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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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10DHAKA55LEAHY VETTING FOR SURVIVOR SUPPORT AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Survivor Support and Human Trafficking Laws for Police Officials and Public Prosecutors Course in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which will begin on February 26, 2010. Post vetting was com [...]
2010-01-18 06:32:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
10DHAKA56LEAHY VETTING FOR SURVIVOR SUPPORT AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Survivor Support and Human Trafficking Laws for Police Officials and Public Prosecutors Course in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which will begin on February 12, 2010. Post vetting was com [...]
2010-01-18 06:56:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
10DHAKA6LEAHY VETTING FOR SURVIVOR SUPPORT AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Survivor Support and Human Trafficking Laws for Police Officials and Public Prosecutors Course in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which will begin on January 29, 2010. Post vetting was comp [...]
2010-01-03 08:52:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
10DHAKA61GOVERNMENT TRUMPETS ACHIEVEMENTS OF PRIME
[...] (C) Since her return from a state visit to India on January 13, 2010, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Government have trumpeted the trip as an unbridled success which will produce tangible benefits for both Bangladesh and the region. For her part, opposition leader Khaleda Zia has charac [...]
2010-01-19 09:41:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM PHUM IN BG
10DHAKA62STAFFDEL AHUJA DISCUSSES ENVIRONMENT AND INDIA,
[...] (SBU) Professional Staff Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Jasmeet Ahuja's January 12 - 14 visit to Bangladesh highlighted the importance of cooperation between the U.S. and Bangladesh to combat terrorism and climate change. Ahuja also pressed Bangladesh to lift its trade boyco [...]
2010-01-19 09:52:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR KDEM PHUM IS BG
10DHAKA63PARLIAMENT RECONVENES; BNP OPPOSITION CONTINUES
[...] (U) Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman opened Parliament's fourth session on January 4 by calling for unified government action and a proper role for the opposition. Although the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party continued its boycott of Parliament plenary sessions during the opening, th [...]
2010-01-19 10:06:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINS PHUM BG
10DHAKA64GOVERNMENT OF BANGLADESH OFFERS TO SEND A MEDICAL
[...] (SBU) In a meeting with the Defense Attach on January 18, the Principal Staff Officer of the Armed Forces Division declared that the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) wished to send a medical team of 30 to assist in relief efforts in Haiti. It will be led by an Army Colonel and comprised of 10 [...]
2010-01-19 10:40:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA BG
10DHAKA65EMBASSY DHAKA SUPPORT FOR EDA LANDING SHIP, TANK
[...] (SBU) Bangladesh's senior navy and civilian leadership, including the Prime Minister's national security advisor, have repeatedly expressed interest in acquiring Excess Defense Articles (EDA) ships from the United States to help upgrade and modernize Bangladesh's Navy. Approving the transfer [...]
2010-01-19 10:42:00Embassy DhakaSECRET//NOFORNMASS MCAP PINS PREL KPKO BG
10DHAKA70EMBASSY DHAKA FINAL REPORT FOR 2009 COMBINED FEDERAL
[...] (U) Embassy Dhaka's final report for the 2009 Combined Federal Campaign is as follows: 2. (U) Total number of donors: 6 3. (U) Total dollars pledged: $18,791.24 4. (U) Number of employees qualifying for Eagle Award: 2 5. (U) Number of employees qualifying for Double Eagle Award: 0 [...]
2010-01-21 05:46:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDAPER
10DHAKA71PACIFIC COMMAND SUPPORT FOR BANGLADESH SHOWCASED
[...] (C) A January 12-13 visit to Bangladesh by Professional Staff Members from the Senate Armed Services Committee highlighted the integration of U.S. Pacific Command programs with U.S. Mission Dhaka's efforts to support development, deny space to terrorists and extremists, and enhance democracy. [...]
2010-01-21 06:33:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS EAID PTER PHUM MASS MCAP SNAR BG
10DHAKA74LEAHY VETTING FOR INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE MANAGEMENT COURSE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the International Defense Management Course in USA, which will begin on February 06, 2010. Post vetting was completed on January 24, 2010. Post requests that vetting be completed b [...]
2010-01-24 08:07:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
10DHAKA75LEAHY VETTING FOR BASIC INSTRUCTOR COURSE AND INSTRUCTIONAL
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Basic Instructor Course and Instructional System Designer Course in USA, which will begin on February 26, 2010. Post vetting was completed on January 24, 2010. Post requests tha [...]
2010-01-24 08:10:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
10DHAKA76LEAHY VETTING FOR UNITED NATIONS STAFF OFFICERS COURSE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the United Nations Staff Officers Course (UNSOC) In Malaysia, which will begin on March 01, 2010. Post vetting was completed on January 24, 2010. Post requests that vetting be compl [...]
2010-01-24 08:11:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
10DHAKA77LEAHY VETTING FOR CIVIL MILITARY LIAISON OFFICERS (CMLO)
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in Civil Military Liaison Officer (CMLO) Course in Bangladesh, which will begin on February 7, 2010. Post vetting was completed on January 24, 2010. Post requests that vetting be com [...]
2010-01-24 08:18:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
10DHAKA78LEAHY VETTING FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the International Peacekeeping Operations Contingent Commander Course (PKOCCC) in USA, which will begin on February 15, 2010. Post vetting was completed on January 24, 2010. Post [...]
2010-01-24 08:20:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
10DHAKA8BANGLADESH CONSIDERS UNAMID HELICOPTER REQUEST BUT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-04 08:59:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDBG KPKO MARR
10DHAKA82BNP CHAIR ZIA SLAMS AWAMI LEAGUE, PROMOTES
[...] (C) Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chair Begum Khaleda Zia alleged Awami League abuses and slights toward her party to visiting PDAS Moon and the Ambassador on January 21, decrying the AL's denial of a proper role in Parliament for the BNP as the lead opposition party. She reiterated the [...]
2010-01-27 01:16:00Embassy DhakaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINS PINR ECON SOCI KDEM BG
10DHAKA83LEAHY VETTING FOR ATA - IDENTIFYING AND DEVELOPING
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the ATA - Identifying and Developing Investigative Information from February 21 to March 4, 2010, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Post vetting was completed on 01/27/2010. Post requests tha [...]
2010-01-27 07:48:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
10DHAKA85NEW INDIAN ENVOY UPBEAT ON BANGLADESH TIES
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-27 08:24:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM PHUM IN BG
10DHAKA86BANGLADESH: AN IDEAL FEED THE FUTURE FOCUS COUNTRY
[...] Bangladesh is an ideal candidate to serve as the Asian focus country for the USG's Feed the Future (FTF) Initiative. This Muslim majority nation of more than 150 million people, where poverty and malnutrition rates remain high, places a very high priority on ensuring food security. The effec [...]
2010-01-27 08:40:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON EAID PREL PGOV SOCI KPAO BG
10DHAKA87BANGLADESH BACKS COPENHAGEN ACCORD AND LOOKS AHEAD
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST -------------------------- 2. (C) Minister of Environment Dr. Hasan Mahmud told visiting PDAS Patrick Moon on January 21 that Bangladesh would join the Copenhagen Accord and that he was hopeful about further progre [...]
2010-01-27 09:06:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALSENV ENRG KGHG BG
10DHAKA88BANGLADESH SCENESETTER FOR U/S MCHALE
[...] (C) Undersecretary McHale, we look forward to welcoming you to Bangladesh, a secular democracy with a moderate Muslim-majority population of nearly 160 million people that is friendly to the United States. U.S. engagement with Bangladesh to help develop its democracy and economy and countert [...]
2010-01-27 10:08:00Embassy DhakaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL KPAO ECON PINR PINS KDEM PTER BG
10DHAKA89LEAHY VETTING FOR MCIP IN THAILAND, 15 - 19 FEBRUARY 2010
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Multinational Communications Interoperability Program (MCIP) in Thailand, which will begin on 15 February, 2010. Post vetting was completed on January 28, 2010. Post requests th [...]
2010-01-28 08:50:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
10DHAKA902010 BFIF REQUEST FROM BANGLADESH
[...] Mission Dhaka requests funding from the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) for training of economic-commercial staff and consultations with the Foreign Commercial Service (FCS) office in Kolkata. In the last three years, our commercial workload has increased dramatically, and our sma [...]
2010-01-28 10:12:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ECON PREL BG
10DHAKA91TRIBAL LEADER ATTACKED IN CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS
[...] (C) On January 27, tribal leaders favoring the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord came under attack on their way to a meeting of the CHT Land Commission in Khagrachhari district headquarters. CHT Regional Council Chairman Shantu Larma and a few others sustained minor injury in the [...]
2010-01-31 06:10:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR ASEC PREL PHUM KDEM BG
10DHAKA92ON THE RIGHT TRACK: PDAS MOON VISIT HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (C) In January 21 meetings at the Foreign Ministry, SCA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Moon and the Ambassador underscored opportunities for closer U.S.- Bangladesh cooperation on a wide range of issues including regional integration, refugees, and multilateral issues. The Foreign Mi [...]
2010-01-31 08:54:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UN KVIR PINR BM KN BG
10DHAKA99BANGLADESH: OPEN TO DIALOGUE BUT NON-COMMITTAL, ON
[...] (C) During a visit by DRL Senior Advisor Ambassador Michael Kozak, the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) expressed its openness to alternatives to a United Nations resolution banning defamation of religions. Interlocutors stressed Bangladesh,s commitment to religious tolerance and fundamental [...]
2010-02-03 02:15:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UN KVIR PINR BG
10DILI17TFHA01: TIMOR-LESTE TO DONATE USD 500,000 TO HAITI
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-26 08:16:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID PGOV PREL PREF TT
10DILI19PM GUSMAO SEEKS TO VISIT WASHINGTON IN 2010
[...] In a discussion with the Ambassador on January 26, 2010, Timor-Leste Foreign Minister da Costa reported that Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao would like to visit Washington at some point during 2010. The Prime Minister hopes to meet with appropriate USG counterparts, including at the White House [...]
2010-01-28 09:00:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL TT
10DILI21REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING: ILEA TRAINING BANGKOK
[...] (U) Action request: Post requests Departments' assistance in vetting the following candidates who have been nominated for training, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. 2. (U) Training: Computer Crime Investigations Course, 22F [...]
2010-02-01 01:50:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS PGOV SOCI TT
10DILI22REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING: ILEA TRAINING BANGKOK
[...] (U) Action request: Post requests Departments' assistance in vetting the following candidates who have been nominated for training, pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. 2. (U) Training: Supervisory Criminal Investigator Course, [...]
2010-02-01 01:50:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS PGOV SOCI TT
10DILI26TIMOR-LESTE: SAME-SEX DOMESTIC PARTNER ACCREDITATION
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche, Ambassador Amorim Dias, National Director for Protocol, Consular, and Legal Affairs at the MFA told the DCM in a February 1 meeting that he did not anticipate any problem with the GOTL accrediting same-sex partners of U.S. diplomats assigned to Timor-Leste. [...]
2010-02-03 01:50:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER AMGT TT
10DILI27TIMOR-LESTE: INFORMATION ON CHILD LABOR AND FORCED LABOR
[...] Summary: Child labor in Timor-Leste remains pervasive and difficult to quantify (see ref B for further background). Children work in agriculture, as street and market vendors, and as domestic laborers. Although there is some anecdotal evidence to suggest that underage girls have been forced i [...]
2010-02-04 06:38:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI TT
10DILI30BLUE LANTERN CHECK DILI CASE 050209036
[...] Summary: Post completed Blue Lantern check, case number 050209036, Dili Defense and Supplies (DDS) on February 9. According to DDS and Policia Nacional Timor-Leste (PNTL) there was an initial agreement to order grenade launchers and pepper spray. The order never materialized and both parties ha [...]
2010-02-09 08:13:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC TT
10DILI37VISAS VIPER 2010 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT
[...] The Ambassador chaired a meeting of Post's Visas Viper committee on February 9, 2010. State, USAID, Justice, and DOD participated. 2. Post has no information to report for the February 2010 reporting period. KLEMM [...]
2010-02-17 06:30:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC TT
10DILI38TIMOR-LESTE PLANNING TO ASSOCIATE WITH THE COPENHAGEN
[...] (SBU) National Director for Bilateral and Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Isilio Coelho responded favorably to the reftel demarche points conveyed by the DCM on February 9. According to Coelho, the GOTL is inclined towards associating with the Copenhagen Accord. A fin [...]
2010-02-18 05:53:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KINR TT
10DILI4VISAS VIPER: DECEMBER 2009 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT
[...] Charge d'Affaires chaired a meeting of Post's Visas Viper committee on December 1, 2009. State Department, USAID, and Defense Department meeting. 2. Post has no information to report for the December 2009 reporting period. 3. Post's Visas Viper coordinator is Michael P. Taylor [...]
2010-01-05 02:30:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDKVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC TT
10DILI40TIMOR-LESTE: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR PARTICIPANT IN ASIA
[...] (U) Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting the following candidate, who has been nominated for Asia Pacific Center for Strategic Studies' Executive Course on Advanced Security Cooperation training from April 28 to June 16, 2010 in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Fore [...]
2010-02-19 03:31:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MARR MOPS PINR TT
10DILI42TIMOR-LESTE: S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Dili submits the following two proposals for consideration for the 2010 Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI) small grants initiative. Our first choice is the Caukus Feto Iha Politika (Women's Political Caucus),an organization founded to promote women's p [...]
2010-02-19 08:32:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWMN PREL KPAO PHUM AID CDC COM TSRY TT
10DILI43TIMOR-LESTE: S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Dili submits the following two proposals for consideration for the 2010 Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues (S/GWI) small grants initiative. Our first choice is the Caukus Feto Iha Politika (Women's Political Caucus),an organization founded to promote women's p [...]
2010-02-22 06:58:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWMN PREL PHUM AID CDC COM TSRY TT
10DILI44TIMOR-LESTE: PRESIDENT RAMOS-HORTA CONDEMNS IRANIAN HUMAN
[...] (SBU) On February 8, DCM met with Jose Turquel, Foreign Policy Advisor to President Ramos-Horta, and, per ref instructions, urged the GOTL to issue a public statement condemning the ongoing human rights violations in Iran. On February 9, DCM conveyed the same message to Isilio Coelho, Nationa [...]
2010-02-22 07:00:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM TT
10DILI48TIMOR-LESTE ENDS BAN ON IMPORT OF U.S. POULTRY
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (U) On February 19, USAID Mission Representative and Poloff met with Secretary of State for Livestock Valentino Varela from the Ministry of Agriculture and Dr. Rui Carvalho, National Director for the Directorate of Quarantine. [...]
2010-02-25 08:14:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ETRD TT
10DILI49USS REUBEN JAMES VISITS TIMOR-LESTE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The USS Reuben James visited Timor-Leste February 21-24 and completed highly successful military-to-military engagements, humanitarian engineering projects, and community relations activities. Led by the Chief of the Timorese Defense Forces (F-FDTL),the F-FDTL engaged with the [...]
2010-02-25 08:23:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MCAP PGOV TT
10DILI9NEW UN REP ARRIVES AS DRAWDOWN ASSESSMENT STARTS
[...] SUMMARY: Ms. Ameerah Haq, the new Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to Timor-Leste (SRSG),took up her post on January 6, 2010. One of her first tasks is to assist the UN Technical Assessment Mission that is in Dili from January 11-18 to make recommendations on drawing down th [...]
2010-01-13 09:01:00Embassy DiliUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON ETRD TT ASEC
10DJIBOUTI100DJIBOUTI: MISHANDLED SOMALI REFUGEE RETURN STRAINS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In mid-November, 43 Somalis rescued in international waters by a Dutch military ship and off-loaded in Djibouti were repatriated by the Government of Djibouti (GODJ) to Mogadishu (Ref A). UNHCR claimed that this constituted refoulement. The GODJ maintained that UNHCR was awar [...]
2010-02-07 10:35:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF DJ SO UNHCR PREL SMIG
10DJIBOUTI113DJIBOUTI SUPPORTS COPENHAGEN ACCORD
[...] (U) EconOff discussed reftel points with Director of Environment Dini Omar Abdallah January 26. Abdallah reports to Minister of Housing and Environment Elmi Obsieh Waiss, and travelled to Copenhagen as part of Djibouti's Conference of the Parties delegation (headed by Prime Minister Dile [...]
2010-01-27 12:52:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KGHG SENV ENRG DJ
10DJIBOUTI117Leahy Vetting - Fouad Elmi Waiss
[...] (C/NF) Summary and Action Request: Post has thoroughly examined derogatory material reported Ref C concerning MAJ Fouad Elmi Waiss, Djiboutian Liaison Officer to CJTF-HOA, and finds nothing to substantiate allegations of his involvement in extra-judicial killing. Post recommends that Fo [...]
2010-01-31 12:48:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRET//NOFORNPINS PHUM DJ
10DJIBOUTI121DJIBOUTI: LIKELY NOT SENDING CITES DELEGATION
[...] (U) EconOff discussed the upcoming Conference of the Parties (reftel) for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) with Director of the Environment Dini Omar Abdallah January 26. Abdallah explained that because Djibouti signed CITES befo [...]
2010-02-01 08:27:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV UNEP DJ
10DJIBOUTI125DJIBOUTI - FRENCH PRESIDENT SARKOZY'S JAN 19 VISIT
[...] (S/NF) Summary: During a brief stop-over in Djibouti January 19, French President Nicholas Sarkozy met with Djiboutian President Ismael Omar Guelleh for a wide-ranging discussion that included China's role in Africa, climate change, Eritrea's role in the region, the African Union, Frenc [...]
2010-02-02 09:53:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRET//NOFORNPREL PINR DJ FR ER CH AU
10DJIBOUTI127DJIBOUTI: ASD VERSHBOW AND GODJ DISCUSS STRONG BILATERAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During separate January 24 meetings, visiting Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for International Security Affairs Alexander Vershbow discussed Yemen, Somalia, and Eritrea with Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Minister of Defense [...]
2010-02-02 12:05:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MOPS KPKO KPIR DJ YM ER SO
10DJIBOUTI129DJIBOUTI POLITICAL UPDATE: REGIONAL GOVERNOR SHUFFLE; MORE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a rare shakeup, the national Council of Ministers named three new regional governors on January 26. Two of the three new appointees are from the same sub-clan as Aden Robleh Awaleh, the only ruling coalition partner to have publicly rejected a constitutional amendment allowin [...]
2010-02-03 12:46:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM DJ
10DJIBOUTI133DJIBOUTI: VISAS VIPERS STATUS REPORT FOR JANUARY 2010
[...] (U) VISA VIPERS 2. (U) The VISA VIPERS Committee chaired by DCM Wong convened February 1, 2010. Representatives from POL, RSO, ORA, PD, CONS, DAO, NCIS, and MGT were in attendance. 3. (S/NF) All reported no submissions for VISA VIPERS, with the exception of GRPO. 4. (S/NF [...]
2010-02-04 10:32:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRET//NOFORNCVIS PTER ASEC PINR DJ KVPR
10DJIBOUTI135DJIBOUTI: EAC DISCUSSES AL-SHABAAB THREAT
[...] (S/NF) Core members of Post's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met February 2 to discuss recent threat reporting regarding U.S. service members (ref A),review current security conditions, and determine whether there was a need to increase our security posture. GRPO stated that this reporti [...]
2010-02-04 14:30:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRET//NOFORNASEC CASC MOPS PTER DJ SO
10DJIBOUTI165DJIBOUTI: FOREIGN MINISTER UPDATE ON SOMALIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a February 10 meeting with visiting Director of the National Defense University's Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) Ambassador William Bellamy, Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf assessed the current situation in Somalia with pragmatism, concern, and [...]
2010-02-10 15:59:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER SO SU YM DJ ET KE
10DJIBOUTI181CHINA IN DJIBOUTI
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. China cemented diplomatic ties with Djibouti one year after independence in 1977, and for thirty years has provided bilateral gift aid and loans, mostly in the form of popular standalone infrastructure and building projects. In 2009, China's involvement in Djibouti continued to [...]
2010-02-11 15:44:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID ECON DJ CH
10DJIBOUTI186DJIBOUTI: DECEMBER-JANUARY ECON-ESTH ROUNDUP
[...] (U) This message contains business-sensitive information. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) In this issue: --Djibouti associates with Copenhagen Accord --Strong banking sector growth benefits both newcomers and the long-established --Limited progress on Djibouti-Iceland geothermal dea [...]
2010-02-17 08:06:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EWWT ENRG KTDB SENV BEXP DJ
10DJIBOUTI187DJIBOUTI ASSOCIATES WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD
[...] EconOff delivered ref A points on association with the Copenhagen Accord to Director of Environment Dini Omar Abdallah January 26 (ref B). 2. Djibouti formally associated with the Copenhagen Accord on February 2. In his official letter associating with the Accord to the Exe [...]
2010-02-17 08:23:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KGHG SENV ENRG DJ
10DJIBOUTI191DJIBOUTI: LAST UNDECIDED RULING COALITION PARTNER SUPPORTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. President Guelleh's last undecided and undisputedly most important ruling coalition partner has declared its support for a constitutional amendment allowing him to run for a third term in office in 2011. Yet while the FRUD ("Front for the Restoration of Democracy and Unity") did [...]
2010-02-17 09:16:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KPAO PHUM SO DJ
10DJIBOUTI193DJIBOUTI: 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS SUBMISSION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This message contains Embassy Djibouti's 2010 trafficking in persons (TIP) submission. Responses are keyed to ref A numbering and lettering. Since the late 2007 passage of Djibouti's comprehensive anti-TIP law, awareness and acknowledgement of TIP as an important challenge con [...]
2010-02-17 10:07:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KTIP SMIG PREF PHUM KWMN ASEC KFRD ELAB KMCA DJ
10DJIBOUTI195DJIBOUTI: GEN WARD MEETING WITH DJIBOUTIAN CHOD MG FATHI
[...] (C) Summary: In a friendly hour-long meeting with AFRICOM Commander General William Ward on February 10, Djiboutian Chief of Defense Staff Major General Fathi Ahmed Houssein reviewed threats from Yemen, Somalia, and Eritrea and appealed for additional U.S. assistance to preserve Djibout [...]
2010-02-17 13:07:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRET//NOFORNPINS PTER MOPS MASS DJ ER SO YM
10DJIBOUTI199DJIBOUTI: S/CT AMBASSADOR BENJAMIN AND GODJ NATIONAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Djibouti's key security concerns include Eritrean sponsorship of al-Shabaab fighters as well as ethnic-Afar rebels, al-Qa'ida forces allying with al-Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen, and maintaining the loyalty of Somali TFG forces combating Islamic extremists, according to Djib [...]
2010-02-22 05:34:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRET//NOFORNPTER PINS PREL EAID MASS DJ SO ER YM
10DJIBOUTI203DJIBOUTI/FRANCE - Public Spat over GOF Reliability as Ally
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-22 08:44:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PINS MASS PBTS DJ ER FR
10DJIBOUTI28DJIBOUTI: FISCAL TRANSPARENCY
[...] In FY10, the GODJ receives--and is expected to continue to receive--U.S. foreign assistance as defined in ref A. 2. The GODJ makes budget information publicly available on a regular basis. Citizens may access budget information in a variety of ways: --Through budget legislation published [...]
2010-01-11 13:15:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EINV EFIN PREL DJ
10DJIBOUTI3DJIBOUTI: AT RISK "BETWEEN YEMEN AND SOMALIA," GODJ ASKS FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-04 18:33:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL ASEC MASS DJ SO YM
10DJIBOUTI31DJIBOUTI: FONMIN REPORTS MORE ERITREAN PLOTTING
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-13 16:21:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS DJ ER
10DJIBOUTI35EMBASSY DJIBOUTI HOLDS EAC TO DISCUSS TERRORISM AND VISAS
[...] (SBU) Per ref A, Post convened an Emergency Action Committee (EAC) meeting on January 13 to review VISAS VIPERS procedures. Attendees included: DCM (chair),CONS/PD, ORA, MGT, NCIS, OBO, acting RSO, DATT, and USAID. 2. (U) EAC members reviewed the purpose and procedures for "VISAS [...]
2010-01-19 06:25:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALASEC CVIS PTER PINR DJ
10DJIBOUTI37DJIBOUTI: SCENESETTER ON SECURITY ISSUES FOR ASD VERSHBOW
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Embassy Djibouti warmly welcomes Assistant Secretary of Defense Vershbow and his party to Djibouti. A stable, moderate Muslim ally, Djibouti not only hosts Camp Lemonnier -- the only U.S. military base in Africa -- but also key USG broadcasting facilities used by Arabic-language R [...]
2010-01-19 12:00:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALMOPS MASS PREL PHSA DJ SO AU YM ER IR
10DJIBOUTI5VISITING SOMALILAND FOREIGN MINISTER ON SECURITY, ASWJ, AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a January 4 meeting with Ambassador, visiting Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi Mohamed Duale stressed Somaliland's ongoing focus on security threats, including potentially heightened targeting from al-Shabaab during upcoming elections. Duale said that Somaliland was in [...]
2010-01-05 07:04:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER EWWT ETRD SO DJ ET
10DJIBOUTI52DJIBOUTI PLANNING FOR AMISOM CONTINGENT
[...] SUMMARY. From January 11-15, Djibouti National Armed Forces (FAD) senior staff planners joined U.S. Africa Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) planners to conduct a Peace Support Operations (PSO) Training Strategy Conference. The purpose of the conference was to develop Dj [...]
2010-01-19 12:04:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MOPS MASS KPKO DJ SO
10DJIBOUTI54DJIBOUTI PLANNING FOR AMISOM CONTINGENT
[...] SUMMARY. From January 11-15, Djibouti National Armed Forces (FAD) senior staff planners joined U.S. Africa Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) planners to conduct a Peace Support Operations (PSO) Training Strategy Conference. The purpose of the conference was to develop Dj [...]
2010-01-19 14:02:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MOPS MASS KPKO DJ SO
10DJIBOUTI66DJIBOUTI: FY10 BFIF PROGRAM PROPOSAL
[...] SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. Embassy Djibouti, a non-Commercial Service post, requests USD 3,500 in FY10 BFIF funds (ref A) to organize a three-day workshop on entrepreneurship in Djibouti before October 2010. The proposed workshop--to be executed in collaboration with the Djiboutian National [...]
2010-01-25 10:27:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP BTIO EINV ETRD ECON DJ
10DJIBOUTI7DJIBOUTI: FONMIN AND CHOD ON IMPACT OF SANCTIONS ON ERITREA
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-07 16:23:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS DJ ER UNSC
10DJIBOUTI72DJIBOUTI: CHILD LABOR AND FORCED LABOR INFORMATION
[...] (U) This message contains Post's responses to Ref A taskers one and two. --------------------------------------- TASK ONE: FORCED OR EXPLOITATIVE CHILD LABOR IN THE PRODUCTION OF GOODS --------------------------------------- 2. (U) Post has no/no evidence that goods originating in Djibou [...]
2010-02-01 08:21:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI DJ
10DJIBOUTI77AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - DJIBOUTIAN PRESIDENT GUELLEH
[...] (SBU) On January 24, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf informed Ambassador that President Ismail Omar Guelleh will lead Djibouti's delegation to the 2010 African Union Summit in Addis Ababa. 2. (SBU) Arrival and departure times are currently unknown. Contact information: Presumably [...]
2010-01-24 14:28:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OVIP AORC DJ AU
10DJIBOUTI95DJIBOUTI: U.S. HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE TO HAITI DEMARCHE
[...] PolOff delivered reftel points and non-paper January 25 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Multilateral Relations Mariam Ahmed Goumaneh. 2. Goumaneh said that the GODJ's main interaction with Haiti had historically been through the International Organization of Francophonie; Dji [...]
2010-01-25 14:31:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF EAID ECON HA DJ
10DJIBOUTI97DJIBOUTI: DISTRACTED DRIVING DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] Poloff discussed reftel points January 25 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Multilateral Relations Mariam Ahmed Goumaneh. Goumaneh indicated that while the GODJ was concerned about road safety, the specific issue of text messaging while driving had not been addressed in Djibou [...]
2010-01-25 14:31:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDELTN SOCI DJ
10DOHA22QATAR INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-20 07:10:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC QA
10DOHA23JANUARY 18 DARFUR TALKS IN DOHA: OFFICIAL
[...] Below is the English-language communique provided to Embassy Doha by Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the outcome of January 18 consultations on Darfur. 2. Begin Communique: In the framework of the ongoing efforts by the international community to find a solution to the Darfur confl [...]
2010-01-20 13:13:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM SU QA
10DOHA24Engaging Al Jazeera on Haiti
[...] (SBU) On Sunday, January 17, Al Jazeera's English (AJE) news channel, headquartered in Doha, began running inaccurate coverage of U.S. and international relief efforts in Haiti. At times, the coverage used inflammatory language, such as accusing the U.S. military of setting up a "mini-Green Zo [...]
2010-01-20 13:50:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO KDEM QA HA
10DOHA25PALESTINIAN AMBASSADOR GIVES EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF
[...] (C) At a January 14 meeting with Ambassador, Palestinian Ambassador Mounir Abdullah Ghanim offered a firsthand account of Imam Yousef Al-Qaradawi's January 8 sermon in which he called for the death of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The remarks were delivered during Friday prayers at Doh [...]
2010-01-21 08:46:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL WBG QA
10DOHA26PALESTINIAN AMBASSADOR GIVES READOUT ON ABBAS-AMIR
[...] (C) At a January 14 meeting with Ambassador, Palestinian Ambassador Mounir Abdullah Ghanim recounted the conversation that took place between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Amir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani during Abbas's January 5 visit to Doha. The conversation focused on elections in [...]
2010-01-21 08:47:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL WBG EG IS QA
10DOHA27ENERGY DEPSEC RECEIVES OVERVIEW OF QATAR'S ENERGY
[...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister (also Minister of Energy and head of Qatar Petroleum) Abdullah Al-Attiyah welcomed Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman December 10, saying that he welcomed the renewed contact with the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) under Secretary Chu. Al-Attiyah said before meeting S [...]
2010-01-21 10:08:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALENRG PREL TRGY EPET QA
10DOHA28OIL AND GAS PRICE ALIGNMENT AND THE NEW HEAD OF
[...] (U) During the opening of the 9th Ministerial Meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF),the Amir of Qatar Shaykh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani called for the alignment of gas prices with oil prices. In his remarks, the Amir urged GECF members to explore the reasons for the disparity b [...]
2010-01-21 13:36:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG ECON QA IR RS
10DOHA39EGYPTIAN DCM: CAIRO TO THWART ANY QATARI
[...] (C/NF) Adham Naguib, Egypt's DCM at its Embassy in Qatar (strictly protect),told P/E Chief Rice January 26 that the Egyptian Government is determined to thwart any initiative that Qatar proposes during its current term as president of the Arab League, just for the sake of thwarting it. Nagui [...]
2010-01-28 11:47:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KWBG KPAL EG SU QA
10DOHA40FRENCH ENVOY EXPRESSES OPTIMISM, FRUSTRATION WITH
[...] (C) In a January 26 conversation with Poloff Caudill, French Special Envoy for Sudan Issa Mauraut expressed his frustration at the slow pace of the Darfur peace talks. He said that representatives of factions in Darfur come to Doha and drag out the process, as if wanting to lengthen their sta [...]
2010-01-28 13:15:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL AU SU FR QA
10DOHA42IRANIAN AMBASSADOR ANNOUNCES DEAL ON MARITIME
[...] (SBU) At a January 6 press conference widely reported in local English and Arabic news outlets, Iranian Ambassador to Qatar Abdulla Sohrabi announced that Iran and Qatar had reached an "initial agreement" on the demarcation of their maritime border. He noted that Iran recently reached a simil [...]
2010-02-01 13:24:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS IR YE QA
10DOHA43U.S.-ISLAMIC FORUM: SUGGESTED TALKING POINTS TO
[...] (U) As you prepare for the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, please find below some suggested talking points from Embassy Doha for you to use while here. They are designed to help promote the President's Muslim engagement agenda as outlined in his June 2009 address in Cairo. But first, our t [...]
2010-02-02 10:31:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OVIP OREP OTRA QA
10DOHA52SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR KERRY'S VISIT TO QATAR
[...] (C) Mr. Chairman, Embassy Doha welcomes your visit to Qatar. We have requested host-country meetings for you with the Amir and Prime Minister on the margins of the U.S.-Islamic Forum. You would be the first Congressional visitor to meet in Doha with Qatari officials since Speaker Pelosi in M [...]
2010-02-08 09:50:00Embassy DohaSECRETPREL OVIP OREP KWBG KPAL QA
10DOHA53FRENCH EMBASSY READOUT OF SARKOZY'S DISCUSSION
[...] (S) French Political Counselor Brigitte Curmi shared with P/E Chief Rice February 7 the readout that the French Embassy in Doha received of President Sarkozy's February 4 discussion in Paris with Qatar's Heir Apparent Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on the latter's just concluded visit to Tehran. Acc [...]
2010-02-08 09:50:00Embassy DohaSECRETPREL IR FR QA
10DOHA55QATARI PERSONAL DEBT: MANAGABLE - FOR NOW
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-09 08:43:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN QA
10DOHA60QATAR JANUARY 2010 VISAS VIPER MEETING AND
[...] (U) VISAS VIPER 2. (U) POST: DOHA MEETING DATE: 08-FEB-2010 CHAIR: DCM NANTONGO COORIDINATOR: GRANT GUTHRIE ATTENDEES: DCM, CONOFF, POL/ECON, RAO, DAO, LEGATT, OSC, RSO MEETING NOTES: DCM CHAIRED AND OPENDED THE MEETING. 3. (SBU) THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS PROVIDED FOR WATCHLISTING PURPOSES A [...]
2010-02-11 05:03:00Embassy DohaSECRETPINR ASEC CVIS KVPR PGOV PTER QA SIPRS
10DOHA64IRANIAN NAVAL VISIT TO QATAR COINCIDES WITH ANNUAL
[...] (U) An Iranian missile Corvette and a logistical support vessel arrived February 13 at the Port of Doha. The vessels' arrival coincided with the opening of the annual U.S.-Islamic Forum, hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and organized by Brookings. The ships are scheduled to leave Doh [...]
2010-02-16 13:38:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR IR QA
10DOHA69QATARI MFA OFFICIAL'S PERSPECTIVE OF HEIR
[...] (C) MFA Director for Asian and African Affairs Zayed Al-Naemi told P/E Chief Rice February 21 that the February 3 visit by Heir Apparent Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to Tehran, which had been planned for several months, should be seen through the prism of Qatar's need of "dealing with Iran as a ne [...]
2010-02-23 07:06:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL IR QA
10DOHA7SENIOR APPOINTMENTS UNDERSCORE AL-MAHMOUD
[...] (SBU) In December, the MFA announced the appointment of several officials to key positions within the ministry. Several of those officials, including the new head of Asian and African Affairs Zayed bin Rashid Al Naemi, have worked in the office of Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Al [...]
2010-01-07 12:54:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PINB QA
10DOHA70SENATOR KERRY'S MEETING WITH QATAR'S AMIR
[...] (C) Senator Joh Kerry (D-MA),the Chairman of the Senate Foreig Relations Committee(SFRC),joined by Ambassador,P/E Chief, and SFRC staff member Dr. Jonah Blank met February 14 with the Amir of Qatar, Hamad bn Khalifa Al Thani. The meeting took place at Waba Palace, the residence of the Amir [...]
2010-02-23 10:47:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG KPAL IR QA
10DOHA71SENATOR KERRY'S MEETING WITH QATAR'S PRIME MINISTER
[...] (C) The Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC),Senator John Kerry (D-MA),accompanied by Ambassador, P/E Chief and SFRC staff Frank Lowenstein and Fatema Sumar, met February 13 with Prime Minister (and Foreign Minister) of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ). HBJ [...]
2010-02-24 09:44:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG KPAL IR QA
10DOHA74LEADERS SIGN DARFUR DEAL IN DOHA
[...] (SBU) At a ceremony held in Doha February 23, the Government of Sudan and representatives of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) signed a ceasefire and 12-point framework agreement which when fully implemented will give JEM a share of power in the Sudanese government. Present were Amir Ha [...]
2010-02-24 13:52:00Embassy DohaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM SU QA
10DOHA8SCENESETTER FOR U.S.- QATAR MILITARY CONSULTATIVE
[...] (C) The eleventh meeting of the U.S. - Qatar Military Consultative Committee (MCC) is scheduled for 11-15 January 2010 in Washington DC. The last MCC between Qatar and the U.S. took place in March 2007. Brigadier General Abdulla Juma'an, Chief of International Relations, (referred to as "Gen [...]
2010-01-07 14:13:00Embassy DohaSECRETMARR MASS PREL QA
10DUBAI1RAK Airport Sleepy, but with Residual Russian Connection
[...] (C) Summary: The Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) Airport is attempting to reinvent itself as a cargo transit point for the RAK Free Zone in the wake of RAK Airways suspension of regular commercial flights in late 2008. The airport is also working to distance itself from its reputation as a transport facilitat [...]
2010-01-07 07:41:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON PGOV PREL AE
10DUBAI11UAE HOSTS PAKISTAN INVESMENT FORUM
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Foreign Ministers of the UAE and Pakistan co-hosted on January 26 a Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FoDP) conference to promote public-private partnership (PPP) in Pakistan. The conference sought to encourage regional and international interest in investment opportunities in P [...]
2010-02-04 13:24:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALETRD KIPR EFIN ECON PREL AE PK
10DUBAI13UAE's RAS AL KHAIMAH: OPEN FOR BUSINESS, BUT STRUGGLING TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ras Al-Khaimah's (RAK) effort to grow its economy by offering incentives to international investors has attracted primarily small-scale traders, including from Iran, and thereby drawn scrutiny from UAE federal authorities concerned about illicit Iranian activity in the country. O [...]
2010-02-07 10:44:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALETRD KIPR EFIN ECON PREL AE
10DUBAI14UAE Media Reaction: New TSA Security Screening
[...] SUMMARY: Emirati editorials this week express anger and disappointment over new TSA air screening measures of U.S.-bound passengers from 14 specific countries. While acknowledging a need to address terrorist threats, the recent screening measures are widely decried as discriminatory and rac [...]
2010-01-07 13:26:00Consulate DubaiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO KMDR AE
10DUBAI15Blue Lantern: Pre-License Check on Licenses 050209916 and
[...] (SBU) Poloff conducted a Blue Lantern pre-license end-use check with with Claremont Aviation CEO Mahmood Rattansi and Claremont Aviation Vice President Manny Gamboa on January 27 as requested in reftel. Claremont Aviation was previously "Claremont Real Estate." Rattansi changed the name of th [...]
2010-02-08 11:01:00Consulate DubaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC AE
10DUBAI19UAE RELEASES DETAILS OF HAMAS ASSASSINATION SUSPECTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Dubai police have publicly released details of their investigation into the January 19 assassination of senior Hamas commander Mahmoud al Mabhouh. Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Chief of Dubai Police, held a press conference on February 15 in which he shared informa [...]
2010-02-17 13:24:00Consulate DubaiSECRETPREL ASEC PTER IS AE
10DUBAI25RAK and Sharjah Customs Authorities Seek Capacity Building
[...] (C) Summary: In early February, Emboffs met with Customs and Port Officials in the Northern Emirates of Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) Sharjah to discuss EXBS training programs for customs officers. ISN officer and regional EXBS officer provided an overview of the EXBS program, provided background inform [...]
2010-02-21 06:56:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL PGOV AE
10DUBAI27Iranian Gas Deliveries to Sharjah Remain on Hold
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sharjah-based Crescent Petroleum executives tell Consul General that the company's project to purchase unprocessed sour gas from Iran's Salman gas field remains suspended pending Iranian completion of export facilities to deliver the gas. But they believe progress is underway, due [...]
2010-02-25 09:55:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG PREL ETTC IR IZ AE
10DUBAI29U.S. Credit Cards linked to Mabhouh Assassination
[...] (C//NF) Summary: The Dubai Police released new details of their investigation into the killing of Hamas leader Mahmoud al Mabhouh February 24, including the names of an additional 15 suspects (bringing the total to 26) and the numbers of 14 credit cards issued by a U.S. bank allegedly used by t [...]
2010-02-25 10:51:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ASEC PTER IS AE
10DUBAI34U.S. Companies Seek Overdue Payment in Dubai
[...] (SBU) Summary: Following months of advocacy by the Consul General and FCS, some Dubai government-linked companies have begun initial steps to address outstanding payments owed to U.S. companies that provided services and delivered on projects during Dubai's property boom. Dubai Holding, a co [...]
2010-01-26 09:19:00Consulate DubaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETRD ECON PGOV AE
10DUBAI5Labor Strike Over Unpaid Wages
[...] (C) Summary: On December 22, 60 Robust Contracting Company staff employees went on strike over three months' unpaid wages. This is the third known labor strike in 2009 (reftel). Representatives from the Ministry of Labor (MOL),Dubai Police, and National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking a [...]
