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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC [+] MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAID RAS RATIFICATION RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG [+] SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR [+] SNUC SO SOC SOCI [+] SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STET STP STR SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO [+] TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG WHA WHITMER WHO WHTI WI WILCOX WIPO WIR WJRO WM WMD WMDT WMN WMO WOMEN WPO WRTO WS WSIS WTO WTRD WTRO WTRQ WW WWARD WWBG WWT WZ XA XAAF XB XC XD XE XF XFNEA XG XH XI XJ XK XL XLUM XM XO XP XQ XR XS XT XTAG XU XV XW XX XXX XY XZ YE YEH YI YL YM YMCS YS YU YURIY ZA ZANU ZB ZC ZCTU ZEALAND ZF ZFR ZH ZI ZIM ZJ ZK ZKGM ZL ZM ZN ZO ZP ZR ZS ZT ZU ZW ZXA
AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL AL-1 ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANET ANTITERRORISM AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD ENGRG ENGY ENIV ENLT ENNP ENR ENRC ENRG [+] ENRL ENTG ENV ENVI ENVIRONMENT ENVR ENVT EON EOXC EP EPA EPAT EPCS EPE EPEC EPECO EPET [+] EPIN EPIT EPPD EPRT EPSC EPTE EPTED EPWR EQ EQRD ER ERA ERD EREL ERGR ERICKSON ERIN ERTD ES ESA ESCAP ESCI ESDP ESENV ESF ESLCO ESOC ESOCI ESPS ESS ESSO ESTH ESTN ESTRADA ET ETA ETAD ETC ETCC ETD ETDR ETEL ETER ETEX ETFN ETIC ETIO ETLN ETMIN ETR ETRA ETRAD ETRB ETRC ETRD [+] ETRDECD ETRG ETRK ETRN ETRO ETRP ETT ETTC [+] ETTD ETTF ETTN ETTR ETTRD ETTW ETZ EU EUC EUCOM EUE EUEAID EUFOR EUM EUMEM EUN EUR EUREM EURM EURN EV EVENTS EVN EWRG EWT EWTR EWWT [+] EX EXBS EXEC EXIM EXO EXPORT EXTERNAL EZ FA FAA FAC FAGR FAO FARC FARM FAS FATAH FBI FCC FCS FCSC FCSCEG FCUL FDA FDIC FEDULOV FEMA FERNANDO FGM FI FIN FINANCE FINE FINR FINREF FINV FIR FISO FJ FK FKFLO FKLU FLU FM FMC FMGT FMLN FMS FO FOI FOOKS FOR FORCE FORCES FOREIGN FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE 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10KABUL582 | OPERATION MOSHTARAK - SITUATIONAL REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 15, [...] (SBU) Summary. Operation Moshtarak continued on February 15 in Nad Ali district; however, reports throughout the operational area indicate that the situation was relatively quiet. ISAF Commander, along with Ministers of Defense and Interior, visited the northern Nad Ali area of Showal where t [...] | 2010-02-16 09:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PGOV EAID AF |
10KABUL584 | ABDULLAH REFLECTS ON HIS COALITION, NATIONAL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: Former presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah recently shared with the Ambassador his perspectives on the need for independent electoral bodies, the security situation, and the mixed messages the Afghan people are receiving on reconciliation and reintegration. While Abdu [...] | 2010-02-16 10:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF |
10KABUL589 | KANDAHAR: CORRUPTION REFORMS BY THE MASTER OF SPIN? [...] (S) Summary: On February 9, Senior Civilian Representative (SCR) Frank Ruggiero and Regional Command-South (RC-S) Commander Major General Nick Carter (UK) met with Colonel Abdul Razziq, 4th Afghan Border Police (ABP) Director and a well-known powerbroker based in the border town of Spin Bolda [...] | 2010-02-17 05:16:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV KDEM KCOR KCRM PREL AF |
10KABUL590 | OPERATION MOSHTARAK - SITUATIONAL REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 16, [...] (SBU) Summary. Operations in Nad Ali District continued on February 16, as ISAF continued to find high numbers of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the operational area. Governor Mangal attended a security shura today to look at Nad Ali security, and he traveled to Camp Bastion to visit [...] | 2010-02-17 06:52:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PGOV EAID AF |
10KABUL593 | AN UNDEFINED MISSION AT THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary: In a January 24 meeting, newly-appointed Minister of Economy Abdul Hadi Arghandewal discussed his plans for the Ministry with Ambassador Eikenberry and Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs Ambassador Wayne. Minister Arghandewal indicated that he would deve [...] | 2010-02-17 09:03:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD PGOV EINV EIND AF |
10KABUL594 | LEAHY 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 [...] | 2010-02-17 11:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
10KABUL595 | LEAHY 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 [...] | 2010-02-17 11:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
10KABUL596 | REFORMING USG TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE OFFICE OF THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Mission is developing a new, coordinated approach for providing salary support and technical assistance to key Ministries and offices of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA). We are designing programs to reduce ministerial stove-piping and enhance th [...] | 2010-02-17 12:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ECON PREL AF |
10KABUL601 | OPERATION MOSHTARAK - SITUATIONAL REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 17, [...] (SBU) Summary. Operations in Nad Ali District continued on February 17 and Governor Mangal paid his first visit to Marjah with ISAF military leadership. High numbers of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) challenge progress in the operational area but the District Stabilization Team (DST) hop [...] | 2010-02-18 09:09:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PGOV EAID AF |
10KABUL606 | KARZAI AMENABLE TO ECC CHANGE, FOCUSED ON CAPACITY [...] (C) Summary: President Karzai expressed confidence in the ongoing Marja operation in a meeting with General McChrystal and me on February 16. Speaking privately with me afterward, Karzai was receptive to the suggestion that the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) include two international m [...] | 2010-02-18 10:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV AF PREL |
10KABUL619 | SENIOR ECONOMIC ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT KARZAI SHARES VISION [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Economic Advisor to President Karzai Dr. Anwarul Haq Ahadi told USAID Mission Director Bill Frej on February 11 that he planned to set up a functioning structure to advise President Karzai on economic affairs and to carry out inter-ministerial coordination on economic iss [...] | 2010-02-18 12:46:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ETRD PGOV PBTS EINV EIND AF |
10KABUL62 | A TALE OF TWO KABUL MAYORS [...] Summary: (C) President Karzai has appointed a new mayor of Kabul, Engineer Mohammad Yunos Novandish. This follows the December 7, 2009 'mismanagement of authority' conviction and the December 8, 2009 release pending appeal of former Kabul Mayor Abdul Ahad Sahebi (Reftel.) The Novandish appointme [...] | 2010-01-07 13:20:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET//NOFORN | FBI JUS PGOV PINR PREL |
10KABUL621 | KARZAI AMENABLE TO ECC CHANGE, FOCUSED ON CAPACITY [...] (C) Summary: President Karzai expressed confidence in the ongoing Marja operation in a meeting with General McChrystal and me on February 16. Speaking privately with me afterward, Karzai was receptive to the suggestion that the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) include two international m [...] | 2010-02-18 13:26:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV AF PREL |
10KABUL628 | MINISTER OF INTERIOR REVIEWS POLICE TRAINING, CN POLICING [...] (C) Summary: In a February 2 meeting, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) R. Gil Kerlikowske joined by Ambassador Wayne, discussed a range of current issues with Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar. Atmar expressed satisfaction with the steady developm [...] | 2010-02-18 16:57:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV PREL PINS PK RU AF |
10KABUL631 | LAGHMAN GOVERNOR REFLECTS ON TENURE, PROGRESS [...] (C) Summary. Looking back at his 22-month term as Laghman governor, Lutfullah Mashal claimed slow but obvious progress in the province, including more children in schools and a bustling economy in Mehtarlam. He expressed concern about renewal of violent factional conflict if a new governor wa [...] | 2010-02-20 06:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON MOPS AF PK |
10KABUL633 | DONORS SHOW SUPPORT FOR THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION'S [...] (U) Summary: On February 7, 2010, the USAID Mission Director along with the USG Education Team attended a donor conference in support of the Ministry of Higher Education's (MoHE) new National Higher Education Strategic Plan (NHESP). Five years in the making, involving close collaboration betwe [...] | 2010-02-20 10:19:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ESTH SOCI EAID AF |
10KABUL635 | ASSISTING AFGHANS WITH CULTURAL RESTORATION AND REVIVING [...] Summary: Embassy met a key benchmark in support for Turquoise Mountain Trust (TMT) with the February 16 graduation of 30 students from a three-year program sponsored by the Turquoise Mountain Institute for Afghan Arts and Architecture, the premier institution of its kind in the country. The e [...] | 2010-02-21 06:03:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL SCUL ECON AF |
10KABUL636 | INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR AFGHANISTAN'S MATURING [...] (SBU) Afghanistan's long-moribund Office of the National Security Council (ONSC) has shown new vitality over the last three months by first reorganizing itself, and then by choreographing GIRoA's interagency response to the threat posed by Ammonium Nitrate-based explosives (reftel A). Under [...] | 2010-02-21 06:59:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MASS AF |
10KABUL637 | CHILD SOLDIERS PREVENTION ACT DEMARCHE POINTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Following the request (Ref B) to inform our host government of the provisions of the Child Soldier Prevention Act (CSPA) and its impending implementation, Embassy Kabul delivered demarche points to the Ministry of Interior (MOI) and the Ministry of Defense (MOD) to review the prog [...] | 2010-02-21 07:37:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG SOCI KTIP |
10KABUL639 | LEAHY 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 [...] | 2010-02-21 12:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
10KABUL645 | "EMERGENCY" PRESIDENTIAL DECREE AMENDS ELECTORAL [...] (C) On February 17 President Karzai signed a Presidential decree enacting sweeping reforms to the 2005 electoral law. It was sent to the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) on February 18 for review and gazetting. The exact text of the reforms was only available to Karzai's Cabinet and members of Parlia [...] | 2010-02-21 15:08:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV AF |
10KABUL648 | AFGHAN OFFICIAL REPORTS PAKISTAN SEEKS TO LIMIT GOODS [...] (SBU) Afghan Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) Director of International Trade told us February 20 that the Government of Pakistan's Revenue Division has invoked a clause of its 1969 Customs Act which allows it to restrict the transit of 22 categories of goods destined to Afghanistan thr [...] | 2010-02-22 09:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL AF PK |
10KABUL656 | SEEKING PROGRESS IN U.S.-TURKISH COOPERATION IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish Ambassador to Kabul Basat Ozturk told Ambassador February 6 that Turkey wants closer cooperation with the U.S. in development projects, including what it hopes will be a marquee project to refurbish Kabul's largest public hospital. Ambassador Eikenberry agreed that we sh [...] | 2010-02-22 13:54:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PRE EAI TU AF |
10KABUL657 | FARYAB: A VIEW FROM MAIMANA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Governor Shafaq, local Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) leaders, PRT Maimana military and civilian representatives all regard insurgency as the principal challenge facing Faryab province. They express their strongest concerns about Ghormach district, but see the entire "Pa [...] | 2010-02-22 14:04:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV TU AF |
10KABUL664 | Energy Minister Khan Undermines Utility Progress [...] (SBU) Summary: Dr. Jalil Shams, CEO of the Afghan national utility DABS, has called for President Karzai's help in maintaining the utility's independence in the face of increasing interference from Acting Minister of Energy and Water Ismail Khan. Dr. Shams tells us that President Karzai was r [...] | 2010-02-23 07:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENRG SENV AF |
10KABUL665 | LEAHY 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 [...] | 2010-02-23 10:43:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
10KABUL666 | LEAHY 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 15, 2010. 3. [...] | 2010-02-23 10:44:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
10KABUL668 | Treasury 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 11:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON SNAR KTFN KCOR KCRM PGOV PINS AF |
10KABUL67 | MP'S BELIEVE CABINET LIST MAY BE DELAYED, SOME [...] (C) As of January 8 MPs considered it an open question as to whether Karzai will present a complete list of cabinet choices to the National Assembly (NA) on the agreed-upon January 9 date, despite Karzai's call for an extraordinary NA session (reftel). Pro-Karzai MP Khalid Pashtun (Pashtun, [...] | 2010-01-08 08:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF |
10KABUL672 | ELECTIONS, KANDAHAR AND KARZAI [...] (C) Begin Summary. In a frank discussion, Canadian Ambassador Crosbie explained to Ambassador Eikenberry that getting the electoral process right is a bottom-line position for Canada, and said we must be prepared for confrontation with Karzai on this issue, or risk losing credibility among our [...] | 2010-02-23 13:05:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KCOR PREL MOPS CAN AF PK |
10KABUL673 | KANDAHAR'S POWERBROKER: GUL AGHA SHIRZAI: TEEING [...] (S) Summary. Kandahar uber-powerbrokers Gul Agha Shirzai and Ahmed Wali Karzai (AWK) teamed up February 16-17 for an unprecedented show of political togetherness in Kandahar City (KC) to showcase plans for a southern Afghanistan regional peace and reconciliation jirga. Shirzai told the Kandaha [...] | 2010-02-23 13:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM MOPS CAN AF PK |
10KABUL674 | KARZAI ADDRESSES PARLIAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Karzai addressed a joint session of Parliament on February 20, on the occasion of the opening of the final session of Parliament. Karzai spoke for 40 minutes to a poorly-attended, subdued joint session of Parliament that also included members of the Supreme Court and [...] | 2010-02-23 14:31:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF |
10KABUL675 | NEW AFGHAN COUNTERNARCOTICS MINISTER ZARAR OUTLINES HIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 1, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) R. Gil Kerlikowske, joined by Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs (CDDEA) Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne, met with Afghanistan's new Minister of Counternarcotics, Zarar Ahmad Moqbel. [...] | 2010-02-24 03:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV PREL AF |
10KABUL677 | NANGARHAR RULE OF LAW CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) A two-day provincial justice conference in Nangarhar February 1-2 brought national justice representatives together with their Nangarhari counterparts to discuss systemic justice challenges in the province. A small-group format resulted in frank discussions of provincial government corrupt [...] | 2010-02-24 06:12:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM AF PK |
10KABUL681 | AFGHANISTAN: SENIOR CIVILIAN REPRESENTATIVE POSITIONS [...] This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. The U.S. Mission in Afghanistan is looking for the Department's best Senior Officers to serve as Senior Civilian Representatives (SCR). SCRs serve as the U.S. Ambassador's direct representative to a specific region of Afghanistan (South, So [...] | 2010-02-24 09:54:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | APER AMGT AFSI AF |
10KABUL684 | TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY WOLIN EMPHASIZES IMPORTANCE OF [...] (SBU) During a February 10-11 visit to Kabul, Treasury Deputy Secretary Wolin promoted sound public financial management and governance in meetings with senior Afghan officials, including Central Bank Governor Fitrat and Finance Minister Zakhilwal and in a speech at the American University of A [...] | 2010-02-24 10:20:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECON PGOV KCRP AF |
10KABUL688 | PROPOSED AFGHANISTAN DETAINEE MONITORING STRATEGY [...] (U) This cable includes an action request; please see paragraph 10. 2. (S/REL ISAF) SUMMARY: In response to the President's executive order banning torture, the Washington interagency Task Force on Interrogation and Transfer Policies recommended that Embassy Kabul develop a plan to [...] | 2010-02-24 12:33:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS AF |
10KABUL692 | NEW AFGHAN ELECTION LAW DECREE: AREAS OF CONCERN [...] (C) Summary: President Karzai signed a legislative decree on February 17 with sweeping amendments to the 2005 Electoral Law, using his authority under Article 79 of the Constitution to issue legislative decrees during Parliamentary recess "in case of an immediate need." While some of the decre [...] | 2010-02-24 18:32:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM AF |
10KABUL693 | AHMED WALI KARZAI: SEEKING TO DEFINE HIMSLEF AS U.S. PARTNER? [...] (S//Rel NATO, ISAF) Begin Summary. Senior Civilian Representative (SCR) Frank Ruggiero met one-on-one with Ahmed Wali Karzai (AWK) on February 23. SCR informed AWK that coalition attention will turn to Kandahar in the next phase of Operation Moshtarak (Together) and the United States will play a fa [...] | 2010-02-25 04:05:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV KCOR KCRM PREL AF |
10KABUL694 | INTERIOR MINISTER ATMAR DISCUSSES POLICE TRAINING; [...] (C/NF) In a February 17 meeting, Interior Minister Mohammed Hanif Atmar told Ambassador Holbrooke, Ambassador Eikenberry, and General Caldwell that: -- he wants to train 2,000-3,000 police officer candidates outside of Afghanistan, each year for the next five years. Atmar is looking at Jordan [...] | 2010-02-25 05:58:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MARR MASS AF |
10KABUL695 | OPERATION MOSHTARAK MOVING TO GOVERNANCE PHASE [...] (C//Rel NATO, ISAF) Summary: Afghan and Coalition Forces carrying out Operation Moshtarak ("Together" in Dari) in Helmand Province are facing stiff challenges, but are on track to bring the "clearance" phase to closure. The Operation's success, however, will be measured in the coming "hold" [...] | 2010-02-25 07:05:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV KDEM KCOR KCRM MOPS PREL PINS UK CAN AF |
10KABUL696 | AMBASSADORS CONCEDE ELECTORAL CHANGES, UN PUSHING [...] 1. (C) Summary: While the decree recently signed by President Karzai to amend the electoral law (ref. A) was roundly decried by ambassadors at the weekly UNAMA meeting in Kabul on February 22, they concurred that the international community would not at this point make public statements con [...] | 2010-02-25 07:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AF PREL |
10KABUL698 | WOMEN ACTIVISTS PUSH FOR INCLUSION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives from the Afghan Women's Network met February 23 with Masoom Stanekzai, the Afghan government's current lead on reintegration efforts, at his invitation, to voice their concerns over GIRoA's reintegration and reconciliation plans. Stanekzai opened the meeting by [...] | 2010-02-26 10:53:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AF |
10KABUL699 | PRESSING KARZAI FOR ELECTORAL REFORM [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Eikenberry and Deputy Ambassador Ricciardone demarched President Karzai and his inner circle on the problems of the final version of the electoral decree February 24-25, stressing the need for an independent Electoral Complaints Commission with international commissioners, p [...] | 2010-02-26 11:38:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PREL AF |
10KABUL700 | GIROA STRONGLY CONDEMNS TERRORIST ATTACK ON KABUL [...] The Afghan government swung into action to publicly and strongly condemn Taliban suicide and car bomb attacks in central Kabul the morning of February 26 that killed at least 13 people and wounded approximately thirty-two. Demonstrating an unprecedented degree of intergovernmental cooperation [...] | 2010-02-26 14:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | FBI PREL PTER AF |
10KABUL701 | ELECTORAL REFORM: DON'T COUNT ON QANOONI [...] (C) Summary: I met with Lower House Speaker Qanooni to learn what Parliament's legislative priorities will be in the next session, to understand Speaker Qanooni's views on President Karzai's Presidential Decree on the Electoral Law, and to ask what his views were on how we could jointly str [...] | 2010-02-26 18:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM AF |
10KABUL702 | GHANI SAYS STABILITY OBTAINED WITH BALLOTS, NOT BOMBS [...] Summary: Ambassador Eikenberry met with former Finance Minister and presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani on February 23, 2010 to discuss his views on the military operation in Marjah, the plans for the Peace Jirga and the Kabul Conference, and other issues. Ghani expressed skepticism that the c [...] | 2010-02-27 14:05:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCOR PREL EAID AF |
10KABUL703 | LEAHY 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 13, 2010. 3 [...] | 2010-02-28 06:29:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
10KABUL704 | LEAHY 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 15, 2010. 3. [...] | 2010-02-28 06:29:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
10KABUL705 | Assistance for Afghanistan's Provincial Airports [...] (U) Summary: Antiquated and overcrowded, Afghanistan's provincial airports are struggling to handle existing passenger traffic and unable to handle increasing demand for international and domestic flights. Embassy Kabul is upgrading three provincial runways in cooperation with the Asian Develo [...] | 2010-02-28 06:30:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EAID PGOV PREL AF |
10KABUL706 | LEAHY 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 17, 2010. 3 [...] | 2010-02-28 06:33:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
10KABUL707 | LEAHY 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 15, 2010. 3 [...] | 2010-02-28 06:33:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF |
10KABUL711 | CORRECTED COPY: Treasury A/S Cohen Urges Major Afghan Banks [...] (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 strongly encouraged the Afghan banking sector to implement stronger controls against money laundering and terrorist f [...] | 2010-02-28 06:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON SNAR KTFN KCOR KCRM PGOV PINS AF |
10KABUL725 | Afghanistan: Telecommunications Policy Officer [...] (U) Per reftel request, Embassy Kabul's Telecommunications Policy Officer is Anne Benjaminson (+93-700-10-8367; BenjaminsonAW@state.gov) until her departure in August 2010. The TPO from 2010 - 2011 will be Carter Wilbur (same phone number; WilburCW@state.gov). EIKENBERRY [...] | 2010-02-28 13:06:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS AF |
10KABUL726 | CRIMINAL ALLEGATIONS SURROUNDING MARJAH [...] (S/REL ISAF, NATO) Summary. As Operation Moshtarak within Nad Ali district began in mid-February, rumors of criminal allegations surrounding the Marjah Sub-District Governor Haji Zahir and his time in Germany began to surface. Upon hearing these allegations, Regional Platform)South (RP-S) and [...] | 2010-02-28 15:04:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV KDEM KCRM MOPS PREL AF |
10KABUL85 | KARZAI AND CODEL MCCAIN ON PROGRESS, ELECTIONS, [...] (S) Summary: In a positive and free-ranging discussion, President Karzai and visiting CODEL McCain agreed that more should be done to tell Afghans and Americans about the progress in Afghanistan since 2002 and the positive role of the international community. On the timing of parliamentary election [...] | 2010-01-10 09:12:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PGOV PREL AF |
10KABUL96 | NEW AFGHAN CABINET NOMINEES [...] (C) Summary: The Afghan Lower House (Wolesi Jirga, WJ) received President Karzai's list of 16 cabinet nominations on January 9; there were no repeated names from the last list with a slate primarily comprised of political unknowns. This new list appears to be Karzai's attempt to balance prag [...] | 2010-01-11 13:25:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF |
10KABUL97 | COORDINATING UN AND UK VIEWS ON AFGHAN ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Embassy has begun discussions with the GIRoA and coordination with UN and UK on policies regarding the 2010 Parliamentary elections. The UN and UK are essentially in line with U.S. views, and the UN plans to lead the dialogue with the GIRoA on a reform agenda. Some differen [...] | 2010-01-12 04:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UNSC AF |
10KAMPALA1 | UGANDA: THE LIMITS OF UGANDA'S AMISOM COMMITMENT [...] (C) Summary: Uganda plans to add a fourth battalion to its contribution to the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in February 2010, bringing the total number of Ugandan troops in Somalia to 3,500. While President Museveni would like to expand AMISOM's capability and mandate, Uganda's [...] | 2010-01-04 10:56:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV MCAP MARR UG SO |
10KAMPALA13 | UGANDA: USG SUPPORTED ANTI-CORRUPTION ACTIVIST THREATENED [...] (C) Summary: The Director of the Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU),Jasper Tumuhimbise, went into hiding in late December after publishing a "Fame and Shame" booklet on government corruption. Funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) anti-corruption threshold program, ACCU's [...] | 2010-01-07 11:36:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM UG |
10KAMPALA182 | UGANDA: UPDATE ON IMPACT OF LRA ON CIVILIAN POPULATIONS [...] (U) Summary: This report provides recent statistics on the impact of Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) activities on civilian populations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),Central African Republic (CAR),and Sudan keyed to reftel questions. These statistics are compiled from multiple [...] | 2010-01-21 11:39:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS CG UG SU CT |
10KAMPALA19 | UGANDA: SECURITY REPORT DETAILS OIL SECTOR CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: A December 17 report by the External Security Organization (ESO),which XXXXXXXXXXXX allegedly forwarded to President Museveni, says Security Minister Amama Mbabazi is "eyeing" a $200 million commission for securing a deal between Heritage Oil and the Italian firm ENI. On January 7, a [...] | 2010-01-13 10:47:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET KCOR UG |
10KAMPALA21 | UGANDA: UK CONSIDERING CORRUPTION TRAVEL BANS [...] (C) Summary: The U.K. is considering visa restrictions for senior Ugandan officials guilty of misusing $27 million allocated to the November 2007 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kampala. The British say their primary target is Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa, that recent visa ba [...] | 2010-01-13 14:02:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR KCOR KCRM UG |
10KAMPALA23 | UGANDA: CONTINUED U.S. SUPPORT FOR ANTI-LRA EFFORTS CRITICAL [...] (S) Summary: U.S. logistical assistance for Ugandan military operations against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) will end in late-January, jeopardizing Uganda's increasingly successful 800 mile pursuit of the LRA through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),the Central African Republic (CAR [...] | 2010-01-14 10:55:00 | Embassy Kampala | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PINS MOPS MCAP MASS UG |
10KAMPALA264 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - UGABAG (V) AMISOM TRAINING [...] Pursuant to the Leahy and Foreign Assistance Acts, Post requests assistance in screening the following Ugandan nationals who have been selected for US-sponsored training. The candidates are invited to participate in UGABAG (V) in Support of AMISOM. The training will be conducted from February [...] | 2010-02-03 14:08:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV MASS MOPS UG |
10KAMPALA266 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - OPERATION LIGHTNING THUNDER [...] Pursuant to the Leahy and Foreign Assistance Acts, post requests assistance in screening the following Ugandan national. The candidate is invited to participate in Operation Lightning Thunder. Post has reviewed its files and found no derogatory information on this individual. 2. Biogr [...] | 2010-02-03 14:08:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV MASS MOPS UG |
10KAMPALA274 | FY2008 AMBASSADOR'S SPECIAL SELF-HELP FUND REPORT [...] Summary: In FY2008, U.S. Mission Uganda received an allocation of $40,000 for the Ambassador's Special Self-Help Fund (SSH). The Mission supported five projects with FY2008 SSH funding: the restocking of fish ponds, an equipment purchase to support a community-based poultry business, the pur [...] | 2010-02-04 08:20:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KDEM EAID UG |
10KAMPALA33 | UGANDA'S RESPONSE TO HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-22 09:01:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID PHUM UN UG |
10KAMPALA340 | UGANDA: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR LYDIA KANTONO [...] Pursuant to the Leahy and Foreign Assistance Acts, Post requests assistance in screening the following Ugandan national who has been selected for USG-sponsored training. The candidate is invited to participate in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Undercover Certification School. The train [...] | 2010-02-12 06:46:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV UG |
10KAMPALA35 | UGANDA: AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - A/S MEETING REQUEST [...] (U) President Yoweri Museveni, Defense Minister Crispus Kyonga and Foreign Affairs Minister Sam Kutesa will be attending the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa. The Ugandan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not provided exact travel dates for the President or Ministers but has indicated that [...] | 2010-01-22 10:09:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OVIP AORC XA UG |
10KAMPALA364 | UGANDA: DOL TDA/TVPRA CHLD LABOR REPORTING [...] The U.S. Mission consulted with the Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Development (MGLSD),the Ugandan Police Force (UPF),the Ugandan Human Rights Commission (UHRC),the International Labor Organization (ILO) and several local NGOs to compile this report in response to taskings in reftel. [...] | 2010-02-16 07:50:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI UG |
10KAMPALA37 | REPORT OF NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT IN KAMPALA [...] (SBU) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftel A that RSO Kampala has received information from Ugandan Police about possible nuclear material (Uranium) currently being transported from Kampala, Uganda to Malindi, Kenya. A Ugandan Police source only known as "Habi [...] | 2010-01-25 09:48:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC KCOR PINR UG KE KNNP |
10KAMPALA388 | UGANDA: S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS [...] The U.S. Mission to Uganda submits the following two project proposals for consideration for the Office of Global Women's Issues (SGWI) Small Grants Initiative. The two projects are listed in priority order for funding. Definition of the Problem: 2. Women and girls in Uganda are m [...] | 2010-02-19 07:44:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KWMN KPAO AID UG |
10KAMPALA39 | FOLLOW UP TO 10 KAMPALA 37 REPORT OF NUCLEAR SMUGGLING [...] (SBU) Post is providing follow up information as requested in ref A to 10 Kampala 37 cable submitted 10/25/2010. 2. (S/NF) SUBJECTS name is Habib BURE. BURE's Cell phone number as reported by Ugandan police is +254-714-379-137. 3. (SBU) At the current time there is no furthe [...] | 2010-01-26 07:11:00 | Embassy Kampala | SECRET//NOFORN | MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC KCOR PINR UG KE KNNP |
10KAMPALA41 | UGANDA'S SHRINKING PRESS FREEDOMS [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 6, the Ugandan Human Rights Network for Journalists (HRNJ) declared 2009 "the worst year" for Ugandan journalists since press restrictions were lifted in the early 1990s. According to HRNJ, 18 journalists were fired during the year due to government pressure and more t [...] | 2010-01-27 10:54:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM UG |
10KAMPALA412 | UGANDA: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - UGABAG RIGID HULL SMALL [...] Pursuant to the Leahy and Foreign Assistance Acts, post requests assistance in screening the following Ugandan national who have been selected for US-sponsored training. These candidates are invited to participate in the Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat Training from March 8 to April 30 in Entebbe, [...] | 2010-02-24 13:14:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV MOPS MASS |
10KAMPALA424 | UGANDA: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - ADDITION TO UGABAG RIGID [...] Pursuant to the Leahy and Foreign Assistance Acts, post requests assistance in screening the following Ugandan national who has been selected for US-sponsored training. This candidate will participate in the Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat Training from March 8 to April 30 in Entebbe, Uganda. Pos [...] | 2010-02-25 07:40:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV MASS MOPS |
10KAMPALA426 | UGANDA: 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-25 13:25:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KTIP KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PREF ELAB SMIG UG |
10KAMPALA45 | UGANDA: AMBASSADOR CREDENTIALED; GETS EARFUL ON [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-28 05:10:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UG |
10KAMPALA47 | UGANDA: FOREIGN MINISTER ON DEMOCRACY, HOMOSEXUALITY, AND [...] (C) Summary: On January 21, Ambassador Lanier discussed the congressional reporting requirement for Uganda's presidential elections, the draft anti-homosexuality bill, and allegations of corruption in Uganda's nascent oil sector with Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa. Kutesa inquired about Congressio [...] | 2010-01-28 11:00:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KCOR EPET UG |
10KAMPALA5 | UGANDA'S ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT CORRUPTION BUFFET [...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda's failure to prosecute corrupt government officials is rapidly eroding donor confidence and local support for President Museveni. New evidence of worsening government corruption appears almost daily in local media, and in broader assessments like the Millennium Challeng [...] | 2010-01-05 09:11:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCOR KDEM UG |
10KAMPALA51 | Ugandan Response on Mobilizing Pressure on Iran [...] (C) Deputy Chief of Mission delivered reftel demarche on January 29 to Ugandan State Minister of Foreign Affairs Henry Okello Oryem. Oryem responded by saying Uganda has been firm in insisting that Iran should only use nuclear power for peaceful purposes, and indicated an openness to additional [...] | 2010-02-03 08:29:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC UG |
10KAMPALA55 | UNDER SECRETARY OTERO'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero raised U.S. concerns over Uganda's preparations for the 2011 elections and the draft anti-homosexuality bill with the State Minister for International Affairs Henry Okello Oryem on January 29. Oryem rebuffed perceptions [...] | 2010-02-04 14:34:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KGHG SENV ENRG UG |
10KAMPALA67 | UGANDA: BY-ELECTION GOES FROM SUCCESS TO SUSPECT [...] (C) Summary: A January 25 by-election in central Uganda underscored concerns about the voter registry and the transparency of polling results in advance of the February 2011 presidential election. Local media and observers described turn out as low, and the Electoral Commission uncovered one in [...] | 2010-02-11 13:22:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UG |
10KAMPALA69 | UGANDA: REPORT ON PREPARATIONS FOR THE 2011 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable responds to the Congressional requirement to monitor preparations for Uganda's 2011 elections and actively promote the independence of the Electoral Commission, an accurate and verifiable voter registry, the announcement and posting of results at polling stations, free [...] | 2010-02-11 14:27:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM UG |
10KAMPALA7 | UGANDA: DOOR TO DOOR NRM REGISTRATION WORRIES OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) is going door-to-door to see what persons are NRM members, and compare the Electoral Commission's voter registry with the NRM's own findings about party affiliations. Worried constituents called opposition MPs to report that local [...] | 2010-01-05 10:24:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM UG |
10KAMPALA73 | UNDER SECRETARY OTERO'S MEETING WITH HUMAN RIGHTS AND GLBT ACTIVISTS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-16 06:54:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM UG |
10KAMPALA77 | CHINESE ENGAGEMENT IN UGANDA [...] (SBU) Summary: China's economic ties to Uganda continue to accelerate on all fronts making it one of the country's top foreign investors. Already heavily involved in infrastructure projects, China is now attempting to become an even larger player in Uganda's newly discovered oil deposits. Th [...] | 2010-02-17 11:00:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID EINT UG CH |
10KAMPALA81 | UGANDA: PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT OLARA OTUNNU'S STRATEGY FOR [...] (C) Summary: On February 16, presidential hopeful and former UN Under Secretary Olara Otunnu characterized his December 21 auto accident with the Presidential Guard Brigade as an assassination attempt, and said the U.S. congressional reporting requirement for Uganda's election is a core compone [...] | 2010-02-23 12:34:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UG |
10KAMPALA83 | UGANDA: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON KING OF BUGANDA [...] (C) Summary: The leader of Uganda's largest and most powerful ethnic group told the Ambassador on February 18 that Uganda is slipping toward instability. Buganda King Ronald Mutebi II said he is apprehensive about the February 2011 election, and accused President Museveni of trying to dismantle [...] | 2010-02-23 13:38:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM UG |
10KAMPALA85 | UGANDA: PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT OLARA OTUNNU'S STRATEGY FOR [...] (C) Summary: On February 16, presidential hopeful and former UN Under Secretary Olara Otunnu characterized his December 21 auto accident with the Presidential Guard Brigade as an assassination attempt, and said the U.S. congressional reporting requirement for Uganda's election is a core compone [...] | 2010-02-23 19:30:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UG |
10KAMPALA91 | UGANDA: PHENYLACETIC ACID DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-25 13:26:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC SNAR UG |
10KAMPALA93 | UGANDA - IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARD DEMARCHE RESPSONE [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-25 13:34:00 | Embassy Kampala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP MNUC IR PARM EFIN |
10KAMPALA95 | UGANDA: ELECTORAL COMMISSION FALLS FLAT, AGAIN [...] (C) Summary: The opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party narrowly defeated the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) in a February 15 by-election marred by mismanagement, rain, and a shoot-out involving the Minister of Housing's bodyguard. The FDC attributed its victory to superi [...] | 2010-02-25 14:26:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM |
10KARACHI15 | KARACHI - AMBASSADOR MEETS MQM LEADERSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 6 meeting, the Ambassador discussed wide ranging issues with leaders of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). MQM discussed the aftermath of the December 28 bombing and arson in Karachi, MQM's relationship with PPP, and the development needs of Karachi. END SUMMARY. 2. [...] | 2010-01-20 10:20:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PK |
10KARACHI23 | KARACHI - TARGETED KILLINGS ESCALATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Since June 2009, politically motivated targeted killings have been the norm in Karachi. The advent of the new year brought an escalation of the violence, and points to potential fissures in the ruling coalition. End summary. ---------------------- New Year, New Violence -- [...] | 2010-01-26 11:44:00 | Consulate Karachi | SECRET | PGOV PTER KCRM PK |
10KARACHI34 | KARACHI: VISAS VIPER EAC [...] (SBU) Per reftel, AmConGen Karachi's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on February 4 to discuss the Visas Viper program. The Consul General, and Visas Viper Coordinator, chaired the meeting and attendees included: POL, ECON, MGMT, RSO, PAS, RAO and CONS. 2. (SBU) The Consular Officer [...] | 2010-02-08 01:17:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS ASEC PTER PINR PK |
10KARACHI40 | KARACHI: MQM AND PPP SPAR OVER LAW AND ORDER, LOCAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The debate over the future of local governance in Sindh Province continues without resolution, while the current local government's tenure expired in October 2009. The terrorist attack in Karachi on Ashura, and several recent periods of elevated targeted killings in the city hav [...] | 2010-02-09 10:40:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PK |
10KARACHI42 | KARACHI: LG RESOLUTION LEAVES MUCH TO BE RESOLVED. [...] (U) SUMMARY: Concluding an internal deadlock, the Sindh Assembly tabled the Sindh Local Government (Amendment) Bill on February 15, 2010. After many heated exchanges, negotiations and a delay of nearly a year, the amendment received unanimous support for Chief Minister appointed 'Administr [...] | 2010-02-18 06:59:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PK |
10KARACHI46 | S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSAL - KARACHI SUBMISSION [...] (SBU) ConGen Karachi submits seven project proposals for the S/GWI small grants initiative for women's political, economic and social advancement. The programs detailed below address themes of Education, Climate Change, Gender-based Violence, Economic Opportunity and Political Empowerment in t [...] | 2010-02-20 05:10:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM AID CDC COM TRSY PK |
10KARACHI47 | SUKKUR, PAKISTAN: LOOKING TO THE USG FOR SUCCOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a February 2 visit to Sukkur, the business, education and communication hub of Upper Sindh, PolOff attended the inauguration of a USAID funded initiative. In separate meeting, Hindu minority leaders discussed professional discrimination and their ongoing security concern [...] | 2010-02-22 03:14:00 | Consulate Karachi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PK |
10KARACHI53 | KARACHI: NEW SINDH ADMINISTRATORS NAMED [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Sindh Assembly on February 22 announced the appointment of administrators to oversee local government until the May 2010 party-based elections. Replacing Karachi Nazim Mustafa Kamal (MQM) is District Coordination Officer Lala Fazal ur Rehman, and replacing Hyderabad Nazim Kan [...] | 2010-02-25 06:46:00 | Consulate Karachi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PK |
10KATHMANDU104 | NEPAL ASSOCIATES WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORDS [...] (SBU) Following a "lively" internal debate, on February 1 the Government of Nepal (GON) announced that it had sent notification to the Secretariat of the Convention on Climate Change confirming Nepal's association with the Copenhagen Accord (copy of letter sent to SCA/INS). According to the M [...] | 2010-02-04 08:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG KSCA NP |
10KATHMANDU114 | NEPAL DISCUSSING U.S. CITES PROPOSALS [...] Post delivered reftel talking points to the CITES Authority of Nepal, Mr. Gopal Prasad Upadyaya, Director General of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation. Upadyaya said he will convey Nepal's position after discussions in the Ministry. 2. On corals, Upadyay said it i [...] | 2010-02-08 02:46:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP XD NP |
10KATHMANDU118 | NEPAL: 2009 END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] Per the reporting requirements noted reftel, Post has an end-use monitoring to report for Calendar Year 2009. 2. BACKGROUND A. EUM Program coordinator: Denver H Fleming III, 977-400-7200, flemingdh@state.gov B. Inventory System: Standard INL-LOA handover forms and state departme [...] | 2010-02-08 10:07:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AFIN NP |
10KATHMANDU12 | G.P KOIRALA STATURE IN NEPALI CONGRESS DECLINING [...] (C) Senior Nepali Congress leaders no longer trust party President G.P. Koirala, believing he would "sell out" the party to promote his daughter, Deputy PM and ForMin Sujata Koirala. Nepali Congress Joint General Secretary and Spokesman Arjun Narsingh K.C. told P/E Chief January 4 that the pa [...] | 2010-01-06 11:16:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NP |
10KATHMANDU121 | NEPAL: ARMED POLICE FORCE LOOKING FOR ROLE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Nepal Armed Police Force (APF) is a paramilitary force originally created to combat the Maoist insurgency. Still struggling to define its role in post-conflict Nepal, the APF's duties range from border control to combating terrorist activities. The APF has 25,650 members [...] | 2010-02-10 05:51:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM NP PGOV PHUM |
10KATHMANDU128 | NEPAL'S CONSTITUTION DRAFTING MOVES AHEAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nepal's 601-person Constituent Assembly (CA) is making steady progress drafting a new constitution. The CA's eleven thematic committees have submitted reports, and drafting has begun. While the committees reached agreement on many key constitutional provisions, there are at leas [...] | 2010-02-11 12:09:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NP |
10KATHMANDU129 | NEPAL: DISCHARGE OF DISQUALIFIED COMBATANTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Maoist army discharged 268 combatants from the last of seven cantonments on February 8, marking a major political step forward in the peace process. The ceremony was attended by members of the diplomatic community, including U.S. Charge Camp, and Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal [...] | 2010-02-11 12:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
10KATHMANDU13 | NEPAL: OHCHR HEAD BENNETT TRANSFERRED TO GENEVA [...] (C) Richard Bennett, the high-profile, outspoken head of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal, is being transfered to Geneva in February. In a lateral career move, Bennett will become the Director of OHCHR's Field Operations Division, responsible for the Midd [...] | 2010-01-06 11:22:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
10KATHMANDU131 | NEPAL: DISTRACTED DRIVING DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) Post delivered reftel points to Nepal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Ramesh P. Khanal on February 11. Khanal thanked the Embassy for the information. He did not provide any substantive response, at this time. CAMP [...] | 2010-02-11 13:34:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ACTION ECON EU SOCI UNDP UNGA NP |
10KATHMANDU132 | NEPAL: IAEA TANZANIA CONFERENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) Post delivered reftel points and letter to Nepal Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary of the UN, International Organizations, and International Law Division Ramesh P. Khanal on February 11. Khanal thanked the Embassy for the information, but did not provide any substantive response. [...] | 2010-02-11 13:37:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | IAEA PARM PREL KNNP KTIA NP |
10KATHMANDU142 | EMBASSY KATHMANDU'S S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS [...] Reconciliation: Voices and Experiences of Conflict-Affected Women (Himalayan Human Rights Monitors - HimRights) ---------- Background ---------- The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Accord in November 2006 brought a formal end to the decade-long armed conflict between Maoist rebels and [...] | 2010-02-18 11:28:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM NP |
10KATHMANDU144 | NEPAL: CHINA PRESSURE BUT NEPALIS SAY REFUGEE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Nepal's commitment to protecting Tibetan refugees remains firm, despite Chinese pressure to increase security on the China-Nepal border. During the Home Minister's recent visit to China, Chinese officials pressed the Minister to improve border communication and create a new bila [...] | 2010-02-18 12:42:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF CH NP |
10KATHMANDU145 | NEPAL POISED FOR MAJOR FOOD SECURITY [...] (SBU) Nepal is poised for major investments that could significantly reduce food insecurity and poverty. As a small country which has successfully piloted several global initiatives, Nepal is ready for investments to reduce poverty on a national scale. The Government of Nepal (GON) has begun t [...] | 2010-02-18 12:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AID EAID EAGR ECON NP |
10KATHMANDU147 | NEPAL: ADVOCATING EXTENSION OF OFFICE OF THE HIGH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Heads of mission from Denmark, Germany, Britain, France, Finland, and the United States met Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Koirala February 18, 2010, to advocate for extension of the mandate of OHCHR beyond its current expiry in June 2010. Koirala suggested that t [...] | 2010-02-19 06:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NO NP |
10KATHMANDU16 | NEPAL: MAOISTS START DISCHARGING MINORS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a positive step in Nepal's long-stalled peace process, the Maoist party officially discharged 209 "disqualified" combatants from one of the seven main Maoist cantonment sites. Following their discharge by the People's Liberation Army Deputy Commander, UNDP and UNICEF teams [...] | 2010-01-07 11:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
10KATHMANDU163 | NEPAL: AIRBUS DEAL IN TROUBLE, EU LOBBIES HARD [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Nepal is unlikely to guarantee the Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) loan to purchase two Airbus aircraft, according to Finance Secretary Khanal, essentially killing the deal and reviving Boeing's hopes to sell its aircraft to the NAC. The European Union continu [...] | 2010-02-24 12:46:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAIR PREL NP |
10KATHMANDU166 | NEPAL: COMMITTED TO SUPPORT MINUSTAH [...] (SBU) Per demarche request (reftel),Embassy contacted Armed Police Force (APF) IG Sanet Basnet and Home Ministry Secretary Dr. Govind Kusum regarding Nepal's current offer to provide one Foreign Police Unit (FPU) for 12 months. Both Basnet and Kusum confirmed that Nepal is still willing to [...] | 2010-02-25 12:18:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM HA SOCI MCAP MARR SNAR ASEC |
10KATHMANDU2 | MEDIA REACTION: EXIT FROM AFGHANISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-04 11:20:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC NP |
10KATHMANDU24 | MEDIA REACTION: NOBEL PEACE PRIZE [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-12 03:52:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC NP |
10KATHMANDU29 | NEPAL: GON STICKS TO FOUR-MONTH UNMIN EXTENSION [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Nepal (GON) is unlikely to agree to a six-month mandate extension for UNMIN and may hold firm on its recommended May 15 date, which is linked to the deadlines for completing the integration and rehabilitation of Maoist combatants (April 30) and the new constituti [...] | 2010-01-13 09:13:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM NP |
10KATHMANDU38 | NEPAL: SCENESETTER FOR PDAS MOON VISIT [...] (SBU) PDAS Moon, Embassy Kathmandu warmly welcomes you to Nepal. You are arriving at a particularly critical juncture in the peace process, with "indefinite" Maoist protests still threatened for January 24, despite some welcome progress on unblocking the political process. Pressure building a [...] | 2010-01-14 13:01:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MARR NP |
10KATHMANDU45 | NEPAL NON-COMMITAL ON COPEHAGEN ACCORD [...] (SBU) Summary: Nepal is still considering whether to associate itself with the Copenhagen Accord. As one of the countries most affected by climate change, Government of Nepal (GON) officials were annoyed they were not "adequately consulted" in the negotiations. End Summary. Frustration a [...] | 2010-01-20 11:47:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | KGKG SENV ENRG XD NP |
