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09BAGHDAD2100	MINISTER SAFA AL-SAFI LAUDS BASRAH RECONSTRUCTION, [...] (C) Summary. Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Safi al-Safi told Poloffs he is proud of his management of Prime Minister Maliki's $100 million reconstruction effort in Basrah province. Contrasting his efforts to the United Kingdom's "economic failure" in Basrah, he said over 80 perce [...]	2009-08-04 10:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EAID PHUM KDEM IZ

09BAGHDAD2101	NAJAF GOVERNOR MEETS MULTI-NATIONAL DIVISION SOUTH [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-04 12:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON IZ
09BAGHDAD2103	MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: MEK ON HUNGER STRIKE, REFUSING [...] (C) Summary. On August 4, Iraqi humanitarian situation commander in Ashraf COL Sa'di Habib Hussein al-Dulaymi informed USG officials that he had visited the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) detainees at the detention facility in Khalis on August 3, stating that the MEK detainees have refused food and [...]	2009-08-04 15:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PGOV IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2105	THE LIMITS OF CROSS-SECTARIAN POLITICS BEFORE THE [...] (C) Summary. Iraqi politicians are seeking to brand their parties as non-sectarian amid a whirl of alliance negotiations before the January national parliamentary election. A significant cross-sectarian, national electoral alliance would be a very positive development in Iraqi politics. Forma [...]	2009-08-05 08:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2107	IRAQ'S ARMENIAN COMMUNITY: GREATLY REDUCED, BUT [...] (C) The leader of Iraq's Armenian Community, Archbishop Avak Asadourian, tells us that the presence of Armenians in Baghdad has been greatly reduced since 2003, but that the Armenian Church continues to serve its remaining members. On August 5, Poloff traveled to the Armenian Cathedral in Bag [...]	2009-08-05 13:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM IZ
09BAGHDAD2108	FM ZEBARI URGES MORE SUPPORTIVE USG STANCE ON [...] (C) Summary: FM Hoshyar Zebari, during an August 4 introductory call by Pol M/C, called for greater USG effort to help Iraq get out of Chapter VII, as it had committed to do. He criticized the initiative of recently departed SRSG de Mistura and blamed him for the current complications with [...]	2009-08-05 14:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC PTER KU IR IZ SY
09BAGHDAD212	MORE ON ANTI-CORRUPTION AGENCY'S VETTING OF [...] (C) The Commission on Integrity's (COI) acting head, Judge Rahim Al-Uqaili, denied any political pressure to vet educational certificates submitted by candidates in the upcoming provincial council elections. He indicated that the COI was acting on its own and doing its part to ensure good ele [...]	2009-01-27 16:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD2120	MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF: DISPELLING MEK CLAIMS OF [...] (C) Summary. U.S. military medical personnel will enter Ashraf, Diyala Province, in the next 24 hours to determine the extent of the hunger strike (reftel). While the residents of Ashraf have refused food shipments from the GOI, the residents' claims of GOI blockage of food shipments to Ash [...]	2009-08-06 13:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2121	PRT DIYALA: BOMBING TARGETS PARTY HQ IN BAQUBAH [...] (C) Summary: On July 30, a bomb exploded inside the party headquarters of the National Movement for Reform and Development (NMRD) in Baqubah, killing seven and wounding approximately ten party members. NMRD did not win seats in Diyala during the 2009 Provincial Council (PC) elections, but d [...]	2009-08-06 13:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2132	MALIKI-BARZANI MEETING: AN ICEBREAKER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The long awaited meeting between Prime Minister Maliki and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Barzani took place on August 2 and resulted in agreement to establish a joint GOI-KRG team to address contentious Arab-Kurd issues. KRG insiders tell us Maliki agreed to int [...]	2009-08-07 15:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ IR
09BAGHDAD2134	CODEL BISHOP MEETING WITH IRAQI COUNCIL OF [...] (C) Summary: In an August 5 meeting with CODEL Bishop, Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR) Speaker Ayad Al-Samarraie asserted that Iraqis were now more willing to form issue-based vice sectarian/ethnic-based political alliances, which boded well for the future. Al-Samarraie declared that t [...]	2009-08-08 16:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF OTRA IZ
09BAGHDAD2139	SHI'A POLITICAL PARTIES STRUGGLE TO FORM A NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Shi'a political parties that comprised the United Iraqi Coalition (UIC) in 2005 are negotiating intensely to form a new alliance to contest parliamentary elections in January 2010. Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) leaders had hoped to announce the new coalit [...]	2009-08-09 15:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD214	DHI QAR ELECTIONS UPDATE: SHELL GAME FAVORS DA'WA [...] (C) Summary: All PRT contacts in Dhi Qar claim to want a change from the current elected officials, but the educated elite recognize that not many alternatives exist to the three main religious parties (ISCI, Da'wa, and Fadhila). Out of 67 political parties on the Dhi Qar ballot, only the Com [...]	2009-01-28 07:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2142	BAGHDAD FAILY KURDS - NOT SO KURD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Baghdad's Faily Kurds, a Muslim Kurd minority, continue to grapple with issues of identity that were exacerbated by Saddam Hussein's repressive policies. They appear to have little affinity for Iraqi Kurdistan and its leaders. Rather, they say they support PM Maliki's efforts [...]	2009-08-10 06:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI SCUL SMIG KERF IZ
09BAGHDAD2143	IRAQI MINISTER OF FINANCE JABR [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Ambassador,s meeting with Finance Minister Jabr, they discussed the Minister,s approval for financing of the GE deal, the need for flexibility in bidding rounds to increase oil production, the need to encourage the World Bank to provide financing to complement the USD 5. [...]	2009-08-10 08:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	BEXP EAID ECON EFIN EINV IZ PGOV PREL
09BAGHDAD2144	INEXPERIENCE AND BUDGET CRUNCH MARK KARBALA [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Nearly three quarters of Karbala's 2009 provincial budget is allocated for water and housing projects. With reduced oil revenues driving funding shortfalls from Baghdad, many essential service projects remain uncompleted over three months into the tenure of the new local gove [...]	2009-08-10 10:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD215	PRT SALAH AD DIN: MOD TRIES TO EVICT RESIDENTS OF [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. (U) Summary ------------ 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Defense (MoD) has issued orders to the 4th Iraqi Army (IA) Division to expel thousands of people, some of them IDPs, from various neighborhoods in Tikrit that MOD considers its prop [...]	2009-01-28 07:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM IZ
09BAGHDAD2151	IRAQI JOURNALISTS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER DRAFT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On July 31, the Government of Iraq (GOI) announced a draft law purporting to protect journalists' rights and freedom of the press. Many Iraqi and international media rights groups and individual journalists are concerned that, if passed, the law could be manipulated [...]	2009-08-10 14:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PHUM PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2154	ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE [...] (C) In remarks at an August 1 anti-corruption conference, Vice President Al-Hashimi repeated previous criticism of the controversial legal provision, 136(b) of the Criminal Procedure Code, allowing ministers to block prosecution of employees for corruption and other crimes. Citing the Commiss [...]	2009-08-11 09:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2163	ASSESSING RECENT VIOLENCE IN ANBAR [...] (U) This is a PRT Anbar reporting cable. 2. (U) Summary. Six car bombing and suicide bomber attacks in Anbar Province since mid-July appear to have been conducted by remnants of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) or by nationalist insurgent groups to create an atmosphere of instability and to degrad [...]	2009-08-11 17:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM PGOV PINR PREL PTER
09BAGHDAD217	PRT SALAH AD DIN: TRYING TO REHABILITATE [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In response to security improvements in Salah ad Din (SaD),the Ministry of Transportation (MOT) has begun efforts to restore the operational capacity of the Bayji Iraq Republic Railway (BIRR) Station. The PRT expects this effo [...]	2009-01-28 11:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELTN EINV ETRD IZ
09BAGHDAD218	NINEWA: SUNNI ARAB AND KURD POLITICAL ENTITIES [...] (C) Summary. Representatives of the Sunni Arab al-Hadba list, the National Iraqi Project Group (Hewar),and the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) alleged that they are victims of Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP)-inspired intimidation and violence. The KDP has also levied accusations of elections malfeas [...]	2009-01-28 11:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2181	IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER ZEBARI ON 3 AMCITS IN [...] (C) Iraqi Foreign Minister Zebari confirmed to DCM August 12 that he had raised the situation of the three American citizens detained in Iran with Iranian Ambassador Qomi on August 8. Zebari said he had told Qomi that the three should be released immediately. According to Zebari, Qomi retu [...]	2009-08-12 15:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC IR IZ PREL
09BAGHDAD2184	RECENT ATTACKS ON CIVILIAN TARGETS PROMPT CONCERN, [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Since late July, a series of explosions targeting political party offices, mosques and civilian gathering places across the country have unsettled Iraqis about the possibility of renewed sectarianism. While the number of overall casualties is relatively low compared t [...]	2009-08-13 06:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2186	MEK IN CAMP ASHRAF:MEK DETAINEES VISITED; STILL NO [...] (C) Summary. A U.S. military medical team, with the consent and coordination of the GOI, visited Khalis detention facility in Diyala Province August 11 to perform a welfare check on the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) detainees currently in GOI custody. TF-134 reported that the MEK detainees appear [...]	2009-08-13 10:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PGOV IR IZ
09BAGHDAD219	KARBALANS KEEN TO CAST BALLOTS [...] (C) Summary: Karbala's citizens are eager to vote in the provincial elections on January 31. Preparations for "special needs" voting on January 28 are complete. Acting Provincial Council Chairman Abd al-Al al-Yasiri told the PRT on January 26 that there is nothing to prevent those voting o [...]	2009-01-28 13:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2204	IRAQ MINISTER OF OIL OPTIMISTIC ON FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion of petroleum issues in Iraq, Minister of Oil Husayn Al-Shahristani told DCM for Assistance Transition that he - is optimistic about significantly improved oil production; - expects the British Petroleum/CNPC contract to manage Rumaila field to be [...]	2009-08-14 13:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON IZ
09BAGHDAD2214	ANTI-CORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ [...] (C) Iraq's lead anti-corruption agency, the Commission on Integrity (COI),is expanding its outreach to the NGO community, according to COI head Judge Raheem Al-Ugaili. He agreed to attend the ACCO-hosted NGO event planned for the fall. Judge Raheem provided an update on the GOI's anti-briber [...]	2009-08-16 14:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM EPET IZ
09BAGHDAD2222	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TALABANI [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Talabani cautioned the Ambassador, August 13, that recent U.S. outreach to Syria and Sunni insurgent groups is playing into perceptions that the USG supports the return of the Baathists. Talabani was likewise cautionary on overly visible U.S. advocacy for a resolution [...]	2009-08-17 09:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ PGOV PREL SY
