aleman are mounting a politically motivated attack against the leader of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) Eduardo Montealegre. The Comptroller General's office has accused Montealegre of [...]	2007-09-24 22:20:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	PGOV ECON EFIN RELAM KDEM KCOR NU
07MANAGUA2189	Nicaragua supports Strauss-Kahn for IMF Director [...] (U) On September 20, the Nicaraguan Central Bank informed post of the GON's support for Dominique Strauss-Kahn as candidate as Director General of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),by sending us a press release. 2. (U) Below please find the full text of the Nicaraguan Central Bank mess [...]	2007-09-25 16:16:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PGOV PREL NU
07MANAGUA2203	SWEDEN ENDS COOPERATION WITH NICARAGUA [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 27, the Embassy of Sweden announced that the country will end its foreign assistance program in Nicaragua as part of a global strategy that aims to focus its international aid to countries in Africa and Eastern Europe. Members of the Nicaraguan National Assembly and in [...]	2007-09-25 23:03:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EWWT PREL ECON PGOV NU
07MANAGUA2207	CITIZEN COUNCILS - FULL STEAM AHEAD? [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 20 meeting, Citizens' Power Councils (CPCs) Managua coordinator Eliaz Chevez asserted the National Assembly's (NA) vote to remove authorization for the executive to create such entities from Law 290 is "not substantial" and that the CPCs will "continue to move for [...]	2007-09-26 18:55:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2211	ATLANTIC COAST - THE LONG (WINDING) ROAD BACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The indigenous Miskito indians of Nicaragua's North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) believe the Nicaraguan government (GON) failed to adequately warn them of Hurricane Felix's September 4 arrival and has not done enough to help them. Miskito leaders believe the true death tol [...]	2007-09-26 23:02:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV MOPS AEMR KPAO CASC NU
07MANAGUA2212	NICARAGUA: TEXTILE/APPAREL UPDATE [...] (SBU) The textile and apparel sector continues to grow in Nicaragua as firms take advantage of CAFTA-DR market access, relatively low wages, and geographic proximity to the United States. The sector added 6,000 new jobs in 2006, and exports to the United States grew from $525 million to $697 [...]	2007-09-26 23:18:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KTEX PREL NU
07MANAGUA2223	SUBJECT: NICARAGUA: AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE ON [...] (C) Summary: Eight months into Daniel Ortega's term as president, his socialist rhetoric continues to worry potential and current investors in Nicaragua. Beginning on the day of his inauguration, Ortega launched into anti-capitalist, anti-neoliberal, and increasingly anti-American rhetoric, i [...]	2007-09-28 23:33:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV NU
07MANAGUA2232	PATRONAGE TRUMPS PROFESSIONALISM AT NICARAGUAN TOURISM [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of the Nicaraguan tourism industry complain that the Nicaraguan Tourism Institute (INTUR) has been decimated by an overhaul in personnel since President Ortega took office in January. They report INTUR is "paralyzed," offering no strategic vision for the sector. [...]	2007-10-02 17:07:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV NU
07MANAGUA2233	NICARAGUAN FM SANTOS LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE: [...] (U) On Tuesday, September 25, we received, under cover of a Foreign Ministry (MINREX) diplomatic note, a letter to the Secretary from Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos. The letter thanks the U.S. for assistance rendered during Hurricane Felix and, citing the internal displacement and [...]	2007-10-02 19:27:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	SMIG ODPC PREL PREF CVIS NU
07MANAGUA2246	REAL OPPOSITION, OR AN END TO CHECKS AND BALANCES? [...] (C) Some members of the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) appear to be on the verge of joining forces with the pro-democracy Liberal Alliance of Nicaragua (ALN) party, headed by Eduardo Montealegre, despite that fact that under its leader, former President and convicted felon Arnoldo Aleman, [...]	2007-10-03 23:14:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA225	ATMOSPHERICS OF ORTEGA INAUGURATION: CHAOS AND POPULISM TRUMPS SECURITY AND PROTOCOL [...] (C) Summary: The inauguration of President Daniel Ortega on January 10 projected an odd image of disorder, amateurism, and unceremonious conduct, where populism trumped protocol, and security was virtually non-existent. Heads of state, royalty, ministers, and other dignitaries from over 64 co [...]	2007-01-25 22:36:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2255	NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT IGNORING BUDGET SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: At an October 2 meeting donors providing direct budget support to Nicaragua expressed frustration over repeated brush-offs from the government since the Budget Support Group's (BSG) annual performance review in July. BSG members believe the government is assuming that donors will [...]	2007-10-04 18:20:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EAID ECON PREL PGOV NU
07MANAGUA2265	NICARAGUA: BLUE LANTERN 050056562 [...] On September 20, Econoff and ARSO met with Salvador Luna, owner of Armeria Magnum, at his store located in Centro Comercial, a large shopping center in Managua. In response to Reftel questions, Luna told Emboffs that he founded Armeria Magnum in 2000. Before then, Luna had worked for many y [...]	2007-10-05 16:13:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC NU
07MANAGUA2286	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 2007 [...] Summary: In September of the 2007-2008 waiver year, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) did not report the resolution of any Embassy-registered property claim. Nonetheless, one claimant informed the Embassy that she recovered her property. Since January 1995, 2,516 Embassy-registered property c [...]	2007-10-09 14:05:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA2287	LIBERAL UNITY MOVES FORWARD [...] (C) Members of several Nicaraguan opposition parties came together on October 4 to pledge their support for a new "National Unity Alliance." It is too early to tell if this new grouping will be the catalyst for building a strong united opposition to the Sandinista regime of President Ortega. [...]	2007-10-09 15:55:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2295	NICARAGUA: CRIMINALIZATION OF THERAPEUTIC ABORTION [...] (U) Summary: Women's rights organizations, human rights NGOS, and physicians have reacted sharply to the Nicaraguan National Assembly's vote to include in the country's new Penal Code the criminalization of therapeutic abortion. Opponents of the criminalization of all forms of abortion have [...]	2007-10-10 22:23:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM KWMN NU
07MANAGUA2324	ATTORNEY GENERAL TAKES LEAD ON PROPERTY CLAIMS [...] (SBU) Government of Nicaragua (GON) officials told Econoffs in a September 27 monthly meeting on property issues that new administrative procedures for resolving property disputes formally incorporate Attorney General Estrada in the process. They assert these revised procedures will streamline [...]	2007-10-15 16:44:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA2325	ATLANTIC COAST - GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO FUMBLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of Hurricane Felix the Nicaraguan government continues to mismanage the situation in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN). In his presentation before the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega failed to ask the [...]	2007-10-15 17:07:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV KPAO NU
07MANAGUA2335	NICARAGUA: POST REVIEW OF WFP DRAFT COUNTRY PROGRAM [...] (SBU) This cable responds to reftel A and B request for input from the field regarding the World Food Program's (WFP) Draft Country Program being considered by the WFP Board in Rome. WFP's Nicaragua Draft Country Program for 2008-2012 is good, targeting areas of greatest food insecurity in the [...]	2007-10-16 17:46:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF EAGR EFIN NU
07MANAGUA2351	Persuading Nicaragua to Create an FIU [...] (U) Summary: Speeches delivered by the Ambassador, Nicaraguan Superintendent of Banks Victor Urcuyo, and Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) President Willie Zapata at the opening ceremony of an Embassy-hosted financial investigation training seminar sparked renewed public debate and [...]	2007-10-17 22:58:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PTER PGOV SNAR ECON NU
07MANAGUA2366	MANAGUA SITREP 1 AND COM DISASTER DECLARATION MESSAGE [...] (U) This cable includes a COM disaster declaration. The US Ambassador to Nicaragua requests authority for $50,000 for immediate disaster response. Funds will be programmed with local partners to meet the most urgent needs. Programming details will follow. See Para 7 2. (U) Summary: A [...]	2007-10-19 23:41:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV CASC MASS AEMR KPAO NU
07MANAGUA2367	NICARAGUA: BIOFUELS PANEL AT CCAA CONFERENCE [...] (U) Nicaragua joined the ethanol market in 2007, when Nicaraguan Sugar Estates (NSE) started sending shipments of sugar cane ethanol to Europe. NSE hopes to double that volume in 2008 when expanded facilities come on line. Other sugar producers have moved to take advantage of world demand fo [...]	2007-10-22 18:49:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EAGR EINV ECON NU
07MANAGUA2368	BUSINESS SECTOR PRIVATELY EXPRESSES DISPLEASURE [...] (C) Summary: On September 19, the Ambassador hosted his third Economic Roundtable with representatives of the private sector. While economic indicators are generally positive, some participants questioned whether economic growth can be sustained given power shortages and a deteriorating inve [...]	2007-10-22 19:01:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EPET EINV PREL PGOV ETRD NU
07MANAGUA2372	OCTOBER FLOODS: USG INITIAL RESPONSE [...] Summary. Preliminary reports by Nicaraguan authorities indicate that 20,266 people have been affected by floods, mostly in the northwest of the country, but scattered over other regions as well, with 8 known deaths and two missing persons. There are no known U.S. citizen casualties. The floods have [...]	2007-10-22 22:45:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV CASC MASS AEMR KPAO NU
07MANAGUA2373	THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL REHABILITATION OF ARNOLDO [...] (C) There is a nascent, subtle process underway in Nicaragua that represents a serious threat to the future of democracy in the country and, by extension, U.S. interests: the public rehabilitation of former President and convicted felon Arnoldo Aleman. Polling data consistently shows that Al [...]	2007-10-23 15:43:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2375	NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT LOOKS TO MARKET TO SUPPLY RED BEANS [...] (U) The retail price of red beans, a staple in Nicaragua along with rice and corn, has tripled this year, increasing to $0.97/pound in some local markets from $0.32/pound in January. Adverse weather conditions have damaged two successive crops and are playing havoc with the market. Pre-existi [...]	2007-10-23 20:00:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON NU
07MANAGUA2376	NICARAGUA: PROPERTY DISPUTE EXPOSES FSLN INFIGHTING [...] (SBU) Summary: A dispute over valuable coastal property at Amarillo Beach may be shedding light on political intrigue and infighting among senior FSLN officials. An internal rift appears to have contributed to the September 20th dismissal of Property Superintendent Mireya Molina. While Attorn [...]	2007-10-23 20:01:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA2384	RAINS STOP; FLOOD RECOVERY CONTINUES [...] Subject: The persistent heavy rains that flooded Nicaragua the past weeks have let up, and relief is starting to flow to victims of the October flooding. President Ortega called together a meeting of donors on October 23 to urge for international assistance in response to the second natural [...]	2007-10-26 16:58:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV CASC MASS AEMR EAID KPAO NU
07MANAGUA2393	Nicaragua: Government Back in the Microfinance Business? [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Assembly has approved two bills creating a National Development Bank (NDB). A state-owned institution, the NDB will operate as a first story financial institution providing small loans to both urban and rural Nicaraguan producers. The GON will provide USD 8 million [...]	2007-10-29 21:08:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EAID ECON PGOV NU
07MANAGUA2399	IAAC/WALKER: NICARAGUA NON-COMMITAL; 63RD [...] (U) On October 25, poloff delivered reftel A demarche to Mario Barquero, the new Director of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, soliciting Nicaragua's support for David Walker's candidacy for the IAAC. Barquero offered no comment on Walker's candidacy, but took a [...]	2007-10-30 19:08:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC UN UNGA NU
07MANAGUA2402	REGIONAL PARTNERS SHARE CONCERNS ABOUT DIRECTION [...] (C) Ambassadors from Spain, Japan, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, and Mexico share similar concerns about the direction of Nicaragua under the Ortega Government. They are frustrated by the GON's lack of professionalism, transparency and accountability, and have a low level of confidence in the gove [...]	2007-10-30 21:57:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID BR CI CO ECON JA MX NU PREL XM