2010-01-24 12:55:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALELAB PHUM PGOV EFIN KTIP AE
10DUBAI7Dubai-based Companies Transition to New Wage Protection
[...] (C) Summary: The UAE Ministry of Labor (MOL) issued a decree on the "protection of wages" in September 2009 affecting all the emirates, including Dubai. The Wage Protection System (WPS) is an electronic salary payment system meant to shield the UAE's massive foreign labor population from dela [...]
2010-01-25 12:37:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALELAB PHUM EFIN KTIP PGOV AE
10DUBLIN12THE IRISH GOVERNMENT'S VIEW ON THE NORTHERN
[...] (C) Summary: On January 13, the Ambassador spoke with an official in the Irish Prime Minister's office about the January 12 meeting between Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin and UK Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward. The Ambassador also spoke to Woodward himself. In addition, Econ [...]
2010-01-14 17:34:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UK EI
10DUBLIN13AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH WEAPONS DECOMMISSIONERS
[...] C) SUMMARY: The group charged with overseeing the decommissioning of paramilitary weapons in Ireland told us that weapons decommissioning has been accomplished to a great extent, but not completely. Completing devolution of policing and justice remains crucial to the peace process; failure t [...]
2010-01-15 08:13:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UK CVIS EI
10DUBLIN6UPDATE ON IRELAND'S EFFORTS TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite recent negative media attention, Ireland has made significant strides in addressing instances of trafficking in persons (TIP) within its borders. At present, 57 investigations are ongoing, with a single case before the courts. A further three individuals were convicted [...]
2010-01-08 15:08:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EI
10DUBLIN65IRELAND - TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-24 10:47:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EI ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KTIP KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
10DUBLIN69TIT FOR TAT IN DUBLIN: MINISTER SARGENT RESIGNS
[...] (C) Summary: On February 23, former Minister for Food and Horticulture Trevor Sargent (Green Party -- GP) resigned after a letter he wrote in 2008 was leaked to the press. Sargent admitted that the letter, written to Garda (Irish police) on behalf of a constituent, "could be considered unlawf [...]
2010-02-24 14:00:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EI
10DURBAN10IFP LEADERSHIP BATTLE CONTINUES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The redeployment of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) National Chairperson Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi has deepened fissures within the party. KaMagwaza-Msibi's supporters claim certain IFP leaders are attempting to separate her from her constituency ahead of the party's elective conf [...]
2010-02-22 09:52:00Consulate DurbanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SF
10DURBAN14MURDER OF FORMER IFP SUPPORTER THWARTS ANC HOPE FOR A LOCAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Three Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members have been arrested for the murder of a councilor who was expected to cast a deciding vote that would end the IFP's majority in the Amajuba District Municipality. This incident reveals the ongoing power struggle between the IFP and the [...]
2010-02-26 09:50:00Consulate DurbanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SF
10DURBAN3IS THE ANC AS DEMOCRATIC AS IT CLAIMS?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. What began as a Durban road blockade in 2005 has become a shack-dwellers movement in South Africa. Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM, which means `those who live in the shacks' in Zulu) now includes thousands of shack-dwellers from more than 30 informal settlements throughout the co [...]
2010-01-08 15:48:00Consulate DurbanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI SF
10DUSHANBE103INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS AGREE ON UNIFIED ROGHUN MESSAGE
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Gross convened a meeting of heads of diplomatic missions in Dushanbe to discuss a common approach to the government of Tajikistan's campaign to force its citizens to contribute to the construction of the Roghun dam. Attendees agreed on a two-pronged strategy: They wou [...]
2010-01-21 12:02:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALEFIN PHUM ENRG EAID IMF TI
10DUSHANBE104TAJIKISTAN: 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-25 06:25:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC PGOV USTR TI
10DUSHANBE107UZBEK-TAJIK TRANSPORT -- OFF THE RAILS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A tit-for-tat over rail shipments highlights the Tajik rail system's dependence on Uzbekistan for its international transport. After Uzbekistan delayed Tajik railcars carrying construction materials for hydroelectric projects, Tajikistan responded by holding up Uzbek trains. Tas [...]
2010-01-25 11:55:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALELTN PREL ETRD UZ TI
10DUSHANBE108TAJIK ELECTIONS: RULING PARTY LEADER PRAISES PRESIDENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Newly appointed Deputy Chairman of the ruling People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan (PDPT),Safar Safarov, told Ambassador Gross that his party is ready for February 28 parliamentary polls and pledged to run a fair campaign. Safarov is "ready for debates" but set conditions t [...]
2010-01-26 03:25:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM TI
10DUSHANBE112TAJIK ELECTIONS: CCER PROMISES FULL ACCESS FOR MONITORS,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Central Commission for Elections and Referenda (CCER) Chief Mirzoali Boltuev promised to enforce President Rahmon's call for free and fair elections in a January 25 meeting with Ambassador Gross. Boltuev said foreign and local election observers would have full access to monito [...]
2010-01-26 11:49:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM TI
10DUSHANBE113DEMARCHE DELIVERED: LONDON CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) Embassy Dushanbe delivered points in reftel on January 22 to Farhod Salim, Director of the North America and Europe Department at Tajikistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Salim said the MFA had no immediate comment on the U.S. goals at the London Conference on Afghanistan, but he had ma [...]
2010-01-27 03:22:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF TI
10DUSHANBE117A CASE-STUDY IN ROGHUN EXTORTION
[...] (C) Summary: The experience of the U.S. micro-finance institution FINCA offers a case study in the subtle and not-so-subtle efforts by the Tajik government to extort funding for the Roghun hydroelectric dam. Employees at all but one of FINCA's 34 offices in Tajikistan have been told to contri [...]
2010-01-27 12:19:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALECON KCOR EFIN PGOV PHUM TI
10DUSHANBE123TAJIK COURTS EXTORT, JAIL ISLAMISTS AND THEIR PLUMBER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tajik courts issued stiff sentences to individuals convicted of membership in two outlawed Muslim fundamentalist organizations as members of a third banned group stand trial. Dushanbe city court convicted seven individuals who follow the banned Salafiya movement, although the c [...]
2010-01-29 11:56:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KISL TI
10DUSHANBE143EXBS: TAJIKISTAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - JANUARY
[...] Site Assessments a) On January 20 the EXBS Staff and the ODC Counter Narcotics Program Manager visited Nizniy-Pyanj border crossing to meet the new Customs Port Director. The EXBS Staff examined the EXBS funded Rapiscan luggage x-ray scanner at the passenger processing terminal and the [...]
2010-02-02 11:59:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP SNAR TI
10DUSHANBE149INTERIOR MINISTER - THAT'S NOT MY ANTI-AMERICAN SCREED
[...] (C) Summary: Following the issuance of a pamphlet claiming that the United States Government intentionally supported the narcotics industry in Afghanistan during the 1980s to destroy the Soviet Union, the Minister of Internal Affairs (MVD) told Ambassador that the pamphlet was unauthorized and [...]
2010-02-03 11:49:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL PGOV PTER ASEC TI
10DUSHANBE150RELIGIOUS MINORITY GROUPS FACE RED TAPE, NOT CLOSURE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Most of Tajikistan's previously registered religious groups and nearly all mosques completed mandatory re-registration with the Department of Religious Affairs (DRA) before their January 1, 2010 deadline. The Dushanbe synagogue was not able to re-register because of a land owne [...]
2010-02-03 14:41:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KRFR TI
10DUSHANBE156MEDIA CRACKDOWN: OFFICIALS SUE NEWSPAPERS FOR MILLIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tajik judges, a Ministry, and a government agency hit five of Tajikistan's independent newspapers with separate lawsuits in what could be the death knell of media freedom in the country. On January 25, three judges sued three newspapers for publishing a defense attorney's statem [...]
2010-02-04 11:21:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KPAO KDEM SCUL TI
10DUSHANBE157TAJIKISTAN: DEMARCHE ON DISTRACTED DRIVING
[...] (U) Per reftel, Embassy delivered the demarche on distracted driving on January 29 by diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and provided a non-paper containing the key issues of concern. The Ministry did not have immediate answers to the questions posed in the demarche. Post will [...]
2010-02-05 07:39:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDECON SOCI UNDP UNGA EU TI
10DUSHANBE165TAJIK ELECTIONS: THE CAMPAIGN THAT WASN'T
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pro-Rahmon parties and MPs are well-positioned to expand their dominance of the Majlisi Namoyandagon in February 28 parliamentary elections. Opposition parties have waged lackluster campaigns, mostly relying on local officials to arrange their meetings with constituents. Indepe [...]
2010-02-09 03:30:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV TI
10DUSHANBE1702010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT FOR TAJIKISTAN
[...] (U) Enclosed is Embassy Dushanbe's submission for the 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report. As outlined in reftel, we have paraphrased the text of each question and then provided answers based on discussions with non-governmental organizations, Tajik authorities, and other relevant officials. [...]
2010-02-10 12:22:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KTIP TI
10DUSHANBE171IMPACT OF ROGHUN CAMPAIGN ON U.S. ASSISTANCE GOALS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Tajik government stresses electricity shortfalls as a serious threat to living standards and economic growth, and rightly so, but refuses to confront key causes of the shortfall, or to pursue to the most effective solutions. Instead, it insists that building mega-hydro-proje [...]
2010-02-11 10:27:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN ECON SOCI PHUM TI
10DUSHANBE172TAJIKISTAN SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SRAP HOLBROOKE
[...] (C) Summary: U.S. interests in Tajikistan are a stable state on Afghanistan's northern border, support for our military efforts in Afghanistan, and for Tajikistan to be a stabilizing influence and contributor to economic development in the region. Tajikistan gives unrestricted over flight righ [...]
2010-02-12 10:10:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EAID ECON EINV TI
10DUSHANBE173CORRECTED COPY - TAJIKISTAN SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SRAP
[...] (C) Summary: U.S. interests in Tajikistan are a stable state on Afghanistan's northern border, support for our military efforts in Afghanistan, and for Tajikistan to be a stabilizing influence and contributor to economic development in the region. Tajikistan gives unrestricted over flight rights, [...]
2010-02-16 13:41:00Embassy DushanbeSECRETPREL PGOV PHUM EAID ECON EINV TI
10DUSHANBE176IMF TAKES STAND ON ROGHUN; SOME SAY NOT STRONG ENOUGH
[...] (SBU) Summary: An IMF team recently completed a two-week visit to Dushanbe to assess economic and government performance before releasing further funding under its Extended Credit Facility (ECF). A central issue was the government's campaign to fund the Roghun hydroelectric dam. The IMF outl [...]
2010-02-17 08:06:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ETRD PHUM IMF TI
10DUSHANBE203TAJIK ELECTIONS: IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE 2005
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The week before parliamentary elections, opposition party leaders reported an uptick in government harassment of their activities and a concurrent increase in local officials' support for People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan (PDPT) candidates. Security officials briefly det [...]
2010-02-18 12:27:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM TI
10DUSHANBE207S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS FROM DUSHANBE
[...] (U) Summary: Post nominates four projects, in order of priority, to be considered for funding under the Women's Issues Small Grant Initiative. From highest to lowest priority are the following projects: Tradecraft Training for Girls (NGO New Generation); Guaranteeing Women's Land Rights (NGO B [...]
2010-02-19 12:06:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV ECON TI KWMN PREL KPAO
10DUSHANBE215DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER TALKS RELIGION AND ELECTRICITY
[...] (SBU) Deputy Foreign Minister Abdullo Yuldashev summoned Ambassador Gross on February 25 to discuss a range of religious, economic, and political issues. On May 18-20, Tajikistan will host an Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) Foreign Ministers summit in Dushanbe and will invite U.S. Spec [...]
2010-02-25 11:41:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KISL TI
10DUSHANBE223SRAP HOLBROOKE'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT RAHMON
[...] (C) Summary: In a one hour forty five minute meeting on February 20, President Rahmon reiterated his commitment to supporting U.S.-led efforts in Afghanistan and complained at length about Uzbek efforts to obstruct regional cooperation. Ambassador Holbrooke urged Rahmon to work with President [...]
2010-02-26 08:43:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG ETRD EINV AF PK UZ TI
10DUSHANBE229NEWSPAPERS STAND FIRM IN COURT, EMBASSY ISSUES STATEMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In preliminary court hearings in Dushanbe, editors in chief of four independent newspapers called libel lawsuits filed against them by government officials "groundless". On February 23, representatives of Asia-Plus, Farazh, Ozodagon and an attorney, Solijon Juraev, appeared in [...]
2010-02-26 11:49:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KISL TI
10DUSHANBE23FOOD SECURITY UPDATE FOR TAJIKISTAN
[...] The food security situation in Tajikistan has been slightly better through the first ten months of 2009 compared to 2008, according to World Food Program's December update. Surveys showed that as of October 2009, 22% of households were moderately food insecure and 9% were severely food insecu [...]
2010-01-05 06:53:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ELAB SOCI TI
10DUSHANBE26TAJIK ELECTIONS: MONITORS TO BE DEPLOYED, BUT OBSERVERS
[...] (SBU) USAID, the European Commission (EC),and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) are funding election observation, party training, and voter education projects for the February 28 elections to the Tajik lower house of parliament (Majlisi Namoyandagon). USAID imple [...]
2010-01-05 12:44:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM TI
10DUSHANBE27TAJIK ELECTIONS: RAHMON SHOWS RULING PARTY WHO'S BOSS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the pre-election congress of the People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan (PDPT),which dominates both houses of the Tajik Parliament (Majlisi Oli),President Rahmon won unanimous re-election as PDPT chairman and installed his son on the party's central committee. He dismissed [...]
2010-01-05 12:47:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM TI
10DUSHANBE29TAJIK ELECTIONS: LE GRAND BLEU: KABIRI'S PRAGMATIC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Muhiddin Kabiri, Chair of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT),expressed pessimism that the Tajik government would follow through on President Rahmon's repeated promises to run a free and fair February 28 parliamentary election, during a meeting with Ambassador Gr [...]
2010-01-06 11:55:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM TI
10DUSHANBE37AHMADINEJAD IN TAJIKISTAN, CALLS TIES "STRATEGIC"
[...] (SBU) Summary: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad paid a 24-hour state visit to Dushanbe. He signed economic and social agreements with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, few of which were new or substantive. The Iranians committed to provide $6 million to complete the long-delayed Istiqlol [...]
2010-01-07 11:00:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ENRG ECON TI IR
10DUSHANBE4TAJIK EARTHQUAKE IMPACT LESS SEVERE THAN REPORTED
[...] Summary: A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck eastern Tajikistan on the morning of January 2. Embassy contacts and others with direct knowledge of the area said a few hundred households have been affected by the earthquake, far short of the 20,000 figure widely reported in the international medi [...]
2010-01-04 12:04:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM CACS TI
10DUSHANBE44EXBS: TAJIKISTAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORT DECEMBER 2009
[...] Site Assessments a) On December 15 the Lead EXBS Program Management Assistant and the EXBS Program Management Assistant visited the construction site of the Nuclear Radiation Safety Agency (NRSA) laboratory. The Lead EXBS Program Management Assistant and the EXBS Program Management Ass [...]
2010-01-08 12:37:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP SNAR TI
10DUSHANBE51TAJIK GOVERNMENT BLOCKS WEBSITES, THEN BACKS DOWN
[...] (SBU) On January 11, the Tajik government ordered Internet providers to block access to two Internet news sites: centrasia.ru and ariana.su. The providers immediately implemented the order. The next day, the sites were back up. The brief blocks are a sign that government would like to silenc [...]
2010-01-12 16:39:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM TI
10DUSHANBE52DAM IF YOU DO, DAMNED IF YOU DON'T: ROGHUN PRESSURE MOUNTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 6, the Tajik government inaugurated nationwide sales of shares in the Roghun hydroelectric dam project, using extortion and intimidation to pressure individuals and organizations to buy stock. As part of an unprecedented multi-media campaign, all four state televisio [...]
2010-01-13 09:02:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PHUM ENRG EINV TI
10DUSHANBE55TAKING A STAND AGAINST THE ROGHUN EXTORTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Representative Luc Moers (protect) said the government's campaign to extort money from the population for the construction of the Roghun hydroelectric dam appeared to violate the terms of the IMF's current assistance to Tajikistan. He s [...]
2010-01-13 13:06:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALEFIN PHUM ENRG EAID IMF TI
10DUSHANBE67TAKING A STAND AGAINST THE ROGHUN EXTORTION (*** CORRECTED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Representative Luc Moers (protect) said the government's campaign to extort money from the population for the construction of the Roghun hydroelectric dam appeared to violate the terms of the IMF's current assistance to Tajikistan. He s [...]
2010-01-14 11:18:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALEFIN PHUM ENRG EAID IMF TI
10DUSHANBE82MAYOR MEETS AMBASSADOR, CONFIRMS EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE
[...] (C) Summary: In a platitude-ridden meeting, Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev said upcoming elections would be free and fair, that contributions to the Roghun Dam were voluntary, and that the losses suffered by the United States in Afghanistan were felt by Tajiks as their own. Ubaidulloev [...]
2010-01-15 11:18:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TI
10DUSHANBE93BUDGET TRANSPARENCY IN TAJIKISTAN
[...] (U) Following are post's responses to reftel regarding transparency of the government of Tajikistan's central budget. -- Is the central government expected to receive funding under the FY 2010 SFOAA? 2. (SBU) Yes. The U.S. government is expected to provide assistance to the central gover [...]
2010-01-20 08:32:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAID EAID ECON EFIN PREL TI
10DUSHANBE95TAVILDARA - THE MOST STABLE PLACE ON EARTH?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a visit to the Tavildara District, scene of fighting between government forces and militants from May-July 2009, contacts described the area as stable and identified the absence of international development groups and lack of jobs, rather than security concerns, as the main [...]
2010-01-20 09:25:00Embassy DushanbeSECRETPGOV PHUM ECON PINR TI
10DUSSELDORF10NRW Election Campaign: SPD's Kraft Taking Aim,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Hannelore Kraft, the head of the opposition Social Democrats (SPD) in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW),laid out her party's program for the May 9 state election to a February 22 consular corps gathering. Buoyed by recent WDR polling that shows Minister-President J????rgen R????t [...]
2010-02-23 12:56:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON GM
10DUSSELDORF12NRW Election Chessgame: Ruettgers Sacrifices His Queen as
[...] (U) Summary: Juergen Ruettgers, Minister-President (M-P) of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) forced his prot????g???? and the General-Secretary of the NRW Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Hendrik Wuest to resign his post February 22 after a scandal broke over the weekend involving the possible se [...]
2010-02-23 13:15:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV GM
10DUSSELDORF14NRW Election Chess Game II: Ruettgers Castles His Rook
[...] (U) Summary: North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Minister-President (M-P) Juergen Ruettgers, tried to quickly mend political damage from his party's financing scandal by announcing February 23 his close advisor Andreas Krautscheid as the new NRW Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Secretary-General, th [...]
2010-02-24 17:02:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV GM
10DUSSELDORF16NRW Election Chess Game III: Ruettgers' Rook In Action -
[...] (U) Andreas Krautscheid, the new Secretary General of the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Christian Democrats (CDU),testified February 25, in his capacity as Minister for European and Federal Affairs, to a special session of the State Parliament's Main Committee. Krautscheid strongly rejected ac [...]
2010-02-25 16:50:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV GM
10DUSSELDORF3FIRST MUSLIM PARTY IN GERMANY PREPARING TO GO NATIONAL
[...] (U) Summary: Germany's first and only Muslim-oriented political party, Alliance for Peace and Fairness (BFF) -- up until now only active in Bonn -- will run in the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) state elections this May and ultimately aims to form party organizations in other states and on the [...]
2010-01-26 12:21:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KISL GM
10DUSSELDORF4FEARS OF AFGHANISTAN DEBATE EMERGE MONTHS BEFORE NRW STATE
[...] (U) Summary: North Rhine-Westphalia Party leaders for the governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Free Democratic Party (FDP) coalition fear the issue of sending more troops to Afghanistan could hurt their chances in the May 2010 state elections if the opposition or the Left Party makes [...]
2010-01-26 16:20:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL GM AF
10EFTOBANDARSERIBEGAWAN24RAYTHEON'S RECENT VISIT AND RUMBLINGS FROM THE
[...] (SBU/NF) The Raytheon team recently briefed the Ambassador about a recent turn of events where Deputy Minister of Defense Pehin Yasmin revived a pet project, developing and building Brunei's National Modeling and Simulation Center, that a subordinate of his, Ministry of Defense Permanent Secre [...]
2010-01-29 08:26:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV USTR KIPR KINR ECON BX
10EFTOKABUL597AWCC BETS ON DRAMATIC MARKET EXPANSION
[...] (SBU/NF) Summary: Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC),one of the Afghanistan's largest cellular providers, plans to invest millions of dollars in dramatic infrastructure expansion in 2010. The company will build nearly 400 new towers, mostly utilizing its own capital, but 40 will [...]
2010-02-17 13:03:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EAID PGOV PREL AF
10EFTOKABUL668Treasury A/S Cohen Urges Major Afghan Banks to be more
[...] (SBU//NF) In meetings with the heads of Kabul Bank, Azizi Bank and Afghan United Bank on February 11, Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing David Cohen expressed optimism that the Afghan banking sector is implementing stronger controls against anti-money laundering and [...]
2010-02-23 11:21:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON SNAR KTFN KCOR KCRM PGOV PINS AF
10EFTOLONDON16UK TO SEND EMBASSY REPRESENTATIVE TO GICNT EPG
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-05 12:33:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL PTER KGIC UK
10EFTOLONDON223UK COMMITTED TO DISTINGUISHING NUCLEAR SECURITY
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Judith Gough, Head of Security Policy Group at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),and Rhydian Phillips, Deputy Head of CBRN Security at the FCO, on January 21. In a follow-up meeting on January 29, Phillips said that the UK shared the U.S. con [...]
2010-01-29 15:36:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PARM PREL EAID TBIO IAEA NPT AORC CDG
10EFTOLONDON224UK TO SEND FIVE REPRESENTATIVES TO NUCLEAR
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel joint demarche to Rhydian Phillips, Deputy Head of CBRN Security at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),on January 29, along with Political Counselor Birgitta Tazelaar of the Embassy of the Netherlands. Phillips thanked the U.S. and the Netherlands for the [...]
2010-01-29 15:37:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PARM EAID TBIO IAEA NPT AORC CDG
10FLORENCE1AMBASSADOR SEEKS UPDATE ON STATUS OF BILATERAL TAX
[...] See Action Request in paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) Summary. During a bilateral discussion following his presentation of credentials, Ambassador David Thorne pledged his best efforts to meet the Republic of San Marino's request to conclude a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with the [...]
2010-01-04 11:55:00Consulate FlorenceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PGOV SM IT
10FRANKFURT100 Baden-Wuerttemberg's Younger Political Leadership Sets New
[...] (SBU) Summary: Baden-Wuerttemberg's four primary political parties have all in the last six months elected new and younger party leaders, setting in motion new political dynamics in the state. The trend began in June of 2009 when the FDP surprisingly chose Hans-Ulrich Ruelke (48) as caucus chi [...]
2010-01-11 08:48:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV GM
10FRANKFURT120FDP "THREE KINGS DAY": CHIEF WESTERWELLE DEFENDS TAX-CUTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister and Free Democratic Party (FDP) national chair Guido Westerwelle defended the party's tax policy and downplayed problems in the national coalition at the FDP's annual leadership gathering in Stuttgart January 5-6, "Three Kings Day". The event's highlight was the [...]
2010-01-12 15:00:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL GM
10FRANKFURT218FUTURE OF NIGHT FLIGHTS AT FRANKFURT AIRPORT REMAINS
[...] SUMMARY: In December, the Hesse Administrative Court published its August 2009 decision dismissing all claims against further expansion of the Frankfurt airport. The ruling, however, left the future of night flights at the airport unclear. The court advised the State of Hesse to "revisit" its [...]
2010-01-22 12:58:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON EIND ENRG PGOV SENV EU GM
10FRANKFURT283The Future Viability of Germany's Export Driven Economy
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the recent annual "Topics of the Year" financial event on January 14 in Frankfurt, the chief economists of Deutsche Bank and the KfW Group, Thomas Mayer and Norbert Irsch, called into question the future viability of Germany's export driven-growth model. While both posited th [...]
2010-01-28 11:56:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ETRD PREL GM
10FRANKFURT289Classnet Conversion to Closed Partition Key Frankfurt
[...] Per ref A, post acknowledges that the key load will be loaded on 22 Feb 2010 at 1100 GMT for C1 and 24 Feb 2010 at 1100 GMT for C2. 2. Post has all of the necessary keys and equipment to conduct this evolution. 3. Point of contact is David Mullins at phone 49-69-7535-7 [...]
2010-02-16 08:32:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDACKM KRIM ACOA
10FRANKFURT548State Secretary Julia Kloeckner to Challenge Kurt Beck in
[...] (SBU)SUMMARY: The Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P) Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has chosen Julia Kloeckner, Member of the Bundestag and State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Agriculture and Consumer Protection, as lead candidate for the 2011 state election, improving chances for the party to br [...]
2010-02-11 09:42:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL GM
10FRANKFURT564A Polarizing Conservative Takes Charge in Southwest Germany:
[...] (SBU)SUMMARY: On February 10, the Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) state parliament elected Christian Democrat Union (CDU) caucus chief Stefan Mappus as Germany's youngest Minister President. Mappus succeeds Guenther Oettinger, who was elected EU Commissioner for Energy Affairs on February 9. With M [...]
2010-02-11 12:43:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV GM PREL
10FREETOWN21COPENHAGEN DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-15 10:27:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV KGHG SL
10FREETOWN35DELEGATION TO AU SUMMIT FROM SIERRA LEONE,
[...] Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided the Embassy with a list of the following delegates to the annual African Union: President Ernest Bai Koroma: Hon. Haja Zainab H. Bangura - Minister of Foreign Affairs and Int. Cooperation Hon. Alhaja Ibrahim B. Kargbo - Minister of Information & Communi [...]
2010-01-25 13:36:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OVIP AORC SL
10FREETOWN36SIERRA LEONE GIVES 100,000 DOLLARS FOR HAITI
[...] (U) Foreign Minister Zainab Bangura discussed President Koroma's offer of 100,000 dollars in cash for Haitian earthquake relief during a courtesy call with CDA January 21, saying the money was to "pay back" the international community for all it had done for Sierra Leone. She added that Sie [...]
2010-01-25 17:11:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV SL
10FREETOWN49SIERRA LEONE: DAILY CONCERNS OUTWEIGH
[...] Summary: There are no government reprisals in Sierra Leone against former combatants, and reprisals at the individual or communal level appear to be minimal, if any. The populace is focused on surviving in the present, not settling old scores. End Summary. 2. For Sierra Leoneans today, [...]
2010-02-04 14:43:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SL
10FREETOWN50SIERRA LEONE: CHINESE ENGAGEMENT
[...] This message responds to reftel request for information on Chinese engagement in Sierra Leone and potential areas for cooperation. Post opted for a front channel cable as well as an email in light of the significant interest in the level of Chinese engagement in Sierra Leone. 2. China wa [...]
2010-02-05 09:27:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID ECON SL CN
10FREETOWN56SIERRA LEONE: "BIGGEST IRON MINE IN AFRICA"
[...] (U) Summary: President Koroma formally commissioned what he called "the biggest iron ore mine in Africa" January 22 in the hills east of the newly-finished Bumbuna dam. African Minerals Ltd. claims it will be able to rebuild the iron-ore port at Pepel and the railway from Lunsar, build a new [...]
2010-02-08 15:45:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALECON EMIN PREL SL
10FREETOWN61UPDATE ON NARCOTICS MATTERS IN SIERRA LEONE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-10 17:07:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDLI SL SNAR
10FREETOWN64SIERRA LEONE 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (SBU) This report covering 2009 relies on the research done for 2008 in ref B, updating where necessary. The trafficking situation remains much as reported there. Sierra Leone ranks near or at the bottom of every global measure of poverty. Trafficking in persons thrives in such an environm [...]
2010-02-12 15:05:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
10FREETOWN67SIERRA LEONE: ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY
[...] Summary: The four minor incidents of inter-religious violence over the past five years are the first such occurrences in Sierra Leone. As Christianity becomes less orthodox and Islam more so, such incidents are likely to recur or worsen, but Sierra Leoneans, both Muslim and Christian, are p [...]
2010-02-17 10:04:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL SL
10FREETOWN71IRISL'S UNINSURED FLEET AND EVASIVE ACTIONS NECESSITATE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-23 17:33:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KNNP PARM SL IR
10FREETOWN73Preparing for Sierra Leone's 2012 Elections
[...] (U) Embassy has begun a series of meetings aimed at determining what needs to be done to ensure that Sierra Leone's 2012 elections comes off smoothly and honestly. We are trying to see what, if anything, the US might do to help that process. Post would welcome any guidance from the Departme [...]
2010-02-25 12:48:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM EAID SL UN
10FREETOWN8SIERRA LEONE STABILITY IV: CONCLUSIONS
[...] (C) As reftels have shown Sierra Leone is faced with challenges and threats to short- and long-term stability. Perhaps the greatest hallmark of Sierra Leonean governance at the moment is that it is driven and supported by individuals, rather than institutions or ideologies. Reminiscent of the [...]
2010-01-06 18:35:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL PINS PINR SL
10GABORONE110BOTS-ZIM TENSIONS RISE OVER ARRESTED GOB OFFICIALS
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Botswana said it would recall its Defense and Intelligence Attaches from Harare by the end of February and expects that Zimbabwe will similarly recall its Attaches from Gaborone to protest the GOZ's January 19 arrest and continued detention of three GOB wildlife [...]
2010-02-05 14:24:00Embassy GaboroneCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS ZI BC
10GABORONE139WELCOME TO BOTSWANA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL
[...] (SBU) Embassy Gaborone warmly welcomes Codel Meeks-Watt to Botswana. Your visit comes as the Government of Botswana, which announced its proposed FY 10/11 budget last week, attempts to maintain its social welfare and infrastructure development programs despite the global economic slowdown. Bo [...]
2010-02-12 10:21:00Embassy GaboroneUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BC
10GABORONE173ACCREDITATION OF SAME-SEX DOMESTIC PARTNERS
[...] (C) Per instructions in Ref A, Ambassador raised the issue of accreditation of same-sex domestic partners of U.S. government personnel with a senior aide to President Khama. The aide said Botswana remains a very traditional society and homosexuality is an extremely sensitive subject. She noted that [...]
2010-02-25 14:11:00Embassy GaboroneCONFIDENTIALAPER AMGT PREL BC
10GABORONE174TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY OFFICER FOR BOTSWANA
[...] This is a response to the action request contained in State 17143 requesting the identification of a telecommunications policy officer (TPO). 2. Post identifies HEATHER MERRITT, Political/Economic Chief, as the TPO for Embassy Gaborone. Ms. Merritt's email address is MerrittHC@state.gov an [...]
2010-02-26 07:50:00Embassy GaboroneUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ECON BC
10GABORONE175GOB RECEIVES IRAN TRR DEMARCHE
[...] (U) This is a response to the action request contained in State 70721. 2. (C) PolOff met with the Assistant Director of the Department of Europe and Americas in Botswana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Lebogang Diteko, on February 25. PolOff discussed the U.S. [...]
2010-02-26 08:01:00Embassy GaboroneCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM IR BC
10GABORONE177GOB RECEIVES DEMARCHE ON IRGC DESIGNATIONS
[...] This is a response to an action request contained in State 15554. 2. PolOff met with the Assistant Director of the Department of Europe and Americas in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Lebogang Diteko on February 25. PolOff passed information contained in ref [...]
2010-02-26 09:09:00Embassy GaboroneUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM EFIN BC
10GABORONE71TEXTING WHILE DRIVING ALREADY ILLEGAL IN BOTSWANA
[...] Ambassador Nolan delivered reftel demarche on distracted driving to Daphne Kadiwa, Botswana's Chief of Protocol and a senior aide to President Khama. Kadiwa responded that under Botswana's Road Traffic Act, it is prohibited for drivers to text or otherwise use mobile phones and other interacti [...]
2010-01-28 15:16:00Embassy GaboroneUNCLASSIFIEDECON ASEC SOCI BC
10GENEVA101SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) CONFORMING GROUP MEETINGS IN MOSCOW,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-001. 2. (U) Meeting Dates: January 18-22, 2010 Place: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) The U.S. and Russian members of the New START Treaty Conforming Group met in Moscow January 18-22, [...]
2010-02-18 18:09:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA107SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) CONVERSION OR ELIMINATION WORKING GROUP
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-035 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 10, 2010 Time: 12:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A small group meeting of the Conversion or Elimination Working Group, [...]
2010-02-23 17:33:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA109SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) COMBINED INSPECTION PROTOCOL AND
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-008. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 2, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the combined Inspection Protocol (IP) Working Group and Conversi [...]
2010-02-23 17:33:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA11WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property
[...] SUMMARY: The 4th session of the WIPO Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) was a constructive step forward from the U.S. perspective. The Committee approved five major thematic projects and reviewed all projects and activities under current implementation. On the importan [...]
2010-01-08 11:54:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KIPR WIPO
10GENEVA110Guidance Request for Draft Declaration on Human Rights
[...] This is an action request. See para 4. 2. The 13th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC),beginning March 1st, will hold a High Level (Ministerial) discussion on the Right to Human Rights Education and Training and subsequently almost certainly pass a resolution establishing a mec [...]
2010-02-05 09:55:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL
10GENEVA113SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) DEFINITIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-039. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 11, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 5:30 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Definitions Working Group meeting co-chaired by Mr. Siemon and Adm ( [...]
2010-02-23 17:33:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA115SFO-GVA VIII: (U) NOTIFICATIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-033. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 10, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During a meeting of the Notifications Working Group held at the U.S [...]
2010-02-23 17:33:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA119SFO-GVA-III: (U) NOTIFICATIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-046. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 13, 2010 Time: 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During a meeting of the Notifications Working Group held at the U.S. [...]
2010-02-23 17:47:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA12WIPO on Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and
[...] SUMMARY: The 15th session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Intergovernmental Committee (IGC) on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (GRTKF) had successful discussions on substantive issues, but delegations remained far apart on proce [...]
2010-01-08 12:06:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KIPR WIPO
10GENEVA121SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) NOTIFICATIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-046. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 13, 2010 Time: 11:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During a meeting of the Notifications Working Group held at the U.S. [...]
2010-02-25 10:02:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA123SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE 005, MOBILE ICBM BASE
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-079. ------------------------------ SUMMARY AND GUIDANCE REQUESTED ------------------------------ 2. (S) In Ref A, paragraph 11, Washington instructed the delegation to secure Russian agreement to limit the size of mobile ICBM bases and the individu [...]
2010-02-25 12:27:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA124OMS STAFF SERVING AS NOTARY PUBLICS
[...] (U) The Mission requests that two OMS positions in Geneva be authorized to serve as notary publics. Since the Mission does not offer consular services, there is no ready pool of consular officers to provide this required service to Mission staff. Two OMS positions will provide adequate cover [...]
2010-02-09 13:41:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT AOMS SZ
10GENEVA129SFO-GVA-VIII: AGREED STATEMENTS, FEBRUARY 05, 2010
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-019. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 05, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) Mr. Elliott and Col Ilin met on February 5 to discuss the propose [...]
2010-02-26 10:02:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA131SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) DEFINITIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-054. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 16, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 5:20 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Definitions Working Group meeting chaired by Mr. Siemon and Adm (Ret [...]
2010-02-26 10:07:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA132PAKISTAN TELLS CD, "1864 IS DEAD"
[...] (U) Summary. The early part of the week of February 8 saw no progress toward a CD Program of Work as Bangladesh closed out its portion of the rotating presidency. The only issue was whether or not the Bangladeshi President would table a nonpaper to initiate discussions on a Program of Wo [...]
2010-02-12 15:37:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM MNUC CDG PK
10GENEVA133SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) RUSSIAN AND U.S. DELEGATION RECEPTIONS,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-018. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 4, 2010 Time: 6:30 P.M. - 8:30 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva Meeting Date: February 16, 2010 Time: 6:30 P.M. - 8:00 P.M. Place: [...]
2010-02-26 10:16:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA135SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) AGREED STATEMENTS MEETING, FEBRUARY 09,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-027. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 09, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A meeting, co-chaired by Mr. Elliott and Col Ilin, on proposed agree [...]
2010-02-26 10:30:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA136Fourteenth Session of the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law
[...] The World Intellectual Property Organization's Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (WIPO SCP) continued to discuss preliminary studies requested by the SCP in June 2008 and March 2009, and commenced a discussion on Brazil's proposal concerning exceptions and limitations to patent rights. [...]
2010-02-18 17:01:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KIPR WIPO
10GENEVA137SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) ARTICLE VIII MEETING, FEBRUARY, 15, 2010
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-048. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 15, 2010 Time: 11:00 A.M. - 12:00 A.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) Amb Ries led a meeting with the Russian side to discuss joint draft [...]
2010-02-26 11:11:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA138WHO: Report on the 126th Session of the World Health
[...] Summary. The 126th Session of the Executive Board (EB) of the World Health Organization (WHO) met from January 18-23, 2010, in Geneva. This cable reports on the significant outcomes from the Board, including key resolutions forwarded for adoption at the 63rd World Health Assembly (WHA)in May [...]
2010-02-19 10:59:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO WHO
10GENEVA139SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) AGREED STATEMENTS, FEBRUARY 15, 2010
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-049. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 15, 2010 Time: 11:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) Mr. Elliott and Col Ilin co-chaired a meeting to discuss proposed agr [...]
2010-02-26 11:17:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA14UNHCR Highlights Displaced Persons in Urban Settings
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, convened "The High Commissioner's Dialogue on Persons of Concerns (POCs) in Urban Setting" on December 9 and 10, 2009. A variety of actors (including mayors, police, parliamentarians, host government representatives, donors, [...]
2010-01-08 13:31:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PHUM
10GENEVA141SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) AGREED STATEMENTS, FEBRUARY 17, 2010
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-058. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 17, 2010 Time: 11:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) Mr. Elliott and Col Ilin co-chaired a meeting to discuss proposed agr [...]
2010-02-26 13:04:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA143SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) TELEMETRY WORKING GROUP MEETING, FEBRUARY
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-065. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 18, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 5:30 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Telemetry Working Group meeting co-chaired by Mr. Siemon and General [...]
2010-02-26 13:26:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA145SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) TELEMETRY WORKING GROUP MEETING. FEBRUARY
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-072. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 22, 2010 Time: 5:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Telemetry Working Group meeting co-chaired by Mr. Siemon and General [...]
2010-02-26 13:38:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA147GENEVA SFO-GVA-VIII: AGREED STATEMENTS, FEBRUARY 11, 2010
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-037. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 11, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. - 11:30 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A meeting co-chaired by Mr. Elliott and Col Ilin on proposed Agre [...]
2010-02-26 14:07:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA149GENEVA SFO-GVA-VIII: MEETING OF THE EXPANDED AD-HOC GROUP,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-038. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 11, 2010 Time: 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During an Expanded Ad Hoc Group meeting held at the Russian Miss [...]
2010-02-26 14:09:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA151SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) INSPECTION PROTOCOL WORKING GROUP,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-045. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 13, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At a small group meeting of the Inspection Protocol Working Group (IPWG) [...]
2010-02-26 14:13:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA152BRAZIL CRITICIZES CHINA OVER "LAND GRABS" IN AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary: At an UNCTAD meeting on investment in agriculture on February 3, China became the central focus of criticism amid a chorus of concerns about the economic, food security, environmental and social impact of large foreign purchases of agricultural lands in developing co [...]
2010-02-26 16:21:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNCTAD ECON
10GENEVA153SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) INSPECTION PROTOCOL WORKING GROUP,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-034. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 10, 2010 Time: 3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Inspection Protocol Working Group (IPWG) meeting chaired by Dr. Warn [...]
2010-02-26 14:48:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA155SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) INSPECTION PROTOCOL WORKING GROUP,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-043. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 12, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:10 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Inspection Protocol Working Group (IPWG) meeting on February 12 c [...]
2010-02-26 15:30:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA157SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) NOTIFICATIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-060. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 17, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Notifications Working Group meeting chaired by Mr. Siemon and Mr. [...]
2010-02-26 16:42:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA159SFO-GVA-VIII: ARTICLE VIII MEETING, FEBRUARY 16, 2010
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-052. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 16, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. - 12:45 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva 3. (S) Amb Ries led a working group discussion of Article VIII to try to resolve the issue of releasability of t [...]
