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07WELLINGTON708	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID P. RIPPETO; [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington welcomes and grants country clearance to DINT/Fish and Wildlife Service Special Agent David P. Rippeto for travel to Christchurch, New Zealand during the time period September 28-October 8, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to testify in a court proceeding against a fu [...]	2007-09-27 03:26:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC NZ

07WELLINGTON709	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LAURA CHAPMAN, DEWEY H. [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington welcomes and grants country clearance to USAID/DCHA/OFDA Disaster Assistance Support Program Staff Member Laura Chapman, Fairfax County Virginia Battalion Fire Chief Dewey H. Perks, Los Angeles Fire and Rescue Department Battalion Fire Chief Thomas Ewald and Captain Joh [...]	2007-09-27 03:26:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC NZ
07WELLINGTON71	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FBI SC JAMES CASEY, SSA [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington welcomes and grants country clearance to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Counterintelligence Division Section Chief (SC) James Casey, Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) David T. Miller, Supervisory Intelligence Analyst (SIA) Karen Lazar, and Special Agent (SA) Denni [...]	2007-01-24 03:45:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC
07WELLINGTON714	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROSENFELD, BECKENBAUGH [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Arthur Rosenfeld, Scot Beckenbaugh and Linda Hanson to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from October 7 - 11, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend meetings with Labour Department Policy Staff. 2. (U) Embassy understands that [...]	2007-09-28 00:26:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON718	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ADDISON AND CHAMNESS [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dennis Addison and Kevin Chamness to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from October 13 - 18, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend the ISPACG Working Group Meeting. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance is the only a [...]	2007-09-30 22:52:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA EAIR NZ
07WELLINGTON719	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FRANCIS NOTZON [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Francis Notzon to travel to Rotorua, New Zealand from October 17 - 22, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to serve as chairperson for the meeting of the International Group for Indigenous Health Measurement. 2. (U) Embassy understand [...]	2007-10-01 02:20:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA KSCA NZ
07WELLINGTON72	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR A/LEGATT SCOTT E. GICKING TO [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington welcomes and grants country clearance to Assistant Legal Attache Scott E. Gicking, Embassy London, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand, during the time frame of 02/27/2007 through 03/01/2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Five Eyes Cyber Working Group to [...]	2007-01-24 03:45:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC
07WELLINGTON721	TAUKEI, A077487337; NZ COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ESCORTING [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington and Consulate General Auckland welcome and grant country clearance to ICE agents Ian Spino and David Mondanaro for travel to Auckland, New Zealand during the time period October 3-4, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to escort alien Koloti Taukei to Tonga. 2. (U) E [...]	2007-10-02 01:21:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC NZ
07WELLINGTON722	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE LEGAL ATTACHE SCOTT L. CRUSE; [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington welcomes and grants country clearance to FBI Canberra Legal Attache Scott L. Cruse for travel to Wellington, New Zealand during the time period October 8-11, 2007. The purpose of this visit to meet with Embassy officials, members of the NZ Police and security services. [...]	2007-10-02 23:10:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC NZ
07WELLINGTON723	GLICK- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dennis Glick, Facility and Equipment Review Specialist, Dairy Program, Agriculture Marketing Service, USDA to visit Auckland, New Zealand from October 20-26, 2007 to conduct equipment review. 2. Point of contact at the American Embassy is the office of [...]	2007-10-03 01:18:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
07WELLINGTON73	FOLLOW-UP: NZ PARTICIPATION IN ARF WORKSHOP ON [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-24 04:23:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO KNNP PREL PARM AORC PTER OSCE ETTC ASEAN
07WELLINGTON730	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA - KEVIN CHAMNESS [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Kevin Chamness to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from October 15-19, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Oceanic Planning Subgroup of the Informal South Pacific Air Traffic Services Coordination Group. 2. (U) Embassy u [...]	2007-10-04 03:21:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ EAIR
07WELLINGTON742	NEW ZEALAND WILL PURSUE PROPOSED RESOLUTION ON [...] (C) On October 10, P/E Counselor met with Carolyn McDonald, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Disarmament Division, Deputy Director Jillian Dempster, and Policy Officer Raylene Liufalani regarding the USG position on New Zealand's draft resolution on de-alerting of nucl [...]	2007-10-10 22:23:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MNUC PREL UNGA NZ
07WELLINGTON747	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE TIMOTHY K. RYAN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Assistant Legal Attache Timothy K. Ryan to travel to Rotorua, New Zealand from 13-20 October 2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Combined Law Agency Group Conference. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance is th [...]	2007-10-11 02:09:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON748	SEKO, A099578990; NZ COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ESCORTING [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington and Consulate General Auckland welcome and grant country clearance to ICE agents James Rutherford and Kristopher Rankin for travel to Auckland, New Zealand during the time period October 25-26, 2007. The purpose of this visit is an overnight return from escorting alien [...]	2007-10-11 02:41:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC NZ
07WELLINGTON75	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAH ADAMS, PATRICK [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Officals Noah Adams, Patrick Connolly, Terry Maret, Theodore Castro-Santos, and James Hatten to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from February 15 - 28, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend and give presentations at the 6th [...]	2007-01-25 01:41:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ
07WELLINGTON751	NEW ZEALAND'S PRIORITIES FOR UPCOMING PACIFIC [...] (C) Summary. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (MFAT) Pacific Division views Fiji's return to democracy, the status of RAMSI in the Solomon Islands, and support for the Regional Integrated Framework (RIF) as the GNZ's key issues for discussion at the PIF. New Zealand worries that [...]	2007-10-11 19:00:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM NZ
07WELLINGTON752	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE STERN; NOVEMBER 18-DECEMBER [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington welcomes and grants country clearance to FBI Research Chemist, Laboratory Division, Dr. Libby A. Stern for travel to Dunedin, New Zealand during the time period November 18 to December 1, 2007. The purpose of this visit to present FBI research at the Forensic Isotope Ra [...]	2007-10-12 00:03:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC NZ
07WELLINGTON757	NATIONAL'S FOREIGN POLICY STRATEGY: NO [...] (SBU) Summary. The opposition National Party released its foreign policy discussion paper on October 2. National announced that the policy disputes (read: nuclear issues) of the last two decades are over, and that New Zealand needs a bipartisan approach to foreign affairs; the only differe [...]	2007-10-14 18:49:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ETRD MARR NZ
07WELLINGTON758	ELIAS- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Thomas Elias, Director, U.S. National Arboretum, USDA/ARS/BA/USNA, Washington, D.C. to visit New Zealand from November 19 to December 01, 2007 to attend New Zealand Recreation Association Conference. 2. Point of contact at the American Embassy is th [...]	2007-10-14 21:33:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
07WELLINGTON76	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BARRY LESNIK, FEBRUARY 5 [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EPA Official Barry Lesnik to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 5 - 10, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 2007 Enviroanalysis conference. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assis [...]	2007-01-25 02:49:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA SENV KSCA TPHY EPA NZ
07WELLINGTON763	NATIONAL PARTY DEFENSE POLICY CONTINUES LABOUR [...] (SBU) Summary. National's recent "discussion paper" on foreign policy, trade, and defense, committed the party to continue the rebuilding of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) initiated by Labour PM Clark. National MP Wayne Mapp argued that it was Labour who began its term in 1999 by acce [...]	2007-10-16 18:46:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PGOV PREL NZ US
07WELLINGTON764	U.S. Customs and Border Patrol's Assistant Commissioner [...] Michael C. Mullen, Assistant Commissioner in the Office of International Affairs and Trade Relations at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was in Auckland, New Zealand from September 9 to 12, 2007 to attend the NZ-US Partnership Forum and to meet with his counterparts in the GNZ espec [...]	2007-10-17 18:43:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD NZ
07WELLINGTON765	NATIONAL MAINTAINS POLLING LEAD OVER LABOUR [...] (SBU) Summary. Some recent polls show the gap closing between the ruling Labour Party and the opposition National Party, but the double digit National lead continues, despite several recent highly publicized political fumbles by National Party officials. National Party officials privately adm [...]	2007-10-17 18:43:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NZ
07WELLINGTON766	ACTION REQUEST - RESPONSE TO NEW ZEALAND [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to Darryl Dunn, Director of Middle East and African Affairs at the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Mr. Dunn said MFAT was formulating their response and was in the process of doing their internal research and seeking clearances. He said [...]	2007-10-18 04:49:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM KNNP NZ
07WELLINGTON767	NEW ZEALAND ORGANIZATIONS SPECIALIZING IN BIOFUEL [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-18 23:01:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ENRG ETRD OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON769	NEXT ROUND OF NEW ZEALAND DEPLOYMENTS TO [...] (C) DCM recently discussed current mil-mil relations with New Zealand Ministry of Defence (MOD) CEO John McKinnon. McKinnon reported that MOD was preparing a submission to a select Cabinet committee on future deployments to Afghanistan after the current deployment cycle concludes in September [...]	2007-10-22 18:49:00	Embassy Wellington	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL NZ AF US
07WELLINGTON771	NZ VOTES IN LOCAL ELECTIONS AMID LACK OF EXCITEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. Characterized by voter apathy and predictable results, local government elections were held across New Zealand over the weekend of October 13-14. The most noteworthy result was in New Zealand's biggest and most politically important metropolitan area, Auckland, where the one te [...]	2007-10-23 03:20:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NZ
07WELLINGTON773	CHINESE GROWING INVESTMENTS IN SAMOA [...] (SBU) Wellington based Econoff recently had a chance to serve as acting Charge' in Apia, Samoa, affording the opportunity to represent the U.S. and meet with representatives of the Samoan Government, the local business community and members of the Diplomatic Corps at a reception hosted by the [...]	2007-10-25 19:04:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PGOV PREL NZ XV
07WELLINGTON774	BURMA DEMARCHES DELIVERED TO GNZ [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Counselor passed the information and suggestions outlined in reftel demarches to Bernadette Cavanagh, who recently began work as the Head of the Southeast Asia Unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). Cavanagh thanked the Embassy for the update on the latest [...]	2007-10-25 19:06:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KDEM NZ BM
07WELLINGTON775	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID COHEN, THOMAS [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to David Cohen, Thomas Vajda and Alisa Wong to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from o/a November 7 - 17, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to transit on the way to Apia and consultations with Consulate and Embassy staff and h [...]	2007-10-25 20:35:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON779	RESPONSE TO ACTION REQUEST: NEW ZEALAND - REQUEST [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-26 03:56:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ENRG EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KSCA
07WELLINGTON78	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ANTHONY K. BURRELL, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Energy Official Anthony K. Burrell to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from February 10 - 24, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend a conference and official meetings as described in reftel. 2. (U) E [...]	2007-01-25 04:36:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ENRG NZ
07WELLINGTON783	NAQELEVUKI, A088358230; NZ COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ESCORTING [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington and Consulate General Auckland welcome and grant country clearance to ICE agents Martin Zelenka and Jose Blanco II for travel to Auckland, New Zealand during the time period November 8-9, 2007. The purpose of this visit is an overnight return from escorting alien Michae [...]	2007-10-28 23:52:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC NZ
07WELLINGTON785	A/S HILL REVIEWS REGIONAL AND BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (S) Summary. During an October 19 stopover in Auckland, EAP A/S Christopher R. Hill met MFAT Secretary Simon Murdoch to review regional and bilateral issues. They agreed that the Pacific Islands Forum had produced good results, holding the line on elections in Fiji and RAMSI in the Solomons. P [...]	2007-10-30 00:22:00	Embassy Wellington	SECRET	PHUM PREL KN NZ US
07WELLINGTON786	CLARK SHAKES UP CABINET, HOPES TO REFRESH PARTY FACE [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Helen Clark announced a reshuffle of her Cabinet on October 31. While the foreign, defence and trade portfolios remain unchanged, Clark has elevated several newcomers to important ministerial portfolios. Many observers see this reshuffle as Clark's last chance [...]	2007-10-31 05:47:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NZ
07WELLINGTON787	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROBERT D. MCCALLUM JR. [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-01 02:51:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON79	COOK ISLANDS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PENNY ANDERSON, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Sydney TSA Representative Penny J. Anderson, to travel to Rarotonga, Cook SIPDIS Islands, from February 5 - 10, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to conduct meetings and accompany TSA Specialists planning to visit Rarotonga Internatio [...]	2007-01-25 04:37:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON ASEC PTER OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON791	SUPPORTING ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR INTERPOL [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Pol/Econ Counselor spoke with an Argentine Embassy official, who related that the Government of Argentina's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had discussed the issue of the red notices with the New Zealand Embassy in Buenos Aires. The Argentine Embassy in Wellin [...]	2007-11-02 04:21:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KJUS PREL NZ
07WELLINGTON793	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RICHARD FULCHER [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to OBO Richard Fulcher to travel to New Zealand from 5-6 November 2007. The purpose of this visit building inspection. 2. (U) Accommodation arranged by Auckland Consulate General Sherry Hare. (469-303-2724 Ex 2950) 3. (SBU) Embassy p [...]	2007-11-04 18:53:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON794	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RICHARD FULCHER [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to OBO Richard Fulcher to travel to New Zealand from 5-6 November 2007. The purpose of this visit building inspection. 2. (U) Accommodation arranged by Auckland Consulate General Sherry Hare. (469-303-2724 Ex 2950) 3. (SBU) Embassy p [...]	2007-11-04 18:53:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON796	NEW ZEALAND AND THE COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES; APDP [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Counselor met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT Director of the Americas Division Carl Worker on October 31 and discussed the Community of Democracies meeting in Bamako in mid-November as well as GNZ participation in the Asia Pacific Democracy Partnership (APDP) [...]	2007-11-04 19:28:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KDEM NZ
07WELLINGTON797	WHO SPEAKS FOR MAORI IN NEW ZEALAND? [...] (SBU) Summary. Race relations in politically correct New Zealand remain a sensitive issue. Two different viewpoints on the rights of the indigenous Maori were on display over the weekend of October 27-28 as two minor parties, the Maori Party and the New Zealand First Party held their respecti [...]	2007-11-05 19:03:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM NZ
07WELLINGTON798	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RANDALL WINANS [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Randall Winans to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from November 26 - December 2, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to visit CRL Energy Limited to discuss a joint US-NZ project. 2. (U) Embassy understands that no assistance is requi [...]	2007-11-05 19:59:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON799	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FBI A/LEGATT BENJAMIN [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington welcomes and grants country clearance to FBI Canberra Assistant Legal Attache Bejamin Yen for travel to Wellington, New Zealand during the time period November 13-17, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend a conference held by liaison services. 2. (U) Embassy [...]	2007-11-05 20:03:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC NZ
07WELLINGTON8	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DALE ROBERTSON, FEBRUARY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey Research Hydrologist Dale Robertson to travel to Hamilton, New Zealand from February 3 - 23, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to conduct field work and evaluate the effects of phosphorus on water quality and how s [...]	2007-01-03 22:33:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ
07WELLINGTON80	R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER, FILE NO. 2006-077 [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-25 04:37:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
07WELLINGTON803	PEAUA, A027549373; NZ COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ESCORTING [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington and Consulate General Auckland welcome and grant country clearance to ICE agents Jill Ellis and Jose Ybarra for travel to Auckland, New Zealand during the time period November 29-30, 2007. The purpose of this visit is an overnight return from escorting alien Sitelimani [...]	2007-11-08 01:59:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC NZ
07WELLINGTON805	NEW ZEALAND - 2008 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] Following is Post's submission for the 2008 National Trade Estimate Report (NTE) regarding New Zealand per request reftel. We assume that Washington agencies will provide updated trade and investment data. 2. Begin text of NTE submission: IMPORT POLICIES In general, tariff rates in Ne [...]	2007-11-08 02:14:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD NZ
07WELLINGTON806	NEW ZEALAND TO REMAIN TOUGH ON BURMA [...] (C) Pol/Econ Counselor met on November 5 with Bernadette Cavanaugh, the newly arrived head of the SouQast Asian office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) to discuss Burma and next steps for the GNZ. Cavanagh related that her office has been working on a proposal for the gov [...]	2007-11-09 01:45:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ASEAN BM NZ
07WELLINGTON807	STATUS UPDATE OF NEW ZEALAND COPYRIGHT AMENDMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. New Zealand's 2007 Copyright Bill as amended by the Parliamentary Select Committee falls short of international standards set by the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Internet Treaties and is out of step with the standards set in the domestic legislation of New [...]	2007-11-09 02:56:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD KIPR PREL NZ
07WELLINGTON809	PM CLARK PROMISES TAX CUTS, CLIMATE CHANGE LEADERSHIP, AND [...] (SBU) Summary. During the November 2-4 ruling Labour Party annual conference, PM Helen Clark's keynote speech emphasized sustainability and Clark's determination that New Zealand will be a leader, not a follower, in the climate change arena. She promised tax cuts at the next budget ahead of t [...]	2007-11-09 04:53:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM NZ
07WELLINGTON811	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CLAUDIA MORA [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Claudia Mora from the National Nuclear Security Administration's Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation to travel to Dunedin, New Zealand from November 23 - 30, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Third Forensic Isotope R [...]	2007-11-13 20:51:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ ENRG KNNP PARM
07WELLINGTON813	NEW ZEALAND SUPPORTS US PROPOSED ANTI-RAPE [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Counselor contacted MFAT on November 13 regarding New Zealand's stance on this USG-sponsored resolution, and to press for New Zealand co-sponsorship. The UN Division's Wendy Hinton said that New Zealand was supportive of the resolution, but was unsure why New Zealand was not [...]	2007-11-14 04:19:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KWMN PHUM NZ
07WELLINGTON814	PEAUA, A027549373; NZ COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ESCORTING [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington and Consulate General Auckland welcome and grant country clearance to ICE agents Jill Ellis and Jose Ybarra for travel to Auckland, New Zealand during the time period December 13-14, 2007. The purpose of this visit is an overnight return from escorting alien Sitelimani [...]	2007-11-14 04:22:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC NZ
07WELLINGTON816	FAALATAUA, A093065585; NZ COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ESCORTING [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington and Consulate General Auckland welcome and grant country clearance to ICE agents Randall Henderson and Miguel Martinez for travel to Auckland, New Zealand during the time period December 6-7, 2007. The purpose of this visit is an overnight return from escorting alien Fa [...]	2007-11-15 20:08:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC NZ
07WELLINGTON82	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOSEPH DEPALMA, FEBRUARY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to TSA Senior Aviation Security Inspector Joseph J. DePalma to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from February 18 - 25, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to conduct aviation security workshops on behalf of ICAO. 2. (U) Embassy understand [...]	2007-01-26 02:10:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA EAIR NZ
07WELLINGTON823	NEW ZEALAND AND CERD [...] (SBU) On November 20, Pol/Econ Counselor met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) UN Division Director Wendy Hinton, regarding the demarche outlined in reftel. Pol/Econ Counselor provided Hinton with a copy of the diplomatic note suggested in reftel, as well as a copy of Am [...]	2007-11-20 05:24:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNGA NZ
07WELLINGTON824	NEW ZEALAND VIEWS ON DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) On November 20, Pol/Econ Counselor met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) Deputy Director of the Americas Division, Paul Willis, to discuss the issues regarding Venezuela and upcoming developments related to the country's constitution. While recognizing that Venezuel [...]	2007-11-20 05:41:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM NZ VE
07WELLINGTON825	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LORI DAUELSBERG [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Lori Dauelsberg to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from November 28 - December 10, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Australia and New Zealand Systems Conference 2007. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance i [...]	2007-11-22 20:19:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON827	NZ VIEWS ON IRAN AND IAEA COMPLIANCE IN SYNC WITH [...] (SBU) On November 21, Pol/Econ Counselor met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT Disarmament Division Director Carolyn McDonald and the Division's Senior Policy Officer Raylene Liufalani regarding the demarche outlined in reftel. Both McDonald and Liufalani had been in touc [...]	2007-11-23 03:23:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MNUC PARM IAEA KNNP NZ
07WELLINGTON828	SPEIJERS, A013341409; NZ COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ESCORTING [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington and Consulate General Auckland welcome and grant country clearance to ICE agents Sandra Ameniero and Juan Aviles for travel to Auckland, New Zealand during the time period December 8-9, 2007. The purpose of this visit is an overnight return from escorting alien Robert S [...]	2007-11-27 01:53:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC NZ
07WELLINGTON83	GRANT-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Gordon Grant, Research Hydrologist, U.S. Forest Service to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from February 15-24, 2007 to attend 6th International Symposium on Ecohydraulics. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. [...]	2007-01-26 02:52:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
07WELLINGTON830	NZ'S TOP LAWYER THROWS OUT TERROR CHARGES [...] (U) Summary. In a landmark decision, New Zealand's Solicitor-General ruled on November 8 that the 17 people (Maori and other activists) arrested on terrorism charges during nationwide police raids on October 15 cannot be charged under the Terrorism Suppression Act (TSA),the country's 2002 a [...]	2007-11-27 23:38:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM NZ
07WELLINGTON832	NEW ZEALAND'S CONTROVERSIAL CAMPAIGN FINANCE BILL [...] (SBU) Summary. The Electoral Finance Bill, a highly-controversial Government bill to reform New Zealand's campaign finance rules, aims to place restrictions and spending limits on non-party political advertising. The legislation has survived two readings and is likely to pass before the parl [...]	2007-11-28 19:07:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM NZ
07WELLINGTON839	Ambassador Herbst Discusses Stabilization/Reconstruction [...] (U) Summary. During a November 27 visit to New Zealand, S/CRS Ambassador Herbst met with a range of GNZ officials in the Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs, as well as police and NZAID representatives to discuss his office's approach to coordinating USG resources in post-conflict stat [...]	2007-12-02 22:29:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID KDEM NZ
07WELLINGTON84	SOJKA-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Robert Sojka, Research Soil Scientist, USDA/ARS/PWA/IDAHO to New Zealand from February 04-14, 2007 to attend Fertilizer and Lime research centre of Massey University. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. 3. [...]	2007-01-26 02:53:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
07WELLINGTON842	NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE TO NIE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] (S) DCM met with MFAT Deputy Secretary Alan Williams December 4 to present NIE and talking points per reftel. Williams said that MFAT would immediately prepare a summary for cabinet and the Prime Minister. 2. (S) Williams commented that New Zealand has been clear in its messages to Iran in [...]	2007-12-04 18:50:00	Embassy Wellington	SECRET	KNNP MNUC PARM IR NZ
07WELLINGTON847	FONTERRA - NEW ZEALAND'S LARGEST COMPANY PLANS TO [...] Note: This is a joint Foreign Agricultural Service and State report. End note. 2. Summary. Fonterra Co-operative Ltd, New Zealand's largest company is beginning a two-year consultation with its farmer shareholders whether to approve a preferred capital restructuring option. If approve [...]	2007-12-07 05:07:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD PREL NZ XV
07WELLINGTON85	BROWN-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Rose Brown, Preclearance Coordinator, Riverdale, Maryland to visit Hastings, New Zealand from February 22-28, 2007 to inspect apple and pear preclearance program. 2. Embassy would appreciate copy of the program and would potentially be interested in pa [...]	2007-01-26 02:54:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
07WELLINGTON852	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U/S PAULA DOBRIANSKY AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U/S Paula Dobriansky and S/P Advisor Howard Dean Pittman to travel to Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand from January 6 - 15, 2008. The purpose of this visit is to travel to Antarctica and conduct meetings with host government offici [...]	2007-12-12 02:36:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON859	FALANIKO, A034344472; NZ COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ESCORTING [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington and Consulate General Auckland welcome and grant country clearance to ICE agents Jason Youngblood and Mark Porter for travel to Auckland, New Zealand during the time period December 20-21, 2007. The purpose of this visit is an overnight return from escorting alien Petel [...]	2007-12-17 00:05:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC NZ
07WELLINGTON86	DUNKLE AND GREIFER-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Richard Dunkle, Deputy Administrator, Plant Protection and Quarantine; John Greifer, Director, Trade Support, International Services, APHIS/USDA to visit Queenstown, New Zealand from February 16-18, 2007 to participate in the annual plant health quadrila [...]	2007-01-26 02:54:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
07WELLINGTON860	SPEIJERS, A013341409; NZ COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ESCORTING [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington and Consulate General Auckland welcome and grant country clearance to ICE agents Sandra Ameneiro and Juan Aviles for travel to Auckland, New Zealand during the time period January 9-10, 2008. The purpose of this visit is an overnight return from escorting alien Bob Spei [...]	2007-12-17 00:12:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA ASEC NZ
07WELLINGTON863	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL HOYER AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to CODEL Hoyer and delegation to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 8 - 10, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to discuss bilateral issues with government officials. 2. (SBU) Embassy control officer is Political/Economic Co [...]	2007-12-18 01:03:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON864	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DEPUTY ASSISTANT [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Patricia Walker to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 4 - 14, 2008. The purpose of this visit is to travel to McMurdo Station, Antarctica. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance requir [...]	2007-12-18 01:06:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON866	NEW ZEALAND AND US MIL-TO-MIL COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. During a December 4-5 visit to New Zealand, OSD New Zealand Director Jessica Powers and PACOM New Zealand Desk Officer Rick Bairett reviewed US-NZ military cooperation, discussed the implementation of a new notification policy covering eight areas of mil-to-mil engagement, and [...]	2007-12-19 00:29:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NZ
07WELLINGTON867	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL BAIRD AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to CODEL Baird and delegation to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from December 31 - January 5, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to examine research programs on the Antarctic Continent and examine oceanographic, marine science, and clim [...]	2007-12-19 02:29:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON87	ELLIS-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to David Ellis, Plant Pathologist, USDA/ARS/NPA/Ft.Collins/CO to visit Rotorua, New Zealand from February 22 through March 10, 2007 to attend and speak at the International Association of Plant Tissue Culture and Bio-Technology Biennial Meeting. 2. Embas [...]	2007-01-26 02:55:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
07WELLINGTON871	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL MURPHY AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to STAFFDEL Murphy and delegation to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 1 - 10, 2008. The purpose of this visit is to examine National Science Foundation program Activities in Antarctica. 2. (SBU) Embassy administrative poi [...]	2007-12-21 00:19:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON875	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL BOND AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to CODEL Bond and delegation to travel to Auckland and Queenstown, New Zealand from January 6-8, 2008. The purpose of this visit is to discuss bilateral issues with government officials. 2. (SBU) Embassy control officer is Embassy Offici [...]	2007-12-28 01:58:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON876	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL FRELINGHUYSEN AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to CODEL Frelinghuysen and delegation to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 5-13, 2008. Purpose of visit is to review research and education activities of the National Science Foundation. 2. (SBU) Embassy point of contact is [...]	2007-12-31 00:10:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA NZ
07WELLINGTON88	PM CLARK REBUKES MINISTER FOR BROADSIDE AT US IRAQ POLICY [...] (SBU) On January 12th, Jim Anderton, the New Zealand Government's Duty Minister at the time, launched a blistering attack on President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq. PM Helen Clark and Foreign Minister Winston Peters quickly disavowed Anderton's comments, and the PM removed him as Dut [...]	2007-01-26 03:42:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NZ