07MANAGUA241	A BLOW TO DEMOCRACY: LIBERALS DELIVER MORE POWER [...] (C) Summary: The Nicaraguan National Assembly approved on January 24 a series of reforms to Law 290 -- which defines the roles of the ministries and other executive institutions -- that grant more authority to the Presidency and reduce transparency by considerably reducing civilian controls ove [...]	2007-01-26 22:46:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA242	MARTINEZ CUENCA LAUDS U.S. POLICY TOWARDS ORTEGA [...] (C) In Sandinista-dissident Alejandro Martinez Cuenca's recent meeting with the Ambassador, he applauded President Bush's "magnificent" decision to call Ortega before the inauguration, terming the gesture the "best antidote to keep Ortega from straying" and to check Venezuelan President Hugo [...]	2007-01-26 22:56:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA2422	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: OCTOBER 2007 [...] Summary: In October of the 2007-2008 waiver year, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) did not report the resolution of any Embassy-registered property claim. Since January 1995, 2,516 Embassy-registered property claims belonging to 657 American citizens (Amcits) have been resolved. There remain 677 r [...]	2007-11-05 15:08:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA2428	NICARAGUA: INPUT FOR THE SEVENTH CBERA REPORT [...] As requested in reftel, the following is post's input for the Seventh Report on Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA). Statistical Information ----------------------- 2. Population (2006, estimate): 5,457,000 (Nicaraguan National Statistics and Census Office) Real GDP per Capi [...]	2007-11-05 21:15:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV ECON ELAB PGOV NU
07MANAGUA244	SECRETARY LEAVITT,S MEETING WITH SALVADORAN [...] (C) Summary: On January 9, 2007, the U.S. Presidential Delegation (Presdel),led by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt, discussed with Salvadoran President Tony Saca a new regional health-care training initiative; Salvador's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) program; bilater [...]	2007-01-29 14:30:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA2442	NICARAGUA: PROPERTY SUPERINTENDENT UNPREPARED TO DISCUSS [...] (SBU) Property Superintendent Yara Perez and other Government of Nicaragua (GON) officials were unprepared to discuss U.S. citizen claims during the October 25 monthly Working Group meeting on property issues. GON officials insist that they will prioritize cases of natural-born U.S. citizens o [...]	2007-11-07 16:51:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA2443	NICARAGUA LOOKING FOR BALANCE ON WTO ISSUES [...] (SBU) On November 6, Econoff delivered Ref A demarche, on the risk to World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha negotiations presented by ongoing Argentinean and Brazilian efforts to avoid cutting tariffs on industrial goods, to Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Development (MIFIC) Director General fo [...]	2007-11-07 19:38:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PREL WTO NU
07MANAGUA2446	CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AIMED TO PERPETUATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Constitutional reform is the hot political topic of the moment in Nicaragua. The Sandinista Front for National Liberation (FSLN) and the Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC) are privately negotiating a major overhaul of the Nicaraguan body politic, focused on creating likely t [...]	2007-11-07 22:45:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA245	SECRETARY LEAVITT,S MEETING WITH GUATEMALAN [...] (C) Summary: On January 9, 2007, the U.S. Presidential Delegation (Presdel),led by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt, discussed with Guatemalan Vice Foreign Minister Luis Fernando Andrade a new regional health-care training initiative; the Guatemalan Government's (GOG [...]	2007-01-29 14:34:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA2455	NICARAGUA: FATF STATEMENT AND GUIDANCE ON IRAN [...] (U) Econoff delivered Ref A demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Relations (MFA),the Superintendent of Banks and Other Financial Institutions (SIBIOF),and the Nicaraguan Central Bank (BCN). At each meeting Econoff left FATF and U.S. Treasury advisory notices concerning Iran, as well as the n [...]	2007-11-09 15:17:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL MNUC ECON NU
07MANAGUA2456	NICARAGUA: COMMENTS ON PROPOSED THIRD OPIC FINANCING FOR [...] (U) Summary: Ref A seeks post's comments on housing in Nicaragua, Bancentro, and Bancentro owner Roberto Zamora in regard to a proposed OPIC direct loan of $7 million to Bancentro to finance housing mortgages for Nicaraguans affected by Hurricane Felix. Many Nicaraguans, especially among the 5 [...]	2007-11-09 15:54:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON NU
07MANAGUA2457	NICARAGUA MUTE ON WHO IPR ISSUES [...] (SBU) On October 30, Econoff delivered Ref A demarche, on Brazilian efforts to weaken intellectual property protections for pharmaceuticals through World Health Organization fora, to Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Development (MIFIC) Director General for International Trade Sonia Somarriba. S [...]	2007-11-09 16:16:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON PREL WTO NU
07MANAGUA246	SECRETARY LEAVITT,S MEETING WITH HONDURAN [...] (C) Summary: On January 9, 2007 the U.S. Presidential Delegation (Presdel),led by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt, discussed with Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya a new regional health-care training initiative; Honduras' petroleum dependency; resolving the need [...]	2007-01-29 14:39:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA2466	THE CITIZEN COUNCILS' GROWING SHADOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Ortega's Citizen Power Councils (CPC) continue to penetrate Nicaraguan society, increasing fear among civil society leaders. Over the past month, cases have been reported in which the CPCs have incited civil unrest, demanded CPC membership in exchange for emergency aid [...]	2007-11-13 18:12:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM NU
07MANAGUA247	SECRETARY LEAVITT,S MEETING WITH PANAMANIAN VICE [...] (C) Summary: On January 9, 2007, the U.S. Presidential Delegation (Presdel),led by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt, discussed with Panamanian Vice President Samuel Lewis and Health Minister Camilo Alleyne a new regional health-care training initiative. Alleyne reit [...]	2007-01-29 14:43:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA2472	COMMEMORATING THE GREAT WHITE FLEET IN NICARAGUA [...] (SBU) Embassy Nicaragua appreciates the invitation to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Great White Fleet. We note that President Ortega has exhibited a penchant for attacking "U.S. imperialism and interventionism," though not the Great White Fleet specifically. However, Ortega also be [...]	2007-11-14 13:10:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS KPAO PREL MASS NU
07MANAGUA2479	GON SLOWLY REACHING OUT TO BUDGET SUPPORT DONORS [...] (C) Summary: The Budget Support Group (BSG),a group of donor countries providing direct budget support (i.e. cash transfers for development purposes) to Nicaragua, told the Ministry of Finance (MHCP) on October 4 that it could not confirm funds to support the 2008 National Budget without bett [...]	2007-11-19 17:29:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EAID ECON PREL PGOV NU
07MANAGUA2486	CITIZEN COUNCILS DEALT BLOW BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 20, the Nicaraguan National Assembly voted to override with 52 votes Sandinista President Daniel Ortega's veto of legislation to prohibit the transfer of a real measure of Executive authority to the Citizen Power Councils (CPCs). Deputies representing the Nicaraguan [...]	2007-11-21 21:45:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ECON KDEM NU PGOV
07MANAGUA2488	NICARAGUA: DELIVERY OF MCC INDICATOR SCORECARDS [...] (U) On November 1, post delivered Nicaragua's MCC Indicator Scorecard to President Ortega. While congratulating President Ortega on Nicaragua's continued eligibility for the MCC program, the Ambassador's letter highlighted slippage in the Control of Corruption, Rule of Law, Government Effectiv [...]	2007-11-23 16:08:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON MCC NU
07MANAGUA2490	NICARAGUA: POST REQUESTS VISA ELIGIBILITY BE RESTORED FOR [...] (U) This is an action request - please see paragraph five. 2. (SBU) Summary: Marisol Maria Castillo Bellido has requested that her nonimmigrant visa eligibility be restored as soon as possible to visit her mother who will shortly undergo brain surgery in Miami. Post has information that she [...]	2007-11-23 18:49:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA2494	NICARAGUA: 2007-2008 ACTION PLAN TO RESOLVE U.S. CITIZEN [...] (SBU) During the current waiver year, the GON has logged the poorest performance of any Nicaraguan administration since the U.S. Congress passed the FY1994-95 Foreign Relations Authorization Act, with its provisions on expropriation cases contained in Section 527. Post has developed an action [...]	2007-11-23 20:31:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA2495	IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? HEALTH MINISTER [...] (U) Summary: On November 6, Nicaragua's Minister of Health, Dr. Maritza Cuan, tendered her resignation in what appears to have been a palace coup engineered by Vice-Minister Guillermo Gonzalez. Over the prior several weeks, Cuan had come under increasingly public and high-level criticism, inc [...]	2007-11-23 23:20:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TBIO PARM MASS NU
07MANAGUA2497	NICARAGUA: INPUT FOR THE 2008 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE [...] The U.S. goods trade deficit with Nicaragua was $771 million in 2006, an increase of $215 million from $555 million in 2005. U.S. goods exports in 2006 totaled $755 million, up 20.7 percent from the previous year. In 2006, U.S. imports from Nicaragua were $1.5 billion, a 29.2 percent increas [...]	2007-11-26 22:13:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV ECON NU
07MANAGUA2516	ORTEGA'S CITIZENS' COUNCILS - PANDORA'S BOX? [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 21, a Pandora's Box was opened when the Nicaraguan National Assembly (NA) voted to override President Ortega's veto of a controversial legislative change that would prevent him from creating his Citizen Power Councils (CPC) as an extension of the Executive branch. Si [...]	2007-11-30 13:24:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2523	NICARAGUA RESPONSE: NEW DELHI CONFERENCE ON AVIAN [...] (U) On November 29, we delivered REFTEL non-paper to Dr. Juan Jose Amador Velazquez, the Director General for Epidemiology at the Ministry of Health (MINSA). On Novermber 30, we delivered the non-paper to Dr. Mario Jose Gonzalez Herrera, Chief of the Department of Epidemiology at the Ministry [...]	2007-11-30 23:16:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID TBIO PREL NU
07MANAGUA2524	NICARAGUA: 2007 INFLATION RATE MAY REACH 16.5% [...] (U) Summary: In the last four months, the GON has thrice revised its 2007 inflation estimate from the 7% target established in the recently approved Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) with the International Monetary Fund. The Nicaraguan Central Bank's (BCN) latest estimate is 16.5%, [...]	2007-12-01 00:37:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR PGOV NU
07MANAGUA2532	NICARAGUA AND SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Nicaragua under President Ortega, in contrast to the past three administrations, is establishing closer relations with Cuba. We expect Nicaragua to vote more consistently with Cuba. The trading relationship between the two countries has increased, but continues to be insignifica [...]	2007-12-06 18:42:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU NU
07MANAGUA2539	NICARAGUA: ORTEGA PRESSURES EXXONMOBIL TO BUY [...] (C) President Ortega announced on December 5 that he had instructed the Ministry of Energy and Mines and others "to quickly work out a proposal to nationalize the importation of oil." Ortega wants Nicaragua to import all oil from Venezuela to take advantage of Hugo Chavez' offer to contribute [...]	2007-12-07 21:18:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV ETRD NU
07MANAGUA2540	DELIVERED: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-07 21:19:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA NU
07MANAGUA2541	NIE ON IRAN: NICARAGUA SUPPORTS PEACEFUL USE, [...] (C) On December 4, we delivered the non-paper and talking points per reftel to Director General for American Affairs, Orlando Gomez; Director General for Asia, Africa and Oceana, David McField, and Acting Director General for International Organizations, Mario Barquero Baltodano at the Ministry [...]	2007-12-07 21:21:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM NU
07MANAGUA2543	CERD ELECTION: NICARAGUA WILL FAVOR PROSPER; [...] (C) On December 4, we delivered a copy of the diplomatic note and of Pierre-Richard Prosper's CV to Orlando Gomez, Director General for American Affairs; David McField, Director General for Asia, Africa and Oceana; and Mario Barquero Baltodano, Acting Director General for International Organiz [...]	2007-12-08 00:57:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA NU
