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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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08LISBON2785PORTUGAL TERRORISM FINANCE: UN DESIGNATION OF FOUR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-17 11:36:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC PO
08LISBON2788PORTUGAL: NUCLEAR ENERGY OVERVIEW
[...] The following presents the information requested reftel regarding civilian nuclear energy in Portugal, provided by Teresa Tavares, Deputy for International Relations at the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Bento Morais Sarmento, Deputy Director of the General Directorate of Energy and [...]
2008-12-18 11:57:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO PGOV PO
08LISBON2789PORTUGAL UNDERSTANDS SECURITY NEEDS FOR 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-18 16:02:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDAF PREL MOPS MARR PO
08LISBON2791PORTUGAL: UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL ELECTION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-19 10:41:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNESCO PO
08LISBON286PORTUGAL: CY 2007 STAFFING LISTS AND BUDGETARY
[...] Per reftel, below are staff lists and extrabudgetary data on the International Lead and Zinc Study Group (ILZSG) and the International Copper Study Group (ICSG). 2. STAFF LISTS -------------- * * * * * ILZSG * * * * * NAME POSITION CITIZENSHIP GRADE Smale, [...]
2008-02-04 12:36:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDAORC APER ECON KUNR OECD POL UN APECO UNESCO
08LISBON327DEMARCHE REQUEST: PORTUGUESE SUPPORT FOR LEBANON
[...] (C) Pol/econ counselor delivered reftel talking points and note verbale to MFA Middle East Director Isabel Pedrosa on February 7. Pedrosa said Portugal is "very much in tune" with U.S. priorities in Lebanon. She agreed on the importance of getting the Tribunal up and running and has recomm [...]
2008-02-08 16:58:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM EFIN EINV LE SY PO
08LISBON35PORTUGAL'S ISAF CAVEATS
[...] (U) Even before my arrival in Portugal, the status of Portugal's contributions to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan was the most significant issue on our agenda. Following a review of the SHAPE Caveat Report, I believe it important to comment on the caveat prio [...]
2008-01-07 13:40:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR MOPS PREL AF PO
08LISBON350PORTUGUESE LAMENT ELUSIVENESS OF EU KOSOVO UNITY,
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The Portuguese MFA political director said he expects the EU to take as long as a week or two to achieve a consensus EU reaction to a Kosovar declaration of independence. He said some member states have made preparations difficult, that final negotiations cannot take place un [...]
2008-02-12 17:12:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EUN PGOV MOPS PO ZL
08LISBON351TIMOR LESTE: IN AFTERMATH OF ASSASSINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-12 17:40:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALMARR PO TL PREL
08LISBON353DEMARCHE ON EU REGULATORY COMMITTEE FEBRUARY 12
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-13 07:41:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALEAGR ETRD PO TBIO EUN
08LISBON395PORTUGAL ON KOSOVO IN OSCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-15 09:58:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV UN YI EU PREL OSCE PO
08LISBON410FM AMADO, AMBASSADOR DISCUSS KOSOVO, AFGHANISTAN,
[...] (C) In a one-on-lunch with the Ambassador on February 14, FM Luis Amado said he would push for Portugal to be among the first wave of countries recognizing Kosovo, if there is agreement on an EU umbrella statement. Amado is pushing for a Portuguese commitment to lead a second OMLT in Afghanis [...]
2008-02-15 17:12:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MARR PO
08LISBON427PORTUGUESE POSITIONS IN ADVANCE OF FEBRUARY 18-19
[...] (U) Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha stressed that the February GAERC would be focused heavily on how to coordinate a unified response to a Kosovar coordinated declaration of independence (CDI). In addition, she responded to reftel points on the Middle East, Chad, Kenya, and Myanmar [...]
2008-02-19 12:19:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV EUN PO
08LISBON433PORTUGAL: RECENT COMMERCIAL SUCCESS STORIES
[...] Per reftel, post reports the following commercial success story: DATE: September 16, 2007 POST/DEPARTMENT OFFICE: FCS, ODC, Pol/Econ COUNTRY: Portugal COMPANY: Lockheed Martin MS2 Tactical Systems COMPANY/HEADQUARTERS (state/zip): MN/55121-2034 ISSUE/PROJECT: In early 2007, Embas [...]
2008-02-20 11:05:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ECON EINV PO
08LISBON441PORTUGAL: SPECIAL 301 WATCH LIST NOT RECOMMENDED
[...] (SBU) Post recommends that Portugal remain off the 2008 Special 301 Watch List. Overall, intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in Portugal is adequate and IPR legislation is generally consistent with WTO rules, EU directives, and the trade-related intellectual property (TRIPS) provision [...]
2008-02-21 07:37:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KIPR PO
08LISBON442PORTUGAL: INPUT FOR CONGRESSIONAL REPORT ON ENERGY
[...] The following responses are keyed to paragraph four of reftel: A.) The Political/Economic (P/E) and the Foreign Commercial Service (FCS) sections are the two offices tasked with handling energy matters at post. The P/E Section has 8 employees: 5 Foreign Service Officers - P/E Counsel [...]
2008-02-21 07:37:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV APER ABUD PO
08LISBON464PORTUGAL: CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED REPORT ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-22 15:33:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PO PREL
08LISBON467KOSOVO: TIMING OF PORTUGUESE RECOGNITION REMAINS
[...] (C) In several discussions with senior Portuguese officials on February 22 on the margins of the U.S.-Portugal Bilateral Commission, Ambassador and visiting PDAS Kurt Volker, per ref A, pressed hard for Portugal to recognize Kosovo as soon as possible. Volker noted Kosovo's unique history an [...]
2008-02-22 17:00:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL UNMIK PO EU
08LISBON492POSSIBLE PORTUGUESE-IRANIAN GAS AGREEMENT ON THE
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Luis Amado confirmed during a January 23 press conference that Portugal's largest energy company, Galp Energia, and Iran's National Oil Company, NIOC, are in negotiations over a natural gas exploration and production project in Iran. The Ministries of Foreign Affairs and [...]
2008-02-26 17:58:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG ECON TRGY PO IR RS AG
08LISBON509PORTUGUESE RESPOND TO COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Portugal has several suggestions and goals to ensure active participation in the Community of Democracies (CD),clear missions with results, and reforms to reinvigorate non-Convening Group member states, according to MFA Deputy DG Antonio Ricoca Freire. Nevertheless, the MFA ha [...]
2008-02-27 16:50:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PHUM PREL PO
08LISBON510PORTUGAL-U.S. BILATERAL COMMISSION; KOSOVO,
[...] (U) Summary. The 23rd U.S.-Portugal Bilateral Commission examined the state of the bilateral relationship. Portugal will not remove its battalion in Kosovo, supports NATO membership for three MAP countries, and will present its action plan for the Community of Democracies in the near future. [...]
2008-02-27 16:50:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MOPS KDEM PGOV ELAB PO XH AF
08LISBON511PORTUGAL: NO CHANGE IN CUBA POLICY
[...] (SBU) The selection of Raul Castro as Cuba's president will not alter Portugal's support for the EU's dual-track approach of pressing for political reform while actively engaging members of civil society. The MFA Americas Director does not foresee any radical change but does see possible eco [...]
2008-02-27 17:05:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPGOV CU EUN PREL PO
08LISBON512PORTUGAL OPEN TO DISCUSSING IEA MEMBERSHIP FOR
[...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Officer delivered reftel talking points to the MFA's Director of International Economic Organizations Jose Rui Caroco and Senior Advisor on International Organizations and Economic Affairs Duarte Nuno G.J. Pinto da Rocha. Caroco stated that even though the IEA requires that its [...]
2008-02-27 17:06:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDENRG IEA PO
08LISBON513PORTUGAL: S&T SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING HIGHLIGHTS
[...] In preparation for the February 21 Bilateral Commission, Embassy officials met with Portuguese counterparts on February 14 to review and discuss bilateral science and technology (S&T) cooperation. Discussions focused on climate change, renewable energies, and the Embassy Science Fellows (ESF) [...]
2008-02-27 17:07:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDTSPA TBIO SENV PREL PO
08LISBON584PORTUGAL WAITING FOR EU GUIDANCE ON VISA WAIVER
[...] (SBU) On March 5, 2008, Embassy Lisbon's Consul General delivered reftel points to representatives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, top officials indicated that Portugal 'fully shares' the EU Commission's view that visa [...]
2008-03-07 12:16:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKJUS KPAO CMGT CVIS PGOV PREL PTER PO
08LISBON594PORTUGUESE VIEWS ON THE MARCH GAERC
[...] (SBU) Assistant EU Correspondent Pedro Severo de Almeida responded to the reftel points with Portugal's views in advance of March's GAERC meeting. He confirmed that the ministers planned to discuss the Balkans, Middle East Peace Process, Zimbabwe, Georgia, and Iran. He also noted the possibil [...]
2008-03-10 12:47:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAF IR GG IS PREL PGOV PO
08LISBON595U.S.-PORTUGAL COLLABORATION IN AFRICA
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 12 for details. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) AF/RSA Office Director Louis Mazel met in Lisbon with Portuguese officials from the Ministries of Interior, Justice, and Foreign Affairs on February 20-21 to discuss ongoing trilateral assistan [...]
2008-03-10 13:15:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL SNAR PHUM MASS PINR KJUS ETRD SMIG PO
08LISBON606PDAS VOLKER AND PORTUGUESE POLITICAL DIRECTOR;
[...] (U) Summary: During PDAS Volker's visit to Lisbon for the February 22 Bilateral Commission (septel),Volker and Ambassador Stephenson met privately with Foreign Ministry Political Director Ambassador Vasco Bramao Ramos and, later in the day, with the Secretary of State for Defense, Joao Mira G [...]
2008-03-11 15:19:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PHUM KDEM AF EUN PO
08LISBON611PORTUGAL'S ADDITIONAL ISAF CONTRIBUTIONS
[...] (U) Action request. See paragraphs 6 and 7. 2. (C) Summary. The Portuguese Defense Minister told us Portugal will announce the contribution of a second OMLT before the Bucharest Summit. To encourage additional contributions, we recommend that other ISAF allies and the NATO SYG engage the [...]
2008-03-12 09:39:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNAF PREL MOPS MARR PO
08LISBON624PORTUGAL SUPPORTS IPCC LANGUAGE TO REDUCE GHG
[...] (C) EU member states, including Portugal, strongly support Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) language suggesting Annex 1 countries collectively reduce their emissions by 25-40% by 2020, according to a high-ranking Environment Ministry official who characterized the proposal as [...]
2008-03-12 17:14:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALENRG SENV KGHG EUN PO
08LISBON678FM AMADO AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS LAJES AIR BASE,
[...] (S) The Ambassador told FM Amado on March 19 that Lajes Air Base is important but not crucial to the United States, so it made sense to think about possible new missions that would make the base more attractive. They agreed to move forward with military-to-military exploration of a new train [...]
2008-03-19 16:54:00Embassy LisbonSECRETPREL PO IR
08LISBON685GALP - IRAN: AGREEMENT UNLIKELY IN SHORT TERM
[...] (C) Summary: The largest shareholder in Galp, Portugal's largest energy company, told us that reports of a Galp deal with Iran were overstated. He said Galp's discussions with Iran were only to maintain contact for concrete collaboration in the future, when the political environment is more [...]
2008-03-20 09:54:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALIR PO ENRG EPET ETTC PREL
08LISBON70TREATY OF LISBON: PORTUGAL TO AVOID REFERENDUM
[...] (U) Portuguese Prime Minister Socrates confirmed in the National Assembly January 9 that he will not submit the EU reform treaty (the "Treaty of Lisbon") to a national referendum. Instead, he will send it to the National Assembly for parliamentary ratification. 2. (U) Socrates' governing S [...]
2008-01-09 16:41:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PO
08LISBON777PORTUGAL'S VIEWS ON BUCHAREST NATO SUMMIT
[...] Summary. The Government of Portugal expects the NATO Summit to be dominated by three topics: Russia, operations, and enlargement. On Russia, the Portuguese stress engagement and believe that true progress is available regarding CFE and missile defense. The Portuguese avoided discussions re [...]
2008-03-28 16:51:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MOPS PREL RS PO
08LISBON787PORTUGAL APPROVES CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION
[...] Chief of Mission approves the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) request to establish a permanent Container Security Initiative (CSI) presence in Lisbon with two (2) direct-hire Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and one (1) Locally Employed Staff based on the justifications outli [...]
2008-03-31 10:15:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDAODE AMGT KMRS PO
08LISBON793PORTUGAL'S ECONOMY SURPASSING EXPECTATIONS,
[...] For the second year in a row, the Government of Portugal has exceeded its own economic benchmarks, registering 1.9% GDP growth in 2007 vs. the projected 1.8 % and lowering the budget deficit below the eurozone 3.0% limit to 2.6%, a year ahead of schedule. These positive results validate the [...]
2008-03-31 16:42:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD PO
08LISBON811SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS TO
[...] (SBU) Mr. Director: Your visit to Portugal will be the first high-level ONDCP visit since 1998 and underscores both our interest and concern about increasing cocaine flows through Portugal into Europe. As you may know, Portugal saw a marked increase in cocaine seizures in 2005 and 2006, fol [...]
2008-04-03 08:57:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV PREL ASEC PO
08LISBON874PORTUGAL STRENGTHENS ITS COUNTERTERRORISM TOOLS
[...] (C) Portugal has faced a lower threat profile than nearby European nations despite its proximity to past terrorism targets like Spain, the UK, and Morocco. Nevertheless, the government of Portugal (GOP) has heeded the warnings from the attacks in London in 2005 and Madrid in 2004 by enhancing [...]
2008-04-10 16:55:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREL PO
08LISBON886LISBON-MADRID JOINT COUNTRY TEAM
[...] This is a joint message from Embassies Lisbon and Madrid. 2. SUMMARY: On March 25, the Country Teams of Embassies Lisbon and Madrid met to discuss law enforcement issues, counter-terrorism, common multilateral challenges, military cooperation strategy, and cost savings measures, as well as [...]
2008-04-11 17:32:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT BMGT SP PO
08LISBON941PORTUGAL: REQUEST FOR EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS IN
[...] Embassy Lisbon requests Science Fellows for 2008/2009 to expand the Embassy's contacts with Portuguese counterparts and to develop direct relationships with research institutions. The Science Fellow Program also plays a valuable role in our ongoing S&T cooperation with Portugal as required b [...]
2008-04-17 15:53:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDKSAC TSPL SENV AMGT APER OTRA PO
08LISBON963ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS' VISIT: DRUG FLOWS TO EUROPE
[...] (U) In meetings with Portuguese counternarcotics officials, Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director John P. Walters noted there has been a noticeable decrease in the supply of cocaine in the U.S. market and noted that there were anecdotal reports of increased demand in Europe. [...]
2008-04-22 10:52:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL SOCI PO
08LISBON969PORTUGAL'S IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] On April 4, poleconoff delivered reftel points to Goncalo Silvestre, the MFA's Attache for International Organizations, encouraging early implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR) in light of continuing global threats to public health. Silvestre noted that Portugal is adopt [...]
2008-04-22 15:20:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDAORC PREL TBIO WHO
08LJUBLJANA101SLOVENIA: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2008
[...] (U) This message transmits post's contribution to the Department of State's eighth annual report on Trafficking in Persons. Responses below are keyed to questions in paras 27-30 of reftel A. Embassy POC is Political Officer Albert Kraaimoore; tel. 386-1-200-5676, fax 386-1-200-5650. Based o [...]
2008-03-03 11:21:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KCRM KFRD KWMJN PHUM PREF SMIG SI
08LJUBLJANA107INTERIOR MINISTER ON VWP, DATA SHARING, AND MORE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) In a March 5 meeting with Charge dQAffaires (CDA) Maryruth Coleman, Interior Minister Dragutin Mate offered insight into the European UnionQs internal divisions over the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP),[...]
2008-03-05 15:40:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALCVIS PGOV PREL EUN ASEC SI
08LJUBLJANA108SLOVENIAN NGOs ENGAGE ON CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT
[...] (SBU) On February 27, two local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) organized a roundtable entitled "Climate and Development" to bring attention to the growing concerns in Slovenia regarding climate change. The roundtable attracted senior-level politicians and experts from the field of clim [...]
2008-03-05 15:59:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SENV ENRG BEXP PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA113SLOVENIA RECOGNIZES KOSOVO
[...] (U) On March 5, Slovenia's Parliament convened in an extraordinary session and voted 57-4 to recognize Kosovo. It approved the Government's Conclusion on the Recognition of Kosovo, which the Cabinet had adopted on February 21 (ref A). The MPs supported the position of FM Rupel, who represente [...]
2008-03-06 11:45:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL UN PGOV YI EUN KV SI
08LJUBLJANA114SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF MARCH 10-11 GAERC
[...] (C) In their March 5 meeting, European Correspondent Aljaz Arih told ADCM that the Foreign Ministers would issue Council conclusions on Bosnia and Herzogovina, the Stability Pact/Regional Cooperation Council (RCC),Afghanistan, Pakistan, the WTO, and Zimbabwe. He noted that other than the Cou [...]
2008-03-06 11:49:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV ZL PK AF ZI IR GG IS SY LE SI
08LJUBLJANA115SCENESETTER FOR A/G MUKASEY AND DHS CHERTOFF VISIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: We are looking forward to your visit. You will be the first USG Cabinet level visitors to Slovenia since it assumed the EU Presidency at the beginning of this year, and your meetings and events during your stay should bolster our already close ties with this country. From the o [...]
2008-03-06 16:09:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL CVIS PGOV EUN ASEC OVIP SI
08LJUBLJANA116DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES HOLDS HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 15, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Erica Barks-Ruggles and Director of Office of Human Rights, Humanitarian and Social Affairs, Bureau of International Organizations, Doug Rohn held bilateral and U.S.-EU consultations wi [...]
2008-03-07 07:20:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA118SLOVENIA CLEANING ITS ECONOMIC HOUSE
[...] (SBU) The Government of Slovenia (GOS) is making a strong push to investigate and convict people guilty of economic crimes. The Office of the State Prosecutor General (Office) has been hampered by a lack of coordination between its office and the police, and its small work force. In response [...]
2008-03-07 15:18:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETRD PREL PGOV KCOR KJUS ASEC SI
08LJUBLJANA121SLOVENIA SAYS COUNCIL LIKELY TO GO FORWARD WITH
[...] (SBU) On March 11, Emboff briefed reftel talking points on U.S.-EU climate change cooperation to Andrej Kranjc--Secretary for International Relations at the Slovenian Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning--who is Slovenia's national coordinator on climate change issues. Kranjc took note [...]
2008-03-11 14:31:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA122SLOVENIA CONSIDERING EU PRESIDENCY STATEMENT
[...] (SBU) On March 12, Emboff met with Polonca Smole, desk officer for Iran at the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),to urge Slovenia, in its role as president of the Council of the European Union, to issue a statement after Iran's parliamentary elections condemning the elections for [...]
2008-03-13 07:08:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIR KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA126CHARGE DISCUSSES CLIMATE CHANGE, U.S.-EU SUMMIT
[...] (C) On March 13, Charge met with Slovenian Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Janez Podobnik and ministry spokesperson Emil Ferjancic--both of whom attended the March 7 U.S.-EU High-Level Dialogue (HLD) on Climate Change--to discuss climate change issues with an eye to possible deli [...]
2008-03-18 05:17:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALENRG SENV KGHG EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA127SLOVENIA AGREES WITH U.S. VIEWS ON BURMA
[...] (SBU) On March 18, Emboff met with Matjaz Marko from the Asia and Pacific Division at the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver reftel talking points urging Slovenia to make clear to the Burmese regime that the planned May referendum on the regime's draft constitution should adhere [...]
2008-03-18 15:14:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM BM SI
08LJUBLJANA134USAID LAC A/A BONICELLI DISCUSSES CUBAN TRANSITION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 13 - 14, USAID Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean Paul Bonicelli met with Slovene officials to discuss U.S. - EU cooperation on development assistance to Cuba if and when a true transition on the island occurs. All Slovene officials agreed that d [...]
2008-03-24 06:58:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAD PGOV CU SI
08LJUBLJANA136SLOVENIA: DERMACHE DELIVERED ON PROPOSED NATO STATEMENT ON CFE
[...] (C) On March 25, Emboff delivered reftel points, cover letter, and draft proposed CFE statement to MFA Security Policy Division official Darija Goroz, who stated that the GOS will review the proposed statement and provide a response as soon as possible. COLEMAN [...]
2008-03-25 15:22:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL RS KCFE MARR GG MD SI NATO
08LJUBLJANA137SLOVENIA TO WAIT AND SEE ON BELARUS
[...] (C) On March 25, ADCM met with COEST Chair Darja Bavdaz Kuret to stress the importance of U.S.-EU unity in dealing with Belarus (reftel),highlighting that a public statement would be very helpful as a follow-on to the French demarche made in Minsk last week. Bavdaz Kuret said that the French [...]
2008-03-25 15:54:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM BO EU SI
08LJUBLJANA141SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF MARCH 28-29 GYMNICH
[...] (C) On March 26, A/DCM delivered reftel's points on the March 28-29 Gymnich to European Correspondent Aljaz Arih. Arih noted that, in keeping with Slovenia's focus on the Balkans during its Presidency, FM Rupel had decided to devote the second day of the informal FMs' meeting to the Western Ba [...]
2008-03-26 11:44:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV ZL PHUM IS SY LE RS CH SI
08LJUBLJANA142EU COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS - LISBON STRATEGY, CLIMATE AND
[...] (U) The March 13-14 European Council resulted in the launch of the second cycle of the renewed Lisbon Strategy for Growth and Jobs, ratification of the EU's climate and energy package, and proposals to create greater stability in the financial markets. Slovenian Prime Minister and EU Council [...]
2008-03-26 15:35:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETRD PREL PGOV SENV ENRG EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA144U.S.-EU JHA Ministerial Meeting Holds Productive Sessions
[...] (U) Slovenian Interior Minister Dragutin Mate and Justice Minister Lovro Sturm hosted Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, and European Commission Vice-President and Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini on March 12-13 for the [...]
2008-03-27 15:11:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER CVIS SMIG SNAR PREL KCRM KFRD EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA145SLOVENIA'S EXPECTATIONS FOR NATO BUCHAREST SUMMIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 26, MFA Director of Division for Security Policy Stanislav Vidovic discussed with Emboff Slovenia's expectations for the April 2 - 4 NATO Summit in Bucharest. Vidovic expressed doubt that Slovenia will announce any increase or restructuring of its International Security [...]
2008-03-27 15:52:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR EUN SI NATO
08LJUBLJANA146SLOVENIAN EU PRESIDENCY AT THE HALFWAY POINT
[...] (C) Slovenia has made the most of its limited resources during the first three months of its EU presidency by focusing on what it knows best and turning to outside sources for assistance in other areas. Slovenia appears more amenable than many previous small-country presidencies to seek guid [...]
2008-03-28 15:53:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL CVIS PGOV EUN ASEC OVIP SI
08LJUBLJANA156HARRAHQS INVESTMENT PLAN FALLS THROUGH
[...] (C) On March 31, an advisor to HarrahQs Entertainment informed Charge that HarrahQs has ended its efforts to develop an entertainment/casino center in western Slovenia with the Slovenian state-owned gaming company Hit. HarrahQs executives sent private letters on March 31 to Prime Minister Jan [...]
2008-04-01 13:53:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETRD SI
08LJUBLJANA159ECOFIN CONCLUSIONS - FIGHTING INFLATION,
[...] (SBU) The Informal Meeting of the Ministers for Economic and Financial Affairs (ECOFIN) held at Brdo April 4-5 produced no surprises as the Minsters for Finance and European Central Bank (ECB) governors from the 15 eurogroup members met to discuss "efficient and effective" strategies for contr [...]
2008-04-07 18:03:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETRD PREL PGOV EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA161SLOVENIA AND U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AGREE ON IMPORTANCE OF THE TEC
[...] (C/NF) In April 3 meetings with Dan Christman, Senior Vice President of International Relations at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, senior officials from the Ministry of Economy (MoE) and MFA stressed that the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) was very important for Slovenia and that it was im [...]
2008-04-09 14:09:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON ETRD EUN SI PGOV
08LJUBLJANA176AS ITF CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF DEMINING, PM/WRA
[...] (C) On April 10 - 11, PM/WRA Office Director Richard Kidd and Senior Advisor on Conventional Weapons Destruction Mark Adams visited Ljubljana to attend the 20th Session of the International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims Assistance (ITF) Advisory Board and an Honorary Session to mark [...]
2008-04-16 15:09:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MCAP PGOV SI
08LJUBLJANA183SLOVENIAN AGRICULTURE MINISTER TO ATTEND CSD-16
[...] (U) On April 21, Emboffs delivered reftel points to MFA International Development and Humanitarian Assistance Minister Plenipotentiary, Ales Verdir, who stated that although Slovenia appreciates U.S. concerns regarding a Zimbabwean chair of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD),[...]
2008-04-22 13:33:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV AORC PREL EAGR EUN EAID ECON SI
08LJUBLJANA185SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF APRIL 28-29 GAERC
[...] (C) On April 24, A/DCM delivered the April 28-29 GAERC points to European Correspondent Aljaz Arih. Arih said that the GAERC would issue conclusions on Burma, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, and the Western Balkans. He noted that Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and China/Tibet/Olympics were not on the agenda. [...]
2008-04-24 13:23:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV ZL PK AF ZI IR GG IS SI
08LJUBLJANA186SLOVENIAN PRESIDENCY ISSUES STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF
[...] (SBU) On April 22, Emboffs delivered reftel points to MFA Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Division, Ambassador Darja Bavdaz Kuret, raising our opposition to the upgrading of Russian relations with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Bavdaz Kuret said that the Slovenian EU Presidency had i [...]
2008-04-24 14:38:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN GG RU SI
08LJUBLJANA188SLOVENIA ENCOURAGES GREECE AND MACEDONIA TO
[...] (C) On April 22, Emboffs met with MFA Security Policy Division official Darja Golez to deliver reftel points asking Slovenia to urge Greek leadership to renew its commitment and exert greater flexibility in negotiating a solution to the Macedonia name issue. Golez stressed that Slovenia strongl [...]
2008-04-25 14:44:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NATO GR MK SI
08LJUBLJANA189USDOC DYCK VISIT TO SLOVENIA FOCUSED ON TEC AND BILATERAL
[...] (SBU) U.S. Department of Commerce's (DOC) Deputy Assistant Secretary Paul Dyck's early April meetings with senior officials SIPDIS from the Slovene government centered on the importance of moving the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) forward and stressed the value of increasing bilateral [...]
2008-04-28 07:29:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETRD PREL PGOV EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA195RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AGRICULTURAL
[...] (U) Slovenia is an EU and eurozone member with a high level of political and economic stability. Rising food prices have not yet had any environmental impact in Slovenia. The main political and economic impact of increases in consumer food prices in Slovenia is in regards to inflation. Slov [...]
2008-04-30 10:46:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA197SLOVENIAN PRESIDENCY NOT SOFTENING POSITION ON
[...] (C) On April 28, Emboff met with MFA Asia, Africa, and Pacific Division Minister Plenipotentiary Jasna Lhotka and Third Secretary Matjaz Marko to deliver reftel points noting the softer language on the Chinese arms embargo in the EU-Japan Summit Joint Statement, and expressing our belief that [...]
2008-04-30 13:43:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PHUM JA EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA20EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS LUNCH FOCUSES ON KOSOVO
[...] (C) At the January 11 EU luncheon, EUR A/S Dan Fried urged the EU Political Directors not to delay Kosovo's independence, anticipated after the second round of the Serbian elections February 3. The Slovenian Chair, Political Director Mitja Drobnic, and A/S Fried both recognized how far the EU [...]
2008-01-15 16:20:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV ECON ENRG SI
08LJUBLJANA200SLOVENIAN EU PRESIDENCY CALLING FOR FREE AND FAIR
[...] (C) On May 5, Emboff met with MFA Asia, Africa, and Pacific Division Third Secretary Matjaz Marko to deliver reftel points urging the GOS to join the US in speaking out against the flawed May 10 referendum in the pre- and post-referendum periods. Marko said the Slovenian EU Presidency had pr [...]
2008-05-05 15:50:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM BM SI
08LJUBLJANA203SLOVENIA'S MINISTER OF ECONOMY SUPPORTIVE OF TEC
[...] (C) In a May 6 meeting with Charge, Minister of Economy Andrej Vizjak strongly agreed with our overall assessment that the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) is an excellent vehicle to raise complicated regulatory issues at the political level to effect change. He insisted that European eco [...]
2008-05-07 14:47:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EUN EINV ETRD SI
08LJUBLJANA205SLOVENIA SUPPORTS LIMITED CHANGES TO OSLO PROCESS
[...] (C) On May 8, EmbOff delivered reftel points to Robert Strazisar, MFA Security Policy Division official and a Slovenian delegate to the May 19 Oslo Process negotiating session in Dublin, urging that Slovenia not take any action relating to the Oslo Process that would have a negative effect on [...]
2008-05-09 14:13:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALMOPS PARM PREL NATO UN SI
08LJUBLJANA206SLOVENIA: NO OBJECTION TO UNSCR 1267 TERRORISM
[...] (C) On May 8, EmbOff informed Andrej Slapnicar, MFA Security Policy official and EU COTER Chair, of the U.S. intention to request the listing under UNSCR 1267 of the Kuwait-based international Islamic charity Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) and all its branches and to convey the req [...]
2008-05-09 14:13:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL KU SI
08LJUBLJANA207SLOVENIA SENDS AID TO BURMA AND WORKS ON LARGER EU
[...] (C) In a meeting with MFA State Secretary Matjaz Sinkovec on May 9, Charge d,Affaires Maryruth Coleman inquired about the GOS relief efforts to Burma and urged the GOS to join the U.S. in encouraging the Burmese regime to allow international relief teams access to the affected areas as soon as [...]
2008-05-09 14:15:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID BM SI
08LJUBLJANA208EU TRANSPORT MINISTERS FOCUS ON TRAN-EUROPEAN
[...] (U) At their May 6 informal meeting, EU transport ministers examined the status of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) and discussed measures needed to reduce carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2020. At a related press conference, Slovene Minister of Transport and Transport Council p [...]
2008-05-12 12:25:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALECON ELTN EAIR EWWT SENV PGOV EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA210WIPO DIRECTOR GENERAL ELECTION - SLOVENIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-13 11:23:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR AORC ETRD PREL WIPO SI
08LJUBLJANA212SLOVENIA: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF THE
[...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Slovenia for the U.S.-EU Summit provides an excellent opportunity to acknowledge the remarkable progress made in this small but dynamic country since your visit in 2001. Over the past seven years, Slovenia's own accomplishments reflect progress to a Europe that is [...]
2008-05-14 07:07:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA215SLOVENIA: NO OBJECTION TO UNSCR 1267 TERRORISM
[...] (C) On May 13, EmbOff informed Andrej Slapnicar, MFA Security Policy official and EU COTER Chair, of the U.S. intention to request that the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee add the names of three individuals (Bahrainis 'Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Jaffar 'Ali, Adil Muhammad Mahmud Abd al-Khaliq, and Qat [...]
2008-05-15 16:04:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL BA QA SI
08LJUBLJANA216SLOVENIA AND THE DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN
[...] (U) In support of the Day of Solidarity With the Cuban People May 21 event, post will place the Washington-drafted op-ed in Vecer, one of Slovenia's largest dailies. We expect the op-ed will also be picked up by the national wire service and other national papers. From May 20 to 23, the Embassy [...]
2008-05-20 08:39:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM KPAO PHUM PREL EUN CU SI
08LJUBLJANA218SLOVENIA FOLLOWS EU POSITION ON LEBANON CRISIS AND
[...] (C) On May 19, EmbOff delivered reftel points to Miljan Majhen, MFA Minister Plenipotentiary in the Division for Asia, Africa and the Pacific and European Union (EU) COMEM and COMAG Chair, conveying strong support of the Arab League's mediation of the Lebanon crisis and for the agreement annou [...]
2008-05-20 16:17:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL LE SY IR SI
08LJUBLJANA219CONGRESSMAN OBERSTAR URGES EU TRANSPORT OFFICIALS TO
[...] (U) During his May 5-6 visit to Slovenia to meet with EU transport officials during the informal meeting of EU transport ministers, Congressman James Oberstar, Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, suggested increased U.S.-EU cooperation to set global standards f [...]
2008-05-20 17:14:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAIR ELTN EWWT SENV PREL PGOV EUN OREP SI
08LJUBLJANA22US UNVIE AMBASSADOR SCHULTE ENGAGES SLOVENES ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 16 - 17, U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna Ambassador Gregory Schulte visited Slovenia to engage the GOS and the media regarding U.S. positions and policy on nuclear weapons proliferation, focusing on Iran. The Ambassador also gave a well-attended s [...]
2008-01-17 13:39:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALIAEA MNUC PARM PREL KPAO IR SI
08LJUBLJANA223SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF MAY 26-27 JUMBO GAERC
[...] (C) On May 21, A/DCM delivered the May 26-27 GAERC points to European Correspondent Aljaz Arih. Arih said that the "jumbo" GAERC, which would include Development and Defense Ministers, would issue conclusions on Lebanon, the Middle East Peace Process, Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia, the Western B [...]
2008-05-21 18:09:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV ZL PK AF ZI IR GG IS SY LE
08LJUBLJANA225CODEL BERKLEY TO VISIT LJUBLJANA MAY 23 - 26
[...] Post warmly welcomes the May 23-26 visit of Codel Berkley to Ljubljana. Overall control officer for the visit is Political-Economic Officer Albert Kraaimoore, office phone: (386) 1-200-5676, cellphone: (386) 40-516-021, fax: (386) 1-200-5529. The management control officer is Brendan Burns, [...]
2008-05-22 10:25:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN SI
08LJUBLJANA226CODEL BERKLEY TO VISIT LJUBLJANA MAY 23 - 26
[...] Post warmly welcomes the May 23-26 visit of Codel Berkley to Ljubljana. Overall control officer for the visit is Political-Economic Officer Albert Kraaimoore, office phone: (386) 1-200-5676, cellphone: (386) 40-516-021, fax: (386) 1-200-5529. The management control officer is Brendan Burns, [...]
2008-05-22 10:25:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN SI
08LJUBLJANA227SLOVENE RESPONSE TO U.S. CANDIDACY FOR CHAIRPERSON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-22 10:44:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO SI
08LJUBLJANA228REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-22 14:05:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI SI
08LJUBLJANA229AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AS A TOOL TO FIGHT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-22 14:06:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO SI
08LJUBLJANA23EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS TROIKA MEETING FINDS COMMON
[...] (C) At the January 11 U.S. - EU Troika meeting, A/S Fried and EU Presidency, Council, and Commission representatives generally found common ground on Afghanistan, Ukraine, Belarus, and Burma. On Iran, the EU advised that even a weak UNSCR would help pave the way for stronger EU sanctions. The [...]
2008-01-18 08:09:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV IR IS BM SY ECON ENRG SI
08LJUBLJANA231SLOVENIAN EU PRESIDENCY RELEASING A STATEMENT
[...] (C) On May 23, Emboff discussed Burma donor's conference reftels with MFA Asia, Africa, and Pacific Division Third Secretary Matjaz Marko. Emboff urged the GOS to join the U.S. in speaking out against the Burmese regime if an agreement is not reached during the Burma conference to allow an i [...]
2008-05-23 14:36:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PHUM PREL BM SI
08LJUBLJANA235SLOVENIAN FM LOOKING FORWARD TO U.S.-EU SUMMIT
[...] (C) At a May 28 lunch, Foreign Minister Rupel stressed to the Ambassador that Slovenia hoped the message of the June 10 U.S.-EU Summit would be our strong transatlantic partnership. He added that the bilateral meetings should not be as prominent. FM Rupel also highlighted the helpful role of [...]
2008-05-29 09:31:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EUN PGOV ECON EINV SI
08LJUBLJANA237SLOVENIA CONCERNED ABOUT U.S.-EU SUMMIT DECLARATION
[...] (C) On May 30, EmbOff delivered reftel points to Barbara Susnik, MFA U.S. Desk Officer and COTRA National delegate, and informed her of the USG positions regarding U.S.-EU Summit Declaration text on issues relating to Latin America and Missile Defense. An anxious Susnik worried that it would [...]
2008-05-30 14:37:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEUN PGOV PHUM PREL CU SI
08LJUBLJANA238AMBASSADOR GHAFARI PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO
[...] (C) Summary: On May 29, four days after arriving in Ljubljana, Yousif B. Ghafari presented his credentials as the new U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia to President Turk. At a follow-on courtesy call the President and the Ambassador agreed on the need for greater U.S. business activity in Sloveni [...]
2008-05-30 15:03:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EUN PGOV ECON EINV SI
08LJUBLJANA24EUR A/S FRIED URGES SWIFT COORDINATED U.S.-EU
[...] (C) In each of his bilateral meetings in Ljubljana January 10-11, EUR A/S Dan Fried discussed the U.S.-EU Summit, saying that it is likely to be in June and planning is underway. In meetings with the PM's advisors and the MFA, they identified possible themes for the summit as regional issues, [...]
2008-01-18 10:59:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV ECON ENRG MARR SI
08LJUBLJANA244SLOVENIA TO SEND DELEGATION TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE
[...] On May 30, Emboff passed reftel points regarding the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism June 16-18 meeting in Madrid to MFA Security Policy Division official Andrej Slapnicar and requested information regarding Slovenia's conference delegation. Slapnicar replied that MFA Security P [...]
2008-06-04 12:21:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP SI
08LJUBLJANA245SLOVENIA TO CONSIDER INFORMATION FUSION CENTER
[...] (C) On May 30, DCM Maryruth Coleman met with Director Joze Romsek of the Slovene Ministry of Interior (MOI) Police Directorate (PD) to discuss the concept of an Information Fusion Center (IFC). The DCM suggested that Slovenia consider developing an IFC to facilitate the sharing of intelligenc [...]
2008-06-05 13:46:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PTER MASS ASEC PREL MARR SI
08LJUBLJANA248SLOVENIA WILL NOT ATTEND FRIENDS OF IRAQ
[...] (C) On June 6, MFA Security Policy Division Director Stanislav Vidovic told Emboff that Slovenia is not planning to send a delegation to the June 17 - 19 Friends of Iraq conference in Abu Dhabi due to the demands of Slovenia's ongoing EU Presidency. Vidovic stated that because of EU Presidenc [...]
2008-06-06 15:08:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALIZ MARR MOPS OTRA PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA255SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF JUNE 16-17 GAERC
[...] (C) On June 12, Pol/Econ Chief delivered the June 16-17 GAERC points to European Correspondent Aljaz Arih. Arih said the GAERC, which had a very long agenda, would issue conclusions on Cuba, the Western Balkans, Somalia, Sudan, DRoC, and Central Asia (without a discussion). The FMs would sen [...]
2008-06-12 12:01:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EUN PGOV PHUM ZL ZK IR IZ IS SY LE CU
08LJUBLJANA256MINISTER OF DEFENSE ON DEPLOYMENTS, ACQUISITIONS,
[...] (C) In a June 11 introductory call on Minister of Defense Karl Erjavec, Ambassador Ghafari expressed appreciation for Slovenian Armed Forces support of the June 9 - 10 POTUS visit and for the contributions Slovenia has made to NATO missions in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Erjavec thanke [...]
2008-06-12 13:17:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS MASS MARR MCAP SI
08LJUBLJANA257SLOVENIA CONCERNED THAT USG DECISION ON UNHRC
[...] On June 12, Emboff informed MFA Minister Plenipotentiary and EU Working Party on Human Rights (COHOM) Chair Smiljana Knez of the USG decision to disengage from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) per reftel. Knez said that Slovenia and COHOM regret the U.S. decision and believe that it is too [...]
2008-06-12 15:13:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM SI
08LJUBLJANA27TERRORISM FINANCE: LET OPERATIVES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-18 14:22:00Embassy LjubljanaSECRETEFIN PTER PREL ETTC SI
08LJUBLJANA270SLOVENIA TO SUPPORT EITHER SWING OR RICCARDI FOR
[...] On June 3, MFA Division for International Organizations and Human Security Minister Counselor Robert Golobinek told Emboff that Slovenia had narrowed its choices of candidates for the position of International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director to either the U.S. candidate, Ambassador Bi [...]
2008-06-16 15:18:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF SMIG AORC SI
08LJUBLJANA29SLOVENIA TO PARTICIPATE IN ESDP DEPLOYMENT TO CHAD
[...] (C) On January 17, Emboff delivered reftel points and nonpaper to Andrej Slapnicar of the MFA Security Policy Division, who stated that Slovenia appreciates U.S. support for the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) deployment to Chad and the Central African Republic (C.A.R.) and noted t [...]
2008-01-23 05:15:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEUN MARR PGOV PREL CD SI
08LJUBLJANA293SLOVENIA EU PRESIDENCY - HUMANITARIAN AID FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-30 13:37:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL EAID EUN BM SI
08LJUBLJANA298SLOVENIA EU PRESIDENCY WELCOMES US ACTIONS ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-01 09:00:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KN KNNP EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA299SLOVENIA TO PARTICIPATE IN KOSOVO DONORS CONFERENCE
[...] (C) On July 1, A/DCM discussed the upcoming July 11 Kosovo Donors Conference with Leon Marc, head of the MFA's Division for Southeastern Europe, and encouraged Slovenia to pledge at the EC-sponsored donors' conference. Marc said that although the government had not yet cleared the amount of th [...]
2008-07-01 09:00:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV UNMIK YI KPKO KVIR SI
08LJUBLJANA30GOS OFFICIALS DISCUSS CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES WITH
[...] (SBU) On January 18 OES Climate Negotiator Dr. Harlan Watson and CEQ-NSC Senior Coordinator for Energy Security and Climate Change Dr. Robert Dixon met with representatives from the Government of Slovenia (GOS) to discuss preparations for the various climate change meetings that will take place [...]
2008-01-23 14:06:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG SI
08LJUBLJANA304CONVENTION ON SUPPLEMENTARY COMPENSATION FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-08 09:32:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM KNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC IAEA SI
08LJUBLJANA307SLOVENIA CONSIDERING CO-SPONSORING PRISONERS OF
[...] (U) This is an action request cable. Please see para. 3. 2. (SBU) On July 9, Emboffs met with MFA Minister Plenipotentiary and previous Chair of the EU Working Party on Human Rights (COHOM) Smiljana Knez to seek co-sponsorship of a Prisoners of Conscience public affairs event. Knez inform [...]
2008-07-09 15:06:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM EUN KDEM SI
08LJUBLJANA308SLOVENIA ATTENDANCE AT 63RD UNGA - INTERIM REPORT
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, President Turk and Foreign Minister Rupel plan to attend the 63rd General Assembly and President Turk will address the UNGA General Debate during the morning of Wednesday, September 24. According to the FM's Cabinet, they both currently plan to fly to New York September 22 b [...]
2008-07-09 15:06:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OTRA OVIP UNGA SI
08LJUBLJANA309UN SYSTEM OF INTERNAL JUSTICE - SLOVENIA DOES NOT CONCUR WITH STREAMLINED REFORMS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 09:21:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC APER UNGA SI
08LJUBLJANA310SLOVENIA WELCOMES NEW U.S. POLICY ON CLUSTER
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 09:21:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL MOPS KPOA NATO SI
08LJUBLJANA312SLOVENE HEALTH MINISTER DISCUSSES PUBLIC PRIVATE
[...] (SBU) Slovene Health Minister Zofija Mazej Kukovic shared a vision of using public private partnerships (PPPs) to fund specialty clinics throughout Slovenia during a July 7 meeting with the Ambassador. She stated that although Slovenians are afraid of the U.S. health care system, Slovenia cou [...]
2008-07-11 09:47:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD USTR BEXP SI
08LJUBLJANA313SLOVENIA CONSIDERS EXPANDING NATO TRAINING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-11 14:07:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO IZ SI
08LJUBLJANA32SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF JANUARY 28 GAERC
[...] (C) In their January 24 meeting, Deputy European Correspondent Aljaz Arih explained to ADCM that now that Slovenia had the Presidency, it would not express strong positions on the issues. Instead, Slovenia's main task was to organize the GAERCs and put all the issues together. He said, howev [...]
2008-01-24 16:03:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN IR IS SY SI PGOV PK KE
08LJUBLJANA323SLOVENIAN RESPONSE FOR JULY 22-23 GAERC
[...] (SBU) On July 17, Emboffs met with Aljaz Arih, Head of the CFSP Unit at the MFA, to deliver reftel points in advance of the July 22 - 23 for the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting. IRAN ---- 2. (SBU) Per reftel, Emboff urged the Government of Slovenia (GOS),[...]