10KATHMANDU46 | NEPAL: TWO NEPAL ARMY BATTALIONS ASSISTING IN [...] (U) SCA PDAS Patrick Moon discussed the earthquake in Haiti with Chief of the Army Staff Gurung on January 19. General Gurung reported that Nepal had two battalions serving in the UN Peace Keeping operation, MINUSTAH, in Haiti when the earthquake struck. One soldier was injured and two Nepal [...] | 2010-01-20 12:38:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON HA KDEM MARR NP PGOV PHUM PREF PREL |
10KATHMANDU57 | MEDIA REACTION: PDAS MOON'S VISIT AND DEALING WITH THE MAOISTS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-22 09:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC NP |
10KATHMANDU58 | NEPAL'S FORESTS MINISTER CONFIRMS BAN ON RHESUS [...] (U) Minister of Forests and Soil Conservation Deepak Bohara has confirmed he ruled current Nepali law prohibits the export of rhesus monkeys, both wild and captive-born. The decision, made public in late August 2009, prevents the National Biomedical Research Center (NBRC) from fulfilling its [...] | 2010-01-22 10:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SENV TBIO PGOV NP |
10KATHMANDU60 | MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S FIRST YEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-22 12:06:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC NP |
10KATHMANDU62 | NEPAL PM: "CANTONMENTS AND CONSTITUTION LINKED" [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 18 meeting with SCA PDAS Patrick Moon, Prime Minister M.K. Nepal said the peace process and the constitution drafting process were inextricably linked. He asked the international community to support the government's new integration and rehabilitation plan and pres [...] | 2010-01-24 15:09:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
10KATHMANDU63 | NEPAL: MAOIST RESPONSE TO BENCHMARKS PROMISED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Maoist party wants to deepen its engagement with the United States, and is preparing to address the benchmarks for removal from the U.S. terrorism lists, according to United Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda". Prachanda told PDAS Moon th [...] | 2010-01-24 15:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
10KATHMANDU65 | NEPAL FORMIN OPTIMISTIC ON HIGH-LEVEL MECHANISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recently-announced High-Level Political Mechanism will help solve Nepal's political impasse, according to DeputyPM and FM Sujata Koirala. Koirala told visiting PDAS Moon that the Mechanism, led by her father G.P. Koirala, would focus first on the integration and rehabilitati [...] | 2010-01-25 06:15:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM NP |
10KATHMANDU66 | NEPAL: PDAS RAISES HUMAN RIGHTS WITH DEFMIN, CHIEF [...] (C) SUMMARY: During meetings with Defense Minister Bhandari and Chief of the Army Staff Gurung, PDAS Moon encouraged the Nepal Army to deal with conflict-era human rights abuses openly and transparently. Until that time, U.S.-Nepal military cooperation will remain "limited." The DefMin shar [...] | 2010-01-25 11:11:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM NP |
10KATHMANDU69 | NEPAL: G.P. KOIRALA TOUTS HIGH LEVEL MECHANISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: G.P. Koirala, Nepali Congress party President, acknowledged his health was not good, but committed to wrapping up the peace process and the drafting of the constitution. He asserted the High Level Political Mechanism is "the only way" to accomplish these goals. According to Koi [...] | 2010-01-25 11:17:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NP |
10KATHMANDU72 | SAARC: REGIONAL POLITICS LIMIT POTENTIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) lacks clout among its member states, preventing it from reaching its full potential. SAARC has facilitated some regional economic and social cooperation, but has little influence over regional geopolitical issues. Th [...] | 2010-01-26 11:29:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECIN SAARC IN PK NP |
10KATHMANDU74 | CLIMATE CHANGE COULD SEVERELY IMPACT NEPAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Due to its geographic location in the Himalayas, Nepal is likely to be substantially impacted by climate change. During a meeting with leading environmental non-governmental organizations, private citizens, and the Minister of Forests and Soil Conservation, PDAS Moon urged Nep [...] | 2010-01-27 10:08:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KGHG NP |
10KATHMANDU77 | NEPAL: NORWAY APPOINTS SPECIAL ENVOY [...] (SBU) The Government of Norway appointed Ambassador Tore Toreng to serve as Special Envoy to the Peace Process in Nepal. During a January 12 meeting and January 13 dinner, Ambassador Toreng explained to Charge that Norway wants to "invigorate" its support for the Nepal peace process. Toreng [...] | 2010-01-27 10:25:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NO NP |
10KATHMANDU79 | NEPAL: OHCHR LOBBYING FOR EXTENSION [...] (C) Summary: The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)-Nepal hopes to extend its current mandate, which ends June 9, for another two years. The National Human Rights Commission, Nepal Army, and some political leaders are unhappy with OHCHR's activist approach and will l [...] | 2010-01-28 10:41:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NO NP |
10KATHMANDU80 | MEDIA REACTION: LESSONS FROM HAITI [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-28 11:31:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC NP |
10KATHMANDU81 | MEDIA REACTION: GATES VISIT TO INDIA, PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-28 11:31:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC NP |
10KATHMANDU82 | MEDIA REACTION: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND INTERNET DIPLOMACY [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-28 11:31:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC NP |
10KATHMANDU84 | NEPAL'S ECONOMY FACES MAJOR CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Summary: Nepal's economy, already damaged by a decade of civil conflict, faces balance of payments and liquidity problems, a real estate price bubble, slowing remittance growth, and a shaky (and partially unregulated) banking sector. The IMF, central bank and leading bankers do not war [...] | 2010-01-29 08:18:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON NP |
10KATHMANDU85 | MEDIA REACTION: WATERING CLIMATE DOWN [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-29 09:26:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC NP |
10KATHMANDU93 | NEPAL: PRACHANDA CITES PROGRESS, CHALLENGES AHEAD [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with P-5 representatives, Maoist leader Prachanda claimed credit for recent movement on the peace process, but said that hardliners in other parties are trying to stop progress. Prachanda continues to press for the formation of a national unity government, led by the [...] | 2010-02-01 03:53:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM NP |
10KATHMANDU94 | NEPAL BACKS U.S. POSITION ON IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (SBU) During a February 1 meeting with Acting Foreign Secretary Durga Bhattarai, Charge highlighted U.S. efforts to engage Iran on its nuclear program and Iran's continued unresponsiveness. He urged Nepal to support efforts to increase pressure on Iran (reftel). Charge noted that all countri [...] | 2010-02-01 12:08:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IR SP NP PARM |
10KHARTOUM101 | French Ambassador Reports Release of Darfur Hostage [...] (SBU) Summary: French Ambassador Nicoloso informed CDA on February 7 that a French aid worker at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),held hostage in Darfur since November, 2009, had been released. End summary. 2. (SBU) French Ambassador Nicoloso told CDA on February 5 that [...] | 2010-02-09 13:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ICRC CD SU |
10KHARTOUM102 | SLA/AW INFIGHTING CONTINUES; REBELS FAIL TO TAKE GOLO [...] (SBU) Summary: The January 5 killing of Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) faction Commander Abdalla Bakr (reftel) has led to sporadic infighting within the movement, according to unconfirmed reports out of Jebel Marra. Meanwhile, elements of the SLA/AW faction attacked the Sudan Armed [...] | 2010-01-20 07:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PHUM PINR ASEC SU |
10KHARTOUM103 | Debrief of Chadian President's Visit to Khartoum [...] (SBU) Summary. Sudanese Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salah Eddin, met with Charge on February 10 to review Chadian President Idriss Deby's February 8 and 9 visit to Khartoum. Ghazi characterized the visit as a "breakthrough," and said that the formerly icy relationship between Deby and Su [...] | 2010-02-10 11:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PBTS PINS EAID SU CD |
10KHARTOUM104 | DON'T NEGLECT DARFUR'S ARABS, WARNS CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVIST [...] (SBU) Summary: Darfur's Arab tribes must be included in the peace process if a lasting solution to the Darfur conflict is to be found, Darfuri civil society activist Hamid Nur told polchief in a meeting on January 12. Noting that Arab tribes feel left out of the Doha process, he urged that the [...] | 2010-01-20 08:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU |
10KHARTOUM105 | SPLM Presidential Candidate Arman on Election Prospects [...] (c) Summary. On February 11 Charge d'Affaires met with the Sudanese Popular Liberation Movement's (SPLM) Yasir Arman, Deputy Secretary General of the SPLM (head of Northern Sector) as well as the SPLM candidate for national president. An ebullient Arman charted an electoral calculus that wo [...] | 2010-02-12 10:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PBTS ECON ECIN EPET PNAT SU |
10KHARTOUM106 | Summary of Eastern Sudan Issues Group Meeting [...] (U) Summary: British Ambassador Rosalind Marsden hosted the first meeting of the newly-launched Eastern Sudan Issues Group on January 18. The meeting, which was well-attended by approximately thirty ambassadors and heads-of-agencies, included representatives from both the United Nations Hig [...] | 2010-01-20 10:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SU ER |
10KHARTOUM108 | Sudan's URRP Nominates Presidential Candidate [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 05, Sudan's Umma Renewal and Reform Party (URRP) announced its intention to nominate its Chairman, Mubarak al-Fadil al-Mahdi, for President in the April 2010 general elections. Mr. al-Fadil al-Mahdi has a long, patchy career in Sudanese politics, and has held a varie [...] | 2010-01-20 10:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM113 | POLITICAL PLURALISM IS THE REAL END GOAL OF THE APRIL [...] (C) Summary: Sir Derek Plumbly, the chairman of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC),told U.S. Special Envoy (SE) to Sudan General Scott Gration that political developments in Sudan have been gathering speed over the past several months, leading to a "frenzy of interest" on the groun [...] | 2010-02-22 12:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PINR KPKO ASEC SU CD |
10KHARTOUM115 | GHAZI DISCUSSES FEBRUARY 20 GOS-JEM AGREEMENT WITH SE [...] (C) Summary: In a February 21 meeting, Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salahedeen told SE Gration that the newly signed framework agreement between the GOS and JEM contained provisions for a ceasefire and prisoner release, the latter of which will begin on February 23. The agreement does not cod [...] | 2010-02-22 12:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS SU CD |
10KHARTOUM116 | RECEIPT OF SUPPLY ITEMS [...] (SBU) THE FOL ITEMS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED: SECTION A: AVL ITEMS: NSN QTY NOMEN REMARKS 8465015584476 8 SPE POUCH, COYOTE 8465015585105 14 SPE POUCH, COYOTE 8470014651857 5 THROAT PROTECTOR, COYOTE 8470014651864 2 SPE 847001465 [...] | 2010-01-21 09:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KMSG |
10KHARTOUM117 | NEC DISCUSSES PREPARATIONS FOR APRIL ELECTIONS WITH SE [...] (C) Summary: Sudan's National Elections Commission (NEC) talked about plans and concerns for the upcoming national elections in a February 21 meeting with U.S. Special Envoy Scott Gration. The NEC Chairman, Deputy and two other commission members updated SE Gration on the status of logistical p [...] | 2010-02-22 12:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM118 | COMMAND DIRECTED COMPULSORY URINALYSIS TESTING [...] IAW THE REF, SUBJ TESTING CONDUCTED AT 1200. 2. PERTINENT DATA: A. UNIT: MSGDET AMEMBASSY KHARTOUM, SUDAN B. HUMAN URINE SAMPLES - QTY 3 C. CO. HQ ASSIGNED BATCH NUMBER 9951 - 9952 D. DATE COLLECTED 20/21 JAN 10 E. DATE FORWARDED 21 JAN 10 F. MODE OF DELI [...] | 2010-01-21 11:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC KMSG |
10KHARTOUM119 | MBEKI DISCUSSES AUPD ROLE IN DARFUR, POST-2011 ISSUES WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a February 20 meeting with SE Gration, former South African President and current Chairman of the African Union High Level Panel on Darfur (AUPD) Thabo Mbeki expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the approach of Joint Chief Mediator Djibril BassolC),whom he criticized for havi [...] | 2010-02-22 12:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU |
10KHARTOUM121 | SE GRATION DISCUSSES DARFUR PEACE, SECURITY WITH JSR GAMBARI [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Sudan (GOS) appears eager to conclude an agreement at the Doha peace talks while rebel groups remain intransigent, UNAMID Joint Special Representative (JSR) Ibrahim Gambari told SE Gration on February 20. He expressed concern about lack of humanitarian access to c [...] | 2010-02-22 12:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS SU CD |
10KHARTOUM122 | CPA DAY CELEBRATIONS IN YAMBIO [...] Summary: On January 19, the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) and Government of National Unity (GNU) hosted the fifth anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in Yambio, Western Equatoria. Unlike the previous years' celebrations in Malakal and Wau, there were no reports of se [...] | 2010-01-24 08:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
10KHARTOUM123 | SE GRATION MEETS HEAD OF CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES [...] (C) Summary: In a February 20 meeting, the Head of the Center for Strategic Studies Sayeed el-Khatib told U.S. Special Envoy Gration and Charge d'Affaires that recent discussions in Juba were fruitful and should help facilitate a planned meeting between Presidents Bashir and Kiir. He said a hig [...] | 2010-02-22 13:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM125 | SPLM Describes Successes in Negotiations [...] (C) Summary: In a February 21 meeting, Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Vice President Riek Machar told Special Envoy Gration that the SPLM had reached agreement with the NCP for 40 additional seats in the National Assembly for the South, four for South Kordofan and two for Abyei. They had a [...] | 2010-02-22 16:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO SU |
10KHARTOUM126 | African Union High Level Implementation Panel for Sudan [...] Summary. Ambassadors and Charges from the P-5 met on January 23 with the African Union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) at the latter's request. AUHIP Chairman Thabo Mbeki presented the panel's proposed action plan for future involvement in Sudan and provided a detailed briefing on wh [...] | 2010-01-24 12:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SU OAU |
10KHARTOUM127 | Special Envoy Discusses Election Preparations with DSRG [...] (C) Summary: In a February 20 meeting with Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Jasbir Lidder, Special Envoy (SE) Scott Gration said strong United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) leadership is needed to meet current and future challenges, including support for the elec [...] | 2010-02-22 16:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO UN SU |
10KHARTOUM128 | HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR LANZER URGES SHIFT FROM RELIEF TO [...] (SBU) Summary: In a January 20 meeting with CDA, UN Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Toby Lanzer urged that the international community start shifting its focus in Darfur from humanitarian relief to recovery efforts. Noting the decrease in overall violence in Darfur over the past se [...] | 2010-01-24 14:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL SU |
10KHARTOUM129 | (U) Vice President Taha Tells Special Envoy Impasse on [...] (C) Summary: In a February 21 meeting, Second Vice President Ali Osman Taha told Special Envoy Gration that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) parties had resolved the dispute over the census, giving the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) 40 additional seats, as well as an addition [...] | 2010-02-22 16:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PBTS KDEM KPKO SU |
10KHARTOUM130 | CHADIAN REBELS TEST-FIRE NEWLY RECEIVED HEAVY WEAPONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Chadian rebels test-fired newly received heavy weapons outside the area of Mellit on January 22, according to both UN and rebel sources. No details have emerged where the weapons came from. The incident comes less than two weeks after Chad and Sudan signed agreements to end all s [...] | 2010-01-25 08:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PHUM PINR ASEC SU CD |
10KHARTOUM133 | KHARTOUM EAC CONVENED TO REVIEW TELEPHONE THREAT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Embassy Khartoum's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on February 28 to review a telephone threat received by the Embassy on Saturday, February 27. The caller warned of an attack against the Embassy and urged personnel to evacuate. RSO and GRPO updated EAC members on t [...] | 2010-02-28 15:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER AEMR SU |
10KHARTOUM136 | Sudanese Officials on Haiti [...] (U) In a series of meetings beginning January 20, Charge discussed the humanitarian relief effort in Haiti with high level Government of Sudan leaders, including Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salah al Deen Attabani. Pol-Econ Chief spoke with Tariq Abu Salih, Acting Director, Americas Divisio [...] | 2010-01-26 09:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL PHUM SU |
10KHARTOUM150 | SPLM ANNOUNCES NOMINATIONS FOR ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: From January 14-20, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Polit-Buro (PB) met to review candidate selections and nominations. While the discussions were reportedly tense at times, the PB has publicly announced their candidates for president, governors and the legislati [...] | 2010-01-28 06:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM SU |
10KHARTOUM152 | SPLM SHAKE-UP IN SOUTHERN KORDOFAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 24 Poloff met with Sadiq Mansour, Deputy Speaker of the Southern Kordofan Legislative Assembly, who stated that he and 31 other members of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in Southern Kordofan had recently been dismissed from the party by Abdel Azziz (SPLM [...] | 2010-01-28 11:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM MCAP SU |
10KHARTOUM158 | DARFUR ELECTIONS UPDATE, PART I: IN NORTH DARFUR'S GOVERNOR [...] (SBU) Summary: North Darfur Wali (Governor) Osman Mohamed Yousif Kibir is seeking to extend his rule as the National Congress Party (NCP) candidate in the upcoming April elections. Though generally unpopular even among his own Berti tribe, Kibir has extensive party resources at his disposal and [...] | 2010-01-31 08:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR SU |
10KHARTOUM160 | MISSERIYA BUILDING PERMANENT STRUCTURES IN ABYEI [...] (SBU) In a conversation with Poloff on January 26, Mark Rutgers, United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) Head of Office for Sector VI (Abyei),stated that members of the Misseriya tribe are constructing large permanent structures in five separate locations in the Abyei area without required per [...] | 2010-01-31 09:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO MOPS SMIG SU |
10KHARTOUM182 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: NCP CONCLUDES NOMINATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 27, the official nomination period for Sudan's April 2010 national elections concluded with a mostly full slate of National Congress Party (NCP) nominees in all twenty five states of the country. Despite this, the NCP chose not to nominate a candidate for the presiden [...] | 2010-02-01 05:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM214 | Sudan: UNMIS SRSG Describes UN Elections Prep in Farewell to [...] Summary: Ashraf Qazi, the UN Secretary General's Special Representative (SRSG) and head of the UN Mission to Sudan (UNMIS),assembled Chiefs of Mission and top aid representatives on February 3 to say goodbye and to preview UN arrangements for the April 2011 elections. Qazi emphasized that th [...] | 2010-02-08 09:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO MOPS SU |
10KHARTOUM218 | SUDAN DDR FACING OPERATIONAL FLAWS AND FUNDING SHORTFALLS [...] (SBU) Summary: Participants from the Government of National Unity (GoNU),the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS),the UN, and international donors met on February 1 and 3 seeking to rectify shortcomings plaguing Sudan's disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) of former combatants p [...] | 2010-02-09 10:04:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO MCAP EAID SU |
10KHARTOUM222 | CONCEPT OF POPULAR CONSULTATIONS TAKING SHAPE [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 7 Poloff met with members of the steering committee for the popular consultations of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile, who expressed unity across ethnic and party lines in their goal of taking greater power from the center to benefit their marginalized states. Attende [...] | 2010-02-09 13:20:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI SU |
10KHARTOUM234 | WEST DARFUR HEALTH SITUATION UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: Following the March 2009 non-governmental organizations (NGO) expulsions, the West Darfur State Ministry of Health (SMoH) and several national and international NGOs took over affected clinic facilities and continue to provide care. The SMoH has worked considerably to preserve co [...] | 2010-02-11 09:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
10KHARTOUM236 | SUDAN: CHINA POISED FOR KEY ROLE IN POST 2011 AGRICULTURE [...] (U) Summary: The People's Republic of China (PRC) is encouraging Chinese private enterprises to invest heavily in Sudan's agriculture sector, Lee "Ali" Wei Zheng, Commercial Officer for the Chinese Embassy, told PolEconOff February 3. Chinese investors currently have ten farms in China, and [...] | 2010-02-11 09:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR ECON EFIN EPET SU |
10KHARTOUM24 | NEW YEAR'S EVE ATTACKS IN AKOT, ATAR AND MARIAL LAU [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 31, there were three serious attacks in the areas of Atar in Upper Nile State, Akot in Lakes State and Marial Lau in Warrab State. The attacks appear to be unrelated and involve a wide range of actors to include the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and Lam Akol [...] | 2010-01-06 12:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS SU |
10KHARTOUM242 | WEST DARFUR HEALTH SITUATION UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: Following the March 2009 non-governmental organizations (NGO) expulsions, the West Darfur State Ministry of Health (SMoH) and several national and international NGOs took over affected clinic facilities and continue to provide care. The SMoH has worked considerably to preserve co [...] | 2010-02-11 09:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
10KHARTOUM250 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DURBIN VISIT TO SUDAN [...] (SBU) Post welcomes Senators Durbin and Brown to Sudan. You arrive at a critical juncture. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) enshrined a fragile peace in Africa's largest country, and the work of U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan General Scott Gration brought a renewed urgency to Sudanes [...] | 2010-02-11 13:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EPET KDEM KPKO SU |
10KHARTOUM254 | DARFUR SECURITY UPDATE: FIGHTING RESUMES IN JEBEL MARRA [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 10, intense fighting broke out between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) rebels in East Jebel Marra, according to UN and humanitarian sources. The scope of casualties and civilian displacement remains unknown, though the Unit [...] | 2010-02-15 14:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PINR PREL ASEC SU CD |
10KHARTOUM260 | DARFUR ELECTIONS UPDATE, PART II: IN WEST DARFUR, A LAME [...] (SBU) Summary: Abulgasim Imam Al Hajj, the former rebel who was appointed Wali of West Darfur as a reward for signing the Declaration of Commitment (DOC) to the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) in 2006, has no real constituency and has decided not to run in the April 2010 elections. In the race to [...] | 2010-02-16 08:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM264 | INDEPENDENT SPLM CANDIDATES CAUSE CRISIS WITHIN THE PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Southern People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) became embroiled in crisis following the February 22 announcement of candidates that will be the party's standard bearers in the upcoming April elections. Upon learning that they were not selected, a number of senior SPLM member [...] | 2010-02-16 10:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
10KHARTOUM296 | SE GRATION MEETING WITH JUBA UN OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting February 18 with U.S. Special Envoy General Scott Gration, UN officials in Juba reported that elections mobilization is underway, food insecurity in the South is on the rise, and the need for additional support and focus on capacity building in the South is acute. [...] | 2010-02-22 08:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
10KHARTOUM3 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR GHAZI UPBEAT ON DECEMBER [...] (C) Summary. In a December 30 meeting with Acting Charge d'Affaires and poloff, Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin was upbeat about the December 24-25 visit to Khartoum of a high-level Chadian delegation led by Chadian Foreign Minister Musa Faki. He noted that the delegation had met wi [...] | 2010-01-03 09:00:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SU CD |
10KHARTOUM302 | CODEL DURBIN IN KHARTOUM, FEBRUARY 18, 2010 [...] (SBU) Summary: During a stop in Khartoum on February 18, Senators Dick Durbin and Sherrod Brown met with the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr. Mutrif Siddiq. The CODEL's wide-ranging discussion with the key National Congress Party (NCP) insider covered elections, Darfur, th [...] | 2010-02-22 12:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PREL ASEC SU CD CH |
10KHARTOUM304 | SE Gration Meets with Senior SPLM Officials [...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 17 meeting, senior Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)/ Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) officials told Special Envoy Gration that there had been good, though not perfect, progress in passing outstanding laws central to implementation of the Comprehensive [...] | 2010-02-22 13:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PINS SU |
10KHARTOUM306 | SE Gration Meets with Senior SPLM Officials [...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 17 meeting, senior Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)/ Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) officials told Special Envoy Gration that there had been good, though not perfect, progress in passing outstanding laws central to implementation of the Comprehensive [...] | 2010-02-22 13:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PINS SU |
10KHARTOUM308 | SE GRATION MEETS WITH ABDEL AZIZ ON ELECTIONS BOYCOTT [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 18 U.S. Special Envoy (SE) to Sudan, General Scott Gration met in Juba with Abdel Aziz El Hilu (SPLM),Deputy Governor of Southern Kordofan state, who attempted to explain the benefits of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) election boycott in that state. A [...] | 2010-02-22 13:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM310 | SE GRATION MEETS SOUTHERN OPPOSITION LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 18 U.S. Special Envoy (SE) to Sudan, General Scott Gration met in Juba with Southern Sudan opposition party leaders who told him that funding for opposition parties and space for campaigning are critical if there is to be any chance for free and fair elections in Sout [...] | 2010-02-22 14:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID SU |
10KHARTOUM314 | Sudan: Solar Energy in Use in Sudan [...] (U) Summary: During his February 14-17 visit to Sudan, Congressman Alan Grayson (D-Florida) met with Dr. Migdam Elsheikh Abdelgani, Director of the National Centre for Research (NCR) in Khartoum to talk about the work of its 13 research institutes and its premier Renewable Energy Institute (RE [...] | 2010-02-24 07:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SENV ECON EAGR ENRG SU |
10KHARTOUM316 | Donors Press NEC on Outstanding Issues Threatening to Delay [...] (SBU) Summary: At the February 18 National Elections Commission (NEC) Policy Committee meeting, donors pressed the for answers on a host of issues threatening to delay the April elections, including planning and funding for the transportation of elections materials, clarification on the number [...] | 2010-02-24 09:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM326 | Darfur - One Year After the Humanitarian Organization [...] (SBU) Summary:C,B Nearly one year after the Government of National Unity (GNU)-mandated expulsion of 13 international humanitarian organizations and three local aid agencies, the structure of humanitarian assistance provision in Darfur has been significantly altered.C,B Following the expulsio [...] | 2010-02-24 16:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
10KHARTOUM328 | Sudan: Arab League-led Trade Delegation Visits Juba [...] (U) Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa arrived in Juba on February 23, leading a delegation of Arab investors and companies to participate in the first Arab Investment Conference in Southern Sudan. GOSS President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar attended the event's opening sess [...] | 2010-02-25 06:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ETRD SENV EFIN KISL SU |
10KHARTOUM33 | GOSS BUDGET: FISCAL CRISIS OVER BUT CORRUPTION LOOMS [...] (SBU) Summary: There are precious few bright spots in the Government of Southern Sudan's (GoSS) 2010 draft budget. On the revenue side, the GoSS remains overly reliant on oil, deriving 98 percent of its income from oil transfers. Concerning expenditures, the GoSS, as in the past, plans to sp [...] | 2010-01-08 08:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV KDEM ENRG ECON SU |
10KHARTOUM330 | SE GRATION VISITS SPLM-ADMINISTERED REGION OF SOUTHERN [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 18 U.S. Special Envoy (SE) to Sudan, General Scott Gration traveled to Kauda. Although h located in the north, Kauda is an area of Southern Kordofan State that is administered by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). SE Gration attended a meeting to discuss [...] | 2010-02-25 08:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO MARR EAID SU |
10KHARTOUM332 | SUDAN: EXPERTS ASSESS MANUFACTURING, SERVICES, BANKING [...] (U) Summary: On February 21, Alwaleed Alatabani, World Bank (WB) Senior Financial Sector Specialist told PolEconOffs at a Donor Economic Forum meeting that Sudan's high cost of loans and over-reliance on collateral-based lending have stifled business growth. In addition, corruption, non-perfo [...] | 2010-02-25 15:46:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG SOCI ECPS EIND SU |
10KHARTOUM336 | DARFUR: HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN JEBEL MARRA [...] (SBU) Summary: Fighting between members of the armed opposition group Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Jebel Marra, an area transecting all three Darfur states, remains ongoing and has extended to the SLA/AW stronghold of Deribat, according to h [...] | 2010-02-26 12:16:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG UN SU |
10KHARTOUM34 | ABYEI CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR FIRED FOR ALLEGED CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) Khartoum media reported on January 6 that Abyei Chief Administrator Arop Moyak Monytoc (SPLM),as well as the Abyei Administration's directors of Finance, Agriculture, and Infrastructure, had been fired for alleged corruption. A relatively minor political figure, Deng Arop Kuol (SPLM),C [...] | 2010-01-08 08:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM35 | ABYEI CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR FIRED FOR ALLEGED CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) Khartoum media reported on January 6 that Abyei Chief Administrator Arop Moyak Monytoc (SPLM),as well as the Abyei Administration's directors of Finance, Agriculture, and Infrastructure, had been fired for alleged corruption. A relatively minor political figure, Deng Arop Kuol (SPLM),C [...] | 2010-01-08 08:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM36 | GOSS BUDGET: FISCAL CRISIS OVER BUT CORRUPTION LOOMS [...] (SBU) Summary: There are precious few bright spots in the Government of Southern Sudan's (GoSS) 2010 draft budget. On the revenue side, the GoSS remains overly reliant on oil, deriving 98 percent of its income from oil transfers. Concerning expenditures, the GoSS, as in the past, plans to sp [...] | 2010-01-08 08:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV KDEM ENRG ECON SU |
10KHARTOUM37 | NATIONAL CONGRESS PARTY WINS CONTROVERSIAL STUDENT UNION [...] (SBU) Summary. University student unions have long been an important part of Sudan's political spectrum because they serve as incubators for future national political party leaders. For the first time since 1997, the National Congress Party (NCP) won the leadership position of the Student Union [...] | 2010-01-10 04:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM4 | RECEIPT OF SUPPLY ITEMS [...] (SBU) THE FOL ITEMS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED: SECTION A: CMR ITEMS: NSN QTY NOMEN REMARKS 5855014320524 1 SPE S/N 21144 1005002837695 2 SPE S/N 626800, 90675 4240015124434 12 JSGPM XM50 MEDIUM 090470313R010; 090470315R010; 090470317R010; 090470322R010; 09047 [...] | 2010-01-03 09:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMSG ASEC |
10KHARTOUM40 | AEC CALLS FOR URGENT IMPLEMENTATION OF LAWS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 5, the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) held its 50th plenary meeting. In light of the recent passage of the Southern Sudan Referendum Law, Abyei Referendum Law and Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan Popular Consultations Law, members noted that implementation [...] | 2010-01-10 06:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO SU |
10KHARTOUM55 | CHADIAN REBELS: UNCONFIRMED ALLEGATIONS OF LOOTING AND RAPE [...] (SBU) Summary: Chadian rebel troops have allegedly looted markets in nearly a dozen villages near the area of Al Saiyah in North Darfur, according to local media and Sudanese rebel sources. However, no independent verification is available. A United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UN [...] | 2010-01-11 07:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SU CH |
10KHARTOUM6 | SUDAN: HUMAN RIGHTS TRENDS REGARDING SEXUAL [...] (SBU) In response to reftel A, same sex relationships are considered illegal under Sudanese Criminal Code, Article 148, as well as public order and Sharia laws in northern Sudan. Conviction under these statutes carries the same punishment as for adultery. Same-sex orientation citizens maintain [...] | 2010-01-03 12:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SU |
10KHARTOUM64 | TENSIONS FLARE IN JEBEL MARRA AS KEY REBEL COMMANDER KILLED [...] (SBU) Summary: The internal struggle within the Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) rebel faction reignited on January 5, when a prominent commander was killed in an ambush, according to UN and rebel sources. Abdalla Bakr, who had actively advanced the Doha rebel unification process supp [...] | 2010-01-12 10:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR MOPS SU |
10KHARTOUM65 | Charge's Meeting with UNSRSG Ashraff Qazi [...] (sbu) Summary. Charge d'Affaires (CDA) Whitehead met with United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Ashraff Qazi, the head of the United Nations Mission to Sudan (UNMIS),on January 11. Qazi discussed UNMIS personnel changes, Sudan's upcoming general elections, [...] | 2010-01-13 07:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV PTER KDEM UN SU UG |
10KHARTOUM71 | KHARTOUM EAC CONVENED TO REVIEW TERRORISM ISSUES AND VISAS VIPER [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-18 11:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | AEMR ASEC CVIS PINR PREL PTER SU |
10KHARTOUM72 | Port Sudan Union Protest: Harbinger of Election Activism? [...] (SBU) Summary: 250 members of a politically-influential union of dockworkers operating in Port Sudan were arrested during a peaceful demonstration at the offices of Governor (Wali) al-Tahir Ella on 10 January. Union organizers had previously attempted to call a general assembly to discuss spe [...] | 2010-01-13 12:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM ELAB EINT SU |
10KHARTOUM73 | GOVERNMENT OF SUDAN CONFIRMS SUDAN-CHAD PEACE AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary. On January 17 Government of Sudan (GOS) Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salah Eddin briefed the Charge on the January 15 agreement between Sudan and Chad to end their proxy war, confirming information conveyed to Embassy Ndjamena by Chadian and UN officials (reftels). Ghazi des [...] | 2010-01-18 12:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF MARR PHUM PINS LY CD SU |
10KHARTOUM74 | GOS AND MEDIA COMPLAIN ABOUT ENHANCED U.S. AVIATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Government of Sudan (GOS) officials and state-controlled media have reacted negatively to the news of enhanced airport security screening for U.S.-bound Sudanese nationals. Complaints centered on Sudan's inclusion on the list of countries receiving increased scrutiny by the U.S. [...] | 2010-01-13 13:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EAIR KPAO OIIP PREL PTER SU |
10KHARTOUM75 | SUDAN'S COMPREHENSIVE PEACE AGREEMENT AT FIVE YEARS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Five years after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) by the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) the CPA stands at a critical juncture as Sudan moves into its first election since 1986. The peace agreement has hel [...] | 2010-01-21 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO MOPS ECON EFIN SU |
10KHARTOUM76 | LRA UPDATE AND UNMIS DIRECTED BY DPKO TO RESCUE LRA [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 5, SPLA Director for Military Intelligence Major General John Lat Zakeria briefed us on the movements and whereabouts of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Sudan. He explained that while there had been a presence of LRA in Southern Sudan, the majority of LRA were no [...] | 2010-01-13 14:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS SU |
10KHARTOUM77 | CHADIAN REBELS REACT TO JANUARY 15 NDJAMENA ACCORD; [...] (C) Summary: On January 27,CDA met with a glum Union des Forces de la Resistance (UFR) President Timan Erdimi, Second Vice President Abdulwahid Aboud Makaye, and Secretary General Abakar Tollimi. Appearing only vaguely aware of the January 15 Ndjamena Accord (reftel),they asserted it was doome [...] | 2010-01-28 12:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR CD SU |
10KHARTOUM78 | SUDAN RESPONSE - EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT [...] (SBU) Both the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and the UN African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) require all military personnel and civilian employees to undergo training to recognize, report and prevent sexual exploitation and abuse. According to the UNMIS Conduct and Discipline Unit (CDU) Offi [...] | 2010-01-13 14:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI SU |
10KHARTOUM79 | Sudan: Unity Fund Chair on Sanctions Trip, Electoral [...] (SBU) Summary: Charge met January 27 with General Yahia Hussein Babiker, erstwhile Deputy Director of the National Intelligence Service of Sudan and current Secretary General of the Unity Support Fund. Babiker, who joined a delegation to the United States to discuss the ins and outs of the U.S [...] | 2010-01-28 14:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAGR EFIN EAID SU |
10KHARTOUM80 | KHARTOUM: PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION OPPOSING GUANTANAMO BAY [...] (SBU) A group of approximately 50 peaceful demonstrators gathered outside the Chancery in Khartoum on Monday, January 11, 2010 calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. According to banners and speeches, the demonstration was organized by two non-governmental organizat [...] | 2010-01-13 15:31:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AEMR PTER PGOV PREL SU |
10KHARTOUM83 | CDA Discusses Elections With Pagan Amum [...] (C) Summary: On January 28, CDA Whitehead met with Pagan Amum, Secretary General of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM),who stated that the SPLM may partially boycott April elections for the National Assembly if the outstanding census dispute cannot be resolved. Amum also talked up [...] | 2010-01-29 12:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MCAP SU |
10KHARTOUM84 | VETTING OF SPLA OFFICERS PARTICIPATING IN USG TRAINING [...] (SBU) Post has vetted and recommends the following SPLA officers to participate in USG-sponsored Riverine training from 25 January 2010 to 23 April 2010: Name DOB POB Rank Majur Deng Lual 02-APR-1966 Bor COL [...] | 2010-01-16 14:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPKO SU |
10KHARTOUM87 | NCP: NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE, SEEK FREE AND FAIR ELECTION- [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 28, poloff met with Ibrahim Ghandour, political secretariat chief of the National Congress Party (NCP) and a senior NCP member. According to Ghandour, the NCP never asked the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) to reconsider Yassir Arman's candidacy and talks b [...] | 2010-02-01 11:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM KPKO SU |
10KHARTOUM89 | UNMIS SRSG Qazi Reportedly Plans to Depart Sudan [...] (sbu) Derek Plumbly, Chairman of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission, on February 1 informed Commission members that he had just met with Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Ashraff Qazi, who has directed the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) since the expulsion o [...] | 2010-02-01 13:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SU UN |
10KHARTOUM91 | WEST DARFUR WALI PESSIMISTIC ON ELECTIONS, SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Abulgasim Imam Al-Haj, the Wali of West Darfur, will leave office in April embittered that the Government of Sudan (GOS) has done little to honor its commitments under the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) of 2006 and the Declaration of Commitment to the DPA of 2007, to which he was a s [...] | 2010-02-03 05:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SU CD ASEC |
10KHARTOUM93 | RECALL 10 KHARTOUM 93 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-04 06:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF |
10KHARTOUM96 | MISSERIYA MIGRATION BECOMING A CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a conversation with Poloff on January 12, Seth Kumi, United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) Civil Affairs Chief for Sector VI (Abyei),stated that many Misseriya are collecting in Abyei, unwilling to continue their southern migration. The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPL [...] | 2010-01-18 10:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PBTS KDEM KPKO MOPS SMIG SU |
10KHARTOUM97 | NCP Favors Technical Assistance on Post-2011 Negotiations, [...] (SBU) Summary: Saeed El Khatib, Director of the National congress party's (NCP) Center for Strategic Studies, told CDA on February 2 that he and Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Minister for Presidential Affairs Luka Biong Deng have decided on a Naivasha-style process, absent a mediator or [...] | 2010-02-05 12:13:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SU |
10KHARTOUM98 | SLM/MINNAWI LEADERSHIP EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER ELECTIONS, [...] (SBU) Summary: In a January 13 meeting with DCM, Sudan Liberation Movement/Minnawi (SLM/Minnawi) faction Head of Foreign Relations, Ali Traio, and Head of Policy, Hussein Arko Minnawi, asserted that Sudan would be better off without elections because they are "rigged" in favor of the National C [...] | 2010-01-18 13:35:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL SU CD |
10KHARTOUM99 | SPLM Presidential Advisor on Electoral Dynamics [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-09 13:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PINS PREL SU |
10KIGALI117 | KIGALI GRENADE ATTACKS ADD TO TENSIONS [...] (SBU) On the evening of February 19, three near-simultaneous grenade attacks/explosions occurred in and near downtown Kigali. The attacks targeted a restaurant/supermarket, a multiple-story office building, and the city's main bus/taxi station, killing two individuals and reportedly injuring [...] | 2010-02-22 18:22:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PTER KCRM PGOV CASC ASEC RW |
10KIGALI120 | RWANDA, DRC SIGN REFUGEE REPATRIATION AGREEMENTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After much deliberation, the governments of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed repatriation agreements at the conclusion of a February 16-17 tripartite meeting with the UNHCR in Kigali to discuss the voluntary repatriation of refugees in the two countrie [...] | 2010-02-23 15:51:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM EAID CG RW |
10KIGALI122 | RWANDA EAGER TO TAKE GREATER OWNERSHIP OF FOREIGN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a February 4-5 annual meeting with development partners to review progress and efforts to make aid more effective, the Government of Rwanda (GOR) proposed to limit the number of sectors in which each donor country works in order to reduce transaction costs and risks of d [...] | 2010-02-25 08:55:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EAGR EINV SOCI ECON KMCA RW |
10KIGALI127 | IRGC SANCTIONS DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-26 10:33:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM EFIN RW |
10KIGALI17 | GRENADE ATTACKS/INCIDENTS IN RWANDA - NO SIGN OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In late December, three hand grenades exploded at bars in Butare, causing some minor injuries. On January 4 and 6, in two separate incidents, children in northeastern Rwanda playing with unexploded grenades they had found accidentally set them off, killing two children and woun [...] | 2010-01-08 13:32:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PTER KCRM PGOV CASC RW |
10KIGALI18 | NATIONAL DIALOGUE: ORDINARY CITIZENS PUSH THEIR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During Rwanda's December 10-11 National Dialogue, broadcast via television, radio and streaming internet video to a national and international Rwandan audience, President Kagame criticized sharply several ministers and other officials over mismanaged or ineffective programs in [...] | 2010-01-08 13:40:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PTER KCRM PGOV CASC RW |
10KIGALI22 | DEMOBILIZATION OFFICIAL EXPLORES NTAGANDA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Jean Sayinzoga, Chairman of Rwanda's Demobilization and Reintegration Commission (RDRC) told visiting EU Great Lakes Special Envoy Roeland van de Geer and Deputy to the U.S. Special Advisor for the Great Lakes (and former Ambassador to Burundi) James Yellin on December 14 that if [...] | 2010-01-11 16:39:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR PGOV PHUM KAWC KJUS PINS KPKO |
10KIGALI24 | NSS OFFICIAL WARNS AGAINST NTAGANDA ARREST, CALLS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Joseph Nzabamwita, head of the National Security Service (NSS)'s Department of External Intelligence and Security, on December 14, pressed visiting EU Great Lakes Special Envoy Roeland van de Geer and Deputy to the U.S. Special Advisor for the Great Lakes James Yellin for Western [...] | 2010-01-11 16:55:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR PGOV PHUM KAWC KJUS PINS KPKO |
10KIGALI33 | CIVIL SOCIETY ADVOCATES AGAINST CRIMINALIZING SEX [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A coalition of civil society representatives met January 5 to discuss an article in the draft penal code criminalizing sex workers. The lower house adopted the penal code in December and will send it to the Senate after translating it into French and English. The article carries [...] | 2010-01-13 13:03:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV RW |
10KIGALI34 | HIGH-LEVEL FRENCH, DUTCH AND GERMAN DELEGATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Over the last five days, senior officials from France, the Netherlands and Germany conducted multi-day visits to Rwanda. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner used his visit to cement diplomatic relations that France and Rwanda officially restored in late 2009. He also prepare [...] | 2010-01-13 16:40:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS RW |
10KIGALI41 | RWANDA 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] (U) The Government of Rwanda recognizes the private sector is an essential engine of development and welcomes foreign investment in policy and in practice. As a result of reforms implemented in 2008 and 2009, the World Bank recognized Rwanda as the world,s top reformer in adopting business re [...] | 2010-01-22 07:09:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN OPIC KTDB USTR RW |
10KIGALI51 | AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - RWANDAN ATTENDANCE [...] (SBU) President Kagame has accepted A/S Carson's invitation to meet at the AU summit (reftel). Government of Rwanda is still working out details on the trip but has provided post the following information: Composition of delegation - President Paul Kagame, Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwab [...] | 2010-01-22 14:45:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OVIP AORC XA RW |
10KIGALI53 | RWANDAIR SIGNS WITH BOEING, EXPANDS FLEET [...] (C) Rwandair signed in December 2009 a contract with Boeing to buy two new 737-800 aircraft for $84 million. At the signing celebration on December 17, the Rwandair CEO praised Embassy efforts supporting the negotiation. The new aircraft will feature innovative "Dreamliner" interiors and are [...] | 2010-01-26 13:46:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD RW |
10KIGALI54 | RWANDA "FRAGILE" BUT POLITICAL SITUATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Parti Democrate Centriste (PDC) leaders told Emboffs January 6 that while the political situation in Rwanda fifteen years after the genocide remains "fragile," political parties can operate more easily and freely today, and the PDC is considering running as an independent party [...] | 2010-01-27 17:19:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM RW |
10KIGALI55 | CHINESE VICE FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS RWANDA [...] (SBU) Chinese Vice Foreign Minister for African Affairs Zhai Jun visited Rwanda January 25-27. During his stay, he met with President Kagame, Foreign Minister Mushikiwabo, other senior officials and businessmen. He also visited the main genocide memorial at Gisozi as well as sites outside of [...] | 2010-01-27 17:23:00 | Embassy Kigali | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID CH CG RW |
10KIGALI65 | NO EVIDENCE OF CHILD SOLDIER RECRUITMENT FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: G/TIP officer Rachel Yousey, AF/RSA officer Learned Dees and Emboffs met January 21-27 with MONUC, UNHCR, Rwanda Demobilization and Reintegration Commission (RDRC),the Ministry of Local Government (MINALOC),and visited the Muhazi Rehabilitation Center for former child soldiers [...] | 2010-02-02 17:05:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP PHUM PREF PGOV PREL MARR MOPS CG RW |
10KIGALI75 | POLICE ARREST PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL INGABIRE'S AIDE [...] (SBU) Police on February 6 arrested Joseph Ntawangundi, an aide to would-be presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire, on charges that a gacaca court in 2007 tried and convicted him in absentia for genocide-related crimes. Ingabire's camp shortly afterward released a press statement, claiming [...] | 2010-02-09 08:25:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PHUM PINS RW |