07MANAGUA2544	NICARAGUA: IRANIANS AND LIBYANS WELCOME -- NO [...] (C) According to a November 28 circular memo sent to all airlines operating out of Managua's international airport, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) now will allow all Libyan and Iranian passport holders (diplomatic, official and regular) to enter Nicaragua without visas. The GON states that [...]	2007-12-08 00:59:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	CVIS IR LY NU PREL PTER VE

07MANAGUA2549	NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: NOVEMBER 2007 [...] In November of the 2007-2008 waiver year, an American citizen claimant informed us that the GON had resolved two claims in 1999 that were still registered as active cases in the Embassy's Property Office database. 2. Since January 1995, the GON has resolved 2,518 Embassy-registered property [...]	2007-12-10 22:40:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA255	PLC DEPUTY ADMITS RIFTS IN PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) deputy Carlos Noguera recently reported considerable discontent within the PLC rank and file stemming from the dismal results of the national elections and the party's ongoing political pact with the Sandinista Front (FSLN). Local party leaders [...]	2007-01-29 21:55:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2551	NICARAGUA: SALINAS REAPPOINTED AS PRESIDENT OF INTUR [...] (SBU) Summary: President Ortega reappointed Mario Salinas as President of the Nicaraguan Tourism Institute (INTUR) on November 23. Since Salinas' departure from INTUR in June, the institute had been paralyzed, offering no strategic vision or support to the sector. Tourism experts and busines [...]	2007-12-11 15:20:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON NU
07MANAGUA256	PLC DEPUTY ADMITS RIFTS IN PARTY [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-29 21:55:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA2564	Nicaragua Retires USD 1.4 Billion in Foreign Commercial [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 5, the GON announced the successful completion of its foreign commercial debt buy-back operation, allowing it to retire USD 1.4 billion in foreign debt claims. Nicaragua will pay 4.5 cents on the dollar to over 111 commercial creditors, including all of the vulture fu [...]	2007-12-12 17:05:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV NU
07MANAGUA2567	NICARAGUA RECEPTIVE TO U.S. CASH COURIER [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-12 20:35:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETTC PREL PTER ASEC NU
07MANAGUA2577	FRAUD SUMMARY - MANAGUA, NICARAGUA [...] (SBU) The following is Managua's quarterly report on the fraud situation at post for the fourth quarter FY 07. Headings follow reftel information requests. a. COUNTRY CONDITIONS In the last few months Nicaragua has been impacted by natural disasters, political instability and rising oil [...]	2007-12-12 22:43:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS ASEC CPAS CMGT PREL PTER XK NU
07MANAGUA2581	NICARAGUA: PROPERTY SUPERINTENDENT REJECTS CLAIMS FOR A [...] (SBU) Summary: During the November 29 monthly Working Group meeting on property issues, Government of Nicaragua (GON) officials gave Econoffs a list of 8 American citizen claims allegedly resolved and 18 claims rejected for "lack of evidence." Property Superintendent Yara Perez repeated assert [...]	2007-12-13 20:42:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA2593	CENTRAL AMERICAN SECURITY REQUIREMENTS: NICARAGUA [...] (U) Please find attached Post's updated assessment of Nicaragua's current and medium-term security needs as requested in reftel. A Chance to Build on Success ----------------------------- 2. (SBU) In the past year, Nicaragua achieved its highest level of annual narcotics seizures to date [...]	2007-12-14 15:57:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PINS SNAR NU
07MANAGUA2609	NICARAGUA: NEW PENAL CODE UPDATES ANTI TERRORISM AND MONEY [...] (U) Summary: In November, Nicaragua's National Assembly passed a new Penal Code that includes new language on terrorism finance, money laundering, and crimes against the financial system. This language will allow Nicaragua's law enforcement to prosecute cases of financing of terrorist entities [...]	2007-12-18 16:12:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PTER ECON PGOV SNAR NU
07MANAGUA2615	NICARAGUA: GON TO RESOLVE PROPERTY CLAIMS WITHIN TWO YEARS [...] (SBU) During a December 10 meeting with the DCM, Property Superintendent Yara Perez made clear the Government of Nicaragua's intent to resolve U.S. citizen property claims and other claims via its own timeline and criteria. Perez repeated her allegations that some U.S. citizen claimants lacked [...]	2007-12-18 22:01:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA2618	NICARAGUA: CIVIL AVIATION UPDATE - DECEMBER 2007 [...] (SBU) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: As a follow-up to an October 10-15 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inspection, the Embassy hosted a roundtable with airline representatives on December 5. While the TSA inspection was suc [...]	2007-12-20 21:25:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR EINV ETRD PGOV NU
07MANAGUA2620	AMBASSADOR GREETS NEW NICARAGUAN MINISTER OF HEALTH [...] (U) Summary: On December 12, the Ambassador paid a courtesy call on new Minister of Health (MINSax%p [...]	2007-12-20 21:27:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU PARM PGOV PBIO NU
07MANAGUA2621	Educating Nicaraguans on FIU Operations [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 29, Embassy Managua held three separate seminars to educate members of the media, GON, and the private sector about the role and operation of a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to dispel fears that the FIU would become another law enforcement tool which the GON could [...]	2007-12-20 21:29:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PTER ECON PGOV SNAR NU
07MANAGUA2623	AMBASSADOR GREETS NEW NICARAGUAN MINISTER OF HEALTH [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-20 21:35:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU PARM PGOV PBIO NU
07MANAGUA2654	NICARAGUAN OFFICIALS AND INDUSTRY DRAFT IPR ENFORCEMENT [...] (SBU) Embassy Managua hosted an intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement workshop, led by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (DOJ/OPDAT),to facilitate the drafting of a best practices IPR enforcement manual by Government [...]	2007-12-31 17:07:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON USTR NU
07MANAGUA2655	WITH FORESTS DESTROYED, NICARAGUAN GOVERNMENT FRUSTRATES [...] (SBU) Summary: As part of its post-Hurricane Felix relief efforts, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) suspended all commercial extraction of timber in Nicaragua's North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN). This ban was enacted pursuant to presidential decree 92-2007, ratified by the National Ass [...]	2007-12-31 17:24:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EINV ETRD EAGR PGOV NU
07MANAGUA2656	NICARAGUA: RAISING AWARENESS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, HUMAN TRAFFICKING [...] (U) Summary: Post marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence from November 25 to December 10, by engaging with women's rights organizations, universities, civil society, the media, and the Nicaraguan pol [...]	2007-12-31 20:00:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM NU
07MANAGUA268	ORTEGA VICTORY CATALYST FOR CHAVEZ IN RAAN [...] (C) Summary: President Ortega, with backing from his Venezuelan counterpart Chavez, is consolidating power on Nicaragua's resource-rich Atlantic Coast. Miskito leaders believe Ortega and Chavez are conspiring to control the region's base of timber, minerals, and possibly oil, and that Chavez's comm [...]	2007-01-30 18:09:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV ECON NU VE
07MANAGUA269	RIZO: PLC AND ALN UNDERESTIMATED ONE ANOTHER TO [...] (C) Jose Rizo, the Liberal Constitutional Party's (PLC) presidential candidate in the November 2006 race, acknowledged to PolCouns on January 23 that he had miscalculated the strength of rival Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) candidate Eduardo Montealegre, while Montealegre had also underest [...]	2007-01-30 18:19:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA284	MRS LOSES CAUCUS STATUS BUT CONTINUES AS MOST [...] (C) Summary: The Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) has lost its official status as a caucus in the Nicaraguan National Assembly, but its deputies continue to offer the most vocal opposition to President Daniel Ortega. MRS members are disappointed by the larger Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance's [...]	2007-01-30 20:38:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KCOR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA295	CONSERVATIVES WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE ALN... [...] (C) Summary: Conservative National Assembly deputy Alejandro Bolanos, one of the leading Conservative Party voices in Nicaragua, recently confided to poloff that the Conservatives will continue to support the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) for the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, Bolanos [...]	2007-01-31 17:23:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ELAB KDEM NU
07MANAGUA296	NICARAGUA: NAMES OF TOP INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] The following is in response to reftel A request for Nicaragua's top five most influential women representing government, politics, civil society, private sector, and media. We have also provided the names of other women who are making an impact on Nicaraguan society and could be of interest [...]	2007-01-31 23:14:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL NU
07MANAGUA318	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW CENTRAL BANK [...] (SBU) Summary. In a courtesy call on January 29, new Central Bank President Antenor Rosales Bolanos told the Ambassador that the government intended to pursue prudent macroeconomic policy as a way of sending the right signals to investors. The government's objective is to find ways to channe [...]	2007-02-02 20:02:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV NU
07MANAGUA324	PLC DEPUTY WARNS OF OPPORTUNISTIC FSLN INCURSIONS [...] (C) Summary: Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) deputy Freddy Torres recently warned that the Sandinistas are working to buy the loyalty of vulnerable and impoverished farmers in the Liberal heartland, and the Liberals do not have the resources to oppose them. Torres agreed that the PLC must [...]	2007-02-02 23:43:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EAID NU
07MANAGUA327	NICARAGUA: WEAK INFRASTRUCTURE HAMPERS TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary. A 2006 World Bank study characterized Nicaragua's infrastructure as the least developed in Central America. Nicaragua,s poor national road network compounds the challenge of bringing products to market and presents "the greatest obstacles to export led economic growth." At ti [...]	2007-02-05 19:19:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELTN EWWT EAIR ECON EIND EINV NU
07MANAGUA328	ALN EMBARKS ON REORGANIZATION, RAPPROCHEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary: Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) planning coordinator Kitty Monterrey recently shared her party's reorganization plans and provided a copy of ALN president Eduardo Montealegre's letter to his Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) counterpart. In that letter, Montealegre proposes [...]	2007-02-05 20:24:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA329	AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE CRUZ: &BIGGEST CHALLENGE WILL [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and country team members recently presented an overview of USG programs and their parameters to Nicaraguan Ambassador-designate to the United States Arturo Cruz (Ref. A),similar to the December 2006 presentation to then President-elect Daniel Ortega's transition team [...]	2007-02-05 20:32:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA331	CONVERGENCIA DEPUTIES HAVE INDEPENDENT AGENDA FROM [...] (C) Summary: National Assembly deputy Augustin Jarquin recently told us that the non-Sandinista deputies in the Sandinista Front (FSLN) caucus have developed an independent legislative agenda. The deputies -- a mix of Liberals, Conservatives, Resistance leaders, and indigenous representatives [...]	2007-02-05 21:12:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA341	NICARAGUA: TOURISM SECTOR [...] (U) Summary: Statistics from the National Ports Company (EPN) and the Institute of Tourism (INTUR) paint an attractive picture of the tourism industry in Nicaragua. Tourists spent 30% more in 2006 than they did in 2005, and new investment in the sector totaled $60 million. The election of Sa [...]	2007-02-06 19:03:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON ETRD USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA355	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary. In a cordial introductory meeting with new Minister for Development, Trade, and Industry Horacio Manuel Brenes Icabalceta, the Ambassador touched on CAFTA and U.S. trade capacity building programs, the Millennium Challenge Account, and WTO trade issues. Also discussed were rece [...]	2007-02-06 23:52:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV EAGR WTO MCC PINR NU
07MANAGUA357	ORTEGA ACTIONS TEST TRIPWIRES [...] (C) SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: With less than one month in office, President Daniel Ortega and Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) lawmakers have already touched off a number of our tripwires and placed opposition parties and civil society, international financial institutions (IFIs),and [...]	2007-02-07 14:52:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN KDEM MARR NU PARM PINR PREL PTER