09BAGHDAD2230	CODEL MCCAIN MEETING WITH IRAQI PRESIDENT TALABANI [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Talabani predicted to CODEL McCain that, with U.S. help, the Kurds and Arabs would be able to avoid conflict and resolve critical issues like the status of Kirkuk. He said Barhem Salih was on track to become the next KRG prime minister. FM Zebari emphasized that the Jan [...]	2009-08-17 16:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM SY IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2237	SENIOR IRAQI MFA OFFICIAL ON IRAN-IRAQ RELATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 17 meeting with Post's Iran Watcher (IW),Ambassador Taha Shukr al-Abbassi, head of the MFA's Neighboring Countries department responsible for Iran-Iraq relations (A/S equivalent),made the following points: (1) Iraq seeks a bilateral relationship with Iran base [...]	2009-08-18 11:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2238	KRG ELECTIONS: IHEC ANNOUNCES PROVISIONAL RESULTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Having announced last week provisional results of the Kurdistan regional elections, the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) has shifted its attention to preparing for the national elections, expected to take place in January 2009. Overall, contacts at UNAMI, diplomatic [...]	2009-08-18 13:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2239	IRAQI NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR ON PM'S TRIP TO [...] (C) Summary: Acting National Security Advisor Dr. Safa al-Sheikh told Pol M/C August 16 that PM Maliki would travel to Damascus August 18 armed with specific intelligence about SARG support for Baathists in Syria, and he would demand that it cease. Al-Sheikh noted that many Iraqi officials c [...]	2009-08-18 13:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD224	IRAQ NATIONAL LIST MEMBERS WEIGH IN ON PROVINCIAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-28 15:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2243	VOTER REGISTRATION UPATE DRAWS IHEC INTO KIRKUK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The national voter registration update (VRU) originally scheduled to begin August 15, has been postponed for a week as the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) has been drawn into sectarian politics over the disputed province of Kirkuk. Although the VRU period will open [...]	2009-08-18 15:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2244	IRAQI CABINET SUBMITS DRAFT LAW FOR REFERENDUM ON [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: According to an August 17 press release, the Iraqi Council of Ministers has approved a draft law for holding a public referendum on the U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement (SA) in conjunction with parliamentary elections in January 2010. The move is consistent with the Cabine [...]	2009-08-18 15:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2245	DA,WA PARTY CONFERENCE STRESSES NATIONAL UNITY AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Maliki was reelected as his party's secretary-general during Da'wa's biennial convention August 13-15. GOI President Talibani and most members of the Iraqi Cabinet attended the opening ceremony, which emphasized the themes of national unity and Iraqi sovereignty. While hedgi [...]	2009-08-18 15:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2246	PM MALIKI, CODEL MCCAIN DISCUSS KIRKUK, MEDDLING [...] (C) Summary: In an August 14 meeting with PM Maliki, Senator McCain congratulated the PM for the impressive progress in Iraq since his last visit. PM Maliki acknowledged the significant security gains and pointed to the tremendous sacrifices of both Iraqis and Americans. Regarding Arab-Kur [...]	2009-08-18 15:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF SY IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2256	MINISTER OF ELECTRICITY HAS A PLAN, BUT LACKS [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging initial meeting with DCM for Assistance Transition Patricia Haslach, Minister of Electricity Karim Hasan outlined Iraq,s significant infrastructural challenges; discussed his plans for short-term financing of an ongoing multi-billion dollar electricity generation [...]	2009-08-20 11:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON IZ
09BAGHDAD2261	KRG PRESIDENT BARZANI, CODEL MCCAIN DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani reaffirmed to CODEL McCain August 15 that the Kurds will forever be an ally of the United States. Barzani claimed the KRG was ready to resolve the host of Arab-Kurd issues -- including disputed internal boundaries (DIBs) [...]	2009-08-21 09:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EPET IZ IR SY
09BAGHDAD2265	ANTI-CORRUPTION CONSULTATIONS IN MOSUL [...] (C) Anti-Corruption Coordinator and staff (ACCO) visited Mosul, capital of Ninewa province August 15-16. Anti-corruption efforts in Ninewa include, inter alia, the conviction of the former Provincial Council President for contract fraud and the case of Ninewa's prison warden, Hussein Tawfiq, w [...]	2009-08-21 12:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2270	FM ZEBARI PROVIDES MESSAGE OF REASSURANCE, INSISTS [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari met with foreign Ambassadors August 21 to provide an official reaction to the August 19 bombing of the MFA (and other GOI buildings) and to provide assurances that the MFA would soon be back up and functioning, using auxiliary buildings on the MFA compound [...]	2009-08-21 14:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER IZ
09BAGHDAD2272	FM ZEBARI ACCEPTS AMBASSADOR'S CONDOLENCES; SAYS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador visited the heavily damaged MFA building August 22 to offer his condolences on the bombings in Baghdad. Meeting in a room that had been largely cleared of damage for a makeshift receiving room, but surrounded by rooms and hallways filled with shattered glass, deb [...]	2009-08-22 14:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2282	RRT ERBIL: KRG CONVENES NEW PARLIAMENT BUT [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: At a ceremony in Erbil August 20, the newly-elected Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) parliament was sworn in and President Barzani inaugurated. Barzani and President Talabani strongly condemned the Baghdad bombings and called for Iraqi un [...]	2009-08-23 16:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV
09BAGHDAD2285	IRAQI JOURNALISTS PROTEST GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN ON [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Iraqi journalists took to the streets on August 14 to protest a perceived Government of Iraq (GOI) crackdown on freedom of the press. Estimates of the number of participants in the demonstration range from 150 to 1,500. GOI police provided security for the event, a [...]	2009-08-24 10:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PHUM PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2288	NEW SHIA ALLIANCE EXCLUDES MALIKI, BUT FINAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's main Shia parties, with the notable exception of PM Maliki's Da'wa, announced today the establishment of the Iraqi National Coalition (INC),a revitalized Shia grouping that seeks to run together during the national election scheduled for January. Saying the INC would buil [...]	2009-08-24 15:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2298	SRSG FOR UNAMI DISCUSSES ARAB-KURD, CHAPTER VII [...] (C) Summary: In an August 23 meeting with the Ambassador, UNAMI SRSG Melkert expressed concern about the ability of GOI forces to provide security, in the wake of the breakdowns evident in the August 19 bombings. Melkert said he intended to convene the High Level Task Force on disputed intern [...]	2009-08-26 03:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KU IZ
09BAGHDAD2299	(C) IRAQ OIL: MINISTRY OFFICIALS SKEPTICAL AS [...] (C) Summary: In advance of the second oil and gas bid round, international oil companies (IOCs) are increasing their engagement with the Ministry of Oil (MOO). While the Government of Iraq (GOI) has yet to determine how it will deal with oil fields that were not awarded in the first bid roun [...]	2009-08-26 08:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2302	DEATH OF SHIA LEADER ABD AL-AZIZ AL-HAKIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Shia political world marked a major milestone with the death today of Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, the chairman of the influential Shia party the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI). Hakim's death could herald a generational shift within ISCI and the Hakim dynasty that could bri [...]	2009-08-26 16:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2303	SADR CITY SHI'A IMAMS NOT SANGUINE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shi'a imams and community activists told Emboffs that: Sunni-Shi'a reconciliation would be impossible in the near- to mid-term; Iraqis would continue to vote on sectarian lines in upcoming elections; no existing political party enjoys genuine credibility; a major effort on voter [...]	2009-08-26 16:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KIRF KCOR PTER PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD2304	FM ZEBARI ON TRILATERAL PARTICIPATION, POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 26 meeting at the MFA with Pol M/C, FM Zebari said that in light of Syria's involvement with Baathists suspected in the August 19 bombings, the GOI would have to defer participation in the upcoming U.S.-Syria trilateral border assessment that had been planned to begi [...]	2009-08-27 12:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER UNSC IZ SY
09BAGHDAD2312	UPDATE ON ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS IN IRAQ [...] (C) The Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) "good governance and transparency strategy" is a welcome initiative -- if vigorously implemented -- that contains an array of action items, ranging from the creation of an "Executive Office of Governance and Integrity" to reform of the civil servi [...]	2009-08-28 09:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2313	UPDATE ON ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS IN IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-28 09:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2319	"BLAMESTORMING" OVER BAGHDAD BOMBINGS SHARPENS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 19 bombings in Baghdad prompted a flurry of finger-pointing, with government officials and politicians blaming various Sunni groups, especially Ba,athists in Iraq and Syria, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF)and rival Shi,a groups. The Saudis and Syrians, too, have come und [...]	2009-08-28 15:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PINR PTER SA SY POL
09BAGHDAD2320	EMBASSY BAGHDAD SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Ambassador Hill welcomes your visit to U.S. Embassy Baghdad. Your visit comes as we shift to a higher gear on transition amidst the initial stages of the U.S. military drawdown. We look forward to discussing in depth the 2011-2012 planning and explaining in detail our assistance, rig [...]	2009-08-28 18:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID AMGT IZ
09BAGHDAD2343	WASIT PROVINCIAL COUNCIL DISMISSES OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) The Wasit Provincial Council (PC) on Aug. 20 voted to permanently remove two leading "opposition" figures, Ghadanfar Kadim Ubayd (Iraqi List) and Majid Ali Askar (Dawa-Maliki faction). The PC Chairman, Mahmud Abd Al-Rida Talal (aka Haiji Mahmud-ISCI),initiated the removal process and o [...]	2009-08-31 08:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD235	UPBEAT MINORITY LEADERS ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) While Christian and other minority leaders still smart over the single-seat minority quotas in the Provincial Elections Law (PEL),they no longer talk of a boycott and are encouraging their constituents in the north and other regions to vote in the provincial elections on January 31. Chri [...]	2009-01-29 13:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2357	NINEWA,S KING-MAKER ARTICULATES NATIONAL AMBITIONS [...] (C) Summary: During an August 26 meeting with PRT Leader, Multi-national Division-North (MDN-N)Deputy Commanding General (DCG),and 3/1 Cavalry Brigade Commander, Sheikh Abdullah al Humaidi, head of the influential Arab Shammari tribe and the major force behind Ninewa,s governing Al Hadba coal [...]	2009-09-01 15:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PTER
09BAGHDAD2363	FM ZEBARI ON GOI PURSUIT OF UN CRIMINAL INQUIRY, [...] (C) Summary: In a September 1 meeting, FM Zebari told Pol M/C the GOI has sent a letter formally requesting the UNSC to support formation of a UN-led fact-finding commission into the August 19 bombings, including Syrian complicity vis a vis Iraqis operating from Syria, and the broader scope o [...]	2009-09-02 11:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SY IZ
09BAGHDAD2366	PRESIDENT TALABANI'S TRAVEL TO THE U.S. [...] (C) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Post requests possible dates for a POTUS meeting with President Talabani. Talabani expressed his desire to meet POTUS in Washington, D.C. directly following his trip to New York to deliver speeches in New York at UNGA, the Clinton Initiative and the Socialist [...]	2009-09-02 14:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA IZ