2010-02-26 17:15:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA161GENEVA SFO-GVA-VIII: MOU WORKING GROUP MEETING, FEBRUARY 16,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-056. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 16, 2010 Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During the Memorandum of Understanding Working Group (MOUWG) meeting, [...]
2010-02-26 17:27:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA163SFO-GVA-VIII: REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE-006 (SSBN SCRAPPING),
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-097 - REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE. ------------------------------ SUMMARY AND GUIDANCE REQUESTED ------------------------------ 2. (S) Guidance received on January 30 (Ref A) directed the delegation to continue to press for Russian Federation agreement on [...]
2010-02-26 18:24:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA165SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WORKING GROUP
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-029. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 9, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During a meeting of the Memorandum of Understanding Working Group (M [...]
2010-02-26 18:36:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA167SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WORKING GROUP
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-040. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 11, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During the Memorandum of Understanding Working Group (MOUWG) meeting o [...]
2010-02-26 18:54:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA169SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) AGREED STATEMENTS, FEBRUARY 22, 2010
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-071. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 22, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) Mr. Elliott and Col Ilin chaired a meeting to discuss proposed Agreed [...]
2010-02-27 11:54:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA171SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) MEETING ON PROVISIONAL APPLICATION,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-078. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 23, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 5:30 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A meeting to discuss Part VIII of the Protocol-Provisional Applicat [...]
2010-02-27 12:01:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA173SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) WORKING
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-063. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 18, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During a meeting of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Working Grou [...]
2010-02-27 12:39:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA175SFO-GVA-VIII: MEETING OF THE EXPANDED AD-HOC GROUP, FEBRUARY
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-038. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 11, 2010 Time: 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During an Expanded Ad Hoc Group meeting held at the Russian Miss [...]
2010-02-27 12:49:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA177SFO-GVA-VIII: AGREED STATEMENTS, FEBRUARY 11, 2010 --
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-037. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 11, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. - 11:30 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) A meeting co-chaired by Mr. Elliott and Col Ilin on proposed Agre [...]
2010-02-27 12:57:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA179SFO-GVA-VIII: MOU WORKING GROUP MEETING, FEBRUARY 16, 2010
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-056. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 16, 2010 Time: 3:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During the Memorandum of Understanding Working Group (MOUWG) meeting, [...]
2010-02-27 13:12:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA181SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WORKING GROUP
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-040. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 11, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During the Memorandum of Understanding Working Group (MOUWG) meeting o [...]
2010-02-27 13:38:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA183SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE-006 (SSBN SCRAPPING),
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-097 - REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE. ------------------------------ SUMMARY AND GUIDANCE REQUESTED ------------------------------ 2. (S) Guidance received on January 30 (Ref A) directed the delegation to continue to press for Russian Federation agreement on [...]
2010-02-27 13:49:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA185SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) NOTIFICATIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-073. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 22, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During a meeting of the Notifications Working Group held at the U.S. [...]
2010-02-27 13:49:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA187SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) INSPECTION PROTOCOL WORKING GROUP,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-043. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 12, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:10 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Inspection Protocol Working Group (IPWG) meeting on February 12 c [...]
2010-02-27 14:01:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA189SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) EXPANDED AD HOC GROUP MEETING, FEBRUARY
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-084. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 25, 2010 Time: 11:00 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During the Expanded Ad Hoc Group meeting held at the Russian [...]
2010-02-27 14:42:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA191SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) DEFINITIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-075. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 23, 2010 Time: 4:00 P.M. - 5:15 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Definitions Working Group meeting co-chaired by Mr. Siemon and ADM ( [...]
2010-02-27 16:55:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA193SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WORKING GROUP
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-090. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 26, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Working Group meeting [...]
2010-02-27 17:51:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA195(SFO-GVA-VIII): (U) Inspection Protocol Working Group
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-055 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 16, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 17:15 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Inspection Protocol Working Group (IPWG) meeting, chaired by Dr. [...]
2010-02-27 17:52:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA197(SFO-GVA-VIII): (U) Inspection Protocol Working Group
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-085 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 25, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Inspection Protocol Working Group (IPWG) meeting chaired by Dr. Warne [...]
2010-02-27 17:54:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA199SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) INSPECTION PROTOCOL WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-059. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 17, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Inspection Protocol Working Group (IPWG) meeting co-chaired by Dr. W [...]
2010-02-28 09:20:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA201SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) Meeting of the Expanded Ad-Hoc Group,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-074. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 23, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During the Expanded Ad-Hoc Group meeting held at the Russian Miss [...]
2010-02-28 13:00:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA223SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) NOTIFICATIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-082. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 24, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Notifications Working Group meeting chaired by Mr. Siemon and Col Ry [...]
2010-02-28 16:26:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA225SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) NOTIFICATIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-087. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 25, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. to 4:30 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During a meeting of the Notifications Working Group held at the Ru [...]
2010-02-28 16:46:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA227SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) Inspection Protocol Working Group Meeting,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-062. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 18, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Inspection Protocol Working Group (IPWG) meeting chaired by Dr. W [...]
2010-02-28 16:55:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA229SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) JOINT DRAFT TREATY TEXT, FEBRUARY 27, 2010
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-099. 2. (U) The text at paragraph 3 is the joint draft text of the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms dated February 27, 2010. 3. (S) B [...]
2010-02-28 17:18:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA23PROSPECTS FOR LAUNCHING FMCT NEGOTIATIONS AT THE 2010 CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT; WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO REALIZE THE PRAGUE AGENDA (CD)
[...] (C) Summary. The outlook for launching Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty Negotiations (FMCT),one of the President's signature goals from his Prague agenda, has dimmed considerably since last year's historic agreement on a Program of Work at the Conference on Disarmament. Pakistan, presumably motivat [...]
2010-02-24 10:44:00Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPARM MNUC CDG PK
10GENEVA231SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) TELEMETRY WORKING GROUP MEETING, FEBRUARY
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-088. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 25, 2010 Time: 4:30 P.M. - 6:10 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Telemetry Working Group meeting co-chaired by Mr. Siemon and Gene [...]
2010-02-28 17:20:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA233(SFO-GVA-VIII): (U) INSPECTION PROTOCOL WORK MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-091. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 26, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. - 12:15 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the final meeting of the Inspection Protocol Working Group (IPWG) for Negotiating Session VIII [...]
2010-02-28 17:20:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA235SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) INSPECTION PROTOCOL WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-076. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 23, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 5:30 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Inspection Protocol Working Group (IPWG) meeting on February 23 [...]
2010-02-28 17:23:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA237SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) AGREED STATEMENTS MEETING, FEBRUARY 26,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-094. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 26, 2010 Time: 12:00 P.M. - 12:30 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) Mr. Elliott met with Col Ilin to discuss the status of the agreed stateme [...]
2010-02-28 17:32:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA239SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) INSPECTION PROTOCOL WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-069. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 19, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 18:10 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Inspection Protocol Working Group (IPWG) meeting on February 19 [...]
2010-02-28 17:33:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA241SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WORKING GROUP
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-077. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 23, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During a meeting of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Working G [...]
2010-02-28 17:35:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA243SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) DEFINITIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-068. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 19, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 4:30 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Definitions Working Group meeting chaired by Mr. Siemon and Adm ( [...]
2010-02-28 17:38:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA245SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WORKING GROUP
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-080. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 24, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Working Group meeting hel [...]
2010-02-28 17:44:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA247SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WORKING GROUP
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-086. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 25, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:15 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Working Group meeting he [...]
2010-02-28 17:51:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA249SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) TELEMETRY WORKING GROUP MEETING, FEBRUARY
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-093. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 26, 2010 Time: 10:00 P.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Telemetry Working Group meeting chaired by Mr. Siemon and General [...]
2010-02-28 17:53:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA28ENVSEC seeks donor assistance
[...] SUMMARY: ENVSEC, the Environment & Security initiative of several UN agencies, OSCE, NATO's Science for Peace and Security Program and Regional Environment Center (REC) met December 4 with donor countries to review progress in ongoing projects and discuss how best in the future to address env [...]
2010-01-15 11:26:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV
10GENEVA30UNRISD- IMPLICATIONS OF GLOBAL CRISIS ON DEVELOPING
[...] SUMMARY: The UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) held a forum November 12-13 on "Social and Political Dimensions of the Global Crisis: Implications for developing countries." The forum consisted of five sessions and 24 presentations by representatives from UNDP, ILO, CoopAfri [...]
2010-01-15 12:54:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID UN ECOSOC
10GENEVA40WIPO and EU Presidency Issues
[...] SUMMARY: Miguel Angel Vecino, Counselor from the Spanish Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, met on January 13 with IP Attach???? Lashley-Johnson to discuss EU presidency issues in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Spain now holds the EU presidency until July 2010, and Mr. Ve [...]
2010-01-21 09:51:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KIPR WIPO
10GENEVA42WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights: USG
[...] (U) Summary: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) met in Geneva December 14-18, 2009. At this 19th session of the SCCR, the United States unequivocally called on the international copyright community to reach a consensu [...]
2010-01-21 10:52:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KIPR WIPO
10GENEVA43Palestinian Ambassador on Goldstone, 4GC, HRC
[...] (C) In a February 16 meeting with DRL A/S Mike Posner, Palestinian Ambassador Ibrahim Khraishi stressed the following points: -- The PA is angered that the OHCHR asked Hamas to submit a report on Goldstone follow-up, which implicitly recognized Hamas as a governing entity; the Palestin [...]
2010-02-16 16:30:00Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNHRC
10GENEVA45GENEVA DISCUSSIONS ON GEORGIA: ROUND IX
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The de facto authorities in Abkhazia and South Ossetia continued to clamor for "bilateral" non-use of force agreements with Georgia. The Georgians continued to insist Russia be part of such agreements and to link them with international security arrangements. While the Abkhazia [...]
2010-02-17 09:40:00Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV PHUM GG RS
10GENEVA47SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) CONVERSION OR ELIMINATION WORKING GROUP
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-003. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 1, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Conversion or Elimination (CorE) Working Group meeting co-chaired b [...]
2010-02-17 10:33:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA48LINKING MIGRATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS: PREPARING FOR EXPANDED
[...] (SBU) Summary: The nexus of human rights and migration is set to be the focus of discussion in a number of separate fora, both governmental and non-governmental, during 2010. The U.S. often finds itself on the defensive in many of these bodies, especially the Human Rights Council. U.S. poli [...]
2010-01-21 14:22:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL SMIG
10GENEVA49SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) MEETING OF THE NOTIFICATIONS PROTOCOL
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-022. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 05, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During a meeting of the Notifications Working Group (WG) held at t [...]
2010-02-17 15:22:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA55SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) TELEMETRY WORKING GROUP MEETING, FEBRUARY
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-030. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 9, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 5:50 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Telemetry Working Group meeting co-chaired by Mr. Siemon and General [...]
2010-02-17 16:23:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA57(U) GOTTEMOELLER-NYKONENKO LUNCH, FEBRUARY 3, 2010 --
[...] (S) At a U.S.-hosted lunch on February 3 on the margins of the START Follow-on negotiations in Geneva, Assistant Secretary Gottemoeller met with the Ukrainian Director of Arms Control and Military and Technical Cooperation, Ambassador Aleksandr Nykonenko. Nykonenko inquired as to the progress [...]
2010-02-18 13:46:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US UP
10GENEVA59SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) INSPECTION PROTOCOL WORKING GROUP,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-004. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 1, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. - 11:15 A.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) The first meeting of the Inspection Protocol Working Group (IPWG),ch [...]
2010-02-18 13:59:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA61SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WORKING GROUP
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-005. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 1, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Working Group met with their R [...]
2010-02-18 14:03:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA63SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) TELEMETRY MEETING, FEBRUARY 1, 2010 --
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-006. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 1, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) This was the first meeting to discuss telemetry provisions for the STA [...]
2010-02-18 14:06:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA67SFO-GVA-VII: (U) NOTIFICATIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VII-156. 2. (U) Meeting Date: December 17, 2009 Time: 10:30 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During the last meeting of the Notifications Working Group for Sessio [...]
2010-02-18 14:15:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA71SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) NOTIFICATIONS WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-010. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 2, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Notifications Working Group meeting co-chaired by Mr. Siemon and C [...]
2010-02-18 14:39:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA73SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WORKING GROUP
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-011. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 3, 2010 Time: 10:00 A.M. - 12:45 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Working Group (WG) met on Fe [...]
2010-02-18 15:53:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA75SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) DEFINITIONS SUBGROUP MEETING, FEBRUARY 3,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-014. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 3, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At a meeting of the Definitions Subgroup co-chaired by Mr. Siemon and Adm [...]
2010-02-18 15:59:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA77RECALL 10 GENEVA 77
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-18 16:04:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA79SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) INSPECTION PROTOCOL WORKING GROUP,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-015. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 3, 2010 Time: 03:30 P.M. - 05:45 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the combined Inspection Protocol (IP) Working Group and Conversion or E [...]
2010-02-18 16:08:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA80The Global Framework for Climate Services
[...] SUMMARY: The WMO hosted an intergovernmental meeting in Geneva on January 11-12, 2010, to approve the terms of reference and endorse the composition of a task force of high-level, independent advisors who will conduct consultations and make recommendations on the components of a Global Framew [...]
2010-01-28 08:13:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KGHG WMO AORC
10GENEVA81SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) TELEMETRY WORKING GROUP MEETING, FEBRUARY
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-017. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 4, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 5:10 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Telemetry Working Group meeting co-chaired by Mr. Siemon and General [...]
2010-02-18 16:17:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA83SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) EXPANDED AD HOC WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-020. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 5, 2010 Time: 12:00 P.M. - 12:40 P.M. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) The Ad Hoc Working Group met in expanded format (with experts) to discu [...]
2010-02-18 16:25:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA85SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) INSPECTION PROTOCOL WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-025. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 8, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Inspection Protocol Working Group (IPWG) meeting co-chaired by Dr. Wa [...]
2010-02-18 16:37:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA87SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) EXPANDED AD HOC WORKING GROUP MEETING,
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-028. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 9, 2010 Time: 12:15 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) The Ad Hoc Working Group met in expanded format (with experts) to discuss t [...]
2010-02-18 16:39:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA89SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) TELEMETRY WORKING GROUP MEETING, FEBRUARY
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-030. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 9, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 5:50 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Telemetry Working Group meeting co-chaired by Mr. Siemon and General [...]
2010-02-18 16:41:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA91SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE-001 (TELEMETRY),
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-041. ------------------------------ SUMMARY AND GUIDANCE REQUESTED ------------------------------ 2. (S) The Russian Side has emphatically stated its position on the exchange of telemetric information in the START Follow-On Treaty, emphasizing that [...]
2010-02-18 16:45:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA93SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) TELEMETRY WORKING GROUP MEETING, FEBRUARY
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-050. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 15, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) At the Telemetry Working Group meeting co-chaired by Mr. Siemon and General [...]
2010-02-18 16:52:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA94Preview of March 2010 Human Rights Council Session
[...] (U) The 13th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) will take place in Geneva from March 1 - 26, 2010. The longest of the three yearly meetings, the March session opens with the High Level Segment. This cable outlines key issues Mission Geneva expects will be raised at the 13th Session, p [...]
2010-02-02 11:39:00Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UNHRC
10GENEVA95SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE-003, ELIMINATION
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-051. ------------------------------ SUMMARY AND GUIDANCE REQUESTED ------------------------------ 2. (S) Summary: The U.S. and Russian sides came away from the Mullen-Makarov meeting in Moscow with sharply differing impressions of the deal reached [...]
2010-02-18 16:57:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA97SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WORKING GROUP
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-021. 2. (U) Meeting Date: February 5, 2010 Time: 3:30 P.M. - 6:00 P.M. Place: U.S. Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During a meeting of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Working Group [...]
2010-02-18 17:58:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GENEVA99SFO-GVA-VIII: (U) REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE-004, MOBILE ICBM BASE
[...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VIII-066. ------------------------------ SUMMARY AND GUIDANCE REQUESTED ------------------------------ 2. (S) In Ref A, paragraph 11, Washington instructed the delegation to secure Russian agreement to four provisions related to mobile ICBMs and their ba [...]
2010-02-18 18:02:00Mission GenevaSECRETPARM KACT MARR PREL RS US
10GEORGETOWN1Pol/Econ Round-up December 25- January 11
[...] (U) This "round-up" reporting cable covers the period from December 25, 2009 to January 11, 2010. Search for next PPP Presidential Candidate Begins 2. (C) The People's Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Donald Ramotar publicly stated on December 30 that the PPP has st [...]
2010-01-11 20:42:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON XL CH GY
10GEORGETOWN15Jagdeo Visits Iran
[...] (C) Summary. President Bharrat Jagdeo returned from his visit to the Middle East, including Iran January 20-21, announcing that the GoG had signed two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with Iran. Besides announcing these two MoUs, President Jagdeo said Iran would send a team of specialists to [...]
2010-02-04 19:52:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ENRG IR XL GY
10GEORGETOWN17LCDS COLLIDES WITH GOLD MINING INDUSTRY
[...] (SBU) Summary: In early January the Jagdeo administration proposed new mining regulations to limit forest degradation as part of President Bharrat Jagdeo's Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). Miners strongly rejected proposed regulations and demanded that five to seven percent of Guyana's [...]
2010-02-08 17:08:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV EMIN ECON XL GY
10GEORGETOWN19Pol/Econ Roundup January 28-February 16
[...] (U) This periodic reporting cable highlights developments in Guyana's politics and economy affecting Department strategic objectives in country and throughout the Caribbean basin. Local Government Elections - STATUS UPDATE 2. (C) Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (G [...]
2010-02-16 20:16:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV EMIN ECON XL GY
10GEORGETOWN3Pol/Econ Round-up January 11-January 28
[...] (U) This periodic reporting cable highlights developments in Guyana's politics and economy affecting Department strategic objectives in country and throughout the Caribbean basin. JAGDEO'S FIRST VISIT TO IRAN January 20-21 2. (C) Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affair [...]
2010-01-28 21:38:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ENRG ECON IR GY
10GEORGETOWN5Demarche Delivered: Copenhagen Accord
[...] (U) Charge d'Affaires delivered reftel points to Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett on Wednesday, January 27. Foreign Minister Rodrigues-Birkett told Charge that the Government of Guyana has received correspondence from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) but has [...]
2010-01-29 12:19:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG GY
10GEORGETOWN58GUYANA - CHILD LABOR REPORT 2010
[...] (U) No evidence exists to suggest forced or exploitive child labor occurs in the production of goods in Guyana. While child labor does exist in certain forms in Guyana, it occurs primarily in the informal sector, mainly domestic housework and small-scale fishing, farming and vending. Sou [...]
2010-02-01 16:33:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM GY
10GEORGETOWN78TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ASSESSMENT - GUYANA
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Georgetown's submission of information requested in reftel for the 2010 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. 2. (SBU) GUYANA'S TIP SITUATION: A. Sources of information available include: the Guyanese media; the Ministry of Home Affairs; the Ministry [...]
2010-02-10 16:23:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KMCA GY
10GEORGETOWN82Request for SSI Speaker on Energy and Climate Change
[...] SUMMARY: Post seeks a speaker under the Strategic Speaker Initiative (SSI) to discuss climate change issues related to conventional and renewable energy production during the month of April 2010. END SUMMARY. 2. Proposed program dates: Mission requests two program days in April, spe [...]
2010-02-19 14:15:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO NS GY
10GEORGETOWN86Guyana: S/GWI Project Proposal
[...] (U) Per reftel, local NGO Help & Shelter's program proposal is provided below: 2. Project Title: Support in Combating Gender-Based Violence (GBV) with proposed project duration of 18 months. Amount requested is USD99,970 (see paragraph 7). 3. Help & Shelter Background: [...]
2010-02-19 19:59:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KWMN KPAO PHUM AID CDC GY
10GEORGETOWN90SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 3-4 VISIT BY S/EGCI DAVID GOLDWYN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY OF PROPOSED TRIP AGENDA: Embassy Georgetown welcomes you to Guyana March 3-4. On March 3 you are scheduled to meet with President Bharrat Jagdeo, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds, Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Finance Minister Ashni Singh, Bank of Guyana Central Governo [...]
2010-02-24 14:38:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET EAID ECON ETRD PGOV GY
10GRENADA4An Island at E's: Education, Enforcement, the Economy and
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-19 20:27:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV SENV GJ XL
10GUANGZHOU13"Fe" vs. Climate Change: China's BYD Bets on Batteries in
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The answer to climate change may be as simple as the chemical formula of a lithium iron phosphate battery, according to one ambitious south China company. Referred to simply as "Fe" and already the key component of the world's first mass produced plug-in hybrid elec [...]
2010-01-07 09:11:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV PREL ETRD KIPR PGOV CH HK
10GUANGZHOU18(U) Energy Efficient LED Lighting Has Bright Future in
[...] (U) Summary and comment: China will invest in energy efficient LED (light emitting diode) lighting on a massive scale in the next three to five years, according to leading south China LED manufacturers. Guangdong province, which currently produces approximately half of China's LEDs, stands to [...]
2010-01-12 09:38:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON SENV ETRD EINV TNGD PGOV CH
10GUANGZHOU23Climate Change Network Fills Void in South China
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Wasting no time -- government, business, and NGO leaders gathered in Guangzhou to celebrate the launch of the South China Climate Change Network (SCCCN) on the first workday following the conclusion of the COP-15 Climate Change Conference. Inspired by a British Con [...]
2010-01-14 07:37:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG PGOV PREL CH HK
10GUANGZHOU24Xiamen-Based Taiwan Watchers Say Cross-Strait Relations
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Beijing's policies toward Taiwan likely will remain unchanged in the near term, according to Xiamen-based officials, academics and business leaders. One Taiwan business leader said that the cross-Strait relationship could weather a 2012 win by Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party [...]
2010-01-15 08:41:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON ETRD EINV PREL CH TW
10GUANGZHOU33CHINA-HONG KONG: CEPA IMPLEMENTATION IN GUANGDONG NOT
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Numerous barriers continue to hinder service sector liberalization as envisioned by the Beijing-Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Agreement's (CEPA) sixth supplemental agreement that took effect on October 1, 2009, according to Guangzhou-based contacts in meetings [...]
2010-01-20 07:10:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EFIN EINV PGOV CH HK
10GUANGZHOU34(C) South China Sea - Hainan-Based Think Tank Probes DATT
[...] (U) Classified by Economic/Political Section Chief Steve Lang for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: During a visit to the National Institute for South China Sea Studies (NISCS),Defense Attach (DATT) Rear Admiral Gehrke was treated to more than a generic overview of the institute's history an [...]
2010-01-21 09:07:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHSA PGOV CH
10GUANGZHOU49Ambassador Attends Symposium Comparing U.S., Chinese
[...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Huntsman addressed representatives from the Counselor's Office of the State Council of China and the Kissinger Institute at a January 20-22 symposium on similarities and differences between U.S. and Chinese government systems. Speakers from both sides gave comparative v [...]
2010-01-29 07:46:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON SOCI PREL CH
10GUANGZHOU50Something Stinks in Guangzhou - Government Forced to Adopt
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: After sustained public pressure forced officials in December to shelve a garbage incineration project, Guangzhou is now turning to the Internet for solutions to the city's growing waste disposal problem. Guangzhou's municipal government issued a notice January 14 ur [...]
2010-02-01 00:52:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PGOV ECPS EIND CH HK
10GUANGZHOU6China Financial Markets: Shenzhen Start-Up Board Rocking
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The long-awaited "NASDAQ-like" start-up board, ChiNext, completed its first 2 months of operation in positive territory after finally making its Shenzhen debut on October 23, 2009. The new board opened by offering a first batch of 28 companies followed by another lis [...]
2010-01-06 09:22:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON CH
10GUANGZHOU7New Semiconductor Foundry to Open in Shenzhen; High Tech
[...] (SBU) Summary: High-tech industry in Shenzhen might have reached critical mass, now attracting new industries and growth with encouragement from the municipal government. In addition to favorable policies and support, government and industry contacts cite free market forces in Shenzhen as a ma [...]
2010-01-06 09:22:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETTC EINV TNGD PGOV CH TW
10GUANGZHOU74U.S. AND CHINA HOLD FIRST PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT
[...] (SBU) Officials and nuclear energy experts from the United States and China convened in Shenzhen, Guangdong January 20-23 to share information and best practices for improving safety in the operation of nuclear power plants (NPPS). The workshop was a key cooperative activity that the U.S. Depa [...]
2010-02-10 00:21:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG TRGY SENV PREL PGOV CH
10GUANGZHOU75 NGOs, EDUCATION, AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING: BUILDING CIVIL
[...] (U) Summary: The Consul General's February 1-3 visits to Guilin and Liuzhou focused on developing civil society through strengthening NGOs and forming educational partnerships. The CG visited Guangxi Normal University officials and librarians, as well as administrators of the Liuzhou Minority H [...]
2010-02-10 05:38:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO ECON PGOV ELAB SOCI SCUL PREL OPRC CH
10GUANGZHOU76Domestic Demand Strong, But Not "High End" in Guangxi's
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Demand for inexpensive automobiles and heavy machinery produced in Liuzhou, the main manufacturing city in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, increased in 2009 and is likely to exceed sales records in 2010, according to local executives. However, China's domestic [...]
2010-02-10 08:10:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KIPR EFIN EINV PGOV CH
10GUANGZHOU77South China Economic Analysts Predict Continued Reliance on
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Although China is making gradual progress towards greater economic diversification, cheap exports will continue to drive growth in the near term, according to comments made by local economic analysts during a conversation with the Consul General, visiting Deputy Direc [...]
2010-02-10 08:35:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EIND ELAB PGOV PREL SENV ECON CH HK
10GUANGZHOU8Labor NGO Stuck with Fine for Unpaid Taxes
[...] (C) Summary: A Shenzhen-based labor NGO was charged more than RMB 79,000 (approximately US$12,000) in back taxes and fees in what the organization's director says was a move orchestrated by local security authorities. The situation appears to be limited to the single NGO, though directors of s [...]
2010-01-06 09:23:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALELAB ECON PGOV CH
10GUANGZHOU82Migrant Worker Generation Gap Underscores
[...] (C) Summary and comment: China's new generation of migrant workers has more education, less interest in rural life and a higher rate of criminality than the previous generation. Younger workers favor jobs in the service sector over manufacturing and often do not plan to retire to the countrys [...]
2010-02-12 07:25:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALELAB ECON PGOV CH
10GUANGZHOU83South China Violent Land Disputes Symptomatic of the
[...] (SBU) Summary: Violence erupted in a long festering land dispute in rural Longya Village of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region early on January 12, 2010, resulting in a number of arrests and hospitalizations for local villagers and public security officers. Congenoff visited the site on February [...]
2010-02-12 07:28:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SOCI ECON PGOV CH
10GUANGZHOU84South China IPR: Enforcement Still the Problem, High-Level
[...] (SBU) Summary: Rights holders came to the Consul General's IPR Roundtable on January 28 and 29, with a clear message: Problems remain serious and continued high-level U.S. engagement is critical to improving the situation. Representatives of 39 south China-based rights holders and law firms p [...]
2010-02-12 07:29:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON PGOV CH HK
10GUANGZHOU85POSITIVE MEDIA REACTION IN GUILIN AND LIUZHOU
[...] (SBU) Summary: Consul General Goldbeck's February 1-3 visit to Guilin and Liuzhou garnered unprecedented media coverage for a Consulate Guangzhou event outside of Guangzhou city. The positive media coverage from over 100 outlets reached over 700 million people in and outside of China (ref A). [...]
2010-02-18 00:08:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO PREL PGOV SOCI SCUL OPRC ECON CH TW
10GUANGZHOU86Guangdong and Fujian Take the Reins of China's Nuclear
[...] (SBU) Summary: Over one third of the total nuclear generating capacity set to come online in China by 2020 will likely be concentrated in two southern provinces: Guangdong and Fujian. Home of the nation's first nuclear reactors in Daya Bay -- which along with two units at neighboring Ling Ao [...]
2010-02-18 06:18:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTRGY ENRG ETRD EINV PGOV TW CH
10GUANGZHOU88New Indian CG's Major Complaint - Lack of Access
[...] (SBU) During a brief introductory call, Indian Consul General Indra Mani Pandey expressed surprise and dismay over the lack of access to senior local government and communist party leadership. Shortly after arriving on January 20, he placed requests to meet Guangdong Party Secretary Wang Yang a [...]
2010-02-22 09:25:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ETRD SOCI CH IN
10GUANGZHOU9CONTAINER SHIPPERS IN GUANGDONG SUFFER A TUMULTOUS 2009
[...] (SBU) Summary: Serving the heart of China's export market, container terminal operators and carriers in Guangdong Province did not escape the damaging effects of the latest global economic downturn. Volumes dropped precipitously in the first half of 2009 and showed only modest signs of recove [...]
2010-01-06 09:25:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT ETRD ECON PGOV CH
10GUANGZHOU95CHINA: CA PDAS Kirby's Visit to Guangzhou
[...] (SBU) Summary: CA PDAS Michael Kirby, accompanied by MCCA Linda Donahue (Beijing),visited Guangzhou on February 23-24 for an update on Consulate General Guangzhou's consular operation, particularly the growing demand for consular services in the "workshop of the world," the Pearl River Delta [...]
2010-02-26 08:00:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT CVIS PREL ETRD BEXP CH
10GUATEMALA1Guatemala Response: Blue Lantern Level 3:
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel, EmbOffs conducted an interview with the arms import company Proximidad, S.A. At the time of the interview, and per reftel, Proximidad, S.A. was not able to provide a contract from the Guatemala's National Civil Police (PNC). As a result of the invest [...]
2010-01-08 16:07:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC GT
10GUATEMALA132Ambassador Hosts Second Round of GOG-Private Sector Dialogue
[...] (SBU) Summary. On May 15, the Ambassador hosted the second round of GOG-private sector dialogue. President Colom said that, with CICIG's findings in the Rosenberg murder case exonerating him, new political space had been opened. He was prepared to work with the private sector to addre [...]
2010-01-15 22:25:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON SOCI GT
10GUATEMALA134Embassy Guatemala Strongly Supports Continuation of the
[...] (SBU) Summary: NAS' Aviation Support Program is a critical element in the USG's fight against narcotrafficking and organized crime in Guatemala. It has been extremely successful in supporting law enforcement operations and eradication missions throughout Guatemala. The USG's ability [...]
2010-01-19 14:36:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS GT
10GUATEMALA146Guatemala Response: Host Government Humanitarian Assistance
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-20 21:44:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA GT
10GUATEMALA148GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 135
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-21 16:39:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PHUM PREL SNAR GT
10GUATEMALA15DCM RAISES MISSING USDA PROGRAM FUNDS WITH AG MINISTER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Agriculture Minister Mario Aldana admitted to DCM January 12 that his ministry had mistakenly overlooked deadlines in the execution of USDA's Food for Progress program funds approximating $4.1 million. He committed to providing Ambassador McFarland a letter and plan of action [...]
2010-01-15 20:48:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR PREL GT
10GUATEMALA152FY-2010 SSI Speaker Request -- Guatemala -- Women's
[...] In partnership with Embassy Belmopan, Post requests an SSI speaker under the topic of "Women's Empowerment" to address the issue of girls' education. The idea for this SSI came from a recent feature on America.gov on the same topic; the program will also tie in with Women's History Month (Marc [...]
2010-01-22 15:01:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDSTAG KPAO OIIP
10GUATEMALA162GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 136
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-26 16:56:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA164GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 137
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-26 16:56:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA166GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 138
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-26 16:56:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA19GOG to Recognize Lobo's GOH
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-20 21:39:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPREL HO GT
10GUATEMALA198Regional Visit of USDA/FAS General Sales Manager/Associate
[...] Summary: From December 6-11, USDA/FAS General Sales Manager (GSM)/Associate Administrator John Brewer and Deputy Administrator of the FAS Office of Capacity Building and Development (OCBD) Pat Sheikh visited FAS programs in El Salvador and Guatemala. The visit of the USDA/FAS delegation to [...]
2010-02-01 22:26:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ETRD PGOV GT ES
10GUATEMALA204GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY VETTING REQUEST 139
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-02 22:09:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PINR APER AFSN GT
10GUATEMALA212VISAS VIPER REPORT FOR JANUARY 2010
[...] VISAS VIPER 2. POST: Guatemala City MEETING DATE: 3 February 2010 CHAIR: DCM Todd Robinson COORDINATOR: CG Kay Anske ATTENDEES: Consular, Regional Affairs, Military Group, RSO, DEA, NAS, DAO, DHS/ICE, POL/ECON, NGA PREVIOUS SUBMISSIONS: None [...]
2010-02-03 15:24:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS KVPR PTER ASEC PINR CMGT PREL GT
10GUATEMALA214EAC GUATEMALA REVIEWS TERRORISM ISSUES INCLUDING VISAS VIPER
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, Post's EAC (AMB, DCM, CONS, RSO, AID, NAS, DEA, DHS/ICE, MILGP, DAO, PAS, ADMIN, CLO, ORA, CDC, POL/ECON, DHS/ICE, and Peace Corps) convened January 13. The DCM (EAC chairperson) and Consul General (CG) emphasized the importance of the Visas Viper process, and stressed the r [...]
2010-02-03 17:24:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS PTER ASEC PINR PREL CASC GT
10GUATEMALA224GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 141
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-04 19:11:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA226GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 142
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-04 19:11:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA228GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 140
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-04 19:11:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA232Guatemala Child Labor Report for TVPRA and TDA
[...] (U) Below is a response to Ref A, Tasking 1 (Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA)) and Tasking 2 (Trade and Development Act (TDA)). Guatemalan children continue to be the victims of forced and exploitive labor practices in the production of goods and the provision of serv [...]
2010-02-04 21:09:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI GT
10GUATEMALA234Guatemala Demarche on Distracted Driving
[...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel points to PROVIAL, the Government of Guatemala's (GoG) principle highway patrol authority. The PROVIAL representative stated that Guatemala's current traffic laws do not address the issue of cell phone use or texting while driving. The GoG has compiled some general [...]
2010-02-04 21:12:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDECON SOCI UNDP UNGA GT
10GUATEMALA236Embassy Guatemala: January 2010 Merida Report
[...] (U) In response to ref A, Post submits the information below detailing Embassy Guatemala's Merida activities for January 2010. Issues for Washington 2. (U) Post conducted a review of Merida funding to date and found that some FY 2008 funds are still stalled in the procureme [...]
2010-02-04 22:47:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS EAID GT
10GUATEMALA242Guatemala Demarche on CITES for COP15
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to the Sub-Secretary and Fauna Expert at the National Council for Protected Areas (CONAP). Officials speculated, but could not confirm, that the GoG would support the U.S. proposals on coral, the polar bear, the bobcat and the Asian snake study. Likewise, r [...]
2010-02-05 19:00:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP GT
10GUATEMALA25Leading Human Rights Activist Prepares to Take on Police
[...] (C) Summary. During a meeting with Pol/Econ Counselor, Guatemala's leading human rights activist, Helen Mack, discussed her plans for her new position overseeing police reform, for which she would seek international assistance. Mack warned the Embassy to be watchful as it administers a $2 [...]
2010-01-26 16:56:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR ASEC KCRM SNAR GT
10GUATEMALA268GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 143
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-10 21:29:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA27Former President Portillo Captured, Refuses Extradition
[...] (C) Summary. Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo, indicted in the U.S. on money laundering charges and a fugitive from justice, was captured Jan. 26 as he was about to flee to Belize. The capture was the result of a joint operation involving CICIG, the Attorney General's Office, th [...]
2010-01-27 00:12:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM ASEC SNAR PREL PINR GT
10GUATEMALA296Conviction of Publisher Raul Figueroa Overturned
[...] (U) Summary: On February 5, the Second Court of Penal Appeals annulled a lower court conviction of Guatemalan publisher Raul Figueroa Sarti on charges of copyright infringement. Figueroa's conviction six months earlier by the Seventh Penal Court had generated substantial interest in the Washi [...]
2010-02-16 16:37:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL GT
10GUATEMALA3Guatemala Response: Blue Lantern Level 3 Post-Shipment
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel, EmbOffs researched the bona fides of the arms import company Gun Depot. The research included an on-site inspection of Gun Depot, an interview with the company's owner, and records checks of both the company and the owner with the MOD's General Directora [...]
2010-01-08 16:08:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC GT
10GUATEMALA300Guatemalan Response for Force Generation Issues to Reinforce
[...] In response to reftel, post received the following information from the Guatemalan Chief of the National Defense Staff General Juan Jose Ruiz Morales. Responses are keyed to reftel questions. a. Firmness: What is the status of each country's offer? The Government of Guatemal [...]
2010-02-17 00:18:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV HA SOCI MCAP MARR SNAR ASEC EFIN KJUS KPKO
10GUATEMALA318GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 144
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-18 16:17:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA32Embassy Guatemala: December 2009 Merida Report
[...] (U) In response to ref A, Post submits the information below detailing Embassy Guatemala's Merida activities for December 2009. Issues for Washington 2. (U) Allocation of Merida funding continues to be inconsistent and slow. Post requests Washington's continued ass [...]
2010-01-06 15:47:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS EAID GT
10GUATEMALA320GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 145
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-18 16:17:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA322GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 146
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-18 16:18:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA324GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 149
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-18 16:23:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA326GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 147
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-18 16:23:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA328GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 148
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-18 16:23:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA330GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 150
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-18 16:24:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA332GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 151
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-18 16:24:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA336GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 152
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-18 22:16:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA350GUATEMALA RESPONSE FOR COUNTRY SPECIFIC ALLOCATIONS 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-23 18:03:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD GT
10GUATEMALA360Guatemala Response to Blue Lantern Level 3: Pre License
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel, EmbOffs researched the bona fides of the arms import company ARMSA Guatemala S.A. The research included an on-site inspection of ARMSA, an interview with the company's owner, and record checks of both the company and the owner with the Ministry of [...]
2010-02-25 20:24:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC GT
10GUATEMALA38VISAS VIPER REPORT FOR DECEMBER 2009
[...] VISAS VIPER 2. POST: Guatemala City MEETING DATE: 6 January 2010 CHAIR: DCM Todd Robinson COORDINATOR: CG Kay Anske ATTENDEES: Consular, Regional Affairs, Military Group, RSO, DEA, NAS, DAO, DHS/ICE, POL/ECON PREVIOUS SUBMISSIONS: None [...]
2010-01-06 23:56:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS KVPR PTER ASEC PINR CMGT PREL GT
10GUATEMALA41GUATEMALA: RECENT CRIME EVENTS AND TRENDS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: As violent crime continues to be a significant issue for Guatemala, with police struggling to address gang and street crime, and citizens taking the law into their own hands more frequently, 2009 police statistics show an increase from 2008 and 2007 for almost all reported crimina [...]
2010-02-11 22:25:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CASC KCRM GT
10GUATEMALA452009 in Review; What to Watch for in 2010
[...] (C) President Colom's tenure during 2009 was characterized by a number of successes in the social field, and growing challenges in others, especially security. Preparing for a presidential run in 2011, controversial First Lady Sandra de Colom continued to lead the government's efforts to alleviate [...]
2010-02-17 20:51:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON SOCI PREL PINR ASEC EAID GT
10GUATEMALA47Your Meeting with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom
[...] (C) Summary: During your February 18 meeting with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom you will have the opportunity to address several key issues including poverty alleviation, general and food security, rule of law, transparency, and taxes. Your meeting comes in the wake of his January exone [...]
2010-02-17 22:09:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON SOCI EAID GT
10GUATEMALA49Opposition Leader Complains of Smear Campaign
[...] (C) The Ambassador met February 17 with rightist opposition leader General Otto Perez Molina. Perez said the First Lady and her associates are preparing a smear campaign to falsely accuse him of human rights abuses during the internal conflict, and are trying to manipulate the judiciary to d [...]
2010-02-22 17:04:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PHUM GT
10GUATEMALA51Under Pressure, Guatemalan Congress Voids Nomination of
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 9, the Guatemalan Congress voted to annul the selection of Remberto Leonel Ruiz Barrientos as head of the Institute for Public Criminal Defenders. Though originally chosen by a vote of 96-1 (with 61 abstentions or no-shows),the Commission Against Impunity in Guatemal [...]
2010-02-23 17:33:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KCOR GT
10GUATEMALA52GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 133
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-12 17:15:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA72GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST 134
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-13 17:35:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10GUATEMALA82Guatemala - Diplomacy and Development Plan for the Global
[...] (U) Summary: Embassy Guatemala welcomes the opportunity to continue its engagement with the Government of Guatemala (GoG) and others on food security (Ref A and B). Guatemala is highly vulnerable to food crises and progress on this issue is integral to economic development. At present, the G [...]