07MANAGUA385	MISKITO COMMUNITY COMMITTED BUT FRACTURED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff talked with political and civil society leaders in Puerto Cabezas, Northern Autonomous Region (RAAN) about the situation there and their views on the Ortega Administration. Leaders of the Moravian church, the historical bedrock of the indigenous Miskito community, admitte [...]	2007-02-09 21:30:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM KIRF PGOV PINS PREL PHUM SOCI EAID NU
07MANAGUA392	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary. In a courtesy call on February 2, new Minister of Government Ana Isabel Morales Mazun told the Ambassador that the government intends to honor agreements established by the previous administration and to strengthen the relationship with the United States. The Ambassador querie [...]	2007-02-12 12:55:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA396	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador called on the new Minister for Agriculture and Forestry Ariel Bucardo Rocha to introduce himself and discuss bilateral cooperation and growing bilateral trade. Existing bilateral cooperation centers upon U.S. Department of Agriculture animal and plant health pro [...]	2007-02-12 19:46:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ETRD ECON SENV PINR NU
07MANAGUA40	ALN EXAMINES ITS ROLE AS NEW DEMOCRATIC FORCE [...] (C) Summary: During a recent Embassy-hosted lunch, Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) deputies-elect (headed by Eduardo Montealegre) and leaders of the alliance parties discussed strategy, the future of the ALN, Eduardo Montealegre's role in the party and the need for consolidation. Montealeg [...]	2007-01-09 19:06:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NU
07MANAGUA401	MANAGUA MAYOR EYES AMBASSADORIAL POSTING IN ROME, [...] (C) Summary: Managua Mayor Dionisio Marenco confirmed to the Ambassador that he may become Nicaragua's Ambassador to Italy, although the timeline is unclear. The Sandinista (FSLN) mayor, who is interested in establishing sister city relationships with U.S. cities, will also consider the Wisc [...]	2007-02-13 19:04:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL ECON EPET EINV IR
07MANAGUA404	LIBERALS FINALLY OPPOSE FSLN - WILL IT LAST? [...] (SBU) Summary: Nicaragua's previously divided Liberal parties jointly passed two resolutions in the National Assembly opposing actions by the Sandinista Front (FSLN) administration to change the official government seal and attribute powers to citizen councils that are reserved for government [...]	2007-02-13 21:47:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PARM KDEM NU
07MANAGUA405	NICARAGUA: NEW GOVERNMENT MOVES QUICKLY TO [...] (SBU) Summary. New government officials have moved quickly to put the logging industry back on track by modifying a June 2006 total moratorium on raw timber exports. The stated policy goals of the moratorium were to curb illegal logging activity and to spur foreign investment in wood manufac [...]	2007-02-13 22:03:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR ETRD EINV PGOV NU
07MANAGUA415	ORTEGA GOVERNMENT TAGS CARDINAL OBANDO TO HEAD [...] (C) Summary: President Ortega's new National Peace and Reconciliation Council is the centerpiece of Ortega's September 15 accord with Nicaraguan Resistance Party leader Salvador Talavera. Ignoring Archbishop Leopoldo Brenes' reference to an August 2006 pastoral letter issued by the Episcopa [...]	2007-02-14 22:35:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA426	NICARAGUA: BACKGROUND ON AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS [...] (U) Summary: Current Nicaraguan property law affords U.S. claimants three administrative avenues to resolve their cases; claimants may also file in court. Since 1990, more than 1,130 U.S. citizens registered 3,193 claims with the Embassy in Managua. As of February 14, 2007, 298 U.S. citizens with 6 [...]	2007-02-15 17:29:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA436	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL NELSON [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post welcomes members of CODEL Nelson to Nicaragua February 18 to 20. With the return of Daniel Ortega to the presidency and changes in the National Assembly, your visit comes at a most propitious time. The United States remains committed to supporting Nicaragua's democratic an [...]	2007-02-15 23:57:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL PTER SMIG SNAR NU
07MANAGUA444	BOLANOS TO SECRETARY LEAVITT - DEMOCRACY IS NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 10, the U.S. Presidential Delegation (Presdel),led by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt, discussed with outgoing President SIPDIS Enrique Bolanos his plans for a virtual presidential library, his future role in the National Assembly and his [...]	2007-02-20 13:12:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL
07MANAGUA452	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON TOURISM INSTITUTE [...] (U) Summary. The Ambassador called on new Tourism Institute (INTUR) Executive Director Mario Salinas Pasos to introduce himself, outline USAID activities in the tourism sector, and discuss Salinas' plans. Salinas told the Ambassador that INTUR is in the midst of defining tourist markets for [...]	2007-02-20 21:30:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND EINV EAID ECON PINR NU
07MANAGUA453	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador called on the new Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Pablo Fernando Martinez Espinoza on February 7 to introduce himself and discuss transportation and infrastructure issues in Nicaragua. The Ambassador explained that the Millennium Challenge Corpora [...]	2007-02-20 21:54:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELTN EWWT EAIR EIND EPET ECON ETRD PINR NU
07MANAGUA463	NICARAGUA NOMINATION FOR THE SECRETARY'S AWARD FOR [...] (U) After careful consideration of several potential candidates for Secretary Rice's Women of Courage Award, Post nominates Zoilamerica Narvaez Murillo for this distinction. Despite the repeated denial of due process in the national courts, Zoilamerica has persevered in her quest for justice [...]	2007-02-21 20:49:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KWMN PHUM KPAO NU
07MANAGUA466	OPPOSITION ASSEMBLY CAUCUS LEADERS SEEK TRAINING [...] (C) Summary: National Assembly caucus leaders representing the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN),Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC),and the Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) recently met with the Ambassador and sought more U.S. training assistance, especially for freshmen lawmakers and [...]	2007-02-21 22:37:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA467	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador met with new Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources Amanda Lorio Arana to discuss potential collaboration on environmental programs. The Ambassador described the breadth and depth of U.S. environmental projects and programs in Nicaragua, including a CAF [...]	2007-02-21 22:43:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAGR EAID EIND NU
07MANAGUA471	NICARAGUA: POLL GIVES ORTEGA FAVORABLE RATINGS, [...] (SBU) Summary: A CID-Gallup poll released on February 21 shows President Daniel Ortega enjoying a honeymoon, with high favorability ratings and optimism toward his presidency -- not only from his traditional base of support, but also among the general public. The poll also concludes that hal [...]	2007-02-22 19:50:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM ECON AID NU
07MANAGUA487	RE-MOLDING THE CONTRAS INTO A POLITICAL FORCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Convergence (Convergencia) leader and lawmaker Elia Galeano believes that the Resistance movement will continue to be ineffective as a political force in Nicaragua without robust political and leadership training. She proposes transforming an association of ex-combatant [...]	2007-02-23 21:46:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV NU
07MANAGUA493	ALN SEEKS ASSISTANCE TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM, PREPARE [...] (C) Summary: The Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) is in debt from its campaign commitments and urgently needs funding to maintain its momentum, enable leader Eduardo Montealegre to emerge as the uncontested leader of the opposition, and prepare for the 2008 municipal elections. The ALN plan [...]	2007-02-24 00:09:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA494	NICARAGUA: AMERICA'S COMPETITIVENESS FORUM [...] (U) At the earliest opportunity after the inauguration of the new president and the seating of a new cabinet, the Ambassador met the new Minister of Trade, Industry and Development Horacio Brenes Icabalceta about attending the Americas Competitiveness Forum in Atlanta on June 11-13 (refs A and [...]	2007-02-26 12:50:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD ELAB SOCI OAS KSUM NU
07MANAGUA495	NICARAGUA: CAFTA Update [...] (U) Summary: Nicaraguan exports to the United States during the first year of CAFTA performed extremely well. Total exports to the United States increased 29.2%, growing from $1.18 billion in 2005 to $1.53 billion in 2006. The Nicaraguan government separates free trade zone exports and gener [...]	2007-02-26 12:53:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR EINV ECIN ECON BEXP NU
07MANAGUA496	NICARAGUA: CAFTA Update [...] (U) Summary: Nicaraguan exports to the United States during the first year of CAFTA performed extremely well. Total exports to the United States increased 29.2%, growing from $1.18 billion in 2005 to $1.53 billion in 2006. The Nicaraguan government separates free trade zone exports and gener [...]	2007-02-26 12:53:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR EINV ECIN ECON BEXP NU
07MANAGUA522	NICARAGUA: CAFTA UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: Nicaraguan exports to the United States during the first year of CAFTA performed extremely well. Total exports to the United States increased 29.2%, growing from $1.18 billion in 2005 to $1.53 billion in 2006. The Nicaraguan government separates free trade zone exports and gener [...]	2007-02-27 00:50:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR EINV ECIN ECON BEXP NU
07MANAGUA530	FOREIGN MINISTER TRIES TO DOWNPLAY ANTI-U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Samuel Santos appears perturbed by threats against U.S. local residents, tourists, and journalists in Nicaragua's San Juan del Sur area. He has requested details of the incidents and will speak with the mayor of the town about the concerns. Santos informed us t [...]	2007-02-27 17:02:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA538	CODEL NELSON MEETS WITH LIBERAL LEADERS IN [...] (C) Summary: The heads of the Nicaraguan National Assembly Liberal caucuses recently shared with Senator Nelson their skepticism over President Ortega's professed commitments to democracy and reconciliation and believe that the Assembly and international community must serve as checks to Ortega [...]	2007-02-28 14:29:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR OVIP VE NU
07MANAGUA539	CODEL NELSON MEETS WITH OPPOSITION LEADER EDUARDO [...] (C) Summary: Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) leader Eduardo Montealegre advised Senator Nelson that President Ortega is struggling against competing interests within the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and may find governing more difficult when he is unable to comply with his cam [...]	2007-02-28 15:59:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR OVIP NU
07MANAGUA541	CODEL NELSON MEETS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER SANTOS [...] (C) Summary: In Senator Nelson's meeting with Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Samuel Santos, he impressed upon Santos his desire to establish sincere and positive relations with the new Ortega government and the Nicaraguan people. The Senator commented that Venezuelan President Chavez' lack of s [...]	2007-02-28 17:39:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA542	CODEL NELSON MEETS WITH VICE PRESIDENT MORALES [...] (C) Summary: In Senator Nelson's meeting with Nicaraguan Vice President Jaime Morales, he noted his commitment to fostering friendship between the American and Nicaraguan peoples and good relations between their two governments. Morales sought the Senator's support for TPS renewal for Nicara [...]	2007-02-28 17:41:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA543	FSLN USING FOREIGN ASSISTANCE TO SPREAD [...] (C) Summary: Liberal mayor Bronley Alvarez reports that the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) is using assistance programs sponsored by Venezuela and Cuba to spread the message that the USG "does nothing" in Nicaragua and only the FSLN and its allies can alleviate poverty. Alvarez fe [...]	2007-02-28 18:02:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EAID NU VE CU
07MANAGUA544	NEW CRIMINAL CODE IN THE BALANCE [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: In January 2007, the new leader of the National Assembly's Justice Commission requested USG help to garner approval of a draft Criminal Code, created with USAID support, which had languished since 2001. The Embassy strongly supports passage as it is critical to Nicaragua's inv [...]	2007-02-28 22:17:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL ECON SOCI PINS SNAR NU