2008-07-18 15:35:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EUN IR SO SU CD ZI UP
08LJUBLJANA33SLOVENIA SUPPORTS FURTHER PRESSURE ON BURMA BUT
[...] (C) On January 23, Emboff met with Ambassador Janez Premoze, Chairman of the EU's Asia-Oceania Working Party (COASI),to urge Slovenia and the EU to adopt a ban on the import of gems and hardwood originating in Burma (per reftel A) and to review any plans by Slovenian or EU companies to invest [...]
2008-01-25 13:03:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM EPET EUN BM SI
08LJUBLJANA330SLOVENIA ADOPTS STRICTER LAW PROTECTING SEXUAL RIGHTS OF
[...] (SBU) Summary. On November 1, 2008, Slovenia will implement a new law regarding sexual crimes against minors. This new penal code establishes harsher sentences and new regulations. The most significant changes include a lifetime registry for offenders, the criminalization of possessing child [...]
2008-07-25 14:11:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM ASEC SI
08LJUBLJANA345SLOVENIA NOT IN FAVOR OF NEW EU BURMA SANCTIONS
[...] (C) On August 5, emboffs met with Jasna Lhotka, Minister Plenipotentiary at the MFA's Asia, Africa and the Pacific Division, to notify Slovenia of the new U.S. sanctions on Burma and to seek Slovene views on the prospects for further tightening of EU sanctions targeting the Burma regime. Lhot [...]
2008-08-05 14:51:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ETRD BM SI
08LJUBLJANA346SLOVENIA INFORMED OF MAURITIUS AND UZBEKISTAN GI
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-05 14:52:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PARM PREL PTER KGIC MR UZ SI
08LJUBLJANA347SLOVENE MINISTER OF ECONOMY ON SOUTH STREAM AND
[...] (C) On July 29, Ambassador Ghafari met the Slovene Minster of Economy Andrej Vizjak to discuss economic development and energy goals. Vizjak expressed his support for the South Stream Pipeline, stating that Slovenia has an "energy deficit" and needs to pursue diversification of energy source [...]
2008-08-05 14:54:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA348SLOVENIA NOTES U.S. CONCERNS WITH SARG, BUT NOT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-05 15:04:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY LE EUN RS TU NO SW SI
08LJUBLJANA349SLOVENIA RELIEVED TURKEY'S ACCESSION PROCESS CAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-05 15:06:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV TU EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA350SLOVENIA AGREES TO KEEP PRESSURE ON FARC
[...] (C) On August 5, Emboffs met with Natasa Furlan, MFA Americas Division, to encourage the Government of Slovenia (GOS) to condemn FARC human rights abuses and terrorist acts and to use its good offices to urge governments that provide support to the FARC to take demonstrable steps to terminate [...]
2008-08-05 15:08:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPTER SNAR PGOV PREL EUN COL VE HR AF SI
08LJUBLJANA353SLOVENIA ON MAINTAINING TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS ON THE
[...] (C) On August 6, Emboff met with Leon Marc, head of the MFA's Division for Southeast Europe, to urge the Government of Slovenia (GOS) not to prematurely lift the EU travel restrictions on the Karadzic family and to coordinate with the USG and the OHR in Bosnia on any changes to the sanctions a [...]
2008-08-07 12:58:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC KAWC ICTY BK EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA359SLOVENIA ON U.S. PROPOSAL FOR STRONG NAC STATEMENT
[...] (C) On August 11, Emboffs met with Marko Purkart, acting head of the MFA's Security Division, to brief him and urge Slovenia's support for a strong NAC statement condemning Russian actions in Georgia. Purkart took our points under consideration and undertook to pass them to Slovenia's Mission [...]
2008-08-11 08:44:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALNATO PARM KCFE RU GG SI
08LJUBLJANA365U.S. PROPOSED ELEMENTS FOR EU STATEMENT ON GEORGIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-12 14:45:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GG RU SI
08LJUBLJANA366SLOVENIA: PRELIMINARY SUPPORT FOR NSG DRAFT
[...] (SBU) On August 13, PolEcon Chief met with Andrej Slapnicar, Acting Head of the MFA Security Division, to request Slovenia's support for the NSG draft exception for India at the August 21-22 Plenary, per reftel. Slapnicar said his preliminary reaction was that Slovenia was "encouraged by the B [...]
2008-08-13 14:31:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL ETTC AORC SI
08LJUBLJANA370SLOVENIA: DEBTS OWED TO USAID
[...] On 13 August, Post transmitted the letter and documents from EEB A/S Daniel Sullivan to Andrej Bajuk, Slovenian Minister of Finance, requesting that Slovenia acknowledge debt obligation of $3.13 million and agree to settle the debt, per reftel. Emboffs also met with Ms. Katja Bozic, Director [...]
2008-08-14 14:53:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTIA EAID SI
08LJUBLJANA371TFGG01: GORI DEMARCHE: SLOVENIANS STRESS EU UNITY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-14 16:37:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UNGA GG RS SI
08LJUBLJANA376SLOVENIA INFORMED OF DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-21 06:50:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN
08LJUBLJANA386TFGG01: SLOVENIA OPPOSES RECOGNITION OF BREAKAWAY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Slovenia strongly opposes Russian recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, saying that it would be a setback to diplomatic efforts leading up to the September 1 European Council meeting. The Council is expected to endorse Chancellor Merkel's call for a "neighborhood conference [...]
2008-08-26 06:41:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL RS GG EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA389SLOVENIA: EU SPEAKS WITH "ONE VOICE" ON RUSSIA'S
[...] (C) On August 28, DCM met with Ambassador Ada Filip-Slivnik, Head of Division for Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to encourage Slovenian opposition to Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia (reftel A). She said that she was surprised that Medved [...]
2008-08-29 09:59:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GG RU SI
08LJUBLJANA390SLOVENIA: MED-D SOFA DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-29 12:21:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA395SLOVENIA WAITING FOR EU POSITION ON KOSOVO ICJ
[...] (C) On September 2, DCM met with Ambassador Matjaz Kovacic, Head of International Organizations and Human Security Division in Slovenia's MFA, and Blazka Kepic, Minister Plenipotentiary in the MFA's Political Planning and Multilateral Policy Directorate, to encourage Slovenian opposition to Se [...]
2008-09-03 14:29:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA UN KV SI
08LJUBLJANA398SLOVENIA PREDICTS "DIFFICULT" SEPTEMBER 5-6 GYMNICH
[...] (C) On September 4, Emboff delivered the points on Georgia and non-Georgia topics in advance of the September 5-6 Gymnich meeting (refs A and B) to MFA European Correspondent Aljaz Arih. Although Gymnichs are usually relaxed, Arih predicted that this one would be difficult because of Georgia. [...]
2008-09-04 15:26:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EUN PGOV PHUM GG RU SI
08LJUBLJANA404SLOVENIA: AFGHAN ARMY EXPANSION DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-05 14:03:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AF SI
08LJUBLJANA407JANSA COULD TURN BRIBERY ALLEGATION TO HIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The September 1 Finnish TV program accusing PM Janez Jansa of accepting a bribe of up to 21 million euros in connection with the Slovenian Ministry of Defense 258 million euro deal to buy 135 Finnish Patria armored motorized vehicles (AMVs) has started a firestorm in Slovenia in [...]
2008-09-05 15:58:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR MASS SI
08LJUBLJANA408JANSA COULD TURN BRIBERY ALLEGATION TO HIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The September 1 Finnish TV program accusing PM Janez Jansa of accepting a bribe of up to 21 million euros in connection with the Slovenian Ministry of Defense 258 million euro deal to buy 135 Finnish Patria armored motorized vehicles (AMVs) has started a firestorm in Slovenia in t [...]
2008-09-08 14:58:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR MASS SI
08LJUBLJANA41U.S.-EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS INFORMAL HIGH LEVEL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior U.S. and European Union (EU) officials met in Ljubljana, Slovenia January 9-10 for the U.S.-EU informal Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Senior Level Meeting to discuss cooperation and coordination across a broad range of transatlantic law enforcement and internal security [...]
2008-02-01 05:41:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PTER SNAR PREL EUN KHLS SI
08LJUBLJANA411SLOVENIA SUPPORTS AFGHAN ARMY EXPANSION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-09 13:15:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL AF SI
08LJUBLJANA412SLOVENIA SUPPORTS THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 HUMAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-11 14:07:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA413SLOVENIA PREDICTS "BORING" SEPTEMBER 15-16 GAERC
[...] (C) On September 11, Emboff delivered our points in advance of the September 15-16 GAERC meeting (reftel) to MFA European Correspondent Aljaz Arih, who commented that this would be a "pretty boring GAERC." Arih said there would be Council Conclusions on Somalia, which would be the GAERC's mos [...]
2008-09-11 14:07:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EUN PGOV PHUM ZL ZI SOCI YI TU GG RS
08LJUBLJANA414SLOVENIA'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION UP FOR GRABS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Conventional wisdom holds that incumbent PM Janez Jansa's Slovene Democratic Party (SDS) will win a plurality of votes on September 21, despite being dogged by scandal. However, most observers also expect the combined weight of the Left opposition parties to be greater than tha [...]
2008-09-11 14:10:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA418SLOVENIA HESITANT ON ISAF OPLAN AMENDMENT TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-11 14:41:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR SI
08LJUBLJANA42SLOVENIA: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT
[...] (U) Post has determined that there are no/no critical infrastructure or key resources (CI/KR) in Slovenia (as defined in para 4 of reftel) which - if destroyed, disrupted or exploited - might have an immediate and deleterious effect on the security, national economic security, national public [...]
2008-02-01 11:57:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAGR EAID ECON EFIN ETTC PGOV PREL PTER
08LJUBLJANA420SLOVENIA SUPPORTS RENEWED EOL FOR NTM-I
[...] (C) On September 15, CDA met with Minister Plenipotentiary Stanislav Vidovic, Head of the Security Policy Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to review the renegotiation of an Exchange of Letters (EOL) with the Government of Iraq (GOI) for the NATO Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I) (ref [...]
2008-09-15 15:10:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALMOPS NATO SI
08LJUBLJANA421PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: MARGINAL IMPACT ON
[...] (C) Slovenia's September 21 parliamentary elections will either continue PM Janez Jansa's center-right government or bring in one led by a center-left coalition. In either case, however, we expect Slovenia to continue its deep, strong relationship with the U.S., and its active engagement in th [...]
2008-09-15 16:23:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ENRG SI
08LJUBLJANA424SLOVENIA CONSIDERING UNAIDS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
[...] (SBU) EmbOff delivered demarche to Barbara Butinar, First Secretary at the MFA in charge of UN Relations, and urged the Government of Slovenia to support Mr. Sidibe's candidacy for Executive Director of UNAIDS. Butinar said she could not give any response, but promised that she would forward t [...]
2008-09-18 08:29:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KHIV UNGA SI
08LJUBLJANA427SLOVENIA APPRECIATIVE OF DEMARCHE ON CHINESE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-19 15:01:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPTER KNNP ECON EFIN PARM SI
08LJUBLJANA429SLOVENIA SUPPORTS EU EFFORTS ON BOLIVIA AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-19 15:02:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASECSI KDEM SI
08LJUBLJANA43SLOVENIA TO SEND DELEGATION TO UN.GIFT VIENNA FORUM
[...] (U) On February 1, Emboff delivered reftel points to Teja Valencic, MFA Minister Plenipotentiary for Division for International Organizations and Human Security, who stated that Sandi Curin, Ministry of Interior Undersecretary and National Coordinator for the Interdepartmental Working Group fo [...]
2008-02-01 14:33:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG SI
08LJUBLJANA431LEFT STAGES SURPRISE UPSET IN SLOVENIA'S ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary. Unofficial results from the September 21 parliamentary elections indicate that the center-left Social Democrats (SD) defeated the center-right Slovene Democratic Party (SDS),leader in the governing coalition. SD won 30.5 percent of the vote, resulting in 29 parliamentary seats, [...]
2008-09-22 11:17:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ENRG SI
08LJUBLJANA433SLOVENIA LIKELY TO REMAIN A FOLLOWER RATHER THAN A
[...] (C) On September 22, Emboff met with Jure Zerovec, Deputy Director of the Division for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, to urge a strong and public response to Russia's claims against Georgia (reftel). Zerovec took our message on board, but was noncommittal. He admitted that Slovenia was "not [...]
2008-09-22 14:06:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM GG RS SI
08LJUBLJANA434SLOVENIA FAVORS PREP COM MEETINGS IN THE NRC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-22 14:49:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO SI
08LJUBLJANA436SLOVENIA NOTES SYRIA'S "BAD TRACK RECORD" PRIOR TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-22 14:56:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPARM IAEA MNUC SI
08LJUBLJANA439SLOVENIA WILL FOLLOW EU LEAD ON BIOFUELS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-26 14:46:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ENRG EUN SENV TRGY KGHG SI
08LJUBLJANA442SLOVENIA: WAIT AND SEE ON CONTRIBUTIONS FOR AFGHAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-01 15:05:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR SI
08LJUBLJANA451KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION: SLOVENIA WILL ABSTAIN, SAYS
[...] (C) DCM met the morning of October 8 with MFA Director General (P equivalent) Bogdan Benko to follow up on Ref B demarche. Benko said the French Presidency proposal for a common EU position was under silence procedure until 0900 in New York. He said the proposal had three elements: abstentio [...]
2008-10-08 11:09:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA EUN KV SI
08LJUBLJANA454SLOVENIA FOCUSED ON RUSSIA'S NEIGHBOURS AT OCTOBER
[...] This is an action request. Please see para. 3. Summary ------- 2. (C) On October 9 Emboff delivered our points in advance of the October 13 GAERC meeting (ref A) to MFA European Correspondent Aljaz Arih. Arih indicated that the FMs' discussions of Georgia at the GAERC would be linked t [...]
2008-10-09 12:49:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ZI UZ BO GG RS SI EUN PHUM
08LJUBLJANA456SLOVENIA WAITING ON NEW PARLIAMENT FOR NATO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-09 14:16:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPARM MARR KTIA NATO PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA457SLOVENIA: NO POSITION YET ON UNFC ISSUES OF NATO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-09 14:16:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM MNUC UNGA SI
08LJUBLJANA459SLOVENIA: INCOMING PM PROMISES CONTINUITY, BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Future Prime Minister Borut Pahor assured the Ambassador October 9 that he would continue the current government's foreign policy. However, he did not allow himself to be drawn into a discussion of details, and he alluded to conflicting demands from his likely coalition partners [...]
2008-10-14 06:06:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO PGOV PINR MARR SI
08LJUBLJANA460SLOVENIA: INCOMING PM PROMISES CONTINUITY, BUT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-14 06:06:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO PGOV PINR MARR SI
08LJUBLJANA461SLOVENIA: INCOMING PM PROMISES CONTINUITY, BUT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-14 06:06:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO PGOV PINR MARR SI
08LJUBLJANA468SLOVENIA TO LEAVE DECISION ON SUPPORTING AFGHAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-14 15:19:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM AF SI
08LJUBLJANA47SLOVENIA GIVES POSITIVE READ-OUT OF MEM 2; PLANS
[...] (SBU) On February 5, the Undersecretary for the International Relations Department at the Slovenian Environmental Ministry, Andrej Kranjc, who also headed Slovenia's EU presidency delegation at the Major Economies Meeting (MEM) in Honolulu, told Emboff that the MEM meetings sparked a constru [...]
2008-02-05 13:28:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG ECON TSPL KSCA KGHG EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA470SLOVENIA WILL NOT MAKE ANY BILATERAL PLEDGE AT THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-15 11:08:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN GG PREL RS EUN KMCA KCRS SI
08LJUBLJANA475Ambassador J. Christian Kennedy visits Slovenia, reiterates
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador J. Christian Kennedy visited Slovenia from October 14-16, during which he reiterated the USG interest in seeing a prompt resumption of the stalled negotiation process between the Government of Slovenia and the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) regarding the [...]
2008-10-21 05:31:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SI CASC PREL
08LJUBLJANA477BLUE LANTERN PSV/END USE CHECK ON LICENSE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-21 13:26:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDKOMC ETTC SI
08LJUBLJANA482PM JANSA GIVES INCOMING GOVERNMENT THE BENEFIT OF
[...] (C) During a one-on-one lunch with the Ambassador, outgoing PM Janez Jansa predicted that - with the exception of Iraq - Slovenia's foreign policy would not change much under the new center-left government, and that the U.S.-Slovenia relationship would continue to be strong. The consensus for [...]
2008-10-24 13:07:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON MASS EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA486SLOVENIA DUBIOUS EU WILL DO MUCH ON BOSNIA
[...] (C) On October 29, Emboff met with Leon Marc, Head of the Division for Southeastern Europe, to relay USG views on the deteriorating situation in Bosnia and Herzegovinia, per reftel. Marc stressed that the best leverage the EU has is the message that Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) can only enter [...]
2008-10-29 13:16:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BK EU SI
08LJUBLJANA487NO IMMINENT FINANCIAL CRISIS IN SLOVENIA, BUT WARY
[...] (U) Per ref A tasking, this message provides an initial read on Slovenia and the financial crisis, including financial conditions, the longer macroeconomic outlook, government actions in response to the crisis, expected domestic impact and possible effects on U.S.-Slovenian relations. The num [...]
2008-10-29 13:54:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL ETRD SI
08LJUBLJANA488SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF NOVEMBER 3 GYMNICH AND
[...] (C) On October 29, Emboff met with Aljaz Arih, European Correspondent, to deliver reftel's talking points for the November Gymnich and GAERC meetings. Arih stated that the November 3 Gymnich would focus on transatlantic relations and the French had circulated a revised food for thought paper. [...]
2008-10-30 13:26:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN RS GG SI ECON ETRD PGOV IS AF PK
08LJUBLJANA489SLOVENIA: NOT PLANNING TO ATTEND IRAN'S NUCLEAR CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-30 13:32:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDAORC IR MNUC TRGY SI
08LJUBLJANA49USTR MEETINGS EMPHASIZE U.S.-EU TRADE COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) During his January 22 meetings with senior Slovene officials in Ljubljana, Deputy USTR John Veroneau emphasized the importance of movement on the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) and the need to reduce trade barriers globally. Veroneau,s speech at the Amcham meeting on globalization [...]
2008-02-06 15:09:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON ENRG ETRD EUN PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA495SLOVENIA CONSIDERING NSG DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-04 15:57:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY IAEA SI
08LJUBLJANA496KEY SLOVENIAN ECONOMIC ADVISOR IDENTIFIES AREAS OF
[...] (C) At a November 4 meeting with the Ambassador, former Slovenian Central Bank Chair Mitja Gaspari, who will oversee the Ministries of Finance, Economy and Labor in the new government, stressed that the incoming government would like to continue good bilateral relations with the U.S. Gaspari [...]
2008-11-04 16:26:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALECON PREL ETRD ENRG EINV PINR SI
08LJUBLJANA50LJUBLJANA'S 2008 BUSINESS FACILITATION INCENTIVE
[...] (U) BFIF funds are key in promoting U.S.-EU transatlantic economic cooperation in Slovenia, which is a theme in bilateral dialogue between the U.S. and the Government of Slovenia (GOS). Increasing U.S. exports to and expanding U.S. investment in Slovenia are two high priorities for Embassy L [...]
2008-02-06 15:40:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ECON EINV ETRD SI
08LJUBLJANA500PRIME MINISTER-DESIGNATE PAHOR SENDS
[...] (U) Post has received the following letter of congratulations from Borut Pahor, President of the Social Democrats (SD) party of the Republic of Slovenia. A scanned copy as e-mailed to EUR/CE on November 5. SD prevailed in the recent election and President Turk has nominated Pahor to be the [...]
2008-11-06 16:29:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL OVIP SI
08LJUBLJANA502PARLIAMENT CONFIRMS BORUT PAHOR AS SLOVENIA'S NEW
[...] (SBU) On November 7, Parliament voted 59 to 24 to confirm Borut Pahor, leader of the Social Democrats (SD),as Slovenia's Prime Minister. He immediately took office even though the rest of the government is not formed. It had been clear since SD's win in the September 21 elections that Pahor [...]
2008-11-07 15:25:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA505SLOVENIA CONSIDERING HOW TO LEVERAGE FATF
[...] (C) On November 10, ADCM met with MFA State Secretary Andrej Ster to seek Slovenia's support to implement a set of suggested preventive measures designed to protect financial institutions from specific techniques employed by Iran to evade the controls of responsible countries and institutions [...]
2008-11-10 11:30:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL EFIN KNNP SI
08LJUBLJANA506SLOVENIA IS INCLINED TO NON-PROLIFERATION, WILL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-10 15:35:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY IAEA EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA507PM PAHOR PROPOSES CABINET
[...] (C) On November 11, PM Borut Pahor announced his 18-member Cabinet, which includes five women and seven non-party candidates. Pahor will propose his cabinet to parliament the evening of November 13. We expect parliament to confirm the cabinet by November 21. Pahor succeeded in satisfying hi [...]
2008-11-12 15:06:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SI
08LJUBLJANA508ITF ADVISORY BOARD REACHED CONSENSUS ON FUNCTIONAL
[...] (C) On November 11, James Lawrence, acting director of PM/WRA, and emboff attended the semiannual Advisory Board meeting for the International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims Assistance (ITF) (reftel). The Advisory Board discussed the strategic review and strategic options for ITF's [...]
2008-11-12 15:21:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MCAP PGOV SI
08LJUBLJANA509SLOVENIA: DEA EXPULSION CAN ONLY HARM BOLIVIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-13 14:54:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SNAR KDEM BL SI
08LJUBLJANA511SLOVENIA: INCSR PART I
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-14 15:39:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR SI
08LJUBLJANA515SLOVENIA SUPPORTS CROATIA'S ACCESSION TO THE EU -
[...] (U) In a video interview posted on-line November 14, PM Pahor's candidate for Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Zbogar, stated that Slovenia's position regarding Croatia's EU accession would not change with the incoming government. According to Zbogar, Slovenia supports Croatia's accession, [...]
2008-11-18 16:53:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PBTS HR SI
08LJUBLJANA516SLOVENIA PRESENTS GLOOMIER 2009 FINANCIAL FORECASTS
[...] Summary. On 13 November, Maja Bednas, Deputy Director of the GoS think-tank the Institute for Macroeconomic Analysis and Development (IMAD),presented a disheartening account of the impact of the global financial crisis on Slovenia. Bednas gave specific forecast numbers for Slovenia, focusing [...]
2008-11-18 17:08:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ETRD PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA517SLOVENIA SUPPORTS NATO MAP FOR GEORGIA AND
[...] (U) This is a guidance request; please see para 5. 2. (C) Slovenia strongly supports a decision at the December ministerial to offer Georgia and Ukraine's entry into NATO's Membership Action Plan (MAP). In a November 19 meeting, MFA NATO-policy Advisor Tadej Rupel said that Slovenia's suppor [...]
2008-11-19 15:37:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NATO MARR SI
08LJUBLJANA523SLOVENIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OPPOSING UNGA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-21 15:34:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA SI
08LJUBLJANA524SLOVENIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA FIRST
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-21 15:34:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM MNUC UNGA SI
08LJUBLJANA529SLOVENIA WILL REQUEST MORE DOCUMENTATION REGARDING
[...] Ambassador Ghafari has received the following message from Minister of Finance Dr. Andrej Bajuk, dated 20 November 2008, presented through Andrej Kavcic, Head of the Ministry of Finance International Finance Department. (Note: Former minister Bajuk left office on 25 November, the new Minister [...]
2008-11-26 16:16:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN KTIA OPDC SI
08LJUBLJANA53Tour of the Horizon with the Justice Minister
[...] (SBU) In a February 6 meeting with Charge d'Affaires (CDA) Maryruth Coleman, Justice Minister Lovro Sturm outlined judicial reforms over the last two years including new buildings and increased staffing. He also previewed forthcoming legislative proposals that will give high courts new author [...]
2008-02-11 06:15:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KJUS CASC KCRM SI
08LJUBLJANA532SLOVENIA TO SIGN CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-28 11:28:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM NATO MOPS PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA533SLOVENIA UNLIKELY TO ATTEND POTENTIAL PAKISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-28 14:56:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK SI
08LJUBLJANA534SLOVENIA: HELSINKI OSCE MINISTERIAL DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-28 16:04:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM OSCE GG RU SI
08LJUBLJANA536SLOVENIA HOPES FOR PROGRESS ON CROATIA BY DECEMBER
[...] (C) On December 3, Emboff met with Acting European Correspondent Darja Gruban to deliver reftel's talking points for the December 8-9 GAERC. Gruban predicted that the Foreign Ministers would spend a fair amount of time on the draft conclusions for the European Council, especially on economic [...]
2008-12-04 07:04:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV ETRD ZL IS PK CG TU SI
08LJUBLJANA537NEW SLOVENIAN FM IS "PRO-AMERICA," BUT GIVES
[...] (C) In a December 4 meeting with the Ambassador, new Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar stressed that he was pro-American and that Slovenia wanted to continue to deepen its transatlantic ties. He confirmed that Slovenia would withdraw its two instructors from Iraq, either at the end of December o [...]
2008-12-05 12:31:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EUN PGOV ECON MARR HR SI
08LJUBLJANA539SLOVENIA: NO OBJECTION TO CONSENSUS ON NUCLEAR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-09 17:42:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY SI
08LJUBLJANA542SLOVENIA'S NEW DEFMIN LOOKING FOR NATO NICHES TO
[...] (C) In a December 9 meeting with the Ambassador, new Defense Minister Ljubica Jelusic stressed both the importance of U.S. support and training for Slovenia's armed forces and the need for Slovenia to develop niche capabilities within NATO. She confirmed that Slovenia would likely withdraw its [...]
2008-12-11 10:32:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV SI
08LJUBLJANA543AL GORE TELLS SLOVENIANS U.S. POISED TO BECOME
[...] (SBU) During a brief visit to Ljubljana on December 10, former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore had separate meetings with President Turk and PM Pahor, and presented an updated version of "An Inconvenient Truth" to a gathering of business, government and NGO leaders hosted by [...]
2008-12-11 15:17:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALSENV PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA546SLOVENIA: RESPONSE TO CUBA LIBERTAD ACT DEMARCHE
[...] (U) On December 8, emboff met with Natasa Furlan, counselor in the MFA's Latin American section, to discuss Slovenia's relations with Cuba. Embassy provides the following in response to reftel questions. 2. (C) Slovenia has worked to promote democracy and human rights in Cuba, with an emph [...]
2008-12-12 08:26:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ETTC CU SI
08LJUBLJANA549SLOVENIA: COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM 2008
[...] (U) In 2007 Slovenia enacted a new Act on the Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism, which became applicable in January 2008. During Slovenia's Presidency of the EU Council, Slovenia chaired an EU troika meeting with the United States on the external aspects of fighting aga [...]
2008-12-12 13:37:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM SI
08LJUBLJANA550ECONOMIC FEAR IN SLOVENIA PROMPTS GOS ACTION
[...] (SBU) Although recent data show that Slovenia is not yet in a recession, Slovenes fear the onset of one and there is pressure on the government to forestall it. Business directors packed an auditorium on December 8 to ask the Government of Slovenia (GoS) to take swift actions to address the c [...]
2008-12-12 13:45:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV ETRD PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA551SLOVENIAN MINISTER ON ADDRESSING THE ECONOMIC
[...] (C) At a December 15 meeting with the Ambassador, Mitja Gaspari, Minister without Portfolio responsible for European Affairs and Development, discussed the measures the government has proposed to avoid a recession (ref A). Gaspari, who heads up the government's Economic Crisis Task Force, said [...]
2008-12-15 15:56:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALECON EINV PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA554SLOVENIA UNLIKELY TO ATTEND POTENTIAL PAKISTAN
[...] (C) On December 12, Emboff delivered ref A's demarche to Marija Adanja, head of the International Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Assistance Division, informing her of the change of date of the proposed conference and urging Slovenia to participate and to provide financial assistance. [...]
2008-12-16 14:33:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK SI
08LJUBLJANA560SLOVENIA GROWTH REVISED DOWNWARDS AGAIN, GOS
[...] The Government of Slovenia (GoS) has revised growth estimates down to 1.1% for 2009, based substantially on new growth forecasts of -0.8% for Germany, Slovenia's biggest trading partner. The growth figures have been falling steadily. In March 2008, the GoS predicted 4.1% GDP growth for 2009. [...]
2008-12-22 15:39:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ETRD PREL SI
08LJUBLJANA561SLOVENIA HESITANT ON BURMA SANCTIONS, BUT WILL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-23 16:00:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV PREL BM SI
08LJUBLJANA562SLOVENIA: NEW JUSTICE MINISTER LOOKS TO U.S. FOR JUDICIAL
[...] (U) Summary: (U) In the Ambassador's first official meeting with the new Minister of Justice Ales Zalar, the Minister pledged to look into pending U.S. denationalization and property restitution cases which remain bogged down in Slovenian courts. Zalar also reiterated his great interest in co [...]
2008-12-24 07:51:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO OIIP OEXC KCOR KNAR PHUM SI
08LJUBLJANA563THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY HAS A GLOWING FUTURE
[...] (SBU) The Slovene nuclear energy sector holds considerable promise for the U.S. company Westinghouse. Slovenia currently shares the electricity from its only nuclear plant, which was established during Yugoslav days, with Croatia. Westinghouse built the plant, which is 50% owned by the Govern [...]
2008-12-24 13:58:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP BTIO ENRG ETRD TRGY SI
08LJUBLJANA564"U.S. SUPPORT IS KEY" FOR SLOVENIA'S MOUNTAIN
[...] (C) In a December 9 meeting with Ambassador Ghafari, new Slovene Defense Minister Ljubica Jelusic stressed that "U.S. support is key" to Slovenia's efforts to have its Mountain Warfare School accredited as a NATO Center of Excellence (COE) (ref A). In separate November 14 and December 15 meet [...]
2008-12-29 07:50:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MARR SI
08LJUBLJANA566SLOVENIA WANTS EU-U.S. UNITED FRONT ON GEORGIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-30 13:30:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL GG RS SI
08LJUBLJANA57IPR CONFERENCE BRINGS U.S.-SLOVENE EXPERTS
[...] (U) On October 22, post used BFIF funds and organized a conference entitled "Harness Your Inventive Spirit into Economic Growth: Encouraging Business Innovation through Strong Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Public Private Partnerships," co-hosted by Slovenia's premiere scientifi [...]
2008-02-12 12:48:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP ECON EINV ETRD TSPL SI
08LJUBLJANA59DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON EU REGULATORY COMMITTEE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-12 14:48:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD TBIO EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA60SLOVENIA SUPPORTS U.S. KOSOVO POSITION IN OSCE, NO
[...] (C) On February 12, Emboff delivered reftel points to Damjan Bergant, MFA Head of Department for OSCE and CoE and Chairman of COSCE, who stated that Slovenia fully agrees with the U.S. view of Serbia's efforts to invoke the OSCE's Berlin Mechanism after an anticipated declaration of independenc [...]
2008-02-12 15:15:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNAUS UNMIK PGOV YI EU OSCE SI
08LJUBLJANA61SLOVENIA: DEMARCHE ON IAEA REQUEST TO NSG FOR
[...] (SBU) On February 12, Emboff delivered reftel points to MFA Security Policy Division official Borut Valencic, who stated that Slovenia supports IAEA efforts to investigate Iran's nuclear programs. Valencic said that he would pass IAEA Deputy Director General for Safeguards Olli Heinonen's req [...]
2008-02-12 16:34:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC IR KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA SI
08LJUBLJANA64AHMADINEJAD'S ADVISOR'S BRIEF MEETING WITH
[...] (S/NF) On February 13, Dusan Snoj, President Turk's diplomatic advisor, gave Charge a read-out of the half-hour January 29 meeting at the President's offices with Ahmadinejad's Special Advisor Mojtaba Samareh. Snoj explained that the Iranians had approached the Slovene rep at Davos to say the [...]
2008-02-13 12:35:00Embassy LjubljanaSECRET//NOFORNPREL EUN IR SI PARM
08LJUBLJANA65RUSSIA'S EU EXPERT EXPOUNDS ON KOSOVO, ODIHR, AND
[...] (U) Dmitrij Poljanski, Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's EU Affairs Unit and member of the Russian delegation in town for the Feb. 13 EU-Russia Troika, was the featured speaker at a Tuesday evening meeting of the Euro-Atlantic Council of Slovenia. After remarks on Russia's relationship [...]
2008-02-13 15:42:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALEUN MARR NATO OSCE PARM PINR PREL
08LJUBLJANA66SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF FEBRUARY 18 GAERC
[...] (C) In their February 13 meeting, European Union Division Director/Deputy Political Director Matej Marn told A/DCM that the February 18 GAERC would focus on Kosovo, which would be the first item on the external relations agenda. He hoped that the debate on other topics would be short. He expe [...]
2008-02-13 16:33:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EUN IR IS PGOV AADP
08LJUBLJANA69EU - RUSSIA TROIKA: CONSTRUCTIVE, BUT NO CHANGE ON
[...] (U) SUMMARY: All parties involved described the EU - Russia Troika, held in Brdo, Slovenia on February 13, as a "constructive" dialogue. However, as expected, discussions on Kosovo were merely a reiteration of the standard positions, neither side gave any ground. While the lunch discussion w [...]
2008-02-14 16:56:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS EUN ECON CVIS RS SI
08LJUBLJANA70SLOVENIA WANTS A NATO INVITATION FOR MACEDONIA
[...] (C) On February 14, A/DCM met with MFA Head of Security Policy Division Stanislav Vidovic to outline our current thinking on Macedonia's candidacy and to encourage Slovenia to join our calls to both Skopje and Athens to use the Nimetz process to reach a solution on the name issue before Buchar [...]
2008-02-15 07:21:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALMARR NATO PREL GR MK SI
08LJUBLJANA72CHARGE DISCUSSES ENERGY, KOSOVO WITH SLOVENIAN
[...] (SBU) On 12 February, Charg met with Igor Bavcar, the CEO of Istrabenz--one of Slovenia,s largest conglomerates, which has holdings of 65 companies in the energy, tourism, investment, food, and IT sectors--to discuss issues ranging from Instrabenz,s latest business ventures to the upcoming Slo [...]
2008-02-15 11:53:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG BEXP PGOV PREL SENV SI
08LJUBLJANA74SLOVENIA PROPOSES SEMINAR TO BRING DEVELOPING
[...] (SBU) On February 15, Emboff met with Andrej Kranjc, Undersecretary for International Relations at the Slovenian Ministry of the Environment to discuss Slovenia's preparations for the 18-19 February climate change meeting in Brussels between CEQ and France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, the UK, an [...]
2008-02-15 13:35:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG TSPL KSCA KGHG EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA78SLOVENIA PREPARING TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO
[...] (C) On February 19, Charge met with an expansive FM Rupel to urge Slovenia to recognize Kosovo as quickly as possible, per reftel. Observing that Charge was "preaching to the choir," FM Rupel sketched out Slovenia's plans for recognition. According to Rupel, Slovenia's Cabinet will meet on F [...]
2008-02-19 12:19:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EUN KV SI
08LJUBLJANA79SLOVENIA AGREES THAT KOSOVO IS NOT A PRECEDENT FOR
[...] (C) On February 14, Emboff delivered reftel points to MFA official Dejan Vladic of the Division for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, who affirmed that Slovenia completely agrees with the U.S. position that Kosovo independence will not set a precedent for Abkhazia nor any other region. Vladic [...]
2008-02-19 12:30:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL GG RU YI SI
08LJUBLJANA81SLOVENIA - 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW -
[...] (SBU) Slovenian legislation on intellectual property rights (IPR) and data protection is fully aligned with EU legislation, TRIPS, WIPO, and other ratified international treaties. In practice, U.S. pharmaceutical companies have access to the Slovene market. Recent efforts by the Government o [...]
2008-02-21 13:24:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR SI
08LJUBLJANA82SLOVENIA ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO
[...] (U) On February 21, the GOS announced that it intends to recognize Kosovo as an independent and sovereign nation. At a press conference following a meeting of the Cabinet, the PM's spokesperson announced that the government had adopted a Conclusion on the Recognition of Kosovo and had sent its [...]
2008-02-21 14:18:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EUN KV SI
08LJUBLJANA83SLOVENIA ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO
[...] (U) On February 21, the GOS announced that it intends to recognize Kosovo as an independent and sovereign nation. At a press conference following a meeting of the Cabinet, the PM's spokesperson announced that the government had adopted a Conclusion on the Recognition of Kosovo and had sent its [...]
2008-02-22 06:03:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EUN KV SI
08LJUBLJANA89SLOVENIA: DEMARCHE ON ADVANCING THE U.S. POSITION
[...] (C) On February 24, Charge delivered reftel's points to State Secretary Matjaz Sinkovec and also to Director of the Americas Division Roman Kirn, and urged Slovenia to work toward a process of political change that leads to a democratic end. Noting appreciation for our views, both officials c [...]
2008-02-25 08:40:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN CU SI
08LJUBLJANA94SLOVENIA TO DECIDE ON SOMALIA PIRACY AFTER EU PSC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-28 10:34:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO SI
08LJUBLJANA99SLOVENIA PROVIDES NO SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE ON
[...] (SBU) On 29 February, Emboff delivered reftel talking points on concerns about the Maldives' resolution on climate change and human rights to Andrej Kranjc, Secretary for International Affairs at the Slovenian Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning. Kranjc, who handles climate change is [...]
2008-03-03 05:33:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL KGHG MV SI
08LOME138 HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE ARMY OFFICER TO DLIELC
[...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for one Togolese Army officer selected to attend the General English Language Training on 05 May 2008 through 15 August 2008 and the Language Instructor/Basic on 18 August 2008 through 20 February 2009, at DLIELC. 2. Information about the Arm [...]
2008-03-31 09:12:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08LOME187 TOGO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE ARMY OFFICER AND
[...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for one Togolese Army officer and one civilian selected to attend the Africa Center for Strategic Studies Seminar 29 June 2008 to 11 July 2008 in Washington D.C. 2. Information about the two participants is as follows: Name: BITENIWE, Koum [...]
2008-04-24 15:35:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08LOME248 HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE POLICE AND GENDARMES TO
[...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for 30 Togolese police and gendarmes selected to attend trafficking in persons training sponsored by the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) in the Department of Justice. The course will take place June 23, 2 [...]
2008-05-23 12:55:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08LOME257 TOGO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE NAVY OFFICER LTJG
[...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for one Togolese Navy officer to attend the Specialized English Language training program and Navy/Coast Guard training from 25 June to 05 December 2008. Specialized English language Training: 25 June -29 August 2008 International Crisis C [...]
2008-06-03 14:42:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08LOME271INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MIGRATION
[...] (SBU) Ambassador spoke with Foreign Minister Leopold Gnininvi at a small dinner on June 6 regarding Ambassador Swing,s candidacy as IOM Director General. Gnininvi had just returned from the TICAD Conference in Tokyo. 2. (SBU) At Gnininvi,s request, Ambassador followed up with a phone call o [...]
2008-06-09 12:20:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORD PREF PREL SMIG TO
08LOME272GOVERNMENT OF TOGO RE-ENGAGES ON CORRUPTION
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Togolese Government highlighted the revival of the moribund National Commission for Combating Corruption and Economic Sabotage at the launch of a national workshop in Lome on implementing the UN Anti-Corruption Convention. In his keynote address, the Prime Minister announce [...]
2008-06-10 12:35:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EFIN EAID EIND TO
08LOME274TOGO: GLOBAL MARITIME PARTNERSHIPS DEMARCHE
[...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Kodjo Menan, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on May 23. Menan listened carefully and stated that he is not familiar with any initiatives, but he would speak with the GoT officials who deal with these issues. DUNN [...]
2008-06-11 10:21:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDECON MARR MCAP PREL TO
08LOME286 HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE POLICE OFFICER TO ATTEND
[...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for one Togolese Police Officer nominated to attend the Cybercrime Workshop in Cotonou, Benin on July 9-11, 2008. 2. Name of nominated Police officer is as follows: Name: Kombate, Yendoula Rank: Police Superintendent Unit: Togo Police Forc [...]
2008-06-17 14:36:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08LOME373TOGO: UFC HOLDS 2ND PARTY CONGRESS, CHOOSES
[...] (C) Summary. The Union of the Forces of Change (UFC),the largest opposition party in Togo, held its 2nd party Congress on July 18-19 in Lome, Togo. The party released a number of resolutions concerning the political way forward and chose its candidate for the 2010 presidential elections. Aside [...]
2008-07-23 17:40:00Embassy LomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM TO UV
08LOME385LETTER FROM PRESIDENT FAURE TO THE SECRETARY:
[...] The Embassy has received for transmission a letter dated June 25 from Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe to Secretary of State Rice. The letter is in French. Embassy translation follows: QUOTE Dear Madam Secretary of State: As you know, Togo is emerging from a recent political crisis [...]
2008-07-28 17:40:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID OPDC PREL EFIN TO
08LOME387RAIN AND FLOODING WASH OUT BRIDGE ON MAIN
[...] SUMMARY: Regions of central and southern Togo have been experiencing heavy rainfall leading to loss of life, flooding and most recently the washing out of a strategic bridge on the main North/South road. Travelers between Lome and northern Togo and the Sahel states will need to build in extra [...]
2008-07-29 10:24:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EAID SENV TO
08LOME388TOGO'S OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHOOL: INTERNATIONAL
[...] SUMMARY: The Togolese officer candidate program is progressing towards regionalization by accepting students from the sub-region, and strives to prepare cadets for PKO missions. The curriculum now includes modules on human right principles. The teaching staff tailors instruction to prepare [...]
2008-07-29 11:55:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MCAP PGOV KPKO TO
08LOME394OVERFLIGHT OF TOGO'S FLOODED AREAS CONFIRMS
[...] SUMMARY: Post was able to conduct an overflight and drive by of Togo's flooded areas. Water damage near Lome, north and east, is clearly visible as well as farther north towards Notse. Washed out bridges, both road and rail, as well as serious flooding in crop fields, lived-in parcels and [...]
2008-07-31 17:11:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETDR EAID SENV TO
08LOME397UPDATE ON TOGO'S FLOODING SITUATION
[...] SUMMARY: France and the UNDP are undertaking evaluation missions of flood damage. The GOT has held a number of crisis meetings and has begun to evacuate the population most at risk. Togo's Disaster Relief Committee has been activated. The GOT has still not provided the donor community wit [...]
2008-08-01 13:00:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETDR EAID SENV TO
08LOME399TOGO FLOODING: SITUATION IN THE SOUTH
[...] Summary. During travels around the southernmost portion of Togo over the week-end, it was clear that water levels are declining (except as water rushes toward the mouth of the Zio River at the ocean). The land is beginning to dry out, with deep mud the rule. Rains in the south have become sp [...]
2008-08-04 10:42:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL SENV TO
08LOME401TOGO'S FLOODING SITUATION: TOGO AND PARTNERS ARE
[...] SUMMARY: Assessment teams, both national and international, have begun to return to Lome and prepare their initial analysis and suggested courses of action. Togolese authorities have been present on the ground to distribute supplies, meet the population, assess damage and organize rescue ef [...]
2008-08-04 17:34:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL SENV MASS TO GH FR
08LOME403 TOGO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE NAVY OFFICER LT
[...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for one Togolese Navy officer to attend Navy/Coast Guard training from 03 September to 05 December 2008. International Crisis Command and Control: 03-19 September 2008 International Leadership and Management: 19-26 September 2008 Interna [...]
2008-08-05 16:58:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08LOME405TOGO FLOODS: GOT/UN EVALUATION REPORT
[...] Summary. A joint evaluation concludes that the flooding is serious, though not catastrophic. Heavy rains are underway in northern Togo that merit continued attention. Donors are committing to assistance. End Summary. 2. UNDP convened a meeting of international donors August 5 to present [...]
2008-08-05 18:12:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SENV TO
08LOME407TOGO: UPDATE ON FLOODS: SOUTHEASTERN TOGO
[...] Summary. During travel to flood-affected areas in southeastern Togo, embassy officials noted that there are still many displaced persons, standing water, and increased traffic problems throughout southern Togo. One important bridge remains at risk, but people are already slowly returning to th [...]
2008-08-06 17:56:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SENV TO
08LOME597 TOGO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE ARMY OFFICER MAJOR
[...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for one Togolese Army officer to attend HIV/AIDS Strategic Planning and Policy Development training from 4 through 13 December 2008. 2. Information about the participant is as follows: Name: Kodjo Patanaam ABALO Rank: Major Unit: Togolese [...]
2008-10-21 17:46:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08LOME619CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT ELECT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-06 17:26:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC OVIP PREL TO
08LOME680GOT PROPOSES 2009 BUDGET
[...] Summary. The GOT Council of Ministers adopted a draft of the 2009 budget bill during its weekly meeting on November 5. The budget focuses on priority sectors recommended by the country's interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, completed in April. The proposed budget was sent to the National [...]