10KIGALI76 | INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER AWAITS VERDICT IN DEFAMATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Editor and journalist Didas Gasana and journalist Richard Kayigamba of the independent Kinyarwanda-language weekly newspaper Umuseso appeared in court January 27 on charges of defamation and invasion of privacy over an article they published alleging an affair between the mayor [...] | 2010-02-09 09:42:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KMCA MCC PHUM KPAO RW |
10KIGALI9 | UDPR PARTY LEADER ON RWANDAN POLITICS, LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The leader of Rwanda's small UDPR party, who is a member of parliament, told polcouns December 30 that Rwanda needed strong and stable government and economic growth. Rwanda's parliament was working hard to pass legislation related the East African Community (EAC),he said; howev [...] | 2010-01-07 08:14:00 | Embassy Kigali | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ETRD PREL RW |
10KINGSTON1 | RECALL 10 KINGSTON 1 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-07 14:16:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC JM |
10KINGSTON11 | VISAS VIPER: JANUARY 2010 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-10 17:24:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC |
10KINGSTON114 | JAMAICA: PM LAMENTS LAW ENFORCEMENT PRIMACY IN USG [...] (SBU) On the evening of January 27, the CDA met with Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding in his office at Jamaica House regarding the bilateral relationship in general and the status of recent USG extradition requests in particular. The PM expressed concern that, in recent years, the relationshi [...] | 2010-01-29 19:17:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN SNAR MARR PREL SOCI EAID ASEC KCRM KCOR IMF AID |
10KINGSTON118 | Jamaica: 2010 Investment Climate Statement [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-29 20:34:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINT EINV ENRG PGOV KTDB KCOR OPIC USTR XL JM |
10KINGSTON168 | Request for Leahy Human Rights Vetting Prior to Attending [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates to attend training on Deployment of Electronic Surveillance Devices with the starting date of 23 February 2010, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. 2. Na [...] | 2010-02-04 17:17:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PHUM JM |
10KINGSTON174 | JAMAICA: EXTRADITION CASES OF PRESLEY BINGHAM AND [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-04 22:27:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN SNAR PREL SOCI EAID ASEC KCRM KCOR JM XL |
10KINGSTON176 | Jamaica: 2010 Special 301 Watch List Response [...] (SBU) Embassy Kingston recommends that Jamaica remain on the Special 301 Watch list until it passes a World Trade Organization (WTO) TRIPS-compliant patent law. The country's trademark and copyright regime meet international standards, and enforcement efforts remain commendable. Progress also [...] | 2010-02-05 13:34:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV PREL TRSY USTR KIPR XL JM |
10KINGSTON178 | Request for Leahy Human Rights Vetting Prior to Attending [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates to the CID Special Agent Course with the starting date of 19 February 2010, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. 2. Names of proposed candidates: Na [...] | 2010-02-05 16:23:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PHUM JM |
10KINGSTON188 | Request for Leahy Human Rights Vetting Prior to Attending [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates to the Financial Management Course with the starting date of 22 February 2010, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. 2. Names of proposed candidates: [...] | 2010-02-08 14:57:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PHUM JM |
10KINGSTON190 | Request for Leahy Human Rights Vetting Prior to Attending [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates to the Builder Class One Advanced Course with the starting date of 22 February 2010, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. 2. Names of proposed candidates: [...] | 2010-02-08 15:10:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PHUM PGOV JM |
10KINGSTON192 | Request for Leahy Human Rights Vetting Prior to Attending [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates to the Information Technology Course with the starting date of 19 February 2010, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. 2. Names of proposed candidates: [...] | 2010-02-08 15:18:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PHUM JM |
10KINGSTON194 | JAMAICA: IMF STANDBY FACILITY APPROVED [...] (SBU) After a series of missed deadlines, the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) finally has secured a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). On February 4, the IMF approved a USD 1.27 billion Standby facility for Jamaica, opening the door for a further USD 1 billion in funding from other m [...] | 2010-02-08 15:48:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV PREL PINR SOCI EAIR IDB IBRD IMF JM |
10KINGSTON196 | Jamaica's Libel Laws: A Chilling Effect on Crime and [...] (U) Jamaica's libel laws have a chilling effect on investigative reporting by the press and hinder the media's ability to bring corruption and criminal activity to light. A duty to inform subjects of media reporting prior to publishing puts the subject of a story on notice and provides them w [...] | 2010-02-08 15:59:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG EFIN EINV PREL PINR SOCI TRSY OPIC |
10KINGSTON206 | Request for Leahy Human Rights Vetting Prior to Attending [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates to the International Officer Intelligence Course with the starting date of 22 February 2010, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. 2. Names of proposed can [...] | 2010-02-09 21:35:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PHUM PGOV JM |
10KINGSTON214 | JAMAICA LOOKS TO THE EAST [...] (SBU) Jamaica's relationship with China has continued to blossom after Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding led a delegation to Beijing from January 30 to February 6 (Reftel A). The delegation, which also included three government ministers as well as several public sector officials, discussed a [...] | 2010-02-10 20:41:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | BTIO BEXP ECIN ECON EAIR EIND EINV EMIN ETRD ELTN |
10KINGSTON23 | JAMAICA: COKE EXTRADITION CASE; MFAFT REQUESTS USG RESPONSES [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-19 18:23:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | CJAN SNAR PREL SOCI ASEC KCRM KCOR JM XL |
10KINGSTON230 | JAMAICA: WORLD BANK REPRESENTATIVE DISCUSSES JAMAICAN [...] (SBU) The World Bank will provide the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) with USD 400 million in concessionary loans over the next 27 months of the International Monetary fund (IMF) program, according to World Bank Special Representative to Jamaica Badrul Haque, who met with CDA to discuss development [...] | 2010-02-16 12:01:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EFIN EINV PREL IDB IBRD IMF JM XL |
10KINGSTON242 | S/GWI Project Proposal from Kingston - The Secretary's [...] Kingston is pleased to submit a project proposal entitled "Women Under Threat: A Strategy for Support" from Woman Inc, a non-governmental organization that operates a shelter and help line for women who are victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault. This is for funding under The Secretar [...] | 2010-02-19 12:07:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KWMN KPAO PHUM AID CDC COM TRSY JM |
10KINGSTON244 | JAMAICA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ASSESSMENT [...] (U) Per Reftel, the following is Embassy Kingston's submission of information requested for the 2010 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report: 2. (SBU) Jamaica's TIP Situation -------------------------------------- A. Sources of information include: Jamaican media; the Governm [...] | 2010-02-19 14:18:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SMIG KTIP KCRM KWMN KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB XL JM |
10KINGSTON260 | JAMAICA: UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR CONDEMNS PRISON CONDITIONS, [...] (U) Jamaica's detention facilities are "inhumane" and "reflect a complete disrespect for human dignity," according to Manfred Nowak, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel and Inhuman Treatment. Nowak, who had been invited by the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) to as [...] | 2010-02-25 16:05:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM HURI ECON OFDP OVIP PGOV SCUL SNAR SOCI KCOR |
10KINGSTON27 | Jamaica: Fertile Soil for Terrorism? [...] (C) Jamaica has a significant penchant for violence, frequently gang related, and often exported to the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Some perpetrators appear to be in search of the sense of security and strength offered by gang membership, or perhaps to fill the void of an a [...] | 2010-02-25 15:31:00 | Embassy Kingston | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON PTER SOCI EAIR ASEC PREL PINS PINR KISL KCRM |
10KINGSTON272 | JAMAICA: NONPAPER DELIVERED ON DESIGNATION OF ENTITIES [...] (U) Per reftel, Emboff delivered nonpaper on the designation of entities related to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to Ms. Pamela Ingleton of the International Organizations Department of the Government of Jamaica (GOJ)'s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT). The nonp [...] | 2010-02-25 19:36:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM KNNP MNUC EFIN IR GM JM XL |
10KINGSTON274 | JAMAICA: PREPARING FOR SYRIA AT MARCH IAEA BOARD OF [...] (U) Per reftel, Emboff delivered nonpaper on the IAEA investigation of Syria's clandestine nuclear activities to Ms. Pamela Ingleton of the International Organizations Department of the Government of Jamaica (GOJ)'s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT). The nonpaper was deliv [...] | 2010-02-25 19:36:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL IAEA SY JM XL |
10KINGSTON276 | JAMAICA: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR GOLDSTONE FOLLOW-UP ACTION [...] (U) Per reftel, Emboff delivered a demarche requesting follow-up on the Goldstone Report to Ms. Pamela Ingleton of the International Organizations Department of the Government of Jamaica (GOJ)'s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT). The demarche was delivered on the afternoon [...] | 2010-02-25 19:36:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER IS KPAL JM XL |
10KINGSTON278 | U.S. EMBASSY KINGSTON REQUEST FOR REPLACEMENT GLID FARGO [...] (U) U.S. Embassy Kingston requests a replacement GLID FARGO HDP600 Printer. The current printer is inoperable and in need of immediate replacement. 2. (U) Post requests that the replacement printer be expedited to Embassy Kingston through secure means. 3. (U) Po [...] | 2010-02-26 12:48:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC KSEO |
10KINGSTON280 | Jamaica: Response To Fiscal Year 2010 FISCAL U.S. Raw Cane [...] (U) In response to questions listed in reftel A, Post has included the following responses from Mr. R. Karl James, General Manager Jamaica Cane Products Sales Limited: A. Does your Jamaica plan to ship its full FY 2010 allocation of raw cane sugar to the United States for delivery by Sep [...] | 2010-02-26 17:11:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR ECON EINV PREL TRSY OPIC IBRD IMF XL JM |
10KINGSTON282 | Jamaican Real Estate: Lower Rates May Lift Market [...] (U) The successful completion of the Jamaican Debt Exchange (JDX) program, combined with the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approving a 27-month Stand-By Arrangement with Jamaica on February 4 for nearly US$1.27 billion to support the country's balance of payments and [...] | 2010-02-26 17:12:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG EFIN EINV PREL PINR SOCI TRSY OPIC |
10KINGSTON3 | VISAS VIPER: DECEMBER 2009 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-07 17:21:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC JM |
10KINGSTON46 | JAMAICA: POSSIBLE HOST COUNTRY AID TO HAITI; POSSIBLE [...] This is an action request; please see paragraph four. 2. Despite Jamaica's extreme financial difficulties, the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) currently are developing courses of action (COAs) to provide up to a company of engineers [...] | 2010-01-13 20:49:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR ASEC CASC MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA JM XL |
10KINGSTON48 | JAMAICA: FISCAL CRISIS THREATENS MONETARY STABILITY [...] (SBU) Jamaica's fiscal crisis is beginning to threaten monetary stability, with the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) (central bank) forced to extend direct credit to the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) as well as purchase debt instruments shunned by the market. The BOJ accommodation has become necessary becau [...] | 2010-01-14 14:11:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG EFIN EINV PREL PINR SOCI TRSY OPIC |
10KINGSTON56 | JAMAICA: MAROONS STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE UNIQUE CULTURE [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-14 20:31:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON JM PGOV SCUL SOCI XL |
10KINGSTON58 | JAMAICA: H and J Workshop Is Worth the Flight to Jamaica [...] (U) SUMMARY: U.S. Embassy Kingston ranks amongst the top 10 posts worldwide in terms of volume for H-2B applicants. Kingston also ranks within the top 10 posts worldwide for fraud activity. In an effort to reach out to local employment agents, and combat fraud, Kingston's Fraud Prevention Unit [...] | 2010-01-15 16:33:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KFRD KCRM CMGT JM |
10KINGSTON60 | JAMAICA / HAITI / CARICOM: RESPONSE TO EARTHQUAKE DISASTER [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-15 16:55:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR ASEC CASC MARR PREL PINR AMGT SOCI OVIP EAID |
10KINGSTON62 | JAMAICA / HAITI: REQUEST FOR C-130 AIRCRAFT TO TRANSPORT [...] The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) requests a U.S. C-130 aircraft to fly telecommunications hardware and personnel to Haiti in order to restore Digicel cell phone connectivity in Haiti. Embassy understands that a similar request has been made to the Canadian High Commission. According to the Ca [...] | 2010-01-15 18:56:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR ASEC CASC MARR ECPS MOPS PREL PINR AMGT SOCI |
10KINGSTON74 | JAMAICA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] (U) Per reftels, Emboff delivered demarche on humanitarian assistance offers for Haiti to Government of Jamaica (GOJ) Minister of Information Daryl Vaz on the morning of January 19. Vaz reported that the Secretary had met briefly with Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Foreign Minister Kenneth [...] | 2010-01-20 13:23:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA JM XL |
10KINGSTON80 | Request for Leahy Human Rights Vetting Prior to Attending [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates to attend the Patrol Officers Communication Course with the starting date of 05 February 2010, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. 2. Names of proposed c [...] | 2010-01-22 14:16:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PGOV PHUM JM |
10KINGSTON82 | JAMAICA: LIKELY TO ASSOCIATE WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD [...] Per reftel, Charge' delivered points regarding the importance of the Copenhagen Accord in a private meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT)'s Under Secretary for Multilateral Affairs, Amb. Vilma McNish, on the afternoon of January 21. 2. Amb. McNish was mo [...] | 2010-01-22 15:39:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGHG ENRG JM XL |
10KINGSTON84 | JAMAICA: A GOOD WEEK FOR GOLDING, BUT DAUNTING CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding and his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)-led Government of Jamaica (GOJ) have enjoyed a much-needed string of policy successes in recent weeks: rapid progress on negotiations for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) Standby Agreement, initiation of a debt-excha [...] | 2010-01-22 19:38:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD ECON SNAR ASEC CJAN CVIS EAIR EFIN |
10KINGSTON86 | JAMAICA: DENIAL OF EXTRADITION REQUEST: PRESLEY BINGHAM [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-22 20:37:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | CJAN SNAR SOCI ASEC KCRM KCOR JM XL |
10KINGSTON9 | JAMAICA: COKE EXTRADITION CASE; IMF AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) On February 8, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) Permanent Secretary (PS) Amb. Evadne Coye advised Charge that Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding wanted to meet with him the following day in the PM's Office. The PS advised that she was not aware of the subject [...] | 2010-02-10 14:06:00 | Embassy Kingston | CONFIDENTIAL | CJAN SNAR PREL SOCI EAID ASEC KCRM KCOR IMF IBRD JM |
10KINSHASA1 | KABILA'S NEW YEAR'S ADDRESS EMPHASIZES PROGRESS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: In his annual televised New Year's address to the nation, President Kabila reiterated campaign themes that formed the basis of his 2006 campaign and his 2009 State of the Nation speech (reftel),and may also have hinted that a long expected cabinet reshuffle will be forthcomin [...] | 2010-01-06 11:37:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON MOPS CG |
10KINSHASA10 | DDRRR AWARENESS ACTIVITIES APPEARS TO DELIVER RESULTS, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: While MONUC awareness activities appear to have had positive results in encouraging FDLR combatants to participate in the Disarmament, Demobilization, Repatriation, Resettlement and Reintegration (DDRRR) process, additional resources are needed to sustain their efforts, according [...] | 2010-01-07 12:50:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPAO PREL PHUM CG RW ICTR |
10KINSHASA100 | FY 2010 PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS [...] (U) The FY2010 USG foreign assistance package for the DRC includes funds that are considered assistance for the central government. In addition, the DRC required a waiver in 2009 under Section 7086 (C)(1)of the SFOAA. Post therefore provides the following responses to the questions contained i [...] | 2010-01-28 11:20:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ECON PGOV PREL CG |
10KINSHASA102 | CONGO EXPRESS, A NEW AIRLINE FOR THE DRC [...] (U) Congo Express was launched on January 25 in association with South African Express, part of South African Airways, and will be based in Lubumbashi, Katanga Province. The new airline will operate a fleet of CRJ200 aircraft and will initially provide domestic connections between Kinshasa, L [...] | 2010-01-29 07:16:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EINV ETRD ECON PGOV CG |
10KINSHASA11 | In first meeting with dips since MONUC's new mandate [...] (C) Summary: During a January 15 meeting with senior diplomats to the DRC, SRSG Alan Doss confirmed that President Kabila was "anxious to see a drawdown plan" for MONUC. Doss said he did not support the creation of a GDRC SSR Coordinator, which, in Doss' view, was impractical and also risked [...] | 2010-01-20 17:51:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PHUM AORC PREL MOPS MCAP CG |
10KINSHASA120 | DRC RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON CHILD LABOR AND [...] (U) Summary: In response to ref A, below is Post's submission of information on child labor and forced labor for the Department of Labor's Congressional reporting requirements under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (TVPRA) and the Trade and Development Act of 200 [...] | 2010-02-01 12:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI CG |
10KINSHASA128 | International donors seek to push GDRC on press freedom [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite international calls (reftels) for the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (GDRC) to improve the press climate, little action has been taken, according to members participating in the last meeting of the Groupe Inter-Baileurs M????dias (International Group [...] | 2010-02-02 13:12:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OEXC KPAO OPRC SCUL SOCI PREL PHUM PINS CG |
10KINSHASA15 | AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - DRC Delegation [...] (U) Poloff passed information in para 4 of reftel to the GDRC Director of the Bureau of African and Middle-Eastern Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). 2. (SBU) Responses to requests for information in para 6 of reftel follow: Composition of delegation - [...] | 2010-01-22 13:19:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OVIP AORC XA CG |
10KINSHASA158 | DRC RESPONSE TO CITES COP15 OUTREACH ON U.S. SPECIES [...] (U) In response to ref A, Econoff delivered demarche talking points to DRC Minister of Environment, Conservation of Nature and Tourism Jose Endundo on February 1. 2. (U) Endundo applauded the USG's commitment to save endangered species, and for its commitment to conservation of nature [...] | 2010-02-08 13:16:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA AORC UNEP CG |
10KINSHASA160 | DEMARCHE ON DISTRACTED DRIVING: DRC [...] (U) In response to reftel, Econoff delivered demarche talking points to the Chief of Staff to the DRC Minister of Transport Ernest Ilang'Ikwa on February 3 and the DRC Minister of Transport Mathieu MPita on February 4. 2. (U) Mpita stated that on February 3, he signed a circular on ro [...] | 2010-02-08 14:19:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI CG |
10KINSHASA162 | First laboratory-confirmed case of H1NI in DRC is expatriate [...] The first laboratory-confirmed case of H1N1 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC or Congo Kinshasa) has been identified in the southeastern region of Katanga province. The case was an expatriate working for the Tenke-Fungurume Mining Company (DRC affiliate of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gol [...] | 2010-02-08 16:17:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV TBIO KFLU CDC WHO CG |
10KINSHASA17 | Operation Amani Leo: Old Wine in a New Bottle? [...] (C) Summary: Various MONUC officials have underscored that the overriding objective of Operation Amani Leo is civilian protection, although several, including SRSG Alan Doss, cautioned that demands for no collateral damages from a military operation were illusory. The operation, acco [...] | 2010-01-22 14:26:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UNSC MONUC MOPS PHUM PINR KPKO MARR MASS PREL CG |
10KINSHASA176 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DURBIN VISIT TO THE DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) Summary: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) stands at a crossroads in 2010, having registered progress in stabilizing the security situation in the volatile eastern part of the country in 2009, and awaiting local and national elections in 2011. On the security and democratization [...] | 2010-02-10 19:20:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PREL PGOV PHUM PREF MOPS MASS MONUC EAID ECON |
10KINSHASA178 | CLIMATE CHANGE NEXT STEPS: DRC [...] (U) Summary: As mentioned ref A, DCM met January 19 with Louise Mayuma Kasende, President Kabila's deputy chief of staff, who promised to convey our request to appropriate GDRC authorities (ref B). On January 31, the DRC formally adhered to the Copenhagen Accord (CA). This action was taken [...] | 2010-02-11 08:11:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KGHG SENV CG |
10KINSHASA18 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED [...] (U) Post requests Department's assistance in vetting, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, the following candidates selected to participate in the DIILS training to be held in Mbandaka, DRC beginning February 1, 2010. 2. (U) Post has no derogatory information on the fo [...] | 2010-01-08 10:58:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM ASEC PREL CG |
10KINSHASA182 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED [...] (U) Post requests Department's assistance in vetting, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, the following candidates selected to participate in the February 26, 2010 DIILS Training Course held in Bukavu, DRC. 2. (U) Post has no derogatory information on the following ca [...] | 2010-02-11 14:53:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC MARR MASS PREL PHUM CG |
10KINSHASA184 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED [...] (U) Post requests Department's assistance in vetting, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, the following candidates selected to participate in the February 23, 2010 DIILS Training Course held in Mbandaka, DRC. 2. (U) Post has no derogatory information on the following c [...] | 2010-02-11 15:16:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC MARR MASS PREL PHUM CG |
10KINSHASA19 | EFFECTIVENESS OF THE UN TO COMBAT SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND [...] (SBU) Summary: An influential Congolese NGO, Voice of the Voiceless, acknowledged that improvements in MONUC's handling of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) cases have occurred in 2009, but more improvements are needed. MONUC's Conduct and Discipline Unit (CDU) report SEA allegations in 20 [...] | 2010-01-22 14:27:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KPKO KWMN CG |
10KINSHASA194 | Chinese Engagement in the DRC and Potential Areas for [...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese engagement in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is strong and growing. China's highly visible presence is largely focused on extractive industries, infrastructure and construction projects, including those financed through multilateral development banks (such as the [...] | 2010-02-16 20:46:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV EMIN SENV PGOV PREL CH CG |
10KINSHASA196 | Can Radio Okapi survive after MONUC leaves the Congo? [...] (SBU) Summary: As the United Nations Mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or MONUC, begins internal discussions on its ultimate withdrawal from the Congo, its radio station, Radio Okapi -- which has helped to improve the country's media environment and supported efforts for democr [...] | 2010-02-17 14:34:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OEXC KPAO OPRC SCUL SOCI PREL PGOV PINS CG |
10KINSHASA20 | THE CONGOLESE NATIONAL POLICE: UNPAID AND POORLY PAID, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The PNC is a ragtag police force whose members receive an average monthly salary of $16. But the winds of change may be blowing. According to its executive secretary, the PNC has developed a 15-year modernization plan and is working with international donors to implement it, [...] | 2010-01-08 14:51:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ASEC PINS SOCI MASS KCRM INTERPOL CG |
10KINSHASA200 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED [...] (U) Post requests Department's assistance in vetting, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, the following candidates selected to participate in the in the ROL-DIILS Training beginning March 31, 2010 in Lubumbashi, DRC. 2. (U) Post has no derogatory information on the fo [...] | 2010-02-18 17:13:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC MARR MASS PREL PHUM CG |
10KINSHASA21 | French FM Kouchner Discusses MONUC, RFI Closure with Kabila [...] (C) On January 11, we met with Laurence Monmayrant, French Embassy polcouns, and Philippe Guerin, the French Embassy's Goma-based diplomat. Guerin, who was present in the Kabila-Kouchner meeting in Kinshasa on January 8, told us "there was not much substance" to the discussion. Kouchner stre [...] | 2010-01-25 18:25:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MONUC MOPS PHUM FR CG |
10KINSHASA218 | Cabinet Reshuffle Announced Over Weekend; Impact Still [...] 1. (U) On February 20 President Kabila announced a new cabinet, his third since taking office in December 2006. Also included in the announcement are the names of a new special advisor for security affairs, as well as a new chief of staff. Analysis of the new cabinet's likely impact, [...] | 2010-02-22 11:49:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON CG |
10KINSHASA22 | MIMINCO INVESTMENT DISPUTE STILL SIMMERS [...] (SBU) Summary: MIMINCO local representative Joseph Kabwika reported to Econoff on January 6 that no progress has been made on either GDRC payment of a USD 13 million ICSID settlement to MIMINCO or the expropriation of MIMINCO from its headquarters building in Kinshasa. He requested immediate [...] | 2010-01-08 15:22:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV KJUS KTFN CG |
10KINSHASA23 | MONUC TROOPS ABANDON AID WORKERS, FARDC PILLAGES IDP CAMP [...] (C) Summary: MONUC forces escorting aid workers in a North Kivu IDP camp abandoned their post on January 15 under threat from a rogue FARDC unit that then pillaged the camp. MONUC's Force Commander lodged a protest with the commander of the South African soldiers (RSABATT) involved. The For [...] | 2010-01-25 18:38:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KPKO MONUC MOPS CG |
10KINSHASA232 | CODEL DURBIN VISIT TO GOMA, DRC [...] (SBU) Summary: Senators Richard Durbin and Sherrod Brown traveled to Goma, DRC from February 15-16, 2010. The Senators, accompanied by Ms. Connie Schultz (wife of Senator Brown) and four staff members, visited an IDP camp, a hospital specialized in treating victims of sexual violence, and me [...] | 2010-02-23 07:06:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF ECON CG |
10KINSHASA24 | PRESIDENT KABILA TURNS DOWN 2010 BUDGET [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 31, President Joseph Kabila rejected the draft 2010 budget and sent it back to Parliament for revisions. One likely reason behind the rejection is that Kabila wants to control spending in order to reach the completion point of the Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) [...] | 2010-01-08 15:34:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL CG |
10KINSHASA242 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED [...] (U) Post requests Department's assistance in vetting, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, the following candidates selected to participate in the March 1, 2010 LIB Training Course held in Kisangani, DRC. 2. (U) Post has no derogatory information on the following candi [...] | 2010-02-23 09:25:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC MARR MASS PREL PHUM CG |
10KINSHASA244 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED [...] (U) Post requests Department's assistance in vetting, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, the following candidates selected to participate in the March 2010 FCC 20 Training Course held in Kinshasa, DRC. 2. (U) Post has no derogatory information on the following candi [...] | 2010-02-23 09:30:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC MARR MASS PREL PHUM CG |
10KINSHASA248 | DRC: RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS FOR THE TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING [...] (U) This message contains Embassy Kinshasa's responses keyed to questions in reftel on trafficking in persons. THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION 2. (SBU) Begin responses to paragraph 25: --A. What is (are) the source(s) of available information on trafficking in persons? What plans are in [...] | 2010-02-24 07:04:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF KTIP KCRM KWMN KFRD KMCA SMIG ASEC ELAB CG |
10KINSHASA25 | CHOD Outlines Military Reform Plans [...] (C) Summary: Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Didier Etumba Longila discussed plans to reform the military during a January 26 briefing to select UNSC ambassadors and senior MONUC officials. The FARDC plans to organize its national defense into three geographical zones headquartered in [...] | 2010-01-28 08:50:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MCAP PREL KCRS AORC MARR PHUM PINS CG |
10KINSHASA250 | DRC/UNHCR/RWANDA TRIPARTITE AGREEMENT: VIEW FROM THE DRC [...] (SBU) Summary: The Governments of the DRC and Rwanda, and UNHCR signed a long-awaited Tripartite Agreement in Kigali on February 17 providing a framework for the voluntary repatriation of Congolese refugees from Rwanda and Rwandan refugees in Congo. For the Congolese refugees, the agreement [...] | 2010-02-24 10:52:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV UNHCR PHUM MOPS CG |
10KINSHASA252 | CNDP COMPLAINS ABOUT ITS EXCLUSION FROM NEW GDRC [...] (SBU) CNDP President Philippe Gafishi met with Goma-based diplomats (France, EU, Netherlands and Goma poloff) on February 23 to brief them on the GDRC reshuffle (ref C). Gafishi opened by stressing that all parties to the March 23 Agreements must follow the peace process to the end. The CNDP [...] | 2010-02-24 12:46:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM MOPS PINR CG |
10KINSHASA254 | Prime Minister Assures Donors of Progress and Commitment [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito, accompanied by a team of key ministers, assured bilateral and multilateral donors on February 23 of the government of the DRC (GDRC)'s political commitment to and progress towards meeting the triggers required to reach Heavily Indebted Poor Countr [...] | 2010-02-24 15:23:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PGOV PREL |
10KINSHASA256 | CONGOLESE PRESS AND CIVIL SOCIETY REACT POSITIVELY TO U.S. [...] Summary: Following an initial series of logistical challenges, U.S. and Congolese personnel successfully assembled Government of Democratic Republic of Congo (GDRC) officials, members of civil society and press in Kisangani and Kinshasa for an inaugural ceremony on February 17 commemorating t [...] | 2010-02-24 16:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM PGOV CG KPAO |
10KINSHASA26 | UNCERTAINTY IN EQUATEUR PROVINCE KEEPS POPULATION ON EDGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The local population in the Dongo region of Equateur Province remains concerned about insecurity. Refugees continue to flee into neighboring Congo-Brazzaville and the Central African Republic (CAR),while the number of IDPs is difficult to ascertain due to on-going insecurity [...] | 2010-01-10 13:44:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID PGOV PHUM MOPS PINR CG |
10KINSHASA260 | "Balkanization" conspiracy theory -- a challenge to PD [...] (SBU) Summary: The term "balkanization" has its own special meaning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it refers to a conspiracy theory that foreign interests seek to divide the DRC into smaller client states in order to facilitate access to the country's vast mineral reserves. M [...] | 2010-02-25 11:08:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EMIN KPAO OEXC OPRC SCUL SOCI PBTS PREL PGOV PINS CG |
10KINSHASA27 | Kabila tells new Belgian foreign minister he wants good [...] (C) Summary: Belgium's DRC ambassador Dominique Struye briefed P-3 ambassadors and others January 23 on the meeting between new Belgian foreign minister Steven Vanackere and President Joseph Kabila on January 19 in Katanga. Struye portrayed Kabila as intent on repairing the DRC's damaged re [...] | 2010-01-28 14:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PNAT EAID MASS SOCI BE CG |
10KINSHASA276 | PAS KINSHASA REQUEST FOR FY 2010 SPEAKERS ON DRC SPECIFIC [...] This is an action request for IIP. Please see the speaker request below. 2. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Post requests speakers to address three issues critical to the DRC and Embassy Kinshasa's MSP priorities to advance USG policy in the DRC (1) women's empowerment issues, (2) effective fo [...] | 2010-02-26 12:37:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PGOV PHUM KWMN EAGR SOCI CG KPAO |
10KINSHASA278 | Task Force on Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources: [...] (SBU) Summary: The Task Force on Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources in the Great Lakes Region met for the fifth time on January 20-22, 2010 in Kinshasa. As the first Task Force meeting to be held in Kinshasa, and thus hosted by the government of the DRC (GDRC),much of the program consi [...] | 2010-02-26 14:30:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CG ETRD ECON EINV |
10KINSHASA29 | Looting at North Kivu IDP Camp Attributed to ex-CNDP [...] (SBU) United Nations Mission in the Democratic of Congo (MONUC) sources confirmed to us that Major Muzungu, the leader of the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) unit that pillaged an IDP camp in Muhanga in North Kivu on January 15 (reftel),formerly belonged to the CNDP (CongrC(s National pour la [...] | 2010-01-28 16:07:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF MOPS PGOV PREL MONUC CG |
10KINSHASA31 | A U.S.-TRAINED INFANTRY BATTALION: CORNERSTONE OF GDRC [...] (C) Summary: The GDRC's recently unveiled three-zone national defense strategy (ref A) places Kisangani as the focal point of one of the zones. A USG effort to construct a training facility in Kisangani to train a professional light infantry battalion appears to be a major cornerstone of dev [...] | 2010-02-02 07:56:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MARR PGOV PINR PHUM MCAP CG |
10KINSHASA33 | 2009 in review: On balance progress prevails, but barely [...] (C) Summary: 2009 did not commence auspiciously for the DRC. The country faced a critical security situation, both internally and with regard to certain neighboring countries; the specter of the global economic crisis threatened financial collapse; and weak political institutions appeared to [...] | 2010-02-02 09:17:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON MOPS MARR PHUM PREF EAID PBTS CG |
10KINSHASA39 | Cabinet reshuffle announced February 20: Prime Minister is [...] (C) Summary: Ending a long period of speculation about a cabinet reshuffle, President Kabila announced his new government late Friday, February 19 (ref C). The big winner was Prime Minister Adolphe Muzito who kept his position and received support when Kabila appointed trusted confidants to [...] | 2010-02-26 07:40:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PINR PREF PHUM CG |
10KINSHASA42 | UPDATE ON NYAMULAGIRA VOLCANO NEAR GOMA: SPECIALIST SAYS [...] Summary: On Thursday January 7, USAID/OFDA Rep and Goma-based POLOFF attended a special briefing by Dario Tedesco, an Italian volcanologist with extensive experience analyzing Goma's volcanoes and Lake Kivu. Tedesco said that although lava flows were not headed toward any populated area, the [...] | 2010-01-12 12:11:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SENV UNESCO ECON EPET PREF CG |
10KINSHASA46 | Just-landed Goma officer's first impressions of the Congo's [...] (SBU) Summary: Goma-based poloff arrived in Goma December 16 after a week of consultations in Kinshasa. This account of first impressions is informed and prejudiced by his prior service as Rwanda desk officer from 1989-1991, as DRC desk officer from 1999-2001 and as Africa watcher in Paris f [...] | 2010-01-12 13:05:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR PREF PHUM CG |
10KINSHASA5 | South African Diplomat Shot [...] (C) Summary: Elements of the Republican Guard shot South African diplomat Maryse Ash early morning December 4, as she departed the GDRC Presidential Compound. She sustained direct and indirect wounds from small-arms fire. Ash was stabilized first in a Kinshasa hospital, then evacuated on De [...] | 2010-01-12 08:01:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL OFDP CG |
10KINSHASA56 | Minister of Social Affairs Sacked [...] (SBU) Summary: President Kabila issued a decree on January 9 dismissing Minister of Social Affairs, Humanitarian Action and National Solidarity Barthelemy Botswali for "conducting himself in a dishonorable manner." There are various rumors floating around to explain his dismissal, but most [...] | 2010-01-17 15:50:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KDEM CG |
10KINSHASA58 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON CLIMATE CHANGE NEXT STEPS [...] In response to reftel, the DCM met January 19 with Louise Mayuma Kasende, President Kabila's deputy chief of staff with specific responsibility for political, administrative and legal issues. (Note: President Kabila and his chief of staff are away from Kinshasa with date of return unce [...] | 2010-01-20 08:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KGHG SENV CG |
10KINSHASA66 | HIV/AIDS IN THE DRC: AN EVOLVING EPIDEMIC [...] Background note: Embassy Kinshasa recently completed a Partnership Framework with the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and hired a full-time PEPFAR coordinator. This message provides general information about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the DRC. It has been cleared by all PE [...] | 2010-01-21 17:04:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO CDC AID KHIV SOCI EAID PREL CG |
10KINSHASA68 | CONGOLESE PRESS GENERALLY POSITIVE ABOUT INTERNATIONAL [...] Kinshasa local press reporting has focused on reports of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (GDRC) pledge to contribute $2.5 million dollars in emergency assistance. Pro-government and independent papers have reacted positively to this decision, and have argued, despite cr [...] | 2010-01-21 19:40:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL HA CG KPAO ECON |
10KINSHASA72 | Obasanjo Advisor Briefs Goma-Based Diplomats [...] (U) General Lazaro Sumbeiywo, Special Advisor to UNSYG Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Olesegun Obasanjo, met with Goma-based diplomats on January 21, accompanied by former Tanzanian President Mkapa's adviser Daniel Kapya and UN political officer Luc Ngowet. The meeting took place on the eve [...] | 2010-01-22 11:11:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG |
10KINSHASA76 | GRAND IMAM VOICES SUPPORT FOR U.S. VALUES AND SAYS CONGOLESE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) national Islamic organization will focus specifically on promoting the positive and peaceful attributes of Islam, and will not veer into political issues, according to the country's leading Muslim leader, Grand Imam Abdala Mangala Luaba. [...] | 2010-01-22 14:04:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPAO PHUM SOCI KIRF KISL CG |
10KINSHASA78 | BELGIAN FORMIN IN GOMA [...] Following his visit to Kinshasa, Belgian Foreign Minister Steven Vanackere visited Goma January 20-21. He was accompanied by Africa Director (and former Ambassador to Congo) Renier Nijskens, Ambassador Struye de Swielande, and other officials to a breakfast meeting with diplomats based in Go [...] | 2010-01-22 21:06:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV BE CG |
10KINSHASA82 | LEAHY VETTING FOR U.S. SPONSORED TRAINING: AFRICOM TRAINING [...] (U) Post requests Department's assistance in vetting, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, the following candidates selected to participate in the AFRICOM training in Kisangani to begin February 15, 2010. 2. (U) Post has no derogatory information on the following cand [...] | 2010-01-25 13:24:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM ASEC PREL CG |
10KINSHASA84 | LEAHY VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING: IOM TRAINING IN [...] (U) Post requests Department's assistance in vetting, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, the following candidates selected to participate in the IOM training to be held in Bunia in Spring 2010. 2. (U) Post has no derogatory information on the following candidates. [...] | 2010-01-25 14:18:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM ASEC CG |
10KINSHASA86 | New Congolese press law signed but not yet on the books [...] (SBU) Summary: President Kabila signed a new law on December 31, 2009, regulating the media and press in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The law establishes a new media regulatory body named the Conseil Sup????rieur de l'Audiovisuel et de la Communication (Governing Council of Br [...] | 2010-01-25 15:56:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC OPRC KPAO KWMN SCUL SOCI PREL PGOV PHUM PINS CG |
10KINSHASA88 | DRC MAKES PROGRESS TOWARDS EITI VALIDATION [...] Summary: In 2008, the DRC became a candidate country for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI),a multi-stakeholder effort to increase transparency in transactions between governments and companies in the extractive industries (reftel). In order to be declared or "validate [...] | 2010-01-25 16:15:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EMIN ENRG EPET ECON PGOV CG |
10KINSHASA9 | SENATE PRESIDENT KENGO'S OUVERTURES TO THE U.S. - WHAT'S THE [...] (C) Summary: Senate President Kengo wa Dondo has unexpectedly approached United States diplomats, in Kinshasa and at the AU in Addis Ababa (reftels),to request assistance in facilitating meetings with senior USG officials during an upcoming trip to Washington. One of the Congo's most astute [...] | 2010-01-20 09:11:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CG |
10KINSHASA92 | DRC: 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] (U) Per reftel, the following is the text of the Investment Climate Statement for the DRC for 2010. Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ 2. (U) The DRC's rich endowment of natural resources, large population size (approximately 68 million) and generally [...] | 2010-01-26 15:03:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD ECON KTDB OPIC USTR CG |
10KOLKATA11 | CONFIRMED OUTBREAK OF AVIAN INFLUENZA H5N1 IN WEST BENGAL [...] (U) On January 14 the Indian central government's High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal confirmed the presence of avian influenza and the H5N1 virus in samples taken from the village of Khargram, West Bengal. The outbreak's epicenter is in the district of Murshidabad located [...] | 2010-01-15 11:16:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN |
10KOLKATA15 | WEST BENGAL LAYS FORMER CHIEF MINISTER JYOTI BASU TO REST [...] (U) Jyoti Basu, former West Bengal Chief Minister and co-founder of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M),died January 17 in Kolkata. The 95 year old Basu succumbed to pneumonia after two weeks of hospitalization (Reftel). 2. (U) The West Bengal government closed on January 18 [...] | 2010-01-19 12:18:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN BD |
10KOLKATA24 | BRAZEN MAOIST/NAXAL ATTACK IN WEST BENGAL MAY STRENGTHEN [...] (SBU) On February 15, in one of the most brazen and brutal Maoist/Naxal attacks in West Bengal in more than a decade, a group of alleged Communist Party of India-Maoist supporters killed approximately 24 state police. The attack took place in the remote rural settlement of Silda in West [...] | 2010-02-16 10:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC CONS IN |
10KOLKATA25 | AMBASSADOR ROEMER PEDALS HIS WAY TO WIN A NEW BIHAR'S [...] (SBU) Summary: During Ambassador Roemer's February 4-5 visit to Bihar, the first ambassadorial visit in more than a decade to India's third most populous state, he promoted the U.S.-India strategic dialogue and pedaled his way to win Bihar's "hearts and minds". He met the state's Chief Ministe [...] | 2010-02-22 09:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ECON ELTN ENRG EAID SCUL KISL IN |
10KOLKATA29 | INDIA'S NEXT TOP GENERAL OFFERS POSSIBLE COUNTERINSURGENCY [...] (C) Summary: In a February 11 meeting, India's departing Eastern Commander and next Chief of Army Staff, LTG V.K. Singh, discussed India's success with its ongoing northeast counterinsurgency operations, improved security with Bangladesh, the military's take on the Maoist/Naxal threat and the [...] | 2010-02-26 10:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IN BG AF |
10KOLKATA4 | FORMER WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER JYOTI BASU CRITICALLY ILL [...] (U) Former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, the longest serving Chief Minister in India's political history (1977-2000) and a founding member of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M),was hospitalized on January 1 and is in critical condition. National and local political leader [...] | 2010-01-07 12:58:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
10KOLONIA12 | ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT FOR THE FEDERATED [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-17 03:17:00 | Embassy Kolonia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB |
10KOLONIA8 | AMBASSADOR PRAHAR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS, MEETS WITH FSM [...] (U) Summary. Peter Alan Prahar became the eighth U.S. Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) after presenting his credentials to FSM President Emanuel Mori. Ambassador Prahar then met separately with President Mori, Secretary for Foreign Affairs Lorin Robert, and Acting Chief [...] | 2010-02-10 05:24:00 | Embassy Kolonia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID FM |
10KOROR17 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON IRAN'S ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-26 01:40:00 | Embassy Koror | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PS |
10KOROR18 | PALAU'S RESPONSE ON THE GOLDSTONE REPORT FOLLOW-UP ACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-26 01:42:00 | Embassy Koror | UNCLASSIFIED | IO PHUM UNGA PS |
10KUALALUMPUR10 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO MALAYSIA BY CONGRESSMAN [...] (C) Mr. Congressman, Embassy Kuala Lumpur warmly welcomes your visit to Malaysia, which comes at a moment of opportunity in U.S.-Malaysia relations. In his nine months in office, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has demonstrated a more pragmatic and action-oriented approach than his predecessor [...] | 2010-01-08 09:41:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ECON ETRD KDEM MY |
10KUALALUMPUR103 | MALAYSIA’S NEW ECONOMIC MODEL: ECONOMIC REFORM EFFORTS MAY MEET OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Najib Razak (Najib) introduced a first wave of limited economic reforms (refs A and B) shortly after taking office in April 2009 and has promised more substantial economic reforms designed to improve Malaysia's competitiveness (ref C). To accomplish this, Najib f [...] | 2010-02-19 08:12:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENIV EXIM MY PGOV |
10KUALALUMPUR106 | EMPHASIS ON ANWAR CASE SHIFTS FROM COURTROOM TO [...] (SBU) The emphasis of Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy trial shifted from the courtroom to international reaction, as a host of Malaysian government officials and politicians denounced a February 11 statement by Australian MP's condemning the trial while issuing frank messages to stay out of this interna [...] | 2010-02-19 09:13:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS MY |
10KUALALUMPUR107 | POWER STRUGGLES IN PERAK: RULING COALITION WORKING HARD TO REGAIN VOTERS' SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Poloff and Pol Specialist visited the politically turbulent state of Perak from February 1-3. Perak is one of five states won by the opposition People's Alliance (PR) coalition in the March 2008 general elections, but through political defections in February 2009 it subsequently reverte [...] | 2010-02-19 09:49:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KJUS MY |
10KUALALUMPUR108 | CANING OF THREE WOMEN REFLECTS UMNO'S POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 17, Home Minister Hishammuddin announced that three women and four men who had been found guilty of illicit sex under Syariah law had been caned on February 9. The three became the first women to be caned in Malaysia. Caning of women in Malaysia had recently become [...] | 2010-02-19 11:30:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG MY |
10KUALALUMPUR11 | OVERNIGHT ATTACKS ON THREE CHURCHES RAISE CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Summary: A Protestant church was substantially burned by Molotov cocktails, and another Protestant and one Catholic church attacked without damages near Kuala Lumpur in the early morning hours of January 8, amidst heated debate about whether the Catholic Herald should be able to continue [...] | 2010-01-08 09:46:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL MY |
10KUALALUMPUR116 | MALAYSIA: NO SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE YET TO [...] (U) Embassy delivered the refetel demarche to Malaysia's Road Safety Department's (RSD) Director General Suret Singh. In follow-up conversations, Singh said that he reviewed the information and passed the information request to the legal department, but he did not have any further response. Em [...] | 2010-02-23 00:19:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI ELTN UNDP UNGA MY |
10KUALALUMPUR117 | MALAYSIA: NO SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE YET TO [...] (U) Embassy delivered the refetel demarche to Malaysia's Road Safety Department's (RSD) Director General Suret Singh. In follow-up conversations, Singh said that he reviewed the information and passed the information request to the legal department, but he did not have any further response. Em [...] | 2010-02-23 00:19:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI ELTN UNDP UNGA MY |
10KUALALUMPUR12 | MALAYSIA: UPDATE ON F-5 ENGINE SCANDAL [...] (C) Malaysian government officials continue to communicate little information directly to Post regarding the missing F-5 engines (reftels). Most of the information on the scandal to date has come thru the local media, which reported on January 6 that police arrested and charged one Air Force s [...] | 2010-01-10 23:31:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PM PGOV MY |
