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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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08ADDISABABA1359 | ETHIOPIA: SCHOLARS DESCRIBE EPRDF AUTHORITARIAN [...] (S/NF) Ethiopian scholars interviewed on the Ethiopian polity following the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front's (EPRDF) landslide victory in the April local elections (ref A) cautioned that the EPRDF has employed authoritarian tactics to consolidate and extend its control [...] | 2008-05-16 08:07:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ASEC ET |
08ADDISABABA1360 | ETHIOPIA: SCHOLARS VOICE CONCERNS OVER ETHIOPIA'S [...] (S/NF) Ethiopian scholars interviewed on the Ethiopian polity following the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front's (EPRDF) landslide victory in the April local elections (ref A) warned that the EPRDF power play, as it is unfolding, threatens Ethiopia's stability. The scholar [...] | 2008-05-16 08:13:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ASEC ET |
08ADDISABABA1361 | ETHIOPIA: SCHOLARS OFFER VIEWS ON 2010 ELECTIONS [...] (S/NF) Parts I-IV of this series (refs A, B, C, D) outlined how, in the views of Ethiopian scholars, the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) is consolidating de facto one-party rule, weakening state institutions, and creating conditions that risk Ethiopia's stabili [...] | 2008-05-16 08:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ASEC ET |
08ADDISABABA1367 | Ethiopia to ignore UNSC, for now, on the border [...] (SBU) Ethiopian State Minister Tekeda Alemu told Ambassador May 17 that Ethiopia was deeply frustrated that Eritrea was allowed to restrict UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) troop movement and end the UNMEE mission without consequence, thus negating the Cessation of Hostilities Agreeme [...] | 2008-05-19 08:37:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PBTS PGOV ET ER |
08ADDISABABA1411 | ETHIOPIA-ISRAEL-U.S.: GETTING OUR MIL TO MIL [...] (C) Ambassador, DATT and SAO requested Prime Minister Meles to review the military training offered by the U.S. Government for his military personnel and to develop a five year plan, to allow the USG to consider how to better meet the needs of the Ethiopian military. This year, after great ef [...] | 2008-05-21 14:14:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET | PREL MARR EAID ET IS |
08ADDISABABA1415 | ADDIS ABABA EAC MEETS TO DISCUSS MAY 20 EXPLOSIONS ON [...] (U) On Wednesday, May 21, 2008 The Addis Ababa Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met to discuss the May 20 incident in which a public transport mini-van experienced a bombing resulting in casualties. The following EAC members were present: DCM, USAID, PAO, MGT, GSO, ORA, MSG, OBO, CLO, USAU, P [...] | 2008-05-21 14:24:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ASEC ET |
08ADDISABABA1416 | PARTY-HACK ANOINTED MAYOR OF ADDIS ABABA [...] (SBU) Following its landslide victory in the April 2008 local elections, the ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) appointed Defense Minister Kuma Demeksa, an opportunistic 50-year old party loyalist, as mayor of Addis Ababa. In a conference held at the City Hall on M [...] | 2008-05-22 05:15:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PINR PGOV PREL PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA1419 | ETHIOPIA WILL ATTEND ICAO MEETING AS OBSERVER [...] Post provided information from reftel to Ms. Fortuna Dibaco at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Dibaco stated that Ethiopia is an observer to ICAO and not a council member. A representative for Ethiopia will attend the meeting in Montreal, but as an observer state, Dibaco did not feel tha [...] | 2008-05-22 12:41:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ET |
08ADDISABABA142 | ETHIOPIA: SECSTATE HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL [...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following Ethiopian military candidate, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. The below listed Ethiopian military officer is the head of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Peacekeeping Operations Departm [...] | 2008-01-17 13:50:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PMIL PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1427 | ETHIOPIAN MFA OFFICIALS SAY ALGIERS AGREEMENT NEAR [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. United Nations in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Head of Office Joseph Stephanides told PolOff and visiting Eritrea Desk Officer on May 15 that Ethiopian State Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu told Stephanides on May 15 that Ethiopia insists that Eritrea must demil [...] | 2008-05-23 05:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER |
08ADDISABABA1439 | IMF: ETHIOPIA NEEDS "BRIDGE FINANCING" TO AVOID [...] (C) International Monetary Fund (IMF) Article IV Mission Team Leader Robert Corker told representatives from the Addis Ababa diplomatic corps on May 19 that Ethiopia will require $1-2 billion in "highly concessional bridge financing" over the coming year or two avoid a significant disruption of [...] | 2008-05-23 11:15:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EAID PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA145 | THE ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT CHEWS THE CUD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the course of the week of January 7, the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEB) hammered what appear to be the final nails in the coffin of the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) party. Since their surprise showing in the 2005 elections, gaining enough sea [...] | 2008-01-17 15:26:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1493 | ETHIOPIA WILLING TO INCREASE COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Ambassador-at-Large Coordinator for Counterterrorism Dell L. Dailey and Ambassador Yamamoto on May 21, 2008 that his government was grateful for the counterterrorism support it received from the United States and that Ethiopia was w [...] | 2008-06-02 08:41:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PTER PREL SO ET |
08ADDISABABA1494 | UNMEE: A FORCE IN NEED OF A MISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 17-18, PolOff and visiting Eritrea Desk Officer visited United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) headquarters in Adigrat, Ethiopia and learned that Ethiopian military activity had declined following a burst of movement in April, when several Ethiopian milita [...] | 2008-06-02 08:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER |
08ADDISABABA1502 | Recent Improvised Explosive Device Incidents in Ethiopia. [...] (U) During the past several months there have been numerous apparent Improvised Explosive Device (IED) incidents in Ethiopia, with an increased number occurring in Addis Ababa. This appears to be a reoccurrence of the trend of approximately 35 to 40 similar IED incidents reported within Addis [...] | 2008-06-02 11:48:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC ASEC PTER ET |
08ADDISABABA152 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: DELAYS DISRUPT FOOD AID [...] Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess current humanitarian conditions. A primary focus of the field visit was to assess the status of f [...] | 2008-01-18 11:05:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA153 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: SECURITY AND ACCESS [...] Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess current humanitarian conditions. USG HAT staff report that a letter of approval from the Somali R [...] | 2008-01-18 11:05:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1531 | EPRDF MOVES TO FURTHER STRIP POWER OF FORMER CUDP [...] (SBU) At the May 21 quarterly address by PM Meles Zenawi to Parliament, leader of the former Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (CUDP),Temesgen Zewdie, attempted to present his response and questions following the PM's speech, as is traditionally allowed for party leaders. However, befor [...] | 2008-06-04 14:37:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV EAID PHUM KJUS ET |
08ADDISABABA1533 | ETHIOPIA: ACTION REQUEST FOR PRE-BLAST TRAINING [...] ACTION REQUEST: Embassy Addis Ababa requests DS/ATA provide Ethiopia the following courses, to be conducted in Ethiopia, as soon as possible: Explosive Incident Countermeasures (EIC) and Advanced Explosive Incident Countermeasures (AEIC). The courses have been requested by the Ethiopian poli [...] | 2008-06-05 06:04:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PREL PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA1546 | LACK OF POLITICAL WILL PROMPTS TREASURY PROJECT SUSPENSION [...] SUMMARY: Seven months after the signing of the Terms of Reference (TOR) between the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) and the U.S. Treasury Department for an Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT) program, the U.S. Department of Treasury has decided to suspend work on the [...] | 2008-06-06 05:33:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EAID ECON EFIN PTER PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA1554 | BRUTAL ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN WESTERN ETHIOPIA [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the period of May 17 to 21, 2008 the Ethiopian Oromo and Gumaz ethnic groups experienced tensions and conflict prompted by disputes over land rights, which by all accounts, included horrific acts of violence. These events will undoubtedly result in long lasting animosity a [...] | 2008-06-09 07:18:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC ASEC ET |
08ADDISABABA1564 | ERITREAN OPPOSITION UNITES, AGAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY. The May 5-11, 2008 Eritrean political opposition congress in Addis Ababa reformed and expanded the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) to serve as the umbrella organization for all Eritrean opposition groups. Embassy officers spoke with more than a dozen opposition leaders and [...] | 2008-06-09 10:19:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PREL PBTS ET ER |
08ADDISABABA1571 | ETHIOPIA'S BROKEN PROMISES [...] (S/NF) A paradigm shift must occur in the United States' discourse with Ethiopia on foreign assistance. Over the past year, the United States Government (USG) has delivered on all Ethiopian government (GoE) claims of "broken promises" in order to enhance the security of the Ethiopian state and [...] | 2008-06-09 12:47:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR MASS MOPS ET |
08ADDISABABA1592 | AMBASSADOR SETS DEMOCRATIC SPACE MARKER WITH [...] (SBU) In a June 3-4 visit to Tigray, Ambassador conveyed a clear message of concern over political space and the need for the core ruling party, the Tigrean People's Liberation Front (TPLF),to ease its stranglehold on civil society and the political opposition in order to maintain stability in [...] | 2008-06-11 04:44:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PBTS ET |
08ADDISABABA1593 | MELES ON NEW CSO/NGO LAW: BRACE FOR CHANGE [...] (C) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles told Ambassadors from the UK, France and the U.S. that the new CSO/NGO law (Ref. A) would be introduced to the Parliament before the July 7 recess and would become law probably by September. Meles presented a forceful argument for the new law. Characterizin [...] | 2008-06-11 04:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA1639 | NBE- ETHIOPIA'S BANKING BIG BROTHER [...] SUMMARY: Ethiopia's Banking Business Proclamation contains a host of clauses that grant the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE, Ethiopia's central bank) wide ranging and extensive power over the operations of private banks and Ethiopians' rights to invest in the financial sector. The Proclamation [...] | 2008-06-16 14:04:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ET |
08ADDISABABA1640 | PARLIAMENT CONSIDERS TWO BANKING LAWS [...] SUMMARY: The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE, Ethiopia's central bank) presented an amendment to the monetary and banking proclamation to Parliament on June 2. The principal objectives of the amendment include removing the borrowing ceiling of the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) from the NBE, intro [...] | 2008-06-16 14:05:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA165 | MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW FOR DECEMBER 2007 [...] SUMMARY -- Ethiopian Government's (GoE) 2006/07 macroeconomic performance report indicates economic growth was broad based and sustainable. -- GoE projects double digit economic growth in 2007/08, the fifth year in a row; -- The Central Statistical Agency (CSA) changed the base year of the [...] | 2008-01-22 13:13:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA1672 | UNDERCUTTING FOREIGN ASSISTANCE: FURTHER RESTRICTING NGOS [...] (SBU) A series of recent Ethiopian Government (GoE) administrative requirements risk severely undercutting our foreign assistance operations. The now inevitable civil society organizations (CSO) law (Refs A and B) will likely force the end of all of our, and other donors', democracy and govern [...] | 2008-06-19 05:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL ABUD ET |
08ADDISABABA1674 | DISMANTLING ETHIOPIA'S POLITICAL SPACE [...] (S/NF) This is the first in a series of cables outlining policy options on U.S.-Ethiopia relations in light of recent restrictions on political and democratic space (Refs. A and B). 2. (S/NF) The ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) came to power in 1991 under mu [...] | 2008-06-19 08:15:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL KDEM PGOV ASEC EAID ET |
08ADDISABABA1691 | ETHIOPIA: 2008 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] The United States Government is aware of four (4) claims by U.S. persons which may be outstanding against the Government of Ethiopia (GOE). One claim included in the 2006 report has been resolved. There are two new reported claims. 2. The U.S. Government is also aware of two other disputes [...] | 2008-06-20 06:59:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON ET |
08ADDISABABA170 | ETHIOPIA ENGAGED IN PRIVATE DISCUSSIONS WITH [...] (S/NF) Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin called in Ambassador January 19 to discuss Somalia. With legal advisor Minelik present, Seyoum told the Ambassador that Ethiopia has over the past several months approached moderate elements of the former Islamic Courts Union (ICU) of Somalia. Meetings ha [...] | 2008-01-22 14:12:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER ET SO |
08ADDISABABA173 | ETHIOPIA FIRM ON LEAVING ALGIERS PROCESS IF UN [...] (S/NF) Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin called in Ambassador January 19 to emphasize that the Ethiopian leadership had met January 18 and decided that if the UN Security Council should adopt this week to accept the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission's (EEBC) demarcation by map coordinates, or [...] | 2008-01-23 04:46:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | KPKO PBTS PREL ET ER |
08ADDISABABA1733 | UNITY FOR DEMOCRACY & JUSTICE (UDJ): KEEPING HOPE FOR [...] (SBU) On June 24, 2008 PolCouns met with Dr. Yacob Hailemariam, the Head of Foreign Affairs of the newly formed opposition political party, Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ). UDJ is unique as its supporters represent most major ethnic groups and its leadership is composed of most major lea [...] | 2008-06-25 14:11:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA174 | ETHIOPIA PRIME MINISTER URGES AMBASSADORS FROM UN [...] (C) Prime Minister Meles called in the local Ambassadors from UN Security Council member states on January 21 to urge them to advise their respective representatives in New York to remain neutral during discussions by the UNSC on the Ethiopia-Eritrea border and extension of the mandate for the [...] | 2008-01-23 12:42:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KPKO PBTS PREL ER ET |
08ADDISABABA1746 | "FORUM FOR DEMOCRATIC DIALOGUE IN ETHIOPIA": A NEW [...] (U) On June 24, 2008, representatives from the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF),Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM),Somali Democratic Alliance Forces (SDAF),Arena Tigray for Democracy and Sovereignty (Arena),former President of Ethiopia Dr. Negasso Gidada, and former Defens [...] | 2008-06-26 14:17:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA1754 | Ethiopia Supports United Nations Military Observer Mission [...] (SBU) Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin called together the Ambassadors representing the Permanent Five (P5) UN Security Council (UNSC) countries to highlight Ethiopia's concerns regarding the current draft UNSC resolution on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border. Seyoum cautioned that, if changes [...] | 2008-06-27 08:18:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PREL UN ET |
08ADDISABABA1755 | DEATH OF PRIME MINISTER MELES'S FATHER [...] (U) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's father, Ato Zenawi Asres, passed away on June 26, after a prolonged illness. Ato Zenawi was 82 years old. Prime Minister Meles, family and senior government officials will attend Ato Zenawi's funeral on June 27 in the northern Ethiopian town of Adwa [...] | 2008-06-27 08:19:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA1787 | ETHIOPIA - USG/HAT - MEETING WITH WFP [...] Senior World Food Program (WFP) officials - the Country Director for Ethiopia and the Chief of the Logistics Division in Rome - briefed USAID officials Friday June 27 on the current transport situation and its capacity to meet food aid imports over the coming months. There is little capacity t [...] | 2008-07-01 12:56:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA18 | MANPADS STRATEGY: COMMENTS FROM ETHIOPIA [...] (S/NF) Summary: Embassy Addis Ababa supports pursuit of the proposed Horn of Africa MANPADS strategy (reftel). While counter-proliferation and acquisition-related strategy elements would likely be well received in Ethiopia, and will complement on-going arrangements, elements of the stockpile [...] | 2008-01-03 14:46:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MASS PARM XW WET |
08ADDISABABA1815 | USAU: APRIL 9-11 AFRICAN UNION CONSULTATIVE [...] SUMMARY: From April 9-11 the African Union (AU) Consultative Meeting on Women and Gender met in Addis Ababa to review a framework paper to be subsequently endorsed by the AU Council of Ministers as the definitive AU statement on gender policy and gender mainstreaming. Subsequent to the meet [...] | 2008-07-07 06:23:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI AU |
08ADDISABABA1817 | USAU: PROPOSAL FOR AFRICAN CLIMATE POLICY CENTER [...] SUMMARY: On May 20 African Union (AU) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) officials briefed donor partners on joint efforts to establish an African Climate Policy Center (ACPC). The African Development Bank (ADB) is also involved in the initiative to address the challe [...] | 2008-07-07 06:25:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI AU |
08ADDISABABA1821 | ETHIOPIA - USAID/HAT - UPDATE ON HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN [...] This cable provides a summary of the current situation in the Somali region based on field reporting by the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) regional government in Jijiga, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and United Nation (UN) agencies. The cable draws exclusively from second hand sources du [...] | 2008-07-07 06:26:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1823 | SERIOUS IMPACTS OF FAILED BELG RAINS IN ETHIOPIA [...] There is a 'green famine' in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) as the U.S. Government Humanitarian Assistance Team (USG/HAT) observed during their recent field trips in Wolyata and Gurage zones in late June. Nutrition programs are overwhelmed with patients in the absenc [...] | 2008-07-07 06:27:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1825 | USAU: JUNE 11-12 MEETING OF IGAD COUNCIL OF [...] SUMMARY: On June 11-12 the Foreign Ministers of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) convened in Addis for their twenty-seventh Ordinary Session. The meeting was chaired by Kenya, co-chaired by the Italian Ambassador, and addressed by Ethiopia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, [...] | 2008-07-07 06:28:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AU |
08ADDISABABA1850 | TAILORING U.S. ASSISTANCE TO BILATERAL REALITIES [...] (SBU) Ethiopia is now the second largest recipient of U.S. foreign assistance in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the preponderance of this assistance is humanitarian, including food aid, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),the Child Survival and Health Program Funds (CSH),of [...] | 2008-07-08 05:36:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL ABUD ET |
08ADDISABABA1856 | ETHIOPIA EXPRESSES CHANGE OF HEART ON POST-UNMEE [...] (C) Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin called in Ambassador July 7 to seek United States' views and to inform the United States Government (USG) in advance that Ethiopia is now not/not in favor of a follow-on United Nations (UN) military observer mission upon the conclusion of United Nations Missi [...] | 2008-07-08 12:00:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MOPS UN ER ET |
08ADDISABABA1870 | Japan Embargoes Ethiopian Coffee for Trace Insecticides [...] SUMMARY: The Japanese Coffee Association (JCA) has rejected the delivery of 16 container loads of Ethiopian coffee due to the presence of three banned insecticides. The JCA sent multiple teams to Ethiopia to obtain samples from throughout the supply chain to determine the source of the contamin [...] | 2008-07-09 04:46:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA1878 | ETHIOPIAN NGO WINS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AWARD [...] (U) The Ashden Trust awarded its 2008 Sustainable Development award to the Gaia Association of Ethiopia, a U.S.-supported organization providing ethanol-burning stoves to refugee camps in Ethiopia's Somali region. Through financial assistance from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and t [...] | 2008-07-09 14:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR ENRG PREF ET |
08ADDISABABA189 | ELEPHANTS AND BIOFUEL DON'T BLEND [...] (U) The conflict between conservation and investment in Ethiopia has escalated. Caught in the cross-fire is a chronically food insecure community that welcomes the opportunity to grow a cash crop. In 2007, the regional government of Oromia granted the Israeli-German firm, Flora EcoPower (FEP) [...] | 2008-01-24 12:14:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG EAGR ECON EAID ET |
08ADDISABABA191 | ETHIOPIA'S HIDES, SKINS AND LEATHER SECTOR [...] SUMMARY: The hides, skins and leather (HSL) sector is a priority area in the Government of Ethiopia's (GoE) economic development plan. While Ethiopia has the potential to produce large amounts of very high-quality leather, problems of poor quality inputs, over-capacity in tanneries, and a low [...] | 2008-01-24 12:16:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EINV EAID ET |
08ADDISABABA1918 | Ethiopia Now Opposes UN Follow-on Mission, for Now [...] (SBU) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles told Ambassador that Ethiopia now opposes any UN follow-on mission upon the conclusion of UN Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) operations on July 31. Meles echoed the Foreign Minister's position (reftel)that Eritrea had so completely undercut the Algie [...] | 2008-07-14 14:13:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PBTS PGOV MOPS ET |
08ADDISABABA1919 | ETHIOPIA CONCERNED FOR ITS TROOPS IN WAKE OF [...] (C) Prime Minister Meles told Ambassador July 11 that, in the wake of the killing of five Rwandan troops in Darfur, he was concerned for the safety of Ethiopia's 1500 troops now being deployed to Darfur. Meles asked the United States for assistance in pressing the United Nations and others for [...] | 2008-07-14 14:32:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO ET |
08ADDISABABA194 | STRENGTHENING CHINA TIES, FOREIGN MINISTER YANG JIECHI IN [...] (U) Summary: Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi visited Ethiopia at the end of a four country tour of Africa. During a quick one-day stop, Yang met with Prime Minister Meles and Foreign Minister Seyoum on Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea, bilateral programs, and China's outreach to Africa. The larg [...] | 2008-01-25 06:23:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID EINV ET CH |
08ADDISABABA1941 | USAU: SUDAN PRESIDENT BASHIR TELLS AFRICAN UNION [...] (C) During a July 16 courtesy meeting between the African Union (AU) Commissioner for Peace and Security (Ambassador Ramtane Lamamra) and the Commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Africa (Major General Cornell Wilson),the Commissioner revealed several comments regarding his meeting in Kharto [...] | 2008-07-16 14:29:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU |
08ADDISABABA1943 | INFLATION PEAKS, THE PUBLIC FEELS THE PINCH [...] In June, Ethiopia's general inflation rate hit 55.3 percent on an annualized basis (from June 2007 to June 2008). Food inflation ticked in at 78.2 percent and cereal inflation, as a subset of food inflation, soared 132.5 percent over the same period. Cereals include staple grains such as tef [...] | 2008-07-17 08:13:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ALOW ECON PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1948 | PARLIAMENT PASSES 2008/09 FEDERAL BUDGET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Ethiopian Parliament passed a federal budget of US$5.6 billion for 2008/09 fiscal year that runs from July 8, 2008 to July 7, 2009. The budget is 16 percent higher than the US$4.9 billion budget endorsed last year. Given that annual general inflation in June 2008 was 55.3 pe [...] | 2008-07-17 10:06:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA2078 | A DIALOGUE ON ETHIOPIA'S DEMOCRATIZATION: DRL A/S [...] (C) In a broad-ranging 90-minute conversation, DRL Assistant Secretary David Kramer effectively noted senior Washington concerns about recent developments in Ethiopia's progress toward democratization with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on July 23. In response, the Prime Minister conveyed the mo [...] | 2008-07-29 07:43:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA2093 | ETHIOPIA REGISTERS AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - HOPE FOR [...] The Ethiopian Ministry of Justice formally registered the American Chamber of Commerce in Ethiopia (ACCE) on June 26 after a concerted 20-month effort by Embassy Addis Ababa to establish what is only the fourth American Chamber of Commerce in Africa. The establishment of the ACCE offers a uniq [...] | 2008-07-30 12:58:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ECON PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA2103 | DRL A/S KRAMER NOTES U.S. CONCERN ON CSO LAW [...] (SBU) DRL Assistant Secretary David Kramer highlighted significant U.S. concerns over the likely impact and potentially unintended consequences of Ethiopia's draft Civil Society Organizations (CSO) law in meetings with Prime Minister Meles, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu, [...] | 2008-07-31 08:47:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA2105 | Prime Minister Meles set on new CSO/NGO law in autumn [...] (SBU) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Ambassadors from the UK, France and US on July 30 during the third of a series of meetings that the proposed Charities and Societies Organizations Law (CSO) has become so politicized that it has exacerbated animosities within the Central Committe [...] | 2008-07-31 13:17:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA2112 | U.S.-ETHIOPIAN RELATIONS MESHED IN UNEASY INTERNAL [...] (S/NF) The growing independence in bilateral policy discussions by hard-liners within the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) party -- including members of the Central Committee and Executive Committee or "Politburo", as well as by powerful outsiders like military [...] | 2008-08-01 11:49:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL KDEM PGOV ASEC EAID ET |
08ADDISABABA2116 | GOVERNMENT RELEASES POLITICAL PRISONER ON [...] (SBU) Seven days after Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Rights, and Labor David Kramer asked senior Ethiopian Government (GoE) officials to grant political detainee Assefa Abraha parole in accordance with standard Ethiopian judicial practice, the GoE released the former senior offic [...] | 2008-08-04 09:24:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KJUS PGOV PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA2122 | ETHIOPIA NOT LEAVING SOMALIA YET [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Ethiopian MFA Acting Chief of the Foreign Minister's Cabinet Abdetta Dribssa told PolOff on August 1 that the Ethiopian government had not yet made a decision whether to withdraw its military forces from Mogadishu or Somalia, but he emphasized that his government was increas [...] | 2008-08-04 13:36:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA213 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM FIELD VISIT #3: HEALTH AND [...] Between January 15 and 21, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Gode and Korahe zones in Somali Region as part of a third field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation, including health and nutrition conditions. USG HAT staff repor [...] | 2008-01-29 04:48:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2131 | SOMALI TFG OFFICIAL SAYS YUSUF CANNOT BACK DOWN [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Deputy Head of Mission in Addis Ababa Jibril M. Osman (Hawiye/Murosade) told PolOffs on August 4 that TFG President Yusuf could not back down against the Ethiopian ultimatum that Yusuf must support TFG Prime Minister Nur Adde's a [...] | 2008-08-05 14:25:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA214 | PM'S ADVISOR BEREKET DISCUSSES ELECTIONS AND VOA [...] (C) In a broad-ranging discussion with visiting Africa Bureau PDAS Linda Thomas-Greenfield on January 17, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, Bereket Simon, offered his version of history and less than wholly accurate assurances to comfort the USG that the Government and ruling Ethiopian Pe [...] | 2008-01-29 04:48:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV KPAO PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA2143 | ETHIOPIA'S JUDICIAL SYSTEM: IN TRANSITION [...] (SBU) This cable provides a brief overview of Ethiopia's judicial system, based on contacts with legal practitioners. Ethiopia has both a regional (state) and a federal court system. The federal system handles matters of federal law and has benefited from external assistance, primarily from C [...] | 2008-08-06 13:02:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS ET |
08ADDISABABA2149 | GOE REAFFIRMS PROTECTION OF COPYRIGHTS [...] (U) The Ethiopian Government (GoE) destroyed close to half a million pirated copies of locally produced music CDs, software, Ethiopian-produced DVD films and foreign-produced pornographic films on 27 July 2008 at Meskel Square in Addis Ababa in the presence of senior government officials, artis [...] | 2008-08-07 04:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA215 | PM'S ADVISOR BEREKET DISCUSSES ELECTIONS AND VOA [...] (C) In a broad-ranging discussion with visiting Africa Bureau PDAS Linda Thomas-Greenfield on January 17, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, Bereket Simon, offered his version of history and less than wholly accurate assurances to comfort the USG that the Government and ruling Ethiopian Pe [...] | 2008-01-29 05:29:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV KPAO PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA2157 | ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: UNMEE'S LIQUIDATION UNDERWAY [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the final "Friends of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)" meeting on August 4, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General Azouz Ennifar told the diplomatic community that UNMEE did not fail at its job, rather it performed its mission well [...] | 2008-08-07 13:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER |
08ADDISABABA2159 | PRESS FREEDOM - OPPRESSIVE OR PERMISSIVE: DRL A/S [...] (SBU) During his July 23-25 visit to Addis Ababa, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor David Kramer met with media professionals and civil society leaders on the state of press freedom in Ethiopia and engaged senior Ethiopian Government (GoE) leaders on press fre [...] | 2008-08-08 06:20:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA216 | ERITREAN OPPOSITION PARTIES AGREE TO FORM NEW [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On January 24, Ambassador and Embassy Officers met with the newly appointed three-man Liaison Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) Secretariat--Hussein Khalifa of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF),Mengesteab Asmerom of the Eritrean Liberation Front-Revolutionary Council (EL [...] | 2008-01-29 10:19:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PREL PBTS ET ER |
08ADDISABABA2162 | PRESS FREEDOM: CONTEMPT FOR REPORTING [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 6, the Ethiopian Federal High Court found Million Assefa (defense attorney for pop singer Teddy Afro) and Mesfin Negash (editor-in-chief of popular newspaper Addis Neger) guilty of contempt. The court ruled that a recent Addis Neger article, which quoted Million critici [...] | 2008-08-08 08:31:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO ET |
08ADDISABABA2217 | LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE: MR. ABEBAW ASFAW FELLEKE'S [...] (SBU) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, REFTEL identified one Ethiopian National to Participate in Small Arms and Light Weapons non-proliferation training, to be held 17-22 August in Kampala Uganda. Per REFTEL Embassy verifies that as of 11 Aug 08 the Department of State P [...] | 2008-08-12 09:59:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PMIL PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2218 | SUBJECT: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR PARTICIPATION [...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following Ethiopian citizen who has been nominated for USG-sponsored training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information on this individual. 2. (SBU) This seminar is a regional [...] | 2008-08-12 10:00:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PMIL PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2223 | ADDIS ABABA RESPONSE - SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE [...] (SBU) POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND DEMONSTRATIONS ------------------------------------- A. ARE THERE ANY ETHNIC OR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN COUNTRY CAPABLE OF CARRYING OUT SIGNIFICANT ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS? -Yes, there is a sizable Muslim population throughout Ethiopia as well [...] | 2008-08-12 12:40:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER ET |
08ADDISABABA2232 | ETHIOPIA LOOKING TO WITHDRAW FROM MOGADISHU [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Ethiopian MFA Acting Chief of the Minister's Cabinet Abdetta Dribssa told PolOffs on August 7 that he expected the Ethiopian military to withdraw from Mogadishu by the end of September and redeploy to Baidoa and other areas outside of the city, allowing the newly trained Som [...] | 2008-08-13 14:15:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA2234 | ETHIOPIA/CHINA: DEPARTING PRC ECONOMIC COUNSELOR [...] (C) Noting that he would soon depart for a new assignment in Monrovia, PRC Economic and Commercial Counselor in Ethiopia Liu Yunbiao told Emboffs that his office would continue to pursue opportunities for cooperation with the United States in Ethiopia, as well as Liberia. Liu observed his vie [...] | 2008-08-14 04:42:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PINR EAID ET |
08ADDISABABA2254 | GOVERNMENT DIVERTS WORLD BANK PROJECT FUNDING TO [...] (SBU) The Ethiopian Council of Ministers on August 1 approved the transfer of U.S. $301 million from on-going World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB) projects to provide subsidized fertilizer to the agricultural sector. The funding -- U.S. $237 million from World Bank projects and U.S. [...] | 2008-08-15 11:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR ECON PGOV PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA2262 | FOOD CRISIS WORSENS AS RELIEF CHALLENGES PERSIST [...] (SBU) After almost a year of sustained U.S. and donor engagement with the Ethiopian Government (GoE) to respond to the growing food crisis, the GoE appears intent on obfuscating the facts on the ground and is unable or unwilling to support the humanitarian response. Rather than openly acknowle [...] | 2008-08-18 14:26:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2265 | GOE SUMMONS TFG, TFG LEADERS REMAIN ENTRENCHED [...] (S) Despite clear and stern messages from the Ethiopian Government (GoE) to resolve personality conflicts and move on with governance and reconciliation, Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Yusuf and Prime Minister Nur (Adde) Hassan Hussein remained entrenched in their re [...] | 2008-08-18 14:35:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET | PGOV PREL SO ET |
08ADDISABABA2266 | COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR PURCHASE OF NIGHT [...] (S) Embassy Addis Ababa's Country Team supports the purchase of Night Vision Devices (NVDs) for the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) (reftel 07 Addis 3266). The requirement is for the procurement of 400 AN/PVS 7-B and ancillary equipment. 2. (S//NF) Reason for Article or Servi [...] | 2008-08-19 04:29:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET | EAID MASS PREL |
08ADDISABABA2281 | ETHIOPIA OFFERS A WAY FORWARD ON SOMALIA [...] (C/NF) Summary. The MFA Acting Chief of the Minister's Cabinet Abdetta Dribssa on August 18 passed PolOffs Ethiopia's proposed way forward through the current Transitional Federal Government (TFG) crisis, provided TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Hassan Hussein Nur "Adde" ar [...] | 2008-08-19 13:52:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA2290 | ETHIOPIA: "WE'RE FOLLOWING CHINA'S MODEL" [...] (C) At a hail and farewell on August 19 for Chinese Economic and Commercial Counselor Liu Yunbiao (reftel) and his replacement, Qian Zhaogang, Ethiopian State Minister for Trade and Industry Tadesse Haile extolled the close and growing commercial relationship between China and Ethiopia and sai [...] | 2008-08-21 07:32:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ET CH |
08ADDISABABA2291 | AWRAMBA TIMES HIGHLIGHTS TENSION BETWEEN PRESS [...] (C) The Editor-in-Chief of the private Amharic weekly Awramba Times met with Emboffs to provide details on what he described as a police threat to curb his newspaper's activities following the publication of stories related to the controversial new opposition movement Ginbot 7, which publicly [...] | 2008-08-21 07:37:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO ET |
08ADDISABABA2322 | SOMALI TFG PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER AGREE ON [...] (C/NF) Summary. Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Hassan Hussein Nur "Adde" are expected to sign an agreement in Addis Ababa on August 26 confirming their willingness to work with each other, bridging, at least for now, their recent imp [...] | 2008-08-25 14:17:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO PINR SO ET |
08ADDISABABA2325 | INFLATION REACHES 64 PERCENT [...] (U) The Ethiopian Central Statistics Agency (CSA) released July 2007 to July 2008 inflation figures on August 15. Over the past twelve months, overall headline inflation reached 64.2 percent, food inflation skyrocketed to 91.8 percent, and inflation on cereals rose to 171.9 percent. These fig [...] | 2008-08-26 04:37:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ALOW ECON PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA233 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM FIELD VISIT #3: [...] Between January 15 and 21, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, including a USAID/Ethiopia senior policy advisor and a USAID/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) agriculture and livestock advisor, traveled to Gode and Korahe zones in Somali R [...] | 2008-01-30 09:57:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2337 | MSF-SWITZERLAND LEAVES ETHIOPIA [...] (C) After over a year of bureaucratic impediments to its operations in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia's Somali region, two rounds of detention without charge of its staff members, and the recognition of its fundamental inability to operate, Medecins Sans Frontieres-Switzerland (MSF-CH) terminated [...] | 2008-08-27 14:33:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM EAID PGOV ASEC ET |
08ADDISABABA2338 | SOMALI TFG LEADERSHIP SIGNS AGREEMENT IN ADDIS [...] (C/NF) Summary. Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf, Prime Minister Hassan Hussein Nur "Adde", and Speaker Sheikh Aden Mohammed Nur Madobe signed an agreement on August 26 in Addis Ababa that commits the leaders to working together for the remainder of the transi [...] | 2008-08-27 15:11:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO PGOV SO ET |
08ADDISABABA2379 | ETHIOPIA SEEKS ASSISTANCE IN WITHDRAWAL FROM [...] (C) Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu called in the Ambassador of the U.S. and Charges d'Affaires of the UK and Germany September 2 to discuss ideas to avoid a power vacuum, violence, and possible revival of extremist elements as Ethiopian forces begin phased redepl [...] | 2008-09-04 05:41:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PGOV SO ET |
08ADDISABABA239 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: DEGEHABUR ZONE FIELD [...] (U) Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia program officer, health and nutrition specialist, and safety and security officer traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to asse [...] | 2008-01-31 09:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA240 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: FIELD VISIT #2 -WATER, [...] Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation, including health, nutrition, and water and sanitation conditio [...] | 2008-01-31 09:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2461 | UN'S JOHN HOLMES RAISES OGADEN FOOD DELIVERY CRISIS [...] (SBU) The UN Emergency Response Coordinator and Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes briefed select representatives of the donor community September 3 on his discussions with the Ethiopian Government (GoE) on the "malnutrition crisis" in Ethiopia . He noted that, while [...] | 2008-09-05 07:21:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PGOV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA2471 | (C) ETHIOPIA WILL NOT SUPPORT ZIMBABWE HUMAN [...] (C) PolOffs raised reftel points with Abebaw Feleke, Acting Director of UN Main Organs, and Tesfaye Yilma, Director General for Europe and the Americas, in the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry on September 4. Neither official disclosed the Ethiopian Government's (GoE) likely response on the questio [...] | 2008-09-08 06:20:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN ET ZI |
08ADDISABABA2478 | ETHIOPIAN HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID [...] (C) Ethiopian Air Force Chief of Staff Major General Molla Hailemariam Alemayehu told SAO and PolOff on August 28 that Ethiopia was prepared to provide four MI-35 HIND helicopter gunships and two MI-17 HIP transport helicopters for the United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) peacekeeping f [...] | 2008-09-08 08:36:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SU ET |
08ADDISABABA2482 | GOVERNMENT SET TO PASS CSO LAW [...] (SBU) The release of a minimally altered, near final version of Ethiopia's highly contentious Civil Society Organizations (CSO) law suggests that the Ethiopian Government (GoE) is preparing to rush the bill through Parliament this Fall. The impact of the law on U.S. foreign assistance program [...] | 2008-09-08 12:10:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV EAID PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA2483 | PASTORAL HARDSHIPS IN THE SOMALI REGION [...] (SBU) In an August 8 - 14 visit to Filtu district in the Somali region, PolOff examined the effects of regional drought on food security, livelihoods, conflict, and populations movements. Filtu district remains hard hit by continued drought conditions, pasture overgrazing, lack of a livestock [...] | 2008-09-08 12:15:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV EAID ECON ET |
08ADDISABABA2487 | ETHIOPIA: OROMO ELDERS BELIEVE RECONCILIATION [...] (C) Oromo Elders told Ambassador September 6 during a private meeting that they believe reconciliation between the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and the Ethiopian government (GoE) is within reach. They plan to hold a meeting of Oromo civic and local leaders in the next few weeks to consolidate [...] | 2008-09-09 04:38:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA249 | STATE MINISTER TEKEDA DISCUSSES REGIONAL AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 17 meeting with State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Tekeda Alemu, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Linda Thomas-Greenfield asked about Ethiopia's SIPDIS outlook for the new Somali government, the Ethiopian relationship with Sudan, as well as noted the importan [...] | 2008-02-04 07:58:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA250 | OPPOSITION LEADERS DISCUSS LOCAL ELECTIONS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 18 meeting with opposition party leaders, Africa Bureau Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Linda Thomas-Greenfield asked about preparations SIPDIS for upcoming local elections, progress in democratization in Ethiopia, as well as the recent turmoil regarding the [...] | 2008-02-04 08:00:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2531 | COMMERCE VISIT PUNCTUATED BY MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT DOING [...] (U) U.S. Department of Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Holly Vineyard's August 17-20 visit to Ethiopia highlighted an economy offering significant opportunities as well as great challenges. While the Ethiopian economy has shown significant growth in recent years, business and developm [...] | 2008-09-15 14:12:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA2541 | ETHIOPIA/CHINA: PRC COMPANIES FEEL FOREIGN [...] (C) During a working lunch, newly arrived People's Republic of China (PRC) Ambassador to Ethiopia Gu Xiaojie and DCM Zhang Yuebang said that Ethiopia's foreign exchange crunch (septel) was "trouble" for Chinese companies, which have been unable to procure easily materials and supplies from int [...] | 2008-09-16 08:49:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL PINR EAID CH ET |
08ADDISABABA2560 | HAILU SHAWAL: NO NEED FOR COALITIONS FOR NOW [...] (C) Ethiopian opposition parties should "get their own houses in order" and not form coalitions at this time, disgruntled former Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) stalwart Hailu Shawal told the Ambassador. Hailu disparaged the efforts of other opposition parties and contended that his A [...] | 2008-09-17 13:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PINR ET |
08ADDISABABA2561 | ETHIOPIA BRACES FOR AN UNCERTAIN RELATIONSHIP WITH [...] (S/NF) Prime Minister Meles told the Ambassador during a private two hour meeting September 13 that Ethiopia is committed to U.S. relations as the cornerstone for its security and development, but many ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) party members and non-party [...] | 2008-09-17 13:19:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM ET |
08ADDISABABA2569 | FOREIGN EXCHANGE SHORTAGE HURTS U.S. BUSINESSES [...] (SBU) The limited supply of foreign exchange (forex) in Ethiopia's banks has begun to take a toll on U.S. commercial interests as private and public entities have increasingly become unable to import essential consumer inputs and industrial capital goods from abroad or get hard currency to repa [...] | 2008-09-17 14:13:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ET |
08ADDISABABA2587 | SUPPLEMENT TO COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR PURCHASE [...] (S)Embassy Addis Ababa's Country Team still supports the purchase of Night Vision Devices (NVDs) for the Ethiopian National Defense Force (REFTELs) and offers the below information for clarification of outstanding issues. The requirement is for the procurement of 400 AN/PVS 7-B and ancilla [...] | 2008-09-18 11:21:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | EAID MASS PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA260 | ETHIOPIA'S JUDICIAL DUE PROCESS, SEVERELY IN [...] (C) Ethiopian elders informed Post that Prime Minister Meles has indicated that the two prominent civil society advocates from the NGO ActionAid, Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, will not be released at the end of their sentences (May 1 and May 8 respectively) as decreed by the federal cou [...] | 2008-02-04 10:40:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | KJUS KDEM PGOV PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA261 | ELECTIONS HERALD #1: LOCAL ELECTIONS HEADED FOR [...] (C) This is the first in a series of reports analyzing the run-up to, and conduct of, Ethiopia's April 13 and 20 local elections. Four weeks into the voter registration process and two weeks into the candidate registration process, the prevailing environment in Ethiopia is marked by success by [...] | 2008-02-04 11:57:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA2645 | GOVERNMENT FOOD SUBSIDIES INEFFECTIVE [...] (U) Since 2005, the Ethiopian Grain Trade Enterprise (EGTE) has provided over 500,000 metric tons of subsidized grain to the country's urban centers. While the initiative is nominally intended to cushion the landless urban poor from the mounting food inflation, urban food prices still remain w [...] | 2008-09-23 11:59:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ETRD PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2655 | ADDIS ABABA EAC MEETS TO DISCUSS RECENT TERRORIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on September 22, 2008 to review the details of the September 17, 2008 terrorist attack on U.S. Embassy Sana'a and the September 20, 2008 attack on the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan. Post,s primary foc [...] | 2008-09-23 13:28:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC |
08ADDISABABA2658 | SE WILLIAMSON DISCUSSES SUDAN WITH PRIME MINISTER [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles on August 8 told visiting Special Envoy for Sudan Williamson that Ethiopia was preparing to send four helicopter gunships to Darfur, and that two additional helicopters could be provided with assistance for upgrades or if the United Nations rel [...] | 2008-09-24 11:57:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KPKO SU ET |
08ADDISABABA2663 | INSURGENTS STOP/DETAIN NGO STAFF IN OGADEN [...] (SBU) Two NGO teams have been detained in rural encounters with insurgent/extremist groups in the Ogaden areas of Ethiopia's Somali region in the past week. As NGOs report increased access in the Ogaden, the incidence of such encounters is also likely to continue, and grow. Roadblocks by the [...] | 2008-09-25 15:31:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PHUM EAID PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2670 | DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES OGADEN RELIEF AND [...] (SBU) Deputy Prime Minister Adissu Legesse told Ambassador, UN Res Rep Sarasorro, and USAID Mission Director Anders in a meeting on September 25 that the government was taking an "integrated" approach in the Somali region of Ethiopia, similar to the UN-USAID "two track" approach of humanitarian [...] | 2008-09-29 08:25:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA2676 | DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES OGADEN RELIEF AND [...] (SBU) Deputy Prime Minister Adissu Legesse told Ambassador, UN Res Rep Sarasorro, and USAID Mission Director Anders in a meeting on September 25 that the government was taking an "integrated" approach in the Somali region of Ethiopia, similar to the UN-USAID "two track" approach of humanitarian [...] | 2008-09-29 08:29:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA2694 | ADDIS ABABA EAC MEETS TO DISCUSS END OF RAMADAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on September 29, 2008 to review the details of the September 28, 2008 hotel bombing in Jijiga, Ethiopia which killed four and wounded twenty-two. Post's focus was to determine what impact this may have on Mi [...] | 2008-09-30 09:48:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC |
08ADDISABABA27 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: SECURITY AND ACCESS [...] Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia program officer, health and nutrition specialist, and safety and security officer traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to assess [...] | 2008-01-08 08:07:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2749 | THE VIEW FROM INSIDE ETHIOPIA'S ERITREAN REFUGEE [...] (C/NF) Summary. Acting RefCoord and PolOff visited the Eritrean refugee camps at Shimelba and My-Ayni from September 15 to September 19 in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, and met with Eritrean refugees, UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) officials, Ethiopian Administration for Refugee/Return [...] | 2008-10-06 13:20:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREF PREL PBTS MOPS ET ER CH |
08ADDISABABA2750 | (S) ETHIOPIA EXPLORING CHANGING TFG PRESIDENT AND [...] (S/NF) Summary. Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu told the Charge on October 3 that Ethiopia's objective for the upcoming October 27-29 InterGovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) summit in Nairobi was to constrain Somalia's Transitional Federal Government [...] | 2008-10-06 13:21:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA2765 | TENSION AND POOR DEVELOPMENT TORMENT [...] (SBU) In an early September visit to Asosa, capital of the Benishangul-Gumuz region, PolOff examined reports of recent escalations in internal conflict and observed broader political and economic issues in one of Ethiopia,s most underdeveloped regions. Many officials highlighted mounting tens [...] | 2008-10-06 14:51:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV EAID ECON ET PREF |
08ADDISABABA277 | SUDAN: ETHIOPIAN STATE MINISTER TEKEDA ON SUDANESE [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On February 1, Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu told Ambassador, AF/SPG Director Lauren Landis, and PolOffs that he expected Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor to be able to help improve relations between the United States and Sudan. Tekeda note [...] | 2008-02-05 14:32:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ET SU |
08ADDISABABA28 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: HEALTH AND NUTRITION [...] (U) Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia health and nutrition specialist traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to assess humanitarian conditions and evaluate preliminar [...] | 2008-01-08 08:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2800 | ETHIOPIA SEEKING IMF FACILITY TO STEM FOREX CRISIS [...] (SBU) The Ethiopian Government (GoE) has decided to approach the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for an emergency balance of payments loan facility to mitigate the country's foreign exchange crisis (reftel). The loan would be Ethiopia's first formal arrangement with the IMF in years. With [...] | 2008-10-07 10:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD BEXP ET |
08ADDISABABA2801 | ETHIOPIAN UNAMID DEPLOYMENT READINESS REPORT #1 [...] (C/NF) Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) foreign liaison officer Brigadier General Hassan told the DATT on October 2 that the ENDF has an advance element of 360 troops in Darfur which includes infantry and engineers. However, the first battalion's equipment has yet to arrive in Darfur [...] | 2008-10-07 14:00:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KPKO SU ET |
08ADDISABABA2802 | ETHIOPIA'S LACKLUSTER PARLIAMENTARY AGENDA [...] (U) Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorgis presented the Ethiopian Government's (GoE) parliamentary agenda at the October 6 opening session of Parliament. Peppered with dry calls for administrative proclamations, quality control standards and institutes, and the improvement of key sectors suc [...] | 2008-10-08 07:17:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAGR ECON ET |
08ADDISABABA2803 | ETHIOPIA SEES IRAN RELATIONS AS "PROBLEMATIC" [...] (S/NF) In separate October 6 meetings with Pol/Econ Chief, two Ethiopian Foreign Ministry officials noted that Ethiopia maintains a "problematic" relationship with Iran. Noting recent press reports of Iranian solidarity with Eritrea over "the plots of big powers" and an Iran-Eritrea memorandum [...] | 2008-10-08 07:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL ET IR ER |
08ADDISABABA2816 | GOVERNMENT OF ETHIOPIA LIFTS FUEL SUBSIDY [...] (U) The government of Ethiopia's (GoE) Council of Ministers lifted subsides on domestic fuel prices effective October 4. The move came after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) objected to the fuel subsidy before considering a balance of payments loan (reftel). The Council also authorized t [...] | 2008-10-14 04:52:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA2817 | ETHIOPIA'S NOMINATION: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE 2009 [...] (U) Embassy Addis Ababa would like to nominate Ms. Birtukan Midekssa Deme, Chairperson, Unity for Democracy and Justice Party, as our nominee for the 2009 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. The remainder of this cable is tracked to nomination detail criteria outlined in reft [...] | 2008-10-14 04:52:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA2837 | BEIJING OLYMPICS IMPRESS ETHIOPIA [...] (U) Discussions with Ethiopian officials, political opposition leaders, and professional colleagues suggest that China impressed Ethiopia by hosting one of the most precisely orchestrated and technically impressive Olympic Games in memory. While news of pre-games demonstrations did reach the E [...] | 2008-10-14 13:17:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ET CH |
08ADDISABABA2846 | ETHIOPIA'S CSO/NGO LAW READY FOR PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Ambassadors from the U.K., France and U.S. during the fourth in a series of meetings that the proposed Charities and Societies Proclamation (CSO law) will be sent, after further minor modifications, to the Council of Ministers this Friday, Octob [...] | 2008-10-15 14:17:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV EAID PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA2848 | ETHIOPIA: TFG PRESIDENT MUST GO, ALL OPTIONS ON [...] (S/NF) Summary. Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu told the Ambassador and PolOff on October 14 that Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf must be replaced in order to produce political progress in Somalia. Tekeda said all options were o [...] | 2008-10-15 14:47:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA285 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: DEGEHABUR ZONE FIELD [...] (U) Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia program officer, health and nutrition specialist, and safety and security officer traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to asse [...] | 2008-02-06 05:23:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA286 | ETHIOPIA: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER AND PRIME [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On January 31, Assistant Secretary Frazer met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in a broad ranging 100 minute discussion on Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Somaliland, and the Eritrean border. Also in attendance were Ambassador Yamamoto, Ambassador Courville, Sudan S/E Will [...] | 2008-02-06 07:54:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PBTS PNAT MOPS KPKO ET ER SO SU KE |
08ADDISABABA2867 | DASD WHELAN MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER MELES [...] (C) Summary: DASD Theresa Whelan and Ambassador Yamamoto met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles on October 15 to discuss security issues of mutual interest. The primary topic was the situation in Somalia. The PM laid out two scenarios -- one that had the Somali TFG "getting its act togeth [...] | 2008-10-16 15:01:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ET SO |
08ADDISABABA2901 | THE VIEW FROM AFAR [...] (U) In two separate September forays into southern and western areas of Afar regional state, Embassy staff found a marginalized population, neglected by formal central government structures, and dependent on their communal pastoralist lifestyle to sustain them through the three months of the y [...] | 2008-10-21 15:11:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV EAID EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA2941 | MORE ETHIOPIAN MFA THOUGHTS ON SOMALIA NEXT STEPS [...] (S/NF) Summary. In response to the Ambassador's pushback that Ethiopia not hijack the upcoming Nairobi summit with radical "regime change," Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu told the Ambassador on October 21 that the Ethiopian government saw three available optio [...] | 2008-10-27 09:33:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA2944 | ETHIOPIAN UNAMID DEPLOYMENT READINESS REPORT #2 [...] (C) Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Chief of Staff General Samora told the DATT on October 23 that Ethiopia was now planning to send only five MI-24/35 HIND helicopter gunships to Darfur as part of its United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) deployment package. Samora also said th [...] | 2008-10-27 10:51:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SU ET |
08ADDISABABA2945 | A/S KRAMER PRESSES PRIME MINISTER MELES ON CSO [...] (C) Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) David J. Kramer met with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on October 20 to discuss continued United States Government (USG) concerns over Ethiopia's draft Civil Society Organizations (CSO) law and the overall narrowing of [...] | 2008-10-28 07:54:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREF EAID ECON ET |
08ADDISABABA2969 | DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-30 10:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN |
08ADDISABABA3 | ETHIOPIA: POLITICAL TRIAL WRAPS UP, CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 26, the trial of civil society leaders Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie came to a conclusion after nearly two years of proceedings. In a bittersweet ending, the two remaining defendants from among the 131 originally charged in the political trial of Hailu Shawel [...] | 2008-01-02 10:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA3000 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR STAFDEL PHELAN [...] Embassy Addis Ababa welcomes Mr. Michael Phelan, Minority Professional Staff Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) to Ethiopia November 1-7, 2008. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the time of proposed travel. Travelers should re-confirm [...] | 2008-10-31 08:19:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AF AFIN ET OREP OTRA |
08ADDISABABA3011 | PARTIAL CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (U) On October 30, the Ethiopian parliament approved the appointment of nine ministers presented by Prime Minister Meles. Five of the nine ministers were members of the former cabinet and four are newcomers. Four of the outgoing ministers remain without role in the government. The following i [...] | 2008-11-03 08:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KDEM ET |
08ADDISABABA304 | ETHIOPIA/ERITREA: UNMEE DECIDES TO WITHDRAW FROM [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On February 6, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General Azouz Ennifar ordered the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) to execute a complete withdrawal from Eritrea after being unable to obtain fuel from the Eritrean government since December 1 [...] | 2008-02-07 12:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER |
08ADDISABABA3050 | ADDIS ABABA EAC MEETING TO DISCUSS POSSIBLE THREAT [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 5, 2008 the Addis Ababa EAC convened to discuss the heightened security posture of the Government of Ethiopia (GOE) in response to the possible threat of a terrorist attack in Ethiopia. Members present include: COM, DCM, CLO, CON, MGMT, PAO, DAO, OBO, POL/ECON, RSO, [...] | 2008-11-05 15:47:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC |
08ADDISABABA3051 | USAU: AU DEPUTY COMMISSIONER ON PIRACY, SOMALIA, [...] (C) Summary: African Union Deputy Commissioner Erastus Mwencha told Ambassador on November 5 that African states are mobilizing to combat piracy along their coasts. Mwencha indicated that the AU and AU member states would likely support the renewal of UNSCR 1816. Addressing the crisis in Soma [...] | 2008-11-06 10:21:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR AU |
08ADDISABABA3060 | PROFILE OF ETHIOPIA'S DEBT SUSTAINABILITY [...] (SBU) Although the government of Ethiopia (GoE) has assumed only minimal new official external bilateral and multilateral debt since completing two rounds of external debt relief, state-owned enterprises (SOE) are accumulating off-budget external (and domestic) debt at an alarming rate. The Go [...] | 2008-11-10 04:31:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA3066 | USAU: AU, PARTNERS KEEPING PRESSURE ON MAURITANIAN [...] (U) Summary: The African Union and its international partners agreed on November 10 in Addis Ababa to issue a communique warning the Mauritanian junta of sanctions and isolation should they fail to respond to the international community's demand for the immediate unconditional liberation of Pr [...] | 2008-11-12 05:28:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KDEM AU MR |
08ADDISABABA3082 | ETHIOPIA FRUSTRATED BY IGAD, BUT NOT DETERRED [...] (S/NF) Summary. Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin on November 7 told the Ambassador that the status quo in Somalia was hopeless, and that bringing Alliance for the Reliberation of Somalia/Djibouti (ARS) head Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and his faction into the government would increas [...] | 2008-11-12 10:44:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA3083 | ADDIS ABABA EAC MEETS TO DISCUSS CONTINUED THREAT [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 12, 2008 the Addis Ababa EAC convened to discuss the continued heightened security posture of the Government of Ethiopia (GOE). Ambassador remarked that the security arrangements are unprecedented. Ambassador and staff will meet again with the police and security, a [...] | 2008-11-12 16:13:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC |
08ADDISABABA3092 | PRIME MINISTER MELES DISCUSSES AGRICULTURE [...] (C) Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Professional Staff Member (PSM) Michael V. Phelan met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on November 6 to discuss potential United States support for agricultural development to enhance food security in countries and regions receiving a signifi [...] | 2008-11-13 08:27:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR OTRA EAID ET SO |
08ADDISABABA3100 | WITH CSO LAW, GOE TELLS DONORS TO BACK OFF [...] (U) After months of U.S. and donor engagement (Ref. A) with the Ethiopian Government (GoE) to mitigate the impact of a draft Charities and Societies Proclamation (CSO law),the GoE released on November 7 what is expected to be the final draft of the law before it is submitted to Parliament. Th [...] | 2008-11-14 09:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV EAID PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA3108 | USAU: AU UNVEILS STRATEGIC AND BUDGET PLANS TO [...] (U) Summary: Peace and Security will remain one of the African Union's (AU) top priorities in the coming years, according to the proposed budget for 2009 that the organization presented to its international partners group on November 13. The AU's other "pillars" upon which the budget, as well [...] | 2008-11-14 10:36:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL AU |
08ADDISABABA3109 | SOMALIA: TFG ON THE BRINK OF IMPLOSION [...] (S/NF) Summary. Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Hassan Hussein Nur Adde told the Ambassador and PolOff in separate meetings on November 13 that neither was willing to compromise with the other over the formation of a new cabinet as r [...] | 2008-11-14 10:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA3110 | MEETING WITH ETHIOPIAN FEDERAL POLICE TO DISCUSS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 13, 2008 the Ambassador and RSO met with Deputy Commissioner Hassen Shiffa to discuss the current security environment. RSO also presented a request for additional host government security support at the U.S. Embassy and for other Mission facilities, as well as, t [...] | 2008-11-14 13:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC |
08ADDISABABA3116 | VOA HORN OF AFRICA SERVICE CHIEF DISCUSSES VOA [...] (SBU) Voice of America (VOA) Horn of Africa Service Chief David Arnold met with Advisor to the Prime Minister Bereket Simon on October 23 to request the Ethiopian government (GoE) to consider favorably VOA applications for licenses for VOA reporters (local stringers) to be based outside Addis A [...] | 2008-11-17 09:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KPAO ET |
08ADDISABABA3142 | ETHIOPIA/CHINA: WU BANGGUO'S VISIT TO ETHIOPIA [...] (C) People's Republic of China (PRC) Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) Wu Bangguo met separately with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, Speaker of the House of Federation Degfie Bula, Speaker of the House of People's Representatives (Ambassador) Teshome Toga [...] | 2008-11-18 10:21:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON CH ET |
08ADDISABABA3145 | FRUSTRATED ETHIOPIA TO LEAVE SOMALIA AT YEAR'S END [...] (C) Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin called in the U.S. and UK Ambassadors on November 17 to discuss the Somalia crisis. Seyoum said that Ethiopia plans to depart Somalia in 45 days, by the end of December, but will support African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) forces until then. [...] | 2008-11-18 11:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC KPKO ET SO |
08ADDISABABA315 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM FIELD VISIT #3: WASH [...] Between January 15 and 21, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff traveled to Gode and Korahe zones in Somali Region as part of a third field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation, including water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions. The USG HA [...] | 2008-02-08 08:43:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA3159 | GOE CLAMPS DOWN ON OROMOS, OPPOSITION PARTIES [...] (C) Over the past two weeks, the Ethiopian government (GoE) has arrested at least 53 ethnic Oromos (some reports are as high as 200) and supporters of the mainstream political opposition Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) for alleged support to the banned Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). [...] | 2008-11-20 11:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM ASEC ET |
08ADDISABABA316 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROPOSALS FOR [...] (U) Per reftel, Post provides the following five (5) submissions on anti-trafficking in persons project proposals for consideration of funding from FY 2008 INCLE and ESF appropriations. Responses are keyed to questions in paragraphs 20 and 21 of reftel. Full proposals will be sent via e-mail. [...] | 2008-02-11 04:42:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG |
08ADDISABABA3166 | ETHIOPIA/SOMALIA: IGAD COUNCIL OF MINISTERS [...] (C) The Ethiopian government (GoE) is "more than pleased" with the outcome of the November 18 Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Council of Ministers' Extra-ordinary Session (the Ministerial),according to GoE Special Envoy to Somalia Abdeta Dribssa. Abdeta and, separately, th [...] | 2008-11-21 08:56:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO ET SO |
08ADDISABABA3185 | USAU: AU TO LEAD DELEGATION TO MAURITANIA [...] (U) Summary: A high-level delegation from the African Union (AU) and partner international organizations will travel to Mauritania within the next three weeks to meet with ousted President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and junta leader General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to find a way out of [...] | 2008-11-24 07:26:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNSC EU AU |
08ADDISABABA3187 | USAU: AMISOM EVALUATING MOGADISHU WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) On 20 November 2008, Colonel George Amamoo, the Acting Chief of the African Union's (AU) Strategic Planning and Management Unit (SPMU) for the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) called a meeting of local Defense Attaches to provide an update of the situation in Somalia. The Acting [...] | 2008-11-24 09:39:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS |
08ADDISABABA3188 | RECONCILING THE OROMO LIBERATION FRONT AND [...] (SBU) Recognizing that the outlawed Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) is widely supported -- at least in principle -- among Ethiopia's largest ethnic group, Embassy Addis Ababa has long held that reconciliation between the Ethiopian Government (GoE) and OLF is critical to the long-term political st [...] | 2008-11-24 09:56:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ET |
08ADDISABABA3230 | GROWING WAHABI INFLUENCE IN ETHIOPIA TESTS THE [...] (SBU) Two recent Public Diplomacy programs have demonstrated the growing reach and influence of Wahabi elements in Ethiopian Muslim society. Post's efforts to translate &The Place of Tolerance in Islam8 into local languages have come to naught because no Muslim translator in Ethiopia is willi [...] | 2008-11-26 09:20:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO KISL SCUL ET |
08ADDISABABA3235 | USAU: AFRICOM COMMANDER MEETS WITH AU HEAD KIKWETE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion with AFRICOM Commander General William E. &Kip8 Ward, Tanzanian President and African Union Assembly Chair Jakaya Kikwete discussed the Africa Union,s Peace and Security Architecture, Sudan, the Eastern Congo, Somalia, piracy, and the perception of A [...] | 2008-11-26 12:27:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR AU |
08ADDISABABA3240 | USAU: MAURITANIA'S ASSEMBLY SPEAKER URGES MORE [...] (C) Summary: Mauritania's National Assembly Speaker Messaoud Ould Boulkheir told the Ambassador on November 27 that sanctions targeting select members of the military junta and their supporters, including business owners, government ministers, and other government officials, will likely be req [...] | 2008-11-28 08:01:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR AU |
08ADDISABABA3242 | AFRICOM COMMANDER AND PRIME MINISTER MELES DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. Visiting USAFRICOM commander General William E. Ward met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on November 21 to reinforce AFRICOM's relationship with Ethiopia, and to discuss regional dynamics. Meles, focused primarily on Somalia, said the Somali Transitional Federal Gove [...] | 2008-11-28 08:18:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA3258 | USAU: AU PLANS LAST-MINUTE MEASURES TO SAVE AMISOM [...] (S/NF) Summary: At a December 1 meeting with the USAU Ambassador at AU headquarters, AU Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra outlined a series of steps that the AU intends to take by mid-December to encourage Ethiopian forces to remain in Somalia, despite recent public statements t [...] | 2008-12-02 13:37:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PREL UNSC AU |
08ADDISABABA3276 | ARAB LEAGUE MEMBERS PRESS FOR ROLE ON SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary. In the third in a series of U.S. Embassy Addis hosted meetings with the Arab League Ambassadors (Reftel),Arab colleagues pressed for an international conference on Somalia, and a greater Arab League mediating role, including discussion on troops and financial assistance for pe [...] | 2008-12-04 12:25:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET XF |
08ADDISABABA3283 | CODEL MEEK DISCUSSES SOMALIA, HR 2003, TERRORIST [...] (C) Visiting Congressmen Kendrick Meek, Charles Boustany, and Andre Carson met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Wednesday, December 3 to discuss the timeline of Ethiopia's withdrawal from Somalia, the Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act (H.R. 2003) before Congress, and al-Sh [...] | 2008-12-05 12:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV SO ET |
08ADDISABABA3289 | USAU: GENERATING DONOR SUPPORT FOR AMISOM [...] (U) This message contains an action request in paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: The USAU Ambassador convened a meeting of the U.K., the EU, and the U.S. on December 8 to discuss the amount and kind of support each might be able to provide in order to expand and sustain AMISOM. From this initial [...] | 2008-12-09 11:27:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS UNSC AU |
08ADDISABABA3296 | PRIME MINISTER MELES EXPLAINS SOMALIA WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles praised U.S. relations as vital to regional security and Ethiopia's efforts to fight poverty, during the visit by Senator Inhofe, who was accompanied by Congressmen Miller, Neugebauer and Aderholt. Prime Minister Meles particularly praised our bilateral intel [...] | 2008-12-09 13:41:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EAID ET SO SU |
08ADDISABABA3298 | BENZENE FUEL SUPPLY BOTTLENECK SQUEEZES MARKET [...] (SBU) The Government of Ethiopia's (GoE) decision to require regular benzene to be blended with ethanol has led to severe benzene fuel supply gaps, exacerbating an already inefficient fuel supply chain. The ethanol blending program has hampered the GoE's ability to maintain adequate benzene fu [...] | 2008-12-09 14:21:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ENRG ET |
08ADDISABABA3336 | USAU: AU HOPING TO MOBILIZE AFRICAN LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: African Union Chairperson and President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete is going to convene certain African heads of state in Pretoria on December 14 in hopes that they can forge a strong enough message to deliver to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to pressure him to implement a pow [...] | 2008-12-10 15:14:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ZI AU |
08ADDISABABA3337 | USAU: AU PARTNERS DISCUSS AMISOM SUPPORT WITH [...] (C) Summary: The African Union (AU) is ready to provide additional AMISOM troops in Mogadishu and it is also prepared to publicly reiterate its support for the rehatting of those troops under an eventual UN peacekeeping mission. The AU is still waiting for some of its international partners to [...] | 2008-12-10 15:39:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SO AU |
08ADDISABABA3343 | EMBASSY CONCURRENCE FOR FY09 HORN OF AFRICA [...] (U) Embassy Addis Ababa has reviewed and supports S/CT's proposal to provide training in Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Counterinsurgency Operations to Ethiopia to help the Ethiopian government (GoE) build its capacity to perform these operations in an effective manner that respects hum [...] | 2008-12-12 08:37:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER ET SO |
08ADDISABABA335 | ETHIOPIA: TEACHERS ASSOCIATION SHUT DOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the latest set-back for civil society in Ethiopia, the independent Ethiopian Teachers, Association (ETA),which claims to represent the bulk of Ethiopia's teachers, has had its doors shut once and for all by the judicial system. On February 7, the Supreme Court ruled that the [...] | 2008-02-11 13:37:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA3370 | REVISED POLITICAL PARTIES REGISTRATION PROCLAMATION [...] (SBU) Ethiopia's revised Political Parties Registration Proclamation (reftel) came into effect on September 24, 2008 instituting additional new reporting requirements that will further dampen opposition parties' ability to raise funds and compete in Ethiopia's ever-shrinking political space. [...] | 2008-12-17 12:38:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM ASEC ET |
08ADDISABABA3371 | OROMO OPPOSITION PARTIES FORM COALITION [...] (SBU) The Oromo People's Congress (OPC) and the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) recently formed a coalition which will allow them to combine resources, increase their strength, and better withstand government pressure in the run-up to the 2010 elections. The decision to join force [...] | 2008-12-17 12:39:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM ASEC ET |
08ADDISABABA3372 | OROMO OPPOSITION PARTIES FORM COALITION [...] (SBU) The Oromo People's Congress (OPC) and the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) recently formed a coalition which will allow them to combine resources, increase their strength, and better withstand government pressure in the run-up to the 2010 elections. The decision to join force [...] | 2008-12-17 12:39:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM ASEC ET |
08ADDISABABA3373 | OROMO OPPOSITION PARTIES FORM COALITION [...] (SBU) The Oromo People's Congress (OPC) and the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) recently formed a coalition which will allow them to combine resources, increase their strength, and better withstand government pressure in the run-up to the 2010 elections. The decision to join force [...] | 2008-12-17 12:39:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM ASEC ET |
08ADDISABABA3376 | USAU: AU PSC MINISTERIAL TO ADDRESS DRC, SOMALIA, [...] (U) Summary: The African Union,s Peace and Security Council (PSC) will hold a ministerial meeting on December 22 to address the situations in Eastern Congo, Somalia, and Mauritania. At this point, ministers from Zambia, Ethiopia, Algeria, Nigeria, and Gabon are expected to attend. The cu [...] | 2008-12-17 14:27:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM AU |
08ADDISABABA338 | ETHIOPIA: CENTCOM COMMANDER AND PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Visiting USCENTCOM commander Admiral William J. Fallon met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on February 7 to reinforce CENTCOM's relationship with Ethiopia and to discuss regional dynamics. On Kenya, Meles suggested that the United States might look to informal non-s [...] | 2008-02-11 14:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER SO KE |
08ADDISABABA3381 | ENGAGING PARLIAMENT ON CSO LAW [...] (SBU) With the draft Charities and Societies Proclamation (CSO Law) submitted to Parliament on December 2, Ambassador and Pol/Econ Chief met with the Speaker of Parliament and Chairmen and representatives from the Standing Committees on Foreign Affairs, Legal Affairs, and Social Affairs on Dec [...] | 2008-12-18 08:15:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV EAID PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA339 | PRESIDENT YUSUF IN ADDIS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Yamamoto and DCM Malac met with President Yusuf on February 9 during his stopover in Addis en route back to Somalia. Although frail, Yusuf was engaged and forcefully stated his intention to stay in power through the end of his mandate in late 2009. He reiterated his c [...] | 2008-02-12 04:50:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC ET PGOV PREL SO |
08ADDISABABA3393 | ETHIOPIA WILL PROVIDE FULL SUPPORT TO AMISOM UNTIL [...] (S/NF) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi emphasized that the Ethiopian Government (GoE) fully supports the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and is making every effort to support AMISOM's security. He expressed hope that AMISOM can expand its forces to replace the departing Ethiop [...] | 2008-12-19 07:28:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR PREL MASS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA3398 | USAU: AU PSC TO CONSIDER SANCTIONS AGAINST [...] (C) On December 19, USAU Ambassador met with AU Commissioner for Peace and Security (PSC) Ramtane Lamamra and delivered reftel points on Mauritania. The Mauritanian situation will be on the Peace and Security Council Ministerial Meeting agenda on December 22. In the meeting with Lamamra, Amb [...] | 2008-12-19 18:30:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR AU |
08ADDISABABA3399 | USAU: LAST-MINUTE RUSH TO BEEF UP AMISOM [...] (U) This message contains Action Requests in paras 6 and 12. 2. (C) Summary: With AMISOM's mandate running out and a withdrawal of Ethiopian forces from Somalia's capital imminent, the African Union (AU) and its partners are spending the final days of 2008 in a diplomatic race to secure f [...] | 2008-12-19 20:11:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MCAP SO AU |
08ADDISABABA3400 | ANECDOTES ON RULING PARTY RIFTS [...] (S/NF) In a series of recent conversations with individuals close to the government and/or to individuals within the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition, we have heard reports of several looming rifts and internal tensions within each EPRDF sub-party. W [...] | 2008-12-22 05:39:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA3422 | PRIME MINISTER MELES CRITICIZES U.S. STATEMENT ON [...] (C/NF) The United States was successful in getting the Ethiopian Government's (GoE) attention with our statement to the World Bank on December 10 noting concern about continued funding of projects without the necessary macroeconomic fundamentals in place to ensure long-term growth and sustaina [...] | 2008-12-22 15:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL EFIN PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA3424 | ETHIOPIA: THE VIEW FROM HARAR AND DIRE DAWA (PART [...] (C) The Harar regional state faces an acute water shortage and receives ninety percent of its budget from a federal subsidy, severely constraining development, the Harar Regional President told PolOff during PolOff's December 10-12 visit to Harar and Dire Dawa to assess political and economic [...] | 2008-12-23 12:33:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL KIRF ET |
08ADDISABABA3425 | ETHIOPIA: THE VIEW FROM HARAR AND DIRE DAWA (PART [...] (C) Harar and Dire Dawa based contacts, including religious leaders, told PolOff on a December 10-12 trip to the two cities (reftel) the mixed Christian and Muslim regions of Harar and Dire Dawa are a model for religious tolerance and the religious community in both places vigilantly guards ag [...] | 2008-12-23 12:41:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL KIRF ET |
08ADDISABABA3426 | USAU: AMISOM MANDATE EXTENDED BY TWO MONTHS [...] (U) This message contains an Action Request in paragraph 9. 2. (U) Summary: On December 22, the African Union's Peace and Security Council (PSC) agreed to extend AMISOM's current mandate for two months, and also asked the AU Commission to work closely with the Government of Ethiopia to ensur [...] | 2008-12-23 14:31:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USUN KPKO SO AU |
08ADDISABABA3441 | IGAD SANCTIONS SOMALIA PRESIDENT YUSUF [...] (SBU) Summary. Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) foreign ministers met December 21 in Addis Ababa to discuss the political and security situation in Somalia. They praised the Somali parliament and Prime Minister for rebuffing President Abdullahi Yusuf,s recent ham-handed at [...] | 2008-12-24 09:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA3450 | USAU: AU PSC MINISTERIAL TAKES STRONG STAND [...] (U) This message contains an action request in paragraph 6. 2. (U) Summary: At an African Union Peace and Security Council Ministerial meeting on December 22, the AU agreed to take concrete measures against the coup leaders who overthrew the legitimate government of Mauritania. Specific [...] | 2008-12-24 16:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN MR AU |
08ADDISABABA3451 | USAU: AFRICAN UNION WARNS GUINEA COUP LEADERS OF [...] (U) In the wake of Guinean President Lansane Conte's death and the military takeover of the country, the African Union's (AU) Peace and Security Council met December 24 in an emergency session where it warned of "stern measures" if the coup materializes. Those measures could include suspending [...] | 2008-12-24 16:34:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GV AU |
08ADDISABABA3456 | USAU: GUINEA'S AU MEMBERSHIP SUSPENDED [...] (U) As expected, the African Union's (AU) Peace and Security Council voted on December 29 to suspend Guinea from the organization until the country returns to constitutional order. The Council also reiterated its "firm condemnation" of the December 23 coup, which it regards as "a flagrant viol [...] | 2008-12-29 12:26:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GV USAU |
08ADDISABABA3460 | HARASSING THE OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) In the most overt case of harassment of the political opposition since the April local elections, the Ethiopian Government (GoE) has detained Birtukan Mideksa, Chairperson of the Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) party, three times in the three weeks and today arrested her. Birtukan [...] | 2008-12-29 14:36:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV KJUS PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA3462 | IFIS' ACTIONS IN ETHIOPIA REMAIN IFFY [...] (C) As Ethiopia grapples with an increasingly dire economic crisis its need for financial and development assistance from international financial and development institutions (IFIs) is acute. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (the Bank) have not engaged the Ethiopian Govern [...] | 2008-12-30 05:30:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV EFIN PREL IBRD ET |
08ADDISABABA3467 | ETHIOPIA CLAIMS MINIMAL IMPACT OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL [...] (U) In statements to Parliament on October 16 and December 11, Prime Minister Meles has argued that the Ethiopian economy will be largely unaffected by the global financial crisis. Noting with pride that Ethiopia's financial system is insulated from global finance -- with foreign financial se [...] | 2008-12-30 13:16:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN ET |
08ADDISABABA3469 | TFG PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL ON SOMALIA'S FUTURE [...] (S/NF) Summary. Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) presidential hopeful and former Ambassador Dr. Yusuf Omar Al-Azhari told the Ambassador on December 26 that the Ethiopian government was supportive of his candidacy to replace former TFG President Abdullahi Yusuf, however, he did [...] | 2008-12-30 14:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA3474 | ETHIOPIANS "SLOWING" WITHDRAWAL UNTIL AMISOM [...] (SBU) This cable contains an ACTION REQUEST in paragraph 7. SUMMARY ------- 2. (S/NF) Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Ambassador on December 31 that Ethiopia is "slowing" its troops' withdrawal from Mogadishu and Somalia until Ugandan and Burundian reinforcements arrive for the African [...] | 2008-12-31 15:41:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KPKO MOPS UN SO ET |
08ADDISABABA3475 | ETHIOPIAN HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID [...] (C) Prime Minister Meles told the Ambassador on December 31 that Ethiopia is perplexed by UN delays with Ethiopia's deployment to Darfur. Meles argued that Ethiopia will abide by any decisions made by the UN because Ethiopia is committed to Darfur operations. This is born out of deep concerns [...] | 2008-12-31 15:47:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MARR MASS PREL ET SU |
08ADDISABABA3476 | ETHIOPIA UNCOMPROMISING ON REJAILING OF OPPOSITION [...] (S/NF) Ambassador called on Prime Minister Meles on December 31 in an effort to secure the release from prison of prominent opposition leader Birtukan Midekssa, who had been jailed on the evening of December 29 (Reftel). Birtukan was arrested on alleged charges of violating the terms of her [...] | 2008-12-31 15:51:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA352 | ETHIOPIA/ERITREA: UNMEE'S RELOCATION TO ETHIOPIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 11, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General Azouz Ennifar and United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Force Commander Major General Taisir Masadeh briefed the Ambassador and the diplomatic community that UNMEE's relocation from Eritrea [...] | 2008-02-12 09:17:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PREL PBTS MOPS ET ER |
08ADDISABABA360 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: FIELD VISIT #2 -WATER, [...] Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation, including health, nutrition, and water and sanitation conditio [...] | 2008-02-13 07:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA369 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: LIVESTOCK AND MARKET [...] U.S. Government Humanitarian Assistance Team (USG HAT) in Ethiopia staff report concern regarding the ability of pastoralist populations to sell their livestock and purchase staple commodities as a result of ongoing movement and trade restrictions within the conflict-affected areas of Somali R [...] | 2008-02-14 04:48:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA381 | (S) OGADEN: GOVERNMENT DETAINS NGOS BASED ON US [...] (S/NF) Since January 26, the Ethiopian Government (GoE) has imposed travel restrictions on two teams of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Holland and Switzerland NGO workers in Warder and Kebri Dehar towns respectively in the Ogaden region. While the restrictions were imposed at the beginning of [...] | 2008-02-14 08:58:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PHUM PGOV CASC PTER ET |
08ADDISABABA382 | ETHIOPIA COOL TO KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (SBU) Ambassador spoke with State Minister Tekeda Alemu February 12, 2008 on the anticipated independence of Kosovo. Tekeda replied that Ethiopia has not given great thought to this issue, but would be hesitant to make any statement for or against this pronouncement. Tekeda opined that the Ser [...] | 2008-02-14 08:59:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU ET |
08ADDISABABA4 | ETHIOPIA: POLITICAL TRIAL WRAPS UP, CIVIL SOCIETY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-02 10:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA400 | (C) USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: ONLF CONTACT [...] (C) Between January 15 and January 21, 2008, USG Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) staff in Ethiopia traveled to Gode and Korahe zones in Somali Region as part of a third field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation. During this time, the USG HAT convoy, including UN and partner N [...] | 2008-02-19 05:01:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA411 | TEN BIRR: THE BLACK MARKET HERALDS THE CURRENCY [...] SUMMARY: In a shift from historic patterns, Ethiopia's currency, the Birr, has been significantly depreciating recently against major hard currencies including the U.S. Dollar in the black market. Government of Ethiopia (GoE) officials attribute the depreciation to shortages in supply and the e [...] | 2008-02-19 05:43:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA412 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: PHASE I FINDINGS AND NEXT [...] During the December 20 to January 31 Phase I of the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia presence, USG HAT staff conducted multiple humanitarian assessment trips to the conflict-affected areas of Somali Region, including Degehabur, Fik, Gode, and Korahe zones. [...] | 2008-02-19 05:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA413 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: ACCESS AND SECURITY [...] (SBU) Between December 20 and January 31, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff conducted three extensive humanitarian assessment trips to the conflict-affected areas of Somali Region, including Degehabur, Fik, Gode, and Korahe zones. USG HAT staff note na [...] | 2008-02-19 08:25:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA414 | ETHIOPIA'S RESPONSE TO CONGRESSIONAL REPORTS ON ENERGY [...] Post offers the following responses to reftel: A. The Political/Economic section and the Regional Environment, Science and Technology Office share responsibility for energy matters. The Political/Economic section, when fully staffed, consists of 8 FSOs, 1 OMS, 1 EFM and 6 FSNs. The Regiona [...] | 2008-02-19 08:25:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV APER ABUD ET |
08ADDISABABA420 | ETHIOPIA-PUNTLAND ENHANCE SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Puntland President Mohamud Muse Hersi and his security chief, Abdullahi Said, told Ambassador February 16 that Puntland and Ethiopia have a security cooperation arrangement for training and information sharing. Further, the President noted that Puntland is committed to fight [...] | 2008-02-19 14:50:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA421 | SIYE ABRAHA SEEKS NATIONAL UNITY PARTY [...] (C) On February 15, Ambassador met Siye Abraha, former Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) stalwart, former Defense Minister and the architect of the military defeat of the Derg, to discuss Siye's plans following his return to Ethiopia from the United States. Siye broke ranks with the [...] | 2008-02-20 05:15:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA430 | ETHIOPIA URGES UNSC ACTION AGAINST ERITREA OVER [...] (SBU) Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Tekeda Alemu, called in the Ambassadors representing the member states on the UN Security Council on February 19 to urge immediate UN action against Eritrea in response to restrictions on UNMEE troop relocation. Noting that Eritrea,s restr [...] | 2008-02-20 12:40:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MOPS ER ET |
08ADDISABABA432 | NO CRISIS IN OGADEN BUT FOOD DISTRIBUTION A [...] (C) The Ambassador and USG Humanitarian Assessment Team (HAT) members briefed separately the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency (DPPA),and the diplomatic corps and concerned NGOs, on the humanitarian situation in Eth [...] | 2008-02-20 13:31:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV CASC ET |
08ADDISABABA438 | ETHIOPIA'S SUGAR RUSH [...] SUMMARY: The sugar and ethanol industries have recently garnered much attention in Ethiopia, with India's ExIm Bank providing a $640 million line of credit to fund expansion of Ethiopia's state-owned Finchaa sugar factory and construction of a new factory at Tendaho. Ethiopia is expanding sugar [...] | 2008-02-21 07:28:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON EAGR ENRG SENV ET |
08ADDISABABA46 | ETHIOPIAN DEPLOYMENT PLANS FOR DARFUR [...] (C) Defense Minister Kuma Demeksa and Chief of Military Staff, General Samora Yonus reiterated to Ambassador messages from the Ethiopian Military (ENDF) to the Embassy Defense Attache's office that as many as 1,500 Ethiopian troops will be prepared to deploy to Darfur within 15 days, but r [...] | 2008-01-08 14:18:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MARR PREL EAID ET |
08ADDISABABA463 | (S) ETHIOPIA: EMBASSY ADDIS ABABA EAC CONVENES [...] (S) On February 21 the Ambassador convened the Embassy Emergency Action Committee (EAC) to review the Embassy's security posture in light of developments in the Ethiopia-Eritrea border dispute (Refs A, B and C). The EAC reviewed tripwires but did not take any new action (REF D). DCM, RSO, CO [...] | 2008-02-22 04:37:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET | ASEC PREL PTER CASC ET |
08ADDISABABA465 | SOMALILAND PRESIDENT WELCOMES A CLOSER [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Somaliland President Dahir Riyale Kahin told the Ambassador and PolOff on February 21 that his government was ready to increase the bilateral relationship between Hargeysa and Washington. Kahin said that he had ordered his government to work with Washington without restrict [...] | 2008-02-22 12:42:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA492 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: PHASE I FINDINGS AND NEXT [...] During the December 20 to January 31 Phase I of the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia presence, USG HAT staff conducted multiple humanitarian assessment trips to the conflict-affected areas of Somali Region, including Degehabur, Fik, Gode, and Korahe zones. [...] | 2008-02-27 08:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA506 | ETHIOPIA/ERITREA: UNMEE OFFICE HEAD SAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 26, United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Head of Addis Ababa Office Joseph Stephanides told visiting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) POLAD and PolOff that UNMEE's relocation to Asmara was going well and that UNMEE was in no dang [...] | 2008-02-27 13:50:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER |
08ADDISABABA512 | BLACK GOLD: PETROLEUM RESOURCES IN ETHIOPIA [...] SUMMARY: The Government of Ethiopia (GoE),through the Ministry of Mines and Energy, is actively seeking investment and exploration in the oil and gas sector. While to date there are no proven reserves of oil or gas, exploration is taking place in several areas of the country with promising geo [...] | 2008-02-27 14:19:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON ENRG ET |
08ADDISABABA527 | Ogaden: Continued Action Required to Meet Tough [...] (SBU) During a February 22-23 visit to the Ethiopia Somali region, Ambassador, USAID Mission Director, USAID Advisor for the Somali region, and RSO met Ethiopia Somali region President Abdullahi Hassan and his staff in charge of humanitarian relief in the Ogaden to press for improved food dist [...] | 2008-02-28 05:43:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA53 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: HEALTH AND NUTRITION [...] (U) Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia health and nutrition specialist traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to assess humanitarian conditions and evaluate preliminar [...] | 2008-01-09 05:14:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA54 | DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER WELCOMES US ASSISTANCE TO OGADEN [...] (SBU) Deputy Prime Minister Addisu Legesse applauded USG support and development cooperation with Ethiopia in a very warm and cordial January 2nd meeting with Ambassador, Acting Director of USAID/Ethiopia, and political counselor. Addisu welcomed USAID's Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT),not [...] | 2008-01-09 05:14:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA583 | MFA DISCUSSES SOMALIA, ETHIOPIA/ERITREA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Officials from Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs including State Minister Dr. Tekeda Alemu met for lunch with Ambassador Yamamoto and Emboffs. The discussion was wide-ranging and candid. On Somalia, the MFA shared information regarding the Foreign Minister,s February 27 tri [...] | 2008-03-03 08:32:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | ER ET PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL |
08ADDISABABA585 | ELECTIONS HERALD 2: SLOW NEB PROGRESS; WILL [...] (SBU) In a February 14 meeting with Ambassador, National Electoral Board (NEB) Chairman Dr. Merga and Vice Chairman Dr. Adissu commented on the positive progress that the NEB has made since being appointed. While the NEB has made positive progress toward implementing the April 13 and 20 local [...] | 2008-03-03 11:46:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV EAID ET |
08ADDISABABA596 | ELECTIONS HERALD 3: SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. From January 28 to February 1, Poloff and senior political FSN visited several areas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) and the southern portion of the Oromiya region, to meet with opposition leaders, government administrators and NGOs in order to [...] | 2008-03-04 06:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA598 | ETHIOPIA: ARAB LEAGUE AMBASSADORS RECOMMEND [...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 12, Ambassador Yamamoto held a lunch for the resident ambassadors to Ethiopia from Arab League countries. In attendance were the ambassadors from Yemen, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Sudan, and the Arab League representative to the Afri [...] | 2008-03-04 06:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ET SO XF |
08ADDISABABA60 | ICRC STILL ON THE OUTS WITH GOE, STILL NOT IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 27, Polchief and Refcoord met with Pierre Wettach, ICRC Head of Delegation in Ethiopia. Wettach reported that ICRC's operational situation has not substantially changed since ICRC was expelled from the Somali region/Ogaden this past summer. He provided a readout of a [...] | 2008-01-09 09:56:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF ET |
08ADDISABABA610 | TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL STRUCTURES - IQUB AND IDIR [...] SUMMARY: While Ethiopia has one of the least-developed formal financial sectors in the world, it is possessed of a rich tradition in indigenous, community-based revolving savings and credit associations and insurance societies. These "iqub" and "idir" groups provide a source of credit and insu [...] | 2008-03-04 08:33:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ET |
08ADDISABABA614 | ETHIOPIA'S SUBMISSION TO THE EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Post provides the following input on trafficking in persons issues in Ethiopia. 2. (U) Embassy point of contact: Pol/Econ Officer Kimberly E. Wright, office: +251 (11) 517-4112; fax: +251 (11) 124-2405, WRIGHTKE2@STATE.GOV 3. (U) Number of hours spent in preparation of TIP report cable: [...] | 2008-03-04 10:16:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG ET PRM ASEC PREL |
08ADDISABABA615 | ETHIOPIA INPUT FOR 2008 PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL AGOA REPORT [...] Post submits the following input for the 2008 President's Annual AGOA report: 2. Status: AGOA-eligible, including for textile and apparel benefits. 3. AGOA Trade and Investment: Ethiopia's 2006 exports under AGOA and its GSP provisions were valued at $7.2 million, representing 9 perce [...] | 2008-03-04 14:14:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD AGOA ECON ET |
08ADDISABABA64 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: DEGEHABUR ZONE FIELD [...] (U) Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia program officer, health and nutrition specialist, and safety and security officer traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to asse [...] | 2008-01-09 14:34:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA656 | Post Report of Visit of IIP Speaker Elbert "Bert" Ransom to [...] SUMMARY: IIP Speaker Rev. Dr. Elbert "Bert" Ransom completed a highly-successful, twelve-day visit to Ethiopia on the topic of "The Role of Faith Communities in Social Change: Contributions of Christians, Jews, and Muslims to the American Civil Rights Movement," as the main focus of post's Blac [...] | 2008-03-06 13:41:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KIRF ET |
08ADDISABABA667 | ELECTION HERALD 4: EPRDF WINS OROMIYA ELECTIONS BY [...] (C) The Ambassador's February 25-27 trip to western Oromiya highlighted a deep frustration among opposition supporters, party officials, and candidates, as well as resignation among the general public on the lack of choice for the upcoming local elections in April. This marks a sharp departur [...] | 2008-03-07 09:04:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA696 | RESPONSE TO CONGRESSIONALLY-MANDATED REPORT ON FISCAL [...] This cable presents post's response to questions on Ethiopia's fiscal transparency. 2. While Ethiopia does not have specific laws or regulations governing the pubic disclosure of revenues and expenditures in national budgets, the information is regularly published and disseminated at the di [...] | 2008-03-10 10:06:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA699 | PRC/ETHIOPIA: PRC OPEN TO TRADE AND AGRICULTURE [...] (C) The Ambassador discussed with PRC Embassy counterparts opportunities for coordination and collaboration on trade and agriculture, particularly the participation of Chinese companies in the newly-formed American Chamber of Commerce in Ethiopia. PRC interlocutors explained that, despite a re [...] | 2008-03-10 14:21:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KPKO CH ET |
08ADDISABABA71 | USAU: REQUEST FOR SUPOORT FOR AVIATION FUEL FOR [...] (U) This cable is from US Mission to African Union (USAU) Dr. Cindy L. Courville. 2. (U) Summary. Political unrest in Kenya has interrupted aviation fuel supplies into Burundi. Currently there is no aviation fuel available for the Burundi to airlift their 1st Battalion of Peacekeepers to Mo [...] | 2008-01-10 04:46:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO MARR PGOV PREL |
08ADDISABABA716 | MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW FOR FEBRUARY 2008 [...] SUMMARY -- The Ethiopian Parliament passed a law imposing taxes on the export of raw and semi-processed leather and hides; the Council of Ministers lifted 5 percent duty and 10 percent surtax on imports of computers. -- The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) adjusted domestic oil prices effective [...] | 2008-03-12 12:38:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA718 | FORMIN DETAILS EFFORTS AT SOMALI STABILIZATION, [...] (C) Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin told Ambassador on March 11 that he clearly told Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) leaders during his February 27 visit to Baidoa that they "shouldn't expect the Ethiopian umbrella to be cast for long unless they sat down to serious busin [...] | 2008-03-13 07:07:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ET SO |
08ADDISABABA719 | ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: WITHOUT TSZ THERE IS NO ALGIERS [...] (C) Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin told Ambassador Yamamoto in a March 11 meeting that the actions by the UN Security Council over the coming days and weeks with regard to the Ethiopia-Eritrea border conflict will dictate how Ethiopia responds. Seyoum described the UN Security Counc [...] | 2008-03-13 07:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PBTS PREL ET ER |
08ADDISABABA722 | Fake Gold found at Ethiopia's Central Bank [...] SUMMARY: Since December 2007, the Ethiopian financial sector has been gripped by a who-done-it tale of fake gold in the vaults of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE),Ethiopia's central bank. To date, 21 suspects ranging from local businessmen to high-ranking NBE officials are being held on un [...] | 2008-03-13 09:25:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON ET |
08ADDISABABA723 | ETHIOPIA/ERITREA: UNMEE'S DEPARTURE MORE THAN HALF [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 12, United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Head of Addis Ababa Office Joseph Stephanides told PolOff that more than half of UNMEE personnel in Eritrea had already left the country. He said the remaining staff would be out of Eritrea by March 19, except [...] | 2008-03-13 14:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER |
08ADDISABABA75 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: DEGEHABUR ZONE FIELD [...] (U) Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia program officer, health and nutrition specialist, and safety and security officer traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to asse [...] | 2008-01-10 10:15:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA753 | BLACK MARKET BUSTED - FOREIGN EXCHANGE CRACKDOWN [...] SUMMARY: Following a period of rapid depreciation in the black market exchange rate and a growing gap between official and parallel rates, Ethiopian authorities have cracked down on the thriving but illegal parallel foreign exchange market in Addis Ababa. END SUMMARY. 2. Per reftel, the pa [...] | 2008-03-17 12:37:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN ET |
08ADDISABABA76 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: HEALTH AND NUTRITION [...] (U) Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia health and nutrition specialist traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to assess humanitarian conditions and evaluate preliminar [...] | 2008-01-10 10:15:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA774 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED FOR AMBASSADOR [...] Embassy Addis Ababa welcomes Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr., U.S. Special Envoy for Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) Threat Reduction, PM/WRA Senior Policy Advisor Stephanie Pico, and PM/WRA Technical Advisor Michael Kunst to travel to Ethiopia March 27-28 and April 1, 2008. [...] | 2008-03-19 14:34:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN MARR OTRA PREL MU YM DJ EG SA ET |
08ADDISABABA783 | ELECTION HERALD 5: EPRDF SANGUINE IN SNNPR, [...] (C) Supporters of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and opposition United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF) provided differing accounts of the registration and campaign process in the run-up to April's local elections during the Ambassador's March 17-18 visi [...] | 2008-03-21 12:02:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM ECON ET |
08ADDISABABA82 | PRIVATIZATION OR MONOPOLIZATION IN ETHIOPIA? [...] SUMMARY: An examination of available information on privatized enterprises in Ethiopia shows that companies owned by, or affiliated with, Ethio-Saudi billionaire Sheik Mohammed Al Amoudi have purchased the vast majority (in terms of value) of enterprises. Nearly every enterprise of significant [...] | 2008-01-11 07:27:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN ET |
08ADDISABABA821 | ETHIOPIA: DESIGNATION OF AL-SHABAAB AS AN FTO [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Post informed host government MFA Assistant Chief of the Minister's Cabinet Abdetta Dribssa of the USG decision to designate al-Shabaab as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group on March 18. Abdetta responded that his governmen [...] | 2008-03-26 13:32:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PGOV KCRM SO BG |
08ADDISABABA832 | AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE FOR ETHIOPIA- PROTECT ACCORDINGLY [...] Post's Inter-Agency Avian Influenza committee met March 21, 2008 to review the situation in Ethiopia with respect to the status of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in the country since the committee's last meeting March 29, 2007. There have been no outbreaks in the past year in spite [...] | 2008-03-27 14:24:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ET KFLU TBIO AMED EAID EAGR SENV XW |
08ADDISABABA838 | ETHIOPIA: CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS TO BE PARDONED [...] (C) SUMMARY: After nearly two and half years in prison, civil society leaders Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, the final two political prisoners from the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) trial, are set to be granted a pardon and released from prison. Though they are now only about [...] | 2008-03-28 08:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA84 | ERITREA: OPPOSITION GROUPS EXPLORING FORMATION OF [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On January 9, PolCouns and PolOff met with Noor M. Idris, Chairman of the opposition Eritrean Nahda Party (ENP),to discuss current opposition efforts to form a new, more inclusive umbrella group. Noor explained that at least 11 opposition parties would hold a conference in [...] | 2008-01-11 08:50:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PREL PBTS ET ER |
08ADDISABABA852 | ELECTION HERALD 6: ANRDF DISENCHANTED WITH [...] (C) Afar National Revolutionary Democratic Front (ANRDF) Chairman Salih Ali Hodele alleged that hundreds of ANRDF candidates for local elections have been dropped from registration sheets by National Electoral Board (NEB) personnel who belong to the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Demo [...] | 2008-03-31 10:13:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM ET |
08ADDISABABA853 | STAFFDEL YOUNG DISCUSSES SOMALIA AND SUDAN WITH [...] (C) Ethiopia seeks USD 17 million in funding in order to train 10,000 Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) police, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Chief of the Minister's Cabinet told StaffDel Young on March 24. Abdeta expressed confidence that the military situation is improving in [...] | 2008-03-31 10:18:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ET KE |
08ADDISABABA854 | SOMALIA: TFG AMBASSADOR TO CHINA HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Ambassador to China Mohammed Awil met with Deputy Pol-Econ Chief on March 15. Awil was in transit to Beijing, having come earlier that week from Mogadishu. Awil described the situation in Mogadishu was "normal," with the TFG enduring continue [...] | 2008-03-31 10:21:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV ET KE |
08ADDISABABA855 | ETHIOPIAN MFA OFFICIAL ON POLICY TOWARDS SOMALIA, [...] (S/NF) Ethiopian MFA Chief of the Minister's Cabinet Abdeta Dribssa (strictly protect) candidly told Emboffs on March 13 that the international community must realize that Ethiopia has genuine security interests in Somalia. He noted that Ethiopia had already drawn down its forces in Somalia [...] | 2008-03-31 12:32:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
08ADDISABABA86 | UTDS -- A TIGREAN OPPOSITION EMERGES [...] (SBU) Sixteen years after coming to power as part of the Tigrean People's Liberation Front (TPLF),six years after being ejected from the party, and two years after seeking formal registration, the Union of Tigreans for Democracy and Sovereignty (UTDS) emerged in November as Ethiopia's first r [...] | 2008-01-14 04:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS ET |
08ADDISABABA867 | CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR ETHIOPIA PASTORAL AREAS [...] THE FAMINE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM NETWORK (FEWSNET) FROM MARCH 10TH THROUGH THE 18TH, CONDUCTED A CONTINGENCY PLANNING WORKSHOP UTILIZING THE HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY APPROACH (HEA) TO PREDICT OUTCOMES FOR WHAT IS EXPECTED TO BE A POOR SHORT RAINY SEASON IN ETHIOPIA'S MAIN PASTORAL AREAS. RESULTS FROM [...] | 2008-04-01 08:38:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA87 | (C) DEFENSE OFFICIALS IMPOSE LAST-MINUTE [...] (S/NF) Despite Prime Minister Meles' apparent receptivity to discussing Ethiopia's arms supply relationship with North Korea (Ref A) as well as discussion with the Secretary during her visit, Ethiopia's Chief of Defense Staff (CHOD),General Samora Yonus, adamantly opposes U.S. scrutiny of Ethi [...] | 2008-01-14 04:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM MARR PREL KN ET |
08ADDISABABA886 | ETHIOPIA: UNIONS AND UNIONIZATION AN EVOLVING PHENOMENON [...] Ethiopia's unions are small institutions experiencing difficulties in the context of a growing private sector. Although both constitutional and labor laws recognize and protect worker rights, the economy's formal sector is small, and efforts to organize workers in-country are challenging. Empl [...] | 2008-04-01 13:00:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID ET |
08ADDISABABA89 | DEFENSE OFFICIALS REQUEST MORE MILITARY AID [...] (C) In January 3 and 4 meetings with Ambassador, DATT, ORA Chief, and P/E Chief, Defense Minister (DefMin) Kuma Demeksa and Chief of Defense Staff (CHOD) Gen. Samora Yonus respectively argued for more U.S. military assistance to Ethiopia to focus more on in-country training to develop Ethiopia [...] | 2008-01-14 08:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL EAID ET |
08ADDISABABA910 | ETHIOPIA: TIGHTER GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT OF THE [...] (SBU) In his March 18 performance report of the government to the House of People's Representatives, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi avoided commenting on political, security, or foreign policy dynamics focusing his comments instead on the state of the economy. Meles' main points were that the Et [...] | 2008-04-02 14:21:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA928 | SCIENCE WITH AFRICA CONFERENCE, ADDIS ABABA [...] Summary. The UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in collaborat 2. The Conference brought together over 700 people including African an Africa - a Sleeping "Giant" ========================== 3. The 2007 AU Heads of States summit in Addis Ababa specifically calle 4. A number of [...] | 2008-04-04 06:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR EAID ETRD KSCA EINV ET |
08ADDISABABA929 | EMBASSY ADDIS ABABA EAC CONVENES TO REVIEW [...] (S) The Ambassador convened the Embassy Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on April 3 to review the Embassy's security posture following the March 18 designation of Al-Shabaab as a foreign terrorist organization FTO) (Ref A),Ethiopia's continued military involvement in Somalia, developments on [...] | 2008-04-04 07:14:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET | ASEC CASC PREL PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA94 | REDIRECTING THE BILATERAL MILITARY DIALOGUE [...] (C) Ethiopian Government (GoE) officials, and particularly the Ethiopian military's (ENDF) Chief of Defense Staff Gen. Samora Yonus, have increasingly complained in recent years of "broken promises" for military assistance by the United States. The USG's refusal to provide the final two of fou [...] | 2008-01-14 13:31:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL EAID ET |
08ADDISABABA941 | USAU: AFRICAN UNION REQUEST FOR FINANCIAL AND [...] THIS CABLE IS FROM THE U.S. MISSION TO THE AFRICAN UNION (USAU) AMBASSADOR DR. CINDY L. COURVILLE. 2. SUMMARY: AU Peace and Security Commission is requesting USG financial and logistical support to establish a temporary AMISOM Mission Headquarters in Mogadishu. The current Headquarters is [...] | 2008-04-07 04:42:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS AU |
08ADDISABABA946 | MELES ON ETHIOPIAN PLANS TO "REDEPLOY" FROM SOMALIA [...] (S) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Ambassador Yamamoto on April 3 that Ethiopia is looking to "redeploy" its approximately 2,500 troops in Somalia to the Ethiopian towns of Dolo Odo and Ferfer along the Ethiopia-Somalia border. While there are some factors aggravating Ethiopia's e [...] | 2008-04-07 14:14:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET | MOPS PREL PGOV ET SO |
08ADDISABABA952 | NORTH KOREA: ETHIOPIA REQUESTS ALTERNATE SUPPLIER [...] (S/NF) Ambassador Yamamoto delivered reftel demarche on Ethiopia's procurement of rocket fuel and oxidizer to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in a one-on-one meeting April 3. Without either confirming the veracity, or otherwise substantively commenting, on the arrangement, Meles noted simply that [...] | 2008-04-07 14:20:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | ET ETTC KN MARR MASS MCAP PARM PREL |
08ADDISABABA978 | USAID/OFDA STRATEGY CONSULTATIONS [...] Ethiopia is a country of 77 million people and growing by 3 percent per year. Despite healthy growth in the macro economy and an aggressive pro-poor agenda supported by the World Bank and major donors, including USAID, millions of Ethiopians rely every year on a safety net food program to comp [...] | 2008-04-09 06:05:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA987 | UPDATE ON SNNPR AND OROMIYA REGION DROUGHT [...] From March 11 to 18, 2008, USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) Washington-based public health advisor and Addis-based field monitor staff traveled to SNNPR and Oromiya regions to assess the current drought condition and its impact on the nutrition and health status of [...] | 2008-04-10 13:23:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08AITTAIPEI1002 | Taiwan COA Minister and AIT Director Discuss [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a July 2 introductory call at the Council of Agriculture (COA) on new Chairman, Chen Wu- hsiung, the AIT Director raised the importance of resolving key access issues for U.S. agricultural products including beef, pork, and rice. Responding on beef, the Chairman expressed c [...] | 2008-07-09 09:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ECON PGOV PREL TW |
08AITTAIPEI1008 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-10 08:23:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1026 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-13 22:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1030 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage July 12-14 on the alleged telephone conversation between U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and Taiwan's National Security Council Secretary-General Su Chi at the end of June; on eight Taiwan businessmen who went [...] | 2008-07-14 08:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1037 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-15 08:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI104 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDUM, U.S.-TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage January 19-22 on the various steps taken by the DPP to review and remedy itself in the wake of its severe defeat in the January 12 legislative elections; on the KMT's selection of its nominee for the new deputy legislative [...] | 2008-01-22 08:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1053 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S DIPLOMACY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-17 08:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1062 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-18 08:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1066 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS DEALS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their July 19-21 news coverage on the flash floods and landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Kalmaegi in central and southern Taiwan last Friday and the agricultural losses Taiwan has suffered; on President Ma Ying-jeou's sliding approv [...] | 2008-07-21 13:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1074 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS DEALS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-22 09:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1088 | DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on July 21, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on an additional 11 Iranian entities and individuals under E.O.13382 for being involved in Iran's nuclear or missile programs. 2. [...] | 2008-07-24 00:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP EFIN FARM PTER PREL ETTC PINR UNSC ECON IR TW |
08AITTAIPEI11 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-03 09:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI110 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-23 09:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1100 | DEMARCHE ON IRISL CARGO INSPECTION PROVISION OF [...] (S) AIT officers conveyed Ref A demarche on implementation of the IRISL cargo inspection provision of UNSCR 1803 to the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) on July 15, the Foreign Ministry on July 18, and Customs on July 21. Michael Hsu, Acting Director of MOFA's North American Affairs Department, [...] | 2008-07-25 10:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | PREL PARM PINR ECON EFIN EWWT ETRD KNNP IR TW |
08AITTAIPEI1109 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage July 26-29 on Typhoon Fung-wong, which swept across the island Monday; on the current status of the U.S.-Taiwan arms deals; on the title of Taiwan's Olympic team; and on President Ma Ying-jeou's upcoming trip to Paraguay an [...] | 2008-07-29 23:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1116 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-31 07:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1138 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 2-4 news coverage on the Olympic Games in Beijing; on President Ma Ying-jeou's call for "workable diplomacy" in Taiwan's foreign relations; on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan; and on the domestic oil price adjustment policy. Several pa [...] | 2008-08-04 09:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1142 | EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - JULY 2008 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-05 05:15:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW |
08AITTAIPEI1143 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-05 06:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1151 | MEDIA REACTION: BEIJING OLYMPICS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-06 07:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1152 | TAIWAN: RESULTS OF BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT CHECK [...] (SBU) Per reftel requests, AIT/T contacted Taiwan Air Force and the Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC). Investigation results showed that these two business orders came from AIDC, and the reason for going through New Zealand-based company was because it served as a broker. [...] | 2008-08-06 07:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TW |
08AITTAIPEI116 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-24 09:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1170 | U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-08 06:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI118 | TAIWAN: RESULTS OF BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] (SBU) Per reftel A request, AIT Kaohsiung visited Yeou Zheng Co. and a residential space used as a warehouse in downtown Kaohsiung, and interviewed the company's owner, Ms. Chen Mei-liu and other staff. AIT/K also conducted two telephone interviews with Lieutenant Commander Liang Dao-hung, wh [...] | 2008-01-24 09:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TW |
08AITTAIPEI1189 | MEDIA REACTION: THE BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES; PRESIDENT BUSH'S [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 9-11 news coverage on the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games; on weightlifter Chen Wei-ling winning Taiwan's first medal in the Olympics; and on the conflict in South Ossetia. In terms of editorials and commentaries, a [...] | 2008-08-11 09:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1201 | MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH OSSETIA, PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 12 news coverage on Taiwan tennis player Lu Yen-hsun, who defeated six-seeded Andy Murray of Great Britain in the first round of the Olympic tennis match Monday; on President Ma Ying-jeou's first trip overseas and his transit stops [...] | 2008-08-12 10:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1203 | TAIWAN: RESULTS OF BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT CHECKS [...] Per reftel request, AIT/T visited the end user, Legend Laser Inc.(Legend). Legend's General Manager, Sherman Kuo, and Sales Division Secretary, Maggie Tsai, provided the following information. Responses to the Questions in Reftel Para 4 ------------------------------------------- 2. Lege [...] | 2008-08-12 10:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TW |
08AITTAIPEI1206 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S OVERSEAS TRIP [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-13 08:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1216 | MEDIA REACTION: BEIJING OLYMPICS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-14 07:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1230 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-18 09:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI124 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-25 09:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1252 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, GEORGIA [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 20 news coverage on the continuing investigation into former President Chen Shui-bian and his family members' alleged money laundering, and on Chinese Taipei's defeat by the United States at the Beijing Olympic baseball competitio [...] | 2008-08-20 09:33:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1268 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their August 23-25 news coverage on the investigation into former President Chen Shui-bian's money laundering case; on Taiwan Taekwondo athlete Su Li-wen's show of sportsmanship by sustaining injuries in a competition and fighting up to [...] | 2008-08-25 09:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI128 | TAIWAN: RESULTS OF BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] (SBU) Per reftel A request, AIT Kaohsiung visited Yeou Zheng Co. and a residential space used as a warehouse in downtown Kaohsiung, and interviewed the company's owner, Ms. Chen Mei-liu and other staff. AIT/K also conducted two telephone interviews with Lieutenant Commander Liang Dao-hung, wh [...] | 2008-01-28 06:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC TW |
08AITTAIPEI1290 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-28 09:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1295 | TAIWAN: RESULTS OF BLUE LANTERN CHECK FOR DTC CASE [...] (SBU) Per reftel request, AIT Kaohsiung visited the Air Force Institute of Technology to meet with Colonel Yang Hsing-bang and other officers who are responsible for the procurement and use of the United States Munitions List (USML) item in question. AIT/K also visited the local consignee, Se [...] | 2008-08-29 03:14:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC TW |
08AITTAIPEI1296 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-29 07:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI130 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-28 08:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1300 | MEDIA REACTION: RUSSIA-GEORGIA SITUATION, U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 30 - September 2 news coverage on the continued investigation into former President Chen Shui-bian's money laundering case; on Saturday's mass rally targeting President Ma Ying-jeou's first one hundred days in office; and on Japan [...] | 2008-09-02 08:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1311 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 09:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1316 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 08:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1325 | EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - AUGUST 2008 [...] (SBU) On August 14, the Advisor met with officials of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) to discuss trade promotion activities in North Korea and Burma. TAITRA is a non-governmental organization funded partly by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). TAITRA works closely [...] | 2008-09-05 08:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW |
08AITTAIPEI1331 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, U.S. DEFENSE [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage September 6-8 on the Ma Ying-jeou Administration's various moves to stimulate Taiwan's sluggish economy, following extensive and severe criticisms against President Ma's failure to realize his economic platform in his first [...] | 2008-09-08 08:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1339 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-09 23:57:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1341 | PSV: CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [...] COMMERCIAL OFFICER ERIC CROWLEY, FN FRANCES LI, AND EXBS ADVISOR MI-YONG KIM OF THE ECONOMIC SECTION VISITED THE CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CSIST) AT THE ADDRESS GIVEN AND MET WITH DIRECTOR BOR-RONG SONG OF PROCUREMENT AND CONSTRUCTION SERVICE DIVISION AND PROJECT DIRECTOR [...] | 2008-09-10 08:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC TW |
08AITTAIPEI1342 | PSV: CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [...] COMMERCIAL OFFICER ERIC CROWLEY, FN FRANCES LI, AND EXBS ADVISOR MI-YONG KIM OF THE ECONOMIC SECTION VISITED THE CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CSIST) AT THE ADDRESS GIVEN AND MET WITH BOR-RONG SONG, DIRECTOR OF THE PROCUREMENT AND CONSTRUCTION SERVICE DIVISION AND WITH CHAN-ZH [...] | 2008-09-10 08:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC TW |
08AITTAIPEI1349 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S CROSS-STRAIT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-11 09:09:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1353 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES, U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage September 13-15 on Typhoon Sinlaku's pounding of Taiwan over the weekend and the import of tainted Chinese milk powder to Taiwan. In terms of editorials and commentaries, the centrist, KMT-leaning "China Times" published a [...] | 2008-09-15 06:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1363 | DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on September 11, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on an additional 5 Iranian entities listed under E.O. 13382 for involvement in Iran's nuclear or missile programs. 2. (U) In [...] | 2008-09-16 06:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC EFIN FARM PREL UNSC ECON GM IR TW |
08AITTAIPEI1370 | MEDIA REACTION: DECLINE OF THE UNITED STATES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-17 09:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1374 | TAIWAN INVESTIGATION OF EXPORT CONTROL CASES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On September 11, the EXBS Advisor met with officials of the Taiwan Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) to get an update on export control enforcement activities. MJIB officials stated that, since the beginning of 2008, they referred six (6) cases to the prosecutor's [...] | 2008-09-18 23:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC KNNP KSTC TW IR KN MY CH |
08AITTAIPEI1387 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND TAIWAN'S UN BID [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 06:14:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1390 | DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following five Iranian entities designated under E.O. 13382 on August 12, 2008: --Nuclear Research Center for Agriculture and Medicine, --Esfahan [...] | 2008-09-22 09:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC EFIN FARM PREL UNSC ECON GM IR TW |
08AITTAIPEI1393 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. FINANCIAL CRISIS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-23 09:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI14 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-04 05:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1424 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS DEALS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage September 27-30 on Super Typhoon Jangmi, which pounded Taiwan heavily Sunday and Monday, bringing massive rains and causing considerable damage to the island; on the House of Representatives' veto of the Bush Administration [...] | 2008-10-01 01:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1426 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN, [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their news coverage October 1 on U.S. President George W. Bush's call for Congress to pass the US$700 billion bailout bill Tuesday; on the Taiwan government's measures to prop up the Taiwan stock exchange after the House of Representativ [...] | 2008-10-01 09:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1430 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage October 2 on the revamped U.S. financial bailout plan, which is scheduled for the Senate's vote Thursday morning; on rumors that a big local bank is suffering financial problems; on the probe into the alleged money-launderi [...] | 2008-10-02 09:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1438 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN, [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage October 3 on a order by Taiwan's Department of Health Thursday to remove from shelves more dairy products from China that were found to be contaminated with melamine; on the U.S. Senate's approval of a revised US$700 billio [...] | 2008-10-05 22:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1443 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage October 4-6 on the U.S. financial bailout bill, which U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law Friday; on the approved U.S. arms sales to Taiwan; and on the probe into the alleged money-laundering case involving former [...] | 2008-10-06 09:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1450 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES, U.S.-TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage October 7 on the arrest of Yeh Sheng-mao, former Director of the Ministry of Justice's Investigation Bureau (MJIB); National Security Bureau (NSB) Director-General Henry Tsai's remarks that SARS was a bio-chemical warfare a [...] | 2008-10-07 09:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1467 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE INDIVIDUALS AND TWO [...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on October 3, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on an additional five individuals and two entities pursuant to E.O. 13438 for threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and the G [...] | 2008-10-14 10:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON IZ IR SY TW |
08AITTAIPEI1469 | MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 06:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1472 | DELIVERY OF NON-PAPER: DESIGNATION OF THE ISLAMIC [...] (S) On October 3, AIT officers conveyed reftel non-paper on the U.S. designation of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line (IRISL) and 18 subsidiaries under E.O. 13382 ("Blocking the Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and their Supporters") to the Department of North Ame [...] | 2008-10-15 08:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | PREL PARM PINR ECON EFIN EWWT ETRD KNNP IR TW |
08AITTAIPEI1473 | EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - SEPTEMBER 2008 [...] (SBU) On September 4, the Advisor met with officials of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) to discuss Taiwan's trade promotion activities in the Middle East. TAITRA is a non-governmental organization funded partly by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA). TAITRA works clo [...] | 2008-10-15 08:33:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW |
08AITTAIPEI1474 | DELIVERY OF NON-PAPERS: IRAN FIRMS SEEKING TAIWAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-16 02:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | PREL PARM PINR ECON EFIN EWWT ETRD KNNP IR |
08AITTAIPEI1482 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE INDIVIDUALS AND TWO [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following five individuals and two entities designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on September 16, 2008 pursuant to E.O. 13438 for thre [...] | 2008-10-17 09:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON IZ IR SY TW |
08AITTAIPEI1488 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. VISA WAIVER PROGRAM, U.S. FINANCIAL [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused October 18-20 news coverage on the funeral of Formosa Plastics Group founder Wang Yung-ching; on the DPP's planned rally on October 25 to protest the Ma Ying-jeou Administration's "pro-China" policy and the upcoming visit to Taiwan by Ch [...] | 2008-10-20 09:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1492 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, U.S. FINANCIAL [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their October 21 news coverage on a Taiwan Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF) and its two pilots that went missing near Penghu [Pescadores] Monday on a training mission; and on the continuing probe into former first family's money launderi [...] | 2008-10-21 08:52:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1495 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-22 09:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1499 | DELIVERY OF NON-PAPER: RESPONSE TO BOFT ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-23 07:59:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL ETTC TW IR MY |
08AITTAIPEI1500 | DELIVERY OF REQUEST FOR MEETING TO REVIEW THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-23 08:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MTCRE CBW MNUC MCAP TW |
08AITTAIPEI1517 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-27 09:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1523 | TAIWAN ACTION ON UNSCR 1835 [...] (SBU) On October 24, AIT received a copy of the instructions the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) of the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs sent to relevant authorities to take action pursuant to UNSCR 1835. The following authorities were requested to take action: the Financial Supervisory Comm [...] | 2008-10-28 02:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM KNNP MNUC IR TW |
08AITTAIPEI1524 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, CROSS-STRAIT [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused October 28 news coverage on the upcoming visit to Taiwan by China's Association for Relations across theQaiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin and planned talks between ARATS and Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF); and on Tai [...] | 2008-10-28 07:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1525 | AIT NOMINATION FOR THE SECRETARY'S AWARD FOR [...] (U) AIT wishes to nominate Buddhist leader CHENG Yen for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. Dharma Master Cheng Yen was born in Chingshui, a town in central Taiwan, in 1937. In 1966, she established the Tzu Chi Foundation, which concentrates its activities in four area [...] | 2008-10-28 08:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1528 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-29 08:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1538 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused October 30 news coverage on former Vice President Lien Chan being appointed as Taiwan's envoy to the APEC leaders' summit in late November; on President Ma Ying-jeou's remarks Wednesday that he will receive China's Association for Relati [...] | 2008-10-30 09:57:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1544 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-31 09:59:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1550 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese- and English-language dailies gave significant straight news reporting and editorial coverage November 1-3 to the five-day Taiwan visit by China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin; the talks to be held between ARAT [...] | 2008-11-03 09:25:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1561 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, CROSS-STRAIT [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese and English-language dailies continued to give significant news coverage November 4 to the historic meeting between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P.K. Chiang and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Ch [...] | 2008-11-04 09:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1565 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT TALKS, U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: The four agreements signed between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P.K. Chiang and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin Tuesday concerning the three links across the Taiwan Strait received extensive coverage in Tai [...] | 2008-11-05 09:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1566 | HONG KONG UPGRADES ITS TAIWAN TRADE OFFICE [...] (C) During a November 6 meeting with economic chief, Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) Ltd. Taiwan Branch General Manager Perry Fung said his office has upgraded its status from "consultancy" to "limited company," reflecting the overall improvement in cross-Strait economic ties (reft [...] | 2008-11-06 05:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EINV TW HK CH |
08AITTAIPEI1567 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese- and English-language dailies all gave significant straight news reporting and editorial coverage November 6 to the election of Democrat Barack Obama as the next U.S. president. News coverage also focused on the mass protests in Taipei Wednesday against the vis [...] | 2008-11-06 09:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1572 | TAIWAN: PART ONE OF 2009 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] The U.S. goods trade deficit with Taiwan was $11.9 billion in 2007, a decrease of $3.2 billion from $15.2 billion in 2006. U.S. goods exports in 2007 were $26.4 billion, up 14.4 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Taiwan were $38.3 billion, up 0.2 percent. Taiwan is [...] | 2008-11-07 08:15:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN TW |
08AITTAIPEI1575 | TAIWAN: PART TWO OF 2009 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] Taiwan has identified both the medical device and pharmaceutical sectors as priorities for development, resulting in Taiwan agencies sometimes appearing to favor the interests of local companies over foreign firms. In addition, Taiwan bans imports from China of about 30 medical products. Due t [...] | 2008-11-07 08:19:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN TW |
08AITTAIPEI1576 | TAIWAN: PART THREE OF 2009 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] Foreign certified public accountants may serve as private agents contracted by Taiwan authorities to provide notary services or conduct audits only if they pass Taiwan's public certified accountant qualification tests, although foreign CPAs are exempt from some portions of the tests. Foreign C [...] | 2008-11-07 08:20:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN TW |
08AITTAIPEI1577 | EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - OCTOBER 2008 [...] (SBU) On October 6, the Advisor met with the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) to review the progress of software development and export control related issues. Development is on schedule and completion is expected by end of CY 2008. 2. (SBU) On October 6, the Advisor met with the Directorate [...] | 2008-11-07 08:20:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW |
08AITTAIPEI1578 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S. PRESIDENTIAL [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage November 7 on the violent clashes between pro-Green supporters and police on Thursday night; on the short meeting between President Ma Ying-jeou and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairma [...] | 2008-11-07 08:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI158 | EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - JANUARY 2008 [...] (U) The Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Advisor reported on two recent investigations of Taiwan companies for export control violations. The investigations are detailed in refs A and B. 2. (U) On January 15, the EXBS Advisor was informed by an official of the Bureau of [...] | 2008-02-01 08:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW |
08AITTAIPEI1580 | TAIWAN: PART ONE OF 2009 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] The U.S. goods trade deficit with Taiwan was $11.9 billion in 2007, a decrease of $3.2 billion from $15.2 billion in 2006. U.S. goods exports in 2007 were $26.4 billion, up 14.4 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Taiwan were $38.3 billion, up 0.2 percent. Taiwan is [...] | 2008-11-07 09:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN TW |
08AITTAIPEI1587 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage November 8-10 on students' sit-in campaign in protest of the police's excessive use of force against demonstrators during the Taiwan visit of China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen [...] | 2008-11-10 09:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1601 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their November 11-12 news coverage on former President Chen Shui-bian, who was handcuffed and taken into to court Tuesday night as prosecutors sought his detention on alleged corruption and embezzlement charges; and on the students stagi [...] | 2008-11-12 09:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI161 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-01 08:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1614 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED AL-QAIDA [...] Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on November 11, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on three Gulf-based al-Qaida financiers added on October 10, 2008 to its list of entities/individuals subject to targeted sanctions. [...] | 2008-11-14 03:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON BA QI TW |
08AITTAIPEI1616 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS, CROSS-STRAIT [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused November 15-17 news coverage on former President Chen Shui-bian, who was taken to hospital Sunday evening after having been on a hunger strike since he was detained last Wednesday; on the prosecutors' questioning of Chen's family members [...] | 2008-11-17 09:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1618 | IMPLEMENTATION OF TRAVEL RESTRICTION PROVISIONS OF UNSCRS [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: On November 14, AIT received a letter from the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) of the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs requesting detailed personal data on individuals listed in UNSCRs 1737, 1747, and 1803 s [...] | 2008-11-18 02:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM KNNP TW IR |
08AITTAIPEI1622 | MEDIA REACTION: G-20 SUMMIT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-18 08:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1634 | REQUEST LEAHY AMENDMENT HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING [...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: As required by the Departments of State and Defense Leahy Amendments, AIT requests that Washington conduct an expedited human rights review of the below listed Taiwan Criminal Investigation Bureau personnel, who will participate in DEA Basic Drug Detection Training beginn [...] | 2008-11-21 08:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | MAS PHUM PM PREL SNAR ASEC TW |
08AITTAIPEI1635 | DIRECTOR HIGHLIGHTS FINANCIAL CRISIS COORDINATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a November 21 meeting with Vice Premier Paul Chiu, the Director observed that the current APEC leaders' meeting in Peru presents a useful opportunity for Taiwan to coordinate with counterparts on the global financial crisis. He stressed U.S. interest in fast action on opening T [...] | 2008-11-21 08:33:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL ETRD EAGR TW |
08AITTAIPEI1637 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-23 21:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1638 | TAIWAN'S ECONOMIC OUTLOOK DARKENS, BUT FINANCIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. On November 20, official GDP figures showed the Taiwan economy contracted by 1.02% year-on-year (yoy) in the third quarter, a sharply lower figure than had been predicted just weeks earlier. The government's 2008 GDP growth forecast is now 1.87%, and the official estimate for 200 [...] | 2008-11-23 21:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV PREL TW |
08AITTAIPEI1645 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF GULF-BASED AL-QAIDA [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following three financiers designated by the UN 1267 Committee pursuant to resolution 1267 on October 10, 2008: --Khalifa Muhammad Turki Al-Subaiy, [...] | 2008-11-24 07:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON BA QI TW |
08AITTAIPEI1647 | TAIWAN MULLS ENHANCED CROSS-STRAIT FINANCIAL LINKS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In advance of the 14th Cross-Strait Financial Academic Research Conference slated to take place in Beijing this week, Taiwan financial sector contacts say preparations are underway for a cross-Strait MOU that would facilitate Taiwan banks' access to the Chinese market, and vice-ver [...] | 2008-11-24 07:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL TW CH |
08AITTAIPEI1650 | Media Reaction: Cross-Strait Relations [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-24 23:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1656 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S JUDICIAL SYSTEM, APEC [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their November 26 news coverage on the economic predicament of the world and of Taiwan; and on the probe into former President Chen Shui-bian's alleged corruption. In terms of editorials and commentaries, an op-ed in the pro-independenc [...] | 2008-11-26 08:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1667 | MEDIA REACTION: HUMAN RIGHTS IN TAIWAN, CHINESE MILITARY [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage November 27-28 on the economic difficulties that Taiwan need to deal with now; on the former first family's corruption scandals; on the political confrontation in Thailand; and on the Mumbai attacks. 2. In terms of edit [...] | 2008-11-28 08:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1669 | MEDIA REACTION: THE MUMBAI TERRORIST ATTACKS, THE U.S. [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage November 29 - December 1 on the probe into the former first family's corruption scandals; on the economic downturn in Taiwan; and on speculation about a cabinet reshuffle. 2. In terms of editorials and commentaries, rega [...] | 2008-12-01 08:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1673 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S JUDICIAL SYSTEM, APEC [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their November 26 news coverage on the economic predicament of the world and of Taiwan; and on the probe into former President Chen Shui-bian's alleged corruption. In terms of editorials and commentaries, an op-ed in the pro-independenc [...] | 2008-12-01 08:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1674 | FSC CHAIRMAN BECOMES FIRST ECONOMIC OFFICIAL TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the Ma Cabinet's first change of economic personnel, Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Chairman Gordon Chen has resigned, nominally due to his poor performance in steering Taiwan through the global financial crisis. Reportedly, however, Chen was pressured to resign in the [...] | 2008-12-01 08:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PINR TW |
08AITTAIPEI1682 | MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE NATIONAL [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage December 3 on the Cabinet's decision to allow four days off for the New Year holiday; on the probe into former first family's money laundering; and on the safety problems of the Maokong Gondola in Taipei. 2. In terms of [...] | 2008-12-03 09:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1693 | EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - NOVEMBER 2008 [...] (SBU) On November 3, the Advisor spoke at an Export Administration Regulations Seminar organized by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy of the Republic of Korea. Over 150 representatives of Korean and foreign subsidiary companies attended the Seminar. The Seminar was followed by one-on-one coun [...] | 2008-12-05 09:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW |
08AITTAIPEI1706 | DIRECTOR AND USTR TEAM URGE PROMPT TAIWAN ACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 9 meeting with NSC Secretary General Su Chi, the Director and Deputy Assistant USTR Timothy Wineland urged Taiwan to open its market to the full range of U.S. beef imports as quickly as possible. They stressed that the imminent release of the Department of Health (DO [...] | 2008-12-09 09:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR PGOV PREL TW |
08AITTAIPEI1708 | MARKET ACCESS CONCERNS, NOT POLITICS, DRIVING [...] (C) SUMMARY. As Taiwan and China discuss liberalizing cross-Strait financial service restrictions, there appear to be clear differences on market access. According to Taiwan officials, China wants to liberalize under the WTO framework. This, in the view of Taiwan officials, would give China [...] | 2008-12-10 10:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL TW |
08AITTAIPEI1711 | MEDIA REACTION: INCOMING OBAMA ADMINISTRATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-10 11:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1713 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. FINANCIAL CRISIS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-11 07:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1715 | TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF THREE [...] Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on December 8, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on three members of al-Shabaab, designated by the U.S. under E.O. 13224 on November 20, 2008, for supporting terrorism. These three [...] | 2008-12-11 07:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC ECON ET KE TW |
08AITTAIPEI1716 | USTR VISIT FOCUSES ON AGRICULTURE ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: During December 8-9 meetings in Taipei, USTR Senior Director for China and Taiwan Affairs Tim Wineland and AIT/W Director of Trade and Commercial Programs Rick Ruzicka pressed their Taiwan interlocutors on key agricultural market access issues, including beef, pork, and rice. Winel [...] | 2008-12-11 08:29:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR PGOV PREL TW |
08AITTAIPEI1719 | MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused December 12 news coverage on the Central Bank's biggest interest cuts in 26 years; the probe into former President Chen Shui-bian's corruption cases; and the police's surprise eviction of members of the "Wild Strawberry" Student Movement [...] | 2008-12-12 07:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI172 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-04 10:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1735 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, OBAMA'S NOMINATION [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused December 13-15 news coverage on former President Chen Shui-bian's indictment and on the launching of the "big three links," namely, air, sea and postal service directly between Taiwan and mainland China. In terms of editorials and com [...] | 2008-12-15 09:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1741 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT LINKS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-16 09:29:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1743 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-17 08:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1744 | TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF THREE [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following three members of al-Shabaab, designated by the U.S. under E.O.13224 on November 20, 2008 for supporting terrorism: --Ahmed Abdi Aw-Moh [...] | 2008-12-17 08:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC ECON ET KE TW |
08AITTAIPEI1747 | EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - DECEMBER 2008 [...] (SBU) On the margins of the Industry-Government Outreach Program in Taichung (December 10 - 11),the Advisor met with an official from the National Science Council (NSC) to get an update on the Transfer of Intangible Technology Legislation. The official stated that the legislation still is in [...] | 2008-12-18 07:01:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW |
08AITTAIPEI1752 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-19 05:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1767 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused December 20-22 news coverage on the confirmation of the H5N2 avian flu epidemic situation in southern Taiwan; on the fourth KMT-CCP forum held in Shanghai; and on the local economic downturn. 2. Following the recently-concluded forum [...] | 2008-12-22 09:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1770 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-23 07:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1772 | DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES UNDER [...] Post passed information as requested to the Banking Bureau of the Financial Supervisory Commission. The Bureau will share information with other agencies and financial institutions and report any action taken by Taiwan on this matter. SYOUNG [...] | 2008-12-24 04:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN IR KNNP PARM TW |
08AITTAIPEI1773 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-24 05:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1776 | TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DESIGNATION OF UNION OF GOOD [...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on December 22, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on the U.S. Department of the Treasury's designation of the Union of Good, a Saudi Arabia-based organization, as a supporter of t [...] | 2008-12-24 05:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL UNSC ECON |
08AITTAIPEI1780 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 08:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1784 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-30 07:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1787 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-31 04:29:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI180 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-05 03:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI182 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-05 04:59:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI193 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-12 10:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI209 | MEDIA REACTION: CHINESE ESPIONAGE CASE IN THE U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-14 08:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI21 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-07 10:04:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI213 | TAIWAN SATELLITE PROGRAM UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 12, AIT officers visited the National Space Program Office (NSPO) and met with the newly-appointed director Miau Jiun-jih to discuss current and future plans at NSPO. Miau emphasized that the follow-on to the Formosat-2 remote sensing satellite was the top priority, [...] | 2008-02-15 05:15:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | TSPA PREL ETTC KSCA CVIS TW |
08AITTAIPEI217 | TAIWAN RESPONSE TO NON-PAPER: POSSIBLE EXPORTS TO [...] (S) On January 31, AIT received the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) of the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs' response to reftel non-paper. An unofficial AIT translation of BOFT's response follows: 2. (S) BEGIN TRANSLATION Subject: Possible exports of controlled items by Arix CNC Machi [...] | 2008-02-15 07:23:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | ETTC IR MTCRE PARM PREL TW AE |
08AITTAIPEI22 | FATF STATEMENT AND GUIDANCE ON IRAN [...] Per ref A, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on December 25, 2007, providing all banking institutions and securities finance companies with copies of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) October 2007 statement and guidance on Iran [...] | 2008-01-07 23:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL FARM MNUC ECON TW IR |
08AITTAIPEI220 | RETURN OF AIT DIRECTOR STEPHEN M. YOUNG [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-19 04:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT APER OTRA TW |
08AITTAIPEI221 | TERRORISM FINANCE: SYRIA/LEBANON DESIGNATIONS [...] Per ref A, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on February 2, 2008, providing all banking institutions and securities finance companies with information on three individuals, Assaad Halim Hardan, Wi'am Wahhab, and Hafiz Makhluf designated by the U.S. Dep [...] | 2008-02-19 10:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL FARM MNUC ECON TW IR |
08AITTAIPEI222 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF FOUR [...] Per ref A, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on February 2, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on four individuals (including Ahmed Foruzandeh) and one entity (Al Zawra Television Station) designated by the U.S. Department of Tre [...] | 2008-02-19 10:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL FARM MNUC ECON TW IR |
08AITTAIPEI226 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF IRAQI FORMER [...] Per ref A, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on February 2, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on seven individuals (including Fawzi Mutlaq Al-Rawi) with ties to the Iraqi insurgency and the former Iraqi regime. 2. The FSC a [...] | 2008-02-19 10:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL FARM MNUC ECON TW IR |
08AITTAIPEI227 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDA, U.S.-CHINA [...] Summary: As Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to report on the March presidential poll and the UN referenda, news coverage on February 16-19 also focused on the "Taiwan Goal," a defense industry company the DPP administration has recently set up to coordinate the business of U. [...] | 2008-02-19 10:09:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI229 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDA, KOSOVO DECLARATION [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage February 20 on the March presidential election and the UN referenda; on Taiwan's official acknowledgement of Kosovo independence; and on the controversy regarding whether the island should continue construction of its fourt [...] | 2008-02-20 04:23:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI23 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-08 09:01:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI244 | MEDIA REACTION: KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE AND TAIWAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-22 09:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI261 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE KUWAIT-BASED [...] Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on February 18, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on three individuals --Hamid Al-Ali --Jaber Al-Jalamah, and --Mubarak Mushakhas Sanad Al-Bathali designated on January 16, 200 [...] | 2008-02-25 09:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL UNSC ECON TW KU |
08AITTAIPEI266 | MEDIA REACTION: KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-26 08:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI271 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage February 27 on the island's March presidential poll and the UN referenda; on a Taiwan policy report recently released by former U.S. officials Randall Schriver and Dan Blumenthal; on Taiwan's officials being barred from att [...] | 2008-02-27 09:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI284 | CAN TAIWAN ERADICATE ITS TB PROBLEM? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Tuberculosis has been recorded in Taiwan since the early 20th century and successive administrations have tried to control this scourge. TB infects about 15,000 persons per year in Taiwan and 1,300 people die from it every year. Treatment is a major challenge, given the rig [...] | 2008-03-03 08:25:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED AMGT CASC ECON SENV SOCI TBIO TW |
08AITTAIPEI291 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDUM, NATIONAL DEFENSE [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage March 4 on the upcoming presidential poll, on the two presidential candidates' campaign platforms on cross-Strait issues, and on the Environmental Protection Administration's decision Monday to approve conditionally the con [...] | 2008-03-04 09:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI293 | AIT DIRECTOR OUTLINES TRADE AGENDA WITH MOEA [...] (C) On March 4, Director met with Minister of Economic Affairs Steve Ruey-long Chen to review the bilateral trade relationship and the TIFA agenda. Chen observed that the U.S.-Taiwan economic and political relationship has been strained for the past year, but expressed hope that after the Mar [...] | 2008-03-05 07:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAGR ECON EINV KIPR TW |
08AITTAIPEI299 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-05 09:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI301 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF THREE KUWAIT-BASED [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipt from or payment to the following three individuals designated on January 16, 2008 by UN 1267 Sanctions Committee in LIST 83: Hamid Al-Ali, Jaber Al-Jalamah, and Mubarak [...] | 2008-03-05 09:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL UNSC ECON TW KU |
08AITTAIPEI302 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF FOUR [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following four individuals and one entity designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury pursuant to US E.O.13438 on January 9, 2008: Four individu [...] | 2008-03-05 09:37:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC ECON TW IR |
08AITTAIPEI303 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF IRAQI FORMER [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following individual designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury pursuant to US E.O.13224 on December 6, 2007: --Fawzi Mutlaq Al-Rawi, and th [...] | 2008-03-05 09:37:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL FARM MNUC ECON TW IR |
08AITTAIPEI304 | TERRORISM FINANCE: SYRIA/LEBANON DESIGNATIONS [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following three individuals designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury pursuant to US E.O.13441 on November 5, 2007: --Assaad Halim Hardan, -- [...] | 2008-03-05 09:37:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL FARM MNUC ECON TW IR |
08AITTAIPEI310 | USTR-AIT ADVANCE TRADE AGENDA IN PREPARATION FOR [...] (SBU) During February 22-26 meetings in Taipei, USTR Senior Director for China and Taiwan Affairs David Katz and AIT/W Director of Trade and Commercial Programs Rick Ruzicka laid the groundwork for the summer 2008 Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) meeting in Taipei by pressing U. [...] | 2008-03-06 04:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON ETRD KIPR TW |
08AITTAIPEI311 | MEDIA REACTION: PENTAGON'S REPORT ON CHINESE MILITARY [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused March 6 news coverage on the upcoming presidential poll and the UN referenda; on the government's Wednesday announcement of incentive measures to encourage overseas Taiwan businesses to return capital to Taiwan; on the island's consumer [...] | 2008-03-06 07:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI314 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS, TAIWAN'S UN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus news coverage March 7 on the upcoming presidential poll, on the UN referenda, and on the island's consumer price hike. In terms of editorials and commentaries, an editorial in the pro-independence "Liberty Times" discussed th [...] | 2008-03-07 09:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI322 | EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - FEBRUARY AND FIRST [...] (U) From February 20 - 22, the Commodity Identification Training program was conducted in Kaohsiung. Approximately 45 Taiwan officials attended the training. The Department of Energy trainers did an excellent job conveying technical aspects of identifying controlled commodities. The "show an [...] | 2008-03-10 09:35:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW |
08AITTAIPEI331 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDA, DALAI LAMA AND [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage March 11 on the upcoming presidential poll and the UN referenda, on the televised policy discussion between the two vice presidential candidates Monday, and on the baseball game between Taiwan and Canada in the 2008 Final O [...] | 2008-03-11 09:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI337 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS, THE UN REFERENDA [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage March 12 on KMT's expected announcement on how it will handle two UN referenda held along with the presidential election; on the presidential election campaigns; and on New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's sex scandal. In ter [...] | 2008-03-12 10:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI34 | R/V MELVILLE MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE DENIED BY [...] AIT forwarded R/V Melville clearance application via cover letter to TECRO on December 13, 2007 (ref B). TECRO then forwarded the application to the National Science Council (NSC) for consideration. On January 8 AIT received a formal written reply to the clearance request denying clearance f [...] | 2008-01-09 09:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT JA RP TW |
08AITTAIPEI348 | MEDIA REACTION: THE UN REFERENDA, THE U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage March 13 on the clash outside DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh's campaign headquarters; on the presidential election campaigns; and on the Chinese Taipei baseball team beating Australia and winning a spot in the Beiji [...] | 2008-03-13 09:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI353 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-14 07:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI36 | EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - DECEMBER 2007 [...] (SBU) On December 11, the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Program Advisor met with Taiwan Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) officials to get an update on export control cases. As part of MJIB's update, the EXBS Advisor received written summaries of closed and o [...] | 2008-01-09 09:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW |
08AITTAIPEI374 | MEDIA REACTION: THE CHINESE CRACKDOWN ON THE DEMONSTRATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage March 15-17 on China's brutal suppression of the demonstrations in Lhasa; on the presidential election; and the DPP's and the KMT's respective campaign rallies on Sunday. Beijing's bloody suppression of demonstrations in T [...] | 2008-03-17 10:29:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI38 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-10 10:06:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI383 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage March 18 on the presidential election campaigns; on various circles in Taiwan that support Tibet; and on the fall of global stocks after the sale of Bear Stearns and an emergency cut of a key lending rate by the U.S. Federa [...] | 2008-03-18 09:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI390 | MEDIA REACTION: TIBET AND TAIWAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage March 19 on the two presidential candidates' responses to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's comment Tuesday on the demonstrations in Tibet; on the USS Kitty Hawk leaving its home base at Yokosuka, Japan Tuesday and its current w [...] | 2008-03-19 09:19:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI395 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-20 09:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI4 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS, HONG KONG DEMOCRACY [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused January 1-2 news coverage on the island-wide celebrations for the New Year; on President Chen Shui-bian's New Year's address; on the upcoming legislative elections; and on the Blue camp's call on the voters to boycott the two referenda t [...] | 2008-01-02 10:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI422 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, U.S. [...] Summary: The Chinese-language and English-language dailies in Taiwan gave significant reporting and editorial coverage March 22-24 to Saturday's presidential election, in which KMT's Ma Ying-jeou won a landslide victory over DPP's Frank Hsieh. The two controversial referenda proposed by the K [...] | 2008-03-24 23:23:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI430 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their March 25 news coverage on the aftermath of Taiwan's presidential election last Saturday, including the soaring Taiwan stock index and NT dollar appreciation Monday, the new cabinet to be formed by president-elect Ma Ying [...] | 2008-03-25 08:29:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI431 | (S) DEMARCHE TO TAIWAN ON MISTAKEN SHIPMENT OF [...] (S) Director met with Defense Minister Michael Tsai at 1730 hours local (0530 EDT) to deliver reftel points and leave as a nonpaper. Chief of the General Staff General Huoh Shou-yeh and other senior advisers also attended the meeting. Minister Tsai expressed appreciation for our candid expla [...] | 2008-03-25 10:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL TW CH |
08AITTAIPEI439 | MEDIA REACTION: AFTERMATH OF TAIWAN'S PRESIDENTIAL [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their news coverage March 26 on the aftermath of Taiwan's presidential election last Saturday, including the caretaker government's plans before president-elect Ma Ying-jeou's inauguration on May 20; possible personnel arrangements for t [...] | 2008-03-26 08:53:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI451 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, CROSS-STRAIT [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their March 28 news coverage on U.S. President George W. Bush's call to his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao Wednesday, in which Hu mentioned that China is willing to resume dialogue with Taiwan based on the "1992 consensus;" on the chances [...] | 2008-03-28 08:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI462 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their March 29-31 news coverage on their interviews with president-election Ma Ying-jeou Friday, who talked about his views on the future of cross-Strait relations, Taipei-Washington relations, and Taiwan's domestic policies; on AIT Chai [...] | 2008-03-31 08:58:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI474 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language focused their April 1 news coverage on the controversy over whether the Chen Shui-bian caretaker government should raise or freeze gasoline prices; on president-elect Ma Ying-jeou's planned meeting with President Chen Shui-bian Tuesday morning; on possi [...] | 2008-04-01 09:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI478 | EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - MARCH 2008 [...] (U) A five-day Target and Risk Management Training, implemented by Customs and Border Protection, is being planned for the week of April 14 in Kaohsiung. 2. (U) A three-person delegation of Taiwan officials is expected to attend the International Transit and Transshipment Conference in Moro [...] | 2008-04-02 07:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW |
08AITTAIPEI480 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-02 08:58:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI483 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-06 22:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI488 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-07 09:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI494 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their April 8 news coverage on Vice President-elect Vincent Siew's planned April 11-13 meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Boao Forum on Hainan Island (China); on the island's soaring consumer price index; on President-elect [...] | 2008-04-08 10:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI497 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their April 9 news coverage on the speculation that incumbent Soochow University President Liu Chao-shiuan will be appointed as the next premier; on the upcoming Boao Forum hosted by China; on the international torch relay for the Beijin [...] | 2008-04-09 09:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI50 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S REFERENDA [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave extensive reporting and editorial coverage on January 11 to the legislative elections which will be held island-wide on January 12. According to news reports, the DPP is aiming at winning 50 seats in the new 113-seat Legislature, but KMT C [...] | 2008-01-11 10:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI510 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage April 11 on vice president-elect Vincent Siew's attendance at the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) and Siew's expected meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao; on the Ministry of National Defense (MND)'s alleged violation of free [...] | 2008-04-11 12:37:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI514 | MEDIA REACTION: THE BOAO FORUM FOR ASIA (BFA) [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage April 12-14 on Taiwan Vice President-elect Vincent Siew's historic meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao. The interaction between the Chinese government and Siew's delegation was the focal of local media attention as we [...] | 2008-04-14 10:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI517 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their April 15 news coverage on President-elect Ma Ying-jeou's announcement of his appointment of KMT Vice Chairman Chiang Pin-kung as the new Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman; on Ma's comments on current developments in cross- [...] | 2008-04-15 09:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI532 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their April 16 news coverage on Taiwan's expected deregulation of currency exchange between the New Taiwan dollar and the Chinese yuan; on speculation over possible personnel arrangements for the new Ma Ying-jeou administration; on the a [...] | 2008-04-16 11:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI535 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-17 08:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI540 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-18 07:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI550 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, TIBET [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage April 19-21 on President-elect Ma Ying-jeou's cabinet lineup; on the reform of the DPP; and on speculation over the alleged dispatch of U.S. Marines to guard AIT's new office in the future. The pro-independence "Liberty Ti [...] | 2008-04-21 09:59:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI556 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-22 09:57:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI560 | MEDIA REACTION: CHINA AND TIBET, IRAQ [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their April 23 news coverage on the recent announcement of the new Cabinet appointments; on a group of Chinese real estate tycoons' visit to Taiwan; and on president-elect Ma Ying-jeou's platform to levy an energy tax in the f [...] | 2008-04-23 09:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI574 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language April 25 dailies focused news coverage on Taiwan's Supreme Court not guilty verdict for President-elect Ma Ying-jeou in his special allowance case; on Taipei Deputy Mayor Samuel Wu's resignation amid allegations that he received money from an arms deale [...] | 2008-04-25 07:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI580 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS; THE CROSS-STRAIT [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage April 26-28 on the amendment to Taiwan's Labor Standards Law; on the search for eight missing scuba divers in waters off southern Taiwan; and on the unexpected appointment of former Taiwan Solidarity Union Legislator Lai Sh [...] | 2008-04-28 09:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI588 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage April 29 on the announcement of the second lineup of 18 Cabinet members; on the successful rescue of eight scuba divers; and a victim whose blood clot and subsequent coma are suspected of being caused by the contraceptive p [...] | 2008-04-29 10:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI605 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-01 09:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI607 | TAIWAN RESPONSE TO NON-PAPER: POSSIBLE EXPORT TO [...] (S) On April 30, AIT received the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) of the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs' response to reftel non-paper. An unofficial AIT translation of BOFT's response follows: 2. (S) BEGIN TRANSLATION Subject: Please find BOFT's findings regarding a Syrian-base [...] | 2008-05-02 07:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | ETTC MTCRE PARM PREL TW SY AE |
08AITTAIPEI613 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-02 09:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI618 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-05 09:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI621 | PERMISSION TO BE ABSENT FROM AIT (PERSONAL AND [...] Director Stephen M. Young requests approval to be absent from AIT on annual leave Thursday, May 22 through Monday, June 2, and on consultations in Washington, D.C. June 3-9. He will depart Washington on June 10 and return to Taipei on Wednesday, June 11 at 1730. 2. Deputy Director Robert [...] | 2008-05-06 07:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT APER OTRA TW |
08AITTAIPEI623 | MEDIA REACTION: SINO-JAPAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 08:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI63 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS, [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language and English-language dailies all gave significant reporting and editorial coverage January 12-14 to Saturday's island-wide legislative elections, in which the KMT scored a landslide victory over the ruling DPP, winning a two-thirds majority in the newly [...] | 2008-01-15 02:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI640 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-08 10:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI645 | MEDIA REACTION: NEW THINKING IN TAIWAN'S DIPLOMACY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-09 09:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI654 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage May 10-12 on the continuing investigation into Taiwan's Papua New Guinea diplomatic fund scandal; on the sudden death of Taiwan's Interior Minister-designate Liao Fung-te; and on the lineup of Taiwan's President-elect Ma Yi [...] | 2008-05-12 09:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI661 | MEDIA REACTION: NATURAL DISASTERS IN CHINA AND BURMA; [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage May 13 on the massive earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, and on the temporary shutdown of Taiwan's debt-ridden Far Eastern Air Transport Corporation (FAT). 2. In terms of editorials and commentaries, a column in the [...] | 2008-05-13 09:53:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI669 | MEDIA REACTION: THE SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA; BURMA [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage May 14 on the rescue efforts in the Sichuan earthquake in China. In terms of editorials and commentaries, an editorial in the pro-unification "United Daily News" tried to shed lights on the "rise of China" from the Chinese [...] | 2008-05-14 09:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI675 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-15 09:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI704 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S INAUGURAL SPEECH [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant news reporting and editorial coverage May 21 to President Ma Ying-jeou's inauguration ceremony and his inaugural speech Tuesday, in which he emphasized that both sides across the Taiwan Strait will resume dialogue based on the " [...] | 2008-05-21 12:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI705 | DEPARTURE OF AIT DIRECTOR STEPHEN M. YOUNG [...] Director Stephen M. Young departed AIT for annual leave in New Hampshire and consultations in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, May 22nd, at 1200 local time. 2. Deputy Director Robert S. Wang has assumed Charge. WANG [...] | 2008-05-22 06:26:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT APER OTRA TW |
08AITTAIPEI71 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S REFERENDA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-15 09:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI714 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S INAUGURAL SPEECH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-22 10:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI719 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their May 23 news coverage on Beijing's formal and positive response to President Ma Ying-jeou's inaugural speech, on the Cabinet's decision Thursday on fuel and electricity hikes, and on the opening and acceleration of exchanges across [...] | 2008-05-23 09:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI725 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S.-RUSSIA-CHINA [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused May 24-27 news coverage on KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung's visit to China Monday and the new developments in cross-Strait relations, on the controversy over whether a KMT legislator still retains U.S. citizenship, on the soaring commodity p [...] | 2008-05-27 10:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI735 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused May 29 news coverage on the historic meeting between KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung and his Chinese Communist Party (CCP) counterpart Hu Jintao in Beijing Wednesday; on new developments in cross-Strait relations; and on the fuel price hike i [...] | 2008-05-29 09:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI737 | TAIWAN: RESULT OF BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE CHECK [...] (SBU) Per reftel request, AIT/T contacted Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST) Procurement Office and received confirmation of the order and the stated end-use. 2. Mr. Liu Sheng-tsai, CSIST Procurement Official, confirmed the order for subject commodities and the end-use st [...] | 2008-05-29 09:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TW |
08AITTAIPEI744 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: On May 30, Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave extensive coverage to the resumption of talks between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS),which are scheduled to kick off on June 11. News coverage a [...] | 2008-05-30 09:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI752 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, CROSS-STRAIT [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language focused May 31-June 2 news coverage on various new developments in cross-Strait relations; on DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen's interview with print media Sunday, in which she expressed concern over the KMT's approach to handling cross-Strait relations; an [...] | 2008-06-02 09:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI760 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-03 08:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI77 | AEC WELCOMES TALKS ON HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM [...] (C) This is an action cable for State ISN/NESS. Please see para 3. On January 14 ESTH officer spoke with Institute for Nuclear Energy Research (INER) Deputy Director Dr. Yeh Tao-ran about DOE's proposal to hold a meeting in April to discuss Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) spent fuel repatriatio [...] | 2008-01-16 09:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ENRG TRGY IAEA TW |
08AITTAIPEI771 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-04 23:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI780 | MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S NOMINATION VICTORY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-05 09:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI786 | TAIWAN PREPARES FOR PROGRESS ON CROSS-STRAIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As Taiwan and China prepare to resume negotiations on cross-Strait issues, beginning with charter flights and tourism, Taiwan authorities and industry representatives agree that initial progress should be straightforward. Taiwan authorities believe that during their June 11-14 [...] | 2008-06-06 11:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PREL TW CH |
08AITTAIPEI797 | MEDIA REACTION: TIP REPORT, CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, OBAMA'S [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused June 6 news coverage on talks between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS),which will kick off next Wednesday; on President Ma Ying-jeou's remark Wednesday tha [...] | 2008-06-06 11:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI806 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-09 09:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI808 | VICE PRESIDENT SIEW OUTLINES TAIWAN ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 10 meeting with ADIR and visiting AIT/W Director for Trade and Commercial Policy, Vice President Vincent Siew said the Ma administration is now concentrating on inflation control, stimulating domestic demand, and expanding cross-Strait economic ties through implementing [...] | 2008-06-10 07:15:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR PROG PREL TW CH |
08AITTAIPEI809 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-10 09:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI81 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S FOREIGN RELATIONS, UN REFERENDUM [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage January 16 on the soaring of Taiwan's stock index and currency markets Tuesday in the wake of the KMT's victory in last Saturday's legislative elections; on KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou, who unveiled his cross-St [...] | 2008-01-17 06:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI812 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT TALKS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-11 09:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI820 | Media Reaction: Cross-Strait Talks [...] Summary: On June 12, Taiwan's print media gave extensive coverage to the historic talks between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) on improved cross-Strait relations. News coverage also focused on the aftermath of [...] | 2008-06-12 07:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI828 | TAIWAN: RESULT OF BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE CHECK 050106202 [...] Per reftel requests, AIT/T contacted the Taiwan Combined Logistics Command (CLC),Ministry of National Defense (MND),and the foreign consignee, Guo-Tong Technology Company. AIT/T's findings reflected the bona fides of the consignee and the reliability of this business transaction. Guo Ton [...] | 2008-06-13 09:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TW |
08AITTAIPEI830 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT TALKS [...] Summary: Taiwan's print media June 13 gave significant coverage to the historic meetings between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) on improved cross-Strait relations Thursday. All major Taiwan dailies front-paged th [...] | 2008-06-13 09:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI835 | MEDIA REACTION - CROSS-STRAIT TALKS, TAIWAN-JAPAN DISPUTE [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies June 14-16 gave extensive coverage to the rising diplomatic row between Taiwan and Japan over a collision between a Taiwan fishing boat and a Japanese frigate in the disputed waters around the Tiaoyutai Islands last Tuesday. News coverage also [...] | 2008-06-16 10:53:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI845 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT TALKS, TAIWAN-JAPAN DISPUTE, [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to give extensive coverage on June 17 to the dispute between Taiwan and Japan over the Diaoyutai (generally anglicized in Taiwan as "Tiaoyutai") Islands and to the resignation of Taiwan's representative to Japan. Local newspapers devo [...] | 2008-06-17 08:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI857 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus June 18 news coverage on the dispute between Taiwan and Japan over the Diaoyutai (generally anglicized in Taiwan as "Tiaoyutai") Islands; on new developments in cross-Strait relations; and on electricity price hikes in Taiwan, [...] | 2008-06-18 09:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI866 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, TAIWAN-JAPAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused June 19 news coverage on new developments in cross-Strait relations; on speculations over the personnel reshuffle at the Control Yuan and the Examination Yuan; and on a major downsizing of the "China Times," one of the four largest Chine [...] | 2008-06-19 08:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI873 | CROSS-STRAIT LIBERALIZATION WILL BOOST TAIWAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the wake of the July 11-14 SEF-ARATS agreements (ref a) to implement cross-Strait weekend charter flights and ease restrictions on PRC tourist travel to Taiwan, the Taiwan travel and tourism sector is anticipating a shot in the arm from an expected surge in Chinese visitors. T [...] | 2008-06-19 23:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL TW |