09BAGHDAD237	FEMALE CANDIDATES COULD WIN MORE THAN 25 PERCENT [...] (C) Summary: Despite confusion over the interpretation of the Provincial Election Law, and the failure to pass a late amendment to guarantee a 25 percent quota for women on each of the 14 provincial councils (PCs) to be elected in Iraq on January 31, the United Nations projects that new PCs [...]	2009-01-29 13:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2370	RRT ERBIL: KRG MINISTER,S HARSH CRITICISM OF U.S. [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister Responsible for Foreign Relations Falah Mustafa announced publicly that Embassy Baghdad fails to inform Washington about Kurdistan Regional issues. He repeated it again in a meeting with RRT Lead [...]	2009-09-03 06:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PREL
09BAGHDAD2372	IRAQ CONTINUES TO MAKE PROGRESS ON KUWAITI MASS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq has made substantial progress recently in its search for mass graves containing the remains of Kuwaitis. Following a successful August 4 Technical Subcommittee meeting in Kuwait, the Government of Iraq (GOI) formally petitioned the International Committee of the Red Cross [...]	2009-09-03 07:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MARR PGOV IZ KU
09BAGHDAD2381	PROGRESS ON DEMINING PICKS UP PACE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iraqi Minister of Defense Abd Al-Qadir Muhammad Al-Mufriji issued an order August 30 to allow nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to perform demining operations, according the Deputy MinEnv Kamal Hussein Latif. The directive represents a significant breakthrough for U.S.-suppor [...]	2009-09-03 14:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KHDP PARM PGOV PREL UNDP IZ
09BAGHDAD2385	ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE [...] (C) The Higher Judicial Council's spokesperson reported that Iraq's judiciary had received 445 corruption cases so far this year and already adjudicated over half of them, issuing many guilty verdicts. He asserted that some cases involved senior GOI officials. A Deputy Interior Minister ack [...]	2009-09-04 09:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2386	AMMAR AL-HAKIM SUCCEEDS FATHER AS ISCI CHAIRMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Six days after the death of Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Shura Council elected Hakim's eldest son, Ammar, to be ISCI's new chairman. The move was widely anticipated given the close association of the Hakim family to ISCI and the praise lavished [...]	2009-09-04 10:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2389	OIL MINISTER FLEXIBLE WITH IOC IN PRIVATE ... BUT [...] (C) Summary: British Petroleum Iraq (BP) said Oil Minister Shahristani is under intense pressure to get the GOI's contract with British Petroleum/China National Petroleum Corporation (BP/CNPC) signed. According to BP, Shahristani has been personally engaged and responsive to BP's concerns, an [...]	2009-09-04 16:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD239	PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS KICK OFF WITH SPECIAL NEEDS [...] (C) Summary: Polling centers around Iraq opened for the day on January 28 to accommodate "special needs" voters. Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and Police (IP),detainees in Iraqi and Multinational Force - Iraq (MNF-I) centers, and hospital patients and staff were eligible to vote early in the [...]	2009-01-29 14:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2390	MALIKI ADVISOR SAYS PM UNLIKELY TO JOIN SHI'A [...] (C) In a meeting with the DCM on September 2, PM Maliki's Chief of Staff, Tariq Abdullah, said it was "doubtful" that the PM would join the recently-formed Iraqi National Alliance (INA). (Note: As reported ref A, Iraq's main Shi'a parties, with the notable exception of Maliki's Da'wa Party, lau [...]	2009-09-05 07:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2397	ZEBARI SAYS IRAN WANTS TO TRADE FOR THE THREE [...] (C) Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari informed Pol M/C September 1 that Iranian FM Mottaki told him during his August 29 visit that Iran wants to trade the three Amcits detained since July 30 in exchange for seven Iranians held in Europe and the U.S. (NOTE: Zebari did not have information on which sev [...]	2009-09-06 14:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER CASC IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2398	MEK/ASHRAF UPDATE: GOI WILLING TO NEGOTIATE WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 2 meeting with MNFI and Emboffs, Ali Yassery, Chairman of the GOI's "MEK/Ashraf" Committee stated: (1) the GOI will meet with the MEK after Ramadan to solicit their cooperation for the relocation; (2) the 36 MEK detainees in Iraqi police custody face secondary c [...]	2009-09-06 14:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2399	IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIALS DISCUSS REQUEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior MFA officials told Pol M/C September 4 that the GOI is determined to pursue a investigation of the role of neighboring countries, in particular Syria, in the bombings of August 19, as well as, the broader issue of intervention and external support for terrorism in Iraq. The [...]	2009-09-06 14:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER IR SY IZ
09BAGHDAD240	IRAQI JUDGES DISCUSS ANTI-CORRUPTION ISSUES [...] (C) The Central Criminal Court of Iraq's top investigative judge, in familiar GOI terms, expressed resentment over Iraq's abysmal standing in Transparency International's global rankings on corruption. At the same time, he acknowledged the weaknesses of the GOI's anti-corruption institutions, [...]	2009-01-30 08:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD2417	CODEL LEVIN PROBES SECURITY AND STABILITY IN IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of their September 3-4 visit to Iraq, Senators Levin, Reed, and Kaufman engaged Interior Minister Jawad Bolani and Defense Minister Abd al-Qadr al-Mufriji on Iraq's current security environment, conveying Washington's interest in Iraq's stability. In separate meetings, the [...]	2009-09-08 15:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PTER MCAP PGOV INRPAZ EPET
09BAGHDAD2419	PRT DIYALA: POLITICAL INFIGHTING UNDERMINES [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-08 15:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD242	IRAQ'S PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: RAMIFICATIONS FOR [...] (U) This is a Diyala PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The outcome of the upcoming provincial elections will have important implications for the stability of Diyala Province and the region. The PRT predicts one of three likely scenarios to result from the elections: coalitions will fo [...]	2009-01-30 12:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI PINS KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2420	PRT DIYALA: POLITICAL INFIGHTING UNDERMINES [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-08 15:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2421	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH IRAQI DEPUTY SPEAKER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 31 meeting, First Deputy Speaker Khalid al Attiya spoke with the Ambassador about security issues -- and the impact that internal political conflicts can have on security -- in the wake of the August 19 bombings. For Attiya, a a Shia independent and Maliki supporter, [...]	2009-09-09 05:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2424	JUDICIARY ISSUES ARREST WARRANT FOR PROMINENT [...] (C) The Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) has issued a warrant for the arrest of a leading anti-corruption official, Board of Supreme Audit (BSA) head Abdel Basit Turki, widely respected as upright and competent. The warrant is based on alleged wrongdoing by Abdel Basit while serving the Saddam regime [...]	2009-09-09 10:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2425	CODEL LEVIN DISCUSSES IRAQ'S PLACE IN THE REGION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 4 meeting with visiting Senator Levin, FM Zebari requested USG support for establishing a UN tribunal, similar to the one set up following Rafik Hariri's assassination in Lebanon, to determine who was behind the August 19 attacks. Zebari called the attack "Iraq's [...]	2009-09-09 11:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF SY IR KU IZ
09BAGHDAD2426	IRAQ/IRAN: KARBALA EAGER FOR PILGRIMS WITH DEEP POCKETS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: According to the governor of Karbala and the brother of the imam of the al-Abbas shrine, Iran continues to exert a dominating influence, notably in business dealings in Karbala province. Both interlocutors lamented Iraq's inability to negotiate with the Iranians for [...]	2009-09-09 14:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR IZ ECON
09BAGHDAD244	MINISTER OF FINANCE JABR DISCUSSES KUWAITI DEBT, [...] (C) Summary: Finance Minister Bayan Jabr told EMIN on January 26 that the GoI delegation to the Arab League Summit in Kuwait had discussed the GoI's debt with the Kuwaiti government, but that no resolution was reached over compensation for Kuwaiti Airlines damages. Although Kuwaiti Prince She [...]	2009-01-30 12:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EPET ETRD IZ PGOV
09BAGHDAD2441	PM MALIKI, CODEL LEVIN DISCUSS FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Maliki told CODEL Levin Iraq faces interference from neighboring countries intent on fomenting sectarian discord, and Syria-based Iraqi Ba'athists and al-Qaeda in Iraq elements conspired to perpetrate the August 19 bombings. He expressed confidence in Iraqi Security Forces' (I [...]	2009-09-10 06:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MARR UN KIRF IR IZ SY
09BAGHDAD2442	DPM ISSAWI: ATTACKS ON INTERIOR MINISTER UNFAIR; [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Issawi told Pol M-C that criticism of Interior Minister Bolani in the wake of the August 19 Baghdad bombings was unfounded and designed to pressure Bolani to stay in the Shi'a fold for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Issawi was optimistic about reducin [...]	2009-09-10 06:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS IZ
09BAGHDAD2444	SUNNI POLITICAL PARTIES FRACTURED DESPITE [...] (C) Summary: Realizing they disadvantaged themselves by boycotting earlier elections and alarmed at perceived Iranian efforts to increase influence and ensure Shi'a domination of Iraqi politics, Sunni politicians are participating in large numbers in the run-up to national elections in 2010. T [...]	2009-09-10 14:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD245	ANBAR CANDIDATES CONFIDENT FOR PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of recent discussions in the week before Provincial Council (PC) elections, Anbari candidates and the Governorate Elections Officer (GEO) expressed enthusiasm and confidence that the elections will be a strong step forward for Anbar. Candidates predicted the number o [...]	2009-01-30 13:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2454	ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: A number of cases involving senior judicial and anti-corruption officials continue to bubble up in the media in Iraq, likely a manifestation of both intense political jockeying and real efforts to crack down on corruption, which polls show is an issue of increasing [...]	2009-09-11 14:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM EAID IZ