10KUALALUMPUR124 | GUANTANAMO REVIEW TASK FORCE DETERMINATION FOR TWO [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-24 09:22:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | PREL PTER KDRG MY |
10KUALALUMPUR128 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SYRIA AT MARCH IAEA MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-25 06:00:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MY |
10KUALALUMPUR130 | SPECIAL 301 KUALA LUMPUR INPUT [...] (SBU) In 2009 Malaysian IPR enforcement authorities continued to make significant progress in fighting IPR piracy as compared to the previous year. Malaysia also continued its legislative efforts to modernize its copyright laws and come into compliance with various trade commitments, including [...] | 2010-02-25 10:00:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR MY |
10KUALALUMPUR14 | MALAYSIA: UPDATE ON THE "ALLAH" ISSUE AND CHURCH ATTACKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Following three separate attacks on churches over the night of January 7-8 (ref A),unknown individuals made another nine attacks on churches and a mosque over the weekend, according to senior police officials at a special briefing for the diplomatic corps on January 11 at the M [...] | 2010-01-11 10:34:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL MY |
10KUALALUMPUR20 | WHAT IS GOING ON IN MALAYSIA? [...] (C) Two fundamental issues arise in connection with the Malaysian authorities' handling of the "Allah" case in which a Malaysian court has ruled unconstitutional the Najib Administration's effort to ban the use of the word "Allah" by a Catholic newspaper, publishing in both English and Malays [...] | 2010-01-12 09:08:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | MY PGOV PHUM PREL |
10KUALALUMPUR3 | GOM APPEALS KUALA LUMPUR HIGH COURT RULING ON OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 31, the Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled that the Catholic Herald, a weekly publication, could use the word "Allah" in its Malay-language edition and that the Home Minister's prohibition on non-Muslims' use of the word was unconstitutional. While the use by non-Muslims o [...] | 2010-01-05 09:07:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL MY |
10KUALALUMPUR33 | BLUE LANTERN RESPONSE ON PRE-SHIPMENT END [...] Pursuant to reftel request, Econoff in mid-January spoke with a representative of Qiblatin Synergy Sdn Bhd, Ms. PREMA Latha, the company's Manager for Procurement for the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF). Prema was especially helpful in detailing Qiblatin's now-canceled attempt to procure 10 [...] | 2010-01-19 04:56:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC MY |
10KUALALUMPUR34 | BLUE LANTERN RESPONSE ON POST-SHIPMENT OF LICENSE [...] Pursuant to reftel request, Econoff in early and mid-January contacted the Royal Malaysian Police Narcotics Division (RMPND) regarding the 01 November 2006 export of 10 sets of night vision devices (NVDs),specifically the AN/PVS-7B Style Gen III FOM 1250 model goggles. The point of contact [...] | 2010-01-19 04:56:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC MY |
10KUALALUMPUR36 | BLUE LANTERN RESPONSE ON POST-SHIPMENT END-USE [...] Pursuant to reftel request, Econoff contacted the office of the Principal Assistant Secretary (PAS) for Procurement within the Malaysian Ministry of Defense (MOD) regarding the sale of 48 Detroit diesel engines (model 5063-539H, rated 305 BHP) for armored vehicles. Econoff was referred to PUA [...] | 2010-01-19 08:03:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC MY |
10KUALALUMPUR37 | MALAYSIA: ISA UPDATE - PETRONAS MOVING AWAY FROM IRAN INVESTMENT [...] (C) Summary: Post approached the three Malaysian companies listed in Ref A that are reportedly doing business or contemplating doing business in Iran. Petronas told us January 11 that it has no active investments in Iran, no commitment has been made to invest in South Pars Phase 11 and its c [...] | 2010-01-19 09:31:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENIV ETRD ETTC IR KNNP MY |
10KUALALUMPUR43 | SABAH TRAVEL ALERT: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MFA [...] (C) In the absence of the Foreign Minister and Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General I Radzi Rahman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested a meeting with the Ambassador on January 18 to discuss the Department's January 15 Travel Alert concerning parts of Sabah, Malaysia. Radzi sai [...] | 2010-01-20 09:00:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | CT MY PGOV KTIP CASC |
10KUALALUMPUR44 | MALAYSIA: GOM ON HAITI ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) POLOFF delivered reftel demarches regarding Malaysia's humanitarian assistance offers for Haiti and information regarding Haiti air traffic on January 19 to Principal Assistant Secretary Muhammad Radzi Jamaludin, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, U.S. desk officer and Assistant Secretary for [...] | 2010-01-20 09:29:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL CASC HA MY |
10KUALALUMPUR49 | MALAYSIA: MFA VIEWS ON NON-PRO, IAEA, AND EXPORT CONTROL LAW [...] (S) The DCM met with MFA Deputy Secretary General Zainol Abidin Omar on January 15 to convey Ref A talking points and to discuss a range of other counter-proliferation and export control-related issues (refs A and B). Referencing special information that was provided to the GOM in early-Novemb [...] | 2010-01-21 08:54:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | PREL KNNP PARM IAEA MNUC PGOV IR MY |
10KUALALUMPUR55 | MALAYSIAN INTENTIONS FOR THE LONDON CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-26 01:07:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF MY |
10KUALALUMPUR57 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO MALAYSIA BY LIEUTENANT [...] (C) Lieutenant General Mixon, Embassy Kuala Lumpur warmly welcomes your visit to Malaysia, which comes at a moment of opportunity in U.S.-Malaysia relations. In his nine months in office, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has demonstrated a more pragmatic and action-oriented approach than his pr [...] | 2010-01-26 09:52:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | MCAP MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PTER OVIP MY |
10KUALALUMPUR58 | MALAYSIA: MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS UPDATE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Raja Azahar, Senior Deputy Secretary General in the Ministry of Home Affairs, told the DCM during a January 14 meeting that the GOM was pleased with its efforts combating sexual exploitation trafficking but still had room for improvement in combating labor trafficking. He expla [...] | 2010-01-27 07:54:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG MY |
10KUALALUMPUR59 | MALAYSIA: SKS VENTURES EXPLAINS ITS IRAN INVESTMENTS [...] (C) Summary: SKS Ventures (SKS) CEO Abang Iskandar Muas (Iskandar) met with Econoff January 19 to discuss SKS plans to develop the Golshan and Ferdowsi gas fields (G&F) in Iran. Iskandar said that the GOM had initially negotiated the deal with the GOI and handed the project to SKS just prior [...] | 2010-01-27 10:38:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENIV ENRG EPET ETTC IR KNNP MY |
10KUALALUMPUR6 | TIP: MALAYSIAN DIRECTOR GENERAL OF LABOR SAYS GOM [...] (SBU) Summary: Ismail Abdul Rahim, Director General of Labor in the Ministry of Human Resources, told Polcouns during a December 24 meeting that the GOM had acted to prevent outsourcing companies from fraudulently recruiting workers overseas and was close to reaching an agreement with Indonesi [...] | 2010-01-07 07:57:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG MY |
10KUALALUMPUR61 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO MALAYSIA BY DEPUTY U.S. [...] (C) Ambassador Marantis, Embassy Kuala Lumpur warmly welcomes your visit to Malaysia, which comes at a moment of opportunity in U.S.-Malaysia relations. In his nine months in office, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has demonstrated a more pragmatic and action-oriented approach than his predece [...] | 2010-01-28 11:07:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PROG PREL MY |
10KUALALUMPUR64 | OPPOSITION LEADER ANWAR'S "SODOMY II" TRIAL BEGINS [...] (SBU) Summary: After months of delay while his defense team submitted motion after motion ranging from a request to see all the evidence to outright dismissal, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's trial for alleged consensual sodomy with a former aide began in the Kuala Lumpur High Court on Febru [...] | 2010-02-03 12:26:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM MY |
10KUALALUMPUR66 | MALAYSIA: JOINT DEMARCHE WITH DUTCH ON NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) Poloff and Netherlands embassy DCM Soer met with MFA Under Secretary for Non-Proliferation Bala Chandran Tharman on January 27 to discuss the upcoming Sherpa meeting in the Hague for the Nuclear Security Summit(ref A). U/S Bala, who is the Sous Sherpa for the GOM's delegation, acknowledg [...] | 2010-02-04 03:20:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM EAID IAEA NPT AORC MNUC PREL UNGA MY |
10KUALALUMPUR68 | AA/S VAN DIEPEN'S MEETINGS IN KUALA LUMPUR ON [...] (S) SUMMARY: MFA Deputy Secretary General Zainol told visiting Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Vann Van Diepen in a 90-minute interagency meeting on January 28 that the GOM was in the final stages of reviewing its draft export control law be [...] | 2010-02-05 01:41:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | PREL EFIN ETTC PARM MY KNNP IAEA |
10KUALALUMPUR7 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED -- URGING IRAN TO RELEASE AMCITS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-07 08:41:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CASC PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER IR MY |
10KUALALUMPUR78 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO MALAYSIA BY REAR ADMIRAL [...] (C) Rear Admiral Connor, Embassy Kuala Lumpur warmly welcomes your visit to Malaysia, which comes at a moment of opportunity in U.S.-Malaysia relations. In his ten months in office, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak has demonstrated a more pragmatic and action-oriented approach than his predeces [...] | 2010-02-08 09:49:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | SECRET | MCAP MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL PTER OVIP MY |
10KUALALUMPUR8 | EXBS: MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE/INDONESIA/PHILIPPINES ADVISOR [...] SUMMARY: (U) This cable covers the period 1-31 Dec 09. - Contraband Team Detection Kits (CT-30) arrive in MY. - Advisor meets with and fields CNBR training requests from Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA). - Invitation to MFA to participate in "Commodities Identification Workshop" re [...] | 2010-01-07 23:35:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL MY |
10KUALALUMPUR80 | MALAYSIA: GOM NAMES NEW GOVENOR TO THE IAEA [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Deputy Secretary General II for Multilateral Affairs Mohammed Zainol invited the Ambassador to a February 9 meeting to inform him that the GOM had appointed Muhammad Shahrul Ikram Bin Yaakob as the new Governor of Malaysia to the Board of Governors (BOG) of the IAEA. Zainol [...] | 2010-02-09 10:36:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PGOV IAEA IR MY |
10KUALALUMPUR88 | MALAYSIA NON-COMMITTAL ON PRESSURING IRAN ON HUMAN [...] (SBU) Poloff conveyed reftel demarche points to Mr. Jamal Sharifuddin Johan, Principal Assistant Secretary who covers human rights in the MFA's Multilateral Political Division, on February 10. Jamal thanked Poloff for providing the U.S. perspective on Iran's human rights abuses, but noted that [...] | 2010-02-11 08:20:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM IR MY |
10KUALALUMPUR89 | MALAYSIA: FM CALLS FOR ASSK'S RELEASE [...] (U) Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman called on Burma to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) ahead of national elections expected to be held in late 2010. Anifah told AFP on February 9 that "we want a free, fair, and an inclusive election. We should give everybody a chance, i [...] | 2010-02-11 08:33:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BM MY |
10KUALALUMPUR90 | MALAYSIA IN LISTENING MODE ON NEED TO PRESSURE IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Shazryll Zahiran, responding to ref A points that Iran's continued non-compliance with UN and IAEA obligations regarding its nuclear program deserves the urgent attention of the international community, agreed that Iran [...] | 2010-02-11 09:31:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PGOV IR MY IAEA |
10KUALALUMPUR91 | EXBS: MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE/INDONESIA/PHILIPPINES ADVISOR [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-11 23:37:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL MY |
10KUALALUMPUR92 | COURT DECISION ON STATE POWER PLAY ENDS LEGAL BATTLE, BUT SETS WORRISOME PRECEDENT [...] (SBU) Malaysia's Federal Court, the highest level in Malaysia's judicial system, announced on February 9 that the Sultan of Perak had the legal authority to appoint a new Chief Minister in his state, as he did in February 2009, after concluding that the ruling National Front (BN) coalition com [...] | 2010-02-12 03:53:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS MY |
10KUALALUMPUR94 | MALAYSIA'S TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The government of Malaysia (GOM) made significant efforts to address the challenges associated with trafficking in persons (TIP) during this reporting period. Malaysia reacted to its placement on Tier Three in the 2009 Report in a constructive and responsible manner. Senior g [...] | 2010-02-12 08:17:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KFRD ASEC |
10KUALALUMPUR95 | FIRST WEEK OF ANWAR'S TRIAL -- VICTIM TESTIMONY [...] (SBU) Summary: The first week of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy trial, which began February 3, featured graphic testimony by former Anwar aide and alleged victim Saiful Bukhari, extensive press coverage in both the government-influenced media and blogosphere, and motions by the defen [...] | 2010-02-12 09:06:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS MY |
10KUALALUMPUR96 | MALAYSIA EXPRESSES INTEREST IN TRANS-PACIFIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy USTR Marantis accompanied by the Ambassador discussed the Trans Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (TPP) and other trade issues in meetings with Malaysia's Minister of International Trade and Industry Mustapa, and several other Ministerial level officials during his v [...] | 2010-02-17 08:52:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD MY |
10KUWAIT1 | GTMO RETURNEE FUAD AL-RABIAH RELEASED BY COURT [...] (U) In a page-one special, Kuwaiti daily Arab Times reported on December 30 that recent GTMO detainee Fuad Al-Rabiah, who was handed over to the GOK and returned to Kuwait on December 10, was released by a Kuwaiti court on December 29. The article noted that Al-Rabiah, who was arrested in Afg [...] | 2010-01-04 12:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PGOV PINR KDRG KU |
10KUWAIT100 | KFAS FORUM BUILDS MOMENTUM FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY [...] (U) Econoff attended the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) Perspectives on Energy and Climate Forum from January 18-20, an event cosponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The forum assessed the domestic energy question from both the supply and dema [...] | 2010-02-03 14:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET SENV KU |
10KUWAIT102 | GOK WILL NOT ASSOCIATE WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD [...] (C) On January 31st, Econoff followed up on the status of Kuwait's deliberations on associating with the Copenhagen Accord with Captain Ali Al-Haider, the Deputy Director General for Kuwait's Environmental Public Authority (KEPA) (ref B). Al-Haider, the head of Kuwait's interagency climate co [...] | 2010-02-04 11:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KGHG SENV KU |
10KUWAIT103 | GOK TO ATTEND MARCH CITES CONFERENCE IN DOHA [...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel points about the U.S. initiatives for the 15th meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties (COP15) taking place March 13-25 in Doha to Captain Ali Al-Haider, Deputy Director General for Kuwait's Environmental Public Authority on January 31st. Al-Haider affirmed [...] | 2010-02-04 12:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KU SENV ENRC KSCA CITES AORC UNEP |
10KUWAIT105 | U.S. MILITARY FLIES KUWAITI TENTS TO HAITI [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (U) on February 3, three weeks after the Minister of Health approached Ambassador for assistance in sending relief supplies to Haiti, final clearances were received permitting space-available transportation of 300 Kuwait Red Crescent [...] | 2010-02-04 13:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREF YM KU |
10KUWAIT106 | KUWAIT SCENE SETTER FOR SCIENCE ENVOY DR. ZERHOUNI [...] (SBU) Ambassador and Mission Kuwait warmly welcome the February 17-18 visit of Science Envoy Elias Zerhouni. Meetings have been requested with the following officials: H.E. Dr. Hilal Al-Sayer, the Minister of Health; Dr. Naji Al-Mutairi, the Director General for the Kuwait Institute for Scient [...] | 2010-02-04 13:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KU SENV |
10KUWAIT107 | KUWAIT UNHAPPY OVER PUBLIC "OUTING" ON PATRIOT DEAL [...] (C) Like some of its Arabian Gulf neighbors (ref A),the GoK was embarrassed and chagrined by discussion in a January 31 New York Times article linking plans to deploy defensive missile systems to Kuwait and a number of other Gulf countries to possible Iranian missile attacks. The article co [...] | 2010-02-04 13:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS IR KU |
10KUWAIT11 | PARLIAMENT GIVES INITIAL APPROVAL TO BILL [...] (C) Kuwait's National Assembly, by a vote of 35-22 (one abstention) on January 6 approved a bill sanctioning the write-off of interest on citizens' consumer loans and rescheduling their debts. (Note: Total consumer loans reached KD 5.2 bn (USD 18 bn) in November 2009. End note.) The GoK str [...] | 2010-01-10 10:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KU |
10KUWAIT123 | NEW SUPREME PETROLEUM COUNCIL MEETS -- ROOM FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 8, one day after its appointment, Kuwait's Supreme Petroleum Council met and reportedly approved a technical services agreement with Shell. The decree appointed the 18 member (8 government, 10 private sector) oil policy making body, which had not met since December [...] | 2010-02-11 05:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PGOV KU |
10KUWAIT124 | SUPREME PETROLEUM COUNCIL APPROVES SHELL TSA [...] (U) This contains business proprietary information. 2. (SBU) On February 9, ExxonMobil Kuwait President John Hoholick told Econcouns that he had been learned that Kuwait's newly appointed Supreme Petroleum Council had approved an agreement with Shell to develop the Sabriyah gas field. Acc [...] | 2010-02-11 09:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG KU |
10KUWAIT125 | WELCOME CABLE FOR CODEL MCCASKILL (FEBRUARY 12-13, 2010) [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes CODEL McCaskill to travel to post from Feb 12-13, 2010. 2. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and an expeditor will meet and assist you upon arrival. Embassy point of contact is: Kristina Weiss, ISU Senior Liaison Office- (965) 2259-1170 Cell- (965)9985- [...] | 2010-02-11 09:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN KU |
10KUWAIT126 | KUWAIT'S 2010 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION: PART 1 [...] (SBU) Part 1 of Embassy Kuwait's submission for the 2010 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report follows. 2. (SBU) Responses are keyed to paragraphs 25 to 27 of reftel. ================== THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION ================== 3. (SBU) Please find below responses to questions i [...] | 2010-02-11 10:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB |
10KUWAIT127 | KUWAIT'S 2010 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION: PART 2 [...] (SBU) Part 2 of Embassy Kuwait's submission for the 2010 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report follows. 2. (SBU) Responses are keyed to paragraphs 27 to 30 of reftel. ================== INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF TRAFFICKERS (continued) ================== 3. (SBU) Please find b [...] | 2010-02-11 10:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB |
10KUWAIT129 | KUWAIT: SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY OF [...] (SBU) Ambassador and Mission Kuwait cordially welcome the February 16-18 visit of Deputy Secretary of Treasury Neal S. Wolin. 2. (SBU) Situated at the nexus of Iraq, Iran, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait is a constitutional emirate with a freely-elected -- and rambunctious -- parli [...] | 2010-02-11 13:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL PTER KTFN OVIP KU |
10KUWAIT13 | GOK STATES NO RECENT ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT ISSUES [...] (SBU) Econoff met with Waleed Al-Sabej, the General Supervisor and Acting Director of Kuwait's Arab League Boycott office on December 30 to discuss recent activities (ref A). Al-Sabej confirmed that he attends the bi-annual Arab Boycott League meetings at the Damascus-headquartered office. H [...] | 2010-01-11 11:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KBCT ECON ETRD KU |
10KUWAIT131 | LEAHY REQUEST FOR ABDULRAZAQ ALAWADHI [...] This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para 2. 2. The Embassy requests the Department's assistance in performing human rights vetting for: LAST NAME: ALAWADHI FIRST NAME: ABDULRAZAQ DOB: 2 NOVEMBER 1954 PLACE OF BIRTH: KUWAIT CITY, K [...] | 2010-02-15 11:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR MASS KU |
10KUWAIT133 | WELCOME CABLE FOR CODEL SCHIFF (FEBRUARY 16-17, 2010) [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes CODEL Schiff to travel to post Feb 16-17, 2010. 2. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/expeditor will meet and assist you at the airport. Embassy point of contact is: Kristina Weiss, ISU Senior Liaison Office- (965) 2259-1170 Cell- (965) 998 [...] | 2010-02-15 12:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN KU |
10KUWAIT134 | AMBASSADOR PULSES YOUNG KUWAITIS ON THEIR VISIONS [...] (C) Summary. At a February 2 luncheon at the CMR organized around the theme "Youth Vision for Kuwait in 2020," Ambassador pulsed fifteen Kuwaiti youth leaders, ranging from liberal to conservative, on what sort of Kuwait they will seek to create a decade from now. In response to her overture, [...] | 2010-02-15 13:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PHUM KWMN KU |
10KUWAIT136 | GOK OFFICIAL: GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT AGREEMENT NOT [...] (SBU) On January 28th, Econoff met with Ishaq Abdulkarim, the Finance Ministry's Director of International Economic Co-Operation, about the status of Kuwait's interest in the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). Abdulkarim stated that there had been no updates or any movement on this i [...] | 2010-02-16 05:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINT PGOV ECPS KIPR EIND ETRD KU |
10KUWAIT137 | MOVING TO THE PRESSURE TRACK ON IRAN: KUWAITIS [...] (U) This is an action message for the Department, please see paragraph X. 2. (C) Summary: Ambassador reviewed February 10 developments in US Iran policy with FM Dr. Shaykh Mohammed Al Sabah, taking the opportunity to note USG concerns about recent high-level Kuwait-Iran exchanges and pr [...] | 2010-02-16 06:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KU |
10KUWAIT138 | THE PRESIDENTIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT: KUWAITI [...] (U) Per reftel request, post has contacted all five of the invitees to the Presidential Entrepreneurship Summit. Four of the five participants confirmed their attendance and visa status for the Summit. (Note: Marwan Boodai, the Chairman of Jazeera Airways, who had originally accepted the invit [...] | 2010-02-16 13:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SENV PGOV KU |
10KUWAIT14 | GOK OFFICIAL DISCUSSES INTERNET CENSORSHIP, VOIP [...] (SBU) During a January 4 meeting with Econoff, Nasser Al-Kendari, the Director of the Telephone Monitoring Department in the Ministry of Communications (MoC),discussed internet censorship, the GoK's prohibition on Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology, and IPR-related internet issues [...] | 2010-01-11 11:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINT PGOV ECPS KIPR EIND ETRD KU |
10KUWAIT140 | KUWAIT WANTS GREATER CLARITY ON IRAQ DRAW-DOWN [...] (S/NF) Kuwait's new military leadership -- likely with tacit support at the political level -- has increasingly made clear over recent weeks that, with the Iraq war receding into the past and the Iraqi government increasingly capable (and solvent),the large US military presence here is becomi [...] | 2010-02-17 13:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PARM MARR MASS KU |
10KUWAIT142 | KUWAIT INTERIOR MINISTER SOUNDS ALARM ON IRAN; [...] (S/NF) Summary: Interior Minister Jaber Al-Khaled Al Sabah told Ambassador February 16 that he is deeply concerned about Iranian actions, particularly in Yemen with the Houthis. A security hard-liner whose views do not always reflect those of the rest of the GoK, Shaykh Jaber suggested Iran [...] | 2010-02-17 14:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER IR YM KU |
10KUWAIT143 | KUWAITI PROSECUTOR WANTS TOUGHER CT LAWS [...] (C) Mubarak Al-Refaie, Head of Kuwait City (Capitol) Prosecution Office told poloff February 11 that Kuwaiti prosecutors are eager to try and convict homegrown terrorism suspects but their efforts are stymied by antiquated CT laws. For the prosecution, he stated, the biggest hindrance to co [...] | 2010-02-18 14:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR PGOV KU |
10KUWAIT146 | U.S. SPEAKER AND EXPERT ON SPECIAL EDUCATION, DR. CLAYTON [...] (U) Summary: Dr. Clayton Keller, U.S. Speaker and a leading expert in the field of special education, conducted a series of very successful, well received lectures during his two-day program in Kuwait from January 25-28, 2010. His visit generated enormous interest and good will for the Embassy [...] | 2010-02-21 07:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC OIIP SCUL KPAO ZR |
10KUWAIT15 | FEEDBACK REQUESTED ON PENDING AML AMENDEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. US Customs representative and Econoff were invited on January 5th by Ministry of Commerce and Industry Anti-Money Laundering Unit (MoCI) to provide feedback on the pending AML amendment (Ref a). Post appreciates prompt input provided by Customs, Treasury, State/INL, and DoJ t [...] | 2010-01-11 12:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PINR KTFN KU |
10KUWAIT150 | KUWAITI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHAIRMAN ON [...] (SBU) In the context of the Kuwaiti parliamentary passage of a four year $104 billion development plan (including approximately $80 billion in oil sector projects),Ambassador met with Kuwait Chamber of Commerce Chairman Ali Al-Ghanim to discuss potential opportunities for U.S. businesses. Al- [...] | 2010-02-22 07:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ENRG ECON EPET KU |
10KUWAIT152 | S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS [...] (U) On February 2nd, Econoff delivered reftel points about the call for small grants proposals from the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues to Business and Professional Women Organization (BPW) members Maha A. Al-Baghli, the Senior Manager with the Kuwait Asia Holding Company and Maali [...] | 2010-02-22 13:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KU |
10KUWAIT160 | GOK TO ENCOURAGE YEMEN REFORM AT RIYADH MEETING [...] (C) PolCouns on February 23 raised reftel points concerning the February 27-28 GCC Secretariat meeting in Riyadh on donor coordination in Yemen with Faisal Al-Houli, Counselor in MFA's Arab World Department. Al-Houli responded that the GOK views the upcoming meeting as very important and believes t [...] | 2010-02-23 13:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV YM KU |
10KUWAIT161 | GOK QUIETLY CONCERNED ABOUT IRANIAN ENRICHMENT [...] PolCouns on February 23 raised ref a points regarding USG policy on Iran's Tehran research reactor with Counselor Rashid Al-Hajiri, MFA's desk officer for Iran. Al-Hajiri offered no substantive response to our points, noting merely that the GOK has been following the issue through its represe [...] | 2010-02-23 13:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MNUC PARM IR KU |
10KUWAIT165 | KUWAIT: SPECIAL 301 REPORT 2010 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting on February 10th, Econcouns informed Ahmed Al-Haroun, the Minister of Commerce and Industry (MOCI),and Sheikha Rasha Naief Al-Sabah, the Director for IPR in the MOCI, about the 2010 301 Special Report review process. Due to the delays in passing a TRIPS-compliant C [...] | 2010-02-24 11:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD SENV ECON KU |
10KUWAIT166 | VISA REVOCATIONS: KUWAIT [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-24 11:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | CMGT CVIS KU |
10KUWAIT167 | KUWAIT RATIFIES NEW PRIVATE SECTOR LABOR LAW [...] (U) On February 21, Kuwait's new Private Sector Labor Law entered into force after it was published in the official gazette, having been approved by Amiri decree on February 10 and unanimously passed by the parliament on December 23 (REFS A & B). The law, updating its antiquated 1964 predecesso [...] | 2010-02-24 11:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM SOCI KWMN KTIP KMPI ELAB KU |
10KUWAIT168 | MP MOVES TO GRILL OIL/INFORMATION MINISTER [...] (C) Tribal MP Ali Al-Dokbasi filed on February 23 a motion to interpellate Minister of Oil/Information Shaykh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al Sabah on grounds that the government failed to enforce adequately an audio-visual media law in the aftermath of urbanite Mohammed Al-Juwaihel's December 18 [...] | 2010-02-24 11:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PGOV KU |
10KUWAIT17 | MISSION KUWAIT'S PARTICIPATION IN THE 34TH ANNUAL BOOK FAIR [...] (U) Summary: U.S. Embassy Kuwait participated in Kuwait's 34th annual book fair, held from October 28 to November 7, 2009 and attended by thousands of book lovers from across the socio-economic and political spectrums, including many groups of school children, from around the Gulf region. The [...] | 2010-01-11 13:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC OIIP SCUL KPAO ZR |
10KUWAIT21 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - KUWAIT 25TH COMMANDO [...] This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para 2. 2. The Embassy requests the Department's assistance in performing human rights vetting for: NAME: Kuwait 25th Commando Brigade SEX: DOB: POB: NATIONALITY: OCCUPATION: PASSPORT: [...] | 2010-01-12 11:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR MASS KU |
10KUWAIT22 | GOK STEPS UP ABUSE PROSECUTIONS/TRAINING AHEAD OF [...] (U) Summary: Further to reftel report of a recent landmark court case in which a Kuwaiti national received a 16-year sentence for abuse of a domestic worker, the GoK has continued to demonstrate an increased commitment to prosecuting TIP-related crimes (particularly against foreign domestic w [...] | 2010-01-12 13:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KTIP PHUM ELAB KU |
10KUWAIT23 | MFA’S ARAB WORLD DEPARTMENT DISCUSSES ABU MAZEN’S [...] (U) There is an action request in para 7. 2. (C) Summary: The head of MFA's Arab World Department, Ambassador Jassem Mubaraki, told Polcouns January 12 that Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's January 5 - 6 visit to Kuwait and meeting with the Amir was positive, and provided an oppo [...] | 2010-01-12 14:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL KU IR YM |
10KUWAIT29 | KUWAIT SCENESETTER FOR JANUARY 24 JOINT MILITARY [...] (S/NF) Convening in Washington January 24-26, the ninth round of the Joint Military Commission (JMC) -- the first JMC since Spring 2007 -- offers senior DOD and DOS officials an opportunity to pulse GoK senior military officials on possible changes in the military operating environment in Ku [...] | 2010-01-14 11:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MASS MARR PARM KU |
10KUWAIT3 | PURSUING REQUEST FOR GOK APPROVAL TO BROADCAST [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-04 14:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL BBG KPAO KU IR |
10KUWAIT31 | KUWAITI RESPONSE TO UN 1267 (AL-QAIDA/TALIBAN) [...] (SBU) In response to reftel request, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided the following identifying data on Abdu Hakim Murad on January 12, 2010 via Diplomatic Note. The GoK has no information about Murad's current place of residence or activity. 2. (SBU) Identifying information Name: [...] | 2010-01-14 13:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL KTFN PTER |
10KUWAIT35 | KUWAIT TO PROVIDE RELIEF SUPPLIES TO HAITI [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (U) Key points: -- The Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) will wire USD 800,000 to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies as early as January 19. -- KRCS has already purchased aproximately 100 tons [...] | 2010-01-19 12:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREF PREL YM KU |
10KUWAIT36 | TRIPARTITE TALKS: POSITIVE VIBES BUT NOTHING TO [...] (C) Despite continued, laudable efforts by the GoI Ministry of Human Rights to secure progress on recovering the remains of Kuwaiti MIAs -- including formation of an Iraqi interagency coordinating committee -- the lack of tangible progress and the looming June expiry of the Tarasov UN Mandate [...] | 2010-01-19 13:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR PGOV IZ KU |
10KUWAIT39 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR STAFFDEL RAVEN JANUARY 21-22 [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Professional Staff Member Erik Raven and delegation to travel to post on Thursday, January 21, 2010 to review issues of U.S. National interest, including examining current operations of the Fifth Fleet and the intelligence, surve [...] | 2010-01-20 11:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN KU |
10KUWAIT4 | SCENESETTER FOR JANUARY 7 VISIT OF CODEL MCCONNELL [...] (U) Mission Kuwait warmly welcomes the January 7 visit of CODEL McConnell. Ambassador and country team look forward to providing the CODEL with a classified briefing on January 7. Given the brevity of CODEL's stay in Kuwait, no meetings with GOK officials have been arranged. Kuwait Snapsh [...] | 2010-01-04 14:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM ECON KU |
10KUWAIT40 | POST RECEIVED GOK DIPLOMATIC NOTE ON MEMBERSHIP [...] (SBU) Action request: Post received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MFA) Office of International Organizations requesting support for the GoK's official application for membership to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) during the Oct. 4-22, 2010 elections [...] | 2010-01-20 12:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINT PGOV ECPS KIPR EIND ETRD KU |
10KUWAIT42 | KUWAIT RECEIVES IRAQI POLITICAL FIGURES IN RUN-UP [...] (C) Former Iraqi PM Dr. Ibrahim Al-Jaafari held a series of high-level meetings in Kuwait on December 12 and 13 including with the Amir, Parliamentary Speaker, and National Security Bureau (NSB). While the visits were publicly portrayed as focused on building bilateral relations, Al-Jaafari a [...] | 2010-01-20 14:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EINV KU IZ |
10KUWAIT43 | GOK CONSIDERING CLIMATE CHANGE DEMARCHE, [...] (SBU) This is an action request; see Paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) On January 21, A/DCM met with Salem Al-Shebli, First Secretary in the Legal Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to urge the GoK to associate itself with the Copenhagen Accord. Al-Shebli accompanied Kuwaiti Prime Minister [...] | 2010-01-21 12:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG SENV KU |
10KUWAIT45 | TREASURY A/S COHEN REQUESTS CONTINUED TF [...] (C) Summary and Key Points. During a series of meetings on January 13 in Kuwait, Treasury A/S Cohen: - Emphasized the Obama administration's commitment to disrupt, dismantle, and eventually defeat Al-Qa'ida to prevent their return to Afghanistan and Pakistan; - Stressed that the Gulf-based financ [...] | 2010-01-24 11:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN PTER PGOV EFIN KU |
10KUWAIT49 | GOK AND NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE PLAN [...] (U) On January 20th, Econoff accompanied Kathrin Humphrey, an Associate Program Officer for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine on a meeting with Hayfaa Almudhaf, the Senior Advisor to the Director General of Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR),to discuss t [...] | 2010-01-25 12:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG EPET KU |
10KUWAIT5 | PURSUING REQUEST FOR GOK APPROVAL TO BROADCAST [...] (S/NF) During a December 30 meeting with MFA U/S Khaled Jarallah, Ambassador pursued ref A points concerning USG desire to obtain GOK permission to broadcast into Iran from a soon-to-be completed new transmitter at IBB's Kuwait Transmitting Station. Noting she'd raised this months ago with th [...] | 2010-01-04 14:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL BBG KPAO KU IR |
10KUWAIT52 | FOREIGN MINISTER SPEAKS OUT ON ISSUES WITH IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging January 17 interview with Al-Qabas, a leading Kuwaiti Arabic-language daily, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al Sabah voiced his thoughts on lingering bilateral issues with Iraq and on Kuwait's relations with Iran. Embassy provides [...] | 2010-01-25 13:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ IR KU |
10KUWAIT53 | KUWAIT'S FOREIGN MINISTER TO ATTEND LONDON [...] (C) During a January 25 call on Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al Sabah, A/S Feltman, accompanied by the Ambassador, acknowledged strong USG concern about increasing insecurity in Yemen and noted USG intentions to increase security and development assistance the [...] | 2010-01-25 13:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID YM AF KU |
10KUWAIT59 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST [...] This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para 2. 2. The Embassy requests the Department's assistance in performing human rights vetting for: MAJOR GENERAL AHMAD Y. A. A. T. ALMULLA (DOB: APR-17-1955, Kuwaiti Passport # 002364366, [...] | 2010-01-26 13:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR MASS KU |
10KUWAIT6 | WELCOME CABLE FOR CODEL MCCAIN (JANUARY 5-6, 2010) [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes CODEL McCain to travel to post Jan 5-6, 2010. 2. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/expeditor will meet and assist you at the airport. Embassy point of contact is: Kristina Weiss, ISU Senior Liaison Office- (965) 2259-1170 Cell- (965) 9985- [...] | 2010-01-05 10:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN KU |
10KUWAIT61 | IRANIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER LARIJANI COMPLETES [...] (U) Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani completed a two-day visit to Kuwait on January 27 at the invitation of Kuwaiti Parliament speaker Jassem Al-Kharafi, who met Larijani on arrival at Kuwait airport. While Kuwait's press provided only a sketchy outline of the meetings, some ink was de [...] | 2010-01-27 13:56:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON IR KU |
10KUWAIT62 | YEMENI AMBASSADOR TO KUWAIT REJECTS TERRORISM [...] (C) According to press reports, Kuwait State Security recently detained UNSCR 1267 designee Mubarak Al-Bathali after he allegedly offered to "mediate" between the GoY and Al-Qaeda in Yemen. Al-Bathali, a Kuwaiti citizen, reportedly conveyed to Yemeni Ambassador to Kuwait Khalid Al-Shaykh bot [...] | 2010-01-27 13:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PINR KU |
10KUWAIT79 | KUWAIT INCREASES ASSISTANCE TO HAITI [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (U) Summary. On January 28 DCM and Econcouns met with Yousef Al-Merag, Director of Disaster relief for the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS),to discuss the status of GoK,s pending offer of in-kind assistance to Haiti and to thank h [...] | 2010-01-28 14:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREF PREL YM KU |
10KUWAIT8 | SBU SCENESETTER FOR JANUARY 7 VISIT OF CODEL [...] (U) Mission Kuwait warmly welcomes the January 7 visit of CODEL McConnell. Ambassador and country team look forward to providing the CODEL with a classified briefing on January 7. Given the brevity of CODEL's stay in Kuwait, no meetings with GOK officials have been arranged. Kuwait Snapshot [...] | 2010-01-05 13:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM ECON KU |
10KUWAIT83 | HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW FOR DOD FUNDED TRAINING [...] This is an action request for human rights verification required by the Leahy Amendment; see para 2. 2. Post requests the Department's assistance in performing human rights vetting for the following unit and unit commander of the Kuwait Marine Forces, who have been selected to participa [...] | 2010-01-31 06:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR MASS KU |
10KUWAIT88 | AMBASSADOR RAISES IRANIAN NUCLEAR CONCERNS WITH [...] (C) Ambassador, during a January 31 luncheon in honor of Tony Blair at the residence of Prime Minister Shaykh Nasser Al Sabah, pulled aside Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al Sabah and raised ref A points concerning Iran's nuclear program, continuing USG concerns, and our efforts to addres [...] | 2010-02-01 11:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PGOV UNSC IR KU |
10KUWAIT90 | RED CRESCENT TO SEND 1,500 TENTS TO HAITI - TOTAL [...] (U) Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) President Barges Al-Barges told emboffs January 30 that Kuwait had pledged a total of USD 3.5 million, KRCS had already sent USD one million to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC),spent an additional USD 330,000 to purchase [...] | 2010-02-01 12:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREF PREL YM KU |
10KUWAIT94 | A/S FELTMAN DISCUSSES IRAQ, IRAN, MEPP, AND YEMEN [...] (C) Key points: - A/S Feltman noted he'd accompanied Vice President Biden to Iraq, where he continued to encourage political reconciliation. The A/S suggested movement on Chapter VII issues involving Kuwait was more likely following the March elections, but said he had pressed Iraq to name [...] | 2010-02-02 13:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL EAID KTFN PTER IZ IR YM KU |
10KUWAIT95 | KUWAIT TRIES TO DOWNPLAY IMPORTANCE OF VISITS BY [...] (C) Summary: Kuwaiti officials took pains to downplay the importance of a January 26 - 27 visit by Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and the preceding week's visit by an Iranian economic team. Officials insisted that the Larijani visit had come at the invitation of Kuwait's Parliament [...] | 2010-02-02 14:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EPET ENRG IR KU |
10KUWAIT99 | KUWAIT: TERRORISM TRIAL CONTINUES, KSS WITNESS [...] (SBU) In the ongoing trial of the alleged "Arifjan plotters" -- adjourned since December 21 (reftel) -- Kuwait State Security (KSS) investigator Abdulaziz Salem testified in the Court of First Instance February 2 that though conspiracy charges were dismissed earlier, six Kuwaitis had indeed [...] | 2010-02-03 12:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV PREL PINR KU |
10KYIV103 | IMF AGAIN DISMAYED BY UKRAINIAN AUTHORITIES [...] (C) Summary. IMF resident representative Max Alier expressed frustration and dismay at the GOU's recent public statements falsely announcing the impending arrival of an IMF technical assessment team. Alier said the GOU had resorted to "pressure tactics" and that Deputy Prime Minister Nemyri [...] | 2010-01-21 13:27:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EREL ETRD PGOV PINR UP XH |
10KYIV104 | UKRAINE: CANDIDATES VIE FOR VOTERS AS THE RUNOFF [...] (SBU) The two candidates who will compete in the February 7 runoff for the presidency, Party of Regions (Regions) candidate Viktor Yanukovych and PM Yuliya Tymoshenko, kicked-off their campaigns as expected, appealing to the voters who supported second-tier candidates during the first round. [...] | 2010-01-21 16:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
10KYIV105 | UKRAINE: VERKHOVNA RADA OVERIDES VETO OF LAND SALE [...] (U) Summary. Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, overturned President Yushchenko's veto of the bill extending the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land until January 1, 2012. In a widely expected move, the Rada confirmed its decision to formally put agricultural land sales on hold [...] | 2010-01-22 08:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR UP |
10KYIV107 | POSSIBLE NEW UKRAINIAN PM TIHIPKO CASTS SELF AS [...] (C) Summary. Serhiy Tihipko may accept the position of Prime Minister of Ukraine, but only if he is guaranteed support from the new President and the Rada (parliament) to tackle economic and administrative reforms, and only after the presidential race concludes. Having just finished third i [...] | 2010-01-22 13:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD PGOV PINR PREL UP XH EREL |
10KYIV113 | WORLD BANK PROPOSES UKRAINE REFORM PROGRAM [...] (C) Summary. The World Bank's Kyiv-based country director Martin Raiser plans to convene the donor community to coordinate a message to Ukraine's new President on needed economic reforms. Raiser told the Ambassador that the Bank had grouped its reform proposals into three areas (fiscal, inv [...] | 2010-01-25 10:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD PGOV PINR PREL UP XH EREL |
10KYIV120 | UKRAINE'S "OTHER" SECURITY THREAT - ROMANIA [...] (C) From the perspective of Kyiv, the Ukrainian-Romanian bilateral relationship is surprisingly troubled, with a wide range of irritants both great and small. The most neuralgic issues for Ukrainians are linked to concerns about Romanian irredentism (e.g., issuance of Romanian passports to U [...] | 2010-01-25 15:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS EWWT SENV NATO EU UP RO |
10KYIV125 | LAVROV-POROSHENKO DEAL ON NEW RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE [...] (C) At a January 26 meeting with the Ambassador, Ukrainian FM Poroshenko explained how he had cut a deal with Russian FM Lavrov to facilitate the arrival of the new Russian ambassador to Ukraine, Mikhail Zurabov. Moscow had burned all bridges with Ukrainian President Yushchenko and had not w [...] | 2010-01-26 14:20:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UP RS |
10KYIV128 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: DISAPPOINTED CANDIDATE [...] (C) Poorly performing Presidential candidate and head of the Rada National Security and Defense Committee, Anatoliy Hrytsenko, told the Ambassador January 22 that he did not see much of a difference between PM Tymoshenko and opposition leader Yanukovych, the two candidates for the February 7 r [...] | 2010-01-26 15:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR UP |
10KYIV129 | UKRAINE: DEMARCHE ON COPENHAGEN ACCORD DELIVERED [...] (U) The Government of Ukraine (GOU) has no principle objections to associating with the Copenhagen Accord. However, given upcoming Presidential elections, it is uncertain that Ukraine will complete its association by the January 31 deadline. Post delivered reftel talking points to Igor Lupal [...] | 2010-01-26 15:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV KGHG ENRG UP |
10KYIV168 | UKRAINE: LOW PROFILE FOR SECURITY ISSUES IN THE [...] (C) Summary. In contrast to the 2004 elections, issues of national security and defense remain notable by their absence in this year's presidential campaign. Ukrainians are focused on the economic crisis and the election's potential for reconfiguring Ukraine's political power relationships. All can [...] | 2010-01-29 13:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR UP |
10KYIV17 | TYMOSHENKO UNABLE TO PRY OPEN NBU RESERVES [...] (C) Summary. Negotiations have stalled over the transfer of $2 billion in National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) reserves to the state treasury, inhibiting Prime Minister Tymoshenko's government from getting ready cash to assist with Naftohaz's January 11 payment to Gazprom. Having lowered the NBU's [...] | 2010-01-05 16:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EREL ETRD PGOV PINR UP XH |
10KYIV170 | ONE WEEK TO ELECTION: YANUKOVYCH CAMP CONFIDENT [...] (C) Even allies of PM Tymoshenko concede to us that Regions Party candidate Viktor Yanukovych is holding on to his lead in advance of the February 7 Presidential runoff. Tymoshenko must mobilize greater numbers of "Orange" voters over the next week or face defeat. If Yanukovych wins, members [...] | 2010-01-29 16:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
10KYIV178 | INFORMATION ON CHILD LABOR AND FORCED LABOR FOR [...] (U) Post responded to prior taskings, and does not have information on additional goods for the Ukraine TVPRA list. ---------- TASK 2/TDA ---------- 2A. PREVALENCE AND SECTORAL DISTRIBUTION OF EXPLOITIVE CHILD LABOR --------------------------------- -------------------------------- Â [...] | 2010-02-01 15:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI SIPDIS USAID UP |
10KYIV179 | MOBILIZING PRESSURE ON IRAN REGARDING NUCLEAR [...] (C) Ambassador February 1 drew on reftel points to explain to Deputy Foreign Minister Volodymyr Khandogiy the US rationale for sharpening the choices that Iran faces by increasing pressure on Iran. Khandogiy expressed general agreement and observed that Ukraine is "very much concerned about [...] | 2010-02-01 17:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC IR UP |
10KYIV184 | UKRAINIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS AFTER YUSHCHENKO: A [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-02 15:16:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO EU UP RS |
10KYIV186 | TERNOPIL: FEARS OF FRAUD NOT BORNE OUT IN FIRST [...] (C) During a recent visit to Ternopil Oblast in west-central Ukraine, campaign officials, NGOs and journalists told us that they were concerned about vote buying in the oblast during the presidential elections. PM Yuliya Tymoshenko and Party of Regions candidate Viktor Yanukovych's campaign d [...] | 2010-02-02 16:19:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
10KYIV190 | FORMER PRESIDENT KUCHMA ON UKRAINIAN ELECTION, [...] (C) Former Ukrainian President Kuchma had no kind words for the current "orange" government, accusing it of ruining the economy and the country's international reputation, and of deepening Ukraine's internal divisions. While he endorsed his former PM, Viktor Yanukovych, he characterized the Februar [...] | 2010-02-03 15:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG MARR UP RS |
10KYIV191 | POTENTIAL FOR POST ELECTION COURT BATTLES [...] (C) Prime Minister Tymoshenko's continued allegation of fraud in the January 17 first round presidential election, despite the OSCE's assessment that it was, for the most part, free and fair, raises the importance of the appeals process for the February 7 runoff. The Chairmanship of the High [...] | 2010-02-03 15:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
10KYIV192 | TYMOSHENKO CONDEMNS ELECTION LAW CHANGES; INVOKES [...] (C) A [...] | 2010-02-04 14:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
10KYIV193 | UKRAINE'S DEPUTY PM ON MONEY LAUNDERING, [...] (C) Summary. In a broad-ranging discussion with the Ambassador on February 2, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Nemyrya expressed concern about Ukraine being designated as a high-risk country at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary meeting in Abu Dhabi in mid-February. Nemyrya also [...] | 2010-02-05 11:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ENRG PGOV UP |
10KYIV194 | UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ PAYS ON TIME FOR GAS [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine paid $780 million to Gazprom on February 4 for January gas purchases. As in January, the National Bank of Ukraine purchased Naftohaz-held government bonds to finance the payment. Experts suggest that the government would resort to the same payment scheme for the gas pay [...] | 2010-02-05 13:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EREL UP RU |
10KYIV198 | UKRAINE: RESPONSE TO CITES COP-15 DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points to Volodymyr Domashlinets, Ukraine's CITES representative at the Ministry of Environmental Protection, on February 1. Domashlinets said Ukraine will support the U.S. proposals on sharks, corals, polar bears, and a snake trade. The Ministry of Environmental P [...] | 2010-02-05 14:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP UP |
10KYIV199 | TYMOSHENKO DOES BETTER THAN EXPECTED BUT FALLS [...] (SBU) PM Yuliya Tymoshenko exceeded expectations by narrowing a ten percent post-first round gap with rival Viktor Yanukovych to a surprisingly close 2.86 percent (with 98.8% of the vote counted) in the February 7 presidential runoff. Higher than expected turnout in western Ukraine accounted [...] | 2010-02-08 16:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UP |
