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06MANAMA2013	OFFICIALS HIGHLIGHT MOTIVES FOR STRIKE BAN [...] (C) GOB officials state that the sector-specific strike ban issued November 20 is consistent with regulations called for in the recently revised Bahraini Workers' Trade Unions Law. It was intended to be applied on a case-by-case basis to prevent strikes that could threaten national security or [...]	2006-12-10 06:50:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV BA BILAT ECTRD HUMRIT

06MANAMA2019	READOUT ON GERMAN FM VISIT TO SYRIA, DISCUSSION OF [...] (C) Meeting with NSC Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs Dr. Michael Doran December 8, German Foreign Ministry Political Director for Maghreb/Middle East Affairs Dr. Horst Freitag discussed German FM Frank-Walter Steinmeier's December 4 visit to Damascus. Freitag said that [...]	2006-12-10 15:31:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PTER KPAL KPKO KWBG BA REGION
06MANAMA2021	BAHRAIN: CLARIFYING U.S. POLICY ON SUNNI OUTREACH [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-11 09:40:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BA IZ REGION
06MANAMA2022	BAHRAIN: IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORT [...] (C) In the course of a December 7 meeting with MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa covering several subjects, Pol/Econ Chief raised the release of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) report a day earlier and asked for his reaction. Shai [...]	2006-12-11 09:41:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS BA IZ REGION
06MANAMA2030	ANTI-TRAFFICKING TASK FORCE CHAIRMAN COMMENTS ON [...] (C) In a December 7 meeting with Emboffs covering several topics, MFA Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and Follow Up and Bahrain's Anti-Trafficking Task Force Chairman Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa discussed GOB steps to combat trafficking-in-persons. He said the November [...]	2006-12-12 14:18:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KWMN BA HUMRIT
06MANAMA2031	MINOR RESHUFFLE BRINGS SOME NEW BLOOD INTO CABINET [...] (C) The new Cabinet announced by Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa December 11 brings in five new ministers, changes the portfolio of four existing ministers, and drops three others. Of the 23 ministers, 11 are from the ruling Al Khalifa family with the remaining twelve evenly split between Sunni [...]	2006-12-12 15:10:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BA POL
06MANAMA2049	BAHRAINI FM, A/S HILLEN, AND A/S RODMAN EXPLORE [...] (C) Meeting with the U.S. delegation to the IISS Manama Dialogue conference December 8, Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid said that Iranian FM Mottaki had told him earlier in the day that Iran did not want nuclear weapons, saying they would be of no benefit to Iran. Shaikh Khalid said he was pe [...]	2006-12-19 07:00:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR BA BILAT REGION
06MANAMA2060	FOREIGN MINISTER COVERS REGIONAL ISSUES WITH [...] (C) Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid told the Ambassador December 14 that Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki had used "typically harsh" language in his speech at the December 8-10 IISS conference in Bahrain. When asked why the King had met with Mottaki, Shaikh Khalid said that the GOB had not re [...]	2006-12-20 11:12:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA REGION BILAT OFFICIALS
06MANAMA2061	KING'S ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT MARRED BY AL WIFAQ [...] (C) In his speech to a joint session of parliament December 15, King Hamad announced his instructions for the government to take several measures to ease the financial burden on Bahrain's lowest-income citizens. He ordered a 50 percent cut on outstanding government loans for public housing a [...]	2006-12-21 12:19:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM BA POL
06MANAMA2067	SENATOR NELSON AND CROWN PRINCE DISCUSS REGIONAL [...] (C) In their December 18 meeting, Crown Prince Salman told Senator Nelson that Bahrain is 100 percent committed to the bilateral relationship and credited the United States with protecting the stability and security of the region. The Senator briefed Shaikh Salman on his recent meeting with S [...]	2006-12-26 07:15:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER OREP BA REGION OFFICIALS
06MANAMA2068	DEATH OF SENIOR CLERIC BRINGS SHIA OUT INTO THE [...] (SBU) Shaikh Abdul Amir Al Jamri, one of Bahrain's most prominent Shia clerics, died after a long illness December 18, bringing thousands of Bahraini Shia into the streets that same evening and again on December 22 for a funeral procession and graveside ceremony. Al Jamri, whose sons Mansour [...]	2006-12-26 07:40:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL BA POL
06MANAMA2069	SENATOR NELSON DISCUSSES ELECTIONS, IRAQ WITH [...] (C) Senator Nelson December 18 met with members of both chambers of Bahrain's parliament and later with representatives of three non-governmental organizations involved in observation of the recent parliamentary and municipal elections. Al Asala (Salafi) political society member Isa Abul Fat [...]	2006-12-26 07:52:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM OREP BA BILAT HUMRIT POL
06MANAMA2070	MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ELECTION RESULTS SIMILAR TO [...] (C) Results in the municipal council elections, held concurrently with parliamentary elections November 25 and December 2, mirrored those of the parliamentary elections. Twenty-six candidates from three Islamic political societies were elected to the 40 available seats, 17 from Shia society A [...]	2006-12-26 12:58:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM KWMN BA POL
06MANAMA2082	BAHRAIN: INFORMATION REGARDING UNSCR 1737 [...] (C) The Ambassador December 28 delivered reftel information concerning UN Security Council Resolution 1737 on Iran to Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa. The Ambassador emphasized that the resolution requires countries to ensure that no sensitive dual-use technology goes to I [...]	2006-12-28 12:32:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC KNNP BA REGION ROW
06MANAMA2085	FOREIGN MINISTER TELLS AMBASSADOR THAT GCC PLUS [...] (C) Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid and the Ambassador December 28 discussed next steps in the GCC Plus Two mechanism, Iraq, Omani Minister Bin Alawi's visit to Bahrain, Somalia, the status of U.S. Navy dependents, and Guantanamo, among other issues. Shaikh Khalid urged that the GCC Plus Two [...]	2006-12-29 07:04:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA REGION OFFICIALS
06MANAMA22	INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSSES SECURITY ISSUES WITH [...] (C) Begin Summary: Minister of Interior Shaikh Rashid praised the strong historic relationship between the governments of Bahrain and the United States during his December 20 meeting with NAVCENT Commander Vice Admiral Walsh. Senior MOI officials provided a comprehensive brief discussing t [...]	2006-01-04 14:19:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC BA MARR PREL BILAT CTR OFFICIALS
06MANAMA236	ISLAMIC AFFAIRS UNDER SECRETARY SUPPORTS ENHANCED [...] (C) The Ambassador called on Islamic Affairs Under Secretary Dr. Fareed Muftah February 7 to discuss cultural SIPDIS exchanges and religious issues in Bahrain. Muftah characterized the October 2005 visit of Georgetown University Chaplain Imam Yahya Hendi as "very effective" in promoting c [...]	2006-02-19 14:00:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SCUL OEXC KPAO KISL KIRF BA REFORM OFFICIALS BILAT
06MANAMA238	SCENESETTER FOR COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ'S [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, we warmly welcome your February 26-28 visit to Bahrain. Interest in doing business with the United States is at a peak with recent ratification by both countries' legislatures of the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA). We are now working closely with the senior Bahra [...]	2006-02-19 14:33:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD BEXP OVIP BA BILAT ECTRD OFFICIALS
06MANAMA243	AMBASSADOR AND CROWN PRINCE DISCUSS FTA AND IRAN [...] (C) In their February 19 meeting, Crown Prince Shaikh Salman told the Ambassador that he would deliver a speech at the February 27 conference on the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA),at which Commerce Secretary Gutierrez also will speak. The CP said the government was still considerin [...]	2006-02-20 10:34:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD OVIP BA IR ECTRD REGION OFFICIALS BILAT
06MANAMA245	TREASURY UNDERSECRETARY STUART LEVEY VISITS [...] (C) Summary. On January 23, 2006 Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey visited Bahrain and met with Rasheed Al-Maraj, Governor of the Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA),Sheikh Ebrahim Al Khalifah, Undersecretary for the Ministry of Finance, Adel Qulish, Middle East and North African Financial [...]	2006-02-20 11:15:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KTFN EFIN PTER PREL CVIS KVPR BA KSEP REGION OFFICIALS ECTRD
06MANAMA264	ASHURA PROCEEDS SMOOTHLY; CONTROVERSY ERUPTS IN [...] (SBU) An estimated 150,000 people participated in Ashura events in downtown Manama on February 8, the climax of the ten-day period during which Shia commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein in Kerbala in 680 AD. By all accounts, activities went very quietly and smoothly with no reports of v [...]	2006-02-22 12:08:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL PHUM KIRF BA POL
06MANAMA268	PRESS, DIP NOTE PROTEST CONTINUED GTMO DETENTION [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 7. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Bahraini newspapers February 22 reported that Bahraini detainee Juma Al Dossary would remain at Guantanamo for at least one more year following an Administrative Review Board (ARB) decision that he contin [...]	2006-02-22 13:54:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC PTER PREL BA APDC BILAT CTR
06MANAMA275	BAHRAIN FM PLEASED WITH ABU DHABI MEETING WITH [...] (C) In a brief conversation with the Ambassador February 25, Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid Al-Khalifa expressed great pleasure with the opportunity to meet with the Secretary and fellow GCC Ministers in Abu Dhabi February 23, terming it a "wonderful meeting." Focusing on the discussions about [...]	2006-02-25 14:42:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA REGION OFFICIALS BILAT
06MANAMA288	BAHRAIN REACTS TO SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN IRAQ [...] (C) Tens of thousands of Bahrainis, mostly Shias, participated in peaceful and orderly demonstrations over the weekend protesting the attack on the Imam Al Hadi Shrine in Samarra. Officials, politicians, and religious leaders denounced the Samarra bombing and revenge attacks on Sunni targets [...]	2006-02-27 13:45:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAO PTER BA IZ REGION POL
06MANAMA289	BAHRAIN: NO MEETINGS PLANNED WITH HAMAS [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel points during a February 22 meeting with MFA Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and Follow-up Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh Abdul Aziz said that although he was not aware of any visits to Bahrain by members of Hamas, the U.S. points were not [...]	2006-02-27 14:12:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA REGION
06MANAMA301	BAHRAIN APPROVES CWC HOST COUNTRY AGREEMENT, SEEKS [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 4. 2. (C) The MFA informed the Embassy by dip note (text in para 5) that the GOB agrees to sign a Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) Host Country Agreement with the United States, with the text as delivered by the DOD team during its December [...]	2006-02-28 13:19:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MARR OPDC BA BILAT
06MANAMA314	COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ MEETINGS WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa welcomed Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez February 27, voicing SIPDIS appreciation for his visit and the Secretary's support for the U.S.-Bahrain FTA. The PM stressed the importance of stability in the region for development and urged the U [...]	2006-03-01 14:59:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL PGOV BEXP BA REGION OFFICIALS ECTRD BILAT
06MANAMA326	SECRETARY GUTIERREZ MEETS WITH KING HAMAD: FTA, [...] (C) Summary. In a February 27 meeting with visiting Commerce Secretary Gutierrez, King Hamad strongly praised the strength of the U.S.-Bahrain relationship, said that Bahrain can never forget what the U.S. has done for it, and stressed the importance of the Free Trade Agreement for Bahrain. He [...]	2006-03-05 09:00:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA IS QA ETRD OVIP SECRETARY OF COMMERCE GUTIERREZ BILAT ECTRD OFFICIALS REGION
06MANAMA339	POLITICAL ISLAM IN BAHRAIN (PART I): SHARED [...] (C) Bahrain's three leading Islamic political societies mirror major trends in the country's religious life: Al Minbar, associated with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood; Al Asala, a Sunni Salafi group; and Al Wifaq, representing the country's Shia community. These three societies represent the [...]	2006-03-06 15:28:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM SCUL BA POL
06MANAMA358	AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 7 MEETING WITH DEPUTY PRIME [...] (C) The Ambassador and Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak March 7 discussed Crown Prince Salman's upcoming visit to Washington, elections in Bahrain, trafficking in persons, and the anti-terrorism law. During his March 19-21 visit, the CP will discuss the U.S.-Bahrain Free Tra [...]	2006-03-08 06:29:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PHUM KNNP PTER OVIP KDEM KPAL BA REGION OFFICIALS BILAT
06MANAMA365	FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES IRAN, HAMAS WITH [...] (C) In a March 8 meeting with visiting Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid Al-Khalifa reviewed Bahrain's views on Iran and Hamas. Shaikh Khalid said that Bahrain is "really worried" about Iran. Bahrain prefers a diplo [...]	2006-03-08 14:41:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BA IR IS REGION OFFICIALS
06MANAMA381	BAHRAIN: OIC ISRAEL BOYCOTT MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-12 11:24:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC ETRD KISL BA REGION ECTRD
06MANAMA399	BAHRAIN: DEMARCHES ON MUQTADA AL SADR [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-15 09:36:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KDEM PGOV BA IZ REGION
06MANAMA4	GCC SUMMIT: BAHRAIN FOCUSES ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Bahrain Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid told the Ambassador that GCC FM Rashid Abdullah's post-GCC Summit comments about Iran's nuclear program reflected GCC concerns more than the watered-down language in the Summit's final statement. GCC members were not happy with Amre Moussa's [...]	2006-01-02 11:35:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PGOV KNNP BA IR OFFICIALS REGION
06MANAMA401	BAHRAIN: HAMAS MEETINGS [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-15 09:37:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL BA IS REGION
06MANAMA404	MINISTER ADDRESSES LABOR REFORM [...] (C) The Ambassador and Labor Minister Dr. Majeed Al-Alawi March 11 discussed the status of pending labor reform legislation, including reforms that were the subject of close U.S. congressional attention in the late 2005 run-up to FTA ratification. The FTA-related legislation has been submitted [...]	2006-03-15 10:25:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PREL PGOV ECON BA
06MANAMA409	LUNCHEON WITH KING HAMAD [...] (C) King Hamad, during a March 13 luncheon, had high praise for the U.S. and its positive role in maintaining stability in the Gulf. "Without you," he stated, "we'd be squashed." He made clear his concern for Iran, both as a regional power and as a meddling force inside Bahrain. Iran can be expecte [...]	2006-03-15 13:42:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BA IR REGION OFFICIALS POL BILAT
06MANAMA419	BAHRAIN: CALLING FOR THE RELEASE OF AKBAR GANJI [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-18 09:05:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI BA IR REGION
06MANAMA434	SUGGESTED BAHRAINI EDITS AND REVISIONS TO CWC HOST [...] (C) MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho told Pol/Econ Chief March 15 that in preparing the final text of the Chemical Weapons Convention Host Country Agreement Memorandum of Understanding (MOU),the Bahraini side had uncovered several areas that it would like t [...]	2006-03-19 10:51:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MARR BA BILAT
06MANAMA443	COUNSELOR ZELIKOW DISCUSSES IRAN AND IRAQ WITH [...] (C) Summary: State Department Counselor Zelikow met March 12 with Shura Council members Dr. Khalid Bin Khalifa Al Khalifa and Ibrahim Mohamed Bashmi, both of whom are on the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and National Security Committee, to discuss Iraq, Iran and domestic issues in Bahrain. Dr. [...]	2006-03-20 05:52:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PTER MARR EFIN KISL KNNP BA IR IZ BILAT OFFICIALS REGION
06MANAMA456	POLITICAL ISLAM IN BAHRAIN (PART II): ISLAMISTS [...] (C) Although their agenda is controversial and opposed by many, Sunni Islamists generally represent the interests of their constituents, in the view of non-Islamist members of the elected Council of Representatives (COR). Despite their success in passing non-binding resolutions on religious- [...]	2006-03-21 12:26:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM SCUL BA POL REFORM
06MANAMA475	BAHRAIN: ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT DEMARCHE [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief March 22 delivered reftel demarche concerning the Arab League summit to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz SIPDIS bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh Abdul Aziz noted that Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa was in t [...]	2006-03-22 14:45:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL BA REGION BILAT
06MANAMA476	SMALL-SCALE VIOLENT CLASHES CONTINUE TO ROIL [...] (C) Following the March 10 violent protest at Dana Mall, small bands of masked youth have clashed with security forces in scattered, sporadic confrontations. The incidents typically begin with young men burning tires or trash dumpsters on the edge of a village, and throwing Molotov cocktails [...]	2006-03-22 14:54:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC BA POL REFORM
06MANAMA49	POLICE, SHIA YOUTH CLASH DURING WEEKEND PROTESTS [...] (C) Police clashed January 5 near the Ministry of Interior with a group of protesters that broke away from a larger rally in the downtown Manama souk area organized to protest the arrest of 17 youth for their involvement in a December 25 riot at Bahrain airport. Organizers claim the police f [...]	2006-01-09 14:18:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC BA REFORM POL
06MANAMA5	HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP MAKES FIRST EVER PRISON VISIT [...] (C) Summary: A delegation from Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS),including Deputy Secretary General Dr. Abdulla Al-Derazi, has made a visit to Jaw Prison for men, representing the first time in Bahrain's history that a human rights organization has been allowed access to the prison system [...]	2006-01-02 11:52:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF BA REFORM HUMRIT
06MANAMA516	POLITICAL ISLAM IN BAHRAIN (PART III): THE [...] (C) Twenty-nine NGOs formed the "Lana Haq" (We Have a Right) movement in December 2005 and issued a public declaration calling for the defense of individual and civil liberties. The declaration says that the signatories took this step because "the liberal and patriotic forces in Bahraini soc [...]	2006-03-28 09:16:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM SCUL BA POL REFORM
06MANAMA57	GOB MOVES FORWARD WITH LABOR UNION REFORMS [...] (U) Ministry of Labor Senior Labor Relations Specialist Ahmed Al-Khabaz told Emboff January 3 that the Cabinet has referred to Parliament revisions to the Trade Union Law allowing the formation of more than one union per organization. Labor Minister Dr. Majeed Al-Alawi had referred the issue [...]	2006-01-17 07:29:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PREL BA HUMRIT
06MANAMA584	FOLLOWING DUBAI PORTS WORLD CONTROVERSY, U.S. [...] (C) The Dubai Ports World (DPW) controversy has receded from the headlines since Economic Development Board (EDB) CEO Shaikh Mohammed bin Isa Al-Khalifa's reported criticism of the outcome was published in the Daily Telegraph. In the early days following DPW's decision to sell its U.S. operat [...]	2006-04-11 12:54:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN EINV ECON PREL BA
06MANAMA585	TREASURY UNDER SECRETARY QUARLES' MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary. Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Randal Quarles and Financial Economist Karthik Ramanathan met March 17 with Minister of Finance Shaikh Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa. Shaikh Ahmed said new investment opportunities in Bahrain were attracting increasing local investme [...]	2006-04-11 13:13:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PREL BA
06MANAMA586	TREASURY UNDER SECRETARY QUARLES' MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Randal Quarles and Financial Economist Karthik Ramanathan met March 23 with Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA) Deputy Governor Anwar Khalifa Al Sadah. Deputy Governor Anwar confirmed that, despite concerns on the U.S. account deficit and [...]	2006-04-11 13:38:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PREL BA
06MANAMA587	EASING OF VISA RESTRICTIONS LEADS TO INCREASE IN [...] (C) Summary: In a discussion about Embassy Bangkok TIP reporting on Thai women repatriated from Bahrain, Ambassador Widhya Bhoolsuwan told the Ambassador that the majority of cases in which the Embassy becomes involved began with voluntary travel to Bahrain to provide sexual services. Due t [...]	2006-04-11 15:07:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KWMN PHUM SMIG PREL PGOV BA HUMRIT
06MANAMA595	U/S JOSEPH DISCUSSES IRAN AND PSI WITH BAHRAINI FM [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Shaikh Khaled Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa told Arms Control and International Security U/S Robert Joseph April 8 that the GOB shares U.S. concerns about Iran's export of terrorism and development of nuclear weapons. He gave strong indications that Bahrain would suppor [...]	2006-04-12 13:43:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PARM PGOV PREL BA IR OFFICIALS REGION CTR
06MANAMA646	MINISTER DISCUSSES ELECTION ISSUES WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador, in an April 15 meeting with King confidant Hassan Fakhro, raised concerns about NDI's status in Bahrain as well as apparent harassment of local NGO Bahrain Transparency Society. Fakhro provided some clarity on plans for this year's elections, saying the government [...]	2006-04-16 12:01:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KMPI BA POL
06MANAMA675	BAHRAIN: HAMAS COMMENTS ON TEL AVIV SUICIDE ATTACK [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-19 12:14:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL BA REGION CTR
06MANAMA678	MFA DENIES REPORT OF POSSIBLE MUQTADA AL SADR VISIT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-19 13:44:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER BA IZ REGION
06MANAMA690	BAHRAIN: VENEZUELA AND THE UNSC [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-23 08:02:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC BA ROW
06MANAMA692	CWC HOST COUNTRY AGREEMENT WITH BAHRAIN [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief April 22 delivered Ref A talking points, non-paper, and revised Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a Chemical Weapons Convention Host Country Agreement (HCA) to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho was pleased that the United Stat [...]	2006-04-23 08:04:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MARR MASS BA BILAT
06MANAMA693	BAHRAIN: ASIAN CANDIDATES FOR THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-23 08:04:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KUNR UN BA ROW HUMRIT
06MANAMA694	DIPLOMATIC NOTE REQUESTING INFORMATION ON [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 3. 2. (C) Post received the following diplomatic note from the MFA on April 17. Begin Text: Ref: 19/1/5-65437 Date: April 15, 2006 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain presents it compliments to the Embassy of the [...]	2006-04-23 08:05:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC PREL PTER BA BILAT CTR
06MANAMA704	FUTURE UNCERTAIN FOR NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT PROJECT [...] (C) Bahrain's much-anticipated 80 million dollar National Employment Project (NEP) completed its formal registration phase at the end of February and has moved into its worker orientation and assessment phases. NEP Head of Marketing Nizar Al Qari told PolOff April 18 that optimism and morale [...]	2006-04-24 13:47:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL BA REGION HUMRIT REFORM
06MANAMA710	BAHRAIN REFORM STRATEGY: FIRST QUARTER 2006 [...] (C) The reporting period was marked by tumult on the political scene as competing Shia groups jockeyed for the support of their community. Leading Shia opposition society Al Wifaq remained preoccupied with organizing itself internally following its decision, along with several other oppositi [...]	2006-04-25 10:45:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KMPI ECON KPAO BA BILAT REFORM
06MANAMA711	PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS BAHRAIN [...] (C) Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar visited Bahrain April 24 in a low-key visit that received limited local press coverage. On the morning of Zahar's visit, the Ambassador queried Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid about the visit on the margins of a Bahrain University graduation cerem [...]	2006-04-25 14:24:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL BA REGION
06MANAMA724	MFA READOUT OF PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S [...] (C) In a meeting covering several subjects (septels),the Ambassador April 26 asked MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa for a readout of Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Al Zahar's April 24 visit to Bahrain. Shaikh Abdul Az [...]	2006-04-26 11:47:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL BA REGION CTR OFFICIALS
06MANAMA727	UPS AND DOWNS IN BAHRAIN'S RELATIONS WITH IRAN [...] (C) In a meeting covering several subjects (septels),the Ambassador April 26 asked MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa about the latest developments in Bahrain's relations with Iran, most notably President Ahmadi-Nejad's recent [...]	2006-04-26 14:28:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PTER BA IR REGION OFFICIALS
06MANAMA729	GOB MOVES FORWARD ON SHELTER, ANTI-TIP LEGISLATION [...] (C) In an April 26 conversation with PolOff, Chief of Social Welfare Section and Ministry of Social Development representative to Bahrain's interministerial anti-TIP Task Force Afaf Ahmed Al Aseeri reported that the Minister of Social Development Dr. Fatima Al Balooshi had decided on one of t [...]	2006-04-26 15:23:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SMIG KHUM KWMN PGOV PREL BA REGION
06MANAMA75	NEA TIP: INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR WATCH LIST [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-21 10:57:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG BA GR EG KHUM HUMRIT
06MANAMA755	BAHRAIN: NATO-MIDDLE EAST SECURITY COOPERATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-01 11:51:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR BA ROW OFFICIALS
06MANAMA758	SCENESETTER FOR U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND COMMANDER [...] (C) General Abizaid, we warmly welcome your May 8 visit to Bahrain. Your Bahraini interlocutors are most concerned about heightened tensions with Iran and will want to hear your views on U.S. plans to deal with Iran. The Bahraini government is deeply suspicious of Iran's nuclear program and [...]	2006-05-01 13:26:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PGOV ASEC BA REGION BILAT
06MANAMA759	AMBASSADOR PRESSES MFA FOR FAVORABLE RESOLUTION OF [...] (C) In an April 26 meeting, the Ambassador briefed MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa on the status of the MEPI-funded National Democratic Institute (NDI) project in Bahrain. The Ambassador noted that he had requested to meet [...]	2006-05-01 13:28:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KMPI BA BILAT POL REFORM
06MANAMA765	SHIA OPPOSITION SOCIETY AL WIFAQ TO PARTICIPATE IN [...] (C) Leading Shia opposition society Al Wifaq May 1 voted in favor of participating in the parliamentary elections to be held later this year after boycotting the 2002 polls. Secretary General Shaikh Ali Salman told the press that the SIPDIS decision to participate was in line with the socie [...]	2006-05-02 11:33:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL BA POL REFORM
06MANAMA766	COR PRESIDENT AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHAIRMAN DISCUSS [...] (C) The Ambassador met separately with Council of Representatives (COR) President Al Dahrani and COR Foreign Affairs, Defense and National Security Committee Chairman Ahmed Behzad on April 23 and 24 respectively to discuss pending legislation of U.S. interest. Both MPs expressed their confid [...]	2006-05-02 12:20:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ETRD KIPR ETTC BA BILAT ECTRD
06MANAMA80	VIOLENT CLASHES ERUPT IN SEVERAL SHIA VILLAGES [...] (U) Demonstrators and some 100 riot police clashed the evening of January 19 in several Shia villages following an illegal rally in support of 21 youth detained for participating in a riot at the Bahrain International Airport on December 25. According to press reports, the 200-person march i [...]	2006-01-22 11:30:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC PHUM BA REFORM POL
06MANAMA800	BAHRAIN: FOLLOW UP ON THE PROLIFERATION SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-07 13:47:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP MNUC PARM PHSA BA BILAT CTR
06MANAMA802	BAHRAIN: IRAN'S CANDIDACY FOR THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-08 05:55:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR PHUM BA REGION ROW HUMRIT
06MANAMA804	AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOREIGN MINISTER FOR FAVORABLE [...] (C) In a meeting covering several subjects (septels),the Ambassador May 6 pressed Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa for a favorable resolution to the National Democratic Institute's (NDI) outstanding legal status in Bahrain. Referring to Deputy National Security Advisor Ab [...]	2006-05-08 07:27:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KMPI KDEM BA BILAT REFORM OFFICIALS
06MANAMA806	FOREIGN MINISTER'S READOUT OF PALESTINIAN FM AL [...] (C) In a May 6 meeting covering several subjects (septels),the Ambassador, noting that he had not met with him since Palestinian Foreign Minister Al Zahar's April 24 visit to Bahrain, asked Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa for a readout of the visit. Shaikh Khalid said he [...]	2006-05-08 09:54:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL BA REGION OFFICIALS
06MANAMA818	CENTRAL COMMAND GENERAL ABIZAID'S MAY 8 MEETING [...] (C) Centcom Commander General Abizaid met with Crown Prince Salman May 8 and discussed the May 6 GCC Consultative Meeting in Riyadh, the Iranian threat, building up defenses in the Gulf, and the situation in Iraq. The CP said the GCC leaders were far more cooperative towards each other than i [...]	2006-05-09 11:40:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS BA IR IZ REGION BILAT OFFICIALS
06MANAMA827	INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSSES PROPOSED REGIONAL CT [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Interior Shaikh Rashid told the Ambassador May 7 that his Ministry would prepare a concept paper for the proposed Bahrain-based regional counterterrorism center, which was announced the day before at the GCC Summit in Riyadh. He said the paper would be discussed at th [...]	2006-05-10 14:33:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PGOV PHUM BA
06MANAMA829	BAHRAIN: IMPLEMENTATION OF BOYCOTT STATUTES [...] (U) The Government of Bahrain does not require participation in or cooperation with the Arab League Boycott (ALB),nor does it request that U.S. firms comply with boycott requirements. Post is unaware of any ALB compliance on the part of the Embassy's suppliers, venders, and service suppliers [...]	2006-05-10 14:47:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KBCT ABLD PHUM PINR ETRD ETTC PREL BA REGION
06MANAMA831	BAHRAIN: IMPLEMENTATION OF BOYCOTT STATUTES [...] (U) The Government of Bahrain does not require participation in or cooperation with the Arab League Boycott (ALB),nor does it request that U.S. firms comply with boycott requirements. Post is unaware of any ALB compliance on the part of the Embassy's suppliers, venders, and service suppliers [...]	2006-05-10 14:55:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KBCT ABLD PHUM PINR ETRD ETTC PREL BA REGION
06MANAMA836	NDI PROGRAM DIRECTOR SET TO DEPART BAHRAIN [...] (C) NDI Program Director for Bahrain Fawzi Guleid is to depart Bahrain May 12 after negotiations on an MOU regularizing NDI's status in Bahrain reached an impasse and the government advised that Guleid's residency permit had expired. Guleid hopes to continue supporting programs for Bahrain fr [...]	2006-05-11 11:38:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KMPI BA BILAT REFORM POL
06MANAMA863	BAHRAIN: GOB WILL WORK TO OPEN SHELTER, PASS [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche May 15 to MFA Human Rights Coordinator Ali Al Aradi, who said that he would discuss the points with MFA Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Al Aradi confirmed that progress toward opening the s [...]	2006-05-16 08:43:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KHUM PHUM PGOV BA HUMRIT
06MANAMA869	AL WIFAQ ENCOURAGED BY REACTION TO PARTICIPATION [...] (C) Al Wifaq's May 1 decision to participate in this year's parliamentary elections prompted expressions of support from both King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa and leading Shi'a cleric Shaikh Isa Qassim. In a May 3 press conference, Al Wifaq Secretary General Shaikh Ali Salman made the formal an [...]	2006-05-17 14:25:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM BA POL REFORM
06MANAMA884	BAHRAIN: HCOC - ENCOURAGING ADDITIONAL COUNTRIES [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-21 14:29:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC MTCRE BA ROW BILAT
06MANAMA899	INTERAGENCY DELEGATION DISCUSSES GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE WITH CROWN PRINCE SALMAN [...] (C) An interagency delegation led by Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Henry and Assistant Secretary of State Hillen met with Crown Prince Salman May 14 and discussed the Gulf Security Dialogue, the threat posed by Iran, direct contacts between the U.S. and Iran, a declaratory secur [...]	2006-05-23 09:09:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR MASS KDEM KMPI BA REGION IR
06MANAMA907	BAHRAINI POLITICAL SCENE PART II: ROYAL FAMILY [...] (C) At a time when the Bahrain's King and ruling family should be congratulating themselves for having successfully maneuvered major opposition society Al Wifaq into deciding to end its boycott and participate in this year's parliamentary elections, recent developments suggest that at least so [...]	2006-05-24 11:23:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KMPI BA BILAT POL REFORM
06MANAMA91	BAHRAIN: REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS [...] (C) This is an action request; please see para 5. 2. (C) The Ambassador January 21 delivered Ref B demarche concerning reporting Iran to the UN Security Council to Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa. Shaikh Khalid said that he had met recently with the EU-3 Ambassadors, [...]	2006-01-23 12:45:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL AORC BA IR OFFICIALS REGION ROW
06MANAMA92	MFA SEEKS FAVORABLE RESOLUTION TO NDI'S STATUS IN [...] (C) During a January 21 meeting with Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa covering several subjects (septels),the Ambassador stated that the U.S. Government strongly supported the National Democratic Institute's (NDI) democracy project in Bahrain and was concerned about the Ja [...]	2006-01-23 12:46:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KMPI BA REFORM OFFICIALS POL
06MANAMA923	AMBASSADOR AND CUSTOMS HEAD OPEN MEPI IPR [...] (U) The Ambassador joined President of Customs, Ports and Free Zones Shaikh Daij Bin Salman Al-Khalifa May 21 to open a MEPI-funded USPTO Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Border Enforcement Workshop. The two met on May 22 to discuss bilateral cooperation to enhance Bahrain's port security. [...]	2006-05-28 12:48:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT ECON ASEC KMPI BA REGION BILAT OFFICIALS
06MANAMA936	DPM SHAIKH MOHAMMED DISCUSSES IRAN, IRAQ, NDI WITH [...] (C) Summary. In a May 29 meeting with the Ambassador, DPM Shaikh Mohammed welcomed continued dialogue on Iran, saying it would be vital to get as accurate intelligence as we can on Iran's nuclear program. On Iraq, he urged that new Iraqi ministers make a greater effort to reach out to their B [...]	2006-05-30 06:09:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM IR IZ BA OFFICIALS BILAT
06MANAMA937	SUPREME COUNCIL FOR DEFENSE SECGEN REQUESTS U.S. [...] (C) The Ambassador called on the Secretary General for the recently-formed Supreme Council for Defense, Shaikh Ahmed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, on May 28. Shaikh Ahmed said King Hamad meets daily with the Council, which is composed of the King, Crown Prince, Ministers of Defense, Foreign Affairs [...]	2006-05-30 06:13:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KDEM KMPI BA REGION OFFICIALS POL
06MANAMA963	REQUEST TO VISIT BAHRAINI DETAINEES AT GUANTANAMO [...] (U) This is an action request; see para 3. 2. (C) Post received the following diplomatic note on May 30, 2006, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Begin Text: Ref: 19/1/15-68530 Date: May 28, 2006 Confidential and Urgent SIPDIS The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdo [...]	2006-06-03 11:01:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER BA BILAT CTR
06MANAMA973	COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSES CONTROVERSIAL [...] (C) Bahrain's Council of Representatives (COR) passed public assembly legislation May 16, following two years of back-and-forth between the COR and government. These amendments to the 1973 law on public gatherings ban demonstrations near hospitals, airports, shopping malls, and other areas s [...]	2006-06-04 08:50:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KHUM BA HUMRIT POL REFORM
06MANAMA976	SAUDIS TO PREPARE IRAN PAPER FOR GCC CONSIDERATION [...] (C) During a brief conversation with the Ambassador on June 4, King Hamad told the Ambassador that GCC Foreign Ministers meeting in Riyadh June 3 had talked at some length about Iran in an effort to develop a unified position and strategy. He said that numerous ideas were presented, but there [...]	2006-06-04 13:49:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR BA REGION OFFICIALS
06MANAMA977	PRIME MINISTER, AMBASSADOR DISCUSS IRAN, GCC, FTA [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa June 3 and discussed the U.S. initiative on Iran, the GCC, and the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Accompanying the PM was Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, Foreign Minister S [...]	2006-06-04 14:24:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD BA OFFICIALS BILAT
06MANAMA980	PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS AFTER EID? [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-05 09:14:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BA POL HUMRIT
06MANAMA982	FM SHAIKH KHALID REQUESTS INFORMATION ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary and action request. Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid has requested further information on the components of the package of incentives for Iran, and especially on the political component which Bahrain understands is aimed at giving Iran recognition as a regional player. He asked that [...]	2006-06-05 13:43:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR BA OFFICIALS BILAT
06MANAMA987	BAHRAIN: NAM STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) Econoff June 5 delivered Ref. B demarche concerning the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) statement on Iran's nuclear program to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho replied that he had been present at the drafting of the NAM statement and said he wished t [...]	2006-06-05 15:46:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC IAEA KNNP USNC IR BA REGION ROW
06MANAMA99	BAHRAIN: WAY FORWARD ON UN REFORM [...] (C) The Ambassador January 21 delivered Ref A demarche concerning the way forward on UN reform to Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa in a meeting covering several subjects (septels). Shaikh Khalid said that Bahrain supports U.S. efforts in the reform process and promised to [...]	2006-01-24 11:34:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR PHUM KDEM BA UN ROW OFFICIALS

06MANILA1	MOVING FORWARD ON USG PRIORITIES IN THE [...] (C) Summary: While still facing serious political obstacles, President Arroyo has recovered some of her equilibrium after surviving impeachment charges and severe domestic turbulence in 2005. The relative pause in the political wars provides an opening for the USG to move forward with key b [...]	2006-01-03 01:55:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EAID MARR MOPS PHUM RP
06MANILA1021	FIVE LEFTIST LAWMAKERS REMAIN "UNDER PROTECTIVE [...] (C) Summary: Five leftist lawmakers remain "under protective custody" at the House of Representatives complex in metro Manila. The Department of Justice (DoJ) Secretary and the five claim that they will be arrested if they leave the premises. It is not clear what exactly the five might be [...]	2006-03-06 09:16:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PINR RP
06MANILA1047	SENATE PRESIDENT UNDER PRESSURE FROM WITHIN HIS [...] (C) Summary: Opponents of Senate President Drilon took action on March 2 to strip him of his leadership position in the Liberal Party (LP). Drilon is contesting the move. Contacts are also reporting that Drilon is under pressure in the Senate from elements who want to see him removed from hi [...]	2006-03-07 08:52:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR RP
06MANILA1110	PHILIPPINE OPPOSITION: BITTER TOWARD PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: In recent meetings, Opposition politicians told poloffs that they will continue to denounce President Arroyo for her recent imposition (since rescinded) of a State of National Emergency, asserting that it was poorly calibrated to meet the nature of any threat posed at the time. [...]	2006-03-10 07:41:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR PREL RP
06MANILA1162	GRP KEEPS UP PRESSURE ON ACCUSED LAWMAKERS [...] (C) Summary: The GRP has presented its first witness in a prosecution probe of five left-wing lawmakers accused of sedition in connection with an alleged plot to overthrow the government in February. The five remain ensconced at the House of Representatives. On March 13, a trial court order [...]	2006-03-14 09:06:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR PHUM RP
06MANILA1178	ASEAN: LOOKING AHEAD AS THE PHILIPPINES PREPARES [...] (SBU) Summary. The Philippines will assume the rotating Chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in July 2006. The GRP plans to use its chairmanship to focus ASEAN on maritime security and counterterrorism issues, as well as regional anti-trafficking efforts, alter [...]	2006-03-15 09:50:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EWWT RP BM
06MANILA1179	"CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER": THE GRP PRESENTS ITS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 9 diplomatic corps briefing, senior GRP officials laid out the case in support of the February 24 declaration of a State of National Emergency through Proclamation 1017. The GRP maintains that an "unholy alliance" of three groups -- Communist rebels and political [...]	2006-03-15 10:32:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINS MOPS RP
06MANILA1213	DAVAO EAGER FOR INVESTMENT, CALLS FOR REMOVAL OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The economy is growing in Davao City according to local business contacts and the City Mayor's office, despite the claimed dampening effect of the State Department's travel advisory on the overall business climate. Although the banana industry suffered setbacks in 2005 (sept [...]	2006-03-17 08:22:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD CASC RP
06MANILA1259	LOCAL ISSUES -- NOT MANILA POLITICS -- DOMINATE [...] (C) Summary: Based on emboffs March 16-17 visit, recent political turbulence in Manila appears to have garnered little attention in Isabela Province in northeastern Luzon. Governor Grace Padaca, the 2006 Ninoy Aquino Award for Public Service winner, remains popular, but faces entrenched oppo [...]	2006-03-21 07:25:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ECON PREL PINR SOCI RP
06MANILA1275	PRESIDENT ARROYO WORKS TO SHORE UP SUPPORT IN [...] (C) Summary: In light of recent political turbulence, President Arroyo has been reaching out to high-level members of the Catholic clergy in an effort to shore up support. Arroyo has also taken care not to cross the Church on two key issues: mining and population policy. Arroyo's efforts a [...]	2006-03-22 05:35:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI PINS EMIN RP
06MANILA1342	FORMER PRESIDENT ESTRADA HEATEDLY DENIES CHARGES [...] (C) Summary: Former president Joseph Estrada testified for the first time in his almost five-year old trial on serious corruption charges on March 22. As expected, Estrada vehemently denied all charges. The government has sent conflicting signals as to whether it wants to continue to try t [...]	2006-03-23 09:26:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR ECON PINR PINS RP
06MANILA1538	PROPONENTS PRESS FORWARD ON CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: Pro-Administration groups are collecting signatures for a "People's Initiative" (referendum) on Constitutional changes that would create a parliament with an executive prime minister. If plans move forward, the referendum might take place later this year. President Arroyo and [...]	2006-04-05 09:00:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS RP
06MANILA1539	PHILIPPINES: CONTRIBUTING FORCES TO UN [...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs Office of United Nations and International Organizations (UNIO) Director Gary Domingo, the Philippines would in principle be favorably disposed to a request to provide troops to a UN peacekeeping operation in Darfur. He pledged to engage in init [...]	2006-04-05 09:26:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MOPS SU RP
06MANILA1576	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH SENATE PRESIDENT DRILON [...] (U) Ambassador Kenney, accompanied by Pol/C, called on Senate President Franklin Drilon on April 6. The meeting received prominent coverage in the media on April 7. 2. (C) Counterterrorism legislation: Drilon admitted that passage of proposed CT legislation by the Senate had become "m [...]	2006-04-07 06:21:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER RP
06MANILA1638	KEY GROUPS EXPRESS CONCERNS ABOUT CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The powerful Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) and the influential Makati Business Club (MBC) have issued statements asserting that the GRP and its allies are moving forward too quickly with plans for Constitutional change. Neither statement specifically co [...]	2006-04-12 05:05:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ECON RP
06MANILA1647	UPDATE ON IPR PROTECTION: KEY RESIGNATION AND [...] (C) The Executive Director of the Optical Media Board (OMB),Marivic Benedicto, will resign effective April 14 due to what she describes as a "personality conflict" with OMB Chairman Edu Manzano. OMB has not named her successor. Benedicto was responsible for OMB's day-to-day operations and m [...]	2006-04-12 08:38:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON KIPR EINV RP
06MANILA1674	PRESIDENT ARROYO TO COMMUTE DEATH SENTENCES [...] (C) Summary: President Arroyo announced plans to commute all death sentences to life imprisonment. Her action immediately should only affect about 80 inmates, whose sentences the Supreme Court has already confirmed. Another 1,100 cases are still waiting Supreme Court review, as mandated in [...]	2006-04-18 09:44:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER RP
06MANILA171	PHILIPPINES: COUNTERTERRORISM TRAINING [...] (C) Summary. The Philippines faces multiple terrorist threats. The US Mission in Manila coordinates a robust interagency program of counterterrorism training and technical assistance, and hopes further to expand such efforts in FY 2006-2008, if additional funds are available. As part 1 of a [...]	2006-01-12 10:18:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ECON PGOV KCRM KTFN RP
06MANILA1714	LIKELY REDUCTION OF CHARGES FOR 3 MARINES IN [...] (SBU) Summary. The Philippine Secretary of Justice announced that he would recommend to the court a reduction in the charges against three of the Marines in the ongoing alleged rape case. Lawyers for the complainant and for the Marines have both characterized the proposed reduced charges of [...]	2006-04-19 09:59:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
06MANILA1726	MAJOR ANTI-CORRUPTION CASES MOVE FORWARD, SLOWLY [...] (C) Summary: The criminal trial on corruption charges of former Comptroller of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Major General Carlos Garcia will begin on April 25. The court has issued warrants for the arrest of Garcia's wife and three sons, but they remain in hiding. Despite Garcia [...]	2006-04-20 08:19:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KCOR SOCI RP
06MANILA1746	MALACANANG SUFFERS SETBACK AT HANDS OF SUPREME [...] (SBU) Summary: The Supreme Court ruled April 20 that key sections of E.O. 464, which required Malacanang concurrence before executive branch members could testify in Congress, were unconstitutional. Malacanang said it would file a motion for reconsideration. The Opposition hailed the ruling [...]	2006-04-21 06:44:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS RP
06MANILA1792	REBELLION CHARGES AGAINST SUSPECTED COUP PLOTTERS [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-25 10:20:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PREL PTER RP
06MANILA1841	HANDLING THE MARINE "RAPE" CASE -- NEXT STEPS [...] (SBU) With the imminent arraignment (likely on April 28) of four Marines accused in a case of rape of a Filipina in Subic Bay on November 1, 2005, this case and the utility of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) will re-emerge in the spotlight after a relatively quiet four months. An outsta [...]	2006-04-27 10:06:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR RP
06MANILA1885	ARREST OF ASG OPERATIVE AL-SHARIE AMIRUDDIN A [...] (C) Summary. The recent arrest of Al-Sharie Amiruddin y Mohammad Nur, aka Abu Omar, is a significant catch for the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Although a mid-level operative, Amiruddin was an early Abu Sayyaf Group adherent, and involved in intelligence and recruiting activities in Mal [...]	2006-05-02 08:56:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL MOPS KPAL BX ID MY RP
06MANILA1887	MINDANAO PEACE PROBLEMS [...] (C) Summary: According to Cotabato City Mayor Muslimin Sema, detained Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Chairman Nur Misuari has formed a new council for talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF),excluding Sema and other members of the MNLF-Council of 15. Sema commented the c [...]	2006-05-02 09:23:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PTER PREL KISL RP
06MANILA190	PHILIPPINES: COUNTERTERRORISM ASSISTANCE (PART 2) [...] (C) Summary. The Philippines faces multiple terrorist threats. The US Mission in Manila coordinates a robust interagency program of counterterrorism training and technical assistance, and hopes further to expand such efforts in FY 2006-2008, if additional funds are available. As part 2 of a [...]	2006-01-13 09:57:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ECON PGOV KCRM KTFN RP
06MANILA1968	MARINE CASE UPDATE 5/5/06 [...] (C) Summary. On May 3, the Ambassador raised concerns over the alleged rape case with Philippine Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz, a strong supporter of the Visiting Forces Agreement. Cruz was sympathetic to U.S. concerns over the potential politization of the case, but believed that the case [...]	2006-05-08 08:39:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
06MANILA1982	AMBASSADOR'S MAY 5 MEETING WITH FOREIGN SECRETARY [...] (C) Summary. In a May 5 meeting, the Ambassador thanked Secretary of Foreign Affairs Romulo for the Philippine SIPDIS government's support for efforts to keep Iran off the UNHRC. She urged the GRP to pursue concerns about terrorist financing when President Arroyo visits Saudi Arabia on May [...]	2006-05-09 07:56:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS PHUM PTER RP BM IR SA