2008-12-10 17:11:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV TO
08LOME686TOGO: CAR PARTY HOLDS CONGRESS, DISCUSSES FUTURE
[...] The third largest political party in Togo, the Action Committee for Renewal, held its party congress October 17-18. There were several unexpected surprises, including the presence of the Union of the Forces of Change (UFC) opposition leader Gilchrist Olympio and the election of a new president [...]
2008-12-12 14:14:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM TO
08LOME687 TOGO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE NAVY OFFICER
[...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for one Togolese Navy officer selected to attend the Patrol Boat Training in Norfolk, VA from December 29, through February 2009. 2. Information about the participant is as follows: Name: Agrigna, Sama Rank: Lieutenant Unit: Togolese Armed [...]
2008-12-16 08:03:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08LOME688 TOGO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE NAVY OFFICER APS
[...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for one Togolese Navy officer selected to attend the Africa Partnership Station (APS) training in Naples, Italy and Ship Riders Training starting in Norfolk, VA from January 5, through June 3, 2009. 2. Information about the participant is as f [...]
2008-12-16 08:03:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08LOME77 HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE GENDARMERIE OFFICERS TO
[...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for two Togolese Gendarmerie officers nominated to attend the regional MET seminar Conakry, Guinea on March 31 through April 4, 2008. 2. Names of nominated Gendarmerie officers are as follows: Name: Kondoh, Essohouna Rank: Sergeant Major U [...]
2008-02-21 14:54:00Embassy LomeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08LONDON1001A COLLECTIVE YAWN GREETS HMG’S FIRST NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Criticism and indifference from British political leaders, foreign policy analysts, and media greeted the publication of HMG's first National Security Strategy (NSS),an initial reaction echoed in many of the Whitehall ministries to which the NSS was directed. UK opposition leaders [...]
2008-04-08 12:05:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER EAID ECON UK
08LONDON1013UK ON ENCOURAGING GREATER REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-09 14:03:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL IZ UK
08LONDON1014(C) HMG CONSIDERING OPTIONS IN AFTERMATH OF
[...] (C) Foreign Office Zimbabwe Section Chief Ben Llewellyn-Jones confirmed to Poloff on April 7 that Prime Minister Brown had urged South African president Thabo Mbeki to use his influence in an effort to bring a positive end to Zimbabwe's political crisis when the two men meet on April 6. Llewe [...]
2008-04-09 14:41:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEC PGOV PREL SA UK EU UNSC ZI
08LONDON1017HMG LOOKING FORWARD TO BUILDING ON GAINS OF NATO
[...] (C/NF) According to FCO Deputy Director for Security Policy Chris Holtby, HMG shares U.S. views that the results of the NATO Bucharest Summit were better than expected going in, and looked forward to working closely with us to move forward soon on the outcomes which fell short of expectation [...]
2008-04-09 15:46:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV NATO EU UK
08LONDON103(S) IRAN: UK READOUT ON EL BARADEI'S LONDON
[...] (S) Summary. IAEA Head Mohammed El Baradei raised no new points during his January 7 meetings in London with Foreign Secretary Miliband and other senior UK officials, ahead of El SIPDIS Baradei's visit later this week to Tehran. Per ref, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) told London Ir [...]
2008-01-10 17:41:00Embassy LondonSECRETPREL KPRP PGOV PHUM IR UK
08LONDON1087UNITED KINGDOM BEGINS RELOCATION OF SOME IRAQI
[...] (C) Summary. The first three participants in HMG's program to relocate selected Iraqi employees who worked for the British Government in Iraq arrived in the UK on April 8. According to John Burran, head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Office on Assistance to Iraqi Locally Employ [...]
2008-04-16 13:22:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EU IZ UK
08LONDON1091LONDON MAYORAL ELECTION: A NATIONAL BELLWEATHER?
[...] (SBU) Summary. On May 1 Londoners go to the polls to elect a new Mayor. The incumbent, Labour's Ken Livingstone, is looking to win his third successive term in office but faces a tough challenge from the Conservative candidate, Boris Johnson. At present the race is too close to call. A lot i [...]
2008-04-16 16:42:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UK
08LONDON111MISSILE DEFENSE: HMG CONCERNED POLAND WILL
[...] (C) This is a State action request -- see para 9. 2. (C) Summary. HMG is concerned that public statements by Warsaw since the Polish elections are causing other NATO Allies to begin to question whether NATO should approve MD work at the Bucharest summit in April. HMG suggests the U.S. Gov [...]
2008-01-11 12:56:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR PREL NATO UK PO
08LONDON1112HMG WILL CONTINUE TO ENGAGE WITH ATHENS AND SKOPJE
[...] (C) HMG has been engaging, and will continue to engage with, senior Greek leadership to encourage Athens to be more flexible in its position on the Macedonia name issue. FCO Balkans Group Deputy Director Adam Bye said that the British Ambaasador (HMA) to Greece had met with Foreign Minister [...]
2008-04-18 14:00:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO EU MK GR UK
08LONDON1113PROPOSALS FOR AMBASSADOR’S CT FUND
[...] (U) Embassy London welcomes the offer made by S/CT Ambassador Dailey for S/CT to consider granting funds of up to 50,000 USD to support projects to counter violent extremist ideology. Embassy London submits the following two proposals: 2. (C) REVERSE RADICALISM: Working with Her Majesty's Governm [...]
2008-04-18 14:03:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER UK
08LONDON1115HMG OUTLINES NEW PROCEDURES FOR REQUESTING INTEL
[...] (S/NF) Summary and Action Request. The UK Ministry of Defense summoned PolMilOff April 15 to receive the letter in para 2 on new procedures for requesting HMG permission to use UK territory to launch intelligence flights. This letter, evidently what DG Mariot Leslie was referring to in her April 14 [...]
2008-04-18 15:31:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNMOPS MARR PINR PREL UK
08LONDON1116UK REACTION TO IRAN SANCTIONS DEMARCHES
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY The UK is actively considering its options in its efforts to contain Iranian nuclear proliferation, and appreciates the information we provided on Banks Melli, Saderat and Mellat, according to Patrick Guthrie, Head of the Financial Sanctions Unit of HM Treasury, and his Deputy, P [...]
2008-04-18 15:42:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNECON EFIN KNNP IR UK
08LONDON1135(C) AN UPDATE ON HMG EXPECTATIONS AND PREDICTIONS
[...] (C) Summary. The head of the Foreign Office's Zimbabwe section indicated on 21 April that time is running out for Robert Mugabe. Ineffective African mediation efforts may still yield positive results if all interested parties, including the African Union and the United Nations, coordinate with [...]
2008-04-22 12:31:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL UN UK EU SA CH ZI
08LONDON1146HMG REQUESTS FORMAL CONSULTATIONS REGARDING
[...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request. Following up on ref a request for informal consultations, PolMiloff received a letter and non-paper April 22 from HMG requesting formal consultations on renewing the 2003 HMG-USG Agreement concerning the use of Wideawake Airfield on Ascension Island. Embassy [...]
2008-04-23 14:30:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS MARR PREL UK
08LONDON1151(C) BP PREFERS TO MANAGE CHINESE PRESSURE OVER
[...] (C) SUMMARY The Chinese government has threatened action against BP assets on the mainland if the company does not halt new projects in disputed South China Sea waters. BP would like to keep any reactions to Chinese pressure over the company's activities in the South China Sea within commercia [...]
2008-04-23 15:54:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PBTS PGOV PREL CA VN UK
08LONDON1157HMG EXPECTS LITTLE IMMINENT CHANGE IN CUBA BUT
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials told Cuba Transition Coordinator Caleb McCarry they detected little real change since Raul Castro assumed power, but they firmly believed the only means of exploiting any possible openings with the regime was to remain engaged. [...]
2008-04-24 10:12:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM KDEM UK CU EUN
08LONDON1159HMG AND DOD INTEL FLIGHTS: HOUSTON, WE HAVE A
[...] (S/NF) Summary and action request. According to FCO and MOD contacts, HMG ministers are adamant that future requests to use UK territory to conduct DOD intel flights must be made "government-to-government" in "formal" (policy) channels, rather than through the working-level mil-mil channels c [...]
2008-04-24 11:14:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNMARR MOPS PINR PREL UK
08LONDON116EUROPEAN SUMMIT ON FINANCIAL INSTABILITY SET
[...] (SBU) Last October, France, Germany, and the UK agreed to a Summit to discuss current financial market problems. Italy and the EU will join that meeting, in London on January 29. In advance of that summit, the respective finance ministers will meet on January 17. A Cabinet Office source told [...]
2008-01-11 17:54:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN UK
08LONDON1160REPORTS THAT BRITAIN IS IMPORTING PAKISTANI IMAMS
[...] (C) Summary. The British press has reported that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced that Britain would launch a SIPDIS new initiative to bring "moderate Pakistani Imams" to preach in Britain. Poloff spoke April 24 with the Head of the Home Office's Prevent Unit Paul Morrison who said the initiat [...]
2008-04-24 13:58:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KISL PK UK
08LONDON1163IRAN: DEMOCRACY SMALL GRANTS PROPOSALS RECOMMENDED
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Per Department guidance for the Iran Democracy Small Grants program (refs a and b),Embassy London supports and forwards for Department review, and approval and funding, six project proposals submitted to Iran Watcher (Poloff) by Iranian contacts in the UK. Per Department guidan [...]
2008-04-24 14:56:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KDEM KPAO PHUM IR UK
08LONDON1170COURT KNOCKS DOWN TERRORIST ASSET-FREEZING POWERS:
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: A UK court ruled on April 24 that the UK had illegally frozen the assets of five individuals accused of terrorism finance. The ruling found fault with the fact that the UK did not engage in parliamentary debate in its implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions on Al-Qae [...]
2008-04-25 11:56:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON KTFN UK
08LONDON1171STEALING THE SHOW -- PRIVATE INDUSTRY ANTI-PIRACY EFFORTS
[...] (U) Summary: Participants at a seminar on industry's efforts to stop film piracy broadly agreed on the need to outlaw camcording of films in cinemas. The industry is working with law enforcement to prosecute the organized crime families who produce counterfeit DVD's. Previous public outreach c [...]
2008-04-25 13:38:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KIPR UK ECPS
08LONDON1172UK EXPECTS THE BALKANS TO DOMINATE APRIL GAERC
[...] (C) Summary. The UK expects the Balkans to be the key discussion item at the April 27-28 GAERC; the UK is still pushing to have a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SSA) with Bosnia signed at this GAERC, but expects it will slip to the May GAERC. According to Martin Shearman, EU Corres [...]
2008-04-25 14:05:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN ZL PK ZI IR IS CH BM UK
08LONDON1176UK FOOD SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS PM BROWN'S CONCERN
[...] (SBU) Summary: At an April 22, PM Brown-hosted meeting to address increases in food prices, participants disagreed about future trends and the impact of biofuels, agreed that action needed to be taken both for immediate social protection and longer-term agricultural investment, and that care s [...]
2008-04-25 16:40:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EAGR PGOV UK
08LONDON1183WESTERN SAHARA: UK UNDECIDED ABOUT UN STATEMENT
[...] (C) The UK has not yet decided whether to make a statement at the April 29 UNSC meeting on the renewal of the mandate for the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO),FCO North Africa Team Leader Robert Dixon told us in response to reftel demarche. If the UK does decide to [...]
2008-04-28 13:52:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS UK FR MO AG WI UNSC
08LONDON1204IRAN: UK PUSHES BACK ESTIMATED DATE OF EU'S
[...] (C) Summary. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) told Embassy there is "an eighty percent chance" the EU will vote to designate Bank Melli and 34 other persons and entities at the "next available" EU-level ministerial meeting. FCO was optimistic a text on designations will be f [...]
2008-04-29 15:40:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER EU IR UK
08LONDON1223VIGILANCE REGARDING BANK SADERAT'S BRANCH IN ATHENS
[...] (S/NF) We delivered reftel points on April 28 to HM Treasury's Patrick Guthrie, head of Financial Sanctions Unit, who said he would share within HMT and with the Financial Services Authority (banking regulator.) Guthrie appreciated receiving the information and agreed Greece had a lax enforce [...]
2008-05-01 11:41:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNECON KNNP MNUC IR UK
08LONDON1224CODEL SMITH DISCUSSES IRAQ AND COUNTERTERRORISM
[...] (S/NF) Summary. On the heels of their trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Codel Smith traveled to London April 29 for meetings with senior officials at the Ministry of Defense (MOD),MI-6, and Department for International Development (DfID). The MOD and MI-6 talks focused on counterterrorism and coun [...]
2008-05-01 11:56:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PTER PREL AF PK IZ UK
08LONDON1241MAY 1 ELECTIONS: BROWN IS BLUE AND CAMERON
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing heavy losses in his first electoral test since becoming Prime Minister. With two thirds of the results counted from yesterday's local council elections in England and Wales, projections put Labour at just 24 percent of the total vote; th [...]
2008-05-02 17:12:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV UK
08LONDON126MDG CALL TO ACTION: MORE UK THINKING
[...] (SBU) Summary: In recent meetings at DFID and FCO, UK interlocutors raised PM Brown's Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Call to Action. We were told the Call to Action is intended mesh with existing development initiatives, but bring in a private sector component that the others lack. More d [...]
2008-01-14 18:06:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID UN UK
08LONDON1265EMBASSY LONDON PLANS FOR DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH
[...] Action request for Department. Embassy London plans to mark the May 21 "Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People" by placing an op-ed in a local newspaper. We request that WHA provide the text for this placement. 2. In addition, Embassy London is working with the NGO "English PEN" to mark [...]
2008-05-06 16:31:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KDEM PHUM EUN CU UK
08LONDON1277UK STATEMENT ON BURMA'S FLAWED CONSTITUTIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-07 10:58:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM BM UK
08LONDON1285UK MORTGAGE LENDERS OK FOR NOW; HOUSING PRICES FALLING
[...] (SBU) Recent announcements of lenders withdrawing mortgage products from the market incorrectly suggest that UK mortgage lenders are in crisis. As a group, mortgage lenders are solvent with significant equity cushions in their mortgage portfolios and default rates remain low. Building societ [...]
2008-05-07 16:35:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN UK
08LONDON1287EMBASSY LONDON'S OUTREACH TO DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS
[...] Summary. In response to the President's democracy outreach initiative, the Ambassador has led an active Embassy effort, sustained throughout 2007 and 2008 and primarily with an Iranian focus, to demonstrate support and build bridges to democratic activists, including a personal meeting by the [...]
2008-05-08 10:50:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL IR BM UK
08LONDON129TERRORISM FINANCE: UK TO CO-SPONSOR LET-4
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-15 15:15:00Embassy LondonSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PREL UK
08LONDON1292IRAN: DESPITE UK COURT RULING, HMG WILL KEEP ITS
[...] (C) Summary. The UK Court of Appeals ruled May 7 unambiguously in favor of the Iran oppositionist group Mujahadeen e Khalq (MEK, aka MKO aka NCRI) on its long-standing petition to be de-listed as a terrorist group under UK domestic law (ref). The UK Government, which had fought the MEK's pe [...]
2008-05-08 17:37:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC PTER IR IZ UK
08LONDON130TERRORIST FINANCE: UK AGREES TO UN DESIGNATION OF
[...] (S) The UK agrees to support U.S. designation of Badran Turki Hishan Al Mazidih and members of his network, the five individuals in Ref A, according to Giles Cutler, 1267 Committee expert, International Organizations Department, Foreign Office. However, they have not yet decided whether to co [...]
2008-01-15 15:18:00Embassy LondonSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC IZ SY UK
08LONDON1300ICI: UK FOREIGN SECRETARY WILL PROBABLY ATTEND
[...] (SBU) UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband will probably lead the UK delegation to the May 29 International Compact with Iraq (ICI) Ministerial in Stockholm, Miliband's Chief of Staff Matthew Gould told us May 9. The UK is not planning any deliverables for the meeting, FCO Iraq Group officers [...]
2008-05-09 13:30:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ UK
08LONDON1302LEBANON: UK TO ISSUE PUBLIC STATEMENT, WILL
[...] (C) HMG in general, and Foreign Secretary David Miliband in particular, are very concerned about the situation in Lebanon, Miliband's Chief of Staff Matthew Gould told us May 9. Miliband is planning to issue a statement the afternoon of May 9 reflecting the points in reftel; he will also cal [...]
2008-05-09 14:17:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER CASC LE SY RU TU UK
08LONDON1303USAID, DFID AGREE ON COLLABORATION PROJECTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: UK Secretary of State for International Development, Douglas Alexander, sought USAID Administrator Henrietta ForeQs support for DFIDQs planned September 25 meeting on the Millennium Development Goals in New York. Douglas agreed to co-author an op-ed piece with Fore on why develop [...]
2008-05-09 14:42:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL KHDP ECON UK
08LONDON1311UK REAFFIRMS LONG-TERM PRESENCE IN IRAQ; PRAISES
[...] (S/NF) Summary. During their meetings with Secretary of State for Defense Des Browne and FCO Political Director Mark Lyall Grant, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and the Commanding General of MNF-I General David Petraeus were reassured that the UK was in Iraq "long-term" and had temporari [...]
2008-05-09 16:18:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR IZ AF UK
08LONDON132HORMUZ STRAITS INCIDENT: ALLEGEDLY AN IRGC
[...] (S/NF) Summary. A long-time Embassy contact, reportedly relaying information from a close friend who is an active duty member of the Iranian military, told Poloff the Deputy Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (Naval Forces) independently planned and led the January 6 feint by [...]
2008-01-15 17:43:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNKPRP PGOV PHUM PREL IS IR LE SY UK KR
08LONDON1327TERRORISM FINANCE: CO-SPONSORSHIP AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-12 16:59:00Embassy LondonSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PINR PREL UK
08LONDON1328ACTION REQUEST ON U.S. 60-DAY REPORT TO UN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-12 17:01:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY UNSC UK
08LONDON1338(C) UK RESPONSE TO DEMARCHES ON GERMAN OBSTINACY
[...] (C) In response to refs a and b, Andrew Ford, Head of the International Security and Arms Control Security Group at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),reiterated HMG's position that the USG's unwillingness to participate in the Oslo process has been an impediment to a successful agre [...]
2008-05-13 16:28:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MOPS PGOV NATO GM UK
08LONDON1350HMG RAISES THE BAR ON INTEL FLIGHTS
[...] (S/NF) Summary and Recommendation. FCO contacts explained May 14 that HMG's May 1 approval (ref C) for CEDAR SWEEP flights had been widely considered at MOD and FCO, with some departments flagging concerns about the information provided by the USG. HMG is concerned that the request for reconnaissan [...]
2008-05-14 15:06:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNMARR MOPS PINR PREL LE UK
08LONDON1352IRANIAN BANKING IN LONDON: UK PLANS AND CONCERNS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-14 15:16:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KTFN MNUC IR UK
08LONDON1386SURVEY: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AGRICULTURAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-16 14:51:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL
08LONDON1394UPDATE ON EMBASSY LONDON PLANS FOR DAY OF
[...] Per ref A, "The Daily Telegraph" has agreed to run the Department-cleared op-ed under the Ambassador's signature in its online version on May 21. 2. In addition, Embassy London is working with the NGO "English PEN" to mark the occasion. PEN advocates for freedom of expression around the wor [...]
2008-05-19 15:07:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KDEM PHUM EUN CU UK
08LONDON1396IRAN: EU BANK MELLI DESIGNATION PUSHED TO MID/LATE
[...] (S) Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) working level contacts on May 19 told Embassy London Iran Watcher (Poloff) that, although the EU has agreed politically to designate Bank Melli, the EU has pushed the expected designation date, previously set for May 19 (ref),back to mid- or late [...]
2008-05-19 16:21:00Embassy LondonSECRETEFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER EU IR UK
08LONDON1397(C) UK PREPARING TO DESIGNATE MILITARY WING OF
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The UK government is preparing to designate the military wing of Hizballah as a terrorist organization in the next two to three weeks, FCO Middle East and North Africa Director (NEA A/S-equivalent) John Jenkins told DCM May 19. The UK recognizes that the USG would like it to [...]
2008-05-19 16:50:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER IR SY LE IZ UK
08LONDON1406UNITED KINGDOM: REPORT ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD LABOR IN
[...] (U) There is no record of forced or child labor in the production of legal goods in the UK. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) informed Post that it does not collate information on goods produced with child labor and that it is not aware of any private research in this area. Its most [...]
2008-05-20 13:30:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI UK
08LONDON1411UK LARGELY WITH US ON UN SYSTEM OF INTERNAL JUSTICE
[...] (C) ON May 19, PolOff delivered Ref A on reforming the UN system of Internal Justice. HMG is in full agreement that the implementation of the new Internal Justice system is a top priority and agreed that any contentious issues should be left to further review after implementation, according [...]
2008-05-20 16:39:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC APER UNGA UK
08LONDON1412DOD INTEL FLIGHTS: FCO CLARIFIES
[...] (S/NF) Summary. U.S.-UK talks on clearances for DOD intel flights had become "unnecessarily confrontational," FCO Director General for Defence and Intelligence Mariot Leslie told Acting U/S John Rood May 16. After reiterating the political sensitivities surrounding the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) on [...]
2008-05-20 18:08:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNMARR MOPS PINR PREL LE UK
08LONDON1424UK SHARES U.S. OBJECTIVES FOR BURMA CONFERENCE BUT
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel on the Burma donors conference to Nigel Boud, Burma Director in the British Foreign Office, on May 21. Boud said HMG's objectives for the conference "tally exactly" with those of the USG. HMG's overall goal is to gain immediate access for humanitarian assistance [...]
2008-05-21 16:39:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EAID BM UK
08LONDON1426THE UK AND AFRICA: WHAT THE FCO'S STRATEGY REFRESH
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Following the FCO's recent "strategy refresh" of its priorities, FCO and Africa Directorate leadership have held extensive internal discussions on what the new strategy will mean for Africa. FCO plans to develop a more comprehensive foreign policy for Africa -- not just a deve [...]
2008-05-22 07:13:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL XA UK
08LONDON1433IRAN: UK GRANTS ASYLUM TO VICTIM OF TEHRAN
[...] (C) Summary: Reversing an earlier decision, and in the wake of considerable coverage in the UK press, the Home Office on May 20 granted asylum to a gay Iranian teenager who had claimed persecution by Iranian authorities. The HMG decision was not a finding of systematic persecution of homosex [...]
2008-05-22 12:38:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL EU IR NL UK
08LONDON1449UK BY-ELECTION RESULTS PORTEND BIG PROBLEMS FOR
[...] (C/NF) Summary. For the first time in 30 years, the UK's Conservative Party has taken back a parliamentary seat from the Labour Party, winning a huge upset victory in the May 22 Crewe and Nantwich by-election. By giving David Cameron's Tories 49 percent of the vote - as opposed to 31 percent [...]
2008-05-23 13:21:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL UK
08LONDON1452IRAN: FOREIGN SECRETARY SAYS UK TO LEAD FINANCIAL
[...] (C) Foreign Secretary Milliband is "very aware" of the centrality of financial measures, both multilateral and bilateral, to the creation of effective pressure on Tehran, and has told the FCO that HMG will be "at the forefront" of international financial efforts against Iran and will push its EU pa [...]
2008-05-23 13:58:00Embassy LondonSECRETECON ETTC KNNP PARM PGOV PHUM PREL IR PK UK
08LONDON1456UK EXPECTATIONS FOR THE MAY 26-27 FOREIGN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-23 17:51:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV EU UK
08LONDON1457BANKS STOPPING UK SUB-PRIME LENDING
[...] (SBU) Over the last few months the UK has seen the virtual closure of its sub-prime market. Market conditions and action by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) against brokers for poor lending practices may have caused some banks to withdraw from the sub-prime market. The Financial Service [...]
2008-05-27 07:17:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN UK
08LONDON1459UK AND SOMALIA: CAUTIOUSLY SUPPORTIVE OF UN PKO
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The UK is cautiously supportive of deploying a United Nations Peacekeeping Operation (PKO) in Somalia, when the conditions are right, FCO counterparts tell us. HMG sees clan leader buy-in of a UN presence and increased UN engagement, including moving the Political Office to M [...]
2008-05-27 10:37:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KPKO UNSC XW SO UK
08LONDON1465UK COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED TO DOS/VCI
[...] Embassy London is pleased to grant country clearance to Rongsong Jih to visit London June 2-5 to attend the Quadripartite Annual Conference in Seismology (QUACS) held June 3-4, 2008, at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE),Blacknest, United Kingdom. 2. ----------------- Visit offic [...]
2008-05-27 14:12:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA UK AA
08LONDON1468IRAN: UK EXPECTS EU WILL SOON DE-LIST THE MEK
[...] (C) HMG will formally notify its EU partners at a May 30 experts' meeting of the UK's impending removal (reftel) of the Mujaheddin-E-Khalq (MEK) from the UK's domestic terrorist list (reftel),FCO contacts told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) May 23. Such notification will trigger an EU process [...]
2008-05-27 15:47:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC PTER IR IZ UK
08LONDON1477LIBERTAD ACT: UK INPUT
[...] (C) The following pertains to the UK's involvement in and relations with Cuba, keyed to questions posed in reftel: 2. (C) Has the UK worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? -- The UK's policy toward Cuba is consistent with the EU Common Policy, which was [...]
2008-05-28 15:32:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU UK
08LONDON1478UK ON CARIBBEAN SECURITY EFFORTS
[...] (C) In response to reftel request, Embassy assesses that HMG has shown long-standing support for Caribbean regional integration to tackle transnational crime, terrorism and natural disasters, believing that Caribbean countries are more likely to build effective capacity together than separatel [...]
2008-05-28 15:35:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL PTER UK XL MASS
08LONDON1485UK AND LIBERIA/FRANCE: UK SUPPORTIVE OF
[...] (C) The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) should be drawn down based "on conditions on the ground" and the current UN plan for a gradual down-sizing has the UK's full support, Peacekeeping Team Leader Nicola Murray said on May 28. The UK is "quietly positive" on UNMIL. While there ma [...]
2008-05-29 11:38:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KPKO UNSC XY LI FR UK
08LONDON1505SUDAN: UK SUPPORTS DESIGNATION OF REFTEL
[...] (C) HMG supports sanctioning all four individuals in reftel A, FCO Sudan Unit Senior Political Officer Rachel Edis said May 30. If other UNSC members oppose the entire list, however, sanctioning Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim and Doussa Deby would be the preferred o [...]
2008-05-30 16:24:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU UK
08LONDON1506HM TREASURY OFFICIALS ON TEC AND DOHA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: HM Treasury officials worry the French may use their EU Presidency to slow Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform and may even try to use labor clauses in free trade agreements to impose some of their own labor market rigidities. They are also concerned by signs of protecti [...]
2008-05-30 16:25:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EAGR UK
08LONDON1509IRAN'S EX-AMBASSADOR TAJIK: UK MAY EXTRADITE AS
[...] (C) The UK says it intends to extradite ex-Iranian ambassador Nosratullah Tajik to the United States no later than June 11, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) contacts told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) on May 29. the Tajik case has been a significant bilateral irritant between the UK and [...]
2008-06-02 10:49:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALCJAN PINS PREL PTER IR UK
08LONDON1535INTERNATIONAL SECURITY DISCUSSIONS WITH HMG
[...] (C/NF) Summary. FCO and Treasury officials said that HMG was taking steps to restrict Iranian banking activity in the UK but is restricted by the legal tools available to it. FCO PolDir Mark Lyall Grant, FCO Director General for Defense and Intelligence Mariot Leslie, and HMT International and [...]
2008-06-03 16:21:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPARM MARR PREL IR SY UK
08LONDON1552EDELMAN AND MOD HOLD PAKISTAN ROUNDTABLE
[...] (C) Summary. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman, UK counterpart Ministry of Defense Policy Director Desmond Bowen, and their staffs held a wide-ranging roundtable discussion on Pakistan May 30. (Participants in para 6.) Bowen described Pakistan as "vital strategic ground," a [...]
2008-06-04 15:47:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MARR PINS PK UK
08LONDON1553UK FEELS U.S. PAIN BUT OFFERS LITTLE LOVE ON
[...] (C) The UK does not itself strongly object to the proposed U.S. language on Cuba and Venezuela in the U.S.-EU Summit document, but is bowing to the "significant" opposition of other EU Members and will not break rank on including U.S. language. Polcounselor delivered ref message on June 3 to [...]
2008-06-04 16:06:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EUN UK
08LONDON1555UK OFFICIAL PESSIMISTIC ON TRADE AGENDA
[...] (SBU) Summary: A UK trade official told Econoff the UK is worried that the Doha Development Agreement round of trade talks will not succeed, which would be a serious blow. He said the U.S. and others need to offer more. On TEC, he said member states, not well briefed by the EU Commission, te [...]
2008-06-05 08:15:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR UK EU
08LONDON1562ZIMBABWE: UK CONTRIBUTION TO THE UN TRUST FUND FOR
[...] (SBU) Zimbabwe Team Leader Ben Llewellyn-Jones said June 5 the UK plans to contribute GBP 100,000 (approx. 200,000 USD) to the UN Trust Fund for Electoral Assistance and is likely to finalize the letter of commitment today (June 5). HMG had initially intended to contribute GBP 200,000, but upo [...]
2008-06-05 11:07:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL AA UN XA ZI UK
08LONDON1566UK WELCOMES SEXUAL VIOLENCE DEBATE, BUT LEVEL OF
[...] (U) On June 4, PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Michael Cotterall of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),who is the Head of the Peacekeeping Unit of the International Organizations Bureau. Cotterall said HMG is looking forward to working with the USG on the issue of Sexual Violence [...]
2008-06-05 13:13:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM AORC KWMN UN UNSC UK
08LONDON1567UK UNDECIDED ON IOM VOTE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-05 14:28:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF SMIG AORC UK
08LONDON1568UK AND SOUTH AFRICA: JULY UK-RSA FORUM OPPORTUNITY
[...] (C/NF) Summary. South Africa (RSA) will host Foreign Secretary David Miliband and a high-level HMG delegation in Pretoria for the 8th bi-annual UK-RSA Bilateral Forum July 7 - 8. FCO officials describe the UK's relations with President Mbeki as "the worst the UK has had in recent history" -- [...]
2008-06-05 14:28:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ECON KDEM SMIG ZU SF UK
08LONDON1574PAKISTAN: UK VIEWS ON DEALS WITH TRIBAL GROUPS IN
[...] (C) Summary. The UK is giving the Government of Pakistan (GOP) "space to try making peace" in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) through deals with tribal groups because the new government needs to be seen in Pakistan as "in charge of security," but London is "under no illusion th [...]
2008-06-06 12:29:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MCAP PINR PINS PK UK
08LONDON1577HOME SECRETARY SELLS THE COUNTER-TERRORISM BILL;
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-06 14:10:00Embassy LondonSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PK UK
08LONDON1580IRAN: UK INTENDS TO GO FORWARD ON TAJIK
[...] (C) Summary: Taking a strong pro-extradition line, the UK still expects to extradite former Iranian Ambassador Tajik as soon as remaining medical-legal aspects of his case are resolved. Foreign and Commonwealth contacts underline, however, that HMG takes Iranian threats related to the Tajik c [...]
2008-06-06 16:18:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALCJAN PINS PREL PTER IR UK
08LONDON1586U/S JEFFERY AND A/S O’BRIEN PRESS UK ON IRANIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: State Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery and Treasury Assistant Secretary Patrick O'Brien met with UK banking regulators on May 15 to urge increased scrutiny and tougher actions against Iranian banks operating in London. O'Brien and State Acting Assistant Secretary Patricia McNerney also d [...]
2008-06-09 10:58:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KTFN ECON IR UK
08LONDON1593IRAN: UK MAY DE-LIST MEK BY EARLY JULY BUT WILL
[...] (C) Summary. The UK's domestic de-listing of the Mujaheddin e Khalq (MEK) may occur as soon as early July or even late June, Foreign and Commonwealth contacts told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) June 6, moving up their earlier estimates (ref) by two to three weeks as to when Parliament is like [...]
2008-06-09 15:59:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ETTC PTER IR UK
08LONDON1595IRAN: UK EXPECTS A FOURTH UNSCR WILL BE NECESSARY
[...] (C) Summary: FCO working level contacts in informal conversations argue the likelihood that Iran will not respond in a useful fashion to Javer Solana's scheduled offer June 14 on behalf of the P5 1 will make a fourth UNSC resolution on Iran necessary. FCO contacts argue that whether a fourth [...]
2008-06-10 11:48:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MNUC KNNP UN IR UK
08LONDON1597(S) UK MEASURES TO STEM BANK MELLI'S ASSET FLIGHT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-10 15:26:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNECON EFIN IR KTFN MNUC UK
08LONDON160(C) UK ON ESDP DEPLOYMENT TO CHAD AND C.A.R.
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-17 15:51:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN MARR CD UK
08LONDON1606DESPITE GRIM MILESTONE, HMG VOWS TO STAY THE
[...] (C) Summary. UK media gave extensive coverage to the killing of three paratroopers by a suicide bomber as they were conducting a routine foot patrol in Helmand province on June 8. The incident pushed the total number of soldiers killed over the seven years of British military presence in Af [...]
2008-06-11 17:22:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR AF UK
08LONDON1619TORY SHADOW HOME SECRETARY DAVID DAVIS RESIGNS
[...] (U) Conservative Party "Shadow" Home Secretary David Davis, and one time rival to David Cameron for the Conservative Party leadership, has unexpectedly resigned in protest of the House of Commons vote June 11 authorizing the detention without charge of British citizen and foreign terror suspe [...]
2008-06-12 16:40:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM PTER UK
08LONDON1620USUN AMB KHALILZAD REVIEWS IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN,
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Amb Khalilzad told UK national security advisor McDonald that he was realistic about the difficulties of completing a SOFA and strategic framework agreement with Iraq by July, but saw some progress on the ground. In Afghanistan, he believed the SGSR needed to fill key slots and [...]
2008-06-12 16:40:00Embassy LondonSECRETPREL PGOV AF IZ IR
08LONDON1623UK ON CUBA, IRAN AND OTHER ISSUES AT THE JUNE GAERC
[...] (SBU) Foreign Office officials provided to Poloffs on June 12 the responses below to ref points on key GAERC agenda items, as well as a general readout of UK expectations for the June GAERC meeting. Cuba ---- 2. (C) The UK supports lifting the EU's Restrictive Measures on Cuba at the Jun [...]
2008-06-13 13:06:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV ETRD EAID ZL ZK IR IZ IS CU
08LONDON1627UK SHARES USG CONCERNS RE ISO 26000 DRAFT
[...] The UK shares the concerns outlined in the reftel non-paper. They have just received a new working draft 4.2 of ISO 26000. It has not yet been reviewed by the government or discussed with the UK ISO Working Group, but it appears to raise the same concerns as the prior draft. This is the draft [...]
2008-06-13 17:07:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD WTRO EFIN UK
08LONDON1632UK "DISAPPOINTED" WITH USG DECISION ON POLICY
[...] (C) Summary: The British Government is "disappointed with the USG decision to 'disengage'" with the UNHRC. Poloff delivered reftel demarche June 12 to Foreign Office Head of Human Rights, Democracy and Governance Group Susan Hyland and Human Rights UN officer Paul Edwards. The British Gover [...]
2008-06-16 15:32:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PHUM UN UK
08LONDON1633UK SUPPPORT AND ATTENDANCE AT BERLIN CONFERENCE IN
[...] (C) The UK will not announce new significant money for Palestinian rule-of-law programs at the June 24 Berlin Conference, but will describe what additional programs and plans it intends to further support using already pledged, but undisbursed, funds, the Foreign Office's Middle East Unit tol [...]
2008-06-16 15:50:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS EUN UK
08LONDON1643UK AND UGANDA: NEXT STEPS ON THE LRA
[...] (S) The UK Government has adopted a "harder edge" policy to "isolate and marginalize" the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the face of LRA leader Kony's continued refusal to sign the Final Peace Agreement (FPA),according to FCO Northern Uganda Desk Officer Sheena Lavery. With the Juba Peace P [...]
2008-06-17 15:37:00Embassy LondonSECRETPREL MOPS KPKO UNSC SU UG UK
08LONDON1645IRAN: FCO READOUT ON SOLANA IN TEHRAN AND PM
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Although Iran did not provide an immediate response to the P5 1 refreshed offer, Iran NSC Secretary Jalili unexpectedly agreed to "study the offer carefully," and also agreed it is now up to Iran, rather than the P5 1, to respond (ref a). A reference by Prime Minister Gordon [...]
2008-06-17 16:41:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL ECON EFIN KTFN MNUC PINS IR UK
08LONDON1646UK WILL NOT ISSUE A BILATERAL STATEMENT ON US-EU
[...] The UK will not issue its own bilateral statement in London or at the UN regarding the U.S.-EU Prisoners of Conscience Declaration (ref),according to Sharon Moore of the FCO's UN Office. In line with UK policy, as the Declaration is a EU initiative, the EU will release a statement on behalf [...]
2008-06-18 10:48:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UK
08LONDON1647IAEA: UK RESPONSE TO REQUEST RELATED TO THE
[...] (U) PolMilOff delivered reftel and on June 13, 2008, received the response below from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office's Counter Proliferation Department. 2. (U) Begin Text of HMG Response: June 13, 2008 (Complimentary opening),(Regarding) the non-paper on CSC that you provided. O [...]
2008-06-18 12:00:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC IAEA PARM UK
08LONDON1648SOMALIA: POLITICAL SOLUTIONS REQUIRED FOR SHIPPING
[...] (C) Summary. Discussing French efforts to establish secure maritime supply chains for humanitarian aid for Somalia at a June 12 think-tank event in London, French MFA and Defense Ministry representatives were met with strong demands from shipping industry leaders for the international communi [...]
2008-06-18 13:22:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS EWWT PHSA UNSC KPKO SO XW UK
08LONDON1649AFRICOM: FCO AND DFID INTERESTED BUT IN
[...] (C/NF) Summary. FCO and DFID officials report they are in a "wait-and-see" mode on AFRICOM and have allowed the MOD to take the UK Government lead in engaging the USG on AFRICOM. Saying they have been "kept well informed" as USG thinking on AFRICOM develops, MOD officials have said they get th [...]
2008-06-18 15:47:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MASS KPKO MOPS PINS XA UK
08LONDON1655UK SPECIAL LIQUIDITY FACILITY IS A SUCCESS
[...] (U) By ensuring broad participation, including the UK's five largest banks, and by ensuring strict confidentiality, the Bank of England's (BOE's) Special Liquidity Facility (SLF) has eliminated the stigma associated with borrowing from the BOE. Because of this, BOE contacts told Econoff that t [...]
2008-06-19 09:39:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN UK
08LONDON1666SOMALIA: UN SPECIAL REP CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL
[...] (U) UN Special Representative for Somalia Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah called for the international community's support for the Djibouti Agreement between the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the Alliance for Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) at a June 19 think-tank event in London. Def [...]
2008-06-20 14:47:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PINS UNSC KPKO SO XW UK
08LONDON1678UK RED LINES ON UN ACTION ON ZIMBABWE, POSSIBLE
[...] (C) HMG has the following red lines for any UN statement on Zimbabwe, FCO Zimbabwe Desk Officers Ben Llewellyn-Jones and Jason Moore told us June 23 in response to Ref A: -- the statement must emphasize that the Mugabe regime is no longer legitimate, since the will of the people of Zimbabwe [...]
2008-06-23 17:55:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI UK
08LONDON1688IRAN WANTS QUIET DISCUSSIONS WITH U.S. ON AFGHAN REFUGEES, XXXXXXXXXXXX CLAIMS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-24 15:57:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PINF PREL IR UK XF ZP ZR
08LONDON1690UK PLEASED WITH U.S. DRAFT TEXT UNSCR TO RENEW
[...] (SBU) Foreign Office officials Angus Stewart, Susie Kitchens and Will Taylor, of the International Organisations Department, told us June 24 the British government is "pleased" with the U.S. draft 1267 Monitoring Team renewal. HMG agrees with the need to keep the focus on stopping the flow of [...]
2008-06-24 16:36:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN ETTC PREL PTER UNSC UK
08LONDON1703MAJOR UK RETAILER'S CHILD LABOR PROBLEM
[...] SUMMARY: Retail giant Primark dropped three suppliers after a BBC investigation revealed they were using unauthorized home workers, including child labor, in India. Primark usually learns of abuse through either its own auditors or their independent auditor. If Associated British Foods, Prima [...]
2008-06-25 17:28:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PHUM ETRD UK IN
08LONDON1709(C/NF) UK CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF, PM FOREIGN
[...] (SBU) UK Chief of Defense Staff Sir Jock Stirrup's June 24 public assertion that the concurrent deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan are severely taxing the capabilities of the British military provoked heavy media criticism of HMG's ability to effectively fight both conflicts. Stirrup told [...]
2008-06-26 10:37:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR MCAP AF IZ UK
08LONDON1710CODEL HASTINGS - JUNE 27 - JULY 8, 2008
[...] Embassy London is pleased to grant country clearance to CODEL Hastings to visit London June 27-28, 2008. 2. Visit Officer will be Jim Donegan who can be reached at work 44-20-7894-0114, fax 44-20-7894-0117, home 44-20-7259-6066, mobile phone 44-7801-670-694. If calling from within the UK r [...]
2008-06-26 15:08:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AU FR GM IT JP KZ PK UK
08LONDON1745ZIMBABWE: UK SUPPORTS UNSC CHAPTER VII RESOLUTION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-01 11:47:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI UK
08LONDON1746MALAYSIA'S HINDRAF LEADER SEEKS POLITICAL ASYLUM
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Waytha Moorthy, director of the Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF),told us on June 25 that he is NOT seeking asylum in the U.S., but is seeking asylum in the UK. He said that his application process is currently stalled, however, and he speculated that HMG may not grant him [...]
2008-07-01 13:17:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM MY UK
08LONDON1749FCO INFORMS USA THE UAE RATIFIES BIO WEAPON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-01 14:52:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDPARM KTIA OPDC CWC OPCW UK
08LONDON1758ZIMBABWE: UK CONTINUES TO SUPPORT U.S. DRAFT UNSC
[...] (C) HMG continues to support the current U.S. draft UNSC resolution on Zimbabwe, according to FCO Zimbabwe Desk Officer Jason Moore. Moore reported that in a July 2 ministerial meeting FCO Minister for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown said the UK should continue to pursue sanctions, though a prematu [...]
2008-07-02 12:56:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI UK
08LONDON1761CWS/BWC: CLOSE ALLIES MEETING, JUNE 17-18, 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-02 14:28:00Embassy LondonSECRETPARM AORC CWC OPCW GM FR IZ UK
08LONDON1763HMG WILL JOIN U.S. IN DEMARCHING GOVERNMENTS TO
[...] (SBU) The UK concurs with the U.S. view that recent progress of Pristina government and international community stabilization efforts presents another opportunity to lobby those countries that have not already done so to recognize Kosovo's independence. FCO Balkans Deputy Director Adam Bye [...]
2008-07-02 15:23:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNMIK PGOV KPKO UNAUS YI EU KVPR UK
08LONDON1771LIBERAL DEMOCRAT LEADER NICK CLEGG OUTLINES THE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Nick Clegg, MP and leader of the Liberal Democrats, called for the UK to adopt the UN's "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine in his first major foreign policy address. In his speech, titled "Terms of Intervention" and delivered at Chatham House on June 23, Clegg enumerated criteria t [...]
2008-07-03 09:48:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PINR PREL UK
08LONDON1777FOREIGN SECRETARY MILIBAND SUBMITS RENDITION
[...] (S/NF) Foreign Office Director for Defence and Strategic Threats Simon Manley informed Poloff July 2 that the Foreign Office would submit Foreign Secretary Miliband's written statement on rendition to Parliament July 2, for entry into Parliamentary records July 3. Manley said the statement (see [...]
2008-07-03 11:28:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER UK
08LONDON1794DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO UK: MAJOR ISSUES AT
[...] The UK supports the U.S. positions in reftel. Econoff delivered demarche and diplomatic note on Monday, June 23 to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),who then relayed the message to the Royal Mail. The Royal Mail will represent the UK at the UPU. The FCO says the Royal Mail has also se [...]
2008-07-07 13:41:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDAORC ECON ETRD WTRO UK
08LONDON1814ONLINE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT -- NO DEAL YET
[...] (C) SUMMARY: British internet service providers (ISP,s) and copyrighted content providers have not yet reached an agreement on how to handle online copyright infringers. HMG is still threatening to impose legislation by the end of the summer if no deal is reached and will release a consultation [...]