07MANAGUA577	ALN MUST EMBRACE LOCAL LEADERS TO WIN BATTLE FOR [...] (C) Summary: Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) deputy Ramiro Silva believes that the ALN must work with local Liberal elected officials in order to win the battle for Liberal leadership with the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) and consolidate opposition forces. Silva holds ALN leader Eduar [...]	2007-03-02 23:22:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA583	THE SANDINISTA GOVERNMENT 60 DAYS OUT - AND OUR [...] (C) Summary: The FSLN administration is fast reverting to its improvisation, secrecy, and centralization of the 1980's, forging an operating style more appropriate for a revolutionary junta than a modern, democratic state. President Ortega appears determined to consolidate his power, circumve [...]	2007-03-05 22:52:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NU PHUM PINR PREL KCOR
07MANAGUA585	OVERVIEW OF MINISTERS AND SENIOR OFFICIALS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Within two weeks of his January 10 inauguration, President Daniel Ortega had appointed all his ministers save one, the Minister of Defense. Political opposition leaders have characterized the new ministers as "nobodies" who exercise virtually no authority or influence. Instead, [...]	2007-03-06 15:50:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV PREL PINR
07MANAGUA591	AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS PROGRESS: FEBRUARY 2007 [...] Summary: In February of the 2006-2007 waiver year, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) did not resolve any Embassy-registered property claims. Since January 1995, Embassy-registered property claims of 654 American citizens (Amcits) have been resolved. There remain 682 registered property claims belon [...]	2007-03-06 22:19:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA616	(C) EMBASSY JUMP STARTS LIBERAL UNITY DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) Summary: After splintering under the weight of mutual suspicion and recriminations, DCM hosted a cocktail to bring together members of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) and Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) to reactivate discussions on the need to forge a unified opposition to confront [...]	2007-03-08 14:58:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU IR TW VE
07MANAGUA617	ALEMAN STORMS ALN HEADQUARTERS, BUT REFUSES TO MEET PRIVATELY WITH MONTEALEGRE [...] (C) Summary: With an entourage of PLC party hacks and media in toe, former president Arnoldo Aleman recently paid an impromptu (although some ALN members appear to have expected it) visit on rival ALN party headquarters. Eduardo Montealegre was in the midst of chairing his party's weekly bo [...]	2007-03-08 15:01:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA626	NICARAGUA: NEW PROPERTY SUPERINTENDENT PAYS COURTESY CALL [...] (SBU) Summary: Mireya Molina Torres was officially instated as the new Property Superintendent on January 25, 2007, replacing Alfonso Sandino. In an unexpected courtesy, Molina paid an introductory call to the Embassy's Property Office days before. Molina stressed to Emboffs that her goal is t [...]	2007-03-08 21:44:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA627	CSE OFFICIAL CLAIMS ELECTORAL COUNCIL SERIOUS [...] (C) Summary: Rodrigo Barreto, Chief of Staff of Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council (CSE),claims that most CSE magistrates are ready to implement desperately needed electoral reforms, but the Council requires donor assistance to move forward. The reforms would center around the issuance of [...]	2007-03-08 23:29:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EAID KDEM NU
07MANAGUA632	NICARAGUA WILL CONSIDER SUPPORTING GLOBAL [...] (C) On March 8, Deputy Chief of Mission Peter Brennan and Russian counterpart Valeriy Bobrov delivered the joint reftel demarche to Nicaraguan Vice Foreign Minister Manuel Coronel Kautz, Acting Foreign Minister in Foreign Minister Samuel Santos' absence. Coronel, who recently returned from an [...]	2007-03-09 20:57:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL NU
07MANAGUA635	Civil society holding Ortega's feet to the fire on [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: Using international anti-corruption conventions, Nicaraguan civil society has organized to make sure the Government of Nicaragua complies with international commitments. Nicaraguan civil society has presented its own assessment of compliance, developed its own performance monitoring [...]	2007-03-09 22:46:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL ECON SOCI PINS SNAR NU
07MANAGUA637	NICARAGUA-VENEZUELA AGREEMENT ON TECHNICAL [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of a series of ALBA agreements between Nicaraguan and Venezuela signed on January 11, 2007, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan Ministers of Foreign Relations also signed an Agreement on Technical Cooperation in the Areas of Health and Medicine. The agreement sets out a general [...]	2007-03-09 23:00:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO OSCI EAID ECIN NU VE
07MANAGUA638	NICARAGUA - VENEZUELA LETTER OF INTENT ON THE [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of a series of Bolivarian Alternative agreements signed on January 11, 2007, the Nicaraguan Minister of Foreign Relations Samuel Santos and Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Relations Nicolas Maduro Moros signed a Letter of Intent to commission a feasibility study on placi [...]	2007-03-09 23:03:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND ENRG EAID NU VE
07MANAGUA639	NICARAGUA - VENEZUELA MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of a series of Bolivarian Alternative agreements between Nicaraguan and Venezuela signed on January 11, 2007, respective Foreign Relations Ministers signed a Memorandum of Understanding for Energy Sector Cooperation between Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and La Empresa N [...]	2007-03-09 23:06:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EAID NU VE
07MANAGUA640	NICARAGUA - VENEZUELA AGREEMENT ON ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of a series of Bolivarian Alternative agreements between Nicaraguan and Venezuela signed on January 11, 2007, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan Ministers of Foreign Relations also signed an Agreement on Energy Cooperation and Petrocaribe. The agreement sets forth a schematic fo [...]	2007-03-09 23:11:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EAID MCC NU VE
07MANAGUA641	NICARAGUA - VENEZUELA LETTER OF INTENT ON [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of a series of Bolivarian Alternative agreements between Nicaraguan and Venezuela signed on January 11, 2007, the President of the Venezuelan Corporation for Agricultural Services and Supply (LA CASA) and the Director General of Nicaraguan National Supply Company (ENABA [...]	2007-03-09 23:15:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID NU VE
07MANAGUA642	NICARAGUA - VENEZUELA LETTER OF INTENT ON A [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of a series of Bolivarian Alternative agreements between Nicaraguan and Venezuela signed on January 11, 2007, the President of the Venezuelan Corporation for Food Marketing (MERCAL) and the President of Cooperative of Agricultural Services of Nicaragua (NICARAOCOOP) sig [...]	2007-03-09 23:17:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID NU VE
07MANAGUA643	NICARAGUA - VENEZUELA MOU FOR THE SALE OF [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of a series of Bolivarian Alternative agreements between Nicaraguan and Venezuela signed on January 11, 2007, the President of the Cooperative Enterprise for Agricultural Services (NICARAOCOOP) and the President of the Petrochemical Corporation of Venezuela (PEQUIVEN) s [...]	2007-03-09 23:23:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID NU VE
07MANAGUA644	NICARGUA - VENEZUELA CONTRACT FOR THE SALE OF RED [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of a series of Bolivarian Alternative agreements between Nicaraguan and Venezuela signed on January 11, 2007, the Presidents of Cooperative Enterprise for Agricultural Services (NICARAOCOOP) and the President of the Venezuelan Corporation for Agricultural Services and S [...]	2007-03-09 23:25:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID NU VE
07MANAGUA645	NICARAGUA - VENEZUELA ENERGY SECTOR COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of a series of Bolivarian Alternative agreements between Nicaragua and Venezuela signed on January 11, 2007, respective Ministers of Foreign Relations also signed an Energy Sector Cooperation Agreement. The agreement sets out general areas for cooperation, including th [...]	2007-03-09 23:32:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EAID MCC NU VE
07MANAGUA646	NICARAGUA - VENEZUELA AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of a series of Bolivarian Alternative agreements between Nicaraguan and Venezuela signed on January 11, 2007, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan Ministers of Foreign Relations also signed an Agricultural Cooperation Agreement. The agreement is general in nature, outlining the d [...]	2007-03-09 23:36:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID NU VE
07MANAGUA668	THE FIRST 60 DAYS - ORTEGA PRESSURES MEDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Ortega's attitude and actions towards the mainstream media in the first 60 days of his administration have raised doubts about his commitment to freedom of expression. Sounding more like an attack plan than a government communications strategy, First Lady Rosario Muri [...]	2007-03-12 22:57:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL PINR
07MANAGUA669	THE FIRST 60 DAYS - ORTEGA PRESSURES MEDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Ortega's attitude and actions towards the mainstream media in the first 60 days of his administration have raised doubts about his commitment to freedom of expression. Sounding more like an attack plan than a government communications strategy, First Lady Rosario Muri [...]	2007-03-12 23:00:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL PINR
07MANAGUA700	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON MINISTER OF LABOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a March 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Nicaraguan Minister of Labor Jeanette Chavez Gomez admitted that the Ministry faces some complex problems. While in favor of increasing the minimum wage, she emphasized the need for a cautious, balanced approach to adjusting the mini [...]	2007-03-16 17:21:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB KDEM PGOV PINR NU
07MANAGUA701	NICARAGUA: DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-16 17:22:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC APER UNGA NU
07MANAGUA71	NICARAGUA: SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL FINAL COORDINATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-11 22:29:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM MASS NU
07MANAGUA720	INCREASING VENEZUELAN INFLUENCE ON ATLANTIC COAST [...] (C) Summary: Prominent indigenous activist Javier Williams Slate warns the Ortega Administration is aggressively consolidating power in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) to secure a route for their Venezuelan allies to transport oil to the Pacific. According to Williams, Venezuelan [...]	2007-03-19 22:56:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM SOCI SNAR NU VE
07MANAGUA725	NICARAGUA - VENEZUELA FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of a series of Bolivarian Alternative agreements between Nicaraguan and Venezuela concluded on January 11, 2007, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan Ministers of Foreign Relations signed a Framework Agreement, setting forth general areas for cooperation. The agreement created a [...]	2007-03-20 00:44:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID EAGR ENRG EPET EIND TBIO OSCI ECIN
07MANAGUA726	ORTEGA FOLLOWS CHAVEZ' LEAD IN CONFRONTING U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez traveled to Nicaragua on March 11 to use the country as a platform to criticize the United States and the Central American leg of President Bush's recent trip. Chavez' trips to Nicaragua have inspired President Daniel Ortega to abandon his pre-ele [...]	2007-03-20 15:29:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM NU VE
07MANAGUA745	ORTEGA ACCORDS ALEMAN VIRTUALLY FREE REIGN [...] (C) Summary: In an effort likely aimed to keep Nicaragua's liberals divided and ensure 'buy-in" from the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) on the appointment of regime-friendly Supreme Court justices and other government positions, the Ortega government issued instructions on March 16 allowi [...]	2007-03-21 15:50:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA776	MARTINEZ CUENCA: GIVE THE ORTEGA GOVERNMENT A BIT [...] (C) Summary: Sandinista-dissident Alejandro Martinez Cuenca believes it is still too soon to assess the performance of the Ortega administration, but he is certain that Ortega's prime goal is to remain in power indefinitely while he leaves First Lady Rosario to run the government. He is con [...]	2007-03-22 23:14:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NU PGOV PINR PREL SNAR
07MANAGUA781	Nicaragua's first export of ethanol, Ortega may not be [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 19, Nicaragua exported ethanol for the first time, sending 3 million liters (793,000 gallons) valued at $2 million to the Netherlands. Grupo Pellas plans to increase production of ethanol from 100,000 to 400,000 liters per day by the end of 2008. If Nicaragua appro [...]	2007-03-23 19:30:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EPET ENRG SENV PREL VE NU