2010-01-13 23:11:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PREL PGOV GT
10GUAYAQUIL13GUAYAQUIL PROTESTS AGAINST CORREA REGIME
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 11, several hundred thousand lin... id: 248733 date: 2/12/2010 20:01 refid: 10GUAYAQUIL13 origin: Consulate Guayaquil classification: CONFIDENTIAL destination: header: VZCZCXYZ0000 RR RUEHWEB DE RUEHGL #0013/01 0432001 ZNY CCCCC ZZH R 122001Z FEB 10 FM AMCONSUL GUAYAQ [...]
2010-02-12 20:01:00Consulate GuayaquilCONFIDENTIALPGOV EC
10HALIFAX4Nova Scotia's Emera Inc.: A Unique Energy Entity Poised for
[...] Sensitive, but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution - please protect. 2. (SBU) INTRODUCTION/SUMMARY: Consul General met recently with James Spurr, a senior executive with Emera Inc. (www.emera.com),an investor-owned, diversified energy company that owns Nova Scotia's electricit [...]
2010-01-15 22:07:00Consulate HalifaxUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET ETRD PGOV CA
10HALIFAX6New Brunswick and Quebec Agree to Significant Modifications
[...] SUMMARY: New Brunswick will retain control of its transmission system under a new, renegotiated energy agreement with Quebec, but with reduced cash to apply to its power utility's debt. The changes were prompted by bitter opposition to the original MOU but there is also speculation that a pl [...]
2010-01-20 21:14:00Consulate HalifaxUNCLASSIFIEDENRG ECON ETRD EINV PGOV CA
10HAMBURG3MEGAPORTS INITIATIVE: DOE SEEKS GERMANY'S PARTICIPATION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: A DoE team visited Germany December 8-11 to promote the inclusion of the ports of Bremerhaven and Hamburg in their Megaports Initiative. The Initiative aims at providing equipment, training, and technical support to international partners to enhance their ability to deter, dete [...]
2010-01-13 16:55:00Consulate HamburgUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER EWWT TNGD PGOV PREL ECIN ECON ETRD GM
10HAMBURG6HAMBURG POLITICIANS UNDERSCORE SPD DILEMMA ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: Two senior Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Hamburg Landtag representatives discussed the London Conference and the German-Afghanistan debate with Hamburg P/E staff on January 28. While the SPD is struggling with internal party calls to limit [...]
2010-02-17 12:15:00Consulate HamburgCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AF GM
10HAMBURG8DISMANTLING THE IRON CURTAIN -- A REMEMBRANCE
[...] (U) On February 19, 2010, Consul General Karen Johnson attended the 654th St. Matthew's Banquet at the Hamburg Rathaus, an event hosted by the city government since 1356. This year's event, attended by 400 guests, commemorated the 1989 Peaceful Revolution. Speakers included Hamburg's First M [...]
2010-02-26 15:35:00Consulate HamburgUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL GM HU
10HAMILTON11BERMUDA: 2009 WORST YEAR FOR ARRESTS, FIREARMS AND GANGS
[...] (SBU) Confirming what residents already know, Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva revealed that 2009 was the worst year on record for crimes involving arrests generally and guns and gangs specifically. There was also a 40 percent jump in the number of arrests over 2008. However, post now [...]
2010-01-15 19:47:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CASC SOCI BD
10HAMILTON12CORRECTED COPY: BERMUDA'S 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] U.S. Consulate General Hamilton provides this corrected copy of the money laundering and financial crimes section of the 2009-2010 INCSR (REFTEL A). Post has updated responses to questions (45) and (55),see paragraphs 30 and 44.. GENERAL QUESTIONS 2. (18) Yes. An ov [...]
2010-01-15 21:47:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM EFIM KTFN SNAR PGOV BD
10HAMILTON14BERMUDA DIRECTS BERMUDA FIRMS TO CEASE DOING BUSINESS WITH
[...] (U) The Government of Bermuda (GOB) has taken expeditious and concrete steps to comply with international sanctions against Iran with the passage of new legislation and directives that strengthen Bermuda's Anti-Money Laundering/Anti-Terrorist Financing (AML/ATF) regime. On January 15, 20 [...]
2010-01-19 19:19:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN KCRM PGOV PREL BD
10HAMILTON15C O R R E C T E D C O P Y BERMUDA'S 2009-2010
[...] U.S. Consulate General Hamilton provides this corrected copy of the money laundering and financial crimes section of the 2009-2010 INCSR (REFTEL A). Post has re-numbered the paragraphs beginning with paragraph 40. GENERAL QUESTIONS 2. (18) Yes. An overseas territory o [...]
2010-01-19 20:03:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR PGIV BD
10HAMILTON16BERMUDA: FBI GANG TRAINING A SUCCESS
[...] (SBU) The FBI and the Government of Bermuda (GOB) have begun a partnership to address the spike in gang-related violent crime in Bermuda, which has seen five shooting deaths in under twelve months. FBI personnel conducted two days of gang training on January 5-6 for sixty police and pros [...]
2010-01-22 20:53:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KCRM CASC PREL SOCI BD
10HAMILTON17BERMUDA OUTREACH ON ESTA COMPLIANCE
[...] Post has worked in conjunction with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Preclearance officers to inform Bermudians and third country nationals resident in Bermuda about mandatory compliance with ESTA provisions. Post issued a press release on January 21, 2010 and recently updated its [...]
2010-01-22 20:58:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS CMGT KPAO BD
10HAMILTON18BERMUDA POLICE SERVICE RELEASES FAR-REACHING 2010 POLICING
[...] (SBU) On January 21, Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva publicly released the Bermuda Police Service's (BPS) Policing Plan for 2010. It is an ambitious strategy aimed at making Bermuda a safer place to live, work and visit. The plan takes a four-pronged approach to policing, which Desil [...]
2010-01-22 21:02:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CASC PREL SOCI BD
10HAMILTON20BERMUDA: H1N1 UPDATE - JANUARY 29, 2010
[...] (U) Due to a misprint by the Royals Gazette on January 7, 2010, the Department of Health has clarified that "There have been no confirmed deaths due to influenza A/H1N1. However, there has been reported a death in a person with influenza and a death in a person with confirmed influenza A/ [...]
2010-01-30 01:14:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIEDAPER AMGT KFLU TF BD
10HAMILTON21BERMUDA WATERS PART OF RESEARCH INTO PLASTIC POLLUTION
[...] (U) Local environmental group, Greenrock, hosted Global Pangaea Explorations, the owner of the research vessel "Sea Dragon," which is engaged in the first comprehensive study of plastic pollution in the world's oceans. The "Sea Dragon" was in Bermuda as part of a research voyage across t [...]
2010-02-01 14:07:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIEDSENV BD
10HAMILTON26BERMUDA: TENTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT FOR
[...] (SBU) (Question 25A) CONGEN Hamilton verifies that trafficking is not a significant problem in Bermuda. The Bermuda Police Service (BPS),the Bermuda Department of Immigration, the Bermuda Department of Labor and Training, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP),social workers at Ki [...]
2010-02-16 13:58:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP ELAB KMCA KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
10HAMILTON3STATUS OF H1N1 IN BERMUDA: 25 CASES
[...] (U) A front-page article in the January 7th edition of the daily Royal Gazette quoted Chief Medical Officer Dr. John Cann, "There have been two deaths recorded in Bermudians with influenza, including one laboratory confirmed case of 2009 H1N1 influenza." However, it is unclear whether th [...]
2010-01-07 15:05:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIEDAPER AMGT KFLU TF BD
10HAMILTON30BERMUDA: MIGRANT WORKER ABUSE NOW ON THE RADAR SCREEN
[...] (SBU) Bermuda is one of the most affluent countries in the world, but migrant workers at the lower end of the economy in the construction, hospitality and domestic service industries are vulnerable to workplace abuse. An estimated two-three dozen guest workers complained about labor abus [...]
2010-02-19 19:36:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PHUM PGOV BD
10HAMILTON31BERMUDA: AUDITORS GENERAL CALL ON POLICE TO INVESTIGATE
[...] (U) Reports by both the current and former auditors general found evidence of massive mismanagement of government funds and recommended that police investigate four cases of overspending and/or lack of oversight and poor internal controls. A 2007/08 report by the former auditor general, [...]
2010-02-23 18:55:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON KCRM BD
10HAMILTON32BERMUDA INSURERS REVERSE 2008 LOSSES WITH HUGE POFITS IN
[...] (U) The February 22 edition of the daily Royal Gazette reported that 17 U.S.-listed property and casualty re/insurance companies based on the Island reversed 2008 losses of just over USD one billion with high profits of USD 11.7 billion in 2009. The list of 17 did not include London-listed [...]
2010-02-23 19:18:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON BD
10HAMILTON6BERMUDA: 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] U.S. Consulate General Hamilton provides the following answers in response to questions for the money laundering and financial crimes section of the 2009-2010 INCSR in REFTEL, referenced in parentheses. GENERAL QUESTIONS 2. (18) Yes. An overseas territory of the Unite [...]
2010-01-12 19:46:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR PGOV BD
10HAMILTON7HAMILTON EAC REVIEW OF VISAS VIPER PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) Consul General convened post's EAC on January 12, 2010, to review post's visa viper process, per Ref B. The committee determined that post is fully compliant with latest instructions in ref A. All mission elements cooperate fully in the visas viper process 2. (U) [...]
2010-01-13 20:10:00Consulate HamiltonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS PTER ASEC PINR PREL
10HANOI1Violent Demolition of Crucifix Overshadows Progress on
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-12 10:08:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
10HANOI104VIETNAM CONSIDERING US SPECIES PROPOSALS FOR CITES COP 15
[...] (SBU) Summary: The head of the Vietnamese CITES Management Office stated that the Government of Vietnam (GVN) had not yet met to review the U.S. proposals (reftel),but thought they looked good in principle, particularly as he felt they had little relationship to Vietnam. The GVN will hol [...]
2010-01-28 07:58:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA AORC UNEP VM
10HANOI106Joint Demarche Delivered on Preparations for Third Sherpa
[...] (SBU) On January 27, PolOff, together with the Dutch Charge Collett, met with MFA International Organizations Assistant Director General Do Hung Viet to deliver reftel A demarche regarding the Third Sherpa Meeting in the Hague on February 9-11. PolOff and Collett highlighted the importance of t [...]
2010-01-29 03:38:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM EAID TBIO IAEA AORC CDG ENRG MNUC PGOV PREL VM
10HANOI11How much influence does China have over Vietnam's internal
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Animosity toward China, heartfelt and pervasive in the most routine of times, appears to have taken on an added urgency in the wake of sensitive border negotiations, protracted controversy over Chinese investment in bauxite mining projects in the Central Highlands, and China's imp [...]
2010-01-27 02:55:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON SENV MARR CH VM
10HANOI112Another Dissident Convicted for "Anti-State Propaganda"
[...] (SBU) Following a half-day trial in Haiphong January 29, Ms. Pham Thanh Nghien was sentenced to four years imprisonment followed by three years administrative probation for "conducting propaganda against the State." Nghien -- the 15th dissident convicted since October 2009 -- was arrested in S [...]
2010-01-29 10:10:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL HURI VM
10HANOI114RECALL 10 HANOI 114
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-29 10:20:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL HA VM
10HANOI116Prime Minister Approves USD 50,000 for Haiti
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-29 10:52:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL HA VM
10HANOI124Codel Faleomavaega Touts Engagement during January 4-5 Visit
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-02 03:51:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PHUM PGOV PREL VM
10HANOI128VIETNAM PROJECT NOMINATION FOR 2010 BIOTECHNOLOGY OUTREACH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Mission Vietnam is pleased to submit a two part project proposal for consideration by EEB as part of the 2010 Biotech Outreach Strategy (Reftels A and B). Vietnam is at a critical stage in its development of biotechnology. Although the Government of Vietnam (GVN) says it plan [...]
2010-02-02 09:19:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO EAGR ETRD ECON EAID VM
10HANOI154VIETNAM HAS NOT YET CONSIDERED DISTRACTED DRIVING DEMARCHE
[...] (U) On January 27, Embassy delivered the distracted driving demarche to the Ministry of Transportation. In several follow up conversations, the Ministry of Transportation stated that it had not yet reviewed the demarche in detail, nor had it determined who in the Ministry eventually would resp [...]
2010-02-08 10:20:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDECON SOCI ELTN UNDP UNGA VM
10HANOI164Prominent Dissident Writer Tran Khai Thanh Thuy Convicted of
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prominent political dissident and writer Tran Khai Thanh Thuy was sentenced to 42 months in jail on February 5 for assault. Thuy's husband received a two-year suspended sentence. Thuy argued she was being persecuted for her outspoken views and for attempting to attend dissiden [...]
2010-02-09 09:43:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL VM
10HANOI168Treasury Visit to Hanoi: Macroeconomic Uncertainty, Tax
[...] (SBU) Summary. During Treasury Financial Attach???? Seth Bleiweis' January 21-22 trip to Hanoi, Vietnamese economic officials acknowledged the recent policy shift towards fiscal and monetary tightening that began in November 2009, focusing on the control of inflation which has now risen for f [...]
2010-02-10 09:25:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EINV EINT VM ASEAN
10HANOI17Vietnam's Impressions of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Retreat
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The first major ASEAN meeting of Vietnam's chairmanship, an informal foreign ministers retreat, focused primarily on internal efforts to implement ASEAN's new charter and on aspirations to build an ASEAN Community by 2015, according to officials from the MFA's ASEAN Department. A [...]
2010-02-04 04:53:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON MARR ASEAN BM VM
10HANOI18SETTING THE SCENE FOR CODEL BOND VISIT TO VIETNAM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced significantly over the past three years and are arguably at their most productive since relations were reestablished in 1995. We are Vietnam's largest export market, its third- largest trading partner, and one of its largest fore [...]
2010-01-06 10:29:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV PHUM MARR ECON SENV VM
10HANOI1882010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - VIETNAM - PART 1 of 3
[...] (U) Post provides the following responses to the questions in paragraphs 25-33 of ref A, taking into account the additional guidance and reporting requirements required by the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA of 2008). Post's responses cover the re [...]
2010-02-12 08:39:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
10HANOI1902010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - VIETNAM - PART 2 of 3
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-12 08:48:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB VM
10HANOI196Vietnam's Nomination for S/GWI Project Proposal 2010
[...] (SBU) Summary: Mission Vietnam is pleased to submit two distinct project proposals for consideration by S/GWI as part of the 2010 Small Grants Initiative (ref A). Domestic violence is a serious problem in Vietnam - one that is of growing concern to the Vietnamese government and public. The 2 [...]
2010-02-12 09:29:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV KWMN VM
10HANOI200Information on the Nuclear Security Summit
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-12 09:52:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDPARM EAID TBIO IAEA AORC CDG ENRG MNUC PGOV PREL VM
10HANOI214Is Vietnam Blocking BBC.com?
[...] (SBU) There is mounting, though inconclusive, evidence that access to the BBC's Vietnamese-language internet news site is becoming more difficult in Vietnam. According to a UK Political Officer, the British Embassy began to receive reports during last week's Tet Holiday suggesting that the BB [...]
2010-02-23 10:19:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL VM
10HANOI218SCENESETTER FOR VISIT BY OES ASSISTANT SECRETARY JONES TO
[...] (SBU) Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Hanoi. Your visit will be an important signal to the Vietnamese of continued U.S. engagement on health and environmental issues. Your meetings with the Government of Vietnam (GVN),the United Nations (UN),and the European Union will allo [...]
2010-02-24 10:38:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO SOCI PREL ECON KGHG KHIV VM
10HANOI220TWO FIRST HUMAN CASES OF INFLUENZA A/H5N1 IN VIETNAM IN
[...] (U) Summary: Vietnam reported its first two Influenza A/H5N1 infections of 2010, one of them apparently fatal. Consistent with seasonal trends, Vietnam also has experienced several outbreaks in flocks of chickens and ducks throughout the country. End Summary. First Human Infection of I [...]
2010-02-26 11:03:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED EAGR PINR KFLU VM
10HANOI23EAP DAS Marciel and MFA DG for the Americas Exchange Views
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-10 06:43:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM PGOV AMGT APER ECON KNNP MNUC CH VM AF BM
10HANOI25DAS MARCIEL REBUTS ALLEGATIONS OF U.S. DISENGAGEMENT IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During an at times contentious discussion with EAP DAS Marciel, Ministry of Public Security (MPS) Vice Minister General Nguyen Van Huong criticized the "lack of U.S. engagement" in Southeast Asia in contrast to China's rising power and influence. Gen. Huong said China was focused [...]
2010-02-11 06:45:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ASEAN VM
10HANOI27DAS MARCIEL DISCUSSES REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE WITH GVN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam continues to push for a U.S. Presidential visit in 2010 and, less forcefully, for the United States to join the East Asia Summit (EAS). In separate conversations with EAP DAS Marciel, Vietnam's Senior Official for ASEAN and the influential Vice President of Vietnam's Dipl [...]
2010-02-11 07:05:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEAN MARR MOPS CH RS VM
10HANOI29CDA Encourages Vietnam to Step Up Participation in GPOI
[...] (C) Summary: MFA DG for IO Affairs Le Hoai Trung told Charge February 12 that after reviewing its tenure as a UNSC member, Vietnam was likely to be more active in multilateral fora addressing global issues such as counter-terrorism, piracy, non-proliferation, and climate change. Charge encoura [...]
2010-02-12 10:33:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KPKO PGOV MARR VM
10HANOI3Ambassador cautions Vice Foreign Minister that deteriorating
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador used his January 13 working lunch with VFM Pham Binh Minh to discuss managing the overall relationship this year in the context of deteriorating human rights situation, the 15th anniversary of re-normalization of bilateral relations, and the lead-up to the Party Cong [...]
2010-01-15 09:32:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV AMGT APER ABLD
10HANOI31Tour D' Horizon with Vice Minister of Public Security
[...] (C) Summary: Over dinner with the Ambassador February 8, powerful vice Minister of Public Security Nguyen Van Huong expressed serious concern about the success of China's "soft power" campaign to increase its influence in the region and challenged the U.S. commitment to Asia, saying ASEAN nati [...]
2010-02-12 12:13:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ASEAN
10HANOI32Education Reform in Vietnam: Everyone Being Left Behind
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: This cable is the first of two reports on Vietnam's stalled education reform. Education reform is key to Vietnam's political and economic development, yet three years after Deputy Prime Minister Nhan announced his intent to overhaul the education system, little real [...]
2010-01-13 04:13:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOEXC KPAO PGOV VM
10HANOI33Father Ly Health and Possibility of Medical Parole Update
[...] (C) Father Nguyen Van Ly's health is not improving, according to his sister, who last visited the prominent political dissident in Nam Ha prison February 7. She informed us that although he recovered well from his fist stroke in July 2009 (Ref A & B),his second stroke in November 2009 has le [...]
2010-02-25 09:46:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV VM
10HANOI4Setting the Scene for CODEL Bond Visit to Vietnam
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced significantly over the past three years and are arguably at their most productive since relations were reestablished in 1995. We are Vietnam's largest export market, its third-largest trading partner, and one of its largest foreign invest [...]
2010-01-05 10:11:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV PHUM MARR ECON SENV VM
10HANOI5Bat Nha Wrap-up: VN government makes its case while Lang Mai
[...] (C) Summary: For months, Lang Mai followers in Lam Dong province have been cajoled, harried, and harassed into dispersing to their home provinces throughout Vietnam. The last of the Lang Mai adherents -- a group of nine nuns -- left Phuoc Hue pagoda on December 29 in advance of the GVN-impos [...]
2010-01-15 10:19:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL TH VM
10HANOI54Vietnam Considers Aid to Haiti
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-20 03:20:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM PGOV EAID UN HA VM
10HANOI58VIETNAM LIKELY TO ASSOCIATE WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD BUT NEEDS
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-21 03:31:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG ECON KGHG VM
10HANOI64Mission Urges Vietnam to Contribute to Haiti
[...] (SBU) A/DCM telephoned MFA/Americas Deputy Director Le Huy Hoang January 22 to urge Vietnam again to contribute assistance to Haiti, and to convey ref A points on developments in Haiti. A/DCM noted that many other nations in Southeast Asia already had contributed assistance and encouraged Viet [...]
2010-01-22 09:15:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KDEM EAID ECON PREF OIIP KPAO HA VM
10HANOI68Vietnamese Border Guards' role in Combating Human
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a January 7 meeting, the Deputy Chief of the Ministry of Defense's Border Guards Division, Bui Quang An, stated criminal activity, including human trafficking, was on the rise. The northern border provinces of Lang Son, Lao Cai and An Giang registered the largest number of TI [...]
2010-01-22 10:19:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KTIP KCRM PHUM PREL ELAB VM
10HANOI7Vietnam Religious Freedom Update - The Case Against CPC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam's poor handling of the situations at the Plum Village Community at the Bat Nha Pagoda and the Dong Chiem Catholic parish last week "” particularly the excessive use of violence "” is troublesome and indicative of a larger GVN crackdown on human rights in the run-up to the J [...]
2010-01-20 09:54:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KIRF HURI PREL VM
10HANOI70Vietnam's plans for the Mekong Initiative against
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff and USAID project manager met with the Regional Project Manager for the UN's Interagency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP) on January 5 to obtain a briefing on progress under UNIAP's USAID-funded grant and discuss Vietnam's participation in the Coordinated Mekong Minis [...]
2010-01-22 10:26:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KTIP KCRM PHUM PREL ELAB VM
10HANOI90Many Vietnamese Youth Trust Big Brother to Monitor the
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a wide-ranging discussion at the American Center in Hanoi following the airing of the Secretary's speech on internet freedom (Ref A) several participants parroted the Party line that the internet could be used to spread information that is harmful to Vietnamese society an [...]
2010-01-27 03:28:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM EINT PGOV SOCI VM
10HARARE100ZIM NOTES 02-05-2010
[...] SUMMARY ----------- IMF to Restore Voting Rights-Biti... Circular Arguments... ACR Reports Offices Raided... Dozens Arrested While Discussing the Constitution... Zimbabwe Named to AU's Security Council... MDC-M Spokesman Defects... MDC Councilors Accused of Killing a ZA [...]
2010-02-08 07:49:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
10HARARE102HARARE ANNUAL CERTIFICATION OF MANAGEMENT CONTROLS
[...] Per reftel, post completed its review of consular operations on February 9, 2010, which was certified by Deputy Chief of Mission Kathy Dhanani, FE-OC. Post is in full compliance with consular management control requirements. 2. (a) Inventory and Reconciliation of Accountable Items. Th [...]
2010-02-08 14:28:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDCMGT CVIS CASC KFRD ZI
10HARARE105Zimbabwe: Doing Business Zimbabwe-style
[...] (SBU) A recent conversation with businessman Kumbirai Katsande illuminated the difficulties of doing business in Zimbabwe. Katsande is the past president of the Zimbabwe Business Council and the current head of the Confederation of Zimbabwean Industries. He is the Managing Director of Ariston [...]
2010-02-16 13:55:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALEINV ECON PREL PGOV ZI
10HARARE107Zimbabwe: Measuring Progress
[...] (C) The coalition government is now one year old. As the U.S. examines further engagement with Zimbabwe, post would like to suggest the Hague Principles agreed to in late 2007 as benchmarks for examining progress, and we offer our evaluation of progress from that time until the present. The [...]
2010-02-19 08:42:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ECON ZI
10HARARE110STRIKE IN ZIMBABWE HITS EDUCATION HARDEST
[...] (SBU) Some government employees, including teachers, began a labor action on February 5 in demand of higher wages, improved working conditions, and price cuts at government-controlled essential utilities. The greatest impact of the strike has been felt in the education sector, as teacher ab [...]
2010-02-11 06:38:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PGOV SOCI PREL PHUM ASEC ZI
10HARARE116Zimbabwe Sets Racial Quota for Business Ownership
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) minister from President Mugabe's ZANU-PF party has issued regulations meant to force "indigenization" of businesses. The new rules, published on February 5, say that any business worth US$500,000 or more must explain how it will "cede a controlling [...]
2010-02-12 10:51:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL ZI
10HARARE118CHINESE ENGAGEMENT IN ZIMBABWE
[...] (U) Although statistics are not readily available, anecdotal evidence shows increasing Chinese involvement in Zimbabwe's economy. The trend became pronounced with the Government of Zimbabwe's (GOZ) "Look East Policy" in 2003, through which it sought to emphasize new ties with China in place o [...]
2010-02-12 11:49:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL EAID CN ZI
10HARARE12ZIM NOTES 01-08-2010
[...] SUMMARY ----------- Vacations Delay Negotiations... Diamond Sale Announced Then Cancelled... MDC-T Investigating Corrupt Ministers... Zim Ambassador Invades Malaysian-Owned Farm... Teachers and Mine Workers Threaten Strikes... Michael Jackson's Ghost Sighted in Zimbabwe... Counterfeit US [...]
2010-01-11 06:51:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
10HARARE120Zimbabwe Expects Another Poor Harvest
[...] SUMMARY: Zimbabwe probably will not see an increase in maize production this year, mainly due to poor weather and small-scale farmers' lack of financing for seed and fertilizer. There was reportedly a sufficient amount of seed in the country, but the sole fertilizer producer could not keep p [...]
2010-02-12 12:02:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR ZI
10HARARE132ZIMNOTES 2/12/2010
[...] SUMMARY ----------- Civil Service Strike Hits Education Sector... Commissioners to ZEC and HRC Selected... No Progress on Talks... MDC-T Expels 23 Councilors... Diamond Firm Directors Arrested... Newspaper Staff Charged... No Birthday Cake for the Government... "Indi [...]
2010-02-16 07:52:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
10HARARE150ZIMBABWE: CHANGES TO RECIPROCITY SCHEDULE
[...] (U) Post recommends two changes to the Zimbabwe reciprocity schedule as outlined below. The intent of the changes is to streamline visa processing for Zimbabwean government officials not subject to Presidential Proclamation 7524, which restricts travel of certain individuals to the U.S., and [...]
2010-02-22 12:58:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS CMGT PREL ZI
10HARARE152ZIM NOTES 02-19-2010
[...] SUMMARY ----------- Mugabe Welcomes Codel Meeks/Watt... Journalist thrown out of Mugabe/Codel meeting... Diamond Drama Continues... Zim Agrees to KP Monitor... Court Orders Mining at Chiadzwa to Stop... EU Extends Targeted Sanctions on Zimbabwe... ZANU-PF Hijacks Civil [...]
2010-02-23 08:57:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
10HARARE156Zimbabwe: Goods Produced With Forced or Exploitive Child
[...] This cable provides information relevant to the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) of 2005, as described reftel, by providing details on goods produced in Zimbabwe with forced labor and exploitive child labor and government efforts to investigate and eliminate forced and [...]
2010-02-23 10:23:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PREL PREF PHUM KTIP ZI
10HARARE158Zimbabwe: Tenth Annual Trafficking in Persons Report
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Harare's response to questions posed to Post in ref B. --------------------------------- Zimbabwe's TIP Situation --------------------------------- -- 25 A. (SBU) There are no reliable statistics on the trafficking problem in Zimbabwe. Most informa [...]
2010-02-23 20:01:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP PGOV PREL PREF ELAB SMIG ASEC KMCA KWMN
10HARARE168Zimbabwean Labor Leader Interrogated, Office Raided
[...] (SBU) On February 19, the Secretary General of the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers' Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ),Gertrude Hambira, was interrogated by a group of 17 security officials for her part in producing a film documenting abuse suffered by farm workers in Zimbabwe. During the [...]
2010-02-24 15:27:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PGOV PHUM PREL PREF ASEC ZI
10HARARE170ZANU-PF Peacefully Protests Sanctions In Front Of U.S.
[...] (U) A ZANU-PF organized group protested peacefully in downtown Harare and in front of the U.S. Embassy on February 24. The protesters, who were allegedly bused in from outside Harare, shouted anti-sanctions slogans and appeared to have been paid at ZANU-PF headquarters after the march ended. [...]
2010-02-24 15:53:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
10HARARE19AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL WITH INDIAN AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) In a meeting on January 13, Indian ambassador to Zimbabwe Ashok Venkatesan told the Ambassador that India has had a relationship with Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF that dates to the independence struggle, and Mugabe had a personal relationship with Indira Gandhi. The GOI takes a neutral sta [...]
2010-01-14 12:12:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ZI IN
10HARARE202010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - ZIMBABWE
[...] Zimbabwe's gross domestic product (GDP) declined by roughly 50 percent over the past decade, possibly the largest peacetime contraction ever recorded. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that GDP shrank by 14 percent in 2008 alone. In July 2008 inflation reached the officially est [...]
2010-01-15 07:25:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC ZI
10HARARE22ZIMBABWE INCHES TOWARDS A NEW CONSTITUTION
[...] (SBU) On January 11, Minister of Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs Eric Matinenga presided over the launch of the public outreach portion of Zimbabwe's effort to draft a new constitution. In sharp contrast with last July's chaotic All Stakeholders Conference, the approximate 1,000 del [...]
2010-01-15 10:23:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER PHUM ASEC ZI
10HARARE23ZIM NOTES 01-15-2010
[...] SUMMARY ----------- SADC Meets in Maputo... Constitutional Process to Resume after Long Delay... MDC-T Ministers Named in Corruption Probe... Rash of Farm Invasions in Rusape... AG Tomana Impeaches Own Witness... Hitschmann's Lawyer Mahlangu Acquitted... Students Arrested While Protestin [...]
2010-01-19 07:04:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
10HARARE32ZIMBABWE'S FISCAL TRANSPARENCY
[...] The USG provides no direct funding to Zimbabwe's central government. But USG funding does support provision of assistance to specific elements of the Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ). This includes substantial assistance under the PEPFAR program to government-led efforts combating HIV/AIDS, assis [...]
2010-01-20 15:38:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAID EAID ECON EFIN PREL ZI
10HARARE33IATA MEETING WITH SEC NAPOLITANO
[...] (SBU) Air Zimbabwe CEO Dr. Peter Chikumba requested a meeting with conoff on January 20 to relay his agenda in advance of a planned meeting at the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) offices in Geneva on January 22 with DHS Secretary Napolitano. Chikumba, an aircraft engineer with [...]
2010-01-21 06:07:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ATRN ECON PTER PREL ASEC ZI
10HARARE35INSIDER'S VIEW OF MDC-T
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-21 10:02:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ZI
10HARARE36FISHMONGERS UPDATED ON DIAMONDS IN ZIM
[...] (SBU) On January 14, Andrew Cranswick, CEO of African Consolidated Resources (ACR),and Greg Sebborn, an ACR special projects consultant, briefed the Fishmongers heads of mission group on current activities regarding their claims dispute with the Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) over diamond fiel [...]
2010-01-21 10:12:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EMIN ASEC ZI MZ
10HARARE42FOLLOWU-UP TO FISHMONGERS' UPDATE ON DIAMONDS
[...] (SBU) Pol/Econ chief spoke separately on January 21 to African Consolidated Resources (ACR) advisor Greg Sebborn and ZANU-PF chair of the Parliamentary committee on mines and energy Edward Chindori-Chininga as a follow-up to the briefing of the Fishmonger Heads of Mission (Ref) on recent deve [...]
2010-01-22 10:25:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ZI
10HARARE44ZIMBABWE ANNOUNCES MEMBERS OF NEW MEDIA COMMISSION
[...] (SBU) The GOZ has named members of the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC),a regulatory body that will receive and process applications for media publishing licenses. Media groups view this development as an opportunity to democratize the media environment in Zimbabwe. However, they question t [...]
2010-01-22 11:37:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KDEM KPAO ZI
10HARARE45ZIMBABWE 2010 BFIF PROJECT PROPOSAL
[...] Embassy Harare proposes three projects to be supported by the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF). The total amount of BFIF support requested is $15,000. 2. The common theme of the projects is transparency and good governance. Zimbabwe is once again open for business after several [...]
2010-01-25 06:55:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ECON EINV ETRD ZI
10HARARE46ZIM NOTES 01-25-2010
[...] SUMMARY ----------- Official Constitutional Outreach Suspended... ... While ZANU-PF Launches Its Own Menacing Campaign... WOZA Protest Disrupted, Three Arrested... Journalist Flees After Death Threats from Cop... Wheels of Justice Too Slow for Bennett... Religious Group Faces Arrest Ove [...]
2010-01-26 06:26:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
10HARARE48ZIM NOTES 01-25-2010
[...] SUMMARY ----------- Official Constitutional Outreach Suspended... ... While ZANU-PF Launches Its Own Menacing Campaign... WOZA Protest Disrupted, Three Arrested... Journalist Flees After Death Threats from Cop... Wheels of Justice Too Slow for Bennett... Religious Group Faces Arrest Ove [...]
2010-01-26 06:26:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
10HARARE50AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ZIMBABWE MINISTER OF
[...] (C) During a courtesy call by the Ambassador, Zimbabwe Minister of Agriculture Joseph Made stated that the Global Political Agreement was deadlocked and there would be no movement by ZANU-PF unless sanctions were lifted. Hewing to the ZANU-PF party line, Made touted land reform, denied there [...]
2010-01-26 12:27:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALEAGR PREL PGOV PINR ZI
10HARARE58ZIM NOTES 01-29-2010
[...] SUMMARY ----------- ZANU-PF Says No More Concessions... High Court Dismisses SADC Land Ruling... Four More Farmers Harassed, Evicted, Arrested... Constitutional Outreach Clears One Hurdle... Civil Society Launches Constitutional Monitoring Effort... WOZA Members Beaten, Arrested, Released [...]
2010-02-01 07:07:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
10HARARE63DEMARCHE TO GOZ ON CLIMATE CHANGE
[...] Ambassador presented Demarche (Ref) and talking points to Zimbabwe Minister of Environment Frances Nhema on January 29. 2. Nhema responded that in his opinion the Copenhagen Accord was not a formal agreement to which the Government of Zimbabwe could associate; further he did not know what [...]
2010-02-01 15:02:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KGHG SENV ENRG ZI
10HARARE64DEMARCHE TO GOZ ON CITES COP 15
[...] The Ambassador delivered the Demarche (Ref) and talking points to Zimbabwe Minister of Environment Frances Nhema on January 29. 2. Nhema responded that in principle he had no objections to any of the U.S. proposals. He said that customarily, with regard to CITES, the GOZ canvasses the Af [...]
2010-02-01 15:02:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP ZI
10HARARE66AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON ZIMBABWE MINISTER OF
[...] (U) The Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Minister of Environment Frances Nhema on January 29 and delivered demarches on the Copenhagen Accord and CITES (Refs). Other discussion focused on land conservancies and indigenization, conservation of rhinos, and the political situation in Zimbabwe [...]
2010-02-02 07:01:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SENV CITES KGHG ZI
10HARARE67AN MDC SENATORS'S VIEW OF TSVANGIRAI AND THE MDC
[...] (C) MDC Senator Obert Gutu shared his views January 30 on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC-T, and the current political situation. Gutu knows Tsvangirai, Minister of Finance Tendai Biti, and other top MDC-T officials well, but he is not an MDC-T insider. He is from Masvingo. His [...]
2010-02-02 09:49:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ZI
10HARARE68AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH WFP REPRESENTATIVE TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The WFP experienced a decline in the number of people receiving food aid in Zimbabwe in 2009, but expects to see an increase in 2010 because of drought conditions. The WFP Director also worries about post-World Cup conditions when xenophobic actions against Zimbabweans in South A [...]
2010-02-02 09:50:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM PREL ZI
10HARARE7SURVIVING IN TODAY,S ZDF -- VIEWS OF TWO SERVING
[...] (C) The most senior ranks of the Zimbabwean military are so entwined with ZANU-PF as to be practically indistinguishable from the party. This is particularly frustrating for many officers who want to concentrate on building a professional military that can serve as a national army and play a [...]
2010-01-09 10:42:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR ZI
10HARARE75MEETING WITH ALGERIAN AMBASSADOR TO ZIMBABWE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the newly arrived Algerian Ambassador to Zimbabwe, the country is currently in the midst of three transitions: the internal transformation of ZANU-PF, the transitional coalition government, and an economic transition. If these transitions, especially the overall po [...]
2010-02-03 12:10:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR ASEC ZI AG
10HARARE8AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON NIGERIAN AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Since Mugabe pulled Zimbabwe out of the British Commonwealth in December 2003 relations between Nigeria and Zimbabwe, while not hostile, have been decidedly cool. Mugabe blames Nigeria for plans to expel Zimbabwe, and believes the current Nigerian president is 'misinformed' abo [...]
2010-01-09 10:42:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ZI NI
10HARARE82WAITING FOR THE 2010 WORLD CUP TO BE OVER
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In spite of the Zimbabwean government's attempt to hype the 2010 World Cup's ability to bring in a large influx of tourists, businesses in Victoria Falls are projecting a significant decrease in business. With the exception of the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA),business interl [...]
2010-02-04 10:26:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PHUM PREL SCUL SMIG ELAB KPAO ZI
10HARARE83Conversations with MDC-T Minister-in-Waiting Roy Bennett
[...] (C) MDC-T Finance Chairman Roy Bennett told the Ambassador that while the MDC is good at campaigning, it lacks a cadre of people who know how to run a government. While much of U.S. and other Western support has focused on the party, there is a compelling need for institution building. Apar [...]
2010-02-04 14:45:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ZI
10HARARE85Ambassador's Call on Zim Minister of Women's Affairs,
[...] (SBU) The Ambassador met on February 5 with ZANU-PF's Olivia Muchena, Zimbabwe's Minister of Women's Affairs, Gender and Community Development. Muchena described the objectives of her ministry and briefly commented on the Global Political Agreement. 2. (SBU) With regard to women, Much [...]
2010-02-08 15:04:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ZI SOCI PHUM KWMN KTIP PINR
10HARARE87Ambassador's meeting with Zim Minister of Youth,
[...] (SBU) Zimbabwe's Minister of Youth, Indigenization and Empowerment Saviour Kasukuwere suggested to the Ambassador that all donor and NGO support for youth be channeled through the Zimbabwe Youth Council. He defended indigenization as necessary to protect Zimbabwe's resources, and said the pol [...]
2010-02-08 15:04:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ZI ECON EINV
10HARARE9RECOMMENDATION ON RESPONDING TO ZIMBABWE FINANCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Finance Minister Tendai Biti sent me a letter requesting that three banks be removed from Treasury's sanctions list. I recommend that we honor Biti's request. The information available to me indicates that these three banks no longer have any role in supporting Mugabe. This woul [...]
2010-01-09 10:42:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN ETTC ZI
10HARARE91Welcome (back) to Zimbabwe - CODEL MEEKS/WATT Scenesetter
[...] (SBU) U.S. Mission Zimbabwe welcomes CODEL Meeks/Watt and their delegation. Your return visit comes at an important period in Zimbabwe's history, at the one-year anniversary of the entry into government of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) factions in February 2009 and the formation w [...]
2010-02-09 14:33:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV ZI
10HARARE93XXXXXXXXXXXX’s observations on the political landscape and
[...] (SBU) Pol/econ chief met February 9 with XXXXXXXXXXXX offered his observations on various topics including the state of ZANU-PF, indigenization, and elections. 2. (C) ZANU-PF. XXXXXXXXXXXX described the party as badly fractured. It was like a stick of TNT, susceptible to ignition and disintegratio [...]
2010-02-10 13:00:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ZI
10HARARE95Ambassador Meets with Zim Home Affairs Co-Ministers
[...] (SBU The Ambassador met February 8 with Khembo Mohadi (ZANU-PF) and Giles Mutsekwa (MDC-T),the co-ministers of Home Affairs, at their office. The meeting was friendly, especially when contrasted with Ambassador McGee's meeting with the two ministers in April 2009 (Ref). 2. (SBU) Moh [...]
2010-02-10 13:01:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KTIP ASEC PINR ZI
10HARARE98Status and Concerns: Establishment of P-MDTF in Zimbabwe
[...] (SBU) The donor community in Harare has been in consultations with the World Bank (WB) since April 2009 regarding the establishment of a Programmatic Multi-Donor Trust Fund (P-MDTF) for the purpose of implementing recovery projects in support of the transitional government. There is collectiv [...]
2010-02-05 09:51:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PHUM PREL ZI
10HAVANA107CUBA BUTTONED DOWN FOLLOWING DEATH OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The situation in Cuba is quiet following the February 23 death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo from a prolonged hunger strike. Several sources reported that up to 50 Zapata supporters had either been detained or prevented from leaving their homes, all in central and [...]
2010-02-24 18:57:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV ECON EAID CU
10HAVANA109USINT HAVANA'S ANSWER TO TIP REPORT QUESTIONS THIS
[...] (SBU)Per Reftel, USINT Havana submits the following information for inclusion in the tenth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, Cuba section. ------------------- REPORTING QUESTIONS ------------------- 25. (U) THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION: -- A. What is (are) the source(s) of [...]