10KYIV208 | TYMOSHENKO SURGE: APPEAL OF "THE LESSER EVIL" [...] (C) The late surge in support for PM Tymoshenko, which made the February 7 second round presidential election results closer than many observers expected, reflected more an anti-Yanukovych vote than a pro-Tymoshenko one. Yanukovych's refusal to debate Tymoshenko, over confidence among his supp [...] | 2010-02-09 19:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
10KYIV22 | UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO ORDERS NBU TO ASSIST WITH GAS [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko ordered the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on January 6 to find a mechanism to monetize Naftohaz-held government bonds in order for the state-owned gas company to make the January 11 payment for Russian gas purchased in December. Naftohaz might also be abl [...] | 2010-01-06 15:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EREL ENRG PGOV PINR UP RU |
10KYIV226 | UKRAINE'S 2010 ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: UNCERTAINTY REMAINS AFTER [...] (SBU) Summary. Ukraine suffered one of Europe's worst recessions in 2009, with real GDP declining nearly 15%. The economic slump was prompted by a sharp fall in global demand for steel and chemical products, combined with the global credit crunch and vulnerabilities in the Ukrainian financial [...] | 2010-02-10 13:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EREL ELAB ECON ETRD PGOV PREL XH UP |
10KYIV228 | TYMOSHENKO READIES COURT CHALLENGES; REGIONS [...] (C) PM Tymoshenko, thus far remaining uncharacteristically silent in public, is putting together legal challenges to the February 7 Presidential election result. DPM Nemyria admitted that he did not think the challenges would change the outcome. The Yanukovych camp is negotiating with elemen [...] | 2010-02-10 18:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
10KYIV229 | UKRAINE: ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENT AGENCY ON COPENHAGEN [...] (SBU) Acting Economic Counselor and Economic Analyst met on February 3 with Igor Lupaltsov, the head of the National Environmental Investment Agency of Ukraine (NEIA),to discuss Ukraine's association with the Copenhagen Accord and deliver talking points per reftel A. Lupaltsov, who headed the [...] | 2010-02-11 08:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KGHG ENRG SENV UP |
10KYIV23 | SALE OF UKRAINIAN STEEL GIANT LIKELY TIED TO PUTIN [...] (C) Summary. Rumors have swept through Kyiv over the impending Russian purchase of the indebted Ukrainian steel giant Industrial Union of Donbass (IUD). A group of Kremlin-backed investors, perhaps led by metals magnate Alisher Usmanov and Roman Abramovich-controlled Evraz, have reportedly [...] | 2010-01-06 15:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EREL ETRD PGOV PINR UP XH |
10KYIV231 | UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS -- ON THE ROAD TO [...] (SBU) Embassy Kyiv election observers throughout Ukraine were uniformly impressed by the dedication of election workers and voters. The intensely partisan and mudslinging conduct of the campaign at the national level was not reflected in the Precinct Election Commissions (PECs),where membe [...] | 2010-02-11 11:16:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV UP |
10KYIV232 | FIRTASH TRIUMPHS OVER TYMOSHENKO ON NADRA [...] (SBU) Summary. Nadra Bank's year-long moratorium on deposit withdrawals ended on February 10, amidst last-ditch negotiations over the bank's future. The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) had engaged in talks on February 10 about liquidating Nadra, one of Ukraine's largest private banks, only to [...] | 2010-02-11 12:29:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EREL ELAB ECON ETRD PGOV PREL XH UP |
10KYIV234 | UKRAINE: DEMARCHE ON DISTRACTED DRIVING DELIVERED [...] (U) Per reftel, Post delivered the distracted driving demarche on January 27 to Oleksiy Illyashenko, Deputy Head of Public Relations and International Affairs at the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior, with the points and questions attached as a non-paper. The Ministry of the Interior did not [...] | 2010-02-12 13:20:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI UP |
10KYIV235 | FOR TYMOSHENKO, "BETTER TO BE A VICTIM THAN A [...] (C) Nearly a week has passed since the February 7 presidential runoff, and PM Yuliya Tymoshenko has been uncharacteristically absent from the airwaves, refusing to appear in public or release a public statement under her own hand. Officials from her campaign, however, have made numerous accus [...] | 2010-02-12 17:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
10KYIV240 | TYMOSHENKO CHALLENGES RESULTS OF ELECTION IN COURT [...] (C) PM Tymoshenko announced February 13 that she would challenge in court as fraudulent the results of the February 7 second round of the Presidential election. Her chances to overturn the results are poor. Rather, the court filing, which Tymoshenko made in person February 16, appears prima [...] | 2010-02-16 16:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
10KYIV241 | UKRAINIAN MOBILE TELECOM SECTOR AT A GLANCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ukrainian mobile telecom sector is divided among three major service providers - Kyivstar, MTS-Ukraine, and Life - which control more than 90 percent of the market. Kyivstar, the market leader, is jointly owned by Norwegian Telenor and Russian Alfa Group. MTS-Ukraine, the [...] | 2010-02-17 08:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS ETRD EINV UP |
10KYIV244 | YANUKOVYCH CONFIDANT AZAROV PROMISES NEW COALITION [...] (C) Summary. Yanukovych confidant and close economic advisor Mykola Azarov predicted that the President-elect would be in a stronger position to negotiate a new governing parliamentary coalition after the February 25 inauguration. Yanukovych was determined to build a stable coalition to enab [...] | 2010-02-17 15:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EFIN ENRG UP |
10KYIV246 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FM POROSHENKO [...] (C) Foreign Minister Poroshenko embraced President-elect Yanukovych and distanced himself from PM Tymoshenko in a February 12 meeting with the Ambassador. Poroshenko criticized Tymoshenko's unwillingness to concede the election and her denigration of the work of international election observe [...] | 2010-02-17 16:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
10KYIV247 | UKRAINIAN RESPONSE TO GOVERNMENT TO GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Embassy received a letter on 4 February from the Verification Directorate of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in response to reftel demarche, which was delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs December 7, 2009. The letter confirmed Government of Ukraine interest in m [...] | 2010-02-17 17:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KACT PARM UP |
10KYIV262 | UKRAINE: NEW LAWS ON PUBLIC PROCUREMENT, BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary. Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (parliament) passed legislative reforms on public procurement, business deregulation, and land and property title registration that had long been advocated for by the World Bank and USAID. Analysts note that these three laws represent positive progress [...] | 2010-02-19 11:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD UP |
10KYIV264 | YATSENYUK CLAIMS HE HAS FORTY FROM OU-PSD FOR NEW [...] (C) Former presidential candidate Arseniy Yatsenyuk told the Ambassador February 17 that he has forty Our Ukraine - People's Self Defense (OU-PSD) MPs who would be willing to take down PM Tymoshenko's coalition and join a new coalition with Yanukovych's Party of Regions. He intimated that he [...] | 2010-02-19 16:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP RS |
10KYIV275 | SCENESETTER: NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR JONES' [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-23 15:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON UP |
10KYIV278 | FORMER TYMOSHENKO INSIDER CALLS HER DESTRUCTIVE, [...] (C) Summary. In a damning indictment of Prime Minster Yuliya Tymoshenko and her lack of leadership, respected xxxxxxxxxxxx argued that Tymoshenko would continue to work against reform. To limit her destructiveness, xxxxxxxxxxxx argued for early parliamentary elections, which would help strengthen n [...] | 2010-02-24 12:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN PINR ECON PREL UP |
10KYIV295 | UKRAINE: UNHRC DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) The Embassy delivered reftel demarche on February 25 to the Ukrainian MFA desk officer responsible for the UNHRC, Svitlana Pereverten. On religious and racial intolerance, Ms. Pereverten commented that Ukraine has never and will never support the defamation resolution. The Embassy share [...] | 2010-02-25 15:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UN UP |
10KYIV296 | UKRAINE: GOLDSTONE FOLLOWUP DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) The Embassy delivered reftel demarche on February 25 to the Ukrainian MFA desk officer responsible for the UNHRC, Svitlana Pereverten. Ms. Pereverten expressed Ukraine's support for the U.S. position on Goldstone, as shown by Ukraine's Goldstone voting record. TEFFT [...] | 2010-02-25 15:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IO PHUM UNGA UP |
10KYIV299 | KYIV TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY OFFICERS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-26 09:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ECON UP |
10KYIV300 | UKRAINE: BOIKO DISCUSSES YANUKOVYCH'S ENERGY [...] (C) Summary. In an introductory call with the Ambassador on February 23, Yuriy Boiko, a leading energy player in the Party of Regions, said that Yanukovych would be focused on reducing Ukrainian dependence on Russian gas imports, securing a better gas contract with Gazprom, and establishing a [...] | 2010-02-26 14:52:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ENRL UP RU |
10KYIV301 | PRESIDENTIAL ECONOMIC ADVISOR STRESSES NEED FOR [...] (C) Summary. Respected economist and Party of Regions' Member of Parliament Iryna Akimova stressed the need for fiscal discipline, financial sector reform, and improvements to the investment climate during her February 23 meeting with the Ambassador. She also recognized the need to focus on [...] | 2010-02-26 15:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV UP |
10KYIV59 | EU-UKRAINE ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT: LONG WAY STILL [...] (C) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Poroshenko has declared the signing of an Association Agreement with the EU in 2010 to be one of Ukraine's top two foreign policy goals. At the same time, tough EU criticism of Ukraine's reforms stole the show at the December 4 Ukraine-EU Summit. GOU negotiator [...] | 2010-01-14 10:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UP EU |
10KYIV64 | CAMPAIGNS PREPARED FOR POST-ELECTION COURT BATTLES [...] (C) Amendments to Ukraine's presidential election law in August 2009 granted the Administrative Courts sole jurisdiction to hear election related cases. However, confusion over who currently heads the High Administrative Court means that this court's role as the final arbiter of election dis [...] | 2010-01-15 11:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
10KYIV67 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: RHETORIC HEATS UP; RACE [...] (C) PM Tymoshenko, trailing Party of Regions leader Yanukovych in advance of the January 17 Presidential election, used a three-hour press event January 14 to hammer the message that Yanukovych is a criminal and front man for rapacious oligarchic interests, whose election would be a humiliatio [...] | 2010-01-15 13:29:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UP |
10KYIV68 | UKRAINIAN LAND SALE MORATORIUM ENDS, BUT [...] (U) Summary. President Yuschenko vetoed a bill that would have extended the moratorium on the sale of agricultural land through the end of 2011, allowing the ban to expire on January 1, 2010. As in past years, parliament is expected to make a strong push to overturn the veto. However, even [...] | 2010-01-15 13:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR UP |
10KYIV7 | PM BACKER ACCUSED OF MONEY LAUNDERING, VOTE BUYING [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on December 29, Ukrainian Security Services (SBU) head Valentyn Nalyvaychenko accused Prime Minister Tymoshenko's largest financial backer, businessman and MP Konstantyn Zhevago, of running a large money laundering operation and financing a vote buying sche [...] | 2010-01-04 16:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
10KYIV71 | UKRAINE'S NATIONAL BANK WILL HELP WITH GAS PAYMENTS [...] (C) Summary. Despite the lack of political unity, the National Bank of Ukraine was obliged to help the government make its gas payments to Russia in a timely manner, National Bank Governor Stelmakh told the Ambassador on January 14. During the meeting, Stelmakh also noted that the exchange r [...] | 2010-01-15 16:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ENRG EREL PGOV UP |
10KYIV72 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FIRST ROUND: YANUKOVYCH [...] (SBU) Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych has held on to his ten point lead over PM Yuliya Tymoshenko with almost 99% of votes counted in the January 17 presidential election. Observers have called the election generally free and fair. The OSCE ODIHR mission called the election "high quality," [...] | 2010-01-18 17:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UP |
10KYIV8 | CAN TYMOSHENKO MAINTAIN BALANCE AS THE ELECTIONS [...] (C) During a December 31 introductory call, PM Tymoshenko discussed with Ambassador Tefft her efforts earlier that day to convince National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Chairman Stelmakh to disburse $2 billion in reserves so that the government can make its scheduled January gas payment. Tymoshenko [...] | 2010-01-04 17:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN PREL UP |
10KYIV89 | UKRAINE'S ACTING FINANCE MINISTER SURVIVES 2009, [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine's government still hopes for revisions to the IMF program that would allow it to access $2 billion currently held in reserves at the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU),according to Acting Finance Minister Umanskyi. Without access to IMF money, the first quarter of 2010 woul [...] | 2010-01-19 12:29:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ENRG EREL PGOV UP |
10KYIV92 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: TOUGH MATH FOR TYMOSHENKO [...] (C) Runoff candidates Viktor Yanukovych and PM Yuliya Tymoshenko are reaching out to second-tier candidates and their constituencies for support in the February 7 second round of presidential voting, following the January 17 first round. Yanukovych expressed his willingness to incorporate th [...] | 2010-01-19 18:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
10LAGOS10 | NIGERIAN WORKERS KILLED AT CHEVRON SITE [...] (SBU) On January 4, two Nigerians working at the construction site of Chevron's Escravos Gas-to-Liquid plant in Delta State were killed by Nigerian security forces following an argument at a checkpoint that "got out of hand," according to Nigerian press reports on January 5. The killings al [...] | 2010-01-07 16:16:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM NI |
10LAGOS13 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF DEPUTY SECRETARY OF [...] (SBU) The U.S. Mission to Nigeria warmly welcomes the visit of Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Jane Holl Lute. The following political and economic backdrop provides context for your visit. -------------------------------------- RELATIONSHIP STRESSED BY RECENT EVENTS ---------------- [...] | 2010-01-11 09:51:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS NI |
10LAGOS17 | CHEVRON MAKARABA PIPELINE SABOTAGED [...] (C) On January 8 Chevron's Makaraba pipeline in Delta State was sabotaged. The pipeline has supplied the Escravos terminal with 20,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd). Hercules Manager Coleman McDonough says it is not clear if the pipeline was in production or not at the time of the incident. [...] | 2010-01-11 16:57:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON EFIN EINV PGOV NI |
10LAGOS27 | LAGOS LARGE, PEACEFUL "SAVE NIGERIA" RALLY [...] (SBU) A large and peaceful "Save Nigeria" rally assembled January 21 near the Lagos State governor's complex in Ikeja. Prominent Nigerian human rights activists, religious leaders, and government officials addressed the crowd on the troubling state of Nigerian domestic politics and the "politi [...] | 2010-01-22 14:42:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI NI |
10LAGOS29 | CONSTITUTIONAL CONTROVERSY AS SEEN FROM THE SOUTH [...] (C) Nigerian civic activists Tony Uranta, Pat Utomi and Denzil Kentebe warned ConGen Lagos of dire consequences if the current constitutional "crisis" over President Yar'Adua's prolonged absence results in a breach of the constitution and also if the Niger Delta amnesty process continues to l [...] | 2010-01-25 15:37:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI NI |
10LAGOS3 | UPDATE ON KIDNAPPING IN NIGERIA [...] (SBU) Kidnapping in Nigeria is increasing in frequency, expanding in scope and changing in character. This seriously under-reported crime may be occurring as frequently as 40 times a week, and targets are increasingly ordinary Nigerians. Incidents are no longer geographically concentrated [...] | 2010-01-04 12:25:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR KCRM ASEC NI |
10LAGOS34 | LOCAL CONTENT BILL STRATEGY [...] (C) The Local Content Bill passed both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate and the House versions now need to be reconciled. There will be a third and final reading scheduled once the reconciliation process has been completed. Speculation is that it could happen as soon [...] | 2010-01-29 07:00:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PGOV WTRO USTR NI |
10LAGOS36 | ELECTORAL COMMISSION CHIEF DEFENDS HIS PAST AND [...] (C) Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairperson Professor Maurice Iwu passionately defended his performance as head of Nigeria's electoral body during a January 28 office call by Ambassador and PolOff (note-taker). He also discussed INEC's preparations for the February 2010 A [...] | 2010-01-29 15:48:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI NI |
10LAGOS38 | FIGHTING CORRUPTION WITH TECHNOLOGY IN EDO, NIGERIA [...] (C) Governor Oshiomhole (Action Congress - AC) of Edo State seeks to fight corruption with technology rather than the judiciary. Oshiomhole has collected biometric data from public employees and scanned in personnel documents in order to validate wage, salary and pension payments. He is inc [...] | 2010-02-01 13:29:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM ECON NI |
10LAGOS39 | NIGERIA: OVERCOMING ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS IN EDO [...] (C) Serious health risks and collapsed infrastructure are the legacy Governor Adams Oshiomhole (Action Congress - AC) inherited when he came to power in November 2008. The Oshiomhole administration has developed comprehensive plans to address the inter-related problems, brought in competent [...] | 2010-02-01 13:43:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SENV SOCI NI |
10LAGOS42 | NIGER DELTA EX-MILITANT COMMANDER PROMISES PATIENCE [...] (S) Okubo Robert, the self-styled founder of the Niger Delta Freedom Fighters and a subordinate of ex-militant leader Government Ekpemupolo ("Tompolo"),told PolOff on January 21 that he had accepted the GON's amnesty because Ijaw leaders convinced him that Yar'Adua was sincere about developi [...] | 2010-02-03 08:49:00 | Consulate Lagos | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM SOCI NI |
10LAGOS44 | NIGERIAN MARITIME ADMINISTRATION PUSHES SECURITY [...] (C) Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Director General Temisanren Omatseye used a tour of NIMASA's training and operations center in Kirikiri, Lagos on December 22 to highlight current capacity, shortfalls, budget proposals, and strategic plans to the Ambassador and [...] | 2010-02-03 08:53:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EWWT KCRM MCAP NI |
10LAGOS49 | MEND SPOKESMAN ANNOUNCES END OF CEASEFIRE [...] (C) Allegedly speaking for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND),self-identified spokesperson "Jomo Gbomo" announced January 30 the end of MEND's October 25, 2009, cease-fire. Contacts with close ties to the militants claimed that the statement represented the in [...] | 2010-02-04 08:52:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NI KCRM KDEM |
10LAGOS5 | THE "PEOPLE'S GOVERNOR" SETS AN EXAMPLE IN [...] (C) Governor Adams Oshiomhole (Action Congress - AC) of Edo State believes that because he was popularly elected he must govern differently from those who owe their positions to "Godfathers." Oshiomhole stressed to PolOff in Benin City on December 7 that he remained free of the need to pay fa [...] | 2010-01-05 13:31:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM PINR ELAB NI |
10LAGOS50005 | RECALL 10 LAGOS 50005 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-29 07:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV PREL NI |
10LAGOS53 | DEBRIEFING OF CS-07-125859 ON FEBRUARY 1, 2010. [...] THE LAGOS CO DEBRIEFED CS-07-125859 (CS) REGARDING THE ACTIVITIES OF NIGERIAN TRAFFICKERS OPERATING IN SOUTH AMERICA. NIFGERIAN NATIONAL WOLEX AND ASSOCIATES ARE CURRENTLY COORDINATING THE MARITIME AND AIR CARGO SMUGGLING OF LARGE QUANTITIES OF COCAINE FROM SOUTH AMERICA TO WEST AFRI [...] | 2010-02-09 10:22:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR DEA |
10LAGOS61 | DEVELOPMENT DIFFICULTIES IN THE NIGER DELTA [...] (C) The Niger Delta faces significant development challenges as illustrated by nine projects in Delta and Bayelsa States visited by PolOff January 20 and 21. Difficult topography, ethnic rivalry, endemic corruption, under-development of human capacity, and a comprehensive lack of maintenance [...] | 2010-02-16 12:23:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV KCOR SENV NI |
10LAGOS63 | NIGERIAN MARITIME ADMINISTRATION OUTLINES OPPORTUNITIES FOR [...] (SBU) USTDA representatives discussed with Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency Director General Omatseye areas for future cooperation. Omatseye identified important hardware acquisitions which have been budgeted for 2010 and requested USTDA assistance in developing a framew [...] | 2010-02-16 13:21:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | BEXP EAID EWWT PHSA KPIR NI |
10LAGOS71 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY CARSON MEETS OIL COMPANIES IN LAGOS [...] (C) Assistant Secretary (A/S) Carson met with members of the International Oil Companies (IOCs) on February 7. The A/S stressed the fact that Nigeria is the most important country in Africa for the United States. The IOC members noted that the A/S spoke mainly of issues in Northern Nigeria a [...] | 2010-02-22 14:05:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON PGOV PREL NI |
10LAGOS73 | LAGOS GOVERNOR WANTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS [...] (C) In a meeting with Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Johnnie Carson on February 6, Lagos Governor Babatunde Fashola (Action Congress - AC) asked the U.S. to continue to insist publicly on scrupulous respect for Nigeria's Constitution. Fashola also described his administration's p [...] | 2010-02-22 15:40:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCOR SOCI NI |
10LAGOS75 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY CARSON MEETS OIL COMPANIES IN LAGOS [...] (C) Assistant Secretary (A/S) Carson met with members of the International Oil Companies (IOCs) on February 7. The A/S stressed the fact that Nigeria is the most important country in Africa for the United States. The IOC members noted that the A/S spoke mainly of issues in Northern Nigeria and did [...] | 2010-02-23 08:20:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PGOV PREL NI |
10LAGOS77 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY CARSON MEETS WITH LAGOS BUSINESS LEADERS [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Carson met with Lagos business community leaders on February 7. Per these sources, Governor Fashola of Lagos State is on the verge of being impeached despite bringing new roads, hospitals, and schools to Lagos. The Governor does not pay attention to the patronage netw [...] | 2010-02-23 12:34:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON SOCI NI |
10LAGOS8 | SOUND MANAGEMENT BOLSTERS EDO STATE BALANCE SHEET [...] (C) Fiscal management, the introduction of new technologies, and the implementation of coherent polices by Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole (Action Congress) have bolstered the State's balance sheet, according to commissioners and observers. The State has significantly increased revenues [...] | 2010-01-06 14:41:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN ECON ELAB NI |
10LAGOS81 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY CARSON MEETS WITH LAGOS BUSINESS LEADERS [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Carson met with Lagos business community leaders on February 7. Per these sources, Governor Fashola of Lagos State is on the verge of being impeached despite bringing new roads, hospitals, and schools to Lagos. The Governor does not pay attention to the patronage netw [...] | 2010-02-23 19:30:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON SOCI NI |
10LAHORE14 | MUKHTAR MAI: THE NEXT STEP [...] (SBU) Summary. In 2009, Mukhtar Mai Women's Welfare Organization (MMWWO) expanded its advocacy programs, trained community volunteers and provided assistance to over 800 victims of gender-based violence (GBV) while facing pressure from feudal powers in an unstable security environment. For [...] | 2010-01-22 07:46:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KWMN PK |
10LAHORE18 | PUNJAB AMENDS 2001 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ORDINANCE [...] (C) Summary: The Punjab Assembly passed an amendment on February 4 to replace current district nazims with "administrators" appointed by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif until local elections are held. Meanwhile, the provincial cabinet is discussing a new ordinance that would basically return th [...] | 2010-02-05 08:10:00 | Consulate Lahore | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PK |
10LAHORE2 | SUCCESSFUL RECEIPT OF CLASS POUCH IN LAHORE -- LESSONS [...] On December 19, 2009, Consulate General (ConGen) Lahore received and processed through the Allama Iqbal International Airport its first-ever classified pouch shipment. The shipment was a learning experience for both the ConGen staff and the airport staff and we believe it paved the way fo [...] | 2010-01-08 10:28:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED | ADCO ADPM AMGT PK |
10LAHORE20 | PUNJAB'S DEFICIT SPENDING POSES CHALLENGES FOR NEXT IMF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An August 2009 deal to finance Punjab province's deficit received sudden attention from the media in January, despite the absence of new issues arising from that deal - yet. The size of Punjab's growing deficit, however, raises concerns about the next review of Pakistan's financ [...] | 2010-02-08 06:20:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN EINV PGOV PREL PK |
10LAHORE24 | WINDS OF CHANGE FOR MUKHTAR MAI [...] (SBU) Summary. Samson Salamat, manager for Mukhtar Mai Women's Welfare Organization (MMWWO),has disclosed a rift between Mukhtar Mai, her husband, and organization management. Salamat, worried about the power Mai may give to her husband, has chosen to leave MMWWO in March. The loss of this [...] | 2010-02-12 02:03:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KWMN PK |
10LAHORE25 | ACCUSATIONS OF TORTURE IN DEATH OF ADOLESCENT MAID IN [...] (SBU) Summary. The death of 12-year old girl, allegedly at the hands of her employers, offers a glimpse into the world of child labor in Pakistan. Shazia Masih, who died on January 22, worked for seven months as a servant in the home of a Lahore attorney. The attorney, his wife, son, and sis [...] | 2010-02-13 06:26:00 | Consulate Lahore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF KWMN PK |
10LAHORE26 | LAHORE ARRESTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 8 Punjab Police held a press conference to announce they had arrested six Pakistani men on suspicion they were planning to attack the Pearl Continental Hotel in Lahore. The men reportedly intended to target U.S. Nationals. The RSO and CG reviewed the current securi [...] | 2010-02-19 13:49:00 | Consulate Lahore | SECRET | ASEC PTER PREL AMGT CASC PK |
10LAPAZ102 | TFHA01: La Paz Media Engagement on Haiti [...] (U) Summary. Reporting in Bolivia on the U.S. response to the earthquake in Haiti has been generally balanced in the independent media outlets, while state-run media outlets have focused their coverage on GOB criticism and suspicions of U.S. efforts. Embassy La Paz has taken multiple ste [...] | 2010-01-21 18:51:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC PREL PGOV HA BL |
10LAPAZ112 | FY 2010 U.S. SPEAKER PROGRAM - REQUEST FOR A SPEAKER TO [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAM: This one-week program would be scheduled around the XIV Tourism International Fair, an event that will be held in the city of Tarija which will host tourism entrepreneurs from Bolivia and other countries in the region. The speaker would deliver a lecture at the Fair, [...] | 2010-01-25 18:15:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP BL KPAO SCUL OEXC |
10LAPAZ13 | BOLIVIA STEPS UP ANTI-U.S. RHETORIC [...] (C) Summary: The Bolivian government has sharply intensified its anti-American rhetoric in the days leading up to President Evo Morales's January 22 inauguration, revisiting perceived grievances, asserting that Bolivia is better off for having expelled the U.S. ambassador and DEA, providing a [...] | 2010-01-21 12:48:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM BL |
10LAPAZ144 | Embassy La Paz Validation Study Results [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy La Paz recently concluded two small validation studies of recipients of J1 visas and members of a traditional Bolivian dance troupe. The Consular Section suspected high overstay rates among both groups and conducted the studies to determine actual return rates. Th [...] | 2010-01-26 18:51:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KFRD BL |
10LAPAZ146 | Authorization to use local courier service for ACS passback [...] Per instructions in 7 FAM 1362, Embassy La Paz requests Department authorization to implement an ACS passback system using a local courier service. Post would like the new system to take effect on February 1, 2010. 2. The Consular Section's non-immigrant (NIV) and immigrant [...] | 2010-01-26 19:05:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CPAS CASC KFRD BL |
10LAPAZ19 | BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES CABINET CHANGES [...] (C) Summary: Bolivian President Evo Morales announced January 23 sweeping changes to his cabinet, replacing fourteen of twenty ministers, including the key posts of defense, government and the presidency. Foreign Minister Choquehuanca and Economy and Finance Minister Arce were among the six re [...] | 2010-01-26 16:29:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM BL |
10LAPAZ202 | BOLIVIA - response to TDA report on worst forms of child [...] Per reftel B, post submits the following information for the U.S. Department of Labor's Congressional Reporting Requirements related to forced and child labor. 2. Post has no new information relevant to tasking 1: The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) of 2005, Sec [...] | 2010-02-02 12:23:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PREL BL PGOV EAID |
10LAPAZ21 | SOLIS, OTERO DISCUSS BILAT RELATIONS WITH BOLIVIAN FM [...] (C) Summary: Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, U/S for Global Affairs Maria Otero, and Charge met with Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca and Vice Minister for Social Defense Felipe Caceres on January 21 and reiterated the USG's desire to improve bilateral relations. Choquehuanca thanked the d [...] | 2010-01-26 17:07:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR SNAR OVIP ODIP BL |
10LAPAZ23 | Morales begins next administration in strong economic [...] (U) SUMMARY. As President Morales is inaugurated into his second term in office, Bolivia enters 2010 with strong economic fundamentals. Although concerns remain about the investment climate, GDP continues its strong growth (6.1% in 2008, 3.25% in 2009),inflation fell significantly (from 11.8% [...] | 2010-01-26 18:07:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL BL EINV EFIN SNAR ETRD |
10LAPAZ256 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST: Sovereign Challenge [...] (U) This is an action request for WHA/AND. See para 3. 2. (U) Embassy has reviewed its internal files and records in accordance with standardized vetting procedures and finds no applicable derogatory information on the following member of the Bolivian security forces. 3. (U) Post [...] | 2010-02-08 16:03:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PGOV PHUM PINS SNAR SOCI BL |
10LAPAZ258 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST: Search and Rescue Course, Feb [...] (U) This is an action request for WHA/AND. See para 3. 2. (U) Embassy has reviewed its internal files and records in accordance with standardized vetting procedures and finds no applicable derogatory information on the following members of the Bolivian security forces. 3. (U) Pos [...] | 2010-02-08 16:09:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PGOV PHUM PINS SNAR SOCI BL |
10LAPAZ260 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST: Aircraft Technician course, [...] (U) This is an action request for WHA/AND. See para 3. 2. (U) Embassy has reviewed its internal files and records in accordance with standardized vetting procedures and finds no applicable derogatory information on the following members of the Bolivian security forces. 3. (U) Pos [...] | 2010-02-08 16:10:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PGOV PHUM PINS SNAR SOCI BL |
10LAPAZ262 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST: Aircraft Pneudraulics Course, [...] (U) This is an action request for WHA/AND. See para 3. 2. (U) Embassy has reviewed its internal files and records in accordance with standardized vetting procedures and finds no applicable derogatory information on the following members of the Bolivian security forces. 3. (U) Pos [...] | 2010-02-08 16:11:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PGOV PHUM PINS SNAR SOCI BL |
10LAPAZ264 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST: Pilot Instrument Procedures [...] (U) This is an action request for WHA/AND. See para 3. 2. (U) Embassy has reviewed its internal files and records in accordance with standardized vetting procedures and finds no applicable derogatory information on the following members of the Bolivian security forces. 3. (U) Pos [...] | 2010-02-08 16:14:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PGOV PHUM PINS SNAR SOCI BL |
10LAPAZ27 | BOLIVIA: PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION ATTENDS MORALES [...] (C) Summary: Presidential delegation members Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, U/S for Global Affairs Maria Otero, and Charge attended President Evo Morales' traditional and official inauguration ceremonies on January 21 and 22, respectively. The delegation met with FM Choquehuanca (reftel) Januar [...] | 2010-01-27 21:31:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR OVIP ODIP BL |
10LAPAZ276 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST - Trafficking in Persons [...] (U) This is an action request for WHA/AND. See para 3. 2. (U) Embassy has reviewed its internal files and records in accordance with standardized vetting procedures and finds no applicable derogatory information on the following members of the Bolivian security forces. 3. (U) Pos [...] | 2010-02-11 13:39:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PGOV PHUM PINS SNAR SOCI BL |
10LAPAZ282 | S/GWI Project Proposal - Bolivia [...] Disseminate the values of gender equality and respect and refocus the culture of machismo among male officers in the Bolivian police force 2. Complete a diagnosis and provide a baseline on the topic of violence and discrimination against policewomen from a male perspective 3 [...] | 2010-02-11 18:13:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO PHUM BL KWMN |
10LAPAZ29 | BOLIVIA: NEW LAWS INSTITUTIONALIZE MORALES' CHANGE PROJECT [...] (C) Summary: The GOB is preparing several pieces of legislation to implement the country's new constitution. Judiciary-related laws will "re-found" the country's electoral, supreme, and constitutional courts, and will also define how the now co-equal indigenous and "ordinary" justice systems w [...] | 2010-02-02 18:33:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR BL |
10LAPAZ294 | Bolivia CN Update January 2010 [...] SUMMARY: * Interdiction: Seizures in all categories except solid precursors and cocaine HCl labs declined compared to January 2008. (paras 2-7). * Eradication: The GOB did not undertake eradication operations during the month. (para 8). * [...] | 2010-02-12 22:09:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR BL KJUS PHUM |
10LAPAZ296 | FY 2010 U.S. SPEAKER PROGRAM - REQUEST FOR A SPEAKER TO [...] DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAM: This one-week program would support the 3rd Annual International Forum of Business Women Leaders to be held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and would also reach audiences in the cities of La Paz, El Alto, and Sucre. The speaker would be one of the main lecturers of the for [...] | 2010-02-17 18:01:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO OEXC SCUL BL |
10LAPAZ306 | BOLIVIA TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) ANNUAL REPORT [...] (SBU) Embassy La Paz submits the following response to the questions posed in paragraphs 25-35 of the cable guidance (reftel) regarding the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. 25. THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION: A. The primary sources for the information contained in this [...] | 2010-02-18 15:06:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM BL KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PREF SMIG KMCA |
10LAPAZ31 | GOB USING JUDICIAL REFORM TO HUNT OPPOSITION? [...] (C) Summary: President Morales and his ruling Movement Toward Socialism party (MAS) are accelerating the pace of judicial reform and moving to increase control over Bolivia's divided judiciary. GOB representatives say legislation is needed to appoint temporary justices to the Supreme Court and [...] | 2010-02-08 15:14:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR BL |
10LAPAZ33 | Morales Continues to Attempt to Derail Copenhagen Accord [...] (C) Summary: Declaring the Copenhagen UN climate change summit a failure, Bolivian President Morales announced he will convoke the first "People's World Conference on Climate Change and the Mother Earth" in Cochabamba April 20-22 -- coinciding with Earth Day. The conference's stated objective is to [...] | 2010-02-09 12:09:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV KGHG PREL BL |
10LAPAZ348 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST - Trafficking in Persons [...] (U) This is an action request for WHA/AND. See para 3. 2. (U) Embassy has reviewed its internal files and records in accordance with standardized vetting procedures and finds no applicable derogatory information on the following members of the Bolivian security forces. 3. (U) Pos [...] | 2010-02-22 13:59:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PGOV PHUM PINS SNAR SOCI BL |
10LAPAZ35 | BOLIVIAN PROSECUTOR TIES TERROR CASE TO CIA [...] (C) Summary: The Bolivian prosecutor investigating a 2009 alleged domestic terrorism plot claims that the perpetrators' leader, Eduardo Rozsa, had been in regular contact with a former CIA employee and kept him informed of the group's activities in Bolivia. The prosecutor's assertion is the first s [...] | 2010-02-09 16:01:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM BL |
10LAPAZ368 | Special 301 La Paz Input [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Bolivia remain on the Special 301 Watch List in 2010. Bolivia's new constitution, passed by referendum on January 25, 2009, includes references to protection of intellectual property rights (IPR),but only for indigenous groups by name. Bolivia protects co [...] | 2010-02-26 13:13:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR BL |
10LAPAZ37 | CORDIAL FIRST MEETING WITH NEW BOLIVIAN INTERIOR MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: The ChargC) met February 4 with new Bolivian Interior Minister Sacha Llorenti for a surprisingly cordial one-hour exchange. Llorenti, a frequent critic of the U.S. and reportedly close to hard-line Vice President Garcia Linera, underscored his interest in working closely with u [...] | 2010-02-10 16:00:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM BL |
10LAPAZ370 | BOLIVIA - Telcom Officer [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-26 15:44:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS BL |
10LAPAZ47 | Bolivia: No major changes predicted in gas industry [...] (U) Summary: Bolivia's natural gas production fell in 2009 due to reduced regional demand, dropping from 40-42 million cubic meters a day (Mm3/d) in 2008 to the current 33 Mm3/d. Natural gas exports also fell as a percentage of the value of total exports, from 45 percent in 2008 to 37 percen [...] | 2010-02-17 16:57:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ENRG EINV PREL PGOV BL |
10LAPAZ49 | BOLIVIA COMMITS 200 ADDITIONAL MINUSTAH PEACEKEEPERS [...] (SBU) Per reftel request, Embassy La Paz Military Group officer spoke with Bolivian Defense Ministry representatives and confirmed that the GOB plans to replace its current UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) presence of 205 peacekeepers with a fresh contingent within two weeks. 2 [...] | 2010-02-17 20:37:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SNAR SOCI MCAP MARR ASEC EFIN KJUS |
10LAPAZ51 | DEFENSE MINISTRY, MILITARY FACE OFF OVER ARCHIVES OF [...] (C) Summary: After a nine-month standoff, Bolivian military leadership on February 17 again refused to allow a civilian investigator access to archives said to contain information regarding approximately 150 persons "disappeared" during Bolivia's military dictatorship period. Minister of Defen [...] | 2010-02-18 21:23:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR KJUS BL |
10LAPAZ53 | BOLIVIA: NEW JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS RELATIVELY DIVERSE [...] (SBU) Summary: President Evo Morales on February 18 announced temporary judicial appointments to fill eighteen vacancies in the Supreme Court, Constitutional Tribunal, and Judicial Council. Most appointees drew praise for their qualifications and judicial independence. Only five are declared [...] | 2010-02-19 22:05:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR BL |
10LAPAZ55 | EMBASSY LA PAZ CONVENES DEMOCRACY WORKING GROUP [...] (SBU) Summary: The Charge hosted February 12 a meeting of key resident ambassadors and UN High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR) representative Denis Racicot to launch an informal working group on democracy and human rights issues in Bolivia. The group reviewed the Bolivian government's re [...] | 2010-02-19 22:11:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM BL |
10LAPAZ57 | The United States Remains Bolivia's 4th Largest Trading [...] SUMMARY. U.S.-Bolivian bilateral trade remains relatively strong, in spite of cancellation of Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA) preferences for Bolivia. Overall, preliminary 2009 numbers indicate that Bolivian exports to the United States decreased by 14.5% from 2008, c [...] | 2010-02-23 20:36:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINT PREL BL |
10LAPAZ7 | SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION TO BOLIVIA [...] (SBU) Embassy La Paz warmly welcomes the Presidential Delegation headed by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis to the January 22 inauguration of Bolivian President Evo Morales for a second term. The U.S. delegation will visit Bolivia as efforts to normalize relations with the Morales government rema [...] | 2010-01-14 21:36:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR EAID OVIP BL |
10LAPAZ72 | BOLIVIA - 2010 Investment Climate Statement [...] In response to reftel, Embassy La Paz submits the following 2010 Investment Climate Statement. 2. The Bolivian investment climate is undergoing a transformation. In February 2009, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS)-led government obtained passage of a new constitution which aggressively [...] | 2010-01-13 19:51:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC BL |
10LAPAZ90 | Bolivia CN Update December 09 [...] SUMMARY: * Interdiction: Seizures of cocaine HCl and coca leaf declined significantly in 2009 compared to the previous year. Seizures of solid and liquid precursor chemicals, and cocaine recycling and HCl labs rose dramatically. (paras 2-6). * Era [...] | 2010-01-20 13:47:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR BL KJUS PHUM |
10LIBREVILLE10 | GABON: VIEWS ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Homosexuality is not a polarizing issue in Gabon. Homosexuality is currently not illegal, but remains a social taboo within this highly conservative population. As a result, public awareness of homosexuality is low and openly homosexual individuals are difficult to find. Howev [...] | 2010-01-06 09:16:00 | Embassy Libreville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM GB |
10LIBREVILLE23 | GABON: ECONOMIC TRANSPARENCY UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Gabon's new President, Ali Bongo Ondimba, announced bold economic reforms upon taking office in October 2009. His ambitious agenda is aimed at jump-starting the country's deteriorating economy and changing the way business is done in Gabon to attract investors. Anti-corruption [...] | 2010-01-14 05:38:00 | Embassy Libreville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON GB |
10LIBREVILLE37 | GABON: FORCED AND CHILD LABOR IN EXPORT PRODUCTS (2010) [...] Per reftel, post provides this response to questions regarding forced and child labor in the production of export products. Post's response to annual child labor reporting requirements follows in septel. Forced, child, and exploitive labor in the production of exports goods is not a signific [...] | 2010-01-25 12:41:00 | Embassy Libreville | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP KCRM PHUM SOCI AID GB |
10LIBREVILLE45 | GABON: PLEASED WITH PROGRESS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Gabon was one of the 28 countries that participated in the intensive negotiating sessions at the U.N. Conference on Climate Change and will associate with the Copenhagen Accord. Lee White, the Director of Gabon's National Parks and President Ali Bongo Ondimba's special advisor on [...] | 2010-02-02 10:59:00 | Embassy Libreville | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID SENV PGOV KSCA PREL UNEP GB |
10LIBREVILLE46 | GABON: FOREIGN MINISTRY NON-COMITTAL ON IRAN [...] (C) SUMARY. Ambassador met with Gabon's Deputy Foreign Minister Jules Marius Ogouebandja to discuss Iran's non-compliance on nuclear issues and the importnce of Gabon's cooperation now that it has joined the United Nations Security Council as a non-permanent member. Ogouebandja stated that Ga [...] | 2010-02-02 11:18:00 | Embassy Libreville | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PRE GB IR |
10LIBREVILLE53 | GABON: EXPLOITATIVE CHILD LABOR REPORT FOR THE TRADE AND [...] Per reftel, post provides this response to questions regarding exploitative child labor in the production of products. Post's response to annual child labor reporting requirements follows in septel. Forced, child, and exploitive labor in the production of exports goods is not a significant p [...] | 2010-02-05 06:19:00 | Embassy Libreville | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP KCRM PHUM SOCI AID GB |
10LIBREVILLE72 | GABON: HIGH-LEVEL NORTH KOREAN VISIT; REQUEST FOR [...] (SBU) Gabonese Foreign Minister Paul Toungui officially informed the Ambassador on February 8 that a high-level North Korean delegation led by Kim Yong Nam will visit Libreville during a tour of African countries at the end of February. Kim Yong Nam is the President of the Presidium of the Su [...] | 2010-02-11 13:45:00 | Embassy Libreville | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC GB |
10LIBREVILLE88 | GABON: OPPOSITION PARTIES UNITE TO FORM THE NATIONAL UNION [...] (U) Summary: Defectors from Gabon's ruling Democratic Party (PDG) and other opponents who challenged Ali Bongo Ondimba in the August 2009 election joined forces on February 10 to create a new political party, the National Union (UN). The UN brings together three opposition parties, the Gabone [...] | 2010-02-22 15:33:00 | Embassy Libreville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM |
10LIBREVILLE90 | GABON: PRESIDENT BONGO ONDIMBA TRAVELING TO NEW YORK (MARCH [...] (SBU) President Ali Bongo Ondimba will visit New York from March 6 to March 9 when Gabon assumes the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Several aides traveled to New York to advance the President's visit and Ambassador Adonia Ayebare, Africa Program Director at the Inte [...] | 2010-02-22 15:54:00 | Embassy Libreville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV UNSC GB |
10LILONGWE108 | MALAWI: SAME-SEX COUPLE TRIAL: DELAY CONTINUES [...] (U) The trial of same-sex couple Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Mojenza remains in recess. The delay is the result of the defense's attorney's apparent inability to continue as council for the couple. A date for the trial to resume has not been set. In a related case, Malawian Peter Sawali [...] | 2010-02-09 15:55:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV MI |
10LILONGWE110 | MALAWI: NEW AU CHAIRMAN RETURNS IN TRIUMPH [...] (U) President Bingu wa Mutharika returned to Malawi in triumph from the AU summit in Addis Ababa on February 1. Local media had presented the election for the AU chairmanship as a showdown between Mutharika and outgoing chairman Muammar al-Quadhafi. Most Malawians viewed the President's elec [...] | 2010-02-10 16:23:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AU EAID ECON EINV MI |
10LILONGWE118 | MALAWI: VISIT BY INDIAN VP BRINGS PLEDGES OF ASSISTANCE, [...] During a January visit to Malawi, Indian Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari announced credits and grants to Malawi worth USD 55 million. Malawi's Ministry of Industry and Trade hosted an investment forum during this visit, providing Malawian businesses an opportunity to make contacts w [...] | 2010-02-11 11:53:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN EINV EWWT IN MI |
10LILONGWE126 | MALAWI ASSOCIATES WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD, DISCUSSES CLIMATE [...] Malawi has formally associated with the Copenhagen Accord, while at the same time raising several issues it would like to see addressed before the next Conference of the Parties in Mexico (COP 16). These issues include the target limit for global temperature increase, reporting requireme [...] | 2010-02-12 14:32:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG KGHG MI |
10LILONGWE128 | TFHA01: MALAWI RICE DONATION TO HAITI [...] This is an action Request, see paragraph 3. 2. In a meeting with Chiefs of Mission and heads of other donor agencies, in which President Mutharika laid out his agenda for his AU Chairmanship (septel),the President reported that the Government of Malawi was committing to donate a total o [...] | 2010-02-12 23:25:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID HA MI |
10LILONGWE130 | MALAWI: 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] SUMMARY. The government of Malawi remains engaged in the fight against trafficking but continues to suffer from a lack of resources. Malawi is a source, transit, and destination country for trafficking and the GOM acknowledges that trafficking is a problem. The Ministry of Women and Child Dev [...] | 2010-02-16 17:33:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB EAID KMCA |
10LILONGWE148 | MALAWI: SAME-SEX COUPLE TRIAL TO RESUME; ANOTHER ARREST MADE [...] (U) The trial of same-sex couple Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Mojenza is scheduled to resume February 18. Issues surrounding the ability of defense attorney Mauya Msuku to practice before the Blayntyre Magistrate Court were resolved and he will continue as the couple's council. In a separa [...] | 2010-02-17 16:02:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV MI |
10LILONGWE152 | MALAWI: SAME-SEX COUPLE TRIAL TO CONTINUE [...] (U) The Chimbalanga-Mojenza same-sex couple trial resumed today. The prosecution presented two witnesses and then rested its case. In response to the prosecution's testimony, the couple's attorney requested a continuance to prepare a defense. The presiding magistrate granted the request and [...] | 2010-02-18 15:11:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV MI |