09BAGHDAD2455	PM MALIKI ADVISOR ON SYRIA, ARAB-KURD TALKS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sadiq al-Rikabi, PM Maliki's political advisor, told Pol M/C September 9 that Maliki was intent on hitting every pressure point available, including through the UN, to get Syria to stop harboring anti-GOI Ba'thists and allowing insurgents to cross the border. Turning to Iran, Ri [...]	2009-09-11 15:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2456	IRAQI ISLAMIC PARTY CHIEF: ELECTIONS ON TRACK; [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Islamic Party leader Osama al-Tikriti believes the Iraqi parliament will soon pass an election law providing for multiple districts and a closed list, and that national elections will occur on schedule in January. He asserted that PM Maliki would not be able to gain broad Su [...]	2009-09-11 16:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2459	CONVERSATION WITH KDP REPRESENTATIVE ROWSCH [...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 7, former Deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Shaways arrived in Baghdad to represent the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) at UNAMI's September 8 High Level Task Force (HLTF) meeting. Shaways has not been a regular fixture in Baghdad politics for over 9 months. As KR [...]	2009-09-12 09:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD246	ANBAR CANDIDATES PREDICT NEW PROVINCIAL COUNCIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of discussions with poloffs on the upcoming Anbar Provincial Council (PC) elections, Anbari candidates predicted that the Awakening Conference of Iraq (MSI, the "Sahwa"),the Iraqi Islamic Party, the Iraqi National Dialogue Front, the National Movement for Reform and [...]	2009-01-30 13:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD247	ANBARI CANDIDTATES' FRET ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Anbari Provincial Council (PC) elections candidates and the Governorate Elections Officer (GEO) recently detailed concerns to poloffs about potential campaign irregularities and/or electoral intimidation, especially by Iraqi Police (IP). Two candidates protested that Al Anbar t [...]	2009-01-30 14:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS PTER KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2473	MOI TO HIRE 500 CHRISTIANS AND MANDEANS TO GUARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to requests from the non-Muslim Endowment and the bombings of six churches in Baghdad on July 12, the GOI has authorized the Ministry of Interior (MOI) to hire, train and pay 500 guards drawn from Iraq's Christians and Sabean-Mandean communities to serve as guards at ch [...]	2009-09-14 05:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PTER SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2478	MINISTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS ON MEK, RESOURCES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 7 meeting with the POL M/C, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim criticized the GOI's handling of the Mujahadeen el-Khalq (MEK) issue, noting that Iraq has already lost the battle for public opinion within the international community. In addition, Salim cited a l [...]	2009-09-14 07:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KJUS PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2487	AHMED CHALABI DISCUSSES HIS NEW POLITICAL ALLIANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 12 meeting with POL M/C, Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress party and member of the newly-formed and predominantly Shia Iraqi National Alliance (INA) (see reftel),criticized the GOI and PM Maliki for failing to govern effectively. He said the I [...]	2009-09-14 14:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD249	KARBALANS "SPECIAL NEEDS" VOTING PROBLEM-FREE [...] (C) Summary: "Special needs" voting in Karbala on January 28 proceeded smoothly. Some 19,000 out of approximately 24,000 eligible voters cast ballots. Polling sites in the western, central and eastern sectors of the province were calm and orderly, with voters taking evident care to read and [...]	2009-01-30 14:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI IZ IR
09BAGHDAD2491	MINORITY QUOTAS IN NATIONAL ELECTIONS LIKELY, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minority political leaders tell us that it is increasingly likely that the forthcoming national election law will include reserved seats for Iraq's minority communities. Such a move would continue the trend of providing for minority representation that began in the Provincial Cou [...]	2009-09-15 10:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2493	DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION DELIVERED TO GOI [...] (C) Pol M/C delivered the points in reftel demarche on Kosovo recognition September 14 to Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari. Zebari agreed to meet with Kosovo officials at UNGA, as scheduling permitted. HILL [...]	2009-09-15 13:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KV
09BAGHDAD2495	FM ZEBARI ON THE MEK [...] (C) In a September 14 meeting with Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari, Pol M/C urged caution as the GOI tackled the issue of moving the Mujahideen el-Khalq (MEK) out of Ashraf. While recognizing that the GOI had a sovereign right to act, he pressed for it to delay taking action for a couple of months a [...]	2009-09-15 15:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PTER IR IZ

09BAGHDAD250	MAYSAN DAWA DEPUTY PC CHAIR CONCERNED ABOUT VOTER [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Deputy Provincial Council (PC) Chairman and Da'wa provincial party head Latif Abud Kaseem expressed concerns about pre-election security and the potential for voter fraud committed by voting centers staff on election day in a meetin [...]	2009-01-30 14:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2504	IRAQI FM URGES P-5 AMBASSADORS FOR SUPPORT OF [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi FM Zebari summoned P-5 ambassadors to the MFA September 16 and pressed for support for the GOI's plans to call for a senior official, appointed by the UNSYG, to investigate the August 19 bombings and the broader issue of external support for terrorism in Iraq. Noting that [...]	2009-09-16 13:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2507	DCM HASLACH MEETING WITH MINISTER OF TRANSPORTATION [...] (C) Summary. In his first meeting with DCMAT Haslach, Transportation Minister Amir Abul Jabbar Ismail pressed the USG to make greater use of Iraqi transport assets, particularly air and rail. Ismail defended the GOI,s recent decision to enforce Iraqi Airways, monopolies of cargo and charter [...]	2009-09-16 14:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON IZ PGOV
09BAGHDAD252	DIYALA IDPS: SHIA AND KURDS' COLD CALCULATION [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala and ePRT South Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Controversial statements by Shi'a and Kurdish political leaders about internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Diyala aim to underdermine the credibility and legitimacy of the provincial elections in the province [...]	2009-01-30 15:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2521	MEK DEFECTORS ON LIFE IN ASHRAF AND RESETTLEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 17 meeting with Emboffs, several recent defectors from the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) organization residing in a Baghdad hotel under GOI auspices expressed frustration and disappointment at the absence of resettlement options and the alleged indifference of Wester [...]	2009-09-18 15:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREF PINR IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2527	ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT COMPLAINTS CONTINUE TO DECLINE [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's status as a "boycotting country" under the Arab League Boycott of Israel (ALB) has been "under review" since 2006, when ALB compliance requests peaked at 33. Since that time, official reports -- as compiled by the Department of Commerce in accordance with reporting requi [...]	2009-09-21 03:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2528	MANDEANS FACE INTERNAL SPLIT EVEN AS THEY SEEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sabean-Mandean leaders tell us they are making a united full-court press to secure guaranteed representation in the next Iraqi Parliament, even as current leader Sheikh Sittar Hillo fends off a challenge from a younger rival. While the Mandeans acknowledge that the GOI has taken [...]	2009-09-21 10:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD253	MAYSAN ISCI HEAD REVEALS PRE-ELECTION OPTIMISM [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: In a January 21 meeting with the PRT, ISCI Deputy Governor Abdul Hussein Abdul Radha expressed optimism over the provincial election process in and his party's chances in Maysan. Radha confidently predicted that the ruling Sadrists' [...]	2009-01-30 15:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IZ IR
09BAGHDAD2530	PRT SALAH AD DIN: VOTE TO REMOVE GOVERNOR TRIGGERS [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary: In a September 3 session, the Salah ad Din Provincial Council (PC) voted to remove the Provincial Governor, Mutashar Hussein Ilaiwee Yaseen, from office. The Governor appeared before the PC in response [...]	2009-09-21 13:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2539	(U) DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S MEETING WITH [...] (U) Date and Venue: September 17, 2009; 11:00 a.m.; Baghdad, Iraq. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Dr. James Steinberg, Deputy Secretary Amb. Gary A. Grappo, POL M/C Elissa Slotkin, NEA Senior Advisor for Iraq and Regional Affairs Mike Castiglione, Embassy notetaker IRAQ Qasim Daud, Co [...]	2009-09-22 10:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
09BAGHDAD254	MAYSAN SADRIST HUSSEIN IDEOLOGY FRONT TO SUPPORT [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Maysan Sadrist-affiliated Hussein Ideology Front (HIF) party official and Provincial Council (PC) member Mohammed Wahid told the PRT on January 28 that HIF would support three Sadrist lists in the provincial elections: the two OMS/S [...]	2009-01-30 15:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IZ IR
09BAGHDAD2547	PRT DIYALA: DG FOR OIL FIRED-TESTING THE [...] THIS IS A PRT-DIYALA REPORTING CABLE 2. (C) SUMMARY: On July 28, 2009 the Diyala Provincial Council terminated the Director General for the Administration of Petroleum Products for professional malfeasance. Though the termination order is supported by the Provincial Governor, the Ministry [...]	2009-09-23 06:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2550	UNAMI ON THE NATIONAL ELECTIONS, KIRKUK AND THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNAMI Deputy SRSG Andrew Gilmour discussed with POL M/C the challenges of passing a timely national elections law, suggesting that UNAMI, the Embassy, and others would need to make a major push with Iraqi political players in October to rally support for passage of the law and to [...]	2009-09-23 07:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ IR
09BAGHDAD2551	GOI INCREASES CAPACITY OF IRAQI JUDICIARY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In September, 66 new judges graduated from the entry-level judicial education program at the Iraqi Judicial Training Institute (JTI),which is administered by the Ministry of Justice. These newly graduated judges are evidence of the Iraqi judiciary,s advancement as an instituti [...]	2009-09-23 07:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS IZ
09BAGHDAD2561	THE GREAT GAME, IN MESOPOTAMIA: IRAQ AND ITS [...] (U) This is the second of two cables reviewing Iraq's relations with key neighboring countries. this cable focuses on Iraq's relations with Syria, in the wake of the August 19 bombings. 2. (C) Summary: Iraq's improving relations with its neighbors in 2008 and early 2009 represented a critica [...]	2009-09-24 03:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ SY KU IR TU
09BAGHDAD2562	THE GREAT GAME, IN MESOPOTAMIA: IRAQ AND ITS [...] (U) This is the first of two cables reviewing Iraq's relations with key neighboring states, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and Turkey, in the wake of the August 19 bombings. Part II reviews Iraq's relations with Syria, in the wake of the August 19 bombings. 2. (C) Summary: Iraq's relations [...]	2009-09-24 03:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2566	PRT SALAH AD DIN: VOTE TO REMOVE GOVERNOR TRIGGERS [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary: In a September 3 session, the Salah ad Din Provincial Council (PC) voted to remove the Provincial Governor, Mutashar Hussein Ilaiwee Yaseen, from office. The Governor appeared before the PC in response [...]	2009-09-24 08:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2567	BAHAI CASE TESTS IRAQ'S RESPECT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leaders of Iraq's small Bahai community are requesting the assistance of the Ministry of Interior (MOI) in their bid to receive identification documents that would list their religion as Bahai rather than Muslim. Although the MOI issued a small number of ID cards listing the Bahai [...]	2009-09-24 11:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2568	OPTIONS NARROW AS PARLIAMENT DEADLOCKED ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the self-imposed deadline of October 15 fast approaching, Iraqi politicians are still haggling over the terms of a law for the national elections scheduled for January 16. Political posturing over hot-button issues -- in particular Kirkuk -- is complicating parliamentary d [...]	2009-09-24 11:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL KDEM
09BAGHDAD2574	PRT SALAH AD DIN: VOTE TO REMOVE GOVERNOR TRIGGERS [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary: In a September 3 session, the Salah ad Din Provincial Council (PC) voted to remove the Provincial Governor, Mutashar Hussein Ilaiwee Yaseen, from office. The Governor appeared before the PC in response [...]	2009-09-25 09:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD260	IRAQI PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS -- POLLS OPEN, VOTING [...] (C) Summary: Voting in Iraq's provincial elections is underway. The vast majority of 39,000 polling stations around the country are reported to have opened as scheduled at 0700 and UNAMI confirmed at 1200 that all polling centers are now open. U.S. election observer teams report heavy sec [...]	2009-01-31 14:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2605	NEW ISCI CHAIRMAN AMMAR AL-HAKIM UPDATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the Embassy's first meeting with Ammar al-Hakim since he was elected to succeed his father as the chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI),Ambassador Hill on September 23 stressed the U.S. commitment to transitioning from a military- to a civilian-led U.S. presen [...]	2009-09-28 15:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