07MANAGUA783	CONSERVATIVE PARTY WILL TAKE &AKIDO8 APPROACH TO [...] (C) Summary: Conservative Party president Azalia Aviles Salmeron and PC National Assembly lawmaker Alejandro Bolanos are determined to strengthen their party and maintain its alliance with Eduardo Montealegre's Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance. While ultimately they would prefer to establish a Co [...]	2007-03-23 20:45:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL
07MANAGUA784	CENTAM CHIEFS OF MISSION BEWILDERED BY ORTEGA'S [...] (C) Summary: Central American COMs in Nicaragua agree that the Ortega administration is pursuing a "double discourse" in foreign and economic policy, which makes predicting a future trajectory difficult. They have also been perturbed by protocol irregularities, including a delay in the accred [...]	2007-03-23 20:51:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ECON KDEM NU XK
07MANAGUA788	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR MEETS NEW MINISTER OF ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador called on the new Minister of Energy and Mines Emilio de Jesus Rappaccioli Baltodano on February 14 to introduce himself and discuss energy issues in Nicaragua. Rappaccioli summarized recent changes to energy sector governance, including the creation of the Minist [...]	2007-03-23 21:06:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EMIN TBIO SENV EINV PINR VE NU
07MANAGUA789	NICARAGUA REACHES OUT TO IRAQ [...] (C) Ambassador Magda Henriquez, the Director of the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry's Multilateral Affairs Office, informed PolCouns on March 23 that she had met last week with Iraqi Ambassador to the United Nations, Hamid Al-Biyati, as a first step towards renewing diplomatic ties between the two [...]	2007-03-26 12:55:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL IZ
07MANAGUA791	ORTEGA DESIRES CONSTRUCTIVE RELATIONS WITH THE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Magda Enriquez, the Director of the MFA's Multilateral Affairs Office, believes President Ortega sincerely desires constructive relations with the United States, but she concedes that some Sandinista party hardliners object. While she acknowledges that Ortega consider [...]	2007-03-26 21:20:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU PREL UNGA IZ IR
07MANAGUA796	NICARAGUA'S 2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS SUBMISSION [...] (SBU) Summary: During the April 2006 to March 2007 reporting period, the Nicaraguan government continued its efforts to combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP) mainly in the areas of prevention and detection, while progress in victim assistance and prosecution of traffickers was limited and overal [...]	2007-03-27 21:51:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF NU
07MANAGUA797	GON RECEIVES INFORMATION ON THE ADOPTION OF UNSCR [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-27 22:27:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EFIN IAEA IR KNNP MNUC PARM UNSC TRGY NU

07MANAGUA798	FSLN CENSUS AN ATTEMPT TO MAP OPPOSITION LEADERS, [...] (C) Miskito leader Osorno Coleman, who lost his bid for a National Assembly seat on the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) ticket in November 2006, is convinced that pro-Sandinista (FSLN) Miskito leaders Brooklyn Rivera and Stedman Fagoth are directing an FSLN "census" of ex-combatants on the [...]	2007-03-27 22:52:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NU PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07MANAGUA80	NICARAGUA: CARIBBEAN MASS MIGRATION CONTINGENCY [...] (C) Although the Nicaraguan government (GON) has in the past expressed a willingness to assist with limited refugee resettlement (reftel),post believes that because of ideological and public relations considerations, the recently installed Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) governmen [...]	2007-01-12 21:26:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM NU
07MANAGUA800	NICARAGUAN POLICE URGE DONORS TO COORDINATE SUPPORT [...] (U) The Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a meeting of donor nations on March 23, 2007. The meeting, which included remarks by Eva Zetterberg, Swedish Ambassador to Nicaragua and chair of the donor group, was attended by countries who provide support to the Nicaraguan National Po [...]	2007-03-27 23:00:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM NU PGOV PINR SNAR
07MANAGUA81	MINISTRY OF DEFENSE FACES UNCERTAIN FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: Embassy contacts fear that President Daniel Ortega's failure to name a Minister of Defense before his inauguration presages the eventual dismantling/undermining of the Ministry, or represents a stall tactic to eventually ease Lenin Cerna's wife, Marisol Castillo, into the job over [...]	2007-01-12 21:31:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PARM KDEM NU
07MANAGUA810	POLITICAL PUNDITS PLACE ORTEGA GOVERNMENT ON [...] (C) Summary: Six of Nicaragua's leading political analysts concur that the Ortega administration has already reached "yellow alert" status and that President Ortega's primordial objective is to consolidate power. Over breakfast at the Ambassador's residence, they lauded our government's app [...]	2007-03-29 18:04:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NU PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07MANAGUA815	EEB A/S MEETS WITH MEMBERS OF ORTEGA'S CABINET [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 27, A/S Sullivan met several members of Ortega's economic cabinet. Central Bank President Rosales requested USG assistance in getting better terms from the IMF during upcoming negotiations on a Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF). MFA Vice Minister Coronel [...]	2007-03-29 21:12:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL ETRD EAGR PGOV NU
07MANAGUA820	EEB A/S SULLIVAN MEETS WITH OPPOSITION LEADER AND [...] (C) Summary: During his February 27 visit, A/S Sullivan received messages of concern from Nicaragua's main opposition leader and members of Nicaragua's American Chamber of Commerce. Both expressed concern over Ortega's recent moves to divide and conquer the business community. They also call [...]	2007-03-29 22:53:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EINV ETRD NU
07MANAGUA826	AMBASSADORS PRIVATELY WARN ORTEGA INTERMEDIARIES [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassadors of Spain, Germany, and the United States recently warned Ortega administration officials during a private meeting that President Ortega's contradictory statements and actions regarding foreign affairs, press freedom, and investment could damage the economy and bila [...]	2007-03-30 17:20:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ECON EINV NU GM SP
07MANAGUA839	EEB A/S SULLIVAN MEETS WITH PRESIDENT ORTEGA [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 27, A/S Sullivan met with President Ortega and members of his cabinet at FSLN headquarters. The entire ninety minute meeting was covered on live television. A/S Sullivan delivered a positive message centered on the U.S. strategy of Total Economic Engagement (TEE * [...]	2007-04-02 14:39:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL PRGOV ETRD NU
07MANAGUA859	AMBASSADOR RAISES UNSCR 1747, DESIGNATION OF [...] (C) On April 2, the Ambassador raised the USG's designation of Iran's Defense Industries Organization (DIO) under E.O. 13382 with Foreign Minister Santos. He also reiterated the importance of the international community's adhering to UNSCR 1747 and urged the Nicaraguan government (GON) to en [...]	2007-04-03 17:58:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM KNNP PARM KN IR NU
07MANAGUA862	AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS PROGRESS: MARCH 2007 [...] (U) Summary: In March of the 2006-2007 waiver year, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) did not resolve any Embassy-registered property claims -- indeed no claims have been resolved since Daniel Ortega's January 10 inauguration. Since January 1995, 2,509 Embassy-registered property claims belonging t [...]	2007-04-03 19:59:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA871	NGO GIVES ORTEGA A FAILING GRADE ON HIS FIRST 60 DAYS [...] (U) Summary: After a legal, economic and political analysis of the Ortega administration's first sixty days, Movimiento por Nicaragua (MpN),an influential civil society organization, gave the government a failing grade. Analysts attacked the government's numerous decrees and legislative initi [...]	2007-04-03 21:56:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON KDEM SOCI NU
07MANAGUA873	AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS PROGRESS: MARCH 2007 [...] (U) Summary: In March of the 2006-2007 waiver year, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) did not resolve any Embassy-registered property claims -- indeed no claims have been resolved since Daniel OrtegaQs January 10 inauguration. Since January 1995, 2,509 Embassy- registered property claims bel [...]	2007-04-03 22:55:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA875	EU ELECTIONS REPORT MIXED BAG OF VALID [...] (C) Summary: The European Union's final report on Nicaragua's national elections -- belatedly released on March 30 -- contains several useful recommendations, but soft-pedaled direct criticism of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) while unjustifiably bashing the USG and Nicaraguan [...]	2007-04-03 23:08:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NU XG
07MANAGUA889	NICARAGUA: MARINA PUESTA DEL SOL, S.A. INVESTMENT PROPERTY [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 24 2007, a band of armed men forcibly assumed control of a strip of land owned by Marina Puesta del Sol, S.A. in the department of Chinandega. Ostensibly, the man behind the invasion is Mr. Jerez Lacayo, who has asserted ownership by virtue of a debt incurred by the s [...]	2007-04-09 20:28:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON EWWT USTR KIDE NU
07MANAGUA905	LIBERAL UNITY OR DISUNITY COULD DETERMINE OUTCOME OF NICARAGUA,S 2008 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS, COUNTRY,S FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: According to a recent New Link study, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) could win 77 of the 153 municipalities in Nicaragua's 2008 municipal elections if the two estranged liberal parties run separately. This outcome would boost the FSLN's chances to win the 2011 [...]	2007-04-10 22:39:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NU PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
07MANAGUA914	NICARAGUAN MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH IRAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Three days after signing a series of cooperation agreements with Venezuela, Nicaragua played host to Islamic Republic of Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on January 14. In a southern barrio of Managua, Ortega informally presented Ahmadinejad to the public in a two-hour event [...]	2007-04-11 15:16:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR PTER EAID EFIN EINV ETRD EPET
07MANAGUA915	FSLN CAUCUS CHIEF DEFENSIVE ON SENSITIVE ISSUES [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Embassy officials and INR analysts met with Edwin Castro, head of the FSLN Congressional caucus on 21 March. Castro was defensive, almost to the point of being hostile, and dodged a number of questions on FSLN policy issues regarding constitutional reforms and trade, [...]	2007-04-11 15:33:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NU
07MANAGUA935	NICARAGUA: TRADE MINISTER BRENES ON WTO CASE [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: On March 26, the Embassy received a letter in Spanish dated March 16 from Minister of Trade, Industry, and Development Horacio Brenes addressing the WTO case against U.S. agricultural subsidies, as filed by Canada and joined by Nicaragua and other countries. In [...]	2007-04-12 19:07:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR WTO NU
07MANAGUA954	PLC DEPUTIES OPINE ON LIBERAL UNITY, [...] (C) Summary: Moderate deputies of the Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) blame convicted PLC leader Arnoldo AleU5tA}[...]	2007-04-16 15:43:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA955	FORMER MRS CANDIDATE JARQUIN HOPES TO UNITE FORCES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) presidential candidate Edmundo Jarquin told Embassy officers and INR analysts that he is focusing on the municipal elections and uniting forces opposed to President Daniel Ortega during a meeting on 23 March at his residence. Jarquin re [...]	2007-04-16 15:46:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NU
07MANAGUA956	MRS FOCUSED ON LEGISLATIVE AGENDA, MUNICIPAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sandinista Renovation Movement (MRS) deputies are focusing on the party's legislative agenda and rallying supporters for the municipal elections, according to MRS Deputies Enrique Saenz, Victor Hugo Tinoco and Tinoco's alternate, Hugo Torres. They are also using "volunteers" to [...]	2007-04-16 15:47:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NU
07MANAGUA957	NICARAGUAN JUSTICE SYSTEM AT RISK, ACCORDING TO [...] (C) Embassy officials and INR analysts met with Ivan Lara, the Solicitor General for the Criminal Division on 21 March. According to Lara, the Nicaraguan justice system is deteriorating. He highlighted the enormous pressure to politicize the Solicitor General's office and judiciary, and the [...]	2007-04-16 15:49:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NU