10LILONGWE154 | MALAWI: S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSAL [...] Post nominates the following project in response to the solicitation in reftel. The basis of this project narrative and budget was developed by the Office of the Vice President of the Republic of Malawi. PROJECT SUMMARY: FIGHTING GENDER BASED VIOLENCE IN MALAWI 2. Gender based violenc [...] | 2010-02-19 11:52:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO AID CDC MI |
10LILONGWE176 | MALAWI: RESPONSE TO US CITES PROPOSALS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-24 11:16:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA AORC UNEP MI |
10LILONGWE20 | MALAWI: SAME-SEX COUPLE ARREST UPDATE [...] (C) The trial of a Malawian same-sex couple charged with gross indecency is scheduled to start January 11. International interest in the story is growing. Malawian public reaction to news of the arrest has been extensive and generally supportive of the criminalization of homosexuality, refle [...] | 2010-01-08 10:38:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV MI |
10LILONGWE21 | MALAWI: GLOBAL HUNGER AND FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVE [...] Summary: One of the poorest countries in the world and highly vulnerable to food shortages, Malawi is an appropriate target for the Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative. The Mission plan is based on three pillars (assistance, direct diplomacy, and public diplomacy),and will engage all U [...] | 2010-01-08 14:32:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV MI |
10LILONGWE26 | MALAWI 2009-2010 INCSR PART II, MONEY LAUNDERING AND [...] Post is pleased to submit the following responses to the request for information contained in reftel. Post's most recent INCSR report dates from 2007. Accordingly, Post has chosen to reply to the reftel questions. Answers are keyed to reftel paragraph numbers. 2. Post contact for the 200 [...] | 2010-01-11 15:36:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM EFIN PTER SNAR MI |
10LILONGWE33 | MALAWI: 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The government encourages both domestic and foreign investment in most sectors of the economy without restrictions on ownership, size of investment, source of funds, and destination of final product. There is no government screening of foreign investment in Malawi. Apart from the privatization [...] | 2010-01-14 13:30:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | KTDB EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV MI |
10LILONGWE34 | MALAWI HIGHLIGHTS - JANUARY 14 [...] (U) SUMMARY: The following is a compilation of recent highlights from the "Warm Heart of Africa." -- SADC Members Urged to Support Mutharika for AU Chair -- Minister for the Disabled Says Devices Needed -- Vice President Banda Unhappy with TV Coverage -- Energy Regulator Recommends Increasi [...] | 2010-01-14 13:54:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EINV AU MI |
10LILONGWE37 | MALAWI: DONORS DO RARE TOUR D'HORIZON WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Mutharika hosted selected diplomats for a rare, wide-ranging discussion at State House January 18. Nine members of his cabinet, representing his nine developmental priorities, accompanied him. Among other things, the President and his ministers defended the ruling par [...] | 2010-01-19 15:33:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EFIN KPKO MI |
10LILONGWE39 | TFHA01: MALAWI: NO PLANS FOR HAITIAN RELIEF [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-20 15:20:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID MI |
10LILONGWE40 | MALAWI: FISCAL TRANSPARENCY GOOD AND GETTING BETTER [...] Summary. Malawi's budget is a matter of public record and fiscal information is available through the Ministry of Finance. U.S. and other donor programs have contributed to improvements in GOM capacity, and to the quality and transparency of the budget process. Although there is still room f [...] | 2010-01-20 16:14:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN PREL AID MI |
10LILONGWE42 | MALAWI: AU SUMMIT PARTICIPATION [...] MFA Director of Political Affairs Paul Chiunguzeni confirmed to Poloff on 21 January that Malawi's delegation will consist of President Bingu wa Mutharika, Minister of Foreign Affairs Etta Banda, MFA Principal Secretary Anthony Livuza, and himself. Chiunguzeni stated that other GOM Ministers [...] | 2010-01-21 09:43:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC OVIP AU MI |
10LILONGWE48 | MALAWI REQUEST FOR FUNDS FROM THE BUSINESS FACILITATION [...] Summary: This is a request for funds to conduct two programs: to foster increased trade through improving the business climate, and to build small business marketing capacity. Post's priority project is to conduct a training seminar on marketing skills for sixty small businesses mainly run by [...] | 2010-01-22 12:27:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP MI |
10LILONGWE51 | PRESIDENT MUTHARIKA'S AGENDA FOR THE AU [...] SUMMARY: Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika has not articulated a specific agenda for the African Union if, as expected, he is elected the organization's chair at the AU's upcoming summit in Addis Ababa. To date, Mutharika has generally kept a low profile on international political i [...] | 2010-01-28 16:48:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | AU EAID ECON EINV PREL MI |
10LILONGWE53 | MALAWI: THE NEW AU CHAIRMAN OUTLINES HIS PLANS [...] (SBU) New African Union Chairman Bingu wa Mutharika summoned the diplomatic corps and heads of international organizations in Lilongwe to brief them on his plans for the AU. Noting that he had only eleven months left in his AU tenure, Mutharika stated that he plans to be "action oriented." [...] | 2010-02-12 15:17:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID AU KPKO KDEM MI |
10LILONGWE55 | MALAWI: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON CHINESE ENGAGEMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Malawi terminated its relationship with Taiwan and established ties with the People's Republic of China in December 2007. Malawi made the abrupt change in hopes of obtaining significant PRC grant aid (ref A). Apart from a few projects taken over from Taiwan, Chinese assistance ha [...] | 2010-02-17 14:02:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID CH MI |
10LILONGWE57 | MALAWI: DEMARCHE RE IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (SBU) DCM conveyed points in reftel demarche Feb. 10 to Anthony Livuza, MFA Principal Secretary and Paul Chiunguzeni, MFA Director of Political Affairs. Both appeared well briefed on the issues. 2. (C) Livuza replied that he understood that the USG had made considerable eff [...] | 2010-02-18 16:29:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC IAEA MI |
10LILONGWE59 | MALAWI: SAME-SEX COUPLE TRIAL: NO CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW [...] (U) The Chief Justice of the Malawi High Court has denied the application for a review of the constitutionality of the sections of the Malawi Penal Code under which same-sex couple Steve Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga were charged. The defense attorney can appeal the denial to the Malawi Supreme C [...] | 2010-02-23 13:39:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV MI |
10LILONGWE80 | MALAWI HIGHLIGHTS - JANUARY 29 [...] (U) SUMMARY: The following is a compilation of recent highlights from the "Warm Heart of Africa." -- ALL EYES ON MUTHARIKA AS HE DEPARTS FOR AU SUMMIT -- BAIL FOR SAME-SEX COUPLE DENIED AGAIN -- MALAWI'S PARLIAMENT BACK AT WORK -- BUT MCP MP'S PROMPTLY WALK OUT -- WEDDING BELL [...] | 2010-01-29 12:19:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EINV AU LY MI |
10LILONGWE86 | MALAWI: INFORMATION ON CHILD LABOR AND FORCED LABOR [...] (Reftel 1A) The current TVPRA list shows two goods, Tobacco and Tea, as goods produced in Malawi using forced labor and /or exploitive child labor. In 2009 Post has not found evidence to support the inclusion of additional goods on the TVPRA list. 2. (Reftel 1F) The GoM [...] | 2010-02-01 10:10:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI MI |
10LILONGWE94 | TFHA01: MALAWI: RICE DONATION CONFIRMED [...] Malawi media reported on 25 January that the GOM intends to donate 150 metric tons of rice to Haiti (ref A). 2. GOM Director of Information Chikumbutso Mtumodzi has confirmed to post that the donation will go forward, but provided no details. This is a change from the GOM's [...] | 2010-02-02 17:05:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID HA MI |
10LIMA107 | SL Leader Artemio Allegedly Calls for Truce [...] (C) A man identifying himself as Sendero Luminoso (SL - Shining Path) leader Comrade "Artemio" called a rural radio station on January 26, announcing in a live broadcast that SL would stop all military action in order to sit down and negotiate with the GOP. Artemio's call for a truce follows o [...] | 2010-01-29 15:34:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR PE |
10LIMA116 | Haiti [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-20 15:18:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HA PREF EAID ECON PE |
10LIMA13 | Peru Response: Resettlement of Santiago Alvarez Fernandez [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-05 19:10:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM PE |
10LIMA171 | PERU: FORCE GENERATION ISSUES TO REINFORCE UNPKO MISSION IN [...] (SBU) This telegram responds to action request in paragraph 7 of Ref A. The information was provided by senior MINDEF officials and military officers. We understand that the GOP has already transmitted the information below to UNDPKO. A. Firmness: What is the status of each country's of [...] | 2010-02-16 13:13:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI MCAP MARR SNAR ASEC EFIN KJUS KPKO HA |
10LIMA172 | Peru - Investment Climate Statement 2010 [...] In response to reftel, Embassy Lima submits the following 2010 Investment Climate Statement. Openness to Foreign Investment 2. The Peruvian government seeks to attract investment -- both foreign and domestic -- in nearly all sectors of the economy. The U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agr [...] | 2010-01-26 21:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC PE |
10LIMA198 | Peru to Accede to Copenhagen Accord [...] Charge delivered reftel demarche on January 26 to Peruvian Environment Minister Antonio Brack, who had led Peru's delegation to COP-15 in Copenhagen. Vice Minister Rosario Gomez Gamarra, Brack's chief of staff Patricia Fernandez-Davila, and International Cooperation Director Jose Antonio Gonz [...] | 2010-01-28 20:52:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGHG ENRG PE |
10LIMA203 | New Bagua Protests: The Dog That Didn't Bite [...] (SBU) Summary. Planned February 22 protests organized by indigenous organizations in the Amazon and elsewhere fizzled. Protesters had an expansive list of objectives, from arresting former GOP officials and opposing the Bagua investigative report issued in December (ref A),to banning all min [...] | 2010-02-24 17:20:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI ENRG EMIN PE |
10LIMA215 | PRESIDENT ENDS DISCORD OVER SECURITY FORCES' COMPENSATION [...] (C) Summary: Compensation for GOP security forces has always been sensitive issue, given their key role in maintaining public security in a country where potential conflicts abound and state presence is lacking. After several weeks of bitter political wrangling within his administration and [...] | 2010-02-26 15:30:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EFIN SOCI MCAP PE |
10LIMA222 | January Trade and Investment Brief [...] This is an update on the following trade and investment news from Peru: Trade -- Peru's Free Trade Agreement with S. Korea -- Entry into Force of Peru-China Agreement Delayed -- The Peru-EU Negotiations -- Negotiations with Japan Remain Complicated -- India and Peru Talk Pos [...] | 2010-02-02 19:59:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EINV ECON EFIN USTR PE |
10LIMA227 | Peru Response: OAS Reform and Mandate for Next Secretary [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on February 25 to MFA Director for OAS Affairs Carlos Ortega. Ortega expressed interest in USG plans to raise issues of concern at the March 3 Permanent Council meeting, and said he would consult with his colleagues regarding reftel talking points. Post w [...] | 2010-02-26 19:02:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL KDEM OAS PE |
10LIMA228 | Texting while driving illegal in Peru; relevant stats likely [...] SUMMARY: Text messaging while driving is illegal in Peru under its law that prohibits the use of cell phones while driving. While some statistics are available relating to Peru road accidents, the Vice Minister expressed doubt that any estimates about accidents due to messaging would be reli [...] | 2010-02-04 18:47:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS SOCI UNDP UNGA PE |
10LIMA256 | Peru to Consider USG Cites Proposals [...] SUMMARY: EconOff and REO Hub Officers met with officials from the Ministry of External Relations, Ministry of Environment, Vice Ministry of Fisheries of the Ministry of Production and Export, and the Peru Ocean Institute (IMARPE) regarding reftel CITES proposals. Visiting OES Marine Science O [...] | 2010-02-09 13:26:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA AORC UNEP PE |
10LIMA272 | CIVAIR: PERU RESPONSE TO IATA'S "AGENDA FOR FREEDOM" [...] Summary. The Peruvian aviation authority indicated that Peru will not be interested in endorsing reftel policy statement. The policy of the Peruvian government is to enter into bilateral aviation agreements instead of general agreements. Peru has bilateral aviation agreements with thirty coun [...] | 2010-02-10 20:24:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ETRD ECON PGOV PE |
10LIMA29 | Scene Setter for Deputy Secretary Steinberg [...] (C) Summary: Peru remains a critical "swing state" in a region divided along political fault lines. Peru's remarkable success in turning the page on 30 years of dictatorships, populism, near failed state status, and authoritarianism has given way to a decade of record economic growth, de [...] | 2010-01-07 18:40:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD SNAR PTER PE |
10LIMA33 | BLOODY BAGUA PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS UNRESOLVED ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: A grisly photo of a missing police officer surrounded by his indigenous captors - widely published in Peruvian media -- has revived deep emotions over what happened during June 5 violence in Peru's Amazon region (refs),and rekindled debate over who is to blame. The picture app [...] | 2010-01-08 17:46:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PTER PGOV PHUM PE |
10LIMA67 | Peru's Haiti Assistance [...] Peru has sent three aircraft with humanitarian aid for Haiti. The presidential plane, carrying three cabinet members and the Chief of Peru's Armed Forces Joint Command, in addition to emergency relief aid cargo, landed in Haiti on January 14. Two additional aircraft (a Hercules C-130 and a Bo [...] | 2010-01-22 18:25:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HA PREF EAID ECON PE |
10LIMA69 | Bagua Report - No Consensus but a Good Start [...] (C) Summary: After three months of work, the "Special Commission to Investigate and Analyze the Events of Bagua" in late December issued its report describing the causes and events leading up to the June 5, 2009 violence. The document assigns blame broadly - including to the government and [...] | 2010-01-25 20:43:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI PHUM PE |
10LIMA77 | Peru Response to Georgia Demarche [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-26 16:25:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PNAT PREL GG RS XG PE |
10LIMA97 | THE STATE OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN PERU [...] (C) Summary. ... id: 246088 date: 1/28/2010 20:49 refid: 10LIMA97 origin: Embassy Lima classification: CONFIDENTIAL destination: 09LIMA1053|09LIMA1561|09LIMA899 header: VZCZCXYZ0000 RR RUEHWEB DE RUEHPE #0097/01 0282049 ZNY CCCCC ZZH R 282049Z JAN 10 FM AMEMBASSY LIMA TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 062 [...] | 2010-01-28 20:49:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PE |
10LIMA99 | Peruvian Banking Superintendent Talks about Future of FIU [...] (SBU) Summary: Peru's Superintendent of Banking Felipe outlined his vision for the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) moving forward and discussed his priorities as the new chairman of GAFISUD (spell out first usage) in a January 22 meeting with Emboffs. Accompanied by International Affairs Mana [...] | 2010-01-28 20:52:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EFIN SNAR PE KCRM KTFN |
10LISBON12 | PORTUGAL ENVIRONMENT OVERVIEW: MANY POSITIVE STEPS [...] Portugal's environmental programs, managed by the Government of Portugal Environment Agency, have produced impressive results in recent years. Ambitious renewable energy programs should enable Portugal to meet targets for greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Air and water qual [...] | 2010-01-08 15:00:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR KGCC ECON PREL PO |
10LISBON15 | PORTUGUESE PARLIAMENT PASSES SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL [...] As anticipated (reftel),on January 8, the Portuguese Parliament passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage while rejecting proposals to allow adoption by same-sex couples and a petition for a public referendum on the issue. The Socialist-sponsored bill was approved after a three-hour debate [...] | 2010-01-11 16:18:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI PO |
10LISBON20 | PORTUGAL ON ENGAGEMENT WITH MUSLIM COMMUNITY [...] In response to reftel request for information on Muslim communities, Portugal's Muslim community comprises approximately 50,000 members (less than 1% of Portugal's 11 million population),the majority of whom are of Indo-Pakistani descent as well as immigrants from Portugal's former African col [...] | 2010-01-14 08:12:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL KPAO PGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI XG PO |
10LISBON21 | PORTUGAL: ELECTRONIC IDENTITY CARDS RFI DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-14 11:15:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS PREL PO |
10LISBON22 | PORTUGAL'S 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The following is Portugal's submission for the 2010 Investment Climate Statement: A. Openness to Foreign Investment Portugal offers a favorable investment climate for foreign capital, both in the near and long term. Its economy has become increasingly diversified and service-based since [...] | 2010-01-14 14:40:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR PO |
10LISBON27 | PORTUGAL: INFORMATION ON CHILD LABOR AND FORCED [...] Per Ref A, Poleconoff contacted the Portuguese Ministry of Labor, the International Labor Organization (ILO),and local NGOs to obtain current information on the use of forced labor and exploitative child labor in the production of goods in Portugal. 2. According to Fatima Matos, Coordinato [...] | 2010-01-19 18:21:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI USAID PO |
10LISBON30 | PORTUGAL: DEMARCHE ON INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-20 10:11:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID PHUM PGOV UN HA PO |
10LISBON31 | PORTUGAL: DEMARCHE IN RESPONSE TO HUMANITARIAN [...] On January 19, Poleconoff delivered reftel demarche to Joao Batista, Deputy Director of the Americas Department at the Portuguese MFA, thanking the government for its humanitarian assistance to Haiti and stressing the areas of immediate focus during the initial phase of relief efforts. 2. B [...] | 2010-01-20 11:30:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA PO |
10LISBON34 | UPDATE ON TWO FORMER GUANTANAMO DETAINEES IN [...] (C/NF) On January 20, the Portuguese Immigration and Border Service (SEF),which is administering the resettlement of two former Guantanamo detainees (Syrian nationals Muhammad Khantumani and Moammar Dokhan) who were tranferred to Portugal in August 2009, provided us a status update. 2. (C/ [...] | 2010-01-21 06:25:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER MARR PO |
10LISBON35 | PORTUGAL H1N1 UPDATE - JAN 21 [...] (SBU) The Portuguese Health Ministry has been slow to reach its goal of vaccinating 3 million Portuguese against the H1N1 virus, primarily due to lack of public confidence in the vaccine and media speculation surrounding the deaths of four newborn infants. While many adults, including health c [...] | 2010-01-21 12:59:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC AMED KFLU ETRD EAGR ECON EC PGOV PO |
10LISBON40 | PORTUGAL DISAPPOINTED WITH COPENHAGEN, SAYS EU [...] (C) Poleconoff discussed reftel points on January 21 with Fausto Brito e Abreu, advisor on climate change in the Portuguese Ministry of Environment, who said the EU will be submitting this month a combined letter of association for all member states to the UN Framework Convention on Climate C [...] | 2010-01-25 13:06:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL | KGHG SENV ENRG PO |
10LISBON43 | PORTUGAL: OUTREACH ON LONDON CONFERENCE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-28 09:28:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF PO |
10LISBON45 | PORTUGAL ON CITES COP15 U.S. SPECIES PROPOSALS [...] Poleconoff and Economic Assistant delivered reftel talking points to Ana Zuquete, Joao Loureiro, and Paulo Carmo of the Portuguese Institute for Conservation of Nature and Biodiversity, who will be the Portuguese delegation to CoP15 and share issue responsibilities. Loureiro will lead the de [...] | 2010-01-29 11:57:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA SENV AORC ECON PO |
10LISBON47 | PORTUGAL ILZSG, ICSG STAFFING, EMPLOYMENT, AND [...] Per reftel, below are staff lists and extrabudgetary data on the International Lead and Zinc Study Group (ILZSG) and the International Copper Study Group (ICSG). 2. STAFF LISTS -------------- * * * * * ILZSG * * * * * NAME POSITION CITIZENSHIP GRADE Jorge, [...] | 2010-01-29 15:52:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | KUNR AORC APER ECON PO |
10LISBON48 | (CORRECTED COPY ADDED SIGNATURE) PORTUGAL H1N1 UPDATE - [...] (SBU) The Portuguese Health Ministry has been slow to reach its goal of vaccinating 3 million Portuguese against the H1N1 virus, primarily due to lack of public confidence in the vaccine and media speculation surrounding the deaths of four newborn infants. While many adults, including health c [...] | 2010-02-01 10:00:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC AMED KFLU ETRD EAGR ECON EC PGOV PO |
10LISBON52 | PORTUGAL'S POLICY TOWARD IRAN SANCTIONS [...] (U) This message responds to questions in ref A request. 2. (C/REL TO USA, FVEY) Question A: Are decisions on this topic made solely by prime minister Jose Socrates or Foreign Minister Amado, or is there a team of government officials making decisions? If multiple officials are involved in [...] | 2010-02-05 13:08:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ETRD EUN PGOV PREL IR PO |
10LISBON53 | U.S.-PORTUGAL SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (U) This message responds to reftel. Answers are keyed to para 3 of reftel. 2. (U) Question A: Does the U.S. currently have an established security dialogue with your country? Answer: The U.S. and Portugal engage in formal discussions that cover the entire bilateral relationship, includi [...] | 2010-02-05 13:09:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR PO |
10LISBON55 | PORTUGAL: INTEREST ON EXTERNAL BORROWING ON FY2010 [...] Neither the International Copper Study Group (ICSG) nor the International Lead and Zinc Study Group (ILZSG) (both non-deferred organizations) incurred interest costs associated with external borrowings for CY 2010. Per ref A, a written statement to that effect provided by the secretary genera [...] | 2010-02-08 18:34:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN PO |
10LISBON58 | PORTUGAL: DEMARCHE ON U.S.-EU SECOND STAGE AIR [...] Emboffs delivered reftel demarche on February 8 to Joao Confraria, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Portuguese Civil Aviation Authority (INAC),and Fernanda Bandarra, Head of the Market Access Department at INAC, urging a realistic and pragmatic approach in the upcoming round of U.S.-EU neg [...] | 2010-02-09 12:53:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EUN KTIA ECON PO |
10LISBON64 | PORTUGAL: DEMARCHE ON U.S.-EU SECOND STAGE AIR [...] Emboffs delivered reftel demarche on February 8 to Joao Confraria, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Portuguese Civil Aviation Authority (INAC),and Fernanda Bandarra, Head of the Market Access Department at INAC, urging a realistic and pragmatic approach in the upcoming round of U.S.-EU neg [...] | 2010-02-11 09:19:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EUN KTIA ECON PO |
10LISBON65 | ETA SAFEHOUSE FOUND IN PORTUGAL [...] (C) Summary. The February 5 discovery by the Portuguese National Guard Police of an ETA safe house in a town north of Lisbon where significant amounts of explosives and weapons were found has put Portuguese authorities on alert. The two individuals who rented the house disappeared and are on [...] | 2010-02-11 11:37:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KCRM PREL PGOV PO |
10LISBON66 | PORTUGAL: ACTION REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON PROPOSAL [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 12. 2. (C/NF) Summary: In April 2009, officials of Millennium BCP, Portugal's leading private bank, visited Iran at the invitation of the Iranian Embassy in Lisbon and met with the Central Bank and other entities in the financial sector to discuss Iran's in [...] | 2010-02-12 13:15:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR ECON EFIN EUN PGOV PREL IR PO |
10LISBON68 | EU MISSION IN GUINEA-BISSAU: MANDATE RENEWAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Since 2008, an EU mission in Guinea-Bissau (GB) has been playing an important role in reform of the military and the security and justice sectors. Despite initial challenges due to political instability and resistance from the GB military, the low-budget advisory mission has ma [...] | 2010-02-22 13:54:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PREL PGOV MARR KDEM KJUS PU PO |
10LISBON69 | PORTUGAL FLOOD DISASTER DECLARATION [...] This is an action request - please see Paragraph 7. SUMMARY ------- 2. More than a normal month's worth of rain fell within eight hours on February 20, in Funchal, the capital of Madeira, a Portuguese island 1,200 kilometers southwest of Lisbon, causing flash floods and mudslides that kill [...] | 2010-02-22 15:01:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI PREF PHUM PGOV PO |
10LISBON71 | PORTUGAL: TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-22 15:12:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB |
10LISBON72 | VENEZUELA WITHHOLDS PAYMENT TO PORTUGUESE COMPANIES [...] (C) Summary: Portugal signed a series of commercial agreements with Venezuela in 2008 to expand economic cooperation. While the agreements have increased Portuguese investment in Venezuela, Portuguese companies have confronted numerous challenges, including devaluation of the bolivar, delays [...] | 2010-02-22 19:23:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL ENRG EPET VE PO |
10LISBON75 | PORTUGAL: INFORMATION-SHARING AND DATA PRIVACY [...] (U) Consul General and Poleconoff delivered reftel points in early February to Goncalo Teles Gomes, Portugal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Chief for North America, Regina Quelhas de Lima, MFA Director for Justice Affairs in the European Directorate, Joao Manuel Ribeiro, Ministry of Justi [...] | 2010-02-25 07:38:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN KCRM KHLS ECPS ECON PREL KPAO KTIA |
10LISBON8 | PORTUGAL: DEMARCHE ON EU ENGAGEMENT WITH CIVIL [...] (C) Per Ref A, Poleconoff met January 6 with Joao Batista, senior Portuguese MFA official on Cuban affairs, to discuss U.S. Cuba policy and Portugal's bilateral relationship with Cuba. Poleconoff briefed Batista on changes in U.S. policy and USINT outreach to civil society, and underscored the [...] | 2010-01-07 11:06:00 | Embassy Lisbon | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI CU PO |
10LISBON9 | EMBASSY LISBON REPORT ON POTENTIAL YEMENI [...] (S) Embassy Lisbon's Marine Security Guard (MSG) Gunnery Sergeant Russell Boley's previous posting was to the MSG at Embassy Sanaa, Yemen. On 04 January 2010, GySgt Boley received the following email in Lisbon: Begin Text: From: Ralph McDonald (lostcreekflyer@gmail.com) Sent: Monday, Ja [...] | 2010-01-07 11:35:00 | Embassy Lisbon | SECRET | PTER PREL PINR YM PO |
10LJUBLJANA1 | SLOVENIA: OMLT ON ORDER FOR OCT 2010, LOGISTICS [...] (C) Summary: Slovenia announced on December 24 that it would lead an Operational Mentoring Liaison Team (OMLT) in Afghanistan beginning no later than October 2010, with functional caveats lifted to allow Slovene troops to accompany Afghan security forces on operations. USG support will be re [...] | 2010-01-04 10:53:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MARR AF SI |
10LJUBLJANA13 | SLOVENIA: DEMARCHE ON TRANSITION TO AFGHAN LEAD [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-15 15:24:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR AF MOPS NATO PREL SI |
10LJUBLJANA17 | TFHA01: SLOVENIAN OFFER OF ASSISTANCE TO HAITI [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-22 15:23:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA SI |
10LJUBLJANA19 | SCENESETTER ON SLOVENIA'S ENGAGEMENT IN THE [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-25 15:08:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EUN MARR BK KV SI |
10LJUBLJANA20 | CORRECTED COPY: SCENESETTER ON SLOVENIA'S [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-25 17:11:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EUN MARR BK KV SI |
10LJUBLJANA22 | SLOVENIA WILL ASSOCIATE WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD, [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-27 10:50:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | KGHG SENV ENRG KGCC ECON SI |
10LJUBLJANA28 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL MARK FITZGERALD 10 [...] (SBU) Admiral Fitzgerald: Welcome to Slovenia. Your trip provides an excellent opportunity to reinforce the message of strong U.S. government support for Slovenia and its commitment to participating in NATO and other international missions. The Government of Slovenia (GoS) recently approved [...] | 2010-02-01 12:58:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO SI |
10LJUBLJANA32 | INVESTING IN AN ALLY: SUPPORT FOR SLOVENIA'S [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph six. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Slovenia is at a crucial tipping point in terms of its international engagement. If the country is to successfully deploy an Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team (OMLT) in Afghanistan this year, as it has committed [...] | 2010-02-04 07:55:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO AF SI |
10LJUBLJANA34 | IRAN: SLOVENIA WILL SUPPORT EU CONSENSUS ON [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on February 3 to Tadej Rupel, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Middle East section. Rupel noted that the EU would likely back tougher measures if the UN Security Council did not adopt stronger sanctions against Iran. The EU does not plan to make an ear [...] | 2010-02-10 11:25:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PREL UNSC IR SI |
10LJUBLJANA35 | SLOVENIA CONSIDERING ITS OWN STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-10 13:03:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL IR SI |
10LJUBLJANA36 | SLOVENIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL VOINOVICH [...] (SBU) Senator Voinovich, welcome back to Ljubljana; Senator Shaheen, we look forward to welcoming you on your first trip to this beautiful little country. Your visit is an excellent opportunity to reinforce the importance of the U.S.-Slovenian bilateral relationship and thank Slovenia for the [...] | 2010-02-10 13:32:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MARR SI |
10LJUBLJANA39 | SLOVENIA: ENCOURAGING ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO [...] (C/NF) Gaja Peric, advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Security Policy Division, told emboff on February 19 in response to reftel demarche that Slovenia's focus on deploying an Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team (OMLT) in October 2010 has put discussions about a Slovenian Police OM [...] | 2010-02-22 09:24:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO SI |
10LJUBLJANA40 | SLOVENIA: LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CT [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-23 13:59:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN KCRM KHLS ECPS ECON PREL KPAO KTIA |
10LJUBLJANA41 | WESTERN BALKANS MAJOR THEME OF CODEL VOINOVICH [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-24 15:59:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR OREP KSPR ZL SI |
10LJUBLJANA42 | SLOVENIA: USE OF CELLPHONES PROHIBITED WHILE [...] (U) Post delivered ref A demarche on February 5 to Borut Valencic of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs North America Division. Valencic advised he would disseminate the information to the responsible Slovene ministries for response. Post will provide Department with an update as soon as we rece [...] | 2010-02-25 10:46:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI SI |
10LJUBLJANA6 | PM PAHOR PREVIEWS 2010: BALKANS, BUSINESS, ISAF [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-05 10:09:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO EUN HR BEXP SI |
10LOME1 | TOGO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AFRICOM AFRICA ENDEAVOR [...] Embassy Lome requests urgent human rights certification for the following three individuals to attend the Africa Endeavor Planning Conference in Kampala, Uganda Jan 11-15, 2010. Descriptive information is as follows: Name: Anoumou, Efoe (Chief of Delegation) Rank: Colonel Sex: Male Unit: [...] | 2010-01-04 14:32:00 | Embassy Lome | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ASEC TG |
10LOME103 | TOGO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE ARMY MEDICAL [...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for three Togolese Army medical officers to attend "Building Sustainable Capacity and Leadership to Combat HIV/AIDS Pandemic" Conference from 12-15 April 2010 in Arusha, Tanzania. 2. Information about the three participants is as follows: [...] | 2010-02-24 15:02:00 | Embassy Lome | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM MASS TO |
10LOME107 | TOGO: NEW INFORMAL SNAPSHOT OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT [...] SUMMARY. As post personnel have traveled around Togo prior to the March 4 presidential election, a picture has emerged not only of the views of those closely involved with the election, but also those who are not. Since there are no polls in Togo, these views are largely anecdotal: gathered i [...] | 2010-02-25 14:22:00 | Embassy Lome | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV TO |
10LOME108 | TOGO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE NAVY STAFF [...] Pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting three Togolese Navy Enlisted to attend Africa Partnership Station (APS) training from April 06 through 26, 2010 in Dakar, Senegal. 2. Information about the three participants is a [...] | 2010-02-28 12:03:00 | Embassy Lome | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PGOV PHUM TO |
10LOME109 | TOGO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR FIVE TOGOLESE NAVY STAFF [...] Pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in vetting five Togolese Navy Junior Officer and Enlisted to attend 'Africa Partnership Station (APS)' training from March 17 through 22, 2010 in Cotonou, Benin. 2. Information about the fiv [...] | 2010-02-28 12:12:00 | Embassy Lome | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PGOV PHUM TO |
10LOME30 | TOGO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CAPTAIN TALAKE ABLY [...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for Captain Talake Bidjareou ABLY to attend the Peacekeeping Training Center in Lome, Togo as part of the Africa Contingency Operations Training and Assistance Program (ACOTA). Captain ABLY will be the commander for a Togolese battalion that will [...] | 2010-01-19 10:08:00 | Embassy Lome | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ASEC TO |
10LOME41 | TOGO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR MAJOR TCHEDIE [...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for Major Kpanla Kokou TCHEDIE to attend the Peacekeeping Training Center in Lome, Togo as part of the Africa Contingency Operations Training and Assistance Program (ACOTA). Major TCHEDIE will be the commander for a Togolese battalion that will d [...] | 2010-01-28 13:39:00 | Embassy Lome | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ASEC TO |
10LOME79 | TOGO: LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR UNITED NATIONS [...] Embassy Lome requests human rights certification for the following two individuals to attend the United Nations Operations in Cote D'Ivoire in Cote D'Ivoire May 20-25, 2010. Descriptive information is as follows: Name: Manzi, Pitalan Rank: Lt. Colonel Sex: Male Unit: Togolese Armed Force [...] | 2010-02-16 08:20:00 | Embassy Lome | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM TO ASEC |
10LOME97 | TOGO: THE FRAC IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE FRAC [...] As noted in Reftel, the Republican Front for Change, the alliance formed during a February 9 - 10 meeting of the opposition candidates in Paris between the Union of Forces for Change (UFC),the Organization of a United Togo (OBUTS),and SURSAUT-Togo, disintegrated in less than a week. However [...] | 2010-02-23 16:45:00 | Embassy Lome | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV TO |
10LONDON126 | SCOTLAND: INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM NOT MOVING [...] (SBU/NF) Summary and comment. First Minister Alex Salmond and his Scottish Nationalist Party-led (SNP) minority government are unlikely to introduce an independence referendum bill in the Scottish Parliament in January, as previously planned. According to well-placed sources, the SNP government's [...] | 2010-01-20 17:17:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PBTS UK |
10LONDON131 | [SOURCE REMOVED] TARGETED BY IRANIAN REGIME [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: [DETAIL REMOVED] and prominent VOA commentator Ali Reza Nourizadeh recently told [NAME REMOVED] he had been targeted by Iranian intelligence, an allegation confirmed by London LEGATT. Nourizadeh was approached some months ago by Mohammad Reza Sadeqinia, an Iranian national who intro [...] | 2010-01-21 12:17:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR PTER PINS UK IR |
10LONDON132 | SOMALIA/ZIMBABWE/SOUTH AFRICA: UK MINISTERS ON RESOURCES, SANCTIONS, AND RELATIONS REF: LONDON 89 Classified By: Political Counselor Robin Quinville, reasons 1.4 (b/d). [...] (C/NF) Summary. UK ministers agreed new resources for the implementation of its Somalia policy at a January 18 meeting of the cabinet sub-committee on Africa. They also decided to support, within the EU, a minimal lifting of sanctions on Zimbabwe by delisting the eight parastatals requested by Fi [...] | 2010-01-21 13:46:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ETTC PGOV SO ZI SF ZU XW UK |
10LONDON148 | UK DOMESTIC TERRORIST FINANCE REVIEW [...] (S/NF) Summary: HM Treasury (HMT) has been leading HMG efforts to review its domestic terrorist finance designations, subsequent to agreements HMT made with UK courts and the European Commission, in 2008. USG assistance in the form of a TDY secondment from U.S. Treasury to HMT in November 2009, pl [...] | 2010-01-22 15:22:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON ETTC UK |
10LONDON150 | UK PARLIAMENT OFFICIALS ON PREPARATIONS FOR THE [...] (C/NF) Summary. At a private meeting on Wednesday, 20 January, two of Parliament's most senior officers laid out the contingency plans currently being put in place for the next general election and beyond. With the outcome of the next election still so uncertain, Parliamentary authorities are pla [...] | 2010-01-22 15:47:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL UK |
10LONDON151 | UK RESPONSE: LIBYAN PROPOSAL FOR AMENDING THE NPT [...] (C/NF) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Nick Low, Head of Nuclear Issues Section at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),and Delphine Hournau, Nuclear Issues Desk Officer at the FCO, on January 22. Low and Hournau indicated that the UK supported the U.S. proposal for a follow-up trilatera [...] | 2010-01-22 17:53:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM MNUC KNNP NPT LY RS UK |
10LONDON159 | SCENESETTER: YOUR VISIT TO LONDON JANUARY 27-29 [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: We are delighted to welcome you back to London for the conferences on Afghanistan and Yemen this week. PM Brown is our strong ally on both issues, despite some early difficulties in coordinating conference details with us, especially in regard to Yemen. He assured me that they were [...] | 2010-01-25 12:03:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL UK AF PK |
10LONDON161 | UK SUPREME COURT TO RELEASE TERRORIST FINANCE [...] (C/NF) Summary: The newly created Supreme Court took as its first case in October 2009 a grouping of challenges to the UK's terrorist finance regime called the "G and others" case. The Court released its decision to HM Treasury lawyers, but not its policy team, on January 21. The broader Treasury [...] | 2010-01-25 14:21:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ETTC UK |
10LONDON162 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: HMG AGREES ELECTORAL LIST BAN [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-25 14:40:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IQ UK |
10LONDON164 | UK CABINET SECRETARIES AND PROMINENT BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary. The United Kingdom cannot risk disengaging or distancing itself from Brussels. The enhanced powers of the EU post-Lisbon treaty, the size of the market, the shifting economic power from developed to developing countries, all underscore the need for an engaged, committed UK in th [...] | 2010-01-25 15:12:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EU UK |
10LONDON165 | LIBYA/NPT: UK ACCEPTS CONSOLIDATED TRILATERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-25 16:58:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PREL MNUC KNNP NPT LY RS UK |
10LONDON177 | UK SUPPORTS CUTTING IRAN OFF FROM CORRESPONDENT BANKING [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-25 18:23:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ETTC IR UK |
10LONDON19 | (S/NF) UK: NO ENGAGEMENT WITH ANY HAMAS ARM; DIFFICULT INTERPAL DYNAMICS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-05 17:16:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON KTFN PTER UK |
10LONDON208 | (C) DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UK WANTS TO USE UPR TO [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-28 14:46:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PARM PHUM IR UK |
10LONDON21 | UK - UNHAPPY WITH ICELANDIC PRESIDENT'S DECISION [...] (SBU/NF) Summary: The UK government did not anticipate that Iceland President Grimsson would block the legislation on Icesave with UK Treasury officials telling us that until the morning of January 5, Icelandic officials had reassured the UK that the law would be signed. Given that Iceland's PM [...] | 2010-01-06 12:26:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV IC NE UK |
10LONDON213 | S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSAL: SOMALIA - SUPPORTING [...] With its large Somali Diaspora community and historical connections, the UK is home to many Somali-run non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that deliver development programs with/through/as local organizations in Somalia. Harnessing the capacity of the UK's active and capable Somali communit [...] | 2010-01-29 10:59:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KWMN PHUM KPAO EAID SO UK |
10LONDON221 | UK SUPREME COURT QUASHES DOMESTIC TERRORIST [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-29 12:59:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ETTC PTER UN UK |
10LONDON227 | UK STILL FORMING POSITION WITH EU ON CITES [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-29 17:15:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV UK |
10LONDON231 | BLUE LANTERN BROKER INQUIRY - QUARTERMASTER'S LTD [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-01 16:02:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC UK |
10LONDON242 | (C/NF) PM BROWN'S CALL TO SECRETARY CLINTON REGARDING "CUBAN FIVE" [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-02 16:48:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR CU UK |
10LONDON253 | IRAN: UK PLANS LOBBYING EFFORT SIMILAR TO THAT OF U.S. TO INCREASE PRESSURE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-03 17:42:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PREL IR UNSC |
10LONDON255 | UK SEES FOREIGN OWNERSHIP AS KEY ISSUE IN UPCOMING U.S.-EU SECOND STAGE NEGOTIATIONS IN MADRID [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-04 10:15:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAIR ECON EU SENV SP UK |
10LONDON257 | IRAN: HMG BRIEFS ON IRIG JAMMING OF BBC, VOA [...] (S) SUMMARY: Embassy London Iran Watcher (poloff) met February 3 with Jaime Turner, Deputy Head of Multi-lateral Affairs at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Iran Group to discuss ways to condemn publicly the Iranian regime's blocking of western satellite channels and how to circumvent it. Turn [...] | 2010-02-04 13:03:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PREL PGOV ETTC ECPS TSPA IR UK FR |
10LONDON260 | HMG SAYS UK WILL NOT INTRODUCE BANK LEVY TO RECOUP BAILOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Following President Obama's proposals for a Financial Crisis Responsibility (FCR) fee and bank restructuring, HMG announced it would not introduce similar measures in the UK. While HMG supports the concept of a future internationally coordinated global bank insurance levy, it d [...] | 2010-02-04 13:37:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EINV UK |
10LONDON261 | ENGAGEMENT ON UK WOMEN'S ISSUES [...] (U) Summary: The government is active in promoting women's rights and there is a robust set of non-governmental organizations working on women's issues. Post consults with women's groups on a regular basis on a range of issues including violence against women, Muslim women's issues, and se [...] | 2010-02-04 14:36:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN XG PHUM UK |
10LONDON263 | UK SUPREME COURT DENIES STAY OF DECISION TO QUASH [...] (C/NF) Summary: The British Supreme Court on February 4 denied a request from HM Treasury to stay the court's January 27 decision to quash part of the UK's terrorist finance regime. Most UK banks have agreed to HMT requests to maintain a freeze until temporary fast-track legislation is in pla [...] | 2010-02-04 17:24:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON KTFN ETTC PTER UN UK |
10LONDON268 | ENGAGEMENT WITH MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN THE UK [...] (C) Summary: Although people of Muslim faith make up only 3-4 percent of the UK's population, outreach to this key audience is vital to U.S. foreign policy interests in the UK and beyond. Embassy London Muslim engagement activities comprise a counter-radicalization strategic plan, public diplomacy [...] | 2010-02-05 12:10:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KPAO PGOV PREL UK |
10LONDON295 | IMO/STW: 41ST SESSION OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON [...] SUMMARY: The 41st session of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Subcommittee on Standards of Training and Watching (STW S/C) met in London from 11-15 January, 2010, chaired by Rear Admiral Peter Brady (Jamaica). The session was attended by delegations from 90 member states, 2 associ [...] | 2010-02-08 17:46:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT IMO UK |
10LONDON313 | UK ELECTION: HUNG PARLIAMENT LOOKING MORE LIKELY [...] (C/NF) Summary. Narrowing polling data suggests the increased likelihood of a hung parliament in the UK's next general election, expected May 6. Despite small but sustained leads in the polls, the Conservative Party has not managed to seal the deal with the British electorate and faces the p [...] | 2010-02-10 17:14:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV UK |
10LONDON322 | UK PASSES TEMPORARY TERRORIST ASSET-FREEZING BILL [...] (SBU) Summary: A temporary terrorist asset-freezing bill became law in the UK on February 10, having been fast-tracked through parliament under emergency procedures. The Terrorist Asset-Freezing (Temporary Provisions) Act 2010 was introduced following a Supreme Court ruling that two of HM Tre [...] | 2010-02-11 14:41:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON KTFN UK |
10LONDON324 | NO UK PLANS TO CONTRIBUTE TO HAITI UN PEACEKEEPING [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-11 15:01:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HA SOCI MCAP MARR SNAR ASEC EFIN |
10LONDON330 | UK UNIONS PUT THEIR MONEY ON LABOUR PARTY, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary. British trade unions, though not the political force they once were, continue to be the primary source of funding for the Labour Party's electoral campaign, contributing 72 percent of Labour's total donations. The unions expect either a Labour or Conservative government to imp [...] | 2010-02-11 16:49:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV UK |
10LONDON338 | SUDAN/DARFUR: SLM/AW LEADERSHIP COUNCIL SUSPENDS [...] (SBU) UK-based Sudan Liberation Movement/Abdul Wahid (SLM/AW) Spokesman Yahia Ahmed al Bashir Bolad informed Poloff February 11 that the SLM/AW Leadership Council took a decision February 11 to "freeze authorities and power of the head of movement Mr. Abdul Wahid Mohammed Ahmed Nour." (COMMENT [...] | 2010-02-12 09:22:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS EAID SU CD UK |
10LONDON339 | SOMALILAND: UK ASSISTANCE TO POLICE SPECIAL [...] (C) Summary. In order to increase the UK's and international community's ability to access Somaliland, the UK is funding training to the Somaliland Special Protection Unit (SPU),a branch of the police force, at the level of GBP 375,000 (USD 600,000) in the current fiscal year and GBP 230,000 [...] | 2010-02-12 14:44:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MASS EAID KPIR SO ET UK |
10LONDON340 | BLUE LANTERN END-USE CHECK - LICENSE 050203970 [...] Per reftel, the Embassy conducted a check into the bona fides of Aviation Trading Co. (a.k.a. Hayward and Green Aviation Ltd., Transworld Aviation Trading Ltd.) On Jan 26, the Criminal Intelligence Group of HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) confirmed that neither the company nor its d [...] | 2010-02-12 15:39:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC UK |
10LONDON341 | CWC: UK STILL IN INTERNAL DISCUSSIONS ON CHALLENGE [...] (C/NF) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and associated non-papers to Tsui-Ling Yu, Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) Desk Officer at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),on February 2. In a follow-up meeting on February 12, Yu said that the FCO had discussed this matter with Clive Rowlan [...] | 2010-02-12 17:20:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PREL CWC CBW OPCW KTIA UK |
10LONDON360 | SADC: AF DAS PAGE'S FEB 8 MEETINGS WITH SENIOR UK [...] (C) Summary. Senior UK Foreign Office (FCO),Department for International Development (DFID),and Number 10 (No10) Africa officials told AF DAS Page during February 8 meetings that de-listing some entities in Zimbabwe was necessary because of timing and in order to maintain EU consensus. They [...] | 2010-02-17 12:00:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM ZU SF UK |
10LONDON361 | AF DAS PAGE'S FEBRUARY 9 COURTESY CALLS ON [...] (C) Summary. AF DAS Susan Page paid courtesy calls on February 9 on Kenyan High Commissioner Ephram Waweru Ngare, South African High Commissioner Dr. Zola Skweyiya, Nigerian High Commissioner Dr. Dalhatu Tafida, Zimbabwean Ambassador Gabriel Mharadze Machinga, and Ethiopian Ambassador Berhanu [...] | 2010-02-17 12:00:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID KE SF NI ZI ET UK |
10LONDON364 | BANK OF ENGLAND GOVERNOR: CONCERN ABOUT RECOVERY, [...] (C/NF) Summary. Reining in the UK's debt will be the greatest challenge facing the party that wins the expected May 6 general election, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King told the Ambassador in a February 16 meeting. While neither party has adequately detailed plans to reduce the deficit, King ex [...] | 2010-02-17 17:18:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EINV PGOV UK |
10LONDON366 | GUINEA: UK THINKING ON JUSTICE AND SECURITY SECTOR [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-18 13:47:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KDEM MASS EAID PGOV GV UK |
10LONDON367 | UK ON EU ARMS EMBARGO ON CHINA: SMOKE BUT NO FIRE [...] (C/NF) Responding to reftel, Foreign Office China External and Taiwan Team leader Matthew Moody described for Poloff February 18 the recent Spanish suggestion of a shift in the EU's arms embargo on China as "smoke without fire." He intimated that the UK had been "surprised" by the statements [...] | 2010-02-18 13:48:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM EUN CN UK |