09BAGHDAD2606	CHAIRMAN OF IRAQ'S ELECTION COMMISSION DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Head of Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC),Faraj al-Haydari, told POL M/C September 17 that IHEC is being subjected to a smear campaign orchestrated by the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) party and others. In his view the criticisms -- and calls to [...]	2009-09-28 15:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD261	POLLS CLOSE AFTER A PEACEFUL DAY OF VOTING IN IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Iraq remained relatively peaceful as millions of Iraqis went to the polls on January 31 to elect new provincial councils. Polls closed throughout the country at 1800 after eleven hours of voting, with a one-hour extension authorized late in the day. Embassy received isolated [...]	2009-01-31 19:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PINR PREL SOCI
09BAGHDAD2623	VPOTUS MEETING WITH UNAMI ACTING SRSG GILMOUR [...] (U) September 16, 2009; 2:30 p.m.; Baghdad, Iraq. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden Ambassador Christopher R. Hill GEN Raymond Odierno, Commanding General MNF-I Tony Blinken, National Security Advisor, OVP James Steinberg, Deputy Secretary of State Colin Kahl, D [...]	2009-09-29 18:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2627	SRSG MELKERT DISCUSSES IRAQ-SYRIA RELATIONS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a September 26 meeting with CDA Haslach and A/DCM Grappo, SRSG Ad Melkert assessed the role the UN might play in Iraqi-Syrian relations and in transitioning the Mujahideen-e-Khalq's (MEK) presence in Iraq. Melkert emphasized the need for broad regional and international [...]	2009-09-30 16:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ IR
09BAGHDAD2628	UNAMI TECHNICAL ADVISOR LAYS OUT PLANS FOR IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-30 16:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM PGOV
09BAGHDAD2629	UNAMI TECHNICAL ADVISOR LAYS OUT PLANS FOR IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: At their meeting on September 22, the head of UNAMI's technical assistance team for elections, Sandra Mitchell, advised Pol/C that the 2005 election law would provide the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) with adequate guidance to carry out elections by January 16, 20 [...]	2009-09-30 16:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM PGOV
09BAGHDAD2632	MINISTER OF OIL OPTIMISTIC ABOUT IRAQ'S OIL FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: In a September 17 meeting with Deputy Secretary James Steinberg, GOI Minister of Oil Hussayn Shahristani expressed optimism about the upcoming second oil licensing round, as well as for Iraq's future willingness to sign a gas agreement with Europe. In the wide ranging discussion, [...]	2009-10-01 09:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2633	IS THE BELL TOLLING FOR THE ICI? [...] (C) In separate meetings with Charg Haslach on September 26 and major donor countries on September 28, UNAMI SRSG Ad Melkert confirmed that he would deliver the following points to the Prime Minister's office regarding the International Compact with Iraq (ICI): - The ICI has largely outlive [...]	2009-10-01 09:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2636	RRT ERBIL: KRG OPPOSITION VOWS CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Change List officials, including both the leaders of their parliamentary bloc and Change Movement leader Nawshirwan Mustafa, pledged to play a constructive role in parliament, focusing on internal KRG governance issues, such as rule of law, [...]	2009-10-01 12:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PHUM
09BAGHDAD2637	RRT ERBIL: KRG BULLISH ON RELATIONS WITH TURKEY [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials told us recently they are pleased with the KRG's improving relations with Turkey, casting this development -- along with strong relations with the United States -- as a counter to malign Iranian [...]	2009-10-01 12:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU IZ
09BAGHDAD2639	MALIKI'S REVAMPED ELECTORAL ALLIANCE FAILS TO [...] (C) Summary and Comment: During an October 1 press conference in Baghdad, Prime Minister al-Maliki unveiled his new State of Law Alliance (SLA) that will contest the January national election. While Maliki emphasized the diversity of his list as a reflection of Iraq and physically surrounded [...]	2009-10-01 13:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2649	ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE OCTOBER 2, 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Recent focus by the Commission on Integrity (COI) on validating credentials of government employees has expanded to other public documents, i.e., forged deeds that are now being investigated in Basra. Also in Basra, media reports alleged widespread bribe-taking by local poli [...]	2009-10-02 11:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR EPET IZ
09BAGHDAD2650	PRT NINEWA: THE GRAINS OF WRATH: NINEWA,S [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-02 12:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON IZ PHUM
09BAGHDAD2658	IRAQI ELECTION LAW DEBATE SLOUCHES TOWARDS MESSY [...] (C) Summary: On October 1, Council of Representative members voted to add a first reading of a draft election law to the agenda, a procedural move just short of a formal "first reading." The decision was accompanied by debate and then boisterous dissent by some Sunni Arab COR members from K [...]	2009-10-03 06:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2659	CORRECTED VERSION: ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE OCTOBER [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-03 10:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2661	RECONSIDERING IRAQ'S FIRST OIL BID ROUND AND [...] (C) Summary: While the results of Iraq's June 30 oil and gas bid round may at first seem disappointing, the bid round could be considered a modest success. Although only one oil field was awarded, the planned expansion of that field should increase Iraq's oil production over the next six year [...]	2009-10-03 13:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2662	ELECTION AND INVESTMENT LAWS WEIGH HEAVILY ON PM'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Maliki focused on passage of the election law and an amendment to the investment law in an October 1 meeting with Ambassador and Deputy Commanding General (DCG) Hunzeker. The PM noted that disputes over the distribution of parliamentary seats in Kirkuk still posed a [...]	2009-10-03 14:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV IZ
09BAGHDAD2671	PROMINENT SUNNI SHEIKH TO ANNOUNCE COALITION; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sheikh Abdallah al-Yawar al-Shammari, acting paramount sheikh of the influential al-Shammari tribe and an architect of the major Arab political party in Ninewa, told the Ambassador's Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq that he will soon announce a cross-sectarian, nationalist coalitio [...]	2009-10-05 11:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2678	36 MEK DETAINEES TRANSFERRED TO MUTHANNA AIRFIELD [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI tells us that the 36 Mujahideen al-Khalq (MEK) detainees arrested at Camp Ashraf on July 28 have been moved to a detention facility at Muthanna Airfield in Baghdad pursuant to a deportation order issued on October 1 declaring them illegally present in the country. An earli [...]	2009-10-05 16:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREF PREL PINR IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2683	EVANGELICAL CHURCHES FIND PATH TO OFFICIAL [...] (C) A key Iraqi Evangelical Church leader tells us that Evangelical Churches are unable to obtain official recognition from the GOI because of overly stringent registration requirements imposed by the non-Muslim Endowment, thus preventing these churches from conducting legally sanctioned marri [...]	2009-10-06 09:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2686	IRAQ OIL: EXXONMOBIL AGGRESSIVELY PURSUING WEST [...] (C) Deputy Oil Minister for Midstream Shamma told econoffs that ExxonMobil--which unsuccessfully bid on the West Qurna oil field in Iraq's June 30 bid round--has agreed to accept the Oil Ministry's low remuneration fee and enter negotiations for the production service contract for West Qurna. [...]	2009-10-06 10:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2695	IRAQI SPEAKER ON ELECTIONS LAW, INVESTMENT LAW, [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Speaker of the Council of Representatives Ayad Sammarraie confirmed to the Ambassador October 5 that that the first reading of the draft election law took place the day before. He expressed hope that the election law would be passed in the next ten days. The speaker ackno [...]	2009-10-06 15:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EFIN IZ
09BAGHDAD2702	GOI SAYS MEK RELOCATION WILL HAPPEN BY END OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on October 6, the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Tariq Abdullah and Ashraf Committee Chairman Ali al-Yassery told Pol M/C and SRSG Melkert that the GOI plans to initiate its plan to relocate the Muhajideen-e Khalq (MEK) from Camp Ashraf by the end of October. Yasser [...]	2009-10-07 12:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREF PREL PINR IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2703	36 MEK DETAINEES RETURNING TO ASHRAF AFTER DEAL [...] (C) The 36 detainees from the Muhajideen-e Khalq are set to return to Camp Ashraf on October 7 after agreeing to a deal with the GOI. In a meeting on October 6, the Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Selim and Ashraf Committee Chairman Ali al-Yassery told the Embassy, UNAMI, and ICRC that the GOI [...]	2009-10-07 12:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREF PREL PINR PHUM IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2704	CHALABI OFFERS VIEWS ON IMPROVING IRAQ'S ECONOMY, [...] (C) Summary. On October 6, A/DCM Grappo discussed with Iraqi National Alliance (INA) member Ahmed Chalabi the poor state of Iraq's private economy, the INA's campaign platform of improving services and taming corruption, and his opinion about Saudi Arabia and Iran. Chalabi opposed the Amendmen [...]	2009-10-07 13:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EINV IZ
09BAGHDAD2715	CHINA TRAINS IRAQI ARMY PERSONNEL IN DEMINING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Chinese Defense Attach to Iraq confirmed September 21 that the Chinese military is providing training in demining to approximately 20 Iraqi Army officers and 20 Afghan Army officers in the vicinity of Nanjing. People's Republic of China (PRC) Defense Attach Senior COL Wang Ru [...]	2009-10-08 13:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PARM EPET KHDP AF CH IZ
09BAGHDAD2716	PRT WASIT: CHAIR OF IHEC'S PROVINCIAL OFFICE [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a routine weekly meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 7, Wasit IHEC Chairman Dr. Khadem Abdallah Hussien told Acting Team Leader (ATL) Schlaefer and PDO Steve Smith that he would likely resign in a short period, in response to harsh criticism and a series of death threats. An emot [...]	2009-10-08 14:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2717	PROPOSED COURSE OF ACTION ON THE MEK [...] (C) In this cable, the Embassy offers our recommended course of action and associated talking points for addressing the issue of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK). In the last six to eight weeks, the Embassy has made significant strides in addressing this issue, the most important of which has bee [...]	2009-10-08 18:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREF PREL PINR IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2718	EPRT ANBAR 1: FALLUJAH SHEIKS FEAR SECURITY RISKS [...] (U)This is an ePRT Anbar 1 (Fallujah) cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On September 24, Fallujah's city council sheikhs complained that reduced U.S. aid and GoI budget austerity are spurring unemployment and creating fertile ground for Al Qaida recruitment. They lobbied for increased U.S. aid proje [...]	2009-10-10 07:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EAID EAGR ENRG PTER PHUM ASEC KJUS IZ
09BAGHDAD2731	DPM ISSAWI ADVANCES NINEWA'S ARAB-KURD DIALOGUE [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Rafi al-Issawi visited Mosul and Erbil on October 1 to further efforts to resolve the (Kurdish) Ninewa Fraternal League's (NFL) boycott of the Ninewa Provincial Council (PC) and its r [...]	2009-10-10 19:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD274	IRAQ PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: WHAT HAPPENS NEXT [...] (C) Summary: Turnout for the Iraqi provincial elections held 31 January, 2009 was 51 percent nationwide, according to the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC). The votes have been counted, and the tally sheets are arriving in Baghdad two days after the elections, and the IHEC expect [...]	2009-02-02 13:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PINR PREL SOCI
09BAGHDAD2741	PM MALIKI ON THE ELECTION LAW, INVESTMENT [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-12 11:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM PGOV KREF EPET PTER IZ IR SY