2010-02-25 20:27:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
10HAVANA11CLIMATE CHANGE PROVIDES GOC WITH MUCH NEEDED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Cuba (GOC) used the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to distract attention from problems within Cuba and ferociously vent against the United States and, in particular, President Obama. While some elements within the GOC are legitimately concerned about the e [...]
2010-01-07 18:48:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALSENV PGOV ECON PREL CU
10HAVANA110CUBAN OPPOSITION SHOCKED AND ENERGIZED BY DEATH OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The February 23 death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo has both shocked and energized the Cuban opposition, but has not provoked large scale political unrest in Cuba or resonated deeply within Cuban society at large. State security forces have been active, resorting to [...]
2010-02-26 19:37:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV EAID CU
10HAVANA26CUBA STILL IN THE DARK ABOUT PASSENGER SCREENING,
[...] (SBU) Chief of Mission and Pol-Econ Chief met on January 11 with Cuban Foreign Ministry officials to deliver points per Reftel A on the new regulations on passenger screening. The officials, including North America Division Director Josefina Vidal, said that this was the first official informa [...]
2010-01-11 19:29:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAIR PGOV CU
10HAVANA42CUBAN ASSISTANCE TO HAITI POST EARTHQUAKE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Cuban assistance to Haiti after the earthquake consists primarily of mobilizing doctors and nurses already in country, supplemented by teams of Cuban doctors who specialize in emergency medical assistance. Cuba is also transporting Haitian doctors who studied in Cuba and Hait [...]
2010-01-20 12:02:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF EAID PREL CU HA
10HAVANA56HAVANA SECURE VOICE ISSUES
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-26 19:34:00US Interests Section HavanaSECRETACOA AMGT AMTC ASEC
10HAVANA72 28 JANUARY REPATRIATION OF CUBANS AT
[...] USINT officer transferred 16 Cubans from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Key Biscayne to Cuban authorities on January 28 without incident. 2. The cutter docked in the Cuban port of Cabanas at approximately 10:00 am local time to transfer the migrants. USINT officer briefed the returnees and p [...]
2010-02-03 14:05:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG PREF PREL KCRM CU
10HAVANA8CUBA AGHAST ABOUT LANDING IN FLIGHT SCREENING LIST
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Cuba (GOC) complained about reports that it had been included on the list of countries whose nationals would require additional screening before flying to the United States. Moreover, the GOC said that it was in the dark about the extent and application of th [...]
2010-01-06 17:27:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAIR PGOV CU
10HAVANA84KEY TRADING PARTNERS SEE NO BIG ECONOMIC REFORMS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: There is little prospect of economic reform in 2010 despite an economic crisis that is expected to get even worse for Cuba in the next few years, according to key commercial specialists, economic officers and Cuba-watchers in Havana. Promised structural reforms remain on hold while the [...]
2010-02-09 18:49:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL PGOV CU
10HAVANA85GOC REJECTS OFFICIAL EXCHANGES;SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a January 15, 2010 meeting with USINT representatives, Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs Representatives emphatically declined to support USG-funded exchange programs. USINT subsequently learned that students and professors were being threatened by University of Havan [...]
2010-02-10 16:47:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCU PHUM PREL
10HAVANA9U.S.- CUBA CHILL EXAGGERATED, BUT OLD WAYS
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Over the course of the last month the tone coming out of Havana seems a regression to the hostile language that kept U.S. - Cuba relations on ice for much of the last 50 years. The U.S. press is playing it that way, and both U.S. and Cuban observers are publicly throwing their [...]
2010-01-06 20:20:00US Interests Section HavanaSECRETPREL PHUM PGOV SMIG CU
10HELSINKI15COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH EASIER SAID THAN DONE:
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Finnish government is justly proud of its contributions to crisis management operations. In the last decade alone it has deployed military and civilian personnel to the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East, and Afghanistan as part of missions under UN, EU, OSCE, and NATO auspic [...]
2010-01-13 16:22:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALAF FI MOPS PGOV
10HELSINKI19INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2010 - FINLAND
[...] The following is Embassy Helsinki's response to reftel regarding features of the investment climate in Finland. A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment The Finnish Government is open to direct foreign investment. There are no general regulatory limitations relating to acquisitions. Legisl [...]
2010-01-15 15:33:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD USTR OPIC ELAB KTDB PGOV FI
10HELSINKI21GOF CONSIDERING MODEST INCREASES IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-15 16:24:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALAF FI MOPS PREL
10HELSINKI25HR VETTING FOR SOVEREIGN CHALLENGE CONFERENCE -
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, post has reviewed the records of the below named candidate for military training and found no derogatory information. SERVICE: Navy RANK: Captain LAST NAME: Savisaari FIRST NAME: Jaakko DOB: January 22, 1956 POB: Turku, Finland 2. (SBU) This candidate plans to att [...]
2010-01-20 14:29:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYFI MARR PHUM
10HELSINKI27FINLAND PREFERS COMMON E.U. ENGAGEMENT WITH CUBA
[...] (SBU) Pol/Econoff spoke with Ingmar Strom, Counsellor in the MFA's Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean affairs, regarding reftel talking points. Strom noted that the GOF prefers to engage Cuba through a common EU position but that this has been made more difficult by a few EU members whic [...]
2010-01-20 17:25:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SOCI CU
10HELSINKI35FINLAND'S VIEWS ON JAN 25 FAC TOPICS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 22 meeting with PolEconOff, Finnish Acting Deputy European Correspondent Juha Mustonen received U.S. points on FAC agenda items contained in ref A and provided the following responses, previously reported in ref B email. In general Finland supported almost all U.S. p [...]
2010-01-25 14:06:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALBK EU FI HA IR MAS PHUM PK PREL SO YM
10HELSINKI36FINLAND TO ANNOUNCE INCREASED AFGHANISTAN SUPPORT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. At the London Conference Finland will announce its plans to increase its contributions to Afghanistan. On January 22 President Halonen and the Government decided to increase its military and civilian presence and to direct additional development assistance to the northern provi [...]
2010-01-25 16:11:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALAF ECON EFIN FI MARR PGOV PREL
10HELSINKI37HAITI ENGAGEMENT - REPORT FROM HELSINKI
[...] PAS has engaged with Finnish government and media on Haiti relief operations and is pleased to report that their treatment of the earthquake and its aftermath has been fair, balanced and forward-leaning in terms of their own support and understanding. We have seen no need to flag highly-biase [...]
2010-01-26 15:59:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO KDEM OIIP HA FI
10HELSINKI49FM STUBB CALLS FOR REVIEW AND RENEWAL OF U.S.-EU
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an address delivered 27 January at Chatham House, just prior to the London Conference on Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Stubb prescribed a bit of marriage counseling for the EU-U.S. axis of the transatlantic relationship. Describing the relationship as akin to "a grumpy old c [...]
2010-02-03 14:11:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEU FI PREL
10HELSINKI51FINLAND AFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR PRESSURE ON IRAN
[...] (C) In a February 4 meeting, DCM presented reftel points to MFA Undersecretary for Political Affairs Markus Lyra. Lyra responded that "we agree with your views," and that Finland believed both talk and pressure would be necessary to convince Iran to comply with international norms in its nucle [...]
2010-02-04 15:57:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALFI IR PARM PREL
10HELSINKI57FINLAND SUPPORTING BUT NOT ADDING TO JOINT U.S.-EU
[...] (U) Pol/Econoff delivered remarks from instruction email to Janne Jokinen, First Secretary in the Unit for Human Rights Policy at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Jokinen stated that Finland will join the EU statement but will not be issuing a separate statement or taking any other action r [...]
2010-02-10 16:37:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDIR PHUM PREL
10HELSINKI65LEAHY VETTING - LT JONI HURPPU
[...] (SBU) Post has reviewed the records of the below named candidate for military training and found no derogatory information. Last Name: Hurppu First Name: Joni Sex: Male Rank/Service: Lieutenant, Finnish Army DOB: 1 April 1980 POB: Virolahti, Finland 2. (SBU) This candidate plans to a [...]
2010-02-17 16:55:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYFI MARR PHUM
10HELSINKI66LEAHY VETTING - NAS OCEANA TRAINING
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, post has reviewed the records of the below named candidates for military training and found no derogatory information. Last Name: Hyyti First Name(s): Pekka Juhani Sex: Male Rank/Service: Manager, ATE and SW Support DOB: 2 Mar 1959 POB: Nokia, Finland Last Name: Sark [...]
2010-02-17 17:07:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYFI MARR PHUM
10HELSINKI71AFGHANISTAN: FEW DETAILS ON FINLAND'S INCREASES,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The details and exact duties of Finland's additional military and civilian personnel promised for Afghanistan (details reported in reftel B) are not yet available. MFA Afghanistan Envoy Kalkku responded to Charge's delivery of reftel A points by reiterating the GOF plan to fill i [...]
2010-02-22 15:38:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALAF FI MARR MASS MOPS PREL
10HELSINKI73AFGHANISTAN: MOD ON RC-NORTH CHANGES, POLITICAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MOD Policy Director Jarvenpaa discussed potential realignment of RC-North, the new Turkish PRT there, and political support for Finland's activities in Afghanistan with P-E Chief in a February 23 meeting. Post requests additional releasable information regarding increased U.S. [...]
2010-02-26 07:01:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALAF FI MARR MOPS PREL SW
10HELSINKI74FINLAND: GOLDSTONE FOLLOW-UP ACTION
[...] (SBU) Pol/Econoff delivered reftel remarks to Riikka Eela, Regional Manager for the Middle East Unit in the Bureau of Middle East and North African Affairs at the MFA. When Pol/Econoff thanked the GOF for having abstained from the earlier vote on the Goldstone Report Eela indicated that this [...]
2010-02-26 07:01:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDIO PHUM UNGA
10HOCHIMINHCITY33SHOW TRIAL OF DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS SHOWCASES CHALLENGES TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: The trial of four pro-democracy advocates, including prominent lawyer/Fulbright scholar Le Cong Dinh and activist and blogger Nguyen Tien Trung, opened and closed in HCMC on January 20. All four were convicted for "attempting to overthrow the state" and given sentences ranging f [...]
2010-01-21 11:29:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL VM
10HOCHIMINHCITY37STATE MEDIA SPINS FICTITIOUS ACCOUNTS OF JAN 20 DISSIDENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: News reports on the January 20 trial of four democracy advocates (ref A) carried in Vietnam's tightly controlled media -- particularly the more reliably vitriolic papers connected to the armed forces and MPS -- clearly demonstrated why the GVN banned foreign observers and media f [...]
2010-01-29 02:49:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PINS PROP PREL VM
10HOCHIMINHCITY38CHRISTIANS HOLD WIDESPREAD CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN
[...] (C) Summary: Christians in HCMC, Hanoi and other locations held several large-scale Christmas celebrations with record- breaking turnout and without incident. In HCMC, Protestant house churches staged their largest Christmas gatherings to date -- two separate events involving 40,000 and 12,000 [...]
2010-01-29 09:42:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityCONFIDENTIALKIRF PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI SCUL VM
10HOCHIMINHCITY39HCMC IPR BUSTS DEMONSTRATE IMPACT OF MISSION EFFORTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ho Chi Minh City police recently raided the largest illegal disc production operation to date, seizing millions of CDs and DVDs and disrupting a ring that is believed to stock up to 60% of the shops selling illegal discs to the HCMC market. This bust comes close on the heels of [...]
2010-02-02 09:45:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KIPR EAID ETRD VM
10HOCHIMINHCITY47HCMC ECONOMIC POLICE STRIKE AGAIN, MAKING GRAB FOR FAKE
[...] (C) Summary: Economic police in HCMC conducted another head-line grabbing IPR bust on January 25, this time breaking up a large counterfeit pharmaceutical ring. The ring ran under the guise of a legally-registered local pharmaceutical firm that purchased domestically-produced pills then re-pac [...]
2010-02-10 10:41:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityCONFIDENTIALECON KIPR EAID ETRD VM
10HOCHIMINHCITY49BIOFUEL IN VIETNAM: ENERGY SAVER BUT NOT ENERGY SAVIOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: The central and southern provinces of Vietnam are rich in agricultural resources and faced with a growing energy crunch, suggesting to many that biofuel could be an important 'green component' to the GVN's overall energy strategy. However, the biofuel industry is still nascent [...]
2010-02-11 09:46:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR ETRD EFIN SOCI PGOV VM
10HOCHIMINHCITY50FOUR CG TOUR OF THE DELTA HIGHLIGHTS ECONOMIC GROWTH AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A joint trip undertaken by the Consuls General of Australia, India, Kuwait and the USA to the Mekong Delta provinces of Can Tho, Hau Giang and An Giang provided a host of opportunities to share experiences, gain insights from colleagues, forge new connections and reinforce key sh [...]
2010-02-12 06:37:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KTIP KIRF PREL PGOV SOCI VM
10HOCHIMINHCITY51NEW YEAR'S UPDATE WITH FORMER MAYOR VO VIET THANH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Vo Viet Thanh, former HCMC Mayor and current advisor to both PM Dung and President Triet, remains deeply troubled by what he views as China's increasingly belligerent stance towards not only Vietnam but the rest of Asia. His message for the USG was that whether we are dealing with [...]
2010-02-12 07:11:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM CH VM
10HOCHIMINHCITY52NGUYEN TIEN TRUNG'S PARENTS ASK USG TO REQUEST AMNESTY
[...] Summary: (C) During their February 8 meeting with visiting EAP DAS Marciel, the parents of jailed democracy activist Nguyen Tien Trung asked the USG to press the GVN to grant their son amnesty. Trung's parents said they are allowed monthly visits, can give Trung a small stipend, and that Trung [...]
2010-02-12 09:11:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL VM
10HOCHIMINHCITY53CHURCH LEADERS SHARE SOUTHERN VIEW ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WITH
[...] (C) Summary: During DAS Marciel's meetings with Cardinal Pham Minh Man and Pastor Le Quoc Huy of the Grace Baptist Church on February 7 and 8, respectively, both religious leaders affirmed Vietnam has made significant progress on ensuring the majority of Vietnam's Christians can practice their [...]
2010-02-12 10:31:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIEDKIRF PHUM PGOV PREL VM
10HOCHIMINHCITY56THE HOA HAO TODAY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The religious freedom situation facing the more than one million mainstream Hoa Hao continues to improve since GVN recognition in 1999, as evidenced by the open religious gathering in An Giang province attended by 50,000-70,000 followers in January. The vast majority of Hoa Hao [...]
2010-02-24 10:27:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIRF PHUM PGOV PREL VM
10HONGKONG10HONG KONG JANUARY 1 DEMOCRACY DEMONSTRATION: ONE
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Thousands of Hong Kong residents marched to the Central Government Liaison Office (CGLO) January 1 to push for universal suffrage and to protest the conviction of Mainland Charter '08 activist Liu Xiaobo. While the Civic Party and the radical League of Social Democrat [...]
2010-01-04 10:38:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CH HK
10HONGKONG100THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: BEIJING DECLARES
[...] (C) Summary: Beijing made its first direct response to plans by Hong Kong's Civic Party and League of Social Democrats (LSD) to use five legislative by-elections as a de facto referendum on constitutional reform by means of a January 15 statement issued through Xinhua (text below) that declare [...]
2010-01-19 11:49:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM HK CH
10HONGKONG101HONG KONG RAIL PROTESTS: WHAT A FIELD DAY FOR THE
[...] (C) Summary: As expected, Hong Kong's Legislative Council (LegCo) Finance Committee approved funding to begin construction of a link to the PRC national high-speed rail system in the early evening of January 16. Though largely peaceful, protesters clashed with police following a decision not [...]
2010-01-19 12:11:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM HK CH
10HONGKONG111HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO HAITI: HONG KONG AND
[...] To date, Hong Kong and Macau SAR governments have not offered any direct humanitarian support to Haiti relief efforts. Instead, the Hong Kong government has encouraged local NGOs to apply for grants from the government's Disaster Relief Fund. 2. Several Hong Kong-based charities and NGOs [...]
2010-01-20 10:29:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDCM EAID ECON HA HK PGOV PREF PREL
10HONGKONG112HONG KONG YAHOO AND MICROSOFT BLOCK ADULT CONTENT
[...] (U) Hong Kong's major English daily, the South China Morning Post (SCMP),reported January 17 that both Yahoo.com.hk and Microsoft's Bing search engine in Hong Kong were now blocking adult content through the use of strict "SafeSearch" filters. Users of the Yahoo-owned Flickr photo sharing w [...]
2010-01-20 10:48:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD HK TINT SOCI CH
10HONGKONG113RUSAL IPO IN HONG KONG: ALL RISK, NO REWARD FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Russian Aluminum company Rusal is set to be the first Russian company to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) when it completes its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on January 27. Rusal's questionable corporate governance, precarious debt profile, and its CEO's alleged ties [...]
2010-01-20 11:34:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EINV HK CH RS
10HONGKONG130BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON
[...] (SBU) Per reftel request, post conducted a pre-license check on application 050197283 for the export to Hong Kong of an infrared camera which is part of an infrared microscope. In post's assessment, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, which is under the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's (HKS [...]
2010-01-25 08:02:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC HK
10HONGKONG146HONG KONG WATER SECURITY: REDUCING DEPENDENCE ON
[...] SUMMARY: Despite a guaranteed water supply from Guangdong province, Hong Kong's heavy reliance on its northern neighbor has driven the Special Administrative Region (SAR) to initiate several new water conservation measures. This new policy is prompted not by costs or desire to be a "good partn [...]
2010-01-26 07:14:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDCM ECON ENRG HK PBTS SENV SOCI TPHY KGHG
10HONGKONG149HONG KONG AGREES TO PURSUE MOU WITH U.S. CONSUMER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Hong Kong Government's (HKG) Customs and Excise Department (CED) told U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) Director of International Programs and Intergovernmental Affairs Richard O'Brien on January 12 that CED would work in 2010 on a memorandum of understanding ( [...]
2010-01-26 09:35:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ETRD USTR HK CH
10HONGKONG150RESIGNATION, REFERENDUM, REVOLUTION, OR WHATEVER:
[...] (C) Amidst a swarm of media cameras, Civic Party Legislators Alan Leong Kah-kit and Tanya Chan Suk-chong, joined by the radical League of Social Democrats' (LSD) Raymond Wong Yuk-man, Albert Chan Wi-yip and "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung, publicly resigned their Legislative Council seats January [...]
2010-01-26 09:53:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CH HK
10HONGKONG16THIRD FORCE? DEMOCRATIC PARTY SEEKS MODERATE
[...] (C) Summary: Having rejected the resignation-as-referendum plan launched by the League of Social Democrats (LSD) and the Civic Party, the Democratic Party (DPHK) now hopes to collaborate with a group of pro-democracy scholars to produce an alternative reform plan. While they hope their plan co [...]
2010-01-05 06:52:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM HK
10HONGKONG182HK ECONOMISTS DISMISS DOWNSIDE RISKS TO CHINESE
[...] (SBU) Summary: China macroeconomists in Hong Kong predict inflation and Renminbi (RMB) appreciation for 2010 but are not overly worried about asset bubbles or non-performing loans. The recent small interest rate increase and hike in reserve requirements were intended to show the market that [...]
2010-01-29 10:26:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON HK CH
10HONGKONG19HONG KONG TO BEIJING: WE WANT A ROLE
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: The Hong Kong government (HKG) has embarked on all-out effort to be included in China's 12th Five-Year Plan (FYP),due to start in 2011. Spurred by fears of being marginalized and buoyed by overwhelming public support, Chief Executive Donald Tsang in his October Policy [...]
2010-01-05 08:26:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH HK
10HONGKONG190BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-LICENSE/PRE-SHIPMENT
[...] (SBU) Per reftel request, Post conducted post-license/pre-shipment check on license 050207857 for the export of grenade and grenade launchers to Hong Kong. After meeting with the parties to this license (Props Co. Ltd. and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Immigration Department),Post' [...]
2010-02-01 10:18:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC HK
10HONGKONG197RESIGNATION-AS-REFERENDUM: ONE HAND CLAPPING?
[...] (C) Summary: Pro-Beijing parties have counted themselves out of the Civic Party-League of Social Democrats by-election-as-referendum plan, citing those parties' use of the term "uprising" and Beijing's declaration that the "referendum" is illegal. Pro-establishment politicians continue to bea [...]
2010-02-04 00:54:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CH HK
10HONGKONG199MACAU AIRPORT INTEGRATING SERVICES WITH MAINLAND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Faced with declining passenger and cargo traffic, the Macau International Airport Company Ltd. (CAM) has ventured into the Mainland's Pearl River Delta (PRD) in hopes of better integrating its cargo and passenger services with the region. An increase in air cargo volume from the [...]
2010-02-04 00:54:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON ECIN TW MC HK
10HONGKONG212HK BUSINESSES WARN TREASURY CONFIDENT CHINESE
[...] (C) Begin Summary: Treasury Senior Coordinator for China and the U.S.- China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) David Loevinger led a Treasury and Consulate General team in meetings with Blackstone Asia Chairman Anthony Leung, Credit Suisse Asia CEO Kai Nargolwala, Hong Kong Monetary Autho [...]
2010-02-04 10:07:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON CH HK
10HONGKONG232BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: UNFAVORABLE PRE-LICENSE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Per reftel request, Post conducted a pre-license end-use check on application 050211346 for the export of International Traffic in Arms (ITAR)-controlled transformer coupling devices to end-user Sinometer (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd. (Sinometer) and foreign consgnee H&E Development Comp [...]
2010-02-08 10:01:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC CH HK
10HONGKONG233JASPER TSANG ON EXECUTIVE-LEGISLATIVE RELATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: Legislative Council (LegCo) President Jasper Tsang Yok-sing used a luncheon address organized by the Hong Kong Democratic Foundation to de-bunk a widely-held belief that relations between Hong Kong's executive and legislative branches were dysfunctional. That many government init [...]
2010-02-08 10:15:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR HK
10HONGKONG235EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: CHINA OCEAN
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...]
2010-02-09 00:04:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDBMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC
10HONGKONG236EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: CHU KONG
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...]
2010-02-09 00:04:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDBMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC
10HONGKONG266HONG KONG PUSHES THE OFFSHORE RMB ENVELOPE
[...] Summary: The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) issued a circular February 11 that effectively simplifies and expands the use of Renminbi (RMB) in Hong Kong for both cross-border and domestic transactions. Foreign companies, including U.S. companies, are explicitly allowed to conduct trade [...]
2010-02-12 07:03:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON HK CH
10HONGKONG267HONG KONG SHIP OWNERS WELCOME PLA TROOPS ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy forces currently deployed in the waters off East Africa to counter Somali maritime pirate attacks have reportedly offered troops to merchant ships from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Hong Kong Ship Owners Associat [...]
2010-02-12 07:46:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHSA ATRN EWWT PREL KPIR KCRM IMO DA UK BA
10HONGKONG268SOCIAL JUSTICE TRUMPS DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Although democracy is now at least a topic of discussion in Macau, even the leading advocates of democratic reform see little prospect that the public will push for more democracy in the near term. At most, there might be a transition in the 2013 legislative elections that would [...]
2010-02-12 08:25:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MC HK
10HONGKONG277NEXT GENERATION MACAU LEADERSHIP: THE PLAYER, THE
[...] (C) Summary: Few of our counterparts seemed able (or willing) to tip anyone as a future leader in Macau. In some respects, argued one democratic politician, even Beijing was stuck on the issue, since the small-circle election system it devised gave Macau's establishment a veto effective agains [...]
2010-02-17 07:08:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV MC CH
10HONGKONG279SUBMISSION FOR 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT:
[...] (U) Per reftel A, the following are post's contributions to the tenth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report for the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Subheadings and answers correspond to questions posed in paragraphs 25-30 of reftel A. Para 25: T [...]
2010-02-17 07:57:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
10HONGKONG286MACAU: HOW MUCH CHANGE FROM CHUI, HOW MUCH
[...] (C) Summary: Few of our contacts expect new Macau Chief Executive (CE) Fernando Chui Sai-on to take any significant policy initiatives, at least for now. They point to his coming March 16 policy address as offering the conclusive word one way or another. Our contacts suggested different rol [...]
2010-02-18 10:07:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR MC CH
10HONGKONG290REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE: HK VIEWS APEC AS "DEFINING
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: A senior Hong Kong official welcomed Secretary Clinton's January 12 speech on U.S. views toward Asia Pacific Regional Architecture and applauded clear administration statements on the importance of U.S. commitments in Asia. Despite its status as a Special Administrat [...]
2010-02-19 03:53:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALECIN PREL APECO ECON HK
10HONGKONG292SOMALI PIRACY: HONG KONG SHIP OWNERS TO LOBBY
[...] (SBU) On February 18, Hong Kong Ship Owners Association (HKSOA) Managing Director Arthur Bowring informed Post that the HKSOA would approach China's Foreign Ministry Commissioner in Hong Kong to raise the industry's concerns over a rumored United Nations ban on ransom payments to pirates. Res [...]
2010-02-19 09:20:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHSA ATRN EWWT PREL KPIR KCRM IMO DA UK BA
10HONGKONG299EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: HWADAR SCIENTIFIC
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...]
2010-02-22 02:16:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDBMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC
10HONGKONG300EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SOLAR ENERGY
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...]
2010-02-22 02:16:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDBMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC
10HONGKONG304SUBMISSION FOR 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT:
[...] (U) Per reftel A, the following are post's contributions to the tenth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of the People's Republic of China. Subheadings and answers correspond to questions posed in paragraphs 25-30 of reftel A. [...]
2010-02-22 09:52:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
10HONGKONG314EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: ON GRACE
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...]
2010-02-24 07:02:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDBMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC
10HONGKONG32EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: LEADGO LIMITED
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...]
2010-01-06 08:59:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDBMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC
10HONGKONG326HONG KONG AND MACAU NOTIFIED: FEBRUARY 10
[...] (SBU) On February 24, Post notified appropriate government officials in Hong Kong and Macau of the February 10 designation under Executive Order (E.O.) 13382 of an individual and four companies affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC),per reftel. 2. (SBU) Banking regulators from H [...]
2010-02-25 09:32:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN IR GM MC HK
10HONGKONG327HONG KONG ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LEGISLATION
[...] (SBU) On February 6, Hong Kong completed its second and final round of public consultations on Financial Action Task Force (FATF)-compliant anti-money laundering (AML) legislation to codify requirements on customer due diligence (CDD) and record keeping. The proposed legislation would also es [...]
2010-02-25 09:39:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN HK
10HONGKONG33EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: LEADER MUTUAL
[...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. As per reftel A request and at the direction of the Office of Enforcement Analysis (OEA) of the USDOC Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS),Export Control Officer Phil [...]
2010-01-06 08:59:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDBMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC
10HONGKONG332DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DENIAL OF PORT ENTRY TO IRAN'S
[...] (SBU) On February 26, Economic/Political Chief delivered reftel points to Hong Kong's Marine Department Director Roger Tupper. Tupper stated no Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line (IRISL) or Hafiz Darya Shipping (HDS) vessels had entered Hong Kong waters in recent memory. In the event such [...]
2010-02-26 07:18:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KNNP IR HK
10HONGKONG333UPON THIS ROCK: HONG KONG RULE OF LAW REMAINS
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Hong Kong legal professionals judged Hong Kong's rule of law remains both independent and, more importantly, sufficiently well-designed that few opportunities exist for external tampering. They believed Beijing recognizes the singular role rule of law plays in Hong Ko [...]
2010-02-26 09:14:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM HK
10HONGKONG334UPON THIS ROCK: HONG KONG RULE OF LAW REMAINS
[...] (C) Summary: Thirteen years after Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty, Hong Kong remains deeply enmeshed in the common law tradition. Law is taught, and cases are still largely heard, in English. Precedents from other common law jurisdictions, including the United States, are admissible [...]
2010-02-26 09:24:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH HK
10HONGKONG39TIP: HONG KONG WOULD BE "DISAPPOINTED" WITH A
[...] (SBU) On December 30, E/P Chief and Poloff met with Hong Kong Security Bureau, Police and Labor Department officials to follow up on G/TIP Ambassador Luis CdeBaca's December 4 visit. The HKG officials appreciated Ambassador CdeBaca's visit and hoped he left with the "ground truth" that Hong K [...]
2010-01-07 02:29:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM SMIG HK MC
10HONGKONG4EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: HONESTY ELECTRONIC
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-04 01:59:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDBMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC
10HONGKONG43NEW COMPETITION LAW EXPECTED TO EXEMPT MANY HONG
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Commerce and Economic Development (CEDB) Bureau Undersecretary Greg So told U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner William Kovacic on December 8 that the Hong Kong government's (HKG) long-anticipated Competition Law will likely be submitted to Hong Kong's Legislative Council (LegCo) by J [...]
2010-01-08 10:36:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK CH
10HONGKONG5EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: Y&W ENTERPRISES
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-04 01:59:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDBMGT BEXP HK ETRD ETTC
10HONGKONG69HONG KONG ANALYSTS' VIEWS ON CHINESE LEADERSHIP,
[...] (C) Summary: China analysts in Hong Kong saw the PRC's provincial leadership reshuffle announced November 30 as a possible preview of the two top contenders for China's sixth generation leadership. They contended Hu Chunhua and Sun Zhengcai, both 46, have a good chance of joining the Politbur [...]
2010-01-13 09:14:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH HK
10HONGKONG7MACAU WATER SECURITY: POLICIES EVOLVING TO LESSEN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Macau's over-reliance on the Mainland for its water supply has prompted the Special Administrative Region to adopt measures to secure long-term supplies with the aim of gaining greater autonomy over its water policy. These include conservation programs, tariffs, and new infrast [...]
2010-01-04 03:42:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCM ECON ENRG HK PBTS SENV SOCI TPHY KGHG
10HONGKONG76TIP: CLARIFYING HONG KONG'S VICTIM ASSISTANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Hong Kong NGOs providing care to victims of trafficking in persons (TIP) recently clarified remarks made to G/TIP Ambassador Luis CdeBaca which suggested the Hong Kong government was unwilling to fund their work (reftel) by explaining they had never actually requested financial [...]
2010-01-14 03:35:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALKTIP KCRM PHUM SMIG HK MC CH
10HONGKONG77AIRPORT CAPACITY EXPANSION IN HONG KONG AMID
[...] (SBU) The Hong Kong Government (HKG) has decided to move forward with airport upgrade and expansion plans despite the combined pressures of the economic crisis and the loss of Taiwan passenger volume to cross-strait direct flights. During a recent meeting with the Consulate, Airport Authority [...]
2010-01-14 03:35:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON ECIN TW HK
10HONGKONG802010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR HONG KONG
[...] The Hong Kong Government welcomes foreign investment, neither offering special incentives nor imposing disincentives for foreign investors. Hong Kong's well-established rule of law is applied consistently and without discrimination. There is no distinction in law or practice between investment [...]
2010-01-14 09:42:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR HK CH
10HONGKONG862010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR MACAU
[...] Macau became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China on December 20, 1999. Macau's status since reverting to Chinese sovereignty is defined in the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration (1987) and the Basic Law, Macau's constitution. Under the concept of "One Country [...]
2010-01-15 10:19:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR HK CH
10HYDERABAD2TELANGANA - A BANDH AND A ROAR STIR A UNITED RESPONSE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Two "bandhs" (strikes) and a rally over the past week brought different regions of Andhra Pradesh (AP) to a standstill. Facing down significant government opposition, the "Vidyarthi Garjana" (Student's Roar) rally organizers pulled off a well attended and peaceful protest in Hyder [...]
2010-01-05 13:01:00American Consulate HyderabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PINR KDEM IN
10ISLAMABAD10 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 04, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-05 03:01:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD102 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 15, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-15 12:01:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD11 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 05, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-05 10:43:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD115PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 16-19, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-19 10:25:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD137PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: January 20, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-20 10:59:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD14CPPA WOULD BRING TRANSPARENCY AND FISCAL AUTONOMY
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to WAPDA Chairman Durrani, PEPCO, the power sector holding company, is morphing into a new WAPDA, taking financial, technical, and human resources control away from Pakistan's public sector distribution and generation companies. PEPCO's metamorphosis is based on the p [...]
2010-01-05 14:33:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK
10ISLAMABAD143H1N1 IN PAKISTAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Pakistan has 148 officially confirmed cases of H1N1, but the country's extremely limited disease surveillance capacity leads top Pakistani public health officials to believe that infection is dramatically under-reported. Pakistan's National Institute of Health (PNIH) and the U. [...]
2010-01-21 07:57:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI TBIO ECON PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD144SUBJECT: PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 21, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-21 11:17:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD148PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: January 22, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-22 09:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD152SRAP HOLBROOKE'S JANUARY 13 MEETING WITH FOREIGN
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Qureshi opened the January 13 meeting with SRAP Holbrooke by stressing the need to pay more attention to the bilateral relationship. He stated that the situation in Afghanistan needed to improve and that Pakistan could assist in these efforts by actively participating in [...]
2010-01-23 08:05:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PREF EAID PK
10ISLAMABAD175FATA CLEARING OPERATIONS CONTINUE, DISPLACED
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The Pakistani military is continuing its counterinsurgency efforts along the main corridors of South Waziristan and the northern and central FATA with low level search and clear operations. Frontier Corps operations in Bajaur remain on hold, awaiting additional forces. Meanwhil [...]
2010-01-25 09:03:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER MARR MASS PK
10ISLAMABAD176 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 23-25, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-25 12:45:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD178BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, JANUARY 6, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-26 05:02:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD182PAKISTAN'S PETROLEUM MINISTER ON IMPORTED LNG
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOP has nearly completed a deal to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies and build re-gasification facilities in Port Qasim, according to Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Naveed Qamar. Pakistan's Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) is expected to approve [...]
2010-01-26 06:31:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ENRG PK
10ISLAMABAD184 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 26, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-26 10:23:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD189BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, JANUARY 20, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-26 12:13:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD190PAKISTANI, AFGHAN, AND IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS
[...] (C) Summary: Pakistani Foreign Minister Qureshi hosted his Afghan and Iranian counterparts for a meeting in Islamabad on January 16. This was the third high-level gathering of the three countries in the past year -- which included a trilateral heads-of-state summit in May 2009 in Tehran. Th [...]
2010-01-26 14:03:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ECON SNAR PK AF IR
10ISLAMABAD191PAKISTANIS CRITICIZE ENHANCED PASSENGER SCREENING, OFFICIALS THREATEN TO CANCEL U.S. TRAVEL IF SUBJECT TO IT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-26 14:51:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
10ISLAMABAD20LABOR MINISTRY ACTIONS TO COMBAT BONDED LABOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Federal Ministry of Labor, in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation and other stakeholders, hosted two conferences on bonded labor. Government officials, employers, donors and civil society came together at a December 15-16 conference in Lahore to discuss [...]
2010-01-06 10:45:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER ELAB KTIP PK
10ISLAMABAD206TARIN'S CONTINUING BUDGET WOES
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting to clarify the status of U.S. assistance to Pakistan, Minister of Finance Shaukat Tarin told the Ambassador January 20 that he needs a total of $2.174 billion from the U.S. ($1.3 billion in Coalition Support Funds and a total of $874 million in civilian assistance) in [...]
2010-01-27 07:51:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD208 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 27, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-27 11:05:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD21LABOR MINISTRY ACTIONS TO COMBAT BONDED LABOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Federal Ministry of Labor, in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation and other stakeholders, hosted two conferences on bonded labor. Government officials, employers, donors and civil society came together at a December 15-16 conference in Lahore to discuss [...]
2010-01-06 10:46:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER ELAB KTIP PK
10ISLAMABAD222 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 28, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-28 11:32:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD223 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 29, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-29 10:44:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD227PAKISTANI REACTION TO COPENHAGEN CONFERENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Pakistani reaction to December's Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change ranges from disappointment with the outcome to outright disapproval of the steps taken to formulate the Copenhagen Accord. Climate change think tanks and a government research organization seem to have reta [...]
2010-02-01 06:04:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI TBIO ECON PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD23 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 06, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-06 11:17:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD232 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 01, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-01 12:15:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD252PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 02, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-02 10:17:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD265 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 03, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-03 10:34:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD268PRO-WOMEN AMENDMENT TO PAKISTAN CRIMINAL LAW
[...] (U) Summary: On January 29, President Asif Ali Zardari signed the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2009 into effect. The legislation amends the Pakistan Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure to include provisions for making workplace harassment against women punishable. This legislation is [...]
2010-02-03 14:31:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER ELAB KTIP PK
10ISLAMABAD269PAKISTAN RESPONSE: MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO PERSUADE IRAN'S ENGAGEMENT ON ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-03 14:50:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PGOV PK PREL PTER
10ISLAMABAD282 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 04, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-04 10:18:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD289 PAKISTAN RESPONSE TO CITES COP-15 DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) On 4 February EconOff delivered reftel demarche to Secretary of Environment Kamran Lashari and Umeed Khalid, Ministry of Environment Wildlife Conservator. Khalid anticipated that Pakistan would be able to "generally" support USG submissions at CITES COP-15, but acknowledged that the GOP [...]
2010-02-05 05:01:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDSENV SOCI TBIO ECON PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD290 MOE ON COPENHAGEN ACCORD, LEADERSHIP CHANGES
[...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel demarche to Secretary of Environment Kamran Lashari on 4 February, emphasizing the importance of the Copenhagen Accord as a vital first step toward addressing the issue of climate change. The Secretary revealed that responsibility for Pakistan's position on the A [...]
2010-02-05 05:01:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDSENV SOCI TBIO ECON PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD294 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 05, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-05 14:00:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD298COMBATING BONDED LABOR ABUSES IN AGRICULTURE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In Pakistan debt labor in agriculture stems from culturally accepted money lending traditions and a socio-economic disparity that contributes to maintaining the poverty gripping the country's rural areas, especially in the Sindh province. There is a spectrum of abuse that arise [...]
2010-02-05 15:58:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI ELAB PREL PGOV PTER
10ISLAMABAD301CODEL LYNCH'S MEETING WITH PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: On January 29, a congressional delegation led by Representative Stephen Lynch met with Imran Khan, a former professional cricket player who heads the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ("Law and Justice") party, at Khan's residence in the hills overlooking Rawal Lake on the outskirts of Isl [...]
2010-02-06 11:26:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK AF
10ISLAMABAD306OPIC TO BRING MUCH NEEDED CREDIT TO PAKISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-07 10:00:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PK
10ISLAMABAD307PROGRESS ON INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS FOR SOUTH
[...] (C) In a January 28 meeting with U.S. Economic and Development Assistance Coordinator Raphel, Army Director General of Staff Duties Lt. General Zubair and Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) Secretariat Director General of Projects Fakre Alam reported on the progress toward implementatio [...]
2010-02-08 06:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALEAID MOPS PGOV PK PREL
10ISLAMABAD308 CODEL LYNCH'S JANUARY 29 MEETING WITH SBP GOVERNOR RAZA,
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-08 06:23:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PREL
10ISLAMABAD309INTER-AGENCY HUMAN TRAFFICKING - BONDED LABOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Interior hosted an inter-agency conference on human trafficking and bonded labor on February 3. Officials from all four provinces attended. Participants included the provincial Inspector Generals of Police, the Ministry of Labor, provincial Departments of Labou [...]
2010-02-08 07:23:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PTER ELAB KTIP PK
10ISLAMABAD310 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 08, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-08 11:14:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD313 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 09, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-09 11:55:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD316PAKISTAN APPEARS LIKELY TO ACCEPT INDIA'S OFFER OF
[...] (C) Summary: MFA Director General for South Asia Afrasiab Mehdi Hashim told Deputy PolCouns on February 9 that Pakistan has not yet accepted India's offer of a bilateral foreign secretary-level meeting, but expected it would do so. Though the Indians have said they are open to discussion of a [...]
2010-02-10 13:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER IN PK
10ISLAMABAD318PAKISTAN -- SIX MONTH MACROECONOMIC REVIEW
[...] (U) Summary: Pakistan's economy is poised to stage a modest recovery, turning in a GDP growth rate of nearly 3 percent in Pakistan's 2010 fiscal year (FY10). There was a sharp drop in consumer price inflation in the first half of the fiscal year, but in coming months, as global commodity pric [...]
2010-02-11 02:06:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID PGOV PK
10ISLAMABAD319 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 10, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-11 02:09:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD326SCENE SETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
[...] Summary: (C) Deputy Secretary Wolin's visit to Pakistan comes at a time when Pakistan's long term stability depends more and more upon the government's willingness to confront difficult economic policy choices it has long sought to avoid. Pakistan must begin to address a breadth of economic [...]
2010-02-11 09:52:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETECON EFIN PGOV PREL PTER CH PK
10ISLAMABAD330 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 11, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-11 11:58:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD332U.S.-PAKISTAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT: A POTENTIAL GAME CHANGER
[...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: President Zardari, Prime Minister Gilani and Finance Minister Tarin, like many Pakistanis before them, have pleaded with the USG for "trade, not aid." A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Pakistan holds substantial opportunity for the Pakistani economy, with small, [...]