06MANILA2013	GRP-MILF PEACE TALKS DEADLOCKED OVER TERRITORIAL [...] (C) Summary. GRP and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) negotiators failed to reach an agreement on ancestral domain during their 12th Round of Exploratory Talks, but were successful in expanding the composition/mandate of the International Monitoring Team, and extending the Ad Hoc Joint A [...]	2006-05-10 08:47:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL MOPS PINS KISL MY RP
06MANILA2060	MAINSTREAM OPPOSITION: DIVIDED AND WITHOUT [...] (C) Summary: Mainstream Opposition groups in the Philippines remain seriously divided among factions linked to former president Estrada, former president Aquino, Senator Lacson and others. The Opposition also remains without effective themes with which to counter the Arroyo administration. [...]	2006-05-15 06:21:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR PHUM ECON RP
06MANILA2085	MARINE CASE UPDATE 5/16/06 [...] (U) Pre-trial hearings continue in the case of four U.S. Marines accused of raping a Filipina. At a pre-trial hearing on May 11, Judge Pozon received a Motion for Clarification of the one-year time-limit for judicial proceedings specified in the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA). ----------- [...]	2006-05-16 09:11:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
06MANILA2104	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PHILIPPINE RED CROSS [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Ambassador met May 17 with Senator Richard J. Gordon, Chairman and CEO of the Philippine National Red Cross, to discuss the importance of the upcoming meeting of the 29th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and its scheduled vote to establish [...]	2006-05-17 08:41:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PHUM PREL PREF ICRC RP IS
06MANILA2111	AMBASSADOR'S MAY 18 MEETING WITH FORMER PRESIDENT [...] (C) The Ambassador, accompanied by the DCM, paid her first visit on former president Corazon "Cory" Aquino on May 18. Aquino talked warmly and nostalgically about her days in Malacanang before turning to the current political situation. She said that she still believes that President Arroyo [...]	2006-05-18 08:27:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RP
06MANILA2113	AMBASSADOR'S MAY 18 MEETING WITH FOREIGN SECRETARY [...] (U) This is an action message -- see para. 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Foreign Affairs Secretary Romulo intends to focus on Burma and regional counterterrorism when the Philippines takes the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and is optimistic about peace prospects with the Moro [...]	2006-05-18 08:43:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER BM RP
06MANILA2154	THE "LEGAL" LEFT: SMALL, BUT DEDICATED [...] (C) Summary: The so-called "legal" left parties, which include Bayan Muna, Gabriela, the KMU, and Migrante, are an important aspect of the Philippine political scene. Most are linked with the Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA) and, along with the mainstream Oppos [...]	2006-05-23 03:54:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR PHUM RP
06MANILA218	SUBIC CASE UPDATE: JANUARY 17 [...] (C) Summary. Local media have begun reporting on the US Embassy's decision to retain custody of the four Marines charged with rape in the Philippines. The Marines' defense attorneys have submitted Motions for Reconsideration of the issuance of any arrest warrants; three Marines have also ap [...]	2006-01-17 09:43:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
06MANILA2195	DRUGS, CRIME, AND CORRUPTION CHALLENGE PEACE AND [...] (C) Summary. Widespread methamphetamine trafficking and abuse, organized crime, and endemic corruption are gnawing at the fabric of Muslim society in Mindanao. While Muslim clan leaders and political warlords sustain fiefdoms and private armies through sources of illicit income, the common p [...]	2006-05-26 06:26:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL SNAR KISL KCRM RP
06MANILA2228	MARINE CASE UPDATE 05/29/06 [...] (U) Summary. Pre-trial hearings have concluded in the case of four U.S. Marines accused of raping a Filipina, and the trial is scheduled to begin on June 2. DCM conveyed to DFA officials the USG's position that the one-year period in the Marine case began on December 27, 2005, when the Marin [...]	2006-05-30 09:23:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
06MANILA2273	ANATOMY OF AN EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING [...] (C) Summary: During POL team's recent visit to Puerto Princesa, the capital of Palawan in the western Philippines, contacts expressed their deep concern about the brazen daytime killing of a well-known radio broadcaster and former politician on May 22. GRP authorities arrested a serving mem [...]	2006-06-01 06:24:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SOCI RP
06MANILA2302	PALAWAN: CONFIDENCE ABOUT SECURITY FIVE YEARS [...] (C) Summary: During POL team's recent visit to Palawan in the western Philippines, GRP officials expressed confidence about the security situation there five years after the terrorist raid on the Dos Palmas Resort in May 2001. The officials said military assets in the area had been reinfor [...]	2006-06-02 06:29:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PTER MOPS RP
06MANILA2418	RECENT SUPREME COURT RULINGS REASSERT INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: In recent decisions, the Philippine Supreme Court has showed a strong independent streak in the face of accusations that it had been too close to President Arroyo. The Court remains committed to its judicial reform program, to which the USG makes substantial contributions. These [...]	2006-06-09 07:24:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM SOCI EAID RP
06MANILA242	PRESIDENT'S PARTY CALLS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Leaders of the Lakas Party -- including President Arroyo -- underscored support for Constitutional change during a January 14 meeting. Per Lakas, proposed changes would take effect in 2007 when a parliament led by a prime minister would be created. President Arroyo would be al [...]	2006-01-18 08:40:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR RP
06MANILA2554	AMBASSADOR AND ADMIRAL FALLON MEET WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. On June 5, the Ambassador and Admiral Fallon met for breakfast with President Arroyo. In a wide-ranging conversation, President Arroyo offered her views on GRP counterterrorism efforts; the peace process in Mindanao; and her upcoming trip to Jolo to visit the USNS Mercy. End S [...]	2006-06-19 08:16:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL MARR PINS RP
06MANILA2623	CONTINUED GRP-MILF COMMITMNT TO PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) Summary. Following a caim by the MILF for an additional 1,000 wards asMuslim-dominated ancestral domain, the Governmen of Malaysia will help to facilitate a joint survey by GRP/MILF census experts, with a goal of compltion by October 2006. The GRP believes that theMILF also remains comm [...]	2006-06-23 02:07:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MY RP KISL PINS
06MANILA2682	OPPOSITION TRIES TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT ARROYO AGAIN [...] (C) Summary: Members of the Opposition filed their long-anticipated second impeachment complaint against President Arroyo in the House on June 26. The 150-page complaint includes allegations that she cheated in the 2004 elections and suppressed dissent during the week-long State of National [...]	2006-06-27 07:07:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR RP
06MANILA283	CONGRESS CALLS FOR TERMINATION/RENEGOTIATION OF [...] (C) Summary: The Philippine Congress' Legislative Oversight Committee on the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) unanimously passed a non-binding resolution on January 19 calling for the termination of the VFA within six months and its renegotiation into a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Appa [...]	2006-01-19 10:03:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
06MANILA2833	MAGUINDANAO CLASHES UNLIKELY TO UPSET PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) Summary. Armed clashes erupted between GRP security forces and elements of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on June 28 when police officials attempted to serve arrest warrants on two MILF commanders related to a June 23 bombing in Shariff Aguak that left seven dead. While members [...]	2006-07-06 09:38:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PINS KISL RP
06MANILA2994	UNEASY TRUCE IN MAGUINDANAO [...] (C) Summary. A week-old truce brokered by GRP officials between the Maguindanao Provincial Governor and local commanders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) appears to be holding, with thousands of displaced persons now returning to their homes. The Malaysian-led International Monit [...]	2006-07-18 07:42:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PINS KISL RP
06MANILA3068	PHILIPPINE DEFENSE REFORM HELPING TO COUNTER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Philippine Defense Reform (PDR) has produced concrete results and is becoming institutionalized within the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). PDR is also helping counteract restiveness among some mid- and junior officers, which contributed to the coup attempt of February 24 [...]	2006-07-24 00:32:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP MOPS PREL PINS RP
06MANILA3085	CALLING FOR A BALANCED ASEAN STATEMENT ON MIDDLE [...] (C) The Ambassador discussed the situation in the Middle East (reftel) with Foreign Secretary Romulo on July 23, emphasizing that the United States was working hard to achieve a durable cessation to the current violence in the Middle East and to ease the plight of innocent people. She urged [...]	2006-07-24 07:21:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEAN LE IS RP
06MANILA3095	ESPERON - THE BATTERING RAM [...] (C) SUMMARY. Lieutenant General Esperon succeeded General Senga as the 35th Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines on July 21. He has a reputation as a tough combat soldier, and has pledged both to crush Communist rebels and put down any attempt to unseat the Arroyo governmen [...]	2006-07-24 09:57:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MCAP PREL PTER PINR RP
06MANILA3203	AMBASSADOR'S DINNER WITH PRESIDENT ARROYO [...] (C) Summary. President Arroyo promised the Ambassador that her Administration would push ahead with counterterrorism efforts, especially against the ASG and JI. She will also push for new counterterrorism legislation with the Senate. She reiterated her opposition to extrajudicial killings. [...]	2006-08-01 05:55:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP PTER PHUM RP
06MANILA3299	INITIAL SUCCESS IN ONGOING OPERATIONS AGAINST [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) operation to capture or kill senior terrorist leaders on the island of Jolo, which began on August 1, has met with initial success. One mid-level terrorist has been killed and the senior leadership has been driven out of its safe havens. [...]	2006-08-04 09:23:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS MCAP PREL RP
06MANILA3321	MINDANAO'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OPPOSE BANGSAMORO [...] (C) Summary. Leaders and representatives of indigenous peoples (Lumads) from throughout Mindanao gathered in Bukidnon Province July 24-26 to proclaim strong opposition to the inclusion of their ancestral lands in a Bangsamoro Juridical Entity. This stance will further complicate the already [...]	2006-08-08 01:13:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS KISL RP
06MANILA3344	MILF SEEKS GREATER US INVOLVEMENT IN PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) Summary. During DCM and Poloff's low-key, two-day visit to Muslim Mindanao's political center in Cotabato, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Vice-Chairman Jafaar sought greater USG involvement in the GRP-MILF Peace Process. Meeting at the MILF's camp in Sultan Kudurat, Maguindanao on [...]	2006-08-09 06:43:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PINS KISL RP
06MANILA3346	CENTRAL LUZON REACTIONS TO EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS [...] (C) Summary. At least some NGO and party activists in Central Luzon are scaling back their rural activities in response to an increased number of extrajudicial killings (EJKs). Some place the blame for the recent rise in EJKs squarely on the 7th Infantry Division of the Armed Forces of the [...]	2006-08-09 07:12:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS MOPS KCRM RP
06MANILA350	"COUNCIL OF STATE" MEETING: MUCH HYPE, BUT LITTLE [...] (C) Summary: A Malacanang-sponsored Council of State meeting took place on January 24. The meeting brought together some 75 notables to discuss "issues of national interest," though the Opposition largely boycotted the meeting. The group agreed to create a commission to advocate for Consti [...]	2006-01-25 09:13:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR PHUM SOCI RP
06MANILA3692	SENIOR IP JUDGE DEMOTED AMID RUMORS OF CORRUPTION [...] (C) The Supreme Court of the Philippines recently demoted Judge Antonio Eugenio, who was the senior executive judge assigned to handle intellectual property rights (IPR) cases. Citing "the interests of the service," the Supreme Court stripped Eugenio of his executive judicial authority and di [...]	2006-09-05 07:21:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV KIPR RP
06MANILA3779	CHARGE UNDERSCORES IMPORTANCE OF EJK RESOLUTION TO [...] (C) Summary. Charge d'Affaires Jones reinforced the importance of Philippine Government (GRP) action in solving the recent spate of extrajudicial killings (EJKs) of leftist activists in the Philippines to current and former Filipino leaders, including National Security Advisor Gonzales, Fore [...]	2006-09-08 08:37:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL MOPS KCRM PINS RP
06MANILA3784	NAM SUMMIT: PHILIPPINES TO PUSH GUATEMALAN UN [...] (C) Charge discussed reftel points September 5 with Foreign Secretary Romulo. Romulo immediately volunteered to lobby for Guatemala and to coordinate with the Guatemalan delegation to build support for Guatemala's Security Council bid during the September 11-16 Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Sum [...]	2006-09-08 09:10:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA PHUM CU RP
06MANILA3793	CHARGE MEETS WITH "MELO" COMMISSION ON [...] (C) Summary. Retired Supreme Court Justice Jose A. Melo and other members of the "Melo" Commission told Charge d'Affairs September 7 that their primary goals are to press for progress on cases of extrajudicial killings (EJKs) and to identify overall patterns to these killings. The Commission [...]	2006-09-08 10:21:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS MOPS KCRM RP
06MANILA3805	BELEAGUERED OPTICAL MEDIA BOARD CONTINUES TO FIGHT [...] (C) Summary: The Philippine Optical Media Board (OMB) faces insufficient funding, bureaucratic infighting, and unjustified criticism as it attempts to deal with the difficult piracy problem of the Philippines. Under-funding hampers the agency's ability to effectively enforce the Optical Med [...]	2006-09-11 04:19:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV KIPR RP
06MANILA3817	NUR MISUARI ATTENDS TENTH ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Moro National Liberation Front Chairman Nur Misuari criticized the GRP for failing to implement fully the provisions of the 1996 peace agreement during a September 2 commemoration ceremony in Davao to mark the signing of the accord. To "resuscitate" the ten year old agreement, [...]	2006-09-11 09:11:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PINS KISL RP
06MANILA3959	PHILIPPINES WATCHING CLOSELY THE SITUATION IN [...] (C) We are monitoring closely the reaction of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to the coup in Thailand. The Philippines has experienced numerous cases of military unrest, the most recent being the failed coup attempt of February 2006 (ref A). The government is currently preparing courts [...]	2006-09-20 09:14:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS MARR MOPS TH RP
06MANILA4002	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH AFP CHIEF OF STAFF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: General Esperon, the newly appointed Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, acknowledged to the Ambassador in a September 18 meeting the damage being done to the reputation of the Philippines by extra-judicial killings, and conceded the possibility that overzealo [...]	2006-09-21 10:47:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MCAP PREL PTER PINS PINR RP
06MANILA4024	PRESIDENT ARROYO DISCUSSES NAM SUMMIT IMPRESSIONS [...] (C) Summary. During an informal conversation with the Ambassador on September 21, President Arroyo shared her impressions of her recent trip to Europe and Cuba and about the outcome of the recent Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Havana. President Arroyo was "astonished" at the run-down [...]	2006-09-22 07:20:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA PHUM CU RP
06MANILA407	CATHOLIC BISHOPS CALL FOR "MORAL ACCOUNTABILITY," [...] (C) Summary: At the conclusion of their semi-annual meeting on January 29, the Catholic Bishops' issued a long statement that called for "moral accountability" and recommended that Filipinos "search for truth" through Constitutionally-mandated processes and via non-violence. The Bishops' wen [...]	2006-01-30 09:12:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS SOCI ECON RP VT
06MANILA4166	TERRORISM FINANCE: NEXT STEPS ON RSM DESIGNATION [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE. SEE PARA. 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The GRP is prepared to work closely with the United States on submitting the Rajah Solaiman Movement to the UN 1267 Committee for designation as a terrorist organization. In addition to seeking help in identifying hidden asset [...]	2006-10-02 23:45:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER RP
06MANILA4203	AMBASSADOR VISITS MEDCAP/GETS FIRST-HAND LOOK AT [...] (C/REL AUS) Summary. Ambassador had a first-hand update from ground force commanders on the Armed Forces of the Philippines' on-going effort to capture or kill Abu Sayyaf Group and Jemaah Islamiyah leaders during her September 25 day-long visit to Jolo Island. The Armed Forces of the Philip [...]	2006-10-03 08:52:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS MARR MOPS EAID RP
06MANILA4221	GRP-MILF PEACE TALKS CONFRONT DIFFICULT ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. Peace talks between the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) remain at an impasse over the issue of ancestral domain, the historically Muslim territory claimed by the MILF. The GRP Peace Panel lacks a mandate to expand the existing boundar [...]	2006-10-04 09:21:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS KISL RP
06MANILA4260	OCTOBER 6 UPDATE ON JOLO OPERATIONS [...] (C) The ongoing Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) operation to capture or kill the Abu Sayyaf Group and Jemaah Islamiyah leadership on the southern island of Jolo is ending its tenth week. The key terrorist leaders -- Khadaffy Janjalani, Abu Sulaiman, Dulmatin, and Umar Patek -- appear t [...]	2006-10-06 08:49:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL MOPS MCAP RP
06MANILA4263	PHILIPPINE STANCE ON NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) In a discussion with Ambassador on October 6, Foreign Secretary Romulo indicated full support and agreement for the U.S. position on a possible North Korean nuclear test (ref a). Romulo noted that his much publicized comments earlier this week on North Korea fully echoed and supported t [...]	2006-10-06 09:17:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KN RP
06MANILA4303	PRESSING FOR CONTINUED PROGRESS IN MILF PEACE TALKS [...] (C) Ambassador, DCM, and Country Team are pressing government, military and diplomatic leaders on the importance of continued progress in the MILF peace process, despite the recent impasse over land rights. Presidential Advisor on the Peace Process Secretary "Jess" Dureza told the Ambassador [...]	2006-10-11 07:28:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS KISL PREL PGOV RP
06MANILA4312	PHILIPPINES SEEKING ASEAN STATEMENT ON NORTH KOREA [...] (C) In a meeting with Ambassador and DCM on October 11, Foreign Minister Romulo and National Security Adviser Gonzales reiterated President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's strong condemnation of the North Korean nuclear test (ref a). Secretary Romulo noted that, at the President's instruction, he [...]	2006-10-11 08:42:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KN RP
06MANILA4323	SENIOR PHILIPPINE OFFICIALS ON EXTRAJUDICIAL [...] (C) In an October 11 meeting with Ambassador and DCM, Foreign Secretary Romulo and National Security Advisor Gonzales expressed concern over the impact of extrajudicial (or "unexplained") killings both on domestic stability and on the Philippines' international image. They reiterated the go [...]	2006-10-12 06:52:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV RP
06MANILA4325	FOREIGN SECRETARY AND NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR [...] (C) Foreign Secretary Romulo and National Security Advisor Gonzales in an October 11 meeting with Ambassador and Deputy Chief of Mission expressed cautious optimism about peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Romulo said Malaysia clearly wanted to help and was playing a p [...]	2006-10-12 07:59:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PTER MOPS MY RP
06MANILA4338	OCTOBER 13 UPDATE ON JOLO OPERATIONS [...] (C) Now nearing the end of its eleventh week, "Operation Ultimatum" -- the ongoing effort by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to capture or kill the Abu Sayyaf Group and Jemaah Islamiyah leadership on the island of Jolo -- has succeeded in narrowing the area in which Khaddafy Janjalan [...]	2006-10-13 05:34:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PTER MOPS RP
06MANILA4343	GOVERNMENT/MILF PEACE TALKS [...] (C) Summary. DCM and Pol/C encouraged the head of the Philippine Government negotiating panel with the MILF insurgents to try to rejuvenate the peace talks, currently stalled on the issue of land rights. The thoughtful and experienced negotiator, Silvestre Afable, said he was finalizing pl [...]	2006-10-13 08:33:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS EAID RP
06MANILA4345	SOLID PHILIPPINE SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALAN UNSC [...] (C) Foreign Secretary Romulo reconfirmed to Ambassador and DCM the Philippines' commitment to vote for Guatemala's UNSC candidacy in the first and succeeding votes in the UN General Assembly during a meeting on October 10. Romulo said he had discussed Guatemala's campaign with its Foreign Mi [...]	2006-10-13 08:40:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA GT RP
06MANILA4346	FOREIGN SECRETARY DISCUSSES EAST ASIA ARCHITECTURE [...] (C) In a meeting with Ambassador and DCM on October 11, Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, speaking as a friend and ally, sought to persuade us of the merits of U.S. participation in the East Asia Summit. He described the EAS as an important emerging forum, inclusive of all East Asia, with A [...]	2006-10-13 08:44:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN XE RP
06MANILA4359	ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS OF EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS [...] (C) Summary. Justice Melo, chairman of the new Presidential commission investigating the recent spate of extrajudicial killings, expressed appreciation for an Embassy offer to provide guidelines toward achieving successful prosecutions of human rights violations involving police and military [...]	2006-10-16 01:49:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS MOPS KCRM RP
06MANILA4403	BOMBING CHARGES AGAINST MILF LEADERS COMPLICATE [...] (C) Summary: Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Chairman Murad and other MILF members are now facing preliminary charges related to the recent bombings in Mindanao that left six dead and over 30 wounded, despite a lack of direct evidence. Presidential Adviser for the Peace Process Dureza [...]	2006-10-18 08:45:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS KISL PTER RP
06MANILA4439	OCTOBER 20 UPDATE ON JOLO OPERATIONS [...] (C/REL AUS) Now in its twelfth week, the ongoing Armed Forces of the Philippines operation against the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) leadership on the southern Mindanao island of Jolo shows no sign of letting up. ASG leaders Khadaffy Janjalani, Abu Sulaiman, and the JI bom [...]	2006-10-20 09:30:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PTER MOPS RP
06MANILA4500	MARINE CASE UPDATE 10/27/06 [...] (C) A verdict in the case of the four Marines accused of raping a Filipino woman is expected November 27. While we cannot predict what the verdict might be, the Embassy's Marine Case Working Group (with input from visiting III MEF officers) is finalizing post-verdict plans that take into acc [...]	2006-10-27 08:06:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
06MANILA4508	OCTOBER 27 UPDATE ON JOLO OPERATIONS [...] (C/REL AUS) "Operation Ultimatum," the ongoing Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) effort to capture or kill the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) leadership on the island of Jolo, is ending its 13th week, with no sign of letting up. ASG leaders Khadaffy Janjalani and Abu So [...]	2006-10-27 09:54:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PTER MOPS RP
06MANILA4600	DEFENSE REFORM AND C-T OPERATIONS TO CONTINUE [...] (C) In a private meeting with Ambassador on November 6, Presidential Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita made clear that the Philippines remained fully committed to comprehensive implementation of the Philippine Defense Reform (PDR) program despite the November 5 resignation of Defense Secret [...]	2006-11-06 09:18:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR PREL RP
06MANILA4616	PRESIDENT ARROYO ON REGIONAL STRATEGIC ISSUES [...] (C) President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo expressed satisfaction to Ambassador during a private dinner on November 6 that the ASEAN-China Commemorative Summit in Nanning had led to a strong consensus about North Korea, She said that she had insisted to fellow ASEAN members that North Korea was [...]	2006-11-07 07:35:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL APEC ASEAN KN BM RP
06MANILA4628	NEW EFFORTS TO COUNTER COMMUNIST INSURGENCY [...] (C) Summary. A recent Executive Order 546 directed the Philippine National Police actively to support the military in combat operations against the Communist New People's Army. One already controversial provision is the arming of civilian volunteer organizations at the local level, beginnin [...]	2006-11-08 01:28:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS MOPS KCRM RP
06MANILA4638	DEFENSE SECRETARY CRUZ' "WAY FORWARD" ON PDR AS [...] (C) Summary. Defense Secretary Cruz admitted to Ambassador that long-standing disagreements with President Arroyo over the pace of Philippine Defense Reform and the campaign against the New People's Army, as well as over constitutional change, had led to his regrettably public resignation. [...]	2006-11-08 08:58:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV RP
06MANILA4656	U.S. STRATEGY FOR MINDANAO PEACE-BUILDING [...] (C) Summary. USG strategic efforts are paying off significantly in building peace in Muslim Mindanao and transforming its once-lawless areas from safehavens for domestic and international terrorists to ever-larger zones of peace and prosperity. While peace talks under Malaysian sponsorship [...]	2006-11-09 08:27:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PTER EAID RP
06MANILA4677	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN SECRETARY ROMULO [...] (C) In a private meeting with the Ambassador on November 10, Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo reaffirmed the high importance President Arroyo and he place on their upcoming bilateral meetings in Hanoi with President Bush and Secretary Rice. Key topics they plan to raise are: -- counterterr [...]	2006-11-14 02:40:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KN BM RP
06MANILA4703	PRESIDENT ARROYO COMMITTED TO FTA; MCC COMPACT [...] (C) Summary: President Arroyo expressed to Ambassador a firm commitment to negotiating a free trade agreement with the United States and obtaining a compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Arroyo assigned Secretary of Trade to look into requirements for an FTA and expressed dismay [...]	2006-11-15 08:28:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON EAID EINV KMCA PINS RP
06MANILA4712	BACKGROUND ON THE MARINE CASE IN ADVANCE OF [...] SUMMARY (C) A verdict is expected on November 27 in the legal case in a Philippine court against four U.S. Marines charged with raping a Filipino woman on the evening of November 1, 2005 in Subic. This message re-caps evens that occurred as well as efforts by the USG to assure a positive at [...]	2006-11-16 02:28:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
06MANILA4717	AGENDA FOR DECEMBER EAST ASIA SUMMIT: ENERGY AND [...] (U) See para 6 for action request. 2. (C) Summary: President Arroyo told us that, as host of the East Asia Summit on December 13, the Philippines intends to focus on energy and trade, especially the WTO. WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy has agreed to attend the Summit, and Arroyo would l [...]	2006-11-16 06:15:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ETRD ENRG PREL ASEAN RP
06MANILA4734	NOVEMBER 17 UPDATE ON JOLO OPERATIONS [...] (C/REL AUS) The ongoing Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) operation to capture or kill the Jemaah Islamiyah and Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) leadership on the southern Mindanao island of Jolo is ending its 16th week. Khadaffy Janjalani, Dulmatin, and Umar Patek are now believed in the northeast [...]	2006-11-17 08:08:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL RP
06MANILA4749	ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILLEN MEETS WITH FOREIGN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Foreign Affairs Secretary Romulo reiterated to Assistant Secretary Hillen and Ambassador the Philippine offer to host a round of Six Party talks on the margins of the mid-December ASEAN/East Asian Summits in Cebu, if that would be helpful to the United States. Romulo is optimist [...]	2006-11-20 00:44:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MCAP MOPS PHUM PGOV EAID KN RP
06MANILA4802	ADVANCING THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging 90 minute meeting with nine senior members of the MILF Central Committee at their headquarters, DCM described USG comprehensive support for the Mindanao peace process and commitment to assist former combatants in the event of a peace agreement. Central Commit [...]	2006-11-22 09:26:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS MY RP
06MANILA4808	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PHILIPPINE ARMED FORCES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff General Esperon is pleased with the success thus far of ongoing counterterrorism operations on the island of Jolo. He intends to enforce military discipline by court-martialing officers accused of involvement in the aborted February [...]	2006-11-24 04:34:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS MCAP PREL PGOV RP
06MANILA4810	MARINE CASE: VERDICT POSTPONED TO DECEMBER 4 [...] (C) The verdict in the Marine case has been postponed one week and is now expected Monday, December 4. The Embassy's Working Group, with input from representatives of the III Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) in Okinawa, is finalizing post-verdict plans. Immediately following the judge's ver [...]	2006-11-24 07:29:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
06MANILA4811	POLICE, MELO COMMISSION UPDATES ON EXTRAJUDICIAL [...] (C) Summary. Philippine National Police (PNP) Task Force Usig Commander Avelino Razon provided a November 20 update to poloffs on investigations of extrajudicial killings of partylist activists and members of the media. These investigations have now led to the filing of charges in 67 cases, [...]	2006-11-24 07:47:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS MOPS KCRM RP

06MANILA4814	SENATE PRESIDENT VILLAR SEEKS QUANTIFIABLE RESULTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a meeting with the Ambassador November 22, new Senate President Manuel Villar predicted that the Senate will pass a budget before the end of the calendar year and characterized the chances of passage of the anti-terrorism bill as excellent. Senator Villar suspects that the A [...]	2006-11-27 04:02:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PHUM SOCI MARR RP
06MANILA4834	AMPATUAN CLAN CLAIMS SUPPORT FOR PEACE PROCESS, [...] (C) Summary. During a meeting with dozens of leaders of one of Central Mindanao's most powerful clans, Governors Andal and Zaldy Ampatuan told DCM and Embassy delegation that they support the MILF peace process and want to work closely with the USG. The Governors blamed the MILF for sporadic [...]	2006-11-28 08:58:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS KISL RP
06MANILA4836	GOVERNMENT OFFERS MILF "SELF-DETERMINATION" [...] (C) Summary. At President Arroyo's direction following her POTUS meeting on the margins of APEC, Chief GRP negotiator Secretary Afable briefed us November 22 on the government's new offer to the MILF to allow the Muslims of Mindanao to establish their own form of government in Muslim majori [...]	2006-11-29 00:57:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS KISL MY RP
06MANILA4848	JOINT SEISMIC SURVEY IN SOUTH CHINA SEA MAKES [...] (C) Summary: The first phase of a joint seismic survey for hydrocarbon deposits undertaken by the national oil companies of the Philippines, China, and Vietnam in an 143,000 square kilometer zone of the South China Sea is near completion. After its partners conducted a "reconnaissance" surv [...]	2006-11-30 01:14:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS BTIO EPET ECON CH VM RP
06MANILA4852	(SBU) NORTH KOREAN CITIZEN APPRACHES EMBASSY [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 8. 2. (C) On November 9, a North Korean woman, Ms. Hyae Yeong PAK, approached the Embassy's outdoor reception area to express interest in resettlement in the United States. Emboffs also interviewed Ms. Pak, using guidance provided by PRM. [...]	2006-11-30 03:53:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV PHUM RP KS TH CM
06MANILA4855	PHILIPPINE PLANS FOR ASEAN SUMMITS IN CEBU [...] (C) Summary. The Philippines plans to make a new counterterrorism convention and recommendations on an ASEAN Charter the highlights of the December 11 ASEAN Summit. The subsequent ASEAN 3 Summit and East Asia Summit will probably break no new ground and will not include new participants, [...]	2006-11-30 07:25:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN PTER ASEAN XE RU CH JA KN KS RP
06MANILA4856	SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL FALLON'S VISIT TO THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fox, I am looking forward to seeing you! General Esperon and I will meet you in Zamboanga and accompany you on your trip to Jolo, where you will have a chance to see for yourself some of the successes in the ongoing Armed Forces of the Philippines operation to eliminate terror [...]	2006-11-30 07:46:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MARR MOPS MCAP RP
06MANILA4861	NOVEMBER 30 UPDATE ON JOLO OPERATIONS [...] (C/REL AUS) The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is now ending its 18th week of operations against the Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah leadership on the southern Mindanao island of Jolo. It has suffered 22 killed and 103 wounded since the August 1 onset of "Operation Ultimatum," and show [...]	2006-11-30 09:06:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL RP
06MANILA4864	MARINE CASE: FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR THE VERDICT [...] (C) The verdict in the case of four U.S. Marines accused of involvement in the alleged rape of a Filipina is expected on the afternoon of Monday, December 4. The DCM will call State Operations Center as soon as a verdict is rendered, and again after the Embassy Working Group, together with mil [...]	2006-11-30 09:39:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
06MANILA4896	MAKATI COURT DEFERS RECONSIDERATION OF CUSTODY OF [...] (C) Summary and comment: Despite promises from the seniormost Philippine Government officials that they could work with the judge in the alleged rape case to rescind his custody order and return Lance Corporal Smith to U.S. custody, Smith will spend at least one more night at the Makati Cit [...]	2006-12-05 11:00:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR CASC KCRM RP
06MANILA4913	FOREIGN SECRETARY PREDICTS QUICK RESOLUTION OF [...] (C) This is an action request -- see para 8. 2. (C) Summary. Ambassador urged Foreign Secretary Romulo to ensure that the Philippine Government take quick and more effective steps to return Lance Corporal Daniel Smith immediately to U.S. custody pending his appeal. Romulo promised that [...]	2006-12-06 09:12:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR CASC KCRM RP
06MANILA4933	UNDERSTANDING THE SEIZURE OF LANCE CORPORAL SMITH [...] (C) The decision by Makati City Regional Trial Court Judge Pozon on December 4 to order the temporary confinement of convicted Lance Corporal Daniel Smith in the Makati City Jail, rather than release him back to the custody of U.S. authorities, took us and the defense attorneys by surprise ( [...]	2006-12-08 10:28:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
06MANILA4935	POSTPONEMENT OF ASEAN-RELATED SUMMITS, CITING [...] (U) The Philippine organizing committee on late afternoon December 8 announced the postponement until January 2007 of the 2006 ASEAN Summits in Cebu (central Visayan region). These include the ASEAN Leaders Summit and the East Asia Summit. (Full list in para 5.) The summits were due to be [...]	2006-12-08 10:54:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEAN RP
06MANILA4953	FURTHER DELAY IN MARINE CASE CUSTODY HEARING [...] (U) At a hearing on December 11, Makati City Regional Trial Court Judge Pozon heard oral arguments from the Department of Justice about why the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) authorizes that the U.S. should retain custody of Lance Corporal Smith during the ongoing judicial proceedings. When [...]	2006-12-11 09:40:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR CASC RP
06MANILA4972	NORTHRAIL PROJECT SYMBOLIZES LARGER PRC ROLE IN [...] (U) Summary: The PRC and the Philippines have launched a major "Northrail Project" that will ultimately span between Manila and key points in northern Luzon, including the former U.S. base at Clark and perhaps onward to Subic Bay. China provided a concessionary loan worth about $421 million [...]	2006-12-13 06:28:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ELTN EAID CH RP
06MANILA4974	TERRITORY REMAINS KEY ISSQ FOR GRP-MILF PEACE [...] (C) Summary: Despite a favorable reaction by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to the Philippine Peace Panel's recent offer of self-determination, territory remains a key issue. MILF negotiators are compiling a new list of barangays to include in a Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE) f [...]	2006-12-13 07:24:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS KISL MY RP
06MANILA4985	NEXT STEPS IN REGAINING CUSTODY OF LANCE CORPORAL [...] (C) Lance Corporal Smith remains in Philippine jail following Makati City Regional Trial Court Judge Pozon's December 13 ruling against a defense petition to return him to U.S. custody under the provisions of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) (septel). Although the Philippine Executive Bra [...]	2006-12-13 09:49:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CASC MARR RP
06MANILA4986	JUDGE DENIES CUSTODY MOTION ON LCPL. SMITH [...] (U) Makati City Regional Trial Court Judge Benjamin Pozon on December 13 denied a motion by the attorneys of Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, supported by representatives of the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Justice, to return him to U.S. custody in accordance with the Visiting Forces Agree [...]	2006-12-13 09:50:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CASC MARR RP
06MANILA4997	PHILIPPINES FRUSTRATED WITH BURMA, MIGHT SUPPORT [...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Acting Assistant Secretary for United Nations and International Organizations SIPDIS Jesus "Gary" Domingo told poloff December 14 that the Philippines appreciates the "concept and spirit" of the proposed US-sponsored UN Security Council resolution on [...]	2006-12-14 05:58:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC XC BM RP
06MANILA5000	MARINE CASE: REGAINING CUSTODY OF LCPL SMITH [...] (C) Ambassador shared ref a concerns and possible options with Executive Secretary Ermita and Foreign Secretary Romulo on December 14, while other country team members flagged to counterparts at the Departments of Foreign Affairs and National Defense as well as at the Armed Forces of the Phi [...]	2006-12-14 08:05:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CASC MARR RP
06MANILA5007	GRP UNVEILS MAJOR ANTI-TRAFFICKING INITIATIVE FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) recently issued new employment requirements designed to better protect overseas Filipino household workers from trafficking. Among other measures, the new requirements increase the monthly minimum wage from $200 to $400 [...]	2006-12-15 05:42:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB KCRM KTIA PHUM RP
06MANILA5014	MARINE CASE: PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT FILES PETITION [...] (C) On December 15, the Philippine Solicitor General, on behalf of the Department of Foreign Affairs as a "real party-in-interest," filed a petition-in-intervention with the Court of Appeals in support of the motion already filed by Lance Corporal Daniel Smith's defense attorneys to return c [...]	2006-12-15 09:40:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR CASC RP
06MANILA5016	VISIT OF JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER ABE TO MANILA [...] (C) Summary: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe used his December 8-10 visit to highlight a growing emphasis on political and security issues, including North Korea, terrorism, Mindanao, and human rights. He also brought a basket of new assistance, but more explicitly linked future assistan [...]	2006-12-15 10:35:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KN JP RP
06MANILA5018	NUR MISUARI SIGNALS INTENT TO RUN FOR SULU GOVERNOR [...] (C) Summary. Detained Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Chairman Nur Misuari registered as a voter in Jolo on December 14, and signaled his intent to run for Governor of Sulu during the May 2007 elections. Misuari, who enjoys widespread grassroots support and recognition by the Organiza [...]	2006-12-15 10:56:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS KISL RP
06MANILA5031	MARINE CASE; NO IMMINENT COURT DECISION ON CUSTODY [...] (U) The Court of Appeals on December 19 denied a motion by the defense lawyers for Lance Corporal Daniel Smith calling for an immediate decision to reverse Makati City Regional Trial Court Judge Pozon's December 4 order to detain LCpl. Smith temporarily in the Makati City Jail. The private [...]	2006-12-19 10:48:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR CASC RP
06MANILA5039	MARINE CASE: LIKELY CANCELLATION OF BALIKATAN [...] (C) In a private meeting with Executive Secretary Ermita on December 20, Ambassador reviewed the near-certainty that the USG would imminently decide to cancel much or perhaps all of Balikatan 07 to reflect our concern about the Philippines' lack of compliance with the terms of the Visiting Fo [...]	2006-12-20 07:35:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR CASC RP
06MANILA5062	GRP GRANTS PERMISSION TO PROCESS NORTH KOREAN [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE -- SEE PARA 4. 2. (C) At the recommendation of the Department of Foreign Affairs' UNHCR officer, Acting POL/C met on December 21 with Philippine Department of Justice (PDOJ) Chief State Counsel Attorney Ricardo Paras and his staff to determine Philippine will [...]	2006-12-21 07:36:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV PHUM KS KN TH RP
06MANILA5071	MARINE CASE: JUDICIAL PROCESSES TO DECIDE CUSTODY [...] (C) Ambassador on December 21 discussed with President Arroyo latest developments in the judicial deliberations on the custody issue involving Lance Corporal Smith, underscoring the importance of living up to the obligations under the Visiting Forces Agreement. President Arroyo assured the [...]	2006-12-21 09:21:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR CASC RP
06MANILA5083	MARINE CASE: NEW MOTION TO APPEALS COURT [...] (U) On December 22, the Philippine Solicitor General filed a new "Very Urgent Supplemental Manifestation and Motion," on behalf of the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs, to the Court of Appeals. The motion noted that the U.S. Ambassador and the Foreign Secretary had formally agreed o [...]	2006-12-22 09:28:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR CASC RP
06MANILA5097	LATEST DRIVE AGAINST THE NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY [...] (C) SUMMARY. "Freedom Watch II," the latest campaign by the Armed Forces of Philippines against the terrorist New People's Army will include a hearts and minds campaign aimed at building the people's trust in local security institutions as well as utilization of civilian militia. The AFP and [...]	2006-12-28 07:18:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM MOPS KCRM RP
06MANILA5098	MARINE CASE: APPEALS ACTION NOT LIKELY UNTIL NEW [...] (C) In a meeting with A/DCM on December 28, Presidential Legal Counsel Sergio Apostol confirmed that the Solicitor General planned that day to file another motion to the Court of Appeals, calling for an immediate decision on the custody of Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, in response to the Solic [...]	2006-12-28 08:49:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR CASC RP
06MANILA5109	EMBASSY REGAINS CUSTODY OF LCPL. SMITH [...] (U) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith returned to the custody of the U.S. Embassy at approximately 11:30 p.m. local time on December 29, escorted by a team from the Regional Security Office as well as the Philippine National Police. He will remain confined in the same quarters in the Rowe Build [...]	2006-12-30 03:51:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR CASC RP
06MANILA526	DAVAO MAYOR CHANGING TACK ON EXTRA-JUDICIAL [...] (C) Summary: Extra-judicial killings in Davao, Mindanao, continue, but at a lower level than in 2005. So far, there have been five summary killings in 2006, which is less than 2005's roughly 13 per month average. Observers believe that the Mayor of Davao, Rodrigo Duterte, may be worried a [...]	2006-02-06 07:49:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RP
06MANILA557	PHILIPPINE REACTION TO DANISH CARTOON CONTROVERSY [...] (C) Summary: A Danish flag was burned in Cotabato, a city in the southern Philippines on February 7. Protesters condemned the recent publication of a cartoon offensive to Muslims in a Danish newspaper. Muslim religious leaders are planning to issue a condemnation of the cartoon shortly. Th [...]	2006-02-07 09:15:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KISL PINR ASEC RP DA
06MANILA606	FILIPINO MUSLIM LEADERS DENOUNCE CARTOONS, BUT [...] (C) Summary: A group of Filipino Muslim religious scholars issued a statement on February 8 condemning the publication of cartoons depicting the Muslim Prophet Mohammad. They also called for a restrained response. A Muslim congressman from Mindanao made a speech hitting similar themes on t [...]	2006-02-09 09:46:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KISL PINR ASEC RP DA NO
06MANILA685	INDIAN PRESIDENT SIGNS AGREEMENTS ON DEFENSE AND [...] (C) Summary: During a February 3-6 State visit to the Philippines by Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam, the GRP and GOI signed several defense and trade agreements. The defense agreement covers training and information exchanges, while the trade agreements deal with tourism, agriculture, and [...]	2006-02-14 08:51:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR ECIN PINR RP IN
06MANILA695	OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS AS A POLITICAL FORCE [...] (C) Summary: The over eight million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) already have an important and growing role as an economic force, sending roughly USD 10 billion worth of remittances home each year. On the political side, however, OFWs were not granted the right to vote in absentia until [...]	2006-02-15 07:06:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB ECON SOCI PINR RP
06MANILA711	MALACANANG MODIFIES RESTRICTION AND ALLOWS SENIOR [...] (C) Summary: On February 11, Malacanang modified an executive order (E.O. 464) in effect since September 2005 and allowed senior officials to attend budget and other hearings in the House and Senate. In taking the step, Malacanang was responding to criticism that E.O. 464 encroached on the [...]	2006-02-16 08:12:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR RP
06MANILA81	PRESIDENT ARROYO SET TO CONVENE "COUNCIL OF STATE" [...] (C) Summary: President Arroyo plans to convene a "Council of State" meeting on January 24. The meeting, the first of its kind in many years, would involve government personalities and other notables in a discussion of "national issues." Opposition figures are being invited to the meeting, [...]	2006-01-06 09:31:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS SOCI RP VT
06MANILA830	SITREP 1: MALACANANG DECLARES "STATE OF EMERGENCY" [...] (C) Summary: President Arroyo declared a "State of Emergency" in a TV address at 1120 hrs (local). Arroyo's formal proclamation of national emergency blamed a conspiracy between the "extreme Left" and "military adventurists." Based on Mission information, there does appear to have been som [...]	2006-02-24 07:17:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PINR ASEC CASC PREL RP
06MANILA889	SITREP 14: GRP FILES SEDITION CHARGES AGAINST 15 [...] (C) Summary: The police filed sedition charges with the Department of Justice (DoJ) on February 27 against 15 Opposition figures, including six leftist lawmakers. President Arroyo, in a TV interview given mid-day, lauded the performance of the economy and defended her State of Emergency decl [...]	2006-02-27 11:28:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS EFIN ASEC CASC PREL KPAO RP
06MANILA934	SUBJECT: A/S HILL MEETS WITH GRP OFFICIALS ON [...] (C) Summary: In a February 28 meeting with A/S Hill, Charge Jones, and DAS John, Philippine Defense Secretary Cruz, National Security Advisor Gonzales, and National Intelligence Coordinating Agency Director Garcia said there were three distinct elements to the government's response to threat [...]	2006-03-01 06:45:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR ASEC CASC PREL RP
06MANILA970	SITREP 22: STATE OF EMERGENCY LIKELY LIFTED BY [...] (C) Summary: NSA Gonzales told A/S Hill March 2 that he expected President Arroyo to lift the State of National Emergency today or tomorrow. Defense Secretary Cruz told A/DCM separately that the President would "definitely" lift it on March 3, due mostly to arguments from her economic team. [...]	2006-03-02 10:00:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS ASEC ECON RP
06MAPUTO1159	MOZAMBIQUE: IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-12 14:55:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	IR PHUM PREL PTER IAEA UNSC MZ
06MAPUTO1161	MOZAMBIQUE: DEMARCHE ON NAM SUMMIT DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-12 15:23:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PTER UNGA CU MZ
06MAPUTO1209	TURMOIL IN MOZAMBIQUE'S POLICE FORCE [...] (C) Summary: In the latest in a string of shootings, on September 4 two riot policemen moonlighting as bodyguards were gunned down by other police while sitting in a car. Minister of Interior Pacheco first said the two were wanted criminals and then the next day admitted that they were riot p [...]	2006-09-21 10:27:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KCOR PGOV PHUM MZ
06MAPUTO1303	MOZAMBIQUE - FRELIMO GROWING STRONGER [...] (C) President Guebuza has been aggressively promoting the influence of the ruling party FRELIMO since taking office. This strategy appears to be paying off. In the latest in a spate of reports since the spring of members from the main opposition party, RENAMO, deserting to FRELIMO, according t [...]	2006-10-11 10:59:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MZ
06MAPUTO1304	MOZAMBIQUE - FRELIMO GROWING STRONGER [...] (C) President Guebuza has been aggressively promoting the influence of the ruling party FRELIMO since taking office. This strategy appears to be paying off. In the latest in a spate of reports since the spring of members from the main opposition party, RENAMO, deserting to FRELIMO, according t [...]	2006-10-11 12:48:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MZ
06MAPUTO1305	MOZAMBIQUE - FRELIMO GROWING STRONGER [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-11 12:51:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MZ
06MAPUTO1306	MOZAMBIQUE - FRELIMO GROWING STRONGER [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-11 13:02:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MZ
06MAPUTO1419	TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICER [...] (C) In response to reftel, post submits the following contact information for (a) Terrorism Finance Coordinating Officers (TFCO) and (b) Deputy TFCO: (a) James Dudley, Deputy Chief of Mission, (258) 21 49 2797 x3441, jamesd@state.sgov.gov (b) Leonel Miranda, Political Officer, (258) 21 49 [...]	2006-11-03 09:06:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN MZ PTER