09BAGHDAD2745	STAGE IS SET FOR ACTION ON IRAQ'S ELECTION LAW [...] (C) After weeks of speculation, Iraq's Council of Representatives (COR) performed two of three required readings of an election law October 4-6. The chair of the legal committee minimally satisfied this procedural requirement by reading a brief amendment to the 2005 election law which party [...]	2009-10-12 19:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2748	IRAQ'S REMAINING JEWS STAY HIDDEN [...] (C) On October 10, Poloff met with one of the last remaining Jews in Iraq, Khalida Fouad Liahu Moualim (strictly protect),to discuss the current state of the Iraqi Jewish community. Moualim stated that there are now eight remaining members of the Iraqi Jewish community in Baghdad including h [...]	2009-10-13 06:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD275	KARBALA: ELECTIONS RUN SMOOTHLY, PM-BACKED SLATE [...] Summary: Election Day in Karbala proceeded smoothly amid tight security. According to IHEC figures, 60 percent of registered voters participated. The decision to extend voting for an hour enabled as many as 4,000 voters whose names were not properly recorded to cast their ballots. Initial b [...]	2009-02-02 15:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2750	SPEAKER SAMMARRAIE ADDRESSES CONCERNS OVER IHEC [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Council of Representatives Speaker Ayad Sammarraie told the Ambassador October 11 that as a result of the harsh interrogation of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) chairman October 5, it was possible that the COR would dismiss two IHEC commissioners. The Amba [...]	2009-10-13 09:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EINV IZ
09BAGHDAD2751	PM MALIKI ON THE ELECTION LAW, INVESTMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an October 9 meeting with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked the Ambassador to help stave off efforts in the COR to remove the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) Chairman for fear it could dissolve the entire organization and possibly lead to a dela [...]	2009-10-13 09:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM PGOV KREF EPET PTER IR SY IZ
09BAGHDAD2752	VP HASHIMI OFFERS ONE MORE NINEWA INITIATIVE [...] (C) Summary: A key advisor to Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi said the VP intends to pursue a reconciliation initiative in Ninewa before the upcoming election, and to then focus on Kirkuk. In Ninewa, he plans to focus not just on brokering a power-sharing agreement between feuding Sunni Arabs [...]	2009-10-13 14:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD2755	IRAQ-UK SECURITY AGREEMENT APPROVED BY COUNCIL OF [...] (C) Iraq's Council of Representatives (COR) passed the UK bilateral security agreement October 13 with 139 votes. British Defense Attach Brigadier Ben Bathurst said the British Ambassador had been working closely with Iraqi Speaker Ayad al-Samarraie to encourage the passing of the agreement. [...]	2009-10-13 16:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS MOPS UK IZ
09BAGHDAD2756	COR COMMENCES ELECTION LAW DISCUSSION, APPROVES [...] (C) As part of their process toward passing a new election law, on October 13 members of the Council of Representatives (COR) discussed elements of the law for three hours. Continuing where they left off on October 6 (Ref A),roughly thirty MPs took turns making public statements on key issu [...]	2009-10-13 19:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2758	CHRISTIANS RECRUITED FOR SHI'A-LED ELECTORAL [...] (C) Two prominent Christian leaders, Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Selim and the Prime Minister's Advisor for Christian Affairs Georges Bakoos, tell us that the Prime Minister's State of Law Alliance (SLA) has recruited six prominent Christian candidates, including themselves, to run in the [...]	2009-10-14 10:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2760	ANTI-CORRUPTION CONSULTATIONS IN KURDISTAN [...] (C) During October 7-8 visit to Erbil, Anti-Corruption Coordinator and staff (ACCO),joined by Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) Erbil officers, met with various Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) officials, parliamentarians, and civil society reps. Incoming KRG Prime Minister Barham Salih [...]	2009-10-14 10:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2762	FM ZEBARI DEMARCHED ON IRAN, COMMENTS ON [...] (C) Summary: In an October 12 meeting, A/DCM delivered the (reftel) points relating to the P5 1 talks with Iran to FM Zebari. Zebari responded with a brief readout from a recent meeting with Iranian President Ahmedinajad, suggesting that Iran will not immediately comply with P5 1 demands. [...]	2009-10-14 12:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ TU SY
09BAGHDAD2765	IRAQ UPDATES ITS INVESTMENT LAW: EXPLAINING THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: After nearly six months of sustained U.S. and GOI effort, Iraq's Council of Representatives (COR) passed the amendment to the National Investment Law (NIL) on 13 October. Significantly, the amendment will provide for limited foreign ownership of land in Iraq for the purposes of de [...]	2009-10-14 16:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD PGOV IZ PREL
09BAGHDAD2766	SPEAKER PREDICTS PASSAGE OF ELECTION LAW OCTOBER [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Speaker of the Council of Representatives (COR) Ayad Samarra'i told the Ambassador October 14 that he expects a vote (and passage) of the election law October 17 or 18. As a way of coaxing agreement over the divisive issue of Kirkuk, the Speaker said he would float a prop [...]	2009-10-14 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2767	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 14, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The COR did not address the election law in its session on October 14 (Ref A). Speaker Ayad al-Samarra'i told the Ambassador October 14 that he hopes for a vote on the election law amendments under discussion in the Council of Representatives (COR) as early as October 17 but was [...]	2009-10-14 16:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2776	IRAQ INVESTMENT CONFERENCE: DELIVERING A CLEAR [...] (C) Summary: The October 19 U.S.-Iraq Dialogue on Economic Cooperation (DEC) and the October 20-21 Business and Investment Conference (BIC) will put the spotlight on Iraq's aspirations to participate more fully in the global economy. U.S. and Iraqi government officials can expect questions fro [...]	2009-10-15 08:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON POL PGOV PREL EINV ETRD EINT IZ
09BAGHDAD2786	IRAQI FINANCE: JABR ON BUDGET, TRADE, OIL AND THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-15 15:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON POL ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2787	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 15, 2009 [...] (C) At the October 15 Council of Representatives (COR) session, Speaker Ayad al-Samarra'i announced that a vote on the election law would take place on Sunday, October 18 at the soonest. He added that, in the event that the Legal Committee, which is responsible for drafting the text, was not [...]	2009-10-15 16:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2788	SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR RICE'S VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (C) Ambassador Rice, your upcoming trip to Iraq comes at an important time in Iraq's political calendar. Iraqi political leaders are furiously at work negotiating potential alliances in advance of the January 2010 parliamentary elections. The maneuvering will become even more frenetic after [...]	2009-10-16 13:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG PHUM IZ
09BAGHDAD2789	SCENESETTER: MALIKI HEADS TO THE WASHINGTON [...] (C) Maliki's visit to Washington for the Business and Investment Conference comes at a time of great promise and significant risk for Iraq. Maliki himself has unhitched his political fate from the Shia power brokers who made him Prime Minister four years ago and has embarked on a political j [...]	2009-10-16 18:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2793	PM MALIKI ON ELECTIONS LAW, INVESTMENT CONFERENCE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 17 meeting, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki expressed his concern to the Ambassador about the elections law and the timing for its passage due to political party manuevering and to continued wrangling within the COR over Kirkuk and open vs. closed lists. The PM expre [...]	2009-10-17 17:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM KREF PTER EPET SY IZ
09BAGHDAD2794	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 17, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. While the Council of Representatives (COR) was out of session on October 17, it is clear that private discussions about the planned amendment to the election law continue among political leaders (Ref A). From the Ambassador's meeting with PM Nuri al-Maliki today (septel) to dis [...]	2009-10-17 17:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2795	CORRECTED COPY: IRAQI FINANCE: JABR ON BUDGET, [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Council of Ministers (COM, the Cabinet) has set a 2010 Budget ceiling of 67 Billion USD and is continuing internal negotiations regarding ministerial allocations this week in Baghdad, Minister of Finance Jabr told USG officials on October 14. Jabr expected the budget wo [...]	2009-10-17 17:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON POL ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2797	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 18, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 18, the Council Of Representatives (COR) postponed by a day consideration of a draft election law. On the margins of a pro-forma plenary session, committee chairs and bloc leaders continued the frenzy of informal meetings that may result in a draft law in time for a [...]	2009-10-18 17:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2798	PRT NINEWA: AMBASSADOR'S SENIOR ADVISOR FOR [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador,s Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq, Alan Misenheimer, joined Ninewa PRT on September 22-24 for a tour of Ninewa, meeting key political and religious leaders and gaining a first-hand view of the province. In extended conversations, the Senior Advisor heard from Sun [...]	2009-10-18 19:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2799	ISCI BLOC LEADER GUNNING FOR IHEC, OPTIMISTIC ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) COR bloc leader Jalal al-Din al-Saghir predicted to POL M/C that the Council of Representatives (COR) would pass an open list election law by October 19. Despite advising him against dismissing members of the Independent High Electoral Commi [...]	2009-10-19 03:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD28	BABIL PROVINCIAL COUNCIL AT END OF TERM: WHERE [...] (SBU) The Babil PC's last session of 2008, in which it wrestled with whether and how to spend the remaining balance of its 2008 capital budget, underscored that politics in the province is dominated by personal ties and interests over party solidarity, even with provincial elections only one [...]	2009-01-07 07:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD280	CHAIRMAN OF COR FINANCE COMMITTEE SPEAKS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: A 19 January 2009 impromptu dinner invitation extended to USAID and IFES with Mr. Ayad Samarai, Chairman of the Council of Representatives (COR) Finance Committee, provided a window into what he is thinking on a broad range of subjects as he contests the position of Speaker at [...]	2009-02-03 13:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AORC
09BAGHDAD2800	TURKISH PM ERDOGAN'S OCTOBER 15 VISIT TO BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: Turkish PM Erdogan arrived in Baghdad on October 15 for a one-day visit to meet with Iraqi President Talabani and Iraqi VPs al-Hashemi and Abdul-Mahdi, as well as to conduct bilateral and expanded talks with Iraqi PM al-Maliki as part of meetings of the Iraqi-Turkish Strategic [...]	2009-10-19 05:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ TU SY