2010-02-11 14:30:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PK PREL
10ISLAMABAD339 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 12, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-12 10:48:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD34 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 08, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-08 10:50:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD345WIDESPREAD CONDEMNATION OF DR. AAFIA SIDDIQUI,S
[...] (U) Summary: The guilty verdict against Dr. Aafia Siddiqui in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of NY sparked protests and public condemnation across Pakistan on February 4 and 5. The reaction to the Siddiqui verdict was front-page news in all the major newspapers. A number of press art [...]
2010-02-12 13:05:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PREF EAID PK
10ISLAMABAD362 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 16, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-16 10:10:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD371POTUS LETTER ON THE NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-17 05:22:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMNUC KNNP PREL PGOV PTER PK
10ISLAMABAD380 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 17, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-17 09:00:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD382MFA PROVIDES DETAILS ON UPCOMING FOREIGN
[...] (C/REL UK) Summary: MFA Director General for South Asia Afrasiab Mehdi Hashim told Deputy PolCouns that Pakistan and India will be free to raise all issues at the foreign secretaries' meeting scheduled for February 25 in New Delhi. He claimed that the Pakistanis will focus on trying to persua [...]
2010-02-17 11:22:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER IN PK
10ISLAMABAD383GOP BACKS DOWN FROM PRESIDENT'S JUDICIAL
[...] (C) On February 17, after much protest, the Government of Pakistan (GOP) backed down from President Asif Zardari's decision to appoint Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif to Pakistan's Supreme Court (SC),elevating him from the Lahore High Court (LHC),and Justice Saqib Nisar as acting Chief Justi [...]
2010-02-17 17:22:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK
10ISLAMABAD387 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 18, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-18 10:33:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD39ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH MONTHLY - DEC
[...] (U) Summary: Environment, Science, Technology and Health Monthly Update for December 2009, prepared by the U.S. Embassy Islamabad, Pakistan. Topics covered: -- Low HPV Prevalence among Karachi Women -- AIDS Therapy Centers in Pakistan -- Pakistan to Formally Enter Antar [...]
2010-01-11 04:18:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDSENV SOCI ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD398 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 19, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-19 10:07:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD399CODEL KERRY’S MEETING WITH PM GILANI
[...] (C) Summary: On February 16 Senator John Kerry met with Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani and spoke about the state of Indo-Pakistani relations. Gilani said that Pakistan was willing to resume talks with India but indicated that in order to gain Pakistan's trust India would need to decrease its footprin [...]
2010-02-19 10:50:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD406LAUNCH OF 2010 PAKISTAN HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. On February 9, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator, joined by federal and provincial Pakistan government representatives, the head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),and a local NGO representative, launched the Pakistan Humanitarian Response Plan [...]
2010-02-20 06:23:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID IO PGOV PREF PREL ECON PINR PK
10ISLAMABAD409ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH MONTHLY - JAN
[...] (U) Summary: Environment, Science, Technology and Health Monthly Update for January 2010, prepared by the U.S. Embassy Islamabad, Pakistan. Topics covered: -- Nationwide Drought Deepens -- Islamabad to Harvest Rain Water -- Promoting Business, Community and Ecology with Pine Nuts -- Worr [...]
2010-02-22 04:09:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDSENV SOCI ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD41 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 11, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-11 11:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD410BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, FEBRUARY 3, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-22 04:10:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD414SUBJECT: PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 22, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-22 11:14:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD416SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER’S FEBRUARY 24
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy Islamabad warmly welcomes your February 24 visit to Pakistan. You will participate in a trilateral cooperation meeting with Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Afghan Interior Minister Hanif Atmar, followed by bilateral meetings with senior Pakistani officials, includi [...]
2010-02-22 14:22:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PK
10ISLAMABAD426 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 23, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-23 07:57:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD428SENATOR KERRY MEETS WITH PAKISTANI PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary: In a February 16 meeting with President Zardari, Senator Kerry said that India was ""very open"" to constructive talks with Pakistan, and urged Pakistan to reach an agreement with India on counter terrorism. Zardari said with U.S. support, talks could move forward. He said he doubted [...]
2010-02-23 11:44:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PREL ECON ETRD IN PK
10ISLAMABAD431SRAP HOLBROOKE'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ZARDARI
[...] (S/NF) Summary: In a February 18 meeting, Ambassador Holbrooke thanked President Zardari for GOP cooperation in fighting Taliban militants, especially the recent capture of Afghan Taliban military leader Mullah Beradar. Zardari agreed that the United States and Pakistan had weakened the Tali [...]
2010-02-23 12:55:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER ECON EAID PK
10ISLAMABAD432PROGRESS CONTINUES ON SOUTH WAZIRISTAN PROJECTS
[...] (C) On February 20, U.S. Economic and Development Assistance Coordinator Robin Raphel (AssistCoord) met with Army Director General of Staff Duties Major General Zubair and Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Habibullah Khan and their team to discuss South [...]
2010-02-23 14:16:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID MOPS PK
10ISLAMABAD437BI-WEEKLY REPORT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES, FEBRUARY 17, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-24 07:58:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD441 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 24, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-24 09:43:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD444TARIN OUT, SHAHAB-UD-DIN -- AND NASIM BEG? -- IN
[...] (C) Summary: On February 23, Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani accepted the resignation of Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, and his successor remains unknown. According to conversations on February 24 with Treasury Attache and Embassy EconOff, it is not entirely certain which of the two leading candidate [...]
2010-02-25 02:15:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EAID EFIN PK
10ISLAMABAD446 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 25, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-25 10:01:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD452PAKISTAN'S RESPONSE: PREPARING FOR SYRIA AT MARCH
[...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche on preparing for Syria at the March International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors meeting to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director for Disarmament Mohammad Kamran Akhtar and Deputy Director Abbas Qureshi, on February 25. 2. (C) Akhtar [...]
2010-02-26 07:53:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL SY IAEA
10ISLAMABAD453FRIENDS OF DEMOCRATIC PAKISTAN TO TACKLE ENERGY
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the first meeting of the Steering Committee on February 10, co-chairs Water and Power Secretary Shahid Rafi and Asian Development Bank Country Director Rune Stroem outlined the goals, membership and work plan for the Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FoDP) Energy Sector Task F [...]
2010-02-26 07:57:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID ENRG PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD459PML-N WINS IN HOTLY CONTESTED NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
[...] (C) Summary: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) won the February 24 by-election for the National Assembly seat in Rawalpindi (NA-55) vacated by Haji Pervez Khan. The PML-N soundly defeated long-time politician Sheikh Rashid Ahmed who was elected from that constituency six times before a [...]
2010-02-26 09:49:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK
10ISLAMABAD461GOP DENIES AGREEMENT TO TRANSFER BERADAR TO
[...] (C) Summary: On February 26, the Lahore High Court reportedly barred the Government of Pakistan (GOP) from extraditing Mullah Beradar and four other Afghan Taliban leaders, pending a hearing on March 15 to which both the federal government and concerned provincial governments have been summoned. Th [...]
2010-02-26 16:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK AF
10ISLAMABAD54 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 12, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-12 12:10:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISLAMABAD7COMPETITION COMISSION LIVES ON-AT LEAST FOR NOW
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since its inception in 2007 by Presidential decree, the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has fought collusive behavior, promoted a competitive environment in Pakistan and made a number of enemies in the process. A law to provide a permanent legal framework for the CCP is [...]
2010-01-04 12:53:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EAID PGOV PK
10ISLAMABAD94 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 14, 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-14 12:53:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
10ISTANBUL11ARMENIAN PATRIARCHATE: AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
[...] (C) Summary. Armenian Patriarch Mutafyan Mesrob II has been suffering from dementia since late 2007, and in 2008 Archbishop Aram Atesyan took over the administrative responsibilities of the patriarchy as acting patriarch. On December 3, the Patriarchate petitioned the Ministry of Interior f [...]
2010-01-08 12:23:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALOSCE PGOV PHUM PREL PINR TU AR
10ISTANBUL12IRAN/REFUGEES: EBRAHIM SHARIFI'S U.S.
[...] (C) Summary: Ebrahim Sharifi, an Iranian opposition supporter whose testimony to Iran's parliament that security forces raped him in prison (and subsequent interviews with international media outlets) made him a target for regime death threats, and who had been a refugee in Turkey since Sept [...]
2010-01-08 13:26:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL PINS PGOV UNHCR TU IR
10ISTANBUL14IRAN'S PRESS TV: HUNKERED DOWN AND RATIONALIZING
[...] (C) Summary: The Istanbul correspondent for Iran's "Press TV" news channel (protect) told us that several pro-opposition reporters and staffers at the news channel have quit their jobs and left Iran, but a majority of the "Green Movement" supporters on the staff are still working there. The [...]
2010-01-11 13:11:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PINS TU IR
10ISTANBUL19"ALEVI OPENING" MEETS WITH ALEVI SKEPTICISM
[...] (SBU) Summary. The GOT announced plans to discuss at its final Alevi workshop Alevi concerns related to the recognition of their cem houses as places of worship, ending compulsory religious instruction, and opening a special institute to train Alevi clerics. The Alevi population does not agr [...]
2010-01-14 05:16:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PGOV PHUM PREL TU
10ISTANBUL20IRANIAN POLITICS: A TURKISH EXPERT SAYS "KEEP AN
[...] (C) Summary: A Turkish contact who claims business connections to Iranian regime insiders told us regime leaders are planning on a scenario that would replace President Ahmadinejad with Tehran Mayor Qalibaf in 2012. He said Qalibaf advisors asked his help to secure Turkish funding for sever [...]
2010-01-15 10:30:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS ECON ETRD ENRG IR TU
10ISTANBUL21IRAN'S BAR ASSOCIATION: TRYING TO STAY
[...] (C) Summary: An American Bar Association (ABA) representative briefed us recently on ABA's effort to make contact with Iran Bar Associations Union (IBAU),with the goal of offering legal workshops and capacity building to strengthen the IBAU's and regional Iranian bar associations' technical [...]
2010-01-15 10:42:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS PREL KDEM IR TU
10ISTANBUL23ISTANBUL CONTACTS ON ELECTION PROSPECTS
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-15 13:13:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL TU
10ISTANBUL30ISTANBUL AKP REPRESENTATIVES ON ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: Istanbul,s Justice and Development Party (AKP) representatives echo the Prime Minister,s public insistence that there will not be early elections, and agree that the state of the economy and unemployment will have the greatest impact on the election results. AKP,s organizationa [...]
2010-01-21 11:50:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALOSCE PGOV PHUM PREL TU
10ISTANBUL31IRANIAN POLITICS: MOUSAVI'S LAWYER REQUESTS USG
[...] (S) Summary: We met January 20 with Dr. Ardashir Arjomand, a legal advisor to Iranian opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who fled Iran after being detained in the post-June crackdown against reformists. Ardashir entered Turkey illegally but he holds a valid French residency permit. He [...]
2010-01-21 16:09:00Consulate IstanbulSECRETPREF PREL PGIV PINS PHUM TU IR
10ISTANBUL34LEADING TURKISH BUSINESS COUNCIL ELECTS NEW CHAIRWOMAN
[...] (SBU) (Summary). To no one's surprise, on January 19 leading Turkish NGO TUSIAD (Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association) elected Umit Boyner as its new Chair, replacing outgoing Chairwoman Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag. A new board of directors was also elected. The election took pl [...]
2010-01-26 12:19:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINT ETRD PHUM PREL TU
10ISTANBUL37LEADING TURKISH BUSINESS COUNCIL ELECTS NEW
[...] (SBU) (Summary) To no one's surprise, on January 19 leading Turkish NGO TUSIAD (Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association) elected Umit Boyner as its new Chair, replacing outgoing Chairwoman Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag. A new board of directors was also elected. The election took p [...]
2010-01-27 05:33:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINT ETRD PHUM PREL TU
10ISTANBUL40IRAN/POLITICS: TEN DAYS OF DAWN, THE OPPOSITION'S
[...] (C) Summary: Several contacts (in Istanbul, Paris, and Tehran) who are close to Iran's "Green Movement" have cautioned that the opposition intends to use the "Ten Days of Dawn" commemoration (February 1-11) to muster the largest demonstrations yet against the regime. A journalist with many o [...]
2010-01-29 15:02:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPINS PREL PGOV PHUM TU IR
10ISTANBUL43TURKEY-IRAN TRADE WOES; RAFSANJANI FAMILY AND
[...] (C) Summary: A Turkish business executive who deals with Iran's transportation and tourism sectors told us his pro-Rafsanjani partners are under great pressure from the regime. Two Iranian company CEOs told him their company books were audited for ties to Rafsanjani and state banks are denyi [...]
2010-02-02 09:26:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS ECON ETRD IR TU
10ISTANBUL44INSIDE MAYOR SARIGUL'S CAMPAIGN
[...] (C) Summary. A member of the Turkey Change Movement's (TDH) leadership board described TDH's recent rally in Izmir as a "turning point," and explained Sarigul's team is gaining momentum and drawing support from both the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Republican People's Party (CHP [...]
2010-02-02 09:26:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL TU
10ISTANBUL46STOCK EXCHANGE CHIEF EAGER TO MAKE ISTANBUL AN
[...] (U) Summary. During a January 27 meeting with Ambassador Jeffrey, Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) Chief Huseyin Erkan offered his views on how Istanbul can become a major financial center for Turkey and the region. Erkan emphasized that commercial banking alone, even with an offshore compon [...]
2010-02-05 08:21:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON EFIN EINT ETRD PREL TU
10ISTANBUL47FORD OTOSAN,S SUCCESSFUL U.S. - TURKISH TRADE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador,s recent visit to a Ford Otosan plant near Istanbul showcased the Ford-Koc joint-venture,s production of the Transit Connect, a U.S. market export that was recently named &2010 Truck of the Year8. Otosan is Turkey,s largest industrial exporter and one of its bi [...]
2010-02-05 12:12:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL TU
10ISTANBUL49KARADENIZ HOLDINGS INTRODUCES MOBILE SHIP-BASED
[...] (C) Summary. Istanbul-based Karadeniz Holdings, through its subsidiary Karkey, has signed agreements with the Governments of Iraq and Pakistan to provide electricity generation from mobile ship-based power plants. Karkey is constructing six of the so-called "powerships" in an Istanbul shipyard [...]
2010-02-09 13:48:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALENRG SENV ECON PREL PGOV KGHG TU
10ISTANBUL50ISTANBUL'S LANDFILL GAS UTILIZATION PROJECTS
[...] (C) Summary. Landfill gas utilization, a growing alternative energy technology with compelling environmental benefits, is in its early stages in Turkey. Ortadogu Enerji won a tender from the Istanbul Municipality to implement and run Istanbul's two landfill energy projects for 23 years, and el [...]
2010-02-11 06:11:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALENRG SENV ECON PREL PGOV KGHG TU
10ISTANBUL53ECHR RECOMMENDS AGAINST RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION ON
[...] (U) Summary. On February 2, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Turkey violated freedom of conscience and religion by including religious affiliation on national identification cards. The ECHR concluded that removing the religion box from the cards would be an appropriate s [...]
2010-02-12 11:52:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL GR TU OSCE
10ISTANBUL54DINK TRIAL: JUSTICE DELAYED...
[...] (SBU) Summary. On February 8, poloff attended the chaotic 12th hearing of the Hrant Dink murder trial at Besiktas Heavy Penal Court. A "secret witness" was scheduled to provide testimony during the hearing but was either "forgotten" at home by the police or unable to testify due to the lack of [...]
2010-02-12 13:13:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE AR
10ISTANBUL55SENTENCING OF TURKEY,S 2ND RICHEST MAN AND MEDIA
[...] (U) On February 10 Mehmet Emin Karamehmet, President of Cukurova Holding, was sentenced to 11 years and eight months of jail for embezzlement by Istanbul's Heavy Penal Court. Known as Turkey's second richest man, Karamehmet was convicted of embezzling funds from Pamukbank, a bank he owned bef [...]
2010-02-12 13:26:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL PHUM TU
10ISTANBUL6IRAN/HUMAN RIGHTS: BAHAI LEADERSHIP TRIAL AND
[...] (C) Summary: The Secretary General of Turkey's Bahai Community told us January 5 that the trial date for the Iranian Bahai leadership has been re-scheduled to January 12. He asked for USG support in raising the issue with Turkey, in the hopes Turkey would press Iran to close the case or at l [...]
2010-01-06 15:21:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PINS TU IR
10ISTANBUL60EURASIA ECONOMIC SUMMIT ORGANIZERS REQUEST
[...] Istanbul Consul General (CG) met recently with Akkan Suver, President of the Marmara Foundation which organizes the annual Eurasia Economic Summit in Istanbul. Suver invited the CG to attend this year's summit, which is scheduled for May 5-6, and asked if the U.S. government would be willing t [...]
2010-02-18 12:47:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL TU
10ISTANBUL62FINDING ROOM FOR THE SYRIAC ORTHODOX IN ISTANBUL
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan for Istanbul and Ankara Yusuf Cetin February 7 discussed the need for more Syriac Orthodox churches and clergy in Istanbul following the boom in the community's population in the 1990s. Cetin also noted that while some families are returning to [...]
2010-02-19 08:11:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDOSCE PGOV PHUM PREL TU IZ
10ISTANBUL65DEMOCRATIC PARTY: NEW ISTANBUL CHAIRMAN, SAME OLD
[...] (SBU) Summary. Newly-elected Istanbul Democratic Party (DP) Chairman H. Tekin Enerem described his party, which has recently emerged from its merger with ANAP and completed its provincial congress, as poised to take a leading role in government following upcoming general elections, scheduled to [...]
2010-02-20 10:37:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU
10ISTANBUL67NEW TUSIAD BOARD UNVEILS AGENDA, DIVES INTO
[...] (C) Summary. The Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD)'s recently elected board of directors kicked off its new term with a "new approach" laid out in the board's recently released activity plan for the upcoming year. TUSIAD board members predict that the new term will [...]
2010-02-23 12:02:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL TU
10ISTANBUL7KURDISH INTELLECTUALS ON DTP CLOSURE, YOUTH
[...] (C) Summary. In meetings following closure of the Democratic Society Party (DTP),Istanbul-based Kurdish intellectuals railed against the Turkish Constitutional Court's decision to close the DTP. They predicted most DTP members would migrate to the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and the party [...]
2010-01-07 08:54:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALOSCE PGOV PHUM PREL TU
10ISTANBUL8RELIGIOUS MINORITIES ANXIOUS ABOUT PROGRESS IN
[...] (SBU) Summary. On December 23, on the occasion of Universal Human Rights Month and as an opportunity to look at the year in review for minority religious freedom, the Consul General hosted a luncheon with five leaders representing the Baha'i, Jewish, Alevi, Greek, and Protestant minority rel [...]
2010-01-07 08:54:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALOSCE PGOV PHUM PREL GR TU
10JAKARTA10INDONESIAN VIEWS ON ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia has long played a key role in the development of Asia-Pacific regional institutions and will remain an important partner for the United States as these institutions evolve. While they do not seek to balance China in a zero-sum manner, Indonesian leaders do worry that [...]
2010-01-06 10:41:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL XB ID
10JAKARTA102LONDON AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE--ENGAGING INDONESIA
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the January 28 London Conference on Afghanistan to Hikmat Moeljawan, Deputy Director for South and Central Asian Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs on January 25. Poloff underscored the importance of strong international support for the Afgha [...]
2010-01-25 10:05:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS ID AF
10JAKARTA103FM Natalegawa Wants to Discuss President's Visit with
[...] (SBU) Indonesian Foreign Minister Natalegawa wants to meet Secretary Clinton on the margins of the January 28 Afghanistan Ministerial Conference in London to discuss how to make President Obama's March visit to Indonesia a success. Natalegawa told visiting NSC Senior Director for Global Engage [...]
2010-01-25 11:22:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OVIP PHUM ID
10JAKARTA104REVIEW OF "THE AMERICAN PLACE" RFP
[...] As follow-up to our January 21, 2010, teleconference, we are pleased to quickly respond in detail to all of the issues and concerns raised in ref A's A/LM/AQM report. We believe that this high priority project must be funded and implemented given the USG's strategic interest in Indonesia. Bre [...]
2010-01-26 00:22:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT KPAO AFIN ASEC OEXC ABLD ID
10JAKARTA109POTENTIAL MEETING FOR THE SECRETARY WITH FM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesian Foreign Minister Natalegawa wants to use his January 28 bilateral meeting with Secretary Clinton at the Afghanistan Ministerial Conference to discuss how to resolve key issues prior to the March Presidential visit to Indonesia. Mission recommends that the Secretary u [...]
2010-01-26 06:37:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ID AF
10JAKARTA115CHARM INOFFENSIVE: CHINA'S STATE COUNCILOR DAI REASSURES
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the first-ever visit to the ASEAN Secretariat (ASEC) by a high-ranking Chinese official, Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo delivered a message of Asian brotherhood and inclusiveness to a packed house of some 200 diplomats, ASEC staff, and representatives of Jakarta's Chi [...]
2010-01-26 10:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ETRD PINR PHSA ASEAN XC CH ID
10JAKARTA117ENGAGING WITH KOPASSUS UNIT 81
[...] (C) President Yudhoyono (SBY) and other senior Indonesian officials have made it clear to us that SBY views the issue of Army Special Forces (KOPASSUS) training as a litmus test of the bilateral relationship and that he believes the March visit of President Obama will not be successful unless [...]
2010-01-26 11:27:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MARR ID
10JAKARTA119 BLUE LANTERN: RESULT OF BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END-CHECK
[...] Post contacted the Foreign End User, the Indonesian Air Force (IAF),regarding licenses 050185190. IAF Colonel Amrullah Asnawi, Chief of the Aeronautics Directorate, confirmed the procurement order for the gyroscopes listed in reftel. Asnawi said that the gyroscopes were ordered by for the pu [...]
2010-01-27 04:46:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKOMC ETTC ECON ID
10JAKARTA121PAPUA -- DCM HIGHLIGHTS SECURITY AND COOPERATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The DCM highlighted security and cooperation in education, the environment and health during a January 20-22 visit to Jayapura, the capital of Papua Province, and Timika and Tembagapura, towns near U.S. company Freeport-McMoRan's Grasberg copper and gold mine. The DCM underscor [...]
2010-01-27 09:43:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PNAT EAID CACS ID
10JAKARTA126ACTION REQUEST: A MULTILATERAL CLIMATE CENTER IN INDONESIA
[...] (SBU) Action Request: Post requests Washington concurrence to discuss with foreign missions resident in Jakarta and the GOI the possibility of multilateral participation in the proposed Jakarta component of the Asian Regional Center for Climate Change initiative. The scheduled February 20-23 a [...]
2010-01-29 00:55:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID KGHG SENV PREL ID
10JAKARTA129SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF COMMANDER USPACOM ADM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Admiral Willard, Embassy Jakarta warmly welcomes your visit. Your visit comes shortly before President Obama,s late March visit to Indonesia and will help address key security issues while helping to set the stage for a successful Presidential visit. The U.S.-Indonesian militar [...]
2010-01-29 06:10:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PTER ID
10JAKARTA131Indonesia - US Interfaith Dialogue: A Cairo Initiative
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The January 25-27 Indonesia-U.S. Interfaith Dialogue, the first of its kind under President Obama's Cairo vision, concluded with the issuance of a joint statement that calls on the U.S. and Indo [...]
2010-01-29 07:28:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SOCI KISL EAID KPAO ID XF
10JAKARTA132NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT AND THIRD SHERPA MEETING
[...] (U) Poloff delivered points from ref a demarche concerning the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) and, together with Dutch Political Counselor Paul Ymkers, from ref b demarche on the Third NSS Sherpa Meeting at a January 29 meeting with Andy Rachmianto, Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) Deputy [...]
2010-01-29 08:40:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL MNUC NPT IAEA CTBT ID
10JAKARTA134POTUS Indonesia Climate Initiative: from Science to
[...] (SBU) Embassy Jakarta suggests the framework below as a way to carry a POTUS message on climate change and environment during his upcoming visit to Indonesia. SOLUSI is the Indonesian word for "solution" and could be the name of an Obama climate and environment initiative. SOLUSI -- Science, [...]
2010-01-29 10:18:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID KGHG SENV KMCA MCC PREL ID
10JAKARTA135AMBASSADOR HUME MEETS WITH DEPLU ON POTUS
[...] (U) This message contains an Action Request. Please see paragraph 14. 2. (SBU) On January 29, Ambassador Hume and Deputy Chief of Mission Ted Osius met with Director General for Europe and the Americas Retno Marsudi at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) to review U.S. and GOI priori [...]
2010-01-29 15:04:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ID
10JAKARTA136INDONESIAN FIU FEARS FATF SANCTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On January 21, Embassy RLA met with representatives of the Indonesian Financial Intelligence Unit (PPATK) to discuss concerns about a recent FATF review of the GOI anti-money laundering/counter terrorist financing (AML/CFT) regime. The PPATK interlocutors expressed concern that t [...]
2010-02-01 06:56:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER KCRM KJUS KTFN EFIN SNAR PHUM ASEC
10JAKARTA140INDONESIA REQUESTS SUPPORT IN ADVANCE OF FATF
[...] (C) In a meeting January 29, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for Multilateral Affairs Ambassador Rezlan Jenie told the DCM that Indonesia fully understands the need to improve its anti-money laundering/countering terrorist financing (AML/CFT) efforts. MFA staff reported that the [...]
2010-02-02 05:08:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KTFN KCRM KJUS PTER EFIN SNAR PHUM
10JAKARTA141NEW POLITICAL GROUP SINGS OLD SONG
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) While some pundits see new "mass organization" National Democrat (ND) as a challenge to President Yudhoyono, his Partai Demokrat members (PD) are saying its establishment is good for Indonesia's democracy [...]
2010-02-02 07:44:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM ID
10JAKARTA143LETTER RECEIVED FROM MINISTER OF TRADE FOR USTR KIRK
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 28, 2010, Embassy received official correspondence from Government of Indonesia (GOI) Minister of Trade Mari Elka Pangestu, dated January 26, addressed to United States Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador Ron Kirk. The letter is in response to the USTR letter of N [...]
2010-02-02 10:00:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD BEXP EINV ID
10JAKARTA144EXPANDED IRAN SANCTIONS: IMPACT ON US EXPORTS TO INDONESIA
[...] The Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act of 2009 (HR2194 and S2799),if it becomes law in its current form, would have potentially disastrous effects on our ability to export U.S. goods to Indonesia. The proposed Act stipulates that any entity that provides substantial support to the Iranian p [...]
2010-02-02 10:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EAIR MCC PGOV PREL BEXP PARM ETTC ID
10JAKARTA149FOOD SECURITY OPPORTUNITY FOR PRESIDENTIAL VISIT
[...] We have an opportunity to develop a real U.S.-Indonesia Partnership on Agricultural Innovation and Investment as part of joint efforts on food security for President Obama's planned March visit. President Yudhoyono has publicly stated interest for a U.S. partnership on food security. Indonesi [...]
2010-02-03 03:41:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR ETRD ID
10JAKARTA152IRAN -- MOBILIZING PRESSURE ON THE NUCLEAR ISSUE
[...] (C) Poloff on February 3 delivered reftel message regarding Iran's nuclear program to Andy Rachmianto, Deputy Director for International Security and Disarmament Affairs, at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),and an officer from DEPLU's Directorate of South and Central Asian Affairs. H [...]
2010-02-03 10:03:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP ID IR
10JAKARTA155NSC Senior Director Ramamurthy discusses S&T with former
[...] (SBU) The U.S. Science Envoy effort is already yielding results by laying the foundation for expanded science and technology (S&T) cooperation. NSC Senior Director for Global Engagement Pradeep Ramamurthy, Ambassador and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Senior Advisor Jason [...]
2010-02-03 10:53:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL TBIO SCUL SENV ENRG PGOV ID
10JAKARTA159ENGAGING INDONESIAN YOUTH - NSC RAMAMURTHY
[...] (SBU) Summary: NSC Senior Director for Global Engagement Pradeep Ramamurthy met with a wide cross-section of Indonesian youth, in addition to meetings with government officials and civil society and business interlocutors during his January 24-29 visit to Indonesia. Ramamurthy shared with audi [...]
2010-02-04 07:12:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SOCI KISL OEXC OIIP KPAO SCUL EAID ID XF
10JAKARTA163INFORMATION ON CHILD LABOR AND FORCED LABOR FOR DOL
[...] (U) Post does not have information on additional goods for the Indonesian TVPRA list. Post does ask that lacking substantiated reports that DOL delete gold from Indonesia's TVPRA list of goods. Removing Gold ------------- 2. (U) Mission has not received any reliable reports to corrobor [...]
2010-02-05 10:21:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI ID
10JAKARTA171S/CT AMB BENJAMIN BILATERAL MEETINGS WITH GOI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Secretary's Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT),Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, conducted meetings with Indonesian officials on counterterrorism issues and cooperation in Jakarta on December 16. Ambassador Benjamin's interlocutors said the proposed GOI interagency Counterter [...]
2010-02-09 07:21:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PINS ASEC ID
10JAKARTA173SUCCESS STORIES: INDONESIA STEPS UP ITS EFFORTS TO COMBAT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Indonesian government is improving its operational effectiveness in combating trafficking in persons. Although much remains to be done, a recent TIP conference (see septel) in Surabaya highlighted several success stories. Police are successfully adapting their tactics to pursu [...]
2010-02-09 10:56:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER KCRM KJUS KTFN EFIN SNAR PHUM ASEC
10JAKARTA18Mission Indonesia Requests Additional Invitations for
[...] This cable contains an action request - see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) Summary: We recommend that Indonesia be more strongly represented at the President's Entrepreneurship Summit in Washington in April. Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim-majority country, the third largest democracy, and [...]
2010-01-07 09:34:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PGOV SOCI ID
10JAKARTA182Health Cooperation-No Agreement to Launch
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: After three days of intense discussions, U.S. and Indonesian negotiators could not reach agreement on the creation of the Indonesia- United States Center for Biomedical and Public Health Researc [...]
2010-02-11 09:25:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV TSPL TBIO EAID KGHG ID
10JAKARTA185Indonesian National Agency for Drug and Food Control (BPOM)
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-12 04:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR ETRD ID
10JAKARTA186MISSION INDONESIA FUNDING REQUEST TO AMPLIFY SOCIAL MEDIA
[...] Action/funding request in paragraph 5. 2. Summary: Mission Indonesia requests immediate additional funding to use new media and social networking tools maximize online outreach for the POTUS visit scheduled for late March, 2010. Already the leading U.S. Mission in the world on Facebook with [...]
2010-02-12 05:03:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO ID XC
10JAKARTA188INDONESIA - PRESSURING IRAN ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] This message is Sensitive but Unclassified, please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) On February 10, Poloff delivered reftel demarche regarding Iran's continued human rights violations in the aftermath of the June 12 election to Hikmat Moeljawan, Deputy Director for Afghanistan/Iran Affairs, a [...]
2010-02-12 08:10:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM IR ID
10JAKARTA189 FORMER GRAFT BUSTER FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER
[...] This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) A South Jakarta court found former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chief Antasari Azhar guilty of planning the murder of businessman Nasrudin Zulkarnaen on February 11, sentencing him to 18 years in priso [...]
2010-02-12 08:31:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS KMCA KCOR MCC ID
10JAKARTA199NGOs PRAISE COOPERATION BUT WANT MORE PROSECUTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In conjunction with a DOJ TIP conference (see septels) Embassy DOJ/OPDAT Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) met on February 2 with two anti-trafficking non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Surabaya, East Java, to discuss the ability of local law enforcement to address trafficking [...]
2010-02-16 05:29:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER KCRM KJUS KTFN EFIN SNAR PHUM ASEC
10JAKARTA200GOI CAUTIOUS ON US PARTICIPATION IN EAST ASIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 12 meeting with EAP DAS Scot Marciel, Indonesian Foreign Ministry (KEMLU) Secretary General Imron Cotan conveyed the Indonesian government's (GOI) hesitancy to endorse U.S. participation in the East Asia Summit (EAS) at this time, because of the likelihood that this [...]
2010-02-16 09:43:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR AMGT ASEAN XC ID
10JAKARTA201Health Cooperation-Closing Down NAMRU
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) This message contains an Action Request. Please see paragraph 6. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: Following our failure to reach an agreement to establish the Indonesia-United States Center for Biomedical and Publi [...]
2010-02-16 10:04:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV TSPL TBIO EAID KGHG ID
10JAKARTA202US-ABC PROMOTES BILATERAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT
[...] Summary. A delegation of business representative from The U.S.-ASEAN Business Council (US-ABC) sent a delegation of U.S. business representatives to Jakarta from January 25-28 for a series of meetings with senior Indonesian officials to discuss Indonesia's investment climate. Council members [...]
2010-02-17 00:04:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EAGR EINV ID
10JAKARTA204LETTER FROM INDONESIAN TRADE MINISTER TO COMMERCE SECRETARY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 11, 2010, Embassy received official correspondence from Government of Indonesia (GOI) Minister of Trade Mari Elka Pangestu, dated February 9, addressed to United States Secretary of Commerce Gary F. Locke. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Begin text: Minister of Trade of [...]
2010-02-17 05:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON APECO BEXP EINV ETRD KIPR ID
10JAKARTA206FOREIGN MINISTER OUTLINES PRIORITIES, INCLUDING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a speech on February 16, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa outlined a range of priorities based on the "democratization of Indonesia's foreign policy." In addition to promoting international peace and security, Indonesian diplomacy would focus on supporting economic developm [...]
2010-02-17 09:31:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS ID XE AF
10JAKARTA207PARLIAMENT LEADER SEEKS SUPPORT FOR FIRST MAJOR
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-17 10:16:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM ID
10JAKARTA211INDONESIA WELCOMES U.S. SCIENCE ENGAGEMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary. All corners of Indonesia's science and policy community welcomed President Obama's science envoy engagement effort. Despite Science Envoy Dr. Bruce Alberts' last minute injury preventing his travel, the GOI pressed on with the majority of the January 18-29 planned schedule with [...]
2010-02-18 06:45:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL TBIO SCUL SENV ENRG PGOV ID
10JAKARTA213NASA ADVANCES SCIENCE ENGAGEMENT IN INDONESIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: NASA Assistant Administrator Michael O'Brien advanced President Obama's science engagement efforts in Indonesia February 2-3. He discussed cooperative partnership opportunities on space and Earth science and education with representatives from the Ministry of Research and Techno [...]
2010-02-18 10:04:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL TSPA SCUL SENV PGOV ID
10JAKARTA215Multilateral Climate Initiative for POTUS in Indonesia
[...] (SBU) In advance of the President's visit, the United States should seek to harness a major cooperative international effort to help Indonesia achieve reduced emissions by preserving its forests and preparing it for forest carbon markets. Countries with substantial (current and planned) forest [...]
2010-02-18 10:16:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID KGHG SENV PREL ID
10JAKARTA216CPR ASSERTS ITS ROLE IN ASEAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The newly-installed ASEAN Committee of Permanent Representatives (CPR) in Jakarta is working to define a policy and programmatic role that satisfies member-states' capitals desire for oversight of the ASEAN Secretariat (ASEC) while increasing ASEAN efficiency by concentrating more [...]
2010-02-18 10:47:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR AMGT ASEAN XC ID
10JAKARTA221IRAN -- INDONESIA TO URGE FOR RELEASE OF DETAINED
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-19 10:05:00Embassy JakartaSECRET//NOFORNPREL KDEM ID IR
10JAKARTA226INDONESIA'S SUBSIDIES ARE A HARD HABIT TO BREAK
[...] (SBU) Indonesia has found it politically difficult to wean itself from consumer energy subsidies. Indonesia lifted all subsidies for fuel consumed by business and industry in 2005, but government plans to do the same for consumer fuels have not been implemented. Energy subsidies routinely exc [...]
2010-02-19 10:24:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EPET EINV ID
10JAKARTA227VISIT OF DRL A/S POSNER TO JAKARTA -- NOTIONAL
[...] (SBU) Embassy Jakarta welcomes the proposed February 23-26 visit of DRL Assistant Secretary Posner and EAP/MTS Director Joe Yun and proposes the following notional schedule for consideration: Tuesday, February 23 ----------------- -- Internal meetings at the Embassy, including: -- A [...]
2010-02-19 11:11:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL MARR ID
10JAKARTA228S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS - INDONESIA
[...] This cable contains an action request, please see paragraph 7. 2. Miss)1[0*QPRt ound: Indonesia is a vast archipelago with over 17,000 islands and a population of over 230 million, making it the world's fourth most populous country and the largest Muslim-majority coun,d|M*seak. 4. Do [...]
2010-02-19 11:11:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWMN RREL KPAO PHUM AID
10JAKARTA23WEST ACEH'S TIGHT PANTS LAW LOOSENED UP
[...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. This message was coordinated with Embassy Jakarta. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A local Shariah edict in West Aceh District banning women from wearing pants which will go into effect in February has been softened due to commu [...]
2010-01-08 08:03:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SOCI ID
10JAKARTA237BUREAUCRATIC CHANGE INDONESIAN STYLE--DEPARTMENTS
[...] (U) In late 2009 President Yudhoyono signed Presidential Regulation No 47 that formally transformed GOI Cabinet departments into ministries. Ministries have begun slowly implementing the new regulation since the start of 2010. Under the new regulation the Department of Foreign Affairs has be [...]
2010-02-22 10:13:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ID
10JAKARTA239S/CT AMBASSADOR BENJAMIN ROUNDTABLE WITH REGIONAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Daniel Benjamin met with Deputy Chiefs of Mission from the Southeast Asia Regional Strategic Initiative (RSI) Embassies on December 17, 2009 in Jakarta. The day was split between an internal discussion of regional counterterrorism issue [...]
2010-02-23 06:36:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PINS ASEC ID
10JAKARTA246ENGAGING INDONESIA ON THE CONFERENCE ON
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Roy Soemirat, Deputy Director for International Security and Disarmament Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (KEMLU) on February 22. Poloff underscored the need to moving forward with the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) at the Conference o [...]
2010-02-23 10:16:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC KNNP ID
10JAKARTA251INDONESIAN RESPONSE TO TEHRAN RESEARCH REACTOR
[...] (SBU) At a February 23 meeting with Rolliansyah (Roy) Soemirat of the Foreign Ministry's Directorate of International Security and Disarmament, Poloff delivered reftel demarche regarding U.S. policy toward the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR). 2. (C) Soemirat said the issue was one of inter [...]
2010-02-24 09:56:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP MNUC PARM IR ID
10JAKARTA254ACEH POLICE ACTION NETS FOUR MILITANTS, ESTIMATED 50 AT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On February 22, Aceh police carried out an operation to break up a suspected Islamic militant training camp in the remote jungles of Aceh Besar District, arresting four militants and seizing guns and jihadi books and videos. Police continue to search for an estimated 50 militan [...]
2010-02-25 01:01:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PINS ASEC ID
10JAKARTA255INDONESIA - GOLDSTONE REPORT
[...] This message is Sensitive but Unclassified, please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) On February 23, Poloff and DRL Senior Policy Advisor Susan O'Sullivan met with officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Directorates of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs and Multilateral Affairs. We [...]
2010-02-25 10:13:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM IR ID
10JAKARTA256INTERNAL POWER STRUGGLE SLOWS PROGRESS ON REFORM,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono's reform efforts are slowing as he grapples with elements of his own government who seek to preserve Suharto-era patronage norms. Golkar and a cluster of other parties seek to undermine Yudhoyono's reforms by pinning responsibility for a controversial 2008 b [...]
2010-02-25 10:21:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON KDEM ID
10JAKARTA258INDONESIA - ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2010
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-27 19:34:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KTIP KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
10JAKARTA27NOAA Administrator's Indonesia Visit Drives Climate,
[...] (SBU) Summary: NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco's first visit to Indonesia advanced Administration priorities on climate change, science and technology, food security, and ocean policy. She emphasized President Obama's commitment to a deeper partnership with Indonesia, and previewed Scienc [...]
2010-01-11 07:08:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG EFIS TSPL PREL ID
10JAKARTA35AMBASSADOR ENGAGES SENIOR GOI OFFICIAL ON BURMA,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Hume urged Indonesia to press the Burmese government to engage in a dialogue with the democratic opposition, and particularly to allow Aung San Suu Kyi to meet the leadership of her party, during a January 11 meeting with Department of Foreign Affairs Director General [...]
2010-01-12 09:38:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM ID BM IR XF AF
10JAKARTA45ENTREPRENEURSHIP KEY TO TACKLING UNEMPLOYMENT IN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Indonesian Minister for Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Syarifuddin Hasan welcomed President Obama,s upcoming Global Entrepreneurship Summit and the opportunity to increase cooperation with the U.S. to expand entrepreneurship in Indonesia. Hasan advised that he is [...]