07WELLINGTON9	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DONALD CAHOON, FEBRUARY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey Research Ecologist Donald Cahoon to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from February 9 - 17, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to consult and advise National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) on mangr [...]	2007-01-03 22:35:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TPHY KSCA NZ
07WELLINGTON90	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SUSAN RICHARDSON, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to EPA Official Susan Richardson to travel to Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand from February 2 - 13, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 2007 Enviroanalysis Conference. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearan [...]	2007-01-26 04:13:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA SENV KSCA TPHY NZ
07WELLINGTON96	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DEA CANBERRA CCO C/A RICHARD [...] (SBU) Embassy Wellington welcomes and grants clearance to Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Canberra Country Office (CCO) Country Attache (C/A) Richard Joyce for travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 4-7, 2007. Embassy Wellington also welcomes and grants clearance to DEA Senior Instructor [...]	2007-01-30 21:42:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC DEA
07YAOUNDE1036	CAMEROON: "BIYA WILL SOON MAKE DECISIVE CHANGES TO [...] (C) Summary. Flush with an overwhelming parliamentary majority, President Biya will move quickly and decisively to prove he is serious about rooting out corruption and improving governance, predicted Gregoire Owona in an August 13 lunch with Charge and Poloff. Owona, a senior official at t [...]	2007-08-17 07:18:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KCOR EAID CM
07YAOUNDE1044	TRADITIONAL LEADERS SEEK EMBASSY PROTECTION WHEN [...] (U) Summary. Nineteen men from the community of Sabga in Cameroon's Northwest Province gathered outside of the Embassy compound at the opening of business on August 21 claiming fear of arrest, violence, and deadly force in retaliation for their opposition to an effort to install a governmen [...]	2007-08-21 12:33:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL CM
07YAOUNDE1049	CAMEROON: POST DEMARCHES GOVERNMENT, TRADITIONAL [...] (U) Summary. Leaders and community members from Sabga (reftel) spent the night August 21 outside the Embassy gates, claiming fear of harassment and arrest if they left. In an August 22 demarche to the Political Director at the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization (MIN [...]	2007-08-22 12:09:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PREF PGOV CM
07YAOUNDE106	CAMEROON: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS [...] (U) Poloff met with Felix-fils Eboa Ebongue of Foreign Ministry (MINREX) on January 17 to discuss points outlined in reftel. Ebongue said he would convey the U.S. concerns to the Ministry. He pointed out that NGOs receive protection under the new penal code, which was promulgated January 1. [...]	2007-01-25 12:38:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	CM KDEM PHUM PREL
07YAOUNDE1061	CAMEROON: POST CONTINUES TO LOBBY GRC, SABGA MEN [...] (U) Summary. Charge and Mission staff have continued to raise the Sabga issue (reftels) with contacts in the GRC, but there has been no formal response. The group of men is still camped in front of the Embassy compound. The President of the leading national Mbororo organization called Polo [...]	2007-08-24 14:00:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PREF PGOV CM
07YAOUNDE1065	CAMEROON AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: DESPITE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Cameroon's interministerial committee (CIM, French acronym) for avian influenza (AI) is better poised to respond to an AI outbreak than it was last year, due to substantial training and assistance from USAID, NAMRU-3 (reftel),CDC, APHIS and others, includin [...]	2007-08-28 09:01:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV AMED CASC KSCA CM
07YAOUNDE1071	CAMEROON'S INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS TELL FOREST [...] (SBU) Summary. Cameroon's Forestry Minister (MINFOF) was caught off-guard when EU representatives responded to his August 22 appeal for donor assistance by suggesting that the Government of Cameroon's problem is "not money, but will." The ambassadors encouraged Ngolle to continue MINFOF's fi [...]	2007-08-29 13:35:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KCOR SNAR PHUM PARM EAID PGOV CM
07YAOUNDE1080	CAMEROON: SABGA MEN STILL CAMPED AT EMBASSY, HOPE [...] (U) The delegation of men from Sabga have maintained their presence outside the Embassy since August 20. Although their numbers fluctuate as they receive visitors and members of the community bring them food and water, a core group of around 12 is always present and their total number fluctu [...]	2007-08-30 12:50:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PREF PGOV CM
07YAOUNDE1088	CAMEROON: SABGA MEN LEAVE EMBASSY WITH PM'S [...] (SBU) Sabga community members camped outside the Embassy for eleven days departed without incident in the early evening on August 31. Earlier in the day, Cameroonian Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni called Charge to advise that he had met with representatives of the group and that they would be r [...]	2007-09-01 12:55:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PREF PGOV PINR CM
07YAOUNDE1090	CAMEROON PRIME MINISTER SEEKS USG INPUT FOR [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni asked Charge on September 4 to share the list of personnel suggestions that then-Ambassador Marquardt provided during his July 6 farewell call on President Biya (ref B). Inoni said Biya wanted to consult the list before making final decisions for u [...]	2007-09-04 13:04:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR CM
07YAOUNDE1097	UNPRECEDENTED PUBLIC DISSENT IN CAMEROON'S RULING [...] (SBU) Summary. The longstanding image of President Paul Biya's ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) as a disciplined monolith was shaken when veteran CPDM official and National Assembly representative Adama Modi publicly opposed the CPDM's candidate during August 31 elections [...]	2007-09-05 12:36:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR PINR CM
07YAOUNDE1109	CAMEROON: BOLD STROKE FOR COMPETENCE, [...] (C) Summary. President Biya on September 7 ordered a major cabinet reshuffle, dismissing 14 ministers -- including a number of the most notoriously corrupt and inept -- and refashioning two ministries to create a Ministry of Finance and a Ministry of Economy, Planning and Rural Development. [...]	2007-09-10 13:47:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR PREL PINR CM
07YAOUNDE1112	CAMEROON LIKELY TO OBJECT TO COST OF MARITIME [...] (U) Poloff met with Chantal Nama, Sub-Director in the Bureau of UN Affairs at the Foreign Ministry on August 31 and to discuss reftel talking points. Nama promised to pass the information to the Department of Customs at the Ministry of Economy and Finance to assess Cameroon's capacity to adh [...]	2007-09-10 13:51:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EWWT AMGT PTER CM

07YAOUNDE1116	FORMER CANADIAN PM ON CONGO BASIN VISIT, ENDS UP [...] (SBU) Summary. Former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin visited Cameroon September 9-12 on a familiarization trip in his new role as a co-chair (with Kenyan Minister and Noble Laureate Wangari Maathai) of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP). In a meeting where donor representatives [...]	2007-09-12 11:34:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID KCOR ECON CM
07YAOUNDE1140	BIYA LAYS OUT VISION FOR CAMEROON'S DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. In a rare publicized meeting with his cabinet, President Paul Biya on September 12 ordered his new government to focus on achieving more robust economic growth, progress on social issues like health and education, and better governance, including increased efforts against ant [...]	2007-09-18 10:48:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KMCC PREL PINR ECON ETRD EINV CM
07YAOUNDE1143	CAMEROON: PM SALUTES "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP" WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Garvey, in her initial call on Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni on September 18, told the PM that the U.S. would continue to be "open, honest and supportive" of Cameroon and would maintain its focus on strengthening democratic processes, fostering economic growth, and [...]	2007-09-18 16:22:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KMCA PHUM PINR CM
07YAOUNDE1159	CAMEROON TO ANNOUNCE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF [...] (U) The Government of Cameroon (GRC) has informed post that it will announce at the upcoming UNGA its plan to create an International School of Security Forces in Cameroon (with French support),focused on training police and gendarmes for peacekeeping operations in Africa. Cameroon is seeki [...]	2007-09-21 09:44:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC CM MASS PGOV PREL
07YAOUNDE1160	CAMEROON JUSTICE MINISTER WELCOMES AMBASSADOR, [...] (U) Summary. Cameroonian Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Justice Amadou Ali welcomed Ambassador Garvey in a September 20 courtesy call and said that continued cooperation on anti-corruption was the most important way for the USG to help Cameroon's development efforts. Ali also invited [...]	2007-09-21 10:11:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KCOR PHUM PINR CM
07YAOUNDE117	CAMEROON: COTCO OIL SPILL TROUBLING CALM WATERS [...] (SBU) On January 19, Cameroonian newspapers reported an oil spill from the Cameroon Oil Transportation Company (COTCO) off the coast of Cameroon near Kribi. COTCO Managing Director Jacky Lesage informed the Embassy that the spill took place some time during the night of January 14-15 from a [...]	2007-01-29 12:33:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET SENV CM
07YAOUNDE1178	CAMEROON: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SENIOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In a September 25 courtesy call by the Ambassador, Secretary General to the President (and close Biya confidant) Laurent Esso described Cameroon's "sincere and deep" friendship with the United States and highlighted some of the country's historical challenges. While conceding [...]	2007-09-27 06:50:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CM PGOV PREL KMCC
07YAOUNDE1196	CAMEROON INTERESTED IN JOINING THE COALITION [...] (U) In a September 11 letter, Minister of Forestry and Wildlife Elvis Ngolle Ngolle responded to A/S McMurray's invitation (ref A) asking Cameroon to join the Coalition against Wildlife Trafficking (CAWT). The letter declared the Ministry's interest in participating in CAWT, stating that CAW [...]	2007-10-03 13:31:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV PREL CM
07YAOUNDE1198	CAMEROON CONTINUES TO RANK POORLY ON GOVERNANCE [...] (U) Summary: The week of September 24 brought three new studies reinforcing Cameroon's reputation for poor performance on corruption and governance. Cameroon scored 138 out of 179 on Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index, 154 out of 178 in the World Bank's Doing Busines [...]	2007-10-04 06:25:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCOR PGOV ECON ETRD CM
07YAOUNDE1208	CAMEROON'S RE-RUN ELECTIONS: PREP IMPROVES, MAJOR [...] (C) Summary: On September 30, Cameroon held re-run elections for 17 parliamentary seats following a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the July 22 election results for these seats because of gross irregularities. The ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) did predictably we [...]	2007-10-05 08:39:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KMCA EAID CM
07YAOUNDE1211	CAMEROON: TOURS D'HORIZON WITH PM AND INTERIOR [...] (C) Summary: In an October 4 courtesy call by the Ambassador, Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization Hamidou Yaya Marafa acknowledged failings in Cameroon's electoral process (but thought ELECAM was not a good fix),described serious security concerns on the border with [...]	2007-10-05 15:18:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM PGOV PREL ASEC ECON KMCC
07YAOUNDE1234	CAMEROON CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS: RECENT [...] (C) Summary and action request. The Ambassador's recent meetings with Cameroon Vice PM/Minister of Justice Amadou Ali and Canadian High Commissioner Jean Pierre LaVoie provided new information relevant to USG participation in Government of Cameroon (GRC) anti-corruption investigations (ref [...]	2007-10-15 13:06:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR PREL PGOV CM
07YAOUNDE1235	CAMEROON CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS: WHO IS DOOH [...] (C) Summary. Francis Dooh Collins is Justice Minister Ali's chosen interlocutor with foreign governments regarding the anti-corruption investigation Ali is spearheading (reftels). Although some of Dooh Collins' outlandish claims have given us reason to doubt his credibility, he has succeed [...]	2007-10-15 13:08:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR PREL PGOV CM
07YAOUNDE1236	CORRUPTION: CAMEROON SUBMITS MUTUAL LEGAL [...] (C) Summary. Cameroon's Minister for Justice has signed a mutual legal assistance (MLA) request asking the USG to provide information from USG records and American institutions relevant to corrupt acts committed by Cameroonian officials. We anticipate that USG officials will identify a num [...]	2007-10-15 13:10:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR PREL PGOV CM
07YAOUNDE124	CAMEROON: 2005 CENSUS RESULTS DELAYED [...] (U) Results from Cameroon's third General Population and Housing census, launched November 11, 2005, will be delayed until at least August 2007. The Government claims it lacks the funds to publish the report, whose results were promised by July 2006. The late publication of the results, whet [...]	2007-01-30 09:35:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI PGOV CM NI
07YAOUNDE1257	TRADITIONAL MUSLIM LEADER SALUTES PEACE CORPS, US POLICY [...] (U) Summary: The image of the USG among Muslims in the Mokolo Division of Cameroon's Extreme North Province is largely positive, thanks to the work of Peace Corps volunteers, US Embassy outspokenness on democracy and anti-corruption, and small-grant development efforts, according to Yacouba [...]	2007-10-22 08:25:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	KISL KPAO PREL EAID CM
07YAOUNDE1269	CAMEROON VISA FRAUD: NOT ENOUGH HANDCUFFS [...] (U) Summary: Three recently uncovered visa scams highlight the ongoing efforts of malafide Cameroonian travelers to emigrate illegally to the United States. Excellent support from the Regional Security Office, collaboration with local law enforcement and vigilance by consular employees are key [...]	2007-10-24 10:33:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS ASEC KFRD CMGT ECON PHUM KPAO CM
07YAOUNDE1271	SARKOZY-BIYA SUMMIT: A FRENCH VIEW FROM CAMEROON [...] (C) Summary. Less than one week after returning from UNGA and a protracted stay in Geneva, President Paul Biya left October 22 for Paris, where he will attend UNESCO's general conference and meet on October 26 with French President Sarkozy for the first bilateral meeting between the two pre [...]	2007-10-24 15:13:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SENV KCRO KPKO CM FR
07YAOUNDE128	U.S. INVESTMENT IN CAMEROON: MAJOR PROGRESS IN 2006 [...] (U) 2006 was an excellent year for U.S.-Cameroon commercial relations, and we enter 2007 with literally billions of dollars of pending U.S. investment on the table. In February we signed an Open Skies agreement; Geovic and Hydromine, two firms with large multi-year mining projects, made impor [...]	2007-01-30 13:49:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD EMIN ECON KCOR EAIR EPET CM
07YAOUNDE1304	WHICH VISA LOTTERY? CONSULAR OUTREACH IN CAMEROON [...] (U) Summary: Although Embassy Yaounde visa procedures are of intense interest to Cameroonians and are readily available from multiple sources, they are often distorted in the public eye, usually by scam artists who prey on the desperation and ignorance of many applicants. This phenomenon is mo [...]	2007-11-02 06:35:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT CVIS KFRD KPAO ECON CM
07YAOUNDE1306	ARGENTINA'S REQUEST RELATED TO AMIA BOMBING: [...] (S) Poloff met with Cameroon's head of Interpol, Marie Ndombol, on November 1 to deliver reftel demarche on Argentina's request to have the November 5 Interpol General Assembly uphold the executive committee's decision to issue red flag notices against Iranian officials charged in the 1994 A [...]	2007-11-02 08:39:00	Embassy Yaounde	SECRET	KJUS PTER ASEC PREL PGOV IR CM
07YAOUNDE1308	CAMEROON: BIYA STILL AN ENIGMA AFTER 25 YEARS [...] (C) Summary: Nationwide events on November 6 will fete the anniversary of Cameroonian President Paul Biya's 25 years in office. Biya survived over two decades filled with political turmoil and economic crisis. While preserving unity and a measure of stability, he has performed poorly in g [...]	2007-11-02 13:41:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM PREL PINR ECON KCOR PGOV PHUM TBIO
07YAOUNDE1315	CAMEROON: COUP JITTERS [...] (C) Summary. In an October 30 meeting with the Ambassador, the Dutch and British Chiefs of Mission said they would report to their capitals the allegations of a coup attempt or staged coup attempt in Cameroon. The source of this information is of questionable reliability and coup rumors ar [...]	2007-11-06 06:21:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM KCOR MOPS PGOV PINR PREL
07YAOUNDE1342	CAMEROON: PM ON INVESTMENT, PRIVATIZATION, AFRICOM [...] (SBU) Summary: In a November 1 meeting with the Ambassador, Cameroon Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni said CAMAIR was being retendered, while the privatization of CAMTEL was pending due to changes in the tender documents. He hoped to streamline a multitude of investment promotion initiatives a [...]	2007-11-08 16:34:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CM EAIR ECON MASS PREL PINR
07YAOUNDE1355	CAMEROON REACTS TO ATTACK ALONG NIGERIAN BORDER [...] (U) The Government of Cameroon (GRC) issued a November 13 statement in response to the November 12 attack that, at last count, killed 21 and injured 10 Cameroonian soldiers at a military post on the Bakassi Peninsula in the riverine border with Nigeria. The statement (full text below) deplor [...]	2007-11-14 15:58:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL CM
07YAOUNDE1374	CAMEROON'S FIU SEEKS CLOSER TIES WITH US [...] (SBU) This is an action request for INL. See para. 5. 2. (SBU) In a November 14 conversation with Poloff, Hubert Nde Sambone, the Director of Cameroon's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) said he was eager to build working relationships with USG counterparts and to begin the process of jo [...]	2007-11-21 12:49:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EAID ECON EFIN KCOR PTER CM
07YAOUNDE1391	CAMEROON: GOVT PRACTICES ON INFO COLLECTION, SCREENING AND [...] (C) Below are responses to reftel information request on the Government of the Republic of Cameroon (GRC) information collecting, screening and sharing. A. Immigration Data Base ------------------------- 2. (C) The GRC does not have a computerized database system that tracks entry and [...]	2007-11-26 06:24:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS SNAR CM
07YAOUNDE1417	CAMEROON'S NORTH: POOR AND FEELING NEGLECTED [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador's recent orientation trip to Cameroon's North and Far North provinces revealed a region of poverty, insecurity and perceived political neglect. Local officials, traditional leaders, NGO representatives, businessmen and others stressed the impact of desertificati [...]	2007-12-04 13:12:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CM EAGR ECON PGOV SENV PINR KISL KPAO
07YAOUNDE1428	HYDROMINE: AMERICAN DEAL-MAKER FOR CAMEROON'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Hydromine, an American project developer partnered with mining companies from the UAE and India, has been working since 2004 to develop Cameroon's multi-billion dollar bauxite resources and related infrastructure, including a railroad and deep water port. While the Prime Min [...]	2007-12-06 12:22:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM ECON EMIN ETRD EINV ECOM PGOV PINR
07YAOUNDE1441	CAMEROON: VIEWS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. In a November 27 courtesy call by the Ambassador, President of the Cameroon National Assembly Cavaye Yeguie Djibril offered little vision for parliament and revealed suspicions regarding the benefits of free trade. As the President of the National Assembly, Djibril is first in li [...]	2007-12-07 09:12:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PINR CM
07YAOUNDE1447	CAMEROON: VIEWS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary. In a November 27 courtesy call by the Ambassador, President of the Cameroon National Assembly Cavaye Yeguie Djibril offered little vision for parliament and revealed suspicions regarding the benefits of free trade. As the President of the National Assembly, Djibril is first in lin [...]	2007-12-11 10:53:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PINR CM
07YAOUNDE1449	TRANSPARENCY BAROMETER: CAMEROONIANS ARE CHAMPION [...] (U) More Cameroonians bribed public officials in the last year than any other nationality surveyed, according to Transparency International's (TI) just-released 2007 Global Corruption Barometer, a survey of corruption in 60 countries, including five in sub-Saharan Africa. Seventy-nine percen [...]	2007-12-12 08:47:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KCOR ETRD EAID PGOV CM
07YAOUNDE1478	CAMEROON: IS BIYA PREPARING TO CHANGE THE [...] (U) This is an action message (see para 9). 2. (C) Summary. Almost immediately after President Paul Biya returned from his October 26 meeting with French President Nicholas Sarkozy, officials at all levels of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) began calling for a con [...]	2007-12-19 08:58:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI
07YAOUNDE1479	CAMEROON: IS BIYA PREPARING TO CHANGE THE [...] (U) This is an action message (see para 9). 2. (C) Summary. Almost immediately after President Paul Biya returned from his October 26 meeting with French President Nicholas Sarkozy, officials at all levels of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) began calling for a con [...]	2007-12-19 08:58:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI
07YAOUNDE1496	UN OFFICIAL SEEKS USG SUPPORT TO PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: The Director of the Africa Division, UN Department of Political Affairs, Sammy Kum Buo (of Cameroonian origin),recently encouraged Ambassador to help convince A/S Jendayi Frazer and former UNSG Kofi Annan to engage President Biya about the need to plan for succession when his [...]	2007-12-27 12:29:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM PGOV PREL
07YAOUNDE1497	CAMEROON'S JUSTICE MINISTER ON CORRUPTION LEGAL [...] (C) Ambassador joined the Canadian and Dutch COMs on December 18 for a joint meeting with Cameroonian Vice Prime Minister/Minister for Justice Amadou Ali focused on the GRC's request for legal assistance (ref b) in pursuing overseas bank accounts of Cameroonians tied to corruption. Explainin [...]	2007-12-27 12:29:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR PGOV PREL CM
07YAOUNDE179	CAMEROON'S DIPLOMATS: IN THE COUNTRY'S DISSERVICE, [...] (C) The recent death of Cameroon's long-serving Ambassador to the E.U. resparked recurring public and media commentary on Cameroon's dramatically stagnant diplomatic corps. More than a dozen Cameroonian ambassadors have occupied their positions for more than 10 years, several have been in p [...]	2007-02-13 11:47:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM CVIS KCOR KFRD PINR PREL NI
07YAOUNDE227	CAMEROON: POSSIBLE SUCCESSORS TO PRESIDENT BIYA [...] (SBU) President Biya's 74th birthday (February 13, 2007) revived speculation about who might succeed him, especially if were not to complete his term in office (which ends in 2011). The latest round of succession talk began last year following his spring 2006 illness (Ref. A),and his final [...]	2007-02-22 13:05:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV CM KCOR
07YAOUNDE32	CAMEROON: PRESIDENT BIYA'S NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE [...] (U) President Biya delivered his New Year's message to the diplomatic corps January 4, which largely echoed his New Year's address to the nation (septel). In his 20 minute remarks he named the June 12 Greentree Agreement on Bakassi and reaching the HIPC Completion Point in April as Cameroon' [...]	2007-01-08 15:23:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PBTS ECON CM NI TBIO SENV
07YAOUNDE382	IMF/WORLD BANK MISSION GIVES CAMEROON HALF-HEARTED [...] (C) Summary. IMF Mission Chief Dan Ghura said publicly on March 15 that Cameroon's performance is "globally" on track, but the IMF's bland public pronouncements obscure some shortcomings in Cameroon's financial governance. Most troubling was the relapse in 2006 of extra-budgetary spending [...]	2007-03-27 10:51:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL KCOR ECPS CM EPET
07YAOUNDE386	EITI: CAMEROON'S OIL REVENUES COME OUT OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary. Cameroon's participation in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) process has meant unprecedented transparency into the accounts of the National Hydrocarbon Company (SNH) -- worth as much as $1.4 billion annually--but important short-comings remain. After [...]	2007-03-28 09:06:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCOR EPET EFIN ECON CM
07YAOUNDE418	CAMEROON: JULY ELECTIONS APPROACH, UNCERTAINLY [...] (U) Legislative and municipal elections in Cameroon most likely will be held July 22. Under that scenario, voter registration, in accordance with the law, would end on April 23, when President Biya would call the elections. Some here hope to register some 8 million voters, a feat that would [...]	2007-04-02 15:29:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR CM
07YAOUNDE442	CAMEROON GETS CORRUPTION WATCHDOG, BUT WILL IT [...] (C) Summary. One year after establishing the National Anti-Corruption Commission (CONAC),President Biya on March 15 nominated a slate largely consisting of ruling CPDM party apparatchiks to CONAC's Coordination Committee. It will be headed by Paul Tessa, a longtime Presidency confidante. [...]	2007-04-09 13:28:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR PGOV ECON PREL CM
07YAOUNDE445	CAMEROON: BIYA ON ELECTIONS AND WAR AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: President Biya claims he is still hard at work against corruption, and that he will fire and arrest some of his most corrupt ministers (and his incompetent transport minister) before election day. Finding lieutenants who are both clean and competent seems to be a huge challeng [...]	2007-04-09 16:25:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	CM PREL PGOV KCOR PINR
07YAOUNDE446	CAMEROON'S RULING PARTY SHUFFLED; DIFFERENT SUITS, [...] (C) President Paul Biya's April 4 shuffle of CPDM Party leadership amounted to internal housekeeping triggered by the need to replace an ailing senior leader and to shore up CPDM support among some constituencies in the run-up to legislative and municipal elections later this year. Changes [...]	2007-04-10 06:32:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KCOR CM PINR
07YAOUNDE492	CAMEROON: INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSION ONE [...] (U) Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni issued a decision April 16 creating an inter-ministerial ad hoc committee to facilitate the implementation of ELECAM (Elections Cameroon),the independent electoral commission announced in December. The ad hoc committee has 45 days (maximum) to complete its ta [...]	2007-04-17 16:25:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV CM
07YAOUNDE493	CAMEROON OPPOSITION LEADER ON ELECTIONS, [...] (SBU) Bernard "Ben" Muna, head of the newly formed opposition coalition Alliance of Progressive Forces told Charge April 16 that he feared "generalized violence" if the July legislative and municipal elections are fraught with fraud. Pointing to violence that has broken out recently among ru [...]	2007-04-17 16:26:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CM KCOR PINR
07YAOUNDE497	NOBLE ENERGY BRIEFS BIYA ON EXPLORATION PLANS IN [...] (SBU) Summary. President Paul Biya on April 18 told Charles Davidson, the visiting president and CEO of U.S. energy exploration company Noble Energy, that he welcomed U.S. investment in Cameroon in all sectors. Biya committed his government's full support to Noble and all other U.S. investor [...]	2007-04-18 16:21:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET PREL CM EK
07YAOUNDE504	CAMEROON: ELECTIONS CALLED FOR JULY 22 [...] (U) As was widely expected, President Biya issued a decree April 20 calling legislative and municipal elections for Sunday, July 22. In accordance with Cameroonian law, voter registration closed with this announcement. According to news reports, some 4 million people are registered to vote, [...]	2007-04-23 08:25:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CM
07YAOUNDE539	POACHERS BEWARE: CAMEROON'S LAST GREAT APE IS ON [...] (U) Summary. Cameroon's Last Great Ape (LAGA) organization deploys passionate staff and proven law enforcement techniques to achieve spectacular results in prosecuting wildlife traffickers in Cameroon and, increasingly, the Central African region. In their unorthodox pursuit of wildlife tr [...]	2007-04-27 10:49:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KCOR SNAR PHUM PARM EAID PGOV CM
07YAOUNDE599	CAMEROON ONE YEAR AFTER COMPLETION POINT [...] (SBU) Summary. April 28 marked the first anniversary of Cameroon's approval for debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, which triggered an estimated $2.65 billion in debt relief between 2006 and 2015. While the Government of Cameroon (GRC) has undertaken some [...]	2007-05-10 11:35:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EAID ENRG CM
07YAOUNDE61	CAMEROON: AMBASSADOR AND FINANCE MINISTER DISCUSS [...] (U) Summary: On January 17, the Ambassador and Finance Minister Abah Abah discussed Cameroon's revised, updated action plan to qualify for the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) and the ongoing anti-corruption and good governance efforts of the government of Cameroon (GRC). The Minister sa [...]	2007-01-17 16:14:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA CM
07YAOUNDE62	CAMEROON: SIGNATURE OF BILATERAL DEBT FORGIVENESS [...] (U) On January 17, the Ambassador and Minister of Economy and Finance Polycarpe Abah Abah signed an agreement forgiving Cameroon's official bilateral debt to the United States. The debt forgiveness stems from Cameroon's attainment of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative Com [...]	2007-01-17 16:20:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON CM
07YAOUNDE667	KENYA AIR CRASH PUTS CAMEROON'S GOVERNANCE [...] (C) Summary. The May 5 crash of Kenya Airways flight 507 (reftels) brought to stark relief some of the worst characteristics of governance in Cameroon. Although the event would have challenged even a capable government, Cameroon's response was hampered by many of the same factors that impe [...]	2007-05-29 11:19:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR EAIR PREL CM PGOV
07YAOUNDE689	CAMEROON SEEKS USG SUPPORT FOR CANDIDATE TO WORLD [...] (U) In a May 22 diplomatic note, the Government of Cameroon (GRC) announced the candidacy of Mr. Antoine Marie Manga Massina for the post of Director of Tariff and Trade Affairs at the Secretariat of the World Customs Organization (WCO) and requested USG support for his candidacy. This mess [...]	2007-06-01 11:47:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETRD CM
07YAOUNDE731	CAMEROON: HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN DEBT RELIEF HAVE [...] (C) Summary. Seven years after the beginning of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief process, the hundreds of millions of dollars specifically allocated for pro-poor development projects have had "no impact" according to the Cameroonian official charged with piloting the p [...]	2007-06-07 08:24:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KCOR PREL PGOV EAID CM
07YAOUNDE732	CAMEROON: USG SHOULD AVOID ASSOCIATION WITH [...] (C) We believe that fundamental USG interests are undermined when USG officials -- and those of other groups of which we are members -- associate publicly with Polycarpe Abah Abah, Cameroon's current Minister of Economy and Finance and undisputed paragon of corruption. Abah Abah is a master [...]	2007-06-07 08:49:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR EFIN PREL CM PINR
07YAOUNDE741	WHILE NOT PRETTY, CAMEROON'S ELECTION PREP IS [...] (C) With less than fifty days before voters go to the polls on July 22, the Government of Cameroon's handling of critical elements of the pre-election period has been marred with procedural irregularities. Some observers are questioning the government's commitment to democratic reform, poin [...]	2007-06-08 10:39:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR PHUM CM
07YAOUNDE766	2007 TIP REPORT: CAMEROON DEMARCHE [...] (U) Embassy delivered the advance copy of the Country Narrative for Cameroon to Joe Nzume, Head of the Americas Division at the foreign ministry (MINREX) on June 12 by fax. 2. (U) In addition, DCM addressed government leaders at an event jointly sponsored by the government of Cameroon and [...]	2007-06-15 07:45:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	CM ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL
07YAOUNDE836	EMBASSY, CARPE PROMOTE ENVIRONMENT TO CAMEROONIAN [...] (U) DCM, together with CARPE Director John Flynn and Yaounde CARPE representative Antoine Eyebe, at a June 28 Embassy-hosted event, presented certificates and prizes to three Cameroonian students who had participated in a World Environment Day event organized by CARPE. 2. (U) Twenty stude [...]	2007-06-29 10:07:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CM SENV
07YAOUNDE837	CAMEROON'S COCOA SECTOR: ECONOMIC AND LABOR ISSUES [...] (U) PolOff recently met with Bill Guyton, president of the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and separately with representatives from the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS). The USDA's focus is on disease prevention in the cocoa sector, while WCF addresses primarily world market developme [...]	2007-06-29 11:17:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	CM ELAB ECON EAGR PHUM
07YAOUNDE867	CLINTON FOUNDATION HIV/AIDS ACTIVITIES IN CAMEROON [...] (U) Summary. The Clinton Foundation has begun programs focusing on the provision of pediatric and second line antiretroviral (ARV) drugs through an agreement signed with the Government of Cameroon (GRC) in January 2007 and intends to launch a Gates Foundation-funded malaria component in the [...]	2007-07-09 09:18:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHIV EAID SOCI TBIO CM
07YAOUNDE894	CAMEROON ELECTIONS: CAMPAIGN KICKS INTO HIGH GEAR [...] (C) Summary. With the July 22 polls just five days away, campaigning across Cameroon has intensified to a fever pitch as political elites drum up support for their candidates in the Parliamentary and municipal elections. The ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM),largely indi [...]	2007-07-18 14:01:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PINR KMCC EAID PHUM CM
07YAOUNDE902	CAMEROON ELECTIONS ON JULY 22; NUTS, BOLTS, AND [...] (U) Summary. Cameroonians will go to the polls on Sunday, July 22 to elect their representatives to the National Assembly (Parliament) and to municipal councils nationwide (reftels). Post will field 11 observer teams across all ten provinces, many working in coordination with other diploma [...]	2007-07-19 13:22:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINR KMCC PREL CM
07YAOUNDE904	CAMEROON ELECTIONS: THE NEXUS BETWEEN CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary. High-level corruption is intrinsic to democratic politics in Cameroon. With Cameroonians going to the polls on July 22, critical USG interests in improving governance and democratic processes are affected by the nexus between grand corruption and the financing of political part [...]	2007-07-20 16:51:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR PGOV PREL PHUM PINR EAID CM
07YAOUNDE910	CAMEROON ELECTIONS: DISAPPOINTING AT FIRST BLUSH [...] (C) Summary. Cameroon on July 22 held dual legislative and municipal elections; initial, anecdotal reports indicate that President Biya's ruling party will hold onto its strong majority in the National Assembly and in municipal councils throughout much of the country. Though it is too early [...]	2007-07-23 13:39:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KCOR PINR EAID CM