06MAPUTO1599	MOZAMBIQUE - DEMARCHE ON RECONSIDERING HIGH-LEVEL [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-15 08:15:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PREL PTER MZ SY
06MAPUTO187	MOZAMBIQUE: FEBRUARY 9 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador met with President Guebuza February 9, at his invitation. This request was prompted by a meeting Ambassador and DCM had the week before with Presidency Secretary-General Ambassador Antonio Sumbana on U.S. programs and priorities in Mozambique. The President had been [...]	2006-02-13 14:29:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EINV PGOV PHUM PINS PREL PTER MARR MZ
06MAPUTO188	PRESIDENT GUEBUZA PROMISES TO RESOLVE MCC PROJECT [...] (SBU) The Ambassador, accompanied by MCC Country Director Stephen Gaull, met with President Guebuza February 9 to express concern over the GRM's progress towards developing and implementing the Mozambican compact and to highlight the need for the GOM to quickly appoint a Project Coordinator. I [...]	2006-02-13 14:33:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID MZ
06MAPUTO278	MOZAMBIQUE - PRESIDENT GUEBUZA'S FIRST YEAR [...] (C) Summary. On balance, Guebuza's first year in office has been positive. His main tasks for that year as we see them were to confront the Chissano-era spirit of "deixa andar", maintain economic policy continuity to allow continued growth, and set the stage for reductions in absolute povert [...]	2006-03-07 07:37:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KOR EAID MZ
06MAPUTO525	MOZAMBIQUE: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - CANDIDACY OF [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-08 05:03:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM PREL MZ
06MAPUTO551	MOZAMBIQUE: FLURRY OF FRELIMO MEETINGS IN MAPUTO; [...] (SBU) Mozambique's ruling party, FRELIMO, wrapped up a week of intense party activity in advance of the Ninth FRELIMO Party Congress, scheduled for November 10 - 14 in the central provincial capital of Quelimane, Zambezia province. Discussions focused around the fight against poverty and the m [...]	2006-05-10 15:33:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL MZ
06MAPUTO573	MOZAMBIQUE: FIGHTING CORRUPTION OR SHADOW BOXING? [...] (SBU) Apart from continued strong rhetoric and some mid-level action by the Guebuza government, the GRM has not moved very far in tackling corruption in the past year. In August 2005 the government released the results of a nationwide survey, which revealed deep concern by the populace over co [...]	2006-05-17 12:41:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR KCRIM PGOV PREL MZ
06MAPUTO604	MOZAMBIQUE: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR IRAQI [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-24 13:02:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV MZ
06MAPUTO650	MOZAMBIQUE: WILL NYIMPINE CHISSANO FACE TRIAL FOR [...] (U) The eldest son of former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano, Nyimpine Chissano, has been formally charged in the November 2000 murder of Mozambique's foremost investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso. According to press reports, Chissano Jr. is accused of "joint moral authorship" of Ca [...]	2006-06-05 12:22:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOR KCRM MZ
06MAPUTO77	MOZAMBIQUE: GRM PERSPECTIVE ON AU CHAIRMANSHIP [...] (C) During a January 17 meeting between Ambassador and acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Henrique Banze to discuss UN reform and other issues (septels),Banze gave the GRM's perspective on Sudanese President Bashir's bid for African Union (AU) chairmanship. Banze said that while historically [...]	2006-01-18 13:19:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU PHUM AU MZ
06MAPUTO785	MOZAMBIQUE: BUILDING SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA IN [...] (C) On June 30, Charge delivered reftel demarche to Elias Jaime Zimba, the Foreign Ministry's Director for the Americas and Europe. Charge noted that former Ambassador La Lime had raised this issue twice (note: before Zimba's recent assumption of his position) with Minister Abreu, who was well [...]	2006-06-30 12:54:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC UNGA GT VE MZ
06MAPUTO786	MOZAMBIQUE: PRESSING AU MEMBERS TO STAND FIRM ON [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-30 13:04:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PREL MARR PINS SOCI MZ
06MASERU128	SUDAN: ENSURING THAT THE AU REQUEST A UN RE-HAT OF AMIS [...] (C) On March 8, Ambassador raised with Minister of Foreign Affairs Monyane Moleleki points concerning the need for a clear request from the African Union Peace and Security Council meeting March 10 on rehatting of the AMIS contingent in Darfur. As previously indicated refs (B) and (D),the FOM [...]	2006-03-09 12:25:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO NATO SU LT
06MASERU143	POTENTIAL SHIFTING WEIGHTS IN LESOTHO'S RULING PARTY [...] (C) Over the past two weeks, Ambassador has met with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Finance, Health and Tourism and Culture. In our conversations with Foreign Minister Moleleki, Finance Minister Thahane, Health Minister Phooko and Tourism Minister Nts'inyi, we have detected a hesitancy on [...]	2006-03-20 14:27:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KICC PINR LT
06MASERU144	ARTICLE 98 STATUS [...] (C) The Article 98 ball is in Lesotho's court following presentation of a new U.S. draft on March 10. Ambassador reviewed the new draft with FOMIN Moleleki on March 16. The Minister stated he was not a lawyer and called an officer from the Attorney General's (AG) office to make sure the AG h [...]	2006-03-20 14:27:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KICC LT
06MASERU153	MEETING WITH LESOTHO'S "FIRST LADY" [...] (C) The First Lady of Lesotho shared her views of the current political situation and the status of HIV/AIDS programs in Lesotho during a lengthy discussion with Ambassador on March 21. Mrs. Mosisili is considered one of the most influential women and, de facto, one of the most important lea [...]	2006-03-23 12:26:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KHIV EAID LT
06MASERU157	ARTICLE 98 UPDATE [...] (C) Ambassador discussed the latest draft of proposed Article 98 Agreement (March 22 and 24) with Acting Attorney General Makhethe who said he believed we were "very close" on the substance of the Agreement. (Note: The A/AG had a question about "personnel" reference. Post will seek guidance [...]	2006-03-28 12:10:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KICC LT
06MASERU158	TOUR D'HORIZON WITH NEW LCD SECRETARY GENERAL [...] (C) With preparations for 2007 national elections moving apace, Ambassador engaged Lesotho's Trade Minister (Mpho Malie) in a review of internal political developments as well as regional and bilateral issues. Malie, as the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy's (LCD) new Secretary-General, [...]	2006-03-29 11:06:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ETRD KDEM LT
06MASERU212	FOLLOW UP ON CANDIDACY OF IRAN TO UNHR COUNCIL - LESOTHO [...] (C) Ambassador delivered demarche to Minister of Foreign Affairs Monyane Moleleki in conversations on April 28 and 29, 2006. The FOMIN stated the GOL agreed that Iran should not be a candidate for the UNHR Council and though Lesotho has not made a public statement about this candidacy, the F [...]	2006-05-03 10:03:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL LT
06MASERU218	LESOTHO'S POSITION RE: IRAN'S CANDIDACY FOR UNHRC [...] (C) After follow-ups by the DCM, Acting MFA Principal Secretary Thabang Lekhela contacted post late Friday afternoon SIPDIS regarding Lesotho's position on Iran's candidacy for the UNHR Council. Lekhela reiterated the information in Ref B, i.e., that the GOL would not support Iran for a s [...]	2006-05-08 09:35:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL LT
06MASERU242	MEETING WITH FOMIN AND FURTHER DISCUSSION ON ARTICLE 98 [...] (C) Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Moleleki May 16 upon the Minister's return to reiterate that we need a firm deadline on Lesotho's Article 98 position. During the FOMIN's absence, post had checked with the Acting Attorney General (A/AG) following telephone communications with Departme [...]	2006-05-19 09:59:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KICC KJUS MARR LT
06MASERU250	DONOR INTERACTION WITH OPPOSITION AND DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) With May 24 Parliamentary action pending, opposition leader General Lekhanye (Secretary General of BNP) called Ambassador for an "urgent" meeting last week. We met May 18 (see septel) to hear his complaint that despite a petition to the Speaker of Parliament, a lower level BNP official at [...]	2006-05-24 14:36:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL LT
06MASERU258	U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) Ambassador discussed at length (6/01/06 due to late receipt of message) the U.S. position on Iran with Acting Foreign Minister Mrs. Mpeo Mahase (Minister of Employment and Labor). The A/FOMIN expressed her agreement with all points made and opined that Iran presented a "global threat." [...]	2006-06-02 08:01:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LT
06MASERU261	AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) Ambassador called on Prime Minister Mosisili May 31 prior to his departure for the UNGASS on AIDS. The agenda included Article 98 Agreement status which is awaiting Cabinet review; positions on Iran, Iraq and democratic growth; HIV/AIDS, education and the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA [...]	2006-06-02 14:04:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV KICC KHIV LT
06MASERU265	SECURITY PROMISED AFTER MURDER OF OPPOSITION OFFICIAL [...] (C) Lesotho's Deputy Prime Minister has assured the diplomatic community that suspects in the June 2 murder of an opposition party leader will be fully pursued and said he has met with the Lesotho Defense Force/Security personnel to assure a safe environment. He lamented that this incident (a [...]	2006-06-05 16:00:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC LT
06MASERU269	MURDER OF A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT [...] (C) We have learned that Prime Minister Mosisili revealed during the June 6 Cabinet meeting that he had enlisted the South African Police and Intelligence Unit to resolve the June 2 assassination of opposition leader Bereng Sekhonyana. The Foreign Minister thought the investigation would be c [...]	2006-06-06 15:08:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM LT
06MASERU270	WAITING TO EXHALE [...] (C) As noted reftel, Prime Minister Mosisili promised Ambassador that he would be briefed on Article 98 at the next Cabinet meeting (which we had been told by the GOL would be June 13). We learned today, June 6, that the Prime Minister called for an informal Cabinet meeting, that the decision [...]	2006-06-06 15:12:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KICC LT
06MASERU292	CABINET APPROVES ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT [...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister Lehohla informed the Ambassador late June 14 that the GOL Cabinet had approved signing an Article 98 Agreement with the United States. This session followed Ambassador's discussion with the Prime Minister concerning the contents of the Article and the legal findings [...]	2006-06-19 14:53:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KICC PINR LT
06MASERU297	ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT BETWEEN LESOTHO / U.S. SIGNED JUNE 21, [...] (C) Ambassador Perry and Lesotho's Foreign Minister Moleleki signed the Article 98 Agreement the morning of June 21, 2006 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. (C) We signed the Agreement privately on the date indicated; the Minister thought there would be some discussion with the Govern [...]	2006-06-22 09:22:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KICC PINR LT
06MASERU307	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AU MEMBERS AND UN TRANSITION [...] (C) Per reftel, AMB met with Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Ntsinyi (Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment/Deputy Secretary of the Ruling LCD Party) concerning the moment of truth for the African Union (AU). Ambassador reinforced the point that the African countries cannot let Bash [...]	2006-06-29 15:02:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KPKO PINS SOCI SU LT
06MASERU310	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BUILDING SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA IN [...] (C) Ambassador delivered points in Ref A to Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Ntsinyi June 30 following her return from out of town. The Minister was not familiar with the issue, therefore, Ambassador reiterated information contained in Ref B noting that Foreign Minister Moleleki had stated [...]	2006-06-30 12:30:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC UNGA GT VE LT
06MASERU322	LESOTHO: BUILDING SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA IN AFRICA [...] (C) Following last week's discussion with the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs (Minister of Tourism, Culture and Environment),Ambassador followed up with Foreign Minister Moleleki to seek confirmation of Lesotho's support for Guatemala in the United Nations Security Council. As indicated r [...]	2006-07-10 12:03:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC UNGA GT VE LT
06MASERU346	LESOTHO: AMBASSADOR'S QUARTERLY SECURITY REPORT [...] (C) The security situation in Lesotho continues to be critical as indicated below by the security incidents over the past several months. We believe it is important to note again to the Department the importance of having a full time Regional Security Officer (RSO) here. As has been previous [...]	2006-07-25 11:52:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PREL LT
06MASERU347	FINANCE MINISTER ON MCC AND SADC [...] (C) Ambassador met with Minister of Finance Thahane July 24 to advise him that the MCC Investment Committee had approved the GOL's proposal. However, a final compact could not be signed until there were full assurances that the Marriage Equity Act had passed guaranteeing married women full ri [...]	2006-07-25 14:41:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID PINR MCC LT
06MASERU348	FINANCE MINISTER ON MCC AND SADC [...] (C) Ambassador met with Minister of Finance Thahane July 24 to advise him that the MCC Investment Committee had approved the GOL's proposal. However, a final compact could not be signed until there were full assurances that the Marriage Equity Act had passed guaranteeing married women full ri [...]	2006-07-26 07:00:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID PINR MCC LT
06MASERU353	MARRIAGE EQUALITY ACT ON TRACK PER FOMIN [...] (C) Lesotho FOMIN in July 25 meeting with Ambassador confirmed that the Finance Minister had advised in the formal Cabinet meeting that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) opportunity memo had gone forward and had been approved. (See Reftel) Ambassador reminded the FOMIN that a final [...]	2006-07-26 15:39:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR LT
06MASERU362	UNGA BILATS/OFFICIAL VISIT FOR LESOTHO'S PRIME MINISTER [...] This is an action message. See paras 5 and 6. Background ------------------ 2. (C) Post recommends high level bilats for Lesotho Prime Minister Mosisili during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and an official visit to Washington immediately thereafter or at a later available [...]	2006-07-31 14:45:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA USUN PGOV LT
06MASERU411	SADC SUMMIT: MUGABE TAKES THE STAGE [...] (CONFIDENTIAL) Summary: Although Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was quiet at the opening ceremonies of the 26th SADC Summit (reftel) he took center stage at a State Banquet hosted by Lesotho King Letsie III. In a response to the King's welcoming speech, Mugabe's humor and meandering obser [...]	2006-08-18 13:30:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ECON LT
06MASERU493	GOL ON VENEZUELA/UNGA AND SUDAN [...] (C) On October 2, Ambassador discussed points regarding Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's UNGA speech (reftel) with Lesotho's Foreign Minister, Monyane Moleleki. The FOMIN called the speech "outrageous" and uncivilized. He decried the use of the UN platform to deliver such an "unacceptable" [...]	2006-10-03 14:56:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PREL PHUM PGOV SU GT VE LT
06MASERU500	GOL MOVES AHEAD ON GENDER EQUALITY LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) Summary: After months of intra-cabinet debate, rigorous NGO lobbying, and considerable hand-wringing, the Government of Lesotho appears poised to secure a gender equality bill that will end official discrimination against married women on a variety of legal matters. The current draft le [...]	2006-10-05 14:29:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV LT
06MASERU504	LESOTHO: RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (SBU) Charge met on October 11 with Pitso Makosholo, acting Principle Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to give the GOL the USG reaction to North Korea's October 8 announcement of a nuclear weapon test. Charge also delivered the October 9 statement by the President (ref A). 2. (C) [...]	2006-10-11 09:01:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KN LT
06MASERU507	SENIOR GOL OFFICIAL QUITS CABINET, FORMS NEW PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Senior GOL official Thomas Thabane, a veteran of successive Lesotho governments since independence, sent shockwaves throughout Maseru on October 9 by resigning from the governing LCD party and quitting his post as Minister of Communications. Thabane announced the formation of a [...]	2006-10-11 15:22:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON LT
06MASERU51	JANUARY 29 SHOOTING OF LESOTHO'S FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (SBU) Local employee informed Embassy duty officer (DCM) at 10:30 am, Sunday, January 29 of rumored shooting of Foreign Affairs Minister Moleleki as he approached his residence gate. Once alerted, AMB called the Foreign Minister at 10:40, received no response on home or cell numbers, then cont [...]	2006-01-30 15:34:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR LT
06MASERU513	UNSC SEAT: LESOTHO AFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA [...] (C) Charge spoke on October 13 with Pitso Makosholo, acting Principle Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to urge Lesotho's continued support for Guatemala as a non-permanent member of the UNSC during the first round ballot on October 16, and through all subsequent balloting, even if [...]	2006-10-13 11:08:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC GT VE LT
06MASERU544	MCC STATUS AND MINISTER OF FINANCE [...] (C) In a nearly two (2) hour session with Minister of Finance Thahane October 27, Ambassador reiterated the key points that Lesotho had to address before the visit of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Vice President for Operations John Hewko and needed before reaching an MCC compact betwe [...]	2006-10-31 14:40:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PREL LT
06MASERU556	LESOTHO: MURMERS OF POSSIBLE EARLY ELECTIONS, DIP CORPS [...] (C) In recent days, Embassy Maseru has heard rumors from several independent sources, including a senior Cabinet minister, that the GOL may call early national general elections in Lesotho. While certainly not conclusive, these rumors reflect the governing party's profound leadership uncertai [...]	2006-11-06 11:59:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM LT
06MASERU59	UPDATE ON LESOTHO'S FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Information on the January 29 shooting of Foreign Minister of Lesotho, Monyane Moleleki, continues to develop. Drawing on our discussions with the Commander of the Lesotho Defense Force, the Minister of Finance and private individuals, the following information has been provided by governme [...]	2006-02-01 11:19:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR LT
06MASERU617	ACTING PM REQUESTS US LAW ENFORCEMENT HELP TO INVESTIGATE [...] (C) On December 7, Acting Prime Minister Lehohla requested Ambassador come to his office for a 90 minute one-on-one discussion centering primarily on the GOL's request for professional investigative assistance in finding the murderer of Dutch Clinton Foundation Volunteer Samuella "Ella" Jacobi [...]	2006-12-11 16:48:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL LT
06MASERU634	LESOTHO: FOREIGN MINISTER ON ELECTIONS, EXPULSION OF LIBYAN [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Moleleki told Charge on December 29 that he fully supports and welcomes USG-funded election activities. He expects the political opposition will have difficulty accepting elections results, because "they will be lucky if they win only one or two seats." Moleleki [...]	2006-12-29 13:05:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR OFDP ASEC KDEM LY LT

06MASERU64	UPDATE: FOREIGN MINISTER'S SITUATION; BILATERAL MATTERS [...] (C) Following February 2 Cabinet meeting, Finance Minister Thahane contacted Ambassador to report on his conversation with injured FOMIN Moleleki on pending bilateral matters. Thahane said that Moleleki confirmed, despite his confinement from the shooting incident, that he is working on langu [...]	2006-02-03 11:02:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KICC ASEC LT
06MASERU88	DEMARCHE ON GRULAC SEAT ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (C) On February 10, CAI delivered the talking points in ref to Minister of Foreign Affairs Monyane Moleleki. The Minister was receptive to the USG position, and expressed appreciation for us raising this issue in ample time before the UNGA vote. This would permit him to consult fully with the [...]	2006-02-13 09:26:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNSC GT VE LT
06MEXICO1080	RADIO AND TELEVISION PROPOSAL FAVORS MEXICAN [...] (U) Summary: The Mexican Chamber of Deputies unanimously passed legislation in December to reform the Radio and TV Law and change the composition of the Mexican Federal Telecommunications Commission (COFETEL). The Mexican Senate recently held a series of hearings on the bill and is expected t [...]	2006-02-28 17:37:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECPS ECON MX EINV
06MEXICO1461	AMLO READY TO MAKE FOREIGN POLICY STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-17 20:49:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MX
06MEXICO1509	ROSARIO GREEN ANALYZES PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging conversation, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Secretary General and former Foreign Minister Rosario Green offered to poloff her analysis of Mexico's presidential race. She attributed Madrazo's current electoral problems in part to the fact that the PRI [...]	2006-03-20 22:14:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MX
06MEXICO1798	MEXICAN RESPONSE TO HONDURAN FUEL IMPORT ANNOUNCEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-06 15:32:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET HO MX
06MEXICO1889	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE RUMSFELD'S [...] (C) Summary: Mexico is the essential partner in U.S. homeland defense, and while the Mexican Navy (Marina) has been an enthusiastic player, the Mexican military (SEDENA) has only recently begun to acknowledge the benefits of cooperation. This visit marks the opportunity to realign our ow [...]	2006-04-10 19:22:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL MX
06MEXICO2333	PUNTA COLONET PORT AND RAILROAD PROJECT LOSING [...] (SBU) Summary: Dep Econcouns and Econoff met February 17 with Union Pacific Railroad's Director General for Mexico Juan Manuel Carreon to discuss the Punta Colonet port development project in Baja California, Mexico. Carreon believes Union Pacific and partner, Hutchison Port Holdings, a Hong [...]	2006-05-02 17:38:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON MX EINV BTIO ETTC ETLN EAIR ETRD ENRG
06MEXICO2408	AMLO: FOREIGN POLICY STAYS THE SAME BUT CAMPAIGN [...] (C) On Tuesday 05/02, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) chaired a foreign policy program hosted by the Consulting Council for an Alternative Project for the Nation. The Council is led by former Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations and AMLO advisor Porfirio Munoz Ledo and [...]	2006-05-04 23:22:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
06MEXICO2409	NEW POLLS SUGGEST PAN CANDIDATE CALDERON MAY CROSS [...] (C) Summary: A flurry of post-debate polls puts National Action Party (PAN) candidate Felipe Calderon ahead of former front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO)(Democratic Revolution Party - PRD) by between 1-7 percentage points, depending on the poll. PAN party President Manuel Espino [...]	2006-05-04 23:27:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MX
06MEXICO2460	WHAT AILS THE PRI? [...] (C) Summary: After its considerable successes in the 2003 midterm elections and in state and local races since then, many in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) expected that 2006 would be the year of its restoration, particularly given the public's disappointment with the Fox Admini [...]	2006-05-09 14:47:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
06MEXICO2517	SAN SALVADOR ATENCO RIOTERS DRAW BRUTAL POLICE [...] (C) Summary. A May 3-4 riot in San Salvador Atenco was the result of long-simmering local political rivalries. We see no direct relation to the coming presidential election, and the group that precipitated the violence appears to have no reach beyond its community. Nevertheless, the GOM dec [...]	2006-05-11 17:52:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MX
06MEXICO255	"I'M GOING TO WIN" PAN CANDIDATE FELIPE CALDERON TELLS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: A confident Felipe Calderon and key campaign advisors Ernesto Cordero and Josefina Vasquez Mota told the Ambassador January 10 that recent polls showed Calderon slightly ahead of Democratic Revolution (PRD) candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO). The National Action Party candida [...]	2006-01-18 22:37:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	MX PGOV PREL
06MEXICO2711	MEXICAN CONGRESS DEMONSTRATES INDEPENDENCE, NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The final session of the 59th Congress ended on April 28, with the modest results that have become its hallmark under a divided government. Some, including Eduardo Perez Motta, head of the Federal Competition Commission (CFC) believe that the new competitiveness law will become [...]	2006-05-20 00:39:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL MX
06MEXICO3081	PAN LEGISLATORS OPINE ON CAMPAIGN/PARTY DYNAMICS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In separate meetings with TDY Poloff, both Senator Maria Luisa Calderon (sister of ruling National Action Party (PAN) presidential Candidate Felipe Calderon) and Federal Deputy German Martinez (party representative to the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE)),expressed their frustr [...]	2006-06-06 13:29:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL MX
06MEXICO3148	PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE: CALDERON ON POINTS, AMLO ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the second and final of the presidential debates, front-running candidates Felipe Calderon of the National Action Party (PAN) and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) of the Party of the Democratic Revolution were widely perceived to have debated to a near draw. The debate f [...]	2006-06-07 23:19:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL MX
06MEXICO3196	BLAST FROM THE PAST: FORMER PRESIDENT ECHEVERRIA [...] (C) Summary: In a July 5 breakfast with poloff, former Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez (1970-76) offered his views on the state of U.S.-Mexican relations and the current election campaign. He expressed concern about the damage the migration issue was doing to U.S.-Mexican relations and ab [...]	2006-06-09 17:42:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL MX
06MEXICO3296	ENGAGING THE NEW MEXICAN ADMINISTRATION ON [...] (C) Summary: This is the first in a series of six cables on transition issues in Mexico. We have an effective relationship with Mexico when it comes to counter-terrorism, particularly on special interest aliens (SIAs) and alien smuggling. The first transition challenge will be to make the n [...]	2006-06-15 00:44:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MX
06MEXICO3297	ENGAGING THE NEW MEXICAN ADMINISTRATION ON LAW [...] (C) Summary: This is the second in a series of six cables on transition issues in Mexico. We suggest three overarching messages on law enforcement for the new administration. First, the steadily improving cooperation over the last six years represents a baseline, not an aberration. Second, w [...]	2006-06-15 00:50:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM SNAR MX
06MEXICO3305	ENGAGING THE NEW MEXICAN ADMINISTRATION ON [...] (C) Summary: This is the third in a series of six cables on transition issues in Mexico. We need to intensify the effort begun this year to engage Mexico in a constructive approach to border violence that yields a real-time law enforcement response to emergencies. Mexico also needs to impro [...]	2006-06-15 19:20:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SMIG MX
06MEXICO3309	FEDERAL ELECTORAL INSTITUTE COUNSELOR DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) Counselor Arturo Sanchez shared with us June 14 some insights on the coming election. He was adamant that despite the usual glitches, election day would be relatively smooth. Nevertheless, he expected a tight race with judicial challenges to fol [...]	2006-06-15 20:58:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MX
06MEXICO3325	LEADING POLLSTER GIVES EDGE TO AMLO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 15 meeting, Maria de las Heras, one of Mexico's most respected pollsters, told poloff that she believed that if the election were held today, the Party of the Democratic Revolution's (PRD) Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) would defeat the National Action Party's (PAN) [...]	2006-06-16 15:47:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL MX
06MEXICO3338	EMBRACING THE WINNER AND RETHINKING BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: This is the last in a series of six cables on transiti issues in Mexico. Washington should embrace the winner of the July 2 presidential election early and often (this is all the more important i the winner turns out to be Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador). We hope that senior USG of [...]	2006-06-16 21:49:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR MX
06MEXICO3351	LEADING ANALYST OPTIMISTIC ABOUT ELECTION PROCESS, [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion, leading political analyst Denise Dresser told poloffs that while she was optimistic Mexico's electoral machinery would work, she questioned whether President Fox's successor -- whoever it would be -- would be capable of reforming the Mexican state. S [...]	2006-06-19 20:24:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
06MEXICO3422	ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL DISCOUNTS "NULLIFICATION" RUMORS [...] (C) Summary: While Mexican media have in recent days lingered on the possibility the Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) might annul the 2006 presidential voting, six of the seven members of the TEPJF assured us such a decision was virtually impossible. In a meeting June 20 TEPJF President Leonel C [...]	2006-06-21 19:07:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MX
06MEXICO3438	EMBRACING THE WINNER AND RETHINKING BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: This is the last in a series of six cables on transition issues in Mexico. Washington should embrace the winner of the July 2 presidential election early and often (this is all the more important if the winner turns out to be Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador). We hope that senior USG [...]	2006-06-22 14:30:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR MX
06MEXICO3465	A ONCE MIGHTY PRI STRUGGLES FOR RELEVANCY [...] (C) Summary: With Election Day ten days off, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) remains divided and debilitated, struggling to maintain its relevance in a political scene it once dominated. On the one hand, party insiders tell us that presidential candidate Roberto Madrazo appears [...]	2006-06-23 13:21:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL MX
06MEXICO3486	FINAL POLLS GIVE NARROW LEAD TO LOPEZ OBRADOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the last several days, Mexican polling firms have released the results of the final round of polls to be published before the July 2 election. The five most influential polls in Mexico all give a narrow lead of between two and four percent to the Party of the Democratic [...]	2006-06-23 22:28:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL MX
06MEXICO3494	SUBJECT: A CONVERSATION WITH AMLO,S INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C) Summary: Carlos Robles-Gil, a key infrastructure advisor to PRD presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO),discussed AMLO's economic team and proposals related to budget and finance, infrastructure, energy, and trade policy. Robles-Gil said the PRD campaign expects AMLO to [...]	2006-06-23 23:34:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EAIR ELTM ETRD PREL MX
06MEXICO3572	TEACHERS' STRIKE RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT VOTING IN [...] (C) Summary: As Election Day draws near, public school teachers in the state of Oaxaca remain on strike, with some continuing to threaten to block voting unless a resolution is reached by July 1. What began some five weeks ago apparently as a routine labor action in pursuit of increased wages [...]	2006-06-27 21:41:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB MX PINR PREL PHUM
06MEXICO3574	TEACHERS' STRIKE RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT VOTING IN [...] (C) Summary: As Election Day draws near, public school teachers in the state of Oaxaca remain on strike, with some continuing to threaten to block voting unless a resolution is reached by July 1. What began some five weeks ago apparently as a routine labor action in pursuit of increased wages [...]	2006-06-27 22:52:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB MX PINR PREL PHUM
06MEXICO3609	CALDERON'S 100 ACTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. Only a few days prior to the Presidential election Felipe Calderon, candidate of the National Action Party (PAN),presented 100 actions that he will take during his first 100 days as president. These actions divide into five main themes: public security, economics, equal opport [...]	2006-06-29 14:48:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ENRG MX PGOV PINR PREL
06MEXICO3635	ECONOMIA OFFICIAL REACTS TO TRUCKING PROGRAM [...] (C) Summary: On the side of a June 29 lunch meeting to discuss DDA negotiations, Ken Smith Ramos, Economia Director General of International Trade Negotiations under U/S Villalobos, expressed to Econoff Economia's strong frustration regarding the U.S. decision to postpone the pilot trucking pr [...]	2006-06-29 22:30:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON MX
06MEXICO3676	ELECTION DAY IN MEXICO: NOT OVER YET [...] (C) Summary: Election day was calm in Mexico, marked by good turnout and an orderly process. But even a good process does not always provide an immediate result with a closely divided electorate. Electoral authorities insist the country will have to wait for the July 5 official count to know [...]	2006-07-03 20:53:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MX
06MEXICO3747	CALDERON DECLARED WINNER; AMLO TO CONTEST RESULTS [...] (C) Summary: On July 6, the Federal Electoral Institute's (IFE) district councils completed their retabulation of the votes cast in last Sunday's election. The official results show Calderon with 35.88% and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) with 35.31%, a margin of 0.57%. We understand that [...]	2006-07-07 13:18:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
06MEXICO3865	ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL RECEIVES FIRST TRANCHE OF [...] (C) Summary: On July 11, poloffs met with the head of public relations for the Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judicial Power (TEPJF) to discuss the legal challenges to the presidential election results brought by PRD candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO). Although as of the time of [...]	2006-07-12 21:48:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
06MEXICO3879	AMLO'S FRIEND SPECULATES ON THE CANDIDATE'S [...] (C) Poloffs met early July 4 with Jose Maria Perez Gay, a personal friend of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) tapped to be Foreign Secretary if AMLO had won July 2. Perez Gay said he was perplexed by apparent inconsistencies in preliminary numbers released by the Federal Electoral Institu [...]	2006-07-13 19:17:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR MX
06MEXICO3907	LOOKING FOR FRAUD IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES? [...] (C) Summary: In a July 12 meeting with poloffs, officials of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) offered an impassioned defense of their work in conducting the July 2 presidential elections. Although they had not yet seen the specific complaints submitted by the PRD (or, for that matter, [...]	2006-07-14 18:01:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL MX
06MEXICO3953	AT MASS RALLY, LOPEZ OBRADOR CALLS FOR CIVIL [...] (SBU) Summary: On Sunday, July 16, Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) presided over a mass march and "informational meeting" at which he demanded a complete, nationwide recount of the results of the Mexican presidential election. [...]	2006-07-18 00:21:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL MX
06MEXICO3962	MEXICO'S ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES - A [...] (C) Introduction and Summary. Mexico,s Central Bank Deputy Governor Jose Julian Sidaoui provided a snapshot of the country,s economic situation following the July elections. He said that the surprisingly favorable reaction of Mexican markets, despite political uncertainty, is mainly the resul [...]	2006-07-18 18:13:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ENRG MX PGOV PINR PREL
06MEXICO4100	PRI BOSS HOLDS FORTH ON ELECTION, PARTY'S FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Federal Deputy Manlio Fabio Beltrones, recently elected to head the PRI faction in the incoming Senate, told poloff that his party would be willing to cooperate on specific issues with the administration of Felipe Calderon, although he doub [...]	2006-07-25 16:59:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
06MEXICO4189	LEADING MEXICAN ECONOMIST ON TAX AND FISCAL REFORM [...] (C) Econoff met with Dr. Fausto Hernandez, Economics Professor at Mexico,s Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE),to discuss Mexico,s fiscal policy. Dr. Hernandez has done extensive research and published numerous studies on the subject. He discussed the origins of low tax collect [...]	2006-07-27 18:24:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ENRG MX PGOV PINR PREL
06MEXICO4310	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESUMED PRESIDENT ELECT [...] (C) Summary: Presumed President-elect Felipe Calderon told the Ambassador 8/2 that he thought the Electoral Tribunal could decide as early as this week to recount a certain number of ballots, a gesture Calderon thought was reasonable in light of the ongoing Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) [...]	2006-08-04 13:38:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MX
06MEXICO4465	ANALYSTS PREDICT A LONG SEASON OF PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary: Three prominent Mexican political analysts believe that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) is likely to continue his protests for the foreseeable future. All three expect AMLO to pursue increasingly aggressive tactics in the days leading up to the electoral tribunal's (TEPJF) de [...]	2006-08-10 04:55:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
06MEXICO4472	MEXICO PLANS TO HOLD UNHRC SPECIAL SESSION ON [...] (C) Summary. Poloff delivered talking points in reftel to Rodrigo Labardini, Director General for Human Rights at the Secretariat for Foreign Relations (SRE),on August 9. SIPDIS Currently the president of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC),Mexico expressed strong views on the recent request [...]	2006-08-10 18:11:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV MX
06MEXICO4482	DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR HRC SPECIAL SESSION ON [...] (C) Acting MCPA and Poloff delivered ref A talking points to Dr. Luis Angel Benavides, acting head of the Office of Human Rights and Democracy at the Secretariat for Foreign Relations (SRE),as well as to Mariana Salazar Albornoz, Director of International Policy for Economic, Social, Cultural [...]	2006-08-11 01:18:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KPAO UNRCR PGOV MX
06MEXICO456	MADRAZO AIMS FOR THE SENSIBLE CENTER [...] (C) Summary: Roberto Madrazo, candidate of the PRI-led Alliance for Mexico, has kicked off his campaign by trying to position himself as the candidate of the political center. Madrazo used the month long holiday break to smooth over the divisions in his fractious party, restructuring his camp [...]	2006-01-27 20:41:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL MX
06MEXICO4654	THE MAKING OF THE SHADOW PRESIDENT? [...] (C) Summary: Several leading Mexican political observers largely concurred that the evolution of the current political stalemate would continue to be largely a function of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (AMLO) personality. They believed that his manner of thinking was so rigid and self-righte [...]	2006-08-18 21:55:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
06MEXICO466	CALDERON'S CAMPAIGN KICK-OFF [...] (U) Summary. National Action Party (PAN) presidential candidate Felipe Calderon kicked off his campaign on January 19 in the State of Mexico, where he focused his message on rule of law, values, and economic growth. Calderon will launch a weekly one-hour radio program over the weekend and an [...]	2006-01-27 22:24:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	MX PGOV
06MEXICO4937	STRENGTHENING CALDERON'S WEAK HAND [...] (C) Summary: In the coming days the Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) is expected to confirm National Action Party (PAN) candidate Felipe Calderon's presidential victory, but the protests will continue. Thwarted Democratic Revolution (PRD) candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) has already [...]	2006-09-01 12:01:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MX
06MEXICO4958	A DAY AT THE REVOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: With all eyes now focused on the Mexican Congress and the Revolutionary Democratic Party's (PRD) long-threatened effort to deny President Fox the opportunity to deliver his final annual report there, poloff spent much of August 31 with a range of PRD contacts to gain further ins [...]	2006-09-01 18:47:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
06MEXICO4987	MEXICO'S DRAMATIC POLITICAL WEEKEND [...] (C) Summary: On Friday, September 1, the Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) made good on its promise to prevent President Fox from delivering his final annual report to the Mexican Congress, part of the PRD's commitment to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (AMLO's) plan to humiliate the Presiden [...]	2006-09-05 20:34:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB PINR PGOV MX
06MEXICO505	APOCALYPSE NOT: AMLO ASSURES AMBASSADOR HE WILL [...] (C) On 01/23, presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) of the leftist-Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) sat down with the Ambassador to discuss his proposals on a number of key issues of interest to the United States. Accompanied by his foreign policy advisor, Dr. Jose Maria [...]	2006-01-31 14:22:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	MX PGOV PINR
06MEXICO5134	CALDERON FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR SARUKHAN ON [...] (C) Summary. DCM met with President-elect Felipe Calderon foreign policy advisor Arturo Sarukhan September 7. Sarukhan said that during the transition, Juan Camilo Mourino would be responsible for developing the 2007 budget with the current government; ex-advisor to President Fox Eduardo Sojo [...]	2006-09-11 17:58:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	MX PGOV PREL
06MEXICO5210	PROTEST CAMPS TO BE LIFTED; NEW PHASE FOR CIVIL [...] (C) Summary: Developments unfolding this week, and conversations with PRD and GDF (city government) insiders, provide ample indication that backers of defeated PRD Presidential candidate Andres Lopez Obrador will dismantle their six week old occupation of Mexico City's central square Zocalo [...]	2006-09-13 17:13:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
06MEXICO5312	MEXICO'S GOVERNMENT, MEDIA PROCESS AMBASSADOR'S [...] (SBU) Summary: While certainly not uniformly laudatory, public and private responses to last week's consular announcement and ambassadorial statement on rising border violence have so far been measured. The statements generated predictable criticism from some quarters that we have impinged [...]	2006-09-19 21:09:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KJUS MX
06MEXICO5607	AMBASSADOR'S PRIVATE DINNER WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] (C) During a private dinner with Ambassador and Mrs. Garza, President-elect Felipe Calderon expressed his grave concern over the security situation in Mexico. It was heartrending to see Mexico living through such times, he told the Ambassador, and improving security would be a key pillar of [...]	2006-09-29 22:03:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MX
06MEXICO6275	CALDERON WOOS, WOWS, OTTAWA [...] (C) Summary: President-elect Felipe Calderon's October 26-27 visit to Ottawa exceeded expectations on both sides, with Calderon winning over both his public and private sector interlocutors. Canadian embassy contacts tell us he impressed his Ottawa contacts with his energy, intelligence and [...]	2006-11-03 23:04:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MX CA
06MEXICO6278	THE RADICALIZATION OF AMLO? [...] (SBU) After virtually two weeks of silence, defeated presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) took a more radical line in a speech to supporters of the Popular Assembly for the People of Oaxaca (APPO),backing the protests in Oaxaca and criticizing President Fox's decision to [...]	2006-11-04 01:57:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON FBI DHS PAS DAO CONS OPAD DCM POL AID
06MEXICO6313	THREE BOMBS EXPLODE IN MEXICO CITY [...] (U) SUMMARY. Shortly after midnight on November 6, three bombs exploded at distinct locations in Mexico City. Significant damage was inflicted on the Federal Electoral Tribunal (Trife),the national headquarters of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI),and a branch office of Scotiabank. [...]	2006-11-07 13:25:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER PREL PGOV MX
06MEXICO6404	MEXICO'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ISRAEL-RELATED [...] (SBU) On October 25, poloff delivered reftel talking points to Minister Dolores Jimenez, Deputy Director of UN Affairs at the Secretariat for Foreign Relations (SRE). On November 6, Jimenez contacted poloff to explain that Mexico's position on at least two of these resolutions -- she did not [...]	2006-11-08 23:03:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA MX IS
06MEXICO6546	PRD PREPARES FOR TWIN INAUGURATIONS [...] (C) Poloff met with PRD leaders and Mexico City government (GDF) officials to discuss PRD plans for Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (AMLO) self-styled inauguration on November 20 and for the official inauguration of President-elect Felipe Calderon on December 1. For November 20, the PRD expects [...]	2006-11-17 23:37:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON FBI DHS PAS DAO CONS OPAD DCM POL AID
06MEXICO6569	AMLO ASSUMES SHADOW PRESIDENCY [...] (SBU) On November 20, defeated PRD presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) inaugurated himself "legitimate president" of Mexico before a crowd of thousands of supporters in the city's central square. Although large, the crowd was nevertheless noticeably smaller than those p [...]	2006-11-22 13:22:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MX
06MEXICO6867	A CONVERSATION WITH PRD MORAL LEADER CUAUHTEMOC [...] (C) On December 7, Poloffs met with PRD "moral leader" and founder and three time presidential candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas to get his perspective on the events leading up to Felipe Calderon's inauguration as president. Cardenas lamented the damage done to the PRD's public image by Andres M [...]	2006-12-11 20:34:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL MX
06MEXICO6871	CALDERON'S SECURITY CABINET [...] (SBU) Felipe Calderon security cabinet appointments, made the day before his December 1 presidential inauguration, include: Guillermo Galvan Galvan as Secretary of Defense, Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza as Secretary of Navy, Genaro Garcia Luna as Secretary of Public Security, and Eduardo Me [...]	2006-12-11 21:41:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
06MEXICO7033	CALDERON DEBUTS WITH A DEFT HAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first weeks in office, President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa has seized the initiative on several important issues, demonstrating his intent to forge an activist presidency. The change in atmospherics between the Fox and Calderon administrations has been evident from Calder [...]	2006-12-21 19:41:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
06MEXICO7055	AMBASSADOR MAISTO CALLS ON SRE OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: During a brief visit to Mexico City December 13-14, USOAS Ambassador John Maisto met separately with outgoing SRE Undersecretary for Latin America Jorge Chen Charpentier and his successor, Geronimo Gutierrez Fernandez. Chen offered a readout of the recent South American summit in [...]	2006-12-22 19:15:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OAS MX VE CI BR BL CU NI
06MEXICO787	AVIATION COOPERATION CONTINUES, ICAO DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy and TSA officials met February 7 with the Director General for Mexican Civil Aviation (DGAC) and other high level DGAC officials to discuss numerous aviation related matters including Bill Voss' candidacy for Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation SIPDIS [...]	2006-02-13 22:40:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAIR MX CMGT PINS PTER
06MEXICO792	LEADING POLLSTER ANALYZES PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (C) Summary: One of Mexico's most respected pollsters, Maria de las Heras, told us that according to her own data, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO),presidential candidate of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD),remained the candidate to beat in Mexico's July 2 presidential election, [...]	2006-02-14 14:34:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
06MEXICO858	PRI DISSIDENTS SPEAK OUT [...] (C) Summary: In order to broaden our understanding of the dynamics within the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI),over the past two weeks, poloff met with three dissidents within the party's congressional faction, two of whom had just announced their defection from the party. In frank c [...]	2006-02-15 20:34:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR MX
06MEXICO956	CONTEMPLATING A MADRAZO FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: If elected, we believe Roberto Madrazo would seek to conduct a foreign policy that falls somewhere between the U.S.-centered policy advocated by the Fox administration and the "non-aligned" policy traditionally maintained by presidents from the Revolutionary Institutional Party [...]	2006-02-22 15:49:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
06MEXICO999	AMLO'S PUTATIVE FOREIGN MINISTER TAKES A CRASH COURSE ON THE U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-23 22:01:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MX
06MINSI225	ELECTINN OFFICIAL TELLS EUR DAR KRAMER ELECTIONSQ [...] (C) Sumaary: VisiWKkQEUR DAS David Kramer met with Central Election Commissikn (CDC) Secretary Nikolai Lozovik on February 24. Lozovik stressed that Bdlarus, election process is democratic and expressed anger at the OSCE and U.S. for saying otherwise. He also criti`ized the oppoSitiof for co [...]	2006-03-02 13:08:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK10	Belarus' Flailing White Elephants [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent months Ambassador and Emboffs have visited several of Belarus' larger businesses, including its fourth largest company, the Minsk Automobile Factory (MAZ),its fifth largest company, the Belarus Automobile Factory (BelAZ),and Belshina, one of the world's largest tire [...]	2006-01-05 14:06:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ETRD ELAB PGOV BO