2010-01-13 10:42:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID PGOV SOCI ID
10JAKARTA46SENATOR BOND PROMOTES TRADE AND INVESTMENT LINKS WITH
[...] (SBU) Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond promoted U.S. investment and commercial ties as a way to promote close relations, combat terrorism through job creation, and contribute to the economic health of the United States in meetings with Indonesian Minister of Trade Mari Pangestu and the American C [...]
2010-01-13 11:00:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV ID
10JAKARTA48INDONESIA: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON
[...] (SBU) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) The following is the draft text of the 2009 Country Report on Terrorism for Indonesia. Please treat as Sensitive until the report is finalized for submission to Congress. Begin text: - GENERAL AS [...]
2010-01-14 04:19:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PINS ASEC ID
10JAKARTA56DCM TACKLES TOUGH PARTNERSHIP ISSUES WITH
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia's new parliamentary commission leaders expressed concerns about our bilateral health cooperation and asked for more U.S. investment in a January 13 meeting with the DCM. The DCM a [...]
2010-01-15 07:37:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV TSPL TBIO EAID KGHG ECON KDEM KMCA
10JAKARTA57DIPNOTE FROM PERMANENT MISSION OF THE PHILIPPINES
[...] (U) The Permanent Mission of the Philippines to ASEAN delivered this dipnote regarding the ASEAN-US Working Group Meeting. 2. (U) The text of the dipnote follows: Begin text: Note no. 07-2010 The Permanent Mission of the Philippines to ASEAN presents its compliments to the Embassy [...]
2010-01-15 07:58:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ASEAN ID XC
10JAKARTA59INDONESIAN REACTION TO THE SECRETARY'S SPEECH ON
[...] (SBU) As requested reftels, poloff delivered points on Asia-Pacific multilateralism and Secretary Clinton's January 12 speech at a January 15 meeting with Arto Suryodipuro, Deputy Director for APEC of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) Directorate of Intra-Regional Cooperation in Asia [...]
2010-01-15 08:15:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECIN ASEAN APEC ARF ID
10JAKARTA6SCENSETTER FOR CODEL BOND'S VISIT TO JAKARTA
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Senator Bond, Embassy Jakarta warmly welcomes your visit. Ten years of political and economic reform have made Indonesia democratic, stable, and increasingly confident about its leadership role [...]
2010-01-05 08:19:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON MASS OREP ID
10JAKARTA61 INDONESIA SENDS GENEROUS ASSISTANCE TO HAITI
[...] Indonesia plans to send 1.6 million dollars worth of assistance to Haiti on January 16. The team is waiting for their visas to be issued. (Note: Indonesia does not have diplomatic relations with Haiti and therefore the team will be issued visas in New York.) EXPERTS AND GOODS ARE SENT ---- [...]
2010-01-15 09:26:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID HL ID
10JAKARTA62PROPOSED FOOD SECURITY AND BIOTECH CONFERENCE IN JAKARTA
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 2 and 11. 2. Embassy Jakarta proposes a food security conference in Jakarta in late March 2010 that would focus on the productivity and regulatory aspects of biotech crops. Post requests EEB ag-biotech funds offered in Ref (A) for this event [...]
2010-01-15 09:42:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR ETRD ID
10JAKARTA63ENGAGING HEALTH MINISTER ENDANG IN GENEVA ON
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) This is an action message. The GOI extended visas for NAMRU-2 personnel through March 15, 2010 to allow negotiations to form a joint center for research, the Indonesian-United States Center for Biomedical [...]
2010-01-15 10:01:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV TSPL TBIO EAID KGHG ID
10JAKARTA64THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH HEALTH MINISTER ENDANG ON
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) This message contains an ACTION REQUEST. Please see paragraph 10. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 14 meeting, Ambassador Hume told Health Minister Endang that the USG wanted to send a negotiating team [...]
2010-01-15 10:02:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV TSPL TBIO EAID KGHG ID
10JAKARTA65INDONESIA AND THE INTERNET: DEMOCRACY, PROGRESS AND
[...] SUMMARY: Indonesia is a unique example of how free and open new media and technology can support democracy and economic growth, a theme we understand Secretary Clinton plans to address at the Newseum on January 21. Indonesian civil society is already harnessing social networking media to influ [...]
2010-01-15 10:47:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SOCI ID KMCA MCC KPAO
10JAKARTA66EMBATTLED CORRUPTION BUSTERS SCORE VICTORY WITH
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) scored a major victory with the arrest of corruption suspect Anggodo Widjojo. The arrest not only fulfills the public's sense of justice, but d [...]
2010-01-15 10:49:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON ETRD SNAR KJUS KMCA KCOR MCC ID
10JAKARTA68LOOKING AHEAD TO ELECTIONS, INDONESIA'S POLITICAL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Moderate Islamic-oriented National Mandate Party (PAN) boosted President Yudhoyono's clout when it tapped his close ally as party chair--Coordinating Minister for the Economy Hatta Rajasa. Rajasa and other leaders emerging from Indonesia's current series of national party congre [...]
2010-01-19 09:55:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM ID
10JAKARTA74INDONESIA-2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] (SBU) This message is Sensitive, but Unclassified - Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) The following is the draft text of the 2009-2010 Indonesia International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INSCR) Part 1, Drugs and Chemical Control for Indonesia. Please treat as Sensitive, but Uncla [...]
2010-01-19 10:29:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SNAR KMCA MCC ASEC ID
10JAKARTA79Health Cooperation-The Need for a Consistent USG Message
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: This is an action message. By mid- February, the USG will need to make a critical decision about our continued health cooperation with Indonesia. In the lead-up to that decision, Mission stron [...]
2010-01-20 02:05:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV TSPL TBIO EAID KGHG SENV ID
10JAKARTA81RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DISCUSSION TOUCHES HOT ISSUES
[...] (U) SUMMARY. ConGen Medan hosted 20 prominent Muslim, Protestant, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist and other North Sumatra civil society leaders at his residence on January 15 in joint commemoration of Religious Freedom Day and Martin Luther King Day, to compare religious freedom and inter-ethnic to [...]
2010-01-20 06:03:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SOCI ID
10JAKARTA86INDONESIA - CAIRO IS HERE
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The President's vision of a "New Beginning" with the Muslim world is alive and well in Indonesia. This new era of global engagement has allowed us to make significant advances to our Comprehensive Partnership with Indonesi [...]
2010-01-21 04:46:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SOCI KISL EAID KPAO ID XF
10JAKARTA87Indonesian Humanitarian Assistance to Haiti
[...] Per instructions in State 04854, Emboff expressed gratitude for Indonesian assistance to Haiti. Riaz Saehu, Deputy Director Office of Information and Public Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that Indonesians empathized with victims of natural disasters. He noted that the GOI had [...]
2010-01-21 06:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID HL ID
10JAKARTA90ENGAGING KOPASSUS ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: As instructed reftel, poloff met with officials of the Indonesian Department of Defense and the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs on January 14 to raise reftel questions concerning accountability for past gross human rights violations by Army Spe [...]
2010-01-21 08:22:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHUM ID
10JAKARTA97Indonesian Deputy Minister of Agriculture Advocates
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-22 10:19:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR ETRD ID
10JAKARTA98Indonesia Ideal for Global Entrepreneurship Program
[...] (SBU) Post recommends that Indonesia be prioritized as the next country selected to participate in the Department's Global Entrepreneurship pilot program. We have a real opportunity to partner with Indonesia on entrepreneurship. Indonesia is enthusiastic to cooperate; government officials and [...]
2010-01-22 10:32:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PGOV SOCI ID
10JEDDAH10CATCHING UP WITH "THE FIRST WORLD": MECCA GOVERNOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In December 27 meeting with Ambassador, Governor of Mecca Region, HRH Prince Khalid Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (ref A),expressed his satisfaction with Hajj 2009 (ref B),which was not disrupted by the feared outbreak of H1N1 or significantly affected by the November 25 flash [...]
2010-01-08 10:30:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KFLU KISL KWBG SA
10JEDDAH14JEDDAH GOVERNOR PRINCE MISHAAL BIN MAJID'S
[...] (C) Summary. In December 29 introductory meeting with Ambassador, Prince Mishaal bin Majid bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Jeddah (ref A),warned that Yemen could become like Somalia in the absence of development projects funded by the GCC, U.S., and Europe. Skeptical that Israel wants peace given [...]
2010-01-10 06:37:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALCASC KISL KWBG PREL SA YM IR IS
10JEDDAH4JEDDAH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: A GATEWAY THROUGH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Smith's December 28 visit to the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) revealed an active organization on the front line of social change in Saudi Arabia. Ambassador met with Deputy Chair Dr. Lama Sulaiman, the first woman to be elected to this position (r [...]
2010-01-04 09:26:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO ECON PREL EMIN EFIN EIND EINV SA
10JEDDAH50GACA COMMENTS ON US-SAUDI OPEN SKIES AGREEMENT,
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment. On February 3, Captain Mohammed Ali Jamjoom, Vice President Safety and Economic Regulation at the Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA),discussed issues needing to be resolved for the U.S. and Saudi Arabia to sign an Open Skies agreement (reftels). Jamjo [...]
2010-02-27 13:05:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON KTIA PREL SA
10JERUSALEM101PA FOCUSES ON WEST BANK ENERGY SECTOR:
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Palestinian Authority (PA) is taking steps to improve governance and increase accountability in the West Bank energy sector. Its goal is to improve the sector's performance and lower its impact on the PA's budget. Reform of the sector, including the establishment of an in [...]
2010-01-15 18:31:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV IS JO
10JERUSALEM102JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/19): President Abbas continues
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2010-01-19 10:41:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM11JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/05): Potential US peace plan
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-05 07:42:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM111NGO CONTACTS WARN ISRAELI GOVERNMENT CONSIDERING
[...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Tel Aviv - Consulate General Jerusalem cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: According to NGO and GOI sources, the Israeli Ministry of Defense (MOD) intends to "reassess" the legal status of the land on which three West Bank outposts are built, despite previous GOI stateme [...]
2010-01-19 16:08:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM112WEST BANK CROSSINGS REMAIN FOCUS OF FRUSTRATION;
[...] (SBU) Summary: Palestinian private sector contacts emphasize that moving goods between the West Bank and Israel remains a complicated and time-consuming process. The continued use of a "back-to-back" process, which requires goods to be transferred from Palestinian to Israeli trucks, plus a l [...]
2010-01-19 17:10:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAID PREL KWBG KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM114FAYYAD LAYS OUT 2010 BUDGET AND PROJECT PRIORITIES
[...] (SBU) Summary. Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told donors that the PA is likely to require USD 1.2 billion in external budget support in 2010, and urged early disbursement. He presented the PA's priority project list for 2010, which includes over USD 5 billion in proje [...]
2010-01-19 18:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN KWBG PGOV FR NO
10JERUSALEM115JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/20): Israeli authorities level
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2010-01-20 07:57:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM129PA AND FATAH OFFICIALS CONSIDER HOLDING LOCAL
[...] (C) Summary. Senior Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah officials have begun discussing the possibility of holding local elections in 2010 to replace existing local councils, all of whose terms expired in 2009 or earlier. There are several factors driving the push for elections, including [...]
2010-01-20 15:19:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKDEM KPAL KWBG PGOV
10JERUSALEM130CLOSURE ORDERS FOR EAST JERUSALEM PALESTINIAN
[...] (C) On January 19, Ishaq Budeiri, General Manager of the Arab Studies Society at Orient House, told Post he had received no indication that the GOI is considering allowing the current closure order on Orient House to lapse when it expires in February 2010. Budeiri said that in the past, ren [...]
2010-01-20 15:28:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM132JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/21): Local press report that
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2010-01-21 07:46:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM134TDA GRANT SUPPORTS RENEWABLE ENERGY, PALESTINIAN
[...] Summary. At a January 20 signing ceremony attended by press and Palestinian Authority (PA) officials, the U.S. Trade Development Agency (TDA) awarded a nearly $440,000 grant to support the development of a high efficiency, alternative energy heating and cooling system for an affordable housi [...]
2010-01-21 16:01:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID EINV ENRG KWBG KPAL
10JERUSALEM135IDF OPENS KEY WEST BANK ROAD TO PALESTINIANS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) opened an important West Bank road southwest of Hebron to Palestinian vehicle traffic on January 15, in compliance with an October 2009 Israeli Supreme Court ruling. The IDF's response to the ruling could have implications for the easing of other [...]
2010-01-21 16:36:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EAID PGOV KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM136JERUSALEM CONSTRUCTION PERMIT STATISTICS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Statistics released by the Municipality of Jerusalem reveal an eight-to-one disparity in application rates for new construction permits between the city's overwhelmingly Israeli West and its majority-Arab East. This disparity, which is consistent with previous years, persists [...]
2010-01-22 09:45:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM137JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/22): Palestinian media ask
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2010-01-22 09:53:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM139PRESIDENT ABBAS DEMONSTRATES SUPPORT FOR FAYYAD,
[...] (C) Summary. The Fatah Revolutionary Council (FRC, Fatah's quasi-parliamentary body) held its second assembly January 15-19 in Ramallah, during which members of the FRC discussed the ongoing stalemate in negotiations with Israel and reconciliation with Hamas; reviewed reports and financial r [...]
2010-01-22 19:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER KPAL KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM141JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/25): Local press report that
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2010-01-25 08:09:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM1482010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR THE WEST
[...] Obtain temporary copy of certificate of registration from the Ministry. 2. Deposit initial capital, which is 25 percent of the capital plus official bank fees (1/1000 of stated capital). 3. Obtain signature of the required documents by a local lawyer. 4. Register with the commercial Regist [...]
2010-01-25 15:41:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC KWBG
10JERUSALEM155JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/26): Palestinian press report
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2010-01-26 07:30:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM156GAZA BRANCHES OF PALESTINIAN BANKS TURN AWAY
[...] (C) Summary: Palestinian bank branches in Gaza have been turning away large Israeli Shekel (NIS)-denominated deposits, according to the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA),Gazan merchants, and Palestinian bankers. Contacts in the gas sector in Gaza voiced concerns that they may not have eno [...]
2010-01-26 07:37:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID ENRG KWBG PREL KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM16JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/06): New settlement
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2010-01-06 10:13:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM161JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/27): President Abbas under
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2010-01-27 15:15:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM165DE FACTO SOCIOECONOMIC SEPARATION PERSISTS BETWEEN
[...] (C) Contacts ranging from ultra-nationalist Israeli hard-liners to anti-settlement peace activists and Arab community leaders agree that a de facto separation persists between Israeli-majority West Jerusalem and Arab-majority East Jerusalem. East Jerusalem's rapidly-growing Arab population [...]
2010-01-27 17:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM166PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE
[...] (C) Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) issued a January 25 decree forming a committee to examine allegations against Palestinians in the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the Goldstone report). PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told the Consu [...]
2010-01-27 18:07:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KWBG KPAL PHUM KAWC IS
10JERUSALEM168JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/28): Palestinian press report
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2010-01-28 09:49:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM175HATEM ABDEL QADER ON FATAH, ELECTIONS, AND
[...] (C) In a January 22 meeting with Post, Fatah activist and former Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Hatem Abdel Qader said that with local government elections on the horizon, Fatah needed to "build confidence between the party and the people" by focusing on social iss [...]
2010-01-29 08:43:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAL IS KDEM
10JERUSALEM176ISRAELI ANTI-SETTLEMENT ACTIVISTS SWELL SHEIKH
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-29 09:27:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI IS
10JERUSALEM178ISRAELI ANTI-SETTLEMENT ACTIVISTS SWELL SHEIKH
[...] (SBU) Protests by anti-settlement activists in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on January 15 and 22 drew an unusually large turnout and resulted in a total of 35 arrests. The demonstrations were attended by a mostly-Israeli crowd of veteran peace activists, undergraduates, [...]
2010-01-29 10:45:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM180JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/29): Clashes continue between
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2010-01-29 11:06:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM185PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PRESSES GAZA ELECTRIC
[...] (C) Summary. In a calculated move to decrease its financial burdens and increase the fiscal sustainability of the Gaza Strip's only electrical power plant, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is cutting back its payments for the plant's industrial fuel. The PA's goal is to press the Gaza Electr [...]
2010-01-29 20:17:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EAID EFIN PREF ENRG GZ IS
10JERUSALEM187GAZA HUMANITARIAN SITUATION REMAINS SERIOUS, WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: One year after the end of the war in Gaza, the coastal territory remains in a challenging humanitarian situation, with modest improvements in access for humanitarian and commercial goods. The average number of monthly shipments into Gaza increased by nine percent in 2009 com [...]
2010-01-29 21:26:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EAID EAGR PREF GZ IS
10JERUSALEM188JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/01): Settlement-related
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2010-02-01 09:03:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM192NABLUS BUSINESSMEN VOICE CONCERN OVER ONGOING
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a January 28 trip to the northern West Bank city of Nablus, the city's business leaders briefed the Consul General on the impact of Israeli restrictions on the region's business climate. Nablus's aluminum-producing factory (the only one in the West Bank),like many manu [...]
2010-02-01 17:21:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAID PGOV KWBG IS BEXP
10JERUSALEM193JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/02): President Abbas said he
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2010-02-02 12:28:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM199AS OLD GUARD RESIGNS, YESHA COUNCIL SETTLERS
[...] (SBU) Summary. On January 11, Pinchas Wallerstein resigned as director-general of the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip (known as the "YESHA Council," from the Hebrew acronym for "Judea, Samaria, and Gaza"). Wallerstein told the Israeli press that he was re [...]
2010-02-02 18:32:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM2JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/04): The new year starts with
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-04 07:47:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM201AS OLD GUARD RESIGNS, YESHA COUNCIL SETTLERS
[...] (SBU) Summary. On January 11, Pinchas Wallerstein resigned as director-general of the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip (known as the "YESHA Council," from the Hebrew acronym for "Judea, Samaria, and Gaza"). Wallerstein told the Israeli press that he was re [...]
2010-02-02 20:29:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM202JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/03): Prime Minister Fayyad
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-03 08:14:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM214JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/04): PA and Hamas officials
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-04 07:06:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM215JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/05): Fatah and Hamas leaders
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-05 09:27:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM217 LOVE AND MARRIAGE: A PALESTINIAN MARRIAGE AND BENEFIT
[...] (U) The single most pernicious pattern of fraud encountered by Post is marriage and benefit fraud employed by Palestinian men. Under the pattern, individuals exploit certain aspects of Sharia Law or use fraudulent divorce certificates to engage in sham divorces and then marry Americans solely [...]
2010-02-05 13:51:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS KFRD PTER KWBG KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM224SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW'S VIST TO
[...] (SBU) Mr. Secretary: Your meetings will give you a chance to see USG assistance efforts first hand; hear from Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on progress in implementing his state-building plan; and learn from private sector and key economic policy makers what is needed to create the conditions f [...]
2010-02-05 22:41:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PGOV KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM226JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/08): President Abbas meets
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-08 10:04:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM230MINISTER OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS ON INCITEMENT AT
[...] (C) The Palestinian Authority (PA) employee who delivered an impromptu sermon inciting violence at a West Bank mosque on January 29 was "disturbed," according to Minister of Awqaf and Religious Affairs Mahmoud Habash. The employee, who works in Habash's ministry, has been counseled for his s [...]
2010-02-08 17:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPAL KWBG KISL IS
10JERUSALEM231JERUSALEM MAYOR WRESTLES WITH "LOCAL" POLITICS ON
[...] (C) Assessing the performance of Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat in his first year in office, Barkat's aides, allies, and opponents point to the difficulty the "apolitical" Barkat (a former software executive) has had in managing a broad coalition containing a diversity of religious-nationalist, s [...]
2010-02-08 18:50:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM232JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/09):Palestinian official says
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-09 07:43:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM233ISRAELI TRAVEL BAN AGAINST PROMINENT EAST
[...] (C) On February 9, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad contacted the Consul General to express strong concern about the Israeli government's imposition of a six-month overseas travel ban on Khalil Tufakji, an Arab resident of East Jerusalem and prominent cartographer, as report [...]
2010-02-09 17:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KWBG KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM234FORMER PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL SPEAKER
[...] (S) Former Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Speaker (and prominent Gazan) Rawhi Fattouh described three generational groupings inside Hamas today, and characterized each as more radical than its predecessor. The oldest generation consists mainly of religious leaders with little influen [...]
2010-02-09 18:11:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETPGOV PREL PTER KISL KWBG KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM236PALESTINIAN CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS DISCUSS
[...] (SBU) NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary Tamara Cofman Wittes discussed efforts for Middle East peace, the growing distance between Palestinian and Israeli societies, and the role of women with Palestinian Authority (PA) officials and Palestinian civil society activists. Participants lamented de [...]
2010-02-09 18:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KMPI KDEM KPAL KWBG KWMN IS
10JERUSALEM238JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/10): President Abbas asks the
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-10 07:21:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM25"ECONOMIC" SETTLERS PROTEST THEIR INCLUSION IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: In recent conversations, residents of "economic" settlements -- established to provide cheaper housing and higher standards of living than available in "Green Line" Israel -- objected to their inclusion in the Israeli government's settlement moratorium. Leaders in these comm [...]
2010-01-06 15:41:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM258PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY SECURITY OFFICIALS ON
[...] (C) Summary. In a series of February 7 meetings in Ramallah, Palestinian Authority (PA) security officials emphasized that nonviolence was the only viable strategy for the Palestinian pro-peace camp, and said they were committed to interdicting violent actors in the West Bank, regardless of [...]
2010-02-10 16:23:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAL KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM26PERMITS FOR 24 NEW HOUSING UNITS ON MOUNT OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a January 5 vote, the Jerusalem Municipal Planning Board approved construction permits for 24 apartments in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of at-Tur on the Mount of Olives. NGO sources and press reports suggest the developer of the project is backed by settler organizati [...]
2010-01-06 16:38:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM261JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/11): IDF soldier killed at
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-11 08:03:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM265RISING TENSIONS IN SHU'FAT REFUGEE CAMP AS ISRAELI
[...] (SBU) Summary. According to UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) staff, Israeli police and Jerusalem municipality officials conducted intermittent operations in the Shu'fat refugee camp in East Jerusalem between February 7 and February 10. As of February 10, Israeli auth [...]
2010-02-11 15:37:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREF KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM266PALESTINIAN POLICE OFFICER KILLS IDF SOLDIER
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A plain-clothes Palestinian Authority (PA) Civil Police Captain stabbed an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Sergeant near Nablus on February 10. The IDF Sergeant subsequently died of his injuries. PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad issued a statement later that day condemning the actio [...]
2010-02-11 16:40:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM269JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/12): Israeli air raids on the
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-12 09:50:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM27SEVEN ARCHES HOTEL TARGETED BY ISRAELI
[...] (C) Summary: In the midst of debate over the approval of 24 new Israeli residential units on the Mount of Olives (reftel),press reports that the nearby Seven Arches Hotel had been sold to Israeli owners generated further controversy. The hotel's Jordanian management described the reports [...]
2010-01-06 17:51:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAL IS JO
10JERUSALEM275LARGE VILLAGES SOUTH OF HEBRON CUT OFF FROM MAIN
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2010-02-12 14:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAID PGOV KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM276DOES HAMAS HAVE A CASH FLOW PROBLEM IN GAZA?
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2010-02-12 15:49:00Consulate JerusalemSECRETECON EFIN EG GZ KPAL KTFN PGOV PTER QA
10JERUSALEM277PALESTINIAN SECURITY FORCES DISCOVER ROCKET BURIED WEST OF RAMALLAH
[...] (C) On February 11, Palestinian Authority (PA) security officials informed Post that they had recently discovered a homemade, Qassam-style rocket buried underground, west of Ramallah. These officials said they had handed the rocket, which appeared to have been buried over a year ago and was no long [...]
2010-02-12 16:16:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPTER KWBG KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM279NABLUS DEVELOPER ON AREA C CONSTRAINTS,
[...] (SBU) Summary. Palestinian private sector contacts and developers in Nablus report that a closed Israeli military road north of the city is preventing progress on 15 construction projects that would ease urban congestion and further develop Nablus's economy. Despite the constraints, the cons [...]
2010-02-12 16:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV OPIC KWBG KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM281JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/16): Palestinian press report
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-16 11:09:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM286PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY SECURITY OFFICIALS ON COORDINATION WITH ISRAEL
[...] (S) In recent meetings with Post, Palestinian Authority (PA) security officials reiterated their commitment to continued Israeli-Palestinian security coordination. They expressed frustration with what they termed a one-sided Israeli approach, and highlighted the importance of keeping coordination o [...]
2010-02-16 16:28:00Consulate JerusalemSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINS KWBG KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM288JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/17): President Abbas says
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-17 11:05:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM29JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/07): Israel plans for more new
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-07 12:29:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM291"POPULAR RESISTANCE": FIVE YEARS ON
[...] (SBU) February 19 marks the fifth anniversary of weekly "popular resistance" protests against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bil'in. Since demonstrations against the barrier began, they have attracted a wide range of anti-settlement NGOs and international activists. [...]
2010-02-17 12:56:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KPAL KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM292PALESTINIAN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS SET FOR JULY 17
[...] (C) On February 9, the Palestinian Authority (PA) Cabinet announced that municipal elections would be held on July 17 throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and called on the Central Elections Committee (CEC) to proceed with making arrangements. CEC Chairman Hanna Naser said efforts are un [...]
2010-02-17 13:06:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL KPAL KWBG KDEM
10JERUSALEM296JERUSALEM MAYOR BRIEFS ON UPDATED BUSTAN
[...] (C) Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat updated the Consul General on the municipality's plan for the East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of al-Bustan (just southeast of the Old City). The plan calls for the demolition of 20 homes and the renovation of 80 others, as part of the construction of tourist fa [...]
2010-02-18 05:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM299JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/18): The investigation into
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-18 07:44:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM301ARAB RESIDENTS OF EAST JERUSALEM'S AL-BUSTAN
[...] (SBU) In recent conversations, Arab residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Bustan, and the lawyers and city planners they have retained to represent them, expressed strong opposition to Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat's proposal that al-Bustan (immediately south-east of al-Aqsa Mosque) [...]
2010-02-18 16:24:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM303JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/19): Dubai police believe
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-19 09:34:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM307PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY MINISTER DELIVERS TELEVISED
[...] (U) Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Awqaf and Religious Affairs Mahmoud Habash delivered a Friday sermon on February 19, entitled, "Islam is a Religion of Tolerance and Mercy." Palestinian television broadcast the sermon live. The same topic was the official weekly theme for the appro [...]
2010-02-19 19:22:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KWBG KPAL KISL IS
10JERUSALEM315JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/22): Deputy Secretary Jacob
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-22 08:52:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM32JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY ISSUES STATISTICS ON 2009
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Municipality of Jerusalem released statistics for home demolitions in 2009, showing that the number of demolitions in (predominately Arab) East Jerusalem decreased slightly compared to previous years. Anti-demolition advocates do not dispute these statistics. They credit US [...]
2010-01-07 18:19:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM321JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/23): The Europeans start to
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2010-02-23 06:53:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM329DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW'S MEETING WITH PALESTINIAN
[...] (C) Summary. In a February 21 meeting with Deputy Secretary Jacob J. Lew, Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad stressed the importance of Israel ending Area A incursions and creating conditions for the Palestinian private sector to generate sustainable economic growth. He s [...]
2010-02-23 16:23:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON KWBG KPAL PINS EAID IS
10JERUSALEM33JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/08): President Abbas says he
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-08 09:21:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM330DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW MEETS PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY
[...] (C) Summary: During his February 21 meeting with Deputy Secretary Jacob J. Lew, Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Planning Ali Jarbawi described the PA's development project planning process and his ministry's donor coordination role. Jarbawi stressed the importance of easing restrictio [...]
2010-02-23 16:23:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID KWBG KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM331OFFICIAL PALESTINIAN PROTESTS, SKIRMISHES IN WEST
[...] (SBU) Summary. The February 21 Israeli cabinet decision to include Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs/Ibrahimi Mosque and Rachel's Tomb (near Bethlehem) as "national heritage sites" prompted a flurry of strong official criticism from senior Palestinian officials, as well as demonstrations in bot [...]
2010-02-23 17:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAL KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM332DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW'S MEETINGS WITH UNRWA
[...] (SBU) During his February 19 visit to the Jalazone refugee camp in the West Bank, Deputy Secretary Jacob J. Lew toured the camp's UNRWA health clinic and discussed UNRWA's operations with UNRWA Commissioner General Filippo Grandi, Deputy Commissioner General Margot Ellis, Deputy Director for G [...]
2010-02-23 17:49:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV KPAL KWBG IS LE
10JERUSALEM341EAST JERUSALEM RESIDENTS AND ACTIVISTS ALARMED AS
[...] (C) Summary. Municipality of Jerusalem inspectors, accompanied by Israeli police, served a total of 12 "notices of illegal construction" to residents in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem on February 24, according to one resident and anti-demolition activist. A municipality official [...]
2010-02-24 21:05:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM342SETTLER COUNCIL CHAIRMAN: TWO STATE SOLUTION "NOT
[...] (C) Summary. The Chairman of the "Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip," Dani Dayan, told the Consul General on February 22 that Dayan believed West Bank settlements are "irreversible" and that the two-state solution is not feasible. Dayan said he continues to [...]
2010-02-24 21:13:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM344JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/25): More demolition orders
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-25 08:56:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM351JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/26): Palestinian press report
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-26 09:45:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM354CONGEN JERUSALEM ICT OFFICER
[...] Per reftel: ConGen Jerusalem's ICT officer is Sarah Beran, Economic Section, email: berans@state.gov, office: (972) 2 622 7245. ETD 06/2012. RUBINSTEIN [...]
2010-02-26 15:37:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ECON KWBG
10JERUSALEM356CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY ON ARAB-OWNED MALL IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Construction is underway on a landmark Arab property in East Jerusalem. The building, originally intended to open as a hotel in 1967, is now scheduled to open with retail, commercial, and hotel space in January 2011. The Nuseibehs, a very prominent Jerusalem-Palestinian family, [...]
2010-02-26 17:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EAID EINV PGOV KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM357PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY REQUEST FOR WTO OBSERVER
[...] (SBU) Representatives of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) met with Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestinian private sector representatives to discuss the PA's pending request for World Trade Organization (WTO) observer status. PA Prime Minister Fayyad and Minister [...]
2010-02-26 17:50:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD USTR WTRO ECON KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM358PRIME MINISTER FAYYAD VISITS HEBRON TO CALM LOCAL
[...] (C) Following a week of demonstrations in Hebron protesting the Israeli government's decision to include the Ibrahimi Mosque/Cave of the Patriarchs on a list of Israeli national heritage sites, Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad attended Friday prayers in the Ibrahimi Mosq [...]
2010-02-26 18:11:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPAL KWBG SCUL KISL IS
10JERUSALEM40PALESTINIAN MOBILE OPERATORS ASK FOR HELP IN AREA C
[...] (C) Summary: The two Palestinian mobile telephone operators (Jawwal and Wataniya) say they continue to struggle with lack of coverage throughout the West Bank, penetration of Israeli settlement-based cellular networks into Palestinian urban areas, and small frequency allotments (compared to t [...]
2010-01-08 16:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ECPS KPAL KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM41PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY LEADS HIGH-PROFILE CAMPAIGN
[...] (U) This message contains an action request; please see para 3. 2. (C) Summary: The Palestinian Authority (PA) has launched a high-profile campaign against products from Israeli settlements found on Palestinian store shelves, and has called for further international boycotts of settlement [...]
2010-01-08 17:29:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAID PGOV KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM42MUHAMMAD DAHLAN ON FATAH REFORM, ISRAEL,
[...] (C) Summary. The new Fatah Central Committee (FCC) is reaching out to the Fatah grassroots in ways the former FCC never did, according to FCC and Palestinian Legislative Council member Muhammad Dahlan. Fatah anniversary celebrations in January; upcoming union, syndicate, and journalist elec [...]
2010-01-08 17:44:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER KPAL KDEM KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM43PM FAYYAD AND SECURITY CHIEFS ARGUE FOR INCREASED
[...] (C/NF) Summary: In January 7 conversations with Post, senior Palestinian Authority (PA) officials offered sober assessments of the December 24 shooting of an Israeli settler in the West Bank and the subsequent Israel Defense Forces (IDF) raid that led to the death of three Palestinian suspe [...]
2010-01-08 18:22:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL KWBG KPAL IS
10JERUSALEM45JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/11): Israelis and Palestinians
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-11 09:00:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM52JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/12): Special Envoy Mitchell
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-12 08:39:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM60IDF DEMOLISHES HOMES IN WEST BANK VILLAGE OUTSIDE
[...] (C) Summary: Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers entered the village of Khirbat Tana in the northern West Bank early on January 10 and demolished some of the residents' homes and animal shelters. Post contacts confirmed that 21 houses and 12 non-residential structures were demolished, displa [...]
2010-01-12 19:20:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM61JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/13): Palestinian Authority
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-13 07:23:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM67OPIC PRESSES WEST BANK HOUSING INITIATIVES AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: An Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) delegation visited Jerusalem and Ramallah January 5-7 to prepare for the February launch of the West Bank-based Affordable Mortgage and Lending Corporation (AMAL),attend the launch of a small business loan guarantee program aime [...]
2010-01-13 14:56:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EINV EFIN EAID OPIC KWBG IS
10JERUSALEM69JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/14): Senior US administration
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-14 07:57:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10JERUSALEM77HAMAS CALLS PUBLICLY FOR A HALT TO GAZA ROCKET FIRE
[...] (U) On January 12, Hamas "Prime Minister" Ismail Haniyeh publicly called on all armed factions in the Gaza Strip to observe the de facto cease-fire in place since Israeli combat operations in Gaza ceased in January 2009. In his statement, Haniyeh urged other factions to "reinforce the nation [...]
2010-01-14 17:39:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KPAL GZ IS
10JERUSALEM84JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (01/15): General Jones reaffirms
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-15 08:07:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
10KABUL102010 ELECTIONS: IEC ANNOUNCEMENT, INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: Details about the 2010 elections came slightly more into focus on January 2 as the Independent Election Committee (IEC) announced the date and UNAMA convened international stakeholders. The IEC announced at a press conference the May 22 date for the Parliamentary elections and ex [...]
2010-01-03 07:10:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM AF
10KABUL102 Semi-annual Assessment for Badghis Province: July -
[...] This is a Semi-annual assessment of Badghis Province. 2. (SBU) Summary. July - December 2009. Security in Badghis Province continued to deteriorate, as insurgents stepped up attacks on military convoys on main roads and overran several police checkpoints. Insurgents control large areas [...]
2010-01-12 10:38:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV AF
10KABUL103AFGHAN FIRST: UNAMA MEETING STRESSES AFGHAN
[...] (C) Summary: Preparations for the January 28 London Conference and the feasibility of preparing for and securing funding for the scheduled May 2010 parliamentary election were discussed at a meeting of key ambassadors assembled at UNAMA on January 11. The British ambassador emphasized the nee [...]
2010-01-12 14:25:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV AF
10KABUL104AFGHAN MOMENTUM ON REINTEGRATION PLANNING
[...] (S/Rel UK) At President Karzai,s direction, the Afghan Office of the National Security Council (ONSC) has taken on the task of interagency coordination of reintegration planning, forming an Interagency Policy Working Group (IPWG) which produced a draft &National Reconciliation Policy and Reintegrat [...]
2010-01-12 18:24:00Embassy KabulSECRETPGOV PREL PINS MARR AF
10KABUL113SECURITY MINISTERS PRESS FOR ARMY/POLICE GROWTH TO
[...] (C/REL ISAF) During a January 6 meeting with CODEL McCain, Afghanistan's Defense and Interior Ministers pressed for continued growth in the army (ANA) and police (ANP) to a combined total of 400,000 personnel. Interior Minister Mohammed Hanif Atmar also noted his Ministry's progress in figh [...]
2010-01-13 12:27:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS AF
10KABUL115KARZAI VISIT TO HELMAND
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a January 2 visit to Helmand Province, President Karzai engaged warmly with Helmandis, demonstrating leadership as a wartime President. In the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, regional government officials gave the Afghan President, accompanied by ISAF Commander General M [...]
2010-01-13 13:18:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MOPS UK AF
10KABUL12MILITIAS IN KUNDUZ; A TALE OF TWO DISTRICTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Since Kunduz authorities helped stand up pro-GIRoA militia forces in early Fall 2009, the forces have evolved in very different directions. In Qala-e-Zal district, a well-disciplined force has brought about a marked improvement in security, while the picture in the Aqtash areas of Khan [...]
2010-01-03 07:25:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MOPS AF
10KABUL120ROLLING BACK THE INSURGENCY--POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Tagab District, Kapisa Province, remains unstable with continued attacks on coalition forces. Several remote valleys in the district are insurgent sanctuaries. However, a series of recent incidents have combined to provide real opportunities to turn the tide. Most promising are [...]
2010-01-14 11:14:00Embassy KabulSECRETPGOV PREL KDEM MOPS FR AF
10KABUL122AFGHANISTAN: THE DYSFUNCTIONAL WORLD OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Panjshir, with its unrivaled security, has never been the object of &clear and hold8 operations by U.S. forces. Instead, the U.S. moved straight to "build," with the establishment of the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in 2005. Today, 65 million dollars worth o [...]
2010-01-14 14:17:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID AF
10KABUL125CHIEF AFGHAN FINANCIAL REGULATOR: "GOOD PEOPLE UNDER ATTACK"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Central Bank Governor Abdul Qadeer Fitrat met with Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne to discuss the Afghan Central Bank's efforts to promote macroeconomic stability and expand key projects. The Governor stated he has not met with President Karzai in more than two months and is uncertain [...]
2010-01-15 13:22:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALEFIN PREL AF
10KABUL126BMTF/DHS meeting with Finance Minister Zakhilwal
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 20, 2009 meeting, Border Management Task Force Director Ortiz met with Finance Minister Zakhilwal and Deputy Minister Sabit to provide an overview of the current mission set and incoming DHS elements and to discuss the Minister's vision to take the Customs Departmen [...]
2010-01-16 05:00:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EFIN EAID ECON PREL AF
10KABUL127AFGHAN CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR REITERATES SUPPORT FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: On January 7, Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs (CDDEA) E. Anthony Wayne and Treasury Attache met with Da Afghanistan Bank Governor Abdul Qadeer Fitrat to discuss the M-Paisa pilot project, which uses mobile banking technology to pay Afghan National Polic [...]
2010-01-16 05:13:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID ECON PGOV PREL AF
10KABUL132010 ELECTIONS: IEC ANNOUNCEMENT, INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: Details about the 2010 elections came slightly more into focus on January 2 as the Independent Election Committee (IEC) announced the date and UNAMA convened international stakeholders. The IEC announced at a press conference the May 22 date for the Parliamentary elections and ex [...]
2010-01-03 08:10:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM AF
10KABUL130INDIAN, PAKISTANI DIPLOMATS FORECAST LIMITED ROLE
[...] (C) Summary: India and Pakistan reportedly intend to play a limited role in Afghanistan's 2010 parliamentary elections, both in advising Afghanistan on a preferred election date and in providing support for the elections themselves, according to Kabul-based diplomats of those nations. Acco [...]
2010-01-16 14:36:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AF
10KABUL131SEVEN MORE MINISTERS APPROVED -- TEN REJECTED
[...] (S) Summary: The Afghan Lower House (Wolesi Jirga - WJ) has voted to accept 7 of 17 Cabinet nominees presented in President Karzai's second tranche of candidates. The Parliament has not yet decided if it will recess until mid-February, or continue until the new Cabinet is complete. Presidential Pal [...]
2010-01-16 15:15:00Embassy KabulSECRETPGOV PREL AF
10KABUL138PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: DONORS LIKELY TO FUND BUT
[...] (C) Summary: While Kabul-based donor nation representatives have not reached consensus on the level of support the international community (IC) should provide for the upcoming Parliamentary elections, some donors had already committed funds to UNDP's Enhancing Legal and Electoral Capacity fo [...]
2010-01-18 09:51:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL AF
10KABUL143SPOT REPORT: MULTIPLE ATTACKS IN KABUL CITY
[...] (U) Summary: Multiple suicide bomber explosions shook downtown Kabul on January 18 in a complex, coordinated attack in the vicinity of major Afghan government centers, including the Presidential Palace, Central Bank, and Ministries of Justice, Foreign Affairs, Education, Economy, and Interior [...]