07YAOUNDE927	CAMEROON/DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PRESSING FOR [...] (U) Charge d'Affaires (CDA) a.i. delivered reftel demarche to Secretary General at the Ministry of Foreign Relations (MINREX) Martin Mpana during a July 24 meeting. Mpana recalled that Cameroon had updated the terrorism-related provisions of domestic law after the September 11th attacks and [...]	2007-07-26 13:51:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL CM
07YAOUNDE929	CAMEROON: ELECTION "TRENDS" SHOW A MASSIVE RULING [...] (U) Cameroon's Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization (MINATD),Hamidou Yaya Marafa, announced unofficial "trends" for the July 22 legislative and municipal elections the day after the voting. Marafa shared the Government of Cameroon's (GRC) official assessment that the [...]	2007-07-26 16:39:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KCOR PINR EAID CM
07YAOUNDE951	CAMEROON ELECTIONS: SHINE COMES OFF RULING PARTY [...] (C) Summary. Less than two weeks after the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) party claimed crushing victories in July 22 parliamentary and legislative elections, a strengthening chorus of complaints from opposition and civil society groups and even discord within the CPDM [...]	2007-08-02 06:55:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KCOR PINR EAID CM
07YAOUNDE960	CAMEROON: M'BORORO REFUGEE TRAIL OF TEARS POURS [...] (U) Summary. Refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) are crossing Cameroon's eastern border in increasingly large numbers. They are the victims of escalating violence, and their situation has worsened despite continued aid from NGOs. Aid operations are impeded by the tenuous secur [...]	2007-08-02 14:40:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM PGOV CM CT
07YAOUNDE974	CAMEROON: M'BORORO REFUGEE TRAIL OF TEARS POURS [...] (U) Summary. Refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) are crossing Cameroon's eastern border in increasingly large numbers. They are the victims of escalating violence, and their situation has worsened despite continued aid from NGOs. Aid operations are impeded by the tenuous secur [...]	2007-08-06 12:19:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM PGOV CM CT
07YAOUNDE993	CAMEROON ELECTIONS AREN'T OVER UNTIL THE SUPREME [...] (SBU) Summary. More than two weeks after the July 22 parliamentary and municipal polls, the official ballot count is complete. The results will not be released, however, until the Supreme Court has rendered decisions on 103 complaints filed by various political parties. Many observers spe [...]	2007-08-07 11:56:00	Embassy Yaounde	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR EAID CM
07YAOUNDE994	CAMEROON'S UN REP: BIYA WANTS POSITIVE RELATIONS [...] (SBU) President Biya has instructed his diplomats to make Cameroon's positive relations with the U.S. more "visible," according to Cameroon's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Martin Belinga Eboutou. Belinga called on Charge d'Affaires on August 6 to ask how Cameroon's UN dele [...]	2007-08-07 13:06:00	Embassy Yaounde	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IO PREL PGOV CM
07YEREVAN1000	EUR DAS BRYZA'S VISIT YIELDS UPDATES ON NK, [...] (C) SUMMARY: DAS Bryza's intense day of meetings in Yerevan July 30 touched important bases with top GOAM and opposition leaders. The visit was aimed at bilateral business, but Nagorno-Karabakh deliberations nonetheless dominated meetings with the President and Foreign Minister. On Turkey, [...]	2007-08-07 10:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM TU IR
07YEREVAN1008	ARMENIA HAS SIGNED, STILL WORKING TO RATIFY, [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-08 05:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PARM PINS PINT MCAP KNNP AM
07YEREVAN1012	CDA CALL ON ENERGY MINISTER RAISES IRAN, NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. CDA met August 6 with Energy Minister Armen Movsisian to discuss the Armenian nuclear power plant (ANPP) and Armenia's economic relations with Iran. Movsisian assured that the GOAM aims to close the plant by the target date (2016). He believed that Armenia's only option is to [...]	2007-08-09 05:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON ETTC PREL PARM IR AM
07YEREVAN1015	ARMENIA DISMAYED BY RUSSIAN POSITION ON CFE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian strategists are unanimously chagrined by Russia's plan to withdraw from the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, believing that a functioning CFE is very much in Armenia's national interests to restrain a regional arms race. FM Oskanian and MFA experts tell us t [...]	2007-08-09 12:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM AM RU
07YEREVAN102	ARMENIA LOOKS FOR MOVEMENT TOWARD RE-OPENING [...] (C) During a January 30 meeting with CDA, DFM Arman Kirakossian indicated that the GOAM would consider a signal from Turkey that opening the border was not contingent on a Nagorno-Karabakh settlement as "encouragement" to negotiate seriously normalization of relations between the two countries [...]	2007-01-30 13:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM
07YEREVAN1032	TOUCHING ALL THE BASES: DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bryza's opposition party meetings pointed up the sharp contrast between the two, with Heritage on the upswing, and Orinats Yerkir seeming like a spent force. The parliament speaker, typically, delivered a windy oration of questionable relevance on Armenia's constitution. Bryza [...]	2007-08-16 03:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM TU
07YEREVAN104	"AND THEY'RE OFF!" -- OUR OVERVIEW FOR THE ELECTION SEASON [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Kocharian's January 29 decree announcing the May 12 parliamentary election is the first step in the election process, and comes two days ahead of the 100-day advance notice prescribed by Armenian law. Following is an overview and projected timeline of key dates for the [...]	2007-01-31 05:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1048	SPECIAL ELECTION WILL TEST GOAM'S DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) The August 26 race to fill the District 15 parliamentary seat may be a small harbinger of Armenian authorities' commitment to election integrity, looking ahead to the 2008 presidential election. The race will also either strengthen or deal a setback to Heritage Party leader Raffi Hova [...]	2007-08-24 12:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1049	SPECIAL ELECTION WILL TEST GOAM'S DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) The August 26 race to fill the District 15 parliamentary seat may be a small harbinger of Armenian authorities' commitment to election integrity, looking ahead to the 2008 presidential election. The race will also either strengthen or deal a setback to Heritage Party leader Raffi Hova [...]	2007-08-24 12:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1050	EX-PRESIDENT TER-PETROSSIAN TESTING THE COME-BACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA's courtesy call on Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) found the former president candid, in high spirits, and eagerly exploring his chances to unify Armenia's opposition under his own banner for the 2008 presidential election. LTP evaluated his chances as slender, but worth trying, gi [...]	2007-08-24 13:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1051	UNCONFIRMED AFRICAN SWINE FEVER OUTBREAK IN ARMENIA [...] 1.(SBU) SUMMARY: Agriculture Minister Lokian called in post's USDA officer August 24 to report his ministry's strong suspicion that a virus that has recently appeared in northern Armenia is the African Swine Fever (ASF) that has already decimated the pig population in Georgia. He requested U [...]	2007-08-24 13:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID SENV TBIO KFLU AM
07YEREVAN1055	RULING PARTY CANDIDATE WINS COMMANDING PLURALITY [...] (C) Polling and vote tabulation proceeded fairly smoothly during the August 26 special election for the district 15 parliamentary seat. The Republican candidate was declared the winner with about 46 percent. His formerly-Prosperous Armenia rival came in second with almost 29 percent. The Da [...]	2007-08-28 02:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1056	UPDATE ON SUSPECTED AFRICAN SWINE FEVER OUTBREAK IN [...] 1.(U) The following is an update of the suspected African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak described Friday in reftel. Though the virus is widely believed to be ASF, it has not/not yet been officially confirmed as such. 2. (U) Approximately three weeks ago the first cases of suspected ASF in No [...]	2007-08-28 02:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID SENV TBIO KFLU AM
07YEREVAN1058	ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE POSITION ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DRAWS [...] (U) Armenian media outlets have not played up the recent decision by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to recognize the Armenian "genocide." Virtually all television stations reported the news in a brief, straightforward manner. The newspapers HAYASTANI HANRAPETUTIUN and AZG carried the news i [...]	2007-08-28 13:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AM
07YEREVAN106	GOAM ACTIVE ON TIP NATIONAL ACTION PLAN, RAISING [...] (C) Charge d'affaires presented the interim TIP report to Armenian DFM Arman Kirakossian January 30, a week later than first planned, because Kirakossian had had to travel abroad. CDA emphasized the progress Armenia had made, and pointed out that its relatively positive interim assessment was l [...]	2007-01-31 11:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	HSTC PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG AM
07YEREVAN1062	8/28 UPDATE ON AFRICAN SWINE FEVER OUTBREAK IN ARMENIA [...] The Russian government has confirmed that the suspect virus affecting swine in Armenia is in fact ASF. The testing was done at a laboratory at the Institute of Virology and Microbiology in Pokrov. Upon receipt of an official letter, Armenia will be obligated to inform the World Veterinary Org [...]	2007-08-28 13:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID SENV TBIO KFLU AM
07YEREVAN1069	OPPOSITION PARTY INTRODUCES BILL TO RECOGNIZE [...] (U) Fresh from his stinging defeat in the TEC 15 parliamentary election, on August 28 Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian introduced a bill into parliament which would extend Armenian recognition to the self-declared "Republic of Nagorno Karabagh." To date, no country, including Armenia, [...]	2007-08-30 05:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1073	ARMENIA NEWS HIGHLIGHTS [...] This is the inaugural issue of a new, periodic digest of news events which we hope will inform, educate, and perhaps occasionally amuse our readership. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS (U) POLITICAL NEWS: -- Chief Prosecutor Killed in Vanadzor -- Police stop opposition leafleting -- Iranian Vice-P [...]	2007-08-30 10:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD EINV KCRM AM IR
07YEREVAN1089	PRESIDENT, FOREIGN MINISTER, AND OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (U) President Robert Kocharian took time out from his Greek vacation to send a congratulatory message to new Turkish President Abdullah Gul. As Kocharian is abroad on a private trip, details of the message were unavailable in Yerevan. Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian sent his own letter of [...]	2007-08-31 08:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AM TU
07YEREVAN1093	MACROECONOMIC OVERVIEW FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2007 [...] (SBU) Double-digit expansion of Armenia's economy continued in the first half of 2007, with GDP growth equal to 11.2 percent year-on-year. As in the previous year, the growth was driven mostly by construction and services. The inflation rate in June was 4.8 percent year-on-year, due to rising [...]	2007-08-31 12:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EAID
07YEREVAN1094	SUSPICION OVER THE FUTURE OF THE OSCE YEREVAN OFFICE [...] (SBU) OSCE Office in Yerevan 's outgoing Economic and Environmental Officer and current Acting Deputy Head Jeannette Kloetzer revealed to Poloff that there seems to be some confusion over her successor once she leaves her current position September 27 to become DCM at OSCE's Office in Kazakhsta [...]	2007-08-31 12:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM OSCE AM
07YEREVAN1105	ARZUMANIAN DETENTION EXTENDED TO TWO MORE MONTHS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former FM Aleksander Arzumanian's AmCit wife, called on CDA August 31 to brief him on the status of the case. Arzumanian remains in the National Security Service (NSS) lock-up, under investigation for money-laundering. Coincidentally, on the same day, the courts approved an add [...]	2007-09-05 10:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1107	UPDATE ON AFRICAN SWINE FEVER OUTBREAK IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) As of September 4, the World Animal Health Organization (OIE) has confirmed ASF's existence in Armenia, and has announced the situation in Armenia on its website. (NOTE: In the past this has meant that, in order to contain the African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak, OIE will probably recomme [...]	2007-09-06 02:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID SENV TBIO KFLU AM
07YEREVAN1120	UPDATE ON AFRICAN SWINE FEVER OUTBREAK IN ARMENIA [...] (U). On September 6, the GOAM finally approved a program to combat African Swine Fever (ASF) and announced creation of a ministerial-level interagency task force to oversee the effort. Some 1,800 animals have been slaughtered to date, and affected areas quarantined. Although the economic impac [...]	2007-09-10 07:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID SENV TBIO KFLU AM
07YEREVAN1134	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-August 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Harris Radio End-Use-Monitoring inspections conducted with 100% verification; Crisis Response Survey Conducted; Developing FMF FY08 Letters of Request with Armenian MOD ; Three JCTP events conducted in Aug; Awaiting Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) to b [...]	2007-09-12 03:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
07YEREVAN1135	ARMENIA NEWS HIGHLIGHTS: SEPTEMBER 1-12, 2007 [...] TABLE OF CONTENTS POLITICAL NEWS: -- FM: Armenia ready for an "effective political dialogue" with NATO, will double Kosovo contingent by year's end -- "Inauguration" Day in "NKR" -- Air Tax to take flight? -- Be careful with that!: GOAM reaction to more Turkish "reconstructions" [...]	2007-09-12 07:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD EINV AM TU
07YEREVAN114	DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH NGOS, [...] (C) Visiting EUR DAS Bryza received two previews of the upcoming parliamentary elections on January 26. Opposition leaders predicted that the May elections would be the worst yet in Armenia's post-Soviet history, and complained that U.S. and European leaders had done too little to push for de [...]	2007-02-01 13:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID KDEM AM

07YEREVAN1148	READING THE TEA LEAVES -- AN INSIDER'S TAKE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Halfway out the door, a government insider offered a behind the scenes peek into the jockeying now underway among ruling elites to secure their places in the presumed Serzh Sargsian presidency. The leading candidates for prime minister: current DPM Hovannes Abrahamian, former P [...]	2007-09-14 06:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PGOV PINR AM
07YEREVAN116	IMPROVING U.S. DIPLOMACY ON INDOOR AIR POLLUTION [...] Post delivered reftel points to Head of the Department of Air Pollution at the Ministry of Nature Protection Aram Gabrielian. Post's assessment of GOAM commitment to reduce indoor air pollution and summary of recent projects in this area are provided below. --------------- GOAM COMMITMENT - [...]	2007-02-02 11:52:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO AID AM
07YEREVAN118	NEW REFORMS SEEK TO IMPROVE TRAFFIC LAW COMPLIANCE, LESSEN [...] (U) SUMMARY. Armenia's traffic police division implemented reforms in late 2006 aimed at modernizing their operations with an eye toward reducing corruption. The traffic police adopted new procedures for citing driving infractions which include plans for the purchase of more modern equipment [...]	2007-02-02 11:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PGOV KCRM AM
07YEREVAN1193	UPDATE ON AFRICAN SWINE FEVER OUTBREAK IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) A Food and Agriculture Organization (UN/FAO) delegation dispatched to Armenia to assess the outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) in mid-September characterized the current situation as alarming. Concerned by the lack of bio-security measures to combat the outbreak, the delegation recomm [...]	2007-09-27 12:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID SENV TBIO KFLU AM
07YEREVAN1197	CDA FINDS CATHOLICOS A CONSTRUCTIVE VOICE ON TOUGH [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA called on Armenian Catholicos Karekin II September 27 to discuss the church leader's five-week visit to the United States, which begins September 30. CDA conveyed that at the moment a meeting with President Bush appeared unlikely. The Catholicos expressed disappointment, rem [...]	2007-09-28 12:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF OVIP AM
07YEREVAN1235	LETTER FROM NAGORNO-KARABAKH "FOREIGN MINISTER" TO [...] (SBU) The "Nagorno Karabakh Republic" representative office in Yerevan forwarded the below letter, from "NKR Foreign Minister" Georgiy Petrossian to OSCE Special Representative Kasprzyk, with the request that we convey to U.S. Minsk Group negotiator Matthew Bryza. Post has no plans to forwar [...]	2007-10-12 08:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS AM AJ
07YEREVAN1241	SCENESETTER FOR PM SERZH SARGSIAN'S WASHINGTON [...] (C) Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian's visit to Washington October 17-23 is his chance to see and be seen with Washington leaders in the run-up to his February 2008 presidential election bid. With his extensive defense and security background, Sargsian now needs to show himself as a world leade [...]	2007-10-16 02:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OVIP SERZH SARGSIAN KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1244	PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN PROMISES ANSWER ON IRAQ TROOP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Initially opposed, Kocharian eventually agreed to consider DOD's request to "enhance" Armenia's contribution to Iraq. His goal, if he agreed, was to keep the change as low-profile as possible. He will get back to us in eight to ten days. He wants to check whether a new legisla [...]	2007-10-16 11:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL MARR MASS IZ AM
07YEREVAN1247	A DEEPLY SKEPTICAL KOCHARIAN AGREES TO HEAR OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kocharian made clear to CDA his profound disbelief in Turkey's sincerity on rapprochement, but grudgingly agreed to hear out any Turkish proposal. Kocharian complained at length about past bad faith from Turkey, and said he considers talking with Turkey a lost cause for [...]	2007-10-16 13:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TK AM
07YEREVAN1251	DASD CAGAN RECEIVES QUALIFIED AGREEMENT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: DASD Cagan's Yerevan visit October 11 got positive signals from the Armenian government on doubling its Iraq contingent to 100 and taking on a new fixed-site security mission. Sargsian requested, however, that CDA Perina present the request directly to President Kocharian, who [...]	2007-10-17 06:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL AM IZ
07YEREVAN1255	ARMENIA NEWS HIGHLIGHTS [...] This is the latest in our periodic series of cables highlighting news of U.S. policy interest. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS: (U) POLITICAL NEWS: -- Ex-President Blasts Government In Quasi-Campaign Speech -- ...And Reaches Out To Old Enemies -- PM Sargsian Talks Iran and Turkey in Moscow -- Pro [...]	2007-10-17 12:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD KCRM AM
07YEREVAN1257	EX-PRESIDENT (AND CANDIDATE) TER-PETROSSIAN MAKES [...] (S) SUMMARY: Former President Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) asked CDA to convey points on Nagorno-Karabakh to Minsk Group negotiator Matthew Bryza. LTP said he met recently with new NK "President" Bako Sahakian, and found in him a credible partner to discuss N-K settlement options. Ter-Petross [...]	2007-10-17 12:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PBTS PREL AJ AM
07YEREVAN1259	SANCTUARY AND ECONOMIC HARDSHIP FOR ARMENIA'S [...] (SBU) Numbering 40,000, the Yezidi minority in Armenia has found sanctuary as well as economic hardship since taking refuge in Russian Armenia in the 1830s. Based on fieldwork by Dr. Mark Yoffe, a George Washington University researcher participating in the U.S. Embassy Policy Specialist Progr [...]	2007-10-17 13:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ASEC PTER PREF SMIG SOCI KWMN KIRF KFRD
07YEREVAN126	SURVEY FINDS ARMENIANS LESS TOLERANT OF CORRUPTION [...] Armenians are becoming less tolerant of corruption, according to a Transparency International Armenia (TIA) survey released January 31. The most striking symbol of their mounting dissatisfaction was respondents' answers to a question regarding the most visible and common manifestation of Arme [...]	2007-02-06 06:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KCOR SOCI AM
07YEREVAN1268	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-September 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: PAP-DIB Survey conducted; IMET graduate reception; Humanitarian Assistance events conducted with KSNG; FY08 FMF Letter of Request being finalized; One JCTP and two SPP events conducted in Sep; Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) still in DoS Legal. 2. [...]	2007-10-19 12:59:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
07YEREVAN1274	IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S VISIT LOW-KEY, BUSINESS-LIKE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA called on FM Oskanian for an immediate readout of President Ahmadinejad's visit. Oskanian said that the Iranian delegation's early departure (a fact which dominated local media coverage) was at the Iranian side's request, and that only vague explanations were offered of urge [...]	2007-10-23 13:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETRD EINV ENRG KNNP IR AM
07YEREVAN1278	DISMISSED ARMENIAN JUDGE CRIES FOUL [...] (C) Fired judge Pargev Ohanian told us his October 16 dismissal by President Kocharian was politically motivated, and a clear indication that judicial independence is nonexistent in Armenia. Ohanian had garnered public fame for dismissing prosecution charges against Armenian businessmen, who [...]	2007-10-24 11:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL AM
07YEREVAN1279	APPARENT CRACKDOWN ON TER-PETROSSIAN SUPPORTERS [...] (SBU) Armenian police on October 23 detained 12 opposition activists as they publicly called for an opposition rally in support of the candidacy of Armenia's first president, Levon Ter-petrossian in the approaching presidential election. Police scuffled with, and then detained the activists, af [...]	2007-10-24 12:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1282	JUDGE OHANIAN BROUGHT DOWN BY CORRUPTION [...] (C) The case of fired judge Ohanian (reftel) came up during a conversation with David Harutyunian (protect). Harutyunian currently chairs the parliamentary committee on State and Legal Affairs, but was justice minister prior to the May 2007 elections. Harutyunian confirmed that top law enfo [...]	2007-10-25 11:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1300	ONE AND THE SAME? THE COMPLEX ETHNIC PICTURE OF YEZIDIS [...] (SBU) Self-identification as either Yezidi or Kurd largely depends on individual self-perceptions. While closely related, many Yezidis and Kurds in Armenia insist on being either/or. Almost all Yezidis and Kurds here observe the pagan, sun-worshipping Yezidi faith, and speak the same Kurdish [...]	2007-10-30 13:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SOCI AM
07YEREVAN1302	MEDIA REACTION: COVERAGE OF FORMER PRESIDENT'S RALLY [...] (SBU) Almost all Armenian broadcast media and much of the printed press failed to report fully and accurately the most significant event so far in the presidential campaign. On October 26, 2007, several opposition parties organized a rally in Liberty Square at which former president Levon Ter- [...]	2007-10-30 14:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KPAO KMDR KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1303	POLICE FILE CHARGES AGAINST TER-PETROSSIAN SUPPORTERS [...] (U) On October 30, Armenian police filed criminal charges against five supporters of former president Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) who were detained October 23 (reftel). The charges include "hooliganism committed by a group," and "violence against a representative of the authorities." If proven [...]	2007-10-31 04:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1307	TER-PETROSSIAN DECLARES CANDIDACY AT LARGE RALLY, [...] (SBU) Former Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) announced his candidacy for president at an October 26 outdoor rally of some 20,000 supporters who gathered despite light rain in Yerevan's Freedom Square. Blasting the authorities for over 90 minutes, LTP called the ruling regime a [...]	2007-10-31 10:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL AM
07YEREVAN1311	MINING ARMENIA'S TEGHUT FOREST - AN INEVITABILITY? [...] (C) The GOAM is set to approve a much-criticized clear-cutting and strip-mining operation in the Teghut Forest. Critics, decrying environmental damage, have asserted that the GOAM,s approval process fails to meet international commitments, and violates Armenian law. Suspicions of official cor [...]	2007-11-01 08:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AM ECON ENV
07YEREVAN1313	DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-01 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM EFIN KNNP IR AM
07YEREVAN1317	COUNCIL OF EUROPE'S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER [...] (U) The Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe (COE) visited Armenia October 7-11 to assess the human rights situation. During his trip, Thomas Hammarberg visited police stations, prisons, refugee centers, and the Gyumri earthquake zone. He also met with Armenian leaders and NGOs. [...]	2007-11-02 13:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AM
07YEREVAN132	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-JANUARY 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Expeditionary Medical Services (EMEDS) contingency hospital training conducted in Armenia on 31 Jan - 4 Feb 07. WIF funded personnel reform seminar coordinations on track. FMF AM-B-BAA Peacekeeping battalion equipment delivery not yet completed. NCO program development mee [...]	2007-02-06 11:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
07YEREVAN133	NATO REVIEW PLEASED WITH ARMENIA IPAP PROGRESS, [...] (C) NATO international staffers gave Armenia high marks on implementation of their Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) during a February 2 briefing to Chiefs of NATO Missions in Yerevan. Frank Boland, NATO's Staff Director of Force Planning, said that the review was "very positive" and [...]	2007-02-07 08:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR NATO AM
07YEREVAN1333	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-October 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Letter of Request totaling $6.8M of FMF for Peacekeeping equipment and radios requested for Armenian Peacekeeping Brigade; Review of Armenian National Military Doctrine conducted; DASD Cagan visit; Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) still awaits State Dep [...]	2007-11-07 08:21:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
07YEREVAN1346	ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ANNOUNCED FOR FEBRUARY 19, [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-09 13:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1347	DELIVERING MCC SCORECARD TO PM, WITH A SIDE ORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA called on Prime Minister Sargsian to present the MCC FY08 scorecard, and discuss its implications. He acknowledged the message that Sargsian had heard in Washington from MCC CEO Danilovich, that Armenia should not be "punished" for having graduated to a higher national income [...]	2007-11-12 14:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1359	PM STAFF GIVE AND TAKE ON TURKEY, ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/DCM had a long and fruitful conversation with two of PM Sargsian's close advisers. The two men affirmed the PM's desire to start a process to reconcile with Turkey, even before he become president. They agreed that a string of recent events against pro-opposition figures damag [...]	2007-11-19 04:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TU IR AM
07YEREVAN1361	KOCHARIAN GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO ARMENIAN TROOP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armen Gevorkian, Chief of Staff to President Kocharian, informed CDA on November 16 that Kocharian has agreed to authorize an Armenian troop enhancement in Iraq. The additional troops, however, will not be deployed before Armenia's February 19 presidential election. Gevorkian adde [...]	2007-11-19 10:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL AM IZ
07YEREVAN1362	AUTHORITIES DOG ARMENIAN TV STATION FOR COVERAGE [...] (C) On November 7, Emboffs visited GALA TV in Gyumri to learn more about its ongoing run-in with authorities, widely attributed to GALA's October 14 airing of a critical speech by former president Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP). According to GALA's owner, the authorities' threats before airing the [...]	2007-11-19 10:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1363	UN 3RD COMMITTEE: ARMENIA WITH US ON N.KOREA, [...] (C) Polchief spoke with MFA International Organizations director Dziunik Agahjanian, conveying demarche points (reftels). Aghajanian affirmed that Armenia remains committed to voting just as it did on these issues last year. Specifically, Armenia will vote for a "no action" resolution on Ir [...]	2007-11-19 12:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNGA UN AM
07YEREVAN1364	TER-PETROSYAN READY TO RESIGN IN THREE YEARS IF ELECTED [...] (SBU) Former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan (LTP),who is emerging as PM Serzh Sargsyan's primary rival for the February 2008 presidential polls, drew thousands of supporters to downtown Yerevan November 16 for a second rally. LTP apologized to the people for past mistakes of his former adminis [...]	2007-11-19 14:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
07YEREVAN1365	PRO-OPPOSITION YOUTH ACTIVIST SEVERELY BEATEN [...] (SBU) On Thursday November 15 Narek Galstian, a student activist, was attacked by three men and severely beaten. The attack came two days after police reportedly detained him for posting leaflets advertising the upcoming Levon Ter-Petrosian rally on Friday, November 16. Galstian and oppositio [...]	2007-11-19 14:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1376	RENEWING THE MESSAGE ON IRAN CONCERNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA conveyed Ref A points to the Foreign Minister, Energy Minister, and presidential chief of staff, while A/DCM conveyed to senior staff of the prime minister (Ref B). All interlocutors insisted Armenia had no intention to build infrastructure capable of exporting Iranian gas [...]	2007-11-26 14:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC EFIN ENRG KNNP IR TU AM
07YEREVAN1383	THE TER-PETROSSIAN SCENARIO: A LONG SHOT, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ex-president Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) has become the leading opposition candidate for president. His chances of success -- whether at the ballot box or with a street protest strategy after the fact -- remain small, but he should not be dismissed prematurely. LTP enjoys unique [...]	2007-11-27 16:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1384	MIXED, LARGELY SANGUINE REACTIONS TO ARMENIA'S ELECTORAL [...] (SBU) With the presidential election set for February, parliament swiftly enacted electoral code changes that took effect November 20. Over the course of two day-long readings, the parliament amended almost one third of the articles of Armenia's electoral code. IFES and other election monitor [...]	2007-11-28 04:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM
07YEREVAN1394	ANOTHER BROADSIDE FROM THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE ON [...] (C) Presidential Chief of Staff Armen Gevorkian called in CDA November 27 to renew Kocharian's visceral objections to Radio Liberty (RL) programming which, according to Gevorgian, has been "turned into a mouthpiece for (former President) Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) by the director of the RL Arme [...]	2007-11-30 09:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1404	ARMENIA: UNLIKELY TO CHANGE VOTES IN FAVOR OF UNGA [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Armenian MFA Director for International Organizations Dziunik Aghajanian on November 29 to communicate reftel demarche regarding upcoming UNGA votes to renew Anti-Israeli biased resolutions. Given Armenia's 2006 votes on the three resolutions (Yes on 61/22 and 61/116, an [...]	2007-12-05 05:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNGA IS AM
07YEREVAN1405	ARMENIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE DECEMBER 4-6 [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-05 05:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL XX AM
07YEREVAN1412	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-November 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Letter of Agreement (LOA) totaling $6.8M in FMF for Peacekeeping equipment and radios signed by ARM MOD; Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) approved; Letter of Request (LOR) received from ARM MOD requesting additional EDA trucks forwarded to USASAC; ARM M [...]	2007-12-07 06:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
07YEREVAN1413	ARMENIA'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SLATE NOW SET [...] (SBU) December 6 was the nomination deadline for Armenian presidential candidates. Nine persons have been nominated to participate in the February 19, 2008 election. In addition to Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian and ex-president Levon Ter-Petrossian, the widely acknowledged front-runners, the [...]	2007-12-11 06:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1416	ARMENIA: NO SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS IN WORST FORMS OF [...] (SBU) In 2007 there were no significant developments to report with respect to worst forms of child labor in Armenia. As previously reported (ref B),Armenia has adopted all international agreements on children's rights, as well as a list of occupations considered hazardous for children. Both [...]	2007-12-12 05:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI AM
07YEREVAN1420	NUCLEAR SMUGGLING OUTREACH INITIATIVE: INITIAL [...] Varduhi Asaturian, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2. Liudmila Shahinyan, Export Control Commission 3. Vahe Demirchyan, Ministry of Justice 4. Sona Avanesyan, Ministry of Justice 5. Aida Avetisyan, Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Authority 6. Alexander Stepanyan, Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Autho [...]	2007-12-13 02:48:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL AM
07YEREVAN1423	BOMB ROCKS OUTSPOKEN OPPOSITION PAPER IN YEREVAN [...] (C) An outspoken opposition newspaper was bombed in the early hours on December 13. Nobody was in the offices of the stridently pro-Ter-Petrossian &Chorrord Ishkhanutyun8 (Fourth Estate) newspaper when the bomb went off, and no injuries were reported. The editor-in-chief suggested the author [...]	2007-12-14 11:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AM
07YEREVAN1431	TER-PETROSSIAN APPEALS TO OLIGARCHS FOR SUPPORT WHILE [...] (SBU) Addressing approximately 15,000-20,000 citizens gathered at his third public rally in Yerevan on December 8, ex-President Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) urged oligarchs and businessmen to throw off "the yoke" of the Kocharian regime and support his candidacy. LTP also responded to Kocharian' [...]	2007-12-17 11:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL AM