08AITTAIPEI875 | MEDIA REACTION: PERFORMANCE OF THE MA YING-JEOU [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused June 20 news coverage on President Ma Ying-jeou's nomination of Examination Yuan members Thursday, on approval ratings for the one-month-old Ma administration, and on new developments in cross-Strait relations. The pro-independence "Libe [...] | 2008-06-20 06:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI886 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused June 21-23 news coverage on the peaceful resolution to a recent dispute between Taiwan and Japan, triggered by the collision between a Taiwan fishing boat and a Japanese frigate in early June; on President Ma Ying-jeou's nomination of Co [...] | 2008-06-23 10:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI912 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused June 26 news coverage on the Ma Ying-jeou Administration's new measures to liberalize financial regulations vis-a-vis Mainland China; on China's Taiwan Affairs Office Director Wang Yi's remarks Monday regarding Taiwan's participation in [...] | 2008-06-26 09:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI919 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their June 27 news coverage on the Central Bank's new measures to battle inflation and on the liberalization of financial and tourist exchanges across the Taiwan Strait. The pro-independence "Liberty Times" ran a banner headline on page [...] | 2008-06-27 08:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI943 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS; ANTI-HUMAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage June 28-30 on the government's effort and incentives to boost the economy and revitalize the stock market; on the kickoff of limited conversion between the New Taiwan dollar and the Chinese Yuan (Renminbi); and on the prepa [...] | 2008-06-30 09:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI960 | EXBS: TAIWAN MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - MAY AND JUNE 2008 [...] (SBU) On May 16, the EXBS Advisor made a courtesy call to the Deputy Director of Keelung Customs and the Chief of the Keelung Harbor Police. Both organizations actively participate in EXBS programs. During the visit, Keelung Customs gave a comprehensive presentation on its operations, spec [...] | 2008-07-03 04:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP TW |
08AITTAIPEI964 | TAIWAN: RESULT OF BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE CHECK [...] (SBU) Per reftel request, AIT/T conducted telephone interviews and a site visit with the foreign consignee Super Wong Industrial Company (Super Wong). While AIT/T's findings confirmed the bona fides of the consignee, it appears Super Wong may have previously received the subject technology an [...] | 2008-07-03 07:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TW |
08AITTAIPEI966 | MEDIA REACTION: THE LAUCHING OF DIRECT CHARTER FLIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-03 09:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI98 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage January 18 on DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh's intensive campaigning in the wake of his party's severe defeat in last Saturday's legislative elections; on the March presidential poll; on President Chen Shui-bian ret [...] | 2008-01-18 10:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI987 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S FOREIGN RELATIONS, CROSS-STRAIT [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their July 8 news coverage on the commodity prices hike in Taiwan; on the controversy over the construction of the Suhua Freeway; and on the screening process of the Examination Yuan candidates nominated by President Ma Ying-jeou. In te [...] | 2008-07-08 09:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI999 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their June 9 news coverage on the plummeting Taiwan stock index; on the controversy over the construction of the Suhua Freeway; and on the screening process of the Examination Yuan candidates nominated by President Ma Ying-jeou. Both the [...] | 2008-07-09 09:04:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPIE1698 | MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S AIT APPOINTEE, THE DALAI LAMA [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused December 6-8 news coverage on the legislature passing a bill to distribute consumption vouchers; on the local economy; and on the call to amend the Assembly and Parade Law. 2. In terms of editorials and commentaries, an editorial in t [...] | 2008-12-08 07:20:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08ALGIERS1003 | RESURGENCE OF "ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM" TARGETS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following President Bouteflika's public blaming of foreign investors for Algeria's lagging economy outside of the hydrocarbons sector (ref A),the Algerian government has begun to impose new taxes and restrictions on foreign companies doing business here. Apparently sobered by t [...] | 2008-09-16 16:04:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD EFIN ECON AG |
08ALGIERS1005 | ALGERIA'S PARTICIPATION AT THE 63RD UN GENERAL [...] Per reftel, we are transmitting the list of Algeria's delegation to the 63rd UN General Assembly, which the MFA provided us via diplomatic note on September 17. A. Attendance of the Head of State: No plans to attend as of 09/17/08. B. Attendance of the Head of Government: No plans to at [...] | 2008-09-17 17:41:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA AG |
08ALGIERS102 | FOREIGN COMPANIES WARILY EYE NEW OIL AND GAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian oil parastatal Sonatrach announced belatedly on January 12 that fifteen new exploration blocks would be opened up to bidding by foreign hydrocarbon companies in 2008. Reactions from several U.S. and Italian firms indicate a wariness to pursue new investments given th [...] | 2008-01-28 17:40:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PGOV ECON EINV AG |
08ALGIERS1022 | GET RICH - BECOME A PARLIAMENTARIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: A September 17 decision to increase dramatically the salaries of members of both the lower and upper houses of parliament has been greeted by public criticism and newspaper headlines screaming "Shame on You" and "Become an MP and Get Rich". The decision, made through a presidenti [...] | 2008-09-24 07:22:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON AG |
08ALGIERS1024 | INITIAL ALGERIAN REACTION TO IRFR MOSTLY NEGATIVE [...] (C) We delivered the 2008 International Religious Freedom Country Report (IRFR) on September 23 during a meeting with MFA North America Deputy Director Rachid Ouali. Ouali gave no substantive comment on the IRFR, despite numerous critical official statements in the Algerian press in reaction t [...] | 2008-09-24 15:13:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV OPRC KIRF KPAO AG |
08ALGIERS1052 | ALGERIAN MFA OFFERS MEASURED CRITICISM OF 2008 IRFR [...] (C) MFA Director General for the Americas (A/S equivalent) Fatiha Selmane called in the Ambassador on September 28 to deliver an official reaction to the 2008 International Religious Freedom Report (IRFR) (ref A). Selmane asserted that the IRFR's conclusions did not match Algerian reality. Sh [...] | 2008-09-30 14:36:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV OPRC KIRF KPAO AG |
08ALGIERS1053 | SENATE PRESIDENT ON BILATERAL RELATIONS, THIRD TERM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian Senate president said September 29 that, press reports notwithstanding, there had been no official movement on a constitutional revision paving the way for a third term for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Senate President Abdelkader Bensalah [...] | 2008-09-30 15:27:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS1067 | WATER: SECURITY THAT OIL CANNOT BUY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria faces urgent challenges in managing its water resources and huge opportunities exist for U.S. companies in the sector, Minister of Water Resources Abdelmalek Sellal told the Ambassador on September 29. Sellal said he was satisfied with equipment, such as pumps, purchase [...] | 2008-10-05 14:04:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR ETRD PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS1087 | INTERIOR MINISTRY SNUFFS EBERT CENTER EVENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On the afternoon of October 4, the interior ministry quietly informed the Friedrich Ebert Center in Algiers that the political discussion it had organized for the following morning would not take place and "was not appreciated." The October 5 event, a debate on the 20th anniversa [...] | 2008-10-06 15:48:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS1088 | GOVERNMENT SCRAMBLES TO REASSURE GHARDAIA FLOOD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Frustration in Ghardaia province following severe October 1 floods led some 5000 people into the streets to protest what they perceived to be the government's sluggish response. The worst flooding the region has seen in over a century took the lives of 33 people, damaged 4000 h [...] | 2008-10-06 16:06:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KISL AG |
08ALGIERS1091 | GOA RESPONSE TO U.S. NON-PAPER ON SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 16:01:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM IR AG |
08ALGIERS1092 | GOA ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on October 6 to Ahmed Saadi, Acting Deputy Director of Multilateral Affairs at the MFA. Saadi was covering the Kosovo portfolio for a colleague who is currently in New York at the UNGA meetings, thus he said he was not able to respond substantively to our reque [...] | 2008-10-07 16:20:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV AG |
08ALGIERS1093 | DESIGNATION OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN [...] (S) We delivered reftel demarche on October 6 to Ahmed Saadi, Acting Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs at the MFA. Saadi, who usually covers human rights, was covering the sanctions portfolio and much of multilateral affairs for several colleagues who are currently in New York at the UN [...] | 2008-10-07 16:46:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | ECON EFIN ETRD PARM KKNP EUN EWWT PREL IR AG |
08ALGIERS110 | AUTONOMOUS UNIONS AND STUDENTS TEST THE LIMITS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Thousands of middle and high school students across Algeria took to the streets in a nationwide strike starting on January 15, heeding the call of autonomous unions. The strike resulted in a near complete paralysis of the education system for more than five days across the enti [...] | 2008-01-30 14:39:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KOCI AG |
08ALGIERS1108 | AIRBUS DETERMINED TO BREAK BOEING IN ALGERIA [...] (U) Airbus has dramatically increased pressure on Algeria to dump Boeing, going so far as to offer to buy Air Algerie's entire Boeing 737 fleet and replace it with Airbus aircraft, simulators and training. As reported in reftel, Airbus has been lobbying Air Algerie intensely for some time, but [...] | 2008-10-14 07:01:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR BEXP AG |
08ALGIERS111 | POLITICAL ELITES LINING UP BEHIND THIRD TERM AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the week of January 24, a series of high-profile political leaders came out publicly in support of constitutional change to allow President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for a third term. They included key members of the presidential coalition, the speaker of parliament and [...] | 2008-01-30 14:55:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS1119 | TO JOIN OR NOT TO JOIN: ALGERIA'S FRANCOPHONE [...] (SBU) Despite the lack of an official announcement by the Algerian government, MFA contacts tell us that President Bouteflika will attend and give a speech at the twelfth Summit of Heads of State of the International Organization of Francophone Countries (OIF). The summit, to be held from Oct [...] | 2008-10-15 17:11:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EDU FR AG |
08ALGIERS1120 | FINANCE MINISTER DETERMINED TO BUILD PRIVATE SECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Finance Minister Karim Djoudi told the Ambassador that Algeria's economic situation is generally strong, and that Algeria will weather the current global economic crisis relatively unscathed. Djoudi shared his vision for the Algerian economy, and said that his priority now lie [...] | 2008-10-15 17:16:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV AG |
08ALGIERS1121 | TRILINGUAL ILLITERATES: ALGERIA'S LANGUAGE CRISIS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Decades of government-imposed Arabization have produced an under-40 population that, in the words of frustrated Algerian business leaders, "is not fluent in anything" and therefore handicapped in the job market and more vulnerable to extremist influence. The Algerian school syste [...] | 2008-10-16 12:46:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI EDU AG |
08ALGIERS1122 | ALGERIAN MEDIA: AFRICOM TO COUNTER GROWING CHINESE [...] We delivered reftel demarche notifying the Algerian government of AFRICOM's official inception as a unified command to MFA North America Deputy Director Rachid Ouali on October 8. Ouali provided no substantive comment on AFRICOM. Meanwhile, Algeria's leading newspapers devoted measured cove [...] | 2008-10-16 13:10:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL AG |
08ALGIERS1123 | ALGERIAN WESTERN SAHARA POSITION UNYIELDING [...] (C) During an October 8 introductory meeting with the Ambassador, Minister Delegate for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel (U/S equivalent) asserted that Algeria's position on Western Sahara has not changed since 1965 and that Algeria continued to believe that the principle of se [...] | 2008-10-16 13:11:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PREF UNSC WI MO AG |
08ALGIERS1124 | ALGERIAN MEDIA: AFRICOM TO COUNTER GROWING CHINESE [...] We delivered reftel demarche notifying the Algerian government of AFRICOM's official inception as a unified command to MFA North America Deputy Director Rachid Ouali on October 8. Ouali provided no substantive comment on AFRICOM. Meanwhile, Algeria's leading newspapers devoted measured cove [...] | 2008-10-18 06:18:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL AG |
08ALGIERS1145 | FRUSTRATED HARRAGA PARENTS ARRESTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: A demonstration outside the Tunisian consulate in Annaba led by parents of youths who disappeared while trying to flee Algeria in boats ("harraga"; reftel) turned violent on October 20. Police arrested 14 of the protesters and charged three with violating the laws controlling pub [...] | 2008-10-22 14:36:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS1147 | NUCLEAR ENERGY IN ALGERIA: U.S. COOPERATION BEGINS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Even as countries such as France, Russia, China and Argentina have pursued nuclear cooperation agreements with Algeria, Algerian experts and French diplomats say Algeria is still 20 to 30 years away from developing nuclear power. A team of experts from Lawrence Livermore Nationa [...] | 2008-10-22 15:54:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG TRGY KNNP PREL IAEA AG |
08ALGIERS1148 | BLACK MARKET CURRENCY TRADE GAMES GLOBAL ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: While key members of the Algerian government feel immune to the global economic crisis (reftel),Algeria's currency black market is integrated into the world economy in ways the state never has been. On October 13, black market currency traders suspended transactions across the en [...] | 2008-10-22 16:15:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS1163 | BOUTEFLIKA LAUNCHES CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced on October 29 that he will convene a special session of parliament in the coming weeks to effect a partial and limited revision of the Algerian constitution. The changes he outlined would open the way for him to seek a third term as presi [...] | 2008-10-29 16:42:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS1164 | CULTURE MINISTER TOUMI'S 15 MINUTES OF FAME [...] (C) SUMMARY: Culture Minister Khalida Toumi has emerged as the latest face on government efforts to implement conservative social policies and neutralize regime critics. In September, Toumi issued a directive to shut down bars and nightclubs located near cultural monuments in downtown Algiers [...] | 2008-10-31 17:18:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI AG |
08ALGIERS1171 | EDUCATION MINISTER: GIVE US MORE ENGLISH, MORE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-04 16:10:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EDU AG |
08ALGIERS1172 | 2009 GOVERNMENT BUDGET PAINTS ROSY PICTURE [...] SUMMARY. The Algerian parliament approved the government's 2009 budget with few amendments. Spending will increase six percent over 2008 levels, and the budget law estimates economic growth of 4.1 percent overall and 6.6 percent outside of the hydrocarbons sector. The budget uses an oil re [...] | 2008-11-04 17:34:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ECON PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS1181 | ALGERIA REMAINS FIRM ON MAURITANIA, SEES SOME [...] (C) MFA Director General for African Affairs (A/S equivalent) Lounes Magramane told visiting NEA/MAG Director Stephanie Williams November 3 that Algeria remains firmly opposed to the unconstitutional removal of Mauritanian President Abdallahi from power as a result of the August coup. Magrama [...] | 2008-11-05 18:22:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ML MR AG |
08ALGIERS1206 | ALGERIA: BUREAUCRACY STIFLES GROWTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Business leaders told Ambassador and visiting NEA/MAG Director that the government bureaucracy continues to stifle the Algerian economy. Contract tenders are slow to develop, forcing the government to accept bidders who promise speed but who often have cost overruns in the end [...] | 2008-11-10 18:14:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV ECON PREL AG |
08ALGIERS1208 | CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS APPROVED WITHOUT DEBATE [...] (C) Algeria's new constitution was ratified in a special November 12 joint session of the Algerian parliament, during which senators and MPs voted overwhelmingly to approve the constitutional amendments proposed by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (ref A). After an introduction by Senate Presid [...] | 2008-11-12 17:08:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL AG |
08ALGIERS1220 | MYSTIC SUFI: BOUTEFLIKA'S ISLAMIC GAMBIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: As he did prior to his 2004 reelection, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has begun raising the profile of Algeria's Sufi religious schools -- the zaouias -- both as a tool for political mobilization and to counter Islamic extremism with a moderate, homegrown alternative. Within Isl [...] | 2008-11-17 11:13:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL PREL AG |
08ALGIERS1231 | INCLUSION OF BURKINA FASO IN TSCTP: ALGERIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-18 16:58:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER XA XI AG |
08ALGIERS1232 | CROSSING THE ALGERIAN BORDER: AVENUES FOR REGIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Economic integration in the Maghreb is effectively blocked by the physical border closure between Algeria and Morocco. While there may be hope for a "quiet" rapprochement on the Moroccan side (ref A),Algerian policy makers voice such ardent, public distrust of their Moroccan co [...] | 2008-11-19 08:03:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN PREL ENRG ECON AG |
08ALGIERS1233 | IRANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION: ALGERIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-19 11:45:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM IR AG |
08ALGIERS1241 | ALGERIA: UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-23 14:01:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA IS PA LE SY AG |
08ALGIERS1248 | ALGERIA RESERVED ON IRAN AND SYRIA IAEA REPORTS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-24 08:52:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR TRGY AG |
08ALGIERS1254 | VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN SURGES AS SOCIETY SIMMERS [...] Even as the constitution was being revised on November 12 to guarantee greater political representation for women, violence against women in Algeria was on the rise. According to Farouk Ksentini, the chairman of the government's National Consultative Commission for the Promotion and Protectio [...] | 2008-11-26 14:08:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PREL AG |
08ALGIERS1267 | THREE CENTIMETERS TALLER THAN NAPOLEON: BOUTEFLIKA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-02 16:32:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN ELAB SOCI AG |
08ALGIERS1269 | WESTERN SAHARA: SAHRAWI YOUTH FRUSTRATION MOUNTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sahrawi youth are increasingly frustrated and speak of a return to armed conflict with Morocco, but there is no indication that they are preparing to do so, or that they are indeed capable. During a November 15 visit by poloff and visiting NEA/MAG Algeria desk officer to a Sahraw [...] | 2008-12-06 07:02:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PBTS WI AG |
08ALGIERS1270 | WESTERM SAHARA: SAHRAWI YOUTH FRUSTRATION MOUNTS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-06 07:02:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PBTS WI AG |
08ALGIERS1279 | NEW TELECOM MINISTER IDENTIFIES PRIORITIES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Post and Telecommunications Hamid Bessalah laid out for us an ambitious internet and telecom agenda that includes requests for U.S. engagement and assistance as well as opportunities for U.S. investment. Bessalah is a first-time minister who assumed his post in the Jun [...] | 2008-12-07 07:39:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL ETRD AG |
08ALGIERS1280 | CODEL HASTINGS PRESSES ALGERIA ON ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Representative Alcee Hastings (D-FL) urged that Algeria invite international observers for the April 2009 presidential elections. He met with positive but carefully hedged responses from his Algerian government interlocutors. The parliamentarians he met were generally warm to t [...] | 2008-12-07 07:39:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS1282 | UNDER THE TLEMCEN SUN [...] (C) SUMMARY: A fertile farming region that is home to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and a disproportionate number of his ministers and advisers, the western wilaya (province) of Tlemcen appears at first glance to be a step ahead of other Algerian cities in reviving its economy and education [...] | 2008-12-09 12:59:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EAGR MO CN AG |
08ALGIERS1286 | ALGIERS EAC: ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECEMBER 11 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-10 16:22:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC AMGT KMSG AG |
08ALGIERS1288 | FLN LEADER SEES MORE REFORM, HOPE FOR CLOSER U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Liberation Front (FLN) Secretary-General (and former Prime Minister) Abdelaziz Belkhadem, now the leader of the alliance pushing for a third term for President Bouteflika, believes there is a hope for closer economic and political relations with the U.S. He told the Amba [...] | 2008-12-10 19:13:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS1296 | ALGERIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS ON BOUTEFLIKA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Parliamentarians told Codel Hastings on December 2 that they believed the international community must play a greater role in resolving the Western Sahara question and that a third term for President Bouteflika is necessary for the well-being of Algeria. The Minister of Parliame [...] | 2008-12-15 07:56:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM OREP PBTS MO AG |
08ALGIERS1306 | RIFTS WITHIN THE "POUVOIR" MAKE RARE HEADLINES [...] (C) SUMMARY: An extremely rare public and personal exchange between a former president and a retired general has broken the omerta code usually observed by Algeria's ruling elite, exposing divisions within the "Pouvoir" that have persisted since the struggle for independence. The bitter excha [...] | 2008-12-18 08:21:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS1307 | CENTRAL BANK CHIEF STAYS THE REGULATORY COURSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bank of Algeria Governor Mohamed Laksaci told the Ambassador December 7 that he and his organization are focused almost to a fault on bank regulation rather than on financial system modernization. Laksaci has been with the central bank in various positions since 1990, and remain [...] | 2008-12-18 08:21:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV ECON PGOV PREL AG |
08ALGIERS1314 | STOP THE PRESS: JOURNALISTS ON TRIAL AGAIN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-20 11:49:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AG |
08ALGIERS1319 | STOP THE PRESS: JOURNALISTS ON TRIAL AGAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) marked its celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by voicing concern that basic freedoms in Algeria were slipping, not improving as Algeria's human rights ombudsman Farouk Ksent [...] | 2008-12-20 17:22:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AG |
08ALGIERS1320 | ALGERIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (U) The security situation in Algeria was marked by a decrease in the number of high profile terrorist attacks throughout the country compared with 2007, although the overall number of attacks did not decline and ongoing low-level terrorist activities continued in the countryside. In the first [...] | 2008-12-20 17:23:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS1324 | ALGERIA: FAROUK HOSNI UNESCO CANDIDACY THE TIP OF [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Algeria will likely adhere to the position adopted in an October 25 Algiers meeting of pan-African culture ministers endorsing the candidacy of Egyptian Farouk Hosni for UNESCO Secretary General. Ambassador told MFA Director General for Arab Affairs Abdelha [...] | 2008-12-22 11:35:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | UNESCO SCUL PREL AG |
08ALGIERS1326 | ALGERIA: FAROUK HOSNI UNESCO CANDIDACY THE TIP OF [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Algeria will likely adhere to the position adopted in an October 25 Algiers meeting of pan-African culture ministers endorsing the candidacy of Egyptian Farouk Hosni for UNESCO Secretary General. Ambassador told MFA Director General for Arab Affairs Abdelh [...] | 2008-12-22 16:09:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | UNESCO SCUL PREL AG |
08ALGIERS1327 | ALGERIAN MFA WARY ON EVE OF ASAD VISIT [...] (S) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche December 21 to the MFA Director General for Arab Affairs on the eve of Syrian President Bashar al-Asad's expected visit. On foreign fighters, DG Abdelhamid Bouzaher said that the flow into Iraq had declined in recent years from a 2003-05 peak. He added [...] | 2008-12-22 16:42:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PTER SY AF IC LE AG |
08ALGIERS1328 | ALGERIAN MFA WARY ON EVE OF ASAD VISIT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-22 17:04:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PTER SY AF IC LE AG |
08ALGIERS1329 | POTENTIAL SVBIED ATTACK AGAINST U.S. OR FRENCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian police have provided Embassy with specific and credible information concerning a possible imminent suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (SVBIED) attack against the U.S. or French embassies in Algiers. The EAC convened twice on December 22 to review the [...] | 2008-12-22 17:23:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC AMGT KMSG AG |
08ALGIERS133 | PROSELYTIZING IN ALGERIA: ONWARD CHRISTIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: From June to December 2007, a steady trickle of reports surfaced in the Algerian press about Christians and alleged Christian proselytizing in Algeria. Since January 2008, the frequency and length of the reports have increased markedly, and parliamentarians from the Islamist pol [...] | 2008-02-04 16:33:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF AG |
08ALGIERS1336 | TOUGH CROWD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GHARDAIA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Welcomed by a lively group of 250 students, the Ambassador spoke December 18 at the University of Ghardaia on the importance of youth participation in elections. His remarks were met with critical comments from faculty and students alike regarding U.S. policy on the Arab-Israeli [...] | 2008-12-28 11:48:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | EDU PGOV PREL IQ AG |
08ALGIERS1338 | ALGERIAN COMMITMENT TO AMISOM COMES FROM THE TOP [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on December 28 to Kamel Rezag-Bara, Counselor to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for Counter-terrorism. He thanked Rezag-Bara for Algeria's commitment to provide ten aircraft to transport African Union member troops into Somalia, and stressed the urge [...] | 2008-12-28 15:01:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO SO AG |
08ALGIERS1350 | ALGERIAN MFA: DANGEROUS SPLIT BETWEEN REGIMES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Secretary General Madjid Bouguerra assured the Ambassador on December 31 that Algeria would continue to play a constructive role in formulating Arab League reactions to the situation in Gaza, avoiding inflammatory rhetoric. Bouguerra said that Algerians were shocked and traum [...] | 2008-12-31 18:48:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL PTER PHUM MOPS KWBG IS AG |
08ALGIERS140 | UNIONS PLAN NATIONWIDE PROTEST SURGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's autonomous unions are gearing up for two nationwide strikes in February as they continue to make demands on the state. While the unions largely agree among themselves on the issues underlying the strike calls, there is less agreement on who speaks for whom, with splinte [...] | 2008-02-06 17:49:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS141 | SENIOR ALGERIAN MFA OFFICIAL DOWNBEAT ON LEBANON, [...] (C) MFA Director General for Arab Affairs Bouzaher (A/S equivalent) told Ambassador February 6 that the political situation in Lebanon looked deadlocked and that the Algerian Government was not hopeful that the Arab League would succeed in paving the way for a presidential election. Bouzaher [...] | 2008-02-07 08:53:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM LE AG |
08ALGIERS143 | STALE BUT NOT YET ROTTED: AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN [...] SUMMARY: Algeria's agriculture sector has been stagnant for years because of a combination of factors that includes decades of Soviet-style government agrarian policies, underdeveloped industrial transportation systems, drought, and terrorist activity that disrupted business and distracted g [...] | 2008-02-09 06:37:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV PREL AG |
08ALGIERS157 | ALGERIAN BUSINESS GROUP LOBBYING FOR MAGHREB [...] (SBU) Summary: The often outspoken head of a prominent Algerian business association told Ambassador January 13 that together with other North African business leaders he is lobbying for the Maghreb governments to take steps promptly to enable Maghreb economic integration. The business leade [...] | 2008-02-11 16:22:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL AG MO TS |
08ALGIERS168 | ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT EVOLVING ON TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: We received an immediate and unusually candid response on trafficking in persons (TIP) from the Algerian foreign ministry after delivering the UN.GIFT demarche (ref A). The MFA indicated that Algeria planned to participate in the forum. In addition, our interlocutor used the me [...] | 2008-02-14 16:15:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL PREF SMIG AG |
08ALGIERS169 | ALGERIA RESERVED ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: We received a noncommittal response from Algerian government interlocutors when the Ambassador raised the issue of recognizing an independent Kosovo. The Algerian government prefers a "go slow" approach, even though a top MFA official readily agreed Kosovo could never be reinteg [...] | 2008-02-17 06:26:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS182 | URGING SUPPORT FOR AMBASSADOR WILLIAM SWING [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to the MFA February 13, urging Algerian support for Ambassador William Swing's candidacy to be Director General of the International Organization for Migration. He also asked for a GoA contact person with whom Ambassador Swing could discuss his candidacy d [...] | 2008-02-19 06:20:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL SMIG AG |
08ALGIERS183 | ALGERIA RESPONSE ON IRAN THIRD SANCTIONS RESOLUTION [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points to MFA Director General for International and Economic Affairs Rachid Bladehane (Assistant Secretary equivalent) on February 16. Ambassador updated Bladehane on U.S. diplomatic efforts on Iran nuclear challenges. Bladehane expressed Government of Algeria [...] | 2008-02-19 07:55:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IR AG |
08ALGIERS184 | ALGERIA RESPONSE ON 1267 COORDINATION SUBMISSION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-19 07:56:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC AG |
08ALGIERS187 | OSLO PROCESS AND BANNING CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (S) We delivered reftel demarche February 13, highlighting U.S. humanitarian concerns with the use of cluster munitions, and expressing U.S. support for the ongoing negotiations on ths issue within the Convention on Conventional Weapons. We urged Algeria not to adopt any language that would i [...] | 2008-02-19 16:37:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN AG |
08ALGIERS190 | MICROSOFT'S IPR WOES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a February 19 meeting, Microsoft Algeria Director General Samir Said outlined Microsoft's priorities for Algeria and underscored the negative impact weak intellectual property rights (IPR) protection is having on Microsoft's financial bottom line and growth potential. Sai [...] | 2008-02-19 17:57:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON BEXP KIPR ETRD AG |
08ALGIERS191 | ALGERIA GOES WTO SHOPPING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the February 4 visit of European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson to Algiers, EU diplomats told us the Algerians were "forthcoming and eager" on WTO accession, but the Europeans remain skeptical of rapid progress. They felt the Algerians were shopping for the ea [...] | 2008-02-20 09:38:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTO ECON PREL AG |
08ALGIERS195 | MGKV01: ALGERIA WILL NOT RECOGNIZE KOSOVO [...] (C) Acting Foreign Minister Bougerra told the Ambassador February 20 that Algeria would not recognize Kosovo in the foreseeable future at least. In response to ref A points, he said that it appeared to Algiers that UNSCR 1244 was explicit that Kosovo is a part of Serbia unless Serbs and Koso [...] | 2008-02-20 15:46:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNAUS UNMIK YI EU KVIR AG |
08ALGIERS197 | ANGRY YOUTHS STIR UP SLEEPY SAHARA TOWN [...] (U) Violent protests on February 16 by approximately 100 youths in Timimoun, a sleepy tourist town in the desert of southwest Algeria, raised eyebrows in Algiers, since the majority of socioeconmic protests in Algeria have been confined to the more populous northern strip of the country (refte [...] | 2008-02-22 09:24:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KOCI AG |
08ALGIERS198 | SCENE SETTER FOR A/S WELCH VISIT TO ALGERIA [...] (C) We and the Algerians are looking forward to your visit next week. There was a prominent article about your visit, generated with help from our PAO, in best-selling el-Khabar newspaper on February 21. You will be visiting just as the government machine is gearing up to amend the Algerian constit [...] | 2008-02-22 11:28:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS199 | NEW POLISARIO AMBASSADOR IN ALGIERS HEWS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 20 meeting, new Polisario Ambassador to Algeria Ibrahim Ghali and Polisario Minister-Delegate for African Affairs Mohammed Beissat told us that it was getting more difficult for the Polisario leadership to convince the Sahrawi people to be patient and respect the Man [...] | 2008-02-22 11:59:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC PBTS MO WI AG |
08ALGIERS205 | TIP DVC DEEPENS DIALOGUE [...] (U) A digital video conference on February 19 between Department officials and Algerian counterparts was the latest step in our ongoing engagement with the Algerian government on trafficking in persons. Representing the Algerian government were MFA U.S. desk officer Rachid Ouali, MFA director [...] | 2008-02-24 07:53:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL PREF AG |
08ALGIERS208 | ALGERIA: 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the 2003 enactment of TRIPs-compliant legislation, Algeria has demonstrated it is capable of active and prompt attention to intellectual property rights (IPR) disputes (ref B),but progress has been sporadic and inconsistent rather than systematic. Although some Algerian [...] | 2008-02-24 14:21:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR AG |
08ALGIERS21 | SAHRAWI AMBASSADOR: POLISARIO ENERGIZED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the Polisario Ambassador to Algeria, the December 14-20 party congress in Tifariti has provided the Polisario with an injection of energy and confidence moving into the January 8-9 Manhasset negotiations. While the pledge to resume armed struggle against Morocco "has [...] | 2008-01-07 14:53:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC PBTS MO WI AG |
08ALGIERS220 | ALGERIA FY 08 BFIF PROPOSAL [...] SUMMARY AND JUSTIFICATION: Embassy Algiers submits the following request for FY 08 Business Facilitation Incentive Funds (BFIF) in support of commercial outreach outside of Algiers. The U.S.-Algeria commercial relationship has grown dramatically over the past 3 years -- from USD 11.5 billion [...] | 2008-02-27 17:01:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON BEXP KIPR ETRD AG |
08ALGIERS221 | CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (C) Per reftel, Embassy Algiers has identified eleven critical infrastructure/key resource sites that if damaged or destroyed might negatively impact U.S. oil and gas supplies or U.S. military overflight and refueling. Algeria is a major source of oil and natural gas for the United States, se [...] | 2008-02-27 17:18:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ECON PTER PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS223 | BOUTEFLIKA LOOKS TO THE LEVANT WITH A/S WELCH [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a three-hour tour d'horizon with NEA Assistant Secretary C. David Welch, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika provided his candid opinions on a wide range of issues (septel),but spoke at length about the Levant. He revealed his personal views on Syrian interference in Lebanon, the [...] | 2008-02-29 10:11:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS23 | HUGE MOSQUE PROJECT FACES STIFF OPPOSITION [...] (U) SUMMARY: For several months, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's vision of building the third largest mosque in the world has divided the government and broader public here, provoking opposition from all sectors of society. Given a potential price tag that runs in excess of USD one billion, [...] | 2008-01-09 10:47:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS KISL AG |
08ALGIERS24 | ALGERIA: PRIVATIZATION (SLOWLY) MOVING AHEAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria's head of financial reform told Ambassador January 7 that Algeria has not retreated from its plan to privatize the large CPA bank. Rather, the government is waiting for the right market conditions to guarantee maximum value for its flagship parastatal and to ensure a [...] | 2008-01-09 12:10:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV AG |
08ALGIERS248 | GOVERNMENT ASSAULTS EMBASSY IN THE PRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent media interest in the activities of the Ambassador and Embassy officials suddenly exploded onto the front pages March 3 when several major local newspapers featured critical remarks from Prime Minister Belkhadem and Foreign Minister Medelci. According to the papers, both [...] | 2008-03-03 13:16:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS251 | ALGERIAN LEADERSHIP TOWS WESTERN SAHARA LINE WITH [...] (S) SUMMARY: In February 26 and 27 meetings with NEA Assistant Secretary C. David Welch, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem emphasized their familiar line on self-determination for Western Sahara, as well as the need to find a way out that would allow Algeria [...] | 2008-03-03 13:21:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS252 | BOUTEFLIKA: LIBYA LOOKING TOWARDS U.S. [...] (S) In a February 26 meeting with NEA Assistant Secretary C. David Welch, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika SIPDIS stated emphatically that while Libyan Leader Muammar al-Qadhafi needs to protect his image with a sometimes defiant public discourse, his mindset is now firmly pro-U.S. Furthermo [...] | 2008-03-03 13:23:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS253 | OFFICIAL INFLATION STATS MASK STUNTED MARKET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although official figures show a relatively modest inflation rate of 3.5 percent, Algerians are complaining loudly about the high and rising cost of living in Algeria. Economists and even Algerian government officials argue that official inflation calculations underestimate what [...] | 2008-03-03 13:24:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR AG |
08ALGIERS254 | ENERGY MINISTER KHELIL: GOT GAS? [...] (C) SUMMARY: ALGERIAN ENERGY MINISTER KHELIL TOLD OPIC CEO MOSBACHER FEBRUARY 23 THAT ALTHOUGH ALGERIA CAN MEET ITS CURRENT NATURAL GAS CONTRACTS AND INTERNAL CONSUMPTION DEMAND, THE COUNTRY NEEDS TO FIND MORE GAS. IN ORDER TO INCREASE GAS CAPACITY, KHELIL SAID THAT HYDROCARBON PARASTATAL SON [...] | 2008-03-03 13:27:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EINV ETRD AG |
08ALGIERS255 | GOVERNMENT ASSAULTS EMBASSY IN THE PRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent media interest in the activities of the Ambassador and Embassy officials suddenly exploded onto the front pages March 3 when several major local newspapers featured critical remarks from Prime Minister Belkhadem and Foreign Minister Medelci. According to the papers, both [...] | 2008-03-03 15:52:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS258 | OFFICIAL INFLATION STATS MASK STUNTED MARKET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although official figures show a relatively modest inflation rate of 3.5 percent, Algerians are complaining loudly about the high and rising cost of living in Algeria. Economists and even Algerian government officials argue that official inflation calculations underestimate what [...] | 2008-03-03 15:52:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR AG |
08ALGIERS259 | BOUTEFLIKA: LIBYA LOOKING TOWARDS U.S. [...] (S) In a February 26 meeting with NEA Assistant Secretary C. David Welch, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stated emphatically that while Libyan Leader Muammar al-Qadhafi needs to protect his image with a sometimes defiant public discourse, his mindset is now firmly pro-U.S. Furthermore, accor [...] | 2008-03-03 15:52:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS261 | ALGERIAN LEADERSHIP TOWS WESTERN SAHARA LINE WITH [...] (S) SUMMARY: In February 26 and 27 meetings with NEA Assistant Secretary C. David Welch, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem emphasized their familiar line on self-determination for Western Sahara, as well as the need to find a way out that would allow Algeria [...] | 2008-03-03 15:52:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS262 | ENERGY MINISTER KHELIL: GOT GAS? [...] (C) SUMMARY: ALGERIAN ENERGY MINISTER KHELIL TOLD OPIC CEO MOSBACHER FEBRUARY 23 THAT ALTHOUGH ALGERIA CAN MEET ITS CURRENT NATURAL GAS CONTRACTS AND INTERNAL CONSUMPTION DEMAND, THE COUNTRY NEEDS TO FIND MORE GAS. IN ORDER TO INCREASE GAS CAPACITY, KHELIL SAID THAT HYDROCARBON PARASTATAL SON [...] | 2008-03-03 15:52:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET EINV ETRD AG |
08ALGIERS27 | THIRD TERM PUSH FOR BOUTEFLIKA STEAMROLLS FORWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: The move to amend the constitution to allow President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for an unprecedented third term in 2009 is now gathering steam. Almost immediately after the November 29 local elections, Prime Minister Belkhadem began painting the elections as a clear popular cal [...] | 2008-01-10 11:17:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS274 | MFA OFFICIAL CALLS GOVERNMENT ATTACKS ON EMBASSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: There was more media clamor on March 5 about the Algerian government accusations that the U.S. Embassy and the Ambassador of "interference" in internal Algerian affairs (ref A). Government spokesman Boukerzaza told the press March 4 that there was no diplomatic crisis with the Em [...] | 2008-03-05 19:10:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ODIP KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS28 | ALI BENFLIS: BOUTEFLIKA RIVAL STAYING OUT OF SIGHT [...] (S) SUMMARY: Ali Benflis, the main challenger to President Bouteflika in the 2004 presidential election, told us that that the Algerian government is gradually throttling democracy and largely failing to address Algeria's other problems. He claimed that changes back and forth on policy iss [...] | 2008-01-11 08:35:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PGOV PINR AG |
08ALGIERS287 | ALGERIA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS FEBRUARY 2008 [...] This cable summarizes key economic developments in Algeria during February 2008, and includes: -- Motorola to Open Office in Algiers -- Bouteflika-Putin Meetings Stoke Fears of Gas Cartel -- U.S.-financed Desalination Plant Inaugurated in Algiers -- Bahraini Bank to Invest USD 3 billion in [...] | 2008-03-10 07:11:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR ENRG EPET ETRD AG |
08ALGIERS291 | APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS PRESS DEFAMATION VERDICT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 4 an appellate court in Jijel upheld a May 27, 2007 verdict against the director of French-language daily El Watan and its lead columnist. The two were convicted of defaming Ahmed Maabed, the wali (governor) of Jijel. They were sentenced to two months in prison and ord [...] | 2008-03-10 17:36:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KPAO AG |
08ALGIERS293 | ALGERIAN OFFICIALS PRIVATELY BACKTRACK ON [...] (C) MFA Counselor Ambassador Abdallah Baali (protect) pulled Ambassador aside after a discussion about the Western Sahara (septel) to discuss privately the Algerian government's public criticism of the American Embassy (refs). Baali said he had asked the Director General (roughly equivalent [...] | 2008-03-11 12:58:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AG |
08ALGIERS317 | DESPERATION FUELS INCREASE IN SUICIDES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Suicide, though a significant sin in Islam, is on the rise in Algeria. Sociologist Nacer Djabi warned that socioeconomic discontent was creating a developing "suicide mentality" in Algeria (reftel) even among young Algerians, and official statistics indicate suicide was an increa [...] | 2008-03-17 10:57:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI ECON AG |
08ALGIERS318 | AQIM DEMANDS FOR THE RELEASE OF AUSTRIAN HOSTAGES [...] (SBU) On March 13 Al-Qaeda in the Lands of Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) posted a communique on a Jihadi website (www.shmo5alislam.net/vb/) with its conditions for the release of the two Austrian hostages Wolfgang Ebner and Andrea Kloiber (ref A). AQIM demanded the release of some of its members he [...] | 2008-03-17 11:23:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER KISL AG |
08ALGIERS319 | NEW AIR ALGERIE LEADERSHIP READY FOR BOEING [...] (U) In a March 15 meeting with the Ambassador, new Air Algerie President Abdelwahid Bouabdallah and his assistant Amar Mahiout told us they intended to move quickly to replace part of Air Algerie's mid-range Boeing 737 fleet (ref A). Bouabdallah said that they would be looking for delivery of [...] | 2008-03-17 11:31:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR BEXP AG |
08ALGIERS332 | WOULD THE REAL AUTONOMOUS UNIONS PLEASE STAND UP? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The first two months of 2008 have witnessed a coordinated level of independent labor union activity on a nationwide scale. The strikes of early 2008 appear to have been effective in mobilizing participants across the entire country. The three major nationwide strikes so far this [...] | 2008-03-20 09:17:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI AG |