2008-07-08 15:30:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALECON ECPS KIPR UK
08LONDON1821FINDING A ROLE FOR THE OECD -- SECRETARY-GENERAL
[...] (C) Summary: Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Secretary-General Gurria,s recent visit was designed to strengthen the relationship between the OECD and the UK. A broad swathe of UK government ministers met Gurria to express the UK,s commitment to the organization. Gurria [...]
2008-07-09 13:18:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALAORC ECON UK
08LONDON1823ZIMBABWE: UK OPTIMISTIC ON UNSC RESOLUTION
[...] (C) Per reftel, the Charge spoke on July 9 with FCO Minister for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown, who was optimistic there would be sufficient votes to pass the current UNSC draft resolution on Zimbabwe. Malloch-Brown suggested progress had been made with Moscow and Beijing in New York and at the G-8 Su [...]
2008-07-09 16:04:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC ZI UK
08LONDON1824UK ON ARAB GROUP DRAFT UNSCR ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
[...] (C) HMG agrees that the Arab Group draft text on a UNSCR on Israeli settlement activity is not acceptable, FCO Near East Group Head Rob Timline told us July 9 in response to reftel demarche. The UK embassy in Tripoli raised the issue with Libyan Secretary for Arab Affairs Mohammed Siala on July 7 [...]
2008-07-09 16:50:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNSC KPAL IS UK
08LONDON1837FOREIGN OFFICE SEES BROWN-MEDVEDEV TALKS LEADING
[...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev used their first one-on-one meeting at the G8 summit to build a friendly rapport rather than "score points" on smaller contentious issues, said the Foreign Office (FCO) to members of the diplomatic community. According t [...]
2008-07-10 16:38:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON ENRG PREL UK RS
08LONDON1841SUDAN/ICC: UK PREPARED TO REMAIN INITIALLY
[...] (C/NF) In the wake of yesterday's call by Chinese and Russian PermReps in New York to suspend the ICC investigations that may lead to the July 14 indictment of Sudanese President Bashir and other regime higher-ups, the Foreign Office has decided to remain flexible on its strong support for the ICC. [...]
2008-07-11 14:45:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KPKO UNSC SU UK
08LONDON1842FOREIGN OFFICE "CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC" THAT HMG
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is "cautiously optimistic" that the Law Lords will grant HMG's final appeal and block the court-ordered resettlement of Chagossian islanders seeking to return to their ancestral home. Though the Lords' decision is not expected before late [...]
2008-07-11 16:36:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNIO MARR MP PGOV PREL UK
08LONDON1850HMG SUPPORTS REFERRING THE HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION
[...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Bridget Brody of the FCO's International Organizations Department who is the department's ECOSOC coordinator. On July 14, Brody notified PolOff that HMG will instruct its ECOSOC delegation to support the USG in asking ECOSOC to send the application of [...]
2008-07-14 14:46:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM AORC NGO UK
08LONDON1852UK AND SUDAN: S/E WILLIAMSON'S JUNE 30 VISIT TO
[...] (C) Summary. Presidential Special Envoy for Sudan Richard Williamson held June 30 wide-ranging discussions with UK officials on the way forward on Sudan and attended a P3 lunch with French and British colleagues. UK officials told Williamson that Ban Ki-Moon's impending appointment of a new media [...]
2008-07-15 10:56:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC SU UK
08LONDON1853ZIMBABWE: UK LOOKS FOR WAY FORWARD, TURNS TO EU
[...] (C/NF) The Foreign Office continues to treat the situation in Zimbabwe as a crisis. After the July 11 defeat of the U.S. draft UNSCR on Zimbabwe, FCO Zimbabwe Team Leader Ben Llewellyn-Jones said July 14 HMG will "give Zimbabwe a break in the Security Council for a little while," especially since [...]
2008-07-15 11:02:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM UNSC KDEM ZI ZU UK
08LONDON1856UK SUPPORTS INDIA-IAEA SAFEGUARDS AGREEMENT
[...] (C/NF) In response to reftel demarche on the India-IAEA Safeguards Agreement, FCO Security Policy Group Officer Derek Griffiths said that the UK welcomes the agreement and supports the U.S. approach. HMG agrees that the discussions should be technical, as opposed to political, and that the INFCIRC [...]
2008-07-15 13:23:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM PREL ETTC IN UK
08LONDON1862SUDAN/ICC: UK STRATEGY WITH POTENTIAL BASHIR ICC
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Following Foreign Secretary Miliband's July 9 visit to Sudan, ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's July 14 request for indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, and Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor's July 14 assurances to the UK that the GoS will "engage legally" wit [...]
2008-07-15 16:06:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNSC KPKO PHUM SU UK
08LONDON1870UK SUPPORT FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1816 ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-16 14:38:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT KCRM KCRS KJUS PHSA PREL SO XW UK
08LONDON1873UK AND UGANDA/LRA: CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THE PEACE
[...] (C/NF) FCO Minister for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown "continues to support the peace process for the time being" between the Government of Uganda (GoU) and the Lord's Resistance Army, according to East Africa Desk Officers Gill Atkinson and Sheena Lavery. Atkinson provided poloff on July 15 HMG's pre [...]
2008-07-16 16:00:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL KDEM PHUM UG UK
08LONDON1876UK WELCOMES U.S. MESSAGE ON VIGILANCE OF IRISL CARGOES; BACKS TOUGHER EU ACTION REF: A. STATE 69339
[...] (S) The UK Government welcomed the U.S. message urging increased vigilance of ships and cargoes belonging to Iran Air Cargo and the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and is advising relevant companies in the UK-based shipping industry of the need for due diligence when engaged with ei [...]
2008-07-16 16:37:00Embassy LondonSECRETPARM PINR PREL KNNP EUN UK
08LONDON1886UK'S LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: LOOKING FOR INFLUENCE NOT
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Britain's third party, the Liberal Democrats, launched July 17 their "Make It Happen" campaign to communicate the party's core values and vision for the UK. In what is clearly Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg's latest attempt to build an ideologically consistent platform for a party often [...]
2008-07-18 14:23:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR UK
08LONDON1887PAKISTAN: UK SEES KASHMIR SOLUTION AS KEY TO
[...] (S) Summary. The UK sees resolving Kashmir as central to changing the dynamic in Pakistan's long-term security cooperation with the West, according to FCO contacts. Improving relations between Pakistan and India through a solution to Kashmir will allow the Pakistani Army to reduce its focus on Ind [...]
2008-07-18 16:15:00Embassy LondonSECRETPREL PTER PBTS PINS IN PK UK
08LONDON1888BAE JUDICIAL REVIEW: HOUSE OF LORDS HEARS HMG
[...] (SBU) Summary: On July 7-8 the Law Lords of the House of Lords heard HMG's appeal of the High Court ruling that Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Director Wardle acted unlawfully when he abandoned the anti-corruption investigation into BAE Systems' dealings in Saudi Arabia. HMG argued that Wardle ha [...]
2008-07-18 16:26:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKCOR EFIN OECD UK
08LONDON189EL BARADEI ON HIS TEHRAN VISIT: SEES IRANIANS AS
[...] (C/NF) Summary. IAEA Head Mohammed El Baradei told UK Foreign Secretary Miliband January 17 that during El Baradei's visit to Tehran last week Iranian officials appeared "very relaxed" and seemed to be feeling no pressure on the nuclear file. Miliband's conversation with El Baradei reported [...]
2008-01-18 18:22:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KPRP PGOV PHUM IR UK
08LONDON1898HMG CONSIDERING UPGRADES TO NATO AND BILATERAL
[...] (U) Request for Guidance; see para 3. 2. (C) HMG is currently engaged in a cross-departmental discussion on its training commitments in Iraq, the results of which should become clearer by the end of July. According to MOD Joint Commitments officer Dan Hughes and FCO NTM-I officer Ian Living [...]
2008-07-21 13:52:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO IZ UK
08LONDON1901SYRIAN IAEA BOARD CANDIDACY: U.K. AGREES WITH
[...] (S) HMG concurs with the U.S. assessment of Syria's candidacy to the IAEA Board of Directors and will do what it can to support Kazakhstan's candidacy, FCO Counter Proliferation Officer George Sherriff told poloff on July 21. Sherriff said that his counterparts in Vienna "agree on (the USG) course [...]
2008-07-21 15:47:00Embassy LondonSECRETIAEA PREL KZ SY UK AROC KNNP
08LONDON1916NIGERIA: PRESIDENT YAR'ADUA'S "USEFUL" LONDON
[...] (C) Summary. Nigerian President Yar'Adua's "useful" July 16 - 17 visit to London focused on Nigeria-UK migration issues, corruption and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),and the Niger Delta, according to FCO Nigeria Desk Officers Catherine Inglehearn and Fiona Grant. In addition [...]
2008-07-23 11:03:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EFIN EINV SMIG NI UK
08LONDON1917SQUEEZED IN THE JAWS OF THE CREDIT CRUNCH -- UK ECONOMY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-23 12:30:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD UK EINV
08LONDON1919SUDAN/CPA: AEC CHAIR ON ABYEI, MID-TERM REPORT,
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) Chair Sir Derek Plumbly is cautiously optimistic about the Abyei Roadmap and reiterated the need for the international community's support for pushing the NCP and SPLM ahead with arbitration. He said Sudanese President Bashir was pleased [...]
2008-07-23 12:42:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR SU UK
08LONDON1921SQUEEZED IN THE JAWS OF THE CREDIT CRUNCH -- UK ECONOMY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The British economy will slow dramatically in 2008 and 2009 after leading the G7 with GDP growth of three percent in 2007. Ernst and Young predict GDP growth to fall to only 1.5 percent in 2008, the OECD forecasts 1.8 percent, and Oxford Economics says 1.6 percent. Inflation is [...]
2008-07-23 13:00:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD UK EINV
08LONDON1922UK WELCOMES DEMARCHE ON PREVENTING IRAN'S
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-23 15:26:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALKNNP IR MNUC PARM TRGY ENRG EMIN ETTC UK
08LONDON19232008 REPORT ON UK INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Post is unaware of any relevant disputes against the Government of the UK. Post is aware of one outstanding claim of United States persons against the Government of the British Virgin Islands (GBVI). Claimant A reports they were never compensated for a time share vacation club [...]
2008-07-23 16:03:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIDE EINV ECON UK
08LONDON1924CENTRAL ASIA/TURKMENISTAN: UK PRIORITIES IN
[...] (C) The head of Turkmenistan's National Institute of Democracy and Human Rights in the Office of the President, Shirin Ahmedova, and the Turkmen Deputy Minister of Justice's early July visit to the UK was a result of HMG's long-term strategy to gradually increase engagement with Turkmenistan as it [...]
2008-07-23 16:38:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL IAEA PGOV ZK UK
08LONDON1933UNMEE: UK AGREES WITH USG THINKING ON MANDATE'S FUTURE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-24 15:17:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNSC KPKO PBTS ET ER UK
08LONDON1939A POLITICAL BODY BLOW TO GORDON BROWN AS LABOUR
[...] (C) Summary. The Scottish National Party's 365 vote victory in yesterday's Glasgow East by-election over Labour is another body blow to Gordon Brown's political fortunes and, in the immediate aftermath, has fueled speculation that Brown could face a leadership challenge this fall, when MPs return t [...]
2008-07-25 11:45:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR UK
08LONDON196FOLLOW-UP: BANK MELLI ATTEMPT TO PURCHASE A
[...] (S/NF) HM Treasury appreciates the information contained in reftel and promised to look into evidence of any Bank Melli activity in London and possible measures the UK could take to disrupt the Turkish transaction, according to Patrick Guthrie, Head of Financial Sanctions Unit, HMT. However, [...]
2008-01-22 15:52:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNKNNP MNUC EFIN ETTC
08LONDON1967IRAQ: UK LIKELY TO ASSUME ROLE OF "PRIME
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-29 15:45:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO IZ UK
08LONDON1972SPECIAL ENVOY WOLCOTT'S NUCLEAR ENERGY SUPPLY
[...] (C) Summary. On July 22, Ambassador Jackie Wolcott, Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Special Assistant Marc Humphrey traveled to London to meet with Simon Manley (Director for Defense and Strategic Threats at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO). The purpose of this meeting w [...]
2008-07-30 12:41:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALENRG TRGY KNNP PREL ETTC IAEA FR UK
08LONDON1988UK RESPONSE TO ADDITION OF TWO NEW PARTNERS TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-30 16:20:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP MR UZ UK
08LONDON1991(C/NF) WHO WOULD REPLACE GORDON BROWN AS UK PRIMEREF: A. LONDON 1939 B. LONDON 1704
[...] (C/NF) Summary. As Gordon Brown lurches from political disaster to disaster, Westminster is abuzz with speculation about whether he will be replaced as Prime Minister and Labour Parxty leader, and, if so, by whom. Right now, Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Justice Secretary Jack Straw are the [...]
2008-07-31 10:30:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR UK
08LONDON1992SURVEY OF U.S./UK LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION
[...] (C/NF) Summary: U.S./UK law enforcement cooperation is wide ranging and robust. It is beset, however, by the sort of complications found in most international programs, compounded perhaps by a false assumption on both sides that "they are just like us." Embassy London's Law Enforcement Working [...]
2008-07-31 15:02:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKCRM CJUS UK
08LONDON1997UK AGREES ON NEED TO HELP COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) HMG is "100 percent on the same page as the United States" regarding FARC and the need to aggressively combat narcotics trafficking, Tony Kay, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Colombia and Venezuela Desk Officer told us July 31 during a discussion of reftel demarche. Kay stressed that UK [...]
2008-08-01 10:15:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR PTER CO UK VE
08LONDON2005IRAN: TAJIK EXTRADITION - FURTHER DELAYS AND
[...] (C) HMG will take no final decision or action on the extradition of former Iranian Ambassador Tajik before 1 September because the Home Secretary, who reportedly wants to personally review all decisions on the case, will be on holiday until then, FCO Iran Bilateral Team Leader Margaret Tongue on J [...]
2008-08-01 14:28:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNCJAN PINS PREL PTER IR UK
08LONDON2008UK UNGA ATTENDEES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-01 15:38:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA UK
08LONDON2025(C/NF) SUDAN/UNAMID: UK "PERPLEXED" OVER USG
[...] (C/NF) UK Special Representative for Sudan Michael O'Neill and other FCO contacts intimated to us August 4 that HMG is "perplexed" at the USG's decision to abstain in the UNSC's recent vote on the UNAMID mandate renewal (reftel A). They said that the USG's abstention put the U.S. out in front of H [...]
2008-08-04 15:51:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNSC KPKO MOPS SU UK
08LONDON2027U.S. FIRMS WELCOME ENHANCED USG SUPPORT OF UK
[...] (U) Summary: State Special Representative for Commercial Affairs Frank Mermoud and Commerce DAS Jamie Estrada visited the UK July 17-18 to discuss upcoming events in the UK,s nuclear industry. HMG is aggressively moving forward with plans for new nuclear power plants. Government contacts poin [...]
2008-08-04 16:17:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG TRGY IAEA UK
08LONDON2028UK LIKELY TO JOIN EU CONSENSUS ON LIFTING KARADZIC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-04 16:36:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC KAWC ICTY BK EU UK
08LONDON2029ENERGY'S ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL IMPACT ON THE UK
[...] (SBU) Summary. The UK faces two major energy challenges: a rise in fuel poverty and decreasing domestic oil and gas production. Current estimates put the number of households suffering from fuel poverty at 4.5 million according to the National Energy Action, an independent charity. Additionall [...]
2008-08-04 17:28:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET PREL PGOV ECON SENV UK
08LONDON2035IMO: FLAG STATE IMPLEMENTATION SUB-COMMITTEE -
[...] SUMMARY: The International Maritime Organization (IMO) 16th Session of the Flag State Implementation Sub- Committee (FSI 16) met at IMO Headquarters, London, UK. Mrs. Tatjana Krilic of Croatia chaired the meeting. The meeting was attended by eighty members, three associate members, one state n [...]
2008-08-05 11:52:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EWWT PHSA UK TU JA
08LONDON2036IMO: SUB-COMMITTEE ON SAFETY OF NAVIGATION,
[...] SUMMARY: The 54th session of the Sub-Committee (S/C) on Safety of Navigation (NAV 54) was held from June 30 to July 4 2008, under the chairmanship of Mr. K. Polderman (Netherlands). The session was attended by 65 member governments, one associate member government, one IMO non-member, and 25 U [...]
2008-08-05 11:52:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EWWT PHSA SENV UK KTIA
08LONDON2053UK REQUESTS U.S. INFORMATION ON TERRORIST FINANCE
[...] Action request, see Paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) HM Treasury has passed us names of individuals and groups for which it is requesting any and all updated information, identifiers and statements of cases (SOCs) in order to comply with it's 2007 policy to conduct yearly reviews of all designated par [...]
2008-08-06 14:47:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC UK
08LONDON2055UK PLEASED WITH FIRST MONTH OF FRENCH PRESIDENCY;
[...] (C) Summary. France has "listened to" London during the first month of the French Presidency of the EU, especially on issues of current importance to the UK such as Zimbabwe and Iran, and the FCO tells us HMG is optimistic about prospects for the remainder of the Presidency. Despite initial concer [...]
2008-08-06 15:27:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON PGOV EUN ETRD IR UP FR UK
08LONDON2060IRAN: UK SAYS LEGAL BASIS FOR EU LISTING OF MEK IS
[...] (C) Summary: The EU's continued anti-terror listing of the Mujaheddin e Khalq (MEK) depends on the existence of an active French investigation of the group, according to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The FCO is uncertain whether the investigation, and the listing, will contin [...]
2008-08-07 14:19:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER EU IR FR UK
08LONDON2070UK DOESN'T EXPECT STRONG NEW BURMA SANCTIONS FROM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-08 09:26:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV ETRD UK BM
08LONDON2080KENYA/CT: UK RECONSIDERS CT TRAINING PROGRAM FOLLOWING ACCUSATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS Classified By: Political Counselor Richard Mills, reasons 1.4 (b/d).
[...] (S) Following a July 30 Human Rights Watch report and brief UK media interest alleging human rights violations by the Kenyan military, HMG is "reconsidering" its counter-terrorism (CT) training to 20 Para, a parachute regiment in the Kenyan army, FCO CT Officer Lydia Strachan and Kenya Desk Officer [...]
2008-08-08 12:20:00Embassy LondonSECRETPREL MOPS PTER PHUM PINR XW KE UK
08LONDON2084SOMALIA: BEHIND THE SCENES OF UK SUPPORT TO
[...] (C/NF) Following his mid-June visit to Somaliland, FCO Minister of State Kim Howells began questioning HMG's decision not to recognize Somaliland and started advocating internally for HMG to give greater support to Somaliland, according to FCO Somalia Research Analyst Cedric Barnes. Barnes said on [...]
2008-08-08 15:59:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PBTS PINR SO UK
08LONDON2100UK STEPS, SO FAR, TO WIN SUPPORT FOR THE NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS GROUP (NSG) DRAFT EXCEPTION TEXT FOR INDIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-12 17:06:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL ETTC AORC UK
08LONDON2101IRANIAN PUGWASH PARTICIPANTS CLAIM TEHRAN
[...] (S) Summary: Iranian government advisers at the most recent "Pugwash" Conference on Iran reportedly argued during the August 2-3 seminar that: -- Iran wants direct flights to the United States addressed before any talks on a U.S. interest section in Tehran; -- sanctions do not affect Iran's le [...]
2008-08-12 18:01:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPARM PINS PREL AG IR IS IZ LE UK
08LONDON2107GEORGIA: HMG PREDICTS TOUGH DIPLOMATIC ROAD AHEAD
[...] (C/NF) FCO Georgia Task Force Director (and South Caucuses Office Director) Louise Savile predicted a tough diplomatic struggle ahead to return the situation in Georgia to the status quo ante August 6. As an example, she cited part of an August 13 telephone exchange between FM Miliband and Russian [...]
2008-08-13 14:00:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV RU GG UK
08LONDON2112TFGG01: HMG AGREES ON NEED TO PRESSURE RUSSIA TO
[...] (S/NF) FCO Georgia Task Force Director (and Head of International Organizations Department) Nick Hopton expressed appreciation for points reftel and noted HMG concurrence with U.S. view that Russia needs to comply with its agreement to remove its forces from Georgia, and to allow OSCE and other obs [...]
2008-08-14 13:54:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNMOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UNAUS GG RS UK
08LONDON2143PAKISTAN: UK SEES MUSHARRAF'S DEPARTURE AS A 'GOOD THING' BUT NOT A SOLUTION REF: A. STATE 88734 B. ISLAMABAD 2750 LONDON 00002143 001.2 OF 002
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-19 09:22:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR PTER PK UK
08LONDON2159TFGGO1: FM MILIBAND'S AUGUST 27 VISIT TO KYIV DESIGNED TO SHOW UK SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE
[...] (C/NF) FM Miliband will travel to Kyiv on August 27 to reinforce support for Ukraine's European and Transatlantic aspirations, and to demonstrate British solidarity with the Ukrainian people during a difficult period, as he did with the Georgians during his August 20 visit to Tbilisi (septel). The [...]
2008-08-20 15:49:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM MOPS GG RU UP UK
08LONDON2169IRAN: EXPAT SOURCE'S INFORMATION AND VIEWS ON
[...] (S) Summary: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, reportedly is widely viewed within the regime as a capable and forceful leader and manager who may someday succeed to at least a share of national leadership; his father may also see him in that light. A close ally of Tehran Mayor Q [...]
2008-08-21 15:10:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPINR PGOV PTER PHUM IR UK
08LONDON2170BELARUS TELLS UK IT'S LOOKING FOR REWARDS FOR
[...] (C/NF) The Belarus government perceives that its release of political prisoners Syarhey Parsyukevich, Andrey Kim, and Alyaksander Kazulin - long sought by the EU and U.S. - warrants a significant signal from the west indicating an "improved climate." The Belarusian DCM Zoya Kolontai told the Head o [...]
2008-08-21 16:31:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM BO UK
08LONDON2171TFGG01:FM MILIBAND TELLS GEORGIANS UK WILL PROVIDE
[...] (C) During his August 19/20 visit to Georgia, FM Miliband pledged to government interlocutors and publicly that the UK will support Georgia's sovereignty, territorial integrity and Transatlantic aspirations, and will work bilaterally and through the EU to address short term humanitarian needs and l [...]
2008-08-21 17:38:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL GG RU UK
08LONDON2178UK SUPPORT FOR AFGHANISTAN'S IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNORS CANDIDACY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-22 14:21:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALIAEA PREL PARM KNNP MNUC IR SY AF UK
08LONDON2179HMG'S ENDORSEMENT OF THE DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS UNDER E.O. 13382 REF: STATE 88759
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-22 14:24:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN IR UK
08LONDON2180(C) WESTERN SAHARA: UK SUPPORTS VAN WALSUM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-22 14:59:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PGOV PBTS MO WI UK
08LONDON2181AFGHANISTAN: BROWN URGES KARZAI TO KEEP HELMAND
[...] (C/NF) During what was described by FCO Afghanistan Desk Officer Tom Burns as a mainly "morale boosting" trip to Afghanistan on August 21, Prime Minister Gordon Brown met with UK and Afghan military commanders and Governor Mangal in Helmand, and with President Karzai and UNSYG Special Representativ [...]
2008-08-22 15:03:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR PTER AF UK
08LONDON2182UK FOLLOW-UP: BLUE LANTERN CASE NUMBER 05-1014531
[...] Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs Office (HMRC) has provided the responses to the questions posed by the Department for G.I.K. International Trade Ltd., a United Kingdom Company, per reftel. The text of the response follows at para. 2 2. Begin text of UK response to questions posed by the [...]
2008-08-22 15:13:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDPARM ETTC KOMC SA UK
08LONDON2185UK RESPONSE TO MTCR SMALL GROUP PROPOSAL: AGREEMENT "IN PRINCIPLE" BUT SOME QUESTIONS REF: STATE 85940
[...] (U) This is an action request for State ISN/MTR. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary. Although the UK supports "in principle" the U.S. proposal for Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) outreach to non-MTCR countries, HMG has posed several questions regarding the implementation and potentia [...]
2008-08-22 16:28:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL AU FR GM JA UK
08LONDON2186IRAN: CHINESE EMBASSY ASKS WHETHER GEORGIA CRISIS AFFECTS P5+1'S IRAN POSTURE REF: BEIJING 3034
[...] (C) Summary: Chinese Embassy counterparts asked informally whether the Georgia crisis means in U.S. eyes a suspension or slowdown in multilateral efforts on Iran nuclear. London Iran Watcher (Poloff) said this is not the case; international equities on Iran are too urgent and well-defined, and Iran [...]
2008-08-22 16:31:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPARM PINS PREL PTER CH IR UK
08LONDON2188SOMALIA: UK-BASED DIASPORA AND ITS ECONOMIC IMPACT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Known as the "invisible community," the UK's Somali Diaspora has historic roots in Britain but has surged significantly in the last twenty years to an estimated 250,000 to 380,000. With recent immigration increases attributed to family reunification and re-location of other EU [...]
2008-08-26 08:41:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ATFN SOCI EAID SO UK
08LONDON2195SUDAN: P-3 DISCUSSIONS ON SUDAN - ICC ISSUES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-27 12:08:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM KAWC SU UK
08LONDON2196DRC SANCTIONS: UK APPRECIATES INFORMATION, KEEN TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-27 13:22:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC ZF CG RW UK
08LONDON2197UK COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED TO DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR FOR IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN DOUGLAS E. LUTE REF: WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON DC 481
[...] (C) Embassy London is pleased to grant country clearance to Deputy National Security Advisor Douglas E. Lute and delegation to visit London September 18-20 for meetings with UK officials. 2.(U) ----------------- Visit officer ----------------- XXXXXXXXXXXX If calling from within the UK replace 44 [...]
2008-08-27 15:34:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALOTRA UK
08LONDON2204WALES: WHO WILL REPLACE FIRST MINISTER MORGAN WHEN
[...] (C) Speculation is rife in the Welsh media and among Welsh political insiders as to whom the Labor Party would "parachute in" to rescue the party in Wales and replace Welsh Assembly First Minister Rhodri Morgan, who has announced he will resign as First Minister in 2009, but retain his seat in [...]
2008-08-28 12:41:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPGOV UK
08LONDON2211UK WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT GEORGIA; “ON THE SAME
[...] (C) Summary. The United Kingdom agrees that South Ossetian and Abkhazian representatives should not participate in UN Security Council (UNSC) meetings on Georgia, according to Mariot Leslie, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Director General (DG) for Defense and Intelligence. Leslie told th [...]
2008-08-28 17:13:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALECON EAID UNSC PREL PGOV FR GG UK UP
08LONDON2217UK SLIDING TOWARDS RECESSION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The economic news is not good for Great Britain or its Prime Minister. GDP growth was 0.0 per cent in the second quarter of 2008, the worst quarter in 16 years. Inflation hit 4.4% in July, and the Bank of England predicts it will rise to 5% by the end of the year. Employment numb [...]
2008-08-29 12:25:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK
08LONDON2218UK PERSPECTIVE ON NATO MEDITERRANEAN DIALOGUE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-29 12:55:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL PGOV MARR UK
08LONDON2233(S/NF) UK CONSIDERING ENGAGEMENT WITH HIZBALLAH MINISTER, POLITICAL OFFICIALS REF: A. NEA/ELA-EMBASSY LONDON EMAILS B. LONDON 1396 C. LONDON 1292 D. LONDON 1968
[...] (S/NF) The UK is considering granting authorization to the British Embassy in Beirut to meet with Lebanese Minister of Labor Mohammad Fneish, a member of Hizballah, and other Hizballah party officials, FCO Levant Group Head Benjamin Saoul and Cabinet Office Desk Officer Brian Jones told us separate [...]
2008-09-02 15:56:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER PGOV SY LE IZ UK
08LONDON2242UK COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED TO NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY DIRECTOR JOHN P. WALTERS AND STAFF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-04 08:33:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALOTRA UK
08LONDON2243PAKISTAN: UK ASSESSMENT AND MEDIUM-TERM THINKING, SUPPORT FOR FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN GROUP REF: LONDON 2143 Classified By: Political Counselor Richard Mills, reasons 1.4 (b/d).
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-04 08:44:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR PTER PK UK
08LONDON2261BARONESS SCOTLAND WILL ATTEND SECRETARY'S WOMEN
[...] (U) Baroness Scotland, Attorney General to Her Majesty's Government, in a response to the Secretary's invitation, has notified Post she will join the Secretary at the Women Leaders' Working group at UNGA. 2. (U) Baroness Scotland said that she is looking foward to participating in discuss [...]
2008-09-08 10:10:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM KWMM UNGA UK
08LONDON2282A MIXED UK RESPONSE TO UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DEMARCHE REF: A. STATE 95334 B. STATE 61034 C. PARIS 1446
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-09 15:53:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNGA UK
08LONDON2283IRAN: UK'S INFORMAL COMMENTS ON EU DYNAMICS AND IRAN SANCTIONS PROSPECTS REF: A. SECSTATE 95257 B. SEPT 2 LONDON EMAIL (GAYLE) TO NEA/IR
[...] (C) Summary: Recent Embassy conversations on Iran with regular Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) contacts suggest the UK's approach on Iran nuclear policy will continue to be tough-minded and practical, favoring direct engagement if feasible, but not optimistic on prospects either for broad EU [...]
2008-09-09 16:06:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KNNP IR UK
08LONDON2294SCENE SETTER FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY SECRETARY OF
[...] (SBU) Embassy London welcomes the visit of Deputy Secretary Jeffrey Kupfer on September 15-17. Issues of the economy and security of energy supply have come to the fore in the UK, and the conflict between Russia and Georgia has served to highlight that an increasing amount of the UK,s natural [...]
2008-09-11 13:41:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKERG
08LONDON2304COMMONWEALTH: NEW SYG BRINGS NEW ENERGY, SCOPE FOR LINKAGES WITH COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-12 10:14:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KDEM PGOV PHUM FJ RW UK
08LONDON2363(C/NF) NICK CLEGG TRIES TO GIVE UK VOTERS A REASON TO VOTE LIB DEM REF: A. LONDON 1886 B. LONDON 732 Classified By: Minister Political Counselor Greg Berry, reasons 1.4 (b/ d).
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-18 16:16:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR UK
08LONDON2384READOUT OF DEPUTY SECRETARY KUPFER MEETINGS WITH JOHN HUTTON AND JONATHAN PORTES ON ENERGY SECURITY AND LONDON SUMMIT
[...] (C) Summary: During his visit to the UK on September 16th and 17th, Acting Deputy Secretary of Energy Kupfer met separately with Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) John Hutton and the Prime Minister,s Special Envoy for Energy Jonathan Portes to discuss energy s [...]
2008-09-19 10:21:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALENRG TRGY UK
08LONDON240(U) HAIN RESIGNATION TRIGGERS LIMITED CABINET
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Peter Hain resigned on January 24 as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and for Wales after SIPDIS the Electoral Commission referred to the police his failure to report donations to his 2007 campaign for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. The Hain resignation came o [...]
2008-01-25 17:30:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PINR UK
08LONDON2420LUTE DELEGATION'S DISCUSSIONS ON AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-22 15:42:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR MCAP AF PK UK
08LONDON2441NTMI: UK WILL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES BUT WILL BE SHORT ON SPECIFICS AT SEPTEMBER 26 MANPOWER COORDINATION CONFERENCE REF: A) LONDON 1967 B) STATE 99701
[...] (C) The UK supports in principle U.S. views that NATO Allies and Partners should provide additional resources to the Nato Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I) and HMG will make a significant contribution. However, according to MOD Deputy Director for Joint Commitments Daniel Hughes, internal decision m [...]
2008-09-25 09:43:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPEL MARR MOPS NATO IZ UK
08LONDON2443FRANCE'S EDF BUYS BRITISH ENERGY, TAKING THE FIRST
[...] (U) Summary: French utility Electricite de France (EDF) will purchase the UK,s nuclear energy firm British Energy (BE) for a reported USD23 billion (USD 14.40 per share),making HMG's 36% stake worth an estimated USD 8.3 billion. The long-discussed entry of EDF, with its financial and technica [...]
2008-09-25 09:43:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG UK
08LONDON2451UK PM GORDON BROWN REASSERTS HIS LEADERSHIP AT LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE, BUT DAVID CAMERON LOOMS REF: A. LONDON 2163 B. LONDON 2010 C. LONDON 623 D. LONDON 1991
[...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. Gordon Brown succeeded in reestablishing his authority at the Labour Party's Fall Conference in Manchester September 20-24, cutting the Conservative Party's lead in half in post-conference polling and buying himself some time against a serious leadership challenge. Brown [...]
2008-09-25 16:43:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL UK
08LONDON2460London Financial Experts Anxious for Conclusion of U.S.
[...] (SBU) Uncertainty about the fate of the USG proposed $700 billion support facility has paralyzed UK financial markets, senior HMT officials told Econoffs on September 25. There is no inter-bank lending at the moment, and all the big players are waiting for news about the plan before making sig [...]
2008-09-26 14:54:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD ENRG IR EINV UK
08LONDON2474IRAN: TAJIK EXTRADITION - UK DITHERING, MAY HAVE COLD FEET REF: A. E-MAILS EMBASSY (GAYLE) TO NEA/IR 9/3/08 AND PREVIOUS B. LONDON 2005
[...] (C/NF) Summary: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has not formally retreated from its earlier stated intention to extradite ex-Iranian Ambassador Tajik, and says the Tajik file is now on the desk of the Home Secretary for final decision. FCO is noticeably vague, however, on when a decision might [...]
2008-09-29 14:03:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNCJAN PINS PREL PTER IR UK
08LONDON2477AFRICA AND UK: NEW FCO AFRICA DIRECTOR ADAM WOOD AND CHANGES TO THE AFRICA DIRECTORATE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-29 16:39:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR XA UK
08LONDON2486SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SHELBY'S OCTOBER 10-12 VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) The UK economy is reeling from the effects of the global economic crisis, with housing prices falling even faster and further than in the United States. The UK economy continues to slide into recession with negative GDP growth forecast for the second semester of 2008. Inflation, fueled b [...]
2008-09-30 14:26:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN KTFN UK
08LONDON2494New Chief Regulator Faces Baptism by Fire in Month of
[...] (SBU) Summary: The global financial crisis, which has hit the UK particularly hard, has turned the spotlight on Britain's recently appointed financial regulator, Jonathan Adair Turner, who succeeded Callum McCarthy as Chairman of the Financial Services Authority. Turner's appointment was well [...]
2008-10-01 15:32:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK
08LONDON2496DAVID CAMERON USES HIS PARTY SPEECH TO DEFINE HIMSELF AND REBUT LABOUR CLAIM THAT NOW IS NO TIME FOR A NOVICE REF: STATE 2451
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. Conservative Leader David Cameron used his lengthy, sober speech to the Tory Conference today to rebut Prime Minister Brown's charge that "now is not the time for a novice" to move into Downing Street (ref). Cameron told conference delegates that in a time of financial cris [...]
2008-10-01 16:55:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UK
08LONDON2498SOMALIA: UK CONFUSED BY USG POLICY ON PEACEKEEPING IN SOMALIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-02 12:20:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KPKO UNSC MOPS SO UK
08LONDON2499WEST AFRICA: UK PRIORITIES, COUNTER-NARCOTICS AND ELECTIONS REF: A. LONDON 2487 B. FREETOWN 336 C. LONDON 1916
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-02 12:36:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL SNAR PINR KDEM PTER KCRM XY UK
08LONDON2525GORDON BROWN RESHUFFLES CABINET TO FOCUS ON ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-03 16:26:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR UK
08LONDON2542PM BROWN DOES THE UNEXPECTED IN ADDRESSING
[...] (SBU) Summary: The past 72-hours have seen dramatic political maneuvering in London to confront the deepening economic crisis. The first surprise was PM Brown's appointment of his long-time nemesis, the highly controversial figure, Peter Mandelson as business secretary, followed by the creati [...]
2008-10-06 14:22:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV PGOV UK
08LONDON2548UK AGREES IN PRINCIPLE WITH U.S VIEWS ON
[...] (SBU) The UK agrees with the U.S. fully on the substantive issues involving the Serbian proposal to refer the question of Kosovo's declaration of independence to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) (reftel). According to FCO Balkans Office Deputy Head Adam Bye, the resolution is "undes [...]
2008-10-06 16:50:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNGA UNAUS KVPR UK
08LONDON2556GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS STEALS THE THUNDER FROM
[...] Summary and comment. (C) The Conservative Party's fall conference, which closed the UK political party conference season on October 1, ended with a whimper rather than the expected bang. Turmoil in the world's financial markets overshadowed Tory leader David Cameron's attempts to portray his party [...]
2008-10-07 12:10:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UK
08LONDON2565DELEGATION PRESENTS PETITION TO EMBASSY ADVOCATING
[...] (C) A four person delegation representing the "Cuba Solidarity Campaign," a UK-based pressure and advocacy group, presented a petition to Polcouns and the Department of Justice Attache October 7 on behalf of two Cuban women requesting permission to visit their imprisoned husbands, operatives [...]
2008-10-07 17:38:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPINR PREL PHUM CVIS CU UK KCRM
08LONDON2574UK COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED TO LUTE AND DELEGATION, OCT 21-23, 2008 REF: WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON DC CABLE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-09 12:13:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALOREP AMGT ASEC OVIP AFIN UK
08LONDON2589SOMALIA: UK SUPPORTS USG COMPROMISE LANGUAGE IN SANCTIONS UNSC RESOLUTION REF: STATE 108662
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-10 12:40:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC XW SO UK
08LONDON2600IRAN: UK CURRENT POSTURE -- FCO FORMAL AND INFORMAL VIEWS
[...] (S) Please see Department information request at paragraph4. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Foreign and Commonwealth Office working contacts told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) October 14 that: -- Foreign Secretary Miliband pressed his Chinese counterpart to have China re-engage in the P5 1, with little resul [...]
2008-10-14 19:04:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNCJAN PINS PREL PTER GE FR IT IR UK
08LONDON2603BROWN RECEIVES BOUNCE FROM BAIL-OUT PLAN;
[...] (SBU) Summary: The U.K. government's agreement to pump GBP 37 billion into three of Britain's largest banks, along with similarly dramatic moves undertaken in the U.S. and in the rest of Europe, buoyed, at least temporarily, London's stock markets, with minor gains posted in the first two days of t [...]
2008-10-15 14:03:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALECON EINV PGOV UK
08LONDON2621IMO: SUB-COMMITTEE ON DANGEROUS GOODS,
[...] SUMMARY: The 13th session of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Sub-Committee (S/C) on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers (DSC) met in London from September 22-26, 2008 under the chairmanship of Mrs. Olga Pestel-Lefevre (France). The session was attended by delegations fr [...]
2008-10-17 12:13:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EWWT PHSA SENV UK
08LONDON2627UK COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED TO STAMILIO, LTC
[...] Embassy London is pleased to grant country clearance to Mr. Mark Stamilio, LTCOL John Havranek, and LTC James Dodson to visit London October 19-20 to attend working level meetings on ISAF detention policies and practices. 2. ---------------- Visit Officer ---------------- D [...]
2008-10-17 16:00:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT
08LONDON2629PARLIAMENT'S TREASURY COMMITTEE CLEARS CALENDAR FOR BANKING
[...] (SBU) On October 14, the Treasury Committee of the Parliament announced an urgent inquiry into the banking crisis. "The inquiry will take a fundamental look at the causes of the present banking crisis, the current responsibilities of the banks, and the Government to the taxpayer, and the futur [...]
2008-10-17 16:36:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN UK
08LONDON2642UK FULLY SUPPORTS FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-20 14:51:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PK UK
08LONDON2643UK/RUSSIA RELATIONS: HARD-HEADED ENGAGEMENT
[...] (C) Summary. FCO Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia Director Michael Davenport told DCM that HMG was conducting "parallel exercises" involving Cabinet, Intelligence and Foreign Office principals, designed to give PM Brown a clearer picture of Russian foreign policy making processes and recommendatio [...]
2008-10-20 15:11:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RU UK
08LONDON2651USDP EDELMAN’S OCTOBER 15 MEETINGS IN LONDON
[...] (S/NF) Summary. The UK is pessimistic about Pakistan, especially in light of President Zardari's poor leadership and the bad economy, although they praise efforts by Pakistani President Zardari to cooperate with Afghan President Karzai, UK senior officials at the Ministry of Defense (MOD),Foreign [...]
2008-10-21 17:03:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR UK ECON KNNP MOPS PTER AF FR
08LONDON2655AFGHANISTAN: HMG SUPPORTS ELECTIONS AS SCHEDULED; UNLIKELY TO INCREASE TROOP NUMBERS ABOVE CURRENT DEPLOYMENT
[...] (C) Summary. SCA DAS Pat Moon and INL PDAS Bill McGlynn exchanged views on the way ahead in Afghanistan with FCO South Asia Director Adam Thomson and Afghanistan Team Leader Matthew Lodge, as well as MOD Joint Commitments Policy Director Jeff Garrett and Director-Political Peter Watkins. Moon brief [...]
2008-10-22 07:30:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR AF UK
08LONDON2673PAN AM 103 BOMBER HAS INCURABLE CANCER; LIBYANS
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Convicted Pam Am 103 bomber Abdelbasset al-Megrahi has inoperable, incurable cancer, but it is not clear how long he has to live, according to two separate medical opinions obtained by officials at Greenock prison near Glasgow, where Megrahi is currently serving a life sentence. Pre [...]
2008-10-24 06:45:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER LY UK
08LONDON2683HMG ACKNOWLEDGES UK ECONOMY ENTERING RECESSION
[...] (SBU) Summary: This week, officials publicly acknowledged that the UK is likely to be entering a recession. For months, prominent public figures refused to mention the 'R' word, in favor of talking up the underlying strength of the UK's economic position. However, Mervyn King, Governor of t [...]
2008-10-24 09:40:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK
08LONDON2688Lord Kerr on the U.S. - EU Transatlantic Dialogue
[...] (SBU) Lord John Kerr, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell, Advisory Council Member of Business for New Europe (BNE),and former UK Ambassador to the U.S. shared views on the changing nature of the transatlantic dialogue and climate change at a recent BNE-sponsored event. Transatlantic Dialogu [...]
2008-10-24 14:22:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAIR MARR ETRD PINR EU UK
08LONDON2689UK AGREES WITH IMPORTANCE OF SADC ENGAGEMENT ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-24 15:02:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL ZI UK
08LONDON2691IRAN: SAFAVI CLAIMS KHAMENEI WILL HOLD HARD LINE,
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Senior Iranian cleric and IRGC figure Salman Safavi told a private dinner, attended by Embassy London Iran watcher (Poloff),that Supreme Leader Khamenei will ease or harden the tone of Iran's nuclear policies based on who wins the U.S. presidential election. Safavi gave no s [...]
2008-10-24 18:14:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNKPRP PGOV PHUM PREL IS IA IR LE UK
08LONDON2702UK WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN IRAN'S NUCLEAR CONFERENCE, WILL DISCOURAGE OTHERS FROM ATTENDING REF: STATE 112229
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-27 15:56:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALAORC IR MNUC TRGY UK
08LONDON272IRAN: UK SAYS EU DESIRE FOR THIRD UNSCR MEANS NO
[...] (C) Summary: The UK expects no new EU steps on autonomous measures against Iran before a March 10-11 GAERC ministerial, due to the desire of most EU governments to have the legal and political cover of an approved third UN Security Council Resolution in place before any further EU action, ac [...]
2008-01-29 18:44:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL KPRP PGOV PHUM IR UK
08LONDON2735UK WILL LOBBY IN EU FOR ROBUST EU APPROACH TOWARDS BOSNIA; NEW UK AMBASSADOR TO BOSNIA TO ARRIVE SOON REF: A) STATE 113894 B) DONEGAN/FOOKS EMAIL 10/17
[...] (C) The UK concurs with the U.S. view (ref a) that political progress in Bosnia has either stopped or is moving in the wrong direction, and will use the time remaining before the November 10 GAERC to lobby its EU partners for a strong statement on Bosnia. According to FCO Bosnia Team Leader Daisy O [...]
2008-10-28 17:53:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BK EU UK
08LONDON2757SUMMIT ON FINANCIAL MARKETS AND THE WORLD ECONOMY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-31 12:07:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN
08LONDON276INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO):
[...] SUMMARY: The 52nd session of the IMO FP S/C met at Central Hall Westminster in London 14-18 January 2008, chaired by Mr. Juan Carlos Cubisino (Argentina). The session was attended by delegations from 58 member states, one associate member, one state not a member, two intergovernmental organ [...]