07YEREVAN1437	ARMENIA ADOPTS NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING NATIONAL ACTION PLAN [...] On December 6, Armenia's government approved the new 2007-2008 National Plan of Action (NPA) on Combating Trafficking in Persons (TIP). Armen Baiburtyan, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, presented the NPA on behalf of the government, and said the new NPA will focus more on the implement [...]	2007-12-18 03:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM
07YEREVAN1438	CEC CHAIRMAN BRUSHES OFF KEY PARTS OF U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA, accompanied by AIDoff and Polchief, called on Central Election Commission Chairman Garegin Azaryan in a bid to persuade Azaryan not to refuse key elements of USAID implementer IFES' election assistance program. Azaryan was stubborn, smug, and unmoved. He suggested, speciou [...]	2007-12-18 03:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PREL PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN1439	BRIEFING THE PRESIDENCY ON EXIT POLLS, IFES/CEC [...] (C) SUMMARY: USAID briefed presidential aide Vigen Sargsian, at government request, about plans for a USAID/IRI-sponsored exit poll for the upcoming presidential election. Sargsian pressed for more details about the methods and partners involved, and expressed great skepticism both personall [...]	2007-12-18 03:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO OSCE AM
07YEREVAN1445	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MISSING AMCIT ROBERT LEVINSON [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-18 11:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS CASC PGOV PHUM PREL IR AM
07YEREVAN1446	ARMENIA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUND-UP (NOVEMBER-DECEMBER) [...] (U) Headlines in this round-up: -- MONITORING OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COVERAGE -- CIVIL PROTEST OVER INFORMATION POLICY OF PUBLIC TV -- CONTINUING REPORTS OF MEDIA CLAMPDOWN -- THE ONGOING TRAVAILS OF GALA TV -- TER-PETROSSIAN'S PRE-ELECTION MONITORING REPORTS -- HOUSING CERTIFICATES FOR 1 [...]	2007-12-18 12:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC SOCI ELAB KDEM KJUS KWMN HSTC
07YEREVAN1448	CDA RAISES DEMOCRACY PROGRAM CONCERNS WITH PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA and polchief called on the PM December 4 to discuss our ongoing election assistance programs (highlighting IRI plans to conduct an exit poll),raise concern about residence permits for USAID anti-corruption program staff, and to review the Radio Liberty (RL) issue with the PM [...]	2007-12-18 12:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV EAID KDEM KPAO AM
07YEREVAN1460	ARMENIA: DEMARCHE CONCERNING DECEMBER 18 UNGA [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-20 07:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNGA AM
07YEREVAN1467	ARMENIA: PRESIDENCY STILL UNDECIDED ABOUT IRI [...] (C) Although less hostile to the idea of an exit poll during the upcoming presidential election than he was a week ago, Presidential aide Vigen Sargsian still expressed significant concerns about the poll's format and possible fall-out. After being briefed by IRI staff on the poll's technical [...]	2007-12-21 13:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO OSCE AM
07YEREVAN1471	ARMENIA'S GROWING INSURANCE SECTOR [...] Despite the rapid growth of Armenia's banking sector and GDP over the past several years, other financial services, including insurance, have developed more slowly. Insurance remains a small part of the financial sector and plays a minor role in financial intermediation. Encouragingly, the tr [...]	2007-12-27 06:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN AM
07YEREVAN1472	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-DECEMBER 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Joint Visual Inspection for Excess Defense Article (EDA) trucks conducted; EMEDS IPR conducted in San Antonio; ARM MOD cancels EDA UH-1H helicopter request; Dec SPP event postponed until Jan 08. 2. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS A. On 17-18 Dec 07 the ODC Chief and two repr [...]	2007-12-27 12:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
07YEREVAN1482	OPPOSITION LEADER DECRIES BIASED OPINION POLL, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential candidate Artur Bagdasaryan invited the Charge to lunch to voice his deepening concerns about the upcoming presidential election. He complained that overwhelmingly biased media coverage, the combination of expensive air time and campaign spending limits, and "black [...]	2007-12-28 13:18:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM AM
07YEREVAN149	ARMENIAN REPLY TO TURKEY ON COMMISSIONS STILL IN [...] (C) CDA and Pol/Econ chief met February 8 with DFM Kirakossian to ask whether/when Armenia would respond to the GOT's latest proposal on bilateral dialogue (i.e. the "commissions" proposal). Kirakossian noted that the recent Erdogan-Saakashvili-Aliyev meeting to celebrate their deal to build [...]	2007-02-09 12:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU AM
07YEREVAN150	NOMINEE FOR CONFERENCE IN EUROPEN ON MODERN [...] 1. Post would like to nominate Armen Yedigarian, Director of the Arms Control and National Security Department at the MFA (roughly U.S. Assistant Secretary equivalent),for the Marshall Center European conference on insurgency March 26-27. Yedigarian is a knowledgeable, effective, and influen [...]	2007-02-12 13:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PINS PREL PROP PTER NATEU MARR MOPS KISL
07YEREVAN151	PALESTINIAN UNITY GOVERNMENT POINTS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-12 13:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KISL KPAL KWBG IS AM
07YEREVAN162	MAJOR TRAFFICKING RECRUITER SENT TO PRISON [...] (SBU) Four TIP defendants were convicted January 31, after a four-month hearing. The defendants had been accused in connection with a case involving the three witnesses (reftels) who complained of misconduct by an investigator in the prosecutor general's office the previous summer. This case [...]	2007-02-15 12:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN HSTC AM
07YEREVAN164	GOAM DISPATCHES INVITATION TO ODIHR ELECTION [...] (C) DFM Armen Baibourtian phoned CDA on February 15 to confirm that the invitation for OSCE's ODIHR to monitor elections had been signed and was being sent over immediately to the OSCE Office in Yerevan. Baibourtian said that the letter was signed on February 14 by FM Oskanian and would be se [...]	2007-02-15 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
07YEREVAN165	ANALYSTS WORRIED, GOVERNMENT UNCONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) GOAM officials' mild public statements about the finalizing of the Kars-Akhalkalki-Baku railway agreement (ref A) belie the significant resentment and frustration they feel about it. Newspapers have been abuzz with analysts' gloomy predictions of further Armenian isolation, and harsh crit [...]	2007-02-15 13:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG TU AM
07YEREVAN167	FUNDING REQUEST FOR AI HEALTH AWARENESS PSAS [...] Per ref A announcement, Embassy Yerevan would like to request USD 50,000 for the development and broadcast of television Public Service Announcements (PSAs) on health and food safety issues related to Avian Influenza. While UNICEF and others have produced posters and leaflets targeted at chil [...]	2007-02-15 13:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	AM KFLU KPAO
07YEREVAN182	ARMENIA: COMMENTS FOR 2007 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Armenia remain off the Special 301 Watch List for 2007. Music and video piracy does exist and there are look-alike products and store fronts, but industry losses in the Armenian market are probably small. The IPR Enforcement Unit within the Organized Crime [...]	2007-02-21 14:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON PGOV PREL KIPR USTR AM
07YEREVAN186	DASD MACDOUGALL'S MEETING WITH DEFMIN SARGSIAN, [...] (C) During a February 16 meeting with Armenian Defense Minister Sargsian, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Jim MacDougall praised Armenia's progress in defense reform, thanked Armenia for its contribution to coalition operations in Iraq, and encouraged Sargsian to consider sending a conti [...]	2007-02-22 10:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
07YEREVAN192	PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY CONGRESS A SUCCESS, REAL [...] (C) Prosperous Armenia (PA),the new oligarch-founded party that has taken Armenia's political scene by storm (but whose agenda is still unclear),held its long-awaited pre-election congress on February 15. The congress hall was packed, and also drew a number of sour-faced senior government o [...]	2007-02-23 11:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN194	STAFFDEL TILLEMANN FOCUSES ON DEMOCRATIZATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: SFRC Majority Staffmember Tomicah Tillemann visited Yerevan February 18-20, with an eye on Armenia's May elections and MCC eligibility under the "Ruling Justly" category. In a range of meetings with GOAM officials, he made clear that, despite Armenia's many friends on the Hill, [...]	2007-02-23 14:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL OTRA AM
07YEREVAN202	CUSTOMS GIANT FALLS AMID RUMORS OF SMUGGLING AND [...] (SBU) On February 19, Head of Customs for Cargo at Zvartnots Airport Karen Janoyan was fired along with four colleagues reportedly for smuggling mobile phones into Armenia. The dismissal has sparked some speculation that it may herald a new era of customs reform in Armenia, but most observers [...]	2007-02-26 13:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAIR PREL PINR AM
07YEREVAN209	JOURNALIST WINS COURT CASE ON FREEDOM OF [...] The head of Armenia's independent Asparez Press Club won a freedom of information case against several village mayors in the Shirak region on February 23. The mayors had denied press club director Levon Barseghyan's requests for copies of the village budgets. The court ruled that the mayors h [...]	2007-02-27 13:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM AM
07YEREVAN21	PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN'S NEW YEAR'S EVE REMARKS [...] SUMMARY: President Kocharian's New Year's Eve remarks reiterated his call for free and fair parliamentary elections in 2007, and for deepening Armenia's political and economic reforms, especially for competitive markets, judicial reform, and anti-corruption. He said that government-paid salari [...]	2007-01-08 11:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN211	ARMENIA SHARES USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT CASH COURIERS [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to Armenian Central Bank (CBA) Financial Monitoring Center Methodologist Armen Malkhasyan and Analyst Aram Zakaryan on February 22. Malkhasyan said that Armenia was very concerned about bulk cash transfers and was working to improve its compliance with rela [...]	2007-02-27 13:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN AM
07YEREVAN242	OPPOSITION CALLS COURT RULING ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO [...] (SBU) In response to an application submitted by President Robert Kocharian, the Armenian Constitutional Court has ruled as unconstitutional a law requiring Public TV and Radio to broadcast parts of National Assembly sessions. The opposition claims that, after recent announcements of what the [...]	2007-03-02 13:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV OPRC AM KPAO
07YEREVAN250	EMBASSY YEREVAN'S 2007 TIP REPORT INPUT [...] (U) This cable represents Embassy Yerevan's submission for the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Please see paragraph 5 for responses keyed to reftel request. 2. (SBU) The government of Armenia has made progress in its efforts to combat trafficking since the release of the 2006 TIP Repo [...]	2007-03-05 06:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF ASEC ELAB KFRD KCRM KWMN
07YEREVAN251	HOW LONG CAN THIS GO ON? ARMENIA'S CONTINUED DOUBLE- [...] Armenia's economy continued its significant expansion in 2006, with GDP up by 13.4 percent, the fifth consecutive year of double-digit growth. As in previous years, construction, much of which is funded by remittances, was the primary driver of growth, up by 37 percent and accounting for 26 pe [...]	2007-03-05 06:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EAID
07YEREVAN256	ELECTIONS LIKELY TO BRING A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE [...] (SBU) One relative bright spot on the political stage when party lists were released March 1: the potential for a 100-percent increase in the number of parliamentary seats held by women. A National Democratic Institute (NDI) analysis of the lists shows that women make up an average of 22 per [...]	2007-03-06 11:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KWMN KDEM AM
07YEREVAN260	CONCERNS RAISED OVER POLITICAL ADVERTISING AS ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Candidate access to broadcast media and the rising cost of airing political advertisements have emerged as issues of concern as the pre-election period gets underway in Armenia. Opposition leaders complain that the rise in prices since the 2003 election is a government plot to limit thei [...]	2007-03-07 06:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KPAO AM
07YEREVAN265	ARMENIA CONCERNED ABOUT IRAN, BUT RELUCTANT TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-07 13:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	IAEA TRGY ENRG MNUC PARM PREL KNNP IR AM
07YEREVAN266	KOCHARIAN'S CHIEF OF STAFF SEEKS TO EJECT NDI FROM [...] (C) Armen Gevorgian, President Kocharian's Chief of Staff, told NDI Country co-Directors on March 6 that NDI should shut down their operations until after the May 12 elections. Gevorgian, assuming that NDI Armenia had arranged for a senior oppositionist to visit Washington in February, said [...]	2007-03-07 14:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID AM
07YEREVAN272	CONCERN OVER PROPOSED IFC LOAN TO ARMAVIA [...] (C) Econoff recently met with local International Finance Corporation (IFC) head Nerses Karamanukian to raise post's concern about a proposed USD 11 million loan to Armenian national air carrier Armavia. Over the past year, Armavia has been plagued by financial problems and the company is ow [...]	2007-03-09 13:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAIR PGOV AM
07YEREVAN273	IRAQ NEIGHBORS CONFERENCES [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-09 13:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OIC UN IZ AM
07YEREVAN274	KURDS' PRO-OCALAN PROTEST LUKEWARM [...] (C) About a dozen dilapidated buses bearing posters of Kurdish militant Abdullah Ocalan pulled into the capital March 9 to protest Ocalan's imprisonment. The passengers were Yezidis from villages not far from Yerevan. The National Security Service (NSS) was aware of the protest, but was unab [...]	2007-03-09 14:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PTER AM
07YEREVAN300	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION ON MCC VP JOHN HEWKO'S VISIT [...] MCC Vice President for Operations John Hewko visited Armenia March 7-9. As part of his visit, Hewko held a press conference that was covered extensively by the major television stations, three newspapers, and a number of news agencies. Press reports focused on Hewko's statement that the MCC [...]	2007-03-14 14:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
07YEREVAN305	PROMISE OF PROSPERITY RESONATES WITH VILLAGERS IN [...] (SBU) The crocuses are blooming in Yerevan, but it is still winter in the remote villages of Armenia's Shirak province. Though construction dust has displaced the February slush in the relatively well-heeled capital city, Shirak villagers are still burning dried bars of cow dung for heat and [...]	2007-03-15 08:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
07YEREVAN307	MCC VP HEWKO DRIVES HOME COST OF BAD ELECTIONS [...] (C) During his March 8-9 visit to Yerevan, MCC Vice President for Operations John Hewko praised Armenia's implementation of the MCC Compact while sending a clear message that in order to remain eligible for funding, elections in May must be a "significant improvement towards full compliance wi [...]	2007-03-15 09:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KMCA AM
07YEREVAN320	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-16 12:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ACABQ AORC APER PREL UNGA AM
07YEREVAN323	IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE DEMARCHE--FM OSKANIAN FINDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA delivered reftel points March 15 to a surprised and non-plussed FM Oskanian. Oskanian hoped Washington would understand Armenia's difficult neighborhood, and thus its imperative to obtain Iranian gas as an alternative to the unreliable supply line of Russian gas. Oskanian pr [...]	2007-03-16 13:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL ENRG EPET EINV IR AM
07YEREVAN328	IRAN-ARMENIA GAS PIPELINE: GOAM REPLIES TO OUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA called in CDA March 19 to present Armenia's reply to Ref A demarche (see para 5 for full text of MFA non-paper),three hours before Presidents Kocharian and Ahmadinejad formally opened the pipeline. The most significant point in their reply is that "there is no more imp [...]	2007-03-19 12:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL ENRG EPET EINV IR AM
07YEREVAN331	ARMENIAN GAS COMPANY COMMENTS ON IRAN-ARMENIA [...] (C) On March 16, we met with ArmRusGasProm (ARGP) General Director Karen Karapetyan to discuss the Iran-Armenia pipeline, Russian ownership of ARGP and future developments in the Armenian energy sector. Karapetyan reported that the "second phase" of the Iran-Armenia pipeline would be complete [...]	2007-03-19 13:50:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PREL EPET ETTC EINV IR AM
07YEREVAN332	ARMENIA CELEBRATES NATO WEEK (WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM ITS [...] (SBU) Embassy Yerevan provided key support to ensure that Armenia's first "NATO Week," held March 12-16, was a success. The Week was launched with the NATO - Armenia Youth Educational Rally, featuring the departure of a NATO bus that traveled from one end of Armenia to the other giving present [...]	2007-03-19 14:36:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO NATO AM
07YEREVAN339	LOW-KEY MEDIA COVERAGE OF IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE CEREMONY [...] The March 20 Iran-Armenia pipeline inauguration ceremony, led by Presidents Kocharian and Ahmadinejad, offered surprisingly little fodder for Armenian media. The ceremony was short. The two presidents did not deliver their prepared remarks, apparently because of bad weather at the outdoor si [...]	2007-03-20 13:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC PREL ENRG EPET EINV IR AM
07YEREVAN343	FM OSKANIAN BRIEFS US ON IRANIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Oskanian called in CDA to provide a readout of the Iran-Armenia pipeline opening, and the presidents' bilateral meeting on the margins. Oskanian said that the GOAM had kept the event "as low-key as possible" and that Ahmadinejad had also been restrained in his remarks. Presid [...]	2007-03-22 08:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL ENRG EINV EPET MNUC IAEA IR AM
07YEREVAN344	FM OSKANIAN SKEPTICAL OF TURKISH INTENTIONS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Oskanian told us March 21 that a deputy culture minister would lead the GOAM's delegation to the Aktamar church opening March 29. He said the Catholicos would also send representatives of the Armenian church from Echmiadzin, as perhaps would the Armenian Patriarch in Istanbul [...]	2007-03-22 08:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM TU AM
07YEREVAN349	ARMENIA GRANTS LEGAL STANDING TO THE ARMENIAN CHURCH [...] The Armenian Church, which counts among its fold the vast majority of Armenians both in the homeland and in the diaspora, until earlier this month had no legal standing in Armenia. A law signed March 14 by the president granted legal standing, but did not grant the Church status as the only st [...]	2007-03-23 07:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM AM
07YEREVAN351	NEW STAFF OF THE ANTI-TIP UNIT A WELCOME CHANGE [...] (SBU) Four months into the staff changes that took effect in the Anti-Trafficking Unit of the Prosecutor General's Office in December, 2006 (reftel),Armenia's premier anti-TIP NGO, Hope and Help, reports a great new spirit of mutual cooperation with the unit's new staff. The unit's new lead i [...]	2007-03-23 13:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM
07YEREVAN356	CABINET DISSOLVED WITH PM MARGARIAN'S DEATH, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The prime minister's sudden death March 25 automatically dissolved the cabinet. Sources tell us that President Kocharian will appoint an acting PM--possibly Serzh Sargsian--to lead a caretaker government. The constitutional timeframe for replacing a deceased prime minister in th [...]	2007-03-26 13:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AM
07YEREVAN358	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-MARCH 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ODC Armenia conducted Bilateral Country Planning Conference in Yerevan; LOA for AM-B-UAB Harris radio case for 12th Peacekeeping BN signed and returned 27 Mar; LOA for AM-B-OAA blanket training case signed and returned 27 Mar. New Budget Analyst/Admin Assistant hired. 2. [...]	2007-03-27 08:08:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM

07YEREVAN361	ARMENIA-TURKEY: PM FUNERAL AND AKTAMAR CHURCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: DFM Kirakossian told us March 27 that Deputy Culture Minister's delegation to Aktamar Church opening departed by bus early March 27 in order to reach the March 29 ceremony in time. GOT offers to allow a direct air link did not arrive in time for this to be a viable option. Sep [...]	2007-03-27 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU AM
07YEREVAN362	UNSCR 1747 DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO DFM KIRAKOSSIAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-27 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL EFIN MNUC TRGY AORC KNNP UNSC IAEA
07YEREVAN373	CIVIL AVIATION SECURITY AGREEMENT - CORRECTED TEXT [...] (SBU) On December 7, 2006, the GOAM submitted a Diplomatic Note to the Embassy with proposed changes to the draft Civil Aviation Security Agreement initiated by the USG in August 2006 (ref A). Unfortunately, post incorrectly transcribed the text of the Diplomatic Note and the text reported in [...]	2007-03-29 12:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIT PREL KTIA AM
07YEREVAN383	IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1747 WITH RESPECT TO BANK [...] (C) On March 30, Pol/Econ Chief and EconOff met with Armenian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) director Nerses Yeritsyan to discuss GOAM implementation of UNSCR 1747 (ref A). We mentioned that EUR DAS Bryza has raised our Iran concerns March 28 with President Kocharian and FM Oskanian (septel [...]	2007-03-30 13:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PARM KNNP IR AM
07YEREVAN385	PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN DISCUSSES IRAN, TURKEY, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian President Kocharian met for over an hour with EUR DAS Bryza following the funeral of PM Margarian on March 28. On Iran, Kocharian explained that Armenia, in its precarious geopolitical situation, must carefully think through the consequences of every step it takes with it [...]	2007-03-30 13:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IR AJ AM
07YEREVAN386	ARMENIAN MEDIA, PUBLIC CRITICAL OF CEREMONY MARKING THE [...] (SBU) Armenian media outlets varied from semi-critical to extremely critical in their coverage of the March 29 Holy Cross (Aktamar Island) Church re-opening ceremony. Most claimed that the opening was a propaganda move and berated Turkey for placing Turkish flags and a portrait of Ataturk on th [...]	2007-03-30 13:22:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
07YEREVAN397	THREE KILLED IN AMBUSH OF GYUMRI MAYOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-04 03:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCRM AM
07YEREVAN398	THREE KILLED IN AMBUSH OF GYUMRI MAYOR [...] (SBU) Unknown gunmen wounded the Gyumri mayor, Vartan Ghukasian, and deputy mayor, Gagik Manukian, in a bold highway attack that killed three in the two-car convoy, including Ghukasian's driver. Gyumri is Armenia's second largest city. The mayor and his entourage were attacked from two ca [...]	2007-04-04 05:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCRM AM
07YEREVAN400	A DECENT BET: PROPOSED OPIC FINANCING FOR FIRST [...] (SBU) The following information, provided per reftel, concerns OPIC's proposal to provide a USD 5 million loan to First Mortgage Company (FMC). Post believes that FMC is a strong prospective partner and that there is significant potential within the Armenian mortgage market. Any loan agreeme [...]	2007-04-04 11:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON AM
07YEREVAN405	ARMENIA JOINS THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] Post met with Head of Global Security at the MFA Arshak Manukyan to discuss the Global Initiative to Combat Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (GICANT) and conference scheduled for June 11-15, 2007 (refs). Manukyan confirmed that Armenia fully supports GICANT and the Statement of Principles. According [...]	2007-04-04 12:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KNNP MCAP PARM PREL AM
07YEREVAN406	ARMENIA REQUESTS UZBEK HELP TO LOCATE ESCAPED [...] (C) The Armenian Police has renewed its request for assistance from Uzbek law enforcement in locating a convicted trafficker who escaped from an Armenian prison in early 2006. The trafficker, Anush Zakharyants, is an ethnic Armenian citizen of Uzbekistan, who is believed to be hiding in Samar [...]	2007-04-04 13:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	HSTC PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG AM
07YEREVAN409	HOLY CROSS OPENING - ARMENIA MORE POSITIVE AS THINGS COOL [...] (SBU) Following local media criticism of Turkey's decision to reopen the ancient Armenian Holy Cross Church as a museum (refs),the GOAM delegation that took part in the ceremony tried to focus on the positive aspects of the renovation. During a press conference, Deputy Culture Minister Gagik [...]	2007-04-05 11:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL OPRC KMDR KPAO AM
07YEREVAN412	NO SURPRISES HERE - DEFMIN SARGSIAN NAMED PRIME [...] (U) In a widely anticipated move, President Kocharian announced April 5 that Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian would replace Prime Minister Andranik Margarian, who died suddenly on March 25 (ref A). Sargsian stepped down from his position as defense minister, where he has served for approximatel [...]	2007-04-05 12:39:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AM
07YEREVAN417	ARMENIA: ELECTION UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Armenia's 35-day long "official" campaign period for the May 12 parliamentary election kicks off on April 8, and so far, the government has kept its commitments to hold better elections. ODIHR observers are in place and report that the legal preconditions for fair elections have [...]	2007-04-06 12:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PGOV PHUM AM
07YEREVAN419	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RIBBON CUTTING AT THE NATANZ [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-09 12:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC AORC KNNP IAEA UNSC IR AM
07YEREVAN44	ARMENIA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2007 [...] (U) Following is our submission per reftel for the 2007 Investment Climate Statement for Armenia. ---------- BEGIN TEXT ---------- Foreign investment in Armenia has steadily increased from USD 70 million in 2001 to USD 297 million as of September 2006, according to data from the National [...]	2007-01-12 12:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR AM
07YEREVAN442	ARMENIA JOINS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON PROTECTION AND [...] Armenia joined the International Convention on Protection and Promotion of Rights and Dignity of Disabled Persons March 30, the first day of its signing. (NOTE: The convention was adopted by the UN General Assembly in December. END NOTE.) Armenia also signed the Optional Protocol. The conv [...]	2007-04-12 11:26:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM AM
07YEREVAN443	BOOM! EXPLOSIONS MARK THE FIRST WEEK OF ARMENIA'S [...] (C) Early in the morning on April 12, two bombs exploded in close succession at Prosperous Armenia offices in Yerevan's Avan and Kanaker neighborhoods. President Kocharian's office quickly condemned the bombings, which caused physical damage but no injuries, and Yerevan police are investigati [...]	2007-04-12 11:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV AM
07YEREVAN45	ARMENIA BACKS OUR IRAQ POLICY, AND WILLING TO DO A [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenia's Foreign and Defense Ministers each expressed solid support for our Iraq policy, and for the President's announced changes in Iraq strategy. Both agreed that our Iraq strategy cannot be allowed to fail, and reaffirmed Armenia's commitment to sustain its troop deployment [...]	2007-01-12 13:56:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS KPAO AM IR IZ AF GR YI
07YEREVAN451	IVANOV'S ARMENIA VISIT: STUMPING FOR SARGSIAN? [...] (U) Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov's visit to Yerevan April 10-11 generated many of the routine media reports about economic cooperation and and Armenia's views on NATO that typically follow Russian visits to Armenia. Ivanov's meetings with new Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian [...]	2007-04-13 11:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AM
07YEREVAN452	TOWARDS A TOBACCO FREE ARMENIA? [...] (U) The Coalition for a Tobacco Free Armenia, including American University of Armenia's Public Health Department and 25 NGOs, recently marked the second anniversary of the passage of a law restricting the sale and use of tobacco. At the event, the Coalition introduced public awareness materia [...]	2007-04-13 12:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI EAID AM
07YEREVAN457	NIGHT OF 1000 DINNERS RECEPTION RAISES FUNDS FOR NGO'S [...] (U) Summary: At a fundraising reception held as part of the Night of 1000 Dinners (reftel),Post helped raise over 4,000 USD for the Armenian Red Cross Society, a local NGO working to reduce landmine casualties through a Mine Risk Education program. The event drew more than 70 guests, includi [...]	2007-04-16 12:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	DMIN PHUM KMDR KPAO EAID KHDP MASS PARM PREL AM
07YEREVAN459	HARD TIMES FOR AGRC LEAVES OTHER INVESTORS WORRIED [...] (C) The Armenian Gold Recovery Company (AGRC),plagued by allegations of tax evasion and failure to report profits, appears to be the latest casualty of rising gold prices and a possible Russian push to increase economic ties with Armenia. After a difficult confrontation with the Ministry of [...]	2007-04-16 13:04:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON PREL AM
07YEREVAN46	ARMENIA: GOOD COVERAGE OF PRESIDENT BUSH'S SPEECH AND [...] (SBU) In addition to engaging with senior GOAM leaders (reftel),on January 11 the Charge d'Affaires held an interview on the President's new strategy in Iraq with three major Armenian media outlets we invited to participate--Armenian Public TV (Armenia's national television station),Kentron T [...]	2007-01-12 14:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC AM KMDR KPAO
07YEREVAN47	FONMIN OSKANIAN CONFIRMS MAY 12 ELECTION DATE; [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 12 meeting to update the Foreign Minister on Iraq strategy (septel),CDA and Pol/Econ Chief were able to cover a range of issues, including election planning, Nagorno-Karabakh, the Ambassador-designate Hoagland's nomination, Armenia-Turkish relations, and Iran. As of [...]	2007-01-12 14:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PBTS AM AJ IR
07YEREVAN471	A REAL LIVE CAMPAIGN SEASON, AS BOMBINGS SEEM QUICKLY [...] (SBU) Armenia's campaign environment has ratcheted into high gear, with a vibrant rainbow of political ads posted everywhere you look. The April 12 bombings of two Prosperous Armenia (PA) offices (ref A) seem quickly to have disappeared from political relevance, after virtually all parties con [...]	2007-04-19 04:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN485	AMID ELECTORAL IMPROVEMENTS, VIOLENCE PUNCTUATES SCENE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Campaign events around Armenia this week have been largely uneventful; several parties - including opposition -- successfully staged rallies without government interference, garnering modest attendance despite poor weather. The Police announced significant progress in their wo [...]	2007-04-20 12:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM AM
07YEREVAN486	AS ELECTIONS APPROACH, BROADCAST MEDIA BECOME [...] (SBU) As Armenia's May 12 parliamentary elections approach, Armenian broadcast media have begun giving more air time to opposition figures. While opposition politicians had previously complained about unequal access to the broadcast media and presidential control of television stations (ref A [...]	2007-04-20 13:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KMDR KPAO AM
07YEREVAN490	NEWSPAPER PUBLISHES OPPOSITION CONVERSATION WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 21, Golos Armenii a government-leaning Russian language newspaper, published a transcript of a clandestinely-recorded conversation between an opposition leader and a British diplomat. The piece claimed that the opposition politician -- former parliament speaker and Ori [...]	2007-04-23 12:23:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN502	ARMENIA: POINTS OF CONTACT FOR GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] Post delivered reftel points to MFA Global Security and Non-Conventional Issues Division chief Arshak Manoukian on April 20. 2. Armenian Government points of contact for Global Initiative issues are: Primary: Arshak Manoukian, Global Security and Non-Conventional Issues Division Chief, [...]	2007-04-25 12:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PARM ETTC PREL KGIC AM
07YEREVAN504	INTERIM CABINET COMPLETED 19 DAYS BEFORE ELECTIONS [...] (U) President Kocharian appointed Chief of the General Staff Colonel-General Mikayel Harutyunyan to serve as Armenia's interim defense minister on April 24, two weeks after he had appointed the rest of the cabinet. Harutyunyan succeeds former Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian, who became Prime M [...]	2007-04-25 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MARR AM
07YEREVAN508	EXERCISING AVIAN FLU RESPONSE PLANS IN ARMENIA [...] (U) This cable, a response to reftel, details the GOAM's recent actions to improve avian influenza (AI) preparedness, test existing response plans and improve diagnostic and response capacity. On March 27, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),with f [...]	2007-04-25 13:30:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU AM EAGR
07YEREVAN510	ARMENIA UNLIKELY TO PARTICIPATE IN NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-26 06:20:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC ASEC ENRG PARM AM
07YEREVAN520	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NPT PREPCOM [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-26 12:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MNUC PARM PREL AM ENRG KNNP
07YEREVAN522	ELECTION HOMESTRETCH -- WITH SIXTEEN DAYS LEFT, WE [...] (C) SUMMARY: We called on President Kocharian to deliver some messages for the final stage of the pre-election campaign. We urged him to galvanize prosecutors against electon-related fraud. We also protested sharply the apparent clandestine taping, and subsequent publishing, of a British d [...]	2007-04-26 13:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN525	ARMENIA/OSCE EXTRA BUDGETARY-PROJECTS [...] (SBU) Per ref B e-mail, Embassy Yerevan supports funding for proposed project 1300107 - Monitoring Places of Detention. Most prison monitoring in Armenian is done by two groups of NGOs (one convened under the Ministry of Justice and one under the police). We understand that there have been q [...]	2007-04-27 06:28:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PGOV PHUM AM
07YEREVAN526	NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-27 09:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER AM
07YEREVAN528	YEZIDI PROTEST AT EMBASSY [...] (S) About 15 Yezidis protested in front of the Embassy April 27, carrying Armenian-language signs that read "Stop the genocide of Yezidis" and "23 killed in Mosul." They were protesting the deaths of 23 Yezidi workers who were shot in Mosul, Iraq, on April 22. The protest was the first in re [...]	2007-04-27 12:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PGOV PTER PHUM IR AM