06MINSK1002	GOB DENIES ACCESS TO KOZULIN, ANONYMOUS LETTER [...] (C) On September 8, the Embassy received a diplomatic note from the MFA in response to the Embassy's August 10 request for access to former opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin in prison. Charge had traveled to the prison to seek access to Kozulin August 30, but was told that t [...]	2006-09-13 11:52:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK1018	DAY OF SOLIDARITY EVENT CUT SHORT BY POWER FAILURE [...] (C) Summary: On September 16, youth opposition activists staged a demonstration and concert on the one-year anniversary of the first "Days of Solidarity" event. Despite significant security presence and attempts by the GOB to impede the rally, the demonstration in Minsk attracted approximat [...]	2006-09-18 12:58:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF ASEC BO
06MINSK1019	UNION STATE STAGNATES ALONG WITH GAS NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Despite public statements to the contrary, and without knowing the content of the "Constitutional Act," Russia and Belarus still appear far from completing an agreement on a Union State. Before seriously negotiating on the Union State the two still must resolve issues that re-em [...]	2006-09-18 12:58:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECON PREL ENRG ETRD PGOV PINR BO
06MINSK1036	BORISOV OPPOSITION FACES SEVERE REPRESSION AHEAD [...] (C) Poloffs recently traveled to Borisov to gauge local preparedness and the degree of cooperation of democratic forces ahead of the January 14 municipal elections. Despite blatant surveillance and frequent interruptions by GOB representatives and state media, Borisov's opposition political p [...]	2006-09-21 11:15:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC BO
06MINSK1055	HRDF POLLING CONTINUES, NEW DISTRIBUTOR SUCCESSFUL [...] (C) This is the third report on implementation of a DRL grant to provide independent opinion polling in Belarus. Under the auspices of a DRL Human Rights and Democracy Fund (HRDF) small grant (ref A),the IISEPS polling service conducted the fifth of six opinion polls August 15-25 (see septel [...]	2006-09-27 13:47:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM BO
06MINSK1056	REGIME TIGHTENING ELECTORAL CODE ON EVE OF LOCAL [...] (C) The Belarusian Parliament will review a bill of 60 amendments to the Electoral Code in early October, which if passed, could have a noticeable impact on the process leading up to municipal elections in January 2007. Most of the changes will not be publicized until after signed into law by [...]	2006-09-27 13:47:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREF BO
06MINSK106	WOMEN,S POLITICAL WILL IS STRONG BUT UNDERUTILIZED [...] (C) Summary: On January 17, DCM met with Belarusian Organization of Working Women (BOWW) representative to discuss the political mood of women on the eve of the presidential elections, BOWW's strategy to support the opposition candidates and the organization's future projects for the post-elec [...]	2006-02-03 07:06:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KWMN SCUL BO
06MINSK1060	THE HARD LIFE AND TIMES OF BELARUSIAN THINK TANKS [...] (C) Leaders of the most prominent independent analytical centers in Belarus recently detailed how a continuing campaign of repression by the Lukashenko regime has caused many of their organizations to formally disband. Despite the pressure, think tank leaders continue working to try to inform [...]	2006-09-28 10:59:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK1061	OPPOSITION COALITION SPLITTING AT THE SEAMS [...] (C) On September 25, several key parties within the United Democratic Forces (UDF) announced the formation of an independent &executive body8 to coordinate plans for the January 2007 municipal elections. In response to this latest development, UDF leader Aleksandr Milinkevich has stated in u [...]	2006-09-28 15:03:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BO
06MINSK1062	OPPOSITION LEADERS ADMIT DIFFERENCES OF OPINION, [...] (C) Charge met separately September 29 at the Embassy with Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) leaders Vintsuk Vyachorka and Anatoliy Lebedko to discuss the state of the united opposition (ref A). Both Vyachorka and Lebedko stated that while as before there were differences of opinion, the coal [...]	2006-09-29 09:37:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK1074	BELARUSIAN YOUTH ACTIVELY WORKING, JUST NOT [...] (C) Summary: Belarusian youth groups have redirected their attention away from post-election stagnation to resuming activities to bring about change in Belarus. Some are actively preparing for the January 2007 local elections, while others are focusing on distributing information, providing [...]	2006-10-03 10:25:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF BO
06MINSK1079	LUKASHENKO FIELDS SOFTBALLS FROM RUSSIAN MEDIA, [...] (C) In an extensively covered lengthy press conference with selected visiting Russian journalists, President Lukashenko laid all the blame for the latest delay in Belarusian-Russian integration at the doorstep of the Kremlin. On the other hand, he claimed an affinity for Russia, told the audi [...]	2006-10-03 13:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK1084	NEW EU INTEREST IN VISA BANS ON STATE MEDIA [...] (C) Embassy Minsk recommends that the Department renew its efforts to persuade European allies to expand the current EU visa ban against top officials of the Lukashenko regime to include twelve state media executives and journalists, who are responsible for some of the most egregious propaganda [...]	2006-10-05 09:55:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1102	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON FOREIGN [...] (C) The Ambassador met October 9 with Belarusian Foreign Minister Martynov to present him with copies of the letter of recall for her predecessor and her letters of credence. Martynov welcomed the Ambassador, and made his usual comments about the nature of the relationship Belarus wants to hav [...]	2006-10-11 13:53:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BO
06MINSK1109	AMBASSADOR REINFORCES UNITY MESSAGE TO OPPOSITION [...] (C) On October 11, Ambassador met with three senior leaders of the United Democratic Forces (UDF) opposition coalition: Belarusian Party of Communists leader Sergey Kalyakin, United Civic Party leader Anatoliy Lebedko, and Belarusian Popular Front Vintsuk Vyachorka. UDF leader Aleksandr Mil [...]	2006-10-13 14:21:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1110	REGIME FINGERS OPPOSITION ACTIVIST FOR 2005 [...] (C) On October 5, Belarusian law enforcement authorities arrested prominent youth opposition leader Pavel Krasovskiy on suspected involvement in two bombings in 2005 that injured approximately 50 people in northeastern Belarus. If formally charged and found guilty, Krasovskiy could face the de [...]	2006-10-13 14:29:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1119	BELARUSIAN RELGIOUS LEADERS SHARE THEIR CONCERNS [...] (SBU) As her first official event at her residence, Ambassador hosted a breakfast for leaders of various religious communities in Minsk and visiting EUR/UMB deskoff. While the representative of the GOB-sympathetic Catholic Church was hesitant to air his concerns openly, the Protestant and Hare [...]	2006-10-18 06:10:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF BO
06MINSK1123	"16" NOT SO SWEET: DAYS OF SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN [...] (C) September 16, 2006 marked the first anniversary of the "Days of Solidarity" opposition campaign in Belarus. Planned as a series of monthly candle-lighting ceremonies on the 16th of each month honoring the memories of disappeared opponents of the Lukashenko regime, the campaign evolved into [...]	2006-10-18 11:44:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1136	OPPOSITION YOUTH LEADER RECONSIDERS HIS ACTIVITIES [...] (C) Authorities conditionally released youth opposition activist Pavel Krasovskiy from police custody on October 15, following 10 days of questioning in connection with two 2005 Vitebsk bombings and a 1999 murder and rape case. After strong words of support from Ambassador, Krasovskiy admitte [...]	2006-10-20 13:36:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF BO
06MINSK1141	MILINKEVICH PROMOTES HIS OWN MOVEMENT IN MEETING [...] (C) On October 20, Ambassador met with opposition coalition leader Milinkevich to discuss the status of the United Democratic Forces (UDF). Milinkevich stressed that the coalition was generally united despite internal disagreements on strategy, a second coalition congress, and UDF leadership. [...]	2006-10-24 13:13:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1142	HOSIERY, HYPERMARKETS AND HOT RODS; ECONOMIC [...] (C) The first-time visitor to Minsk will quickly notice pockets of conspicuous consumption belying tour book descriptions of Belarus as a museum of all things Soviet. On the road from the airport one will pass new multi-story dachas, a Porsche dealership and a billboard advertising designer l [...]	2006-10-24 13:16:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV BO
06MINSK1144	TWO YEARS IN PRISON FOR INSULTING LUKASHENKO [...] (SBU) In a politically motivated trial observed by Poloff, a Minsk court sentenced a 60-year-old human rights activist Yekaterina Sadovskaya to two years in prison for allegedly insulting President Lukashenko by demanding he be subjected to a mental examination. The court also fined her USD [...]	2006-10-25 04:50:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF BO
06MINSK1149	LOCAL ELECTION PROCESS DOES NOT LOOK PROMISING FOR [...] (SBU) The Belarusian Central Election Committee (CEC) approved a calendar of the process for the January 14, 2007 local council elections, listing the dates territorial election commissions are to be formed, the time period for nominees to gather signatures( and the date marking the beginning [...]	2006-10-27 05:20:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK1157	COALITION LEADERS SETTLE ON HOLDING SECOND [...] (C) The United Democratic Forces (UDF) Political Council recently agreed to convene a second congress of democratic forces on March 25, 2007. The dec)sion was included in th% Political CounciX's approved "Agreement on the UDF Political Campaign" that also called for the creation of a Political [...]	2006-10-31 05:31:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK1164	SATISFYING THE MARKET IN A STATE-DOMINATED ECONOMY [...] (C) Profitable Belarusian businesses, even if they are completely privately owned, must respond in large part to the dictates of the state. This is especially true when private companies try to compete in the same markets with state-owned enterprises. The complex business environment, which e [...]	2006-11-01 09:47:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV BO
06MINSK1166	OPPOSITION YOUTH LEADER RECEIVES 18 MONTHS [...] (SBU) On November 1, Judge Alla Bulash convicted Dmitriy Dashkevich, the leader of the opposition youth organization Malady Front, for allegedly operating an unregistered organization (reftel). In a courtroom opened to Dashkevich's father, international observers and a small number of indepe [...]	2006-11-01 14:31:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO

06MINSK1174	U.S.-EU AMBASSADORQ SHOW SUPPORT FOR CHURCH UNDER [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and EU Heads of Mission recently visited the embattled New Life Church (NLC) to show their support for religious freedom in Belarus. The NLC ended its 23-day hunger strike on October 29 after the Supreme Economic Court agreed to review the church's appeal of the forced [...]	2006-11-03 14:04:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM KIRF BO
06MINSK1179	GOB'S EGO OUTSTRIPS ACTIONS IN ANTI-TIP EFFORTS [...] (C) The GOB and the International Organization for Migration recently co-hosted an international conference that sought to bolster cooperation between source and destination countries in the battle against trafficking in persons (TIP). At the conference, GOB officials stressed the importance [...]	2006-11-09 05:43:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM BO
06MINSK1184	LUKASHENKO AND RUSSIA: A TALE OF UNREQUITED LOVE? [...] (C) Lukashenko and Putin likely will achieve little during a possible November 10 meeting in Moscow. Both countries continue to play hardball with one another in energy negotiations, which are expected to drag on until the end of the year. Belarus will eventually have to settle for increased [...]	2006-11-09 12:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV BO
06MINSK1188	BELARUS NOT DOING WHAT IS NEEDED TO PREVENT GSP [...] (C) On October 12, the European Commission (EC) postponed its decision to suspend the General System of Preferences (GSP) for Belarus, giving Belarus more time to implement the International Labor Organization's (ILO) 12 recommendations to improve labor rights (ref A). According to some estim [...]	2006-11-13 09:48:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV ECON PREL PHUM BO
06MINSK1192	REGIONAL ACTIVISTS CONFIRM: BELARUSIANS ARE [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief and Emboffs recently traveled to Polotsk and Baranovichi in introductory visits with local authorities, opposition activists, and entrepreneurs. Opposition activists and journalists in both communities openly described the repression they face, but continue to cooperate toge [...]	2006-11-14 07:42:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1204	HUNGER-STRIKING KOZULIN DENIED FAMILY CONTACT [...] (C) At a recent opposition Belarusian Social Democratic Party "Gramada" (BSDP) press conference held in support of imprisoned BSDP chair and former presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin, Kozulin's wife discussed how authorities repeatedly denied her husband family contact and legal counsel [...]	2006-11-17 15:57:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK1207	AMBASSADOR VISITS VANDALIZED HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL [...] (C) Ambassador visited Minsk's Yama Holocaust Memorial and two other related sites on November 15. The Yama site had been vandalized on November 11, when unknown persons drew a swastika on the memorial's main monument, splashed white paint on bronze statues, and left leaflets signed by the "B [...]	2006-11-20 13:45:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF KIRF BO
06MINSK1212	BELARUSIAN ECONOMIC FUTURE IN DOUBT [...] (C) Belarus' current trend of robust GDP growth faces numerous challenges. The so-called economic miracle rests largely on Russian subsidies, with the government failing to harness the windfall to prepare for its seemingly inevitable end. Russia's preparations to join the WTO threatEn toQ ha [...]	2006-11-24 06:15:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV BO
06MINSK1213	HUNGER-STRIKING KOZULIN DENIED FAMILY CONTACT [...] (C) At a recent opposition Belarusian Social Democratic Party "Gramada" (BSDP) press conference held in support of imprisoned BSDP chair and former presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin, Kozulin's wife discussed how authorities repeatedly denied her husband family contact and legal counsel [...]	2006-11-24 10:23:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK1220	MINSK FORUM: BITING THE HAND THAT PATS YOUR BACK? [...] (C) November 9-11 witnessed the Minsk Fgrum, an annual German-sponsored conference designed to be a platform for open dialogue. The GOB's denial of visas to at least eight would-be attendees overshadowed the substance of the conference. The row highlights the hazards of attempting even seemi [...]	2006-11-24 14:31:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK1221	POLITICAL PARTY DEPUTIES POINT FINGERS WHILE [...] (C) Ambassador on November 17 met with deputy leaders of pro-democratic political parties to gauge the unity within the coalition and the progress in the local council elections. The deputy leaders reported a small victory in receiving registration for most of their initiative groups, althoug [...]	2006-11-24 14:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK1222	FREED MP CALLS FOR SHADOW GOVERNMENT, UNSC DEBATE [...] (C) Ambassador recently met with former opposition MP and political prisoner Sergey Skrebets following his release on amnesty. While Skrebets described the prison conditions he and fellow hunger striking political prisoner Aleksandr Kozulin faced as somewhat better than the general prison po [...]	2006-11-24 14:43:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PFOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1227	HRDF POLLING ENDS, NEW DISTRIBUTOR SUCCESSFUL [...] (C) This is the fourth report on the implementation of a DRL grant to provide independent opinion polling in Belarus. Under the auspices of a DRL Human Rights and Democracy Fund (HRDF) small grant (ref A),the IISEPS polling service conducted the sixph and final opinion poll in November (see s [...]	2006-11-29 12:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM BO
06MINSK1231	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR IN MINSK: GAS PRICE TO INCREASE [...] (C) During an introductory courtesy call, Ambassador was told by her Russian counterpart that the price of natural gas will be going up "right away" and that the Belarusian opposition was still in early stages of development. Russian Ambassador Surikov also noted that efforts continue behind [...]	2006-11-30 13:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET PINR BO RS
06MINSK1234	LUKASHENKO'S NEW FOREIGN POLICY: A METHOD TO THE [...] (C) Belarus' rocky relationship with Russia has forced the isolated country to pursue a different course in its foreign policy. The GOB has ratcheted up its efforts to strengthen ties with countries like Iran, Venezuela, Azerbaijan, and China over the past year. Belarus is attempting to div [...]	2006-12-01 14:03:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON CH VE AJ IR BO
06MINSK1235	LUKASHENKO ADMITS RIGGING ELECTIONS [...] (C) President Lukashenko admitted during a press conference with Ukrainian journalists in Minsk that he rigged the March 2006 presidential electionq. Lukashenko claimed that the GOB deliberately understated the official vote tally to satisfy European Q 9QI9M9 The dictator also criticized Ru [...]	2006-12-01 14:04:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1241	LOCAL COUNCIL DEPUTIES FACING AN UPHILL BATTLE [...] (C) Pro-democratic local council deputies from the regions of Belarus claimed to have high public support within their districts but doubted it would be enough to win re-election in what they predict will be fraudulent local council elections in January. Deputies informed Ambassador that GO [...]	2006-12-04 08:30:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK1244	LUKASHENKO FOCUSES ON ENERGY SECURITY DURING CIS [...] (SBU) On November 28, Minsk hosted the CIS Heads of State summit. Although the agenda called for discussions on CIS reform and other issues, few agreements were reached. Lukashenko used the summit to negotiate with Russian President Putin on gas prices and the fate of Belarus' pipeline Beltra [...]	2006-12-05 12:15:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK1248	KOZULINA APPROACHES AMBASSADOR TO HELP END [...] (C) Ambassador recently meet with Irina Kozulina, wife of hunger striking imprisoned former opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin. Kozulina relayed to Ambassador Kozulin's request that the U.S. raise the GOB's human rights violations at the UN Security Council. She also asked t [...]	2006-12-05 13:06:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1252	LEFTIST PARTIES POISED TO BOYCOTT LOCAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Leftist opposition parties Belarusian Party of Communists (BPC) and Belarusian Social Democratic Party (BSDP) "Gramada" intend to boycott the January 2007 local elections on the grounds that participating in a rigged process is pointless. A senior BPC member admitted to Pol/Econ Chief th [...]	2006-12-06 13:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BO
06MINSK1256	DELIVERED JCIC-DIP-14 [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-07 13:15:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	KACT PARM UP US START JCIC BO
06MINSK1258	DELIVERED RESULTS OF 2006 MTCR PLENARY [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-08 09:26:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC EITC KSCA TSPA
06MINSK1270	Prison Cannot Stop Pro-Democratic Activists [...] (C) Former political prisoners and the friends and family of opposition activists currently in jail gathered December 7 at Ambassador's residence. The event marked the second occasion in recent months that the Embassy has hosted a reception for these champions of democracy. The attendees desc [...]	2006-12-12 12:00:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK1273	OPPOSITION UNITED ON KOZULIN, DIVIDED ON [...] (C) Through a series of demonstrations on World Human Rights Day (December 10),the Belarusian democratic forces demonstrated unity in supporting hunger striking imprisoned former opposition candidate Aleksandr Kozulin. Opposition leaders also expressed gratitude for Congress' recent passage [...]	2006-12-13 09:04:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1276	OPPOSITION PARTY LEADER FENDS OFF JAIL SENTENCE [...] (C) A Minsk judge suspended indefinitely the trial of opposition party leader Anatoliy Lebedko, whom authorities had charged with "minor hooliganism" for his participation in a December 10 World Human Rights Day demonstration, for lack of credible evidence. During his spirited self-defense, [...]	2006-12-14 09:45:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1278	KOZULIN ENDS HUNGER STRIKE, GRATEFUL TO USG [...] (C) On December 13, Irina Kozudina, wife of imprisoned former opposition Belarusian Social Democratic Party "Gramada" (BSDP) Chair and presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin, confirmed to Charge that her husband ended the hunger strike that he began on October 20 in protest of the start of [...]	2006-12-14 11:35:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1283	LUKASHENKO, UNDER RUSSIAN PRESSURE, TRIES TO SHORE [...] (C) News Russia would begin charging full export duties on oil shipments to Belarus effective January 1 caught Lukashenko off guard, necessitating a hastily planned December 15 visit to Moscow. Although the GOB has downplayed the significance of the decision, the imposition of 100 percent of [...]	2006-12-15 14:03:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EPET BO RS
06MINSK1294	MFA CRITICIZES RAISING BELARUS AT UNSC, FEARS [...] (C) On December 20, Deputy Director of the MFA's Americas Department Grigoriy Lyashuk presented Ambassador Belarus' concerns regarding possible sanctions resulting from the passage of the Belarus Democracy Reauthorization Act and the United State's use of the UN Security Council to raise the i [...]	2006-12-20 14:07:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC PHUM BO
06MINSK1307	COURT UPHOLDS FIRING OF ELECTION MONITORING [...] (C) A Minsk court recently upheld a university's decision to fire a professor who had served as an independent election observer during Belarus' fraudulent March 2006 presidential elections. The university's case against reinstatement rested upon hearsay witnesses and threats of criminal inv [...]	2006-12-27 13:00:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK131	40 DAYS TO ELECTION DAY: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRATIC [...] (C) Summary: With presidential elections only a month and a half away, the campaign "process" is well underway, but more in form than substance. Incumbent President Lukashenko, 10 Coalition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich, former Belarusian State University rector Anatoly Kozulin, and pro-L [...]	2006-02-08 09:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK1314	GOT CAS? THE COLD WAR BETWEEJ BELARUS AND GAZPROM [...] (C) NEGOTIATIONS IN MOSCOW OVER GAS PRICES AND A RUSSIAN STAKE IN BELTRANSGAZ CONTINUE DOWN TO THE WIRE, WITH BOTH SIDES RATCHETING UP THE RHETORIC. GHILE THE EXACT TERMR AND TIMING OF A FINAL DEAL REMAIN UNCERTAIN, IT APPEARS *-QM!Q9-=WILL FINALLY CONC%DE A STAKE IN @ELTRANSG!Z IN RETURN DOR [...]	2006-12-29 11:04:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV PREL BO RS
06MINSK132	PARTNERSHIP ANONYMOUSLY REPORTS FIRST ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Despite potentially facing criminal charges for reporting any information that may discredit Belarus, civil initiative Partnership anonymously sent via email a report detailing the results of the first phase of its long-term election observation. The report, which covers January [...]	2006-02-08 09:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK172	FORMER OPPOSITION MP SKREBETS CONVICTED [...] (C) Summary: On February 14, the Supreme Court of Belarus convicted former Respublika MP Sergey Skrebets to 30 months in prison for allegedly obtaining bank loans through fraud. He was acquitted on charges of bribery and conducting illegal business activity. The nine months he spent in pre-tri [...]	2006-02-16 14:45:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK173	STATE MEDIA VILIFIES AMERICA, OFTEN [...] (C) Summary: In recent months Belarusian state media has become increasingly venomous in its daily attacks against the U.S. and the West. Common themes include charges of espionage, of Western attempts to destabilize the country, and of attempts to overthrow the government in a forced "color" [...]	2006-02-16 14:45:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK174	BELARUS AND THE ELECTIONS ACCORDING TO 2001 [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador recently met with former trade union leader and 2001 &single8 opposition presidential candidate Vladimir Goncharik to discuss the current political and economic environment in Belarus. Goncharik noted Belarus, worsening political and economic situation and Belarusians, [...]	2006-02-16 14:48:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK179	DEMONSTRATION PEACEFULLY DISBURSED, SOME ARRESTS [...] (C) At 1800 on February 16, opposition groups Zubr and Charter 97 organized a peaceful demonstration on October Square as part of the Day of Solidarity campaign to encourage public support for the families of the disappeared figures and for overall democratic change in Belarus. Poloffs, who o [...]	2006-02-17 15:41:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK183	PARTNERSHIP NGO RELEASES SECOND ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Despite potentially facing criminal charges for reporting any information that may discredit Belarus, election monitoring NGO Partnership anonymously sent via email its second observation report on the elections. Similar to the first report Post received (Ref A),the second report [...]	2006-02-21 12:28:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK185	YOUTH GROUPS COMMITTED TO DEMOCRATIC CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: While many youth remain reluctant to wander far from President Lukashenko's camp of supporters, some Belarusian youth groups are actively participating in a number of civic initiatives and/or directly supporting opposition candidates Aleksandr Milinkevich and Aleksandr Kozulin in [...]	2006-02-21 12:57:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK191	PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES BEGIN THEIR CAMPAIGNS [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 17, the Central Election Committee (CEC) registered President Aleksandr Lukashenko, 10 Coalition leader Aleksandr Milinkevich, former rector of Belarusian State University Aleksandr Kozulin, and leader of the Libera Democratic Party Sergey Gaidukevich as officialpres [...]	2006-02-22 15:14:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK192	BKGB ARRESTS ELECTION OBSERVERS [...] (C) On February 21, BKGB officers arrested four pro-democracy activists, Partnership leaders Nikolay Astreyka and Enira Bronitskaya, NDI employee Aleksandr Shalaika (strictly protect),and Timofei Dranchuk, aide to imprisoned opposition member Andrei Klimov. They arrested the first, Dranchuk, [...]	2006-02-22 15:14:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK205	BKGB SPREADING FEAR [...] (C) Summary: The BKGB continues to hold, but has not yet charged, the four activists it arrested on February 21 (ref A). Authorities have until 2100 on February 24 to decide whether to release or continue holding the group. The GOB then has two months, with the possibility of extensions, to [...]	2006-02-24 15:33:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK21	TAIWAN CLOSES MISSION AS MINSK SUPPORTS BEIJING [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan is closing its small trade mission in Belarus, as Minsk grows ever closer to Beijing. In recent months the mission has had no access to GOB officials, but has received requests for help from some in the opposition. The mission never succeeded in its main tasks, promoting p [...]	2006-01-11 13:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON TW BO
06MINSK22	TAIWAN CLOSES MISSION AS MINSK SUPPORTS BEIJING [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan is closing its small trade mission in Belarus, as Minsk grows ever closer to Beijing. In recent months the mission has had no access to GOB officials, but has received requests for help from some in the opposition. The mission never succeeded in its main tasks, promoting p [...]	2006-01-11 13:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON TW BO
06MINSK222	DAS KRAMER V. MFA, ROUND II [...] (C) Summary: Visiting EUR DAS Kramer met on February 23 with MFA America's Desk head Maksim Ryzhenkov. The MFA at the last minute cancelled a higher-level meeting because Kramer refused to allow the GOB to control his schedule. The meeting itself was cordial, despite the repeated accusations [...]	2006-03-02 12:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK223	OPPOSITION PRESIDENTIAQ CANDIDATE BEATEN AND [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-02 12:55:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK224	BKGB CLAIMS OPPOSITION COUP ATTEMPT [...] (SBU) Summary: Chairman of the BKGB Stepan Sukhorenko on March 1 claimed his organization had foiled opposition plans to detonate a bomb during a demonstration on Election Day, resulting in a bloody coup that would ¶lyze8 Belarus. Sukhorenko accused the unregistered election monitoring NGO [...]	2006-03-02 13:01:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM
06MINSK225	ELECTION OFFICIAL TELLS EUR DAS KRAEER ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-02 13:08:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PRED
06MINSK232	EUR DAS KRAMER MEETS ANALYSTS, CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) Summary: Visiting EUR DAS David Kramer met with political analysts, civil society leaders, and students on February 24 to discuss the upcoming presidential elections and the accompanying GOB harassment. Analysts noted Russia,s change in policy from previous campaigns to support President [...]	2006-03-07 09:26:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK233	OPPOSITION CANDIDATE RELEASED FROM DETENTION, [...] (C) Summary: On March 2, opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin was released from October Police Station between 1700 and 1800 local time (ref A). Following his release, Kozulin, his wife, and several members of Kozulin's political party went to the site of opposition candidate [...]	2006-03-07 09:26:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK234	DAS KRAMER DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH MILINKEVICH [...] (C) Summary: On February 24, EUR DAS David Kramer met with deputy campaign managers of the single opposition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich's campaign team Victor Korneyenko and Aleksandr Dobrovolsky. Korneyenko confirmed Milinkevich's plan to hold a rally on March 2, the same day as Presid [...]	2006-03-07 15:04:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK264	Kozulin Continues With Campaign, More Violence [...] (C) Summary: Campaign managers for presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin, Aleksei Korol and Oleg Volchek met with Poloffs on March 6 following Kozulin's March 2 beating at the hands of security forces. Although charged with hooliganism, Kozulin has continued with his campaign and his manag [...]	2006-03-14 13:35:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK265	CEC Secretary on Early Voting and Problems with [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs met with Central Election Commission (CEC) Secretary Nikolai Lozovik on March 9. Lozovik at first explained Belarus' early voting process and answered questions concerning the censoring of opposition candidate television speeches and the March 2 beating of a candidate at [...]	2006-03-14 13:35:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK266	EUR DAS Kramer Meets Analysts, Civil Society [...] (C) Summary: Visiting EUR DAS David Kramer met with political analysts, civil society leaders, and students on February 24 to discuss the upcoming presidential elections and the accompanying GOB harassment. Analysts noted Russia's change in policy from previous campaigns to support President [...]	2006-03-14 13:40:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK269	Opposition Candidate Released From Detention, [...] (C) Summary: On March 2, opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin was released from October Police Station between 1700 and 1800 local time (ref A). Following his release, Kozulin, his wife, and several members of Kozulin's political party went to the site of opposition candidate A [...]	2006-03-14 13:53:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK270	Milinkevich Team Discusses Campaign Activities [...] (C) Summary: On March 6, Victor Kornyenko, deputy campaign manager for Ten Plus Coalition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich, provided for P/E Chief an overview of the campaign team's plans ahead of the March 19 elections. Commenting on the March 2 rally near Freedom Square, Kornye [...]	2006-03-14 13:54:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK274	DAS Kramer Discusses Elections with Milinkevich [...] (C) Summary: On February 24, EUR DAS David Kramer met with deputy campaign managers of the single opposition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich's campaign team Victor Korneyenko and Aleksandr Dobrovolsky. Korneyenko confirmed Milinkevich's plan to hold a rally on March 2, the same day as Presid [...]	2006-03-15 10:09:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
06MINSK275	DAS Kramer Discusses Elections with Kozulin's [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS David Kramer met with opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin and his campaign team during his recent trip to Belarus. Kozulin claimed the authorities are afraid and are working to increase the level of fear among the population. Kramer underscored the need [...]	2006-03-15 10:10:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
06MINSK276	Milinkevich Holds Three Meeting With GOB [...] (C) Summary: Emboffs on March 12 observed three of 10+ Coalition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich's meetings with voters in Minsk. Milinkevich's messages in all three gatherings focused on "stability should not equal stagnation," "the elections will not be free and fair," and "vote against sel [...]	2006-03-15 10:10:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK278	Belarus Buying Indian SU-30s [...] (SBU) In February a number of Indian and Russian press sources announced that Belarus was intending to buy 18 used Sukhoi SU-30 aircraft from India. According to these press reports, India acquired a number of SU-30K fighters in 1997-1998, but is now modernizing its air force. Belarus theref [...]	2006-03-16 11:10:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC BO
06MINSK28	LUKASHENKO FEARS WEAK OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: Political analyst Valeriy Karbalevich explained that Lukashenko fears the opposition, even though the opposition poses no real threat in the March elections. Lukashenko, perhaps believing his regime's own propaganda, seemingly has not decided whether to allow his two main oppositi [...]	2006-01-13 11:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
06MINSK282	Milinkevich Campaign Manager Discusses Last-Minute [...] (C) Summary: On March 15, Sergey Kalyakin, campaign manager for Ten Plus Coalition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich, provided Pol/Econ Chief an assessment of the candidate's campaign rallies leading up to the March 19 elections. Kalyakin stressed Milinkevich and the campaign team [...]	2006-03-17 07:56:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK285	Lukashenko Leads February Poll [...] (SBU) Summary: In a poll conducted just before the presidential campaign began, Lukashenko dominated the field and most Belarusians relied on state media for information. Still, despite lack of access and constant pro- Lukashenko/anti-opposition propaganda, pro-democracy candidate Milinkevich [...]	2006-03-17 08:46:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK286	Independent News Does Make a Difference [...] (C) Under the auspices of a DRL Human Rights and Democracy Fund (HRDF) small grant (reftel),the IISEPS polling service conducted the second of six opinion polls in mid-February (septel). IISEPS conducted the first such grant in early December, and plans to conduct the third in April. [Note: [...]	2006-03-17 08:46:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM BO
06MINSK288	Milinkevich Strong in Grodno [...] (C) Summary: Poloff recently visited the western city of Grodno, hometown of opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich. Despite increasing harassment and pressure from authorities, Milinkevich's regional campaign leaders believe that Milinkevich would readily win an honest elec [...]	2006-03-17 11:44:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK29	BELARUS PERSONNEL RE-SHUFFLE: TAKING NO CHANCES [...] (C) Summary: In recent weeks Belarusian dictator Lukashenko has reshuffled several senior positions in his Presidential Administration (PA) and removed the Minister of Health. The odious Viktor Sheiman has moved from heading the Presidential Administration to running Lukashenko's presidential [...]	2006-01-13 11:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
06MINSK294	KOZULIN MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR, SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: In his March 14 meeting with Ambassador, opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin presented pictures and names of security service officers who beat him on March 2 (reftel),and noted a letter of appreciation to Secretary Rice and his plea to Russian President Vladimir [...]	2006-03-17 16:40:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK299	MILINKEVICH CALLS FOR STREET PROTESTS [...] (U) Summary: Opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich told a press conference on March 20 that the opposition does not recognize Lukashenko as the winner of the obviously falsified elections. Milinkevich is demanding a repeat election, held in a democratic manner without repres [...]	2006-03-21 07:50:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK305	INDEPENDENT WEEKLY CLOSED FOR PRINTING MOHAMMED [...] (C) Summary: The Supreme Economic Court first suspended and then closed the independent weekly "Zgoda" for reprinting the Mohammed cartoons as part of a commentary on the violent protests the cartoons had sparked in the Islamic world. The GOB, siding with Belarusian Muslims, condemned the cart [...]	2006-03-21 15:05:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK306	SOME DIGGING STILL AT GRODNO CEMETERY [...] (C) Summary: On March 13, Poloff visited the site of the controversial Grodno stadium, built on top of a Jewish cemetery. Poloff confirmed that digging continues at the site, but that it is to finish off the expansion of the stadium, rather than as part of any new project. Poloff did not see [...]	2006-03-21 15:19:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF BO
06MINSK311	Lukashenko Gives Victory Speech and Fiery Press [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, a defiant Aleksandr Lukashenko accepted his presidential "victory" at a press conference held in the cavernous Palace of the Republic and spoke to a full audience, including practically the entire Belarusian government, on live television. Lukashenko stressed Belarusians [...]	2006-03-22 15:51:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK312	Sitrep 1: Numbers and Spirits Drop On Third Day of [...] (C) Summary: In the evening on March 21, Poloffs observed the third protest rally on October Square organized by Ten Plus Coalition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich and Belarusian Social Democratic Party ("Gramada") Aleksandr Kozulin. At the height of the rally, Poloffs estimated that approxim [...]	2006-03-22 15:51:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK314	LUKASHENKO GIVES VICTORY SPEECH AND FIERY PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, a defiant Aleksandr Lukashenko accepted his presidential &victory8 at a press conference held in the cavernous Palace of the Republic and spoke to a full audience, including practically the entire Belarusian government, on live television. Lukashenko stressed Belar [...]	2006-03-23 07:04:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK315	LUKASHENKO GIVES VICTORY SPEECH AND FIERY PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, a defiant Aleksandr Lukashenko accepted his presidential &victory8 at a press conference held in the cavernous Palace of the Republic and spoke to a full audience, including practically the entire Belarusian government, on live television. Lukashenko stressed Belar [...]	2006-03-23 07:04:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK318	Sitrep 1: Numbers and Spirits Drop On Third Day of [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-23 14:32:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK319	SITUATION REPORT 2: A RIFT FORMS BETWEEN [...] (C) Summary: On March 22, key member of the Aleksandr Milinkevich presidential campaign Jaroslav Romanchuk offered Ambassador a critical assessment of the team,s efforts to promote democratic change following the likely fraudulent March 19 elections. Romanchuk, a senior member of Anatoly Leb [...]	2006-03-23 15:34:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM
06MINSK320	Sitrep 1: Numbers and Spirits Drop On Third Day of [...] (C) Summary: In the evening on March 21, Poloffs observed the third protest rally on October Square organized by Ten Plus Coalition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich and Belarusian Social Democratic Party ("Gramada") Aleksandr Kozulin. At the height of the rally, Poloffs estimated that approxim [...]	2006-03-23 15:44:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK321	Ten Days in Jail for Reading the Bible [...] (C) Summary: On March 14, Poloff met with head of the Christ Convenant Reformed Baptist Church who had just served 10 days in jail for holding an unsanctioned religious service in his private residence. This is the first time in 20 years that a person has been jailed for holding religious wo [...]	2006-03-23 15:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK322	Situation Report 3: Opposition Crowd Dwindles, Ten Plus [...] (C) Summary: The number of protesters on October Square continues to diminish. On March 22, the fourth night of protests on the square, Emboffs observed approximately 1,000 protesters. Ten Plus Coalition leader Aleksandr Milinkevich congratulated protesters for their determination to remain [...]	2006-03-23 15:55:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK329	SITREP 4: KOZULIN'S PLAN FOR A SHADOW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: A key Kozulin campaign member and a spokesperson for the Zubr youth group spoke to Poloff on March 23 to discuss their plans in the wake of fraudulent elections and massive arrests. Kozulin seeks Milinkevich,s cooperation in creating a new shadow government that will unite all po [...]	2006-03-24 12:18:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL
06MINSK331	SITUATION REPORT 5: POLICE BREAK-UP PROTEST [...] (C) Summary: Just after 0300 March 24, security forces converged on October Square and arrested nearly everyone taking part in the opposition's on-going demonstration. Although estimates vary and authorities have not released any information, Post believes between 150 and 400 people were arres [...]	2006-03-24 12:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL BO CASC
06MINSK332	Milinkevich: 500 Arrested Today [...] (C) Summary: On March 24 opposition presidential candidate held a press conference where he estimated that around 500 of his supporters had been arrested early that morning, along with nearly 300 more the previous two days. He called on authorities to release all detainees, and appealed to the [...]	2006-03-24 16:25:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK338	Ambassador Delivers Demarche On Wave Of Arrests [...] (C) Summary: On March 24, Ambassador called on MFA Americas Department Director Maksim Ryzhenkov to deliver a joint U.S.-EU message on the recent wave of repression against opposition leaders and activists prior to and following the March 19 presidential elections (ref A). Ambassador noted th [...]	2006-03-27 15:46:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK342	250 ACTIVISTS CONVICTED IN ONE DAY, KOZULIN BEATEN [...] (U) Summary: As of March 27, approximately 250 people who were detained for participating in post-March 19 election protests were sentenced to up to 15 days in jail. Those sentenced included former presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich's stepson, a former Polish ambassador to Belarus, [...]	2006-03-28 15:01:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK358	480 PEOPLE SENTENCED [...] (C) Summary: As of March 28, nine Minsk district courts had convicted in two days of trials 480 people for participating in post-presidential election demonstrations. Human rights lawyers have called the authorities' treatment of detainees "barbaric" and claim detainees are regularly denied fo [...]	2006-03-29 14:55:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK359	PARTNERSHIP NGO RELEASES FINAL ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: With its leaders currently in prison, election monitoring NGO Partnership anonymously sent via email its final election observation report. Although much shorter and less analytical than the earlier ones, this report declared that the Belarusian presidential elections were not de [...]	2006-03-30 07:26:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK364	USD 2.5 BILLION IN RUSSIAN SUBSIDIES IN 2005 [...] (U) Summary: According to the best numbers available, Russia provided approximately USD 2.531 billion in subsidies, mostly energy, to Belarus in 2005. Of that, USD 1.236 billion came from the sale of discounted natural gas, USD 1.149 billion from the sale of discounted crude oil, and USD 146 [...]	2006-03-31 06:59:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET PREL ENRG ETRD BO
06MINSK365	BKGB USES COLD WAR TECHNIQUES TO GRAB POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Belarusian security services seem to have employed old tools of the trade to silence a senior opposition activist, Vyacheslav Sivchik. On March 23, unknown persons impersonated Embassy local employees and possibly used falsified diplomatic plates to abduct Sivchik. They then seve [...]	2006-03-31 07:27:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK369	PROTESTER POSSIBLY DEAD, KOZULIN CHARGED FOR [...] (C) Summary: Independent news sources on March 30 circulated a story that Sergei Otroshchenko, allegedly a protester beaten by security forces on March 25 who subsequently went missing, died from his injuries in a Minsk hospital. The GOB denies the death and claims they have no information a [...]	2006-03-31 14:18:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK374	LUKASHENKO FOUND, LOOKS ILL [...] (C) Summary: Lukashenko has been found. After a two-week absence from the public eye, and after missing all the events surrounding the tenth anniversary of the Union State Treaty, Lukashenko appeared on state television on April 4. In two short segments an atypically weary and soft-spoken Luk [...]	2006-04-05 15:44:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
06MINSK381	GAZPROM'S THREATS A PLOY FOR STRENGTHENING UNION? [...] (U) Summary: Gazprom and Minsk have been arguing for years over control of the GOB's Beltransgaz pipeline network. To date Lukashenko has fended off Russian attempts to take over the company, and at the same time has secured rock-bottom natural gas prices for his country-one of the main factor [...]	2006-04-07 09:46:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECON PREL ENRG ETRD BO
06MINSK383	KOZULIN'S WIFE MEETS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: On April 4, Irina Kozulin, wife of imprisoned opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin, told Ambassador that her husband is still suffering from back pain and has bronchitis, but visible signs of his beatings have disappeared. However, he is receiving good treatment a [...]	2006-04-07 14:11:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK390	OPPOSITION COALITION TO STAY TOGETHER [...] (C) Summary: In recent days Poloffs and Ambassador have spoken with a number of senior members of Milinkevich's 10 Plus coalition. All agreed that the coalition will continue to exist and will keep Milinkevich as the leader, despite some resistance from one coalition party. Post election the [...]	2006-04-11 06:19:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO PHUM
06MINSK393	PARTNERSHIP FOUR LANGUISH IN JAIL [...] (C) Summary: On April 6, the Ambassador and DCM met with the families of the four jailed Partnership activists (reftel). Ambassador stressed the USG has not forgotten about their loved ones, and that he will continue to insist the GOB release all four immediately. The families expressed thei [...]	2006-04-12 12:12:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV BO
06MINSK394	PARTNERSHIP FOUR LANGUISH IN JAIL [...] (C) Summary: On April 6, the Ambassador and DCM met with the families of the four jailed Partnership activists (reftel). Ambassador stressed the USG has not forgotten about their loved ones, and that he will continue to insist the GOB release all four immediately. The families expressed thei [...]	2006-04-12 12:12:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV BO
06MINSK395	STUDENT EXPULSIONS FOLLOW PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) Summary: Although the Ministry of Education (MOE) denied reports that students would be expelled for political reasons, approximately 15 students who participated in demonstrations following the March 19 presidential elections have been expelled from Belarusian universities. In a March 2 [...]	2006-04-12 13:57:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK397	LUKASHENKO INAUGURATED: A PALE IMAGE [...] (C) Summary: Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko was inaugurated in a brief, highly orchestrated and sparsely attended ceremony in Minsk April 8. In an unusually short speech, a depressed looking Lukashenko stressed his re-election represented the people,s will and lashed out at outside [...]	2006-04-12 15:21:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK403	VIOLENT ARRESTS, POOR PRISON CONDITIONS, AND [...] (C) Summary: Nearly three weeks have passed since the March 19 presidential election and the subsequent wave of arrests of street protesters. Detainees who were recently released have shared with independent press and Emboffs their accounts of violent arrests and meager prison conditions. Th [...]	2006-04-13 13:12:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK408	MARINICH RELEASED [...] (C) Summary: Imprisoned opposition member Mikhail Marinich was released from jail April 14 after serving two years on trumped up charges. A Minsk court April 12 ruled to release Marinich a full year earlier than his sentence required. The 66-year-old Marinich, Belarus' former Ambassador to L [...]	2006-04-14 12:14:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK422	CIVIL SOCIETY REGROUPS POST ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and Poloffs met separately with human rights activists, civil society leaders and political analysts following the March 19 presidential elections to learn about their post-election plans. Most of the civil society leaders agreed that Milinkevich proved to be a good le [...]	2006-04-18 14:08:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK428	UCP UNHAPPY WITH COALITION [...] (C) Summary: On April 17, United Civic Party (UCP) deputy Jaroslav Romanchuk in a meeting with Poloff expressed his frustration with the activities and organization of the opposition's main coalition. Claiming to speak for his party, Romanchuk said the UCP presented a proposal to reform the o [...]	2006-04-19 13:47:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO

06MINSK431	MILINKEVICH'S WIFE MEETS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: On April 17, Ambassador met with Ten Plus Coalition leader Aleksandr Milinkevich's wife, Inna Kulei, who is the president of the newly formed Committee for the Defense of the Repressed (PCDR). This committee provides educational, employment, humanitarian, and medical assistance [...]	2006-04-20 10:48:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL INR BO
06MINSK433	EU VISA BAN IMMEDIATELY EFFECTIVE [...] (C) Summary: On April 10, the EU expanded its visa ban list for Belarus from six to 37 senior GOB officials involved in election fraud and human rights abuses. Switzerland announced on April 12 that it would abide by the ban as well. In the first week of existence the ban has already prevente [...]	2006-04-20 13:07:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR CVIS BO