2008-01-30 09:48:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDIMO AORC ASEC UK
08LONDON2760ECONOMIC CRISIS RX - VIEW FROM THE CITY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-31 13:47:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALECON EINV UK
08LONDON2765CONSERVATIVE PARTY CAUGHT FLAT-FOOTED BY BROWN’S
[...] (C) PM Brown's relatively deft performance (ref b) in handling the economic crisis over the past month has caught the Conservative Party off-guard, and the Tories' response to the crisis has been regrettably tepid, Michael Fallon, Tory MP and senior Tory member of the Treasury Committee, House of C [...]
2008-10-31 15:33:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALECON EINV PGOV UK
08LONDON2766UK APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS ASSET-FREEZING REGIME
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UK Court of Appeals supported the British government's asset-freezing regime after it had been struck down in an April High Court ruling, in an October 30 decision. HM Treasury was largely pleased with the outcome, although they will have to make modifications to UK regulati [...]
2008-10-31 16:57:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KTFN UK
08LONDON2770COMMONWEALTH: NEW SYG LOOKING TO STEP UP ENGAGEMENT WITH USG REF: A. COLOMBO 982 B. LONDON 2304 Classified By: Ambassador Robert Tuttle, reasons 1.4 (b/d).
[...] (C) "The Commonwealth is a strategic partner for most of what the USG wants," new Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma told the Ambassador in an October 29 courtesy call. Sharma said the USG "should not confuse the Commonwealth's low-key approach as ineffective," pointing out that he wou [...]
2008-11-03 11:42:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KDEM EAID PINR UK
08LONDON2778IRANIAN IMPORTERS/EXPORTERS: HAVING MORE PROBLEMS
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Iranian importers and exporters are encountering ever-greater problems, in all regions including China, in obtaining trade financing due to USG-led international financial measures, according to statements by an Iran banking contact to Embassy London Iran Watcher (poloff). End su [...]
2008-11-03 15:59:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNCJAN ECON EFIN PINS PREL PTER KFIN IR UK
08LONDON2783ECONOMIC RECOVERY A LONG WAY OFF SAY BANKERS
[...] (SBU) The UK economy will not begin to recover until the end of 2009 at the earliest, and the road back to health will be slow, said Stephen King, Group Chief Economist at HSBC Bank plc and Melanie Baker, Vice President at Morgan Stanley. High loan burdens for banks, rising unemployment, and [...]
2008-11-03 16:52:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV UK
08LONDON2784FINANCIAL CRISIS AND UK DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES
[...] (U) Summary: Despite the economic crisis, HMG has no intention of cutting back on assistance and indeed, will move forward to increase funding, UK Development Secretary Douglas Alexander told Parliament on October 30. In response to a parliamentary inquiry, Alexander stated that he plans to pus [...]
2008-11-03 17:04:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN UK
08LONDON2785BOSNIA, EU-RUSSIAN RELATIONS, AND DRC ARE ON THE UK'S AGENDA AT NOVEMBER GYMNICH AND GAERC MEETINGS
[...] (C) Summary. Foreign Secretary Miliband intends to impress on his EU counterparts that worsening trends in Bosnia require a unified EU message, and to highlight the need for political action in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),during the November Gymnich and GAERC meetings. The UK Governm [...]
2008-11-03 17:47:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD PGOV EUN GA IR IZ CG RS UK
08LONDON2789IRAN: FURTHER READOUT ON GHALIBAF VISIT TO JAPAN
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Tehran Mayor and possible 2009 Iranian Presidential candidate Mohammad-Baqer Ghalibaf while on a mid-October visit to Tokyo made comments suggesting he may support a marginally less confrontational approach to the nuclear issue, according to informal readout provided London Iran W [...]
2008-11-04 13:15:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNKNNP PGOV PREL UK JA IR
08LONDON2798(C) UK'S POTENTIAL NEW FINANCIAL TOOL AGAINST IRAN Classified By: KATHLEEN DOHERTY, ECON COUNSELOR FOR REASONS 1.4 B & D
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The British government amended the Counter-Terrorism Bill (CT Bill) on November 3, which would potentially give HMG stronger financial powers against Iran and other rogue nations. If approved by Parliament, HM Treasury would obtain power to impose measures on private entities doing [...]
2008-11-04 16:59:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN KTFN MNUC IR UK
08LONDON2802HMG SEES OPPORTUNITY IN BURMA'S GLOBAL FUND APPLICATION REF: STATE 115494 Classified By: Economic Counselor Kathleen Doherty for Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d)
[...] (C) In response to reftel points, FCO Burma Coordinator/Deputy Head of South East Asia and Pacific Group Nicholas Alexander, told Poloff that HMG agreed with the substance of our position on Burma's application to re-engage the Global Fund but advised caution on the tactics we might use to apply i [...]
2008-11-04 17:30:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD PHUM BM UK
08LONDON2814POC FOR NODEL SANDERS (NOV 9-13)
[...] (SBU) The Point Of Contact (POC) for NODEL Sanders is Warren Chane, Economic Officer. Contact details follow: Warren Chane Economic Officer Office: +44 (0) 20 7894 0492 Home: +44 (0) 20 7722 6527 Mobile: +44 (0) 77 1516 7459 FAX: +44 (0) 20 7409 1637 Email: chanegw@state.gov TUTTL [...]
2008-11-07 10:19:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN UK
08LONDON2821FCO PLEASED WITH U.S./UK ALIGNMENT ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: INL Assistant Secretary David Johnson visited London October 31, to review Afghan counter-narcotics efforts (CN) with British counterparts. Johnson shared observations from his visit to Helmand, noted the importance of Afghan National Army CNIK protection for eradication, and noted th [...]
2008-11-07 16:43:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL KNAR PTER AF UK
08LONDON2822DRC: UK FOCUSING ON POLITICAL SOLUTION, MAKING
[...] (C) Parliament is pressing HMG for deployment of additional troops to MONUC, but the Foreign Office is concentrating on a political solution to the crisis and increased MONUC flexibility, FCO Great Lakes Team Leader David Hall and DRC Desk Officer Oliver Craven told us November 7. HMG will not sup [...]
2008-11-07 16:53:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PINR PREF PINS KPKO RW CG UK
08LONDON2828SOUTHERN AFRICA/MAURITIUS: UK ON VISA WAIVER,
[...] (C) From a November 7 round up of UK policy and priorities in Southern Africa, imposing new visa requirements may cause some tension in the region for the UK, according to FCO Head of Southern Africa Section Sarah Riley. The UK Borders Agency is reviewing its visa regimes on South Africa, Lesotho, [...]
2008-11-10 11:44:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PINR EAID ZU MP
08LONDON2829HMG ACCUSED OF SEEING NO BLAME, HEARING NO BLAME, AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Treasury Select Committee held an unprecedented evidence session November 3 in which the Tripartite Committee authorities responded to Parliamentary questions and to questions emailed to the Committee by the general public. In their responses, the Chancellor of the Excheque [...]
2008-11-10 11:58:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK
08LONDON2833CTF-150/SOMALIA: OUTBRIEF FROM CANADIAN SHIP
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The Canadian vessel HMCS Ville de Quebec escorted five WFP vessels in and out of Mogadishu between August and October 2008, and the vessel's commanding officer noted that there is clear evidence of collusion between Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and pirates in Som [...]
2008-11-10 14:56:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS NATO PTER SO CA UK
08LONDON2837SOMALILAND/SOMALIA: SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT, UK
[...] (SBU) In a November 8 discussion on U.S. policy in Somalia, Somaliland Diaspora leaders representing over twenty UK-based Somali organizations said that security and development in Somaliland are their main concerns. They offered the following political and development policy suggestions: [...]
2008-11-10 16:31:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PBTS EAID PREF PINR SO UK
08LONDON2853PAKISTAN: UK ON FATA INTEGRATION, AF-PAK
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-13 15:21:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MASS EAID PK AF UK
08LONDON2858AFRICA/CHINA: MORE ENGAGEMENT IS A TWO-SIDED COIN
[...] (C//REL TO FIVE EYES) China's increasing engagement with African governments is a two-sided coin. China more readily works on its Africa partners' behalf in the United Nations (sometimes in unhelpful ways for the West),and it also provides significant direct investment and infrastructure cr [...]
2008-11-13 16:39:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR EAID XA CA NZ AS CH TW UK
08LONDON2860ALCHEMY FOR RECOVERY - RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE G20 SUMMIT FROM SOME OF THE UK'S TOP ECONOMISTS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-14 11:37:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EINV UK
08LONDON2882NIGERIA: UK ON EFCC AND PRESIDENT YAR A'DUA
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The UK's relationship with Nigeria is "static," FCO Nigerian Team Leader Catherine Inglehearn said November 14. Cooperation with Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has largely stalled, pending a letter from new chair Waziri about HMG engagement with the Comm [...]
2008-11-17 15:45:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KCOR KCRM PINR NI UK
08LONDON2898HORN OF AFRICA PIRACY - HMG SHARES ADDITIONAL
[...] (C/NF) FCO Deputy Head Security Policy Chris Holtby (strictly protect) confirmed that HMG is satisfied with the progress in establishment of Operational Headquarters (OHQ) in Northwood UK, and afloat Force Headquarters (FHQ) for the EU counter-piracy mission "Atalanta." Holtby admitted that Gree [...]
2008-11-19 15:37:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEUN EWWT PHSA PTER PREL UK
08LONDON2899COTE D'IVOIRE: UK ON ELECTIONS, DDR, AND
[...] (C) Summary. The UK "does not buy into" the French view that Cote d'Ivoire's elections were delayed for technical reasons, and HMG thinks elections could have taken place on time, albeit with some technical problems, had there been the political will, FCO West Africa Team Leader Jonathan Drew told [...]
2008-11-19 15:48:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV IV FR UK
08LONDON2909 APOLOGIES, EXCUSES, AND GLOOM - TESTIMONY OF EXECUTIVES OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The executive teams of the UK's two nationalized banks, Bradford & Bingley (B&B) and Northern Rock (NR),were quizzed by MPs on the Treasury Committee November 18. B&B executives gave a gloomy outlook for the bank's mortgage books, with GBP 600-800 million losses expected from [...]
2008-11-20 14:28:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK
08LONDON2917NIGERIA: HMG TO CHALLENGE RULING ON IBORI EVIDENCE
[...] (C) The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Metropolitan Police plan to appeal the November 19 London Court decision ruling that the evidence submitted by the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to the court in the on-going corruption investigation of former Nigeria Delta St [...]
2008-11-21 16:20:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL KCOR KCRM PINR NI UK
08LONDON2960AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY - UK WILL CONTRIBUTE TO
[...] (C/NF) The UK concurs with U.S. views (reftel) that the NATO Afghanistan National Army (ANA) Trust Fund mandate should be broad and flexible enough to allow contributions from both NATO and non-Nato nations alike. FCO NATO/ESDP Team Leader Chris Holtby added that the disbursal system should be s [...]
2008-11-28 13:03:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO MOPS MARR AF UK
08LONDON2961PAKISTAN: UK ON MID-DECEMBER DONORS CONFERENCE
[...] (C/NF) The UK is generally on board with a donors conference on Pakistan, though there is some hesitation over the timing, according to FCO Pakistan Team Leader Laura Hickey. That said, it is likely that a UK Minister will attend. Both Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Development Secretary Do [...]
2008-11-28 14:29:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK UK
08LONDON2964AFGHANISTAN: PRESIDENT KARZAI NOT CONFIDENT ON
[...] (C/NF) Summary: During a November 25 meeting in Kabul, Afghan President Karzai told FS Miliband that it would be difficult or impossible to hold a credible Presidential election. He said that Afghanistan's USD 13.4b of reserves, were the &best in the world." Miliband commented to Karzai that, after [...]
2008-11-28 15:46:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR PTER AF UK
08LONDON2968PAKISTAN: MILIBAND'S "POSITIVE" NOVEMBER 25 VISIT
[...] (C) Summary. UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband had a "positive" November 25 trip to Pakistan, FCO Pakistan Team Leader Laura Hickey told us November 28. The two main objectives of the trip were outreach on counter radicalization efforts and support for the Government of Pakistan's (GOP) ownersh [...]
2008-11-28 16:32:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER IN PK UK
08LONDON2970 Spending Sprees And Tax Hikes: The Highs And Lows Of The
[...] (SBU) Summary: The November 24 2008 UK Pre-budget report (PBR) announces a GBP 20 billion stimulus package and deficit financing to respond to the recession brought on the global financial crisis. Government debt will double to GBP 1 trillion over the next few years before declining, and the [...]
2008-11-28 16:47:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK
08LONDON2972UK RESPONSE TO EU BIOFUELS SUSTAINABILITY
[...] (SBU) Post delivered ref A points to the host government on November 21 regarding the EU's biofuels sustainability proposals under consideration for a vote by the European Parliament in its "20-20-20" Energy and Climate Legislation. In response to USG comments on the amendments, the UK Head of [...]
2008-11-28 18:04:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG EAGR SENV ENRG TRGY EUN EU
08LONDON2976DRC:UK SUPPORTS EITI INCLUSION IN MONUC MANDATE, EXTENDED ARMS EMBARGO, FDLR SANCTIONS IMPOSITION SOONEST
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The UK supports inclusion of an Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) paragraph in the MONUC renewal mandate, continuation of the arms embargo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for 12 months, and imposition of the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) [...]
2008-12-01 11:24:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EMIN UNSC KPKO PARM CG RW UK
08LONDON3001EU/PAKISTAN: HMG REQUESTS USG INFLUENCE THE SWEDES
[...] (C/NF) HMG wants to hold an EU-Pakistan Summit under the EU's Swedish presidency in the second half of 2009, but is having trouble convincing the Swedes that a summit would add significant value to what the international community is trying to accomplish in Pakistan, according to FCO Pakistan [...]
2008-12-02 10:12:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL ETRD PK SW UK
08LONDON3038SOMALIA: UNDERSTANDING AND COUNTERING UK OPPOSITION TO A PEACEKEEPING OPERATION REF: A. STATE 127595 B.
[...] (C/NF) Summary. At senior levels, HMG characterizes its opposition to a peacekeeping operation in Somalia as "realistic." It has two main strands of thought: one political regarding the peace process and one technical regarding peacekeeping operations. Sharing information about USG engagement with [...]
2008-12-04 13:28:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KPKO PHUM SO UN UK
08LONDON3041LONDON P3 CONSULTATIONS ON UNSCR 1540 COMMITTEE
[...] (C) Summary: During a P3 working discussion hosted in London November 10 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),both the British and French participants stressed that their countries remain committed to UNSCR 1540 Committee goals, but agreed that the Committee needs to be more focused and mo [...]
2008-12-04 16:53:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PGOV PREL PARM UK
08LONDON3042(U) QUEEN OPENS PARLIAMENT WITH A THIN LABOUR
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The Queen laid out Gordon Brown's legislative plans for the coming year in the annual Queen's Speech at the December 3 State Opening of Parliament, but most of the political and media attention was not on PM Brown's legislative agenda (much of which had been released already) but on [...]
2008-12-04 16:57:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV ECON PREL PINR UK
08LONDON305IRAN: NAMES PROPOSED BY UK AND FRANCE FOR EU ASSET
[...] (C/NF) Providing further details of UK efforts to obtain autonomous EU sanctions against Iran (see ref),the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on January 30 gave London Iran Watcher (Poloff) a list of 18 entities and 14 individuals that the FCO says the UK and France have jointly proposed to EU [...]
2008-01-31 17:07:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KPRP PGOV ETTC IR UK
08LONDON3062PAKISTAN: LYALL GRANT AND BOUCHER AGREE ON
[...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary Boucher and Foreign Office Political Director Lyall Grant agreed on the need for Pakistan, and especially General Kayani, to close down Lashkar e Taiba operations and move on to reform of the intelligence service. Lyall Grant observed there would be less political [...]
2008-12-08 16:51:00Embassy LondonSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PINR IN PK CH UK
08LONDON3079HMG SEEKS U.S. PARTICIPATION IN ESTABLISHING
[...] (U) Guidance request. See para 4. 2. (C/NF) HMG will announce early in January 2009 an interagency initiative on international regulation of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs). The announcement will be in the form of a written ministerial statement, which will include an invit [...]
2008-12-09 16:48:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV MARR PTER DS UK
08LONDON3097 Government's Pre-Budget Report: Too Bullish, Too Risky,
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Pre-Budget Report (PBR),announced on November 24, has been widely criticized, from the size and nature of HM Treasury's fiscal stimulus package to HMT's perceived overly optimistic macroeconomic forecasts. On December 10, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Darling defended t [...]
2008-12-11 16:42:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK
08LONDON3107SOMALIA/PIRACY: UK ON UNSC PIRACY RESOLUTION, CONTACT GROUP
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-12 15:20:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW UK
08LONDON3110IRAN: FCO QUIETLY URGES PRESSURE ON GERMANS FOR EU
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Germany has deep political reservations over bank designations proposed against Iran under the EU's Common Policy, and is making legal and intelligence arguments within E4 against UK and French proposals to designate several Iranian banks, according to a UK Foreign and Commonweal [...]
2008-12-12 18:03:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ENRG IR KTFN MNUC PTER UK
08LONDON3122UK PLEDGE TO YEAR TWO OF THE SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR
[...] (C) HMG is currenly in the process of determining the amount of its pledge to Year Two of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, FCO Levant Group Head Benjamin Saoul told us December 15 in response to reftel demarche. The exact amount of the contribution will not be decided until early 2009, Saou [...]
2008-12-15 15:03:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER UNSC LE SY UK EUN
08LONDON3132HMG SHARES USG CONCERNS ON UNESCO DG
[...] (C) William Gatward of the FCO's International Organizations Department (Specialized Agencies Team) told Poloff that HMG was not in favor of Egypt's nomination of Culture Minister Farouk Hosni for Director General (DG) of UNESCO, but had made no official decision. Gatward said that Hosni is "not [...]
2008-12-15 17:08:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNESCO UK
08LONDON3134UN PEACEKEEPING HARMONIZATION OF CONDITIONS OF SERVICE: UK COOL TO USG PROPOSAL REF: STATE 129988
[...] (C) William Gatward, Head of the Specialized Agencies Team, and Jacqui Hutchison, UN Management and Finance Officer (both within the FCO's International Organizations Department) told Poloff that while HMG supports the USG in principle it has several concerns with the proposals in reftel demarche. [...]
2008-12-15 17:50:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL AMGT AORC APER UNGA UK
08LONDON3152SCOTLAND: ECONOMICS IS CHANGING POLITICS, SAYS
[...] (C/NF) Summary. "Economics is changing the politics in Scotland," new Secretary for the Scotland Office Jim Murphy told Polmincouns December 17, and "the economic crisis has embedded for a generation the idea that Scotland will be better served as part of the United Kingdom." Scotland Office Head [...]
2008-12-17 17:14:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV ECON PBTS UK
08LONDON3181IMO: LONDON CONVENTION REPORT ON MARINE
[...] SUMMARY: The International Maritime Organization's (IMO) annual meetings for both the 1972 London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (the "London Convention") and the 1996 Protocol to the London Convention (the "London Protocol") made progre [...]
2008-12-19 16:22:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT PHSA SENV KGHG KRAD UK
08LONDON3183UK SECURITY SUPPORT FOR 2009 AFGHAN ELECTIONS -
[...] (C) HMG concurs with points contained in U.S. nonpaper (ref a) on the need for ISAF nations to provide enhanced security assistance in the run-up to and during the 2009 Afghan Presidential election. FCO Afghanistan Office Director Matthew Lodge said that the UK is currently engaged in a cross-dep [...]
2008-12-19 17:05:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS AF UK
08LONDON3186IRAQ PETROLEUM CONFERENCE 2008: DIALOGUE,
[...] (SBU) Summary. Iraq Petroleum 2008, held in London December 1-2, 2009, was a good opportunity for Iraqi officials, representatives from international companies, and participants from other governments to discuss the current situation in Iraq's petroleum sector, focusing particularly on inves [...]
2008-12-19 17:27:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET EINV ECON IZ UK
08LONDON3191UNITED KINGDOM: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) Below is post's 2008 submission for the Country Reports on Terrorism. POCs for this report are Daniel McNicholas (McNicholasDF@state.gov) or Jim McDonald (McDonaldJP@state.gov). Consulate Belfast contributed to this report. UNITED KINGDOM -------------- 2. (U) In December a jury [...]
2008-12-22 12:26:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC UK
08LONDON3196TRADE AND FINANCE EXPERTS SOUND THE ALARM
[...] European trade and finance experts speaking at a December 18 HMG-sponsored conference in London spoke of an "acute crisis" in trade and finance that "puts world trade genuinely under threat." The credit crisis has administered two blows to world trade by: (1) decreasing economic activity and ( [...]
2008-12-22 16:12:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECIN ETRD EINV EUN EU UK
08LONDON3197LIBERTAD ACT: IPNUT FOR UK
[...] (C) The following pertains to the UK's involvement in and relations with Cuba, keyed to questions posed in reftel: 2. (C) Has the UK worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? -- Yes. The UK's policy toward Cuba continues to be based upon the EU Common Position [...]
2008-12-22 17:39:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL PHUM PGOV CU UK
08LONDON3199POSITIVE OUTLOOK FOR UK NUCLEAR ENERGY EXPANSION
[...] (SBU) Summary. HMG announced a long-term nuclear energy strategy in January 2008, setting it on a path for tremendous growth over the next ten years. This strategy addresses the UK's energy security concerns and EU commitments for clean/renewable energy. The UK hopes to increase the propor [...]
2008-12-22 17:54:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO UK
08LONDON3215IRAN: READOUT FROM UK LEGISLATORS AND FROM XXXXXXXXXXXX REP ON MEK RECONCILIATION
[...] (C/REL UK) Summary: The Tehran regime is giving high priority and visibility to its efforts to reconcile those former members of the terrorist entity Mujahaddin e-Khalq (MEK aka MKO aka NCRI, inter alia) who have returned to Iran, according both to UK Parliamentary legislators who in October and N [...]
2008-12-24 11:44:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKPRP PGOV PHUM PREL IS IA IR LE UK
08LONDON3218SOMALI PIRACY:INDUSTRY UNCOMFORTABLE WITH ON-BOARD
[...] SUMMARY: The Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF) hosted a Joint Industry and Naval Forces Workshop on Somali piracy in London on December 18, 2009. Military representatives from EU Naval Forces, Coalition Forces (CTF-150),and NATO outlined their operations and dilemmas in the Gul [...]
2008-12-29 12:20:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT PREL PHSA KCRM SO UK
08LONDON331IRAN: UPDATE ON UK'S APPEAL OF MEK DE-LISTING
[...] (C) Summary. The FCO told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) the UK's Court of Appeals will decide in mid-February whether to hear HMG's appeal of a 2007 order to de-list the Mujaheddin-e-Khalk (MEK) and, if it hears the case, will also decide the merits of the appeal. Even if HMG loses this stag [...]
2008-02-01 16:42:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER IR UK
08LONDON341PM BROWN HOSTS SUMMIT: PROPOSALS FOR STABILITY IN
[...] (SBU) Summary. On January 29, UK Prime Minister Brown, together with German President Merkel, French President Sarkozy, Italian PM Prodi, and EU President Barroso, issued a joint communiqu proposing steps to enhance transparency and promote stability in the global financial markets. The leade [...]
2008-02-04 11:59:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EU UK
08LONDON347UK BUSINESS RESERVEDLY OPTIMISTIC ON DOHA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UK international business figure Gary Campkin (PROTECT) is "reservedly optimistic" that the WTO Doha negotiations can be concluded this year. He says that the current global economic and political situation has created a climate giving impetus to reaching an agreement; it will be [...]
2008-02-04 17:57:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD UK EINV
08LONDON349TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY PETERS DISCUSSES ROADS AND
[...] (U) Summary: Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, Ambassador Tuttle, and state and local elected officials met with UK Transportation Secretary Ruth Kelly on December 7 to discuss private-public partnerships to address road congestion, stage II of the U.S.-EU aviation agreement, and environmen [...]
2008-02-04 17:58:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAIR ELTN UK
08LONDON365IRAN: SECOND HAND SOURCE CLAIMS EPD'S ARE PACKED,
[...] (S/NF) Summary. Well-known Iranian expatriate broadcaster and long-time Embassy contact Ali Reza Nourizadeh passed to London Iran Watcher (Poloff) an allegation, parts of which Nourizadeh said he has independently confirmed, that an IRGC office in central Tehran is packing and shipping to Ir [...]
2008-02-05 14:56:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER IZ IR UK
08LONDON425 DOL ADVISOR BRUMFIELD DISCUSSES LABOR PRIORITIES WITH HMG,
[...] (SBU) Summary: William Brumfield, European Area Advisor and Foreign Service Coordinator at the Department of Labor (DOL),visited the UK to discuss labor priorities with HMG, Unions and Employers. At HMG he was told that James Purnell, the new Work and Pensions Secretary, will prioritize welf [...]
2008-02-12 09:40:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB SOCI UK
08LONDON470INTERNATIONAL RUBBER STUDY GROUP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Per Department of Commerce's request, Embassy London Econoff represented the USG during the Executive Committee meeting of the International Rubber Study Group (IRSG) on February 12 - 13. U.S. concerns with the contract extension for the Secretary General (SG) found little tract [...]
2008-02-14 14:00:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD UK AGR EIND
08LONDON475NON-DOM TAX ISSUE HEATS UP
[...] This cable contains an action request. See paras 8 and 9. 2. (SBU) Summary and Action Request: The proposed taxation of non-domiciled foreigners in the UK (including Americans) continues to roil the business world here. Trade and Investment Minister Lord Digby Jones warned against implement [...]
2008-02-14 16:59:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD CASC EINV UK
08LONDON476NON-DOM TAX ISSUE HEATS UP
[...] This cable contains an action request. See paras 8 and 9. 2. (SBU) Summary and Action Request: The proposed taxation of non-domiciled foreigners in the UK (including Americans) continues to roil the business world here. Trade and Investment Minister Lord Digby Jones warned against implement [...]
2008-02-14 17:38:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD CASC EINV UK
08LONDON498UK PM BROWN REACHES OUT TO CHINA AND INDIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CBI's head of international affairs Gary Campkin (PROTECT) described PM Brown's recent trip to China and India as "warm, but frantic." The UK-Chinese relationship is going through an especially friendly period in his opinion. In China, the PM discussed climate change, trade, sove [...]
2008-02-15 16:56:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK
08LONDON512INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO):
[...] SUMMARY: The ad hoc LRIT group met from 29 January to 1 February under the chairmanship of Dr. Sam Ryan (Canada),who at the opening session was elected as Chairman for the present and subsequent sessions. The group was convened by MSC 83, under MSC circular letter 2835, to consider necessary [...]
2008-02-20 10:54:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDIMO AORC ASEC UK
08LONDON592UK TO DESIGNATE THREE MEMBERS OF LIBYAN ISLAMIC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-26 17:08:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNKTFN EFIN PTER LY UK
08LONDON612MOVING IPR INTO THE MAINSTREAM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-27 16:08:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KIPR UK ECPS
08LONDON621UK NATIONALIZATION OF NORTHERN ROCK: ANOTHER BLOW
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The nationalization of British bank Northern Rock adds to the list of woes besetting Gordon Brown' government, but it is not the political catastrophe that the opposition Conservative Party has painted -- and hoped -- it to be. Sixty percent of respondents in a recent poll b [...]
2008-02-29 11:01:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL ECON EFIN EU UK
08LONDON630IRAN NUCLEAR: UK COMMONS REPORT WILL CALL FOR DROPPING SUSPENSION; FCO DISCOUNTS REPORT'S IMPACT REF: A. LONDON 4204 B. EMBASSY DAILY OF JANUARY 31 C. 2008 D. GAYLE-NEA/IR FEBRUARY 29 E-MAIL
[...] (C) The UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on March 2 will urge a major change in HMG and collective western policy on Iran's nuclear program, most notably the dropping of the suspension requirement before there can be direct talks on nuclear issues with Tehran. According to an excerpt f [...]
2008-02-29 16:29:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL KPRP PGOV PHUM IR UK
08LONDON634UK NATIONALIZATION OF NORTHERN ROCK: ANOTHER BLOW
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The nationalization of British bank Northern Rock adds to the list of woes besetting Gordon Brown's government, but it is not the political catastrophe that the opposition Conservative Party has painted -- and hoped -- it to be. Sixty percent of respondents in a recent poll [...]
2008-02-29 17:04:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL ECON EFIN EU UK
08LONDON639UK LABOUR SPRING CONFERENCE: GOOD INTENTIONS BUT
[...] (C/NF) Summary: The Labour Party Spring Conference, held February 27 - March 2 in Birmingham, was characterized by low energy, poor attendance, and a lack of charismatic leadership, despite serving as a kick-off to the party's campaign for the May 1 local elections in England and Wales. In his Marc [...]
2008-03-03 17:06:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR UK
08LONDON646HMG RAISES GUANTANAMO TRANSFEREES' ALLEGATIONS OF
[...] (C/NF) Summary. FCO Legal Advisor Daniel Bethlehem raised February 22 with Legal Advisor John Bellinger, III HMG's concern over the USG response to HMG's earlier notification to the USG of allegations of mistreatment made by recent Guantanamo transferees. Bethlehem underscored that HMG woul [...]
2008-03-04 13:04:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER PHUM UK
08LONDON650HMG HAS RAISED CONCERNS WITH EU COMMISSIONER
[...] (C/NF) HMG agrees the upcoming visit of EU Commissioner Louis Michel to Cuba is "not the smartest timing," and has raised directly with Michel the importance of underscoring the EU's dual-track policy, including meeting with civil society, during the visit, according to Foreign Office EU Corr [...]
2008-03-04 15:57:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV EUN CU UK
08LONDON658NIO SAYS PAISLEY'S RESIGNATION WON'T DESTABILIZE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-05 17:42:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV EI UK
08LONDON66HMG UNDECIDED ON WHO WILL ATTEND WIREC 2008
[...] On January 7, OES A/S Claudia McMurray met with Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Minister Joan Ruddock to discuss HMG's delegation to WIREC 2008. Ruddock recommended sending REFTEL invitation to DEFRA Secretary of State Hilary Benn. The invitation was delivered SIPDIS to [...]
2008-01-08 15:27:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDENRG TRGY UK
08LONDON660NIO SAYS PAISLEY'S RESIGNATION WON'T DESTABILIZE
[...] (C/NF) Political Advisors in the British Government's Northern Ireland Office told the Embassy March 5 that the NIO, "broadly speaking, doesn't think Paisley,s resignation will be destabilizing." Poloff spoke with the Northern Ireland Office,s Katy Petaffe and John Todd. Todd confirmed that [...]
2008-03-05 18:13:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV EI UK
08LONDON676(C) C-DI8-00223: PROBABLE UK REACTION TO DUTCH
[...] (S) In response to ref questions, Post informally contacted Metropolitan Police's Diplomatic Protection Group regarding measures HMG may be taking in preparation for the release of the Dutch anti-Islam video. To the best of the Diplomatic Protection Group's knowledge, no specific protective [...]
2008-03-06 17:29:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR PTER KISL UK
08LONDON677UK COUNSELS PATIENCE ON VISA WAIVER PROGRAM
[...] (c) Summary. HMG recognizes the issue of legal competency between the EU Commission and member states in the area of visa policy is "complicated," but London supports extension of the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP) to other EU members and wants to complete its own bilateral visa MOU with USG [...]
2008-03-06 17:43:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPAO CMGT CVIS PREL PTER UK
08LONDON694UK MEASURES ON IRAN: HMG STILL LAYING GROUNDWORK
[...] (C) On immediate EU sanctions steps in follow-up to passage of UNSCR 1803, FCO working level contacts on March 7 advised London Iran Watcher (Poloff) that "nothing substantive will happen on the EU track" at the GAERC session Monday March 10: "there will be no Iran conclusions." According to [...]
2008-03-10 13:02:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER EU IR UK
08LONDON71TERRORISM FINANCE: CONSULTATION ON UPCOMING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-08 16:56:00Embassy LondonSECRETKTFN EFIN PTER PREL
08LONDON727UK SUPPORTIVE OF WHA PDAS KELLY'S VIEWS ON LATIN
[...] (C) Summary. FCO Director of the Americas Chris Wood was supportive of U.S. policy on Latin America, praising progress in Colombia in particular during a visit by WHA PDAS Craig Kelly March 7. Wood agreed Venezuela and Bolivia were worrisome and that Cuba had not changed since Fidel's illne [...]
2008-03-11 17:37:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EU UK CO EC BR CU VE BL
08LONDON732UK LIBERAL DEMOCRATS RECOVERING FROM PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (C/NF) Summary. The UK's Liberal Democrat Party limped into its spring conference in Liverpool March 7-9 following a disastrous performance in the House of Commons March 5 during the debate over a possible referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, a performance which plunged Nick Clegg into the first crisis [...]
2008-03-12 09:27:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR EU UK
08LONDON74HMT STANDS FIRM ON NON-DOM TAX CHANGE
[...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARA 08 2. (SBU) Summary: HM Treasury (HMT) told us that the proposed non-domiciled tax changes will take effect in April 2008 as planned despite complaints from U.S. business and other groups. They say they have fully considered the concerns raised by British [...]
2008-01-09 08:41:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD CASC UK EINV
08LONDON745UK SUPPORTS U.S. GOALS OF EXPANDED IEA MEMBERSHIP;
[...] (SBU) The UK's Minister of Energy Willie Ricketts will attend the March 13-14 IEA Governing Board meeting in Paris and support the U.S. goal to begin a process of evaluating how to work best with China and India on IEA issues, according to Tom Reilly, Director of the Climate and Energy Office, [...]
2008-03-12 17:00:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG IEA UK
08LONDON749UK ANNOUNCES 2008 BUDGET - KEY POINTS
[...] (U) Summary: Alistair Darling announced his first budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer on March 12. The budget forecast revised growth downward and predicted that inflation will rise above the Bank of England's two percent target. However, Darling took care to emphasize that the UK's economic [...]
2008-03-13 11:34:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD CASC EINV UK
08LONDON75UK ALSO KEEN FOR ANSWERS ON CHINESE ASAT TEST
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-09 11:41:00Embassy LondonSECRETPREL PARM MNUC MARR CH UK
08LONDON750UK ANNOUNCES 2008 BUDGET - KEY POINTS
[...] (U) Summary: Alistair Darling announced his first budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer on March 12. The budget forecast revised growth downward and predicted that inflation will rise above the Bank of England's two percent target. However, Darling took care to emphasize that the UK's economic [...]
2008-03-13 11:34:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD CASC EINV UK
08LONDON762(SBU) NEW PAKISTAN COALITION POTENTIALLY UNSTABLE,
[...] (C) Summary. Pakistan's election victors will probably form a government within a week, but lingering differences of opinion may make the coalition unstable, according to Laura Guy, Head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Pakistan and India-Pakistan Relations Section. The PPP and t [...]
2008-03-13 17:17:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ETRD PHUM EU PK UK
08LONDON763DEMARCHE TO UK ON IRAN'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel, and following up on earlier discussions between Embassy and Department visitors with Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on how best to coordinate public statements on Iran's Majles elections, London Iran Watcher (Poloff) delivered reftel points and draft USG s [...]
2008-03-13 17:52:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM IR UK
08LONDON765UK SUPPORTS U.S. G8 CASH COURIER INITIATIVE
[...] (SBU) We delivered Reftel to Peter Storr, Home Office Lyon-Roma Head of Delegation, who indicated general UK support for U.S. aims on tackling cash and bulk couriers in the upcoming G8 Lyon-Roma meetings. The response in paragraph two is from Natalie Keough, Terrorist Finance expert, Home Off [...]
2008-03-13 18:02:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KTFN UK
08LONDON774SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS CREATE JOBS SAYS DEPUTY SECRETARY
[...] (SBU) Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) and State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) behave differently, said Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt in a March 10 meeting with Michael Snyder, Chairman, City of London Policy and Resources Committee. Kimmitt said SWFs have been non-political in their instrum [...]
2008-03-14 15:41:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN UK
08LONDON778Treasury Deputy Secretary and British
[...] (SBU) Key issues facing the UK, the likely passage of the EU treaty, U.S. financial markets, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs),and the Clean Technology fund were discussed by Jon Cunliffe, Head of International Affairs and Europe at the Cabinet Office in a March 10 meeting with Treasury Deputy Se [...]
2008-03-17 09:47:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN UK
08LONDON781DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT AND PERMANENT UNDER
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY Deputy Secretary of Treasury Robert Kimmitt and Ambassador Tuttle met Peter Ricketts, UK Permanent Under Secretary (PUS) at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on March 10. Both sides agreed on the need to plan for the one-year review conference for the International Compact wi [...]
2008-03-17 10:20:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL ECON EFIN
08LONDON797BANKING CRISIS NOW ONE OF SOLVENCY NOT LIQUIDITY
[...] (C/NF) Since last summer, the nature of the crisis in financial markets has changed. The problem is now not liquidity in the system but rather a question of systemic solvency, Bank of England (BOE) Governor Mervyn King said at a lunch meeting with Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt and Ambass [...]
2008-03-17 18:27:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EFIN UK
08LONDON801DEPSEC TREASURY DISCUSES IRAN SANCTIONS, U.S.
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a March 10 meeting with Conservative Party leader David Cameron, Deputy Secretary Kimmitt told him that the Iranian financial sector was feeling the effects of Western sanctions and the EU-3 remain unified on tightening the ability of Iranian banks to do business, although [...]
2008-03-18 13:01:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN IR IZ UK
08LONDON803DEPSEC TREASURY DISCUSSES FINANCIAL MARKETS, IRAN
[...] (C) Summary. Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt outlined on March 10 to Yvette Cooper, British Treasury Deputy Secretary-equivalent, USG efforts to stimulate the U.S. SIPDIS economy and address problems in the U.S. housing market. Cooper described efforts to revitalize the securitization [...]
2008-03-18 15:24:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ECON PGOV UK
08LONDON821IRAN: FCO CAUTIOUS ON PROSPECTS AND END GAME FOR
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Foreign and Commonwealth (FCO) contacts are hopeful but uncertain on how and when a UK appellate court will rule on the legality of the current HMG freeze of Mujaheddin-E-Khalq's (MEK) UK assets; in case of an unfavorable ruling, HMG will likely pursue the case in the UK's h [...]
2008-03-19 17:37:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNETTC IR PREL PTER UK
08LONDON822LONDON RESPONSE: PRC MOU ON TAIWAN'S PARTICIPATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-19 17:48:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON CM TW OECD UK
08LONDON823HMG AGREES WITH BURMA DEMARCHE ON REFERENDUM --
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel to Nick Alexander, head of Burma policy in the Foreign Office on March 19. Alexander said the UK is in complete agreement with points contained in reftel, underscoring HMG agreement that the Burmese "roadmap" as currently constituted is faulty. He shared UK talkin [...]
2008-03-19 18:01:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BM EU UN UK
08LONDON875UK/Climate Change: Businesses Concerned Over
[...] (SBU) Summary: At a March 19 DCM-hosted lunch for businessmen on climate change, guests expressed concern about climate change regimes raising regulatory risk and eroding UK and European international competitiveness. Guests want an international climate agreement to bring in China and India, [...]
2008-03-26 16:17:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG UK
08LONDON878BROWN MEETS MCCAIN: DISCUSS IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, AND
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Prime Minister Gordon Brown met Senators John McCain, Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham in London March 20. Brown used the meeting to present his big ideas about reforming the international financial institutions (IFIS) and increasing assistance to Africa as a means to preven [...]
2008-03-27 09:06:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER PHUM EFIN EAID UNSC IZ AF IS
08LONDON890TONY BLAIR AND JOHN MCCAIN TALK ABOUT
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Tony Blair used his meeting with Senators John McCain, Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham to underscore the "centrality" of Israel/Palestine in bringing stability to the Middle East. Blair said progress could be made by "building from the bottom up," including by developing [...]
2008-03-27 17:28:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PINR PTER IS RU UK
08LONDON897IMO RESPONSE TO FY 2008 PEDOPHILIA CERTIFICATION
[...] In response to reftel, Post requested a Pedophilia certification from the International Maritime Organization (IMO). On March 28, 2008 ESTOff received the following letter and a list of NGOs affiliated with the IMO from Rozalie Balkin, Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations Division [...]
2008-03-28 13:01:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDAORC PHUM SOCI UK
08LONDON92(SBU) SUDAN: UK SUPPORT FOR JOINT INTEGRATED
[...] (SBU) The UK considers the Joint Integrated Units (JIUs) vital to full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and the future of security in Sudan, according to Peter Lord, Senior Political Officer for North-South Issues in FCO's Sudan Unit. (Lord happens to be an American [...]
2008-01-10 16:17:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR PGOV PHUM SU UK
08LONDON929DAVID CAMERON TELLS JOHN MCCAIN TORIES WON’T BREAK
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Conservative party leader David Cameron told Senator John McCain the Tories won't break ranks with HMG on policies affecting British troops in battle. Cameron and Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague told McCain and Senators Joseph Lieberman and Lindsey Graham that Prime Minister [...]
2008-04-01 09:58:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR IZ AF IS IR PK UK
08LONDON930WILLIAM HAGUE SAYS “NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE” HAS
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague told the DCM the Tories are "more likely to win than lose" the next general election. High approval ratings in the polls allow the Conservative Leader David Cameron a "latitude to maneuver" that he does not possess when the polls are running ag [...]
2008-04-01 10:06:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR AF UK
08LONDON949EU/GERMANY/BLAIR MISSION/U.S. INFORMAL MEETING ON
[...] (C) Summary. The international community's efforts to support the Palestinian Authority through security sector reform, justice sector capacity building, and targeted project assistance need to be better integrated to achieve demonstrable results, representatives of the EU, Germany, the U.S. [...]
2008-04-02 13:14:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL MEPP KPAL UK
08LONDON954NATO MACEDONIA INVITATION: UK EFFORTS FAIL TO MOVE
[...] (C/NF) FCO Political Director Mark Lyall Grant told DCM that high-level UK intervention with Greece, including an appeal from FM Miliband to Greek FM Bakoyannis at the March 29 EU Gymnich, had failed to shift Athens off its hard-line position. Lyall Grant has been in close contact with Actin [...]
2008-04-02 15:29:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO MK GR UK
08LONDON957HMG VIEWS SITUATION IN PAKISTAN AS "BETTER THAN EXPECTED"; DESCRIBES NEW PM AS "SOLID"
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-02 15:40:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNAF PGOV PHUM PK PREL PTER UK
08LONDON959UK FINANCIAL SERVICES AUTHORITY ADMITS FAILINGS RE NORTHERN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: An internal report by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) on the handling of the now-nationalized Northern Rock (NR) details multiple failings including: high turnover of staff supervising NR; inadequate staff; and infrequent contact with NR management. The report recommends a [...]
2008-04-02 16:58:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN UK
08LONDON966HMG ON HOW TO MOVE THE EU ON BURMA, SUDAN SANCTIONS
[...] 4 (b,d) Â [...]
2008-04-03 14:19:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC EFIN ETTC EU BM UK
08LONDON981IMO: LONDON CONVENTION REPORT - 29TH
[...] SUMMARY: The International Maritime Organization (IMO) combined annual meetings for both the 1972 London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (the 'London Convention') and the 1996 Protocol to the London Convention (the 'London Protocol') took [...]
2008-04-04 13:54:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDPHSA SENV AORC ASEC UK
08LONDON989REQUEST FOR IDENTIFIER AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
[...] (S) London Iran Watcher (Poloff) delivered reftel demarche April 3 to Foreign and Commercial Office Iran Coordination Group Sanctions Implementation Officer Neil Kernohan. Poloff explained absolute need of U.S. financial institutions for identifier information for 1803 implementation to be e [...]
2008-04-07 14:43:00Embassy LondonSECRETEFIN KNNP PARM PREL MNUC PTER KTFN IR UK
08LONDON991UK ENERGY MINISTER WICKS TELLS U/S JEFFERY THAT
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: UK Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks, Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) told Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery that the UK was taking an assertive public and private position on climate change, but that energy [...]
2008-04-07 15:12:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON ENRG SENV KGHG UK
08LUANDA1006CRIME IN LUANDA: FROM BAD TO WORSE
[...] Summary: Brazen and violent crimes targeting Westerners have shaken Luanda's international community. Perpetually gridlocked streets make the targets easy pickings for gangs of robbers who have ratcheted up their aggressiveness in attacking vulnerable individuals stuck in traffic. Angolan pol [...]
2008-12-24 06:47:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC KCRM AO
08LUANDA1023DOS SANTOS'S CHINA VISIT DEMONSTRATES STRONG BILATERAL TIES
[...] SUMMARY: President Jose Eduardo dos Santos' December 16-19 visit to China aimed to strengthen formal ties between the two states, focusing on aviation, business, and technical cooperation. The ministerial delegation accompanying Dos Santos concluded accords in those areas, while Dos Santos per [...]