07YEREVAN532	ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO HRR AMENDMENTS [...] (SBU) On April 27, 28 almost all TV stations and five newspapers referred to the amendments made in the Human Rights Report (HRR) regarding Nagorno-Karabakh. Commentary from Armenian media outlets varied from critical to extremely critical, claiming that the last change made in the HRR called [...]	2007-04-30 12:44:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC PREL PGOV KMDR KPAO AM
07YEREVAN534	ARMENIA: USING USG ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS TO LEVERAGE [...] (C) Our assistance programs aimed at helping Armenia achieve cleaner elections are big news here. Thanks to a strong Public Diplomacy effort, we have largely dispelled early concerns about whether Armenians should be suspicious that we seek to foment a "color revolution" and have built under [...]	2007-05-02 11:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PHUM AM
07YEREVAN551	ARMENIA JOINS EUROGIRO MONEY TRANSFER NETWORK [...] (U) On April 27, the Armenian National Postal Operator "Haypost" signed a membership agreement with the Eurogiro Network, allowing Haypost offices to provide electronic money transfer services to and from more than 60,000 post offices across Europe. Under this agreement, accountholders will b [...]	2007-05-03 04:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV PTER KTFN AM
07YEREVAN555	ODIHR MISSION HEAD DISCUSSES PRE-ELECTION [...] (C) CDA met May 2 with Ambassador Boris Frlec, the head of OSCE/ODIHR,s Election Observation Mission (EOM) for a discussion on the pre-election period in Armenia. Frlec evaluated the pre-election period as broadly competitive, despite flaws. He saw a relatively even playing field, albeit wh [...]	2007-05-03 10:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM OSCE AM
07YEREVAN556	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-03 11:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AM
07YEREVAN559	ARMENIA POLITICAL PARTY PRIMER [...] (C) SUMMARY: This cable provides a basic reference to the political parties in the May 12 parliamentary race. Out of seventy-four registered political parties in Armenia only 24 parties and one bloc registered to participate in the parliamentary election, and two have since dropped out. END [...]	2007-05-04 03:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AM
07YEREVAN560	KOCHARIAN ACCUSES BAGHDASSARIAN OF BETRAYAL [...] (U) President Kocharian blasted opposition leader Artur Baghdassarian during an address to local university students on April 27, accusing him of "betrayal." "I don't want to use legal terms. For me, this is a real manifestation of betrayal," Kocharian told students at Yerevan State Universi [...]	2007-05-04 03:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN564	ARMENIA ELECTIONS: KOCHARIAN CONVOKES OSCE CHIEFS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 3, President Kocharian convoked all Chiefs of Mission of OSCE Member States resident in Yerevan regarding the upcoming parliamentary elections. He sought to convey to the dip corps that his administration was doing all it could to ensure an election process which should me [...]	2007-05-04 12:39:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE AM
07YEREVAN566	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-April 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ODC Armenia conducted visit of Defense Reutilization Management Office and Excess Defense Article stockyard in Kaiserslautern; FY08 Counter Terrorism Fellowship Program plan developed at TPMR; Letter of Request for equipping Nuclear Biological and Chemical defense platoon se [...]	2007-05-07 09:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
07YEREVAN571	VAYOTS DZOR REPUBLICANS STRONG FOR ELECTION DAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An Embassy pre-election trip to the sparsely-populated Vayots Dzor province on 27 April found an electoral calm much attributed to the popularity of the Republican marzpet (governor) headquartered in Yeghanadzor and the relatively favorable image he exudes of the Republican Par [...]	2007-05-07 11:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN572	CDA CALLS ON NEW DEFMIN [...] (C) Charge d'affaires and DATT paid a courtesy visit to new Defense Minister Mikayel Harutyunian on May 4, the first such visit since the former chief of staff had assumed the post (reftel). The DefMin expressed his dissatisfaction with the new Human Rights Report language on Nagorno-Karabakh [...]	2007-05-07 11:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR AM
07YEREVAN585	GEGHARKUNIK MARZ PREPARES FOR ELECTIONS [...] (C) Post dispatched two officers on April 26 and 27 to the Gegharkunik region, which wraps around Armenia's largest body of water -- Lake Sevan. Gegharkunik region, like every other region of Armenia outside of the capitol, is in dire economic straits. Summer tourism to Lake Sevan, potato far [...]	2007-05-08 12:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	AM KDEM PGOV PHUM
07YEREVAN586	ARMENIAN ELECTIONS: VIEWS FROM ARAGOTSOTN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Characterizing the pre-election campaigning as "boring," governmental, non-governmental, political party and international observers in the Aragotsotn region of Armenia foresee a parliamentary election devoid of significant fraud in their area. Interlocutors tell us that there [...]	2007-05-08 12:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN587	INCREASING TENSIONS EXPECTED IN LORI, MORE [...] (C) Embassy officers on May 4 visited Vanadzor (Lori Region),the largely-impoverished third-largest city of Armenia to examine pre-election conditions. Typically, pro-government officials claimed there were no problems in the run-up to 12 May while opposition and NGO figures noted otherwise [...]	2007-05-09 11:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ASEC AM
07YEREVAN588	FM OSKANIAN DEFENDS VISA REFUSAL OF TURKISH OSCE [...] (C) CDA and the German Ambassador each protested (during a scheduled meeting with CDA and EU chiefs of mission late May 8),Armenia's refusal to grant visas to Turkey's contigent of seconded OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission short-term observers (STOs). Each associated themselves with [...]	2007-05-09 11:57:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE TU AM
07YEREVAN591	CHARGE'S ASSESSMENT ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) Based on conversations with foreign ministry officials and Armenia's previous voting record on Belarus, we expect that Armenia will support Belarus' candidacy even once Bosnia enters the race. Dzunik Aghadjanian, head of the MFA's International Organizations Department, told us May 10: "It [...]	2007-05-10 12:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC AM
07YEREVAN592	PRO-GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPERS EXPRESS RULING ELITE'S [...] (C) In the weeks leading up to the May 12 parliamentary election, two pro-government newspapers regularly published articles highly critical of the United States and other Western missions and NGOs. Hayots Ashkhar and Golos Armenii newspapers have denounced the United States for interfering i [...]	2007-05-10 12:55:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KPAO AM
07YEREVAN594	ARMENIA'S SOUTHERNMOST REGION ON ELECTIONS: SO [...] (C) In a late April visit to Syunik marz, the most remote and one of the poorest of Armenia's regions, Poloffs learned that the voting public is engaged and is generally looking forward to the May 12 polls. This despite a widespread sense of intimidation amongst the populace and trepidation to [...]	2007-05-11 06:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AM
07YEREVAN603	ARMENIA SLOW TO IMPLEMENT BANK SEPAH ASSET FREEZE [...] (S) Per ref A, on May 8 we met with Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Head at the Armenian Central Bank Nerses Yeritsyan to discuss what steps Armenia had taken to implement UNSCR 1747 and specific actions taken against Sepah Bank. Yeritsyan confirmed that Sepah Bank maintains correspondent [...]	2007-05-11 11:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	EFIN PARM KNNP IR AM
07YEREVAN604	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON KEY U.S. OBJECTIVES AT THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-11 12:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO AM
07YEREVAN607	ARMENIAN ELECTION SCENESETTER [...] (C) The stage is set for this election to go far better than other recent polls in Armenia, but we have not, by a long shot, seen a fundamental change in political culture here, and things could still go very wrong on Election Day. We are cautiously optimistic that Armenia's parliamentary ele [...]	2007-05-11 13:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC KDEM AM
07YEREVAN608	OPPOSITION FIGURE'S ARREST DRAWS PROTEST MARCHERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The May 7 arrest of a minor oppostion personality led to a protest march on the National Security Service headquarters May 9. Police were poorly prepared for the unscheduled event. When several officers unwisely interposed themselves in front of -- then got swallowed by -- the c [...]	2007-05-11 13:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC AM
07YEREVAN609	OBSERVERS GIVE ARMENIA'S ELECTION A PASSING GRADE, [...] (C) Armenia's Parliamentary elections took place on May 12. Preliminary results show a strong victory by PM Sargsian's Republican Party. These same early results show that the new oligarch-led "Prosperous Armenia" party ran a distant second and three other parties -- including two oppositi [...]	2007-05-13 14:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE KDEM AM
07YEREVAN639	HCOC INREACH: ARMENIA WILL MAKE ITS DECLARATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-16 10:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA MTCRE AM
07YEREVAN640	JUDGING ARMENIA'S ELECTIONS - GOOD ENOUGH, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: We judge Armenia's May 12 election an improvement over previous elections, although this is faint praise. The combined International Election Observation Mission has issued an upbeat preliminary assessment. ODIHR seemed to feel keenly the institutional pressures. If the Europe [...]	2007-05-16 11:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN642	PM SARGSIAN'S REPUBLICANS STRENGTHEN HOLD ON POWER [...] (C) Armenia's ruling Republican Party, led by PM Serzh Sargsian, is set to have a slim majority in the new National Assembly to be seated May 31. Results will not be made official until May 19, but it seems clear that the Republicans will take 68 out of 131 seats of the new parliament. Runn [...]	2007-05-16 12:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC KDEM AM
07YEREVAN646	ARMENIA: ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE AGREEMENT ON THE [...] According to Armenian Diplomatic Note 16/05822 dated May 14, 2007 and received at the Embassy on May 17, 2007, Armenia has completed the formalities required for entry into force of the agreement on the exchange of technical information and cooperation in nuclear safety matters. 2. The sub [...]	2007-05-17 11:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ENRG ECON AM
07YEREVAN649	WITNESS DIES DURING INTERROGATION [...] (C) On May 12 Levon Ghulyan died under controversial circumstances while being questioned by the police as a presumed witness of a deadly gunfight on May 9 near the restaurant he owned. The police initially claimed that, during the interrogation, Ghulyan fell to his death while trying to esca [...]	2007-05-18 11:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV AM
07YEREVAN65	KOCHARIAN SCOLDS TAX AND CUSTOMS OFFICIALS [...] (U) President Kocharian took an unusually hard stance with Customs and Tax officials during an annual January meeting with key government officials. He said the tax and customs services lacked the will to combat the shadow economy and described their work as "unsatisfactory." Despite some suc [...]	2007-01-17 13:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV KCOR AM
07YEREVAN653	ARMENIA WILL PARTICIPATE IN OSCE PPP CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-18 12:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCE PREL PTER ABUD AFIN RS SP AM
07YEREVAN658	PM SARGSIAN HOPES FOR "BIG TENT" COALITION [...] (C) PM Sargsian told CDA on May 17 that he plans to form as large a coalition as he can, to include the new pro-government Prosperous Armenia (PA) party as well as former coalition partner ARF-Dashnaktsutyun (the Dashnaks). Armenia's constitution gives him until the end of June to propose his [...]	2007-05-21 13:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
07YEREVAN659	GLOBAL GOLD MINING: A YEAR OF... [...] (C) Global Gold Corporation (GGC) is an international gold mining company with operations in Armenia and principal offices in Connecticut. For the past few years, GGC has been involved in an at-times hostile dispute with the GOAM and more specifically with the Armenian Minister of Nature Protection [...]	2007-05-22 03:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON PGOV OPIC AM
07YEREVAN660	BIO REPORT FOR NERSES YERITSYAN, ACTING HEAD OF [...] (C) Nerses Yeritsyan is the Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Central Bank (CBA) and has been acting head of the Bank's Financial Intelligence Unit since its founding in 2005. He served for two terms on the CBA Board and still plays a leading role in many of the bank's non-FIU initiative [...]	2007-05-22 03:50:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON INRB AM
07YEREVAN661	TRAFFICKING VICTIMS HELD IN GEORGIA RETURNED TO [...] (C) Two alleged Armenian trafficking victims who had been held in a Georgian jail for six months returned to Armenia May 17, and are in the care of an active anti-trafficking NGO. Anti-trafficking activists hailed the return of Anna Harutyunyan and Lianna Krasnova as a textbook case of good c [...]	2007-05-22 11:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM HSTC GG AM
07YEREVAN662	"WE ARE NOT BORN YESTERDAY": OSCE/ODIHR OBSERVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission (EOM) chief of mission, Ambassador Frlec, and deputy COM, Ian Gorvin, were markedly more sour on Armenia's May 12 election in a dinner at CDA's residence, and less-markedly so in the semi-public forum of their last OSCE member state chiefs [...]	2007-05-23 05:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE AM
07YEREVAN677	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RUSSIAN DRAFT OF OSCE "CHARTER" [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-25 07:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL KTIA PGOV AM
07YEREVAN688	DEMARCHES DELIVERED: NEW GLOBAL INITATIVE PARTNERS [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-30 04:05:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	KGIT PARM PREL PTER IC NO SZ AM
07YEREVAN689	ARMENIA WILL SUBMIT UNSCR 1747 IMPLEMENTATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-30 04:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR AM
07YEREVAN691	CDA'S LUNCH WITH DEPUTY PG AND ANTI-TIP WORKERS [...] (C) We gathered together post's most reliable anti-TIP interlocutors in the Armenian government for a May 29 lunch at the CDA's residence. The guest list included Deputy Prosecutor General Gevorg Danielyan and two other members of the PG's staff, as well as the heads of the MFA's Internationa [...]	2007-05-30 07:38:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN KCRM HSTC AM
07YEREVAN692	ARSON AGAINST OPPOSITION PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) On May 28, Larisa Paremuzyan, regional chairwoman of Stepan Demirchian's People's Party of Armenia (PPA),survived a late night arson attack on her apartment in the northern town of Alaverdi (Shirak Region). Paremuzyan blamed the attack on Karen Saribekian from the governing Republican P [...]	2007-05-30 08:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KCRM AM
07YEREVAN696	FIRST PARLIAMENT SESSION POSTPONED [...] (SBU) Parliament staffers and political party sources tell us that the scheduled May 31 inaugural session of the new National Assembly has been postponed until June 7. It is expected that the inaugural session will see the election of the new parliament chairman (or speaker),two deputy chair [...]	2007-05-30 11:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM AM
07YEREVAN698	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW WORLD BANK PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-30 12:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN IBRD AM
07YEREVAN699	MARKING FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF PSI WITH AN OP-ED [...] Post concluded the best way to accomplish reftel goals was to place an op-ed from the CDA in the governmental newspaper Hayastan Hanrepetutyun, which we also conveyed as a courtesy to the MFA's International Security Department. The op-ed ran on May 30. Complete text follows. 2. TEXT OF [...]	2007-05-30 12:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL MNUC KNNP XG AM
07YEREVAN70	ARMENIA: LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) Law enforcement cooperation with Armenia continued to improve in 2006, with concrete key successes despite a complex environment and the lack of a formal bilateral legal framework. Fugitive investigations continued to be the most fruitful area of cooperation, but GOAM cooperation in an [...]	2007-01-19 07:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC SOCI PINS AM
07YEREVAN701	GOAM APPROVES A THREE-YEAR TAX SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 24, 2007, the GOAM approved a Strategic Development Program for the tax system that, over the next three years, will make significant structural, legislative and technological changes within the State Tax Service (STS). The STS has benefited from the help of USAID's Tax Imp [...]	2007-05-31 07:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EFIN ETRD EAID AM
07YEREVAN709	ELECTION FRAUD COMPLAINTS PROCEED ON SEVERAL TRACKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Four opposition parties have filed election complaints with the Constitutional Court, calling for the May 12 elections to be voided. Their contention is that sufficient irregularities occurred to invalidate the election. The Constitutional Court hearing is scheduled to begin Jun [...]	2007-05-31 12:31:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM AM
07YEREVAN711	SFRC STAFFDEL TAKES IN THE PANOPLY OF US ASSISTANCE TO [...] (U) From May 22 to 26, SFRC stafdel Paul Foldi and Marik String visited Armenia. After four days of briefings, meetings, presentations and site visits, Foldi and String -- accompanied to most meetings by just a driver and interpreter, per their request -- reported that they were pleased with [...]	2007-06-01 03:41:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID OTRA AM
07YEREVAN713	HR DEFENDER GIVES US GHULYAN DEATH CASE UPDATE [...] (C) The government-appointed Human Rights Defender (or ombudsman) Armen Harutyunyan told us at a May 31 meeting that the Yerevan city prosecutor had responded to his inquiry regarding the Ghulyan case (death in police custody, see reftel). Harutyunyan had asked prosecutors, after our May 17 i [...]	2007-06-01 03:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV AM
07YEREVAN720	HR DEFENDER'S OFFICE CREATES MILITARY POSITION [...] The Armenian government has created a new position within the office of Human Rights Defender (ombudsman) Armen Harutyunyan intended to follow up complaints of human rights abuses in the ranks of the Armenian military. The Ministry of Defense proposed the position to the ombudsman in late 200 [...]	2007-06-01 09:37:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM MARR AM
07YEREVAN723	ARMENIA'S YEZIDI KURDISH MINORITY: A SMALL BUT [...] (S) The mayors of two Yezidi Kurdish villages, spoke openly to us during a May 31 visit about the fact of PKK (KGK) presence in Armenia, telling us that wounded PKK fighters from neighboring countries receive medical treatment in Armenia. We also discussed the complicated issue of Yezidi Kurd [...]	2007-06-01 11:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL ASEC PTER PHUM AM
07YEREVAN735	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] (U) We delivered reftel information to Arshak Manukyan, head of the MFA's Division of Non-Conventional Arms and Global Security, who thanked us for the update. GODFREY [...]	2007-06-05 10:25:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KGIC PARM PREL FI PL PO SW AM
07YEREVAN748	ARMENIA'S NEW PARLIAMENT CONVENES WITHOUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Armenia's newly-elected parliament convened for the first time on June 7, after a coalition arrangement was signed on June 6. PM Sargsian's Republican Party will lead a "two plus one" coalition, with the tycoon-led "Prosperous Armenia" as a coalition partner and the ARF-Dashna [...]	2007-06-07 12:09:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM AM
07YEREVAN754	LAWYERS: DEATH IN CUSTODY CASE PROCEEDING FAIRLY [...] (C) Lawyers for defenestrated businessman Levon Ghulyan told us June 6 that the case seemed to be proceeding fairly, and that they did not have any concerns regarding the pre-investigation process thus far. Results of an independant autopsy by international experts are still not available, ho [...]	2007-06-08 10:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AM
07YEREVAN755	CDA RAISES ENERGY SECURITY,NUCLEAR POWER, AND IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: We met with Energy Minister Movsissian June 1 to explore Armenia's current plans and thinking with regard to replacing the Soviet-era Armenian Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP). Press reports had suggested Armenia had made deals with Russia for the construction of a new nuclear plant, [...]	2007-06-08 11:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ENRG ETTC PARM ETRD AM IR
07YEREVAN764	PRESIDENT NAMES NEW CABINET, A LOT LIKE THE OLD ONE [...] (U) President Robert Kocharian named the new cabinet in a decree published late June 8; well ahead of the Constitutional deadline. The Constitution requires that the new cabinet must submit its program to the National Assembly within 20 days, i.e. by June 28. the parliament will then have fi [...]	2007-06-11 13:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AM
07YEREVAN77	OPENING THE TURKISH-ARMENIAN BORDER: BUSINESSES AND [...] On January 13 and 14 the Armenian International Policy Research Group (AIPRG),with funding from USAID, the British Embassy, and the Eurasia Foundation, held a conference on "The Economic and Social Consequences of Opening the Armenia-Turkish Border." While the caliber of the papers was mixed, [...]	2007-01-23 06:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV ELNT PGOV PREL TU GG AM
07YEREVAN777	KOCHARIAN PLEDGES CONTINUED REFORM TO MCC'S [...] (C) In a June 12 meeting with President Kocharian, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Ambassador John Danilovich said that the good progress toward international standards shown during Armenia's May 12 parliamentary elections was good news for MCC and would certainly be welcomed by MC [...]	2007-06-14 13:10:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID KDEM AM
07YEREVAN779	CIVAIR: REVISED TEXT OF U.S.-ARMENIAN AVIATION SECURITY [...] On June 8, 2007, we delivered reftel talking points and the revised draft U.S.-Armenian security agreement to the Director General of Civil Aviation, Artyom Movsesyan, and the Deputy Director General of Civil Aviation for Security, Arsen Poghosyan. 2. Movsesyan indicated that all the propose [...]	2007-06-15 11:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR KTIA AM
07YEREVAN782	FM OSKANIAN ON PUTIN'S GABALA STATION MISSILE [...] (U) Several Armenian media outlets quoted Foreign Minister Oskanian's comments on the Gabala idea during his interview on Kentron television. Oskanian commented that he saw no physical danger to Armenia from the proposed project, noting that the facility would only be a radar station, not an [...]	2007-06-15 12:00:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KMDR AM AJ RU
07YEREVAN783	CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM RESTRUCTURES INVESTIGATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian law enforcement is grappling with a major restructuring that strips the powerful Prosecutor General's or "Procuracy" organization of all its investigative functions and staff, transferring the investigators themselves into police agencies. The reform is an excellent one [...]	2007-06-15 12:47:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC KJUS KCRM KDEM KTIP HSTC
07YEREVAN785	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-May 2007 [...] The Letters of Request (LOR) for two FMF cases designed to enhance the Armenian EMEDS were forwarded to DSCA and SAF/IA on 23 May. One case is an amendment to the existing AM-D-EAA equipment case. This amendment will acquire additional medical and deployment equipment that will improve the capa [...]	2007-06-18 02:45:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
07YEREVAN788	KOCHARIAN DEAD SET AGAINST ATTENDING BSEC SUMMIT [...] (C) On June 16, Charge raised the issue of Armenia's attendance at the upcoming BSEC Summit with President Kocharian. Kocharian said that there was "absolutely no way" he would consider attending. In fact, he would have preferred that FM Oskanian also skip the event, but relented under Oska [...]	2007-06-18 09:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO OSCE TU AM

07YEREVAN794	ARMENIAN COURTS RULE ON ELECTION VIOLATION CASES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian courts continue to deliver verdicts for election fraud, with a total of six cases, affecting 15 individual defendants, now adjudicated. Verdicts have now been announced in five more cases. Three persons were sentenced to imprisonment for one or two years; one person wa [...]	2007-06-18 13:14:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM
07YEREVAN81	ARMENIANS REMEMBER HRANT DINK WITH VIGILS, MARCHES [...] Bearing signs that read "We are all Hrants," in acknowledgment of similar slogans borne by protesters in Istanbul, several thousand Armenians attended a January 23 memorial gathering for slain Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink at Yerevan's Freedom Square. Event organizers, a small ad hoc [...]	2007-01-24 10:42:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PGOV TU AM
07YEREVAN815	IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE DEMARCHE; MEDIA REPORT U.S. [...] (C) CDA and Pol/Econ chief delivered Ref A demarche points to FM Oskanian June 13. CDA also emphasized the continuing diplomatic and public relations disaster that Armenia's Iran engagement represents, given the context of UNSCRs and international consensus on the need to isolate Iran. He po [...]	2007-06-22 13:16:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETTC PREL KMDR IR AM
07YEREVAN827	NATO OFFICIAL UPBEAT ON ARMENIA'S IPAP PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: NATO's special Caucasus representative found much to praise after his June 21-22 visit. Top Armenian officials affirmed strong political commitment to defense reform goals and the NATO relationship, and IPAP benchmarks are on or ahead of schedule. END SUMMARY 2. (C) TOU [...]	2007-06-27 11:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MARR NATO AM
07YEREVAN829	RADIO LIBERTY MAY BE FORCED OFF THE AIR [...] (SBU) The National Assembly appears poised to enact a pair of laws that seem aimed directly at forcing RFE/RL off the airwaves. One provision will block state radio from airing the broadcasts, while a companion amendment in another law will impose hefty taxes on any commercial broadcaster airin [...]	2007-06-27 13:35:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM OPRC KMDR KPAO AM
07YEREVAN840	PRESSING THE CASE AGAINST LAW AIMED AT RADIO [...] (SBU) CDA worked the phones June 27-28 to raise our concerns about pending legislation that appears aimed at shutting down RFE/RL broadcasts in Armenia. He spoke with president chief of staff Armen Gevorgian, twice with State and Legal Affairs Committee chair David Harutyunian, and finally w [...]	2007-06-29 01:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM
07YEREVAN862	ARMENIAN BANKING SECTOR GETS SERIOUS [...] (U) Steady macroeconomic growth, stable inflation, a strong local currency and inspired, independent leadership at the Central Bank have given Armenia's banking sector room to grow. According to new data, the sector grew by more than 20 percent last year. Western banks, led by HSBC ten years [...]	2007-07-03 07:33:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID AM
07YEREVAN870	RADIO LIBERTY REPRIEVE: PARLIAMENT VOTE FAILS FOR [...] (SBU) Controversial draft amendments to the Radio and TV Law and State Duty Law (reftels),apparently aimed at RFE/RL, died in the National Assembly when the chamber failed to maintain a quorum. Sixty-six votes were necessary for the drafts to pass, the chamber was one voting-member shy, as a [...]	2007-07-06 12:29:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM
07YEREVAN884	NEW CHALLENGE TO RADIO LIBERTY BROADCASTS [...] SUMMARY: Radio Liberty's Armenian Service is again in jeopardy, as the state radio service gave 30 days notice of its intent to pull Radio Liberty off the air. The notice implies that the reason is Radio Liberty's unpaid bills to the public radio service, which now amount to either $76,000 ( [...]	2007-07-10 12:36:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO AM
07YEREVAN888	NEW CDA CALLS ON DFM KIRAKOSSIAN: RADIO LIBERTY, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge d'Affaires met Deputy Foreign Minister Kirakossian for initial GOAM courtesy call, (with FM Oskanian abroad),which then delved into substance. Kirakossian said he and his minister fully agreed with us on Radio Liberty, but urged CDA to raise it at higher levels. Kirakoss [...]	2007-07-12 05:53:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM HSTC KTIP AM TU
07YEREVAN893	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-June 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDC) held in Wash DC; South Caucasus and Moldova Clearing House (SCMCH) conducted in Tbilisi; U.S. Assessment of Armenian English language program concluded; ODC escorts key MOD leaders to DLI in San Antonio; Letter of Agreement for Nuclear, [...]	2007-07-13 05:51:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
07YEREVAN896	PRIME MINISTER ENCOURAGING ON RADIO LIBERTY; NOT [...] (C) CDA paid an introductory courtesy call on Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian July 12, accompanied by DCM and pol/econ chief. Sargsian joked that he had expected to get a permanent U.S. Ambassador, but failing that, he was very pleased to see CDA in Yerevan again. CDA affirmed that Washingto [...]	2007-07-13 10:06:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS MASS EAID KDEM AM IR
07YEREVAN901	CDA DISCUSSES PARLIAMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS IN [...] (C) CDA's introductory courtesy call on National Assembly Chairman Tigran Torossian focused, after initial pleasantries, on the embassy's plans for a new phase of assistance to the newly-elected parliament. Torossian allowed that he had not been completely satisfied with the previous iteratio [...]	2007-07-16 07:11:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID AM
07YEREVAN902	MFA ENGAGED ON POSSIBLE RESETTLEMENT OF [...] (C) Emboffs informally sounded out MFA International Organizations Director, Dziunik Aghajanian, July 11 about Armenia's attitude toward the possibility of resettling Iraqi-Armenians in Armenia, as mentioned ref A. We noted our understanding that the UNHCR was in preliminary discussions about [...]	2007-07-16 11:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL SMIG EAID AM IZ XF
07YEREVAN906	ARMENIA GETS FIRST FEMALE GOVERNOR, YET GOAM REMAINS HIGHLY [...] (SBU) On July 11 the GOAM appointed Armenia's first ever female governor to run the region of Shirak; despite this unexpected move, Armenian executive and legislative bodies remain starkly underrepresented by women. END SUMMARY. ------------------ A FEMALE GOVERNOR! ------------------ [...]	2007-07-17 03:02:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KWMN PINR AM
07YEREVAN914	FM OSKANIAN DISCUSSES RADIO LIBERTY, NDI, IRAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his initial call July 16, CDA renewed our concerns about forced stoppage of Radio Liberty (RL) broadcasts, but mentioned that the Prime Minister's reply had been somewhat encouraging on this. He highlighted ongoing Washington concerns about Armenia's relationship with Iran, [...]	2007-07-17 13:49:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM TU IR
07YEREVAN926	PRIME MINISTER UNDERSCORES COMMITMENT TO U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Sargsian hosted CDA and DCM to a private dinner July 18, for a long evening of vodka toasts and frank conversation, by way of welcome to CDA and farewell to DCM. The overarching message of the event was the Prime Minister's clear intent to sustain a close working r [...]	2007-07-20 10:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AM
07YEREVAN93	CHARGE CLEARS THE AIR ON ELECTION ASSISTANCE, MCA CRITERIA, [...] (SBU) On January 24, the Charge d'Affaires, accompanied by the MCC Armenia Country Director, held a press conference that received wide-spread coverage. During the press conference, the Charge focused on U.S. assistance programs, including the Millennium Challenge program and the Embassy's USD [...]	2007-01-29 09:43:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC KMDR KPAO AM
07YEREVAN935	KOCHARIAN ON RADIO LIBERY, NDI, HR CASES, IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an almost 90 minute introductory call by the CDA, President Kocharian defended his positions on Radio Liberty, NDI, and human rights cases in a friendly but unbending manner. He was determined to move Radio Liberty broadcasts from state radio to a private network, but emphat [...]	2007-07-23 14:03:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM IR
07YEREVAN939	IRANIAN FM VISIT PROMPTS WEAK DEFENSE FROM FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranian FM Mottaki was received by Armenia's president, prime minister, and foreign minister, and energy minister during his July 20 visit to Yerevan to take part in the 7th annual Armenian-Iranian inter-governmental economic commission. Armenian leaders were unhelpfully positive [...]	2007-07-24 14:13:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KMDR IR AM
07YEREVAN97	TERRORIST FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF DOCKRATS - [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-30 09:15:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC PTER EFIN KTFN PREL AM
07YEREVAN984	SURVEY SHOWS HERITAGE PARTY THE BIG WINNER OF THE MAY 12 [...] (SBU) A recent USAID-funded poll has found that Raffi Hovannisian and his Heritage party gained the greatest increase in recognition and popularity following the May 12 Armenian Parliamentary elections. The poll further showed that the vast majority of the Armenian electorate has very little c [...]	2007-08-03 10:40:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AM
07YEREVAN998	SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-July 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Large FMF equipment shipment for 12th Peacekeeping Battalion arrives; Received Defense Language Institute assessment of Armenian English language training programs; Armenian OIF contingent deploys; Awaiting Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) to be approved [...]	2007-08-07 10:32:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP KCFE XG AM
07ZAGREB100	CROATIA INTRODUCES SURCHARGES ON RECORDABLE [...] Summary: Croatia has implemented a system of surcharges on recordable media (CDs, DVDs, burners, etc.) in an effort to offset the losses to the entertainment industry from digital piracy. The new system of surcharges went into effect on January 1, 2007 and is evaluated bi-monthly to assess [...]	2007-01-29 15:05:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KIPR ETRD HR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
07ZAGREB1000	WITNESSES FAIL TO APPEAR AT WAR CRIMES ICTY [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The ICTY prosecutor's office (OTP) has sent a strongly-worded letter to the GOC's Ministry of Justice (MOJ) expressing concern about the progress of the Ademi-Norac war crimes case, which resumed again the week of October 29. To date, about 45 percent of witnesses for [...]	2007-11-07 13:14:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KAWC HR
07ZAGREB1006	OSCE: CAN WE CLOSE THE CROATIA MISSION? [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-13 09:15:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL HR
07ZAGREB1009	CROATIAN RESPONSE ON MID-NOVEMBER IAEA REPORT [...] (C) PolOff reviewed reftel points with Ambassador Mario Horvatic, Croatia's IAEA Governor, on November 8. Horvatic said that Croatia agrees that the IAEA Work Plan could represent a positive step toward resolution of the crisis, but "only if Iran implements its commitments." He appreciated ou [...]	2007-11-14 12:48:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IR HR IAEA AORC