08ALGIERS333 | JUST IN TIME FOR EASTER: TROUBLE WITH CHRISTIANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The controversy surrounding Christians and alleged Evangelical Christian proselytizing in Algeria continues (refs A, B). In late February Hugh Johnson, a retired American Methodist minister who has lived and worked in Algeria for 45 years, was suddenly ordered to leave the count [...] | 2008-03-20 09:35:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF CASC AG |
08ALGIERS334 | MFA BLASE ABOUT MEDIA ATTACKS ON EMBASSY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a period of relative calm, government use of the press to attack Embassy activities (refs A and B) heated up again on March 15 when Arabic-language daily El Khabar featured front page headlines proclaiming that the Interior ministry had issued an order forbidding NGOs to meet [...] | 2008-03-20 09:51:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ODIP KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS335 | NEW POLISARIO LEADERSHIP DEFIANT, SAHRAWIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 12-14 visit to Tindouf by Emboff and visiting PRM officers, Polisario leaders expressed increasing frustration with the Manhasset negotiation process, consistent with recent public statements by Polisario officials in Algiers. Although the Polisario leadership was vagu [...] | 2008-03-20 10:10:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PREF UNSC WI MO AG |
08ALGIERS34 | ALGERIAN SKEPTICISM AHEAD OF AFRICOM DVC [...] (U) SUMMARY: Despite our repeated attempts to explain and clarify U.S. plans for AFRICOM, Algerians remain critical and suspicious. Both journalists and government officials engage in heavy speculation, often making false claims and spouting baseless misinformation about the new U.S. African C [...] | 2008-01-13 16:57:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAO MARR AG |
08ALGIERS357 | DECODING PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS LEAKS ATTACKING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The publisher of an Arabic-language daily told the Ambassador on March 24 that the paper's March 22 front page story alleging that the Ambassador had refused to appear at the MFA when convoked by the Foreign Minister was printed as a result of direct pressure from the Prime Minis [...] | 2008-03-26 11:01:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ODIP KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS360 | ALGERIA'S FISCAL TRANSPARENCY [...] In response to reftel, Post submits the following: 2. Algeria has made progress since 2003 regarding fiscal transparency. Budget plans are unveiled each autumn for the following calendar year, and the Finance Law is officially published in the journal of record on December 31. A report [...] | 2008-03-26 16:07:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL AG |
08ALGIERS361 | ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT REACTS NEGATIVELY TO HUMAN [...] (C) MFA Director General for the Americas Fatiha Selmane convoked Ambassador on March 26 to relay the GOA's dissatisfaction with the Department's 2007 Human Rights Report on Algeria. She complained that the report depicted the human rights scene in Algeria as "static" when it is, she claimed, [...] | 2008-03-27 09:53:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS37 | ALGERIAN MFA WELCOMES LIBYA IN TSCTP [...] (C) MFA Secretary General (number two) Bouguerra and MFA Director General (A/S equivalent) for Africa Chergui told Ambassador on January 13 that Algeria would not object to the U.S. including Libyan officials in future TSCTP programming. He opined that Algeria thought integrating Libya more a [...] | 2008-01-14 11:48:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL AG LY |
08ALGIERS384 | SCARRED BY SCANDAL AND INEXPERIENCE, CENTRAL BANK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bank of Algeria, worried that it will be perceived as soft on corruption and banking irregularities, has been carrying out an increasingly aggressive oversight campaign whose intentions may be pure, but whose results have frustrated and suffocated banking reform. Our contacts [...] | 2008-04-01 16:51:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL AG |
08ALGIERS385 | BEYOND BRICKS AND MORTAR: ALGERIA'S HOUSING CRISIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A housing shortage across Algeria is one of the worst economic problems facing the country. To help ease the shortage, in 2004 President Bouteflika launched an ambitious plan to build more than one million new housing units by the end of 2009. The program has fallen far short [...] | 2008-04-02 07:02:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN SOCI PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS388 | ACCUSED JOURNALISTS SOBERED BUT UNBOWED BY [...] (C) On March 26 Pol/Econ Chief and PAO visited the Algiers offices of the French-language daily El Watan to discuss the press defamation case against El Watan Director Omar Belhouchet and columnist Chawki Amari (ref A). Editor-in Chief Zine Cherfaoui and Amari told us that the paper was able [...] | 2008-04-02 15:04:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KPAO PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS396 | HAMAS OFFICIAL ASKS BOUTEFLIKA'S HELP IN RESOLVING [...] (SBU) The Algerian Arabic-language newspaper Ennahar reported April 5 that a representative from the Palestinian Hamas movement in Lebanon, Usama Hamdan, said during an April 4 press conference at the Hamas office in Algiers that he had asked the Algerian authorities to mediate between Hamas an [...] | 2008-04-07 13:00:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AG |
08ALGIERS420 | CHRISTIAN CHURCHES WRESTLE WITH GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Using a 2006 law, the Algerian government closed some Protestant churches in March amidst constant reporting by Algerian Arabic-language papers that was intensely hostile towards the Christian community in general and towards alleged Protestant proselytizing in particular. Our co [...] | 2008-04-14 14:23:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF CASC AG |
08ALGIERS422 | MFA OFFICIAL: SAHEL HEATS UP AS MALI PLAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 13 meeting, MFA Director General (Assistant Secretary equivalent) for African Affairs Ismail Chergui told Ambassador that Algeria perceives that the security situation in northern Mali and Niger is deteriorating. Chergui said Algeria was frustrated by the "unhelpful" [...] | 2008-04-14 17:55:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AG |
08ALGIERS427 | CHRISTIAN CHURCHES WRESTLE WITH GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Using a 2006 law, the Algerian government closed some Protestant churches in March amidst constant reporting by Algerian Arabic-language papers that was intensely hostile towards the Christian community in general and towards alleged Protestant proselytizing in particular. The Al [...] | 2008-04-15 15:57:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF CASC AG |
08ALGIERS434 | INTERIOR MINISTER CRITICIZES NGOS AS UNHELPFUL [...] (C) Speaking during a parliamentary session held April 9, Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni stated that "international NGOs coming to Algeria are neither helping nor building the country." He asked MPs why they would work with such NGOs since they only came to Algeria for money. Zer [...] | 2008-04-20 16:16:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS437 | PREPARING THE WAY FOR THE 2009 PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria is scheduled to hold its next presidential election in April 2009. Parliamentary and local elections in 2007 saw very low turnout and our contacts warn us of broad disinterest in the political system. In order to help avoid radicalization of some elements of the disench [...] | 2008-04-21 16:05:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM AG |
08ALGIERS439 | ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT URGES SIMPLE MINURSO ROLLOVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs abruptly convoked the Ambassador late afternoon on April 21 to discuss Western Sahara. Director General for African Affairs (Assistant Secretary level) Ismail Chergui asked for our help in securing a MINURSO renewal resolution that he called techni [...] | 2008-04-22 10:33:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF UNSC WI MO AG |
08ALGIERS448 | NEW AQIM VIDEOS ON THE INTERNET [...] (C) SUMMARY: After an absence of more than nine months, the AQIM video series "Shadows of the Sword" has made a return to the jihadi website community. On April 14, AQIM released a new video showing two attacks on Algerian targets in Dellys and Boumerdes (Kabylie region),demonstrating AQIM [...] | 2008-04-23 10:27:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER ASEC AG |
08ALGIERS449 | SECURITY UPDATE: AQIM NOT GETTING STRONGER IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to information collected from press reporting, the number of terrorist attacks remained approximately the same in March 2008 compared to previous months but there appear to have been fewer casualties. The majority of these March attacks have been attributed to Al-Qaeda [...] | 2008-04-23 10:27:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | ASEC PTER AG |
08ALGIERS458 | "YEAR OF THE STRIKE" CONTINUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria's autonomous unions staged another nationwide strike from April 13 to 15. Participation rates varied and the country did not grind to a halt. In an unusual development, riot police dispersed demonstrating strikers near the Central Post Office in Algiers. Although the [...] | 2008-04-23 11:06:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM PGOV SOCI AG |
08ALGIERS464 | AFRICA UNION CENTER WANTS OUR HELP FOR ITS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since early 2008 a number of U.S. official delegations have visited the African Center for the Research and Study of Terrorism (CAERT) in Algiers, all of which have departed leaving the impression that U.S. assistance in the form of training or seminars would be forthcoming. [...] | 2008-04-23 16:36:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ASEC AG |
08ALGIERS465 | SLIPPING TOWARDS ADDICTION: ALGERIA'S EVOLVING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria is evolving from primarily a transit point for drugs entering Europe into a destination and producer of drugs. The first few months of 2008 have featured a wave of front-page press reports on domestic drug production, announcing that areas of the southern Sahel region ar [...] | 2008-04-24 09:29:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR EAGR PREL PTER ECON AG |
08ALGIERS466 | MUSLIM PARTY TRIES NEW APPROACH TO DECRIMINALIZE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP),the Muslim Brotherhood party that is one of the members of the ruling coalition in Algeria, proposed in parliament on April 22 to cancel a 2001 law that constitutes the basis for the criminalization of religious and journalistic speech. T [...] | 2008-04-24 11:27:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO AG |
08ALGIERS481 | PACKAGING AND REPACKAGING ALGERIA'S WTO BID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's chief WTO negotiators said in press interviews surrounding an Algerian Senate-sponsored conference about Algerian WTO membership negotiations that Algeria's WTO bid was in an "advanced state" and that they are preparing for a new round of talks that they expect to occur [...] | 2008-04-28 10:27:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PGOV PREL AG |
08ALGIERS483 | ALGERIA AND POLISARIO SLAM WESTERN SAHARA ENVOY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings April 27 and 28, Ambassador and DCM delivered reftel demarche to the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to the Polisario ambassador in Algiers. The two recipients shared the same reaction to the recent statement of UNSG Special Envoy Peter Van Walsum, s [...] | 2008-04-28 12:40:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PREF UNSC WI MO AG |
08ALGIERS490 | RIOTING IN WESTERN ALGERIA - THE ANGRY YOUNG MEN [...] (U) Algerian independent newspapers reported on April 28-29 that the city of Chlef, the capital of the province in western Algeria with the same name, suffered from two days of major rioting on April 27-28. According to these press reports, the trial of a community activist who had been fig [...] | 2008-04-30 08:35:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS491 | GOA DENIES REPRESSING CHRISTIAN ACTIVITIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 29, Ambassador delivered ref a demarche to MFA Director General for American Affairs (Assistant Secretary equivalent) Fatiha Selmane, highlighting specific examples of Christian groups facing GoA obstacles as reported in refs b and c. We also delivered the demarche on Ap [...] | 2008-04-30 14:01:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL AG |
08ALGIERS492 | MORE GOVERNMENT VENOM DIRECTED AT NGOS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Algerian political figures continue to attack foreign NGOs working in Algeria. The April 27 press featured the head of the government's Human Rights Commission blaming Al-Jazeera TV and foreign NGOs for "threatening the country's national reconciliation program." Meanwhile, rh [...] | 2008-05-01 06:22:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS493 | IMPACT OF RISING FOOD PRICES: ALGERIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria imports much of the food in consumes, up to 50 percent of some commodities, and the prices of many food items are climbing significantly. The government is using subsidies to prevent price increases for a few food staples, like bread, semolina and milk. Because of t [...] | 2008-05-03 05:48:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON PGOV PREL AG EAID ETRD |
08ALGIERS494 | IMPACT OF RISING FOOD PRICES: ALGERIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria imports much of the food in consumes, up to 50 percent of some commodities, and the prices of many food items are climbing significantly. The government is using subsidies to prevent price increases for a few food staples, like bread, semolina and milk. Because of t [...] | 2008-05-03 05:48:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON PGOV PREL AG EAID ETRD |
08ALGIERS501 | ALGERIA STILL NONCOMMITTAL ABOUT PASSENGER LIST [...] (S) Ambassador pulled aside Presidency Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Kamel Rezak-Bara during an April 30 reception to remind him that we still await a response to our suggestion that Algeria enable us to screen passenger lists for flights between Damascus and Algiers. Rezak-Bara remembered our [...] | 2008-05-04 16:27:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | EAIR PTER AG |
08ALGIERS504 | FORM OVER FUNCTION: SURVIVING AS A NEWSPAPER IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Looking back on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's second term, many of our press contacts have told us of their concerns that press freedoms and competence are shrinking. At the time of Bouteflika's re-election in 2004, French-language daily Liberte was considered an aggressive re [...] | 2008-05-05 10:13:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAO AG |
08ALGIERS509 | THE RETURN OF AHMED OUYAHIA - FUTURE PRESIDENT ? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Prime Minister and current head of the ruling coalition National Democratic Rally (RND) party, Ahmed Ouyahia has recently been tapped by President Bouteflika to represent him on several high-profile foreign trips and even representing Bouteflika at the party congress of one [...] | 2008-05-06 11:05:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS521 | OUTREACH TO ALGERIAN DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Advancing the President's Freedom Agenda has been an ongoing effort by Embassy Algiers since the arrival of the Ambassador in August 2006. The Ambassador and Embassy officers routinely meet with democracy and human rights activists, political parties, journalists, and other me [...] | 2008-05-07 17:54:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL AG |
08ALGIERS522 | EMBASSY URGES DECRIMINALIZATION OF PRESS DEFAMATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day May 3, the Ambassador gave a major speech urging Algeria to decriminalize press defamation. The message received positive media coverage and was coupled with an emphasis on training to elevate the standards and ethics of responsible jou [...] | 2008-05-08 10:09:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAO SCUL AG |
08ALGIERS523 | PROFILES OF ALGERIAN SUICIDE BOMBERS [...] SUMMARY: Since April 11, 2007, eleven suicide bombers have carried out attacks across Algeria. Through press reports, we have been able to piece together biographical vignettes of most of the bombers, which offer an insight into their motivations and socioeconomic circumstances. What stands o [...] | 2008-05-08 10:23:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KISL AG |
08ALGIERS524 | REQUEST FOR SPECIAL MILAIR MEDEVAC FOR SICK [...] A group of Algerians here in Algiers and in the USA has asked the Embassy for USG help airlifting a small child to the U.S. for medical treatment, and our doing so would be a terrific humanitarian gesture that the Algerian public would deeply appreciate. The two and one-half year old child na [...] | 2008-05-09 10:43:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR AG |
08ALGIERS537 | ALGERIA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS APRIL 2008 [...] The following is a summary of some economic developments in Algeria for April 2008: -- NEW SUBSIDIES TO STABILIZE FOOD PRICES -- NEW PHARMACEUTICAL PLANT OPENS IN ALGERIA -- FOREIGN INSURERS ENTER THE ALGERIAN MARKET -- SONATRACH COMMERCIALIZES GAS SALES TO EUROPE PRICE CHECK: ALGERIA [...] | 2008-05-12 10:52:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR EPET ETRD AG |
08ALGIERS546 | ALGERIANS DIGEST SPECIAL 301 REPORT WITH A HINT OF [...] (SBU) Ambassador visited MFA Director General for the Americas (A/S equivalent) Fatiha Selmane on April 29 to deliver reftel demarche and discuss broadly our objections to Algerian treatment of intellectual property issues. Separately, we delivered the same demarche to the Algerian Ministry of [...] | 2008-05-13 09:10:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR AG |
08ALGIERS551 | ALGERIAN MFA PROFESSES SUPPORT FOR UNSCR 1803 IRAN [...] In response to ref A demarche, MFA Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs Abdelmalek Bouheddou told us on May 13 that Algeria was committed to playing its part in implementing the sanctions outlined in UNSCR 1803. He stressed that Algeria "takes UN resolutions very seriously" and appreciat [...] | 2008-05-13 18:00:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR AG |
08ALGIERS555 | ALGERIANS ON MOROCCAN RAPPROCHEMENT EFFORT: CURB [...] (C) SUMMARY: While expressing general support for dialogue and rapprochement in principle, Algerian officials from the Customs service to Prime Minister Belkhadem have voiced frustration at what they perceive as the unilateral and non-consultative manner in which Morocco launched its recent in [...] | 2008-05-14 17:35:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN MO AG |
08ALGIERS587 | ALGERIA RESPONSE ON LEBANON BUILDING ON ARAB [...] (C) During a May 20 reception, Ambassador collared Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci and relayed reftel demarche message. Ambassador said the U.S. strongly supports the Arab league mediation of the Lebanon crisis and the agreement announced in Beirut on May 15. Medelci said that Alg [...] | 2008-05-21 12:12:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LE SY AG |
08ALGIERS589 | MALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS ALGERIA [...] (U) On May 20, the Algerian media reported that Malian Foreign Minister Moctar Ouane visited Algeria on May 19 to secure Algerian re-engagement on negotiations between the Malian government and Tuareg rebels in Northern Mali. According to press reports, after Ouane met with President Abdelaz [...] | 2008-05-23 10:21:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL AG ML MR NG |
08ALGIERS590 | MALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS ALGERIA [...] (U) On May 20, the Algerian media reported that Malian Foreign Minister Moctar Ouane visited Algeria on May 19 to secure Algerian re-engagement on negotiations between the Malian government and Tuareg rebels in Northern Mali. According to press reports, after Ouane met with President Abdelaz [...] | 2008-05-23 10:21:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL AG ML MR NG |
08ALGIERS617 | CONTAINING POLITICAL ISLAM: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD [...] (C) SUMMARY: As its tumultuous three-day party congress drew to a close at the end of April, the (Muslim Brotherhood) Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP),one of the three parties in the ruling coalition, re-elected Bouguerra Soltani as its leader after a power struggle between Soltani and hi [...] | 2008-05-27 10:06:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS625 | JUDGE DEFERS DECISION IN HIGH-PROFILE RELIGIOUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 30 Habiba Kouider, an Algerian who converted to Christianity approximately four years ago, was charged in the western Algerian town of Tiaret with illegally practicing a non-Muslim religion. On May 27 the Tiaret court delayed giving a final verdict in the case, choosing [...] | 2008-05-30 17:49:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF KDEM PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS626 | OPEC CHIEF OPINES ON FUEL PRICES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's Energy Minister and OPEC President Chakib Khelil told us May 28 that the high price of fuel in the United States has less to do with OPEC production caps than with the value of the dollar, oil speculation and refining techniques associated with bio-fuel additives. Kheli [...] | 2008-05-30 17:52:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON ETRD PREL AG |
08ALGIERS660 | IAEA/IRAN: ALGERIA WANTS TO AVOID THREATS [...] (SBU) On June 4, we delivered demarche (ref A) to Rabah Fasih, Deputy Director for disarmament issues at the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). We had also previously delivered the demarche on June 2 to the North American desk officer, and sent a French version of the non-paper to M [...] | 2008-06-04 20:19:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR AG |
08ALGIERS661 | MOUNTING SOCIAL DISCONTENT DRIVES LATE MAY STREET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's two biggest cities, Algiers and Oran, suffered prolonged street violence in late May at the hands of angry youths for whom disappointing soccer results were the final straw that pushed them into the streets. Parts of Algiers had to shut down each night May 20-22 due to [...] | 2008-06-05 08:29:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI AG |
08ALGIERS662 | ALGERIA STILL GUN-SHY ON BANK PRIVATIZATION [...] (U) SUMMARY. Algeria's privatization of the bank Credit Populaire d'Algerie (CPA) appears likely to remain on hold for the foreseeable future. According to public statements by the Minister of Finance and our conversation with the President of CPA, the Algerian government continues to view [...] | 2008-06-05 08:35:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ECON AG |
08ALGIERS663 | ALGIERS CORE EAC REVIEWS LATEST BOMBINGS AND [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Core EAC met on June 5, 2008 to discuss the double bombings that occurred on June 4 and to determine what implications, if any, this incident has on the upcoming International Trade Fair being held from June 7-13 at the SAFEX Exhibition Palace in Algiers. Present for the m [...] | 2008-06-05 16:23:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET//NOFORN | AG ASEC CASC PTER |
08ALGIERS680 | FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE JUNE 17-19 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-10 11:29:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR OTRA AG IZ |
08ALGIERS682 | KING OF RAI LATEST WESTERN SAHARA CASUALTY [...] According to Algerian press reports and an Algerian concert goer in Morocco, Algerian pop star Cheb Khaled, known as the King of Rai music, was briefly assaulted on June 1 by a Moroccan concert audience angry at his known affection for the cause of Western Saharan independence. After a Spanish [...] | 2008-06-11 08:49:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PREF PREL SCUL KPAO WI MO AG |
08ALGIERS683 | ALGERIA REACTION TO 2008 TIP REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: While official Algerian government reaction to the 2008 TIP report was negative, press coverage was surprisingly light, with much of it critical of Algeria's inability to get itself out of Tier 3 status. The Justice minister and our MFA interlocutor both rejected the report and [...] | 2008-06-11 08:54:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL PREF SMIG AG |
08ALGIERS685 | AQIM LEADER: DON'T TOUCH OUR WOMEN [...] (SBU) On June 5, Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) posted a communique on a Jihadi website (www.shmo5alislam.net) entitled "in your honor, our sister." The communique, signed by AQIM leader Abdeloudoud Droukdal, referred to a Moroccan woman named "Fatiha" who was allegedly be [...] | 2008-06-11 08:57:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PREL AG |
08ALGIERS689 | COMMERCE MINISTER NONCOMMITTAL ON WTO PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a long-awaited meeting on June 8, Commerce Minister El Hachemi Djaboub and his lead WTO negotiators offered us little in terms of concrete actions that the Algerians would take to accelerate their bid to join WTO. We received some indications of willingness to adjust Alge [...] | 2008-06-12 08:23:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL AG |
08ALGIERS690 | COMMERCE MINISTER SAYS PRIVATIZATION WILL CONTINUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Commerce Minister El Hachemi Djaboub told the Ambassador that Algeria is determined to go forward with the privatization of public enterprises, but admitted that it has more parastatals than interested buyers. Djaboub said he noted a trend over the last decade within the govern [...] | 2008-06-13 10:29:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV AG |
08ALGIERS694 | MFA ON ASAD'S TRAVELS, LEBANON [...] (C) The Algerian foreign ministry is not aware of any imminent visit to Algeria by Syrian President Bashar al-Asad, according to Counselor Nassima Baghli and North America Director Abdellah Laouari. Laouari told us on June 15 that the MFA was aware of Asad's recent visit to Tripoli, along wit [...] | 2008-06-15 16:31:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SY LE AG |
08ALGIERS704 | SAHEL SECURITY: MFA SAYS ALGERIA REENGAGING ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 18 discussion with a visiting U.S. delegation led by Bureau of African Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary Todd Moss, MFA Director General (Assistant Secretary equivalent) for African Affairs Ismail Chergui highlighted Algeria's commitment to the Algiers Accords, but onl [...] | 2008-06-19 11:10:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AG ML NG |
08ALGIERS721 | FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE WINS AT LEAST ONE [...] (C) On June 21, Ambassador met Ambassador Baali, Counselor to Foreign Minister Medelcito discuss the Friends of Iraq conference held in United Arab Emirates on June 17-19. Baali who led the Algerian delegation, said he met with MNFI Commander General Petraeus, Iraqi National Security Adviso [...] | 2008-06-23 08:01:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AG IZ |
08ALGIERS724 | FILLON VISIT HIGHLIGHTS DIFFERENT FRANCO-ALGERIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 20-22 visit to Algiers, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon signed bilateral cooperation agreements with the Algerian government in civilian nuclear energy development, military cooperation and financial cooperation to facilitate French investment in Algeria. Symbo [...] | 2008-06-24 07:36:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MARR FR AG |
08ALGIERS728 | CABINET RESHUFFLE BRINGS OUYAHIA BACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The AlgeriantopkQ/2QW]Qz&p_QQUQJune 23 a long-rumored cabinet reshuffle that catapulted Ahmed Ouyahia back into the prime minister's chair for the third time. Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem was downgraded to minister of state without portfolio, a role unlikely to represent a [...] | 2008-06-24 15:42:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PGOV EAIR ECON AG |
08ALGIERS733 | BOUTEFLIKA ON WESTERN SAHARA: OUR BACKS ARE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-25 17:52:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MO WI AG |
08ALGIERS739 | BOUTEFLIKA SAYS HE WANTS BETTER U.S. TIES [...] (S) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's farewell call June 24, a reasonably healthy-looking President Abdelaziz Bouteflika wistfully wondered why American relations with Algeria couldn't be more like those the U.S. enjoys with Morocco and Tunisia. The Ambassador noted that as Algeria opened up [...] | 2008-06-28 17:35:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PHUM PTER MARR AG |
08ALGIERS75 | ALGERIANS VIEW POTUS TRIP WITH CAUTION, CYNICISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Bush's recent trip to the Middle East attracted considerable if mostly cynical press coverage in Algeria, though the government issued no official statement. In general, press coverage and our MFA contacts indicate that Algerian expectations for the trip were low, speci [...] | 2008-01-22 16:55:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL AG |
08ALGIERS750 | KEY OFFICIALS SAY CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IS IMMINENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although the Algerian press over the past nine months has regularly trumpeted that constitutional change was coming any day, June 30 conversations with new Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, parliamentary Speaker Abdelaziz Ziari and prominent senators and MPs suggested that the effort [...] | 2008-07-02 10:50:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS76 | CHRISTIAN LEADERS CONCERNED ABOUT RELIGIOUS CLIMATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: One month after a December 11 suicide bomb destroyed UN offices in Algiers, Christian leaders in the country told us that they had experienced no difficulties directly attributable to the attacks. They did express concern, however, that an intolerant climate against Christians i [...] | 2008-01-22 17:22:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF AG |
08ALGIERS762 | ALGERIA REMAINS DISTANT ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] (C) In a July 2 meeting with MFA's Director General for European Affairs (A/S equivalent) Mouloud Hamai and Deputy Director for Central Europe and the Balkans Abdelmadjid Amalou, Charge asked whether Algeria's thinking on Kosovo had evolved and urged the Algerians to participate in the July 11 [...] | 2008-07-07 07:41:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN UNMIK YI EU KPKO KV AG |
08ALGIERS77 | ALGERIAN SECURITY ROW WITH UN GETS PUBLIC AND NASTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The dispute between the Algerian government and the UN over the investigation of the December 11 bombings has become public and bitter. The Algerians, in public and in private, claim they have been transparent and shared the results of their own investigation, while the senior UN [...] | 2008-01-22 18:04:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC PTER PGOV UN AG |
08ALGIERS772 | TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE: CODEL GETS RARE MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 30, visiting Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) met with Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni, an old ally of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika who rarely meets with U.S. officials. The meeting steered clear of hot-button issues but did offer some insight into the way Zerhoun [...] | 2008-07-08 15:38:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AG |
08ALGIERS773 | ALGERIA FREES UP PUBLIC LAND FOR DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Algeria has moved to free up industrial and commercial property for private development by auctioning parcels of land in the growing community of Blida, near Algiers, a move Industry Minister Abdelhamid Temmar called a "micro-revolution." The newly-formed National Agency for Lan [...] | 2008-07-08 15:38:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON AG |
08ALGIERS774 | ENHANCING ALGERIA'S ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING CAPACITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Algeria's still nascent financial intelligence unit is ready to cooperate on a technical assistance program to be offered through the Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) at the U.S. Department of Treasury in the area of anti-money laundering and terrorist finance (AML/TF). Bo [...] | 2008-07-08 15:58:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECIN KTFN KCRM KJUS PREL PTER ECON AG |
08ALGIERS778 | ALGERIA COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING PALESTINIAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to Messaoud Benziad, Deputy Director of MFA's office of Mashreq Affairs. We thanked Benziad for Algeria's support for the Palestinian Authority thus far, noting reftel points that Algeria is one of three Arab League countries that has pledged support this year [...] | 2008-07-09 16:45:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL PGOV ECON IS AG |
08ALGIERS780 | EVANGELICAL CONVERTS RECEIVE FINES, SUSPENDED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two Algerian Christians, Rachid Seghir and Djammal Dahmani, were convicted on July 2 of proselytizing and illegally practicing a non-Muslim religion. The Algerian court fined the defendants 100,000 dinars (1,540 USD) and handed out six-month suspended prison sentences. Non-Mus [...] | 2008-07-09 17:11:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF AG |
08ALGIERS782 | BOUTEFLIKA SEEKS TO RECONCILE THE UNRECONCILED [...] (U) During his July 5 Algerian independence day speech to the military leadership, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika revisited the theme of national reconciliation, calling on Algerians to unite against extremism and "to put down the fire of Fitna." He underscored the need to pursue security and [...] | 2008-07-12 06:24:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PHUM KISL AG |
08ALGIERS787 | THE HARRAGA: GIVE ME DIGNITY OR GIVE ME DEATH [...] (U) SUMMARY: On the desolate beach of Sidi Salem, in the eastern suburbs of Annaba, a dozen young Algerian males alternate between kicking a soccer ball and working on several small, unmarked wooden boats. Each week, several boats leave from this beach, filled with a cross-section of frustrated you [...] | 2008-07-13 07:11:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON SOCI AG |
08ALGIERS793 | FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION LISTING - ARMED [...] (S/NF) In response to reftel, according to available information the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) has not been involved in terrorist activity during the period 2003-2008. Algerian sources share GRPO analysis that the GIA no longer has a formal leadership structure; however, they tell us that GIA [...] | 2008-07-14 16:59:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV ASEC PREL KCRM KJUS AG |
08ALGIERS797 | ALGERIA NONCOMMITTAL ON INDIA-IAEA SAFEGUARDS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-15 16:00:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL ETTC AG |
08ALGIERS798 | MFA SAYS TRIPARTITE NORTHERN MALI SECURITY TALKS [...] (C) MFA Director General (A/S equivalent) for Africa Lounes Magramane told Charge on July 15 that although Algeria and the U.S. were on the same wavelength regarding the establishment of special security units in northern Mali, setting up a tripartite meeting in August involving Mali, Algeria [...] | 2008-07-15 16:31:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR ML AG |
08ALGIERS800 | CODEL MCCOLLUM MEETS THE NEW PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 30 meeting with Codel McCollum, Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia proved surprisingly forthcoming about Algeria's past mistakes and his own aggressive anti-Islamist credentials, while professing support for WTO accession and religious freedom within Algeria. His offered some [...] | 2008-07-16 14:33:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM AG |
08ALGIERS825 | ALGERIA ANNOUNCES NEW OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION ROUND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria announced its long-awaited oil and gas licensing round by inviting pre-qualified companies to an informational session in late July. The list of pre-qualified companies has not been made public, but Energy Minister Khelil told us in May that almost all companies that h [...] | 2008-07-23 15:44:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ETRD ECON AG |
08ALGIERS831 | DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIANS: ALGERIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-28 06:50:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP EFIN PARM IR AG |
08ALGIERS837 | MERKEL EXPLORES DEEPER ALGERIAN TIES - AND GAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: German Chancellor Angela Merkel made her first visit to Algiers July 16-17 in an effort to boost natural gas supplies and promote stronger commercial ties between Germany and Algeria. Following on the heels of the Mediterranean Union Summit in Paris, Merkel's trip was also seen [...] | 2008-07-28 16:06:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ETRD MARR GM AG |
08ALGIERS848 | BOUTEFLIKA LASHES OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a speech to local officials on July 26, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stunned his audience by admitting that his government's economic policies have failed and blaming that failure on both foreign influence and mismanagement at all levels of government. The president scol [...] | 2008-08-02 06:15:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ECON SOCI AG |
08ALGIERS85 | FRENCH AMBASSADOR: BOUTEFLIKA MAY NOT NEED TO [...] (C) French Ambassador Bajolet told the Ambassador on January 23 that he and the French government are worried that Algeria is gradually headed towards more instability, but they do not see an alternative to Bouteflika's remaining in power for a third term beginning in 2009. Bajolet, who served here [...] | 2008-01-25 11:17:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM FR AG |
08ALGIERS865 | TEACHERS ON HUNGER STRIKE IN CONTRACT DISPUTE GET [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian teachers hired on short-term, renewable contracts are locked in a stand-off with the education ministry over demands for improved compensation and preferred consideration for permanent appointments. The teachers' demands have received steadily increasing attention in the [...] | 2008-08-04 16:50:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ELAB SOCI AG |
08ALGIERS891 | NO BREAK IN THE CLOUDS FOR ALGERIAN OPEN SKIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The chief of staff to the minister of post and telecommunications told Charge on August 9 she would re-examine the legal obstacles to an Open Skies agreement, but she believed that Algerian law would have to be changed to eliminate the fees charged to foreign carriers on intermoda [...] | 2008-08-11 16:38:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EFIN ECON AG |
08ALGIERS892 | HOTEL SHOOT-OUT SHOCKS ALGERIAN TOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Incidents of communal violence flared up in several regions recently as Algerians entered their August vacation season. In a grisly display of clan justice on August 6, a mob ransacked a private hotel in Sidi Aissa (Msila province),provoking a shooting spree that raged through [...] | 2008-08-11 17:08:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KOCI AG |
08ALGIERS904 | ALGERIA HAS NO GAS TO SPARE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite speculation in the press and pleas from Moroccan officials regarding new sales of Algerian natural gas to Morocco (ref A),as we have previously reported (refs B, C),Algeria will likely have little or no excess gas export capacity starting in 2009, and might face an expo [...] | 2008-08-13 17:06:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ETRD ECON PREL MO AG |
08ALGIERS905 | TEACHERS PRESS ON WITH HUNGER STRIKE AS UNION [...] (SBU) Algerian contract teachers on a hunger strike since July 15 (ref) are continuing their efforts to pressure the Ministry of National Education (MNE) into negotiations concerning unpaid salaries, recent lay-offs and appointments in Algeria's career teaching service. Relations between the [...] | 2008-08-13 17:12:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ELAB SOCI AG |
08ALGIERS906 | ALGERIA STANDS QUIETLY BEHIND AU AND ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Charge met with newly appointed MFA Director General for African Affairs (A/S equivalent) Lounes Magramane on August 13 to deliver reftel demarche and underscore the need for a constitutional resolution to the crisis in Mauritania. Magramane said that Algeria was closely monitoring events i [...] | 2008-08-16 06:13:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MR AG |
08ALGIERS907 | ALGERIA EXPRESSES PASSIVE SUPPORT FOR SADC TALKS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-16 06:16:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SADC ZI BC |
08ALGIERS913 | ALGIERS EAC ON RECENT SUICIDE ATTACKS AND CURRENT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Charge convened a full EAC July 17 to discuss recent Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) attacks and threat reports. In attendance were RSO, MGT, GRPO, PAO, CONS, DAO, LEGATT, MSG, POLEC, TREASURY and GSO. RSO and GRPO reviewed current AQIM threat reports. RSO provided s [...] | 2008-08-17 17:39:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC CASC PTER AG |
08ALGIERS916 | BOUTEFLIKA CAUTIOUSLY DEFENDS IRANIAN NUCLEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 11 speech at an official breakfast in Tehran, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika cautiously affirmed Iran's legal right under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to develop a peaceful civilian nuclear energy program, but urged Iran to continue negotiations with the We [...] | 2008-08-19 06:12:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PINR IR AG |
08ALGIERS921 | ALGERIA SPEAKS OUT ON MAURITANIA COUP [...] (U) MFA Minister-Delegate for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkhader Messahel (U/S equivalent) met with Mauritanian Special Envoy General Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mohamed Ahmed during an August 13 meeting in which the General passed a letter from coup leader General Abdelaziz addressed to Presiden [...] | 2008-08-20 10:37:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MG AG |
08ALGIERS922 | ALGERIA SPEAKS OUT ON MAURITANIA COUP [...] (U) MFA Minister-Delegate for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkhader Messahel (U/S equivalent) met with Mauritanian Special Envoy General Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mohamed Ahmed during an August 13 meeting in which the General passed a letter from coup leader General Abdelaziz addressed to Presiden [...] | 2008-08-20 11:38:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MG AG |
08ALGIERS925 | SUICIDE CAR BOMB TARGETS FOREIGN COMPANY BUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Twelve people were killed and at least 31 wounded in twin car bombings in Bouira (75 miles east of Algiers) the morning of August 20. The first bomb, which detonated at approximately 0545 hrs, targeted Bouira's regional military command and injured six soldiers. Minutes later, [...] | 2008-08-20 17:30:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC AG |
08ALGIERS926 | THE TROUBLED MARRIAGE OF BOUTEFLIKA AND OUYAHIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The initial fanfare surrounding the June 23 return of Ahmed Ouyahia to the prime minister's chair has given way to a period of uncertainty and rumored tension between Ouyahia and President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The atmosphere has observers suggesting that Ouyahia was not Boutefl [...] | 2008-08-21 10:50:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AG |
08ALGIERS930 | NEW FINANCE LAW MIXES PROTECTIONISM AND FITFUL [...] SUMMARY: The 2008 supplemental finance law adopted on July 27 raised the per-barrel oil price used to calculate government revenue and included measures to stimulate business growth and develop the country's moribund agricultural sector. At the same time, the law alienated many with a contro [...] | 2008-08-23 07:35:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON ETRD AG |
08ALGIERS935 | POLISARIO COMMITTED TO NEGOTIATE BUT WITHOUT VAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to ref A demarche, Polisario Ambassador to Algeria Ibrahim Ghali told us on August 24 that the Sahrawi leadership is firmly committed to continuing negotiations with Morocco in the near future but only if a new moderator approved by the United Nations Secretary Genera [...] | 2008-08-25 10:19:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PREF UNSC WI MO AG |
08ALGIERS942 | ALGERIA UNLIKELY TO FOLLOW RUSSIA ON SOUTH OSSETIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-27 11:17:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RS GG AG |
08ALGIERS947 | WESTERN SAHARA: FOREIGN MINISTER REAFFIRMS [...] (C) In their introductory meeting August 28, Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci raised the Western Sahara briefly with the Ambassador and flagged it as an issue that the Algerians would be interested to discuss during the Secretary's proposed September 6 visit. Medelci described relations among [...] | 2008-08-28 09:39:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PREF UNSC WI MO AG |
08ALGIERS97 | SUPPORT FOR AQIM MAKES ALI BENHADJ ONCE AGAIN A [...] (C) Ali Benhadj, the former leader of the outlawed Islamic Salvation Front (FIS),has lent his name and support to the recruiting efforts of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Contacts tell us that the government views Benhadj as a threat to its anti-AQIM efforts, but believes putting him [...] | 2008-01-28 06:23:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINS KISL AG |
08ALGIERS983 | REGIONALISM TRIUMPHS OVER LOGIC IN CHOICE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 24 proclamation by Minister of Culture Khalida Toumi that Tlemcen will be the 2011 "Islamic Capital" was met with widespread cynicism, and appeared to continue a trend of western Algerian regionalism trumping common sense. Many were puzzled by the declaration, since al [...] | 2008-09-12 10:38:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL SOCI AG |
08ALGIERS984 | THE KABYLIE: RELUCTANT REFUGE FOR TERRORISTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A string of suicide bombings just east of Algiers (ref A) has brought renewed focus on the Kabylie mountains and the disproportionate amount of terrorist activity occurring there. A fiercely independent center of Berber culture and tradition for centuries, the Kabylie region has [...] | 2008-09-12 11:30:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KISL AG |
08ALGIERS990 | ALGERIA NONCOMMITTAL ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION [...] (C) We delivered ref A demarche to MFA Deputy Director for Central European Affairs Abdelmadjid Amalou on September 13 and outlined U.S. concerns about Serbia's proposal to seek an opinion from the ICJ on the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence. Amalou reiterated the GoA's positio [...] | 2008-09-14 14:39:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA KV UN AG |
08AMMAN1000 | AQABA DEVELOPMENT UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: In March, the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) was honored at the Jordan Economic Forum for its achievements, including its ability to attract $8 billion in investment pledges in seven years. Tourism accounts for about 70 percent of all investment in this port city, c [...] | 2008-04-03 14:44:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAID JO |
08AMMAN1019 | AFTER SLUGGISH START, AQABA'S INDUSTRIAL ESTATE NOW SHOWS [...] (U) Summary: Investment in the southern town of Aqaba has traditionally focused on tourism (ref A). Aqaba's Special Economic Zone, however, offers an industrial estate, the Aqaba International Industrial Estate (AIIE),which provides significant tax advantages for businesses and is also desig [...] | 2008-04-07 15:24:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAID JO |
08AMMAN1020 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON IMPLEMENTING DUAL-USE ITEM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-07 15:27:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM NSG IR MNUC JO |
08AMMAN1022 | IRANIAN PROLIFERATORS: GOJ CLOSELY MONITORS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-07 15:46:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MNUC KNNP IR UNSC JO |
08AMMAN1029 | HRC NORTH KOREA SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR MANDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-08 13:02:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL JO KN |
08AMMAN1030 | POLL SHOWS PM'S POPULARITY STEADY DESPITE ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: According to a recent opinion poll, public confidence in the government of PM Nader Al-Dahabi held steady in the first 100 days of his administration - reportedly the first time in the history of the poll that a PM has not suffered an initial drop in popularity. The depth of thi [...] | 2008-04-08 14:19:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON JO |
08AMMAN1032 | UNRWA EMPLOYEES IN JORDAN STAGE ONE DAY STRIKE [...] (C) Summary: Local employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) across Jordan stayed home from work on April 8 in a one-day protest over compensation. They are demanding a wage increase that will keep their salaries competitive with employees of the Jordanian government, along with ad [...] | 2008-04-08 15:37:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF ECON ELAB KPAL JO |
08AMMAN1034 | JORDAN'S GRAIN SUBSIDY PROGRAM: INSIDERS CALL FOR CASH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As part of the Government of Jordan's broader economic reform program, plans exist to completely liberalize the grain and feed trade, but public opposition has thwarted attempts to eliminate subsidies. A partial lift of the barley subsidy in the fall of 2007 led farmers to feed [...] | 2008-04-09 11:26:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD TBIO ECON JO |