10LONDON391 | HMG AGREES ON NEED FOR ISAF CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ANSF [...] (C/NF) Summary. HMG agrees on the urgent need to fill the shortage of ISAF trainers and mentors for the Afghan National Security Forces and has encouraged allies to help fill the shortfall, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials told Poloff February 19 (reftel). FCO officials did no [...] | 2010-02-19 17:58:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MASS PREL NATO MOPS PGOV AF UK |
10LONDON408 | LONDON - GOLDSTONE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Summary: Poloff demarched FCO's Levant Team Leader Nishi Dholakia and MENA UN Issues Desk Officer Colin McDonald on February 22 using points provided ref A. Dholakia indicated that the UK's final position on the text was dependent on the outcome of an EU coordination meeting later that d [...] | 2010-02-23 12:34:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | IO PHUM UNGA IS WB |
10LONDON414 | LEFT-LEANING EUROPEAN LEADERS RALLY BEHIND GORDON [...] (SBU) Summary. An international conference on jobs had the feel of a campaign rally for Prime Minister Brown, with several left-leaning European leaders strongly praising Brown for rescuing the world from the economic crisis. The theme of the February 19 conference held in London by Progressi [...] | 2010-02-23 18:09:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON PGOV PREL SP UK GR NO EU |
10LONDON42 | SYRIAN SUPPORT TO HIZBALLAH - DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN LONDON REF: STATE 129636 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-08 17:23:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER LE SY IS |
10LONDON439 | UK DEFENDS OIL EXPLORATION IN FALKLAND ISLANDS [...] (SBU) Summary: Tensions between the UK and Argentina have risen over the past week over a new drilling campaign in the Falkland Islands Outer Conservation zone following the arrival of the Ocean Guardian oil rig in the North Falkland Basin. Argentina contested the right of the Falkland Island's Gov [...] | 2010-02-24 19:50:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ECON ENRG PREL AR UK |
10LONDON440 | UK DEFENDS OIL EXPLORATION IN FALKLAND ISLANDS [...] (SBU) Summary: Tensions between the UK and Argentina have risen over the past week over a new drilling campaign in the Falkland Islands Outer Conservation zone following the arrival of the Ocean Guardian oil rig in the North Falkland Basin. Argentina contested the right of the Falkland Isla [...] | 2010-02-25 06:01:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ECON ENRG PREL AR UK |
10LONDON443 | PDAS NANCY MCELDOWNEY'S MEETING WITH E-6 POLITICAL [...] (C/NF) Summary. EUR PDAS Nancy McEldowney's February 18 consultations in London with E-6 counterparts on European security underscored the need to engage Russia in a way that advanced Allied interests; to renew discussions of the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty regime to strengthen predi [...] | 2010-02-25 17:04:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PARM NATO RS UK |
10LONDON444 | UK RESPONSE: SYRIA AT MARCH IAEA MEETING [...] (C/NF) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to Duncan Johnson, Regional Issues Desk Officer in the Counter-Proliferation Department (CPD) of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),and Victoria Dunne, Syria and Lebanon Desk Officer in the Middle East and North Africa Department of the FCO, on [...] | 2010-02-25 17:11:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PREL IAEA SY IR TU UK |
10LONDON450 | UK -LIBYA RELATIONS - IN LIMBO [...] (C) Poloff met with incoming Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) North Africa Director Philippa Saunders on February 23. During a conversation that focused almost entirely on Libya, Saunders explained that fear over how Tripoli will handle Megrahi's eventual funeral remains a major concern and on [...] | 2010-02-25 17:51:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LY |
10LONDON456 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UK GIVES TACTICAL ADVICE ON [...] (C/NF) Alastair Long, head of the UN Human Rights team at the FCO, told Poloff in response to reftel demarche that HMG is broadly supportive of U.S. goals for the upcoming Human Rights Council session. He reported positive progress on the U.S. defamation of religions action plan within the [...] | 2010-02-26 13:44:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UN IR UK |
10LONDON458 | PHENYLACETIC ACID DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UK LIKELY TO SUPPORT RECLASSIFICATION [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-26 15:04:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC UNODC SNAR UK |
10LONDON49 | UK RESPONSE: REGARDING CHINA'S IMPENDING INTERCEPT FLIGHT-TEST REF: SECSTATE 2126 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-11 14:23:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | MCAP PARM PREL TSPA UK |
10LONDON65 | KENYA: KINNOCK'S JANUARY VISIT TO NAIROBI AND [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-12 17:18:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KDEM KE UK |
10LONDON67 | SUDAN/CHAD: JEM ON ABDUL WAHID, CHAD-SUDAN [...] (C) Summary. London-based Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) spokesperson Ahmed Hussein Adam phoned Poloff on January 12 from N'djamena to offer an update on JEM's diplomatic activities. He said he had recently had a conversation with a "more open-minded" Abdul Wahid al-Nur in Paris; implie [...] | 2010-01-13 11:57:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS SU CD UK |
10LONDON69 | UK MUST WAIT FOR GENEVA FEEDBACK TO AGREE TO NPT [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-13 15:51:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM MNUC NPT LY UK |
10LONDON71 | TREASURY COMMITTEE GRILLS SEVERAL BANK CHIEFS ON BONUSES, [...] (U) Summary: The House of Commons' Treasury Select Committee held a one-off evidence session January 12 on the UK's fully and partially nationalized banks. It heard evidence from Stephen Hester, chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS),Gary Hoffman, chief executive of Northern Roc [...] | 2010-01-14 07:10:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK |
10LONDON76 | AFGHANISTAN/YEMEN/IRAN: SENIOR UK-BASED DIPLOMATS DISCUSS AT CHINESE AMB'S FAREWELL DINNER Classified By: Ambassador Louis B. Susman, reasons 1.4 (b/d) [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-14 17:31:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ECIN PGOV ECON IR AF YM CH IN UK |
10LONDON77 | AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - UK DELEGATION [...] (SBU) The following delegation will represent the UK Government at the African Union summit: - Baroness Glenys Kinnock, Foreign Office Minister for Africa - Norman Ling, Her Majesty's Ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union (mobile: 251.91.120.3081) - Fiona Robertson, Private Secr [...] | 2010-01-14 17:32:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OVIP CARSON JOHNNIE AORC XA UK |
10LONDON84 | UK VIEWS ON IRAN SANCTIONS: UN, EU AND U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-15 12:34:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETTC ECON KTFN EFIN IR US |
10LONDON86 | AMBASSADOR’S MEETING WITH LIBERAL DEMOCRAT LEADER [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Susman paid an introductory call on Liberal Democratic Party leader Nick Clegg on January 12. Clegg may find himself cast into the role of kingmaker if neither of the two main parties wins an outright parliamentary majority in the upcoming general elections, -- though Cleg [...] | 2010-01-15 14:30:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL UK AF PK |
10LONDON87 | CHINA-UK RELATIONS: PAUSE FOR THOUGHT POST-COP 15, [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-15 15:56:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ETTC ECON CH UK IR |
10LONDON88 | SUDAN/CHAD: JEM NOT IMPRESSED WITH RAPPROCHEMENT; [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-15 15:57:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS CD SU UK |
10LONDON89 | SOMALIA: UK SET TO PUT RESOURCES TO NEW POLICY REF: 09 LONDON 2435 Classified By: Political Counselor Robin Quinville, reasons 1.4 (b/d). [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-15 16:04:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KTFN KPKO SO UK |
10LONDON92 | United Kingdom: Investment Climate Statement 2010 [...] In response to reftel, the following is the 2010 Investment Climate Statement for the United Kingdom. The information is updated as of January 1, 2010. UNITED KINGDOM: 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT --------------------------------------------- ---- A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment [...] | 2010-01-15 17:27:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV OPIC KTDB USTR UK |
10LUANDA12 | CHIVUKUVUKU: UNITA STALWART CHARTS OWN PATH TO [...] (C) In a January 12 meeting with Ambassador, UNITA stalwart Abel Chivukuvuku said he envisions himself as the future president of Angola. As a first step, he intends to win the presidency of his party at its next congress, in 2011. If this fails, he will leave UNITA to form his own party. [...] | 2010-01-13 09:56:00 | Embassy Luanda | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AO |
10LUANDA2 | PRESIDENT'S SPEECH FORETELLS CABINET CHANGE AFTER [...] (SBU) As is tradition, President Dos Santos delivered on December 28 a speech of new year's greeting to a group of about three thousand people, including members of government, parliamentarians, and civil society. Contrary to tradition, the speech was extremely short - only four minutes - and [...] | 2010-01-05 15:08:00 | Embassy Luanda | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AO |
10LUANDA27 | ANGOLA CAME UP SHORT IN HELPING HAITI [...] (SBU) A/DCM delivered demarche points contained in reftel to MFA Director of the America's Section Maria Isabel de Resende on 20 January, 2010. Resende stated Angola shares the same concerns of the international community with respect to the need for urgent relief for Haiti. However, she stoppe [...] | 2010-01-20 17:55:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED | AO ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA |
10LUANDA31 | UNDER COVER OF A SOCCER TOURNAMENT, NEW [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-21 16:48:00 | Embassy Luanda | CONFIDENTIAL | AO ECON KDEM PGOV PINR PREL |
10LUANDA39 | ANGOLA SILENT FOR NOW ON IRAN SANCTIONS ACT [...] (C) A/DCM delivered demarche points contained in reftel to MFA Director of the America's Section Maria Isabel de Resende on 20 January, 2010. A/DCM emphasized United States concerns over the Angolan energy firm Sonangol's announced energy deal with Iran, and the possible ramifications under the [...] | 2010-01-29 16:59:00 | Embassy Luanda | CONFIDENTIAL | AO ENRG EPET ETTC IN IR PREL |
10LUANDA40 | ANGOLA SUPPORTS "DISTRACTED DRIVING INITIATIVE" [...] (U) A/DCM delivered demarche points contained in ref message regarding the White House executive order on "distracted driving" to MFA Director of the America's Section Maria Isabel de Resende on 28 January 2010. Resende said that Angola shares U.S. concerns over traffic fatalities caused by ce [...] | 2010-01-29 17:57:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED | AO ASEC PREL |
10LUANDA79 | Angola Open to Engaging with International Community to [...] (C) SUMMARY: Angola pulled out all the stops in welcoming the Secretary's Great Lakes Special Advisor Howard Wolpe and Special Envoys from the EU, South Africa, Norway and Sweden during their February 16 - 18 visit to Luanda. Separate meetings with the President, Minister of State for [...] | 2010-02-26 12:45:00 | Embassy Luanda | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CG KDEM OVIP AO |
10LUANDA81 | Strategic Partnership Dialogue MOU: Foreign Minister's [...] (SBU) In a February 24 meeting with Ambassador Mozena, MIREX Director of Americas Balbina da Silva raised first the issue of the MOU for the U.S. - Angola Strategic Partnership Dialogue, declaring that the text of the document has already been agreed between the two countries at the technic [...] | 2010-02-27 18:57:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AO |
10LUANDA83 | MIREX RECOMMENDS TO ENVIRONMENT MINISTER THAT ANGOLA [...] (U) During February 25 call, Ambassador Mozena delivered reftel demarche to MIREX Director for the Americas Balbina da Silva, urging that Angola associate itself with the Copenhagen Accord. Da Silva queried about the other countries that have already associated with the Accord, and was imp [...] | 2010-02-27 19:51:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV ENRG KGHG AO |
10LUANDA84 | REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON CHINESE ENGAGEMENT IN ANGOLA AND [...] (SBU) The following responses are keyed to Department queries (reftel): A: Description of Chinese engagement in Angola: The Chinese are heavily engaged in financing and implementing Angola's reconstruction following the end of the nation's devastating civil war in 2002. In the absence [...] | 2010-02-26 16:12:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECON PGOV AO CH |
10LUANDA85 | FOREIGN MINISTRY TAKES ON BOARD RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH [...] (SBU) In separate meetings at the Foreign Ministry on February 24, Ambassador Mozena relayed U.S. concerns regarding developments in Iran (Refs A, B, and C) to the Director for Middle East and African Affairs Amb. Nelson Cosme and to Director Americas Balbina Malheiro Dias da Silva. Mozena [...] | 2010-02-27 21:56:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ENRG EPET ETTC IN IR KNNP MNUC PARM |
10LUSAKA103 | CHINESE ENGAGEMENT IN ZAMBIA IS STRONG DESPITE [...] (SBU) The following information is in response to Ref A request for information regarding China's engagement with Zambia and whether there are areas of collaboration between the United States and China in the country. CHINA'S ENGAGEMENT IN ZAMBIA ---------------------------- 2. (SBU) Chi [...] | 2010-02-17 15:32:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID CN ZA |
10LUSAKA110 | REFUGEES AT MEHEBA OCCUPY UNHCR OFFICES TO PROTEST [...] (C) Summary: In early February, 200 refugees began occupation of the offices of UNHCR and Government of Zambia (GRZ) staff at Meheba refugee camp to protest wide-spread corruption by GRZ camp officials. The GRZ is considering deporting the instigators against UNHCR wishes. While the protest [...] | 2010-02-22 15:12:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV PBTS AO CG ZA |
10LUSAKA118 | ZAMBIA TRIES TO SNEAK THROUGH CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Zambia's National Constitutional Conference (NCC),which has been sitting at intervals since January 2008, likely will conclude its deliberations by the end of April. The Zambian government (GRZ) still has much work to do to enact a new constitution, and although it may seek pa [...] | 2010-02-25 14:39:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ZA |
10LUSAKA12 | REQUEST TDY FINANCIAL SPECIALIST SUPPORT [...] Lusaka Financial Management Office respectfully requests AF bureau TDY financial specialist support. With the resignation of the current financial specialist, we urgently need experienced TDY financial specialist(s) to come and fill in the gap while Post recruits for the replacement. The esti [...] | 2010-01-11 07:37:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ZA |
10LUSAKA20 | ZAMBIAN BUDGET TRANSPARENT -- EXECUTION IMPROVING [...] (SBU) The Zambian government (GRZ) publishes its budget in draft and final form annually, as required by law. The budget is available for purchase from government printers, and is analyzed by civil society organizations (CSOs) and international accounting firms during the budget debate proces [...] | 2010-01-12 15:42:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN PREL AID ZA |
10LUSAKA22 | ZAMBIAN VEEP'S CHARM OFFENSIVE SENDS MIXED MESSAGE [...] (C) Summary: At a January 12 meeting with the Ambassador, Vice President George Kunda stated that the Zambian government (GRZ) will continue to engage the press as it debates media regulation (ref A) and is not/not preparing to pass its own media law. In response to Ambassador's urging that [...] | 2010-01-14 09:42:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO ZA |
10LUSAKA25 | PROPOSAL FOR FY2010 EEB BIOTECH OUTREACH RESOURCES [...] (SBU) In response to Ref A solicitation for FY2010 biotechnology outreach proposals, Embassy Lusaka requests support for two activities totaling USD 19,000. The first proposed activity will leverage the interest within the Lusaka-based Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Se [...] | 2010-01-14 15:41:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID TBIO KPAO ZA |
10LUSAKA30 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] (U) This cable responds to refs A and B action request for a pre-license end-user check on license 050204694. 2. (C) On January 7, PolOff met Darrel Cox, general manager for African Horizons Sporting Guns and Ammunition. Based on a site inspection of the Livingstone-based facility and Mr. [...] | 2010-01-15 11:21:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KOCM ZA |
10LUSAKA36 | ZAMBIA EMPTY-HANDED ON HAITIAN RELIEF [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-19 15:39:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF PHUM ZA |
10LUSAKA40 | AMBASSADOR HEARS CRICKETS IN MEETING WITH FINANCE [...] (C) In a January 15 meeting with Minister of Finance Situmbeko Musokotwane, the Ambassador highlighted the progress Zambia made in 2009 towards a Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) compact (Ref. A),but stressed that the Zambian government (GRZ) must act now to assuage concerns about the GRZ's [...] | 2010-01-20 12:02:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID KCOR ZA |
10LUSAKA44 | "OR NOT TO BE" -- ZAMBIA UNLIKELY TO ASSOCIATE [...] (C) On January 19, the Ambassador spoke to Zambian Minister of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources Catherine Namugala about the results of the December COP-15 and next steps. He urged Zambia to associate itself with the Copenhagen Accord per reftel. Namugala, who led the Zambian dele [...] | 2010-01-21 12:11:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KGHG SENV ENRG ZA |
10LUSAKA5 | BANDA DEMOTES AGRICULTURE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: In a move possibly meant to beef up State House control of agriculture policy, President Banda demoted the effective, competent Agriculture Minister Brian Chituwo to the relatively inconsequential Ministry of Science, Technology, and Vocational Training (MSTV) and put the lacklu [...] | 2010-01-06 14:37:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAGR ZA |
10LUSAKA51 | REQUEST FOR THE WAIVER TO 4 FAM LIMITATIONS FOR CASH [...] LUSAKA REQUESTS APPROVAL OF A WAIVER TO 4FAH-3 H-394.2-1 CASH PAYMENT LIMITATIONS FOR A ONE TIME EMERGENCY PAYMENT OF USD 6,500 TO PAY FOR THE SALARY AND BENEFITS ADVANCE OF A USAID LOCALLY ENGAGED STAFF (LES) DEPARTING LUSAKA TO PERFORM A TWO YEAR CONTRACT IN KABUL ON JANUARY 27, 2010. 2. [...] | 2010-01-25 12:21:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN AMGT CV |
10LUSAKA52 | HOLLOWED HALLS: ZAMBIA'S TERTIARY EDUCATION SYSTEM [...] (SBU) Summary: Chronic absences. Poor preparation. Classroom inebriation. And that's just the professors. While gains have been made in elementary and secondary education, insufficient capacity, resources, facilities and training have crippled Zambia's ability to educate its citizenry at the t [...] | 2010-01-25 14:50:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL SOCI KIRC KPAO ZA |
10LUSAKA53 | SCENESETTER FOR NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR AFRICAN [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: The U.S. Mission to Zambia welcomes the visit of Michelle Gavin, Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council and Senior Adviser to the President. Your visit comes at a time when President Rupiah Banda's administration has changed cour [...] | 2010-01-25 16:39:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID KCOR ZA |
10LUSAKA69 | ZAMBIA BACKS US ON IRAN [...] (C) MFA Assistant Director for Africa and Middle East Kimbala Meleka said he would recommend to the Foreign Minister that Zambia support the U.S./EU3 next steps on Iran per reftel. In the absence of the Foreign Minister and the Permanent Secretary, P/E Chief delivered reftel information and [...] | 2010-02-05 06:11:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC ZA |
10LUSAKA75 | ZAMBIA: CHILD LABOR COMMON WITH SOME FORCED LABOR [...] (U) This cable responds to ref A request for information on the use of forced labor and/or exploitive child labor in the production of goods per the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). It describes exploitive and hazardous child labor for Zambia per the Trade and Deve [...] | 2010-02-08 12:08:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI USAID PGOV ZA |
10LUSAKA89 | ZAMBIA: INPUT FOR THE 2010 TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Post is providing the below information for use in the preparation of the tenth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. The sections in this message are keyed to questions contained in Ref A. ---------------------- ZAMBIA'S TIP SITUATION ---------------------- 2. (SBU) A. The [...] | 2010-02-11 05:57:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PGOV PREF |
10LUSAKA9 | BANDA'S GOTTA GET A GRIP: FISSURES IN RULING [...] (C) Party-line fractures have begun to appear in the ruling Movement for Multiparty Democratic (MMD) Party's facade of unity since President Banda took office in November 2008. The ruling party's base remains fundamentally sound, and its internal conflicts should not undermine Zambia's stab [...] | 2010-01-07 10:18:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ZA |
10LUSAKA90 | TEMPORARY ALTERNATE CASHIER DESIGNATION LUSAKA ZAMBIA [...] NAME: DANNY SIKAZWE 2. TYPE: CLASS B CASHIER 3. LOCATION: AM EMBASSY LUSAKA / ZAMBIA 4. EMPLOYMENT STATUS: FOREIGN SERVICE NATIONAL/DIRECT HIRE/PSA EMPLOYEE 5. NAME OF CASHIER DESIGNEE'S SUPERVISOR: JING EDWARDS 6. TITLE OF CASHIER DESIGNEE'S SUPERVISOR: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OFFICER 7 [...] | 2010-02-11 10:00:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN AMGT CV |
10LUSAKA95 | ZAMBIA PLAYS WAIT AND SEE WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD [...] (C) Zambian Minister of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources Catherine Namugala told Charge February 10 that the Zambian government (GRZ) declined to associate itself with the Copenhagen Accord (refs A and B). She echoed concerns she shared with the Ambassador January 19 (ref C) that CO [...] | 2010-02-16 12:54:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KGHG SENV ENRG ZA |
10LUSAKA98 | ZAMBIA SETS ITS "CITES" ON EXPORTING IVORY [...] (U) This is an action request; see paragraph 3. Zambian Minister of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources Catherine Namugala told Charge February 10 that the Zambian government (GRZ) plans to press for resumption of the legal sale and export of elephant products, including ivory, at the [...] | 2010-02-16 14:01:00 | Embassy Lusaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ZA |
10LUXEMBOURG11 | TFHA01: LUXEMBOURG RESCUERS IN AND OUT OF HAITI IN 72 HOURS; [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Grand Duchy's 17-man contingent to Haiti has already returned to Luxembourg following provision of emergency services on the ground in Port-au-Prince. The team returned to Belgium via Belgian military aircraft and were received back in Luxembourg by Defense Min [...] | 2010-01-19 17:15:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV LU HA |
10LUXEMBOURG13 | TFHA01: LUXEMBOURG OFFER OF WATER PURIFICATION UNIT AND TEAM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY MFA Defense Directorate contacted Post today (January 21) with an offer of assistance to be put forward to our Defense AttachC) Office (resident in Brussels) in the immediate future. The GoL is offering to deploy to Haiti an eight-man team from the Luxembourg Army with [...] | 2010-01-21 14:13:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL MARR LU HA |
10LUXEMBOURG15 | LUXEMBOURG TO BE REPRESENTED BY MARIE-LISE STOLL AT PRT [...] (U) Post was contacted by Jean-Louis Thill MFA desk officer in the Directorate of Political Affairs, who informed us that Luxembourg would be represented at the PRT Conference in Prague by Marie-Lise STOLL from the Luxembourg Embassy in Prague. 2. (U) Point of contact for thi [...] | 2010-01-22 16:18:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL NATO AF LU |
10LUXEMBOURG17 | TFHA01: LUXEMBOURG PRESS FOCUSED ON OWN EFFORTS, POSITIVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Press reporting on U.S. efforts in Haiti has been overwhelmingly - and nearly exclusively - positive. The one exception Post has noted is a letter to the editor that ran in weekly paper Le Jeudi, entitled "A Military-Humanitarian Invasion" and penned by an unknown e [...] | 2010-01-22 17:04:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KDEM EAID PHUM OIIP LU HA |
10LUXEMBOURG19 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO LUXEMBOURG: OUTREACH ON LONDON [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to Eric Muller, MFA desk officer. Muller stated that no response could be made before January 26, at the earliest, as many of the principals including primary Afghanistan desk officer Jean-Louis Thill were in Brussels for a meeting. 2. (U) P [...] | 2010-01-25 16:55:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF LU |
10LUXEMBOURG21 | U.S. DEMARCHE TO LUXEMBOURG DELIVERED - HAITI: U.S. [...] (U) Post delivered subject demarche to Yasuko Muller and Eric Muller, desk officers at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs January 25. 2. (U) POC this action is Pol/Econ Chief Michael A. Via, email: viama@state.gov. Stroum [...] | 2010-01-25 16:56:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF EAID ECON HA LU |
10LUXEMBOURG23 | LUXEMBOURG INTENTION TO ANNOUNCE NEW CONTRIBUTION TO [...] (U) MFA desk officer Yasuko Muller delivered Luxembourg's intended announcement details concerning new contributions for the Afghanistan National Army (ANA) trust fund and developmental aid to Pol/Econ Chief January 27 just before she departed for the London Conference. 2. (U) I [...] | 2010-01-27 17:23:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL ECON EFIN PGOV AF LU |
10LUXEMBOURG27 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO LUXEMBOURG ON DISTRACTED DRIVING [...] (U) Pol/Econ Chief delivered subject demarche to Yasuko Muller, MFA desk officer January 27. Post is awaiting a response. 2. (U) POC this action is Michael A. Via, Pol/Econ Chief, viama@state.gov. Stroum [...] | 2010-01-28 16:14:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI UNDP UNGA EU LU |
10LUXEMBOURG29 | LUXEMBOURG: PRESSURE IRAN VIA UNSC, AND TARGETED SANCTIONS [...] (C) On February 2 Ambassador Stroum and DCM discussed reftel points with Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Political Director Georges Friden. Asselborn agreed that Iran had not responded to "Obama's outstretched hand." He said it was time to increase th [...] | 2010-02-05 10:08:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC LU |
10LUXEMBOURG3 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO LUXEMBOURG FM: CLARIFYING THE [...] (C) During a previously scheduled office call at the Embassy on January 15, Ambassador conveyed reftel talking pints to Foreign Minister Asselborn. Asselborn said he would be attending the January 28 Conference and was sorry that he would not be able to be present at Ambassador's credent [...] | 2010-01-15 15:20:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PREL LU |
10LUXEMBOURG31 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO LUXEMBOURG: IMPENDING UN NOMINATION OF [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche to Eric Muller, MFA desk officer, February 5. Post is awaiting a response. 2. (U) POC for this action is: Michael A. Via, Pol/Econ Chief, email: viama@state.gov. Stroum [...] | 2010-02-08 14:39:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER SY JO IZ LU |
10LUXEMBOURG37 | LUXEMBOURG: FORCE GENERATION ISSUES TO REINFORCE THE UN [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points to MFA/MOD desk officer Florence Ensch, February 12. Ensch said the GOL would not be participating in the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) but was considering participating in additional relief operations as part of a future EU contingent [...] | 2010-02-18 09:52:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI MCAP MARR HA EU LU |
10LUXEMBOURG41 | LUXEMBOURG VIEWS ON FEBRUARY 2010 FAC [...] (C) Summary: Pol/Econ Chief discussed Ref A points on U.S. positions concerning the February 22 FAC (Foreign Affairs Council) with Sandra Metz, MFA temporary European Desk Officer, February 19. Metz said Foreign Minister Asselborn would likely travel to another country next week and may not at [...] | 2010-02-19 21:52:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV EUN IR HA UP LU |
10LUXEMBOURG49 | LUXEMBOURG RESPONSE TO CITES COP15 OUTREACH ON U.S. SPECIES [...] (U) Eric Muller, MFA desk officer for the Americas delivered GOL response concerning reftel points to Pol/Econ Chief Feb. 22. Muller explained that he had coordinated the GOL response with Luxembourg's Ministry for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure, which covers the environment. [...] | 2010-02-25 09:42:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KSCA AORC UNEP LU |
10LUXEMBOURG5 | TO HELL AND BACK: GITMO EX-DETAINEE STUMPS IN LUXEMBOURG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Former Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) detainee Moazzam Begg met with Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn 14 January 2010 to press the government of Luxembourg to accept GTMO detainees for resettlement. Begg, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and imprisoned in [...] | 2010-01-15 15:34:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDRG PREL LU |
10LUXEMBOURG51 | LUXEMBOURG RESPONSE: UN NEEDS FRANCOPHONE POLICE UNITS, [...] (SBU) Per Ref B Luxembourg is considering participating in additional relief operations as part of a future EU contingent. GOL does not intend to participate directly as part of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). 2. (U) POC this message is Political and Economic Chief, Mic [...] | 2010-02-25 16:26:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI MCAP MARR EUN SNAR ASEC EFIN KJUS KPKO |
10LUXEMBOURG7 | TFHA01: LUXEMBOURG QUICK ON THE DRAW IN HAITI [...] (U) Luxembourg responded quickly to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, dispatching a 17-person team with seven rescue dogs to Haiti on Wednesday, 13 January. The team departed with a team of Belgian emergency workers (reftel). According to Luxembourg Red Cross Director Marc Crochet, [...] | 2010-01-15 15:56:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV SOCI LU HA |
10LUXEMBOURG9 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO LUXEMBOURG: ENCOURAGING SENIOR-LEVEL [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel talking points to GOL Defense Director Jean-Jacques Welfring January 19. Welfring stated that he expected someone from the MFA would attend the PRT conference but who was yet to be determined. 2. (SBU) DCM also met with George Friden, MFA Dir [...] | 2010-01-19 16:51:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL NATO AF LU |
10MADRID108 | SPAIN'S EXPERIENCE WITH ELECTRONIC IDENTITY CARDS [...] (SBU) Electronic identities in Spain are governed by Law 59 of 2003, known as the electronic signatures law. Spain began issuing electronic national identity cards (DNIs) in 2006. The DNI is the document that citizens and residents are required to present for access to government facilities [...] | 2010-01-29 13:38:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS SP |
10MADRID114 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, JANUARY 25-29 [...] (U) The official National Institute of Statistics (INE) fourth-quarter 2009 unemployment rate was 18.8%, a raise of almost 1% from the previous quarter. This is the third consecutive year that the unemployment rate has increased. Over 4.3 million Spaniards were unemployed, up by 1.1 million f [...] | 2010-01-31 23:04:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB SP |
10MADRID116 | CHILD LABOR AND FORCED LABOR IN SPAIN [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-02 07:12:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI USAID SP |
10MADRID117 | CHILD LABOR AND FORCED LABOR IN SPAIN [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-02 07:12:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI USAID SP |
10MADRID118 | MADRID RESPONSE RE DEVELOPING A COMMUNITY OF [...] The following officers and local engaged staff (LES) cover energy issues: Ari Nathan, Environment, Science, Technology and Health officer, covers renewable energy, nuclear power, and climate change (nathana@state.gov, 34.91.587.2385); Amy Dove, Economic officer, covers oil and gas (dovean@st [...] | 2010-02-02 07:45:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SP |
10MADRID119 | EXTENSIVE USG ENGAGEMENT WITH SPAIN ON IRAN'S [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Post has left no stone unturned in its extensive engagement with the GOS on the USG's dual-track engagement with Iran and the importance of increasing pressure on Iran if Tehran fails to reciprocate with confidence-building measures and transparency regarding its nucl [...] | 2010-02-02 07:48:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IR TRGY SP EUN UNSC |
10MADRID125 | SPANISH MFA ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] (C) Spanish MFA Sub-DG for Non-proliferation and Arms Control Gonzalo de Salazar requested a meeting with Polcouns February 2 to discuss the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT),the USG deposit of instruments of ratification of Protocol III (incendiary weapons) of the Convent [...] | 2010-02-03 07:19:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR SP |
10MADRID133 | SPANISH REACTION TO ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING U.S.-EU [...] (C) Summary. In the last 48 hours the Ambassador has spoken with Spanish National Security Advisor Leon, FM Moratinos, and President Zapatero regarding the announcement that President Obama will not attend a U.S.-EU Summit in Spain. Spanish disappointment -- both among senior government officials a [...] | 2010-02-03 14:51:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SP |
10MADRID135 | SPAIN RECEIVES U.S.-EU SECOND STAGE AIR TRANSPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-04 08:34:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EUN KTIA IC NO SP |
10MADRID136 | SPAIN RECEIVES U.S.-EU SECOND STAGE AIR TRANSPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-04 08:40:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR EUN KTIA IC NO SP |
10MADRID138 | ANNUAL REQUEST FOR STAFFING, EMPLOYMENT, AND [...] (U) ECON sent fax and left repeated voicemail messages with Carmen Molina, Director of Human Resources at the UN's World Tourism Organization, to request the reftel budgetary and personnel information. After multiple non-responsive inquiries, ECON is forced to assume that as in prior years the [...] | 2010-02-04 11:10:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC APECO APER ECON KUNR OCED POLUN UNESCO SP |
10MADRID139 | SPAIN: INFORMED OF DIFFERENT OBJECTIVES FOR NSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: POLOFF on February 1 met LTC. Anibal Villalba Fernandez, an adviser to President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on foreign and security issues, to review Ref A points on the different objectives for the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) that President Obama will host in the Washington [...] | 2010-02-04 12:12:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM EAID TBIO IAEA NPT AORC CDG ENRG MNUC |
10MADRID14 | SPAIN ECONOMIC ROUNDUP, DEC.28 - JAN.8 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-08 16:31:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ELAB ENRG ETRN SP |
10MADRID140 | SPAIN PROVIDES EU RESPONSE TO CITES PROPOSALS [...] Econoff delivered reftel demarche talking points to Manuel Calderon, Head of the Scientific Evaluation Section for CITES of Spain's Office of Biodiversity in the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs on January 25. On February 3, Calderon responded to the US proposals, explaini [...] | 2010-02-05 09:15:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP SP |
10MADRID143 | SPAIN'S POLICIES ON DISTRACTED DRIVING [...] Summary. Econoff delivered reftel A demarche to Spanish government officials involved in the development of traffic regulations on February 3. They said that Spain passed a 2005 law making it illegal to drive while using a mobile communication device unless it is hands-free. The law created [...] | 2010-02-05 12:21:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI UNDP UNGA SP |
10MADRID146 | AMBASSADOR SOLOMONT'S FEBRUARY 4, 2010, MEETING [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador paid his first call on Spanish VP Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega February 4, 2010. They discussed the U.S.-EU summit and Spain's hopes for a bilateral visit by President Obama; Haiti; Afghanistan; Iran; Latin America; Counter-Terrorism, including data protecti [...] | 2010-02-05 16:45:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER AF HA IR SP XM |
10MADRID148 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, FEBRUARY 1-5 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-08 07:42:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB KIPR SP |
10MADRID154 | SPAIN DETAILS ITS STRATEGY TO COMBAT THE RUSSIAN MAFIA [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: National Court Prosecutor Jose "Pepe" Grinda Gonzalez on January 14 gave a detailed, frank assessment of the activities and reach of organized crime (OC) in both Eurasia and Spain and Spain's strategy for how best to combat it in court. As he did so, he evaluated the levels [...] | 2010-02-08 11:00:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | KJUS KHLS PGOV PREL PTER SP PINS KCOR PINR |
10MADRID155 | AMBASSADOR SOLOMONT'S FEBRUARY 4, 2010 MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-08 11:27:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ELAB KIPR SP |
10MADRID160 | ACTION REQUEST II: PRESSURING IRAN ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Polcouns met February 8, 2010, with Spanish MFA Sub-DG for the Near East Alberto Ucelay to deliver ref a points. Ucelay was joined by Beatriz Lorenzo from the MFA's Human Rights Office. Ucelay said Spain shared U.S. worries over the human rights violations occurring in Iran. He said that [...] | 2010-02-08 14:58:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PHUM PREF SP |
10MADRID161 | SPAIN: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING RESULTS FOR SOCOM [...] (U) Pursuant to provisions of the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act, Post has carefully reviewed the human rights records of the following Spanish candidates who have been invited to participate in the 5th Annual Sovereign Challenge Foreign Military Attache (FMA) conference, to be hel [...] | 2010-02-08 15:13:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PREL PGOV PHUM SP |
10MADRID162 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL CARDIN, FEBRUARY 15-17, SPAIN [...] (U) Summary: Embassy Madrid welcomes the February 15-17 visit of Codel Cardin to Spain. U.S.-Spain relations are strong and based on shared global interests, including our association in NATO, the fight against terrorism, and growing economic ties. Spaniards are enthusiastic about President [...] | 2010-02-08 15:28:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL SP |
10MADRID173 | SPANISH MINISTER OF INTERIOR ON TFTP AND [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke February 11, 2010, with Spanish Minister of Interior Rubalcaba about the defeat of the TFTP interim agreement in the European Parliament. Rubalcaba, who spoke to the parliament February 10 in an effort to save the interim agreement, twice described the parliamentarians [...] | 2010-02-12 13:58:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SP |
10MADRID174 | SPAIN: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Ambassador met February 10 with Minister of Culture Angeles Gonzalez Sinde to discuss bilateral cooperation on cultural issues, intellectual property rights and draft legislation that would enhance the government's ability to combat digital piracy, and the Holocaust-related claim by AMCI [...] | 2010-02-12 15:25:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL SP |
10MADRID175 | AMBASSADOR'S FEB. 10 MEETING WITH HEALTH MINISTER [...] (U) In the Ambassador's February 10 introductory call, Minister Jimenez outlined Spain's success in achieving universal health coverage, a comprehensive eHealth system, and progressive elder care. She noted that her Ministry was working on a U.S.-EU MOU on eHealth that she would discuss in [...] | 2010-02-12 16:11:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON TINT SOCI SP |
10MADRID176 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, FEBRUARY 8-12 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-12 16:34:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON ELAB ECPS SP |
10MADRID179 | SPAIN IPR: AUSTR WILSON'S MEETINGS WITH GOS, OPPOSITION, [...] (SBU) During a February 4-5 visit to Madrid, Assistant USTR for Europe met with government officials, private sector representatives, and an opposition politician to discuss USG concerns over Internet piracy in Spain and the government's legislative proposal. Content industry representatives d [...] | 2010-02-16 07:09:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD EUN SP |
10MADRID181 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY CARSON'S MEETING WITH SPANISH VICE [...] Summary. On January 28, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Johnnie Carson, met with Spanish Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Angel Lossada, on bi-lateral issues related to Africa. Lossada described Spanish interests and concerns in West Africa; requested U.S. views on a proposed confe [...] | 2010-02-16 12:40:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SP |
10MADRID183 | TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT FOR SPAIN [...] (SBU) Pursuant to Ref A, the following is input from Embassy Madrid and CG Barcelona for the tenth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Post will need to supply an update cable to incorporate additional legal and judicial statistics. Embassy POC is POLOFF Hugh Clifton, Tel. (34) 91-587 [...] | 2010-02-16 16:12:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KMCA |
10MADRID187 | A/S VALENZUELA DISCUSSES LATIN AMERICA WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an excellent and extremely cordial meeting that lasted over two hours on February 1, WHA Assistant Secretary Arturo Valenzuela and NSA-equivalent Bernardino Leon, Secretary General of the Office of the Presidency, discussed prospects for U.S.-Spanish cooperation in Latin America [...] | 2010-02-18 16:11:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CU SP |
10MADRID188 | AMBASSADOR'S FEBRUARY 10 CALL ON SPANISH CHIEF OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador called February 10 on Chief of Defense (CJCS-equivalent) General Jose Julio Rodriguez. The meeting was warm and brief. The two discussed the issue of strategic communications on our shared mission in Afghanistan, U.S. access to Spanish military bases, and the limi [...] | 2010-02-18 16:12:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO AF SP |
10MADRID190 | DHS SEC. NAPOLITANO ADDRESSES EU'S JHA MINISTERS [...] (SBU) Summary. Secretary Napolitano met with European Union (EU) Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) ministers January 21-22 in Toledo, Spain, and achieved trans-Atlantic consensus to improve aviation security. Her attendance at the plenary meeting led to the issuance of a U.S.-EU Joint Declaratio [...] | 2010-02-19 14:17:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | EUN SP PREL PINS PTER PINR KHLS KCIP KCRM |
10MADRID191 | SPAIN: IRAN'S 20 PERCENT ENRICHMENT PLAN IS [...] (C) During a wide-ranging discussion with Post officials, the senior nuclear expert at the Spanish MFA on February 10 expressed considerable unease with Iranian President Amadinejad's early February announcement that Tehran would begin to enrich uranium to 20 percent. Carlos Torres, Counselor [...] | 2010-02-19 14:18:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC MNUC TSPA SP SY IR KNNP |
10MADRID192 | SPAIN: MFA DISCUSSES COMBATING NUCLEAR TERRORISM [...] (C) SUMMARY. Carlos Torres, Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament within the MFA's DG for Strategic Affairs and Terrorism, on February 10 spoke with POLOFF and Deputy ECONCOUNS on a nascent MFA proposal regarding a year-long series of trilateral technical exercises with the USG an [...] | 2010-02-19 14:18:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL SP KNNP MO KGIC PTER |
10MADRID194 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, FEBRUARY 15-19 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-21 12:44:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN SP |
10MADRID195 | A/S VALENZUELA INVITES SPAIN TO TEAM UP IN LATIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A/S Valenzuela's February 1-3 visit to Madrid was characterized by bilateral goodwill and mutual optimism for U.S.-Spanish cooperation in Latin America to address significant challenges in the region, not least of which the impact of the ongoing economic crisis and the after-ef [...] | 2010-02-22 08:44:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV |
10MADRID199 | ENGAGING SPAIN ON INFORMATION-SHARING AND DATA [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Post, joined by visiting VIP delegations such as DHS Secretary Napolitano, CODEL Cardin, and the U.S. delegation to the US-EU Informal Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) on Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) issues, has engaged extensively with officials from the Ministries o [...] | 2010-02-22 17:30:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KTFN KCRM KHLS ECPS ECON PREL KPAO SP |
10MADRID20 | AMBASSADOR SOLOMONT'S JANUARY 9, 2010, MEETING [...] (C) Summary: Shortly after his arrival January 9, the Ambassador went to the MFA to present copies of his credentials. Unexpectedly, he was received personally by FM Moratinos. Moratinos conveyed King Juan Carlos' greetings and said the King was anxious to meet the Ambassador. A credential [...] | 2010-01-11 16:35:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF HO IR IS SP WI |
10MADRID200 | SPANISH VIEWS GOING INTO ANSF FORCE GENERATION [...] (C) Spain fully supports Afghan National Security Force (ANSF) targets, and recognizes the importance of an effective ANSF to the Allies' transition out of Afghanistan, but does not expect to announce additional contributions to Afghanistan at the February 23 NATO/ISAF force generation confere [...] | 2010-02-23 07:16:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PREL NATO SP AF |
10MADRID202 | SPAIN REQUESTS MINISTERIAL-LEVEL U.S.-EU CLIMATE [...] On February 22 Ambassador Solomont received a letter from Spanish Secretary of State (vice minister) for Climate Change Teresa Ribera requesting, on behalf of the EU, consultations with the USG on climate change at the ministerial level. The text of the letter is as follows: (begin text) D [...] | 2010-02-23 14:11:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KGHG SENV SP |
10MADRID203 | SPAIN CONTINUES TO LEAD HAITI ASSISTANCE EFFORTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Spanish assistance to Haiti in the wake of the January 12 earthquake has been swift and generous. As of February 18, Spain had sent 26 planes bearing humanitarian supplies, and deployed a total of 450 including physicians, nurses, and engineers as well as security forces aboar [...] | 2010-02-23 17:30:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HA MARR EAID |
10MADRID206 | SPAIN HOSTS HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE WITH CUBA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Spanish officials hosted their Cuban interlocutors for a bilateral human rights dialogue February 18 in Madrid. This was the fourth round of the dialogue created in April 2007 when Foreign Minister Moratinos visited Havana. Moratinos, who did not participate in the latest di [...] | 2010-02-25 13:15:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM CU SP |
10MADRID21 | SCENESETTER FOR YOUR MEETINGS WITH EU POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Embassy Madrid welcomes your visit for the EU Political Directors meeting hosted by Spain. The GOS seeks to strengthen EU (and GOS) ties with the USG during its presidency, and your interlocutors will be eager to meet with you. U.S.-Spain relations are strong and based on shared global [...] | 2010-01-11 17:54:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EU IR SP |
10MADRID215 | SPAIN CONTINUES TO SEEK EU CONSENSUS FOR [...] (SBU) PolOff conveyed reftel A points to Marcelino Cabanas, the MFA's Subdirector General for United Nations and Global Issues. Cabanas thanked Poloff for sharing what he called a "traditional view" but he indicated that Spain, during its rotating presidency of the Council of the European Un [...] | 2010-02-26 12:12:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | IO PHUM UNGA SP |
10MADRID216 | USAID ADMINISTRATOR AND EUROPEAN COUNTERPARTS [...] (U) USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah, EU Development Ministers, and EU officials discussed the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Development Dialogue, Haiti, and related issues during the EU Development Ministers Informal Meeting on February 17-18 at La Granja, Spain. In plenary sessions and in bilater [...] | 2010-02-26 12:21:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID KGHG SENV SP TBIO |
10MADRID217 | ANTHONY LAKE NOMINATION INFORMATION DELIVERED TO [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-26 15:42:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID UNICEF |
10MADRID218 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL GORDON, MARCH 5-9, SPAIN [...] (U) Embassy Madrid welcomes your visit. U.S.-Spain relations are strong and based on shared global interests, including our association in NATO, the fight against terrorism, and growing economic ties. Spaniards are enthusiastic about President Obama, and the GOS is optimistic about the prosp [...] | 2010-02-26 16:42:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL SP |
10MADRID25 | AMBASSADOR SOLOMONT'S JANUARY 12, 2010, MEETING [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Spanish SYG of the Presidency (NSA-equivalent) Bernardino Leon January 12. He wanted to meet with Leon as soon as possible to begin to establish a good working relationship and to share his observations regarding the U.S.-Spain bilateral relationship. He emphasi [...] | 2010-01-13 14:29:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SP |
10MADRID31 | SPAIN WORKING WITH EU PARTNERS TO REACH EMISSIONS [...] As the newly arrived Ambassador is still making introductory calls, Post engaged at working level to quickly convey the message on climate change. Econoff delivered the demarche to Deputy Director General for Climate Change Affairs Paz Valiente and Deputy Director General for Emissions Tradin [...] | 2010-01-15 12:28:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | KGHG SENV ENRG SP |
10MADRID4 | SCENESETTER FOR STAFFDEL KESSLER'S VISIT TO SPAIN [...] (SBU) Embassy Madrid welcomes your visit, which comes at an auspicious moment as Spain assumes the European Council Presidency for a six-month period. U.S.-Spain relations are strong and based on shared global interests, including our association in NATO, the fight against terrorism, and growi [...] | 2010-01-05 12:19:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KTFN KNNC PREL SP IR |
10MADRID42 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, JANUARY 11-15, 2010 [...] (U) Local media reported on German government criticism of President Zapatero's EU statement calling for economic sanctions for EU member countries that fail to meet specified objectives in the successor to the Lisbon Strategy for EU Growth. Rainer Breuderle, German Minister of Economics and [...] | 2010-01-19 12:30:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB KIPR SP |
10MADRID48 | U/S BURNS MEETING WITH SPAIN FM MORATINOS [...] (C) Summary: At lunch with Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns and Ambassador Solomont on January 15, Spanish FM Moratinos outlined his recent engagement with the PalestinQ leadership to promote progress in the peace process and reiterated his willingness to help where [...] | 2010-01-19 16:08:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SP |
10MADRID49 | AMBASSADOR SOLOMONT'S JANUARY 18, 2010, MEETING WITH SPANISH MINISTER OF INTERIOR RUBALCABA [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-19 17:34:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SP |
10MADRID6 | SPAIN: MOVING PAST CORRUPTION SCANDALS, POPULAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The center-right Popular Party (PP),the largest opposition party in the Spanish Congress, enters 2010 with a series of polls indicating that - by an increasingly large margin - it would oust the incumbent Socialists (PSOE) in a hypothetical vote, although the next [...] | 2010-01-07 13:13:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SP KCOR KCRM KJUS |