06MINSK436	OPPOSITION COALITION LACKS PLANS [...] (C) Summary: On April 21, Ambassador met with the senior leadership of the United Civic Party (UCP),one of the main members of the opposition 10 Plus coalition. Anatoly Lebedko, head of the UCP, made it clear that the opposition had no plans for what to do after the elections, and even now h [...]	2006-04-21 13:48:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK44	SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN MOVING FORWARD, DESPITE HARASSMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: The signature collecting campaign, the second phase of the presidential election, is in full swing. The Central Election Committee gave contenders until January 27 to collect the 100,000 signatures needed to be registered as a presidential candidate. President Lukashenko's init [...]	2006-01-19 06:46:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK442	OPPOSITION ILL-PREPARED FOR CHERNOBYL [...] (C) Summary: The Minsk authorities granted the opposition permission to hold the Chernobylski Shliakh (The Chernobyl Path),a demonstration commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl power plant tragedy, on April 26. The Ten Plus Coalition is "organizing" the event, but the leadershi [...]	2006-04-24 13:27:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK443	BELARUS, RUSSIA, S-300S AND IRAN [...] (C) Summary: A prominent British journal recently wrote that Moscow might be selling S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran, using Belarus as a middleman to hide the sale. Although all three governments have denied such a sale, on April 21 Minsk received its first delivery of Russian S-3 [...]	2006-04-24 13:41:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETRD ETTC MARR IR BO
06MINSK446	POLITICAL PROTESTANTS WANT CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: Prominent Belarusian Protestant leaders recently described for Ambassador their continued registration problems and the increasing hostility that they face from the GOB. Most of the leaders agreed that their communities are ready to bring change to Belarus, claiming that young [...]	2006-04-24 14:02:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK448	ELECTION OBSERVERS REMAIN IN JAIL, OTHER ACTIVISTS [...] (U) Summary: Opposition activists are still coping with security service harassment and fighting court cases based on nefarious charges. Authorities extended the pre-trial detention of election observers of the NGO Partnership by another two months. They are still not allowed to meet with r [...]	2006-04-26 13:14:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM
06MINSK453	WOMEN LEADERS READY FOR CHANGE IN BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: DCM hosted a luncheon discussion on women's roles in Belarusian society and politics for visiting speaker Darryl Glenney and Belarusian women leaders. While the guests admitted that Belarusian women are involved in the country's political life, they denounced the current women o [...]	2006-04-27 08:52:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KWMN SCUL BO
06MINSK458	LUKASHENKO BOTCHES POTASH EXPORTS [...] (U) Summary: Potash is Belarus' second largest export commodity, earning the country USD 609 million in 2005. Most of this revenue went to the GOB, which owns the sole potash producer. In order to squeeze more money from this valuable export, last year Lukashenko created a potash exporting c [...]	2006-04-27 10:13:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EMIN ETRD EAGR BI
06MINSK460	MILINKEVICH DISCUSSES STATE OF THE OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: In an April 24 conversation with Ambassador, Belarusian opposition leader and former Ten plus Coalition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich described tensions within the democratic forces. He named United Civic Party leader Anatoliy Lebedko as the strongest dissenter. C [...]	2006-04-27 14:23:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK461	IT PARK CONCEPT GOOD, BUT COMPANIES SKEPTICAL [...] (U) Summary: The GOB is in the process of creating its own Silicon Valley, an IT park in Minsk. The park will offer a number of tax and other administrative advantages to a limited range of high-tech companies. The head of the park also hopes to create a venture capital fund to provide inves [...]	2006-04-28 11:31:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EIND ETTC BO
06MINSK464	HRDF POLLING SUCCESSFUL, LEAFLETS SEIZED [...] (C) This is the second report on implementation of a DRL grant to provide independent opinion polling in Belarus. Under the auspices of a DRL Human Rights and Democracy Fund (HRDF) small grant (ref A),the IISEPS polling service conducted the third of six opinion polls in late March/early Apri [...]	2006-04-28 11:51:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM BO
06MINSK498	SOBR PAVLICHENKO PRESENTS "DICKENS-ESQUE [...] (C) Summary: An independent newspaper interviewed Special Forces Rapid Response Unit (SOBR) head Dmitry Pavlichenko on April 21. He spoke about the nascent stages of his military career, his troubled family life, the genuine satisfaction he receives from leading SOBR, and his vision for Belar [...]	2006-05-11 08:19:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
06MINSK520	INTERNAL POWER STRUGGLE HINDERS OPPOSITION MOVEMENT [...] (C) Summary: High-level opposition members told Pol/Econ Chief on May 11 that the power struggle between United Civic Party (UCP) leader Anatoly Lebedko and Ten Plus Coalition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich was hindering the opposition movement. Activists doubt the two leaders would reconcil [...]	2006-05-16 14:14:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BO
06MINSK528	THE BELARUSIAN PARTY OF FREEDOM: AN ACTIVE PLAYER [...] (C) Summary: On May 16, Poloffs met with the leader of the unregistered Belarusian Party of Freedom (BPF) Sergey Visotsky at the latter's request to discuss his party's activities. The BPF first appeared in 1993 as a student initiative and, according to Visotsky, remains a youth organization [...]	2006-05-18 10:29:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BO
06MINSK530	KAZAKHS ON LUKASHENKO'S HEALTH, CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: On April 27, Pol Chief met with the Kazakh Political Counselor, Bakhram Auanasov, who claimed to have information that Lukashenko received treatment by Russian doctors after the election, possibly for prostate cancer or for exhaustion. He also explained that Lukashenko remains in [...]	2006-05-22 07:43:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK531	DESPITE RHETORIC, MOSCOW NOT TO PUSH MINSK HARD [...] (C) During a recent conversation with Pol/Econ Chief, Vladimir Pavlenko, Counselor for Internal Political Affairs in the Russian Embassy, noted that despite strong statements from Gazprom, the Kremlin would not allow gas prices to stand in the way of an "extremely close alliance with Belarus." [...]	2006-05-22 07:47:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG BO
06MINSK537	MILINKEVICH ON THE LEBEDKO PROBLEM, RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: On May 22, Ambassador met with leader of the unified opposition Aleksandr Milinkevich. Milinkevich had just completed a long-delayed talk with Anatoly Lebedko, a likely contender for Milinkevich's position. Milinkevich stated this talk convinced him Lebedko would not quit the co [...]	2006-05-22 13:58:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BO
06MINSK559	GOB SUSPENDS THREE INVESTIGATIONS OF TWO [...] (C) Summary: During the first two weeks of May, GOB authorities announced that investigations into the 1999-2000 disappearances of two opposition activists and the 2004 murder of a journalist were suspended. Independent investigator Garry Pogonayilo believes the lack of progress is due to th [...]	2006-05-26 12:26:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK56	Jeans Campaign: Youth Try To Unite Through Denim [...] (C) Summary: The human rights NGO Charter97 recently reported that on January 16 the Free Belarus Coalition launched the "jeans campaign." The youth-driven jeans campaign, which grew out of the Day of Solidarity nonviolent resistance campaign, aims to provide Belarusians a safe way to expre [...]	2006-01-24 08:44:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
06MINSK560	LEBEDKO EXPLAINS HIS OPPOSITION TO MILINKEVICH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 23 meeting with Ambassador, Belarusian opposition figure and United Civic Party (UCP) chairman Anatoliy Lebedko discussed his recent visit to Washington, points of disagreement within the opposition coalition and commented on Russian-Belarusian relations. Lebedko is push [...]	2006-06-01 12:17:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK582	PINSK VISIT NOT IDEOLOGICALLY PURE [...] (C) Summary: On May 24 and 25 DCM and Econoff visited the southern cities of Pinsk, Beryoza and Beloozyersk, as well as a newly discovered Holocaust mass grave near Bronnaya Gora. Local activists in Beryoza seemed preoccupied with their problems with the BKGB, but activists in Beloozyersk are [...]	2006-06-02 10:40:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PHUM KNAR BO
06MINSK584	BELARUS NAMES FOR ASSET FREEZE [...] (C) Post provides the following information to supplement that gathered by the Department in consideration of placing assets freezes on certain Belarusian regime officials. Natalya Petkevich ----------------- 2. (C) Natalya Petkevich: Petkevich was appointed as Deputy Head of the Presi [...]	2006-06-02 12:54:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM BO
06MINSK605	CZECHS BLOCK SENIOR GOB VISAS, PASS [...] (C) Summary: The Czech Embassy recently passed over information that Lukashenko's son, Dmitry, and Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky and his family all applied for Czech visas. The Czechs did not issue to Dmitry or Sidorsky, even though neither is on the EU's visa ban list. The Czech Charge also [...]	2006-06-09 12:57:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM BO
06MINSK619	POST-ELECTION PROFILE OF BELARUSIAN YOUTH GROUPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 25-27 and May 3-4, Poloffs met with representatives of five Belarusian youth organizations: Zubr, which announced its formal dissolution in May 2006; Third Way; Association of Belarusian Students; Volnaya Moladz; and New Life Church. All of these groups have been direct [...]	2006-06-13 13:35:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
06MINSK630	PARTNERSHIP ELECTION OBSERVERS FACE TRIAL [...] (C) Summary: On June 13, Ambassador and DCM met with the wives of two of the jailed Partnership activists (independent election observers). The wives said their husbands' moods were still high, given their circumstances. Two of the four activists were recently moved to a new detention center [...]	2006-06-14 13:25:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV BO
06MINSK639	MOTHER OF FUGITIVE OPPOSITION ACTIVIST DELIVERS [...] (C) On June 12, Galina Sivchik, mother of opposition activist Vyacheslav Sivchik, told DCM that prosecutors dismissed her complaint against the authorities' failure to investigate the circumstances surrounding her son's March abduction and beating during post presidential election demonstratio [...]	2006-06-16 05:23:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK640	THE NATIONAL LIBRARY: LUKASHENKO'S DIAMOND OR [...] (U) Summary: The June 9 grand opening of the Belarusian National Library, a 23-story glass diamond-shaped monstrosity on the outskirts of Minsk, was again postponed. Although the authorities did not give a reason for the delay, independent news sources expect it is related to the perennial pro [...]	2006-06-16 05:30:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK641	BELARUSâ€™ TOP 50 OLIGARCHS [...] (C) Summary: Econoff recently received a list purporting to show Belarus' top 50 oligarchs and their net worth. An internet search found another, slightly older list that is nearly identical to the first. Post cannot confirm the sources or exact information in these lists, but rates the information [...]	2006-06-16 06:08:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON ETRD BO
06MINSK646	EUR/ACE COORDINATOR DISCUSSES ASSISTANCE NEEDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 5, an EUR/ACE and USAID delegation led by Ambassador Thomas Adams met with representatives of Belarusian opposition non-governmental organizations (NGOs),political parties, and independent news media. Belarus' two main independent opinion pollsters also briefed the deleg [...]	2006-06-16 14:20:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PHUM PINR BO
06MINSK679	ACTIVIST SEEKS TO EXPAND ROLE OF WOMEN IN BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: In her new role as head of the Commission on Women in the United Civic Party (UCP),Women's Independent Democratic Movement (WIDM) chair Lyudmila Petina told DCM she is searching for ways to encourage women to become more politically active, including the possible creation of a w [...]	2006-06-27 12:54:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF KWMN SCUL BO
06MINSK680	MFA MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR-DRUMS UP GOB OUTCRY OVER [...] (C) Summary: On June 23, Head of the MFA's U.S. and Canada Desk Sergey Sergeyev formally relayed GOB irritation with the U.S. imposition of visa bans and financial sanctions against GOB officials. Ambassador reiterated the USG had long warned the GOB the U.S. would take such actions against GO [...]	2006-06-27 12:54:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BO
06MINSK690	BELARUS NAMES FOR ASSET FREEZE, TRANCHE 2 [...] (C) Post provides the following information to supplement that gathered by the Department in consideration of freezing the assets of certain Belarusian regime officials. This is the second cable in this series (reftel). Aleksandr Radkov ---------------- 2. (C) Radkov became Minister o [...]	2006-06-30 12:35:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM BO
06MINSK691	GOB APPEALS TO EU TO STOP "SPIRAL OF PRESSURE" [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Lithuanian Ambassador to Belarus gave U.S. Ambassador copies of three letters from Belarusian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Martynov to: Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the European Unio [...]	2006-06-30 13:11:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PREL PGOV ECON EINV WTRO USTR BO
06MINSK692	OPPOSITION LEADER OUTLINES MULTIPLE PROBLEMS IN [...] (C) Summary: During a June 26 meeting with Ambassador, pro-democracy Belarusian Party of Communist (BPC) head Aleksandr Kalyakin described the United Democratic Forces (UDF) plan of action outlining "concrete" measures to coordinate the activities of the UDF leaders and to mobilize activists. [...]	2006-06-30 13:27:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF BO
06MINSK707	IN-FIGHTING AND DISORGANIZATION STAGNATES UDF [...] (SBU) Summary: The internal power struggles and disorganization within the United Democratic Forces (UDF) are affecting the UDF's support among democratic-minded Belarusians and its ability to initiate a formable movement against Lukashenko. At least two clans have formed in the UDF and are b [...]	2006-07-10 13:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK719	BELARUS ON THE EVE OF THE G8 SUMMIT [...] (C) Many in the Belarusian opposition are hopeful G-7 leaders will raise Belarus at the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg in an effort to convince Russia to stop both its support for the repressive Lukashenko regime and its efforts to establish a union with Belarus that could extinguish defacto Belar [...]	2006-07-12 13:48:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO
06MINSK731	KOZULIN VERDICT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 13, former opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin was sentenced to five and a half years in a medium security prison on one charge of disturbing the peace and two counts of hooliganism. The six-day proceedings were at times chaotic and drew a heavy presence [...]	2006-07-14 13:37:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF BO
06MINSK737	Opposition Leader Assures Ambassador He's A Man of [...] (C) Summary: United Democratic Forces leader Aleksandr Milinkevich and his wife Inna Kulei provided a frank, yet optimistic assessment of the opposition coalition during the Ambassador's July 14 farewell meeting with them. Ambassador stressed that many in the opposition, especially the youth [...]	2006-07-17 13:37:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK759	VICTIMIZED BELARUSIAN STUDENTS GET CHANCE TO STUDY [...] (C) Summary: Inna Kulei's Committee for the Defense of the Repressed (CDR) has successfully placed approximately 250 Belarusian students who have been victimized for their political activities in universities in neighboring countries. Discrepancies exist over precisely how many of these stud [...]	2006-07-21 05:46:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK764	Pro-Lukashenko Communists Hijack Opposition Party [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 15, the pro-government Communist Party of Belarus (CPB) and the opposition Belarusian Party of Communists (BPC) held rival conferences regarding the CPB-proposed merger of Belarus' two communist parties. According to CPB Central Committee Secretary Georgy Atamanov, CPB's [...]	2006-07-21 14:36:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK784	BELARUSIAN SECURITY FORCES SEARCH APARTMENT OF [...] (C) The Latvian Embassy on July 25 released a press statement protesting the July 25 search of a Latvian diplomat's residence by Belarusian security forces. On July 26, Latvian DCM Juris Poikans confirmed with Pol/Econ Chief that at 3am on July 25 three "unidentified Belarusians in plain clo [...]	2006-07-27 08:50:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF BO
06MINSK785	POLICE BRIEFLY DETAINED OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (C) On July 26, two Polotsk traffic police officers stopped a vehicle carrying former opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich, his wife Inna Kulei, press secretary Pavel Mazheiko, and Belarusian Popular Front deputy SIPDIS chairman Aleksey Yanukevich on their way to visit po [...]	2006-07-27 08:52:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF BO
06MINSK794	PRESSURES ON LUKASHENKO: CURRENT STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) Summary: Although Lukashenko secured a third term in office through rigged March presidential elections, the regime is grappling with unprecedented political and economic pressure from the East and the West, and to a limited extent, from within. Belarusians interpret Gazprom's plans to q [...]	2006-07-31 13:09:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO
06MINSK795	OPPOSITION COALITION SET TO LAUNCH THREE-STEP [...] (C) Summary: Pol/Econ Chief and Poloff met with United Democratic Forces (UDF) Political Council member Viktor Ivashkevich to discuss the UDF's preparations for the tentatively scheduled 2007 municipal elections and the new executive body that was formed to implement the coalition's plan of ac [...]	2006-07-31 13:26:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK796	LATVIAN DIPLOMAT HAS RESIDENCE RAIDED, IS MALIGNED [...] (C) On July 30, Belarusian Television's (BT) analytical program "Center of Attention" - a program known for its anti-Western shows - broadcast an expose on the Latvian diplomat accused of distributing pornographic materials (reftel). The program targeted the Latvian diplomat for his sexual o [...]	2006-07-31 14:20:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC PREL PHUM BO
06MINSK839	NGO PARTNERSHIP LEADERS CONVICTED [...] (C) On August 4, Judge Leonid Yasinevich convicted four young leaders of the election monitoring NGO "Partnerstvo" (Partnership) for allegedly operating an illegal organization that "infringes on the rights of the Belarusian people" (reftel). In a courtroom open only to international observe [...]	2006-08-04 14:35:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	BO PGOV PHUM
06MINSK840	OPPOSITION LEADER VYACHORKA PRAISES USG EFFORTS, [...] (C) Summary: In their first meeting, Belarusian opposition leader Vyachorka asserted to Charge on August 2 that United Democratic Forces (UDF) members were united behind UDF leader Aleksandr Milinkevich and are recruiting and mobilizing a growing number of citizens frustrated with the regime. [...]	2006-08-04 14:43:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK847	LUKASHENKO CRITICIZES U.S. BUT SEEKS GREATER [...] (U) Summary: President Lukashenko, meeting with his Belarusian Ambassadors August 1, stated that increased U.S.-EU harassment was due to Belarus' increasing geopolitical importance and its role in forming a multi-polar world. The President claimed Belarus was ready for bilateral partnerships [...]	2006-08-09 04:51:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO
06MINSK848	OPPOSITION LEADER KALYAKIN OFFERS CANDID VIEW OF [...] (C) Summary: In their first meeting, Belarusian opposition leader Kalyakin asserted to Charge August 8 that the United Democratic Forces (UDF) is committed to spreading independent information, supporting democratic institution building, and protecting activists from GOB persecution. Kalyakin [...]	2006-08-09 07:18:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK857	CHARGE EXPRESSES CONCERN WITH LATVIAN DIPLOMAT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-09 12:33:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BO
06MINSK866	BOBRUISK OPPOSITION PREPARES FOR LOCAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: To gauge the strength of opposition forces ahead of upcoming municipal elections, Poloffs traveled to Bobruisk on July 20, as the southeastern city was preparing for Lukashenko's September annual harvest festival. Although marginalized and weakened, opposition political parties [...]	2006-08-10 13:03:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ECON BO
06MINSK876	MFA BAITS AND SWITCHES ON COORDINATED U.S.-EU [...] (C) Summary: On August 11, Charge delivered the coordinated U.S.-EU demarche to MFA Counselor on the U.S. and Canada Desk Pavel Pustovoy regarding the imprisonment of former opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin and four leaders of the independent election monitoring NGO "Partn [...]	2006-08-11 15:46:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK887	KOZULIN'S PARTY PREPARES FOR LOCAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Senior Belarusian Social Democratic Party "Gramada" (BSDP) members corroborated reports that the health of imprisoned BSDP leader and former presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin is degenerating, but insisted the BSDP has no plans to replace Kozulin as party leader. They cha [...]	2006-08-17 06:12:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
06MINSK893	GOB - "AVIAN INFLUENZA NOT BEHIND 100,000 POULTRY [...] (U) Summary: Approximately 100,000 chickens have died in two separate accidents at Belarusian poultry farms since July 14. The GOB stressed that human error was at fault and maintained that AI was not detected. Health officials reiterated that the deaths were unfortunate accidents, but ass [...]	2006-08-17 07:41:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK9	Media Mistaken: Partnership Will Observe Elections [...] (C) Summary: On January 4, Emboffs met with civil initiative Partnership director Nikolai Astreiko to inquire about press reports that Partnership would not be monitoring the March presidential elections. Astreiko stated that Partnership plans to observe the entire electoral process, and proc [...]	2006-01-05 14:05:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK903	MINSK AUTHORITIES LIQUIDATE KALYAKIN'S OPPOSITION [...] (U) Summary: On August 17, authorities liquidated the Minsk chapter of the Belarusian Party of Communists for alleged violations of "registration protocol" in 1999. The closure of the Minsk chapter would result in the de facto liquidation of the party -- headed by senior united opposition lea [...]	2006-08-18 13:29:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK904	BUILDING THE CASE FOR DEMOCRACY: MONITORING NEEDED [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. Summary ------- 2. (C) On August 17, the Belarusian Central Election Committee confirmed that the municipal elections will be held on January 14, 2007. The democratic opposition believes, and we agree that these elections are the [...]	2006-08-18 13:41:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE BO
06MINSK937	BELARUS' MOST PROFITABLE STATE-RUN COMPANIES [...] (C) Summary: The GOB published its list of state-owned companies contributing the most revenue to the GOB budget in 2005. This list suggests some significant changes in the Belarusian economy, particularly in the fertilizer and oil industries, since the GOB prohibited publication of its list [...]	2006-08-28 10:54:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL USTR BO
06MINSK939	"INDEPENDENT" MP CLAIMS TO PROMOTE GRADUAL CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: On August 23, "independent" Belarusian MP Abramova met unofficially with Pol/Econ Chief to encourage the USG to bolster support for independent media. According to Abramova, only economic reform and greater press freedoms, not radical change, are palatable to the Belarusian people [...]	2006-08-28 12:16:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM BO
06MINSK951	MILINKEVICH, BACK IN BELARUS, TOUTS SOLIDARITY AND [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Charge on August 29, United Democratic Forces (UDF) leader Milinkevich argued that the opposition remains united and said he would be publicly involved in the run up to the local elections. He and his wife spoke of their efforts to create solidarity among Belaru [...]	2006-08-31 13:15:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK957	PROTESTANTS THREATEN TO PROTEST FORCED SALE OF [...] (C) Summary: On August 22, the GOB ruled that the New Life Church must sell their church building to the local government at a price far below market value and vacate the property by September 1, although no action has been taken by the authorities to date. Church leaders insist that the GOB' [...]	2006-09-01 10:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ASEC BO
06MINSK965	EMBASSY HOSTS VICTIMS AND FAMILIES OF KOZULIN AND [...] (SBU) On September 1, Charge and A/DCM hosted a reception for family members of imprisoned former opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin, recently released Partnership NGO activists Aleksandr Shalaiko and Enire Bronitskaya and their families, and the family members of still impri [...]	2006-09-05 12:52:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK971	BELARUS GEARING UP FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT [...] (C) The GOB continues to advocate the construction of a nuclear power plant (NPP) in Belarus. Although a decision has not officially been made, the state media's positive propaganda indicates that Lukashenko plans to build an NPP whether Belarusians agree or not. GOB officials maintain the N [...]	2006-09-07 08:51:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG TRGY PARM MNUC BO
06MINSK975	BREST OPPOSITION PUSHES ON DESPITE GOB PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: An August 22-23 visit by Poloffs to the Western border city of Brest received heavy attention from state security services. Local activists, already under siege by the regime, kept their commitments to meet with Poloffs despite the threat of even further scrutiny from the BKGB. [...]	2006-09-11 12:28:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREF BO
06MINSK976	PRO-REGIME NEO-NAZIS INTIMIDATE INDEPENDENT MEDIA, [...] (C) Summary: Following March's stolen presidential elections, the pro-government, pan-Russian, neo-Nazi group "Russian National Unity" (RNE) appears to have undertaken a campaign of intimidation against Belarus' independent media and opposition political parties. This campaign apparently incl [...]	2006-09-11 13:01:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK978	REGIONAL OPPOSITION PARTIES COALESCE FOR LOCAL [...] (C) In preparation for Belarus' upcoming municipal elections, the regional chapters of parties within the opposition United Democratic Forces (UDF) coalition continue to sign cooperation agreements with their Belarusian Social Democratic Party "Gramada" (BSDP) counterparts. Despite enthusias [...]	2006-09-11 13:52:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
06MONTEVIDEO1012	VAZQUEZ' HONEYMOON IS OVER [...] (C) Summary: President Vazquez' approval rating dipped below fifty percent for the first time according to an October poll. When he was sworn in eighteen months ago, his approval rating stood at sixty-nine percent. The anti-climax surrounding a possible Free Trade Agreement (reftel),a worsen [...]	2006-10-25 18:47:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI ELAB MARR UY
06MONTEVIDEO1078	URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON COUNTRY RESOLUTIONS AT UN [...] (C) On November 8, Political Counselor met with the MFA's Director for Political Affairs Alvaro Gallardo, his Deputy Gerardo Pratto and acting Director for Multilateral Affairs Beatriz Nunez to deliver ref A senior level demarche and to discuss country specific human rights resolutions. (Note: [...]	2006-11-09 18:54:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC KTIA UN UY
06MONTEVIDEO1083	URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-09 18:55:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA UN CU UY
06MONTEVIDEO1084	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO URUGUAY ON AUSTRALIAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-09 18:55:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA UN CU UY
06MONTEVIDEO1097	HOW MERCOSUR HAS CHANGED [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: This telegram contains a healthy dose of subjective analysis designed to stimulate constructive debate on an issue of regional importance. The Embassy is keenly interested in Mercosur, not only because its headquarters are located here, but also because we have [...]	2006-11-16 13:31:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL AORC SOCI UY
06MONTEVIDEO11	ECON MINISTER OPENLY PROMOTES AN FTA WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Economy and Finance Minister Danilo Astori's openly advocated negotiating Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with the US and China this year, according to a recently published interview. He also said that Uruguay's left had matured and that it realized that investment meant jobs, and [...]	2006-01-05 16:47:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EINV UY
06MONTEVIDEO1100	URUGUAY REMAINS NON-COMMITTAL ON INTERNATIONAL LAW [...] (C) On November 15, PolCouns delivered ref A demarche to acting Director of Multilateral Affairs Beatriz Nunez. Nunez gave a provisional reply based on her personal opinion that the GOU was ""guarding"" its position to perhaps obtain some type of tactical advantage. Nunez offered to meet later [...]	2006-11-16 17:16:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ILC UNGA UY
06MONTEVIDEO1101	URUGUAY ON BELARUS' ANTI-U.S. RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) On November 15, PolCouns delivered ref A demarche on countering Belarus' anti-US resolutions at the UNGA and soliciting GOU support for the Third Committee Resolution on Belarus, sponsored by the US. Demarche was delivered to the MFA's Acting Director of Multilateral Affairs Beatriz Nunez. [...]	2006-11-16 19:15:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BO UY
06MONTEVIDEO1155	SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT - URUGUAY [...] (C) Upon taking office on March 1, 2005, the left-of-center Frente Amplio government immediately renewed diplomatic relations with Cuba, which had been previously suspended by the Batlle administration. This move appears to have been a gesture by President Vazquez to the more radical elements [...]	2006-12-05 15:45:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU UY
06MONTEVIDEO1179	LEFT USING HUMAN RIGHTS TO DISCREDIT US [...] (SBU) Summary: Uruguay's leftist groups increasingly resort to human rights as an anti-U.S. rallying cry. Uruguayan press coverage of Augusto Pinochet's death on Human Rights day serves to reinforce the local assertion that leftists are the only "true" defenders of human rights. Recently declassifi [...]	2006-12-13 11:45:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PROP PHUM PREL PINR KPAO UY
06MONTEVIDEO1182	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ECONOMY MINISTER ASTORI [...] (C) Ambassador Baxter held his first official meeting with Economy Minister Danilo Astori on December 12. The two had previously met in Washington to launch the U.S.-Uruguay Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). The Ambassador said he was hoping that our Trade and Investment Framework Agreement [...]	2006-12-14 11:07:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL UY
06MONTEVIDEO1194	URUGUAY VOICES DEEP DISSATISFACTION AT MERCOSUR [...] (C) Summary: At the Brasilia Mercosur ministerial, Economy Minister Astori publicly expressed some of the strongest criticism of Mercosur to date by a GOU official. Referring to Mercosur's situation as "dreadful," Astori called on partner states to take action on two issues: 1) the Argentine [...]	2006-12-19 20:31:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV PREL UY
06MONTEVIDEO149	DISPUTE OVER PULP MILLS DEEPENS [...] (C) Summary: The pulp mill dispute between Argentina and Uruguay (reftel) has only intensified in the past month, and the dispute, which until recently had been a provincial issue for Argentina, has become a national cause in Uruguay for which vital interests are at stake. Uruguay contends tha [...]	2006-02-13 19:08:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SENV SOCI EAGR AR UY
06MONTEVIDEO155	MINISTER'S TOUGH TALK ON PAPER MILL DISPUTE, [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with Charge to discuss upcoming visits to the U.S. (ref A),Industry Minister Jorge Lepra commented that Uruguay is searching for international support in its dispute with Argentina over the construction of giant paper mills on a shared river (ref B). He added th [...]	2006-02-14 16:26:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ENRG SOCI UY
06MONTEVIDEO197	HAMAS [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-01 12:57:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UY
06MONTEVIDEO199	REQUEST FOR URUGUAY TO CONDEMN AL-AKSARIYA SHRINE [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-01 13:01:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO PTER IZ UY
06MONTEVIDEO207	URUGUAY CANNOT BACK DOWN ON PAPERMILL CONSTRUCTION [...] (C) The GOU has roundly rejected President Kirchner's March 1 public offer (ref A) to seek a solution to the papermill dispute by halting construction for 90 days while environmentalists conduct a study. Vice President Nin Novoa did not help matters by characterizing Kirchner's ""plea"" as imperti [...]	2006-03-02 17:32:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KSUM UY
06MONTEVIDEO229	VAZQUEZ SAYS HE WANTS A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with President Tabare Vazquez at the Embassy's request on March 7 to advise the President on his upcoming meeting with the Secretary on March 11 at the margins of Michelle Bachelet's inauguration ceremony in Santiago, Chile. Vazquez explicitly stated that he wanted a F [...]	2006-03-07 16:09:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD PINR KCRM AORC UY
06MONTEVIDEO230	THE VAZQUEZ ADMINISTRATION AT THE ONE-YEAR MARK [...] (C) Summary: The Frente Amplio (FA) Government completed its first year in power on March 1 with more achievements than setbacks. In typical fashion, little fanfare marked the day as President Vazquez had sent his state-of-the-union report to Congress a week earlier. It is clear that his adr [...]	2006-03-07 19:06:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EINV ETRD SOCI ELAB PINR UY
06MONTEVIDEO254	MERCOSUR - LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT? URUGUAY'S QUANDARY [...] (C) Summary: The GOU's perception of Mercosur has undergone an extraordinary change over the past year, going from wide-eyed enthusiasm to deep disillusion to even questioning the wisdom of full membership. After initial declarations prioritizing the ""deepening of Mercosur"", the GOU experi [...]	2006-03-14 11:47:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL PGOV PINR AORC UY
06MONTEVIDEO268	PULP MILLS: VAZQUEZ' TRIP EXPOSES HARSH REALITIES [...] (C) Summary: President Tabare Vazquez returned empty-handed from an erratic eight-day tour of regional countries designed to drum up support for Uruguay's position in the serious paper mill dispute with Argentina (ref A). From our point of view, the trip was a disaster, especially his confusi [...]	2006-03-20 18:34:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI EINV ECON AORC UY
06MONTEVIDEO306	VAZQUEZ SENDS STRONG SIGNAL ON FREE TRADE AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Industry and Energy Jorge Lepra invited me to a private one-on-one meeting in order to transmit an urgent message from President Vazquez. Lepra relayed that Vazquez has not wavered in his commitment to a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the U.S. and that he still expec [...]	2006-03-29 20:44:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD OVIP UY
06MONTEVIDEO345	MINISTER ASKS FOR SIGNAL OF USG OPENNESS TO AN FTA PRIOR TO VAZQUEZ-POTUS MEETING [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Para #5. 2. (C) Summary: Charge met with Industry Minister Lepra on April 10, shortly after Lepra's return from the Joint Commission on Trade and Investment (JCTI) meeting in Washington. Lepra was positive about the JCTI's atmospherics but stress [...]	2006-04-11 19:04:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL UY
06MONTEVIDEO358	SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT - URUGUAY [...] (C) Upon taking office on March 1, 2005, the left-of-center Frente Amplio Government immediately renewed diplomatic relations with Cuba, which had been previously suspended by the Batlle administration. This move appeared to have been a gesture by President Vazquez to the more radical element [...]	2006-04-18 19:32:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU UY
06MONTEVIDEO38	FTA COMMENTS IGNITE INTERNAL/EXTERNAL DEBATES [...] (C) Summary: Economy Minister Astori's open advocacy of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US (ref A) last week has drawn sharp reactions at home and abroad because a ""leftist"" Mercosur government has publicly said it wants to talk with us about free trade. Domestically, there's been the [...]	2006-01-12 18:38:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EINV UY
06MONTEVIDEO397	URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON IRAN'S CANDIDACY TO UN HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-03 19:57:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL UY
06MONTEVIDEO418	VAZQUEZ LOBBIES HARD FOR TRADE TALKS WITH U.S. WORKING GROUPS FORMED [...] (C) Summary: President Vazquez appears to have wasted no time in pushing his trade agenda. At the May 8 Cabinet meeting, he recounted the results of his ten-day trip to the U.S. and Mexico, and of his meeting with POTUS on May 4. He advocated for expanded trade talks with the U.S., which he [...]	2006-05-11 15:01:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL UY
06MONTEVIDEO448	GOU CRITICAL OF MERCOSUR BUT STILL INTENDS TO [...] (C) Summary: Harsh criticism of Mercosur continues unabated in Uruguay, fueled by a worsening dispute with Argentina, Brazil's distraction with regional events, and an increased marginalization of Mercosur's smaller members in the decision-making. The trade bloc could tilt towards a more pol [...]	2006-05-19 14:00:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL UY
06MONTEVIDEO459	OAS AMBASSADOR JOHN MAISTO'S MAY 18 VISIT TO [...] (C) U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) Ambassador John F. Maisto visited Montevideo on May 18 to discuss Summit of the Americas follow-up, the June OAS General Assembly, and U.S./Uruguayan bilateral relations. He met with President Vazquez, lunched with [...]	2006-05-24 14:06:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OAS UNSC UY
06MONTEVIDEO468	URUGUAY UNENTHUSIASTIC ON RESETTLEMENT OF CUBAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-26 17:27:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF SMIG CU UY
06MONTEVIDEO473	URUGUAY STILL DITHERING ON PSI [...] (C) Per instructions reftel, we have at various opportunities urged the GOU to endorse the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Statement of Interdiction Principles and encouraged it to attend the Senior Level Political meeting in Poland, in June. Embassy understands that the embassies of [...]	2006-05-26 17:53:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP UY
06MONTEVIDEO490	URUGUAY: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. STATEMENT ON [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-31 21:11:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR UY

06MONTEVIDEO55	URUGUAY: REPORTING IRAN TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (C) On January 18, Polcouns delivered reftel demarche and talking points to MFA Director for Multilateral Affairs Gustavo Alvarez. Alvarez listened attentively and seemed particularly interested in what steps the UN Security Council might take in response to the international community's grow [...]	2006-01-19 11:50:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC UY
06MONTEVIDEO554	URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) On June 12, PolCouns delivered ref A demarche conveying US priorities and concerns on the upcoming inaugural session of the UN Human Rights Council to the MFA's Director for Multilateral Affairs Gustavo Alvarez. Alvarez registered the points attentively and said that the GOU was in line wi [...]	2006-06-15 20:29:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL AORC UY
06MONTEVIDEO555	SCENESETTER FOR UPCOMING TRADE TALKS IN WASHINGTON [...] (C) Summary: Following the successful Vazquez/POTUS encounter in the Oval Office on May 4, trade talks between GOU negotiators and USTR have been scheduled to take place at a meeting in Washington during the last week of June. The GOU is now much more focused on discussing a Free Trade Agreemen [...]	2006-06-16 15:32:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL AORC UY
06MONTEVIDEO567	MERCOSUR: THE ARGENTINE PRO TEMP PRESIDENCY AND [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's pro temp presidency of Mercosur is seen in Uruguay as a resounding failure that weakened the trading bloc's institutions. The conflict over the paper pulp mills overshadowed the entire presidency, as the dispute spun out of control and Argentina blocked the GOU's att [...]	2006-06-21 20:52:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL PINR AORC UY
06MONTEVIDEO570	CHINESE AND KOREAN AMBASSADORS' PERSPECTIVES ON [...] (C) Summary: Charge met separately with Ambassadors from the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) and South Korea to discuss regional perspectives in the wake of Assistant Secretary Shannon's trip to Asia on April 8-15. Chinese SIPDIS Ambassador Wang Xioyuan said he had been briefed on A/S Shann [...]	2006-06-22 19:26:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD PINR OTRA CH JA KS UY
06MONTEVIDEO616	URUGUAY'S FTA AT CROSSROADS WHILE VENEZUELA JOINS [...] (C) Summary: President Vazquez is caught between wanting a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with us and Brazil's open opposition to it. On June 23, Brazil's visiting Foreign Minister explicitly warned the Uruguayans that an FTA with us would be damaging to Mercosur and Uruguay. On June 26, GOU and [...]	2006-07-05 18:03:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ECON PGOV AORC UY
06MONTEVIDEO685	URUGUAY: MERCOSUR SUMMIT MATCHES LOW EXPECTATIONS; [...] (C) Summary. According to the media and a cross-section of Uruguay's political leadership, the results of the Mercosur Summit held in Cordoba July 20-21 met Uruguay's low expectations. The media dutifully reported the event but focused more on issues of importance to Uruguay, especially the d [...]	2006-07-31 17:55:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD UY
06MONTEVIDEO746	USTR VISIT PROMPTS PRESIDENT VAZQUEZ TO OPENLY [...] (C) Summary: The recent visit by Assistant United States Trade Representative for the Americas Everett Eissenstat and USTR's Senior Director for Brazil and the Southern Cone, Sue Cronin, sparked an intense internal debate over the future direction of Uruguay's trade relationships and pitted o [...]	2006-08-14 19:07:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL ECON PGOV AORC UY
06MONTEVIDEO755	SOLICITING URUGUAY ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNIFIL [...] (C) On August 16, Charge delivered reftel demarche to the MFA's Deputy Foreign Minister Maria "Belela" Herrera in order to solicit an immediate Uruguayan troop contribution to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Herrera implied that the GOU was inclined to support UNIFIL's r [...]	2006-08-16 20:14:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL LE UY
06MONTEVIDEO774	PRESIDENT VAZQUEZ MOVES FORWARD ON US TRADE AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: Since the August 7-10 visit of senior USTR officials to Uruguay (reftel),President Vazquez has been assiduously preparing his domestic constituency for deeper trade ties with the United States. He has publicly stated that the feasibility of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) could be [...]	2006-08-22 20:21:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PGOV ECON AORC UY
06MONTEVIDEO785	URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON US CONCERNS ABOUT HUMAN [...] (C) On August 22, PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to the only available officer in the MFA's office of the Director General for Political Affairs Alvaro Gallardo, stressing that the US had genuine concerns that new Human Rights Council (HRC) was less than balanced on its treatment of Israel [...]	2006-08-23 19:08:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHRC UY
06MONTEVIDEO811	US-URUGUAY TRADE AGENDA: VAZQUEZ CONTINUES TO SHAPE THE [...] (C) Summary: President Vazquez has now expanded the debate beyond a trade agreement with the U.S. by seeking similar accords with India and China. In a meeting with the Charge, Industry Minister Lepra confirmed that Vazquez is very much in charge and determined to succeed. Lepra said he unde [...]	2006-09-01 19:42:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ECON UY
06MONTEVIDEO828	ECONMIN ASTORI SAYS GOU IS ON TRACK FOR JCTI [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with Economy Minister Danilo Astori on September 6 to ascertain the GOU's plans prior to the October 2-3 JCTI in Montevideo. Astori noted President Vazquez's personal investment to build consensus for his FTA vision and stressed the importance of the upcoming Vazquez- [...]	2006-09-07 18:43:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ECON UY
06MONTEVIDEO829	URUGUAY ON NAM SUMMIT DEMARCHE [...] (C) On September 6, PolCouns raised reftel demarche topics of Terrorism, Democracy and the Middle East with MFA Director for Multilateral Affairs Gustavo Alvarez. Alvarez said that Uruguay "tended to be more of an observer than a member of the Non-Aligned Movement" and was unlikely to be activ [...]	2006-09-07 20:00:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA PTER PHUM CU UY
06MONTEVIDEO860	VAZQUEZ ASKS FOR TRADE AGREEMENT WITH U.S. [...] (C) At noon today I was called by President Vazquez. He had two messages. First, he was very pleased that the U.S. Senate had ratified the Bilateral Investment Treaty, saying that "it gave him great satisfaction." Second, he told me he had met this morning with his "trade cabinet" of six mi [...]	2006-09-14 19:33:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD UY
06MONTEVIDEO907	ENCE PULLS MILL PLANS IN URUGUAY; BLOCKADE RETURNS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Spanish company ENCE informed the GOU that it will relocate its planned paper mill, but we suspect that the mill may never be built. Reports also indicate that Argentine protesters renewed last season's blockade of bridges into Uruguay and called on the remaining paper mill [...]	2006-09-25 19:42:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SENV SOCI ECIN ETRD AR UY
06MONTEVIDEO936	URUGUAY ON UNSC RACE [...] (C) On September 29, per instructions reftel, PolCouns delivered UNSC demarche to the MFA's Director for Multilateral Affairs Gustavo Alvarez and his deputy Beatriz Nunez. Both listened attentively to the points and visibly cringed at the contents of the non-paper quoting excerpts from Preside [...]	2006-10-02 16:08:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC VE GT UY
06MONTEVIDEO948	URUGUAY IN LINE WITH US ON PREVENTING POSSIBLE [...] (C) On October 4, I delivered reftel demarche on possible North Korean nuclear tests to Director General for Political Affairs Alvaro Gallardo per instructions reftel. After reviewing the talking points, he volunteered that he saw "no problems" in supporting the demarche, qualifying only that [...]	2006-10-04 19:38:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KN PARM KNNP UY
06MONTEVIDEO951	URUGUAY ON UNSC RACE [...] (C) This message supplements information provided in Ref A. 2. (C) Ref B indicated that Venezuela is unlikely to pull out of the race before the October 16 UNGA vote that will decide the contested Latin American seat on the UNSC for 2007-2008. However, on October 4 (without any prompting o [...]	2006-10-05 17:20:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PREL GT VE UY
06MONTEVIDEO963	DICTATORSHIP'S WOUNDS STILL FELT IN URUGUAY [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: Uruguay's ongoing debate over the teaching of history and a recent public shouting match between the sons of important actors during Uruguay's dictatorship both illustrate the importance of that period to modern politics and policy in Uruguay. The complex history of [...]	2006-10-11 13:37:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI ELAB UY
06MONTREAL1063	SNAPSHOT OF A BORDER COMMUNITY: MONTREAL WHTI [...] (SBU) Recently, as part of an ongoing WHTI outreach program, Consul General Montreal and Econoff visited small towns along the Quebec/US border to view how integrated the border communities are, and discuss the impact of WHTI. An example of completely integrated towns is the Stanstead, Quebec [...]	2006-10-05 20:01:00	Consulate Montreal	CONFIDENTIAL	CA CASC CMGT CPAS ECON KPAO PREL KTRD
06MONTREAL1205	CANADA'S LIBERAL LEADERSHIP RACE: DION EMERGES AS [...] (C/NF) Former Environment Minister Stephane Dion emerged the surprise winner of the Liberal Leadership convention, held in Montreal from November 30-December 2, coming from fourth place to beat frontrunner Michael Ignatieff, 2521 to 2084 delegate votes. Ignatieff, though an eloquent and passi [...]	2006-12-04 21:38:00	Consulate Montreal	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MARR EINV CA
06MONTREAL622	UPDATE ON HYDRO-QUEBEC'S ENERGY PLANS [...] (U) Summary: On May 23, Embassy Ottawa EMIN Brian Mohler and ConGen Montreal Econoff Anne Coleman met with Marie-Jose Nadeau (please protect),Hydro Quebec's Executive Vice-President for Corporate Affairs, at the utility's Montreal headquarters. Ms. Nadeau provided an overview of Hydro Que [...]	2006-06-02 18:03:00	Consulate Montreal	CONFIDENTIAL	ENGR CA
06MONTREAL676	MONTREAL REACTIONS TO THE TORONTO ARRESTS [...] (C) Montreal has a diverse population, receiving 88% of the province's immigrants. According to the 2004-05 report from the Quebec Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities, 27.6% of the Island of Montreal's residents are foreign-born. The greater-Montreal area has an estimated Musl [...]	2006-06-16 18:56:00	Consulate Montreal	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV CPAS CVIS CA
06MONTREAL826	QUEBEC GOVERNMENT STRATEGY PURSUES KYOTO TARGETS, [...] (C/NF) Summary. On June 15th, the Quebec Government released its Climate Change Strategy, including plans to improve public transportation systems, adopt California,s fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles and impose a carbon tax. This announcement follows some five months after Montreal h [...]	2006-07-28 19:28:00	Consulate Montreal	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ECON ENRG CA
06MOSCOW10013	RUSSIAN FEDERATION COUNCIL CHAIRMAN ON US, [...] (C) Summary: In advance of his trip to the US to commemorate 9/11, Russian Federation Council Chairman Sergey Mironov previewed with the Ambassador a fall legislative effort to amend the Law on Extremism. Mironov said the reaction to the announced merger of leftist political parties was en [...]	2006-09-10 08:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV RS
06MOSCOW10227	BREAKFAST WITH ROGOZIN: TALES OF A KREMLIN PROJECT [...] (SBU) Summary: As the political season commences, the rise and fall of former Rodina Party Chairman Dmitry Rogozin is a cautionary tale for other politicians seeking poster-boy status in Kremlin electoral projects and a timely reminder of the ability of the Presidential Administration to int [...]	2006-09-13 15:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
06MOSCOW10230	RUSSIAN REACTION TO TORGAU '06 POSTPONEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to U.S. insistence on extending Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) protection to personnel participating in this year's Torgau '06 bilateral military exercise, the GOR seized the initiative to postpone, but not cancel, the event and left the door open for continued bi [...]	2006-09-14 07:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP MOPS PREL RS
06MOSCOW10248	TOP OFFICIAL AT RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK GUNNED DOWN [...] (C) The Central Bank of Russia's (CBR) First Deputy Chairman Andrei Kozlov was fatally shot on September 13. Kozlov was a key figure in the GOR's efforts to crack down on money laundering, insider trading, and other illegal banking activity. His death is most likely connected to his efforts [...]	2006-09-14 12:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW1025	MFA HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIAL ON REGULARIZING TIES, UN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 18 meeting, A/S Lowenkron and Vladimir Parshikov, Director of the MFA Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, agreed to more frequent consultations. Lowenkron laid out the USG position on the UN Human Rights Council, and Parshikov responded that the [...]	2006-02-01 14:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR PHUM RS