08AMMAN104 | JORDANIAN GID DIRECTOR RESPONDS TO ALLEGATIONS OF [...] (C) Summary: Following reports of deportations and residency refusals of foreign missionaries, the Ambassador asked Jordan's Intelligence Director in early January for an explanation. Dahabi replied in writing on January 7 affirming Jordan's commitment to hosting minority religious sects and [...] | 2008-01-13 10:33:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOF KIRF JO |
08AMMAN1049 | Few Iraqis in Jordan Working; Many Running Out of Funds [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iraqis in Jordan have long relied on personal savings and remittances from families in Iraq or abroad to make ends meet, but rising inflation, the end of subsidies, and uncertainty about the length of their tenure in Jordan have contributed to a steady deterioration of their fin [...] | 2008-04-10 11:41:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREF PREL PGOV JO IZ |
08AMMAN1051 | Jordan's Nomination for the International Transit and [...] The Government of Jordan has nominated Colonel Hassan Mahmoud Al Otoum, Director of Petra Police, to participate in the International Transit and Transshipment Conference to be held in Tangier, Morocco, May 20-22, 2008. 2. Colonel Otoum's biodata follows: Personal Information: A. Fu [...] | 2008-04-10 13:17:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PARM PREL KSTC MO JO |
08AMMAN1057 | JORDANIAN MFA PREVIEWS BORDER SECURITY WORKING [...] (C) Poloff outlined reftel objectives for the April 13 meeting of the Border Security Working Group (BSWG) in Damascus with Nawaf Tell, the MFA's Negotiations Bureau Director. According to Tell, the GOJ delegation will be headed by Ministry of Interior Secretary General Mukhaimer Abu Jammous [...] | 2008-04-10 15:22:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PINS PREL PTER BA EG IR IZ JO KU SA |
08AMMAN1058 | JORDAN LIKELY TO SEND FOREIGN MINISTER TO GCC+2 IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-10 15:23:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL JO |
08AMMAN106 | WELCOME STAFFDEL THIELMANN [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Mr. Gregory Thielmann, Mr. Paul Matulic, Ms. Jacqueline Russel, Ms. Jennifer Wagner, and Lt. Col. Peter Bloom to Jordan from January 16, 2008 through January 18, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, espe [...] | 2008-01-13 11:35:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AU IAEA IS LB JO |
08AMMAN1063 | JORDAN APPROVES NEW RULES FOR QIZ GOLDEN LIST AND SLOWLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Jordan's Ministry of Labor (MOL) approved new regulations for employing foreign workers in the Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs) on April 2. The regulations set the parameters for a new "Golden List" of QIZ factories which abide by best practices regarding labor rights. Compa [...] | 2008-04-10 15:52:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON ETRD EAID KTEX JO |
08AMMAN1067 | JORDAN PROMOTES IPR FOR NEW PLANT VARIETIES [...] SUMMARY: Jordan is pursuing several initiatives to protect agriculture-related intellectual property rights (IPR). Most recently, the Jordanian private and public sectors hosted a regional conference to promote protection of new plant varieties. The Government of Jordan (GOJ) and local agric [...] | 2008-04-13 11:43:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD KIPR JO |
08AMMAN1083 | JORDAN'S ASPIRING JOURNALISTS DISCUSS BLEAK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over two hundred aspiring young journalists discussed bleak employment prospects and fears over censorship at Jordan's first Youth Media Forum. The forum featured frank panel discussions among professional journalists, academicians, and students about issues of press freedoms in [...] | 2008-04-13 14:37:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM SCUL JO |
08AMMAN1098 | PALESTINIAN PRESIDENTIAL GUARD COMPLETE TRAINING [...] (SBU) The first group of Palestinian Authority Presidential Guard (PG) personnel to train at the Jordan International Police Training Center (JIPTC) completed their two-month training program in Jordan and took part in a graduation ceremony on April 13. United States Security Coordinator Lt. [...] | 2008-04-14 14:45:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KWBG KPAL JO IS |
08AMMAN1103 | WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME: MAIL DELIVERY IN JORDAN TO [...] (U) Summary: Historically, Amman has had an underdeveloped street naming and numbering system that has forced businesses to develop independent mapping systems based on landmarks. The Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) is actively verifying that all Amman streets have names; confirming that stre [...] | 2008-04-15 07:14:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS SOCI JO |
08AMMAN1104 | EVANGELICALS DISCUSS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (C) The Ambassador met April 7 with two long-time American evangelical leaders whose residencies had been revoked and then reinstated over the preceding six months (ref A). Bob Robertson, a 33-year resident of Jordan and member of the Evangelical Free Church, and Charles Kohl, a nearly 20-ye [...] | 2008-04-15 07:48:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF CASC JO |
08AMMAN1107 | Jordan's Implementation of the International Health [...] The Government of Jordan (GOJ) held a meeting March 31 of focal points from all relevant GOJ ministries, and local representatives of concerned non-governmental organizations and international organizations, to discuss requirements under the International Health Regulations (IHR). Jordan's Mi [...] | 2008-04-15 09:04:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO PREL AORC WHO JO |
08AMMAN1121 | JORDAN AND ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN SECURITY [...] (S/NF) Jordan's security interests in a Palestinian state are manifold, and felt very deeply both at the senior levels and in the street. The GOJ rejects any suggestion that Jordan assume security responsibilities in the West Bank, or that the fulfillment of Palestinian national aspirations be [...] | 2008-04-15 12:40:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL KWBG KPAL IS JO |
08AMMAN1128 | EXTRADITION TREATY RAISED WITH SENIOR GOJ OFFICIALS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-15 14:11:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KTIA JO |
08AMMAN1136 | Additional Jordanian Nominations for the International [...] The Government of Jordan has nominated Mr. Hassouni Mheilan, Director of Trade and Storage, Ministry of Industry and Trade; Engineer Ibrahim Al Nawayseh, Assistant Director General for Technical Affairs and Projects of the Aqaba Ports Association; and Mr. Khaldoun Al Saket, Assistant Director [...] | 2008-04-16 13:23:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PARM PREL KSTC MO JO |
08AMMAN1139 | OVER HALF OF JORDAN'S POLITICAL PARTIES DISBAND AS [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's new political parties law came into effect on April 15. The law requires parties to re-register with 500 "founding" members, up from the previous requirement of fifty. So far, eleven parties have made the cut, and six are anticipated to join them. Nineteen other pre-ex [...] | 2008-04-16 14:29:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL JO |
08AMMAN1140 | EMBASSY AMMAN REQUEST FOR SCIENCE FELLOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Post requests an Embassy Science Fellow from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assist the Jordanian Ministry of Environment (MOE) with environmental remediation at the Russeifah landfill. The science fellow would build upon the work that former EPA science fellow Tha [...] | 2008-04-16 14:55:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KSCA EAID TSPL TPHY OTRA JO |
08AMMAN1142 | HHS DEPUTY SECRETARY TROY VISIT TO JORDAN BOLSTERS MEDICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Secretary Tevi Troy's March 30-April 2 visit to Jordan included the high-profile groundbreaking for the King Hussein Institute for Biotechnology and Cancer (KHIBC) with King Abdullah and Queen Rania. In other meetings, Troy discussed Jorda [...] | 2008-04-17 07:26:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL TBIO ETRD KIPR JO |
08AMMAN1149 | GOJ WORKS TO LESSEN IMPACT OF CONTINUED INFLATION; CUTTING [...] (U) Summary: Inflation in Jordan increased by 1.73% in March due to the continued rise in electricity and food prices. The government has responded by lowering customs and taxes on several food stuffs; by making its commissary stores not-for-profit; and by executing a deal with the Government [...] | 2008-04-17 12:18:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EAGR ENRG JO |
08AMMAN1153 | AS FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE DEADLINE PASSES, MANY [...] (C) Summary: Under Jordan's Financial Disclosure Law adopted in 2006, parliamentarians and other government officials had until April 13 to disclose their assets to the Ministry of Justice. As of the deadline, 63% of MPs have met the requirement. MPs we talked to were mostly resigned to com [...] | 2008-04-17 13:44:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KCOR JO |
08AMMAN1159 | GOJ RENEWS URGENT REQUEST FOR USG STATEMENT OF [...] (SBU) On April 14 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs transmitted to Post a diplomatic note again urging expeditious USG intervention in the Chalabi case. Text of note follows (PDF of Arabic original sent via email to NEA/ELA). 2. (SBU) BEGIN TEXT: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hashe [...] | 2008-04-17 14:40:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IZ JO |
08AMMAN1161 | Restructuring of Jordan's Oil Sector Lagging [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jordan's plans to open up the oil sector to competition are running behind schedule. The draft Minerals and Petroleum Law -- the main legislation that will set up a regulatory framework for opening up the sector -- is still pending Cabinet and parliamentary approval. Before com [...] | 2008-04-17 15:29:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON EINV JO |
08AMMAN1163 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- MARKWELL [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of MSG LEE MARKWELL TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 30 APR 08 - 16 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of Stat [...] | 2008-04-20 06:42:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1164 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- COSTA+3 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of COL CHRISTOPHER COSTA+3 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 26 APR 08 - 1 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department o [...] | 2008-04-20 06:42:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1165 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- PRINS+7 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of MAJ FREDERICK PRINS +7 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 26 APR 08 - 1 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of [...] | 2008-04-20 06:42:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1166 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- BERG+2 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of CPT CHRISTOPHER BERG +2 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 26 APR 08 - 1 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department o [...] | 2008-04-20 06:42:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1167 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- MARKWELL [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of MSG LEE MARKWELL TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 30 APR 08 - 16 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of Stat [...] | 2008-04-20 06:42:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1168 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- KLUCKHUHN+1 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of LCDR CHRISTOPHER KLUCKHUHN+1 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 21 APR 08 - 27 APR 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Depart [...] | 2008-04-20 06:45:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1169 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- MARKWELL [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of MSG LEE MARKWELL TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 30 APR 08 - 16 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of Stat [...] | 2008-04-20 06:57:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1170 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- KLUCKHUHN+1 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of LCDR CHRISTOPHER KLUCKHUHN+1 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 21 APR 08 - 27 APR 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Depart [...] | 2008-04-20 06:57:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1171 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- MARKWELL [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of MSG LEE MARKWELL TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 30 APR 08 - 16 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of Stat [...] | 2008-04-20 06:57:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1172 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- COSTA+3 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of COL CHRISTOPHER COSTA+3 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 26 APR 08 - 1 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department o [...] | 2008-04-20 06:57:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1173 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- PRINS+7 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of MAJ FREDERICK PRINS +7 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 26 APR 08 - 1 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of [...] | 2008-04-20 06:57:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1174 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- BERG+2 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of CPT CHRISTOPHER BERG +2 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 26 APR 08 - 1 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department o [...] | 2008-04-20 06:58:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN120 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Somnath [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Somnath Bhattacharyya to Jordan from 15 - 22 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic [...] | 2008-01-13 14:55:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1208 | JORDAN: DEMARCHE ON ANNUAL PKK MEETING DELIVERED [...] (S) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche April 21 to Jamal Al-Shamayleh, Director of the Foreign Minister's private office. Shamayleh said he would inform the Minister and advise his counterpart at the General Intelligence Directorate (GID). 2. (S) Post is following up directly with GID. HA [...] | 2008-04-21 15:05:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | KTFN PREL PTER IZ TU JO |
08AMMAN121 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Robert Hays and James [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Robert Hays and James Rennie to Jordan from 29 January - 3 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of Sta [...] | 2008-01-13 14:57:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1214 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON APPROACHING THE UAEG [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-22 10:13:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KMPI JO MO BA AE JA |
08AMMAN1215 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-22 10:15:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EUN PHUM PREL JO |
08AMMAN122 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Perry Tillman [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Perry Tillman to Jordan from 17 January to 5 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic c [...] | 2008-01-13 14:57:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN123 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Samuel Helland + 9 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Samuel Helland, Ronald Coleman, Kevin Kelley, Rhonda Martin, Peter Dahl, Dennis Reed, Daniel Burs, Raphael Sanchez, Raymond Terlaje and Aaron Labertew to Jordan from 11 - 12 February 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully revie [...] | 2008-01-13 14:58:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1232 | JORDANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO ATTEND AHLC [...] (C) Pol/C delivered reftel demarche April 21 to Jamal Al-Shamayleh, Director of the Foreign Minister's private office. Shamayleh noted Jordan's support for peacemaking efforts, and said that Foreign Minister Bashir would lead the Jordanian delegation in London. He added that Jordanian Minist [...] | 2008-04-23 06:27:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL EU KPAL KWBG IS JO |
08AMMAN1233 | FM BASHIR DISCUSSES IRAQ, IRAN, LEBANON WITH S/I [...] (C) Summary: In an April 17 discussion with Foreign Minister Salah Bashir, Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq (S/I) Ambassador David Satterfield urged Jordan to return an ambassador to Baghdad in order to gain a clearer understanding of political developments. In respons [...] | 2008-04-23 06:37:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL IR IZ JO LE TU |
08AMMAN124 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Mark Pruitt and Frank [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Mark Pruitt and Frank Fuller to Jordan from 20 - 25 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State elect [...] | 2008-01-13 15:01:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1248 | QUARTET ENVOYS DISCUSS GAZA, HAMAS, AND UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary: The Quartet Envoys met in Amman on April 17 in preparation for the May 2 Principals meeting in London. The Gaza situation dominated, with all sides agreeing that the volatility there impedes peace prospects. The UN's Robert Serry presented a plan Serry said was proposed by Pales [...] | 2008-04-24 06:57:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | KWBG PREL IS JO |
08AMMAN125 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Timothy Hill + 3 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Timothy Hill, David Baker, Hugh Sutherland and Mark Engen to Jordan from 18 - 20 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007 [...] | 2008-01-13 15:01:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1262 | CIRCUMSTANCES OF REMAINING VIETNAMESE WORKERS AT [...] (SBU) On April 24 PolCouns paid another visit to W&D Apparel Company in the Tajamouat Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) to follow up on the conditions of the remaining 101 Vietnamese laborers after the departure from Jordan of over 150 Vietnamese (refs A and B) and in light of continuing accusa [...] | 2008-04-24 15:25:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM TIP JO VM |
08AMMAN1265 | ROYAL COURT CHIEF AWADALLAH TELL S/I SATTERFIELD [...] (C) Summary: In a discussion with Royal Court Chief Bassem Awadallah on April 17, Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq (S/I) Ambassador David Satterfield urged Jordan to consider the significant accomplishments the Baghdad government has made recently, particularly the resp [...] | 2008-04-24 16:05:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | IR PREL IZ JO |
08AMMAN131 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Edwin Kobeski [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Edwin Kobeski to Jordan from 18 - 20 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic country [...] | 2008-01-14 10:02:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN132 | JORDAN LIKELY TO SUPPORT U.S. CERD CANDIDATE, [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-14 11:56:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNGA JO |
08AMMAN1325 | 2008 SWANEE HUNT AWARD NOMINATION [...] Per Reftel, post nominates Ms. Basma Amawi, senior Cultural Affairs Specialist at U.S. Embassy Amman. Citation: "For advancing the public role of Jordanian women and helping empower them in the judicial and political spheres. Ms. Amawi undertook sustained, outstanding, and creative use of ex [...] | 2008-04-30 13:51:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AMGT APER JO |
08AMMAN1326 | JORDAN WELCOMES SPECIAL 301 RESULTS FOR 2008 [...] (U) Econoffs delivered reftel points on April 29 to Montaser Okla, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT),commending Jordan's efforts on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection, and urging continued engagement with the USG on outstanding IPR issues. Okla expr [...] | 2008-04-30 13:52:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR JO |
08AMMAN1329 | MODERATE ISLAM - PROMOTING THE AMMAN MESSAGE, FOUR [...] (SBU) Jordanian Islamic scholars, in close cooperation with the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, continue to propagate the themes of moderation and authentic Islam represented by the Amman Message and its sequel, the Amman Interfaith Message. The Amman Message seeks to promote [...] | 2008-04-30 15:36:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL JO |
08AMMAN133 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Eduardo Granados + 6 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Eduardo Granado, John Fejerang, Paul Davis, Andre Sterling, Frank Shirley, John R. Smith and John L. Smith to Jordan from 9 - 14 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat asses [...] | 2008-01-14 12:22:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1354 | May 21 - Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People [...] Amman believes that an Op-Ed authored by a senior USG official which details the human rights situation in Cuba and the plight of Cuban refugees would be the most effective way to commemorate the Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People in Jordan. Post will work to gain the widest possible plac [...] | 2008-05-05 13:36:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KPAO KDEM EUN CU JO |
08AMMAN1359 | JORDAN: ACTIVISTS FOR DEMOCRACY AND DISSIDENTS [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman is in constant contact with democracy and human rights activists within Jordan, and has occasional contacts with the small numbers of dissidents (mainly Syrian) who reside in Amman. Post is actively engaged in promoting the spread of democratic practices and values at all [...] | 2008-05-06 09:24:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM JO |
08AMMAN136 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SANA AKILI [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Department of Commerce Officer Sana Akili to Jordan from January 30 to February 03, 2008, as requested reftel. The purpose of her visit is to attend meetings with CLDP interlocutors on MEPI and Iraq programs. The travelers should carefully revie [...] | 2008-01-14 14:18:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV OTRA JO |
08AMMAN1374 | SIXTH FATAH GENERAL CONGRESS NOT YET READY FOR [...] (C) Salim Zanoun, Speaker of the Palestine National Council and longtime Fatah member, told poloff in mid-April that the Fatah Preparatory Committee met "day and night" in Amman from April 6-10 to discuss plans for a meeting in the coming months of the Sixth Fatah General Conference. Zanoun [...] | 2008-05-07 08:54:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF KPAL JO IS |
08AMMAN138 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR OPIC OFFICERS DRUMHELLER AND [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of OPIC Officers Robert Drumheller and Mary Mervenne to Jordan from January 21-25, 2008, as requested reftel. The purpose of the trip is to attend meetings with clients regarding IMMDF, and discuss potential housing finance projects for OPIC. The [...] | 2008-01-14 14:20:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV OPIC OTRA JO |
08AMMAN1384 | DEMARCHE REQUEST ON WIPO DIRECTOR GENERAL ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-07 15:44:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL AORC KIPR WIPO JO |
08AMMAN1385 | MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SHURA COUNCIL ELECTS HAWKISH [...] (C) After holding membership elections in March and April, the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood's Shura Council, its highest body, met on May 2 after multiple delays and elected a hawk, Hammam Saeed, as Controller General, ousting Salim Al-Falahat, considered a dove. Saeed is the first Controller [...] | 2008-05-08 06:24:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PGOV KISL KDEM JO |
08AMMAN139 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Brian Kulley [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Brian Kulley to Jordan from 20 - 24 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic country c [...] | 2008-01-14 14:34:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1392 | IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES -- JORDAN [...] (U) SUMMARY. Jordan is a net importer of food, and the global increase in food and agricultural commodity prices could not have come at a worse time. Jordan recently embarked on an ambitious economic reform program, buying back debt to lower debt service and eliminating fuel subsidies. Add t [...] | 2008-05-08 09:04:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON PGOV JO |
08AMMAN1393 | DEMARCHE ON INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ -- [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-08 09:05:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PREL JO IZ |
08AMMAN1394 | JORDANIAN CONVERT CHARGED WITH APOSTASY, FLEES TO [...] (C) Summary: Mohammad Abbad Abdel-Qader Abbad, brought before the Suweileh Shari,a Court on charges of apostasy on March 24, 2008 for his conversion to Christianity, has subsequently fled Jordan with his wife, Muna Khader Naseef Al-Habash, and two children to Cyprus, where he is seeking asylu [...] | 2008-05-08 09:21:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF JO CY |
08AMMAN1395 | THE PILLARS OF OFFICIAL ISLAM IN JORDAN [...] (C) Official Islam in Jordan -- or government-sanctioned and -controlled Islamic institutions -- consists of three main pillars that run the Islamic affairs of the state: 1) the Ministry of Awqaf, Islamic Affairs and Holy Sites; 2) the Department of the Supreme Justice; and 3) the National Fatw [...] | 2008-05-08 09:44:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL JO |
08AMMAN140 | (C) POLL DATA CONFIRM POOR SHOWING OF IAF, BUT [...] (S/NF) Summary: Tracking and exit polls were conducted by the International Republican Institute-supported Jordan Center for Social Research on Jordan's November 2007 parliamentary elections. The data confirm what the Islamic Action Front denies - that the Islamists' overall poor showing i [...] | 2008-01-14 14:47:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV KISL JO |
08AMMAN1428 | VISIT OF IRAQI PM MALIKI TO JORDAN IN THE WORKS [...] (C) Jordanian Prime Minister Dahabi told Ambassador on May 10 that he was working out a date for Iraqi PM Maliki to visit Jordan very soon. Maliki had approached Jordanian FM Bashir at the Kuwait Neighbors meeting to propose a visit. The Jordanians are also trying to work out visits by Maliki [...] | 2008-05-11 13:58:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF IZ JO |
08AMMAN1430 | JORDANIAN OFFICIALS SEEK STRONG ARAB, U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Senior Jordanian officials aired their views of the Lebanon crisis in separate May 10 meetings with Ambassador (Ref A). Both Prime Minister Nader Dahabi and Foreign Minister Salaheddin al-Bashir urged the U.S. to take a more active role and appeared to lack confidence that the [...] | 2008-05-11 14:37:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL JO LE |
08AMMAN1446 | SOMETIMES THE WEAK SURVIVE - JORDAN'S NEW [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of a new political parties law, the number of parties in Jordan has been cut in half. The public financing envisioned by the law has yet to appear, and the parties are wary of the strings that may be attached to it. Fourteen parties remain - five liberal reformist p [...] | 2008-05-12 16:29:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM JO |
08AMMAN1447 | UNEASE IN JORDAN OVER LEBANON [...] (C) Summary: Jordanian officials have reacted to the latest outbreak of violence in Lebanon with consternation and with a strong statement of support for the legitimate government of Lebanon. They have urged the U.S. to take a more active role in de-escalating the crisis and are ramping up t [...] | 2008-05-12 16:41:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL JO LE |
08AMMAN1455 | LAND DEALS GENERATE A DEBATE ABOUT TRANSPARENCY [...] (C) Summary: Three recent land deals by the state to foreign investors have raised questions among the public about transparency in Jordan. The alleged sale of the King Hussein Medical Center (and an adjoining military complex),the cancellation of a deal to construct a casino on the Dead Se [...] | 2008-05-13 10:55:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KCOR AE JO |
08AMMAN1458 | JORDAN COURT OVERTURNS FOLEY KILLING CONSPIRATOR [...] (U) Jordan's al-Dustour newspaper reported on May 13 that the Court of Cassation - Jordan's Supreme Court - has overturned the 10-year sentence of Muammar Ahmad Yusuf al-Jaghbir, who had been convicted for his role in the 2002 murder of USAID official Laurence Foley in Amman. According to th [...] | 2008-05-13 12:45:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC JO |
08AMMAN1459 | JORDAN COURT OVERTURNS FOLEY KILLING CONSPIRATOR [...] (U) Jordan's al-Dustour newspaper reported on May 13 that the Court of Cassation - Jordan's Supreme Court - has overturned the 10-year sentence of Muammar Ahmad Yusuf al-Jaghbir, who had been convicted for his role in the 2002 murder of USAID official Laurence Foley in Amman. According to th [...] | 2008-05-13 14:33:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC JO |
08AMMAN146 | JORDAN 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT: OPENNESS TO [...] Since King Abdullah succeeded to the throne in 1999, Jordan has taken several steps to encourage foreign investment and realize the vision of transforming Jordan into an outward- oriented, market-based economy competitive in the global marketplace. Key reforms have been undertaken in the info [...] | 2008-01-15 09:09:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV OPIC KTDB USTR |
08AMMAN1464 | DEMARCHE ON RETENTION OF THE OFFICIAL SMALLPOX VIRUS STOCKS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-14 06:13:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM TBIO JO |
08AMMAN1465 | REVISED LAW ON ASSOCIATIONS TO BE CONSIDERED BY [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's parliament will likely consider the new draft of an associations law during a June extraordinary session. The previous draft, widely criticized as too restrictive, was withdrawn by the PM in January. As currently written, the new law consolidates responsibility for reg [...] | 2008-05-14 06:31:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM JO |
08AMMAN1466 | CITIZENSHIP OF MANY JORDANIAN-PALESTINIANS STILL [...] (C) Summary: Twenty years after Jordan severed its legal and administrative ties to the West Bank, the repercussions are still being felt, and not merely in the central peace process assumption that the West Bank will become the core of a Palestinian state. Through vague regulations and opaqu [...] | 2008-05-14 06:33:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAL PREF KDEM KWBG IS JO |
08AMMAN1474 | JORDANIAN MFA'S IO DEPARTMENT SUPPORTS SIGNING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-14 14:35:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EUN PHUM JO |
08AMMAN1483 | JORDAN WORRIED MUGHRABI GATE ISSUE WILL HARM TIES [...] (C) Summary: Director of Policy Planning and Research at the Foreign Ministry Omar Nahar - supported by representatives from the Ministry of Awqaf, Islamic Affairs and Holy Sites as well as the Department of Antiquities - briefed PolOffs May 14 on the latest developments surrounding different [...] | 2008-05-14 15:33:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG JO IS |
08AMMAN1486 | JORDANIAN HORSETRADING DELAYS DECISION ON SUPPORT [...] (C) PolCouns revisited the subject of Ambassador Swing's candidacy for IOM Director General May 14 with Jamal Al-Shamayleh, Director of the Foreign Minister's private office. Shamayleh, consulting on the spot with the head of the MFA's Bureau of International Organization Affairs, assured Pol [...] | 2008-05-14 16:25:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL SMIG IOM ICJ JO |
08AMMAN1487 | ROYAL FALCON ASPIRES TO SERVE U.S. MARKET [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's cargo and charter carrier Royal Falcon Air Services currently operates from Amman's Marka airport to destinations in Azerbaijan, Europe, and Africa and wants to begin charter passenger service to the U.S. The airline's plan was based on a business plan developed togethe [...] | 2008-05-15 06:28:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON JO |
08AMMAN149 | JORDANIAN ELITES WELCOME PRESIDENT,S ENGAGEMENT ON [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In the wake of President Bush's visit to Israel and the West Bank, Jordanian officials and observers have voiced what ranges between cautious optimism and tempered pessimism that the revitalized peace process will bear fruit this year. Officialdom has voiced the gre [...] | 2008-01-15 15:24:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG JO IS |
08AMMAN1497 | May 21 - Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-15 12:54:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KPAO KDEM EUN CU JO |
08AMMAN1511 | U.S. 60-DAY REPORT ON UNSCR 1803: DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-18 14:54:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR JO |
08AMMAN1516 | FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE: INVITATION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-19 10:29:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA MARR MOPS IZ JO |
08AMMAN1523 | WOMEN'S ROLE IN JORDANIAN ECONOMY GROWING, SOME SAY NOT [...] SUMMARY: Significant financial, cultural, and social challenges face women who seek employment in Jordan, resulting in less than 15% of Jordanian women being active in the formal economy. Traditional roles within the family heavily affect a woman's decision to work. Many businesses and human [...] | 2008-05-19 13:01:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KWMN ELAB SOCI EAID JO |
08AMMAN1525 | AVIATION SECURITY PANEL DEMARCHE DELIVERED - JORDANIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-19 13:57:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETRD PREL PTER JO |
08AMMAN1533 | DEBATE OVER PUBLIC GATHERINGS LAW BALANCES CONTROL [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's government is working on a new public gatherings law which will replace the much-criticized statute now in force. As the system currently operates, requests for demonstrations and public meetings must be approved by the regional governor. The criteria by which those re [...] | 2008-05-20 12:57:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM JO |
08AMMAN1534 | BETWEEN EXTREMISTS AND STAR ACADEMY: [...] (C) SUMMARY: "Hayat FM" founder and chairman Musa Saket plans to expand his Islamic-oriented radio station's broadcast range from its current central Jordan media markets in Amman and Zarqa to the northern and southern parts of the country in the next few months. His station, which he founde [...] | 2008-05-20 14:39:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL KISL KPAO KDEM JO |
08AMMAN1535 | JORDAN SUPPORTS U.S. APPROACH TO LEBANON, SINIORA [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on support for Lebanon to Royal Court Chief Bassem Awadallah and Foreign Minister Salaheddin al-Bashir on May 18. Awadallah and Bashir agreed to both the U.S. approach to Lebanon, and to the need for complete support for Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad [...] | 2008-05-20 15:26:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE JO |
08AMMAN1540 | May 21 - Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-21 12:46:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KPAO KDEM EUN CU JO |
08AMMAN1549 | JORDAN EARTH DAY 2008 PROGRAMMING ENGAGES YOUTH, MEDIA, [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Amman organized three successful events for Earth Day 2008: a high-profile April 19 beach and dive clean-up in Aqaba; speaking engagements by Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel, a renowned speaker on environmental issues from the Union of Concerned Scientists; and a regional MEPI-funde [...] | 2008-05-22 09:31:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV PREL KPAO JO |
08AMMAN155 | JORDANIAN MEDIA REACTION TO THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT [...] (U) SUMMARY. Jordanian press commentary has focused this past week on President Bush's visit to the region and his meetings with Arab and Israeli leaders. Opinions in Jordanian editorials were mixed. While there was praise for the symbolism of the President's visit, particularly to the West B [...] | 2008-01-16 05:53:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | JO KPAO KMDR |
08AMMAN1558 | JORDANIAN TOURISM EXECUTIVES SHARE CONCERNS ABOUT INDUSTRY [...] Summary: The World Economic Forum (WEF) in its second annual Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report ranked Jordan 53rd out of 130 rated countries, a drop from 46th in 2007. During a conference sponsored by USAID, 200 tourism executives criticized the report's methodology and discussed the i [...] | 2008-05-22 13:40:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EAID SOCI JO |
08AMMAN1565 | Rebuild Iraq 2008 Conference - Less Than Meets the Eye [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Project Rebuild Iraq 2008 (not to be confused with the similarly named look-alike tradeshow, IRAQ BUILD 2008, which took place in Amman in April 2008) has in previous years been a major event among those interested in development in Iraq. While seemingly professional [...] | 2008-05-22 15:12:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD JO IZ |
08AMMAN1567 | JORDAN TO GET MORE EGYPTIAN GAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Jordan (GOJ) announced a new agreement with Egypt in April 2008 on the supply of Egyptian natural gas to Jordan through the Arab Gas Pipeline. The new deal will allow Jordan to purchase up to 2.7 billion cubic meters (BCM) at a preferential rate through 2012, [...] | 2008-05-22 16:43:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG EFIN JO |
08AMMAN1569 | PARLIAMENT'S EXTRAORDINARY SESSION - A PREVIEW [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's parliament is expected to reconvene in mid-June for an extraordinary session following a directive from the King. Among the thirty-three laws up for consideration are a major reform of the social security system, a landmark law governing the operations of civil society, [...] | 2008-05-22 16:56:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM JO |
08AMMAN157 | DOES JORDAN NEED AN OMBUDSMAN? [...] (C) Summary: The Jordanian parliament's Legal Committee is currently considering a draft law which would establish a national ombudsman's office. The ombudsman was conceived as an anti-corruption tool, as well as a vehicle to provide more efficient services to citizens. In an unusual proced [...] | 2008-01-16 10:45:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM JO |
08AMMAN1570 | THE IAF'S ENTOURAGE [...] (C) Summary: The Higher Coordinating Committee of National Opposition Parties (HCCNOP) is a group of seven Jordanian political parties which is dominated by the Islamic Action Front (IAF),the political wing of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood. The committee, originally formed to counter Jordan's [...] | 2008-05-22 17:00:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM JO |
08AMMAN1571 | DRAFT LAW ESTABLISHING A CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE TO BE [...] (U) Summary: After years of delay, a draft law establishing a Chamber of Agriculture (CHoA) in Jordan will be introduced to an extraordinary session of parliament, scheduled to start in mid-June. The proposal to create an independent umbrella organization to promote agribusiness is part of Jor [...] | 2008-05-26 05:54:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD PGOV JO |
08AMMAN1579 | KING AND STAFFDEL DISCUSS PEACE PROCESS, LEBANON, [...] (C) Summary: On May 26, a delegation of eleven Congressional staffers met with King Abdullah and Queen Rania as part of a trip organized by the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The King was relatively downbeat on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and Lebanon. He identified events [...] | 2008-05-26 16:27:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KDEM KWBG IS IZ LE JO |
08AMMAN159 | Jordan Holds its First Tabletop Exercise to Develop [...] (U) On January 7 and 8, the Government of Jordan (GoJ) held its first tabletop exercise to develop a pandemic influenza preparedness plan in Jordan. The Jerash Governorate hosted the workshop in Jerash city, 25 miles north of Amman. The GoJ already has a comprehensive avian influenza (AI) pr [...] | 2008-01-16 11:55:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU XF JO |
08AMMAN160 | LIMITED OPERATIONS AT MARKA AIRPORT, AMMAN, JORDAN [...] (SBU) THE MARKA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (OJAF/OJAM) AMMAN, JORDAN WILL BE LIMITED TO PASSENGER-ONLY OPERATIONS FROM 15 FEBRUARY 2008 THROUGH 15 APRIL 2008 DUE TO THE JORDANIAN SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES EXHIBITION (SOFEX08). 2. (SBU) THE MILITARY RAMP (GOLF RAMP) AT MARKA AIR BASE (OJAM) WILL [...] | 2008-01-16 12:00:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP MASS PREL JO |
08AMMAN161 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR James Johnson + 3 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of James Johnson, Daren Baker and Wanda Bisbal to Jordan from 29 January - 3 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the De [...] | 2008-01-16 13:49:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1610 | U.S. CANDIDATE FOR FAO/WHO CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION - [...] (SBU) EconCouns and FAS FSN delivered reftel demarche to Dr. Yaseen Khayyat, Director General of the Jordan Institution for Standards and Metrology (JISM) who heads Jordan's National Codex Committee (and is the Chairperson of the FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for the Near East),on May 27. Kh [...] | 2008-05-27 15:06:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO PINR JO |
08AMMAN1612 | GROWING DEMAND AND PRICES FOR POTASH AND PHOSPHATE: JORDAN [...] (U) Summary: With growing world demand and rising prices, the combined exports of fertilizer, potash, and phosphate replaced apparel as Jordan's top export worldwide in the first quarter of 2008. The Chairman of the Arab Potash Company (APC) confirmed rapidly growing profits, prices, and stoc [...] | 2008-05-28 08:46:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV ETRD JO |
08AMMAN1613 | U.S. AND RUSSIAN AMBASSADORS DELIVER GLOBAL [...] (SBU) Ambassador Hale and Russian Ambassador Alexander Kalugin jointly delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Salaheddin al-Bashir on May 27. Bashir said he was unaware of the reasons behind Jordan's earlier decision not to endorse the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. Kal [...] | 2008-05-28 08:48:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGIC PTER KNNP JO |
08AMMAN1614 | TRIBULATIONS OF JORDAN'S "PEACE CAMP": ISRAELI [...] (C) Summary: Sixty years after Israel's establishment and 14 years after the formal establishment of Israeli-Jordanian peace, the Jordanian atmosphere outside government circles remains hostile to advocates of reconciliation with Israel, and to those who interact with Israelis and Israeli ins [...] | 2008-05-28 09:33:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAL IS JO |
08AMMAN1616 | JORDAN TESTING A RANGE OF PROGRAMS TO PROVIDE MORE ANIMAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Jordan's current animal feed subsidy program is based on an inaccurate count of sheep and goats, and consumes a steadily increasing share of the Government of Jordan's (GOJ) budget. An animal tagging project is expected to decrease the fodder subsidy by USD 87 million. As it mo [...] | 2008-05-28 10:57:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EFIN JO |
08AMMAN163 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Michael Reber, Shaun [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Michael Reber, Shaun Mahaffey and John Walmsley to Jordan from 20-21/22-24 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the De [...] | 2008-01-16 13:50:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1639 | Jordan Strikes Deal for Israeli Water Assistance; Domestic [...] (SBU) Summary: Jordan is preparing for a rough summer of water supply constraints, a result of the recent winter providing less precipitation than expected. To mitigate the impact, Jordan has reached an agreement with Israel in which the latter will provide an additional 11 million cubic mete [...] | 2008-06-01 11:01:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR PGOV PREL JO IS |
08AMMAN164 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Ghassan Aldebs [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Ghassan Aldebs to Jordan from 18 - 29 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic country [...] | 2008-01-16 13:51:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN1657 | JORDAN HOPES TO ATTEND MADRID CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Foreign Minister Salah al-Bashir told Ambassador on June 1, and Director of Bashir's Private Office Jamal Shamayleh later informed A/DCM and PolCouns, that the MFA's legal department is reviewing expeditiously the Global Init [...] | 2008-06-02 15:13:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGIC PTER KNNP JO |
08AMMAN1658 | GOJ TAKES STEPS TOWARD IRAQ, AND COMMENTARIAT ASKS [...] (S/NF) Summary. The King's deep dismay over the absence of an effective, moderate Arab strategy to deal with Iran's manipulation of conflicts in the Arab world has focused him on improving Arab states' relations with Iraq, using Prime Minister Maliki's action against Iranian interests as cause [...] | 2008-06-02 15:30:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL IZ JO |
08AMMAN1665 | JORDAN WILL JOIN GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (SBU) Jamal Shamayleh, Director of Foreign Minister Bashir's private office, told Polcouns June 3 that Bashir has endorsed Jordan's joining the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (reftels). The MFA is seeking a final, seemingly pro-forma approval from the Prime Ministry, which it h [...] | 2008-06-03 14:49:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KGIC KNNP JO |
08AMMAN1666 | STAFFDEL DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESS, REGIONAL EVENTS, [...] (C) Summary: During a week-long visit to Jordan organized by the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a ten-member U.S. congressional staffdel met with a variety of senior figures, including Prime Minister Nader Al-Dahabi, Royal Court Chief Bassem Awadallah, Advisor to the Chief of Defense [...] | 2008-06-03 15:00:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KIRF KPAL IS SY IZ IR LE JO |
08AMMAN1717 | UPDATE ON TRANSPORTATION IN JORDAN: DELTA STARTS DIRECT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Delta Air Line's first flight from New York JFK to Amman arrived June 6. The arrival of the first U.S. carrier in Amman is one of many changes underway at Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) including the creation of a new government-owned company which will own QAIA and wil [...] | 2008-06-09 12:24:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ELTN ECON JO |
08AMMAN1723 | EMBASSY BAGHDAD DELEGATION BRIEFS GOJ ON PROPOSED [...] (S) SUMMARY: An Embassy Baghdad delegation briefed senior Government of Jordan (GOJ) officials on the proposed site of the new Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad following King Abdullah's announcement that the GOJ would send an ambassador to Iraq. In separate meetings on June 5, Embassy Baghdad Man [...] | 2008-06-09 14:28:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL ASEC PGOV PINS PTER IZ JO |
08AMMAN1724 | PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS IN JORDAN, PART 1: THE REFUGEES AND THEIR WORLD [...] (SBU) Note: This is the first of a four-part series of cables examining the world of Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps. Part one will focus on the different categories of refugees, and the basic structure of the camp system as it exists in Jordan. Part two will examine the isolation of the ca [...] | 2008-06-09 15:01:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF KPAL JO |
08AMMAN1725 | PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS IN JORDAN, PART 2: [...] (SBU) Note: This is the second cable of a four-part series examining the world of Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps. Part one focused on the different categories of refugees, and the basic structure of the camp system as it exists in Jordan. Part two will examine the isolation of the camps [...] | 2008-06-10 08:30:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAL PREF JO |
08AMMAN1730 | ATTENDANCE AND DONATIONS OF JUNE 23 CONFERENCE ON [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Jamal Shamaylah, Director of the FM's Private Office on June 9. Shamaylah confirmed that FM Salah Al-Bashir will attend the June 23 conference in conjunction with a trip to Berlin for a similar conference on Palestinian refugees. The FM was similarly [...] | 2008-06-10 11:49:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL PHUM LE UNRWA |
08AMMAN1731 | JORDAN TRANSPARENCY ROUNDUP - AS ACCOUNTABILITY [...] (C) Summary. Institutions designed to increase transparency and accountability in Jordan are starting to flex their bureaucratic muscles. The audit bureau released a report outlining its activities in 2007, and the Anti-Corruption Commission announced that it had referred its first cases fo [...] | 2008-06-10 12:09:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KCOR JO |
08AMMAN1736 | SATELLITE GARMENT FACTORIES BEING ESTABLISHED TO [...] (U) Summary: The Government of Jordan (GOJ) has started a pilot project with garment companies already established in the Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs) to build satellite factories with 100% Jordanian workforces outside the QIZs in rural areas of high female unemployment. The goal is to [...] | 2008-06-10 14:18:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD KTEX PGOV JO |