10MADRID60 | REPLY TO BLUE LANTERN 050204437 [...] SUMMARY: Post has made pre-license inquiries requested reftel regarding dealings between Vietnamese security forces and Spanish aerospace and defense leader European Aeronautic Defense and Space (EADS) CASA. David de Teran, Head of Export Compliance for EADS CASA, informed Pol-Mil officer t [...] | 2010-01-21 12:12:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC SP VN |
10MADRID61 | SPAIN-HAITI: INT'L COORDINATION AND REGISTRATION [...] In response to reftel Econoff contacted the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID). Luz Corcobado Lopez, Head of AECID's Humanitarian Aid section, said that Spain, like other European Union member states, provides real time information on humanitarian aid direct [...] | 2010-01-21 12:12:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREF UN SP |
10MADRID62 | SPANISH PARTICIPATION IN PRAGUE PRT CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Post conveyed reftel invitation and talking points to key contacts at Spanish Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs the week of January 11, and learned that Spain will be represented by the civilian team leader from its provincial reconstruction team and possibly by local embassy sta [...] | 2010-01-21 16:11:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL NATO EAID KPAO AF SP |
10MADRID64 | SPAIN'S VIEWS ON JANUARY 25 FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL [...] (C) Polcouns delivered the FAC points January 22 to Spanish MFA Sub-DG for Foreign Policy and Common Security Ricardo Lopez Aranda. On Yemen, Lopez said the problem clearly required a global approach. Referring to A/S Gordon's January 15 meeting with the EU-27 Political Directors at La Granj [...] | 2010-01-22 14:17:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SP |
10MADRID67 | AMBASSADOR SOLOMONT'S JANUARY 21, 2010, MEETING [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador called January 21, 2010, on opposition party leader Mariano Rajoy and Rajoy,s Chief of Cabinet, Jorge Moragas. They discussed Afghanistan, Iran, IPR, the Spanish economy, and Latin America. End summary. Afghanistan 2. (C) The Ambassador congratulated Rajoy on the Popu [...] | 2010-01-22 15:43:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KIPR AF IR XM SP |
10MADRID68 | AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH SPANISH CLIMATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador discussed follow-up to the Copenhagen Accord with Secretary of State for Climate Change Teresa Ribera on January 21. The discussion focused on Spain's outreach efforts in Latin America, particularly to counter efforts by Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba to discredit [...] | 2010-01-22 16:07:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG SP KGHG |
10MADRID69 | SPAIN INCREASINGLY LIKE-MINDED ON ADDITIONAL IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Ambassador Stephen Mull, Special Advisor to P, on January 15 briefed Spanish diplomats regarding key updates in the USG's engagement track with Iran and the need to begin focusing on a UNSC resolution for additional sanctions if Tehran refuses to engage. Mull emphasiz [...] | 2010-01-22 16:09:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IR IAEA TRGY NPT SP EUN |
10MADRID70 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, JANUARY 18-22 [...] (U) The European Commission will limit Spain's banking sector restructuring fund (FROB) to loans of no more than 2% of 'risk-weighted assets' to distressed banks and savings banks, or 2% of their "determined minimum amount of capital to operate effectively." The EC made this announcement after [...] | 2010-01-22 17:00:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN KIPR SP |
10MADRID72 | SPAIN'S RESPONSE TO KIDNAPPINGS IN MAGHREB [...] (C) SUMMARY: Concerned for the well-being of three Spanish citizens kidnapped by Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Mauritania in November, the Zapatero Administration is acutely aware of the risks to Westerners in the Maghreb and Sahel regions and has taken a variety of steps to bring a [...] | 2010-01-25 10:45:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ASEC XI XG SP |
10MADRID73 | DAS JONES' JANUARY 13 MEETING WITH SPAIN ON BOSNIA [...] (U) Participants U.S. EUR DAS Stuart Jones Bosnia Desk Officer Michael Fooks Poloff Jenny Cordell (notetaker) Spain Director General for North America and non-EU Europe, Luis Felipe Fernandez de la Pena Subdirector General for Candidate and Neighborhood Policy Countries, Ramon Albaroa [...] | 2010-01-25 10:47:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SP |
10MADRID75 | SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY CARSON'S [...] (U) Embassy Madrid welcomes your visit for EU consultations on Africa being hosted by Spain. The GOS seeks to strengthen EU (and GOS) ties with the USG during its presidency. U.S.-Spain relations are strong and based on shared global interests, including our association in NATO, the fight ag [...] | 2010-01-25 12:57:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SP |
10MADRID76 | INAUGURAL U.S.-SPAIN COUNTER-TERRORISM AND ORGANIZED CRIME EXPERTS MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-25 14:33:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | KCOR KHLS KJUS PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER SP |
10MADRID77 | SPAIN GENERALLY SUPPORTIVE OF LONDON CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Post conveyed talking points in reftels to key Spanish contacts in the Defense and Foreign Affairs ministries and at the USAID-equivalent Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID). Subdirector General for Security Affairs Manuel Acerete confirmed that Special Ambassad [...] | 2010-01-25 14:41:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN MARR MOPS NATO AF |
10MADRID78 | SPAIN: PROSECUTOR DISAVOWS AL-QAIDA TIES TO [...] (S//NF) Contrary to self-incriminating court testimony by the government's star witness in the recently concluded trial regarding the plot to attack the Barcelona metro system, National Court Prosecutor Vicente Gonzalez Mota on January 13 privately confirmed to POLOFF that there were no Al-Qaid [...] | 2010-01-25 15:30:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINS PTER KJUS SP KCRM PINR |
10MADRID79 | SPAIN: FIVE CONVICTED FOR SENDING MUJAHEDEEN TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. The National Court on January 13 convicted five of nine defendants in the joint prosecution against the radical Islamists detained in January 2006 in the simultaneously executed Operations Chacal (See Ref A for more details) and Camaleon, which took down cells in Barcelona and Mad [...] | 2010-01-25 15:35:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER KJUS SP KCRM |
10MADRID80 | AMBASSADOR SOLOMONT'S JANUARY 22, 2010 MEETING [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging two-hour meeting with the Ambassador January 22, President Zapatero praised USG humanitarian efforts in Haiti, reiterated his personal commitment to resettle as soon as possible five detainees from Guantanamo, pledged Spanish support on Iran and Afghanistan, and endor [...] | 2010-01-25 16:45:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SP |
10MADRID81 | SPAIN: PROBLEMS USING USG-PROVIDED EVIDENCE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Court Prosecutor Dolores "Lola" Delgado on January 13 vented to US DOJ officials on problems she is encountering in trying to introduce evidence provided by the USG - primarily from the US intelligence community - in her prosecution of radical Islamist terrorists. She d [...] | 2010-01-25 16:58:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PTER KJUS SP KCRM PINR |
10MADRID85 | SPAIN RECEIVES DEMARCHE ON USG POLICY RE YEMEN [...] (SBU) Post on January 25 delivered Ref demarche to GOS officials, who indicated they would ensure that the information reached the Spanish delegation to the January 27 meeting on Yemen in London. Iago Losada, Technical Adviser in the MFA's sub-Directorate General for International Terrorism [...] | 2010-01-26 11:17:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID YM EUN |
10MADRID86 | AMBASSADOR SOLOMONT'S JANUARY 25 CALL ON [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-26 18:10:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON EINV ENRG KIPR SP |
10MADRID87 | SCENESETTER FOR WHA A/S VALENZUELA'S JANUARY 31 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-27 12:31:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SP |
10MADRID89 | AMBASSADOR SOLOMONT'S JANUARY 27, 2010, MEETING [...] (C) The Ambassador presented his credentials to King Juan Carlos January 27, 2010. After the presentation, the King pulled the Ambassador aside for a 20-minute talk. The King said he was pleased the Ambassador had arrived. He stressed that he wanted Spain to be better known in the U.S. and h [...] | 2010-01-27 18:07:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SP |
10MADRID90 | AMBASSADOR SOLOMONT,S JANUARY 26, 2010 MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Solomont called January 26 on Spanish Defense Minister Carme Chacon. The two discussed aspects of the bilateral defense relationship, Spanish support for Afghanistan, the humanitarian response to the earthquake in Haiti, and Spanish leadership of EU missions in Bosnia [...] | 2010-01-28 06:30:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO AF SP |
10MALABO16 | EQUATORIAL GUINEA: AU SUMMIT PARTICIPATION [...] MFA Director General of International Organizations Angel Mokara Moleila informed Poloff on 22 January that Equatorial Guinea's delegation to the AU Summit will consist of: --President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo --Minister of Foreign Affairs Pastor Micha Ondo Bile --MFA Vice Minister Eustaquio N [...] | 2010-01-22 16:46:00 | Embassy Malabo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OVIP AORC EK |
10MALABO39 | DESIGNATION OF FOUR ENTITIES AND ONE INDIVIDUAL RELATED TO [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-24 12:11:00 | Embassy Malabo | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM EFIN |
10MANAGUA111 | BUSINESS LEADERS ON ALBA'S ECONOMIC CLOUT IN NICARAGUA [...] (C) Participants in the Ambassador's February 5 economic roundtable shared observations and anecdotes concerning the influence of Chavez's Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) funds in the Nicaraguan economy. Attendees stressed that the ongoing economic downturn in Venezuela could even [...] | 2010-02-22 22:02:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL NU |
10MANAGUA113 | (C) President Ortega Asks Former Amb. to U.S. to Consider a [...] (C) Arturo Cruz Jr., Nicaragua's most recent Ambassador to the United States, recently confided to the Ambassador that President Daniel Ortega had asked Cruz to consider a second tour in Washington as Ambassador. Cruz says he told Ortega he would consider returning only if two conditions wer [...] | 2010-02-25 00:19:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NU |
10MANAGUA115 | (U) Ortega and the U.S.: New-Found True Love Or Another [...] (S) Over the last six weeks, President Ortega has made an uncharacteristically intense effort to pass messages of conciliation and cooperation in our direction. Ortega's actions include renewed cooperation on some dormant legal assistance requests, especially cordial treatment of visiting VIPs, [...] | 2010-02-25 15:50:00 | Embassy Managua | SECRET | PREL PGOV EAID MARR XR RS IR XK |
10MANAGUA118 | NICARAGUA: PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: DECEMBER 2009 [...] In December 2009, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) did not report the resolution of any Embassy registered property claims. To date, the overwhelming majority of resolutions have involved compensation via government-issued indemnification bonds ("bonos de pago de indemnizacion" or BPIs). As o [...] | 2010-01-13 16:01:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON KIDE NU |
10MANAGUA13 | Lords of the Narco-Coast: Part II - Community Reaction [...] (C): On December 8, after a plane laden with cocaine and cash crash-landed in the remote, small village of Walpa Siksa in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN),a deadly confrontation took place between Nicaraguan anti-drug units and drug smugglers allied with some number of local residen [...] | 2010-01-07 17:43:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR SOCI ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL KCOR NU |
10MANAGUA152 | NICARAGUA: HUMAN RIGHTS INDIVIDUAL VETTING REQUEST FOR U.S. - SPONSORED TRAINING: ENGLISH COURSE AND AIR COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE TRAINING [...] We request the Department's assistance in screening the following individual who has been nominated for USG-funded training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and the Foreign Assistance Act. 2. The following individual will attend the English Course and Air Command and General Staff College T [...] | 2010-01-20 18:23:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PHUM MOPS PINR NU |
10MANAGUA154 | NICARAGUA: HUMAN RIGHTS INDIVIDUAL VETTING REQUEST FOR U.S. - SPONSORED TRAINING: PEACE OPERATIONS SEMINAR [...] We request the Department's assistance in screening the following individual who has been nominated for USG-funded training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and the Foreign Assistance Act. 2. The following individual will attend the Peace Operations Seminar in Fort McNair, Washington D.C., [...] | 2010-01-20 18:25:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PHUM MOPS PINR NU |
10MANAGUA158 | TFHA01: Ortega Calls U.S. Relief Effort in Haiti a Military [...] (SBU) The Nicaraguan Army has dispatched 34 soldiers to Haiti to assist with search and rescue efforts. Nicaragua also delivered 9 metric tons of foodstuffs and 9 metric tons of medical supplies. President Ortega has criticized the U.S. relief effort, describing it as a military invasion and [...] | 2010-01-20 22:54:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV PREL HA NU |
10MANAGUA16 | Nicaragua: 2009 Country Report on Terrorism [...] No acts of international terrorism occurred in Nicaragua in 2009. Three items from the 2008 report that remained largely unchanged. In 2009 Nicaragua made no substantive progress towards establishing a Financial Intelligence Unit or passing the counterterrorism bill first proposed in 2004. [...] | 2010-01-06 16:13:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS PINS PREL AEMR NU |
10MANAGUA160 | NICARAGUA: HUMAN RIGHTS INDIVIDUAL VETTING REQUEST FOR U.S. - SPONSORED TRAINING: 5th ANNUAL SOVEREIGN CHALLENGE CONFERENCE [...] We request the Department's assistance in screening the following individual who has been nominated for USG-funded training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and the Foreign Assistance Act. 2. The following individual will attend the 5th Annual Sovereign Challenge Conference in Key West, Flo [...] | 2010-01-21 16:26:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PHUM MOPS PINR NU |
10MANAGUA18 | VISAS VIPER December 2009 Monthly Activity Report [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-06 17:57:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR CMGT PTER ASEC PINR NU |
10MANAGUA182 | (U) Nicaragua SOFA: Foreign Ministry Proposes Text For 2010 [...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST. Please see Para 5 for Action. SUMMARY 2. (U) On January 25 we met with a Government of Nicaragua (GON) interagency team to discuss a renewal of the U.S.-Nicaragua Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) for 2010. The GON expressed a desire to renew the SOFA (w [...] | 2010-01-30 00:24:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MOPS PREL EAID OPDC PINS NU |
10MANAGUA184 | (U) NICARAGUA 1/TVPRA - Goods produced by Child Labor [...] (U) The following is US Embassy Managua's submission regarding the Department of Labor request for information on forced labor and child labor in the production of goods for mandatory congressional reporting requirements as outlined in State 131995 and 131997. 2. (U) As reported prev [...] | 2010-02-02 14:14:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM PGOV SOCI NU |
10MANAGUA19 | By Decree Ortega Keeps Control of Key Positions [...] (C) Summary: On January 9, President Daniel Ortega issued a decree extending the terms of over 20 public officials which are set to expire in 2010 if the National Assembly does not elect new authorities. These officials include all 10 of the now-discredited Supreme Electoral Council magistrat [...] | 2010-01-12 15:47:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM NU |
10MANAGUA190 | NICARAGUA: GON SEEKS BETTER COOPERATION WITH U.S. CITIZEN CLAIMANTS [...] (SBU) During the January 28 Property Working Group meeting, Government of Nicaragua (GON) officials stated that the GON wants to improve its cooperation with U.S. citizen claimants to advance their claims, noting that the GON hopes to exceed the number of claims resolved during the last waive [...] | 2010-02-02 15:40:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON CASC KIDE NU |
10MANAGUA194 | VISAS VIPER January 2010 Monthly Activity Report [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-03 20:56:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR CMGT PTER ASEC PINR NU |
10MANAGUA200 | TAHA01: NICARAGUA'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO RELIEF EFFORTS IN HAITI [...] (SBU) The Nicaraguan Army, civil society, and private industry have made important contributions to the relief efforts in Haiti. The Army has sent three deployments of soldiers to Haiti since January 14 to deliver foodstuffs and medical supplies, provide a variety of health and medical treatmen [...] | 2010-02-05 21:07:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN PREL PGOV HA NU |
10MANAGUA202 | (U) NICARAGUA: LABOR MONITORING AND ENGAGEMENT WITH FREE [...] (U) As per Ref. A request, the following is U.S. Embassy Managua's submission regarding Labor Monitoring and Free Trade Agreements. A. Labor Issues Scene Setter: The Right of Association 2. (U) The law provides for the right of all public and private sector workers, with [...] | 2010-02-05 22:21:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON ETRD PGOV NU |
10MANAGUA206 | NICARAGUA: GON REPORTS HIGHER IN TOURISM INDUSTRY IN 2009 [...] (SBU) The Nicaraguan Tourism Institute (INTUR),an agency of the Government of Nicaragua, reported that the tourism industry grew 8.3 percent in 2009 versus 2008. INTUR stated the reasons for the sector's growth were the removal of visa requirements for Costa Rica and an emphasis on attracting [...] | 2010-02-08 15:29:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON NU |
10MANAGUA21 | FISCAL TRANSPARENCY IN NICARAGUA [...] (SBU) Summary: Per Reftel A, while the Nicaraguan national budget is publicly available on the GON's Ministry of Finance website, it does not include or accurately reflect funds originating from Venezuela under the auspices of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) program, which rema [...] | 2010-01-13 22:54:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ECON PREL NU |
10MANAGUA214 | NICARAGUA: HUMAN RIGHTS INDIVIDUAL VETTING REQUEST FOR U.S. - SPONSORED TRAINING: INL-ILEA, INTERNATIONAL POST BLAST INVESTIGATION (IPBI) [...] We request the Department's assistance in screening the following individuals who have been nominated for USG-funded training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and the Foreign Assistance Act. 2. The following individuals will attend the ILEA, International Post Blast Investigation (IPBI) in [...] | 2010-02-12 21:20:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PHUM SNAR MOPS PINR NU |
10MANAGUA216 | NICARAGUA: HUMAN RIGHTS INDIVIDUAL VETTING REQUEST FOR U.S. - SPONSORED TRAINING: INL-ILEA, INTERNATIONAL POST BLAST INVESTIGATION (IPBI) [...] We request the Department's assistance in screening the following individuals who have been nominated for USG-funded training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and the Foreign Assistance Act. 2. The following individuals will attend the ILEA, International Post Blast Investigation (IPBI) in [...] | 2010-02-12 21:21:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PHUM MOPS PINR NU |
10MANAGUA218 | NICARAGUA: HUMAN RIGHTS INDIVIDUAL VETTING REQUEST FOR U.S. - SPONSORED TRAINING: MILGP, ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE AND RANGER [...] We request the Department's assistance in screening the following individuals who have been nominated for USG-funded training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and the Foreign Assistance Act. 2. The following individuals will attend the English Language Course and Ranger in Lackland AFB in T [...] | 2010-02-12 21:21:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PHUM MOPS PINR NU |
10MANAGUA220 | NICARAGUA: HUMAN RIGHTS INDIVIDUAL VETTING REQUEST FOR U.S. - SPONSORED TRAINING: MILGP, PERSPECTIVES ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND DEFENSE COURSE [...] We request the Department's assistance in screening the following individuals who have been nominated for USG-funded training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and the Foreign Assistance Act. 2. The following individuals will attend the Perspectives on Homeland Security and Defense Course in [...] | 2010-02-12 21:51:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PHUM MOPS PINR NU |
10MANAGUA226 | NICARAGUA: AMCIT PROPERTY CLAIMS MONTHLY UPDATE: JANUARY [...] In January 2010, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) reported the resolution of four Embassy registered property claims. To date, the overwhelming majority of resolutions have involved compensation via government-issued indemnification bonds ("bonos de pago de indemnizacion" or BPIs). As of Jan [...] | 2010-02-17 15:33:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON KIDE NU |
10MANAGUA228 | Nicarargua: Trafficking in Persons Report 2010 [...] (U) Following is Embassy Managua's 2010 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. The information is keyed to reftel paragraphs 25-30. --------------------------------------------- --------- 2. (SBU) Nicaragua's TIP Situation (reftel para 25) --------------------------------------------- ---- [...] | 2010-02-17 20:54:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KMCA NU |
10MANAGUA234 | NICARAGUA: HUMAN RIGHTS INDIVIDUAL VETTING REQUEST FOR U.S. - SPONSORED TRAINING: DOJ, ANTIGANGS JUSTICE SECTOR SECURITY IN SAN SALVADOR [...] We request the Department's assistance in screening the following individuals who have been nominated for USG-funded training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and the Foreign Assistance Act. 2. The following individuals will attend the DOJ, Antigangs Justice Sector Security Training in San Salvador, [...] | 2010-02-19 21:50:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PHUM MOPS PINR NU |
10MANAGUA236 | NICARAGUA: HUMAN RIGHTS INDIVIDUAL VETTING REQUEST FOR U.S. - SPONSORED TRAINING: CENTRAL AMERICAN LAW ENFORCEMENT EXCHANGE (CALEE) MS 13 [...] We request the Department's assistance in screening the following individuals who have been nominated for USG-funded training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and the Foreign Assistance Act. 2. The following individuals will attend the Central American Law Enforcement Exchange (CALEE) MS 13 Training [...] | 2010-02-19 22:00:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PHUM MOPS PINR NU |
10MANAGUA238 | NICARAGUAN SUPREME COURT CLOSES NATIONAL PROPERTY APPEALS [...] (SBU) The Nicaraguan Supreme Court administratively closed the National Property Appeals Court on December 20, 2009. The Supreme Court decided to close the appellate body because it was slow, inefficient, and had a backlog of casework. The pending cases were transferred to the Managua Civ [...] | 2010-02-22 17:42:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON PGOV NU |
10MANAGUA240 | Nicaragua S/GWI Project Proposal [...] Embassy Managua submits the proposal below for S/GWI's consideration for funding through its small grants initiative (reftel). The proposal is from the Nicaraguan Women's Autonomous Movement (Movimiento Autonomo de Mujeres, MAM) and focuses on the promotion and defense of women's civil rights, but [...] | 2010-02-22 22:46:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KWMN KPAO PHUM EAID NU |
10MANAGUA25 | Nicaragua in ALBA - Three Years and Still Going [...] (C) Summary: President Daniel Ortega announced Nicaragua's entry into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) on January 11, 2007, the day after he was sworn in as president. Since that time he has proclaimed the organization as the savior of Nicaragua's economic, social and infrastructure [...] | 2010-01-14 22:54:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM EAID SOCI VE NU |
10MANAGUA250 | Data Confirm Nicaragua's Economic Decline in 2009 [...] (U) Data from January-November 2009, the latest period for which figures are available, confirm an economic contraction in Nicaragua of almost 2% last year. The global financial crisis played a major role in the decline, but internal political factors also dampened economic activity, especially inv [...] | 2010-02-26 16:51:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV NU |
10MANAGUA27 | Nicaragua in ALBA - Three Years and Still Going [...] (C) Summary: President Daniel Ortega announced Nicaragua's entry into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) on January 11, 2007, the day after he was sworn in as president. Since that time he has proclaimed the organization as the savior of Nicaragua's economic, social and infrastructure [...] | 2010-01-14 23:22:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM EAID SOCI VE NU |
10MANAGUA3 | NICARAGUA: NEW TSA PASSENGER SCREENING PROCEDURES IN PLACE [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-05 20:05:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR NU |
10MANAGUA37 | NASA HYTHIRM PROJECT: Nicaragua National Assembly Approves Overflight Permission for first six month of 2010 [...] (U) On December 3, the publication "La Gaceta" (Nicaragua's "Federal Register" equivalent) contained the text of a decree in which the Nicaraguan National Assembly approved the USG request to allow US Navy P-3 aircraft to overfly Nicaragua in support of certain NASA project missions. This formal US [...] | 2010-01-25 15:23:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA TSPL MOPS PREL NU |
10MANAGUA4 | Embassy Managua's Diplomatic Outreach Plan Supporting the [...] (SBU) Per reftel A, Embassy Managua has developed a diplomatic strategy to promote and support the Secretary's Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative (GHFSI). Where possible, we will attempt to complement the GON's food security strategy. Our plan focuses on the following four areas: 1) [...] | 2010-01-04 20:51:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL PGOV NU |
10MANAGUA49 | TFHA01: AMBASSADOR PROTESTS ORTEGA HAITI STATEMENT [...] (C ) Summary: At a January 25 meeting with Foreign Minister Samuel Santos the Ambassador protested President Daniel Ortega's willful mischaracterization of U.S. humanitarian efforts in Haiti as a military occupation. He said that such statements have been noticed in Washington and are damag [...] | 2010-01-26 22:31:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS EAID OAS HA NU |
10MANAGUA5 | NICARAGUAN OPPOSITION UNITY AND BENCHMARKS [...] (C) Summary. At the start of 2010, the majority of Nicaragua's political opposition remains convinced of the need to unite but continues to confront the obstacle of former President Arnoldo Aleman, his control over the Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC),and his continued power-sharing agreeme [...] | 2010-01-06 18:46:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM CVIS NU |
10MANAGUA51 | Ortega Expands His Nicaraguan Media Empire [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 14, Carlos BriceC1o made public the sale of his television station, Telenica Channel 8. The buyer and amount have not been made public, but it is widely understood that the governing Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN),and particularly the Ortega family, are the n [...] | 2010-01-27 18:16:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM ECPS NU |
10MANAGUA57 | Nicaraguan Electoral Authority Continue Manipulation of [...] (C) Summary: On January 19, Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) issued its regulations governing electoral observation for the March 7 regional elections. Civil society and the political opposition agree that the regulations significantly differ from past practice, severely limiting [...] | 2010-02-02 14:15:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM NU |
10MANAGUA69 | AIRLINE BUSINESS STEADY IN NICARAGUA DESPITE TENSE RELATIONSHIP WITH GON [...] (C) Despite ongoing clashes with the GON's airport authority, commercial air carriers that serve U.S./Nicaragua routes reported steady sales and healthy load factors during the DCM's quarterly civil aviation roundtable on January 28. According to the airlines, long shifts worked by airport ramp and [...] | 2010-02-08 17:29:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR EINV ETRD PGOV NU |
10MANAGUA93 | CODEL Dodd: Scenesetter for Nicaragua [...] (C) Senator Dodd, Senator Corker, your visit to Nicaragua comes as we face exceptional challenges in the political environment here with a government that is suspicious and critical of the United States Government (USG),even as the Nicaraguan public remains fundamentally pro-U.S. and increasin [...] | 2010-02-16 21:48:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP PREL PGOV NU |
10MANAMA11 | GUARDING NDI'S FLANK [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-10 11:24:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KMPI BA |
10MANAMA15 | BAHRAINI FM ON AFGHANISTAN, ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad Al Khalifah January 11 for an hour and discussed a range of topics including the Israeli-palestinian conflict and Afghanistan. MFA advisor Amb Saeed Al Faihani and DCM joined the meeting. Afghanistan ----------- 2. (C) On Afghanista [...] | 2010-01-11 12:57:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS AF BA |
10MANAMA21 | SUNNI EXTREMIST RE-ARRESTED [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-14 07:56:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC BA |
10MANAMA24 | WELCOME STAFFDEL RAVEN TO BAHRAIN: JANUARY 19-21, [...] Embassy Manama welcomes the visit of STAFFDEL Raven to Bahrain from January 19, 2010 to January 21, 2010. 2. Control Officer for the visit is Political Officer Rachel Mihm. Her office telephone number is (973)1724-2931; mobile (973) 3908-9220; home (973) 1759-1702. Email: MihmRI@state.g [...] | 2010-01-18 08:37:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP PREL BA |
10MANAMA25 | BAHRAIN'S KING HAMAD ON NATO'S USE OF ISA AIR [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-18 12:05:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO BA |
10MANAMA26 | BAHRAIN'S KING HAMAD CONCERNED ABOUT QATAR, GCC [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-18 12:58:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER ENRG MARR IR BA |
10MANAMA30 | FREEDOM HOUSE DEMOTES BAHRAIN [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-19 14:30:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV BA |
10MANAMA49 | BAHRAIN EAGER TO SUPPORT U.S./OIC POLIO [...] (U) Summary: A State/USAID/CDC delegation met with GOB officials to discuss the joint U.S./OIC polio eradication effort. The Minister of Health pedged Bahrain's full support in working with theU.S., GCC, and OIC member states and told the deegation that polio would be on the agenda of next we [...] | 2010-01-28 12:41:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI TBIO BA |
10MANAMA52 | NGOS LAUD INTERNET FREEDOM SPEECH; ALEC ROSS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-28 13:46:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM KPAO PGOV EINV ETRD BA |
10MANAMA55 | FTA LABOR MONITORING - BAHRAIN [...] (U) This cable provides responses requested in Ref A (Labor Monitoring and Engagement with Free Trade Agreement Countries). BACKGROUND = = = = = 2. (SBU) WORKFORCE: Bahrain's workforce comprises approximately 675,000 adults, of which approximately 537,000 are foreign workers -- of these [...] | 2010-02-01 12:40:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON ETRD PHUM KTIP PGOV KCRM BA |
10MANAMA56 | INPUT FOR FORCED LABOR AND CHILD LABOR REPORTS [...] (U) Summary: There were no reports of forced labor in the production of goods in Bahrain in 2009, nor were there reports of exploitative child labor, trafficking of children, or commercial sexual exploitation of children. End Summary. FORCED/CHILD LABOR IN THE PRODUCTION OF GOODS = = = = = [...] | 2010-02-01 12:40:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI BA |
10MANAMA57 | BAHRAIN'S KING HAMAD APPROVES USG REQUESTS FOR USE [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-01 13:58:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG MARR NATO BA |
10MANAMA62 | BAHRAIN: RESPONSE TO MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-03 13:26:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR BA |
10MANAMA63 | BAHRAINI LAWMAKERS VISIT FIFTH FLEET HQ [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador and U.S. Fifth Fleet Commander met with members of the Shura Council's Foreign Affairs, Defense, and National Security Committee at NAVCENT HQ. Despite their key role on defense and security issues in parliament, this was the members' first visit to the NAVCENT/Naval Supp [...] | 2010-02-04 07:51:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR BA |
10MANAMA64 | BAHRAINI PUBLIC REACTION TO MEDIA FOCUS ON STORIES ON U.S. [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the past week, news stories regarding U.S. efforts to bolster its military presence in the Gulf received considerable coverage in local dailies and blogs. Bahraini public reaction varied considerably from support of U.S. efforts to defend stability in the region, to critic [...] | 2010-02-04 12:36:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV BA |
10MANAMA67 | BAHRAIN OUTLINES INITIAL PREPARATIONS FOR NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 25, senior Bahraini officials met with a team led by the State Department's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN),and outlined GOB preparations for a civil nuclear energy program. Although Bahrain is not ready to pursue building a nuclear power [...] | 2010-02-07 13:13:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP BA |
10MANAMA71 | HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REPORT ON TORTURE IN BAHRAIN [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-12 10:22:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BA |
10MANAMA87 | WELCOME STAFFDEL ANDERSON/BELZAK TO BAHRAIN (FEBRUARY 23 - [...] Embassy Manama welcomes the visit of STAFFDEL Anderson/Belzak to Bahrain from February 23, 2010 to February 24, 2010. 2. Control Officer for the visit is Political Officer Rachel Mihm. Her office telephone number is (973)1724-2931; mobile (973) 3908-9220; home (973) 1759-1702. Email: Mihm [...] | 2010-02-22 08:15:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN BA |
10MANAMA99 | BAHRAINI OFFICIALS REACT TO TORTURE ALLEGATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-25 11:49:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC KISL BA |
10MANILA10 | PHILIPPINES VOLCANO THREAT EASES; SUCCESSFUL 'ZERO [...] (SBU) Summary. Philippine volcanologists downgraded the threat level of southern Luzon's Mount Mayon to Alert Level 3 on January 2, allowing nearly all 48,000 evacuees to return to their homes on the volcano's slopes. Albay provincial officials attribute their successful management of the cri [...] | 2010-01-05 08:18:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PREL KPAO SENV EAGR CASC RP |
10MANILA125 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PRESIDENT ARROYO [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador paid her farewell call on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at Malacanang Palace January 21. The President praised the excellent state of U.S.-Philippine bilateral relations, and lauded U.S. leadership in organizing an "excellent" aid effort for Haiti. She said a [...] | 2010-01-21 08:55:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RP |
10MANILA132 | TFHA01: PHILIPPINES SENDS DISASTER RELIEF FUNDS, PERSONNEL [...] (SBU) Summary. The Philippines offered monetary assistance and disaster relief expertise to earthquake-stricken Haiti this week, with President Arroyo and the Philippine National Red Cross each approving USD 50,000 for humanitarian assistance. A team of 21 government doctors, nurses and engin [...] | 2010-01-22 07:23:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PREL PGOV KPAO HA RP |
10MANILA135 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Ambassador hosted a cordial, hour-long coffee at the Residence January 21 with Liberal Party presidential candidate Senator Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III and his vice presidential running mate, Senator Manuel A. "Mar" Roxas. Clearly more relaxed and self-possessed th [...] | 2010-01-22 08:51:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM RP |
10MANILA142 | Philippines Optimistic About Copenhagen Accord, Plans to [...] (SBU) Economic Counselor delivered reftel demarche to Heherson Alvarez, Presidential Adviser on Climate Change and head of the Philippine's climate change delegation, on January 19. Alvarez was optimistic about the potential impact of the Copenhagen Accord and clearly stated that he would con [...] | 2010-01-25 05:28:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON KGHG RP |
10MANILA149 | 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - PHILIPPINES [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-25 07:59:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC PGOV RP USTR |
10MANILA155 | MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE: LEAD SUSPECT'S TRIAL UNDERWAY [...] (C) The murder trial is underway for a powerful former Mayor suspected of leading a gruesome November 23 massacre in Maguindanao province that left 57 people dead. Two other members of his prominent family remain detained on charges of rebellion, although we understand one could be released so [...] | 2010-01-26 08:51:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS KCRM RP |
10MANILA156 | FILIPINO NURSES STRUGGLE TO RESUSCITATE CAREERS AFTER U.S. [...] SUMMARY: Nursing degrees provided thousands of Filipinos opportunities to work in the United States. Facing low wages and high unemployment at home, Filipino nurses were eager to help address the chronic nursing shortage in the United States. However, many of these job opportunities evaporat [...] | 2010-01-26 08:56:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON ELAB CVIS OEXC RP |
10MANILA164 | Philippine Elections: Favorite Son Hits Softball [...] (SBU) Summary: Philippine presidential candidate Senator Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino's January 21 luncheon speech to an invited audience focused on his economic advocacies and the faults of the current Arroyo Administration. The speech was well-received; no surprise given the anti-Arroyo Adminis [...] | 2010-01-27 06:49:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV RP |
10MANILA170 | PHILIPPINE ELECTION: ESTRADA IN FOR NOW, VILLAR [...] (C) Though the presidential campaign officially starts Feb. 9, electioneering is in full swing, with the main candidates running ads, debating, and working to undercut opponents. In a constitutionally questionable decision, a Commission on Elections (COMELEC) sub-panel ruled that former Presi [...] | 2010-01-27 08:19:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KJUS RP |
10MANILA187 | ANNUAL REQUEST FOR STAFFING, EMPLOYMENT, AND OTHER [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-29 01:14:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC APER ECON KUNR OECD APECO UNESCO RP |
10MANILA196 | PHILIPPINE VIEWS ON NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 28, Political-External chief discussed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference (NPT RevCon) and Nuclear Security Summit with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),and delivered Reftel demarches. DFA said that the planning was proceeding well for nex [...] | 2010-01-29 07:04:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL NPT IAEA UNGA RP |
10MANILA199 | Philippines Copenhagen Reaction: Government Negotiators [...] (SBU) Summary: President Arroyo and her chief climate envoy Heherson Alvarez have expressed strong support for the Copenhagen Accord and the United Nations (U.N.) negotiating process. President Arroyo moderated the Philippines' pre-Copenhagen climate change position by telling the delegation [...] | 2010-01-31 23:32:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON PGOV PREL KGHG RP |
10MANILA212 | INFORMATION ON CHILD AND FORCED LABOR FOR DOL [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-02 09:14:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PHUM EIND KTIP SOCI SIPDIS USAID RP |
10MANILA235 | NO SIGN OF PROGRESS IN PEACE TALKS WITH COMMUNISTS [...] (S) Norwegian peace talks facilitator Vegar Brynildsen told us on February 3 that a failed agreement to restart formal talks between the Philippine government and the communist National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) demonstrated the waning influence of self-exiled communist leader [...] | 2010-02-04 08:04:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS PTER MOPS RP NO |
10MANILA241 | MOBILIZING PRESSURE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM: [...] (SBU) Political-External chief delivered Reftel demarche on Iran's nuclear program to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). The DFA was represented by Donna Rodriguez, Director of the Office of Political, Security, and Legal Matters in the international organizations bureau, and Rona Goce, [...] | 2010-02-05 08:45:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM IR UNSC RP |
10MANILA251 | PARTIES SHARE DRAFT PEACE ACCORDS, BUT POSITIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Negotiators from the Philippine government and the insurgent Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) met January 27-28 in Kuala Lumpur to exchange first drafts of a final peace agreement, and assessed that their positions were too distant to allow for a comprehensive settlement by th [...] | 2010-02-08 08:26:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS KISL RP |
10MANILA281 | POLL PREPARATIONS ON TRACK, ELECTION COMMISSION [...] (C) Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chairman Jose Melo told the Charge d'Affaires on February 8 that preparations for th Philippines' first automated national election Ma 10 were proceeding well. Melo was satisfied wih the ongoing delivery and testing of SmartMaticmachines for scanning ball [...] | 2010-02-12 08:40:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM RP |
10MANILA289 | GOVERNMENT DETAINS 43 IN CONTROVERSIAL RAID [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a joint February 6 operation, Philippine police and military personnel in Rizal Province arrested and detained 43 people with alleged ties to the terrorist New People's Army. The accused maintain they are medical workers who were tortured by military forces after their wron [...] | 2010-02-16 09:11:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER MOPS RP |
10MANILA293 | TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - [...] (U) This cable includes the Mission's input for the 2010 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The information and statistics cover the period from mid-February 2009' to mid-February 2010, unless otherwise noted. The Mission's TIP point of contact is Political Officer Doreen Bailey, BaileyDP@ [...] | 2010-02-17 07:42:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF |
10MANILA333 | ELECTION STUMBLING BLOCKS RAISE QUESTIONS [...] (C) Election controversies are an established tradition in the Philippines, and the 2010 national poll looks certain to feature its fair share. The country is embarking on an unprecedented effort to automate the vote nationwide, and Filipinos still face considerable hurdles in implementing th [...] | 2010-02-19 03:48:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS EAID ASEC RP |
10MANILA336 | Philippines: Distracted Driving Demarche Reply [...] (U) On January 29 Embassy delivered reftel demarche to Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Assistant Secretary for American Affairs Lourdes Yparraguirre and DFA Assistant Secretary for United Nations and International Organizations Leslie Gatan. Post also contacted the Land Transportation Offi [...] | 2010-02-19 05:56:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI ELTN UNDP UNGA RP |
10MANILA349 | S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS - PHILIPPINES [...] Embassy Manila submits two proposals for consideration for the 2010 Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues Small Grants Initiative. The first is a $50,000 project to fund the expansion of a women's support center in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). The second is a $100,00 [...] | 2010-02-19 08:41:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KPAO KWNM RP |
10MANILA350 | PEACE TALKS FACILITATOR SAYS PHILIPPINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Malaysian facilitator for peace talks between the Philippine government and the insurgent Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) told the Charge d'Affaires February 18 that the parties had agreed to pursue an interim agreement before the end of President Arroyo's term, in lieu o [...] | 2010-02-19 08:44:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS KISL RP |
10MANILA369 | U.S. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM COMMISSION CHAIR PRESSES [...] (SBU) Leonard Leo, Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (CIRF),explained to President Arroyo in a February 19 meeting that some countries use opposition to "defamation of religion" to restrict free speech and enable repressive blasphemy laws. Leo, accompanied by [...] | 2010-02-22 08:28:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KISL KDEM PGOV PTER RP |
10MANILA370 | SENIOR ABU SAYYAF GROUP LEADER BELIEVED KILLED ON [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On February 21, six members of the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) were killed in a battle with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Jolo Island including, we believe, the prominent ASG sub-commander Albader Parad. If Parad's death is confirmed, it would be a signifi [...] | 2010-02-22 08:53:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL MARR MOPS KCRM RP |
10MANILA38 | Philippines 2009 Economic Wrap-up and 2010 Way Ahead [...] (SBU) Summary: The Philippine economy is poised for moderate growth in 2010 after avoiding most of the effects of the world recession in 2009. Although buffeted by two extremely damaging storms in the final trimester, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded overall in 2009, while neighbori [...] | 2010-01-07 07:46:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD ECIN RP CN XE XD |
10MANILA385 | TOURISM - BASIS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [...] Summary: The Philippine Tourism Act of 2009, signed into law on May 12, 2009, describes tourism as an indispensable element of the national economy. The new law seeks to develop a robust tourism industry, turn the Philippines into a world-renowned destination, and attract foreign investment [...] | 2010-02-24 08:39:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EAIR ETRD RP |
10MANILA404 | CORRECTED COPY: INFORMATION ON CHILD AND FORCED [...] (U) Summary: This cable provides input requested for the Secretary of Labor's annual report to Congress on the implementation of commitments to eliminate exploitative and forced child labor (Ref A). It updates information provided by Post in Reftels B and C on the use of child labor in the p [...] | 2010-02-26 08:46:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PHUM EIND KTIP SOCI SIPDIS USAID RP |
10MANILA405 | MILF LEADERS CONCERNED ABOUT PEACE TALKS, SEEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panel told Poloff February 24 they are concerned about the Philippine government's ability to negotiate an interim peace agreement that can satisfy the MILF's expectations, and asked to engage with the U.S. on a more forma [...] | 2010-02-26 09:11:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS KISL RP |
10MANILA60 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL BREAKFAST WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) In a one-on-one January 11 breakfast with the Ambassador, presidential candidate Gilberto Teodoro betrayed a clear lack of enthusiasm for campaigning, noting time demands, difficult discussions with local officials, and a dearth of substance. Teodoro spoke highly of his running mate, Edu [...] | 2010-01-13 03:52:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM RP |
10MANILA63 | AMBASSADOR'S FINAL TRIP TO MINDANAO UNDERSCORES U.S. [...] SUMMARY. During her final trip to Mindanao on January 8, the Ambassador emphasized the long-term commitment of the U.S. to peaceful development in the region. The Ambassador launched an English proficiency program for seven universities in the region, inaugurated a neighborhood footbridge, a [...] | 2010-01-13 06:57:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KISL KPAO EAID RP |
10MANILA70 | FOREIGN SECRETARY'S FAREWELL DINNER FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Secretary Romulo hosted on January 11 an intimate cabinet dinner for departing Ambassador Kenney. In a brief preliminary meeting with the Ambassador, Romulo stressed his gratitude for strong military-to-military relations, for U.S. disaster relief during flooding and the [...] | 2010-01-14 07:09:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS MOPS RP |
10MANILA73 | GOVERNMENT RACING AGAINST TIME FOR MILF PEACE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Philippine government and the insurgent Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are poised to continue difficult discussions this month on a comprehensive peace agreement, even as the Philippine government questions how much progress can be made in reconciling the parties' distan [...] | 2010-01-14 09:20:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS KISL RP |
10MANILA8 | Philippines: 301 Special Out-of-Cycle Review on [...] (SBU) Summary. On December 17, U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) officials held a digital video conference with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) to discuss intellectual property rights protection and enforcement as part of the 301 Special Out-of-Cycle Review (OCR) of the [...] | 2010-01-04 10:03:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD EAGR RP |
10MANILA9 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PHILIPPINE [...] (SBU) In her December 23 farewell call, the Ambassador and Philippine Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap highlighted strong U.S. - Philippine collaboration throughout 2009, especially joint efforts to transition former combatants in Mindanao to peaceful agricultural projects, and a series of h [...] | 2010-01-04 10:48:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD PREL RP |
10MANILA90 | PHILIPPINES LAUDS SECRETARY CLINTON'S SPEECH ON [...] (C) Summary: A senior Department of Foreign Affairs official lauded Secretary Clinton's January 12 speech on regional architecture, calling it another welcome sign of U.S. re-engagement with East Asia. The government continues to formulate its response, and Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo wi [...] | 2010-01-15 09:20:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN PREL XC XE XU ASEAN APECO ARF RP |
10MANILA93 | PHILIPPINES 2009 POLITICAL WRAP-UP AND LOOK-AHEAD [...] (C) While several tumultuous events -- a political massacre in Mindanao, massive flooding in Luzon -- created an end-of-year sense of crisis in the Philippines, overall political and security stability improved perceptibly over the course of 2009. The year witnessed no significant military or [...] | 2010-01-19 05:46:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM PHUM PTER MOPS EAID ASEC KJUS |
10MAPUTO104 | MOZAMBIQUE 2010 INVESTOR CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Mozambique encourages foreign direct investment. CPI, the government's Investment Promotion Center, seeks to bring investors to Mozambique and should be an investor's primary contact with the government. CPI is particularly interested in increasing investment in the central and northern regi [...] | 2010-02-04 12:32:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD OPIC KTDB ECON MZ |
10MAPUTO109 | MOZAMBIQUE -- CHILD LABOR INFORMATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Approximately 75 per cent of Mozambicans work as subsistence farmers. Child labor is culturally tolerated and accepted as a source of employment especially in agriculture. Child labor in the urban context is largely related to domestic servitude. The Ministry of Labor (MITR [...] | 2010-02-06 20:50:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI MZ |
10MAPUTO128 | PRESIDENT THANKS AMBASSADOR FOR USG SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 10 Ambassador Rowe presented her credentials to the GRM at a formal ceremony at the Presidency hosted by President Guebuza. During the brief but substantive discussion which followed, Guebuza described the GRM's relationship with the USG as "excellent," expressing [...] | 2010-02-12 12:03:00 | Embassy Maputo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KMCA MCC SNAR EAID MZ |