06MOSCOW10285	RUSSIA PROTESTS JAMESTOWN CONFERENCE ON NORTH [...] (C) Acting MFA North Americas Department Director Aleksandr Khudin requested a meeting with PolCouns to express GOR concern over the September 14 Jamestown Foundation conference in Washington on "The Future of the North Caucasus." Noting that Jamestown conferences on the North Caucasus had b [...]	2006-09-14 14:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER PINR RS
06MOSCOW10309	RUSSIAN MFA UNCLEAR ON TRANSNISTRIAN REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Embassy three days before Transnistria's September 17 referendum, MFA Transnistrian negotiator Valeriy Nesterushkin provided no clarity on how Russia will treat the referendum result. While acknowledging that whatever the result, Transnistria would not be recog [...]	2006-09-15 09:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE PBTS MD RS
06MOSCOW10324	RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS PROTEST MILITARY COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Russia's Communist Party (KPRF) followed through September 14 on its promise to demonstrate against military cooperation with NATO and the U.S., including the now-postponed Torgau '06 exercise (reftel). According to media reports, demonstrations took place in Moscow, Saratov, Omsk, Yar [...]	2006-09-15 13:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PGOV RS
06MOSCOW10370	ORTHODOX CLASSES NOW MANDATORY IN SOME RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Public schools in the Bryansk, Kaluga, Smolensk, and Belgorod regions have incorporated a mandatory Orthodox culture course into their curriculums. Eleven other regions are offering the subject as an elective. Supporters say the move is needed to counter the spiritual vacuum left [...]	2006-09-18 07:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW10382	LAVROV'S MIDDLE EAST DIPLOMACY [...] (C) Summary: With FM Lavrov's September 7-9 trip to the Middle East, promotion of a "universal" peace process, experts' conference, renewed Syria track, and support for the Arab League ministerial session at UNGA, the GOR continues to seek "player" status in the region. Practically, GOR sup [...]	2006-09-18 11:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM IS SY LE RS
06MOSCOW1043	UZBEKS REFUSED ASYLUM IN RUSSIA [...] (C) The Russian Federal Migration Service has refused to grant asylum to 13 Uzbeks whom the Government of Uzbekistan wants extradited for alleged connections to the uprising in Andijon last May. The group's lawyer, at the urging of UNHCR, has appealed that decision to Russian courts and will [...]	2006-02-02 14:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW10438	RUSSIA AND KOSOVO: THE POLITICS OF DELAY [...] (C) Summary: Russia will seek to delay the conclusion of the Kosovo status process beyond year's end, arguing that a negotiated settlement will be more enduring than one forced on Serbia. The GOR does not like UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari's draft status recommendations and might balk at agre [...]	2006-09-19 12:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM UNMIK SR YI RS
06MOSCOW10439	RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY ON IRAN, FROZEN [...] (C) Summary: In a September 18 meeting, Russian Security Council Secretary Ivanov briefed on his September meetings in Spain with Iranian Security Council Secretary Larijani, UNSYG Annan, and former President Gonzales; raised concerns over mixed messages to Iran; and reiterated Russia's willi [...]	2006-09-19 12:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETTC PARM IR RS
06MOSCOW10486	REFERENDUM RESULTS: PRICEY WRINKLE TO THE FIVE [...] (C) Foreign Minister Lavrov's short statement encapsulates GOR reaction to the referendum: the results were no surprise and the partners should return to the talks. MFA Transnistrian negotiator Valeriy Nesterushkin contended that the Transnistrians will most likely demand removal of the post [...]	2006-09-19 15:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE PBTS MD RS
06MOSCOW105	WIDENING PROBLEMS FOR RUSSIAN POLICY IN THE NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY. The North Caucasus is a crucible in which the weakness of the Russian state and its ambivalence about how to overcome that weakness are compounded. In part thanks to its failed policy there, the challenge for Russia in the North Caucasus has changed over the last ten years. Jus [...]	2006-01-11 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM EAID PREL RS
06MOSCOW10502	THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN MOSCOW, PART ONE [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is part one of a two-part series on the typical experiences of immigrants in Moscow. The current cable describes the experiences of a partly disabled Chechen male who has lived on and off in Moscow for the past 20 years. The second cable relates the experiences of a Kazakh f [...]	2006-09-20 12:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW10603	A CLOSER LOOK AT THE MURDER OF RUSSIA'S #2 BANKER [...] (C) Summary. One week after the brutal murder of First Deputy Central Bank Chairman Andrey Kozlov, there have been no apparent breaks in the case, and few believe the perpetrators will ever be caught. In contrast to the cynicism surrounding the criminal investigation, a wide swath of the econo [...]	2006-09-21 13:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC ECON PTER PREL RS
06MOSCOW10605	KREMLIN UNHAPPINESS CAUSES MOSCOW'S "DOMASHNIY" [...] (C) Ekho Moskvy Editor-in-Chief Aleksey Venediktov confirmed to Embassy September 19 that a newly-minted television program hosted by him and telejournalist Svetlana Sorokina had been pulled from the air following a September 10 episode that the authorities had apparently found too controversi [...]	2006-09-21 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW10606	AEROFLOT-BOEING DEAL: STILL ALIVE - FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: A surprising "white knight" - billionaire Alexandr Lebedev, minority shareholder in Aeroflot - with $40 million from his own pocket has resuscitated the Boeing deal that as of September 15th, looked near demise. Lebedev's move might give the Kremlin a face-saving to allow the Boei [...]	2006-09-21 15:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EAIR RS
06MOSCOW10607	RUSSIA PREEMPTS SAAKASHVILI UNGA SPEECH: UNOMIG [...] (C) Summary: Convoking the Friends of Georgia on September 21, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin expressed concern over the deteriorating status of Georgian-Abkhazian relations, passed draft language on an UNOMIG resolution that condemns -- sharply and at length -- GOG operations in t [...]	2006-09-21 16:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG
06MOSCOW10620	RUSSIA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ANATOLIY CHUBAYS [...] (C) Summary: In a September 19 meeting with the Ambassador, UES CEO Chubays was very upbeat about UES reform and the liberalization of electricity prices. He confidently predicted that strategic investors and IPOs in London and Moscow would raise the investment UES needs to meet its five y [...]	2006-09-22 08:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	AF ECON ENRG IAEA KNNP PGOV RS
06MOSCOW10665	THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN MOSCOW, PART TWO [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is part two of a two-part series on the typical experiences of immigrants in Moscow. The first cable described the experiences of a partly disabled Chechen male who has lived on and off in Moscow for the past 20 years. The current cable relates the experiences of a Kazakh fem [...]	2006-09-22 13:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW10689	RUSSIA: PUBLIC CHAMBER MEMBER ON PRESS FREEDOM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pavel Gusev, owner and editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets (MK) and member of the Public Chamber, described a "media vertical" of direct government ownership and indirect corporate persuasion that has left the majority of Russians with a limited range of viewpoints and most o [...]	2006-09-22 13:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM RS
06MOSCOW10692	ODIHR DIRECTOR STROHAL'S VISIT: OSCE "REFORM" AND [...] (C) Summary: During a September 19 meeting with OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Director Strohal, DFM Grushko emphasized once again Russia's desire for OSCE "reform." However, ODIHR's harshest critic had much softened his tone, according to Strohal, while sti [...]	2006-09-22 15:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE RS
06MOSCOW10704	HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN LUKIN ON NGO [...] (C) In a September 22 meeting with the Ambassador, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin endorsed moving forward on the proposed U.S.-Russian roundtable on democracy and human rights, and said he was prepared to discuss modalities when in Washington October 10-12. Lukin offered to intercede on [...]	2006-09-25 09:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW10777	RUSSIAN ENERGY:CASPIAN PIPELINE CONSORTIUM UPDATE [...] (C) Summary. This fall the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) faces both its long-awaited expansion decision and a serious tax case being brought against the CPC's Russian (CPC-R) operations. Expansion will once again be on the agenda of the September 27-28 shareholders meeting, where western [...]	2006-09-26 04:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW1083	RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER BORIS NEMTSOV REJOINS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Boris Nemtsov, erstwhile co-leader of the Union of Right Forces (SPS),will head an SPS committee charged with forging a permanent alliance among democratic opposition forces. News of the appointment came January 28, just a day before GOR officials charged Nemtsov's former busi [...]	2006-02-03 13:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PINR RS
06MOSCOW10839	RUSSIA REMAINS OPPOSED TO SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION [...] (C) We shared reftel points September 25 with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's IO Department, asking that Russia work with other Security Council members to form a consensus on the need for the Burmese regime to undertake democratic reforms. Safronkov [...]	2006-09-26 14:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM RS
06MOSCOW10842	GOR ENFORCES NGO REGISTRATION DEADLINE [...] (C) Russian Federal Registration Service officials have clarified that foreign NGOs that have not been re-registered by October 18 will have to stop their external activities, but will be able to continue "internal operations." NGOs are hurrying to submit their paperwork, but according to reg [...]	2006-09-27 05:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID PREF KDEM PREL RS
06MOSCOW10861	RUSSIA'S "DEMOCRATS" IN DISARRAY [...] (C) Summary: Russia's "democrats" remain in near-terminal disarray. Personality disputes, disagreements over accommodating with the Kremlin, differences over the viability of political activity, and difficulties in political party registration undercut efforts aimed at uniting in advance o [...]	2006-09-27 11:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
06MOSCOW1088	RCFS DIRECTOR CONVICTED, PUT ON PROBATION [...] (SBU) A Russian court on February 3 convicted Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) Executive Director Stanislav Dmitriyevskiy of inciting national hatred, as had been widely expected. The Nizhniy Novgorod court gave Dmitriyevskiy a two-year suspended sentence and placed him on probation [...]	2006-02-03 13:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL PREF RS
06MOSCOW10982	RUSSIA SUPPORTS ONE YEAR EXTENSION OF SUDAN PANEL [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-28 14:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC SU RS
06MOSCOW10984	RUSSIAN ENERGY: PSAS -- THE VIEW FROM SAKHALIN AND [...] (C) Summary. From discussions in Moscow and Sakhalin this week, Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) may be out of favor, but they are far from being driven out of business. Shell (Sakhalin-2) appears to have dodged the bullet of having its environmental license revoked, but still faces tough [...]	2006-09-28 14:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW10985	AMBASSADOR'S SEPTEMBER 27 MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (C) In a September 27 meeting with the Ambassador, Russian Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin gave few details on debt relief for Afghanistan, but noted he hoped to conclude a bilateral agreement by February 2007. On Iraq, Kudrin said resolving the Qurna-2 license issue was important but not a [...]	2006-09-28 14:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW10986	"NOT WAR, BUT CLOSE:" RUSSIAN REACTION TO GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: DFM Karasin told Ambassador September 28 the arrest of Russian officers in Georgia "could have been a casus belli." Russian reaction "will be more reasonable." Russia "has the impression that it cannot rely on its American partners." Karasin asked for U.S. help in freeing the o [...]	2006-09-28 15:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO GG RS
06MOSCOW10990	NATO SOFA RATIFICATION: VERDICT STILL OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the Foreign Ministry, the Russian Government is completing its review of the NATO Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) -- which was signed last year -- and expects to send it to the Duma "within weeks." The MFA assured us that all GOR entities, including the Ministry o [...]	2006-09-29 07:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PGOV RS
06MOSCOW11029	RUSSIAN REACTS TO ARRESTS OF SOLDIERS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador strongly encouraged restraint in a September 29 telephone conversation with Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin. Karasin responded that he appreciated U.S. responsiveness and welcomed Tbilisi's decision to permit joint patrolling of the Kodori Gorge. The MFA confir [...]	2006-09-29 15:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO GG RS
06MOSCOW11079	CPC AND SHTOKMAN: SOME RESIGNATION, SPRINKLED WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 28, Ambassador met with Chevron's VP for Business Development Jay Pryor and the company's Russia chief, Ian MacDonald. On Shtokman, Chevron believes it has little chance of affecting the outcome of the now-politicized deal, but noted that market realities (missing t [...]	2006-10-03 07:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW11107	RUSSIAN SANCTIONS ON GEORGIA TO STAY FOR NOW [...] (C) Following President Putin's October 1 comments that Georgia's arrest of Russian officers was an act of "state terrorism," new measures targeting Georgia are being enacted. As of October 3, flights between Georgia and Russia have been halted for "recertification." Ferry service between So [...]	2006-10-03 13:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ETRD GG RS
06MOSCOW11137	UNITED RUSSIA SEEKS MAJORITY IN OCTOBER 8 [...] (C) A September 28 - 29 visit to Chuvashiya in the run-up to the October 8 State Council elections found: -- five of the Republic's twenty-two parties on the ballot, with a sixth --the Party of Pensioners-- denied registration, and joining the Party of Life in supporting Rodina's quest to cr [...]	2006-10-04 12:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW11169	POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) Summary: DFM Alekseyev told the Ambassador October 4 that Russia recognized the seriousness of the situation following the DPRK's announcement and understood U.S. concerns. Alekseyev urged that the Security Council move deliberately to craft a response, but was lukewarm about a potenti [...]	2006-10-04 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KN RS
06MOSCOW11241	YOUR MOSCOW VISIT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA [...] (C) We welcome your visit to Moscow as a chance to engage the GOR face-to-face on sensitive regional issues and begin to chip away at Moscow's misconceptions about U.S. intentions in the region. It is a commonplace assumption that Moscow's policies in Central and South Asia are fueled by a [...]	2006-10-06 07:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG PTER SNAR RS
06MOSCOW11252	RUSSIA: DAS KRAMER MEETINGS ON NGOS AND HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS David Kramer reinforced US concerns over NGO re-registration and encouraged Human Rights Ombudsman Lukin to finalize details of an "unofficial" human rights/democracy dialogue. Both Lukin and Public Chamber member Nikonov acknowledged bureaucratic difficulties and endo [...]	2006-10-06 07:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV RS
06MOSCOW11256	RUSSIA: E/CBA FRANK MERMOUD'S ENERGY DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) Summary: During his September 18-21 visit to Moscow, E/CBA Frank Mermoud's GOR and private sector interlocutors described continued GOR debate on new subsoil and strategic sectors legislation, growing displeasure with Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) coupled with assurances that existi [...]	2006-10-06 09:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW11266	KREMLIN HUMAN RIGHTS CHAIRWOMAN PROMISES NO [...] (C) Chairwoman of the Presidential Administration Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Ella Pamfilova emphatically assured Ambassador October 5 that "nothing would happen" to curtail the activities of NGOs not re-registered by the October 18 deadline. Pamfilova's office was monitoring t [...]	2006-10-06 11:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW11275	RUSSIA: NGO REGISTRATION UPDATE; DEADLINE [...] (C) Summary: In an October 5 conversation with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yakovenko, the Ambassador urged the GOR to extend an October 18 deadline for the re-registration of foreign NGOs and underscored the damage that would result from a suspension in their external programs. Yakovenko [...]	2006-10-06 14:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL RS
06MOSCOW11279	THE OCTOBER 8 REGIONAL ELECTIONS AS A PROVING [...] (C) The October 8 elections are being viewed by commentators here as a rehearsal for the 2007 State Duma elections (which some see as a rehearsal for the 2008 presidential contest). Viewed from that vantage point, the contests, in nine regions and republics of Russia, should offer the Kremlin [...]	2006-10-06 15:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL SOCI RS
06MOSCOW11313	RUSSIA: DEMARCHE ON MURDER OF POLITKOVSKAYA [...] (C) In an October 9 conversation with First Deputy Foreign Minister Denisov, the Ambassador delivered reftel demarche, underscoring deep U.S. concern over the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, referring also to Department and White House public statements, and stressing the need for a [...]	2006-10-09 10:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW11316	POLITKOVSKAYAâ€™S DEATH SENDS SHOCK WAVES THROUGH [...] (C) The October 7 murder of internationally-known investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya has sent shock waves through Moscow. A public demonstration has been held, the co-owner of Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper where Politkovksaya had worked since 1999, is offering a 25 million ruble reward for [...]	2006-10-09 11:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW11371	RUSSIAN ENERGY: RUSSIANS RETHINK SHTOKMAN [...] (C) Summary. Gazprom's October 8 decision to reject foreign equity participation in the giant Shtokman gas and LNG project in the Barents Sea, in favor of developing the field itself, reflects a growing trend towards energy nationalism, and genuine concern about maintaining control of such a [...]	2006-10-10 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW11372	RUSSIA-ABKHAZIA: SEEKING A DEAL AT THE UNSC [...] (C) DFM Karasin convoked Ambassador October 10. He hoped for "a more constructive and flexible" U.S. approach to the Russian draft UNSCR on UNOMIG mandate renewal and said the Europeans are willing to be flexible. If the resolution included a "blunt message" to Tbilisi on its Kodori operatio [...]	2006-10-10 15:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR UNSC GG RS
06MOSCOW11488	DPRK NUCLEAR TEST RESOLUTION: DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche October 12 to MFA First Asia Department Senior Counselor Oleg Davydov, who advises DFM Alekseyev on North Korean issues. Davydov said that his superiors will "mull" over the draft resolution to assess what had been changed from earlier drafts and the Russian [...]	2006-10-12 14:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP UNSC KN RS
06MOSCOW11489	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: BACKLASH AGAINST THE BACKLASH? [...] (C) Summary: The Public Chamber has condemned bureaucratic moves that have targeted ethnic Georgians, but few elected officials have followed suit. Deportations have temporarily slowed, but arrests of Georgians who are accused of not having legal status in Russia continue. There is anecdo [...]	2006-10-12 14:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM GG RS
06MOSCOW11490	PUTIN REACTS TO POLITKOVSKAYA ASSASSINATION [...] (C) President Putin, three days after the murder of outspoken investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, issued his definitive public statement that everything would be done to find the killers and bring them to trial. Russia's Prosecutor General, in fact, has already assumed charge of the [...]	2006-10-12 16:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW11533	THIRD CONTRACT KILLING EVOKES MEMORIES OF 1990'S [...] (C) Summary. Vneshtorgbank banker Alexander Plokhin was gunned down October 11 in an apparent contract killing, the third in Moscow in a month. Foreign investors are growing increasingly concerned by the perception of lawlessness in the streets of Moscow, although local business leaders are ta [...]	2006-10-13 12:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PTER RS
06MOSCOW11539	RUSSIA-GEORGIA UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Arrests and deportations of Georgians accused of violating immigrations laws continue, but no new measures have been enacted against Georgia or against ethnic Georgians living in Russia. No reliable numbers are available for the number of Georgians found not to have legal stat [...]	2006-10-13 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF GG RS
06MOSCOW11540	RUSSIAN-CHECHEN FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY ORDERED CLOSED [...] (U) A Nizhniy Novgorod court on October 13 ordered the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) to be closed. According to press reports, the court found that the organization violated the NGO law. Specifically, it ruled that RCFS had allowed its Executive Director Stanislav Dmitrievskiy to [...]	2006-10-13 14:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL RS
06MOSCOW11584	INFORMATION REGARDING UNSCR 1718: DEMARCHE [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche October 16 to MFA First Asia Department Senior Counselor Arkadiy Lavrov, who advises DFM Alekseyev on North Korean issues. (Note: Alekseyev is currently in South Korea, accompanying PM Fradkov and will not return to Moscow before October 23). Pointing to Rus [...]	2006-10-16 15:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP UNSC KN RS
06MOSCOW11629	GEORGIA UPDATE, OCTOBER 17 [...] (C) A Georgian detainee from St. Petersburg died of an asthma attack as he waited at a Moscow airport to board the plane deporting him to Georgia. This was the third plane to deport Georgians, bringing the number of deported to over 400. Some 300 more Georgians have received deportation or [...]	2006-10-17 14:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PREF GG RS
06MOSCOW11632	YABLOKO AT A LOSS AFTER OCTOBER 8 ELECTIONS [...] (C) In an October 11 meeting, Yabloko Deputy Chairman Sergey Mitrokhin and Political Department Head Galina Mikhaleva said the party is facing an existential crisis following the poor results of the October 8 elections, where the party polled in the two percent range. Mitrokhin charged red ta [...]	2006-10-17 14:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW11637	NGO RE-REGISTRATION STATE-OF-PLAY AS OF OCTOBER 17 [...] (U) With the October 18 NGO re-registration deadline looming, the Federal Registration Service reports that: -- 80 NGOs have been re-registered, 42 of them U.S. NGOs; -- 70 re-registration applications are pending; -- only three NGOs have to date been denied re-registration. One of them, a T [...]	2006-10-17 14:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL PREF RS
06MOSCOW11652	PSYCHIATRY ABUSED FOR COMMERCIAL ENDS [...] (C) Anecdotal evidence suggests that psychiatry is increasingly being used as a tool, especially in more "sophisticated" urban areas like Moscow, in the resolution of family squabbles or business disputes. The interpretation of a 2001 law on legal expertise activities allegedly has been used [...]	2006-10-18 10:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW11686	STRATEGIC SECTORS LAW SUBMITTED TO GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary. The Ministry of Industry and Energy (MIE) on October 13 submitted the draft law on Foreign Investment in the Strategic Sectors for government review. Contrary to press reports that the new draft reduces the number of strategic sectors that would be regulated by the new legislation [...]	2006-10-18 13:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ENRG PREL RS
06MOSCOW11689	DEADLINE FOR FOREIGN NGO RE-REGISTRATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Federal Registration Service officials suggested October 18 that they expect all foreign NGOs that have applied for re-registration to be approved as the deadline for applications passed. According to the latest FRS statistics, 91 NGOs have been re-registered, and 79 others hav [...]	2006-10-18 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF KDEM EAID RS
06MOSCOW11690	GEORGIA UPDATE: OCTOBER 18 [...] (C) Deportation orders against Georgian continue; the Georgian Embassy claims about 1000 Georgians have been told to leave without being detained. Georgians are expected to take Russian citizenship in greater numbers as a protective move. Georgian restaurants are reopening. The official mood [...]	2006-10-18 14:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PREF GG RS
06MOSCOW11695	ELECTORAL COMMISSION CHAIRMAN ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) Central Electoral Commission (CEC) Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov reviewed the October 8 regional elections, recent developments in electoral technology, prospects for the 2007 regional and national (Duma) elections, and possible further amendments to the election law in a meeting with Embas [...]	2006-10-19 06:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW11698	MOSCOW EXPERTS ON DPRK NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) Summary. Despite the GOR's strongly negative reaction to the reported nuclear test and its cooperation on UNSC 1718, Moscow's Korea watchers were for the large part critical of U.S. policies, arguing that the impasse over the DPRK program could have been avoided had the U.S. acted differ [...]	2006-10-19 06:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP UNSC KN RS
06MOSCOW1171	RUSSIA COMFORTABLE WITH STATUS QUO IN BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: The MFA's official stance on Belarus seems to have shifted from resigned noninterference to passive support for Lukashenko and the status quo. However, Russian activists and leaders of the Belarusian opposition based in Moscow have not given up hope that determined resistance wi [...]	2006-02-08 08:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR BO RS
06MOSCOW11729	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: DAS BRYZA CONVERSATION WITH [...] (C) DAS Matt Bryza and Ambassador called on Russian DFM Grigoriy Karasin October 6. Karasin said Russian patience with Georgia was at an end, and catalogued Russian views of the worsening relations, culminating with the arrest of Russian soldiers immediately after NATO offered Georgia Intensi [...]	2006-10-19 09:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PHUM PREF GG RS
06MOSCOW11765	OCT 18 MEETING WITH KREMLIN ECONOMIST DVORKOVICH [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a wide ranging discussion with Economic Minister-Counselor October 18, Arkadiy Dvorkovich, Head of the Experts Group of the Russian Presidential Administration exuded quiet confidence about the difficult path of economic reform in Russia. He cited recent positive movement acro [...]	2006-10-19 13:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG ETRD KIPR
06MOSCOW11771	GEORGIA UPDATE, OCTOBER 19 [...] (C) News of detention of Georgians continues to appear, with the Volga Federal District the latest site. The Georgian Embassy claims that educational institutions are still being used in some areas to locate undocumented Georgians, though a Moscow official denies this ever happened inside th [...]	2006-10-19 14:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PREF GG RS
06MOSCOW11773	A/S BOUCHER HEARS RUSSIAN WORRIES ABOUT AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: During October 9 consultations in Moscow, A/S Boucher outlined U.S. intentions in Central Asia, stressed steps we were taking to address terrorism and narcotics trafficking in Afghanistan, and reviewed U.S. nuclear policies in South Asia. Foreign Ministry officials and the Rus [...]	2006-10-19 15:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER SNAR ENRG XD ZK RS
06MOSCOW11778	MIGRATION SERVICE DIRECTOR ROMODANOVSKIY ON NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Federal Migration Service Director Konstantin Romodanovskiy told PRM/Admissions Director Terry Rusch October 6 that Russia would consider resettlement of North Koreans to the U.S. on a case-by-case basis, repeating what other GOR interlocutors have told us previously. Separately, [...]	2006-10-20 06:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL RS
06MOSCOW11830	SCENESETTER: TREASURY U/S LEVEY'S VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) On behalf of the U.S. Mission in Russia, we extend a warm welcome to you and your delegation. Your visit offers an opportunity to continue your discussions with the Russians on combating terrorism financing as well as our grave concerns about Iran's and North Korea's activity in this rega [...]	2006-10-20 14:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KTFN EFIN PTER OTRA OVIP RS
06MOSCOW11831	NGO RE-REGISTRATION UPDATE: NDI, IRI APPROVED [...] (U) The Federal Registration Service (FRS) informed NDI and IRI on October 20 that they had been re-registered. IRI has already been added to the list of approved organizations on the FRS website. Both were told to pick up their documents on October 23. Amid heightened international and Ru [...]	2006-10-20 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM PREF RS

06MOSCOW11834	HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN GIVEN ADDITIONAL POWERS [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 16, President Putin signed into law amendments to the Federal Constitutional Law on the Human Rights Commission, which considerably broaden the Human Rights Ombudsman Office's powers. The new legislation gives the Ombudsman the right to propose parliamentary probes in [...]	2006-10-20 15:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW11931	S/CT URBANCIC DISCUSSES CHECHNYA WITH DEPUTY [...] (C) Summary: Russia's Deputy Presidential Representative to the Southern Federal District briefed Deputy S/CT Urbancic on Chechnya, placing it solely in the category of a terrorist conflict. Recognizing that mistakes were made by the GOR, he noted the importance of economic opportunity and [...]	2006-10-24 14:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW11987	EUR A/S FRIED MEETS RUSSIAN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: In his October 21 meeting with EUR A/S Fried, Russia's Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin urged presidential endorsement of the unofficial human rights dialogue initiative organized by his office and the Moscow Carnegie Center, against a backdrop of public disenchantment wit [...]	2006-10-25 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW11994	A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH U.S. NGOS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Representatives of four U.S-based NGOs told EUR A/S Fried that they were trying to keep a low profile in light of the NGO law, approaching elections, and increasing GOR assertiveness, especially statist, in key economic sectors. Although NGOs were under increasing scrutiny and [...]	2006-10-26 07:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EINV KDEM RS
06MOSCOW12000	DRAFT MOSCOW LEGISLATION MAY LIMIT "RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Moscow City Duma is considering a quality-of-life bill which, if adopted in its present form, would allow authorities to fine those engaged in many forms of street solicitation, including "religious agitation." Some religious organizations here worry that if passed as curren [...]	2006-10-26 11:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW12036	TRANSNISTRIA: WHY IS VALERIY NESTERUSHKIN SMILING? [...] (C) Russian diplomacy has become more active with Moldova since Putin and Voronin met August 8. The rise of Yanukovich in Ukraine has helped Russia exert leverage over Moldova, helping to roll back the agreement between Moldova and Ukraine on customs that so irritated the Transnistrians. Russ [...]	2006-10-27 11:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ETRD MD RS
06MOSCOW12042	FORMER RUSSIAN PM KASYANOV: OPPOSITION WOES, [...] (C) In a recent one-on-one lunch with Ambassador, a confident ex-prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov cited reasons to be optimistic about his presidential prospects: -- the business community's alleged latent support for his economic reform agenda; -- the weakness of current contenders Medve [...]	2006-10-27 11:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI RS
06MOSCOW1212	PUBLIC CHAMBER HEAD VELIKHOV DESCRIBES EFFORTS TO [...] SUMMARY. In a February 6 meeting with the Ambassador, Public Chamber Secretary Yevgeniy Velikhov expressed hope that the Chamber could positively influence the implementing regulations for the controversial NGO legislation. He dismissed recent spying accusations against NGOs as nonsense. He [...]	2006-02-08 12:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW12139	GOR DOWNPLAYS PROSPECT OF VIOLENCE IN BISHKEK [...] (C) In an October 31 meeting, Maksim Peshkov, Director, First CIS Department (Central Asia),attributed Kyrgyzstan's current turmoil to the failure of the Bakiyev-Kulov "tandem" to achieve political and economic stability. He said that Bakiyev, representing the South, and Kulov, the North, co [...]	2006-10-31 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KG RS
06MOSCOW12143	NINETEEN PARTIES REGISTERED FOR 2007 ELECTIONS; [...] (C) The Federal Registration Service (FRS) has completed its inspection of the 35 political parties that filed for re-registration according to the new, more stringent requirements of the amended electoral law. A FRS representative at an October 26 press conference reported that sixteen of th [...]	2006-11-01 07:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW12159	CHECHEN PRESIDENCY: KADYROV SAYS HE HAS PUTIN'S [...] (C) Ramzan Kadyrov said privately that Putin has told him he will name Kadyrov President of Chechnya before the end of the year. Dagestani Duma Member Gadzhi Makhachev (protect) told us November 1 that Kadyrov revealed this to him in a conversation at Kadyrov's Bayram ('Id al-Fitr) party in G [...]	2006-11-01 11:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR RS
06MOSCOW12168	RUSSIA: LEFT-OF-CENTER PARTY MERGER FINALIZED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 28, the new Spravedlivaya Rossiya ("A Just Russia") party was formally established in a merger of the Russian Party of Life, Rodina, and the Party of Pensioners. The leader of the new party is Federation Council Chairman and Russia Party of Life Chairman Sergey Miron [...]	2006-11-01 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR KDEM PGOV RS
06MOSCOW1219	DANISH CARICATURE CONTROVERSY PRODUCES FALLOUT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 6, Chechnya's controversial Acting Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced that Danish NGOs would be banned in his republic because of the insult to Muslims caused by the caricatures in a Danish newspaper. GOR officials distanced themselves from Kadyrov's position, [...]	2006-02-08 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW12200	MOSCOW WELCOMES ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESUMPTION OF [...] (U) The Russian government welcomed the agreement to resume the Six-Party talks. Russian officials, including Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov, Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov, and Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Alekseyev accepted the announcement as "exceedingly positive." Alekseye [...]	2006-11-02 09:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KN RS
06MOSCOW12231	DEMARCHE ON DISRUPTION OF CHISINAU-MOSCOW RAIL [...] (C) We made reftel demarche November 1 to Ambassador Valeriy Nesterushkin, MFA negotiator for Transnistria. Nesterushkin made two notes of fact. In the first tick, he said the decision to cancel trains no. 47 (Moscow-Chisinau) and 48 (Chisinau-Moscow) was taken by Russian Railroads, not the G [...]	2006-11-02 14:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PBTS MD UP RS
06MOSCOW12257	GEORGIA-RUSSIA: FM BEZHUASHVILI GETS RUSSIA'S [...] (C) Georgian FM Bezhuashvili told Ambassador November 2 that he "got the message" passed to him bluntly November 1 by FM Lavrov and Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov: that the Russians believe Georgia will begin military action in Abkhazia or South Ossetia; that Russia will confront Georg [...]	2006-11-02 14:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ETRD GG RS
06MOSCOW12259	RUSSIAN MFA CRITICIZES DAS BRYZA'S FINANCIAL TIMES [...] (C) MFA North America Deputy Director Vladimir Vinokurov contacted Political M/C November 2 to highlight the ministry's critical reaction to comments made about the Northern European Gas Pipeline (NEGP) by DAS Bryza in an October 30 Financial Times of Germany interview. Vinkurov told us the [...]	2006-11-02 15:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG RS
06MOSCOW12265	OWNER VOWS TO PUSH FOR VIGOROUS INVESTIGATION OF [...] (C) A resolute Marat Gelman told us October 31 that he intended to use his remaining official contacts to energize a languishing criminal investigation of the October 21 attack on his Moscow Gelman Art Gallery. Law enforcement officials had "done nothing" since ten men smashed twenty paintings [...]	2006-11-03 04:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM SCUL RS
06MOSCOW12310	MORE NGOS RE-REGISTERED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The re-registration of foreign NGOs is continuing apace, with 148 approved by the backlogged Federal Registration Service. A majority of U.S. NGOs known to the Embassy are re-registered, with Human Rights Watch expecting approval any day. In the North Caucasus, the FRS and tax [...]	2006-11-03 16:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV PREF EAID KDEM RS
06MOSCOW12347	RUSSIAN MFA ON TALKS WITH GEORGIA [...] (C) The Russian MFA was disappointed that Georgian FM Bezhuashvili brought no deliverables with him to his November 1-2 talks in Moscow. The Russians are hearing rumors of a major cabinet reshuffle in Tbilisi. Proposed talks between President Saakashvili and South Ossetian leader Kokoity are [...]	2006-11-07 15:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR GG RS
06MOSCOW12371	MOSCOW'S REACTION TO BISHKEK VIOLENCE: "ANOTHER [...] (C) The GOR has reacted cautiously to events in Bishkek. After the news of the November 7 violence reached Moscow, DFM Denisov told the Ambassador that the GOR was keeping a close watch on the situation and urging calm. Director of the MFA's First CIS Department (Central Asia) Maksim Peshkov t [...]	2006-11-08 16:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KG RS
06MOSCOW12395	TREASURY U/S LEVEY'S MEETING WITH RUSSIA'S FEDERAL [...] (C) In a meeting on October 24 with Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey, Federal Financial Monitoring Service SIPDIS (FFMS) Chief Viktor Zubkov said he shared the USG's concern about North Korean financial flows. He recounted how the FFMS had investigated information on North Korean enti [...]	2006-11-09 14:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN ETTC ECON PTER PREL RS
06MOSCOW12396	TREASURY U/S LEVEY DISCUSSES DPRK, IRAN WITH [...] Summary. (C) In meetings October 23 and 24 with Treasury Under Secretary Levey, officials from the Central Bank (CBR),Finance Ministry and private Russian banks downplayed the possibility that North Korean and Iranian entities are actively using the Russian financial system to launder money [...]	2006-11-09 14:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN ETTC ECON PTER PREL RS
06MOSCOW12402	RUSSIAN DFM KISLYAK: BILATERAL RELATIONS UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: In a November 8 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Kislyak expressed concern over the potential impact of US congressional elections on WTO and bilateral nuclear cooperation. He argued again that US sanctions against Sukhoi were symbolic of the failings in bilateral relations -- [...]	2006-11-09 15:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNDP ECON ETRD RS
06MOSCOW12424	RUSSIA: TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICER [...] (C) Post's Terrorism Financing Coordinating Officer (TFCO) is Kathleen Doherty, Economic Policy Unit Chief, 7-495-728-5186. Unclassified email is: DohertyKA@state.gov. Classified email is: DohertyKX@state.sgov.gov. 2. (C) Post's Deputy TFCO is Clayton Hays, Financial Economist, 7-495-728-5 [...]	2006-11-13 15:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN PTER RS
06MOSCOW12441	RUSSIAN REACTION TO EVENTS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) MFA 4th CIS Department Director Andrey Kelin told us November 13 that Georgia shows no willingness to meet Russia's "simple" demands for normalizing relations. He downplayed the effects of the sacking of former DefMin Okruashvili. He fretted that an "alternative election" in South Osseti [...]	2006-11-14 15:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PBTS UNSC OSCE GG RS
06MOSCOW12457	RUSSIA'S DEFENSE MINISTER RAISES PUBLIC PROFILE [...] (C) SUMMARY; Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov has made himself more available to the media and the general public in recent weeks. Although he is careful to limit his remarks to issues within his core portfolio, an "interactive interview" in a prominent newspaper las [...]	2006-11-15 15:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR MCAP PREL RS
06MOSCOW12470	COUNTRY RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE: [...] (C) In a November 16 conversation, Grigoriy Lukyantsev, Head of the UN Division of the MFA's Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, told us that Russia would oppose resolutions on the human rights situations in Iran, Belarus and Uzbekistan. He said Russia would support a N [...]	2006-11-16 13:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHRC RS
06MOSCOW12528	A/S FRIED CONVERSATION WITH RUSSIAN DFM KARASIN, [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin focused on Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova in a two hour discussion November 15. Karasin dismissed Georgian conciliatory steps as cosmetic; Fried said they are real and Russia should respond by ending sanct [...]	2006-11-20 13:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PBTS ETRD GG MD UP RS
06MOSCOW12549	A/S FRIED'S NOVEMBER 15 MEETING WITH DFM TITOV ON [...] (C) Summary: In a November 15 meeting with DFM Titov, A/S Fried made clear that the U.S. intended to move forward on Kosovo quickly after UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari presented the sides with his proposal after the Serbian parliamentary elections. He stressed that putting off the status decis [...]	2006-11-21 11:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YI RS
06MOSCOW12557	UNITED RUSSIA STUMBLES ON REGIONAL LEGISLATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: United Russia is far from united on the direct election of mayors. United Russia Duma members introduced legislation to eliminate the direct election of mayors, in what may have been a misguided attempt to implement Putin's call to transfer more authority to the regions. Predict [...]	2006-11-21 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR KDEM PGOV RS
06MOSCOW12572	RUSSIA: WINTER POWER SHORTAGES EXPECTED [...] (C) Summary. Government officials and industry analysts are expecting power shortages in Russia this winter as electricity consumption growth strains the existing power infrastructure. UES Head Chubays has warned GOR officials all year about looming electricity shortfalls. UES is considering [...]	2006-11-22 08:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ENRG PREL RS
06MOSCOW12587	RUSSIAN ENERGY: CRUNCH TIME FOR CPC [...] (C) Summary: On November 20, the Ambassador met with Chevron Vice Chairman Peter Robertson and head of Chevron's Russian operations, Ian MacDonald. The conversation centered on CPC expansion but included brief discussions of the Burgas-Alexandropoulis bypass pipeline (BAP),and the on-going t [...]	2006-11-22 13:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW12592	RUSSIAN MFA ON DRAFT IRAQ UNSCR [...] (C) We shared reftel documentation, including the draft Iraq UNSCR, on November 21 with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department. Safronkov said that Russia had no problem with the draft in principle and had so instruct [...]	2006-11-22 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IZ RS
06MOSCOW12595	PRESIDENT PUTIN, DEFMIN IVANOV ADDRESS RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Putin and Defense Minister Ivanov candidly acknowledged many of the military's internal problems during a 16 November senior commanders conference in Moscow. The two leaders promised various remedies ranging from higher salaries and better treatment for soldiers to steep increas [...]	2006-11-22 15:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP PREL PGOV PHUM RS
06MOSCOW12600	RUSSIA'S RELATIONS WITH BELARUS [...] (C) Summary. Another Putin-Lukashenko meeting has come and gone with few evident results. It occurred against a widespread perception here that Putin would like to rein in Lukashenko as part of Russia's growing assertiveness. Unresolved problems, most notably those related to energy, plague [...]	2006-11-24 10:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON BO RS
06MOSCOW12628	RUSSIA KEEPS UP THE PACE IN MIDDLE EAST DIPLOMACY [...] (C) Summary: Following the assassination of Lebanese Minister Gemayel, Russia has become increasingly concerned about political violence in Lebanon, but is unwilling to press Damascus on its role. The MFA preferred to offer legalistic arguments about whether there was compelling proof of S [...]	2006-11-27 08:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS SY LE IZ RS
06MOSCOW12630	CENTRAL ELECTORAL COMMISSIONER REVIEWS TRIP TO [...] (C) Central Electoral Commission Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov described to Ambassador November 21 his reaction to State Duma-adopted amendments to the existing electoral law (reftel). Veshnyakov's key judgments: -- elimination of the minimum threshold for voter turnout in Russia was premat [...]	2006-11-27 09:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM RS
06MOSCOW12637	DUTCH NGO REFUSED RE-REGISTRATION [...] (SBU) The Federal Registration Service refused the NGO Stichting Russia Justice Initiative (RJI) last week, citing technical problems with its application. The technical reasons included questions about RJI Executive Director Ole Solvang's authority to represent RJI during the process and in [...]	2006-11-27 13:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM EAID KDEM RS
06MOSCOW12643	DEMARCHE ON DEPORTATION OF UZBEK ASYLUM SEEKER [...] (C) We met November 22 with MFA Human Rights and Humanitarian Cooperation Department Deputy Director Mikhail Lebedev and his staff to discuss the deportation of Rustam Muminov to Uzbekistan and to underline U.S. concerns about deportation of other asylum seekers to Uzbekistan given Tashkent' [...]	2006-11-27 14:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF UZ RS
06MOSCOW12666	RUSSIA'S APPROACH TO POST-ORANGE UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary: Russia has reinvigorated its engagement with Ukraine, focusing on practical cooperation. Last month's Fradkov-Yanukovich meeting, which yielded a gas deal, set the stage for the December 23 Putin-Yushchenko Summit. Russian attitudes, however, still seem to lack an appreciation [...]	2006-11-28 16:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
06MOSCOW12702	RUSSIA: CEMENTING OUR ECONOMIC RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: After thirteen years of tough negotiations, we finally have in hand a bilateral agreement on Russia's accession to the WTO. Understanding that we are not yet out of the woods, with hard work ahead in the multilateral forum, we should take full advantage of the improved atmosphere [...]	2006-11-30 03:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR ENRG ETRD PREL RS EINV
06MOSCOW12709	A GUIDE TO RUSSIAN POLITICAL YOUTH GROUPS: PART 1 [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is part one of a two-part message describing Russian political youth groups. This cable contains a summary of the major political youth movements in Russia. Russian political youth groups can be broadly divided into two categories: grassroots organizations driven by idealis [...]	2006-11-30 13:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL RS
06MOSCOW12711	CIS SUMMITS: GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS? [...] (C) Summary: After a series of low-impact/low-turnout meetings, CIS Heads of State gathered again in Minsk on November 28. The meeting -- billed as a "working" summit -- will be followed by another, more formal gathering in Astana in December to commemorate the CIS's fifteenth anniversary. [...]	2006-11-30 13:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PINR BY RS
06MOSCOW12713	UNITED COMPANY RUSAL: MAKING OF A RUSSIAN NATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. The proposed merger this coming spring of Russian Aluminum (RUSAL),Siberian Ural Aluminum (SUAL Group),and Glencore International AG (Glencore) into "United Company RUSAL" will create the world's largest aluminum producer, unseating Alcoa. Industry insiders cast the deal more [...]	2006-11-30 14:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON RS
06MOSCOW12717	RUSSIAN YOUTH POLITICS, OR LACK THEREOF: PART 2 OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is the second part of a two-part message describing Russian political youth groups. Russia's youth is overwhelmingly apolitical, and youth groups in general have very little impact on political life in Russia. The small bit of political life that does exist is restricted to t [...]	2006-11-30 17:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
06MOSCOW12750	RUSSIA: SOME "DEMOCRATS" UNITE, LARGER DIVISIONS [...] (C) Poor performances in the October 8 regional elections notwithstanding, the democratic, western-leaning political parties and movements --Yabloko, SPS, Other Russia, the Republican Party of Russia-- show few signs of being willing to join forces to contest the March 2007 regional elections [...]	2006-12-01 14:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW12751	LITVINENKO ASSASSINATION: REACTION IN MOSCOW [...] (C) The November 23 death by radiation poisoning of former FSB agent Aleksandr Litvinenko in London has spawned a welter of conspiracy theories in Russia. The media have variously traced Litvinenko's demise to XXXXXXXXXXXX, suicide, Putin's Kremlin, Putin himself, those determined to undermine Put [...]	2006-12-01 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW12752	RUSSIAN POSITION ON CFE, ISTANBUL COMMITMENTS [...] (C) The Chief of the Conventional Arms Control Division in the Foreign Ministry's Department of Security Affairs and Disarmament, Anton Mazur, told us 28 November that we could expect "little or no change" in the GOR's approach to Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) issues at next week's OSCE [...]	2006-12-01 15:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR OSCE PREL RS
06MOSCOW12763	CPC UPDATE: FURTHER MOVEMENT TOWARD FINISH LINE? [...] (C) SUMMARY. On December 1, Ian MacDonald, head of Chevron Russia and former head of CPC told us that the hoped-for "seniors'" meeting -- at which a CPC expansion MOU may have been signed -- did not come off this week. However, CPC shareholders held a highly positive meeting which cleared aw [...]	2006-12-04 03:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW12764	RUSSIANS STILL CYNICAL ABOUT NATIONAL PRIORITY [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-04 03:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PGOV PREL RS POL
06MOSCOW12781	MFA UNHAPPY WITH PALESTINIAN RESOLUTION ON UN [...] (C) We discussed reftel talking points on the 10th UNGA Emergency Special Session with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department. Safronkov said that the MFA had already instructed its mission in New York to push for ch [...]	2006-12-04 15:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA IS RS
06MOSCOW12783	MFA ON UNSC ACTION ON IRAN [...] (C) We raised reftel points with two of our working-level MFA contacts involved on the Iran nuclear issue. They provided separate readouts on the current status of discussions in the Security Council and expressed the GOR's intent to reach agreement on a resolution text. Neither was willing [...]	2006-12-04 16:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC PARM UNSC RS