08AMMAN1737 | HOW ISLAMISTS INFILTRATED JORDAN'S BAR ASSOCIATION [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's Bar Association is controlled by the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood (JMB),even though most of the country's lawyers are not Islamists. The JMB maintains its position in the Bar by exploiting the lack of political engagement on the part of pro-government lawyers and buildi [...] | 2008-06-10 14:22:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KPAL JO |
08AMMAN1744 | PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS IN JORDAN, PART 3: THE [...] (SBU) Note: This is the third of a four-part series of cables examining the world of Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps. Part one focused on the different categories of refugees, and the basic structure of the camp system as it exists in Jordan. Part two examined the isolation of the camps [...] | 2008-06-11 07:02:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV KPAL KREF JO |
08AMMAN1750 | BERLIN CONFERENCE IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINIAN CIVIL [...] (S) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche to Jamal Shamaylah, Director of the Foreign Minister's Private Office on June 9. Shamaylah reported that Foreign Minister Salah Al-Bashir will attend the June 24 Berlin Conference subsequent to the June 23 conference in Vienna on the reconstruction of the Na [...] | 2008-06-11 15:01:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS EUN |
08AMMAN1752 | Media Supports Launch of Harrison Ford Public Service [...] (U) In celebration of World Environment Day, Embassy Amman, in cooperation with the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN),organized the launch of Harrison Ford's Public Service Announcements (PSAs) on wildlife trafficking at the Wild Jordan Nature Center on June 5. Forty indivi [...] | 2008-06-12 05:25:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV ETRD PREL KPAO JO |
08AMMAN1753 | PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS IN JORDAN, PART 4: [...] (SBU) Note: This is the fourth cable of a four-part series examining the world of Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps. Part one focused on the different categories of refugees, and the basic structure of the camp system as it exists in Jordan. Part two examined the isolation of the camps - h [...] | 2008-06-12 06:43:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KPAL KISL KREF JO |
08AMMAN1754 | Fourth Consecutive Increase In Jordan's Fuel Prices Since [...] The Government of Jordan (GOJ) announced on June 9 new prices of petroleum products, which rose by four to 13.5% over last month depending on the product. This represents the fourth increase since the GOJ liberalized fuel prices in February 2008. An interagency committee determines prices ba [...] | 2008-06-12 09:24:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ECON JO |
08AMMAN1765 | Workshop Provides "How To" Advice on Maximizing the [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. Foreign Commercial Service (FCS),in coordination with the USAID-funded Jordanian Business Development Center, held a practical workshop June 3-4 for importers and exporters on how to maximize the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Approximately 120 participants f [...] | 2008-06-12 14:45:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR WTRO JO |
08AMMAN1789 | MALIKI'S VISIT TO AMMAN SETS A POSITIVE TONE [...] (C) Summary. The King and his senior team members separately have told us of their great satisfaction with the June 12-13 visit to Jordan by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. All of the Jordanians' key objectives were met: a turning of the page in the relationship, acknowledgment by Maliki [...] | 2008-06-16 15:06:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF IZ JO |
08AMMAN1821 | JORDANIAN RESPONSE TO G/TIP REPORT: SURPISED AT [...] (U) Summary: Following Post delivery of Ref A points and an advance copy of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report on Jordan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there has been moderate press coverage and limited civil society reaction. The general feeling among media, civil society, and go [...] | 2008-06-19 11:03:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PHUM QIZ JO |
08AMMAN1833 | CONVEYING THE UPDATED P5+1 PACKAGE FOR IRAN - [...] (S/NF) Reftel points were delivered to FM Salah Al-Bashir by NEA/IR Acting Director Philo Dibble on June 15 (Ambassador was present). In general, the FM portrayed Iran's nuclear program as nothing more than a bargaining chip, saying that Iran has been "studying" and "declaring" its nuclear i [...] | 2008-06-19 14:46:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM KNNP MNUC IR JO |
08AMMAN1834 | CHECKS AND BALANCES IN JORDAN, PART 2 - [...] (SBU) This cable is part two of a series which examines the peculiar system of internal checks and balances that serves as an accountability mechanism for Jordan's government. The first part looked at the Legislative Bureau, where all of Jordan's laws and regulations are written. This cable [...] | 2008-06-19 14:55:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM JO |
08AMMAN1856 | CHECKS AND BALANCES IN JORDAN, PART 1 - THE [...] (SBU) This cable is part one of a series which will examine the peculiar system of internal checks and balances that serves as an accountability mechanism for Jordan's government. The first part looks at the Legislative Bureau, where all of Jordan's laws and regulations are written. The sec [...] | 2008-06-23 05:58:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM JO |
08AMMAN1859 | JORDANIAN RESPONSE TO G/TIP REPORT: SURPISED AT [...] (U) Summary: Following Post delivery of Ref A points and an advance copy of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report on Jordan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there has been moderate press coverage and limited civil society reaction. The general feeling among media, civil society, and go [...] | 2008-06-23 08:41:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM QIZ JO |
08AMMAN1871 | TRIBAL CONSERVATIVES PUSH PUBLIC GATHERINGS LAW [...] (C) Summary: On the strength of a bloc of tribal conservatives, the lower house of parliament has endorsed amendments to Jordan's public gatherings law. The pro-government bloc pushed the bill through despite several attempts by a coalition of Islamists and liberals to either water it down [...] | 2008-06-24 05:59:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL JO |
08AMMAN1882 | WORLD BANK RED-DEAD FEASIBILTY STUDY COMMENCES AS THE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Red Sea - Dead Sea conveyance pipeline to move water from the Gulf of Aqaba into the shrinking Dead Sea has long been discussed in the region as a savior for the region's water woes (reftels). The USG and several other donors have contributed to the World Bank feasibility s [...] | 2008-06-25 06:19:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR PGOV PREL JO IS |
08AMMAN189 | JORDAN'S ISLAMISTS BATTLING OVER THE FUTURE OF THE [...] (C) Disarray within Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) continues to be aired in the public sphere. Since its drubbing in parliamentary elections on November 20, the Islamic Action Front (the MB's political arm) called on an MB member of the Jordanian Senate to resign; the MB Shura Council disb [...] | 2008-01-17 16:09:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM JO |
08AMMAN1903 | LOWER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT PASSES SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Jordanian Lower House of Parliament passed a 500 million JD ($705 million) supplemental budget for 2008 in early June. The supplement includes funds for fuel subsidies provided in January and February, wheat and fodder subsidies, increased civil servant salaries, and some c [...] | 2008-06-29 07:19:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON ENRG PGOV EAID JO |
08AMMAN1911 | "TOO SOPHISTICATED FOR JORDAN:" PUBLISHER PULLS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Pulp Magazine, a youth-oriented English-language monthly magazine known for tackling controversial subjects including sexuality, drug use, and abortion, was discontinued after 13 months of publication because the publisher found the magazine "too sophisticated for Jordan." Pulp [...] | 2008-06-29 11:12:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL SOCI KISL JO |
08AMMAN1915 | JORDAN SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDACY FOR UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-29 13:01:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO JO |
08AMMAN1917 | CHECKS AND BALANCES IN JORDAN, PART 3 - [...] (SBU) This cable is part three of a series which examines the peculiar system of internal checks and balances that serves as an accountability mechanism for Jordan's government. The first part looked at the Legislative Bureau, where all of Jordan's laws and regulations are written. The seco [...] | 2008-06-30 05:52:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM JO |
08AMMAN1924 | KOSOVO RECOGNITION, DONORS CONFERENCE, IMF AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-30 14:01:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL PGOV KPKO UN EU KV JO |
08AMMAN1927 | APPLICATION FOR OPIC FINANCE: ARAB BANK PLC, CAIRO AMMAN [...] As requested in reftel, this cable provides information on Arab Bank PLC, Cairo Amman Bank and the Housing Bank for Trade and Finance. Post is not aware of any recent events in Jordan that would prohibit OPIC from providing financing to the three banks. All three borrowers are reputable membe [...] | 2008-07-01 04:33:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN JO |
08AMMAN1982 | JORDAN NAMES AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ [...] (C) On June 30, the GOJ swore in Nayef Fantoul al-Zeidan as Ambassador to Iraq, following through on last month's pledge to finally appoint a representative in Baghdad, after a long gap (reftel). This is the latest in a series of steps suggesting that the King is having success reorienting hi [...] | 2008-07-02 14:37:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ JO |
08AMMAN1983 | JORDANIAN FOREIGN POLICY REACHES INTO CENTRAL ASIA [...] (C) Summary: Jordan, with the heavy personal engagement of King Abdullah, has been reaching beyond the Middle East for partners on a variety of energy, economic, and political issues. Of particular note are the efforts expended on improving and expanding ties with former Soviet republics in [...] | 2008-07-02 15:25:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL PGOV ECON KISL ZK ZJ TU IR JO |
08AMMAN1984 | KING LASHES OUT AT CONSERVATIVE CRITICS IN A BID [...] (C) Summary: In an extensive interview with the quasi-official Petra News Agency, King Abdullah defended Jordan's economic opening while acknowledging the squeeze it temporarily places on average citizens. Facing off against armchair critics, the King gave a detailed rationale for land sale [...] | 2008-07-02 15:25:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM KCOR JO |
08AMMAN1989 | IRAQI RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN JORDAN FACE SIMILAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraqis residing in Jordan representing the Chaldean, Assyrian, Sabean, and Yezidi communities claim to be targets of discrimination and attacks in Iraq and do not envision ever being able to return safely to Iraq. They report financial and personal difficulties while residing i [...] | 2008-07-06 08:29:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF KIRF PHUM SOCI JO IZ |
08AMMAN1990 | JORDANIAN FM STRESSES GOJ GENEROSITY TO IRAQIS, [...] (C) Summary: Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues Ambassador James Foley briefed Jordanian Foreign Minister Salah Al-Bashir June 21 on his meetings with UNHCR and others in Jordan to assess the needs of Iraqi refugees. Ambassador Foley and Ambassador Hale expressed the USG's appreciati [...] | 2008-07-06 09:00:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV JO IZ |
08AMMAN1991 | GLOBAL MARITIME PARTNERSHIP - JORDAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-06 09:30:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT ECON PHSA PINS PREL SMIG ASEC JO |
08AMMAN1992 | ANTI-NORMALIZERS THREATEN JORDAN MUSIC FESTIVAL, [...] (C) Local and regional press over the past couple of weeks had reported mounting pressure on the Jordanian government to cancel the upcoming Jordan Festival, in the face of apparently unfounded accusations that a French company involved with organizing the festival also had a hand in Israel's [...] | 2008-07-06 09:48:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL JO |
08AMMAN1997 | Jordan's Electricity Sector Providing High-Quality Service [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (SBU) Summary: Electricity demand in Jordan grew 13% in 2007 to reach 2,100 megawatts (MW). In response to rising fuel prices, the Electricity Regulatory Commission (ERC) raised electricity tariffs in mid-March 2008, which has hel [...] | 2008-07-07 08:17:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON KPAO JO |
08AMMAN2004 | JORDAN WELCOMED AS PARTNER TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and accompanying documents to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of International Organizations Ayman Al-Aamiry on July 7. Post was unable to coordinate delivery with the Russian Embassy before the due date, but will inform contacts there that we have [...] | 2008-07-07 13:35:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP RS JO |
08AMMAN2009 | SOLICITING DETAILS ON JORDAN'S EXPECTED ATTENDEES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-08 06:02:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP UNGA JO |
08AMMAN2015 | ENGAGING HOST GOVERNMENTS ON CERTAIN TERRORIST [...] (SBU) Post contacted the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology to follow up on reftel demarche. Jordan currently serves as a rotating member on the Arabsat board. Its representative there is Mr. Afram Jameel, who works for the Ministry. 2. (SBU) Embassy point of conta [...] | 2008-07-08 14:07:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER JO |
08AMMAN204 | JORDAN REVISES ECONOMIC AID REQUEST, SEEKS UP TO $500 [...] On January 20, Prime Minister Nader al-Dahabi presented to the Ambassador and the USAID Mission Director an ESF request for USD 500 million annually for fiscal years 2009, 2010, and 2011. The new request (sent electronically to NEA/ELA) supersedes the GOJ's December request for USD 450 million [...] | 2008-01-21 15:12:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN PREF JO |
08AMMAN2051 | A TWELVE YEAR OLD'S INDISCRETION LEADS TO MINOR [...] (SBU) Limited violence, probably sectarian in nature, flared in Irbid on July 6 after some Muslims' religious sensibilities were apparently offended by a local boy. Coverage of the event, especially in the print press, has been spotty, and the Jordanian daily al-Ghad was careful to avoid ment [...] | 2008-07-10 08:28:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KIRF KISL JO |
08AMMAN2052 | ISLAMIST WEEKLY SEEKS TO CHALLENGE MUSLIM [...] (C) SUMMARY. Fact International ("al-Haqiqa al-Duwlia") Chairman Zakaria al-Sheikh told us recently that his Islamist weekly newspaper seeks to challenge the dominance of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Islamist press. While his newspaper criticizes the Muslim Brotherhood and aims to "portray [...] | 2008-07-10 10:22:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL SCUL SOCI JO |
08AMMAN2062 | PARLIAMENT PASSES LAW ON ASSOCIATIONS DESPITE [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's lower house of parliament has passed a new law on associations which places restrictions on civil society. The law passed in spite of vocal protests from a broad spectrum of civil society leaders. In the end, tribal conservatives flexed their political muscles in parli [...] | 2008-07-10 11:14:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM JO |
08AMMAN2064 | KEEPING THE PA AFLOAT - JORDAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on July 10 to Mohammad Al-Khalidi, Director of the Arab and Middle East Affairs Department at the Foreign Ministry. Khalidi estimated that Jordan has only disbursed roughly $1 million of the cash amount pledged to the Palestinian Authority at the Arab Lea [...] | 2008-07-10 13:05:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG KPAL PGOV PREL ECON PINR JO |
08AMMAN2066 | Fifth Consecutive Increase in Jordan's Fuel Prices since [...] The Government of Jordan (GOJ) announced new prices of petroleum products, effective July 10. Prices rose by four to nine percent over last month depending on the product, representing the fifth increase since the GOJ liberalized fuel prices in February 2008 (reftels). An interagency committ [...] | 2008-07-10 14:05:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ECON JO |
08AMMAN2080 | USSC LTG DAYTON'S JULY 1 MEETING WITH KING ABDULLAH [...] (SBU) U.S. Security Coordinator Lieutenant General Keith Dayton met with King Abdullah on July 1 to discuss the ongoing training of Palestinian security forces at the Jordan International Police Training Center (JIPTC). LTG Dayton was accompanied by the Ambassador, the Defense Attache and the [...] | 2008-07-13 13:46:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | JO KPAL KWBG MAS PREL |
08AMMAN2093 | PALESTINE NATIONAL COUNCIL SPEAKER ZANOUN DEFENDS [...] (C) Summary: Palestine National Council Speaker Salim al-Zanoun provided his version of the intra-Palestinian political dispute described ref A, in which he was pressured to allow the selection of new members to the PLO Executive Committee without convening the PNC. While his account was not [...] | 2008-07-14 10:27:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG IS JO |
08AMMAN210 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Ronald Oswalt + 15 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Ronald swalt, Tommy Evans, David Snodgrass, Charles Bowers, Daniel Woodward, Vickie Whiteaker, Eileen White, Lynn Burmeister, Terri Riley, Erin McCarter, Charles Pace, Romeo Victorio, Eugene O'Sullivan, Betty Taylor, Donald Clarke and Richard Wag [...] | 2008-01-22 05:35:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN211 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Kabran Johnson + 5 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Kabran Johnson, Nicky Baggett, Peter Leary, Mark Decamp, Michael Keller and Lawrence Gump to Jordan from 10 - 14 February 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragrap [...] | 2008-01-22 05:36:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN2132 | Jordan's Jewelry Sector Has Potential to Export More to the [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable responds to USTR inquiries on opportunities for Jordan to increase exports of gold and silver jewelry to the U.S. (ref A). Jordan has registered about 275 factories and workshops of gold and other jewelry, which are mostly small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that cat [...] | 2008-07-16 12:37:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON JO |
08AMMAN2133 | JORDAN SCENESETTER FOR JULY 22 VISIT OF CODEL REED [...] (U) Embassy Amman welcomes the visit to Jordan of CODEL Reed. Jordan remains one of the United States' strongest partners in promoting peace and security in the Middle East, and is active in a broad range of regional engagement activities. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) King Abdullah is ap [...] | 2008-07-16 13:17:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV JO |
08AMMAN2139 | JORDAN'S FIRST INDEPENDENT TV STATION CHANGES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Nearly one year after its scheduled on-air debut, Jordan's first independent television station, ATV, has not yet begun broadcasting despite its second change of ownership in less than one year. In the midst of a week-long sit-in staged by employees complaining that they have not [...] | 2008-07-17 07:09:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV KPAO KMDR JO |
08AMMAN2147 | JORDAN FEELS STYMIED ON MUGHRABI GATE ISSUE, BUT [...] (C) Jordan, though it took a relatively conciliatory approach to the Mughrabi Gate Ascent issue at the recent meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Quebec, remains concerned that its equities are being ignored and that Israeli unilateralism will lead to a negative backlash. Note: Per ref [...] | 2008-07-17 10:37:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL UNESCO JO IS KWBG |
08AMMAN2154 | U.S.-Jordan Joint Committee Meeting Forms Seven Working [...] Summary: The first meeting of Jordan-United States Joint Committee on Science and Technology Cooperation (JCM) resulted in new energy initiatives, enhanced collaboration on environmental issues, and the formation of seven separate working groups on water, environment, energy, agriculture, ed [...] | 2008-07-17 11:35:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL SENV PREL EAID TBIO TPHY ETRD JO |
08AMMAN2160 | JORDAN: NAM - IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche July 15 to Jamal Al-Shamayleh, Director of Foreign Minister Bashir's private office. Shamayleh agreed that Iran should not be allowed to use the NAM Foreign Ministers' meeting to shore up its diplomatic position, but was not able to offer a more substant [...] | 2008-07-17 15:02:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM TRGY IAEA PERL KNNP IR JO UR |
08AMMAN2161 | AMMAN EAC ON 17 JULY 2008 [...] (SBU) CDA convened the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on 17 July 2008 to review the Mission's security posture in light of a shooting incident that occurred last night at Al Hashimiyah Square in Amman. All agencies and sections were represented. 2. (SBU) RSO briefed the EAC on the event [...] | 2008-07-17 15:29:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC CASC PTER JO |
08AMMAN2171 | PARLIAMENT ENDS ITS EXTRAORDINARY SESSION; [...] (C) Summary: The Jordanian parliament closed its extraordinary session on July 9, having passed all but one of the bills placed before it by the King and the government. The session provided the first true insight into voting blocs and policy preferences in the lower house. Tribal conservati [...] | 2008-07-20 11:07:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAGR KDEM KISL JO |
08AMMAN2177 | Jordan Takes Measures to Provide Relief to Agricultural [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) has recently taken measures to provide some relief from rising costs of production, reduced competitiveness within the agricultural sector, dry local growing conditions, and the rise in global commodity prices (refs C and D). These measures inclu [...] | 2008-07-20 13:54:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON PGOV JO |
08AMMAN2184 | JORDANIAN ATTENDANCE AT JUNE MEK CONFERENCE IN [...] (C) Summary: Media in Jordan and Iran have reported the attendance of thirty-three Jordanian MPs and journalists at a Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) conference in a Paris suburb June 26-30. The incident prompted a diplomatic protest from Tehran, and an awkward response from Amman. A post contact w [...] | 2008-07-21 05:41:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR IZ IR BE JO |
08AMMAN2187 | JORDAN ON DARFUR: JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, BUT HOW? [...] (C) In a July 20 meeting with Charge, Foreign Minister Bashir - just returned from the July 19 Arab League (AL) Ministerial in Cairo - stressed that the AL had found the "unbalanced" position of International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Ocampo vis-a-vis Sudan to be "unacceptable" (re [...] | 2008-07-21 06:40:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU JO |
08AMMAN2202 | GOJ: NO POLICY CHANGE ON IRAQI REFUGEES DESPITE [...] (C) Summary: Despite a recent media report that the GOJ would no longer grant or extend residence permits to Iraqis living in Jordan, there is no indication that the GOJ has, in fact, altered its procedures, and local media subsequently reported an MOI denial of any change. In a July 20 meeti [...] | 2008-07-21 15:07:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF JO IZ |
08AMMAN2206 | LABOR LAW: WORKER PROTECTION IMPROVED, BUT FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Four of six proposed amendments to Jordan's Labor Law - including one expanding its coverage to domestic and agricultural workers - were endorsed by the Parliament during its special session. However, an amendment that would have allowed Jordan's legal foreign workers - 450,000 [...] | 2008-07-22 11:59:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON ETRD KTEX PGOV JO |
08AMMAN2221 | NAM FM'S MEETING IN TEHRAN: "JORDAN WILL NOT FALL [...] (C) Charge followed up on ref B demarche July 20 with Foreign Minister Salah Al-Bashir. Bashir, who had just returned from an overseas trip, did not offer a substantive comment but promised to study the issue. On July 23, Jamal Al-Shamayleh, director of the FM's private office, offered few s [...] | 2008-07-24 10:18:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM TRGY IAEA PERL KNNP IR JO |
08AMMAN2225 | JORDAN ON IAEA BOG: FOCUSING ON ARAB GROUP PROCESS [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Salah Al-Bashir on July 20. Bashir, who had just returned from a lengthy overseas trip, did not offer a substantive response but noted that Jordan's independence of action could be limited by Arab Group protocol. He wondered out loud w [...] | 2008-07-24 11:35:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA KNNP PREL KZ SY JO |
08AMMAN2231 | RESIGNATION OF NATIONAL CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Ahmed Obeidat, head of the quasi-governmental National Center for Human Rights, was recently asked to resign for signing a widely disseminated letter to the GOJ criticizing its economic reform and privatization program. Former Prime Minister Adnan Badran has been appointed as O [...] | 2008-07-24 13:37:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM JO |
08AMMAN224 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Susan Myers and Kelly [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Susan Myers and Kelly Porscheke to Jordan from 2 - 9 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State ele [...] | 2008-01-22 13:02:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN2262 | IAEA BOG: JORDAN MFA BELIEVES THAT SYRIA HAS ARAB [...] (C) Jamal Al-Shamayleh, Director of Foreign Minister Bashir's private office, told PolCouns on July 29 that it appeared the Arab League had already endorsed Syria's candidacy for the MESA seat on the IAEA Board of Governors. Reading from a June 28 communique from the Jordanian Embassy in Vienn [...] | 2008-07-29 14:51:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IAEA KNNP AORC SY JO |
08AMMAN228 | JORDAN AND SYRIA SIGN 12 AGREEMENTS TO BOOST BILATERAL [...] (U) Jordan and Syria signed 12 agreements designed to strengthen bilateral relations following up on the 12th session of the Joint Jordanian-Syrian Higher Committee which concluded December 31. The agreements address economic integration, trade, agriculture, water, health, industry, transport [...] | 2008-01-22 14:59:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EAGR PREL SENV JO SY |
08AMMAN2292 | "WHAT ABOUT OUR PRISONERS?" JORDANIANS ASK AFTER [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Jordan's front pages have been crowded over the past two weeks with demands from local figures and advocacy groups for the release of four Jordanians, currently detained in Jordanian jails, who were turned over by Israel in July of 2007 (Ref A). These groups, includi [...] | 2008-07-31 13:51:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER JO IS |
08AMMAN2300 | DOES JORDAN'S NEW ASSOCIATIONS LAW COVER THE [...] (C) Summary: A sub-plot in the debate over the new law on associations (Ref A) has been the issue of whether it applies to the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood (JMB). The JMB insists that it is more than a mere NGO, and has a "special status" as a result of its long-standing relationship with the [...] | 2008-07-31 13:57:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM JO |
08AMMAN2305 | IRAQIS IN JORDAN - AUGUST 4 UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Post's Refugee Working Group (RWG) met July 29 to discuss developments regarding Iraqi refugees in Jordan. Later in the day, USAID participated in a joint international organization/donor meeting at the Ministry of Planning to discuss the Iraq refugee-related stresses on Jorda [...] | 2008-08-04 05:45:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF IZ JO |
08AMMAN2316 | KING'S HOUSING INITIATIVE FOR LOW-INCOME CITIZENS ENHANCED [...] (U) Summary: King Abdullah dubbed 2008 the "Year of Housing" for Jordan, and has launched a housing initiative with the goal of building 20,000 units per year. The initiative will include government-provided land and infrastructure, privately-constructed units, and bank-provided mortgages targ [...] | 2008-08-05 10:26:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON PGOV SOCI JO |
08AMMAN2317 | Jordan Securities Commission Adopts AML Regulations [...] (U) Summary: The Jordan Securities Commission Board of Commissioners issued anti-money laundering (AML) regulations for securities activities on June 23. The regulations went into effect on July 31, following their publication in the Official Gazette. The regulations are consistent with both t [...] | 2008-08-05 14:44:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON KCRM SNAR JO |
08AMMAN2328 | IAEA BOG: JORDAN CANNOT THROW ITS HAT INTO THE RING [...] (C) In an August 6 meeting with Charge, Foreign Minister Salah Al-Bashir affirmed that Syria has the Arab League's (AL) endorsement for the IAEA BOG MESA seat, putting Jordan in "an extremely awkward position" were it to nominate itself at this point. He also cited strong regional perceptions [...] | 2008-08-06 14:14:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IAEA KNNP AORC SY JO |
08AMMAN2337 | POLITICAL PARTY DEVELOPMENTS - MAJALI TRIES AGAIN, [...] (C) Summary: Jordanian lower house of parliament speaker Abdulhadi Al-Majali has been planning for some time to transform his "National Democratic Trend" from a parliamentary bloc into a full-fledged political party. Now that the initial uncertainty surrounding Jordan's political parties law [...] | 2008-08-10 06:08:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM JO |
08AMMAN2349 | DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN ENTITIES, INDIVIDUALS UNDER [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-11 10:05:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP EFIN PARM IR JO |
08AMMAN2354 | First Semi-Reduction in Jordan's Prices of Fuel Products [...] The Government of Jordan (GOJ) announced new prices of petroleum products, effective August 10 (see para 5). While newspaper headlines said prices decreased by about five percent, the full story reveals that prices of only three distillates went down -- gasoline (all grades),kerosene, and di [...] | 2008-08-12 04:30:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ECON JO |
08AMMAN2356 | INFORMING JORDAN THAT MAURITIUS AND UZBEKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 06:32:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP MR UZ JO |
08AMMAN2358 | JFDA CONTINUES EFFORTS TO FIGHT COUNTERFEIT DRUGS [...] (U) Summary: The Jordanian government has bolstered its efforts against counterfeit drugs, which the Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) believes has helped cause a drop in fake medicine coming across Jordan's borders since last year (ref B). Most recently, in a high profile case, Jor [...] | 2008-08-12 09:51:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KIPR JO |
08AMMAN2359 | CIVIL SOCIETY WATCHES AND WAITS FOR ASSOCIATIONS [...] (C) Summary: One month after the end of the parliamentary session, Jordan's new law on associations is still awaiting royal signature (Refs A-C),but local and international NGOs are already starting to look at how the new law will be implemented. Minister of Social Development Hala Latouf is [...] | 2008-08-12 10:36:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM JO |
08AMMAN2366 | Jordanian Request for Assistance to Address Food Security [...] (SBU) Summary and action request: Jordan is a net importer of food, and the continuing global increase in food and agricultural commodity prices could not have come at a worse time. Government of Jordan (GOJ) efforts to lower its debt burden, such as buying back $2 billion in debt from Paris [...] | 2008-08-12 10:49:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR ECON SOCI JO |
08AMMAN2369 | JORDAN'S INFLATION RATE FOR JULY 2008 PEAKS AT 19 PERCENT [...] (U) Inflation in Jordan continues to rise. Jordan's Department of Statistics (DOS) reported a 2.3% increase in the monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) between June 2008 and July 2008, the largest increase since February 2008 when the cessation of fuel subsidies resulted in a 6.5% increase (reft [...] | 2008-08-12 12:50:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI JO |
08AMMAN238 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Joseph Benkert + 2 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Joseph Benkert, Melissa Henton and Jeffrey Cima to Jordan from 2 - 9 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Depa [...] | 2008-01-23 08:37:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN2381 | AFTER IRAQ VIST, JORDAN'S KING TO PUSH PEERS TO [...] (C) Summary: King Abdullah and the senior officials who accompanied him to Iraq on August 11 consider the visit a success, and one that will lead to intensified bilateral contacts. The King also hopes to use the example he has just set to convince other Arab leaders to follow suit. Our cont [...] | 2008-08-13 16:05:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL EPET IZ JO |
08AMMAN2383 | AQABA FACES THE CHALLENGES OF GROWTH [...] (C) Summary: Aqaba has grown rapidly and consistently since 2001 when it was placed under a special administrative model designed to encourage investment, growth and development. This growth has come at something of a price when it comes to local governance; locals complain that they lack a [...] | 2008-08-14 05:27:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV KPAL KDEM JO |
08AMMAN239 | JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Joseph Lontos + 45 [...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Joseph Lontos, Kimberly Mitchell, Leif Eckholm, Michael Terry, Janis Simmons, Joseph Rachal, Francis Rodriguez, Martin Shulman, Robert Neal, Kelly Porscheke, Ebert Donald, Jeffrey Mintzlaff, Steven Miller, Mary Land, William Jensen, Jerome Barret [...] | 2008-01-23 08:38:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO |
08AMMAN2395 | GOJ TRANSPORTATION OFFICIAL DISCUSSES BORDER AND [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's Ministry of Transportation has ambitious plans for the future, including a possible regional railway link, developing the al-Karama Free Trade Zone project, and the planned relocation of the Jordan-Iraq border post further into Jordanian territory. Jordan is also inter [...] | 2008-08-18 07:09:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | ELTN EWWT ECON PREL JO |
08AMMAN2414 | IN REVERSAL, JORDAN SET TO RELEASE "QAFQAFA FOUR" [...] (C) Summary: The Jordanian government appears set to release soon the four prisoners whom Israel turned over to Jordan in July 2007. The government justifies the move - which on the surface seems to contradict a bilateral Israeli-Jordanian understanding that they were to remain in jail for 1 [...] | 2008-08-18 15:47:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER JO IS |
08AMMAN2420 | JORDAN IPR UPDATE: PROGRESS IN REVISING LAWS AND [...] (U) Summary: Jordan has continued to take a number of steps to enhance its legislation and increase its capacity to protect intellectual property rights (IPR). With USG assistance, the National Library drafted new amendments to its copyright law to bring it into full compliance with the U.S.-J [...] | 2008-08-19 12:19:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR JO |
08AMMAN2421 | Jordan Puts Oil Shale Projects on Hold to Pursue Uranium [...] (SBU) Summary: Jordan released a new national energy strategy in December 2007 that identified various areas for increasing indigenous energy resources and reducing dependency on foreign oil (ref A). Given recent hikes in world crude prices, the Government of Jordan (GOJ) has faced pressure [...] | 2008-08-19 13:47:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON JO |
08AMMAN2422 | JORDAN NOMINATES TALEB RIFAI FOR SECGEN OF WORLD [...] (U) On August 17, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry informed Post via dipnote of its nomination of Dr. Taleb Rifai for the post of Secretary General of the UN World Tourism Organization. Post's informal translation of dipnote follows. Begin translated text: The Foreign Ministry of the Hashe [...] | 2008-08-19 13:48:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL UNGA JO |
08AMMAN2424 | JORDANIAN OFFICIALS MEET WITH HAMAS AND THE MUSLIM [...] (S) SUMMARY: Jordanian media outlets have reported in recent weeks that Lieutenant General Mohammad Dahabi, the head of the General Intelligence Department (GID),has held a series of separate meetings with members of the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (JMB) and its political party [...] | 2008-08-19 14:17:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PGOV PREL KISL KPAL JO |
08AMMAN2439 | GOVERNMENT EXPRESSES DISPLEASURE AT USG ESF [...] (C) In an August 14 meeting with RefCoord, Imran Riza, Country Representative for UNHCR in Jordan, reported that, on the margins of a meeting at the Foreign Ministry, officials raised the issue of the Jordan ESF supplemental appropriation with him. According to Riza, the officials said the USG [...] | 2008-08-20 14:18:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL IO JO |
08AMMAN2453 | JORDANIAN FM CONVENES P5 AMBASSADORS ON HARAM [...] (C) Foreign Minister Salah Al-Bashir, in a meeting convoked with less than a day's notice on August 21, convened the P5 Ambassadors in his office to convey Jordan's great concern that Israel was preparing - within the next month - to take unilateral steps to begin construction of a new ascent [...] | 2008-08-21 14:42:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL UNESCO JO IS KWBG |
08AMMAN2457 | FORWARD MOMENTUM, BUT IRAQ STILL A BITTER PILL FOR [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Jordanian officials have conveyed to us their satisfaction with the recent mutual measures between Jordan and Iraq to improve strained ties. Most notable have been the King's August 11 trip to Iraq, which made him the first Arab leader to do so since the fall of Sadda [...] | 2008-08-21 15:04:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR JO |
08AMMAN2459 | JAPANESE EMBASSY IN JORDAN ORGANIZED FORUM ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The Japanese Embassy in Jordan organized the "First Japan-Iraq Business Forum" in Amman in early July. Iraqi Vice President Tariq Al-Hashmi attended the event and urged Japanese companies to "invest in Iraq today" in order to secure future Iraqi oil supplies. The Iraqi Deputy [...] | 2008-08-21 15:42:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EINV ENRG IZ JA JO |
08AMMAN2460 | SHARED HOPES FOR A JORDANIAN-IRAQI FREE TRADE ZONE [...] (C) Summary. The Jordanian Free Trade Zones Corporation seeks to establish a mutual Free Trade Zone with Iraq in the Karama/Trebil border area by 2010. An investment forum to discuss the topic took place in late May in Amman. A prime developer expressed frustration that Jordan is dragging it [...] | 2008-08-21 15:44:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EINV IZ JO |
08AMMAN2483 | MFA SEES ISRAEL AS NONRESPONSIVE ON MUGHRABI GATE [...] (C) PolOff spoke on August 25 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Policy Planning and Research Director Omar Nahar, the MFA's pointman on the subject of a new access ramp to the Mughrabi Gate. The conversation took place days after Foreign Minister Salah Al-Bashir's convocation of the P5 and ot [...] | 2008-08-25 14:24:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL UNESCO JO IS KWBG |
08AMMAN2484 | KING'S RUSSIA VISIT AIMS TO BOLSTER TIES [...] (C) Summary and Comment: King Abdullah, accompanied by Royal Court Chief Bassem Awadallah, has just wrapped up an August 21-24 trip to Russia, where he met with both President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to discuss a range of bilateral and Middle Eastern issues. Coming on [...] | 2008-08-25 15:18:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RU JO |
08AMMAN2490 | PLANS FOR INCREASING COMPETITION IN JORDAN'S MOBILE PHONE [...] (SBU) Summary: The number of mobile phone subscribers in Jordan has risen to 4.8 million and represents an 84% penetration rate with possible room for growth. Jordan is currently served by four incumbent providers who view amenities as new ways to generate revenue. The Telecommunications Regu [...] | 2008-08-26 08:09:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINV TINT JO |
08AMMAN2506 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-27 11:11:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM EFIN JO |
08AMMAN2522 | JORDAN AND IRAQ REVIEWING OPTIONS OTHER THAN PARIS [...] (C) In an August 8 meeting with Foreign Minister Salah Al-Bashir, Charge d'Affaires Rubinstein urged the GOJ to offer Paris Club debt relief terms to Iraq. Bashir responded that Jordan and Iraq had discussed the issue during a recent meeting, but because the debt is to the Central Bank of Jor [...] | 2008-08-28 13:29:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL IZ JO |
08AMMAN255 | JORDANIAN NGOS QUESTION THEMSELVES AND RESOLVE TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOJ withdrew two highly controversial bills on professional associations and NGOs from Parliament on January 9. Minister of State for Media Affairs Nasser Judeh told the press that the withdrawal reflected "the government's keenness to proceed with political development an [...] | 2008-01-23 14:37:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM JO |
08AMMAN2564 | UNHCR Jordan: No Plans for Large-Scale Iraqi Repatriations [...] (SBU) Summary: A press report that Iraqi-chartered planes would fly Iraqi refugees home from Jordan before the end of Ramadan is an exaggeration. UNHCR-Jordan and the GOI discussed possible repatriation methods during a late August 2008 meeting. However, neither party committed to plans for [...] | 2008-09-03 13:22:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID IZ JO |
08AMMAN2566 | SECRETARY'S WOMEN LEADERS' WORKING GROUP: MINISTER [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 13:47:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KWMN UNGA JO |
08AMMAN2567 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA [...] (C) PolCouns delivered Ref A demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of International Organizations Ayman Al-Aamiry on September 2. Aamiry called the issue a "tough one" for Jordan, pointing to the impression of a double standard on the issue in light of Kosovo. While asserting tha [...] | 2008-09-03 13:55:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG RU JO |
08AMMAN257 | JORDANIAN CONDEMNATION OF AND DEMONSTRATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Jordanian officials up through King Abdullah and the Queen have reacted with dismay - and portions of the public (egged on by the Islamic Action Front) more angrily - to the intensification of Israel's "siege" of the Gaza Strip. The government has condemned Israeli policies and d [...] | 2008-01-23 15:00:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG JO IS |
08AMMAN2575 | JORDAN WARM TOWARD REGIONAL "QUINTET" [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 12:41:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ JO |
08AMMAN2576 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO JORDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 12:42:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN |
08AMMAN2577 | DELIVERY OF ARAB LEAGUE DEMARCHE TO JORDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 12:43:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL JO |
08AMMAN2578 | KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION: JORDAN NEITHER ENCOURAGES [...] (C) PolCouns delivered Ref A demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of International Organizations Ayman Al-Aamiry on September 2. Aamiry did not offer a substantive response but noted that the GOJ would not "publicly encourage" the resolution, although "it would like to see the ma [...] | 2008-09-04 12:55:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL UNGA KV UN |
08AMMAN2579 | JORDAN'S REACTION TO MAURITANIA COUP LINKED TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 13:23:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | AG EG IS JO KDEM LY MO MR PREL QA SA |
08AMMAN2582 | IRAQI REFUGEES GAIN ACCESS TO JORDANIAN PUBLIC [...] On August 31, 2008, representatives of USAID met together with UNHCR, UNICEF, the European Commission, and the Jordanian Ministries of Education and Finance to discuss education programs for Iraqi refugees. Dr. Akour, Director of General Education, chaired the meeting. 2. The Ministry o [...] | 2008-09-04 13:55:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID JO |
08AMMAN2585 | MAJALI RALLIES HIS NEW POLITICAL PARTY, AND [...] (C) Summary: The National Trend bloc of Lower House Speaker Abdulhadi Al-Majali is now well on the road to becoming a political party. Despite some last minute defections, the group has held its organizing conference and is currently drawing up the necessary paperwork to formally register as [...] | 2008-09-07 05:41:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM JO |
08AMMAN2599 | UNHCR Jordan Budget and Program planning for [...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR Jordan Deputy Representative Arafat Jamal told RefCoord September 3 that the UNHCR 09 budget would be approximately 44 million USD. Some of those funds, he noted, would go directly to Jordanian line ministries that provide services to Iraqi refugees. Food distribution wo [...] | 2008-09-08 12:25:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID JO |
08AMMAN26 | GOJ ELIMINATES CUSTOMS DUTIES AND TAXES ON 13 FOOD ITEMS IN [...] SUMMARY: Jordan's Cabinet agreed on January 2 to abolish customs fees and sales tax on 13 common foodstuffs in response to rising world food prices. Prime Minister Dahabi also called upon the private sector to lower its prices and profit margins on these products or risk government pricing. F [...] | 2008-01-06 09:19:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD PGOV BTIO JO |
08AMMAN2600 | Workers Strike at Mediterranean Resources Apparel Industry [...] (SBU) Approximately 1,080 foreign workers at the Emirati Mediterranean Resources Apparel Industry (MRAI) factory in Ad-Dulayl Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) went on strike August 31. They have demanded the end of a JD 25 ($35.31) monthly deduction for food from their base salary, which was [...] | 2008-09-08 12:25:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON ETRD EAID KTIP KTEX JO |
08AMMAN261 | Labor Ministry Closes Cotton Craft Factory Due to Repeated [...] (U) On January 16, Jordan's Ministry of Labor (MOL) shut down the "Cotton Craft" factory in al-Tajamouat Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) in Sahab after repeated labor violations were identified during MOL inspections and cited in National Labor Committee (NLC) reports (reftels). 2. (SBU) [...] | 2008-01-24 13:44:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD EAID KTEX ECON JO |
08AMMAN2628 | JORDAN ARMED FORCES SEES OPPORTUNITY IN ISF [...] (C) Jordan Armed Forces (JAF) Director of Strategic Planning Brigadier General Mohammad Farghal welcomed news of the USG plan to strengthen the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF; reftel). After being briefed September 3 by DATT and Poloff, Farghal offered assistance in the form of third-party transf [...] | 2008-09-09 15:24:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ JO MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PINS |
08AMMAN2632 | KING: JORDAN MAY BRING MUGHRABI GATE TO [...] (C) King Abdullah voiced his concerns to Ambassador on September 7 about Israel's plans for a new ascent to the Mughrabi Gate entrance to the Temple Mount/Haram Al-Sharif. Repeating and emphasizing points that Jordanian officials have raised with increasing urgency over the past few weeks (re [...] | 2008-09-10 11:16:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL UNESCO KWBG IS JO |
08AMMAN2633 | GOVERNMENT TO RECONSIDER LAW ON ASSOCIATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's government announced on September 8 its intention to revisit the controversial Law on Associations (Refs A-D). PM Dahabi convened civil society leaders to manage expectations and chart a way forward. Initial indications are that civil society remains split on how far to [...] | 2008-09-10 13:36:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM JO |
08AMMAN2636 | IMC Syria Satisfied with Programming but Troubled [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 4, 2008, RefCoord Frederick and Project Management Specialist Halasa met with International Medical Corps (IMC) Syria Director Hussein Ibrahim in Amman. Ibrahim said he was satisfied with the progress of IMC programming in Syria. Clinics are operational and recei [...] | 2008-09-10 13:47:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID JO |
08AMMAN264 | STAFFDEL CAMMACK VIEWS IRAQIS IN JORDAN THROUGH [...] (C) Summary: During their January 6-7 visit to Amman, Staffdel Cammack (Senate Committee staff members Perry Cammack and Sharon Waxman) visited with senior GOJ officials and were shepherded though Amman by UNHCR, which gave them open access to its registration office, community centers, medic [...] | 2008-01-24 14:17:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV SOCI EAID IZ JO |
08AMMAN2649 | JORDANIAN PROSECUTOR PURSUES CASE CRIMINALIZING [...] (C) Dr. Hassan Al-Abdallat, the Prosecutor General in Amman, is pursuing a criminal case against 12 Europeans, including Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and Dutch MP (and film maker) Geert Wilders, for criticizing Islam. The lawsuit was brought by Zakaria al-Sheikh, founder of "The Prophe [...] | 2008-09-11 14:22:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM JO |
08AMMAN265 | CODEL PRICE DISCUSSES JORDANIAN POLITICAL REFORM, [...] (C) Summary: During the January 9-11 visit to Jordan of Codel Price (comprising Representatives David Price, Harold Rogers, Dennis Rehberg, James Moran, Michael Simpson, and Eleanor Holmes Norton, all of the House Appropriations Committee),the group and their staffers met with Chief of the [...] | 2008-01-24 15:21:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL JO IS SY IZ |