2010-01-18 13:31:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALFBI PREL PTER
10KABUL170SRAP MEETING WITH KARZAI: MOVING REINTEGRATION
[...] (S) Summary: President Karzai told S/SRAP Holbrooke January 16 that he wants to announce a reintegration policy before London but save the details of the plan for a rollout at the Kabul conference in late spring. Karzai is still conflicted about finalizing the policy, according to several observers [...]
2010-01-19 05:40:00Embassy KabulSECRETPGOV PREL AF
10KABUL174REQUEST FOR ELECTIONS SUPPORT FOR EMBASSY KABUL'S
[...] (U) Embassy Kabul requests the services of S/CRS in support of the upcoming Provincial Elections May 2010. The Political Section is creating an interagency team and would like to request that up too three positions be created and filled by S/CRS for the period March-September 2010. 2. (U) T [...]
2010-01-19 05:47:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDAPER AMGT PGOV AF
10KABUL175GIROA INDICTS THREE SENIOR OFFICIALS IN GHAZNI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 9, Kabul-based prosecutors filed charges against three prominent Ghazni officials: Ghazni City Mayor Hakim Ghazniwal, Refugees Director Abdul Mamid Wafa, and Reconstruction and Rural Development Director Sanai Mayel, in a 2005 case involved the illegal appropriation of [...]
2010-01-19 06:19:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM AF
10KABUL187AFGHAN MPS PUSH FOR ELECTORAL REFORMS, POSSIBLE
[...] (C) Summary: Immediately before going on recess until February 20, the Afghan Lower House (Wolesi Jirga - WJ) voted to approve a list of necessary conditions for 2010 Parliamentary elections. The MPs designated WJ Speaker Yunus Qanooni to represent the legislative branch and meet with the E [...]
2010-01-19 12:29:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM AF
10KABUL189IDLG LEADS SUB-NATIONAL GOVERNANCE STRATEGY; WILL GET ITS
[...] (C) Summary: Director General of the Independent Directorate for Local Governance (IDLG) Jelani Popal is spear-heading the Afghan Government's renewed sub-national governance efforts, with the first test of this initiative to come in Helmand's Nad-Ali District in February. The new sub-national [...]
2010-01-19 13:13:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL MOPS UK AF
10KABUL20DUBAI PROCESS: SLOW AND STEADY COOPERATION BETWEEN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The sixth round of the Canadian-led Dubai Process meeting brought together Afghan and Pakistani technical level delegates to discuss cooperation on counter narcotics, law enforcement, customs and movement of people. Discussions focused mostly on updates and fine-tuning of exist [...]
2010-01-03 13:14:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ELTN PREL EAID AF
10KABUL200EXBS ADVISOR DECEMBER 14, 2009 to January 13, 2010 MONTH
[...] (U) EXBS staff worked daily with a systems engineer to install a licensing system at the Afghan Ministry of Commerce and Industry in Kabul. The installation and configuration of this phase of the project will be completed by February 3, 2010. The Licensing Department will be linked with the A [...]
2010-01-20 05:40:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL KG AF
10KABUL201EXBS ADVISOR DECEMBER 14, 2009 to January 13, 2010 MONTH
[...] (U) EXBS staff worked daily with a systems engineer to install a licensing system at the Afghan Ministry of Commerce and Industry in Kabul. The installation and configuration of this phase of the project will be completed by February 3, 2010. The Licensing Department will be linked with the A [...]
2010-01-20 07:46:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL KG AF
10KABUL202SUB-NATIONAL GOVERNANCE AND NATIONAL POLITICS:
[...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Eikenberry and Jelani Popal, head of the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG),met with the integrated command element of Brigade Combat Team Task Force Mountain Warrior in Jalalabad on January 14 before lunch with Governor Gul Agha Sherzai and a walking [...]
2010-01-20 08:56:00Embassy KabulSECRETKDEM PGOV PREL AF
10KABUL208PAKTYA PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN: SMALL STEP FIGHTING
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Paktya Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) representatives participated in a December celebration of the International Days on the Elimination of Violence Against Women in Gardez, Paktya, a heavily Pushtun province. The event was attended by more than 60 women an [...]
2010-01-20 15:59:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM AF
10KABUL21PARLIAMENT REJECTS MOST OF KARZAI'S CABINET
[...] (S) Summary: On January 2, the Afghan Lower House (Wolesi Jirga) voted to accept seven of President Karzai's 24 Cabinet nominees and to reject 17 others. Two nominees were not voted on as their ministries are newly proposed by the President and not yet approved by Parliament. Karzai will lik [...]
2010-01-03 16:47:00Embassy KabulSECRETPGOV PREL KDEM AF
10KABUL211JANUARY 19 UNAMA MEETING: LONDON CONFERENCE,
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the UNAMA meeting on January 19 SRSG Eide led a discussion on the JCMB, the London Conference, and the Parliamentary elections. The British do not yet have a formal agenda or speakers list for the London Conference and will work to circulate a draft communiqu in advance of t [...]
2010-01-21 12:12:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PREL PGOV AF TU IR UK
10KABUL213 U.S. - ITALIAN COOPERATION IN AFGHANISTAN'S HERAT PROVINCE
[...] SUMMARY Italian Ambassador to Afghanistan Claudio Glaentzer told Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs (CDDEA) Ambassador Wayne January 19 that Italy was prepared to support funding of the 330 km "east-west" road, specifically the Chesti Sharif to Chagcharan portion. Gla [...]
2010-01-21 13:39:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON ECIN EMIN ETRD EAID IT AF
10KABUL214UN STAFFING SHORTAGES HINDER SUPPORT AS AFGHAN
[...] (C) Summary: At the onset of Afghanistan's 2010 parliamentary elections season, the UNDP election support program in Afghanistan is crippled by significant staffing shortages, including in key leadership positions. These shortages, coupled with UN headquarters' lengthy hiring process, has l [...]
2010-01-22 14:28:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL AF
10KABUL215UN STAFFING SHORTAGES HINDER SUPPORT AS AFGHAN
[...] (C) Summary: At the onset of Afghanistan's 2010 parliamentary elections season, the UNDP election support program in Afghanistan is crippled by significant staffing shortages, including in key leadership positions. These shortages, coupled with UN headquarters' lengthy hiring process, has l [...]
2010-01-22 14:37:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL AF
10KABUL216FEBRUARY 16 CIV-MIL ROC DRILL IN DOHA: PURPOSE AND
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 10. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In preparation for the February 16 CENTCOM/SRAP/ISAF/Embassy Rehearsal of Concept (ROC) civ-mil planning exercise in Doha, post has consulted extensively with ISAF over format, content, participation, and logistics. Post [...]
2010-01-22 18:26:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID ECON NATO AF
10KABUL217Hajigak Iron Mine Tender Likely to be Canceled
[...] (C) Summary: The World Bank's Mining Advisor Craig Andrews (strictly protect) reports Mining Minister Shahrani is planning to contact the short-listed bidders for the massive Hajigak iron ore mining project (ref A) to inform them not to send in bids due February 15. The Hajigak tender package [...]
2010-01-23 04:46:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALEMIN EINV ENRG PREL SENV AF
10KABUL219LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names of Afghan nationals. Post possesses no derogatory information on these individuals. Post requests Department's review of these candidates by February 3, 2010. 3. [...]
2010-01-23 11:54:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
10KABUL22AFGHANISTAN: "TEN MILLION DOLLARS A DAY" LEAVING
[...] (C) Summary: On December 26, the U.S. Treasury Attache and a representative of the Border Management Task Force participated in an impromptu meeting between Afghan Minister of Finance Zakhilwal and Central Bank Governor Fitrat. The Minister and Governor discussed Minister Zakhilwal,s recent p [...]
2010-01-04 05:20:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID PGOV PREL AF
10KABUL220LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names of Afghan nationals. Post possesses no derogatory information on these individuals. Post requests Department's review of these candidates by January 31, 2010. 3. [...]
2010-01-23 11:54:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
10KABUL221UNDERSTANDING THE AFGHAN SUPREME COURT
[...] Summary: The Afghan Supreme Court is the highest court in the land, but rarely functions as a constitutional interpreter and in fact such a role is challenged by some experts. It mainly serves as an appellate court which exercises the fact-finding jurisdiction of a primary court. President [...]
2010-01-23 17:39:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALKCOR KCRM KDEM KJUS PGOV
10KABUL222APPLICATION FOR OPIC FINANCE: SUMMIT ASSOCIATES AFGHANISTAN
[...] This message responds to reftel request for Embassy input on potential OPIC financing to Summit Associates Afghanistan, to support the expansion of its dairy operations with a 5000MT multi-purpose storage facility in Kabul and a 2000MT dry storage warehouse in Kunduz. Both units will store fin [...]
2010-01-24 03:42:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN AF
10KABUL228AFGHANISTAN: FY 2010 PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO GOVTS.
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since 2005, Afghanistan has made steady progress in fulfilling its commitment to fiscal transparency, reinforced by the passage of a Public Expenditure and Financial Management Law (PEFML - 2005),a Procurement Law (2005),the publication of a Medium-Term Fiscal Framework (MTFF [...]
2010-01-24 07:35:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN PREL PGOV AF
10KABUL229BORDER ACTIVITY UPDATE: CUSTOMS, BORDER STRUCTURES, AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Effective control of its borders is critical to Afghanistan's security and economic prosperity. The Embassy's Border Management Task Force (BMTF) plays a significant role in building Afghan capacity to manage its borders, creating institutions for coordinating border plans; harmo [...]
2010-01-24 09:24:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPBTS EAID ETRD PREL EFIN EAIR AF
10KABUL23MINISTER SPANTA OFFERS TO DISCUSS HUMAN
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-04 07:06:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KTIP KDEM AF
10KABUL231OPIC FINANCE APPLICATION: AFGHAN GROWTH FINANCE,
[...] This message responds to reftel request for Embassy input on potential OPIC financing to Afghan Growth Finance Company (AGF),a non-bank financial institution operating in Afghanistan. AGF is dedicated to providing debt financing to Afghan small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) with a focus [...]
2010-01-24 10:51:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN AF
10KABUL237KARZAI LINKS SECURITY TO AGRICULTURAL SUCCESS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 10 meeting, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Ambassador Eikenberry discussed U.S. and Afghan goals and objectives in the agricultural sector with President Karzai and Agriculture Minister Asif Rahimi. President Karzai called agriculture one of the top two de [...]
2010-01-25 05:17:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON EAID PREL PGOV AF
10KABUL24MINISTER SPANTA OFFERS TO DISCUSS HUMAN
[...] (C) On December 30, Charge d'Affaires Ricciardone briefed Foreign Minister Spanta on Frontline's upcoming program investigating "bacha bazi" in Afghanistan. Charge Ricciardone told FM Spanta that the program, which will air on January 19, would draw increased world attention and criticism to [...]
2010-01-04 09:34:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KTIP KDEM AF
10KABUL245IEC POSTPONES PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: The Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced on January 24 that the Parliamentary elections would be postponed until September 18 due to lack of funding, security, and logistic support. On January 23 the President held a meeting at the Palace with Ambassador Eikenberry and [...]
2010-01-25 14:45:00Embassy KabulSECRETPGOV PREL KDEM AF
10KABUL246THIRTEENTH MEETING OF THE AFGHAN JOINT COORDINATION AND
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB) is the central platform for strategic coordination, joint policy formulation, problem solving and mutual accountability between the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA) and the international community (IC). Th [...]
2010-01-25 15:37:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID PGOV AF
10KABUL25COMMERCE OFFICIAL ON CABINET DEAL-MAKING IN PARLIAMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a January 1 meeting, Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) Chief Negotiator (and former Commerce Deputy Minister) Adib Farhadi expressed serious concerns about the Afghan Ministerial confirmation process to Coordinating Director for Development and Economic A [...]
2010-01-04 11:54:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID PGOV PREL AF
10KABUL26AFGHAN HIGH OFFICE OF OVERSIGHT (HOO) SEEKS U.S. GUIDANCE
[...] (SBU) In his second week as the new Deputy Director General for Policy and Oversight for the HOO, Qaseem Ludin met with Ambassador Wayne, the USAID Rule of Law Advisor and the US Embassy Rule of Law Coordinator on January 3, 2010 to discuss the HOO's current anti-corruption activities. Ludin d [...]
2010-01-04 13:06:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR KJUS EAID AF
10KABUL323NEW GOVERNMENT POSITIONS FOR MOJADIDI SENIOR AND JUNIOR
[...] (C) Summary: On Friday, January 15, Ambassador Eikenberry met with Dr. Najibullah Mojadidi, the Special Advisor to the President of Afghanistan on Health and Education. Dr. Mojadidi said he would possibly be nominated to serve as Ambassador to the United States. He also suggested possibility o [...]
2010-01-26 08:01:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALESTH SOCI EAID AF
10KABUL328AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: In the Ambassador's meeting with new Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmay Rassoul on January 23, they concurred that the London Conference will serve as a symbol of a new start for Afghanistan and deliberated how to further emphasize reintegration and reconciliation. Rassoul confirm [...]
2010-01-26 11:05:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD AF EG AE XF
10KABUL332GIROA TO RELEASE 4 GTMO DETAINEES
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Afghan government officials told us January 19 they plan to release four Afghan detainees whom DoD had transferred from Guantanamo as soon as possible.,, GIRoA has been holding these detainees in the Afghan National Detention Facility (ANDF) since December 20, asking that t [...]
2010-01-26 14:19:00Embassy KabulSECRETPREL PGOV AF
10KABUL335Analysis of UNAMA's Proposed New Donor Coordination
[...] (U) Summary: In preparation for the London and Kabul Conferences, outgoing United Nations SRSG Kai Eide recently submitted a proposal to the Afghan Government (GIRoA) and international community partners to improve consultation and coordination of assistance in institution building and economic [...]
2010-01-26 16:27:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PGOV AF
10KABUL3362010 ELECTIONS: ESTABLISHING "CONDITIONALITY" FOR
[...] (C) Summary: The Independent Election Commission's (IEC) postponement of Afghanistan's 2010 Parliamentary elections until September 18 (Reftel) provides the GIRoA more time to implement electoral reforms. While all donors may not yet agree on which reforms to promote, or on how best to press [...]
2010-01-26 16:36:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV AF
10KABUL337REGIONAL COMMAND EAST: NANGARHAR PROVINCE TRIBAL
[...] (S/REL USA/NATO) On January 21 approximately 170 Shinwari tribal elders convened to endorse a robust anti-Taliban and anti-corruption collective defense agreement in Nangarhar Province, a key focus of the Regional Command-East (RC(E)). These tribal areas span critical terrain in southeastern [...]
2010-01-26 16:47:00Embassy KabulSECRETPGOV PREL MOPS PK AF
10KABUL339LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names of Afghan nationals. Post possesses no derogatory information on these individuals. Post requests Department's review of these candidates by February 8, 2010. 3. [...]
2010-01-27 09:26:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
10KABUL343Ambassador Meets Minister of Mines Shahrani
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Eikenberry, Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs Ambassador Wayne, and USAID Mission Director Frej met with recently-confirmed Minister of Mines Shahrani on January 24 to underscore Mission support for the Ministry and the Mining sector. Ministe [...]
2010-01-27 10:57:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALEMIN EINV ENRG PREL SENV AF
10KABUL348Afghanistan's Anti-Corruption Unit Obtains First Conviction
[...] (SBU) The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) of the Afghan Attorney General's Office on January 25 obtained its first conviction since its establishment in April 2009. This marks a milestone for a country internationally criticized for its lax attitude toward endemic corruption and inadequate efforts [...]
2010-01-27 16:29:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR KJUS AF
10KABUL352NEW MINISTER OF RURAL REHABILITATION AND DEVELOPMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a January 26 courtesy call on Jarullah Mansoori to congratulate him on his recent confirmation as MRRD Minister, Ambassador Eikenberry solicited Mansoori's initial views and plans for the ministry, provided a brief overview of the President's Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy and [...]
2010-01-28 07:07:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PGOV AF
10KABUL360ACTING COMMERCE MINISTER SURVEYS TRADE POLICY PRIORITIES
[...] (U) On January 26, USAID's Economic Growth Team and the Economic Counselor met with newly-designated Acting Minister of Commerce Ghulam Mohammed Aylaki to assess his support for trade liberalization and introduce the USG's new Trade and Accession Facilitation for Afghanistan (TAFA) project desi [...]
2010-01-28 15:43:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAID PGOV EINV EIND AF
10KABUL361AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON MINISTER OF HAJI AND
[...] (C) Summary: In the Ambassador's January 26 meeting with the new Afghan Minister of Haji and Islamic Affairs (MHIA),Dr. Mohammad Yousef Niazi, they discussed ways the Ministry could promote respect for fundamental human rights, peace, justice, and national unity through Afghanistan's netwo [...]
2010-01-30 12:09:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KIRF EAIR AP
10KABUL376 Embassy Kabul Clarifications to Sweden's Interim Reply on
[...] (SBU) This is an Action Request. Embassy Kabul recommends that Department instruct Embassy Stockholm to deliver the following points in response to Stockholm 796 and reftels: -- The U.S. Government is pleased that your Government welcomes the expansion of USG civilian presence in the Swedis [...]
2010-01-31 13:26:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS MARR PREL EAID AF SW
10KABUL3772010 ELECTIONS: IEC AND ISAF PRELIMINARY PLANS
[...] (S/REL) Summary: In recent conversations, Independent Election Commission (IEC) officials speculated that they were behind on 2010 election preparations and expressed doubt that the IEC could operate without international assistance. Meanwhile, ISAF contacts confirmed that ISAF is beginning p [...]
2010-01-31 16:34:00Embassy KabulSECRETKDEM PGOV PREL AF
10KABUL382NEW AFGHAN MINISTER OF LABOR CITES CHILD LABOR AS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 26, Ambassador Eikenberry and a team from the Embassy paid a courtesy call on the newly appointed Minister of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs, and the Disabled (MOLSA),Ms. Amena Afzali. Of the three female Cabinet members President Karzai put forward in the second r [...]
2010-02-01 07:26:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD PGOV PHUM USAID AF
10KABUL388Rail Projects Underway, But a Uniform Network Remains
[...] (U) Summary: While two rail construction projects in Afghanistan are underway and several more are under discussion, the dream of a nationwide rail network remains remote. Small-scale projects sponsored by neighboring countries require different rail gauges, matching those of the countries these pr [...]
2010-02-01 15:09:00Embassy KabulSECRETELTN EINV ECON PGOV AF IR
10KABUL407REGIONAL COMMAND EAST--BAMYAN AND BAGHLAN
[...] (SBU) Bamyan Provincial Governor Sarabi and Baghlan Provincial Governor Barakzai recently co-hosted a jirga of approximately 50 community leaders from the border region of their two provinces to resolve a range of issues contributing to increasing violence there. Community leaders on both sid [...]
2010-02-03 04:19:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL AF
10KABUL408SPIN BOLDAK POWERBROKER ENCOURAGES MODERNIZATION
[...] (C) Summary: Senior Civilian Representative (SCR) for the South Frank Ruggiero discussed border control and development issues on January 28 with Colonel Abdul Razzik, a controversial commander of the Afghan Border Police (ABP) and the de facto political and security chief of Spin Boldak. Ra [...]
2010-02-03 05:20:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KCRM PREL AF
10KABUL433AVIPA PLUS PROGRESS IN RC-SOUTH
[...] (SBU) Summary. The visibility of the USAID-funded Afghanistan Vouchers for Increased Production in Agriculture Plus (AVIPA Plus) program is growing in Regional Command-South (RC-South),and we are seeing progress in seven key districts in Helmand and Kandahar provinces. AVIPA Plus is a key s [...]
2010-02-03 09:46:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAGR PREL AF
10KABUL436AFGHANISTAN’S OUTLOOK ON IRAN: A KARZAI INSIDER’S
[...] (S) Summary: President Karzai's Chief of Staff and former Ambassador to Iran, Omar Daudzai, offered the Palace's outlook on Iran's role in Afghanistan. Daudzai suggested that Karzai could provide "an open door" for the United States to engage Iran, at such time as the U.S. may judge this useful. Da [...]
2010-02-03 13:58:00Embassy KabulSECRETPREL IR AF
10KABUL437 Engaging Allies to Conclude MOUs on Life Support
[...] (U) This is an action request - see paragraphs 5 and 6. Background: ----------- 2. (SBU) Embassy Kabul is in the process of significantly increasing the number of USG civilians at Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) and other field locations, particularly District Support Teams (DST [...]
2010-02-03 15:36:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS MARR PREL EAID PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
10KABUL439POLITICAL PARTY DEVELOPMENT IN AFGHANISTAN: KEY TO
[...] (U) Summary: Functioning political parties may be critical to Afghanistan's long-term democratic development and stability but they are generally unpopular and misunderstood, prompting most Afghan politicians to avoid affiliation. The USG provides some technical assistance to political parti [...]
2010-02-04 06:58:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM AF
10KABUL441REINTEGRATION AND RECONCILIATION - AFGHAN
[...] (S/REL UK) Summary: Now that President Karzai has launched his broad Peace and Integration policy themes, his government's next political task, even as it must devise a program to advance the policy, is to develop nation-wide acceptance of the policy. An inclusive and transparent approach co [...]
2010-02-04 10:25:00Embassy KabulSECRETPGOV PREL KDEM AF
10KABUL442Trans-boundary Water Issues: Slow but Sure Progress
[...] (C) Summary: Afghanistan's Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) in concert with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is leading an effort to address trans-boundary water rights. While Afghanistan remains reluctant to engage fully with its neighbors on this issue, USG-supported training is imp [...]
2010-02-04 12:34:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALENRG SENV EINV EAID PREL AF
10KABUL443Trans-boundary Water Issues: Slow but Sure Progress
[...] (C) Summary: Afghanistan's Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW) in concert with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is leading an effort to address trans-boundary water rights. While Afghanistan remains reluctant to engage fully with its neighbors on this issue, USG-supported training is imp [...]
2010-02-04 12:42:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALENRG SENV EINV EAID PREL AF
10KABUL454AFGHAN BORDER AND TRIBAL AFFAIRS: MINISTER IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Acting Minister for Border and Tribal Affairs, Arsala Jamal, says he is attempting to transform a demoralized and weak ministry into one that will play an important and creative role both in developing the poorer border regions and in encouraging reconciliation and reintegra [...]
2010-02-06 10:35:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PCON PBTS PGOV PINR PK AF
10KABUL455Afghan United Bank CEO Stresses his Humanitarian Activities
[...] (C) Summary: In a February 4 meeting, Haji Mohammed Jan, CEO of Afghan United Bank (AUB) and Naqebullah, Chairman of Afghan United Petroleum, discussed with Ambassador Wayne and Treasury Attache AUB's plans for expansion. Their primary interest, however, was to describe their support for devel [...]
2010-02-06 14:54:00Embassy KabulSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KTFN PTER KCOR AF
10KABUL459INDONESIAN AMBASSADOR ENVISIONS INCREASED ROLE IN
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesia can play a more significant role in Afghanistan, especially in negotiating with the Taliban, Indonesian Ambassador Erman Hidayat told Deputy Ambassador Ricciardone on January 28. Hidayat said he hoped that Indonesia's religious leaders could play a part in bringing Tali [...]
2010-02-07 03:12:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL AF IN
10KABUL46KEY AMBASSADORS IN KABUL DISCUSS REVIEW OF COMMAND
[...] (C/Rel US, ISAF, NATO) Begin Summary. In a New Year's Day briefing by Generals McChrystal and Rodriguez for the embassies most active in the South and Southwest of Afghanistan ) Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States ) the Generals outlined the co [...]
2010-01-05 12:56:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MOPS UK CAN IT NL AS AF
10KABUL463BEDLAM AND CORRUPTION PERMEATE CUSTOMS PROCESS AT
[...] (C) Summary. On January 28, the Senior Civilian Representative (SCR) for Regional Command ) South (RC-S) met with Deputy Customs Director Sardar Ashraf Weesa, the lead customs officer for Spin Boldak and brother of Kandahar Governor Weesa. Weesa candidly reported a sorry state of affairs and [...]
2010-02-07 06:04:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KCRM PREL AF
10KABUL465ACTING COMMERCE MINISTER ENDORSES PRIVATE SECTOR AND TRADE
[...] (U) Summary: In a January 31 meeting, newly-designated Acting Minister of Commerce and Industries (MoCI) Ghulam Mohammed Aylaqi told Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs Ambassador Wayne that the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) is his "highest priorit [...]
2010-02-07 11:32:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ETRD PGOV PBTS EINV EIND AF
10KABUL466NAD ALI/MARJAH OPERATION: STABILIZATION PLANNING
[...] (C) Summary: Planning for the stabilization effort that will follow upcoming military operations in Helmand's Nad Ali District is entering the final phase. The PRT is nearing completion of plans to expand the existing GIRoA footprint in Nad Ali North (U.K. area of operations) and in Nad Ali So [...]
2010-02-07 11:39:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MOPS UK AF
10KABUL467POWERBROKER AND GOVERNANCE ISSUES IN SPIN BOLDAK
[...] (SBU) Summary: Spin Boldak District in Kandahar Province and its major border crossing point to Pakistan at Weech-Chaman have become the focus of a number of high profile coalition efforts given the upcoming military operations in Regional Command-South (RC-S). Although there is a high potential [...]
2010-02-07 12:34:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KCOR KCRM PREL AF
10KABUL468The Places In Between: Afghanistan Dreams of an East-West
[...] (U) Summary: Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Works (MPW) recently presented donors a formal proposal for an east-west highway, one of the most ambitious and expensive infrastructure projects proposed in the post-Taliban era. The road would create a trade and development corridor stretching fr [...]
2010-02-07 12:55:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDELTN EMIN EAID EFIN PGOV PREL AF
10KABUL47ROUND TWO FOR CABINET SWEEPSTAKES UNDERWAY
[...] (C) Summary: After meeting with his cabinet, advisors and MPs on January 4, President Karzai issued a Presidential decree late in the day calling an extraordinary session of Parliament to finish the task of cabinet confirmation. Parliament Speaker Qanooni presided January 5 over a contentiou [...]
2010-01-05 14:47:00Embassy KabulSECRETPGOV PREL AF
10KABUL470US-JAPAN WORK TO ADVANCE COOPERATION IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Wayne, USAID Mission Director Frej, and Embassy representatives met with Japanese Ambassador Shigeyuki Hiroki and his team on February 4 to solicit views on how Japan plans to disburse $5 billion in assistance to Afghanistan over the next five years. Ambassador Wayne en [...]
2010-02-07 14:30:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV AF
10KABUL472Post London Conference Dinner with Dr. Ghani - Discussing
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Wayne hosted a dinner with Dr. Ashraf Ghani, who led GIRoA in drafting its final Anti-Corruption Concept Paper presented at the London Conference. The attendees discussed the way forward for Afghanistan following the London Conference. Dr. Ghani responded to specific [...]
2010-02-07 15:03:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCOR EAID AF
10KABUL475WHITHER BALKH PROVINCE GOVERNOR ATTA?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Balkh Governor Usted Mohammad Noor Atta told us that the decision as to whether he stays on as Governor of Balkh or moves on to some opposition role lies with him, as well as President Karzai. Atta named Junbesh Party Chairman Sayed Noorullah as his most likely replacement, shoul [...]
2010-02-08 04:51:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID AF
10KABUL476Energy Minister Provides Update on Electricity Sector
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne, Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs, met with Acting Minister of Energy and Water (MEW) Ismail Khan on February 6 to discuss cooperation in Afghanistan's energy sector and to strategize on a path forward that would improve elec [...]
2010-02-08 05:56:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ENRG EINV AF
10KABUL477 Agriculture: Preparing for military to civilian
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-08 06:09:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAGR AF
10KABUL478UN SRSG: ELECTIONS PREPARATIONS BEHIND
[...] (C) Summary: Recently returned from the London Conference, SRSG Eide led an upbeat meeting of ambassadors of major JCMBou arned, however, that both the UN and GIRoA were "much further along" at this stage in preparations in 2009 and that their relative progress this time is lagging significant [...]
2010-02-08 06:26:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALAF PREL UN
10KABUL479 Preparing U.S. Military Ag Programs for Civilian
[...] (U) Summary: At a CENTCOM-initiated and sponsored January 29-31 workshop, military and civilian representatives developed a plan for transitioning assistance from Agribusiness Development Teams (ADT)to civilian expertise over the next several years. Stakeholders from the Embassy, United State [...]
2010-02-08 13:32:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR PGOV AF
10KABUL482AFGHAN PUBLIC PROTECTION FORCE ENROLLS
[...] (C/REL) On 21 December the Afghan government placed a charismatic former mujahideen commander, Ghulam Mohammed Hotak, in charge of the Ministry of Interior,s Afghan Public Protection Program (AP3) in Wardak province, resulting in an influx of volunteers. 2. (C/REL) Ghulam Mohammed and hi [...]
2010-02-08 14:31:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MCAP AF
10KABUL488AFGHANISTAN REPORTS BETTER THAN EXPECTED ANNUAL REVENUES
[...] (U) On January 23, 2010, the Deputy Minister of Revenues and Customs, Mr. Gul Sabit, unofficially reported that annual revenues for Afghan fiscal year 2010 are likely to be in excess of the 54.5 billion Afghanis (USD 1.09 billion) target set by the IMF. Estimates from the Ministry of Finance pr [...]
2010-02-09 05:05:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EAID EFIN PGOV AF
10KABUL490CURRENT STATUS AND NEXT STEPS ON AGRICULTURE CREDIT
[...] (SBU) Members of the Embassy Interagency Agriculture Team met with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock (MAIL) on February 3 to discuss the current status and next steps on addressing the agriculture credit constraints facing the small commercial farmer. MAIL reiterated its [...]
2010-02-09 08:22:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EAGR ECON SNAR PGOV PINS AF
10KABUL494MINISTER OF EDUCATION COMMITS TO CONTINUING STRONG USG
[...] (U) Summary: During Ambassador Eikenberry's February 1 courtesy call on recently confirmed Minister of Education, Farooq Wardak, the Minister provided a detailed presentation on Afghanistan's education crisis. The presentation was filled with well-documented statistics on the lack of education [...]
2010-02-09 08:25:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYESTH SOCI AF
10KABUL500KARZAI DELIGHTED AT SAUDI ARABIA VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: President Karzai is "very happy" with his recent trip to Saudi Arabia, according to Karzai Chief of Staff Daudzai and reconciliation advisor Masoom Stanekazai, each of whom described the high-level attention Karzai received from Saudi leaders as a boost for Karzai and GIRoA's sta [...]
2010-02-09 09:49:00Embassy KabulSECRETPREL AF SA
10KABUL502IDLG DIRECTOR POPAL MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR: MOVING
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-09 10:48:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM AF
10KABUL503MULLAH ZAEEF: PEACE NOW A NECESSITY
[...] (S) Summary: Former Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef advocates peace as "the only option now" for Afghanistan. While encouraged by the latest attention to achieving peace in Afghanistan, he believes action and sincerity, not talk and good intentions, are required to make progress. H [...]
2010-02-09 10:54:00Embassy KabulSECRETPGOV PREL AF
10KABUL504KARZAI COS: NO NATIONALIZATION OF ELECTIONS,
[...] (C) Summary: President Karzai's Chief of Staff Daudzai claimed there is no presidential decree in the works to nationalize the Electoral Complaints Committee (ECC) and that the law remains as it stands to allow for international observers to remain on the ECC. However, we have learned that nat [...]
2010-02-09 10:57:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV AF PREL
10KABUL509DEPARTING WOMEN'S AFFAIRS MINISTER GHAZANFAR SUGGESTS
[...] SUMMARY: Departing Women's Affairs Minister Hussan Ban Ghazanfar told Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne on January 5 that her successor's priorities as Minister should include: building inter-ministerial coordination on women's issues (inc [...]
2010-02-10 06:25:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KJUS KWMN AF
10KABUL512NATIONAL ECONOMIC ADVISOR AHADI OUTLINES HIS PLANS AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Karzai's newly named National Economic Advisor (NEA),Dr. Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi, discussed his new role with Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs Ambassador Tony Wayne and Treasury Attache on February 7 and requested Embassy and other donor assistance [...]
2010-02-10 12:26:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV AF
10KABUL537 KEEPING OUR PEOPLE SAFE: INSTITUTING PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT
[...] Service in Afghanistan is both physically and mentally challenging. This is particularly true of service in the field - at Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs),District Support Teams (DSTs) and at the numerous entities throughout Afghanistan where civilian personnel are co-located with mili [...]
2010-02-11 12:17:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER AMGT AMED AFSI AF
10KABUL538Afghan Government Requests Intervention in Contract Dispute
[...] (SBU) This is an action request for U.S. Mission to ICAO, U.S. Mission to NATO and FAA. See paragraph 8. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Transportation and Civil Aviation (MOTCA) is increasingly agitated by the performance of contractors working for the International Civil Aviation Organi [...]
2010-02-11 12:48:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR EAID PGOV PREL AF
10KABUL539GUESS WHO'S NOT COMING TO DINNER?
[...] (C) Summary: We have learned that President Karzai has decided to leave unfilled the Upper House's 34 seats allocated to District Council members in the next legislative session, which will convene on 20 February. Because District Council elections have never been held, the 34 MPs reserved [...]
2010-02-11 13:34:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AF
10KABUL5402009 AFGHAN PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW
[...] (C) Summary: Parliament struggled to find relevance in 2009 to both serve as a springboard for legislative activity and as a counterweight to the Palace. Chronic absenteeism among Lower House MPs during the latter half of the year further limited Parliament's legislative effectiveness. Sim [...]
2010-02-11 14:05:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AF
10KABUL5412007 AMNESTY BILL EXITS THE TWILIGHT ZONE, DRAWS
[...] (C) Summary: The controversial Amnesty Law, passed by Afghan Parliament in early 2007, resurfaced in late January after three years of uncertain legal status. The law grants "general amnesty" to anyone involved in hostile conflict before the interim administration and to current armed oppon [...]
2010-02-11 14:23:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AF
10KABUL542REGIONAL COMMAND EAST -- TALIBAN REINTEGRATION IN
[...] (C/REL NATO) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: With the express purpose of establishing acceptable dispute mechanisms and connecting the Seyadabad District government to the people of the extremely volatile Tangi Valley in Wardak Province, acting District Sub-Governor (DSG) Hajji Niematullah convened a s [...]
2010-02-13 07:28:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS UK AF
10KABUL543FULL SUPPORT BY LOCAL SHURA FOR OPERATION MOSHTARAK
[...] (C) Summary. On February 11, Helmand Governor Mangal and Minister of Interior Atmar hosted a well-attended shura, consisting of tribal elders from Nad Ali district and neighboring villages, to discuss the upcoming military operations in Marjah (Operation Moshtarak). The elders showed strong [...]
2010-02-13 09:15:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MOPS UK AF
10KABUL544LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names of Afghan nationals. Post possesses no derogatory information on these individuals. Post requests Department's review of these candidates by February 24, 2010. 3 [...]
2010-02-13 11:47:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
10KABUL545LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names of Afghan nationals. Post possesses no derogatory information on these individuals. Post requests Department's review of these candidates by February 18, 2010. 3 [...]
2010-02-13 11:48:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
10KABUL546LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names of Afghan nationals. Post possesses no derogatory information on these individuals. Post requests Department's review of these candidates by February 18, 2010. 3 [...]
2010-02-13 11:48:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
10KABUL547LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names of Afghan nationals. Post possesses no derogatory information on these individuals. Post requests Department's review of these candidates by February 27, 2010. 3 [...]
2010-02-13 11:49:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
10KABUL548LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names of Afghan nationals. Post possesses no derogatory information on these individuals. Post requests Department's review of these candidates by February 28, 2010. 3 [...]
2010-02-13 12:12:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
10KABUL549LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names of Afghan nationals. Post possesses no derogatory information on these individuals. Post requests Department's review of these candidates by February 24, 2010. 3 [...]
2010-02-13 12:43:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
10KABUL550LEAHY VETTING REQUEST
[...] This is an action request - see paragraph 2. 2. In order to comply with vetting requirements, this cable forwards the names of Afghan nationals. Post possesses no derogatory information on these individuals. Post requests Department's review of these candidates by March 1, 2010. 3. F [...]
2010-02-13 12:54:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF
10KABUL551AFGHANISTAN BANKING SECTOR VULNERABILITIES: EXPOSURE TO
[...] (C) Summary. The Treasury Attache Office in Afghanistan has met with multiple bank officials, financial sector experts, and a Washington Post reporter in recent weeks to discuss growing rumors that Kabul Bank and Azizi Bank are highly exposed to the Dubai property market. Together, Kabul Bank a [...]
2010-02-13 13:49:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EINV AF
10KABUL554OPERATION MOSHTARAK - SITUATIONAL UPDATE FOR FEBRUARY 13,
[...] (SBU) Summary. Following the blessing by President Karzai on the evening of 12 February, the operations in Nad Ali (Operation Moshtarak) started at 0200 on the morning of 13 February. Most of the day's activity took place in the northern half of the district, and although not yet secure, Marja [...]
2010-02-14 08:52:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KDEM MOPS PGOV EAID AF
10KABUL561 LAUNCHING QUICK RESPONSE FUNDS FOR FIELD OFFICERS
[...] This is an action request. See paragraphs 2, 9 and 10. 2. Summary and Action Request: Embassy Kabul Interagency Provincial Affairs (IPA) and the Financial Management Office (FMO) have been working to design a mechanism to disburse USD30 million in 2009 Supplemental Economic Support Funds (E [...]
2010-02-15 05:49:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN EAID AF
10KABUL564Afghan Banking Sector Booms but Concerns Remain about
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Treasury Attache Office met with officials from six of the seventeen banks operating in Afghanistan in January to gather views on the health of the sector. These meetings were held with a broad range of formal financial institutions, including large (Kabul Bank, Azizi Bank, [...]
2010-02-15 05:52:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON AF
10KABUL566EFFECT OF SIV PROGRAM ON LES STAFFING IN MISSION
[...] Summary: The Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009 allotted 1500 Special Immigrant Visas per annum for Afghan nationals under threat who have worked for the US government for at least one year. In addition to more general immigrant eligibility requirements, applicants must present a letter from [...]
2010-02-15 06:58:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT PGOV AF
10KABUL567OPERATION MOSHTARAK - SITUATIONAL UPDATE FOR FEBRUARY 14,
[...] (SBU) Summary. Operations continued on February 14, with the heaviest activity taking place in northern Marjah, but media reports have remained extremely positive about the current status of Operation Moshtarak. Governor Mangal convened a budget conference in Lashkar Gah to develop line-item o [...]
2010-02-15 09:36:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS PGOV EAID AF
10KABUL570CORRECTED COPY: IDLG DIRECTOR POPAL MEETS WITH
[...] (C) Summary: In the course of a February 6 meeting with the Ambassador, Independent Director of Local Governance (IDLG) Jelani Popal previewed his upcoming visit to Helmand to help finalize preparations for the rollout there of the District Delivery Program (DDP). He indicated he can work [...]
2010-02-15 10:03:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM AF
10KABUL571NEW CIV-MIL EFFORT TO INFLUENCE BEHAVIOR OF CRIMINAL AND
[...] (C//REL ISAF) Summary: The first Nexus-Corruption Leadership Board, co-chaired by Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs, Ambassador Wayne, and ISAF J2 (Intel),Major General Flynn, met on February 4 to consider possible courses of action ("COAs") that U.S. military and Embassy [...]
2010-02-15 10:50:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR PREL EAID AF
10KABUL572INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ALARMED DISCUSSES
[...] (C) Summary: Convening a meeting of key ambassadors on February 11, UN SRSG Kai Eide sought counsel on how to avoid a potential stand-off with President Karzai on the issue of appointing international observers to the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC),in light of rumors that Karzai int [...]
2010-02-15 10:50:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL AF
10KABUL575ATMAR UNDER PRESSURE FOR NEW ANSARI HAWALA CASE
[...] (C) In a February 2 courtesy call on Interior Minister Hanif Atmar by visiting Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Gil Kerlikowske, Ambassador Wayne thanked Atmar for his firmness on recent money laundering cases (Ref B). Atmar responded that the January 14 search of [...]
2010-02-15 12:28:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN KTFN KCOR KCRM SNAR AF
10KABUL576INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HOPEFUL FOR SOLUTION TO
[...] (C) Summary: After his cabinet approved on a decree that would strip the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) of all foreign observers, President Karzai is considering UN SRSG's request to allow for two international observers (septel) to be appointed to the ECC, UN SRSG reported to a gatherin [...]
2010-02-15 16:13:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALAF PREL
10KABUL577GIROA APPEARS TO RETREAT ON ELECTORAL REFORM
[...] (C) Summary: President Karzai's Cabinet of Ministers has voted to approve an electoral decree that would "nationalize" the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) by removing the ECC's three international commissioners. If Karzai signs the decree, it will almost certainly hinder fraud preven [...]
2010-02-15 16:47:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM AF
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