07MANAGUA958	ALN: FSLN PLOTTING TO BUY VOTES AND DIVIDE [...] (C) Summary: National Assembly deputies of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) agree that, theoretically, the Assembly could serve as a check to President Ortega's totalitarian tendencies. Unfortunately, the FSLN will work hard to maintain Liberal divisions and build popular support through [...]	2007-04-16 20:54:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA964	NICARAGUAN WOMEN ACTIVISTS WARN CHOICE IS [...] (C). SUMMARY: Leading members of the Women's Autonomous Movement of Nicaragua recently met with Embassy officers to discuss the need to encourage women within civil society to defend Nicaragua's democracy, promote development, and stop the slide toward authoritarianism and "legal dictatorship" [...]	2007-04-17 18:56:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM KWMN PDEM PHUM PREL NU
07MANAGUA965	NICARAGUA: HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT MEETS PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael O. Leavitt visited Managua on March 26-27, 2007 to sign a Letter of Intent with Minister of Health Maritza Cuan on the establishment of a regional health-care training center in Panama. Secretary Leavitt met with President [...]	2007-04-17 20:01:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO EAID PREL OSHA OTRA NU
07MANAGUA982	ALN PLANNING ROBUST OPPOSITION, BUT STARVED FOR [...] (C) Summary: Leaders of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) are planning new strategies to confront the Ortega administration, but the party faces a severe funding shortage and considerable campaign debt. The party is conflicted on how to approach the 2008 municipal elections and whether the [...]	2007-04-19 15:33:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA983	NICARAGUA: MISSTEPS BY NEW AVIATION ADMINISTRATION [...] (SBU) Summary. In a March 28 meeting with Econoffs and the TSA representative for Central America Victor Guardia, country managers and security directors from American, Continental, TACA, and Delta airlines hesitated to criticize new administrators at Empresa Administradora de Aeropuertos Int [...]	2007-04-19 15:45:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR PTER EIND ECON NU
07MANAGUA984	RESIGNATION OF NICARAGUAN OFFICIAL FROM ANTI-TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Maria Gabriela Zuniga, Program Director of the National Coalition Against Trafficking in Persons, tendered her resignation to the Ministry of Government last week, citing personal reasons for her decision. She confided to us that the working conditions and culture of secrecy und [...]	2007-04-19 15:46:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG ELAB NU
07MANAGUA987	PLC VICE PRESIDENT: WE MUST ALLY WITH THE ALN [...] (C) Summary: Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) vice president and National Assembly deputy Wilfredo Navarro informed poloffs that the PLC must form an alliance with the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) before the 2008 municipal elections or his party will face a devastating route. Navarro ex [...]	2007-04-19 21:57:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NU
07MANAGUA996	ALN LOOKS TO FOREIGN DONORS, SMALL AND MEDIUM [...] (S) Summary: According to ALN National Assembly caucus leader Maria Eugenia Sequeira, Managua's Taiwanese business community is now cognizant of the threat Ortega poses to its future. Taiwanese businessmen recently promised to support the party without imposing a pre-condition of broad Libera [...]	2007-04-20 17:20:00	Embassy Managua	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM NU
07MANAMA1010	IRAQ - AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S MEETINGS WITH BAHRAINI LEADERSHIP [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-06 10:55:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS IZ IR BA
07MANAMA1011	FINANCE MINISTER REVIEWS OPTIONS FOR SANCTIONING FUTURE BANK REF: A. U/S LEVEY - AMB. ERELI OCTOBER 31 E-MAIL B. STATE 148605 Classified By: Ambassador Adam Ereli, reasons 1.4(b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-06 11:19:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC KNNP EFIN ECON IR BA
07MANAMA1012	AHMEDINEJAD TO VISIT BAHRAIN IN LATE NOVEMBER [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-07 12:15:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL IR BA
07MANAMA1016	BAHRAINI NEXT STEPS ON FUTURE BANK [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-08 10:18:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC KNNP EFIN ECON IR BA
07MANAMA1021	IRAQ - AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S MEETINGS WITH BAHRAINI [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-12 12:15:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS IZ IR BA
07MANAMA1029	BAHRAIN'S CENTRAL BANK TAKES ACTION AGAINST FUTURE [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-14 15:26:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC KNNP EFIN ECON IR BA
07MANAMA1031	COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-15 10:58:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA BA
07MANAMA1033	SHI'A YOUTH IN WEEKEND SKIRMISHES WITH SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-15 11:35:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC CASC BA
07MANAMA1045	AHMEDINEJAD VISIT TO BAHRAIN [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-19 13:53:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL KNNP IAEA EPET IR BA
07MANAMA1046	TACTICAL ALLIANCE BETWEEN SUNNIS AND SHI'A IN [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-19 13:55:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL BA
07MANAMA1051	UPDATE: DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY FOR BAHRAIN [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-21 14:13:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM BA
07MANAMA1052	TERRORIST CELL TRIAL CONTINUES [...] (U) The trial of five suspects charged under Bahrain's 2006 counter-terrorism law (reftels) resumed November 20 in Manama's High Criminal Court. The prosecution and defense presented opening arguments, and the court adjourned until December 12. 2. (U) Defense attorneys told media that the [...]	2007-11-21 17:31:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER KISL ASEC BA
07MANAMA106	BAHRAIN: REQUESTING PEACEKEEPING SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-06 13:43:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MARR BA SU ROW
07MANAMA1060	DEMARCHE ON U.S.-IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-26 13:41:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ BA
07MANAMA1067	FM CLASHES WITH MPS OVER LIVNI MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-28 04:34:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS BA
07MANAMA107	SEEKING BAHRAINI SUPPORT FOR SOMALIA [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-06 13:43:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MOPS AGOA BA SO ROW
07MANAMA1070	OIL MINISTER COMMENTS ON IRAN NATURAL GAS MOU [...] (C) Summary. Oil Minister Mirza told the Ambassador November 26 that although Bahrain had signed an MOU with Iran to ensure that negotiations remained on track, Bahrain continued to hope that a Qatari or Saudi alternative would emerge. However, Bahrain needed to continue moving forward to en [...]	2007-11-28 14:38:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON ECTRD IR BA
07MANAMA1083	CODEL MORAN MEETINGS WITH PM AND CENTRAL BANK [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-05 11:13:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN EPET BA
07MANAMA1084	ANTI-TRAFFICKING LAW PROGRESSING IN PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-05 11:21:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KWMN ELAB SMIG BA
07MANAMA1085	BAHRAIN: REACTION TO IRAN NIE [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-05 14:59:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC KNNP PARM IR BA
07MANAMA1089	CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR UNDERSCORES COMMITMENT TO DOLLAR REMAINS FIRM --------------------------------- [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-09 14:38:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EFIN ECON IR BA
07MANAMA1096	BAHRAINI FM WILL ATTEND PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-12 11:24:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL BA
07MANAMA1097	ANTI-TRAFFICKING LAW ADVANCES IN PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-13 05:29:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KWMN ELAB SMIG BA
07MANAMA1103	DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT, COMMERCE MINISTER [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-13 13:49:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EFIN ECON BA
07MANAMA1110	ONE DEAD IN CLASHES WITH SECURITY FORCES [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-18 12:34:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC PHUM BA
07MANAMA1112	STREET PROTESTS SUBSIDE FOLLOWING INTERVENTION OF [...] (SBU) Summary: After renewed clashes between police and Shi'a youths December 18, there were no further disturbances and the streets remained quiet as of mid-afternoon December 20. The intervention of Shi'a community leaders helped defuse the situation. End summary. 2. (SBU) Following clashes Dec [...]	2007-12-20 11:20:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC PHUM KISL BA
07MANAMA1113	CLASHES BETWEEN SHI'A YOUTH AND POLICE: UPDATE [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-21 15:02:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC PHUM KISL BA
07MANAMA1118	BAHRAINI STREET VIOLENCE: SHI'A POLITICAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-27 13:45:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC PHUM KISL BA
07MANAMA1119	MOTTAKI VISIT TO BAHRAIN [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-27 13:50:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL KNNP EPET IR BA
07MANAMA112	FOREIGN MINISTER CONFIRMS KENYAN-BAHRAINI RUNNER [...] (C) In a February 6 meeting covering several subjects (septels),the Ambassador raised with Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa the early January incident involving Kenyan-Bahraini runner Musher Salem Jawher (Leonard Mucheru) and reports that the GOB had stripped him of his ci [...]	2007-02-07 12:10:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA IS REGION
07MANAMA113	GOVERNMENT VIEWS ARRESTS AS SENDING A SIGNAL TO [...] (C) In separate discussions, Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid and Industry and Commerce Minister Fakhro both told the Ambassador that the government arrested Shia activists Mushaima and Al Khawaja to rein in their unlawful activities, which the government believes have become increasingly defia [...]	2007-02-07 14:21:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC BA POL
07MANAMA117	FOREIGN MINISTER ADDRESSES IRAN AND IRAQ [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 9. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid told the Ambassador February 6 that he would soon visit Iran to deliver a "clear message" that Iran's behavior on its nuclear program was dangerous for the Gulf region. He [...]	2007-02-08 09:10:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA IR IZ REGION
07MANAMA12	AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW MINISTER OF STATE FOR [...] (C) The Ambassador December 28 called on newly appointed Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Nizar Al Baharna and discussed bilateral relations, the internal political situation in Bahrain, the National Democratic Institute project in Bahrain, UN Security Council Resolution 1737 dealing [...]	2007-01-04 15:09:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BA BILAT OFFICIALS
07MANAMA121	CROWN PRINCE AND DEPUTY SECRETARY OF COMMERCE [...] (C) Crown Prince Shaikh Salman told Deputy Secretary of Commerce Sampson February 4 that Bahrain has been and will continue to be a close friend of the United States, and he expressed his pleasure that the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was being implemented. He said he would accomp [...]	2007-02-08 14:45:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD ELAB BA ECTRD
07MANAMA128	BAHRAIN: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS DEMARCHE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche February 8 regarding Bahrain's efforts to combat trafficking to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh Abdul Aziz stated that following the fall visit of International Organization for [...]	2007-02-11 13:09:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KWMN PREL PHUM ELAB KCRM BA HUMRIT
07MANAMA13	AMBASSADOR AND NEWLY APPOINTED DEPUTY PRIME [...] (C) The Ambassador January 4 called on new Deputy Prime Minister Jawad Al Arayedh and discussed local politics, the democratic reform process, and legal reform. Al Arayedh said the political climate had improved since Shia political society Al Wifaq boycotted the King's December 15 address to [...]	2007-01-04 15:24:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BA POL OFFICIALS
07MANAMA130	IRANIAN AMBASSADOR SEES DOWNTURN IN [...] (S) An Arab Ambassador in Bahrain provided the Ambassador with a readout of departing Iranian Ambassador Mohammed Farazmand's farewell call during which Farazmand frankly acknowledged that he was happy to leave Bahrain at this time because of the difficulty of representing the current Iranian [...]	2007-02-12 10:12:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL PINR IR BA REGION
07MANAMA133	ELECTION MONITORING REPORT CITES VIOLATIONS, [...] (C) The NGO Joint Election Monitoring Committee (JEMC) issued its report February 10 on the recent parliamentary elections. The report does not clearly acknowledge that the elections were free and fair and enumerates many violations of the election law. However, it also states that the Comm [...]	2007-02-12 12:20:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KMPI BA POL