07ZAGREB101	GOC COMMITTED TO ADRIATIC LNG PROJECT [...] (C) Summary: Croatian Assistant Minister of Economy for Energy Zeljko Tomsic told Econ Off that Croatia remains committed to building an LNG terminal on the Adriatic coast, despite press rumors that the project may be in jeopardy. Tomsic said that the GOC is very concerned about energy securi [...]	2007-01-29 15:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON HR ENERGY
07ZAGREB1011	NATO ROAD SHOW VISIT TO CROATIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: USNATO PermRep Victoria Nuland led an inter-agency "NATO Road Show" visit to Zagreb on November 9. President Mesic, Prime Minister Sanader, Foreign Minister Kitarovic and Defense Minister Roncevic all expressed confidence to the U.S. delegation that Croatia was well-prepared for [...]	2007-11-15 09:59:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS NATO HR
07ZAGREB1013	NO EXPECTATIONS OF MAJOR CHANGES TO UNGA [...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 15 November 2007. Dogan does not expect the GOC to support amendments watering down or otherwise altering the focus of the UNGA Third Committee resolutio [...]	2007-11-15 13:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC KWMN SOCI UNGA
07ZAGREB1014	ELECTIONS 2007 - THE HDZ AT A GLANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As part of our series of pre-election reporting (REFS A and B),this cable looks at the prospects for the ruling HDZ to remain in power. Less than ten days before November 25 parliamentary (Sabor) elections, the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) remains locked in a dead he [...]	2007-11-16 11:49:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1015	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----18 October, met with the Ministry of Interior (MoI) General Police Directorate, Deputy Head of Border Police to present the Coast Guard Toughbook computer donation and finalize coordination of the Coast Guard Port Asset Protection and Security Tra [...]	2007-11-16 14:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB1017	CROATIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. FOR IMO COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-19 08:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC IMO EWWT PHSA UK HR
07ZAGREB1018	LITTLE IMPACT ON CROATIA-MONTENEGRO RELATIONS FROM [...] (SBU) Discussing the 4 November arrest of Montenegrin Navy Captain Ilija Brcic, Montenegrin First Counselor Vesna Nikcevic told PolOff that she expects Brcic will eventually be extradited to Croatia where he will face a new trial following his 1993 conviction in absentia. Nikcevic claimed the [...]	2007-11-19 14:29:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR HR MW IT WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB1019	(U) DEMARCHE ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-20 08:22:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIA PHUM PREL HR
07ZAGREB1021	ELECTIONS 2007: PROFILE OF THE MAIN CHALLENGER -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: This cable, part of our series (ref A) leading up Croatia's November 25 parliamentary elections, looks at the prospects for the opposition Social Democratic Party, the only serious challenger to the ruling HDZ. Having entered the election season confident it would oust the HDZ, t [...]	2007-11-20 08:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB1024	ELECTIONS 2007 - THE DIASPORA VOTE [...] (U) This cable, the fifth in our series of pre-election reports (reftels),focuses on Croatia's unique institution of diaspora-elected parliamentary seats. With polls predicting a very close race between the ruling Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ) and the opposition Social-Democratic Party [...]	2007-11-20 15:10:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB1025	PRELIMINARY REPORT OF ODIHR LIMITED ELECTION [...] SUMMARY: The OSCE/ODIHR's Limited Election Observation Mission (LEOM) to Croatia released its interim report on November 20. All indicators point toward free and fair elections conducted in line with the established legal framework, but the report does draw particular attention to the new La [...]	2007-11-21 11:44:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR OSCE POLITICAL PARTIES ELECTIONS
07ZAGREB1026	LUNCHEON WITH PRESIDENT MESIC TO DISCUSS BALKAN [...] (C) President Mesic, accompanied by his foreign policy advisors Budimir Loncar and Tomislav Jakic, hosted Ambassador Bradtke and POL chief for lunch on November 20. The discussion focused on Loncar's meeting with Serbian President Tadic in Belgrade on November 14. Tadic had floated a proposa [...]	2007-11-21 11:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR SR BK
07ZAGREB1027	CROATIA: RESPONSE FOR INFORMATION ON HOST [...] (SBU) Embassy Zagreb provides the following responses to reftel request for information regarding Croatia's policies toward and capabilities for collection of biographic and biometric data for terrorist screening purposes. Responses are keyed to questions in reftel. The information provided [...]	2007-11-21 15:07:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC DHLS HR
07ZAGREB1028	ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT - NOVEMBER 21, 2007 [...] (U) In order to ensure broader distribution to potential readers, Embassy Zagreb is changing the format of its previous email Activity Reports to a weekly cable wrap-up of events at Post in Croatia. Today's cable is the first edition. 2. (U) President Mesic Urges Belgrade to Stop Fomentin [...]	2007-11-21 16:01:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1029	ELECTIONS 2007: WHEN DOES A WIN BECOME A VICTORY? [...] (SBU) This cable is the final one in Post's series of pre-election reports leading up to Croatia's November 25 parliamentary (Sabor) elections. Polls indicate Croatia's November 25 elections are too close to call. One certainty is that neither of the two largest parties -- the ruling Croatia [...]	2007-11-23 14:04:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB103	OSCE ZAGREB PLANS CLOSURE BY END OF 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: OSCE Zagreb Deputy Head of Mission (and retired FSO) Todd Becker briefed DCM January 22 on plans to bring the substantive work of the Mission to a close by December 31, 2007. HOM Jorge Fuentes was convinced that with a concerted push by both the OSCE and the Croati [...]	2007-01-30 12:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OSCE HR
07ZAGREB1030	OSCE MADRID MINISTERIAL - DEMARCHE DELIVERY [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Pjer Simunovic November 20. Simunovic was particularly appreciative of language calling for OSCE to close or minimize its mission in Croatia. This is clearly Zagreb's top priority in Madrid, but Simunovic stressed tha [...]	2007-11-23 14:22:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL PGOV PHUM
07ZAGREB1032	CROATIAN RESPONSE ON BILATERAL SOFA LANGUAGE [...] (U) Croatian FM Grabar-Kitarovic on November 22 sent a letter to the Ambassador stating her "belief" that the language regarding "other appropriate US control" of US personnel (proposed in reftel) and the subsequent explanations (provided in ref emails),is "appropriate...thus contributing to [...]	2007-11-23 15:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR NATO HR
07ZAGREB1033	CROATIAN REACTION TO IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL'S [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Pjer Simunovic November 15 and discussed issue with him again November 20. Simunovic agreed that IAEA Director General ElBaradei's report was not one to celebrate, revealing little new information about Iran's current [...]	2007-11-23 15:06:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM AORC HR
07ZAGREB1034	GLOBAL INITIATIVE - DETECTION ARCHITECTURE [...] Post delivered reftel document to Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Pjer Simunovic November 20 and he repeated GoC support for the Global Initiative. Just ahead of November 25 Parliamentary elections, he was unable to name a definitive POC or commit to attendance at the proposed January w [...]	2007-11-23 15:19:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PTER EAIR ETRD EWWT PREL PINR PINS HR
07ZAGREB1035	(S) SHOCK CHAMBER FOR IRAN'S MISSILE PROGRAM - [...] (S) Post delivered name of German firm attempting to provide a thermal shock chamber to Iran's missile program to MFA's head of international security Sanja Bujas-Juraga in early October and followed up with her again on November 20. She reported that she has passed the name to all relevant ag [...]	2007-11-23 15:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC MTCR KSCA GM IR HR
07ZAGREB1036	INITIAL RESULTS OF CROATIA'S ELECTIONS: RULING [...] (U) With 95 percent of precincts reporting, the unofficial results from Croatia's November 25 parliamentary elections show the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) won 61 seats within Croatia, while the rival Social Democratic Party (SDP) won 56. The HDZ has also likely won 5 seats for repr [...]	2007-11-26 12:48:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1037	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] (SBU) PolOff discussed ref A sale of AN/PRC 77 radio parts to Bangladesh MOD with Drago Pensa, head of Tradel D.O.O., on November 26. Pensa reported that Tradel serves as sales agent for ECOM Technologies of Cincinnati, OH, for certain countries where Tradel has historically done business, in [...]	2007-11-26 13:58:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KOMC ETTC BG HR EXPORT CONTROL
07ZAGREB1040	CODEL TANNER - CROATIA STOPS (FEB 21-24, 2008) [...] Embassy Zagreb welcomes the planned visit of CODEL Tanner to Croatia (Zagreb/Dubrovnik) February 21-24, 2008. 2. Embassy Zagreb control officer for this CODEL will be Political Officer Tom Selinger. (Office: 385-1-661-2260; Fax: 385-1-661-2178; Home: 385-1-467-4396; Cell: 385-91-455-1017; [...]	2007-11-28 11:51:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NATO AORC BE FR HR
07ZAGREB1041	PAKISTAN NUCLEAR FACILITY: GOC SEEKS ADVICE ON [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Head of MFA's Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga requested USG guidance from EconOff November 28 regarding renewal of a services export license for Croatian nuclear scientists to offer technical training in "Sym [...]	2007-11-28 13:50:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC PREL PK HR EXPORT CONTROL
07ZAGREB1042	NO SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE ON ELECTION FOR THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-28 15:17:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNGA
07ZAGREB1043	CROATIAN UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN BUT STILL HIGH [...] SUMMARY: Despite a steady decline in recent years, the Croatian unemployment rate remains high, at 11.8%. One contributing factor is a mismatch between the skills job-seekers have and those employers want. The mismatch stems from two situations: students are pursuing the "wrong" majors, and wor [...]	2007-11-28 16:27:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ELAB HR
07ZAGREB1044	CROATIA 2007 INCSR REPORT - PART II: FINANCIAL CRIMES AND [...] Below is post's submission per reftel of part II of the INCSR on money laundering. 2. Croatia is a middle income transition economy that is neither a financial center nor a venue of choice for money laundering activities. Tourism and services make up the largest portion of GDP. Croatian [...]	2007-11-29 07:36:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KCRM KTFN HR
07ZAGREB1045	GOC WILL NOT ATTEND NEW DELHI CONFERENCE ON AVIAN AND [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-29 09:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL HR
07ZAGREB1047	ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT - NOVEMBER 28, 2007 [...] (SBU) COALITION NEGOTIATIONS GET UNDERWAY IN EARNEST: After the tight result in Croatia's Nov. 25 elections (REF A),the two major parties -- the ruling HDZ and the opposition SDP -- have begun a series of contacts with the handful of available smaller parties in an effort to attract the eleve [...]	2007-11-29 13:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1048	HDZ LOOKING MORE LIKELY TO FORM GOVERNING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: SDP Vice-President Antunovic told the Ambassador on November 28 that her party still believes they "have a chance" to form the government, and have not given up. But other contacts, including SDP advisor Grdesic, increasingly indicate that it is more likely the HDZ w [...]	2007-11-29 14:27:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1049	UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR: CROATIA [...] Summary: Child labor is not a significant problem in Croatia. Croatia has a strong institutional and legal framework for protecting the rights of minors and a good track record of taking action to prevent child labor. Problems are isolated and infrequent and are addressed effectively by author [...]	2007-11-30 12:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID HR
07ZAGREB1050	CROATIA TO FOLLOW EU ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH [...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 29 November 2007. The GOC plans to vote with the EU on all of the referenced UNGA resolutions. BRADTKE [...]	2007-11-30 13:34:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA IS
07ZAGREB1052	War Crimes Indictee Re-Elected, But Unlikely to Regain [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Right-wing parties suffered defeat at the polls last weekend with the loss of almost two-thirds of their seats in Parliament; however a side issue remains following the re-election of war crimes indictee and regional party leader Branimir Glavas to Parliament. The strong-man of [...]	2007-11-30 14:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KAWC ICTY PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1053	Police Make Major Seizures of Heroin, Cocaine [...] Last week Croatian Police announced the seizure of seven kilograms of heroin in two border searches into Croatia. In one action on 22 November, border police apprehended two Macedonians who were crossing the Serbian-Croatian border at Bajakovo with 2 kilograms of heroin, Heptanon and other nar [...]	2007-11-30 14:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM SNAR PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1054	MILANOVIC REPLACES JURCIC AS SDP'S CANDIDATE FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-30 14:46:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1060	ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] (SBU) COALITION NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE BETWEEN HDZ AND HSS/HSLS GROUP: On December 3, the ruling HDZ began formal talks on a possible coalition agreement with the Croatian Peasants/Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSS/HSLS) group that holds eight parliamentarians. Initial meetings on December 3 [...]	2007-12-05 15:44:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AMGT HR
07ZAGREB1061	CROATIA'S RIGHT-WING - STILL CONSERVATIVE, BUT LESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a stunning blow to right-wing politics across Croatia, the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) lost 7 parliamentary seats in the November 25 parliamentary elections. Despite attempts to repackage itself as a mainstream alternative to the dominant Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ),t [...]	2007-12-06 08:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB1062	FM KITAROVIC ON OSCE MADRID MINISTERIAL [...] (U) Ambassador and PolChief had lunch on December 5 with FM Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic and State Secretary Hido Biscevic, subsequent to their return from the OSCE Ministerial in Madrid, and to follow up on FM Kitarovic's bilateral meeting there with U/S Burns. 2. (C) Kitarovic and Biscevic sa [...]	2007-12-06 08:54:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE SR SW BE HR
07ZAGREB1065	CROATIA'S FISHING ZONE - A TRAIN WRECK IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS) and its 6 seats in parliament are nearly certain to be a member of any governing coalition formed after Croatia's November 25 elections. The HSS has said a primary condition for its joining any coalition is application of Croatia's Protected Ec [...]	2007-12-06 15:04:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIS SENV PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1068	PEASANT PARTY PERSPECTIVE ON COALITION NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) PolChief met with Stanko Grcic, Secretary General of the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS),to discuss on-going coalition negotiations between the HSS, its electoral partner the Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) and the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). The HSS, with six seats in th [...]	2007-12-10 14:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1069	CROATIAN SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS IN [...] Ref A points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 10 December 2007. The GOC, which supported the resolutions discussed in refs, plans to be present during the Plenary vote in mid-December. BRADTKE [...]	2007-12-10 14:05:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV UNGA
07ZAGREB1070	ZAGREB TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-12 10:39:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN HR
07ZAGREB1072	ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT--DECEMBER 12, 2007 [...] (SBU) COALITION NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE, FINAL ELECTION RESULTS DUE DEC. 13: Due to minor irregularities in the first round on November 25, a handful of polling stations around Croatia had to re-run their vote on December 9. The number of voters was too small to have any impact on final results [...]	2007-12-12 15:12:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1073	CROATIAN RESPONSE ON KOSOVO POINTS [...] (SBU) POL Chief on December 11 delivered reftel points to Neven Pelicaric, Assistant Foreign Minister with responsibility for Southeast Europe and relations with the EU. 2. (C) Pelicaric confirmed what we have heard repeatedly from Croatian officals; Croatia would "not be the very first to d [...]	2007-12-13 10:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR SR KO
07ZAGREB1074	Ademi-Norac Trial Transferred from ICTY Continues, [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. The trial of Croatian Army Generals Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac, the only so-called 11 bis case transferred from the ICTY to Croatia, continued throughout November in Zagreb. The two are the highest-ranking Croatian military officers to be tried for war crimes in do [...]	2007-12-13 13:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KAWC ICTY PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1082	PRIME MINISTER SANADER RECEIVES MANDATE TO TRY AND [...] As forecast in REF A, on December 15 President Stipe Mesic gave the mandate to Prime Minister Ivo Sanader to try and form a new government led by Sanader's HDZ party, based on the results of Croatia's November 25 parliamentary elections. The official final results of the Nov. 25 elections have [...]	2007-12-17 15:00:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1087	NO CHANGE IN PLENARY VOTE ON FUNDING OF DURBAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-18 14:15:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNGA
07ZAGREB1089	ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT - DECEMBER 19, 2007 [...] (U) RETURN TO SENDER - CROATIA PROTESTS ITALIAN STAMP: On 12 December 2007 the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration sent a letter of protest to the Italian Republic over the issuance of a postage stamp. The stamp, issued by the Italian Post Office, depicts the Croatia [...]	2007-12-19 13:34:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB109	ILLNESS TAKES MAIN OPPOSITION LEADER "TEMPORARILY" OUT OF [...] (U) Social Democratic party (SDP) leader and former PM Ivica Racan told the press January 31 that he will "temporarily" withdraw from active politics pending the results of surgery and therapy for an "atypical" tumor. Racan's deputy party president (and defense minister in the 2000-2003 coali [...]	2007-02-01 06:18:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1092	TWENTY SIX ARRESTED FOR CORRUPTION IN LAND [...] (C) Summary: The Croatian Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime (USKOK) arrested 26 people on December 11 following a year-long corruption sting in the Zagreb land registry office. The accused include six employees of the land registry, several court officials, lawyers [...]	2007-12-20 15:13:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KCOR HR
07ZAGREB1094	CROATIAN ELECTIONS: CAMPAIGN SPENDING FIGURES AND [...] Following the November 25 parliamentary elections in Croatia, Transparency International Croatia (TIH) and GONG, an election monitoring organization, have published their report on campaign spending. During the official campaign season 3 - 23 November, Croatian political parties spent more t [...]	2007-12-21 13:35:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB1095	INAUGURAL MEETING OF CROATIA VISA WAIVER WORKING GROUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In November, the Croatian MFA hosted the first meeting of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) Working Group. Embassy participants, including the DCM, Political Counselor, Consul, Econ Officer, and the RSO, presented the requirements for a country to be considered for inclusion in the V [...]	2007-12-21 14:47:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS CMGT PREL KFRD HR
07ZAGREB112	CROATIA KEEPS TOURISM INDUSTRY AT THE FOREFRONT [...] Summary. Croatian officials are proclaiming 2006 as another banner year for tourism while, at the same time, warning the industry not to rest on its laurels and encouraging improvements in existing facilities and infrastructure, green-field investments and creation of new products and services. [...]	2007-02-01 14:05:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EIND HR
07ZAGREB12	CROATIA WILL FOLLOW EU LEAD ON DRONABINOL AND ORIPAVIN [...] Reftel points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department for the United Nations on December 8, 2006. Government of Croatia responded to points on January 4, 2007. As Croatia is in the process of negotiation with the EU regarding beco [...]	2007-01-04 12:42:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SNAR UNCND UNCRIME HR EU
07ZAGREB122	CROATIA AND SLOVENIA AT ODDS OVER MARITIME [...] (C) Summary: The long-standing dispute between Croatia and Slovenia over their maritime boundary flared up this week when the GOC renewed a 2001 concession to its national oil and gas company INA for exploration in the Northern Adriatic. With rhetoric that was more heated than usual in this [...]	2007-02-02 15:56:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EWWT ENRG ECON HR SI REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB131	SHIPBOARDING AGREEMENT RATIFIED, PSI EXERCISE IN [...] Parliament on February 2 ratified the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Shipboarding Agreement that the GoC had signed with the USG in June 2005. The reciprocal agreement, which facilitates PSI cooperation by establishing contacts and procedures to expedite requests to board and search [...]	2007-02-06 07:18:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL KNNP MNUC HR NON PROLIFERATION
07ZAGREB133	GOC PLANS NEW PRIVATIZATIONS AFTER LONG HIATUS [...] (SBU) Summary: After being stalled for the past two years, the Croatian government is finally moving forward with the privatization of some of the most problematic assets in the government's still large portfolio. Privatization is unpopular with the Croatian public, which equates the process w [...]	2007-02-06 14:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPRV ECON EINV HR
07ZAGREB137	CROATIAN MINISTERS SUPPORT A-3 PROCESS IN TALLINN, OFFER TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: At the February 5-6 ministerial meeting in Tallinn of the U.S.-Adriatic Charter members and observers with the three new Baltic NATO members, Croatian Foreign Minister Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic and Defense Minister Berislav Roncevic expressed the GOC's strong determi [...]	2007-02-08 06:13:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR NATO HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB143	ZAGREB QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - OCTOBER 2006 - JANUARY [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-08 11:54:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC HR
07ZAGREB145	TRADITIONAL SLAVONIAN REGION GEARS UP FOR NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: With momentum building toward national elections expected in November, center-left parties in Slavonia, the traditional rural heartland of continental Croatia, seem less active and enthusiastic than those on the right. This could be the result of savvy public relati [...]	2007-02-08 15:12:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB149	CROATIANS FULLY SUPPORTIV ON AHTISAARI PLAN FOR [...] (C) Drawing on reftel points, DCM February 2 briefed MFA Assistant Minister for Europe Neven Pelicaric about US views on the Ahtisaari proposal on Kosovo's final status. 2. (C) Pelicaric said the GOC would fully support the Contact Group position on the issue. He felt this was an excellent [...]	2007-02-09 14:59:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YI HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB158	CROATIA OFFERS COMPROMISE ON KEY REFUGEE ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: At a February 2 meeting near Dubrovnik, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin officials met with OSCE, UNHCR and EC reps to plan the wrap-up of the "Sarajevo Process," a regional approach to refugee issues involving targets set by each country (the individual "R [...]	2007-02-13 09:15:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV HR REFUGEES
07ZAGREB159	CROATIAN PROSECUTOR LEADS THE REGION IN "PALIC [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic told Ambassador Bradtke and Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson on February 7 that he has transferred evidence in five war crimes cases to Belgrade War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic under an October 2006 [...]	2007-02-13 09:56:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM HR WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB163	CROATIAN CENTRAL BANK MOVES TO LIMIT CREDIT GROWTH [...] (SBU) Summary: Increasingly concerned by high credit growth, Croatia's Central Bank moved recently to further limit lending by the country's banks. The new measures aim to limit credit growth to 12 percent annually, a significant drop from the 20 percent plus growth of the last several years. [...]	2007-02-13 15:02:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN HR
07ZAGREB164	NEW VIGOR IN CROATIA IPR ENFORCEMENT [...] Summary and Comment: The number of criminal charges brought by the Croatian Ministry of Interior for violations of IPR statutes rose 89% in 2006. Although Croatia's legal framework for IPR protection is in accordance with international standards, enforcement has often lagged. The fact that mo [...]	2007-02-13 15:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV KIPR HR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
07ZAGREB167	PRESIDENTIAL SPARRING IN THE PRESS OVER ANNUAL [...] (SBU) In a sharply worded statement February 12, Croatian President Mesic expressed "unpleasant surprise" at Italian President Napolitano's remarks at the annual February 10 Italian commemoration of ugly WWII-era massacres of Italians by Yugoslav anti-fascist Partisans. The Croatian press in [...]	2007-02-14 14:54:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB168	CROATIAN PRESIDENT SUPPORTS AHTISAARI PLAN FOR [...] (U) Ambassador met July 13 with President Stjepan Mesic to discuss the Ahtisaari plan for Kosovo final status. Other issues covered septel. 2. (C) The Ambassador began by noting that he had been in touch with US Kosovo envoy Frank Wisner, who had expressed appreciation for presidential f [...]	2007-02-14 15:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR YI REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB173	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES NATO, PROPERTY RESTITUTION, [...] (SBU) Ambassador met July 13 with Croatian President Stjepan Mesic to discuss Afghanistan, NATO, property restitution, and commercial issues. Their discussion of Kosovo and the Italy-Croatia dispute on Italian victims of Partisan atrocities during WWII are covered septel. NATO Preparations [...]	2007-02-15 14:48:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ETRD CASC HR AF NATO KIDE
07ZAGREB175	BREAKTHROUGH ON PATENT LINKAGE IN CROATIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Croatian State Intellectual Property Office signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation with the State Drug Agency on February 15, initiating cooperation on intellectual property protection for the first time. This agreement, which came about after extensive Embassy [...]	2007-02-16 12:30:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KIPR HR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
07ZAGREB178	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----04 January, met with Minister of Interior (MoI),Deputy Head, Border Police (BP) Directorate, to discuss the FBI Terrorism and WMD Proliferation and Coast Guard Port Security trainings scheduled for January and February respectively, along with pl [...]	2007-02-16 15:04:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB182	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PROPERTY RESTITUTION, EXTRADITION, AND [...] (SBU) Ambassador met February 15 with Croatian Justice Minister Ana Lovrin to discuss property restitution, negotiations on a new extradition treaty between the U.S. and Croatia, and witness support. Property Restitution 2. (SBU) The Ambassador reminded Lovrin of their July 2006 discussi [...]	2007-02-20 13:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KIDE KTIA CJAN CASC HR
07ZAGREB183	CROATIA 2007 SPECIAL 301 RECOMMENDATION [...] (SBU) Summary and Recommendation: In light of the recent establishment of a mechanism of patent linkage and improving enforcement of IPR generally, Post recommends that Croatia be removed from the Special 301 Watch List this year. Special 301 was a useful tool for effecting improvements in Cr [...]	2007-02-20 13:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KIPR HR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

07ZAGREB184	STABILITY PACT TRANSITION ENGAGES THE SEECP [...] (U) Summary: The February 14-15 meeting of the Stability Pact transition Institutions Working Group (IWG) in Zagreb successfully resolved most fundamental issues related to the creation of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) as the successor regional structure to replace the Stability Pact [...]	2007-02-21 06:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON EAID SR HR EUN MI RO BU GR BK MW YI TU
07ZAGREB189	HOST COUNTRY PRACTICE SURVEY: CROATIA HAS NO EXPERIENCE [...] The Croatian Government recognizes the obligations of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. MFA does routinely notify the Embassy of the arrest or detention of American citizens, though there may be a delay of several days between the detention and our receipt of MFA's not [...]	2007-02-22 09:55:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC HR
07ZAGREB19	EMBASSY ZAGREB RESPONSE TO DOGGETT AMENDMENT INQUIRY [...] In response to reftel, there has been (1) no support of Croatia's tobacco control efforts, (2) no cases where post took action on behalf of tobacco or tobacco products, (3) no cases of tobacco industry requesting assistance from the U.S. Embassy and (4) no documents related to specific measures [...]	2007-01-08 12:04:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD HR
07ZAGREB193	MFA HIGHLIGHTS NATO PUBLIC EDUCATION PLAN AT JOINT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-22 14:57:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS MARR NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM PGOV PREL
07ZAGREB197	CROATIA'S FURTHER EXTENSION OF INTERNATIONAL POLICE [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-23 14:59:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KCRM HR IZ
07ZAGREB198	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: END-USER CHECK ON LICENSE [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-23 15:00:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC HR EXPORT CONTROL
07ZAGREB202	MARCH 2 ZAGREB MINISTERIAL TO ENDORSE NEW COOPERATIVE [...] Croatian MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic previewed for the diplomatic corps February 26 the upcoming March 2 South East Europe Cooperative Process (SEECP) Foreign Ministerial. His presentation was brief but emphasized that regional relations have matured sufficiently to permit regional [...]	2007-02-27 06:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON HR
07ZAGREB208	ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT FOR [...] (SBU) Post is pleased to submit its Annual Anti-Trafficking in Persons Report. In 2006, Croatia was ranked as tier two and Post recommends retaining that ranking for the current reporting period. The Government of Croatia (GOC) continued to improve its cooperation with NGOs to identify and ass [...]	2007-03-01 14:35:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB HR
07ZAGREB218	CROATIAN PM NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT USG HOPES FOR [...] (C) Ambassador and DCM met March 2 with PM Ivo Sanader to discuss the way ahead on Bosnian constitutional reform, promoting the existing package of US-brokered reform measures as laid out in ref A. 2. (C) Sanader said the USG-supported revisions would not succeed and would be a divisive ele [...]	2007-03-05 15:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM PINR BK EUN HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB219	CROATIAN ICJ STRATEGY AFTER BIH VERDICT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: While the Croatian media reacted with outrage to the recent International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling finding Serbia not responsible for genocide in BiH, official GoC reaction has been decidedly measured. While still waiting for the ICJ to accept its own genocide [...]	2007-03-05 15:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KAWC PGOV HR WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB220	SEECP FOREIGN MINISTERS MOVE POSITIVELY ON STABILITY PACT [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: The March 2 SEECP Foreign Ministers meeting in Zagreb saw positive movement on the Stability Pact transition process to a new SEECP-led regional cooperation framework. The Ministers approved a methodology for selecting both the new Secretary General and the location [...]	2007-03-06 07:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EU HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB224	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----02 February, accompanied the Minister of Interior (MoI),Deputy Head, Border Police (BP) Directorate, to Slovonia to meet with Osijek and Vinkovci District Chiefs to discuss border issues and monitor the opening session of the MoI Sensor Deploymen [...]	2007-03-06 12:11:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB225	CROATIAN PM TELLS AMBASSADOR CROATIA SUPPORTS [...] (C) During a meeting on other subjects (septel) March 2, Croatian PM Ivo Sanader told the Ambassador that Croatia completely supported the Ahtisaari plan on Kosovo's final status. Belgrade was upset with the GOC over their public support for Ahtisaari, which Sanader said he regretted, but San [...]	2007-03-06 12:50:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN HR YI REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB227	ICTY SEES LOCAL NGOS AS CREDIBLE TRIAL MONITORS [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Croatian NGOs Documenta and the Center for Peace, Nonviolence, and Human Rights discussed their recently released annual war crimes trial monitoring report with judicial officials at a March 3 roundtable in Zagreb. Panelists, including a judge, a prosecutor, a law pro [...]	2007-03-06 14:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KAWC PGOV HR WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB243	MORE COORDINATION AGAINST MONEY LAUNDERING BUT [...] (C) Summary: The recent establishment of an inter-ministerial working group on money laundering is a positive development in Croatia's weak institutional framework for tackling economic crime. The aim of the new working group, comprised of eleven different ministries, agencies and offices is [...]	2007-03-09 10:29:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN KCOR KTFN HR
07ZAGREB25	INFORMATION REGARDING UNSCR 1737 DELIVERED TO GOC [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-09 12:06:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MNUC HR IR