06MOSCOW12819	KOSOVO: RUSSIAN POSITION ON UNSC VETO HARDENING [...] (C) SUMMARY: In late-November meetings in Moscow, Kosovo Prime Minister Ceku failed to get assurances that Russia would not use its veto when the Security Council takes up the status issue early next year. Russian officials have signaled that they might ultimately deploy a veto to block a UN [...]	2006-12-07 07:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEV UNMIK SR YI RS
06MOSCOW12851	METROPOLITAN KIRILL SEES POPE BENEDICT AS MORE [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-08 13:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW12857	UNITED RUSSIA APPROVES PARTY PLATFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: United Russia (YR) approved its party platform and action plan for the next ten years at its convention in Yekaterinburg on December 2. Party luminaries followed a tight script, staked United Russia's claim to the political center with a populist tilt, and rallied its members for [...]	2006-12-08 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV KDCM RS
06MOSCOW12878	GAYDAR'S WEEKEND INTERVIEWS LEAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT [...] (C) A December 6 Financial Times article and two TV interviews with ex-Prime Minister Gaydar broadcast the weekend of December 8 have shed little light on Gaydar's alleged poisoning November 22 in Dublin. Although Gaydar's Moscow doctors have been unable or unwilling to state that Gaydar had [...]	2006-12-12 08:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
06MOSCOW12895	MFA SUPPORTS UNSC THEMATIC DEBATE ON THE MIDDLE [...] (C) We raised reftel points on the UN Security Council's Middle East thematic debate with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department. We urged the GOR to withhold its support for any statement associated with the debate. [...]	2006-12-12 13:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IS RS
06MOSCOW12897	AMBASSADOR VISITS NORTH CAUCASUS, DECEMBER 4-5 [...] (C) Ambassador Burns traveled to the North Caucasus December 4-5 -- the first American Ambassador to visit the region in fifteen years. In Kabardino-Balkaria he discussed with President Kanokov prospects for economic development and political reform. Kanokov provided regional views on frozen [...]	2006-12-12 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETRD PINR GG RS
06MOSCOW12900	CHITA: CONDEMNED LAND SEEKS FUTURE AS GATEWAY TO [...] (C) Summary. Squeezed between China and the rest of Siberia and challenged with an oppressively harsh climate, Chita Oblast has historically served as a place of exile and remains one of Russia's poorest regions. The break-up of the Soviet Union led to the collapse of the region's livestock [...]	2006-12-13 06:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD PINR KN RS
06MOSCOW12901	"A JUST RUSSIA": DIFFICULT BEGINNING, UNCERTAIN [...] (C) Spravedlivaya Rossiya (SR) (&A Just Russia8),often referred to as the &second8 Kremlin party, has been officially registered. The party has moved to constitute itself at the federal and local levels, by combining elements of its constituent parties --Rodina, the Russian Party of Life, an [...]	2006-12-13 11:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW12912	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ROSNEFT'S BOGDANCHIKOV [...] (C) Summary. On December 12, the Ambassador met with Rosneft's President Sergey Bogdanchikov who confirmed that Rosneft is interested in bits of Yukos but that the rumor it will purchase Surgutneftegaz (SNG) is a "fairy tale." He claimed that CPC expansion will be "automatic" once an inter-g [...]	2006-12-13 15:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW12914	RUSSIA: KIRIYENKO REVIEWS TEHRAN VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 13 meeting with the Ambassador, Rosatom Director Kiriyenko provided his impressions from his recent trip to Tehran. He said Foreign Minister Mottaki had been full of bluster, claiming to be unafraid of sanctions and unconcerned about the United States. Mottaki had [...]	2006-12-13 15:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL ETRD RU IR UN AORC
06MOSCOW12916	KASPAROV'S UNITED CIVIC FRONT OFFICES SEARCHED BY [...] (C) On December 13, United Civic Front Chairman Garry Kasparov confirmed press accounts that police had searched his organization's offices the afternoon of December 12. Kasparov told us he thought that "intimidation" was the purpose of the search, which the police for their part described to [...]	2006-12-13 16:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW12917	DFM YAKOVENKO: "DISAPPOINTMENT" OVER US RAISING OF [...] (C) On December 13, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Yakovenko called the Ambassador to register "concern and disappointment" over U.S. efforts in the Security Council to raise the plight of Belarusian opposition leader Aleksandr Kozulin, despite Belarus not being on the UNSC agenda [...]	2006-12-13 16:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC RS BO
06MOSCOW12924	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: TREADING WATER [...] (C) Summary: Russian-Georgian relations are treading water until after both countries recover from their break for New Years and Orthodox Christmas, around mid-January. Georgia has taken pains to tone down the rhetoric, and Putin has noticed. Georgia is dismantling some of the restrictions f [...]	2006-12-14 10:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD GG RS
06MOSCOW12930	RUSSIAN ENERGY: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SHELL ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. On December 14, the Ambassador met with Chris Finlayson (U.K. citizen),head of Shell's Russia operations, and Alf D'Souza (Australian citizen),Shell's VP for corporate affairs, to discuss the latest developments on the Sakhalin-2 project. Finlayson characterized negotiations w [...]	2006-12-14 14:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW12932	AN ENDGAME FOR DETAINED UZBEKS IN IVANOVO? [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNHCR is developing contingency plans for what may be a final GOR decision on 13 detained Uzbeks in Ivanovo. Our UNHCR and NGO contacts do not have credible information on what the GOR may do, but they expect whatever decision has been made to be implemented as soon as December [...]	2006-12-14 15:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW12934	MFA NEGATIVE ON UNSC BURMA RESOLUTION [...] (C) In a December 14 discussion about reftel draft UNSCR, Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department, told us Russia's initial reaction was negative. He acknowledged Russia had its own concerns about the situation in Bur [...]	2006-12-14 15:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM RS
06MOSCOW12960	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ROSNEFT'S BOGDANCHIKOV [...] (C) Summary. On December 12, the Ambassador met with Rosneft's President Sergey Bogdanchikov who confirmed that Rosneft is interested in bits of Yukos but that the rumor it will purchase Surgutneftegaz (SNG) is a "fairy tale." He claimed that CPC expansion will be "automatic" once an inter-g [...]	2006-12-18 10:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW12963	RUSSIAN ENERGY: WINTER GAS, BELARUS, AND THE [...] (C) Summary. This year is no exception to the rule that Gazprom's annual gas tariff negotiations with its CIS customers are blunt instruments, and generally go down to the wire. Deals have not yet been cut with Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Gazprom did manage to ink one with Ukraine, th [...]	2006-12-18 12:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW12966	RUSSIA-MOLDOVA: DEAL IN THE WORKS? [...] (C) Summary: The Romanian Embassy in Moscow alleged to us that Moldova and Russia are close to a package bilateral deal that would normalize bilateral political and economic relations, guarantee Moldovan "neutrality" for 50 years, resolve Transnistria along the lines of the Kozak Memorandum, [...]	2006-12-18 14:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD MARR MD RS
06MOSCOW12981	THREE DEMONSTRATIONS AND A CONVENTION [...] (C) Political groupings of all stripes made their presence known in Moscow over the December 16-17 weekend: -- "Other Russia" staged its "March of the Discontented." About 2,500 participants from a hodgepodge of groups, united only by their opposition to the current government and rejection [...]	2006-12-19 14:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW12986	RUSSIA/LEBANON: PM SINIORA'S VISIT [...] (C) PRIME MINISTER SINIORA CAME AWAY SATISFIED WITH HIS DECEMBER 14-16 VISIT TO MOSCOW; THE ATMOSPHERICS WERE EXCELLENT ACCORDING TO LEBANESE AMBASSADOR ASSEM JABER'S READOUT TO THE CHARGE. BESIDES PUTIN, SINIORA MET WITH SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY IGOR IVANOV, EX-FOREIGN MINISTER PRIMAKOV A [...]	2006-12-19 17:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID IR LE RS
06MOSCOW12999	SOUTH OSSETIA: TALKS AND OBSERVERS [...] (C) We met with Russian MFA Ambassador-at-Large for South Ossetia Yuri Popov on December 19 and 20, delivering reftel demarche on the latter date. Popov said he had not been following the budget issue -- he has just returned from leave -- and said he was unwilling to repeat previous Russian s [...]	2006-12-20 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR OSCE GG RS
06MOSCOW13001	PATRUSHEV'S NEST OF DANISH SPIES [...] (SBU) FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev alleged that foreign intelligence services were increasingly using NGOs and press bureaus as cover in his annual year-end review December 19. Speaking on the eve of the day in honor of the security services, Patrushev singled out the Danish Refugee Counci [...]	2006-12-20 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PREF RS
06MOSCOW13003	BOEING RUSSIA: AEROFLOT 787 DEAL DEPENDS ON [...] (SBU) According to Boeing sources, Minister of Finance Kudrin, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Gref, and Minister of Industry and Energy Khristenko agreed on December 19 to delay the GOR's decision on Aeroflot's acquisition of 22 wide-bodied jets until the GOR receives written propos [...]	2006-12-20 15:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EAIR USTR RS
06MOSCOW13005	RUSSIA'S 2007 BUDGET: A QUICK OVERVIEW [...] (SBU) Despite considerable chatter to the contrary, Russia's 2007 Federal Budget (signed into law December 20 by President Putin) continues to reflect substantial fiscal restraint, with expenditures set to rise by just 1.5 percent of GDP and the primary surplus targeted at 5.3 percent of GDP. [...]	2006-12-20 15:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV RS
06MOSCOW13006	"DENGI FEVER": RUSSIA'S IPO AND CAPITAL MARKET BOOM [...] (SBU) Russia's initial public offering (IPO) bonanza continued to gain momentum in 2006. Fifteen Russian companies launched IPOs this year, raising over $17.5 billion. At the same time, Russia's domestic exchanges have enjoyed explosive growth. Russian companies are increasingly able to ta [...]	2006-12-20 16:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EFIN RS
06MOSCOW13022	RUSSIA ENERGY: GAZPROM SET TO ACQUIRE CONTROLLING [...] (C) Summary. The British Economic M/C in Moscow confirmed December 20 his understanding that agreement is likely by the end of this week between Sakhalin Energy's partners and Gazprom on the terms of Gazprom's cash acquisition of a controlling stake in Sakhalin-2. Agreement would bring to a [...]	2006-12-21 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET PREL RS
06MOSCOW13025	MOSCOW REACTION TO TURKMENBASHI'S DEATH [...] (C) Summary. The Russian government reacted cautiously to Turkmenbashi's death and will send the Prime Minister and Head of the Presidential Administration to his funeral. Unofficial reactions encompassed the full range of speculations about succession, and stability in Turkmenistan. Some a [...]	2006-12-21 15:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TX RS
06MOSCOW13073	GERMAN FM STEINMEIER'S MOSCOW VISIT: MIDDLE EAST, [...] (C) SUMMARY: GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER FRANK-WALTER PAGE 02 RUEHMOA3073 C O N F I D E N T I A L STEINMEIER MET WITH PRESIDENT PUTIN, FIRST DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER MEDVEDEV, AND FM LAVROV IN MOSCOW ON DECEMBER 21. ACCORDING TO A READOUT FROM GERMAN AMBASSADOR WALTER SCHMIDT, WHO PARTICIPAT [...]	2006-12-22 13:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR LE GE RS
06MOSCOW13074	BLACK SEA FLEET RELOCATION: A PORT TOO FAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nearly ten years after the 1997 bilateral agreement with Ukraine to use Sevastopol as a base for its Black Sea Fleet, Russia is doing little to plan for the Fleet's possible relocation after the agreement expires in 2017. While the Black Sea Fleet will be on the agenda for the [...]	2006-12-22 14:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MCAP RS UP
06MOSCOW13098	MIDDLE EAST: MFA ON LEBANON, SYRIA AND IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: President Putin sought to lower tensions between Lebanon and Syria during back-to-back mid-December visits by PM Siniora and President Asad, according to the Russian MFA, and had urged that a solution to Lebanon's ongoing political crisis be found through negotiations and not i [...]	2006-12-26 16:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE SY IZ RS
06MOSCOW13124	RUSSIA'S BROKEN ASYLUM SYSTEM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Asylum seekers in Russia face legal and bureaucratic obstacles in obtaining protection from the GOR, as well as a growing backlash against migrants in general. For many, the only workable solution is resettlement to a third country, as the GOR has yet to devote sufficient attent [...]	2006-12-27 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM RS
06MOSCOW13136	ZHIRINOVSKIY,S LDPR LOOKS TO THE 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) December marks the 17th anniversary of the establishment of the Liberal Democrat Party of Russia (LDPR). LDPR's lack of any discernible platform is compensated for by the indomitable LDPR Chairman Vladimir Zhirinovskiy, whose instinct for the outrageous continues to resonate with a sig [...]	2006-12-28 15:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINR SOCI RS
06MOSCOW13137	POST-NIYAZOV TURKMENISTAN: VIEWS FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary. While the GOR has officially downplayed its concern about the status of existing energy contracts with Turkmenistan following Niyazov's death, observers here consistently report that gas supplies and Turkmenistan's continuing neutrality are Moscow's foremost concerns as the succe [...]	2006-12-28 15:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON TX RS
06MOSCOW13171	RUSSIA AND IRAN: AFTER THE SANCTIONS RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: Russia has repeatedly told us that when it comes to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, it shares our strategic goal but differs with us over tactics. Moscow's reluctance to agree to coercive measures was on full display during consideration of UNSCR 1737, but in th [...]	2006-12-29 12:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETRD KNNP MASS IR RS
06MOSCOW13172	HARD TIMES FOR RUSSIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMUNITY [...] (C) Civil society and liberal political party leaders are sharply divided over the role of NGOs in partisan politics. While Moscow's most prominent human rights activist strongly defends the policy of overt political opposition, many NGO representatives are uncomfortable with, or opposed to, a [...]	2006-12-29 15:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM PINR SOCI RS
06MOSCOW13174	RUSSIA ENERGY: DOWN TO THE WIRE ON BELARUS GAS [...] (C) Summary. Lukashenko's two-year saga to avoid higher gas prices and the sale of 50 percent of Beltransgaz (BTG - the Belarusian gas pipeline operator) appears to be coming to a close, and he is standing firm on both accounts. Gazprom has dropped its insistence that BTG be part of the deal, [...]	2006-12-29 16:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW1322	AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO KAZAN: FEDERALISM, ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's February 6-7 visit to Tatarstan featured themes of federalism, economic opportunity for U.S. firms, and Islam. Republic President Shaymiyev, in a lengthy tour d'horizon, noted that he was taking initiatives not encouraged by Moscow, including diversifying the ec [...]	2006-02-10 15:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL ETRD PINR RS
06MOSCOW1323	RUSSIAN DFM SALTANOV ON INVITATION TO HAMAS [...] (C) On February 10 Ambassador Burns called on DFM Saltanov seeking clarification of Putin's invitation to Hamas leadership to visit Moscow. Ambassador said the announcement of an invitation to Hamas had come as an unwelcome surprise to Washington (and other Quartet capitals). It was very im [...]	2006-02-10 15:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER RS
06MOSCOW1324	PRESSING RUSSIA FOR RESTRAINT ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: In a February 9 meeting with Chief of Defense General Baluyevskiy, Ambassador Burns urged that Russia exercise restraint in its dealings with Georgia. Baluyevksiy was blunt in complaining about Georgian demands to withdraw peacekeepers from Georgia and charged Tbilisi with inte [...]	2006-02-11 14:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PBTS GG RS
06MOSCOW1388	FSB OPERATION IN STAVROPOL DISTRICT: ANOTHER [...] (U) Press February 13-14 reported an FSB operation against an "extremist Islamist" cell in the town of Tukuy-Mekteb, in Russia's Stavropol Kray. Tukuy-Mekteb lies along a regional road about 15 km west of the Dagestani Border and 45 km north of the border with Chechnya. Initial reports said t [...]	2006-02-14 09:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PINR PGOV RS
06MOSCOW1431	RUSSIA MOVING SLOWLY ON DIVERSITY CONVENTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-14 13:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD SCUL UNESCO RS
06MOSCOW1433	MOSCOW DEFERS TO GRULAC CONSENSUS ON NEXT UNSC REP [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-14 14:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN UNSC GT VE RS
06MOSCOW1435	GEORGIA-RUSSIA: EXPECT SHARP RUSSIAN REACTION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the absence of DFM Karasin from Moscow, A/DCM spoke with MFA 4th CIS Department Director Andrey Kelin to emphasize the efforts the USG has been making to moderate Georgian parliamentary action on CIS peacekeepers in South Ossetia (per ref e-mail request). Kelin took careful no [...]	2006-02-14 15:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG
06MOSCOW152	ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACK ON CHABAD SYNAGOGUE IN MOSCOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the evening of January 11, a 20-year-old man broke into a Lubavitch synagogue in Moscow during prayer services and injured eight men, including an AmCit. None of the victims has life-threatening injuries, but some are reportedly in serious but stable condition. The Foreign [...]	2006-01-12 16:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RS SOCI
06MOSCOW1536	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: HARD RUSSIAN LINE ON SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Both the Russians (4th CIS Department Director Kelin) and Georgians (State Minister for Conflict Resolution Khaindrava) gave us separate readouts of their February 16 talks in Moscow. The talks focused on South Ossetia in the wake of the Georgian Parliamentary resolution callin [...]	2006-02-16 18:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS RS GG
06MOSCOW1635	GEORGIA-RUSSIA: AMBASSADOR PRESSES DFM KARASIN FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador on February 17 outlined to DFM Karasin ongoing U.S. efforts to encourage Georgian restraint on South Ossetia, and urged Russia to act constructively. Ambassador expressed appreciation for FM Lavrov's recent message to the Secretary, and said he expected a formal reply [...]	2006-02-18 06:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS GG RS

06MOSCOW1637	HAMAS VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) SUMMARY. A/DCM met February 17 with MFA Middle East and North Africa Director Sergey Vershinin to follow up on earlier discussion (reftel) on the forthcoming visit of a Hamas delegation to Russia, which will take place March 3. .... END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Timing and Level. Vershinin [...]	2006-02-20 10:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS
06MOSCOW18	NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GRAHAM'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. NSC Senior Director Thomas Graham met December 21 with Modest Kolerov, who was named several months ago to run a new Kremlin directorate dealing with Russia's ties to its neighbors. Kolerov rejected the notion that the U.S. and Russia should engage in a dialogue on Russia's nei [...]	2006-01-09 12:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW1840	RUSSIAN DFM SALTANOV ON HAMAS VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) On February 27 the Ambassador called on Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Saltanov to discuss the upcoming Hamas visit to Moscow and to underline the importance of coordination. Saltanov confirmed that the Hamas delegation, headed by Khalid Meshal and composed of Hamas outsiders, is set [...]	2006-02-27 16:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW19	2006 DEFENSE BUDGET AND PROPOSED DEFENSE REFORMS - [...] (C) Summary. On December 27 President Putin signed a defense budget of 666 billion rubles (23 billion dollars) for 2006, a nominal increase of nearly 26 percent. It is not clear, however, what if any impact on Russian military capability that allocation towards defense will have. The highe [...]	2006-01-09 12:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PARM EFIN ECON RS XB
06MOSCOW1974	RUSSIA'S RODINA CONTENDS WITH KREMLIN PRESSURE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Rodina Party has embarked on a campaign to polish its image, softening (but not completely eliminating) its harsh criticism of minority migrants, while focusing on economic opportunity and social justice as the primary avenues for "transforming nationalism into patriotism." [...]	2006-03-01 08:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR RS
06MOSCOW2020	PRESSING RUSSIANS ON HAMAS VISIT [...] (C) Ambassador spoke separately to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Saltanov and Middle East Envoy Kalugin the evening of February 28, and again on March 1, to stress the importance of sticking firmly to Quartet principles during the Hamas visit to Moscow March 3. Ambassador made clear that [...]	2006-03-01 15:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW2070	SOUTH OSSETIA: DEALING WITH A DYSFUNCTIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Moscow's approach to Georgia is driven by frustration with Tbilisi's defiant attitude to Russian interests, reflected in its pursuit of NATO membership, its championing of anti-Russian alliances in the neighborhood, its strategy of trying to compensate for Georgia's weakness in [...]	2006-03-02 14:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG
06MOSCOW2132	NGO LEGISLATION: LOOKING AHEAD TOWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: A bit over a month before Russia's new NGO legislation goes into effect, most independent NGO activists are concerned about its implementation but retain a wait-and-see attitude. In recent weeks, the government has initiated investigations against some independent NGOs, but it h [...]	2006-03-03 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS
06MOSCOW2212	MOSCOW REACTS TO HAMAS VISIT [...] Summary: While the MFA was able to point to few concrete results from Foreign Minister Lavrov's March 3 meeting with a Hamas delegation, we were told March 6 by the MFA Middle East Peace Process desk that the Moscow-Hamas channel was likely to remain open. In Moscow's estimation, Hamas Polit [...]	2006-03-06 14:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW2260	TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIA OPPOSES UKRAINIAN CUSTOMS [...] (C) Russian Special Envoy Valeriy Nesterushkin told us March 6 that the Ukrainian customs implementation threatened the future of peace negotiations between Moldova and Transnistria, including the current 5 2 format in which the U.S. participates as an observer, and its prospective April sess [...]	2006-03-07 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS ETRD UP MD RS
06MOSCOW2327	NORTH CAUCASUS MUSLIMS: INDEPENDENT VOICE? [...] (C) Summary: The election of Magomed-Khadzhi Albogachiyev as leader of the Coordinating Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus marks a clear step to distance the Moscow-based Center -- and by extension the Muslim clerics in the region, whom it purports to represent -- from the clan-based lead [...]	2006-03-10 11:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
06MOSCOW2446	NO SURPRISES IN RUSSIA'S "SUPER SUNDAY" REGIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. In regional legislative elections in eight of Russia's regions on March 12, the pro-Kremlin United Russia party appears to have scored a clear victory. Four political parties ran in all eight elections, while Rodina and some smaller parties were kept off the ballot in some of th [...]	2006-03-13 16:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW2447	COURT CASES STIR MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN ASTRAKHAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Two ongoing court cases in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan have stirred part of the local Muslim community to protest against perceived discrimination. On a February 28 - March 1 trip to Astrakhan, we found that some in its Muslim community suspect that a city order to de [...]	2006-03-13 16:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM RS
06MOSCOW2502	G8 NGO FORUM OFFERS GOR A CHANCE TO BOOST ITS [...] (C) SUMMARY. A range of NGOs, including those involved in human rights issues, took part in a March 9-10 G8 NGO forum in Moscow. The plenary sessions and working group meetings featured lively discussions, both on the GOR's G8 agenda items and on concerns about the state of Russia's civil so [...]	2006-03-14 15:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL ECON ENRG RS
06MOSCOW2593	TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO HOLD MOLDOVA [...] (C) In the absence of Russian Envoy Valeriy Nesterushkin, we delivered reftel demarche on the situation in Transnistria on March 15 to MFA Second CIS Department Deputy Director (Moldova Office Director) Nikolay Fomin. Fomin rejected Transnistrian responsibility for blockading itself, claimin [...]	2006-03-15 15:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD MARR PBTS PREL ML RS
06MOSCOW2594	TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO HOLD MOLDOVA [...] (C) In the absence of Russian Envoy Valeriy Nesterushkin, we delivered reftel demarche on the situation in Transnistria on March 15 to MFA Second CIS Department Deputy Director (Moldova Office Director) Nikolay Fomin. Fomin rejected Transnistrian responsibility for blockading itself, claimin [...]	2006-03-15 15:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD MARR PBTS PREL ML RS
06MOSCOW262	UPDATE ON ATTACK ON MOSCOW SYNAGOGUE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the aftermath of the January 11 attack on a Chabad synagogue in Moscow (ref A),a prosecutor reported finding ammunition, a list of synagogues and nationalist literature in the home of the attacker. The prosecutor said the attacker was not a member of an extremist organization [...]	2006-01-13 16:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RS
06MOSCOW2760	MOSCOW CALLS LUKASHENKO'S REELECTION "LEGITIMATE" [...] (SBU) The MFA called Belarus' presidential election "legitimate" in a March 20 press release. (Informal translation of text in para 4). According to the press release, the election took place according to recognized norms of transparency and reflected the will of the Belarusian people. In [...]	2006-03-20 15:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE BY RS
06MOSCOW2761	MFA ON DETAINED UZBEKS [...] (C) REFCOORD delivered ref A demarche to Dmitriy Knyazhinskiy, chief of the migration section in the Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights at the MFA. Knyazhinskiy said his office had written "numerous" requests to the Procurator General in support of UNHCR's request for acc [...]	2006-03-20 16:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW2914	RUSSIAN MFA ON AMIS RE-HATTING [...] (C) On March 21 Poloff delivered reftel demarche on re-hatting the African Union (AU) Mission in Sudan to MFA Department of International Organizations Counselor Oleg Kravchenko. Kravchenko agreed that there was no ambiguity in the AU March 10 statement and that its intention was clearly to [...]	2006-03-22 14:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PREL SOCI SU RS
06MOSCOW2927	FORMER RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER SAYS "CORPORATION" [...] (C) In a March 21 meeting with the Ambassador, former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov: -- Claimed current GOR and Kremlin officials were mainly interested in preserving their interests within the status quo, which affected policy decisions and the competition to succeed President Putin in 2 [...]	2006-03-23 11:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PINR RS
06MOSCOW2928	NGO LEGISLATION: VARYING EXPECTATIONS ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOR continues to be opaque about implementation of its controversial new NGO legislation, which is to go into effect next month. It has revealed almost nothing publicly about the legislation's implementing regulations, although one NGO contact told us he had seen draft repor [...]	2006-03-23 11:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW2969	TRANSNISTRIA: RESPONDING TO RUSSIA'S SHIPMENT OF [...] (C) Ambassador made reftel demarche to DFM Karasin March 23. Karasin reiterated that the GOR had serious concerns about developments in Transnistria, but his comments went primarily to political pressures centered in the Duma and in some regions. He acknowledged that current conditions do no [...]	2006-03-23 15:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PBTS OSCE UP MD RS
06MOSCOW2974	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: LOOKING AHEAD [...] (C) Summary: Emotions seem to be cooling (at least temporarily) between Russia and Georgia, and we are seeing a return to low-level business. Statements that would have caused an uproar just a few weeks ago are being dismissed with good humor. But that is a long way from making real progre [...]	2006-03-24 06:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ETRD PBTS NATO GG RS
06MOSCOW3035	AFTER THE ELECTION: MOSCOW VIEWS ON BELARUS AND [...] (C) Summary. Russia's embrace of President Lukashenko's victory in the March 19 Belarus election reflects official Moscow's strong preference for stability in Minsk and its belief that the status quo offers the best chance for that stability. Contacts close to the Belarusian opposition in M [...]	2006-03-27 05:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BO RS
06MOSCOW306	PUTIN SIGNS NGO LEGISLATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOR announced January 17 that President Putin signed the controversial NGO legislation on January 10. That news was made public when a GOR newspaper that publishes such announcements printed the bill's text with an indication of the date of its signing. While Putin had defe [...]	2006-01-17 12:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RS
06MOSCOW3115	NEW COUNTERTERRORISM MEASURES CREATE "VERTICAL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 6 President Putin signed a bill "On Counteracting Terrorism" that had hastily moved through the Duma and Federation Council in the preceding days. Passed on its first reading in December 2004 (reftel) after the Beslan tragedy, the bill was then shelved because of several [...]	2006-03-28 10:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PTER RS
06MOSCOW312	TWO FOREIGN AID NGOS REPORTEDLY BANNED IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russian press reported January 16 that an Ingush court had banned two international NGOs working in the North Caucasus and was also considering banning a USG-funded American NGO. The basis of the court's ruling is unclear, and it appears none of the three NGOs was aware that a b [...]	2006-01-17 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV PREL EAID RU
06MOSCOW3190	CIVIL SOCIETY COUNCIL CHAIR PAMFILOVA DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a March 24 meeting with the Ambassador and visiting Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia Thomas Adams, Ella Pamfilova, head of the Presidential body that oversees civil society issues, said her office would help monitor the controversial NGO legislation when i [...]	2006-03-29 13:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL EAID RS
06MOSCOW3202	AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 29 MEETING WITH RUSSIAN DFM [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Burns met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin March 29 to discuss the outcomes of the Belarusian and Ukrainian elections and recent developments in Moldova, Georgia, and Nagorno-Karabakh. Karasin was sanguine about the March 26 Ukrainian parliamenta [...]	2006-03-29 14:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD BO UP GG MD RS
06MOSCOW3218	THE "FEBRUARY THESES": SURKOV'S PRIMER ON PUTINISM [...] (C) SUMMARY. A February speech by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vladislav Surkov to a United Russia conference sketched out "basic ideological theses" of the Putin Administration. While not attempting to break new ground or crystallize a doctrine of "Putinism," the speech p [...]	2006-03-30 10:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RS
06MOSCOW3333	U.S. NUCLEAR PRIMACY ARTICLE HITS A NERVE [...] (C) Summary: A Foreign Affairs article asserting the advent of U.S. nuclear primacy has caused a stir in the Russian political elite and media and forced Russian leaders to defend the viability of Russia's deterrent force. The thesis plays to the belief that the U.S. regards Russia as a pot [...]	2006-03-31 08:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC PGOV RS
06MOSCOW3335	PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION MANEUVERING: EARLY STIRRINGS [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-31 09:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR RS
06MOSCOW3345	THE RUSSIAN ARMS DEAL WITH ALGERIA: A MODEL FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Putin's March 10 visit to Algeria demonstrated that Russia is actively working to expand into new arms markets to sustain the Russian military-industrial complex. Russia reportedly will sell Algeria 70 combat and trainer jet aircraft, 300 T-90S tanks, air defense syste [...]	2006-03-31 10:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR MARR MOPS RS AG
06MOSCOW3356	CIVIL SOCIETY HITCHES A RIDE WITH IRATE DRIVERS [...] (C) SUMMARY. When a court in February sentenced an ordinary citizen to four years in prison for his involvement in a 2005 car accident that killed then-Altay Kray Governor Mikhail Yevdokimov, it sparked popular outrage. The perceived injustice of the court's decision inspired a grassroots o [...]	2006-03-31 11:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS
06MOSCOW3362	P-5 HOLD UN CONSULTATIONS MARCH 2 IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: Russia hosted a meeting of P-5 IO Directors March 2 in Moscow to discuss UN Security Council and management reforms, the proposed Human Rights Council, the Peacebuilding Commission, and other issues related to implementation of the World Summit Outcome Document, as well as appoin [...]	2006-03-31 12:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC RS
06MOSCOW3388	RUSSIAN DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION LEADER BORIS NEMTSOV [...] (C) In a March 27 meeting with the Ambassador, democratic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov: -- Strongly condemned the falsified election results in Belarus, where the people faced a "catastrophic situation"; -- Suggested that negotiations to form a new government in Ukraine would be prolon [...]	2006-03-31 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW3389	GOR PLANS TO TAKE NO ACTION AS A RESULT OF [...] (C) The Russian Government does not intend to take any steps as a result of the findings of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) which investigated the UN's Oil-for-Food (OFF) Program. Despite the IIC's findings that the GOR itself and Russian business firms, political parties and politi [...]	2006-03-31 13:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KFIN IZ RS
06MOSCOW3507	GEORGIA-RUSSIA: SOME POSITIVE STEPS -- AND SOME [...] (C) Summary. Russian MFA Fourth CIS Department Director Andrey Kelin told A/DCM April 4 that he was pleased with the "good cooperative spirit" he had met in Tbilisi when finalizing the agreement on withdrawing Russian bases by 2008 that was signed in Sochi March 31. The March 27 South Osset [...]	2006-04-04 10:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PBTS ETRD OSCE GG RS
06MOSCOW3510	RUSSIAN VIEWS ON POST-ELECTION UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary. A week after the Ukrainian election results were announced, reactions in Russia vary widely. Officially, Moscow has been neutral, while the media has buzzed with speculation about the new government's formation and especially Tymoshenko's possible role. Russian pundits are con [...]	2006-04-04 10:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP
06MOSCOW3647	SUDAN: CONTRIBUTION TO UN PEACEKEEPING OPERATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-06 14:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO SU RS
06MOSCOW3687	RUSSIAN MFA ON BELARUS, UKRAINE ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Charge d'Affaires delivered demarche on Belarus elections (ref A) April 7 to Vyacheslav Kovalenko, who was acting for Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin on CIS affairs. Charge urged Russia to use its influence to help secure release of peaceful protesters who had been detained by [...]	2006-04-07 17:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BO RS
06MOSCOW3815	RUSSIAN NATIONALIST DMITRIY ROGOZIN GOING ... [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rodina Party chairman Dmitriy Rogozin resigned from that position March 25, as observers expected, and also stepped down from his position as Rodina faction chairman in the State Duma April 4. The departure of the mercurial Rogozin has done nothing to mend internal rifts within [...]	2006-04-12 07:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR RS
06MOSCOW387	RABBI LAZAR ON SYNAGOGUE ATTACK, IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 17 meeting with the Ambassador, Berl Lazar, one of the leaders of Russia's Jewish community, said that though concerns about extremism in the country had been mounting, the January 11 synagogue attack had been a "wake-up call." He said the incident offered opportunit [...]	2006-01-18 13:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW3945	"OPEN RUSSIA" ON THE ROPES, BUT IRINA YASINA HOPES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 12 a Moscow court upheld an earlier ruling freezing the assets of the Open Russia Foundation, which had been founded by and received the bulk of its funding from Mikhail Khodorkovskiy. Open Russia head Irina Yasina told the Ambassador on April 13 that though she planned [...]	2006-04-14 06:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW396	OVERZEALOUS IN INGUSHETIYA: NGO BAN CLARIFIED [...] (C) SUMMARY: We have confirmed, as reported reftel, that one foreign NGO has been banned from working in Ingushetiya, while Ingush authorities have acknowledged that a republic Procuracy announcement that another was banned was erroneous. A third, American NGO apparently is still under inve [...]	2006-01-19 04:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM EAID RS
06MOSCOW3979	INCREASING DIPLOMATIC PRESSURE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-14 12:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC IAEA KNNP RS IR
06MOSCOW4079	HOSSEINI-TASH COMING TO MOSCOW TO MEET EU-3; [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Kislyak told Ambassador in an April 18 meeting that Iran Supreme National Security Council Deputy Secretary Ali Hosseini-Tash, accompanied by an Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister, would be returning to Moscow to meet with the EU-3 April 19 on the margins of cu [...]	2006-04-19 04:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC RS IR CH
06MOSCOW4174	DAS KRAMER'S MEETING WITH HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 18 EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary David Kramer met with Russian Federation Ombudsman for Human Rights Vladimir Lukin. Addressing Kramer's concern about the recently enacted NGO law, Lukin said that it was still unclear how it would be implemented, but no major moves ag [...]	2006-04-20 05:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RS
06MOSCOW4180	PUBLIC CHAMBER GETS INTO GEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the three months since its inaugural plenary, the Public Chamber has displayed a flurry of activity. Its many commissions, sub-commissions and working groups have begun a busy schedule of meetings on a broad range of issues. Early tensions with the State Duma and other bodi [...]	2006-04-20 07:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW4198	TRANSNISTRIA: "THREE PLUS TWO" TALKS IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: "3 2" talks on Transnistria took place in Moscow April 19 including the mediators -- Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE -- and observers -- U.S. and EU. Russia tried to focus discussion on the customs regime between Moldova and Ukraine. All other sides pushed back, hardest of all Ukr [...]	2006-04-20 11:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS ETRD OSCE UP MD RS
06MOSCOW4265	A/S RADEMAKER'S APRIL 12 MEETING WITH DVBR [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 12 meeting with Anatoliy Antonov, Director of the MFA's Department for Disarmament and Security Affairs, ISN Assistant Secretary Stephen Rademaker explained that U.S. concerns about Russian treaty compliance were the main obstacles to U.S. support for Russian members [...]	2006-04-21 06:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC RS
06MOSCOW4316	THE CENTRALIZING RUSSIAN STATE MEETS THE NORTH [...] (C) Summary: The lesson of 500 years of Russian statecraft is clear: when the Center is strong, it centralizes, eliminating alternative power structures. Putin, seeking to show that he -- and Russia under his leadership -- are strong, is seeking to centralize. He is doing so by eliminating [...]	2006-04-21 14:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS RS
06MOSCOW4374	ZIMBABWEAN TRADE DELEGATION VISITS RUSSIA [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA Africa Department Counselors Mikhail Gulyakin and Andrey Stolyarov April 21 to discuss the April 3-13 visit to Moscow and St. Petersburg of Zimbabwean Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono and Transport Minister Chris Mushohwe to promote Russian investment in Zimbabwe. Gu [...]	2006-04-24 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ZI RS
06MOSCOW4405	VARNITSA PORT SEIZURE: RUSSIAN VIEWS [...] (C) We raised the April 21 Transnistrian seizure of Varnitsa Port (ref. a) with Russian Transnistria negotiator Nesterushkin April 25. Nesterushkin compared the seizure to the incident several years ago when Moldovan farmers tried to farm land on the Left Bank after receiving privatization vo [...]	2006-04-25 11:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS MD RS
06MOSCOW4435	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH KREMLIN ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met April 25 with Sergey Yastrzhembskiy, President Putin's Special Representative for Issues of Development of Relations with the European Union. Yastrzhembskiy said preparations for the EU-Russia summit in Sochi in late May were going well, and identified several agr [...]	2006-04-25 14:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW4614	GEORGIA-RUSSIA: MUTUAL COMPLAINTS CONTINUE [...] (C) MFA Georgia Office Director Grigoryev told us April 28 that relations with Georgia were "at a dead end," and he did not know how to get them going again. "Some impetus is needed," he said, "but I find it hard to imagine what it could be." He ran through a litany of complaints: -- Parli [...]	2006-04-28 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD GG RS
06MOSCOW4839	LOOKING AHEAD TO PUTIN'S ADDRESS TO THE FEDERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ending lengthy speculation, the Kremlin announced on May 2 that President Putin will present his annual Address to the Federal Assembly on May 10. Delays in its delivery, which some had expected to take place in early April, fueled rumors that Putin had been dissatisfied with ea [...]	2006-05-05 06:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW5000	EKHO MOSKVY'S VENEDIKTOV ON SUCCESSION, KREMLIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 4 meeting, well-connected Ekho Moskvy head Aleksey Venediktov told us he believed the prospects for an extension of President Putin's presidency beyond 2008 had increased, because the two figures Putin was "testing" as potential successors were both gaining little politi [...]	2006-05-11 14:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PINR RS
06MOSCOW5030	MOSCOW OPPOSES CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIAN [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel demarche points May 12 with Anatoliy Taksubayev, Deputy Director of the MFA Third CIS (Central Asia) Department. (NOTE: We were unable to make this demarche to the MFA New Threats and Challenges Department, as the Deputy Director and principal staffers responsible [...]	2006-05-12 13:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR RS
06MOSCOW504	A/S LOWENKRON'S MEETING WITH NGO REPRESENTATIVES [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 17, the same day as the announcement that President Putin had signed the controversial NGO legislation, NGO leaders told A/S Lowenkron and the Ambassador that the legislation was flawed and ambiguous. Although the new legislation will come into force around mid-April, [...]	2006-01-20 11:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM RS
06MOSCOW510	MSF RUSSIA: CHECHNYA IS STILL A HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) MSF-Russia asked us to meet with heads of mission from MSF-France (Manuel Lannaud) and -Belgium (Goran Svedin) January 20 to receive a report on the humanitarian situation in Chechnya (MSF-Holland HOM was out of Moscow). MSF declared that there was still a humanitarian crisis in Chechnya, [...]	2006-01-20 14:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID PREF RS
06MOSCOW5104	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: BORJOMI MINERAL WATER BAN [...] (C) Summary: Jacques Fleury, Managing Director of Georgian Glass and Mineral Waters (GGMW),producer of Borjomi water, outlined for us May 12 the company's recent troubles with the Russian government. A press campaign had turned into threats by the GOR to ban import of the water; the ban was [...]	2006-05-15 09:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD GG RS
06MOSCOW5264	RUSSIANS AGAINST DELISTING MONIB [...] (C) On May 12 poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Afghanistan Section Chief Yuriy Khokhlov, and followed up on the issue with him in a May 15 discussion. On May 17 econoff double-tracked the demarche with Aleksandr Ubilava and Nikolay Ostrokhov from the MFA New Threats and Challenges Dep [...]	2006-05-18 12:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KTFN UN AF RS
06MOSCOW5372	IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NGO LAW: SO FAR, MUCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the month since Russia's controversial new NGO legislation formally went into effect, there has been widespread uncertainty about how to comply with it and about its long-term impact. Though implementing regulations have been issued, they fail to address many practical questio [...]	2006-05-19 13:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PROG PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW5375	LETTER FROM U/S BURNS TO DFM KARASIN ON SOUTH [...] (C) PolMinCouns delivered reftel letter May 19 to MFA IV CIS Director Andrey Kelin. Kelin said he would immediately pass the letter to DFM Karasin and DFM Kislyak. The latter needed to see it because, Kelin said, the letter makes an "overstatement" in asserting that "the G8 has decided to in [...]	2006-05-19 14:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS OSCE GG RS
06MOSCOW5377	VLADIMIR LUKIN, RUSSIA'S PRAGMATIC HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russia's Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin will visit the U.S. May 23-26. A former diplomat (who was once Russia's Ambassador in Washington) and Duma member from the Yabloko Party, Lukin has had a mixed reputation in Russia's human rights community. Many activists view him a [...]	2006-05-19 16:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS
06MOSCOW5378	RUSSIA'S DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION TO CONTINUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met separately May 16 with democratic opposition leaders Nikita Belykh of the Union of Right Forces (SPS) and Irina Khakamada of Our Choice. Belykh insisted that the democratic opposition must do more to rejuvenate the movement and demonstrate that it is capable of i [...]	2006-05-19 16:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW5427	AMBASSADOR'S MAY 22 MEETING WITH HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request - see paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met May 22 with Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, who will visit New York and Washington May 23-26 (reftel). Lukin said President Putin had encouraged him to visit the U.S. to expand the bilateral dialogue on [...]	2006-05-22 13:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW5458	AMBASSADOR'S MAY 23 MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN [...] (C) Ambassador met with DFM Karasin May 23. Karasin was to leave later that day for a Nagorno-Karabakh trip. He hoped to be pleasantly surprised. With regard to U/S Burns' letter on South Ossetia, Karasin stressed positive movement and labeled the rest a matter of interpretation, but argued [...]	2006-05-23 13:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG IR AJ AM GG BO UP RS
06MOSCOW5492	GEORGIAN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON CIS WITHDRAWAL, [...] (C) Summary: Georgian Deputy PM Baramidze told the Ambassador May 23 that he expected Georgia to leave the CIS in a matter of months. Negotiating bilateral agreements with the non-Russian members of the organization would be a priority; it would be important to protect the interests of Georg [...]	2006-05-24 14:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD GG RS
06MOSCOW5532	RUSSIAN DFM KARASIN'S REPLY TO LETTER FROM U/S [...] (C) The Russian MFA on May 25 passed to us without comment a written reply from DFM Grigoriy Karasin to the May 19 letter U/S Burns sent him on South Ossetia (Ref A). The letter echoes the principal arguments Karasin made during his May 23 conversation with the Ambassador (Ref B). We underst [...]	2006-05-25 13:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR OSCE GG RS
06MOSCOW5557	AMBASSADOR'S MAY 23 MEETING WITH DUMA FIRST DEPUTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met May 23 with Duma First Deputy Speaker Oleg Morozov, who agreed that inter-parliamentary exchanges should be encouraged. He noted that a newly created Duma working group will address legislative initiatives proposed by President Putin in his Annual Address. Morozo [...]	2006-05-26 07:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PHUM PREL RS SOCI
06MOSCOW5645	CHECHNYA: THE ONCE AND FUTURE WAR [...] (C) Introduction: Chechnya has been less in the glare of constant international attention in recent years. However, the Chechnya conflict remains unresolved, and the suffering of the Chechen people and the threat of instability throughout the region remain. This message reinterprets the history of [...]	2006-05-30 09:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS
06MOSCOW5740	RUSSIA: PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION SNAPSHOT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Adding fuel to already intense speculation about who will succeed him, President Putin confirmed to state media May 13 that he will endorse a candidate before the March 2008 election. Both Kremlin-connected and independent analysts believe Putin's choice will be driven by a desire [...]	2006-05-31 13:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PINR RS
06MOSCOW5741	RUSSIA SHARES TRILATERAL CONCERNS ABOUT UN [...] (C) Responding to a May 26 demarche (ref A) by Australian, New Zealand and U.S. emboffs on the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP),Grigoriy Lukyantsev, Head of the UN Division of the MFA's Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights said that Moscow h [...]	2006-05-31 13:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AORC UN RS
06MOSCOW5742	RUSSIA WANTS TO SEND OBSERVER TO BLACK SEA FORUM [...] (C) We discussed reftel May 25 with MFA Romanian Section Chief Igor Inyushkin. He agreed that the U.S. and Russia shared common interests in the Black Sea region and appreciated Washington's endorsement of existing regional institutions, underlining Russia's hope that Moscow would be able t [...]	2006-05-31 13:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MARR MOPS RO RS