2008-12-31 13:40:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL AO
08LUANDA119 ANGOLA OPTIMISTIC THAT ITS ELECTIONS WON'T MIRROR KENYA'S
[...] (SBU) Summary: Angola is moving ahead toward September legislative elections. Catch-up voter registration is slated for April and May. CIPE, the inter-ministerial body carrying out the voter registration, will provide the National Election Commission (CNE) a map with proposed locations for a [...]
2008-02-11 19:12:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL AO
08LUANDA1282BRAZILIAN OIL WORKER KILLED IN CABINDA PROVINCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-02 06:12:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA131ANGOLA: PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR G/TIP FUNDS
[...] (U) Embassy Luanda received and reviewed one anti-trafficking project proposal in response to the Department's invitation for project submission. 2. (U) Project summary: a) Name of Applicant: International Organization for Migration (IOM) Angola b) Requested Funding: $350,000 c) Pro [...]
2008-02-12 16:44:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PBTS PHUM AO
08LUANDA172SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL FITZGERALD'S MARCH 4-5
[...] (SBU) My staff and I warmly welcome your visit to Luanda March 4-6. This visit provides an excellent opportunity to capitalize on the positive momentum established during the February 21-23 visit of the HSV Swift and follow up on some of the issues addressed by General Ward during his December [...]
2008-02-29 06:13:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA MAAR PREL AO
08LUANDA174VISIT OF ADMIRAL FITZGERALD: HOW BEST TO ADVANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Admiral Fitzgerald's visit to Angola comes three months after the successful visit of Africom Commander General Ward in December of 2007. The Angolans will expect Admiral Fitzgerald to deliver a similar message concerning the role of Africom in the U.S. military strategy in Afri [...]
2008-03-03 07:03:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA MAAR PREL AO
08LUANDA176ANGOLA: 2008 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although no detailed, concrete information and statistics on trafficking in Angola exists, government officials openly acknowledge that trafficking does occur. The extent of the problem is believed to be limited, and there is no evidence of organized trafficking activity. Despi [...]
2008-03-03 14:06:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASEC SMIG ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD
08LUANDA191CHIQUITA BECOMES LARGEST U.S. NON-OIL PARTNER IN
[...] Summary: U.S.-based banana giant, Chiquita Brands International, signed March 4 a 15-year agreement with Angolan partners to purchase an estimated 7.7 million boxes of bananas per year from a soon-to-be established 3000 hectare industrial banana plantation in Benguela province. The well-respec [...]
2008-03-07 06:15:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD PREL AO
08LUANDA194"THE ANGOLAN" -- ELECTORAL BULLETIN VOL. I
[...] (U) SUMMARY -------------- This is the first of a series of updates by Embassy Luanda as Angola prepares for parliamentary elections in September 2008. Key points include: -- The National Electoral Commission (CNE) holds managerial conference -- Election stakeholders call for political t [...]
2008-03-10 09:44:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA195CNE INVITES EU ELECTORAL OBSERVERS
[...] (SBU) On Monday, March 3rd the National Electoral Commission (CNE) formally invited the European Union to observe Angola parliamentary elections currently slated for September 5-6, 2008. In a March 6 conversation with the Ambassador, European Commission Head of Delegation Joao Gabriel Ferreir [...]
2008-03-10 09:57:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA204THE ROLE OF A CIVAIR REGULATOR - TAAG AND ANGOLA
[...] (U) This is an action message. See para 6. 2. (C) Summary: Contrary to recent press accounts, European Ambassadors in Luanda report the EU ban on TAAG flights to Europe will continue at least into November. A recent EU inspection of Angola's civil aviation system found some regulatory im [...]
2008-03-12 13:13:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON AO
08LUANDA206FISCAL TRANSPARENCY - ANGOLA INPUT
[...] The Government of Angola (GRA) makes its budget public on the Ministry of Finance website about two months after its approval by the National Assembly. Individual schedules break down expenditures by ministry, program and province, and public works projects. Budget documents have grown more [...]
2008-03-12 17:38:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN ECON PREL AO
08LUANDA219SCENESETTER FOR STAFFDEL PHALEN'S MARCH 18-22
[...] (U) Embassy Luanda warmly welcomes the visit of Professional Staff Members from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Michael Phalen and Neil Brown on March 18-22. This is the first visit by Congressional Professional Staff to Angola and provides an opportunity to discuss key bilateral is [...]
2008-03-13 17:51:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OREP ECON EPET EFIN AO
08LUANDA222EXPAT SECURITY THREATENED IN CABINDA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GRA remains tight-lipped about recent attacks against expatriates in Cabinda province, and the lack of a transparent investigation into the attacks makes it difficult to know if separatist politics or simple banditry are motivating the criminals. The increased danger posed t [...]
2008-03-14 15:07:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ASEC EINT EPET AO
08LUANDA23REINING IN POLICE EXCESSES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Angolan national police have responded quickly to a recent spate of high-profile police shootings of unarmed civilians. Officers involved were dismissed and face possible criminal charges, and two high-ranking commanders were transferred. Although this response will not be [...]
2008-01-10 07:21:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA231STAFFDEL RAISES TRANSPARENCY CONCERNS AND CREATES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During their March 18 ) 22 visit to Angola, Senate Professional Staff Members Michael Phelan and Neil Brown engaged senior Angolan leaders on transparency, the upcoming legislative elections, and the role of energy in our bilateral relationship. The Angolan interlocutors were [...]
2008-03-26 06:32:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV OREP ECON OPET EAID AO
08LUANDA233ANGOLA SITUATION REPORT NUMBER 01 - FLOOD EMERGENCY ALERT
[...] SUMMARY: Heavy rains that began in late January following an extended drought period have triggered severe flooding in Southern Angola. In Cunene province on the Namibian border, 52,281 people have been affected, 26,915 of them displaced. Six deaths have been reported, with an unknown number [...]
2008-03-26 07:12:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EAGR MI
08LUANDA248UN HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE ORDERED TO CLOSE
[...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 9. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Post recently learned that on March 4th, 2008, the GRA sent a note verbale to the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) - Geneva, declaring that Angola will not sign an MOU formalizing the status of th [...]
2008-03-28 13:26:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA249VIGNETTES FROM STAFFDEL PHELAN'S MEETINGS IN LUANDA
[...] (C) Summary: StaffDel Phelan's March 18-22 visit to Angola provided an opportunity to engage with a wide range of Angolan leaders on issues of importance to our bilateral relationship. Although the overall theme of the visit focused on investment climate, transparency, and Angola's request for [...]
2008-03-31 09:35:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV EFIN AO
08LUANDA253GOVERNMENT BUILDING COLLAPSES, KILLING AT LEAST 24
[...] (U) The six-story building housing the National Department of Criminal Investigation (DNIC) collapsed in the early morning of March 29, 2007. According to the Ministry of Interior, 181 people - 36 employees and 145 detainees - were inside the building at the time of the collapse. Most of the [...]
2008-03-31 17:21:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA254ANGOLA CONCERNED ABOUT POTENTIAL FOR VIOLENCE IN
[...] (C) Summary: In response to March 31 demarche (reftel),Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Chicoti told Ambassador Mozena he would pass U.S. concerns over the potential for violence in Zimbabwe directly to President Dos Santos. He added that Angola shares these concerns, especially if Mov [...]
2008-03-31 18:11:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALAO PREL ZI
08LUANDA255GRA ASSERTS UNHRO CLOSURE DOESN'T DIMINISH HUMAN
[...] (SBU) During a March 31 meeting with Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Jorge Chicoti, Ambassador Mozena expressed disappointment over the GRA's decision to close the Human Rights Office (HRO) in Angola (reftel) . The Ambassador said that while the decision to close the office was Angola's to [...]
2008-03-31 18:27:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV AO
08LUANDA258ENGAGING ANGOLA ON DESTROYING EXPIRED MUNITIONS
[...] (C) Summary: GRA concerns at the highest level over the 2007 arms depot explosion in Maputo offer an opportunity to expand U.S. cooperation with Angola on destruction and/or toward improved physical security and stockpile management of the country's vast stocks of expired munitions. Although [...]
2008-04-01 16:58:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALMASS PGOV PREL PTER MARR PARM AO
08LUANDA263ANGOLA CONCERNED DELAY IN ZIMBABWE VOTE RESULTS
[...] (C) Foreign Relations Vice Minister Jorge Chicoti called Ambassador Mozena April 2 to convey Angola's "worry" over the continued delay in release of the results of Zimbabwe's presidential election. Chicoti said the GRA is internally grappling at the highest levels with how to handle the situa [...]
2008-04-02 18:36:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPREL AO ZI
08LUANDA264FINDING A WAY TO CONTINUE UN HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMS
[...] (U) This is an action message - see paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Contrary to what Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Jorge Chicoti told us on March 31 (ref A),the GRA (via a note verbale dated April 1) ordered the Human Rights Office in Angola (HROA) to close out all programs and cease ope [...]
2008-04-02 19:08:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA285ANGOLA CONCERNED ABOUT DELAY OF ZIM ELECTORAL
[...] (SBU) The DCM raised USG concerns over the delay in releasing the official results of Zimbabwe's presidential election during an April 9 meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Relations Director for American Affairs, Balbina Da Silva. The DCM also expressed USG hopes that violence can be avoide [...]
2008-04-09 16:14:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AO ZI
08LUANDA287CIVAIR - PROGRESS BEING MADE, BUT A LONG WAY YET
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 9 2. (SBU) Summary: During an April 7 call on Angola's National Institute for Civil Aviation (INAVIC),Ambassador Mozena and INAVIC Director Antonio Pombal agreed our countries share the same goal: safe and secure aviation in Angola, event [...]
2008-04-09 16:20:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON AO
08LUANDA296PITCHING ANGOLA ON THE SADC SUMMIT
[...] (SBU) During an April 11 telephone call to Foreign Minister Joao Miranda, Ambassador Mozena expressed U.S. support for the SADC initiative in regard to the Zimbabwe situation, which President Dos Santos, as Chair of the SADC Organ for Politics, Defense, and Security, helped President Mwanawass [...]
2008-04-11 13:53:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AO ZI
08LUANDA30CHINESE AMBASSADOR REITERATES DESIRE TO COOPERATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. During a recent courtesy call by Ambassador Mozena, China's Ambassador to Angola, Zhang Beisan, said the end of Angola's civil war provided opportunities for both China and the U.S. to participate in rebuilding the nation. Recalling discussions last year with Ambassador Efir [...]
2008-01-11 14:47:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID AO CH
08LUANDA300ANGOLA - OPIC FUND NEEDED, BUT INVESTMENT CLIMATE IS DIFFICULT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although awash in cash from its extractive industries, Angola's private sector is severely stunted by a lack of human capacity and a business climate that ranks among the worst in the world due to bureaucratic and legal inefficiencies. Nevertheless, a high rate of return is att [...]
2008-04-15 07:30:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON AO
08LUANDA317REAPING THE BENEFITS OF PEACE IN KWANZA SUL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Devastated during Angola's 27-year civil war, the once embattled province of Kwanza Sul is on the mend. Ongoing U.S.-funded demining programs are key to the government's success in reopening primary and secondary roads and agricultural land. U.S. assistance in partnership with Ch [...]
2008-04-21 17:01:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ECON EAID KHDP AO
08LUANDA319REQUEST FOR STOCKPILE SECURITY TRAINING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an April 18 meeting, the Angolan National Police requested that the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) conduct stockpile security and management training in Luanda in late May 2008. Despite the probable time pressures caused by short notice, post stands ready to assist D [...]
2008-04-22 17:06:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL MASS PTER MARR PARM KHDP AO
08LUANDA336PREPARATIONS FOR MAY 28-31 ECONOMIC OUTREACH
[...] Post warmly welcomes the May 28-31 interagency visit of senior U.S. officials to Angola, including Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) Jovita Carranza, Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation John Simon (to be confirmed),and AF Deput [...]
2008-04-30 05:52:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON PREL PGOV AO
08LUANDA338ALL QUIET ON ZIMBABWE AS MOMENTUM SHIFTS TO MUGABE
[...] (U) One week after the visit of A/S Frazer and NSC Senior Director Bobby Pittman to Angola to consult with President Dos Santos (ref A) on the issue of Zimbabwe, the GRA has yet to make a public statement on the crisis. News reports in the state run press have been minimalist, focused on the [...]
2008-05-02 12:00:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV AO ZI
08LUANDA352PORTUGAL TO ENGAGE ANGOLA ON POSSIBLE OBSERVER
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 6, Ambassador Mozena queried Portuguese Ambassador Francisco Telles on using the Community of Democracies (CD) to encourage and support Angola's emerging democracy. Acknowledging that Portugal's Chairmanship of the CD offers an excellent opportunity to engage Angola on str [...]
2008-05-07 17:21:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AO
08LUANDA368ENGAGING ANGOLA TO GET SERIOUS ON PROTECTING HUMAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the Ambassador's May 7 call on Minister of the Interior, General Roberto Leal Monteiro "Ngongo," the Minister acknowledged Angola's human rights challenges and the need for the GRA to tell more effectively how it intends to tackle these problems. He accepted that the imp [...]
2008-05-08 19:03:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA386ANGOLA RENEWS REQUEST FOR U.S. TREASURY TECHNICAL
[...] Key leaders of Angola's economic team, including the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Industry, the National Treasury Director, and the Governor and Vice Governor of the Central Bank have each recently made direct appeals to the Ambassador for the placement of a U.S. Department of the Trea [...]
2008-05-16 10:44:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID ECON PREL AO
08LUANDA411ASSEMBLY PASSES ELECTORAL LAW AMENDMENTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On May 20, 2008 the National Assembly passed a series of amendments to the electoral and registration laws, most of which affect various timelines in the registration and electoral process. Opposition parties strongly opposed the changes, particularly the extension of deadlines [...]
2008-05-27 13:18:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA432DOS SANTOS SET TO CALL ELECTIONS FOR SEPTEMBER 5
[...] (U) SUMMARY: It appears President Dos Santos will officially call on June 4 for legislative elections to be held on Friday, September 5. In his address to open the June 3 Council of the Republic meeting, Dos Santos reported that the National Election Commission (CNE) had assured him condition [...]
2008-06-03 17:18:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA434LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS CONVOKED FOR SEPTEMBER 5
[...] (U) On June 4th presidential decree, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos formally convoked legislative elections for September 5, 2008. The decree has not been formally published, but the signing of the decree was announced via press communique. Informal translation follows: The Admin [...]
2008-06-04 16:33:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA435SCENESETTER FOR DAS STEPHEN GANYARD'S VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) the Embassy Angola team warmly welcomes your June 14 - 17 visit to Angola. This visit provides an excellent opportunity to witness firsthand the devastating effects of landmine and UXO contamination in Angola and explore the ways in which USG support for humanitarian demining and weapons [...]
2008-06-05 13:35:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID MCAP KHDP AO
08LUANDA45PORTUGUESE AMBASSADOR REPLAYS DOS SANTOS' NEGATIVE
[...] (C) During a January 14 meeting, Portuguese Ambassador to Angola Francisco Telles told Ambassador Mozena that President Dos Santos raised AFRICOM in the context of a discussion on Peace Keeping Operations (PKO) with Portugal's Minister of Defense, Nuno Teixeira during the latter's visit to Ango [...]
2008-01-16 08:12:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR AO
08LUANDA466CIVIL SOCIETY CRITICIZES GRA'S ZIMBABWE DIPLOMACY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Representatives of Angolan civil society, intelligentsia, and political parties condemned the GRA's failure to take a strong public stance against human rights violations in Zimbabwe during a June 10th conference on "Democracy and the Respect for Human Rights in Zimbabwe." Conf [...]
2008-06-11 09:14:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA471"THE ANGOLAN" ELECTORAL NEWS BULLETIN, VOL. II
[...] (U) In This Issue: -- Reaction to Convocation of Election -- In-Fighting Threatens PRS and FNLA Campaigns -- UNITA Concerned by Acts of Political Intolerance -- EU Plans Electoral Observation Mission --------------------------------------------- -- Stakeholders React to Convocation of [...]
2008-06-11 16:11:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA510POSSIBLE HU JINTAO VISIT TO LUANDA AT THE END OF
[...] (SBU) The Chinese Embassy in Angola has begun preparing for a high level visit to Luanda in late June and early July, possibly by President Hu Jintao, according to an employee of a private Chinese company contracted to make preparations for the upcoming visit. Post has verified that Luanda's [...]
2008-06-25 17:37:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELTN EMIN ETRD AO CH
08LUANDA531DEMARCHE DELIVERED - MAJOR UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 17:07:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC ECON ETRD WTRO AO
08LUANDA535MPLA, UNITA OPT FOR FRESH FACES IN SELECTING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Based on the preponderance of new faces on candidate lists submitted by the ruling MPLA and main opposition party UNITA, National Assembly's membership will change radically following the September 5 legislative election. In addition, the political field narrowed dramatically w [...]
2008-07-12 03:32:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA536 CHINA's ENGAGEMENT IN ANGOLA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-13 07:34:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECPS EFIN PREL SENV AO CM
08LUANDA537SCENESETTER FOR U/S REUBEN JEFFERY'S VISIT TO ANGOLA
[...] (U) My staff and I warmly welcome your July 21-22 visit to Angola. Your visit, the highest level USG visit to Angola since Secretary Powell's four-hour stop in September 2002, manifests what the Angolan government most wants from America: respect. I hope your visit presages more high level [...]
2008-07-14 11:59:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OVIP JEFFERY REUBEN ECON PGOV EAID AO
08LUANDA555A PREVIEW OF SEPTEMBER'S LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The September 5, 2008 legislative election will be Angola's first in 16 years and only the second in its history. Although the country's political landscape is difficult to read, an analysis of Angola's electoral system, the electoral playing field, and the results of the 1992 el [...]
2008-07-21 09:45:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA556AS ELECTIONS APPROACH... WILL ANGOLA BE READY?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: With Angola's legislative elections (the first in 16 years) only 45 days away, the National Election Commission (CNE) has made impressive progress in making arrangements for the polls, but daunting challenges remain. Challenges include timelines required to print and distribute t [...]
2008-07-21 13:07:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA562AN YUE JIANG - ANOTHER TAKE ON THE FATE OF CHINESE
[...] (C ) Although we do not yet know definitively whether or not the Angolans off-loaded in April Zimbabwe-bound arms and ammunition from the Chinese vessel An Yue Jiang, Embassy has received additional unconfirmed information that the Angolans, true to their word, did not allow the materiel desti [...]
2008-07-23 10:24:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD PHSA CH ZI AO
08LUANDA563EU OBSERVATION MISSION AT RISK
[...] (C) The local EU delegation has expressed growing concerns about prospects for a successful EU observation mission for the September 5 legislative elections. According to local EU sources, both the EU and GRA are holding fast to their respective positions on a Memorandum of Understanding - the [...]
2008-07-23 17:45:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA56414 PARTIES APPROVED TO RUN IN LEGISLATIVE RACE
[...] (U) On July 23, Angola's Constitutional Court authorized ten political parties and four coalitions to run in the September 5 legislative elections. The final list of participating entities contains few surprises; nine of the ten parties are currently represented in Parliament. The four coali [...]
2008-07-24 19:11:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA566ANGOLA REMAINS "QUIETLY" ENGAGED ON ZIMBABWE
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Mozena conveyed reftel demarche on July 25 to Carlos Fonseca, Diplomatic Advisor to President Dos Santos, underscoring that the will of the Zimbabwe people, as expressed during the March 29 election, must be respected as efforts continue to resolve the Zimbabwe crisis and that [...]
2008-07-25 18:39:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SADC ZI BC AO
08LUANDA567EU AGREES TO SEND OBSERVATION MISSION SANS MOU
[...] (SBU) The EU has agreed to send an observation mission for the September 5 legislative elections without a signed MOU (reftels). In a July 25 phone call with the Ambassador, the European Commission Head of Administration Luis Martinez said that the EU headquarters in Brussels has stated in a w [...]
2008-07-25 18:39:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA568EU AGREES TO SEND OBSERVATION MISSION SANS MOU
[...] (SBU) The EU has agreed to send an observation mission for the September 5 legislative elections without a signed MOU (reftels). In a July 25 phone call with the Ambassador, the European Commission Head of Administration Luis Martinez said that the EU headquarters in Brussels has stated in a w [...]
2008-07-25 18:39:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA574U/S JEFFERY VISIT SETS THE STAGE FOR DEEPER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Angola rolled out the red carpet to receive Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agriculture Affairs Reuben Jeffery III during his July 21-22 visit to Luanda. In meetings with key players in Angola's economic equation (government, international oil companies, ba [...]
2008-07-28 18:27:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECIN ECON EFIN EINV EPET ETRD EAID
08LUANDA585"THE ANGOLAN" ELECTORAL NEWS BULLETIN, VOL. III
[...] (U) In This Issue: -- Opposition Victory Seen in Major MPLA Reversal -- And there were 14: Quick Decisions made on Party Appeals -- Constitutional Court Shakes up the Electoral Process -- Media Reaction: Local Papers Mock Small Parties' "Disorder" Opposition Victory Seen in Major [...]
2008-07-30 14:07:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA592SADC TROIKA MEETING POSTPONED INDEFINITELY
[...] (SBU) The SADC Troika meeting scheduled for Friday, August 4th has been postponed indefinitely, according to a July 31 public statement issued by President dos Santos' Office of Administrative Support. This statement confirms information given to the Ambassador by the South African Ambassador [...]
2008-07-31 14:28:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA593GRA HOPES FOR NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT IN PRETORIA TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 4th meeting with Ambassador Mozena, Angolan Foreign Minister Joao Miranda expressed hope that the ongoing negotiations between Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF and opposition MDC parties would result in a power-sharing agreement. Absent such an agreement, Zimbabwe could ex [...]
2008-08-04 18:27:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ZI AO
08LUANDA595PRESIDENT'S SPEECH KICKS OFF OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN
[...] (U) In a nationally-broadcast speech to mark the launch of the official 30-day campaign period for the September 5 legislative elections, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos lauded how the "achievement of peace" has allowed the country to consolidate its political institutions, and pledg [...]
2008-08-05 15:03:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA596ANGOLA'S CURRENT AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES TO BE THE
[...] (SBU) The Angolan private weekly newspaper, Angolense, published an article on page 35 entitled, "Foresight into the MPLA's Next Government." The article posits that Angola's current Ambassador to the United States, Josefina Pitra Diakite, is a serious contender to be Foreign Minister in the [...]
2008-08-05 15:08:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOIIP PGOV AO
08LUANDA598FOREIGN MINISTER CONCEDES "ERRORS" IN EXPELLING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a friendly, hour-long meeting with Ambassador Mozena on August 4th, Angolan Foreign Minister Joao Miranda highlighted the GRA's desire for deeper economic ties with the U.S., admitted "errors" in the conduct of expulsions of illegal Congolese immigrants, and downplayed a r [...]
2008-08-05 19:45:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA615CIVIL SOCIETY ANNOUNCES ELECTION OBSERVATION PLAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a July 25 press conference, the NGO Plataforma Eleitoral (Electoral Platform) announced its plan for civil observation of the September 5 legislative elections. The Plataforma plans to deploy 2,623 civil society observers on election day, providing electoral observation in a [...]
2008-08-08 15:30:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA616"THE ANGOLAN" ELECTORAL NEWS BULLETIN, VOL. IV
[...] (SBU) In This Issue: - Media Space Tightens with Halt to Radio Call-In Shows - MPLA and UNITA Shine, Others Stumble at Starting Gate - The Trouble with Campaign Financing - Extended School Closure During Electoral Period Media Space Tightens with Halt to Radio Call-In Shows ------ [...]
2008-08-08 15:35:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA666"THE ANGOLAN" ELECTORAL NEWS BULLETIN, VOL VI
[...] (U) In This Issue: - UNITA President Give Police Generally High Marks - All Hands on Deck: MPLA and UNITA Recall Staff - Catholic Church Scolds UNITA-Supporting Priest - Beauty Queen Relinquishes Crown to Support the FpD - High-Tech System Helps Voters Identify Polling Stations [...]
2008-08-22 15:59:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA687"THE ANGOLAN" ELECTORAL NEWS BULLETIN, VOL VII
[...] (U) In This Issue: - UNITA Accuses MPLA of Political Violence and Intimidation - Dos Santos Notes MPLA's Past Failures - An Odd Twist to the MPLA Campaign - Small Parties Run Out of Steam - Walking the tightrope... UNITA Accuses MPLA of Political Violence ----------------- [...]
2008-08-29 19:19:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA691THE NITTY GRITTY: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE ANGOLAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Angola's legislative elections on September 5 represent the culmination of a massive logistical undertaking. The process has been sophisticated, imperfect, impressive, and chaotic. Ultimately, however, we assess that the electoral process will be viewed as a credible vehicle to [...]
2008-09-03 17:27:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA692"THE ANGOLAN" ELECTORAL NEWS BULLETIN, VOL VIII
[...] (C) In This Issue: - Parties Wrap Up Campaign Period - UNITA Predicts Holding 3 Seats in Huambo - Credentialing Problems for Observers and Monitors - Insufficient Civic Education Creates Confusion in Benguela - Possible SINFO Engagement in Electoral Process - Villagers Eject [...]
2008-09-03 17:54:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA693ELECTION EVE PREDICTIONS: PEACEFUL, CREDIBLE,
[...] (SBU) Angola is fast approaching a pivotal moment in its much troubled history. Within hours, polling booths across Angola will open for the first time in 16 years and only the second time in the history of the nation. At 7:00 AM on Friday, September 5, about 12,400 voting stations are slate [...]
2008-09-04 17:43:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA694"THE ANGOLAN" ELECTORAL NEWS BULLETIN, VOL IV
[...] (C) In This Issue: - Logistics, Logistics, Logistics... - MPLA Predicts Big Victory - UNITA's Forecast for Bie - PADEPA Rally Drowned Out by MPLA - FpD, EU Observation Head Grounded by President dos Santos - Rejected Poll Workers Angry, Confused - Spot Report from Uige: [...]
2008-09-04 20:29:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA704MPLA SUSTAINS COMMANDING LEAD IN VOTE TALLY AS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ruling MPLA has maintained its overwhelming lead as vote counting continues, with over 81 percent of the vote as counting nears completion. Eleven of the 13 opposition parties and coalitions have conceded defeat. International observation missions have universally praised [...]
2008-09-10 12:48:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AO
08LUANDA715EMBASSY CONGRATULATES ANGOLA ON PEACEFUL, ALBEIT FLAWED,
[...] (U) The Ambassador on September 9 released a statement on the September 5-6 legislative elections, as observed by the U.S. Embassy Election Observation Team. The statement congratulated the Angolan people for their peaceful participation in the election, pointed out the ruling party's advantag [...]
2008-09-10 19:06:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AO
08LUANDA717ANGOLA: UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD COMMITTEE 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-12 13:11:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA723OFFICAL RESULT FOR 17 PROVINCES IN - LUANDA DELAYED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The National Electoral Commission (CNE) released final results for 17 of Angola's 18 provinces on September 14; Luanda's results were withheld due to a challenge from UNITA. The MPLA won all of the seventeen provinces, taking over 80 percent of the vote in 12 of them. UNITA has [...]
2008-09-16 13:08:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA732FINAL RESULTS OF ANGOLA'S LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The ruling MPLA's sweeping victory of 81.6 percent of the voters in the September 5-6 legislative elections was finalized with the announcement of the final results by the National Electoral Commission. The MPLA now holds 191 out of 220 seat in Parliament; UNITA's total fell to 1 [...]
2008-09-18 18:13:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA734SAMAKUVA DISCUSSES UNITA'S DEFEAT AND NEXT STEPS
[...] (C) Summary: During a September 25 call on the Ambassador, UNITA President Isaias Samakuva accepted the results of Angola's September 5 parliamentary elections, despite the "serious irregularities" that marred them, for the "good of the country." The new parliament's first order of business, [...]
2008-09-22 18:15:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA748OPPOSITION PARTIES PROTEST PARLIAMENTARY SEAT ALLOCATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Opposition party Front for Democracy (FpD) filed a legal appeal on September 18, contesting the constitutionality of the method used by the National Electoral Commission (CNE) to allocate parliamentary seats among the winners of the September 5-6 legislative contest. The complai [...]
2008-09-23 16:43:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL AO
08LUANDA774Peace Pays Rich Dividends
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Six years after the end of decades of civil war, the provinces of Huila and Namibe are undergoing a renaissance, with huge public investments in roads, railroads, schools, clinics, administrative buildings, telecommunications and potable water. Despite these efforts and significa [...]
2008-10-02 15:32:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON AO
08LUANDA81NEW DETAILS IN CABINDA SHOOTING POINT TO POLITICAL
[...] SUMMARY: (C) On January 18, Roberto Ferreira, Chevron's Superintendent of Security in Cabinda (protect),relayed to RSO and PolOff additional information on the December 26 shooting death of a Brazilian national in Cabinda Province (reftel). His report (unconfirmed) paints a picture of the de [...]
2008-01-28 16:26:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ASEC KSAC AO
08LUANDA810G.E. IS TRYING TO SELL LOCOMOTIVES TO ANGOLA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In March, 2006, GE International submitted the first of three proposals to the Government of Angola for the complete rehabilitation of the existent fleet of 33 locomotives for Angola,s three railroads. Despite numerous sales calls, a complete inspection of the country,s locomotiv [...]
2008-10-09 17:17:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV AO
08LUANDA811CHANGES AT THE FOREIGN MINISTRY MAY OPEN NEW DOORS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Angola's new foreign minister, Assuncao Afonso dos Anjos, is a well-known political figure with deep ties to President Dos Santos. He replaces Joao Miranda, who was rumored to be tired of the extensive travel the job requires and potentially ill. Vice-Minister Georges Chikoti ma [...]
2008-10-09 18:54:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AO
08LUANDA823USITC STUDY ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: ANGOLA OVERVIEW
[...] (U) Embassy Luanda is pleased to provide the following overview of Angola's infrastructure conditions and export competitiveness for the USITC. In the six years since Angola emerged from civil war, the government has embarked on huge public investment projects to revitalize the country. Inves [...]
2008-10-17 12:34:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD OTRA AO
08LUANDA83ELECTION CHIEF OPTIMISTIC ABOUT '08 ELECTIONS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: During a January 23 call by Ambassador Mozena, National Electoral Commission (CNE) President Antonio Caetano de Sousa declared he was "optimistic" and "quite sure" the CNE would successfully carry out legislative elections in September 2008 in the time frame laid out by President [...]
2008-01-29 10:31:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM AO
08LUANDA854IT'S NOT JUST LUANDA: DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROVINCES
[...] Summary. A recent series of Embassy visits to the interior of Angola show that the reconstruction and growth so prominent in the capital are evident in other parts of the country as well. The cities of Lobito and Benguela are experiencing significant building booms, with an emphasis on major [...]
2008-10-29 16:34:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO PHUM AO
08LUANDA87DEFENSE MINISTER EXUDES CHARM, BUT CAN HE DELIVER?
[...] (C) Summary: In contrast to recent encounters with Embassy officials, Defense Minister Kundi Paihama was warm and ebullient during a January 24 courtesy call by Ambassador Mozena. Echoing a theme heard during Mozena's other calls on senior GRA and MPLA leaders (reftels),Paihama agreed that [...]
2008-01-29 18:27:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALMOPS MARR PREL AO
08LUANDA907FINANCE MINISTER REQUESTS U.S DEPARTMENT OF
[...] Summary: Angola's new Finance Minister made a strong push for the placement of a U.S. Treasury Resident Advisor in Luanda. The Minister told the Ambassador the GRA requires urgent technical assistance with tax reform, budgeting, and debt management. End Summary. 2. During a November 6 cal [...]
2008-11-14 11:39:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID ECON AO
08LUANDA923CENTRAL BANK ON U.S. TREASURY ADVISOR
[...] In a November 14 meeting with DCM, National Bank of Angola Vice Governor Rui Miguens de Oliveira strongly supported the possibility of US Treasury assistance to the GRA. Such assistance, he said, was "something that could really help, from our perspective." He noted the Finance Minister wou [...]
2008-11-19 17:07:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID ECON AO
08LUANDA98LEADER OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SAYS GOVERNMENT "NEEDS
[...] (C) Summary: Acknowledging that the National Assembly has yet to grow fully into its constitutional role as the primary originating body for legislation, its President, Roberto de Almeida, nevertheless credits the National Assembly for creating a forum that has consolidated peace and reconcili [...]
2008-01-31 13:15:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AO
08LUSAKA1004ZAMBIA SEPTEMBER 2008 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP
[...] SUMMARY -- Inflation Continues to Rise -- Money Markets Face Challenges -- Zambian Airways Liable for Unpaid Fees -- GRZ Defers Payment Of Windfall Mining Tax -- Zambia-Zimbabwe Power Interconnector Disconnected -- International Gateway License Fee Goes Up Inflation Continues to Rise 2 [...]
2008-10-10 05:47:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EMIN ENRG EINV ECON ZA
08LUSAKA1023ZAMBIAN ELECTIONS: A RELATIVELY LEVEL, BUT ROCKY,
[...] (C) Summary: With a scant two weeks before the October 30 elections, political parties, civil society, the media, and government are turning up the volume for the scramble toward the finish line. Accusations of "vote-buying" abound, albeit with minimal evidence to support claims that what has [...]
2008-10-20 14:44:00Embassy LusakaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL KDEM ZA
08LUSAKA1028PATRIOTIC FRONT OFFICIAL ALLEGES ELECTORAL
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: The opposition Patriotic Front (PF) has serious concerns about the Electoral Commission of Zambia's (ECZ) handling of the October 30 presidential by-election, according to Secretary General Edward Mumbi. Mumbi claims the ballot printing operation was open to fraud, no [...]
2008-10-22 12:14:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA1030EMBASSY LUSAKA ELECTION OBSERVATION PLAN
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. A recent poll indicates the October 30 presidential race could produce extremely tight results between Acting President Rupiah Banda and Patriotic Front leader Michael Sata. Had the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) fulfilled its legal requirement to conduct cont [...]
2008-10-23 08:27:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM ZA
08LUSAKA1033ZAMBIAN PRESIDENTIAL RACE TIGHTENS
[...] (SBU) Summary. New polling data suggest that opposition leader Michael Sata has nudged ahead in the Zambian presidential race. The poll, however, is based on a relatively small sample size that may not adequately capture the opinions of Zambia's rural population. The poll reinforces other ane [...]
2008-10-23 13:49:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA1044POST-ELECTION ZAMBIA: A WORLD OF UNCERTAINTY
[...] (SBU) Summary. As Zambians head to the polls on October 30, they and we are faced with many uncertainties, not only over who will be the next President of Zambia, but also what the transition will look like and how the new President will rule. In true Zambian style, however, the two leading [...]
2008-10-28 15:50:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA1049Strong Sata Support in Northern Province
[...] Summary. Conversations with local residents and party reps suggest that the Patriotic Front (PF) party is set for a strong showing in Northern Province. Low voter turnout, however, could limit the party's support, as even local party reps do not expect more than 50 percent of eligible voters [...]
2008-10-29 15:34:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA1052ZAMBIA ELECTION DAY REPORT #1: QUIET START, LOW
[...] As of noon local time, press reports and reporting from U.S. Embassy teams in the field indicate that polling stations around Zambia opened on time and in an orderly fashion. Observers teams have reported that the lines of voters waiting for polling stations to open quickly dissipated, and m [...]
2008-10-30 11:08:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA1053ZAMBIA ELECTION DAY REPORT #2: STILL CALM AND SLOW
[...] (U) Voters continue to trickle in to polling stations throughout the afternoon, leading up to closing time at 6:00 pm. Embassy observer teams report calm and orderly voting, with issues being taken care of according to electoral rules and regulations. While there will probably be a surge of [...]
2008-10-30 14:23:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA1054ZAMBIA ELECTION DAY REPORT #3: AN UNREMARKABLE
[...] (U) Summary: Zambia's October 30 elections were unremarkable -- peaceful, orderly, and without violence. Turnout was low; estimates range from 50 percent to less than 25 percent. Low turnout tends to favor incumbents, and post believes Acting President Banda should benefit. The Electoral [...]
2008-10-31 04:55:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA1057ELECTION RESULTS FLOW IN; SATA WITH EARLY LEAD BUT
[...] With a little under a third of Zambia's 150 constituencies reporting, opposition Patriotic Front candidate Michael Sata has the lead with over 360,000 votes to ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) candidate Rupiah Banda's 241,000. The results thus far are not unexpected and mimic t [...]
2008-10-31 13:10:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA1065ZAMBIAN ELECTION: LITTLE GROUNDS FOR PROTEST, BUT
[...] (C) Summary: The Patriotic Front (PF) is planning to file a petition calling for a partial recount based on PF estimates of how it should have performed in certain areas and complains vaguely of other malfeasance for which it has little to no proof. While the October 30 presidential by-elect [...]
2008-11-04 09:14:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ZA
08LUSAKA1076BANDA AND MMD WEAKENED, BUT STILL IN CHARGE
[...] (C) Summary: Newly elected Zambian President Rupiah Banda won the October 30 presidential by-election by a small margin -- just 35,000 of 1.8 million votes cast, or less than two percent. His vote totals in several provinces showed sharp declines from those received by his ruling Movement for [...]
2008-11-05 10:45:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ZA
08LUSAKA1089ZAMBIA EAGER FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE COMPACT
[...] (U) Zambian Secretary to the Treasury C. Evans Chibiliti welcomed improvement on Zambia's FY09 Millennium Challenge Corporation Scorecard November 6 and committed the Government of Zambia (GRZ) to working "hard to bring this about" quickly. DCM delivered the scorecard, congratulating Zambia on [...]
2008-11-07 05:47:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL ZA
08LUSAKA1094PROSPECTS FOR SATA'S ELECTION PETITION
[...] (C) Summary. Soured at losing the presidential race, Patriotic Front (PF) leader Michael Sata intends to petition the election results, calling for recounts in as many as 80 constituencies. He has delayed submitting his petition as he awaits the results of the Electoral Commission's verificat [...]
2008-11-10 13:52:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA1109UNREST ON COPPERBELT FOLLOWING CATHOLIC PRIEST'S
[...] (SBU) Summary. The arrest of a prominent radio broadcaster following a call-in show featuring callers who encouraged any citizens dissatisfied with the October 30 elections to participate in a Patriotic Front-sponsored rally provided the spark that young PF cadres were previously lacking. Ri [...]
2008-11-14 09:45:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV ZA
08LUSAKA1112COMESA POSTPONES DECEMBER SUMMIT
[...] COMESA Assistant Secretary General for Programmes Stephen Karangizi confirmed November 14 that the December summit planned for Victoria Falls had been postponed, due to the lack of progress forming a Zimbabwean national unity government per the September agreement between ZANU-PF and MDC. Kara [...]
2008-11-17 05:54:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM ZA
08LUSAKA1135POLITICAL CANNIBALISM IN ZAMBIA'S RULING PARTY
[...] (C) Summary: Members of President Banda's ruling Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) party recognize that the narrow victory with which they won the recent presidential by-election has exposed the soft underbelly of Zambia's dominant party since 1991. While claiming to want to rebuild a [...]
2008-11-26 15:03:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA1154ZAMBIA: RWANDA IS THE KEY TO RESOLVING THE DRC
[...] (C) Zambian Foreign Minister Pande told Ambassador December 9 that Rwanda was a critical part of resolving the DRC crisis in the Kivus. Although Rwanda has denied involvement, it is clear, according to Pande, that Rwanda has an important role in the crisis and that role should be further expl [...]
2008-12-10 10:05:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ZA CG
08LUSAKA1163ZAMBIA NOVEMBER 2008 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP
[...] SUMMARY -- Inflation Remains High -- Local Currency Continues To Depreciate -- Farmers Union Acquires Stake in Financial Sector -- ZESCO To Disconnect Power Supply To Lumwana Mine -- Zambia Prepares to Launch Small Claims Court -- Civil Servants To Receive Subsidized Fertilizers Inflation [...]
2008-12-10 14:13:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EMIN ENRG EINV ECON ZA
08LUSAKA1167ZAMBIA SUPPORTS UN PKO IN SOMALIA; WILL REACH OUT,
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-12 06:39:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO ZA SO
08LUSAKA1173ZAMBIA: ECONOMIC WOES IN 2009
[...] (C) Summary. Zambia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by just under six percent in 2008, according to the Ministry of Finance. Although the Zambian Government (GRZ) forecasts five percent growth in 2009, its economic prospects are likely to be challenged by external shocks and unhelpful p [...]
2008-12-17 11:11:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALECON EAGR EFIN EINV EMIN ZA
08LUSAKA1178ZAMBIAN PRESSURE ON MAURITANIAN JUNTA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-18 11:11:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ZA
08LUSAKA1181ZAMBIAN INTEREST IN GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-18 13:07:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR ETRD TBIO EAID PGOV
08LUSAKA1183ZIMBABWE: BANDA SAYS PATIENCE AND QUIET PRESSURE
[...] (C) Summary: Zambian President Banda rejected the Ambassador's suggestion he speak out on the egregious situation in Zimbabwe; Banda prefers to pursue quiet, deferential regional diplomacy that emphasizes patience. He believes change is coming, but that an exhausted Mugabe will choose to le [...]
2008-12-19 06:01:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ZA ZU ZI
08LUSAKA1184ZAMBIA ENTHUSIASTICALLY EMBRACES MCA COMPACT
[...] (SBU) In a December 18 meeting, the Ambassador briefed President Rupiah Banda on Zambia's newly announced Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) compact eligibility. The Ambassador stressed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) board had selected Zambia because of its commitment to gov [...]
2008-12-19 08:24:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PREL KMCA ZA
08LUSAKA1186BANDA JUMPS AT TRADE AND INVESTMENT, BALKS AT UN
[...] (C) Summary: In a December 18 meeting, President Rupiah Banda and the Ambassador discussed ways to strengthen bilateral commercial ties to promote economic growth in Zambia, including concluding an Open Skies agreement and either a Bilateral Investment Treaty or Trade and Investment Framewo [...]
2008-12-22 05:50:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAGR ETRD EINV ECON EAIR KHIV MASS ZA
08LUSAKA1197ATTORNEY GENERAL SUPPORTS PROGRESS ON ANTI-MONEY
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 24, Attorney General (AG) Mumba Malila shared with Ambassador his intention to recommend to Cabinet the establishment of a Financial Intelligence Unit that meets international standards and expressed his support for the Women's Justice and Empowerment Initiative, a [...]
2008-12-30 14:31:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR KWMN SNAR ZA
08LUSAKA139IRAN'S COMMERCIAL INTERESTS IN ZAMBIA
[...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. Although Iran does not maintain an official diplomatic presence in Lusaka, Iranian companies show a modest level of commercial interest in Zambia. Imports of Iranian oil may increase over time, as [...]
2008-02-04 08:50:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EPET ETRD EINV PREL IR ZA
08LUSAKA22ZAMBIA DECEMBER 2007 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP
[...] SUMMARY -- INFLATION RISES SLIGHTLY IN DECEMBER -- ELECTRICITY RATES WILL INCREASE IN 2008 -- COMMUCATIONS AUTHORITY TO MONITOR QUALITY -- AUSTRALIAN COMPANY BEGINS BIO-DIESEL PRODUCTION -- ZAMBIA FAILS TO MEET ANNUAL COPPER PRODUCTION TARGET -- MANUFACTURING SECTOR RECORDS GROWTH IN 2007 -- [...]
2008-01-07 14:09:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV BEXP EAIR ZA
08LUSAKA278IMF Mission Supportive of New Mining Tax Regime,
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-04 13:46:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EMIN PGOV EINV ENRG ZA
08LUSAKA293Zambia and Fiscal Transparency
[...] (SBU) Background and introduction: Zambia has a history of endemic government corruption, both under a one-party statist regime during the 1970s and 80s, and also during a period of economic liberalization and privatization in the 1990s. Since 2002, the government has increased its efforts to [...]
2008-03-10 14:32:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV KCOR ZA
08LUSAKA302ZAMBIA FEBRUARY 2008 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP
[...] SUMMARY -- Government Seeks Financing for Large Oil Deal -- Chinese Expand Commercial Relationship -- Electricity Rates to Mining Companies Increase -- Officials Question Safety of Chinese Coal Mine -- Mining Companies and GRZ Bicker Over New Tax Regime -- Kafue Gorge Power Station Experience [...]
2008-03-14 08:02:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV BEXP EAIR ZA
08LUSAKA309INPUT FOR PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON AGOA
[...] Summary. This cable is a response to the reftel action request, regarding input for the 2008 President's Report on AGOA. Zambia is currently eligible for AGOA trade benefits, including textile and apparel benefits. There have been no significant developments since the 2007 report that would [...]