07ZAGREB253	DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM DELIVERED [...] Poloff delivered ref points on March 14 to Andrej Dogan, UN Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration. There was no immediate substantive response. Bradtke [...]	2007-03-15 12:38:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC APER PREL ACABQ UNGA HR
07ZAGREB258	CROATIA NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH MONTENEGRO [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Since Montenegro's independence in 2006, Croatian leaders have moved quickly to normalize relations with Podgorica. This positive dialogue intensified in 2007 with official visits to Montenegro by PM Ivo Sanader and Speaker of Parliament Vladimir Seks, and was capped [...]	2007-03-16 10:29:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KAWC MW HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB259	LIBYA: GOC SEEKS ADVICE ON CONVENTIONAL ARMS [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Agency Alan, the MoD's arms marketing agency, has unofficially approached Post seeking guidance on conventional arms sales to Libya. Alan General Manager Ivan Nekic told PolOff February 28 that he believes the L [...]	2007-03-16 14:36:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC PREL LY HR ARMS CONTROL
07ZAGREB262	AUSTRALIA GROUP: CROATIAN GRATEFUL FOR U.S. SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-19 12:10:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CBW ETTC HR
07ZAGREB264	ANTI-TIP TRAINING FOR CROATIAN JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Embassy Zagreb and the Government of Croatia (GOC) are working together to train Croatian prosecutors and judges in preventing and prosecuting trafficking in persons (TIP) crimes. Two specialized seminars for trial and investigative judges, as well as for prosecutors, were [...]	2007-03-19 13:17:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN HR TRAFFICKING
07ZAGREB265	NATO ROUNDTABLE REFLECTS ENTIRE NGO SPECTRUM [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Nearly 20 local NGOs and a dozen leading academics debated the pros and cons of Croatia's NATO candidacy at a March 13 roundtable organized by DEFIMI, a scientific research NGO focused on defense and security issues which receives some government funding. Participating NGO [...]	2007-03-19 14:55:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB275	CROATIA PROMOTES REGIONAL COOPERATION FOR TRANSPORT OF [...] (U) The Croatian State Institute for Radiation Protection, and the Office for Nuclear Safety, organized a March 20-21 meeting of representatives from Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia to discuss cooperation in the control of transport of heavy metal waste a [...]	2007-03-22 14:48:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETTC HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB28	CROATIAN ANTI-TIP EFFORTS PAY OFF IN 2006; 1 TIP and 2 [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: As part of the Government of Croatia's coherent and well-structured approach to fighting trafficking in persons (TIP),GOC successfully prosecuted several trafficking cases, increasing the numbers of TIP and TIP-related convictions to five in 2006. Embassy Zagreb commends G [...]	2007-01-09 15:07:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL HR TRAFFICKING
07ZAGREB284	CROATIA TO FOLLOW EU LEAD ON ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-23 14:30:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM ZI HR HUMAN RIGHTS
07ZAGREB285	Commerce DAS Dyck meets Croatian Ministers of Economy and [...] SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce Paul Dyck discussed possible investment opportunities in Croatia with Croatia's Minister of Economy and Minister of Finance. Dyck also commended Croatia for its economic progress, notably in working to resolve IPR issues. He also raised concerns e [...]	2007-03-26 05:47:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV HR
07ZAGREB292	RIGHT-WING COALITION WINS PLURALITY IN EARLY LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: A coalition of three parties ranging from the far-right Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) to the center-right Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) and the moderate Croatian Social-Liberal Party (HSLS) won 10 of 25 seats in local elections held March 18 in Slavonski Brod. The gr [...]	2007-03-27 11:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB294	CROATIA FULLY SUPPORTIVE OF UNSCR 1747 [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-27 15:24:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PARM AORC KNNP IAEA MNUC UNSC IR HR
07ZAGREB313	AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; STATE-DOD CONTACTS IN [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-02 12:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU ECON MARR MASS CASC EAGR
07ZAGREB317	CROATIAN PM'S "SUCCESSFUL" VISIT TO SARAJEVO [...] (SBU) Summary: Croatian PM Ivo Sanader and the Croatian press are portraying his March 29-30 official visit to Sarajevo as a success, pointing to a "good atmosphere", agreements on dual citizenship and border control, and potential rapprochement between dueling Bosnian Croat political parties. [...]	2007-04-03 15:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL HR BH
07ZAGREB329	CENTCOM INVITATION TO CONFERENCE ON IRAQ DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-04 15:13:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MOPS OTRA PREL IZ HR
07ZAGREB349	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----01 March, attended a meeting called by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Ambassador at Large, which also included Customs Directorate and Ministry of Economy representatives to discuss the topics for inclusion in the Chemical Weapons Conventio [...]	2007-04-11 14:47:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB35	CROATIA SUPPORTIVE ON IRAQ [...] (SBU) Charge delivered reftel demarche to Croatia's Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for Bilateral Cooperation Ivica Tomic, who said Croatia supports President Bush's effort to ensure a positive future for Iraq. He added that Croatia will continue to contribute to Iraq's progress accordin [...]	2007-01-11 15:06:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IZ HR
07ZAGREB353	OPPOSITION LEADER RESIGNS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Former Prime Minister Ivica Racan resigned April 11 as president of the Social Democratic Party (SDP),Croatia's largest opposition party, due to health reasons. After weeks of increasingly bleak cancer diagnoses, his departure is not unexpected, but coming just seven mon [...]	2007-04-12 13:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB356	CROATIA REQUESTS EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS [...] Summary: In response to reftel, Post supports a request from the Government of Croatia (GoC) to host Embassy Science Fellows in 2007. Post has received eight proposals from seven scientific institutions, with a commitment from the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports and the University of [...]	2007-04-12 15:02:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TSPL SENV AMGT OTRA APER HR
07ZAGREB358	SALE OF CROATIAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT [...] PolOff delivered ref A points March 29 to Ivan Nekic, general manager of Agencija Alan, MOD's arms marketing branch, and MFA head of Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga. Both were pleased by USG position. Nekic reported that he did not know if an actual tender was open bu [...]	2007-04-13 14:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL MARR LY HR
07ZAGREB359	CONTINUED SERVICE BY CROATIAN POLICE AT THE JORDAN INTL [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-13 14:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS PINR SNAR KCRM JO HR
07ZAGREB360	DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S DEFENSE INDUSTRIES ORGANIZATION UNDER [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-13 14:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM KNNP IR HR
07ZAGREB364	DAS BRYZA'S ZAGREB MEETINGS WITH GREEK AND [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Matt Bryza met with Greek Minister of Development Dimitris Sioufas and Bulgarian Minister of Economy and Energy Rumen Ovcharov on the margins of an April 3 energy conference in Zagreb. Both Sioufas and Ovcharov expressed concern over what they perceive as mixed signals co [...]	2007-04-16 09:50:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PREL GR BU AJ RS TU TX
07ZAGREB365	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----01 March, attended a meeting called by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Ambassador at Large, which also included Customs Directorate and Ministry of Economy representatives, to discuss the topics for inclusion in the Chemical Weapons Conventi [...]	2007-04-16 11:56:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB372	INDICTMENT ISSUED FOR 1991 MURDERS OF SERB CIVILIANS [...] (U) The Osijek County Office of the State Prosecutor issued a preliminary indictment April 16 against seven persons charged with war crimes (the murder of civilians on the banks of the Drava River in 1991, the so-called "Sellotape case"). The indictment charges Branimir Glavas, a far-right lo [...]	2007-04-17 06:29:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KAWC HR
07ZAGREB380	JUSTICE AND INTERIOR MINISTERS TO CONTINUE REGIONAL [...] (U) In its capacity as Chair-in-office of the SouthEast Europe Cooperation Process (SEECP),Croatia hosted an April 13 conference of SEECP justice and interior ministers in Zagreb to discuss regional co-operation in judicial reform and combating cross-border crime and illegal migration. Prime [...]	2007-04-18 06:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB389	ICRC CLOSES IN CROATIA, BUT SEARCH FOR THE MISSING [...] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formally closed its door in Croatia on April 13, after being present in the country for more than 15 years. Although its regional office in Budapest will continue to follow developments in tracing missing persons in Croatia, the ICRC databas [...]	2007-04-19 14:39:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB395	NATO OUTREACH IN HIGH GEAR, CROATIAN PUBLIC [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: After a slow start, the GoC's NATO public education campaign is moving into high gear. Head of MFA's NATO Office Neven Mikec highlighted the GoC's now crowded public outreach calendar with Embassy PolOff, PAO, and DATT at April 12 joint communications working group sessio [...]	2007-04-20 16:24:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR NATO KPAO HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB399	OSCE MISSION HEAD OPTIMISTIC ON CLOSURE, FLEXIBLE [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-23 15:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OSCE HR REGIONAL AFFAIRS
07ZAGREB404	PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR CONFIRMS PUTIN CROATIA VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Tomislav Jakic, Foreign Policy Advisor to Croatian President Mesic, confirmed in an April 23 meeting with DCM that Russian President Putin will visit Croatia June 23-24. The centerpiece of the visit will be a regional energy summit that the GOC has organized, inviting heads of st [...]	2007-04-24 14:33:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG HR RS
07ZAGREB407	CROATIA'S INA: OTHER SOURCES EXIST FOR LNG [...] (C) Summary: Following up on reports of Austrian OMV's LNG deal with Iran, Econ Off spoke to Stevo Kolundzic, Senior Advisor to the Chairman of Croatia's national oil and gas company INA about the reports. Kolundzic said that there are many other potential sources of LNG for the Croatian proj [...]	2007-04-25 12:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL ECON HR IR
07ZAGREB408	(C) CROATIAN PM CONSIDERS INVITING KARZAI [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (C) Prime Minister Ivo Sanader told Ambassador April 25 that he was considering inviting Afghan President Karzai to the July 6-7 "Croatia Summit" - the second annual such conference with a Euro-Atlantic integration theme. PM Sanader and Croatian President [...]	2007-04-25 14:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO HR AF
07ZAGREB422	NEW FORWARD ON IRAQ: CROATIA'S CONTRIBUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: While politically unable to make direct troop contributions to operations in Iraq, the GoC has offered weapons and training courses to the NATO Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I) (ref C),provides police trainers to the Jordan International Police Training Center (JIPTC) [...]	2007-04-30 11:18:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB427	STABILITY PACT TRANSITION: SEECP AGREES ON RCC SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Summary: Stability Pact-SEECP meetings April 24-25 in Zagreb yielded consensus on the final institutional documents related to the creation of the proposed Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) as the successor to the Stability Pact in early 2008. Consensus with respect to the nomination [...]	2007-05-02 13:09:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON EAID SR HR EUN MI RO BU GR BK MW YI
07ZAGREB428	SUMMARY OF MARCH 2007 AUCKLAND OPERATIONAL EXPERTS GROUP [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-02 15:31:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	MHUC PARM PREL HR KNNP
07ZAGREB431	END OF AN ERA: DEATH OF OPPOSITION LEADER AND FORMER PRIME [...] (U) Ivica Racan - the first and so far only President of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) -- died April 29 of cancer at the age of 63. Three weeks earlier, Racan resigned as SDP president, after his health took a turn for the worse. While his funeral will be a private event, hund [...]	2007-05-03 06:39:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB438	CROATIA ON ZIMBABWE'S BID FOR CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE UNCSD [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-04 14:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV AORC PREL UNSCD ZI HR
07ZAGREB444	CROATIA SUPPORTS US WMO POSITION [...] Summary: The Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service (DHMZ) is actively involved with the World Meteorological Organization, plans to attend the upcoming Congress and supports the US position on strengthening the WMO in its intended capacity. End Summary. 2. Econoff spoke with Ivan [...]	2007-05-08 06:17:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TPHY WMO HR
07ZAGREB449	IRAQI MP EYES CROATIA AS POST-CONFLICT MODEL [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: An Iraqi Member of Parliament and close relative of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Ms. Ala Talabani, visited Croatia April 20-27 in search of a successful post-conflict model to further promote human rights, strengthen the role of NGOs, and develop women's rights in Iraq. [...]	2007-05-09 15:01:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN HR IZ
07ZAGREB45	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES JANUARY 26 INFORMAL NATO [...] (C) Drawing on Ref A, the Ambassador discussed Afghanistan with Croatian Foreign Minister Grabar-Kitarovic on January 17. The Ambassador stressed the challenges that NATO would face with the spring thaw in Afghanistan and the importance of allies and partners delivering on promises made on A [...]	2007-01-17 15:19:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PINS PREL MARR MOPS AF PK HR
07ZAGREB450	CROATIA TO BACK SLOVENIA, WILL SNUB BELARUS AT MAY [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-09 15:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC HR HUMAN RIGHTS
07ZAGREB453	PRM Ambassador's Fund for Refugees - Croatia Projects [...] After consultation with UNHCR and other partners, Post is pleased to propose two projects for PRM's Ambassadors Fund for Refugees. The projects listed below do not receive other donor funding and would provide immediate assistance to vulnerable populations in Croatia. If approved, Post has the [...]	2007-05-10 12:57:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PGOV HR
07ZAGREB455	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (UNHRC) ELECTION - CROATIA [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 14:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC HR
07ZAGREB459	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----14-15 April, attended the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) Customs Authorities Workshop in Cavtat. As requested, a presentation was made on the topic of "The Role of Customs in Achieving Effective Enforcement Export Controls". This theme was r [...]	2007-05-10 15:17:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB46	CROATIA 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Summary: Croatia has enjoyed respectable economic growth over the last few years, accompanied by low inflation, a stable exchange rate and growth in the tourism sector. At the same time, the government has undertaken several initiatives aimed at streamlining the bureaucracy in an effort to [...]	2007-01-17 15:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC
07ZAGREB460	ASSISTANT SECRETARY DAN FRIED'S MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary: EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried met April 5 with Croatian PM Sanader, President Mesic, and FM Grabar-Kitarovic to exchange views on Croatia's NATO aspirations, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and other regional issues. 2.(U) A/S Fried and Ambassador met April 5 with PM Ivo San [...]	2007-05-10 16:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN NATO HR YI BK OSCE
07ZAGREB465	CROATIA SENDS DELEGATION TO WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY [...] Econoff delivered reftel demarche to the Office of International Cooperation of Croatia's Ministry of Health and Welfare. Dr. Inga Deolo, director of international cooperation, said she and State Secretary of Health Dr. Ante-Zvonimir Golem plan to attend the SIPDIS convention in Geneva May 1 [...]	2007-05-11 15:17:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO HR
07ZAGREB472	REFUGEE RETURN: KEY TO OSCE MISSION CLOSURE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Facing intensifying pressure from the international community to make additional tangible progress on refugee issues, the GOC has established and clarified program benchmarks for this year. With OSCE mission closure high on the GOC's priority list, the GOC has put [...]	2007-05-15 10:57:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PREF OSCE HR
07ZAGREB475	NUCLEAR MEASURING EQUIPMENT TO INDIA: GOC SEEKS [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 5. 2. (C) Head of MFA's Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga requested USG guidance from PolOff May 10 regarding a pending export license application from Croatian company "Sistemprojekt" to export a CryoBIND T magnetic ac [...]	2007-05-15 15:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC PREL IN HR NON PROLIFERATION
07ZAGREB481	CROATIA UNDECIDED ON PARTICIPATION IN MAY 31-JUNE 1 [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-17 13:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCE PREL PTER ABUD AFIN RS HR
07ZAGREB490	CROATIA JOINS GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM [...] The GOC has responded in the affirmative to reftel request. On May 15, 2007, Embassy received diplomatic note No. 2276/07 relaying Croatia's support for the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. 2. Text of the note follows: (complimentary opening) The Republic of Croatia consid [...]	2007-05-21 06:22:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL HR
07ZAGREB501	PM SANADER ACCEPTS INVITATION TO A3 LUNCH WITH [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-22 14:58:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP POTUS PREL HR AL MK
07ZAGREB507	PRESIDENT'S A-3 LUNCH SCENESETTER - SANADER [...] (C) Still enjoying the afterglow of his highly successful White House visit last October, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader is very much looking forward to seeing President Bush again at the A-3 leaders lunch in Tirana June 10. The PM views his relationship with the President as key to Croatia's int [...]	2007-05-23 15:11:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR NATO HR
07ZAGREB51	ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT MESIC TO VISIT KOSOVO AND [...] (C) President Mesic's Special Advisor for International Relations Budimir Loncar told the Ambassador January 17 that he will travel to Kosovo next week to have discussions with Albanian and Serb leaders. This trip, according to Loncar, resulted from a visit to Zagreb by a group of Serb mayors [...]	2007-01-18 13:18:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU OPDC HR
07ZAGREB512	SOCIAL DEMOCRATS LINE UP TO LEAD PARTY INTO NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Croatia's Social Democratic Party (SDP) will choose a new leader at the June 2 party conference, to replace Ivica Racan, the former PM who died last month. The candidates are Zelka Antunovic, former deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister; Milan Bandic, current ma [...]	2007-05-25 10:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB514	CROATIA RATIFIES CEFTA [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-25 13:54:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PREL HR
07ZAGREB521	PARTICIPATION IN THE OSCE HEADS OF MISSION VISIT TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-25 15:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM OSCE BO HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB522	U.S. INVITATION TO THE NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS' GROUP (NSG) PLENARY [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-25 15:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC IR HR
07ZAGREB524	CROATIA ENTHUSIASTICALLY INAUGURATES NEW REGIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: As Chair of the South East Europe Cooperation Process (SEECP),the GOC hosted a May 11 Zagreb Summit to strengthen regional cooperation by establishing a Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) under SEECP auspices to replace the Stability Pact in early 2008. Coinciding w [...]	2007-05-30 15:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB530	CROATIA AND THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] Pol Counselor delivered reftel information to Sanja Bujas-Juraga, Director of MFA PSI Non-proliferation Department on May 30, 2007. Explanatory notes, calendar and the plan of work (received by e-mail from ISN/WMDT on May 23) were delivered to the same office on May 24. Ms. Bujas-Juraga note [...]	2007-05-31 14:54:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KGIC PARM PREL HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB540	AMBASSADOR BRIEFS PM ON BOSNIA MEETINGS IN [...] (C) Drawing on points provided by EUR/SCE, Ambassador and DCM briefed PM Ivo Sanader and MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic June 1 about the meetings held in Washington the week of May 21 between State Department officials and Bosnia-Herzegovina politicians Milorad Dodik and Haris Silajdzic [...]	2007-06-04 13:57:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BK HR
07ZAGREB546	MAIN OPPOSITION PARTY ELECTS YOUTHFUL NEW LEADER [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Zoran Milanovic is the new President of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP). A youthful 41 years old, this former diplomat defeated acting party president and former defense minister Zeljka Antunovic in the second round of voting by 828 to 675 votes of dele [...]	2007-06-04 15:31:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB551	CROATIAN PM SEEKS CLOSURE OF ZAGREB OSCE MISSION, [...] (C) MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic gave Ambassador May 31 a "confidential" non-paper (text para 8) advocating closure of the Croatia OSCE mission and proposing a mechanism to ensure that war crimes trials are monitored. 2. (C) The non-paper commits the GOC to fulfill remaining obliga [...]	2007-06-05 15:42:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE KAWC HR
07ZAGREB56	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----04 December, Participated in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) presentation of the findings of the Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) Survey of Croatia. The findings revealed the presence of approximately 968,000 weapons in civilian [...]	2007-01-19 14:21:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB561	U/S NICHOLAS BURNS' MAY 10-11 MEETINGS WITH [...] (U) Undersecretary Burns met with Macedonian President Crvenkovski, Turkish Economy Minister Babacan, Bulgarian PM Stanishev and Moldovan President Voronin May 10 and 11 on the margins of the Zagreb SEECP Summit. Macedonia --------- 2. (C) Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski sought U/S [...]	2007-06-08 10:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE NATO HR MK TU BU MD
07ZAGREB565	U/S NICHOLAS BURNS' MAY 10-11 MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Undersecretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns visited Zagreb May 10-11 to consult with Croatian leaders and attend the Summit of the Southeast European Cooperation Process (septel). He met with PM Sanader, President Mesic, and FM Grabar-Kitarovic, and had several bilatera [...]	2007-06-08 13:09:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAIR OSCE NATO HR YI BK SR
07ZAGREB582	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----4 May, attended the EU Regional Code of Conduct Workshop coordinated by SIPRI and BAFA. The workshop provided a forum for networking and coordination among regional states and EU member states to aid effective development of their respective Muni [...]	2007-06-14 06:50:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB593	SIX ARRESTED FOR CORRUPTION AT PRIVATIZATION FUND [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Six employees of the Croatian Privatization Fund (Fund) were arrested June 16 on charges of corruption. The accused, who include three of the Fund's vice presidents, were netted in a year-long sting operation conducted by the Police and the State Prosecutor's Office [...]	2007-06-19 06:32:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN KCRM HR
07ZAGREB596	CROATIAN PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON PUTIN VISIT, [...] (C) DCM met with Tomislav Jakic, foreign policy advisor to Croatian President Mesic, on June 15 to discuss Russian President Putin's upcoming visit to Zagreb. Putin will visit Zagreb on June 24 to participate in a "Regional Energy Summit" organized by President Mesic's office. DCM inquired ab [...]	2007-06-19 10:11:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PREL HR RS
07ZAGREB597	CROATIA: WIPO DG SHOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-19 10:55:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR WIPO HR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
07ZAGREB602	PROSECUTOR BACKS UP WAR CRIMES ARRESTS IN VUKOVAR [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Vukovar police arrested six ethnic Serbs June 5 on suspicion of involvement in the torture of soldiers and civilians in the village of Luzac in 1991. Local Serb politicians claimed the arrests were politically motivated and called on Post and others in the internati [...]	2007-06-21 15:53:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KAWC PGOV HR WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB603	SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL FINAL COORDINATION [...] Post and resident EUCOM representative fully support the proposal in reftel to allot $325,000 of FY 07 1206 funding for Croatian Joint Deployment Interoperability and Readiness Training and English Language Training for Deployment. 2. The proposed Joint Deployment Interoperability and Readin [...]	2007-06-21 16:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS PREL HR
07ZAGREB608	PRESIDENT OF MONTENEGRO VIEWS ON KEY ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a relaxed June 22 lunch in Podgorica with Charge Barnes and visiting Ambassador Bradtke, Montenegro President Vujanovic discussed bilateral, regional, and domestic issues. Vujanovic, who had just returned from the Southeastern Europe Energy Summit in Zagreb, described Rus [...]	2007-06-26 15:01:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR MW
07ZAGREB612	EMPLOYMENT ISSUE BIGGER THAN MINORITY ELECTIONS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Minority Council elections held June 17 in 20 counties, 57 cities and 68 municipalities brought out only eight percent of eligible voters and did little to change the public impression that ethnic minority councils are largely symbolic. These bodies, created to advance [...]	2007-06-27 13:48:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM HR
07ZAGREB618	CROATIA COMMITTED TO NATO REFORM RECOMMENDATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Ambassador, DCM, and PolOff delivered ref A points during week of June 18 to FM Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Asst DefMin Igor Pokaz, and MFA NATO Office Director Neven Mikec respectively. GoC representatives were grateful for USG support and guidance and emphasized com [...]	2007-06-28 13:32:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAO MOPS MARR NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB620	ZAGREB ENERGY SUMMIT: ALL TALK, NO SUBSTANCE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The Zagreb Energy Summit, held on June 24 and attended by Russian President Putin and South East European leaders garnered substantial media attention here, but brought little new to the discussion of regional energy supply. The Summit, organized by Croatian Preside [...]	2007-06-29 09:13:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG PREL HR
07ZAGREB623	FANS' BEHAVIOR AT CONCERT ANGERS CROATIA'S JEWISH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Nationalist domestic pop star Marko Perkovic (aka - Thompson) was again in the spotlight following a June 17th concert in Zagreb's Maksimir stadium. With an estimated attendance of 50,000 people, the controversial performer refrained from making his earlier pro-Ust [...]	2007-06-29 12:44:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL HR HUMAN RIGHTS
07ZAGREB625	CROATIA ADOPTS UNSCR 1747 [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-29 14:58:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR HR
07ZAGREB626	ENGAGING CROATIA OVER AMCIT ISSUES IN IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-29 15:07:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM IR PHUM EUN HR
07ZAGREB63	INFLUENTIAL CROATIAN WOMEN [...] Post has identified the following five women as among the most influential in Croatia, by field: POLITICS: -- Jadranka Kosor, Deputy PM and Vice president of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)+ADs- Contact info PHONE +384-1-4569-204 FAX +384-1-4569-326 -- Vesna Pusic, Deputy Spe [...]	2007-01-22 15:07:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PHUM PREL HR
07ZAGREB637	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----13 June, Held attended a meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Department Head for International Security who requested EXBS Advisor support and assistance to their Diplomatic Academy Training Program by creating and delivering a pre [...]	2007-07-02 12:33:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB642	OSCE MISSION TO CROATIA: WINDING DOWN ITS MANDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY and COMMENT. This is a joint Embassy Zagreb and USOSCE cable and represents our strategy in moving forward toward OSCE Croatia mission closure. While we believe full closure could be achieved by the end of 2007, there is no consensus on this issue among European missions in Zag [...]	2007-07-03 15:36:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OSCE PREF KWCI HR WAR CRIMES REFUGEES
07ZAGREB643	CROATIAN STATE PROSECUTOR DESCRIBES CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The June arrest of eight employees of the Croatian Privatization Fund (Fund) on charges of corruption marks a significant improvement in both the political will and the capacity of the Croatian government to fight corruption. The Fund has long been viewed as a font of [...]	2007-07-03 15:51:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KPRV KCRM HR
07ZAGREB664	CROATIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BEAN [...] You are coming to Croatia at an exciting time, as this young nation prepares to take its place among democratic, free-market members of the Euro-Atlantic community with a level of freedom, security, and prosperity that were unimaginable fifteen years ago. Croatia will very likely receive an inv [...]	2007-07-11 10:36:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR

07ZAGREB669	A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER SANADER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 7 meeting with Prime Minister Sanader on the margins the of the "Croatia Summit," EUR Assistant Secretary Fried welcomed the Summit as evidence of Croatian leadership in Southeastern Europe. Sanader reviewed his efforts to gain support for the closure of the OSCE Missi [...]	2007-07-11 15:06:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG OSCE HR
07ZAGREB670	SDP NOMINATES JURCIC AS CANDIDATE FOR PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: The opposition Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) has nominated economics professor and Former Minister of Economy Ljubo Jurcic as its candidate for Prime Minister. Although not altogether new in Croatia, the idea of separating the role of PM from that of Party President wa [...]	2007-07-12 09:41:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB679	IOM DEMARCHE ON SWING CANDIDACY DELIVERED [...] REF Points were delivered July 11 to Andrej Dogan in MFA UN Department. Dogan indicated GOC willingness to consider supporting Ambassador William Lacy Swing, however could not give an official position at this time. BRADTKE [...]	2007-07-16 08:29:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG
07ZAGREB68	CROATIAN POLITICIANS PUT POSITIVE SPIN ON SERBIAN [...] (U) Croatia's political leaders have unanimously portrayed results in Serbia's January 21 elections (reftel) as positive for the region. Reacting quickly to allay any domestic concerns over the Serb Radical Party's plurality, PM Ivo Sanader stressed that the results offered the chance for for [...]	2007-01-23 14:24:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SR HR
07ZAGREB682	CROATIAN SHIPBOARDING AGREEMENT POCS [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-16 13:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KTIA EWWT KNNP PREL HR NON PROLIFERATION
07ZAGREB688	CROATIANS ACCEPT U.S. SOFA PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs State Secretary Biscevic informed Ambassador July 19 that the Croatian Government accepted the U.S. compromise proposal on custody (ref e-mail),resolving the last outstanding issue in the U.S.-Croatian negotiations on a bilateral status of forces agreement. [...]	2007-07-19 13:00:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB690	ICTY PROSECUTOR AND PM AGREE ON TRIAL MONITORING [...] (U) In the 16 July letter below, Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte informs OSCE Chairman-in-Office of her recent discussions with PM Ivo Sanader regarding the future of the OSCE mission in Croatia and the monitoring of war crimes trials. Del Ponte notes what she calls the essent [...]	2007-07-19 13:00:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KAWC PGOV OSCE ICTY HR WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB694	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH CROATIAN DEPUTY PRIME [...] Mr. Secretary, During my meeting on July 18 with Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Family, Veterans and Intergenerational Solidarity Jadranka Kosor, I informed the Minister of your decision to resign. The Minister expressed her regret at hearing this news and reiterated her appr [...]	2007-07-19 14:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SOCI HR
07ZAGREB695	CODEL BEAN TRAVEL TO CROATIA [...] Post welcomes CODEL Bean to Zagreb. Control Officer is Kirsten Brooks Selinger, work: 385-1-661-2250/home: 385-467-4396/fax: 385-1-661-2178/cell: 385-91-455-2346, email SelingerKB@state.gov. Administrative point of contact is Matthew Werner, work: 385-1-661-2248/home:385-234-0100/fax: 385-661- [...]	2007-07-19 15:15:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN SR HR
07ZAGREB713	CROATIA PARTY TO NUCLEAR TERRORISM CONVENTION, [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-27 14:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP PTER MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL HR
07ZAGREB714	GLOBAL INITIATIVE GARMISCH MEETING: CROATIAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-27 14:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KGIC HR