06MOSCOW5760	MFA HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIALS ON THE NGO LAW, [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a May 29 meeting with Mikhail Lebedev, Acting Director of the MFA Department on Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, DRL Deputy Assistant Secretary Barks-Ruggles underscored USG concerns that the new NGO law be implemented fairly and transparently. Barks-Ruggles also em [...]	2006-05-31 14:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KUNR KREL RS
06MOSCOW585	PUBLIC CHAMBER BEGINS ITS WORK [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Public Chamber began its work on January 22, choosing Academician Yevgeniy Velikhov as its head and picking chairpersons of the seventeen commissions that are expected to do the bulk of its work. President Putin, presiding at the opening plenary, laid out priorities for the C [...]	2006-01-23 16:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW5933	SOUTH OSSETIA: RUSSIAN MFA ON HEIGHTENED TENSIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Russian MFA negotiator on South Ossetia assured us June 2 that Russia supports Georgia's territorial integrity and borders, despite a June 1 public statement implying otherwise. He denied that Russia intends a "creeping annexation" of South Ossetia. In a separate June 2 di [...]	2006-06-02 14:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PBTS OSCE GG RS
06MOSCOW5934	RUSSIAN PROCURATOR GENERAL DISMISSED [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Putin removed Vladimir Ustinov as Procurator General on June 2. He did not name an immediate replacement. PolPreds Dmitriy Kozak and Aleksandr Konovalov are considered leading candidates to replace Ustinov. The suddenness of the move surprised observers, although rumo [...]	2006-06-02 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW5951	DEMARCHING RUSSIA ON A BURMA RESOLUTION [...] (C) Poloff made reftel demarche June 5 to Petr Ilichev, UN Political Affairs Senior Counselor, MFA International Organizations Department. Ilichev said that Burma did not represent a threat to international peace and security, or to security in the region, and thus was not an appropriate sub [...]	2006-06-05 12:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM RS
06MOSCOW5997	RUSSIAN HOSTAGES IN IRAQ [...] (C) Upon learning of the killing of a GOR security guard and the kidnapping of four Russian Embassy employees outside a local market in Iraq on June 3, Ambassador called DFM Saltanov to express condolences and the desire of the U.S. to provide needed assistance. The Ambassador followed up wit [...]	2006-06-05 14:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS IZ
06MOSCOW5998	CIVIL SOCIETY GEARS UP FOR THE G8 SUMMIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Faced with the controversial new NGO law and other worrisome developments, independent civil society activists are looking to the G8 Summit as an opportunity to strengthen their positions or at least publicize their causes. Some are willing to take part in the official G8 event f [...]	2006-06-05 15:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW6065	SQUEEZING BELARUS, BUT NOT UNTIL IT POPS [...] (C) Summary. Moscow's embrace of Lukashenko before and immediately after his March 19 reelection has tightened into a clench. Analysts here agree the GOR has sent a blunt message to Lukashenko: he needs to move from talk to action on at least economic integration. Some observers see Moscow [...]	2006-06-07 04:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BO RS
06MOSCOW6130	FORUM FOR THE FUTURE PLANNING MEETING, MOSCOW, MAY [...] (SBU) Summary. Participants at the second Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) Forum for the Future planning meeting agreed that the 2006 Forum will take place at the Dead Sea on December 3, preceded by a senior officials meeting and working dinner for ministers on December 2. Jordan [...]	2006-06-07 12:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KMPI RS
06MOSCOW6131	RUSSIAN MFA DEMARCHED ON TRANSNISTRIA MAY PROTOCOLS [...] (C) With Ambassador-at-Large Nesterushkin on vacation until the end of the week, poloff delivered reftel demarche June 7 to Mikhail Yalkin, Moldova Section Chief, MFA Second CIS Department. Yalkin said that there was no change whatsoever in Russian policy or approach to Transnistria. He cha [...]	2006-06-07 12:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PBTS PREL MS RS UP
06MOSCOW6173	NGO REPRESENTATIVES CONCERNED ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. DRL Deputy Assistant Secretary Erica Barks-Ruggles discussed the controversial NGO law and the broader human rights and democracy situation in Russia with a range of NGO representatives on May 30-31. She expressed support for NGOs in Russia and asked about current trends for civ [...]	2006-06-08 11:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM RS
06MOSCOW6229	GORBACHEV AND A POLITICAL ALLY BUY INTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev announced at a June 7 meeting with foreign journalists that he and a political ally, Duma Deputy Aleksandr Lebedev, had purchased a 49 percent stake in the fiercely independent newspaper "Novaya Gazeta." They made the purchase from the [...]	2006-06-08 13:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW6263	RUSSIA ON PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-09 12:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KPAL RS
06MOSCOW6268	SEARCH FOR NEW RUSSIAN PROCURATOR GENERAL OVERLAID [...] (C) SUMMARY. Over the past week analysts have tried to read the tea leaves swirling around Vladimir Ustinov's abrupt June 2 dismissal as Procurator General. Speculation has largely shifted from the reasons behind his departure to educated guessing about the effects the choice of his replacem [...]	2006-06-09 16:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KCRM RS
06MOSCOW6306	MFA ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) Deputy Political Minister-Counselor delivered ref A points to Mikhail Lebedev, Acting Director of the MFA Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, on June 13. Lebedev said the GOR's position on the agenda for the first meeting of the UN Human Rights Council was close to [...]	2006-06-13 10:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW6307	MFA ON PROCESSING OF NORTH KOREANS IN RUSSIA [...] (C) Deputy Political Minister-Counselor delivered reftel points to Mikhail Lebedev, Acting Director of the MFA Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, on June 13. Lebedev said the GOR would have to consider the U.S. request before responding officially. 2. (C) Lebedev sa [...]	2006-06-13 10:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF KN KS RS
06MOSCOW6341	PUTIN-SAAKASHVILI TALKS: PRELIMINARY READOUTS [...] (C) Georgian DCM Shugarov and Russian MFA Caucasus conflicts division chief Dvinyanin gave us preliminary readouts of the June 13 discussion between Russian President Putin and Georgian President Saakashvili in St. Petersburg. They had received brief telephone readouts from their respective su [...]	2006-06-14 12:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD MARR GG RS
06MOSCOW6354	RUSSIA SUPPORTS EXTENDING MNF-I MANDATE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA IO/UNSC Section Chief Vladimir Safronkov June 14. Safronkov said Russia fully supports continuing the MNF-I mandate and the DFI/IAMB arrangements and that the GOR would not present any obstacle to the extension. The Russian side would support a po [...]	2006-06-14 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IZ RS
06MOSCOW6358	U.S.-RUSSIA TALKS ON THE CAUCASUS [...] (C) DAS Kramer accompanied by the DCM called on Russian MFA Fourth CIS Department Director (DAS equivalent) Andrey Kelin June 13 to discuss Caucasus issues. (Kramer met subsequently one-on-one with DFM Karasin on other regional agenda items.) Kramer pushed Kelin hard on Russia's support for s [...]	2006-06-15 05:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS OSCE GG AM AJ RS
06MOSCOW6389	HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN LUKIN AGREES WITH USG [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 14 meeting, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin agreed with the proposals put forward by EUR DAS David Kramer regarding a U.S.-Russian human rights dialogue. Lukin shared the view that it would be beneficial to announce the creation of the dialogue at the G8 summit. [...]	2006-06-15 14:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW6464	RUSSIAN MFA ON ICTY PIFWC LIKELY IN RUSSIA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche June 19 to Andrey Kalinin of the MFA Legal Department. Kalinin and his superior, Department Section Chief Igor Panin (who was traveling at the time),are the only officials in the MFA with a thorough knowledge of the ICTY and the status of PIFWCs. Russia [...]	2006-06-19 11:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS KCRM PREL ICTY KAWC PHUM BK SR RS
06MOSCOW650	SOUTH OSSETIA: JCC ADRIFT AS RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN [...] (C) Russian, Georgian and South Ossetian representatives have been unable to agree to a venue for the next Joint Control Commission (JCC) meeting, according to Russian MFA 4th CIS Department Deputy Director Semyon Grigoriyev. Grigoriyev told us January 24 that Russian Ambassador-at-Large for [...]	2006-01-24 13:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RS
06MOSCOW6515	CHECHNYA: DEATH OF SADULLAYEV [...] (C) Summary: Accounts of the June 17 killing of Chechen rebel "President" Sadullayev vary, but it was probably a chance firefight. Reaction has been low-key. Sadullayev's relevance was more political than military, and his death will probably have little effect on the rebels' military or te [...]	2006-06-20 09:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR MOPS PINR RS

06MOSCOW6535	RUSSIAN MFA ON PUTIN-SAAKASHVILI TALKS [...] (C) Summary: The Russian MFA notetaker at the June 13 meeting between Presidents Putin and Saakashvili said the discussion was a constructive start to dialogue. He stressed several times that Russia was not a party to any of the frozen conflicts, and that it was the South Ossetians and Abkha [...]	2006-06-20 12:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PBTS GG RS
06MOSCOW6547	YURIY CHAYKA NOMINATED AS RUSSIA'S PROCURATOR [...] (SBU) President Putin nominated current Minister of Justice, Yuriy Chayka, as the next Procurator General to replace Vladimir Ustinov, who resigned June 2. The Federation Council's Committee on Legal and Judicial Affairs supported the nomination June 19; it will go before the full Federation [...]	2006-06-20 15:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KCRM RS
06MOSCOW6563	RUSSIAN SCO REPRESENTATIVE ON JUNE 15 SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. Russian Ambassador-at-Large for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Vitaliy Vorobiyov gave us a readout June 20 of the June 15 SCO Summit. He encouraged the United States to have more dialogue with the SCO to avoid misunderstandings, perhaps as a formal "dialogue partne [...]	2006-06-21 10:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER RS IR AF CN KZ
06MOSCOW6575	NEW TRIAL ORDERED FOR SYNAGOGUE ATTACKER [...] (SBU) On June 20 the Russian Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Aleksandr Koptsev, who on March 27 had been convicted of knifing nine people in the Chabad synagogue in Moscow on January 11. The trial court had sentenced Koptsev to thirteen years in prison on several counts of attempted mur [...]	2006-06-21 14:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM RS
06MOSCOW6608	G-8 POLITICAL DIRECTORS/SENIOR GROUP JUNE 14 [...] (C) Summary. Meeting in Moscow June 14, G-8 Political Directors/Senior Group Members discussed outstanding issues relating to the St. Petersburg Summit statement on nonproliferation, including sensitive technology transfers, the U.S.-India agreement, and how to deal with the DPRK and Iran. [...]	2006-06-22 09:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PHUM RS
06MOSCOW6762	OUT AS PROCURATOR GENERAL, USTINOV RETURNS AS [...] (U) On June 23 President Putin nominated Vladimir Ustinov -- who on June 2 had been removed from his prior position as Procurator General -- to be Minister of Justice. In his new position Ustinov succeeds former Justice Minister Yuriy Chayka, who on June 19 was named as Ustinov's successor as [...]	2006-06-26 13:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV RS
06MOSCOW6812	U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 23 the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) met with Federal Registration Service (FRS) Director Sergey Movchan to discuss the expected impact of the recently adopted and not yet implemented NGO law on religious organizations. Movchan upheld the GOR [...]	2006-06-27 07:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS
06MOSCOW6820	DFM YAKOVENKO SAYS MOSCOW WELCOMES FRANK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with a visiting delegation from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom June 24, Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Yakovenko: -- Welcomed frank discussion of Russia's human rights record, emphasizing that his ministry routinely facilitated visits by [...]	2006-06-27 13:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL RS
06MOSCOW6839	AN ARRAY OF CIVIL SOCIETY EVENTS AROUND THE G8 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The menu of civil society events around the G8 Summit has taken shape, although a few uncertainties remain. The main GOR-sponsored event, the so-called Civil G8 to be held on July 3-4, has been supplemented with a human rights roundtable, which some independent activists view as [...]	2006-06-27 13:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW6843	RUSLAN KHASBULATOV ON CHECHEN DYNAMICS [...] (C) Ruslan Khasbulatov, Yeltsin's opponent in the 1993 White House standoff and now professor of economics at the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics, gave us his perspective June 27 on dynamics in his native Chechnya. Khasbulatov was upfront about his dislikes in the current political alig [...]	2006-06-28 09:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR MOPS PINR RS
06MOSCOW7047	HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN LUKIN SUGGESTS CHANGES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 30 meeting, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin discussed the paper outlining the proposal for a U.S.-Russian Roundtable on Democracy and Human Rights with the Ambassador. Lukin was positive about the proposal, but based on his consultations with the MFA and Kremlin F [...]	2006-07-03 09:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW7084	INITIAL REACTIONS IN MOSCOW TO DPRK MISSILE LAUNCH [...] (C) Summary. The Russian MFA issued a strongly worded statement at 2:00 p.m. Moscow time on July 5 in response to the DPRK missile launches. The MFA spokesman was on the record as day began in Moscow calling the launches a "provocation." Our colleagues in the ROK and Japanese embassies tol [...]	2006-07-05 11:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC KN RS
06MOSCOW7118	RUSSIAN DFM ON DPRK MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche July 6 to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Alekseyev. Alekseyev said he was in absolute agreement that it was very important to send the North Koreans a strong and clear signal of the unacceptability of their missile launches. He had deli [...]	2006-07-06 07:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PARM UNSC KN RS
06MOSCOW7124	PUTIN MEETS WITH NGO REPRESENTATIVES AS PART OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The main GOR-sponsored civil society event, the Civil G8, was held July 3-4 in Moscow. The event brought together a wide range of NGOs for lively discussions on themes, including G8 agenda items as well as the state of Russia's civil society. Putin attended several Civil G8 event [...]	2006-07-06 08:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW7293	FSB CONFIRMS DEATH OF SHAMIL BASAYEV [...] (C) The Federal Security Service (FSB) confirmed to LEGATT at 1715 local that Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev was killed in an operation in the early hours of July 10. LEGATT's FSB contacts, who had minutes earlier been unaware of the reports, refused to give further details. 2. (C) Acc [...]	2006-07-10 14:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PGOV PINR RS
06MOSCOW7340	RUSSIA CLOSES BORDER WITH GEORGIA [...] (C) Russia closed its one border crossing with Georgia on July 8. In response, on July 9 Georgia closed its "border" crossing into South Ossetia. The South Ossetians have hyped the Georgian move, making the false charge that Georgia has cut the road between South Ossetia and Russia's North O [...]	2006-07-11 14:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR PBTS ETRD GG RS
06MOSCOW7385	RUSSIA'S GEORGIA POLICY: "THE CAUCASUS BENEATH ME" [...] (C) Russia's policies towards Georgia are the product of three factors: anger unleashed by perceptions of betrayal and disrespect, fear of encirclement by a West intent on dismembering Russia's conception of the "Post-Soviet space," and solidarity with the separatist Abkhaz and South Ossetian [...]	2006-07-12 11:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS GG RS
06MOSCOW7493	WORLD RELIGIOUS LEADERS SUMMIT IN RUSSIA CALLS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting in Moscow July 3-5, more than 200 religious leaders and clergy from over 40 countries called on believers of all faiths to engage in dialogue and partnership to resolve global problems, as well as to challenge terrorism, extremism, and efforts to restrict religious freed [...]	2006-07-14 06:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI PINR RS
06MOSCOW7666	NEW RESTRICTIVE RUSSIAN ELECTORAL LEGISLATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. A flurry of new, more restrictive legal measures affecting the conduct of elections appeared during the last few weeks of the spring sessions of both houses of the Russian parliament. On July 12, President Putin signed amendments passed by both houses that end the option of voti [...]	2006-07-18 12:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW7769	TRANSNISTRIA: INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-20 14:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MD RS
06MOSCOW789	RUSSIA/GEORGIA: IVANOV DISMISSIVE OF SAAKASHVILI'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. At the end of a January 25 meeting devoted primarily to Iran (ref A),Ambassador raised the Georgian energy supply issue with Russian Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov. In a brief response, Ivanov dismissed Georgian President Saakashvili's accusations against Russia, callin [...]	2006-01-26 12:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG RS GG
06MOSCOW7956	POST-MORTEM ON G8-RELATED NGO EVENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Looking back on the four non-governmental events ahead of the G8 Summit, NGO activists and opposition politicians have widely diverging assessments about their implications. Ella Pamfilova's July 3-4 Civil G8 highlighted the broad range of NGOs in Russia, notably those involveQin [...]	2006-07-26 10:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW797	A/S LOWENKRON'S MEETING WITH RUSSIA HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 18 meeting with DRL A/S Lowenkron and the Ambassador, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said that his office has seen an increase in complaints of human rights violations. Lukin highlighted his office's critical analysis of the first draft of the NGO law, saying [...]	2006-01-26 14:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RS
06MOSCOW802	A/S LOWENKRON DISCUSSES NGO LAW WITH STATE DUMA [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 18 DRL A/S Barry Lowenkron and EUR DAS David Kramer met with State Duma Deputy Andrey Makarov. Makarov vigorously )- and at times heatedly )- defended the new NGO legislation, insisting that the text met international legal standards, but he conceded there could be prob [...]	2006-01-27 07:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW8024	GOR REITERATES REQUIREMENTS FOR FOREIGNERS' ACCESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 2, Russian security forces issued revised requirements for foreign NGO workers, reporters, and diplomats seeking access to Chechnya. While our contacts acknowledged that they raised the potential for tighter restrictions on NGOs working in the region, they reported that [...]	2006-07-27 12:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PREF EAID PGOV RS
06MOSCOW8047	GEORGIA-RUSSIA: MFA ON KODORI GORGE [...] (C) We discussed the Kodori Gorge situation July 27 with Dmitriy Tarabrin, Acting Director of the MFA Fourth CIS Department. Tarabrin said the operation had a "military character" that made it a violation of the May 11 1994 ceasefire agreement on Abkhazia. Russia did not, however, want to "d [...]	2006-07-27 14:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS GG RS
06MOSCOW8148	EXTREMISM LAW SIGNED BY PUTIN [...] (C) SUMMARY. As expected, President Putin signed into law July 28 amendments to legislation "On Countering Extremism," despite concerns among many that the law may restrict legitimate criticism of the government. As noted in reftel, the revised law expands the definition of extremist activity [...]	2006-07-31 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM RS
06MOSCOW8210	RUSSIAN GOALS FOR APEC 2006 [...] (C) We discussed U.S. APEC priorities on August 2 with MFA APEC Section Chief Pavel Alyanov and sought his views on Russian priorities at the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) in September. Alyanov said Russia shared many of the same goals as the U.S. in APEC and particularly agreed on the impo [...]	2006-08-02 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD PTER APECO RS
06MOSCOW8334	GOR INTENDS TO EXTRADITE IVANOVO 13 TO UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOR has announced it intends to extradite 13 men detained at Uzbekistan's request for alleged involvement in the events in Andijon. UNHCR and human rights NGOs have told us that the men have further legal appeals available, but they are pessimistic there will be any reversa [...]	2006-08-04 13:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW8427	AFTER BASAYEV [...] (C) Shamil Basayev leaves behind questions about the future direction of Chechnya, the future direction of the North Caucasus, and future prospects for terrorism, extremism, and militant Jihadism in the region. With no unifying enemy, the leadership of Chechnya is beginning to show rifts. M [...]	2006-08-08 07:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PINR PTER RS
06MOSCOW8507	THE POLITICAL SKIRMISH BEHIND THE "MOSKOVSKIYE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Late last year, Israeli businessman Arkadiy Gaydamak bought the liberal weekly newspaper "Moskovskiy Novostiy" (MN) and promptly announced it would become a pro-Kremlin publication. The newspaper's deputy editor in chief, Svetlana Babayeva, told us July 31 that over half a year [...]	2006-08-09 13:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
06MOSCOW857	RCFS DIRECTOR LIKELY TO BE CONVICTED [...] (C) The trial of Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) Executive Director Stanislav Dmitriyevskiy is expected to conclude February 3. Oksana Chelysheva, an RCFS staff member, and other human rights contacts have told us they expect Dmitriyevskiy to be convicted. He is charged with incit [...]	2006-01-27 14:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV EAID PREF RS
06MOSCOW861	NGOS CHILLED BY SPY ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Five days after Russian television aired accusations by the Federal Security Service (FSB) that four UK diplomats and a Russian were caught spying and that one of the diplomats was directly involved in transferring funds to Russian NGOs, the fallout continues. The State Duma den [...]	2006-01-27 16:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW868	A/S LOWENKRON'S MEETING WITH KONSTANTIN KOSACHEV, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 19 DRL A/S Barry Lowenkron, Ambassador Burns, and EUR DAS David Kramer met with State Duma International Relations Committee Chairman Konstantin Kosachev. Defending the new NGO legislation, Kosachev insisted that it would clarify the role of NGOs in Russia, not limit t [...]	2006-01-30 10:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW873	KABARDINO-BALKARIA: AFTERMATH OF OCTOBER ATTACKS [...] (C) Summary: Few local officials in Kabardino-Balkaria are willing to talk about the October 13-14 attacks in Nalchik by Islamic extremists against government, law enforcement and security sites. Those who did during a January 25-26 visit to the Republic by Embassy officers cited joblessness [...]	2006-01-30 11:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EAID RS
06MOSCOW9015	SOUTH OSSETIA: AN "AMUSING" MEETING GETS NOWHERE [...] (C) The Joint Control Commission to negotiate a settlement in the South Ossetia conflict met in Moscow August 17-18 and produced no results. The meeting's main accomplishment was to continue over the full two days without breaking up in acrimony. Georgian DCM Shugarov told us August 18, while [...]	2006-08-18 14:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR OSCE GG RS
06MOSCOW9018	RUSSIA AND UKRAINE: TWO CHEERS FOR YANU? [...] (C) Summary: Moscow was pleased that new Ukrainian PM Viktor Yanukovich made his first foreign trip to Russia to meet with President Putin and PM Fradkov in Sochi. Observers here expect that the tone of the relationship will improve, but on substance, few saw Yanukovich as a pushover. On t [...]	2006-08-18 14:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD UP RS
06MOSCOW9206	KHODORKOVSKIY-ASSOCIATED NGO HIT WITH HUGE TAX BILL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian tax authorities recently imposed a USD 180,000 bill for back taxes on an NGO headed by one of Mikhail Khodorkovskiy's lawyers. The Federal Tax Service claims the Center for International Legal Defense (CILD) owes taxes on grants it has received from the National Endowment [...]	2006-08-23 14:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW921	CIVIL SOCIETY COUNCIL CHAIR PAMFILOVA: "WE'LL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 18 meeting with visiting DRL A/S Barry Lowenkron, the Ambassador and EUR DAS Kramer, Ella Pamfilova, head of the Presidential body that oversees civil society issues, said she had strongly opposed the controversial NGO legislation and had weighed in with President Pu [...]	2006-01-30 12:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW922	A RANGE OF EXPECTATIONS ABOUT THE PUBLIC CHAMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the Public Chamber gets down to work following its inaugural plenary on January 22, its members have differing expectations about what it will accomplish. Publicly, many members expressed at least guarded optimism about the Chamber. Privately, views differ appreciably. One C [...]	2006-01-30 13:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW923	MINISTRY OF JUSTICE SEEKS TO CLOSE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said publicly on January 27 that it is seeking to revoke the registration of the Russian Human Rights Research Center, which allegedly failed to provide required documentation about its activities in recent years. Center officials and other human rig [...]	2006-01-30 13:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW930	MOSCOW COMFORTABLE WITH UKRAINIAN DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Moscow continues to tell itself that it got the best of Kiev in the year-end negotiations on gas supply, according to the Russian MFA and a number of Embassy contacts. As they see it, the gas deal was an economic boon for Gazprom and the GOR, despite allegations of corruption a [...]	2006-01-30 13:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP
06MOSCOW9311	DPRK: RUSSIAN VIEWS ON IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1695 [...] (C) Russia will comply with the requirements of UNSCR Resolution 1695 but is unlikely to adopt additional legal requirements directed against the DPRK's missile or WMD programs. MFA Korea Section Chief Aleksandr Vostrikov told us August 23 that responsibility for implementing the resolution [...]	2006-08-25 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP MNUC KN RS
06MOSCOW9346	LEBANON/UNIFIL: RUSSIA MAY SEND LIMITED CONTINGENT [...] (C) The MFA told us August 25 that Russia is actively considering sending a limited contingent of military personnel to serve in UNIFIL. Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department, said that President Putin had requested [...]	2006-08-25 14:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR KPKO LE RS
06MOSCOW9354	RUSSIA WEIGHING ADDITIONAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] (C) In addition to contemplating a limited contingent of military personnel to serve in UNIFIL (septel),Russia is considering providing additional shipments of humanitarian assistance to Lebanon according to the MFA and the Lebanese Ambassador in Moscow. MFA Syria and Lebanon Section Chief [...]	2006-08-25 14:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID LE RS
06MOSCOW9356	BASAYEV'S WIDOW ABDUCTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The abduction of a female journalist in Chechnya that prompted public appeals from human rights groups could have consequences for the Chechen newspaper that employed her as a stringer and the groups seeking her release, following the revelation that she is Shamil Basayev's wido [...]	2006-08-25 15:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER PINR RS
06MOSCOW9414	ABKHAZIA: DFM KARASIN SPELLS OUT TOUGH RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: At his initiative, DFM Karasin on August 28 briefed Western Friends Chiefs of Mission on developments in Abkhazia, which he had recently visited. He said Georgia's July operation in the Kodori Gorge was a violation of the 1994 ceasefire agreement and had created a "disbalance" in [...]	2006-08-28 14:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS UNSC GG RS
06MOSCOW9415	DFM KARASIN ON UPCOMING RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary: After DFM Karasin briefed Friends of Georgia Chiefs of Mission August 28 (Septel),he met with Ambassador Burns bilaterally. They discussed upcoming travel and visits. Karasin favors an end October-early November date for his own meetings in Washington. Karasin briefed on Russ [...]	2006-08-28 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MD UP BO RS
06MOSCOW9436	A/S LOWENKRON'S VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) SUMMARY. A/S Barry Lowenkron visited Moscow in July attending "The Other Russia" conference sponsored by opposition political parties on the eve of the G8 summit. He also had consultations with a number of Russian officials, politicians, and NGO leaders. These included: Chairperson of th [...]	2006-08-29 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
06MOSCOW9482	RUSSIAN OIL TO LITHUANIA -- MIXING REVENGE AND BUSINESS [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-30 12:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL LH RS
06MOSCOW9533	A CAUCASUS WEDDING [...] (C) Weddings are elaborate in Dagestan, the largest autonomy in the North Caucasus. On August 22 we attended a wedding in Makhachkala, Dagestan's capital: Duma member and Dagestan Oil Company chief Gadzhi Makhachev's son married a classmate. The lavish display and heavy drinking concealed the deadl [...]	2006-08-31 06:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR RS
06MOSCOW96	NGO DRAFT LEGISLATION: STILL UNSIGNED BY PUTIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Putin has yet to sign or veto the controversial NGO legislation passed in late December by the Duma and Federation Council. Most observers remain convinced that he will sign it, although there is some confusion about the timeframe in which he must make a decision. Assu [...]	2006-01-11 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RS
06MOSCOW9627	RUSSIAN DUMA CHAIRPERSON KOSACHEV ON US, IRAN, LEBANON, CIS, NGOS, INTERNAL POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: In an August 31 meeting with the Ambassador, Chairman of the International Relations Committee of the Russia Duma Konstantin Kosachev expressed concern over the deteriorating tone in US-Russian relations. Kosachev explained his opposition to imposing sanctions against Iran abs [...]	2006-08-31 14:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM RS
06MOSCOW963	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN DFM KARASIN, [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Burns met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin January 31 to discuss recent developments on regional issues. They spent most of the meeting discussing Georgia; it was clear that President Saakashvili's accusations concerning the January 22 pipeline explosion [...]	2006-01-31 14:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG UNSC AJ AM GG BO UP IAEA IR RS
06MOSCOW9817	RUSSIAN POLITICAL SEASON BEGINS WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Kremlin's involvement, with Deputy Head of Presidential Administration Surkov's apparent encouragement and Putin's purported blessing, in engineering a union of three leftist political parties of marginal to moderate popularity as an officially sanctioned opposition is the [...]	2006-09-06 08:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM RS
06MOSCOW9823	RUSSIAN MFA ON HELICOPTER INCIDENT IN SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (C) Summary: Following the September 3 firing on a Georgian military helicopter over South Ossetia, the Ambassador contacted DFM Karasin to highlight the danger posed by the incident and to urge Russia to use its influence with the South Ossetians to prevent its repetition. Karasin acknowl [...]	2006-09-06 13:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS GG RS
06MOSCOW9955	RUSSIA SUPPORTS RENEWAL OF APEC COUNTER TERRORISM [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche September 7 to MFA Asian Cooperation Department Deputy Director Valeriy Sorokin and MFA New Challenges and Threats Deputy Director Nikolay Kudashev. Sorokin and Kudashev endorsed extension of the Counter Terrorism Task Force (CTTF) mandate, underlining the i [...]	2006-09-08 11:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PTER APECO RS
06MOSUL10	NINEWA IECI DIRECTOR CLAIMS EVIDENCE OF MISSING VOTERS COULD [...] (C) REO Poloff met with Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) Ninewa Governate Electoral Office (GEO) director Oday Abed at his headquarters office at the PJCC on February 6. Abed claims an internal study he is conducting has revealed that over 4,000 families (potentially 15,000 to 1 [...]	2006-02-07 15:59:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ MARR PINT
06MOSUL11	SHABEK NATIONAL ASSEMBLYMEMBER ASKS FOR MORE "VISIBLE" USG [...] (C) PRT Leader and REO Poloff met with Shabek national assemblymember Dr. Haneen Al Qado in Mosul on February 8. Al Qado thanked the USG for ongoing assistance but said USG development projects in Ninewa need to be "more visible." Al Qado said he is working with other members of the national [...]	2006-02-10 18:24:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ PINT
06MOSUL12	ASSYRIAN PATRIOTIC PARTY REPS CALL FOR CREATION OF A NEW [...] (C) Assyrian Patriotic Party (APP) reps in Ninewa and Dohuk said they believe the answer to problems in Iraq's Christian community could be settled by the creation of a separate province for minorities. APP leader Namrood Betto suggested that "Ninewa Plains" be partitioned from eastern Ninewa [...]	2006-02-12 15:30:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ PINT
06MOSUL13	LIBERATION AND RECONCILIATION NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DELEGATE [...] (C) According to newly elected national assembly delegate Sheikh Mohammed Khalaf of the Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc, Iraq's new federal government needs to be more inclusive by "reaching out" to all parties in the country. Khalaf said he would work hard to help issues of unemployment a [...]	2006-02-14 14:24:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ ECON PINT
06MOSUL14	IRAQ NATIONAL DIALOGUE COUNCIL CONCERNED ABOUT SHAPE OF [...] (C) The Iraqi National Dialogue Council (INDC) in Ninewa is concerned about the shape of the new national government in Iraq. National assembly delegate Mahmood Al-Azzawi seems afraid Sunni Arabs might be "left out" from playing a larger role in the formation of the government. He said he wo [...]	2006-02-14 14:38:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ MARR PINT
06MOSUL16	NINEWA JUDGES FIRE BACK AT DETRACTORS, BLAME SYSTEM FOR [...] (C) Ninewa's judges are having difficulty with the public's negative perception of their work. In part, they blame Iraqi Army (IA) and Iraqi Police (IP) officials for "public statements" made to the press that condemn the judges for faults in the system. The judges make clear, however, that [...]	2006-02-16 18:10:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ PINT
06MOSUL17	NINEWA POLICE CHIEF CLAIMS REPORTS OF A RISE IN KIDNAPPINGS [...] (C) Provincial Chief of Police Wathiq Al Qudir told PRT Poloff that reports of an increase in the number of kidnappings and extortions in Mosul are exaggerated. He said rumors that the crimes are targeted specifically against Kurds and Chaldo/Assyrians are false, and denied that incidents are [...]	2006-02-18 12:46:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ MARR PINT
06MOSUL18	HOW JA'AFARI PLAYS IN THE PROVINCES: NINEWA REACTIONS TO [...] (C). PRT Ninewa spoke to several political party leaders from across the province to elicit reactions to the Shia coalition's re-nomination of current Prime Minister Ibrahim Al Ja'afari to a second term. The overwhelming majority of political parties appear to be disappointed by the selectio [...]	2006-02-19 14:01:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ PINT
06MOSUL19	NINEWA SCIRI REP CLAIMS KURDS NOT SUPPORTIVE OF AL JAAFARI [...] (C). Ninewa Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution of Iraq (SCIRI) Spokesman Aref Yousef claimed that recent personal attacks against Shia coalition nominee and current Prime Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari as unjust and motivated by Kurds. Yousef accused Kurds of working against Al Jaafari becau [...]	2006-02-21 15:47:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ
06MOSUL20	NINEWA ISLAMIC PARTY REPS CALL FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS NOW [...] (C). Ninewa Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) representative Younis Hashim called for provincial elections immediately. He accused the Kurds (which control the provincial government) of not doing enough to address the lack of basic social services and improve security in Mosul. Hashim said before t [...]	2006-02-22 17:51:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL21	NINEWA SHIAS CLAIM ALL IS CALM AFTER SAMARRA INCIDENT, BUT [...] (C) Shiite political party members, especially among the predominantly Shia Shabek community in Ninewa, have called for calm. They expressed great sadness about the attack on February 22 on the Al-Askariya Shrine in Samarra and said they hoped the incident would not increase tensions between [...]	2006-02-23 17:08:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL22	NINEWA: ALL QUIET ON THE NORTHERN FRONT [...] (C) Two days after the Al-Askariya Shrine was damaged in Samarra, the situation in Ninewa has remained calm. Yousef Muharam of the predominantly Shiite, Shabek Democratic Assembly, and Aref Younis of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution of Iraq (SCIRI) reported there were peaceful demon [...]	2006-02-24 16:37:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL23	NINEWA: TAL AFAR SHEIKHS WANT MORE ASSISTANCE FROM USG ON [...] (C) Recent U.S. press coverage has painted a positive picture of Tal Afar's security situation. But some locals see it otherwise. Sunni Arab tribal leaders are upset by what they claim are poor security conditions in Tal Afar. Local sheikhs threatened that Sunnis would leave the city if the [...]	2006-02-24 16:58:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL24	KURDISH VIEWS FROM NINEWA [...] (C) PRT Mosul had lengthy discussions with three Kurdish leaders in late February: two top Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) officials and one from the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). All were united in their support for continued American presence in Iraq, the difficulties Ja'afari [...]	2006-03-01 08:54:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL25	NINEWA'S KURDS AND THEIR NEIGHBORS: ENCROACHMENT ISSUES [...] (C) Anxieties are building between the Kurds and their neighbors in Ninewa. Since taking control of the provincial government in January 2005, Kurdish political parties have spread their influence through many symbolic gestures in several strategic areas of the province. From Sinjar in the w [...]	2006-03-04 17:24:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL26	NINEWA: A PROVINCIAL COUNCILMEMBER'S VIEWS ON LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Ninewa Provincial Council and Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM) member, Gevara Zia, said he believed Sunni Arab political parties would control the Ninewa provincial government after elections were held later this year. Zia claimed a "more representative" provincial government would bett [...]	2006-03-05 08:35:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL28	NINEWA: SINJAR YEZIDIS UNHAPPY WITH RULING KURDS [...] (C) Spokesmen for the Yezidi Movement for Progress and Reform (YMPR) demand that influence by the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Sinjar must end or "civil war" would begin. Waad Matto of YMPR claims the KDP has too much control over the police and lo [...]	2006-03-12 15:12:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL30	NINEWA: THE HERO OF TAL AFAR [...] (C) Mayor of Tal Afar Najim Al Jubouri -- the hero of President Bush's March 20 speech in Cleveland -- is a rare leader in a country fraught with fear and uncertainty. His strong leadership, both as chief of police and mayor, helped clean up this city of a quarter-million people in northwest [...]	2006-03-22 14:52:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL31	KURDISH POWER PLAY IN MOSUL: PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT REQUESTS [...] (C) Ninewa Provincial Government leaders called for the immediate transfer of security operations from Coalition Forces (CF) to Iraqi Security Forces (ISF). During a meeting with the PRT and MNF-N, Governor Duraid Kashmoula, Vice Governor Khasro Goran, and Provincial Council Chair Salem Haj I [...]	2006-03-23 09:09:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL32	NINEWA: SHABEK SHIA ON ASHURA ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION AND [...] (C) Minority Shabek Shia in Ninewa reported no major security incidents during the 40-day Anniversary of Ashura. Representatives of the Shabek Democratic Assembly (SDA) and Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution of Iraq (SCIRI) said the only regret they had was when Al Sadr supporters were hec [...]	2006-03-23 17:36:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL33	NINEWA: TAL AFAR AND RABIYA CITY COUNCILS SEARCHING FOR [...] (C) The city councils of the west Ninewa towns of Tal Afar and Rabiya seek to improve security and basic services to their communities. While both councils are pleased with improved security, they realized more work would need to be done to shore up Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) in number and t [...]	2006-03-24 14:27:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL34	NINEWA: PUK NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DELEGATE HAS AN OPTIMISTIC [...] (C) Although national assembly delegates met for the first time last week to take an oath of office, Ninewa PUK deputy director and national assembly delegate Abdelbari Al Zebari believes that talks will not resume until the second week of April. He claims the pause is deliberate yet necessar [...]	2006-03-24 17:09:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ
06MOSUL35	NINEWA: "CIVIL WAR IS NOT ON THE AGENDA" [...] (C) Since the bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra on February 22, we have asked contacts if they believe civil war is imminent. Several point to areas with high populations of Shia, such as Tal Afar, as ripe for civil war once Coalition Forces are drawn down. Actual incidents range from [...]	2006-03-26 16:38:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL36	KURDS IN NORTHERN IRAQ: PUK REP CLAIMS NINEWA "HANGS IN THE [...] (C) According to the Western Ninewa director of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Mustafa Khokhe, Ninewa province "hangs in the balance." Ethnic tensions and the flow of terrorism from Iraq's neighbors are all contributing to a potentially combustible situation, he claims. He says Tal Afar, [...]	2006-03-30 14:04:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL37	NINEWA RULE OF LAW ISSUES PART I: NINEWA CRIMINAL JUSTICE [...] (C) In recent months we have heard criticism of the Iraqi criminal justice system in Ninewa. Even officers at the Provincial Joint Coordination Center (PJCC) say they are "tired" of seeing terrorists released by "cowardly judges" or "corrupt" military and police officials. Corruption and cow [...]	2006-03-30 14:31:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR KCRM
06MOSUL38	NINEWA RULE OF LAW ISSUES PART II: BASIC PRINCIPLES IN [...] (C) Rule of law in Ninewa, or the lack thereof as many speculate, has negatively affected the public's trust in government institutions and the criminal justice system to protect them. At the root of the problem in Ninewa is poor communication and coordination by Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) [...]	2006-03-31 11:25:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR KCRM
06MOSUL39	NINEWA RULE OF LAW ISSUES PART I: NINEWA CRIMINAL JUSTICE [...] (C) In recent months we have heard criticism of the Iraqi criminal justice system in Ninewa. Even officers at the Provincial Joint Coordination Center (PJCC) say they are "tired" of seeing terrorists released by "cowardly judges" or "corrupt" military and police officials. Corruption and cow [...]	2006-04-01 12:22:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR KCRM
06MOSUL4	NINEWA KURDS FOCUSING ON PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) REO Poloff met with members of the Kurdish Alliance (KA) to discuss national election results, the new government, security, and the future provincial election. PUK member Abdulbari Al-Zebari claims KA did not perform as well as they should have due to improprieties by local IECI. He sai [...]	2006-01-30 13:39:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ PINT
06MOSUL40	HUMAN RIGHTS/NORTHERN IRAQ: MAYOR FEARS KURDISH DESIGNS IN [...] (C) Mayor Bassem Jejo is frustrated by what he sees as blatant efforts by the Kurds to usurp his and the Ninewa provincial government's authority over Telkaif District. He accuses the Kurds of loading the district council with KDP members, allowing Peshmerga to operate checkpoints on major t [...]	2006-04-01 12:37:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL41	NINEWA: TAWAFOQ IRAQI FRONT PARLIAMENTARIAN VIEWS ON IRAN [...] (C) Tawafoq Iraqi Front coalition national assemblymembers, who are predominantly from the Iraqi Islamic Party, told us that U.S. pressure on Iran over nuclear issues is causing Iraq's Shia politicians to resist any formation for the new government. They said the end of U.S. pressure on Iran m [...]	2006-04-07 16:31:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL42	NINEWA: IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY ON SECURITY [...] (C) Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) leaders in Ninewa want a more representative Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and a reduced role of Coalition Forces (CF). They claim the Kurds are meddling with security and politics in the province. IIP reps believe they should play a larger role with helping CF an [...]	2006-04-08 16:05:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL43	NINEWA: PROMINENT - AND SHADY - SUNNI SHEIKH ON SECURITY AND [...] (C) With the advent of democracy in Iraq, Ninewa's tribal leaders in the Sunni Arab community fear losing their traditional influence. However, there are tribal leaders working behind the scenes who still hold sway over politics and business affairs, especially such persons with strong ties t [...]	2006-04-08 16:13:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL44	NINEWA: SCIRI REP BLAMES SUNNIS, USG FOR PROBLEMS WITH [...] (C) SCIRI provincial spokesman Aref Yousef believes delays in the formation of a new central government are the fault of Sunni Arab political parties and the USG. Yousef says Sunni coalitions Tawafoq Iraqi Front (Iraqi Accord Front) and Iraqi Front for National Dialogue (Al Hewar Iraqi Front) [...]	2006-04-11 11:19:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL45	NINEWA: SHAMMAR TRIBAL LEADER ON GOVERNMENT FORMATION, [...] (C) Western Ninewa Sunni Arab tribal leader Sheikh Abdullah Al Yawar believes all ethnic and political groups in Baghdad are responsible for failings with the new government formation. He believes the last government's problems were not only the fault of Prime Minister Al Ja'afari, but also t [...]	2006-04-14 12:00:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL46	NINEWA: PUK NATIONAL ASSEMBLYMEMBER CONFIDENT IMPASSE OVER [...] (C) PUK national assemblymember from Ninewa Abdelbari Al Zebari is an optimist. On a recent visit to Turkey with PUK colleagues for talks with members of the Turkish parliament, the delegation was told -- repeatedly -- that the Iraqis should "get accustomed" to the idea of working with the Tu [...]	2006-04-14 12:39:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL47	NINEWA: TURKOMAN TRIBAL LEADER ON TURKEY, RELATIONS WITH THE [...] (C) Sheikh Seyh Beyatli, leader of the Turkoman Beyatli tribe, believes Turkey is meddling in Turkoman affairs in Iraq. He claims Turkey's main goal is to remove any sort of historical allegiances between the Kurds and Turkoman people to keep federalism from taking hold in Iraq. Beyatli claim [...]	2006-04-20 11:51:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL5	NINEWA CHALDO/ASSYRIANS CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR FUTURE IN [...] (C). REO Poloff met with members of the Beth Nahrain Patriotic Union (BNPU),a Chaldo/Assyrian political party, on January 31, to discuss national election results, security issues, and the future of the community in Ninewa. BNPU member Yacoub Ibrahim said kidnappings and extortions against [...]	2006-01-31 16:57:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ MARR PINT
06MOSUL50	NINEWA VIEWS ON CENTRAL GOVERNMENT FORMATION AND SECURITY [...] (C) Reaction by Ninewa's political representatives and government officials towards the formation of a new central government in Baghdad is best described as cautiously optimistic. While there is some finger pointing as to why the process has taken so long (over six months) with no agreement, [...]	2006-05-19 16:30:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL52	NINEWA PRT: MOSUL UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS INTERESTED IN WORKING [...] (C) Dean of the University of Mosul Medical School, Dr. Nazar Qibi, says he is interested in working with PRT Ninewa on projects to benefit the people of the province, but is terrified that any association with the USG or Coalition Forces (CF) might lead to injury or death for himself and his [...]	2006-05-22 16:12:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL53	NINEWA PRT RULE OF LAW: NINEWA CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE [...] (C) Rule of law is the foundation of an effective criminal justice system that empowers governments to provide security and stability. Using this concept, the PRT Rule of Law Team is working with local officials on the establishment of the Ninewa Criminal Justice Committee (NCJC). The NCJC a [...]	2006-05-25 12:20:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR KCRM
06MOSUL54	NORTHERN IRAQ: NINEWA REACTION TO NEW IRAQI GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Views from Ninewa political, tribal, and government officials on the new -- and permanent -- Government of Iraq vary according to ethnicity. The Shiite community is overwhelmingly upbeat, the Kurds more pragmatic, with Sunnis feeling a bit disaffected and minorities somewhat despondent. [...]	2006-05-27 13:27:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL55	NINEWA: SOURCES CITE SECTARIAN STRIFE IN TAL AFAR [...] (C) Tal Afar is frequently cited in the western media and by USG officials as a good news story in Iraq. Recently, however, we have also heard reports of increased sectarian strife. Some sources say Sunni and Shia conflict in southern Iraq and Baghdad has influenced relations between the two [...]	2006-05-31 06:14:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MOSUL56	NINEWA: LOCAL CHRISTIAN OFFICIALS CLAIM INTERNALLY DISPLACED [...] (C) Local religious and political officials report that the number of internally displaced Christians fleeing Baghdad and Mosul to eastern Ninewa is growing. Father Aimen of St. George's Catholic Church in Bartallah claims around 3,000 displaced persons are already residing in Al Hamdiniya Di [...]	2006-05-31 07:15:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR

06MOSUL57	CHRISTIAN MILITIAS IN NINEWA PLAINS [...] (C) Christian religious and provincial government officials report Christian militias are operating in minority areas east of Mosul ("Ninewa Plains"). According to Dr. Lalo, assistant governor for the province, Christian forces in Ninewa Plains number approximately 1,250 and are personally be [...]	2006-05-31 07:33:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR

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