2008-03-17 13:58:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON ZA
08LUSAKA319U.S. Businesses' Views on Zambia's Power Problems
[...] (SBU) Summary. At a recent American business roundtable gathering hosted by Ambassador Martinez, U.S. investors and local representatives of U.S. companies shared opinions and voiced frustrations over the electric power situation in the country. Overall, and not surprisingly, businesses are an [...]
2008-03-19 13:03:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EINV ENRG PGOV ZA
08LUSAKA368ZAMBIA MARCH 2008 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP
[...] SUMMARY -- Inflation Rises Again in March -- Labor Trouble At Chinese-Owned Copper Smelter -- Government Suspends duty on Energy-Saving Devices -- Maamba Coal Mine Seeks Investor -- Indian Firm To Invest in Coal-Powered Energy -- Zambia May Face Fuel Shortage If Financing Is Not Secured -- L [...]
2008-04-01 12:49:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV ENRG EPET EFIN ELAB ZA
08LUSAKA40PHARMACEUTICAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (ZAMBIA)
[...] (SBU) Summary. Although counterfeit medicines are prevalent on the local market, the GRZ has not determined the extent of the problem and its implications on the economy and public health. Zambian regulatory institutions lack resources to carry out their mandate, and this shortcoming might con [...]
2008-01-10 15:03:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR BEXP KHIV EAID ZA
08LUSAKA401Zambia Political Round-up
[...] (U) Summary: -- Patriotic Front: Eating Its Young -- Irene Mambilima Appointed Deputy Chief Justice -- President's Nephew in Hot Water Over Remarks -- Key Session of Constitutional Conference in the Offing -------------------- PF: Eating Its Young ---------------- [...]
2008-04-09 10:13:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR ZA
08LUSAKA407ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS: ZAMBIA HIDES BEHIND SADC
[...] (C) During an April 9 meeting, Zambian Minister of Information and Government Spokesman Mike Mulongoti told DCM and PAO that the Zambian government (GRZ) would not be making public statements on the Zimbabwean election. As SADC President the Zambian government (GRZ) could neither comment on [...]
2008-04-09 12:21:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL ZA ZI
08LUSAKA412ZIMBABWE: ZAMBIA PREPARES FOR SPECIAL SADC SUMMIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Zambian Foreign Ministry and cabinet office officials have confirmed that President Mwanawasa called a summit of Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state to discuss Zimbabwe for Saturday, April 12 in Lusaka. The Ambassador and emboffs underscored USG messa [...]
2008-04-10 12:21:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SADC ZA ZI
08LUSAKA421ZAMBIAN PRESIDENT ON UPCOMING EXTRAORDINARY SADC
[...] (C) Summary: SADC Chairperson and Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa told Ambassador he has not yet heard whether Robert Mugabe will attend the emergency meeting of SADC heads of state called for April 12, but he expects Mugabe will not to want to miss a chance to peform. He confirmed that Morga [...]
2008-04-11 09:39:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL SADC ZA ZI
08LUSAKA422MUGABE "CHICKENS OUT" OF SPECIAL SADC SUMMIT
[...] (C) On the afternoon of April 11, Zambian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Tens Kapoma updated the Ambassador on the special Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit. Kapoma said Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe "chickened out" and will not be attending the meet [...]
2008-04-11 13:02:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL ZA ZI SADC
08LUSAKA423SADC SUMMIT: MANAWASA URGES "HUMILITY" AND A "NEW
[...] (C) Summary: In his opening speech to an extraordinary Southern African Development Community Summit, Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa echoed U.S. points delivered throughout the week in a short but pointed speech. He called for "humility" by Zimbabwean politicians and indicated it was time [...]
2008-04-12 16:02:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL SADC ZA ZI
08LUSAKA424FULL TEXT OF SADC SUMMIT COMMUNIQUE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-14 06:31:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SADC ZA ZI
08LUSAKA427SADC SUMMIT CONCLUDES WITH HALF-HEARTED RESULTS
[...] (C) Summary. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State Summit concluded with little to show for the leaders' efforts. South African President Thabo Mbeki seems to have prevailed by containing efforts to forge a stronger SADC position on Zimbabwe. The Summit communique [...]
2008-04-14 14:58:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALSADC PREL ZA ZI
08LUSAKA429SADC EMERGENCY SUMMIT: MWANAWASA TELLS ALL
[...] (C) Summary. In an April 15 conversation, President Mwanawasa shared his thoughts on the recently concluded Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State Summit. He described the Summit as a signal to Mugabe that SADC will not support him unconditionally. He characterized Mbe [...]
2008-04-15 12:07:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL SADC ZA ZI
08LUSAKA44Zambia Power Generation Update-Light at the End of the
[...] (SBU) Summary and introduction. Zambia's installed power generating capacity is 1640 megawatts (MW),and consists almost entirely of hydroelectric power. Ongoing rehabilitation projects reduce actual generating capacity to 1200 MW for the near future, which is well below estimated peak demand [...]
2008-01-14 06:18:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV BTIO ZA
08LUSAKA441GRZ (STILL) DELIBERATING ON CRITICAL
[...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging conversation with DCM and Poloff on anti-corruption topics, Cabinet Secretary Kanganja noted little progress on anti-money laundering, but said that Cabinet is currently considering a National Anti-Corruption Policy, as well as guidelines governing the use of sei [...]
2008-04-17 12:16:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALKCOR PGOV PREL KMCA ZA
08LUSAKA444U.S. MINING MAJOR ON NEW TAX AND LEGAL REGIME IN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-18 10:55:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN EINV EFIN ZA
08LUSAKA448SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRAZER'S VISIT TO LUSAKA
[...] (C) Your visit to Zambia is well-timed, in the aftermath of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit on Zimbabwe. Within the confines of SADC meetings, Mwanawasa has shown a willingness to address problems in Zimbabwe and confront Zimbabwe President Mugabe and South African Pr [...]
2008-04-21 12:05:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALSADC PREL ZA ZI
08LUSAKA453MWANAWASA ON CHINESE ARMS SHIPMENT, PRAISES SOUTH
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Mwanawasa extolled South Africa and Mozambique for refusing to offload a Chinese arms shipment headed to Zimbabwe and called on other countries to do likewise. He dismissed comments by a ruling party member, George Chumbwe, recommending the violent overthrow of Mugabe [...]
2008-04-22 12:12:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSADC PREL ZA ZI CH
08LUSAKA456ZAMBIA: DEMARCHE ON US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-23 14:55:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL ZA
08LUSAKA463CONSULTATIONS WITH MWANAWASA ON NEXT STEPS
[...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with President Mwanawasa, A/S Frazer and NSC Senior Director Pittman called upon the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to increase its pressure on President Mugabe, offer its protection to Tsvangirai, and send a delegation of senior statesmen to SIPDIS [...]
2008-04-27 13:14:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ZI ZA
08LUSAKA465 MEDIA COVERAGE OF A/S FRAZER VISIT TO ZAMBIA
[...] Summary. In interviews with Zambian national and international TV, local reporters and major news wire services during a brief visit to Lusaka, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer broadcasted U.S. concerns about the recent Zimbabwean election and spoke out forceful [...]
2008-04-28 11:28:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ZI ZA
08LUSAKA477KAUNDA SHARES VIEWS ON ZIMBABWE'S PROBLEMS
[...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with AF A/S Frazer and NSC Senior Director Pittman, former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda suggested that a national unity government might be the best solution to the Zimbabwe crisis. Kaunda, who may be sent as part of a delegation of senior statesmen to entreat M [...]
2008-04-29 15:59:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL SADC PHUM KDEM ZA ZI
08LUSAKA479 RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES -
[...] (U) Summary. This cable responds to questions in reftel regarding the impact of rising food/agricultural commodity prices in Zambia. Although Zambia is experiencing food price inflation, at rates exceeding overall inflation, its prices are not directly tied to global market prices, and theref [...]
2008-04-30 12:46:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON ETRD PGOV PREL KMCA ZA
08LUSAKA486ZAMBIA: NEXT STEPS ON ZIMBABWE CRISIS
[...] (C) Summary. President Mwanawasa remains committed to addressing the crisis in Zimbabwe, but lacks wide support from other SADC leaders. He has expressed an intent to send a small delegation of SADC leaders to meet with Mugabe as well as an interest in helping mediate a solution involving a [...]
2008-05-02 12:16:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM SADC AU ZI ZA
08LUSAKA492ZAMBIA: CONTINGENCY PLANS FOR ZIMBABWEAN REFUGEES
[...] (SBU) Zambian Minister of Home Affairs Shikapwasha and the UNHCR Representative in Zambia told DCM on May 5 that contingency plans and preparations were well underway to receive up to 25 thousand Zimbabwean refugees in southern Zambia. The GRZ has identified a site in Siavonga (on Lake Kari [...]
2008-05-06 13:13:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREF PREL ZI ZA
08LUSAKA498ZAMBIA: UNHCR LAUNCHES CONGOLESE REPATRIATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: On May 5, DCM joined Zambian Government (GRZ) officials and members of the Lusaka diplomatic corps to launch the 2009 repatriation of Congolese refugees in Zambia. UNHCR's 2008 goal is to repatriate 19,336 refugees, transported 400 at a time three times per week through Decem [...]
2008-05-07 14:11:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF KHIV ZA CG
08LUSAKA499COMESA LEADERS COMMENT ON POSTPONED SUMMIT, COMESA
[...] (C) Summary. The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has postponed its ministerial and heads of state meetings, which were scheduled to take place between May 1 to 15 in Victoria Falls, due to the electoral crisis in Zimbabwe. Although the Secretariat has considered the po [...]
2008-05-07 15:05:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALECON PREL ECIN COMESA ZA ZI
08LUSAKA500UNOFFICIAL PING "ENVOY" MEETS WITH MUGABE; PING
[...] (C) Summary. According to Vernon Mwaanga, a veteran Zambian diplomat and politician who met with Mugabe on the week of April 14 at the behest of AU Commission Chairperson Jean Ping, much of the blame for the current electoral crisis in Zimbabwe lies with the incompetence (rather than fraudule [...]
2008-05-07 16:04:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM SADC ZA ZI
08LUSAKA502ZAMBIA: INITIAL OUTREACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) During a lunch with Poloff on May 8, Legal Resources Foundation (LRF) Project Officer Robby Shabwanga (protect) said that his organization has been receiving information on post-election human rights abuses in Zimbabwe through their sister branch in Zimbabwe. Shabwanga bemoaned the situati [...]
2008-05-08 15:02:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM ZA ZI
08LUSAKA525ZAMBIAN MEDIA COVERS RICE-MWANAWASA CONVERSATION
[...] (U) On May 11, the state-owned Sunday Times of Zambia provided front-page coverage of Secretary Rice's phone conversations with President Mwanawasa and other African leaders to encourage broader regional efforts to resolve the Zimbabwe electoral crisis. The front-page article, entitled "Rice [...]
2008-05-13 14:43:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM SADC ZA ZI
08LUSAKA529ZAMBIA APRIL 2008 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP
[...] SUMMARY -- Inflation Rises to Double Digits -- New Mineral Tax Regime Approved -- GRZ Revises Mines and Mineral Development Act -- GRZ Offers Uranium Mining Licenses -- GRZ Phases Out Leaded Fuel -- Celtel Offers Shares -- LuSe to Automate its Trading System Inflation Rises to Double Digi [...]
2008-05-14 14:24:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ECON EINV ENRG EPET EFIN ZA
08LUSAKA530ZAMBIA ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-14 14:25:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNMIK PREL PGOV YI KV ZA
08LUSAKA535MWANAWASA ON ZIMBABWE: CHILDREN BEHAVING BADLY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-15 14:48:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SADC ZA ZI
08LUSAKA536ZAMBIA ON OSLO PROCESS AND CLUSTER MUNITIONS
[...] (SBU) On May 15, Poloff discussed the reftel demarche with Silumelume Mubukwanu of the Zambia Mine Action Center (ZAMAC),a unit of the Foreign Ministry. Mubukwanu appreciated the information and was familiar with the issue. According to Mubukwanu, African states agreed to oppose the cluster [...]
2008-05-15 14:54:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PARM PREL
08LUSAKA546MWANAWASA ON ZIMBABWE AND VIEWS OF SADC'S ROLE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Following the visit to Zambia of Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer and National Security Council Senior Director Bobby Pittman (Ref A),the Ambassador and President Mwanawasa exchanged views on Zimbabwe through a series of letters. In his May 5 let [...]
2008-05-20 14:10:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM SADC ZA ZI
08LUSAKA549 ZAMBIA: CROP FORECASTS FOR 2007/2008 SHOW SUFFICIENT
[...] (U) Summary. The Ministry of Agriculture has released its crop forecasts for the 2007/2008 agricultural season, as well as Zambia's food balance for the marketing season covering the period from May 1, 2008 to April 30, 2009. The figures show that on a national level estimated production, com [...]
2008-05-20 15:30:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON EAID ZA
08LUSAKA554GRZ FUNDS TASK FORCE ON CORRUPTION
[...] (SBU) Summary. Although President Mwanawasa had previously threatened to disband the Task Force on Corruption absent donor funding (Ref B),on May 15 the Zambian Cabinet agreed to take full financial responsibility for the ad hoc agency that was created in 2002 to prosecute high-level corrupt [...]
2008-05-22 14:55:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCOR PGOV EAID ZA
08LUSAKA564ZAMBIA PREPARING FOR 25,000 ZIMBABWEANS FLEEING SOUTH
[...] Information Minister Mike Mulongoti confirmed to local press that the GRZ was making preparations to receive 25,000 Zimbabweans fleeing the violence in South Africa. Mulongoti was responding to reports published by Agence France Presse (AFP) on May 26 which indicated the Red Cross Society was [...]
2008-05-28 12:37:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF SF ZI ZA
08LUSAKA617NO NEW SADC SUMMIT; MWANAWASA FRUSTRATED BY SADC
[...] (C) Summary. According to Zambia MFA Permanent Secretary Ambassador Tens Kapoma, President Mwanawasa is frustrated by the failure of the consultative meeting on Zimbabwe that he called on the margins of TICAD IV (reftels) and has no plans to convoke another extraordinary SADC summit prior to t [...]
2008-06-10 06:04:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPREL SADC ZI ZA
08LUSAKA66ZAMBIAN ELECTRICITY SERVICE PROVIDERS--ZESCO CHASTISED, CEC
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Energy Regulation Board recently approved needed rate hikes for parastatal Zambia Electricity Supply Company (ZESCO) Limited for 2008, but made future increases contingent on better performance by ZESCO, which in the eyes of Zambian consumers, has failed to provide expected l [...]
2008-01-17 11:44:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV BTIO AMGT ZA
08LUSAKA666DRC/ZAMBIA COPPER BELT - EQUINOX'S GIANT LUMWANA
[...] (U) This cable represents one of a series of DRC/Zambian copperbelt mine-specific reports emanating from a ground-breaking resource-reporting and commercial advocacy collaboration between Embassies Pretoria, Kinshasa, and Lusaka. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: North-western Zambia's Lumwana Mine is note [...]
2008-06-20 05:43:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN ENRG EINV EIND ETRD ELAB CG ZA SF
08LUSAKA744ZAMBIAN COPPER BELT BLOOMS, BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN
[...] (U) This cable represents the fourth in a series of reports stemming from an innovative resource-reporting and commercial advocacy collaboration between Embassies Pretoria, Kinshasa, and Lusaka (reftels A and C and septel pending from Kinshasa). This cable summarizes mines visited in Zambia. [...]
2008-07-18 06:03:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN ENRG EINV EIND ETRD ELAB CG ZA SF
08LUSAKA770Digging Deeper into the Pit of Child Mining
[...] (U) Summary: A recent International Labor Organization (ILO) report on child labor in Zambia's non-traditional mining sector--the first of its kind--revealed that child miners are routinely exposed to significant health hazards. NGO representatives at the post-presentation discussion cited hig [...]
2008-07-30 14:27:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EMIN SOCI ZA
08LUSAKA825GRZ ANNOUNCES DEATH OF PRESIDENT LEVY PATRICK
[...] President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa died early Tuesday morning in Paris, a visibly distraught Vice President Banda announced on national television at 1:35 p.m. Lusaka time. Banda went on to say that there will be seven days of national mourning, and urged Zambians to pray for the President and [...]
2008-08-19 12:12:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA827WITH MWANAWASA'S DEATH, ZAMBIA'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE
[...] (C) Summary: The Zambian Government's (GRZ's) announcement of President Mwanawasa's death (reftel) sets in motion seven days of national mourning, but also marks the beginning of Zambia's presidential race. According to the Zambian Constitution, elections must be held within 90 days, meaning [...]
2008-08-19 15:26:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPOL PREL ZA
08LUSAKA849ZAMBIA SUMMER ECONOMIC ROUNDUP
[...] SUMMARY -- Inflation Continues to Rise -- GRZ Increases Pharmaceutical Import Fees -- ZESCO Makes Plans to Recapitalize -- GRZ Issues Copper Mining License -- Aviation Sector Expands -- GRZ Achieves IPR Enforcement Success Inflation Continues to Rise 2. According to the Central Stati [...]
2008-08-22 10:52:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EMIN ENRG EINV ECON ZA
08LUSAKA850GRZ PROVIDES SOME ANSWERS ON LEGAL ASPECTS OF
[...] Summary. The Zambian government (GRZ) will respect the constitutionally-mandated 90-day timeline for a presidential election and will announce the date of the polls after consultations between the Treasury and the Electoral Commission of Zambia, Justice Minister George Kunda announced on Aug [...]
2008-08-22 11:01:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA851PLANS FOR PRESIDENT MWANAWASA'S BURIAL ANNOUNCED
[...] The body of late President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa arrived aboard a French presidential plane on Saturday, August 23, and laid in state at the Mulungushi Conference Center until the morning of Monday, August 25. The body is now being flown on a tour of provincial capitals to allow the populat [...]
2008-08-25 12:28:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA865KWACHA GENTLY SLIDES IN WAKE OF PRESIDENT'S DEATH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Zambia's economy remains relatively sound, despite foreign exchange market fluctuations immediately following news of President Mwanawasa's death. Although the Zambian Kwacha has slipped slightly against the U.S. Dollar, it remains in line with historical averages. The Lusaka [...]
2008-08-27 11:55:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV ZA
08LUSAKA883ZAMBIA: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-05 10:21:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UN ZA
08LUSAKA909BANDA ANNOUNCES OCTOBER 30 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
[...] (U) On September 9, Vice President Rupiah Banda announced that the presidential by-election will be held on Thursday, October 30, laying to rest any speculation that the Zambian Government is still considering suspending the elections (reftel). This poll date fully complies with the constitut [...]
2008-09-10 14:59:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA918ZAMBIA AUGUST 2008 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP
[...] (U) SUMMARY -- Inflation Increases in August -- Government Holds Off on Windfall Tax -- Zambian Companies Participate in Chinese Trade Fair -- GRZ Develops Railway Infrastructure -- Zambian Airways Faces Economic Problems Inflation Increases in August 2. (U) Year-on-year inflation conti [...]
2008-09-15 05:44:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EMIN EINV ECON ZA
08LUSAKA949 Zambian Government(GRZ) bans radio phone-in political
[...] SUMMARY: Just as Zambia prepares for an October 30, 2008 presidential election, parties are jockeying for any media advantages they can get, the GRZ banned radio stations from conducting live phone-in programs. The ban, citing unbalanced and unfair coverage of political parties, is supposed t [...]
2008-09-26 07:43:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KMDR ZA
08LUSAKA950ELECTION: NO CLEAR LEADER IN WESTERN PROVINCE
[...] (SBU) With election day a scant five weeks away, none of the presidential candidates has a clear lead in Western Province. Provincial leaders and local politicians (who owe their positions to ruling party largesse and connections),told emboffs that Acting President Rupiah Banda would easily [...]
2008-09-26 09:14:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ZA
08LUSAKA974 Presidential Candidate Banda takes Zambia's Largest
[...] SUMMARY: The angry feud between Zambia's most-read newspaper, The Post, and Acting President (and ruling party presidential contender) Rupiah Banda has moved this week into the Lusaka High Court. At the end of September, Banda filed an injunction with the court to prevent The Post from printi [...]
2008-10-01 13:04:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KMDR ZA
08LUSAKA977No more free lunch - World Food Program to scale back
[...] The Zambia Daily Mail, a government newspaper, reported on 30 September 2008 that the World Food Program (WFP) will "stop feeding refugees in Zambia." Though erroneous, this story contains a kernel of truth. EmbOff has learned that WFP and UNHCR have a new feeding plan for Angolan refugees in [...]
2008-10-01 14:56:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF ZA AO
08LUSAKA980IMF CONTENT WITH ZAMBIA DESPITE RISING INFLATION AND BUDGET
[...] (U) Summary. A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) briefed diplomatic missions on its quarterly meetings with Zambian Government (GRZ) officials. The team's overall impressions of GRZ's macroeconomic performance were good; they noted continued GDP growth and national spending that [...]
2008-10-02 15:17:00Embassy LusakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ZA
08LUSAKA982TWO DEATHS BY UNKNOWN DISEASE IN ZAMBIA; EAC
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy Lusaka CDC office has learned that two cases of "suspected" hemorrhagic fever are being investigated in Zambia after two people died subsequent to being med-evaced to South Africa. We understand a South African nurse at Morningside Hospital who treated the second Zambian c [...]
2008-10-03 09:52:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALESTH ASEC AMED ZA
08LUSAKA983EAC DETERMINES DEATHS NO THREAT TO AMCITS, STAFF
[...] (C) Per REFTEL, EAC met to compare updated information and to determine follow up action. Based on current data, there appears to be no immediate threat to AmCits or the Embassy community. There have been no further reported cases or deaths attributable to the initial patient and it appears th [...]
2008-10-03 11:51:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALAMED ASEC CASC ESTH ZA
08LUSAKA986MICHAEL SATA: WHO IS THE KING COBRA AND WILL HE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Although still a strong contender in the October 30 by-election, presidential candidate Michael Sata appears to have lost some of his momentum due to internal party strife. The Patriotic Front leader excommunicated half of his party's parliamentarians in late 2007 over disagr [...]
2008-10-06 13:04:00Embassy LusakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH ZA
08LUXEMBOURG106PM JUNCKER WILL RAISE SITUATION IN GEORGIA WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-23 14:27:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALPREL GG RS LU
08LUXEMBOURG132LUXEMBOURG HUMANITARIAN AID TO BURMA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-14 08:03:00Embassy LuxembourgUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL BM LU
08LUXEMBOURG139LUXEMBOURG ON BURMA DONORS CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-21 15:15:00Embassy LuxembourgUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV PHUM BM LU
08LUXEMBOURG194RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE REQUEST TO GAIN ALLIES'
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-21 15:09:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALMARR NATO PREL LU
08LUXEMBOURG195RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON REALISM IN DEALING WITH
[...] (C) Pol/Econ chief met 23 July with Luxembourg MFA officer for the Middle East and outlined the USG's concerns regarding recent European efforts to increase engagement with the Syrian Arab Republic Government (SARG). Pol/Econ chief asked that the GOL exert its influence within the European Uni [...]
2008-07-23 15:28:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY LU
08LUXEMBOURG213VISAS VIPER: LUXEMBOURG VIPER REPORT AND
[...] (U) Post convened its monthly Visas Viper Committee on 16 July 2008. One submission was presented to and approved by the committee. 2. (S) Name: ABO KHALIL, Adam DOB: 20 July 1980 POB: Rafah, Palestine Nationality: Israeli Father: ABO KHALIL, Taher Mother: NEGA, Shady Possible Al [...]
2008-08-08 15:08:00Embassy LuxembourgSECRETCMGT CVIS KVPR ASEC PTER PING LU
08LUXEMBOURG217LUXEMBOURG BRIEFED ON USG PROPOSAL FOR STRONG NAC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-11 14:52:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALNATO PARM KCFE RU CG LU
08LUXEMBOURG236LUXEMBOURG ON BOARD WITH USG POSITION ON KOSOVO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff communicated reftel points to MFA Kosovo Desk Officer Jacques Thill on 5 September. Thill was very receptive to the USG position, saying that Luxembourg shares the USG position "100%." Thill added, however, that he suspects broad sensitivities regarding the Internationa [...]
2008-09-05 13:26:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UN UNGA KV LU
08LUXEMBOURG240LUXEMBOURG'S GAERC VIEWS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Political Director Stephan Muller relayed Luxembourg response to reftel demarches on 12 September. Muller briefly addressed Turkey and Zimbabwe, reserving the meat of his comments for Serbia and Georgia. On Serbia, the GoL believes it is time to unfreeze Serbia's SAA with [...]
2008-09-12 15:59:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALEUN PHUM PREL PGOV LU
08LUXEMBOURG241LUXEMBOURG ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE PRIORITIES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA UN Desk Officer Olivier Baldauff briefed Poloff on 12 September in response to reftel demarche. As expected, and in line with Luxembourg's voting record from previous Third Committee sessions, Luxembourg can be counted on to vote in accordance with U.S. positions on the ma [...]
2008-09-12 16:01:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UN LU
08LUXEMBOURG280LUXEMBOURG SHARES CONCERN OVER BOSNIA, OPPOSED TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY MFA Western Balkans desk officer Jacques Thill responded to reftel demarche on 4 November. Thill indicated that Luxembourg shares the USG concern over the deteriorating situation in Bosnia. Luxembourg agrees that any transition in Bosnia should be predicated on adhering to the [...]
2008-11-05 15:16:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALPGOV BK EU LU
08LUXEMBOURG301LUXEMBOURG WILL SIGN THE CONVENTION ON CLUSTER
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-02 07:19:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALMOPS NATO PARM PREL LU
08LUXEMBOURG310LUXEMBOURG COUNTRY REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE
[...] (C) The Government of Luxembourg (GOL) is circumspect in its relations with Cuba, possibly because the wife of its head of state, Grand Duchess Teresa, was born in Havana in 1956 and fled the island with her family in 1959 when Castro seized power. 2. (C) The GOL has worked to encourage hum [...]
2008-12-08 16:19:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU LU
08LUXEMBOURG38LUXEMBOURG READY TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-12 07:09:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UMIK PGOV EU LU
08LUXEMBOURG40LUXEMBOURG TO QUICKLY SIGNAL INTENT TO RECOGNIZE
[...] (C) Ambassador spoke with Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn on 15 February regarding Kosovo's pending declaration of independence. Asselborn asserted that Luxembourg will announce on the evening of Monday, 18 February, its intention to recognize Kosovo's declaration of independence, expected [...]
2008-02-15 15:15:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EU KDEM LU
08LUXEMBOURG43LUXEMBOURG: FORMAL RECOGNITION OF KOSOVO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-21 08:52:00Embassy LuxembourgUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EU KDEM LU
08LUXEMBOURG65LUXEMBOURG WILL NOT ATTEND MARCH 14 BEIRUT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-11 13:51:00Embassy LuxembourgUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREF PREL PTER MASS PARM SY IS LE
08LUXEMBOURG69LUXEMBOURG SUPPORTS NATO MEMBERSHIP FOR CROATIA,
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Ambassador discussed the Greece-Macedonia name dispute with Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn on 11 March emphasizing points contained reftel. Asselborn confirmed that Luxembourg was in agreement that Allies must work with both sides and that he was committed to the Nimetz proces [...]
2008-03-13 16:10:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR NATO PREL PGOV GR MK LU
08LUXEMBOURG74AMBASSADOR WAGNER WARNS BANKERS ABOUT THE RISKS OF DOING
[...] (U) During a March 14 speech to the International Bankers Club of Luxembourg, the Ambassador discussed the USG position and policy on Iran sanctions. She reviewed the operations of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and emphasized the reputational risk of doing b [...]
2008-03-20 15:25:00Embassy LuxembourgUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN PREL ECON IR LU
08MADRID000762ZFR763SPAIN WILL NOT SUPPORT PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-11 09:53:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEUN KDEM PHUM PREL SP
08MADRID1002SCENESETTER FOR U/S DOBRIANSKY VISIT TO MADRID
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit. Your speech at the American Chamber of Commerce energy conference, your meetings with GOS officials and climate change experts, and a press event will provide opportunities to explain USG leadership on climate change and address conc [...]
2008-09-19 14:58:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG SP
08MADRID1003MADRID WEEKLY ECONOMIC UPDATE, SEPT. 15-19
[...] (SBU) Spanish government officials and press followed the U.S. financial turmoil closely during the week. President Zapatero and Second Vice President and Economy and Finance Minister Solbes reassured Spaniards that Spain's financial sector was safe and its financial firms solvent. Zapatero claimed [...]
2008-09-22 05:59:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALECON ECPS EFIN ELAB ENRG EWWT KNNP SOCI
08MADRID1006REQUEST FOR ESCORT ASSISTANCE FOR WORLD FOOD
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Spanish MFA Assistant Deputy Political Director Maria Luisa Benitez-Donoso, who noted Spain sent a plane to the region last week to protect Spanish fishing vessels. She acknowledged our request for coordination with other efforts in the region. Polcoun [...]
2008-09-22 10:15:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALMARR MCAP WFP XW SP
08MADRID1008REPSOL CONFIRMS NO PLANS WITH IRAN AND INDICATES
[...] (S) Ambassador Aguirre met September 17 with Repsol General Counsel and Secretary to the Board Luis Suarez de Lezo. During the discussion, Suarez de Lezo advised the Ambassador that, after Repsol had allowed to expire its option on its block in Iran's South Pars field (reftels),it had no remaining [...]
2008-09-22 10:49:00Embassy MadridSECRETECON EFIN EINV ETRD KTFN PREL PARM PTER IR
08MADRID1010SPAIN: NRC DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-22 16:10:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL GG RS
08MADRID1014SPAIN RECEIVES DEMARCHE, NON-PAPER ON MESA GROUP
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Embassy Madrid engaged the GOS through a variety of channels to solicit Madrid's support of USG actions described in REFTEL. The GOS has stated that it shares USG concerns about the prospect of Syria or Iran obtaining a seat on the IAEA Board of Directors, but has indicated that M [...]
2008-09-23 13:33:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALIAEA PARM MNUC IR SY SP
08MADRID1016SPANISH MFA RECEIVES NON-PAPER RE CHINESE
[...] (S) On September 22 PolOff delivered the talking points and non-paper from REFTEL to Gonzalo de Salazar, the MFA's Deputy DG for Non-Proliferation & Disarmament, and Carlos Torres Vidal, Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. As the non-paper is classified, neither GOS offici [...]
2008-09-23 13:34:00Embassy MadridSECRETECON EFIN KNNP PARM PTER IR CH SP UK
08MADRID1020SPAIN: DEMARCHE ON OFAC KINGPIN ACT DESIGNATION OF
[...] On September 12, Econoff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper concerning the OFAC designations of Venezuelan officials under the Kingpin Act to Iago Lossada in the MFA,s International Counter-Terrorism Directorate. Econoff subsequently shared the information with Conchita Cornejo Garcia of [...]
2008-09-24 13:49:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER PREL PINR SNAR KCRM VE SP
08MADRID1021DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION'S SEPTEMBER 23, 2008,
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-25 09:42:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO SP
08MADRID1025MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, SEPT. 22-26
[...] (U) While visiting New York to speak at the UN, President Zapatero met with business executives in a September 24 event organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Spain. Executives from firms such as Boeing, Microsoft, IBM, Pfizer, and the Bank of America, as well as the MPAA, participate [...]
2008-09-29 06:25:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB ENRG KIPR SP
08MADRID104TERRORIST FINANCE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-01 18:04:00Embassy MadridSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL IZ SY SP
08MADRID1047SPAIN SKEPTICAL OF EU BIOFUELS SUSTAINABILITY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Spain is skeptical of the sustainability criteria under discussion in the EU. Spanish officials attending EU discussions on these criteria said that as drafted they are not based on sound economic and scientific models and that they would discriminate against biomass and biofuel [...]
2008-10-03 09:53:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR SENV ENRG TRGY KGHG SP
08MADRID1048SPANISH INTEREST IN FEATURED ROLE AT GI EXERCISE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post delivered draft agenda for the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism's meeting of its Exercise Planning Group in Washington, DC during November 13-14, 2008. GOS officials indicated Spain's intention to attend and responded positively to a USG suggestion that the Spa [...]
2008-10-03 09:54:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALMCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL KGIC SP
08MADRID105SPAIN: ELECTION UPDATE FEBRUARY 1
[...] (U) Summary: This cable continues our effort, started with ref a, to provide the flavor of the Spanish general election campaign. Politicians and pundits have said repeatedly the three key issues on March 9 will be the economy, terrorism, and regional autonomy. Events in the last two weeks [...]
2008-02-04 07:36:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SP
08MADRID1050MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, SEPT. 29-OCT. 3
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-03 15:40:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAIR ECON EFIN EINV ELAB SP
08MADRID1051SPAIN TO CO-SPONSOR UNFCR ON NON-PROLIFERATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Luis Gomez Nogueira, the Chief of Disarmament in the MFA's DG for Strategic Issues and Terrorism, has indicated to Post that Spain, while wanting to make known several observations and suggestions about the draft text, would co-sponsor the reftel resolution. END SUMMARY. 2. [...]
2008-10-03 16:46:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL UNGA SP CDG
08MADRID1055BASQUE TERRORIST GROUP ETA STEPS UP OPERATIONAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Basque terrorist group ETA (Basque Fatherland and Liberty) has conducted a series of bombing attacks in Spain in recent weeks as a "show of force" to counter Spanish judicial efforts to outlaw political parties affiliated with ETA. The Zapatero government and all opposition pa [...]
2008-10-06 10:02:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINS SP
08MADRID106MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE - JANUARY
[...] (U) So reads the FT's Gillian Tett's lead into her insight column. She asks how the big Spanish banks have so far weathered the storm well. She says that Mexico's Central Bank Governor, Guillermo Ortiz, has said that a few years ago, big Spanish banks asked for permission from the regulators [...]
2008-02-04 07:55:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ENRG ETRD SP
08MADRID1060KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA
[...] (C) Deputy Chief of Mission Chacon spoke October 6 with Spanish MFA Director General for Europe and North America Luis Felipe Fernandez de la Pena to inform him of the U.S. intention to vote against Serbia's ICJ resolution regarding Kosovo. Fernandez de la Pena suggested Spain, which had been [...]
2008-10-07 06:55:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA UN KV
08MADRID1064DEMARCHES ON UNSCR RESOLUTIONS ON IRAN AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-08 12:16:00Embassy MadridSECRETECON EFIN ETRD PARM KNNP EWWT EUN PREL MNUC
08MADRID1073U/S DOBRIANSKY VISIT TO MADRID 9/29 - 10/1
[...] (SBU) Summary: Under Secretary Dobriansky visited Madrid September 26-October 1 to participate in an American Chamber of Commerce in Spain conference on clean energy and climate change. The U/S delivered a keynote speech on climate change and renewable energy at the conference. U/S Dobrians [...]
2008-10-08 16:15:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALSENV KGHG EAGR KWMN KIRF SMIG SP
08MADRID1080MADRID ECON WEEKLY, OCT 6-10 - FINANCIAL CRISIS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-10 14:41:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ELAB SP
08MADRID1081SPANISH VIEWS ON OCTOBER GAERC
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Spanish MFA Deputy European Correspondent Maria Luisa Benitez Donoso on October 10. Donoso said that Georgia will dominate the GAERC agenda, with some discussion on Belarus, Zimbabwe, Uzbekistan and Moldova. //GEORGIA// 2. (C) Donoso said that Spa [...]
2008-10-10 16:02:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM SP USEU
08MADRID1088SPAIN'S BASQUE REGIONAL GOVERNMENT EXPANDING ITS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Autonomous Community (regional) government of the Basque Country is opening two new offices in the United States, increasing its official presence to three offices. Ana Agirre, the Basque region's Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, will lead a delegation that will offi [...]
2008-10-14 12:10:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON PGOV PREL SP
08MADRID1090DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ANTARCTIC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-14 16:19:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC KSCA KTIA SENV AY TPHY
08MADRID1091DCM DISCUSSES SPANISH DEFENSE BUDGET, ACQUISITIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Deputy Chief of Mission met September 30 with the new Spanish State Secretary for Defense Constantino Mendez. The two discussed strategic industrial cooperation; the status of major acquisitions programs, including Tomahawk; the budget outlook for Spain; and the upcoming vis [...]
2008-10-14 16:20:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR SP
08MADRID1092AMBASSADOR HITS RIGHT NOTES WITH NEW SPANISH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Aguirre ensured that Spain's outgoing Chief of Defense and the Chiefs of the Spanish Army, Navy and Air Force Staff were properly celebrated September 25. Hosting a cocktail reception for more than 90 attendees, complete with a color guard and a 6-piece military jazz band [...]
2008-10-14 16:20:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR SP
08MADRID1101MADRID WEEKLY ECONOMIC UPDATE - OCT 13-17
[...] (SBU) President Zapatero announced October 13 that the GOS will guarantee up to 100 billion euros in bank borrowing this year. This initiative is part of a decree approved that day by the Council of Ministers that incorporates measures agreed over the weekend by heads of state of the euro nati [...]
2008-10-17 19:50:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECPS EFIN EINV ELAB ENRG SP PGOV
08MADRID1104SCENESETTER FOR DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY KUPFER'S
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-20 14:10:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG OVIP PREL SP
08MADRID1105REQUEST TO INVITE SPANISH PRESIDENT ZAPATERO TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-20 15:02:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEFIN PREL SP
08MADRID1113GALICIA POLICE CHIEF ON DRUG SMUGGLING AND LAW
[...] (C) In a conversation October 9 with Embassy representatives, the Chief of Police of the regional government of Galicia said that while criminal activity in Galicia remained relatively low (30 crimes per 1000 inhabitants),drug smuggling and the underground economy continued to be important la [...]
2008-10-21 16:05:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALECON SP SNAR PGOV KCRM
08MADRID1116SPAIN/GLOBAL INITIATIVE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON
[...] (SBU) POLOFF met Carlos Torres, MFA Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, on October 22 to deliver REFTEL A demarche. Torres said that he will serve as point of contact (POC) for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency for matters related to the Global Initiative Information Po [...]
2008-10-22 16:18:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC SP
08MADRID1123MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, OCT. 20-24
[...] (SBU) The hot topic for much of this week has been President Zapatero's failure to be invited to the upcoming global financial summit and GOS efforts to secure an invitation (ref A). Media reported October 24 that the government is reaching out "in every direction to the entire world at all [...]
2008-10-24 15:38:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL TSPA SP
08MADRID1126TOMAHAWK LIKELY FIRST VICTIM OF BUDGET AX
[...] (C) It now appears virtually certain that Spain, facing serious budgetary constraints and difficult economic times, will not purchase Tomahawk (TLAM) this year. In recent days we have had strong indications from the MOD that the new leadership team there has decided to forgo any expensive, new [...]
2008-10-27 13:33:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALMARR SP
08MADRID1127CIVAIR: SPAIN CANNOT FOLLOW UP ON VIOLATIONS OF
[...] (U) Econoff passed on reftel requests, providing the GOS the opportunity to pursue an investigation as provided under Article 12 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, (the "Chicago Convention") on reftel Spanish nationals who allegedly violated U.S. FAA regulations. Santiago Quiro [...]
2008-10-28 11:49:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR SP
08MADRID1131DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION'S OCTOBER 29, 2008,
[...] (C) Summary. The Deputy Chief of Mission hosted MOD Secretary General for Policy Luis Cuesta at lunch October 29. They discussed the U.S.-Spain Agreement on Defense Cooperation (which governs U.S. use of the bases at Rota and Moron),Afghanistan, Georgia, nuclear powered warship visits, Som [...]
2008-10-30 17:11:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALMARR NATO AF SP
08MADRID1132NEA A/S WELCH MEETINGS WITH SPANISH OFFICIALS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. NEA A/S Welch, accompanied by DCM, met with FM Moratinos, Director General for the Mediterranean, Magreb and Near Orient Fidel Sendagorta, and Policy Planning Director Andres Ortega on October 23 to discuss a wide range of issues including the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP),the Magr [...]
2008-10-31 09:42:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL IR IZ SY SP MR
08MADRID1134SYRIAN PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR SHAABAN DENOUNCES U.S.
[...] SUMMARY. Syrian Presidential Advisor and former Emigration Minister Bouthaina Shaaban addressed a receptive audience of approximately 200 policy makers, diplomats, academics, and students of Arab politics and culture at the Spanish-government sponsored "Casa Arabe" cultural exchange institute [...]
2008-10-31 12:06:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINR SP SY
08MADRID114CODELS MARTINEZ AND LIEBERMAN MEET WITH SPANISH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Senators Martinez, Lieberman and Craig met with Spanish National Security Advisor Carles Casajuana on January 11, discussing Afghanistan, Lebanon, Morocco, Cuba, and the Alliance of Civilizations. Senator Lieberman asked that Spain work to clarify and if possible remove caveats o [...]
2008-02-05 13:36:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP
08MADRID1140SPAIN'S VIEW ON BOSNIA
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Spanish MFA Deputy European Correspondent Maria Luisa Benitez Donoso on October 29. Benitez said that Bosnia may come up at the November GAERC, but given that this month's meeting is a "JUMBO GAERC," it is more likely to be discussed in December. 2. [...]
2008-10-31 16:56:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV EU SP BK
08MADRID1141MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, OCT. 27-31
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-03 07:50:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ELAB KIPR SP
08MADRID1142SPAIN'S VIEWS ON NOVEMBER GYMNICH AND JUMBO GAERC
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Spanish MFA Deputy European Correspondent Maria Luisa Benitez Donoso on October 29. Regarding the agenda, Benitez said that given the Jumbo GAERC includes defense and development issues in addition to external relations, and that the Congo will likely be [...]
2008-11-03 08:03:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SP EUN ETRD RS IS AF PK SY LE
08MADRID1150SPAIN: UPDATE ON INTERNET PIRACY ISSUES
[...] (SBU) Since being placed on the Special 301 Watch List six months ago, the GOS has focused on encouraging negotiations between the Internet Service Provider (ISP) association and the Anti-Piracy Coalition of copyright holders and their representatives. The parties are trying to agree on a fo [...]
2008-11-04 07:25:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ETRD ECPS KCRM SP
08MADRID1182SPAIN: MFA OFFICIAL SPEAKS ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In recent weeks, Carlos Torres, Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MFA),has shared information with Embassy Madrid officials on a range of subjects related to non-proliferation, including Spanish participat [...]
2008-11-06 17:58:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALMCAP KNNP PINR PINS SP KGIC PTER PREL
08MADRID1183SPAIN SUPPORTS AU & EU EFFORTS TO RESTORE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-07 06:38:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR SP
08MADRID1184SPAIN NOT SENDING REPRESENTATIVE TO UPCOMING
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to various contacts in the MFA and Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade. Alejandro Alvargonzalez San Martin, who covers Iran in the MFA's Office of Bilateral Economic Relations with Developing Countries, told Econoff November 3 that he fully agreed with [...]
2008-11-07 08:39:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMNUC TRGY AORC IR SP
08MADRID1186SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SIRES' NOVEMBER 13-16 VISIT
[...] (SBU) Representative Sires, Embassy Madrid looks forward to your and your delegation's visit to Madrid and Barcelona. The Spanish are eager to share their assessment of political developments, regional issues, and bilateral relations with you. The recent US national election has been closely [...]
2008-11-07 12:56:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELTN OVIP PINS PREL PTER SP OREP AMGT AFIN
08MADRID1189MADRID WEEKLY ECONOMIC UPDATE - NOV 1-7
[...] (U) On November 4, the Ministry of Labor released statistics showing an increase of 192,658 registered unemployed workers for the month of October, the sharpest month-to-month increase ever recorded. This brings the total of unemployed to over 2.8 million, with immigrants especially affected. [...]
2008-11-07 16:29:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB ENRG KIPR SP EPET
08MADRID1190DEMARCHE REQUEST: EXPULSION OF DEA FROM BOLIVIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-10 09:21:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF KDEM SNAR BL SP
08MADRID1194AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES IPR WITH INDUSTRY MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: In a November 6 meeting, Ambassador discussed the battle against intellectual property piracy with Minister of Industry, Tourism, and Trade Miguel Sebastian. The Minister and an aide painted an upbeat picture of the progress being made in talks between Internet Service Providers [...]
2008-11-12 08:28:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALECPS ETRD KIPR SP
08MADRID1200SPAIN: HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-14 09:07:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SP
08MADRID1205MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, NOV. 10-14
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-14 17:19:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ELAB ENRG EPET SP
08MADRID1206DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON EU REGULATIONS ON RECOGNIZED
[...] (SBU) On November 10, Econoff advised MFA's Deputy Director for Multilateral Economic and Maritime Relations Juan Luis Munoz de Laborde of the US's strong concerns on Article 10 of the EU proposed "third maritime safety" regulation (reftel). Econoff explained that this provision would interfe [...]