07ZAGREB715	62ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: CROATIAN ATTENDANCE, A-3 [...] PolOff delivered reftel to MFA Asst Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic on July 24. Following is initial GOC response: A. Attendance of the Head of State: Yes -- Name and title: Stjepan Mesic, President of the Republic of Croatia -- Arrival and departu [...]	2007-07-27 14:41:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KSEP PREL OVIP UNGA HR
07ZAGREB716	SECTION 1206 - END-USE, RETRANSFER AND SECURITY [...] PolOff delivered REFTEL diplomatic note to MFA Asst Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic on July 24 with request for urgent reply. Simunovic reported that these assurances will require the concurrence of the MOD and the GOC's legislative office and a government [...]	2007-07-27 14:41:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIA MASS PREL MARR HR
07ZAGREB717	CODEL BEAN Visits Croatia [...] Summary: CODEL Bean visited Zagreb on 22-23 July and met with Croatian business, government, and parliamentary leaders. Discussion at most meetings focused on Croatia's leadership and stabilizing role in the region, Kosovo, future membership in NATO and the EU, its international contributions t [...]	2007-07-27 14:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB72	GOC DISMISSES FLAWED ECONOMIC FREEDOM [...] Summary: The Croatian Government reacted sharply to a Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal ranking of economic freedom around the world in which Croatia was ranked 109 overall and near the bottom in Europe. The GOC dismissed the Report, saying it did not reflect Croatia's current economic [...]	2007-01-23 14:49:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV HR
07ZAGREB720	REQUEST FOR BLANKET RETRANSFER END-USE SECURITY [...] PolOff delivered reftel dipnote to MFA Head of Dept for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga on July 13. She informed PolOff July 27 that she had forwarded the USG proposal to all relevant ministries and would provide reactions soonest. 2. COMMENT: Bujas-Juraga seemed interested in pr [...]	2007-07-30 15:09:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS HR
07ZAGREB721	PROPOSED 2008 PSI EXERCISE UPDATE [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 5. 2. Head of MFA's Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga advised PolOff July 16 that the GOC's National Commission for Non-Proliferation of WMD has accepted the GOC's proposal to host a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) e [...]	2007-07-30 15:18:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM MNUC PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP HR
07ZAGREB722	PAKISTAN SMALL ARMS SALE: GOC SEEKS ADVICE ON [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 3. 2. (C) Head of MFA's Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga requested USG guidance from PolOff July 27 regarding a pending export license application from Croatian company "HS Produkt" to export 9mm pistols to the private [...]	2007-07-30 15:22:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM ETTC PTER PK HR NON PROLIFERATION
07ZAGREB729	UPDATE REQUEST ON JORDAN INTL POLICE TRAINING [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 6. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Assistant Interior Minister Filip Dragovic requested information from PolOffs July 26 regarding the future of the Jordan International Police Training Center (JIPTC). The Ministry of Interior (MUP) currently p [...]	2007-08-01 15:48:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PINR SNAR KCRM JO HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB73	CROATIA CONCERNED ABOUT CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (C) Drawing from reftel, DCM discussed cluster munitions with MFA Assistant Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic January 22. 2. (C) Simunovic said he would be representing the GOC at the Oslo conference February 22-23. Simunovic said that given Croatia's exp [...]	2007-01-23 15:42:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PARM HR
07ZAGREB730	THOMPSON TONES DOWN ACT, POLICE MANAGE CROWD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: At the July 27 concert of nationalist pop star Marko Perkovic (aka - "Thompson") in Split's Stari Plac Stadium, police and Perkovic himself succeeded in preventing the displays of Ustashe symbols and salutes that marred his performance in Zagreb 10 days earlier (refte [...]	2007-08-01 15:50:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL HR HUMAN RIGHTS
07ZAGREB732	CROATIAN FIRST LADY'S ATTENDANCE UNCONFIRMED [...] PolOff delivered reftel to MFA on July 31. The President's office has advised that his wife is unlikely to travel with him, but that they will confirm in coming days. PolOff will report definitive response to invitation as soon as possible. BRADTKE [...]	2007-08-02 12:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA
07ZAGREB733	CROATIA HAS NO COMMENT ON STANDING COMMITTEE CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-02 12:53:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC HR
07ZAGREB734	HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-02 12:57:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UNESCO HR
07ZAGREB736	PM ASSURES SOFA APPROVAL AT END OF AUGUST [...] (C) Following the failure of the Croatian cabinet to provide final approval of the text of the Status of Forces Agremeent at its last session before a two week summer break, the Ambassador spoke August 3 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs State Secretary Biscevic to express his disappointment an [...]	2007-08-06 11:05:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB74	CROATIA SUPPORTS US OBJECTIVES FOR JANUARY 26 [...] (SBU) Following up on the Ambassador's conversation with Foreign Minister Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic (ref B) on the January 26 NATO meeting on Afghanistan, DCM raised USG ministerial goals (ref A) with Pjer Simunovic, Assistant Foreign Minister for International Organizations and Security, who [...]	2007-01-23 16:10:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO HR
07ZAGREB745	SECTION 1206: CROATIA AGREES TO END-USE, SECURITY AND [...] MFA has delivered a Diplomatic Note dated August 2 confirming the GoC's decision to accept proposed assurances related to the end-use, security and retransfer of USG-supplied defense articles, training and services pursuant to Section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act. Post will p [...]	2007-08-07 12:52:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PREL KTIA MARR HR
07ZAGREB747	CROATIA DISASTER DECLARATION [...] I am declaring a disaster in Croatia for the loss of property, loss of livelihoods, and actual and potential loss of life caused by heat wave-related wildfires currently raging throughout southern Croatia. I am requesting USD 50,000 for immediate disaster relief from USAID/OFDA. The Governmen [...]	2007-08-07 14:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV AFIN AMGT HR
07ZAGREB750	CROATIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL COSTELLO [...] You are coming to Croatia at an exciting time, as this young nation prepares to take its place among democratic, free-market members of the Euro-Atlantic community with a level of freedom, security, and prosperity that were unimaginable fifteen years ago. Croatia will very likely receive an in [...]	2007-08-08 13:57:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB751	CROATIA CONSIDERING GAER CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-09 10:25:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNGA HR
07ZAGREB752	KOSOVO NEXT STEPS -- CROATIAN REACTION [...] (U) DCM delivered reftel points to MFA Asst Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic in August 8 introductory call. Simunovic stressed GoC support for the strategy, pointing out that the GoC's overriding interests related to Kosovo's future are stability and the fu [...]	2007-08-09 12:57:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KV PREL YI UN EU HR REGIONAL ISSUES
07ZAGREB753	BLUE LANTERN CHECK: APPLICATION 050046015 [...] (U) PolOff has confirmed with Post Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) Chief that assault rifles and grenade launchers in application are part of legitimate testing program of Croatian MOD. In fact, ODC facilitated temporary import of four M4 rifles for testing in October 2006, but manufactur [...]	2007-08-10 11:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC HR NON PROLIFERATION
07ZAGREB759	CROATIA PITCHES UNSC CANDIDACY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During an August 7 introductory call, MFA Assistant Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic briefed the DCM on Croatia's bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Simunovic said Croatia's unique political and cultural exper [...]	2007-08-14 11:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UN HR
07ZAGREB760	CROATIAN FIRST LADY WILL NOT ATTEND UNGA [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-14 11:51:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA HR
07ZAGREB762	CROATIA TO INVESTIGATE ATTEMPT TO BROKER TEST [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. See para 4. 2. (S) PolOff delivered ref A points to head of MFA Section for Arms Control and Disarmament Mirko Capjak on August 10 and to Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic on August 13. Capjak, who serves as MFA's rep on the GoC's inter-ministerial export c [...]	2007-08-14 15:08:00	Embassy Zagreb	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC MTCR KSCA GM IR HR
07ZAGREB763	CARDINAL MCCARRICK'S VISIT TO CROATIA [...] (SBU) Cardinal McCarrick,s very successful visit to Zagreb sent a strong message of continued United States engagement on Bosnia and reassured Croatian leaders that the U.S. is working with the Bosnian Croats as we seek move ahead on constitutional and police reform. 2. (SBU) In spite of th [...]	2007-08-16 11:21:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM HR BK
07ZAGREB766	US CARDINAL REACHES OUT TO CROATS [...] (C) Summary and Comment. The August 12-14 visit of Theodore McCarrick, Emeritus Cardinal of Washington, to Croatia reassured Croatian leaders that the U.S. is engaged in Bosnia and Herzegovina and interested in the situation of Croats there. McCarrick heard from Croatian leaders that Bosnia [...]	2007-08-17 15:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	HR CROATIA PGOV PHUM PREL
07ZAGREB768	WAR CRIMES PROSECUTORS TO EXPAND REGIONAL [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Prosecutors from Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) agreed on new forms of cooperation in war crimes cases at a private regional meeting on Brijuni Island July 11-13. Chief State Prosecutor Mlad [...]	2007-08-20 10:14:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KAWC PGOV HR WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB789	FIXED-WING FIGHTERS: TIME TO ENGAGE CROATIANS ON [...] (C) Since my arrival just over a year ago, I have repeatedly stressed to GoC officials that, as a future NATO member, Croatia did not need to procure fixed-wing fighter aircraft. I, along with my DAO and ODC staff, have argued consistently that the GoC could rely on NATO partners for air poli [...]	2007-08-27 08:05:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB791	MEETING WITH OSCE CIO PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR [...] (C) Former Croatian FM Miomir Zuzul told the Ambassador on August 25 that his recent visit to Georgia and Moscow had convinced him that it was a Russian missile that was involved in the August 6 incident he had been asked to investigate by the OSCE Chairman in Office. Particularly after visiti [...]	2007-08-27 14:56:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS OSCE GG RU HR
07ZAGREB792	APPARENT DOMESTIC CONSENSUS ON PLAN FOR CROATIA-SLOVENIA [...] SUMMARY: In what was portrayed as a breakthrough in its long-standing border dispute with its northern neighbor, Croatian PM Ivo Sanader joined Slovenian PM Janez Jansa after a meeting at Lake Bled on August 26 to announce bilateral agreement to refer the dispute to the International Court of J [...]	2007-08-27 15:01:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV SI HR
07ZAGREB800	CROATIA SUPPORTS U.S. FOR ICAO COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-31 12:38:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAIR AORC ICAO HR
07ZAGREB801	HOST WOMEN LEADERS' WORKING GROUP IN NEW YORK: [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-31 13:49:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNGA HR
07ZAGREB816	SDP CANDIDATE FOR PRIME MINISTER CRITICIZED FOR OPPOSING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ljubo Jurcic, Prime-Ministerial candidate of Croatia's leading opposition party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP),in late August commented that Serbian investment would not be welcomed in Croatia. All of Croatia's other centrist parties, including the governing HDZ, seeing nat [...]	2007-09-06 06:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB820	GOC TO APPROVE SOFA IN SEPTEMBER, BUT ASKS TO SIGN [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke on September 6 with Hido Biscevic, State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a close advisor to PM Sanader. Biscevic said that Sanader had told him on September 5 that the Government would give final approval to the proposed Status of Forces Agreement (SO [...]	2007-09-06 14:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR HR NATO
07ZAGREB823	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE CHECK ON APPL [...] (SBU) PolOff reached Drago Venceslav Pensa, head of Tradel D.O.O., by phone on September 5. Pensa confirmed the reftel order for PRC-77 radio components under license application 050057656 and reported that he is selling directly to the Ethiopian Ministry of National Defense through its Centra [...]	2007-09-07 12:22:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KOMC ETTC ET HR
07ZAGREB827	CROATIAN RESPONSE ON IAEA POINTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: As both FM and Ambassador were traveling on September 7, P/E Chief presented reftel A and B points to Assistant Foreign Minister Pjer Simunovic and Croatia's IAEA Governor Mario Horvatic. Croatia supports the US position on the IAEA Action Plan, but does not plan to speak at the B [...]	2007-09-10 14:33:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC IR IAEA AORC HR PREL
07ZAGREB832	CROATIA SEEKS ADDITIONAL GAS IMPORTS [...] (C) Summary: Although Croatia has ample supplies of natural gas to meet current demand, increasing consumption, combined with dwindling domestic production and static imports, means the country could face shortfalls in the coming years without new sources of supply. Demand is forecast to ex [...]	2007-09-11 15:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PREL HR RS
07ZAGREB833	HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE 2007 UNGA - INPUT FROM [...] USG programs in Croatia for the past several years have supported activities to bolster Human Rights in the areas of refugee return and reintegration, minority rights, and continued assistance to civil society organizations. We have, together with our European partners, the OSCE and UNHCR, wor [...]	2007-09-11 15:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL HR
07ZAGREB834	END OF IRAQI TRAINING MISSION AT JIPTC - POINTS DELIVERED [...] (U) Reftel points were delivered to Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs Filip Dragovic, who had no response, and to Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic. 2. (SBU) Simunovic expressed his thanks for the information and said he w [...]	2007-09-12 07:23:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR HR IZ JO
07ZAGREB850	CROATIAN PRESIDENT MESIC ACCEPTS INVITATION TO [...] (C) This is an action request - see para 4. Presidential Counselor Budimir Loncar told the Ambassador and DCM September 12 that President Mesic had received an invitation to meet with Iranian President Ahmedinejad during their mutual visits to the UNGA in New York, and that Mesic had accepted [...]	2007-09-14 14:17:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP HR IR
07ZAGREB851	MINISTERS ASSURE U.S., OSCE AND UNHCR REFUGEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Two key Ministers with responsibility for refugee return issues reconfirmed that the Croatian Government will fulfill its commitments to the international community on refugee housing. In a September 13th meeting attended by Ambassador Bradtke and the heads of missio [...]	2007-09-14 15:10:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	HR CROATIA OSCE PGOV PREF PREL REFUGEES
07ZAGREB853	CROATIAN GENERALS' WAR CRIMES TRIAL CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. The case of Croatian Army Generals Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac, whose trial began in the summer, continued this week. It is the first, and likely only, case to be transferred to Croatia by the ICTY (a so-called 11 bis case). As such, it is seen as a test of Croati [...]	2007-09-17 08:40:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	HR CROATIA ICTY KAWC KJUS
07ZAGREB855	CROATIAN PRESIDENT MESIC SPEAKING OUT ON THREATS [...] (C) In separate conversations on September 12 and 13, Presidential Counselor Budimir Loncar and Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Tomislav Jakic discussed with us Croatian President Mesic's recent discussions with key Bosnian figures. Both said that Mesic had met with B-H Presidency Member [...]	2007-09-17 10:47:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV HR BK
07ZAGREB86	CROATIA'S EXPORT OFFENSIVE [...] Summary: Hoping to reduce its chronic trade deficits and accelerate economic growth, the Government of Croatia launched an "Export Offensive" on January 22 aimed at boosting the number of businesses involved in the export sector by 25% over the next three years. At the core of the plan is the [...]	2007-01-25 15:07:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV HR
07ZAGREB862	PRE-ELECTION TELECOM PRIVATIZATION CREATES STOCK MARKET [...] Summary: The further privatization of Croatian telecom (HT),in which Croatian citizens can buy shares at a fixed and probably discounted price, has set off a stock frenzy in the country. Croatians have been lining up to buy shares in the company, certain that their government will price them a [...]	2007-09-19 11:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN HR
07ZAGREB864	PRE-ELECTION TELECOM PRIVATIZATION CREATES STOCK MARKET [...] Summary: The further privatization of Croatian telecom (HT),in which Croatian citizens can buy shares at a fixed and probably discounted price, has set off a stock frenzy in the country. Croatians have been lining up to buy shares in the company, certain that their government will price them a [...]	2007-09-19 11:26:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN HR
07ZAGREB875	DEMARCHE ON THE UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE [...] REF A demarche was delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department for the United Nations on September 19, 2007. The GOC had no substantive comment. WALKER [...]	2007-09-21 11:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA PREL HR
07ZAGREB876	DEMARCHE DELIVERED - MESIC-AHMADINEJAD MEETING [...] (C) Prior to departing for EUR Energy Conference in Istanbul on September 20, Ambassador telephoned President Mesic,s Foreign Policy Advisor Loncar to carry out demarche (ref A) on the planned meeting between Mesic and Iranian President Ahmadinejad Drawing on points in para two of reftel, Am [...]	2007-09-21 12:33:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR HR
07ZAGREB878	PRIORITIES AND REPRESENTATION AT UNGA [...] During a meeting on September 19, 2007, Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations told PolOff that attaining a seat on the UNSC will be Croatia's top priority at the upcoming UNGA. Dogan provided no additional priorities, notin [...]	2007-09-21 12:41:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA PREL HR
07ZAGREB879	DEMARCHE ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR THE COMMUNITY OF [...] Ref demarche was delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department for the United Nations on September 19, 2007. The GOC had no substantive comment. WALKER [...]	2007-09-21 12:43:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA HR PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM
07ZAGREB880	ICAO ASSEMBLY: CROATIA WILL SUPPORT SPLIT-CURRENCY [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-21 14:15:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON HR
07ZAGREB883	DEMARCHE ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SPECIAL TRIBUNAL [...] REF A demarche was delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department for the United Nations on September 19, 2007. Dogan told PolOff that, if Croatia decides to contribute, it would most likely be symbolic in nature. WALKER [...]	2007-09-21 14:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AA LE UNSC HR
07ZAGREB907	TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR: CROATIA [...] In response to reftel, the following are the main sector data for the Croatian textiles and apparel industry. According to information from the Croatian Chamber of Economy and Central Bureau of Statistics: -- Total industrial production- sale value: (2005 - most recent official data availabl [...]	2007-09-28 12:10:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTEX HR
07ZAGREB908	CROATIA SHOCKED BY ICTY VERDICT ON "VUKOVAR 3" [...] (U) SUMMARY: The ICTY ruling on 27 September against the so-called "Vukovar Three," former Yugoslav army officers accused of war crimes in Vukovar, caused widespread shock, disbelief, and anger in Croatia. One officer received 20 years imprisonment, but another, who personifies the crime for [...]	2007-09-28 12:10:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KAWC PREL HR ICTY
07ZAGREB914	EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----12 September, Met with the Director and staff of State Office for Nuclear Safety (SONS) to tour their new office spaces, discuss issues related to operation of portal monitors and deliver two (2) Ludlum 192 survey meters. ----13 September, met [...]	2007-10-02 11:12:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI
07ZAGREB916	NEW POLL SHOWS CONTINUED GROWTH IN NATO SUPPORT [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A poll contracted by the International Republican Institute (IRI) shows a continued rise in public support for NATO membership. In a Post-organized briefing to NATO-member embassies on October 2, IRI representatives highlighted a 10 percent increase in support for Croatia [...]	2007-10-04 15:01:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL NATO PGOV KPAO MOPS MARR HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB918	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON [...] Ref demarche was delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 02 October 2007. Dogan told PolOff that the GOC had no issues with the text of the resolution as presented. While the GOC is considering supporting the [...]	2007-10-05 12:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI
07ZAGREB920	READ-OUT OF MESIC - AHMADINEJAD UNGA MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-05 13:46:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR HR
07ZAGREB932	CROATIAN PRESIDENTIAL FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR [...] (C) In a discussion with visiting EUR/SCE Director Chris Hoh on October 4, President Mesic's foreign policy advisor Tomislav Jakic stressed that Croatia's interest was that Serbia be convinced not to react too harshly against states that recognize an independent Kosovo. Croatia, Jakic said, w [...]	2007-10-11 14:42:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL HR SR AA
07ZAGREB933	GOC PLEDGES CONTINUED COOPERATION WITH ICTY; PM TO [...] (C) Parties from across the political spectrum in Croatia have denounced the ICTY's verdicts on the "Vukovar Three" (reftel) as "shameful", but only fringe groups have called into question Croatia's continued cooperation with the ICTY. Nonetheless, public frustrations continue to simmer, and p [...]	2007-10-11 14:46:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KAWC ICTY PREL PGOV HR
07ZAGREB937	Croatia Top Reformer, but Still Regional Laggard [...] SUMMARY: The World Bank's "Doing Business 2008" report lists Croatia as the top reformer in the region and second worldwide for improving the ease of doing business during 2006-07. Croatia reformed in four of the ten areas covered in the study, and moved from 124th to 97th place in the overall [...]	2007-10-15 08:22:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ELAB HR
07ZAGREB938	FROM THE MATTRESS TO THE MARKET: CROATS DISCOVER THE JOYS [...] Summary: The further privatization of Croatia Telecom was the talk of Zagreb after its October 5 IPO, in which the GOC offered citizens the option to purchase shares at what was a substantially discounted price. Coming as it did only 7 weeks before general elections, the Government-set sale pr [...]	2007-10-15 08:22:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV HR
07ZAGREB940	VISIT OF HOLOCAUST ISSUES ENVOY KENNEDY TO ZAGREB [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Ambassador Christian Kennedy, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, was in Croatia September 19-21 to remind GoC officials of their obligations to ensure a just settlement of World War II and Communist era property claims, including those of Holocaust victims and Americ [...]	2007-10-16 07:02:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM CASC HR
07ZAGREB941	DAS DICARLO'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MESIC [...] (C) EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo met with Croatian President Stjepan Mesic on October 12. DAS DiCarlo praised Croatia's efforts to prepare for NATO membership, and noted that public opinion in favor of NATO was rising in Croatia, and that Mesic's personal support for NATO membership had played an [...]	2007-10-16 07:50:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL HR BH SR
07ZAGREB950	SCENESETTER FOR CROATIA'S NOVEMBER 25 PARLIAMENTARY [...] This is the first in a series of reports on Croatia's upcoming elections, providing a general overview of the issues central to the election. Further installments will discuss specific parties and issues in greater detail. 2. SUMMARY: As Croatia gears up for parliamentary elections tentati [...]	2007-10-17 12:36:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB953	CROATIA ADOPTS LEGISLATION ON DIRECT ELECTION OF MAYORS AND [...] On October 5, just one week before adjourning for the upcoming legislative elections, the Croatian Parliament (Sabor) passed a package of legislation providing for direct election of mayors, county prefects, and their deputies. Until now, these officials have been chosen by the members of the [...]	2007-10-18 11:42:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB954	REFERENDUM ON CROATIA'S ENTRY INTO NATO - NOT LEGALLY [...] SUMMARY: Real public debate on the pros and cons of Croatia's NATO membership has only just begun, but the campaign for the November 25 parliamentary elections has already produced promises of a NATO referendum from some Croatian opposition parties. While all parties in Parliament are pro-NATO [...]	2007-10-19 07:54:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB955	REFERENDUM ON CROATIA'S ENTRY INTO NATO - NOT LEGALLY [...] SUMMARY: Real public debate on the pros and cons of Croatia's NATO membership has only just begun, but the campaign for the November 25 parliamentary elections has already produced promises of a NATO referendum from some Croatian opposition parties. While all parties in Parliament are pro-NATO [...]	2007-10-19 07:58:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES
07ZAGREB956	REGIONAL PROSECUTORS MEET ON WAR CRIMES COOPERATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Between 2-4 October, on the island of Hvar in Croatia, S/WCI and DoJ OPDAT hosted a regional conference on war crimes cooperation that gathered Chief State Prosecutors and their deputies from Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, together with representatives of ICTY, [...]	2007-10-19 13:55:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KAWC ICTY PREL PGOV HR WAR CRIMES
07ZAGREB970	CROATIAN JOURNALIST DETAINED, RELEASED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Zagreb police arrested freelance journalist, Zeljko Peratovic, on October 18, and released him the following the day, charging him with posting classified documents to his website. Human rights and media groups and the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) quickly protested t [...]	2007-10-25 14:04:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM HR
07ZAGREB981	ECONOMIC ISSUES IN THE CROATIAN ELECTIONS: IS 4X4 GREATER [...] SUMMARY: This is the second in our series (REF B) previewing issues and parties for Croatia's Nov. 25 parliamentary elections. With the vote less than a month away, Croatia's two main political parties are trying hard to draw distinctions on economic policy. Given the large degree of consensus [...]	2007-11-02 07:03:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV HR ELECTIONS
07ZAGREB985	CROATIA WILL SUPPORT REQUEST FOR RED NOTICE [...] (C) Post delivered reftel to Chief of National Criminal Police at the Ministry of Interior, Darko Dundovic, who is Head of Delegation to the INTERPOL General Assembly. Dundovic was familiar with the case and told Post that the GOC would support the GOA request and EC position. He indicat [...]	2007-11-05 07:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC IR PREL PTER
07ZAGREB986	CROATIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON CUBA EMBARGO [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-05 07:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA ETRD PHUM PREL HR
07ZAGREB987	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IAAC CANDIDACY OF DAVID [...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 26 October 2007. Dogan provided no substantive comments on Mr. Walker's candidacy. Post is attempting to follow-up with the GOC and will report any furt [...]	2007-11-05 07:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC UN UNGA
07ZAGREB988	CROATIA TO FOLLOW EU ON THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 26 October 2007. The GOC expects to follow the EU's position on resolutions appearing before the UN's Third Committee over the coming months. 2. Dog [...]	2007-11-05 07:37:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KTIA UN UNGA
07ZAGREB989	CROATIA: FATF STATEMENT AND GUIDANCE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-05 07:38:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL MNUC ECON HR
07ZAGREB990	ENGAGING THE CROATIANS ON THEIR UNSC MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: While some key decisions affecting Croatia's UNSC membership, particularly on personnel, will have to await the outcome of Croatia's parliamentary elections on November 25, the basic lines of Croatia's approach are already becoming evident. We can expect President Mesic, who will [...]	2007-11-05 07:39:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL UNSC HR
07ZAGREB992	VISAS VIPER: OCTOBER 2007 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-05 12:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC PREL KVPR HR
07ZAGREB994	NATO ROADSHOW '07 -- CROATIA SCENESETTER [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The GoC feels confident approaching NATO's Bucharest Summit after repeated strong statements of support from President Bush and State Department officials (U/S Burns, A/S Fried) as well as positive feedback from Allies during presentation of their Annual National Progr [...]	2007-11-05 14:44:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAO MOPS MARR NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM
07ZAGREB996	CROATIA INCSR 2006/2007 - PART ONE [...] (U) Below please find, per reftel request, part one of post's submission for the annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. Part two on money laundering will be submitted septel. Croatia I. Summary Croatia is not a producer of narcotics. However, narcotics smuggling through th [...]	2007-11-06 09:28:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL KJUS KCRM HR
07ZAGREB999	UNANNOUCED VISIT TO ZAGREB BY B-H PRESIDENCY [...] (C) Presidential Advisor Budimir Loncar told the Ambassador on November 5 that B-H Presidency member Zeljko Komsic had made an unannounced visit to Zagreb on the previous day to meet with Croatian President Stjepan Mesic. Komsic came with only one aide and without even bodyguards, in hopes tha [...]	2007-11-06 15:24:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BK HR
08ANKARA1	TURKEY'S 2008 ENERGY SECTOR PRIORITIES [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (SBU) Summary. Energy Minister Guler told the Ambassador December 28 that energy issues will continue to play a central role in the GOT's domestic and foreign policy agendas for 2008. Guler noted three main priorities: 1) expanded investment [...]	2008-01-01 07:31:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET TU
08DAKAR2437	SENEGAL'S INFLUENTIAL MOURIDE LEADER DIES [...] (SBU) Summary: The extremely influential leader of the powerful Mouride brotherhood, Serigne Saliou Mbacke, died on Friday evening after 17 years in charge. He was 92 and the last surviving son of Mouride founder Cheikh Amadou Bamba. He has been succeeded as Khalife-General by his nephew Se [...]	2008-01-01 00:03:00	Embassy Dakar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINS ECON KDEM KISL SG
08DAKAR2438	SENEGAL-PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEFIES [...] (SBU) Pressed on December 28 by President Wade to resign from his position as Chairman of the National Assembly, Macky Sall, one of Wade's former Prime Ministers, refused to do so indicating that he had "done no wrong." This is an unprecedented riposte for the ruling PDS (Democratic Party of [...]	2008-01-01 00:03:00	Embassy Dakar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SG
08HONGKONG3118	MIXED REACTION TO NPCSC DECISION ON HONG KONG [...] (C) Summary: Hong Kong's pan-democratic parties reacted with disappointment and frustration to the December 29 PRC National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) decision to defer universal suffrage for the Hong Kong Chief Executive (CE) until 2017, and for the Legislative Council (Leg [...]	2008-01-01 23:30:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM CH HK
08ISLAMABAD1	MGPK02: SITREP 7: CALM RETURNS; CONFUSION OVER [...] (C) Summary: Calm returned across Pakistan on New Year's Day. The Election Commission met and decided to consult with the political parties January 2 before making a final decision to postpone the elections. Various political parties have differing view on whether to delay. Bhutto widower Za [...]	2008-01-01 11:45:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PK PREL AEMR AMGT ASEC CASC KFLO MARR
08KABUL1	LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: PRESIDENTIAL PROTECTIVE SERVICE [...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with Leahy human rights vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names of 11 Afghan nationals in the Presidential Protective Service (PPS) selected to attend firearms training at Camp Watan. Post possesses no derogato [...]	2008-01-01 08:06:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
08KINSHASA1428	DRC RESPONSE TO MSF REPORT ON ANGOLAN ABUSE [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 5, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) published a report describing atrocities being committed by Angolan forces against Congolese citizens in Angola. PolOff discussed the report with MSF reps on December 6 to discuss the report. On December 12, a Caritas representativ [...]	2008-01-01 08:06:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL PREF AO CG
08KINSHASA1429	DRC OUTSOURCES MANAGEMENT OF SNCC AND [...] (U) Summary. The Steering Committee for the Reform of the Public Sector (COPIREP) solicited private sector bids for the management of the Congolese national railroad company (SNCC) and national transportation company (ONATRA) ports. The GDRC Council of Ministers has approved the awarding of m [...]	2008-01-01 08:08:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ELTN PREL PGOV CG

08NAIROBI1	U.S. Government Statement on Kenyan Elections [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-01 07:37:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PREL KE
08SEOUL2	KOREA SEEKS CONFIRMATION OF IRAQI WARNING OVER OIL [...] (SBU) Summary: The state oil marketing company of Iraq, SOMO, has warned Korean refiner SK Energy that exports of Iraqi crude to Korea could be cut off beginning in January if a Korean consortium does not cancel an oilfield exploration agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government. Korea i [...]	2008-01-01 21:23:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PREL IQ KS

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