07MANAMA134	BAHRAIN HAILS HAMAS-FATAH DEAL [...] (SBU) Bahrainis universally acclaimed the Saudi-sponsored agreement between Hamas and Fatah to form a national unity government. King Hamad phoned Saudi King Abdullah February 9 and congratulated him on the fruitful outcome of the Mecca talks. He said the accord aimed to stop the bloodshed, [...]	2007-02-12 12:26:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL BA IS REGION
07MANAMA147	BAHRAIN: PREMATURE ENGAGEMENT WITH PALESTINIAN [...] (C) THE DCM DELIVERED REFTEL DEMARCHE FEBRUARY 14 REGARDING PREMATURE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT TO MFA ASSISTANT UNDERSECRETARY FOR COORDINATION AND FOLLOW UP SHAIKH ABDUL AZIZ BIN MUBARAK AL KHALIFA. AFTER LISTENING CAREFULLY TO THE POINTS, SHAIKH ABDUL AZIZ [...]	2007-02-15 13:45:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL KISL KWBG BA IS REGION
07MANAMA150	AL HAKIM VISIT PROMPTS SUNNI CRITICISM [...] (C) In a statement issued following his February 8 meeting with Abdul Aziz Al Hakim, King Hamad stressed Bahrain's interest in a secure, stable, united, and independent Iraq and offered Bahrain's support to rebuild the country. In an interview following the meeting, Al Hakim said he had expl [...]	2007-02-15 13:56:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA IZ REGION
07MANAMA151	BAHRAIN: SPRING 2007 FSN ECONOMIC TRAINING [...] Embassy Manama wishes to nominate Mr. Mohammed Al Khawaja to attend PE 220: FSN Economic Training from April 30 - May 11, 2007. A) Name: Mohammed Al Khawaja, FSN 9/2 B) Date of Birth: September 2, 1981 C) Nationality: Saudi D) Passport Number: 300101 E) Agency: State F) Po [...]	2007-02-15 14:18:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	AFSI ECON AMGT AFSN ETRD BA
07MANAMA152	AMBASSADOR AND PM HAIL RECORD TRADE LEVEL IN 2006 [...] (U) The Ambassador told Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa February 14 that 2006 full-year statistics for bilateral trade between the United States and Bahrain had just been posted, and total trade volume reached over $1.1 billion, an increase of more than 45 percent over 2005 [...]	2007-02-15 15:03:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD BA BILAT ECTRD
07MANAMA155	BAHRAIN: UNSCR 1737 - FREEZING ASSETS OF IRANIAN [...] (U) NEA/ARP Office Director Alan Misenheimer and Econoff February 14 delivered reftel demarche concerning U.S. suggestions on how states can most fully implement the asset freeze required under UNSCR 1737 to Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) Director of Financial Institution Supervision Abdul-Rahm [...]	2007-02-19 08:32:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTFN EFIN PTER BA CTR ECTRD
07MANAMA157	CROWN PRINCE REPORTS POSSIBLE IRANIAN ENRICHMENT [...] (S) Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa told the Ambassador February 19, during a meeting covering several subjects (septels),that outgoing Iranian Ambassador to Bahrain Mohammed Farazmand had told him a day earlier during a farewell call that he expected Iran to announce soon a [...]	2007-02-20 08:42:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL MARR KNNP PTER MNUC BA REGION
07MANAMA158	SCHEDULING THE NEXT U.S.-BAHRAIN GULF SECURITY [...] (C) The Ambassador February 19 delivered reftel proposal to hold a Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) session on March 8 in Washington to Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, during a meeting covering several subjects (septels). The Crown Prince agreed to hold the session on March 8, n [...]	2007-02-20 08:43:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PTER BA IR BILAT REGION
07MANAMA159	CROWN PRINCE PROPOSES ACCUMULATION OF VALUE-ADDED [...] (SBU) Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa confirmed to the Ambassador February 19, in a meeting covering several subjects (septels),that he would lead an upcoming AmCham trade delegation to Chicago March 5-6. He said coordination and arrangements were going very well and he brie [...]	2007-02-20 09:19:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ELAB BEXP BA ECTRD HUMRIT
07MANAMA165	GULF IRAQI EXPO POSTPONED [...] (SBU) Iraqi Ambassador Ghassan Mohsen told the Ambassador that the planned Iraqi commercial exhibition "Iraqi Expo 2007" (reftel),scheduled to take place March 24 - 26 in Manama, has been postponed. Mohsen said that planning for the fair had been disrupted by the kidnapping of the Iraqi orga [...]	2007-02-21 16:04:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN EINV ETRD BA REGION ECTRD
07MANAMA167	FOREIGN MINISTER SUPPORTS HOLDING NEIGHBORS [...] (C) Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa told the Ambassador February 22, during a meeting covering several subjects (septels),that he supports holding an Iraq Neighbors meeting at the ministerial level in Baghdad or anywhere else on Iraqi territory. He understood that there [...]	2007-02-22 13:12:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA IZ REGION
07MANAMA168	BAHRAIN: USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT CASH COURIERS [...] (U) NEA/ARP Office Director Alan Misenheimer and Econoff February 14 delivered reftel demarche concerning the threat posed by cash couriers and bulk cash smuggling used to finance terrorism and other illicit activity to Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) Director of Financial Institution Supervisio [...]	2007-02-22 13:27:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL BA CTR ECTRD
07MANAMA169	BAHRAIN: BFIF FY07 PROPOSAL [...] Embassy Manama welcomes EB's offer to provide BFIF funding to enhance commercial advocacy efforts. In view of the August 2006 implementation of the U.S. - Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA),Post emphasizes the importance of commercial training, providing commercial services to businesses se [...]	2007-02-22 13:30:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ABUD AMGT BTIO ECON EINV ETRD BA
07MANAMA170	MFA ASSISTANT U/S DISCUSSES GSD, IRAN [...] (C) MFA Assistant Undersecretary Shaikh Abdul Aziz Al Khalifa expressed Bahrain's hope February 14 that progress on the Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) would continue as a result of the upcoming visits to the U.S. by Crown Prince Shaikh Salman and FM Shaikh Khalid. He stressed that forward move [...]	2007-02-22 13:49:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BA IR REGION
07MANAMA173	FOREIGN MINISTER TO DELIVER "TOUGH MESSAGE" TO IRAN [...] (C) Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa told the Ambassador February 22, in a meeting covering several subjects (septels),that his planned trip to Tehran (Ref B) was now set for February 24. He expects to meet with Foreign Minister Mottaki and President Ahmadi-Nejad. The Am [...]	2007-02-22 14:50:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC KNNP PTER BA REGION
07MANAMA179	BAHRAIN: IAEA REPORT ON IRANIAN COMPLIANCE WITH [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-26 10:15:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP BA IR ROW REGION
07MANAMA180	BAHRAIN: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-26 10:16:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PTER KNNP BA ROW CTR
07MANAMA184	SCENESETTER FOR MARCH VISITS OF BAHRAINI CROWN [...] (C) Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa and Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa will both visit Washington in early March. Shaikh Khalid will arrive first for meetings beginning on March 1 and he plans to remain in the Washington area for more than a week until the [...]	2007-02-27 11:58:00	Embassy Manama	SECRET	PREL MARR BA BILAT OFFICIALS
07MANAMA190	BLOCS IN THE NEWLY-ELECTED BAHRAINI PARLIAMENT [...] (C) The two rounds of parliamentary electQ conducted November 25 and December 2 brought in a Sunni majority (23 of 40 seats),15 of whom are members of two Islamist political societies: Al Asala (Salafi),with eight seats, and Al Minbar (Muslim Brotherhood),with seven seats. Four of the ei [...]	2007-02-28 14:43:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR BA POL
07MANAMA194	BAHRAIN: MINISTER OF LABOR ON STRIKE BAN EXECUTIVE [...] (C) In a February 28 meeting covering several topics (septel),Ambassador delivered reftel points regarding Executive Order 62, which bans strikes in certain sectors, to Minister of Labor Dr. Abdulmajeed Bin Muhsin Al Alawi. Al Alawi said that the Ministry had consulted ILO conventions befor [...]	2007-03-01 14:46:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB PHUM SOCI BA HUMRIT POL
07MANAMA195	BAHRAIN: ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING IN [...] (C) The Ambassador March 1 delivered reftel demarche concerning the March 3-4 Arab League (AL) Foreign Ministers meeting in Cairo to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Nizar Al Baharna, who will represent the GOB at the meeting. (Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa is in Wa [...]	2007-03-01 14:46:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA REGION
07MANAMA197	DEPUTY PM, EDB CHIEF DISCUSS GROWTH AND TRADE WITH [...] (C) Deputy PM Shaikh Mohammed Bin Mubarak told Commerce Deputy Secretary Sampson February 5 that he welcomed the idea of a wider regional free trade agreement, but stressed that problems in Iraq and Iran's ideology of expansion could have a negative impact on regional economic integration. In [...]	2007-03-01 14:46:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PGOV PREL BA BILAT ECTRD OFFICIALS
07MANAMA198	RELEASE OF TWO DETAINEES RESTORES CLM TO SHIA [...] (C) ing Hamad February 25 ordered the release of twoShia detainees who had been tried, convicted, and imprisoned for distributing illegal literature durng the fall 2006 election campaign season. Thei release ended some ten days of sometimes violen demonstrations in and around their two neigh [...]	2007-03-02 06:56:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC KISL BAPOL
07MANAMA206	BAHRAIN: SEVENTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) Post's response to reftel follows. Answers are keyed to reftel questions. -------- Overview -------- 2. (SBU) 27A. Bahrain is a country of destination for men primarily as laborers and, to a much lesser extent, domestic workers, and women primarily as domestic workers, and to [...]	2007-03-05 13:34:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF ASEC BA
07MANAMA208	BAHRAIN: USG PRIORITIES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief March 6 delivered reftel demarche concerning USG priorities at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) Fourth Session to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho said that Bahrain joined the HRC to uphold human rights worldwide, and it takes t [...]	2007-03-06 10:04:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BA ROW HUMRIT
07MANAMA209	BAHRAIN: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-06 10:04:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KNNP PARM BA ROW CTR
07MANAMA217	BAHRAIN RESPONSE TO IRAQ NEIGHBORS CONFERENCE [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel points March 7 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and Follow-up Shaikh Abdul-Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh Abdul-Aziz stated that the meeting is important, pledged Bahrain's support for a successful outcome, and agreed that [...]	2007-03-07 12:26:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OIC ARAB LEAGUE UN IZ BA REGION
07MANAMA219	MINISTER OF LABOR DISCUSSES NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT [...] (C) Minister of Labor Dr. Abdulmajeed Al Alawi told the Ambassador February 28 that since January 2006, unemployment had dropped in Bahrain from 15% to 3.8% under the National Employment Project (NEP),leaving only approximately 4,000 unemployed remaining in the program. He said the second p [...]	2007-03-07 14:40:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI BA HUMRIT POL
07MANAMA22	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE GATES' [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, we warmly welcome your January 17-19 visit to Bahrain. The fifty-year U.S. Navy presence in Bahrain is the centerpiece of the U.S.-Bahrain bilateral relationship. Bahrain considers the Navy to be its defense against external threats, starting with Iran, and has recently t [...]	2007-01-09 13:47:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS BA IZ IR BILAT OFFICIALS
07MANAMA221	CUSTOMS AND PORTS DIRECTORATE REITERATES REQUEST [...] This is an action message. Please see paragraph four. 2. The Embassy received a letter from President of Customs, Ports and Free Zones Shaikh Daij bin Salman Al Khalifa, in which he requested specific technical assistance training. As he mentions, his letter follows verbal discussions (ref [...]	2007-03-07 15:01:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON BA BILAT ETRD
07MANAMA224	AMBASSADOR AND COR FIRST DEPUTY CHAIRMAN AL [...] (C) Recently-elected Council of Representatives (COR) First Deputy Chairman Ghanem Al Buainain told the Ambassador March 5 he is willing to cooperate with Shia representatives in the COR despite his suspicion of their community,s links to Tehran. Al Buainain listed areas his Al Asala (Salafi) [...]	2007-03-08 10:38:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BA POL

07MANAMA225	AL WIFAQ LEADER OUTLINES CONCERNS ABOUT OVERCOMING [...] (C) Secretary General of Shia political society Al Wifaq and MP Shaikh Ali Salman told the Ambassador March 5 that there was "nothing encouraging" about the current parliamentary session, which opened in mid-December 2006. He complained that although Shias represent 75 percent of the elector [...]	2007-03-08 10:58:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL BA POL

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