2008-11-17 10:44:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT EUN IMO SP
08MADRID1207INVITATION FROM SPANISH MINISTRY OF DEFENSE TO
[...] (U) The Ambassador received November 13 the following letter (translated in relevant part) from Manuel Lopez Blazquez, Spanish MOD Director General of Institutional Relations. Begin text: The Ministry of Defense of Spain and the CIDOB Foundation of Barcelona (Center of Investigation of In [...]
2008-11-17 14:09:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PREL SP
08MADRID1212CODEL SIRES VISIT TO MADRID, NOVEMBER 13-14, 2008
[...] (U) Summary: Codel Sires (Representatives Albio Sires, Lynn Woolsey, Phil Gingrey, Ron Klein, and Laura Richardson) visited Madrid November 13-14 to discuss rail transportation security, counter-terrorism, and bilateral relations. They met with Minister of Interior Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, M [...]
2008-11-18 08:10:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALOREP PREL SP
08MADRID1214CALLS FOR REFORM OF SPAIN'S COUNTER-TERRORISM LAWS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Spain's counter-terrorism (CT) laws were designed with the domestic terrorist group ETA - Basque Fatherland and Liberty - in mind, but a number of recent rulings and actions by the Spanish judiciary and law enforcement forces in recent weeks have brought into focus Spain's need to [...]
2008-11-18 12:51:00Embassy MadridSECRETPGOV PINS PTER KJUS SP
08MADRID1216 SPAIN--CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE
[...] Post has received a congratulatory letter from the former Prime Minister of Spain Felipe Gonzalez addressed to President-elect Barack Obama. The original and informal translation will be sent to the Department, attention S/ES-CR, via registered pouch, number 6340142. English text of the let [...]
2008-11-18 16:00:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL OVIP SP
08MADRID1225SPAIN MAY PLANT IDEA OF NICARAGUAN RECOUNT AT EU
[...] (C) Poloff discussed November 9 Nicaraguan municipal elections and delivered points (ref A) November 20 to Spanish MFA Sub-Direct General for Mexican, Caribbean, and Central American Affairs Jorge Romeu Gonzalez-Barros. Romeu agreed there had been "serious irregularities" but cautioned that [...]
2008-11-21 21:15:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SP NI
08MADRID1226MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, NOV. 17-21
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-24 08:17:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET SP SCUL
08MADRID1228SPAIN RECEIVES DEMARCHE ON ANTI-ISRAELI BIAS IN
[...] (C) Reftel demarche was delivered November 19 to MFA Deputy Director General for the UN Juan Manuel Gonzalez de Linares and Deputy Director General for the Middle East Alberto Ucelay. Ucelay reiterated Spain's strong commitment to the MEPP and FM Moratinos' commitment to preventing unhelpf [...]
2008-11-24 12:44:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP UNGA IS PA
08MADRID1229SPAIN RECEIVES DEMARCHE ON NOVEMBER 26 ARAB LEAGUE
[...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East Alberto Ucelay received reftel demarche on November 21. Ucelay restated FM Moratinos' belief that the Annapolis Conference was an important step in facilitating efforts by Israelis and Palestinians to conclude a final, comprehensive peace. [...]
2008-11-24 12:45:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL KBWG AL SP
08MADRID1230SPAIN: CIVIL GUARD OFFERS INSIDER ACCOUNT OF ITS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a counter-terrorism (CT) conference co-sponsored by Embassy Madrid, General Pablo Martin Alonso, the Head of Intelligence for the Civil Guard -- known in Spanish as Guardia Civil (GC) -- discussed the role of the GC in detaining radical Islamic jihadists within Spain's borde [...]
2008-11-24 17:30:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPINR PINS PREL PTER SP
08MADRID1231SPAIN: ASSESSING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RECENT ETA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French police and Spanish Guardia Civil (GC) paramilitary forces conducted a joint raid in Cauterets, France early on the morning of November 17 in which they arrested ETA members Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina (aka "Txeroki" in Basque or "Cherokee" in English) and Leire Lopez Zu [...]
2008-11-24 17:34:00Embassy MadridSECRETPINR PINS PREL PTER SP FR
08MADRID1232SPAIN: MFA OFFICAL'S REMARKS ABOUT EU AND IAEA RE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Polcouns delivered reftel demarches November 25 to Gonzalo de Salazar, the MFA,s Sub-DG for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. On Iran, Salazar said the EU was in the process of finalizing a declaration that will be "very tough" about Tehran's failure to cooperate with the IAEA o [...]
2008-11-25 13:11:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM IAEA TRGY SP IR SY EU
08MADRID1235SPAIN: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING RESULTS FOR SOCOM
[...] (U) Pursuant to provisions of the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act, Post has carefully reviewed the human rights records of the following Spanish candidates who were intially invited to participate in the 4th Annual Sovereign Challenge Foreign Military Attache (FMA) conference, which [...]
2008-11-25 16:12:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDMOPS PREL PGOV PHUM SP
08MADRID1240SPAIN OK WITH EU BIOFUELS LANGUAGE; SUPPORTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. ESTHOFF reviewed reftel points on November 25 with Hugo Lucas Porta, Secretary General of the International Relations Department at the GOS Institute for the Diversification and Development of Energy (IDAE). In the recent past, Lucas has expressed skepticism of the proposed la [...]
2008-11-26 10:53:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG EAGR SENV ENRG TRGY EUN EU SP
08MADRID1251DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PROPOSED GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
[...] (U) FAS Counselor delivered reftel points on November 26 to Santiago Menendez, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Rural Development and Marine Affairs (which includes Agriculture). 2, (U) ESTHOff also delivered reftel points on November 25 to Enrique Yturriaga Saldanha, Subdir [...]
2008-11-26 15:44:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EAGR TBIO EAID PGOV SP
08MADRID1257MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, NOV. 21-28
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-28 16:22:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EIND EPET KIPR SP
08MADRID1262SPAIN: MFA ADDRESSES HOST OF NON-PROLIFERATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY. POLCOUNS and POLOFF on November 28 met Spanish MFA officials for a wide-ranging discussion on non-proliferation issues. Gonzalo de Salazar, the MFA's Sub-DG for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, and Carlos Torres, Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament discusse [...]
2008-12-02 12:18:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM PREL PTER SP SY IAEA IR VE
08MADRID1269FURTHER THOUGHTS ON SPAIN'S COUNTER-TERRORISM
[...] (C) SUMMARY. This cable continues the discussion from REFTEL, which examined recent Supreme Court acquittals of lower court convictions of radical Islamic jihadists. Most recently, the Supreme Court on October 7 overturned 14 of 20 convictions for a 2004 case known an Operation Nova; on Novem [...]
2008-12-02 17:39:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PTER KJUS SP
08MADRID1277SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DODD VISIT TO SPAIN DEC.
[...] (SBU) Embassy Madrid welcomes your visit. The Spaniards you meet will be eager to share their assessment of financial developments, Latin American issues, and bilateral relations. Our elections were closely followed here, and a strong atmosphere of goodwill and optimism has emerged for incre [...]
2008-12-04 11:20:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON OREP PREL SP
08MADRID128SPAIN DEPUTY FM LEON ON KOSOVO UDI
[...] (C) Deputy FM Bernardino Leon approached Charge at a luncheon speech given by President Zapatero in Madrid February 6, to inform that Spain remained unable to support EU consensus on Kosovo prior to Spain's March 9 elections. Leon reiterated previously raised concerns about the sensitivities [...]
2008-02-07 12:20:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP KV
08MADRID1280SPAIN: ALLEGED DETAINEE FLIGHTS ISSUE BLOWS UP IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A hot issue in the Spanish press since 2005, the detainee transfer flights that allegedly transited Spain from 2002 until 2006 have once again hit the headlines. The most recent flurry of reporting began November 30 when El Pais, Spain's leading newspaper, printed several stories bas [...]
2008-12-04 13:42:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALMARR PREF PGOV PTER KPAO SP
08MADRID1281REQUEST FOR INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING SPANISH DEFENSE
[...] (C) This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary: MOD Carme Chacon continues to voice, publicly and privately, her desire to see the U.S. elevate the Agreement on Defense Cooperation (ADC) to treaty status. Chacon describes this in terms of legal parity and equilibrium in the bilate [...]
2008-12-05 06:56:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR SP
08MADRID1282SPAIN'S VIEWS ON DECEMBER GAERC
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Spanish MFA Deputy European Correspondent Maria Luisa Benitez Donoso on December 4. Benitez said that the GAERC agenda will include the EU Enlargement, MEPP, the Congo, Pakistan, declarations on ESDP, and Solana's presentation of the European Security St [...]
2008-12-05 09:33:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EUN SP ZL IS PK CG TU
08MADRID1289MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, DEC. 1-5
[...] (U) According to the EU's Eurostat, Spain's unemployment rate for the month of October reached 12.8 percent, giving the country the highest rate in the EU for the 6th month running. Second Vice President and Minister of Economy Pedro Solbes has noted that unemployment is the primary concern of [...]
2008-12-09 07:40:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB SP
08MADRID1291SCENESETTER FOR CODEL NELSON VISIT TO SPAIN DEC.
[...] (U) Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit to Spain. U.S.-Spanish relations are strong and based on shared interests, including the fight against terrorism, the bilateral military relationship, our association in NATO, and rapidly expanding economic ties. The Spaniards you meet will be eag [...]
2008-12-09 11:12:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER OREP MARR SP
08MADRID1292SCENESETTER - CODEL DORGAN VISIT TO SEVILLE, SPAIN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit. You will be visiting Spain during a severe economic downturn, its first in 15 years. Spain has become a leader in the development of renewable energy - particularly wind power - as the result of implementing feed-in tariff subsidies. [...]
2008-12-09 11:38:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT ASEC BEXP OREP AFIN SP
08MADRID1293BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON
[...] (C) As per reftel request, Econoff spoke with Spanish company GECI Espanola representatives December 3 as part of a pre-license check on C-130 aircraft parts to Spain. Geci Project Manager Billy Noboa informed Econoff that the C-130 parts specified in reftel are not/not intended for the Spani [...]
2008-12-09 14:50:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALETTC KOMC SP
08MADRID1296SPAIN: CONTINUED RESERVATIONS RE CRITERIA-BASED
[...] (C) POLOFF met on December 9 with Carlos Torres, Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament in the MFA,s DG for Strategic Affairs & Terrorism, to discuss the revised Paragraphs 6 and 7 for the Nuclear Supplier Group's (NSG's) Guidelines for Transfers of Enrichment & Reprocessing E [...]
2008-12-10 11:58:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM SP TRGY ENRG ETTC
08MADRID1299SPAIN/CUBA: TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT
[...] (U) The information in this message is keyed to questions posed in reftel A, paragraph 5 and updates information reported in reftels B and C. 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? Spain played a leadership role in [...]
2008-12-11 12:21:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL SP CU
08MADRID13SPAIN WILL SUPPORT PIERRE-RICHARD PROSPER FOR UN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-09 09:35:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNGA SP
08MADRID1303HORN OF AFRICA PIRACY: FORMATION OF CONTACT GROUP
[...] (C) Polcouns delivered ref a demarche to Spanish MFA DG for Strategic Affairs and Terrorism Carmen Bujan December 12. Bujan said Spain, in principle, welcomed the formation of a contact group. She emphasized, as she and other GOS officials have in the past, that finding adequate judicial arr [...]
2008-12-12 11:26:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALMOPS PBTS PHSA PTER SP
08MADRID1304SPAIN: REACTION TO PLAN RE CONTINGENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: POLOFF on December 10 delivered REFTEL A non-paper to Carlos Torres, Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the MFA's Sub-DG for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. The Spaniard opined that he considered the USG proposal -- to make the implementation of the I [...]
2008-12-12 12:10:00Embassy MadridSECRETKNNP MNUC PARM PREL SY IAEA TRGY SP
08MADRID1306SPAIN: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) As requested in REFTEL A, Post's submission for the "2008 Country Report on Terrorism" follows in paragraph 2. POC for the CRT in Spain is Hugh Clifton. Telephone 34-91-587-2294, email: CliftonLH@state.gov. 2. (U) The Government of Spain and its citizens were concerned that their cou [...]
2008-12-12 17:25:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDPTER SP ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR
08MADRID1307SPAIN: INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] (U) As requested in REFTEL A, Post's submission for the "International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control," follows in paragraph 2. This report includes draft numbers for statistical information on seizures for the calendar year 2008. If information [...]
2008-12-12 17:28:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR SP KCRM
08MADRID1309MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, DEC 9-12
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-15 11:52:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ENRG SP
08MADRID1310DEMARCHE DELIVERED: US POSITION ON IEA 2009-2010
[...] Econoff delivered reftel demarche December 10 to MFA's Juan Luis Munoz de Laborde, explaining the US's position on funding the International Energy Agency (IEA) for the 2009-2010 budget and beyond. Munoz de Laborde, who is the Deputy Director for Multilateral Economic Relations, expressed his [...]
2008-12-15 12:40:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SP IEA
08MADRID1311SPAIN: 2008 COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN RESULTS (CFC)
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-15 14:54:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDAPER
08MADRID1318SPAIN: GOVERNMENT HOSTS IPR CONFERENCE, LAUNCHES
[...] In late November, the GOS hosted its second annual International Conference on Digital Content (FICOD),which included as a separate event an International Conference on Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment. The IPR Conference brought Spanish government officials together with co [...]
2008-12-16 13:09:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KCRM KIPR SP
08MADRID1320SPAIN SUPPORTS UN SPECIAL TRIBUNAL ON LEBANON
[...] (C) Spanish MFA desk officer Maria Luisa Huibrodo received reftel demarche and said that Foreign Minister Moratinos strongly supported the work of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). She affirmed that contributions for Lebanon would continue to be a major component of Spain's foreign as [...]
2008-12-16 18:09:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER LE SY UNSC EUN SP
08MADRID1337SPAIN UNVEILS COMPREHENSIVE HUMAN RIGHTS PLAN
[...] (U) SUMMARY. In conjunction with the 60th Anniversary of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Spanish Vice President Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega unveiled Spain's National Human Rights Plan (the plan) December 15 in New York. The plan, approved by Spain's Council of Ministers [...]
2008-12-19 11:23:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SP PREL PGOV
08MADRID1339MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, DEC 13-19
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-19 15:15:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB SP
08MADRID1341DEMARCHE: SECURITY SUPPORT FOR 2009 AFGHAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-22 09:52:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF SP
08MADRID1345FY 2009 PEDOPHILIA CERTIFICATION FOR THE WORLD
[...] (U) As per reftel, Econoff conducted an extensive review into the membership and affiliates of the UN's World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) to ensure that none of the WTO's associates or members condone pedophilia. Based on the review, Post determined that the UNWTO does not grant any official [...]
2008-12-22 13:22:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC PHUM SOCI SP
08MADRID1346IPR IN SPAIN: ROUND-UP OF RECENT NOTEWORTHY
[...] (U) On November 25, Spain's Congress issued a non-binding resolution calling on the GOS to develop a strategy to combat internet piracy. Separately, Culture Minister Molina announced that the government anticipates new regulations to protect online content. Content providers continue to com [...]
2008-12-22 13:22:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KCRM KIPR SP
08MADRID1351SPAIN: IPR PIRACY GETTING MORE ATTENTION
[...] (SBU) In addition to IPR-related developments reported in ref A, the Ministry of Culture recently unveiled a new IPR enforcement manual, prepared in concert with law enforcement agencies and rights-holders' organizations. Meanwhile, the country's largest copyright management society has come [...]
2008-12-22 16:29:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KCRM KIPR SP
08MADRID1358DEMARCHE RESPONSE: SPAIN HONORING EXISTING AID
[...] (C) Poloff discussed Nicaraguan municipal elections and conveyed points (ref A) to Spanish MFA Sub-Director General for Mexican, Caribbean, and Central American Affairs Jorge Romeu Gonzalez-Barros on December 23. Though Spain had been considering reducing its support to the Nicaraguan police, [...]
2008-12-24 10:26:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SP
08MADRID1359LUKOIL-REPSOL ROLE HIGHLIGHTS IMPORTANCE OF
[...] (C) Presidency Secretary-General Bernardino Leon confirmed in a December 22 dinner with the Ambassador that President Zapatero has tasked him with ensuring that Russian (and partly U.S.-owned) oil company Lukoil's pending purchase of a sizable stake in Spain's Repsol takes place on politically acce [...]
2008-12-24 12:20:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEINV EPET KBIO RU SP
08MADRID1362SPAIN TO MAINTAIN CIVIL NUCLEAR ENERGY, NO FURTHER
[...] (SBU) Summary. Civil nuclear power in Spain is being phased out. Nuclear power provides approximately 20 percent of Spain's electricity, and has remained relatively constant in recent years. Spain operates 8 nuclear reactors at 6 plants, as well as other nuclear facilities including a waste [...]
2008-12-29 12:38:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO SP
08MADRID1365ANNUAL REQUEST FOR STAFFING, EMPLOYMENT, AND
[...] (U) Econoff spoke with Carmen Molina, Director of Human Resources at the UN's World Tourism Organization (WTO),on December 30 to request the reftel budgetary and personnel information. As in prior years, Molina expressed regret that she was unable to provide the information requested since th [...]
2008-12-30 13:19:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDAORC APECO APER ECON KUNR OCED POL UN UNESCO
08MADRID1366SCENESETTER FOR JAN 8-9 VISIT OF ASSISTANT
[...] (SBU) Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit to Spain. U.S.-Spanish relations are strong and based on shared global interests, including the fight against terrorism, the bilateral military relationship, our association in NATO, and rapidly expanding economic ties. Your Spanish interlocutors [...]
2008-12-31 13:06:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SP
08MADRID137SPAIN: CHARGE DISCUSSES IPR, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM,
[...] (C) In a February 7 meeting with Spanish Secretary of State for Justice Julio Perez-Hernandez (Deputy Justice Minister equivalent) that focused primarily on our pending request to extradite alleged Syrian arms dealer Monzer Al-Kassar (SEPTEL),the Charge also raised USG concerns on intellectua [...]
2008-02-11 08:46:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KOCI KIPR ETRD ECON KIRF KJAN CVIS
08MADRID138SPANISH ELECTIONS: BASQUE NATIONALIST PARTY POISED
[...] (U) This cable is one of a series of reports analyzing key issues in select Spanish autonomous regions and the potential role the regions might play in the March 9 general elections (REFTEL A) and beyond. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The national vote in the Basque Country is expected to fracture bet [...]
2008-02-11 09:01:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SP
08MADRID141SPANISH ELECTIONS: PP MUST BUILD ON SUCCESS IN
[...] (U) This message is the second in a series of reports analyzing key issues in select Spanish autonomous regions and the potential role the regions might play in the March 9 general elections and beyond. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Partido Popular (PP) has held working control in the autonomous c [...]
2008-02-11 14:05:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SP
08MADRID142AMBASSADOR NULAND PRESSES SPANISH ON NATO/ISAF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO Victoria Nuland's January 16-17 visit to Madrid coincided with the announcement by the Secretary of Defense that the U.S. would deploy additional troops to Afghanistan, followed by misconstrued statements about the reliability of troop-contri [...]
2008-02-11 14:16:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALNATO MARR PREL PGOV SP
08MADRID143MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE - FEBRUARY
[...] (U) Registered unemployment rose by 132,000, or 6.2 percent, in January, the largest one-month increase in the 21 years that records have been kept in their current form. The month's increase was primarily concentrated in temporary employment, but the permanent sector is likely to be affected [...]
2008-02-11 17:02:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAIR ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ELTN ENRG ETRD
08MADRID151SPAIN MARCH ELECTIONS - PARTY PLATFORMS DEFINE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. With the approach of the March 9 general elections, the two main political parties, the conservative Partido Popular (PP) and the center-left Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol (PSOE) have released party platforms that define Spanish national priorities. The PP platform is a cle [...]
2008-02-13 11:42:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP
08MADRID158SPANISH DISAPPOINTED ON KOSOVO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-13 16:51:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL UNMIK UN OSCE YI SP
08MADRID159SPAIN/CUBA: GOS PRESENTS GOC WITH LIST OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Spanish Political Director Rafael Dezcallar told Charge that he presented Cuban Vice Minister for Global Issues Abelardo Moreno with a list of 20-30 Cuban political prisoners, including Oscar Biscet, and asked for their release during the second Spain-Cuba bilateral human rights [...]
2008-02-13 17:50:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM SP CU
08MADRID162SPANISH DISAPPOINTED ON KOSOVO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Spanish Political Director Rafael Dezcallar told Charge that Spain is disappointed that the U.S. did not agree to delay the timing of Kosovo's independence until after the Spanish elections. He said that Spain has not yet decided how it will respond in Brussels after the UDI, bu [...]
2008-02-14 12:06:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL UNMIK UN OSCE YI SP
08MADRID171THE ECONOMY'S IMPACT ON THE ELECTIONS
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Growing concern about the economy is getting a lot of attention as a possible factor in the March 9 elections. It would only require a shift of two or three points to move the election one w [...]
2008-02-15 11:58:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV SP
08MADRID174SPAIN WILL OPPOSE KOSOVO RECOGNITION AT GAERC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Spanish Political Director Rafael Dezcallar and Director General for North America and Europe Pepe Pons told DCM separately that Spain would oppose any EU consensus statement on Kosovo recognition in Brussels February 18. Separately, Spanish Deputy DG for ESDP Carlos Fernandez-Arias to [...]
2008-02-15 17:39:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL EUN SP KV IS
08MADRID175SPANISH POLDIR REQUESTS FULFILLMENT OF AOC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-15 17:44:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KISL UN SP
08MADRID176SPAIN ON RUSSIA-ABKHAZIA, KOSOVO PRECEDENT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-15 17:46:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP GG RU YI
08MADRID177SPAIN: ELECTION UPDATE FEBRUARY 15
[...] (SBU) Summary: Popular Party (PP) candidate Mariano Rajoy appears to be making a play for working class voters with messages on the economy (ref a),immigration, and public security. Some polls suggest voter participation may be slipping; virtually everyone agrees low turnout hurts President [...]
2008-02-15 17:58:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SP
08MADRID178SPAIN'S MARCH ELECTIONS: PP HOPING TO BREAK PSOE
[...] (U) SUMMARY. This cable is one of a series of reports analyzing key issues in select Spanish autonomous regions and the role the regions might play in the March 9 general elections (REFTEL) and beyond. Giving Andalucia its due, Partido Popular (PP) leader and Presidential candidate Mariano [...]
2008-02-15 18:13:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV SP
08MADRID179MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE - FEBRUARY
[...] (U) Speaking to an overflow audience at a February 15 event, Trichet argued for further structural reform in the Eurozone, citing particularly the need for more flexibility in the labor, products and services markets. He argued strongly that price stability was not inconsistent with job creat [...]
2008-02-15 18:25:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDBTIO EAGR ECON EFIN EINV ENRG KFRD SCUL SENV
08MADRID180SPAIN: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT
[...] (SBU) Per REFTEL, Embassy Madrid's Counterterrorism Working Group has collectively taken inventory of Spain's critical infrastructure and key resources and does not believe that the country possesses any CI/KR that, if destroyed, disrupted, or exploited, would have an immediate and deleterious [...]
2008-02-19 09:17:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC ECON PTER PREL PGOV ETTC EAID EAGER EFIN
08MADRID186SPANISH REACTION TO KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Moratinos' Chief of Staff Javier Sancho told DCM February 20 that it was politically impossible for Spain to support the Kosovar UDI at this time, and that this is the position of both the ruling PSOE government and the opposition Partido Popular (PP). Sancho said the Spanish have t [...]
2008-02-21 09:09:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL UNMIK UN PGOV YI EU KV SP
08MADRID201RWANDA/SPAIN: INTL ARREST ORDERS IN WORKS, NOT YET
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Post agrees with ref A assessment regarding the February 7 indictments issued by Spanish National Court Judge Fernando Andreu of 40 Rwandan military officials on charges of genocide. The overall implication of the indictment is that Tutsi leadership, including President Kagame, [...]
2008-02-22 14:28:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KLIG KJUS OFDP SP RW
08MADRID202SPAIN'S CONTRIBUTION TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: Following conversations with visiting CSTC-A Deputy Commanding General George (in Madrid for an MOD-sponsored conference on PRT's in Afghanistan),Deputy Chief of Mission Llorens sought meetings with senior MOD officials to discuss SECDEF's recent letter to MOD Alonso requesting [...]
2008-02-22 18:04:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP
08MADRID203FOLLOW-UP WITH GOS ON KOSOVO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Since FM Moratinos' comment (repeated by President Zapatero) that Kosovo's declaration of independence was "illegal," the Ambassador and DCM have had numerous conversations with senior GOS officials including Deputy FM Bernardino Leon, National Security Advisor Carles Casajuana, [...]
2008-02-22 18:16:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL UNMIK UN YI KV SP
08MADRID204SPAIN WILL CONTRIBUTE 2 ARMORED VEHICLES TO MFO
[...] According to Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East Alberto Ucelay, Spain has initiated the paperwork to transfer two armored vehicles to the MFO. He could not provide a delivery timetable, but said that, "the contribution reflected Spain's concern for regional stability a [...]
2008-02-22 18:21:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SP
08MADRID210DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON CHINA, INDIA IEA MEMBERSHIP
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-25 17:29:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDIEA SP
08MADRID211SPECIAL 301 SPAIN RECOMMENDATION
[...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. It is not repeat not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Embassy requests Washington agencies to consider an out-of-cycle review for Spain in October 2008. On March 9, parliamentary elections will be held in Spain and a new government [...]
2008-02-25 17:42:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KIPR SP
08MADRID212MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE - FEBRUARY
[...] (U) Second Vice President and Economy Minister Pedro Solbes debated Madrid PP parliamentary candidate Manuel Pizarro, who has the prestigious position of being number two on the Madrid list behind party leader Mariano Rajoy, on 2/21/08 on the Antenna 3 TV station. The debate lasted an hour an [...]
2008-02-25 17:57:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON ECPS EFIN EFIS EIND EINV ENRG SENV
08MADRID213SPAIN: ZAPATERO AND RAJOY FACE OFF IN FIRST DEBATE
[...] (C) Summary. There was a lot of wind-milling but no knockout blows landed during the 90 minutes of the February 25 debate. Each candidate's supporters claim victory, and we suspect undecided voters remain so. Neither candidate offered any new messages. Nevertheless, Rajoy probably did hims [...]
2008-02-26 13:46:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV SP
08MADRID215SPANISH GOVERNMENT DELEGATION CONFIRMED FOR WIREC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-27 08:39:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KPAO KSCA SENV SOCI TRGY KGHG
08MADRID218SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit. When you arrive, Spain will be 4 short days away from what is looking to be a very close March 9 general election. President Jose Luis Zapatero and his Socialist Workers party are slightly ahead in the polls, although the opposition Par [...]
2008-02-28 08:40:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID PREL SP
08MADRID224SPAIN INTERESTED IN SOMALIA PIRACY UNSCR
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for Sub-Saharan Africa Antonio Sanchez-Benedito on February 27. Sanchez-Benedito thanked Poloff and expressed Spain's serious interest in a possible UNSCR on Somali piracy for two reasons. First, as a nation particu [...]
2008-02-28 15:38:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKCRM PBTS PREL EFIS UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO SP
08MADRID225EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (SBU) Pursuant to REFTEL A, the following is input from Embassy Madrid and CG Barcelona for the eighth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Embassy POC is Political Officer Matt Osborne, Tel. (34) 91-587-2294, Fax. (34) 91-587-2391. Staff hours spent in preparation of this report are [...]
2008-02-28 16:04:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SP
08MADRID23SPAIN SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR NULAND'S JANUARY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: I warmly welcome your visit to Madrid in the company of your Spanish counterpart. I am pleased at the initiative taken by Ambassador Benavides, and I know that you will be well received by his colleagues and our contacts. When you arrive, Spain will be emerging from the Holidays [...]
2008-01-11 16:08:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MARR SP
08MADRID234SPAIN: NATIONAL COURT CONVICTS TWENTY FOR
[...] (U) The Spanish National Court (Audiencia Nacional) on February 27 convicted 20 of 30 suspected Islamist terrorists who were arrested in October 2004 (during Spain's so-called Operation Nova investigation) on charges of membership in a terrorist organization and plotting to destroy the National [...]
2008-02-29 19:03:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PGOV SP
08MADRID236MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL UPDATE - FEBRUARY
[...] (U) More evidence of the slowdown in housing came with the announcement that 32 percent fewer mortgages were issued in December 2007 than in December 2006. The average value of mortgages issued in the month also declined, by 2 percent to 144,000 euros, but it is not clear whether that represen [...]
2008-03-03 12:44:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ETRD EWWT PTER SP
08MADRID237DEMARCHE: DISCOURAGING EU DEVELOPMENT
[...] (C) POLCOUNS DELIVERED REFTEL DEMARCHE MARCH 3 TO MFA DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR IBEROAMERICA JAVIER SANDOMINGO, URGING THE GOS TO REINFORCE THE MESSAGE THAT EU DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE COMMISSIONER MICHEL'S VISIT TO CUBA WAS INOPPORTUNE, AND, IF THE VISIT WENT FORWARD, MICHEL SHOULD [...]
2008-03-03 12:53:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EUN CU
08MADRID246SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DEPUTY SECRETRY ROBERT
[...] Embassy grants clearance and warmly welcomes Deputy Secretary of Treasury Robert Kimmit, Robert Saliterman, SIPDIS Public Affairs Specialist, Eric Meyer, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe and Eurasia and William Lindquist, International Economist, Office of Europe and Eurasia to [...]
2008-03-05 11:51:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA EFIN
08MADRID274SPANISH ELECTIONS: NECK AND NECK IN THE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Two days away from the March 9 Spanish general election, the polls continue to suggest a close race with Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) perhaps enjoying a slight lead over Mariano Rajoy's Popular Party (PP). The only thing analysts seem to [...]
2008-03-07 11:21:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SP
08MADRID278SPANISH SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN PEACE
[...] (U) March 4, Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East Alberto Ucelay reviewed Spain's support for the Israel-Palestinian peace process, particularly in advance of the March 10-11 EU Foreign Minister's Meeting (GAERC). He said that Spain believed it was critically important to [...]
2008-03-07 15:58:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKMPI KPAL PREL IS SP
08MADRID280SPANISH REACTION TO ANTI-ISLAM VIDEO (C-DI8-00223)
[...] (S) Question A: Spanish security and intelligence services are currently on high alert in advance of the March 9 national elections. The March 11, 2004 train bombings in Madrid occurred just days before the last national elections, and Spanish officials are concerned about the possibility of [...]
2008-03-07 17:37:00Embassy MadridSECRETPINR KISL SP
08MADRID281SPANISH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF MARCH 10 GAERC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered GAERC demarche points to Spanish MFA Deputy Political Director for ESDP Carlos Fernandez-Arias on March 6. Fernandez-Arias said that the GAERC would be somewhat light this month. Javier Solana will brief on the Middle East and the EU will go forward with new I [...]
2008-03-07 17:44:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN ZL ZI IR GG IS SY LE
08MADRID282SPANISH SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN PEACE
[...] (U) March 4, Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East Alberto Ucelay reviewed Spain's support for the Israel-Palestinian peace process, particularly in advance of the March 10-11 EU Foreign Minister's Meeting (GAERC). He said that Spain believed it was critically important to [...]
2008-03-07 17:49:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKMPI KPAL PREL IS SP
08MADRID283VISIT TO SPAIN OF ELSA MOREJON, WIFE OF CUBAN
[...] (U) Elsa Morejon, wife of imprisoned Cuban dissident and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner Oscar Biscet, visited Spain March 4-7. Although the visit was unexpected (her arrival was not confirmed until a few hours before her flight to Madrid),we are convinced it was useful and important. M [...]
2008-03-07 17:51:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM CU SP
08MADRID285TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt met with Secretary of State for Economy David Vegara on March 6. Kimmitt expressed his confidence in the underlying strength of the U.S. economy. Both agreed that accounting rules would be very important for dealing with issues surrounding the p [...]
2008-03-10 09:51:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV KTFN SP IR
08MADRID286TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: On March 5, visiting Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt, accompanied by DCM, discussed with Bank of SIPDIS Spain (central bank) Deputy Governor Jose Vinals the U.S. and Spanish economic situations, sovereign wealth funds, and Iran. The Deputy Secretary said that the U.S. econom [...]
2008-03-10 09:53:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KTFN IR SP
08MADRID287MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE MARCH 1-7
[...] (U) The ICD came to an agreement with troubled real estate construction company Colonial owners Luis Portillo and Luis Nozaleda on 3/4/08. The Dubai fund will buy Colonial's bricks and mortar real estate assets and will end up paying something between euros 1.9 billion and 2.1 billion, i.e., [...]
2008-03-10 10:37:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EIND ENIV ENRG ETRD KIPR SP
08MADRID288ZAPATERO WINS REELECTION
[...] (U) Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) was the victor in the March 9 general election. The PSOE won 43.64 percent of the vote which will translate into 169 congressional seats (an absolute majority would be 176). Mariano Rajoy and the Popular Party (PP) won [...]
2008-03-10 10:44:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SP
08MADRID289TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Secretary Kimmitt, accompanied by DCM, discussed Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Afghanistan, and sovereign wealth funds with Spanish National Security Adviser Carles Casajuana in a March 6 meeting. Casajuana expressed pleasure that bilateral relations had evolved positively in recent [...]
2008-03-10 13:59:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEINV AF CU IR IZ KV SP
08MADRID293EMBASSY COMMENTS ON GOS SPECIAL 301 OBSERVATIONS
[...] Summary: The Embassy offers the following review of the Spanish government's observations (ref A) on the International Intellectual Property Alliance's (IIPA) Special 301 recommendation for Spain. Our review is keyed to the Spanish document. Our assessment (ref B) of Spain's copyright-related [...]
2008-03-11 12:20:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KIPR SP
08MADRID294TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S MEETING WITH
[...] (S) Summary: Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt, accompanied by DCM, met with Spanish Secretary of State for Security Camacho March 6. Camacho outlined the GOS' views of the threat from Islamic terrorism and emphasized the importance of exchanging information. He suggested the creation of a task for [...]
2008-03-11 13:18:00Embassy MadridSECRETECON EFIN KTFN SP IR
08MADRID301TERRORISM FINANCE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FOUR
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche March 10, notifying the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the recent E.O. 13224 designation of four Syria-based members of the Abu Ghadiyah network. Ivo Pascual, desk officer at the MFA's Directorate of Counter-Terrorism, accepted the additional informa [...]
2008-03-11 18:26:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC SY SP
08MADRID308IRANIAN TIES OF SPANISH BANKS SANTANDER AND
[...] (S/NF) Summary. The Bank of Spain, Spain's central bank, provided to post on March 7 a document summarizing activities that Bank Santander and Bank Sabadell have had or still have with Iran. The document is based on information the Bank of Spain received from the two banks on March 6 in response to [...]
2008-03-12 17:36:00Embassy MadridSECRET//NOFORNECON EFIN PTER PREL IR SP
08MADRID309SPAIN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON US-EU CLIMATE CHANGE
[...] Summary ------------ (SBU) EconCouns and ESTOff delivered reftel points to Teresa Ribera, GOS Director General for Climate Change in the Environment Ministry, in a March 11 meeting. DG Ribera does not expect any surprises for the U.S. from the European Council meeting this week. She said [...]
2008-03-12 18:28:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG SP
08MADRID312SPAIN/AL-KASSAR: EXTRADITION NOT LIKELY UNTIL NEW
[...] (C) The Spanish Council of Ministers (COM) on March 7 failed to discuss and approve the U.S. request for the extradition of Syrian arms dealer Monzer Al-Kassar during its final meeting before Spaniards went to the polls to elect Spain's next government. The Ambassador and DCM followed up with senio [...]
2008-03-13 16:38:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV SP
08MADRID313RWANDAN INDICTMENTS UPDATE
[...] (C) Post urges extreme caution in allowing Rwandan military personnel indicted by the Spanish judiciary to travel to the U.S. for government-sponsored training. We cannot predict how the Spanish judiciary or government may respond should it become known that an individual wanted in connectio [...]
2008-03-13 16:50:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM SP
08MADRID315SPANISH RENEWABLE ENERGY DELEGATION ENERGIZED BY
[...] (U) Post and the Spanish government organized a highly successful renewable energy mission of Spanish companies and GOS officials to Washington and Denver February 11-14. In Washington, the delegation, which was led by Ambassador Aguirre and the Spanish Secretary of State for Tourism and Comm [...]
2008-03-14 12:45:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ENRG KGHG SENV SP
08MADRID317MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL UPDATE MARCH 10-14
[...] (U) Two days after the elections, Second Vice President and Finance Minister Solbes told reporters that (GOS) analysts were now predicting 2008 GDP growth of between 2.5 and 2.7 percent. This is well below the 3.1 percent figure Solbes had cited earlier and much closer to other forecasts. The [...]
2008-03-14 15:04:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV ELAB ENRG KIPR SENV SP
08MADRID320SPAIN: IRAN ELECTIONS DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (U) Embassy made a strong case for the EU Presidency and Spain to issue statements regarding the Iran elections per reftel demarche. Alberto Ucelay, Deputy Director for Middle East Affairs at the Spanish MFA, said that they would consider our points, particularly with regard to the need for [...]
2008-03-14 16:30:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PHUM PREL SP IR
08MADRID33SPAIN WILL CONSIDER PUBLIC STATEMENT REGARDING THE
[...] (C) Demarche was delivered to Spanish MFA Near East Director Alberto Ucelay, who said that Spain did not have any plans to make a public statement on behalf of the National Council or the 30 detained Council members. He did ask for a copy of the White House Statement and said that the USG r [...]
2008-01-14 15:49:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKMPI PREL SY SP
08MADRID34SPAIN: POTENTIAL ECONOMIC BENEFIT OF EXPANDED
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During Libyan leader Qadhafi's first official visit to Spain, December 15-18, MOUs were concluded on defense, economic cooperation and investment. Negotiations are still underway on a double taxation treaty. Qadhafi's visit began with a private two-day visit to Andalucia, foll [...]
2008-01-14 15:58:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD LY SP
08MADRID342SPAIN SUPPORTS NEW SRSG FOR AFGHANISTAN KAI EIDE
[...] Poloff communicated full U.S. support for Norwegian Political Director Kai Eide in his new appointment as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Afghanistan (reftel). Spanish MFA's Chief of Continental Asia Policy, Pedro Arostegui Llama, reiterated March 14 Spain's stated [...]
2008-03-18 18:49:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SP AF
08MADRID346FREED CUBAN PRISONERS GRATEFUL TO PRESIDENT BUSH
[...] (U) On March 13, Ambassador Aguirre hosted a follow-up meeting with Omar Pernet and Alejandro Gonzlez-Raga. The two, until recently, had been political prisoners in Cuba. Both of these remarkable individuals individually pressed the Ambassador to personally convey their gratitude to President [...]
2008-03-19 14:56:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SP
08MADRID347DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON TAIWAN'S PARTICIPATION IN
[...] (C) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Deputy Director for Multilateral Economic Relations Juan Luis Munoz de Laborde. Econoff explained that while the US strongly supports enhanced OECD engagement with China, the US does not/not support China's proposal for an MOU to essentially restri [...]
2008-03-19 15:00:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ECON CMGT TW OECD SP
08MADRID348SPANISH ELECTION WRAP UP: ZAPATERO SET TO FORM
[...] (U) The absentee votes are in, and recounts have taken place in the most contested districts of Spain. The final electoral numbers for Spain's 350-seat Congress are as follows. The ruling Socialist party of President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (PSOE) - 169, the main opposition Partido Popular (PP [...]
2008-03-19 16:20:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SP
08MADRID349SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL REYES
[...] Embassy grants clearance and warmly welcomes Rep. Silvestre Reyes, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and Michael Delaney and Jeremy Bash, Professional Staff Members to Madrid, Spain from March 24 to March 28 for an official committee oversight visit. 2. Post [...]
2008-03-19 17:27:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT ASEC AFIN OREP OTRA
08MADRID350SPAIN: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SECRETARY WINTER,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: I warmly welcome your visit to Madrid, and I look forward to traveling with you to visit Spain's largest shipbuilder, Navantia, in the Galician town of El Ferrol. When you arrive, Spain will be emerging from Easter holidays and the aftermath of the March 9 general election, and al [...]
2008-03-20 10:18:00Embassy MadridSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR SP
08MADRID351SPAIN: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SECRETARY WINTER,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: I warmly welcome your visit to Madrid, and I look forward to traveling with you to visit Spain's largest shipbuilder, Navantia, in the Galician town of El Ferrol. When you arrive, Spain will be emerging from Easter holidays and the aftermath of the March 9 general election, and al [...]
2008-03-20 10:18:00Embassy MadridSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR SP
08MADRID363FY 2008 PEDOPHILIA CERTIFICATION FOR WORLD TOURISM
[...] (U) Per reftel, Econoff conducted an investigation into the membership of the World Tourism Organization (WTO),based in Madrid, to confirm that no members of this organization condone or seek the legalization of pedophilia. Based on this investigation, post believes that there is no reason to [...]
2008-03-28 08:58:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDSP PHUM SOCI AORC
08MADRID366NON-PAPERS DELIVERED REGARDING UNSCR 1803 AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-28 11:00:00Embassy MadridSECRETECON EFIN ETRD KNNP PREL PGOV MNUC IR SP
08MADRID370MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE - MARCH
[...] ECON/EFIN: 2008 Economic Growth Forecast at 2.5 Percent 2. ECON/EFIN: Budget Surplus Declines 3. EIND: Housing Sales Decline Continues 4. ECON/EFIN: Catalan Economy Minister Concerned About U.S., Global Woes 5. ELTN: Emboffs Meet with Rail Security Lead 6. ENRG: Renewable Electricity Cos [...]
2008-03-28 19:10:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ECPS EFIN EIND EINV ELTN ENRG EPET
08MADRID371DISCUSSIONS REGARDING SENDING SPANISH CIVIL GUARD
[...] (C) In Post's continued efforts to encourage the Spanish to do more in Afghanistan, Deputy Chief of Mission Llorens met on March 26 with Secretary of State for Security Antonio Camacho (Deputy Interior Minister equivalent) to discuss SECDEF's January 24 letter to MOD Alonso requesting Spain se [...]
2008-03-31 06:44:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP
08MADRID372MOD SECRETARY GENERAL FOR DEFENSE POLICY CUESTA ON
[...] (C) Deputy Chief of Mission Llorens met March 28 with MOD Secretary General for Defense Policy Luis Cuesta to discuss SIPDIS the Bucharest summit. He stressed the U.S. interest in enlargement (Croatia, Albania, and Macedonia) and our support for Georgian and Ukrainian aspirations to be part [...]
2008-03-31 06:45:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR SP
08MADRID373IMMIGRATION IN SPAIN: THE END OF EL DORADO?
[...] (U) Summary. According to several Spanish sources, Spain in recent years has received the second largest number of immigrants in the world after the U.S. During Spain's construction boom, this labor influx proved to be an important asset. However, as Spain's economy slows, and unemployment [...]
2008-03-31 06:49:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDSP ELAB ECON PGOV
08MADRID376MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR DEZCALLAR ON NATO SUMMIT,
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Chief of Mission Llorens met March 31 with MFA Political Director Rafael Dezcallar, making the case for a more robust Spanish effort in Afghanistan, urging that the Spanish weigh in with Greece on Macedonia's NATO membership, encouraging Spanish recognition of Kosovo and [...]
2008-03-31 16:45:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO SMIG MK GR BO CU SP
08MADRID38SPAIN: MARCH 2008 GENERAL ELECTION PRIMER
[...] (U) Summary: President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and Mariano Rajoy of the Popular Party (PP) will face off March 9, 2008, in a rematch of their 2004 contest. In other reporting we examine the candidates, parties, issues, and polls. Here we at [...]
2008-01-15 14:31:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SP
08MADRID393MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE - MARCH 31
[...] ECON: Business activity declining 2. SOCI/ECON: Call for immigrants 3. ECON: Ex-Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro to coordinate PP economic policy 4. EIND: National Competition Authority (CNC) to open investigation into egg, bread, chicken industries 5. ECON/EFIN: Madrid Autonomous Commu [...]
2008-04-07 15:16:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON EFIN EIND EINV ENRG EPET SOCI SP
08MADRID395SPAIN COMMITTED TO IMPLEMENTING THE TRAVEL
[...] (C) On April 4, Econoff delivered reftel demarche to MFA's Deputy Director General for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Ignacio Sanchez de Lerin Garcia Ovies who indicated that Spain would continue to carefully implement the travel ban and restrictions on individuals designated under UNSCRS 1 [...]
2008-04-08 11:42:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALMNUC KNNP IR UNSC SP ECON
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