09BAGHDAD2810	BARZANI ON NINEWA: KRG PRESIDENT LOOKS WEST [...] (C) Summary: During a joint MND-N DCG and Ninewa PRT Team Leader engagement on October 7, KRG President Barzani observed that security differences between the GOI and the KRG in disputed areas would not be solved without the presence of U.S. forces (USF). He expressed appreciation for joint [...]	2009-10-19 12:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2812	KIDNAPPINGS OF IRAQI CHRISTIANS RAISES CONCERNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A series of high profile kidnappings of Iraqi Christians over the past several months in Mosul, Kirkuk, and Baghdad have raised concerns amongst Christian leaders that the community is being deliberately targeted by criminal gangs. Whether the kidnappings are politically motivated [...]	2009-10-19 12:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KJUS PHUM SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2813	GOI REINFORCES COMMITMENT TO CHRISTIAN CHURCHES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Over the past several months, the GOI has reinforced its commitment to Iraq's Christian community by inviting the Assyrian Church to relocate its headquarters back to Baghdad and by returning schools expropriated during the Saddam-era back to the Chaldean Church. At [...]	2009-10-19 12:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2814	IRAQI MFA STRUGGLES TO REBUILD, EVEN AS IT [...] (C) Summary: On October 16, the Iraqi MFA hosted a commemoration ceremony for the victims of the August 19 bombing that killed some 30 MFA employees. PM Nouri al-Maliki and other senior officials delivered eulogies to the fallen. In the days and weeks leading up to this event, the MFA has [...]	2009-10-19 14:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2817	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 19, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Iraq's Council of Representatives (COR) failed to reach agreement October 19 to move the election law forward. At an early meeting on October 19, Speaker Ayad al-Samarra'i cautioned CDA and POL M/C that October 18 negotiations on a draft amendment to the 2005 election law had b [...]	2009-10-19 17:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2825	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 20, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 20 parliamentarians dutifully reported to the Council of Representatives (COR),and likely comprised a quorum, but the session was never convened, as the deadlock on the Kirkuk issue continued. A/DCM held extensive meetings with COR members today, including key Kurdi [...]	2009-10-20 19:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2829	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 21, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Midday on October 21, Speaker Ayad al-Samarra'i announced that the Presidency Council of the Council of Representatives (COR) would refer the election law to the Political Council for National Security (PCNS). This action was predicted October 20 in conversations A/DCM had with [...]	2009-10-21 19:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2831	IRAQ OIL LEGISLATION, THE ROAD AHEAD: DELAYS AND [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with econoffs, both the chair (KDP) and vice-chair (Da'wa) of the Oil and Gas and National Resources Committee of the Council of Representatives (parliament) reaffirmed that progress on hydrocarbons legislation must wait until the new central government is sea [...]	2009-10-22 06:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2833	IRAQ OIL LEGISLATION, THE ROAD AHEAD: DELAYS AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-22 08:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2834	KRG MAY BE PLOTTING AGAINST IRAQ OIL MINISTER AND [...] (C) Summary: The chair and vice-chair of the Oil and Gas and National Resources Committee of the Council of Representatives (parliament) disagree over whether the Council of Ministers (cabinet) or parliament has final authority to approve the large oil-field development contracts currently bei [...]	2009-10-22 08:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2842	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 22, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 22 the Council of Representatives (COR) was in recess and CDA and A/DCM continued political engagements with UNAMI, Vice Presidents Tariq al-Hashimi and Abd al-Mahdi and President Jalal Talabani (septels). Early indications are that the Political Council for National [...]	2009-10-22 17:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2847	PROVINCIAL POWERS LAW USED IN HISTORIC TEST TO [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (U) Summary: On October 13 an Iraqi federal court upheld the Salah Ad Din (SAD) Provincial Council (PC) dismissal of the Provincial Governor following a six-week struggle between the two principal governing entities i [...]	2009-10-23 13:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD285	CRUNCH TIME: GOI SCRAMBLING TO MEET DEADLINES FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOI still hopes to submit an updated Legislative Action Plan and its initial goods offer in time to allow for its Third WTO Working Party to meet late this spring. Good progress has been made on draft bills covering Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Technical Barriers t [...]	2009-02-04 07:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EFIN PGOV ECON IZ
09BAGHDAD2851	SWIRLING CROSS-CURRENT OF HIDDEN AGENDAS AND [...] (C) Summary: The roiling debate over whether and how Kirkuk participates in the upcoming election remains the crucial issue in the Iraqi Council of Representatives' (COR) deadlock over passage of a new election law. However, there are other, less visible factors that are also contributing to [...]	2009-10-23 17:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2856	IMPASSE ON KIRKUK: LEADERS DISAGREE BUT OFFER FEW [...] (C)Iraq's three Presidency Council members acknowledge that efforts to pass an elections law continue to founder on disputes over Kirkuk's participation in the elections. In separate meetings with with either General Odierno and/or CDA and A/DCM October 22, President Jalal Talabani, and Vice [...]	2009-10-24 09:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD286	US LEADERSHIP AND FUNDING NEEDED TO RETURN IRAQ,S [...] (C) Summary: Security gains have started to reverse the tide of displacement in Iraq ) UNHCR estimates that 185,000 IDPs and 23,000 refugees returned in 2008, out of nearly three million Iraqis displaced in 2006 and 2007. If security and other conditions continue to improve, UNHCR estimates [...]	2009-02-04 08:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2864	TURKOMANS: THE THIRD WHEEL ON ELECTION LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkoman intransigence on Kirkuk's treatment in the national elections has become a key sticking point in achieving consensus on a national election law. In discussions over how to divvy Kirkuk's allocation of seats in Parliament, the minority Turkoman insist on representation eq [...]	2009-10-25 13:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2865	POLITICAL TURMOIL IN DIWANIYAH PROVINCE: A [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a lengthy period of tranquility, politics have heated up sharply in Diwaniyah Province. The forging of national electoral coalitions in Baghdad reverberated in the province, but new coalitions in the Provincial Council (PC) appear to be driven by local considerations rath [...]	2009-10-25 15:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ

09BAGHDAD287	GOI ASKS WESTERN COUNTRIES TO RESETTLE MEK [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 14. 2. (C) Summary: GOI point person for the Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK),National Security Advisor Dr. Mowaffaq Al-Rubaie (in the presence of the Iranian Ambassador),briefed international organizations and countries the GOI believes may have r [...]	2009-02-04 09:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PINS PREL IZ IR
09BAGHDAD2870	KURDISH PM CRITICIZES CELEBRATIONS FOR PKK [...] (U) Speaking with reporters in Erbil on October 25, outgoing KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani criticized Kurds in southeastern Turkey for throwing celebrations and giving a hero's welcome to PKK rebels who returned to Turkey on October 19 (reftel) as reported in international press. Barzani opined th [...]	2009-10-26 15:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PHUM PREF PTER TU
09BAGHDAD2872	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE OCTOBER 26, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Political Council for National Security (PCNS) met on October 25 to discuss the elements for an election law after the matter was referred to it by the Council of Representatives (COR) (Ref A). Contacts tell us that the meeting was very large, with several proposals, which [...]	2009-10-26 18:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2877	BAGHDAD BOMBINGS: USG ASSISTANCE COORDINATION [...] (C) Summary: Post has established an interagency working group to coordinate assistance to the GOI following the October 25 car bombings at several GOI buildings, including the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),Ministry of Interior (MOI),Higher Judicial Council (HJC),Ministry of Municipalities and [...]	2009-10-27 12:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ASEC PGOV PTER IZ
09BAGHDAD2879	SADRIST TREND AND ISCI OFFER PRIMARY ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Declaring its commitment to an open-list electoral system, the Sadrist Trend this month held Iraq's first primary election, claiming a likely exaggerated turnout of 1.5 million. Days later, their electoral ally, the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI),announced it too is acce [...]	2009-10-27 15:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD288	ANBAR SHEIKHS ACCUSE IIP OF FRAUD, THREATEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post-provincial election tension has arisen in Anbar province as Anbari tribal leaders have accused the (incumbent) Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) of manipulating election results with the assistance of the allegedly IIP-influenced Governorate Elections Officer (GEO). Conference of t [...]	2009-02-04 12:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC KDEM PINS IZ
09BAGHDAD2880	ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE OCTOBER 26, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's Council of Representatives (COR) has resumed its questioning of senior officials on corruption allegations. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has singled out "political corruption" for condemnation at a recent Defense Ministry-sponsored conference. ACCO contacts tell us th [...]	2009-10-27 16:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2883	BATTERED AND BRUISED BUT CARRYING ON: BAGHDAD IN [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Two car bombs detonated in close succession in Baghdad on October 25, heavily damaging the Ministry of Justice and the Baghdad Provincial Council building. As of October 27, the Ministry of Interior told MNF-I that 93 Iraqis were killed and 641 injured in the xplosion [...]	2009-10-27 18:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KJUS ECON IZ
09BAGHDAD2884	BAGHDAD BOMBINGS: INVESTIGATION CONTINUES AS MOJ, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of the October 25 car bombings at several key GOI buildings, Embassy law enforcement personnel have visited both sites and are working with MOI investigators. Despite heavy damage, the MOJ and Higher Judicial Council (HJC) have resumed partial operations both at the h [...]	2009-10-28 09:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC PINS PREL PTER PNAT KCRM KJUS IZ
09BAGHDAD2886	TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior GOI and judicial officials tell us that trafficking in women and young boys for the purposes of prostitution remains a widespread problem in Iraq, with victims either sold to traffickers by their families or kidnapped by criminal gangs. Iraqi trafficking victims often fi [...]	2009-10-28 10:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIP KWMN KLPM PHUM PREL PTER ELAB SMIG SY IZ
09BAGHDAD2887	ANTI-CORRUPTION CONSULTATIONS WITH SENIOR GOI [...] (C) Council of Ministers Secretary General Ali Alaq, the Prime Minister's point-man on the anti-corruption dossier, told us the GOI was considering delaying the release of its new anti-corruption strategy, previously planned for early November, until after the January 2010 elections. He stated [...]	2009-10-28 12:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2896	KRG PRESIDENT BARZANI WILLING TO COOPERATE ON [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with the Ambassador's Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq, Kurdistan Regional President (KRG) Masoud Barzani expressed his commitment to working with the U.S. and the GOI on a draft election law. He pledged flexibility regarding the terms, but firmly expressed his disa [...]	2009-10-29 13:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ
09BAGHDAD2897	KIRKUK PARTIES EXPLORE COALITION OPTIONS, AWAIT [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk Message. 2. (U) Summary: Amid continuing uncertainty over the election law, political parties in Kirkuk province are hard at work sizing up potential coalition partners. While final choices of partners will largely be determined by the election law, the outlines of [...]	2009-10-29 13:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2901	IRAQ ELECTION LAW UPDATE, OCTOBER 29, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Hopes of a vote on an election law in the Council of Representatives melted away over the course of the day October 29 as party bloc leaders continued to haggle over terms for voting rules in Kirkuk. The Ambassador and poloffs engaged key leaders and a wide spectrum of influenti [...]	2009-10-29 19:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2905	SENIOR ADVISOR MISENHEIMER,S MEETINGS IN THE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador,s Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq, Alan Misenheimer, held a round of meetings in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah October 19-22. He met with the incoming and outgoing KRG Prime Ministers, the KRG Parliamentary leader, KDP and PUK officials, President Barzani,s Chief of Sta [...]	2009-10-30 14:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2906	CORRECTED COPY: SENIOR ADVISOR MISENHEIMER'S [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador's Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq, Alan Misenheimer, held a round of meetings in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah October 19-22. He met with the incoming and outgoing KRG Prime Ministers, the KRG Parliamentary leader, KDP and PUK officials, President Barzani,s Chief of Staf [...]	2009-10-30 16:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2907	IRAQI ELECTORAL COALITION UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Political cohesion continues to elude Iraq's Sunni Arabs, as the various party leaders -- each clinging to his own ambitions -- struggle to form coalitions that will appeal to the country's political and religious middle. The once dominant Tawafuq coalition, centered around the [...]	2009-10-30 18:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2909	RRT ERBIL: SLIMMED DOWN KRG CABINET SWORN IN [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: On October 28, following over three months of intense inter-party negotiations, the sixth cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) was sworn in. The new cabinet, led by former GOI Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Barham Salih, consists o [...]	2009-10-31 13:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ TU
09BAGHDAD291	MAYSAN ELECTION: DA'WA AND SADRISTS CONFIDENT [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: On February 3, Da'wa leader and current Provincial Council (PC) Deputy Chairman Latif Abud told the PRT that he expects his coalition list will take nearly half of the 27 PC seats contested in Maysan's January 31 election. [...]	2009-02-04 13:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2910	CHALABI ON LARIJANI VISIT, IRAN, AND IRAQI [...] (C) SUMMARY: MP and Iraqi National Alliance (INA) member Ahmed Chalabi blamed Iraq's "unprofessional and mostly Ba'thist" intelligence for having worked with Al-Qaeda to facilitate the October 25 bomb attacks in Baghdad. Chalabi told poloffs October 28 that PM Maliki was undermining the work [...]	2009-10-31 14:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ PGOV PREL
09BAGHDAD2911	LEADER OF SABEAN-MANDEANS SAYS COMMUNITY UNDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The leader of Iraq's Sabean-Mandean community, Sheikh Sittar Hillo, tells us that the Mandeans have received new death threats from extremist elements over the past ten days and that 10 Mandeans have been murdered over the past year. Hillo complained that the GOI has been neglige [...]	2009-10-31 15:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KJUS PHUM SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD2912	AMBASSADOR REVIEWS REVISED UNAMI ELECTIONS LAW [...] (C) Summary: Council of Representatives (COR) Speaker Ayad Samarra'i told the Ambassador on October 28 that he supported the revised election law plan from UNAMI that called for one-year terms for COR representatives elected from Kirkuk in the January 2010 elections. Samarra'i also queried [...]	2009-10-31 17:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2913	ACTION REQUEST: IRAQI ELECTION LAW [...] (U) This is an Action Request, please see para. 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Following discussions with Iraqi politicians, UNAMI SRSG Melkert presented October 31 a new proposal for voting in Kirkuk province that blends elements of prior schemes. The new approach followed a failed effort on Octo [...]	2009-10-31 19:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2916	AMBASSADOR REVIEWS ELECTION LAW OPTIONS WITH PM, [...] (C) Summary: After expressing condolences for the October 25 bombings, the Ambassador engaged in a sustained conversation with PM Maliki October 26 about possible compromises to break the impasse over the election law. The two agreed, with the concurrence of CG MNF-I, who also attended, tha [...]	2009-11-01 09:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2920	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE, NOVEMBER 1, 2009: UNAMI [...] (C) SUMMARY. Influential Arab and Turkoman lawmakers in Baghdad and Kirkuk told U.S. and UNAMI officials on November 1 they would support the UNAMI proposal, and Speaker Sammara'i agreed to call a vote on the election law the next day (November 2). Yet, although the vote may be near, it is [...]	2009-11-01 18:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2924	PRESSING FM ZEBARI OVER DFI, SADDAM-ERA VICTIMS' [...] (C) Summary: Pol M/C raised points contained in reftel with FM Zebari on October 23 regarding a final one-year extension of the arrangements for the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) and the need to settle Saddam-era claims of U.S. victims. Zebari expressed overall support for the approach, i [...]	2009-11-02 14:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNSC KJUS IZ KU
09BAGHDAD2925	ESTABLISHMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION COMES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has announced members of the Advisory Council for Iraq's Human Rights Commission, marking a step toward the establishment of an independent human rights commission. The 14-member Advisory Council, composed of representatives from the Council of Ministers, Council of Repre [...]	2009-11-02 14:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2929	MFA OFFICIAL PREVIEWS FERNANDEZ-TARANCO VISIT [...] (C) Summary: On November 1, MFA Senior Policy Advisor at Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Farid Yassen, met with Pol Deputy Counselor to discuss the imminent visit of UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez-Taranco to Baghdad. Yassen welcomed the visit and el [...]	2009-11-02 14:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ SY
09BAGHDAD2930	WATER RESOURCES MINISTER DISCUSSES MAJOR WATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Transboundary water negotiations, repair of the Mosul Dam, salinity issues in Basra province, and improvement of irrigation drainage are the major water issues facing Iraq, Minister of Water Resources Dr. Latif Rashid told USG personnel in late October. END SUMMARY Three Prima [...]	2009-11-02 15:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PBTS SENV TNGD TPHY EAGR
09BAGHDAD2931	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE, NOVEMBER 2, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Unable to overcome Kurdish intransigence on the UNAMI proposal on Kirkuk in the national election, the Council of Representatives (COR) ended session November 2 without a vote but agreed to return for an additional session the next day. Embassy and UNAMI discussions with Kurdish [...]	2009-11-02 17:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2935	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE, NOVEMBER 3, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Efforts to pass an election law remained stuck on Kurdish objections to UNAMI's proposal for the inclusion of Kirkuk in the national election (Reftel). KRG PM Barham Salih told the Ambassador the Kurds want deletion of any specific mention of Kirkuk and inclusion of a compensat [...]	2009-11-03 17:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2937	SUNNIS CONVINCED OF POLITICALLY MOTIVATED ARREST [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala message. 2. (C) Summary: On October 24th, Iraqi press reported the issuance of arrest warrants for Diyala Provincial Council (PC) member Hisham al-Hiyali and his wife, Council of Representatives (COR) member, Tayseer al-Mashandani. These arrest warrants are the lat [...]	2009-11-04 07:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER IZ
09BAGHDAD294	IRAQI EFFORTS TO CLOSE OUT OIL FOR FOOD CONTRACTS [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi MFA is optimistic that it can make serious progress over the next month to close out the remaining Oil For Food contracts. The GOI goal is to collect all necessary documentation and convene a final meeting in New York to review all the disputed contracts and make a fin [...]	2009-02-04 15:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IZ
09BAGHDAD2942	MUTHANA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL REJECTS GOI PLAN TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI's plan to relocate Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) residents from Ashraf to Muthana on December 15 appears to have fallen apart, as the Muthana Provincial Council (PC),with the backing of the governor and local Iraqi security forces (ISF) commanders, rejected the plan on grou [...]	2009-11-04 13:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2944	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE: NOVEMBER 4, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. After another intense day of competing negotiations among key blocs over multiple proposals on voting rules for Kirkuk province, momentum appears to be building toward a vote at the Council of Representatives (COR) tomorrow, November 5. Negotiations have centered on two new pro [...]	2009-11-04 18:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ IR
09BAGHDAD2945	DROP-DEAD DATE FOR IRAQ ELECTION LAW IMMINENT; [...] (C) SUMMARY: November 5 is the drop-dead date for legislative action to hold legitimate, credible elections in Iraq on January 16, according to Iraq,s election authorities and UNAMI experts. This drop-dead date is pegged to December 5, the date by which the ballots must go to the printer, an [...]	2009-11-04 19:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD295	PRT SALAH AD DIN: ELECTIONS GO SMOOTHLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRT observers visited polling centers in four of Salah ad Din's (SaD) eight districts. The sites were consistently well organized and secured, though screening procedures and equipment were inconsistent. Turnout was lower in rural areas where heads of household expected to vot [...]	2009-02-04 16:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINS PTER IZ
09BAGHDAD2951	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE: NOVEMBER 5, 2009 [...] SUMMARY. Speaker Ayad al-Samarra'i, joined by Sunni Arab and Kurdish MPs from Kirkuk, announced mid-afternoon November 5 agreement in principle on a proposal for voting rules for Kirkuk province and that a vote would take place November 7 (Text at para. 6). The run-up to Saturday, however, p [...]	2009-11-05 17:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2954	DISCUSSION WITH BOARD OF SUPREME AUDIT HEAD [...] (C) A prominent anti-corruption official, Board of Supreme Audit (BSA) President Dr. Abdel Basit, stated that the courts had dismissed the charges brought against him by Iraqi High Tribunal, but registered concern that he would face further such harassment by "some in government" opposed to BSA [...]	2009-11-06 14:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD2955	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE: NOVEMBER 6, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a day of reduced engagements as most Iraqis attended Friday prayers, poloffs learned that parliamentarians appear to be waiting on the Kurds' reaction to the November 5 election law compromise proposal (Ref A),to which all parties had agreed in principle and on which Spe [...]	2009-11-06 17:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2958	IRAQI ELECTION LAW UPDATE: NOVEMBER 7, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Representatives (COR) achieved quorum for a vote on an election law, but after strenuous objections from the Sunni Arabs, decided to postpone the vote until the following day at 9:30 a.m. The proposal to be tabled is an undated version of the Abd al-Mahdi proposa [...]	2009-11-07 19:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD296	MFA CHIEF OF STAFF ON FOLLOW-UP WITH KUWAIT AND [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Zebari's Chief of Staff, Ambassador Srood Najib, provided Emboffs an update February 3 on follow-up with Kuwait and Turkey, in light of discussions FM Zebari had on the margins of the January 19-20 Kuwait Economic Summit and during his January 23 visit to Ankara [...]	2009-02-04 16:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PROG ECON EFIN IZ KU TU
09BAGHDAD2961	PM ADVISOR RIKABI ON DFI, SADDAM-ERA CIVIL CLAIMS, [...] (C) Summary: Pol M/C and Embassy Legal Advisor (ELA) met with PM Advisor Sadiq Rakabi November 4 to review the points contained in refs A and B, regarding the settlement of Saddam-era civil claims and a one year extension of the arrangements for the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI). Rikabi s [...]	2009-11-08 12:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC IZ KU
09BAGHDAD2966	A GOOD WEEK FOR IRAQ'S ECONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary. Overshadowed by the October 25 bombings and wrangling over the election law, it has been a good few weeks for Iraq on the economic front. Washington hosted the oversubscribed U.S.-Iraq Business and Investment Conference from October 20-21. The Ministry of Oil signed an agreem [...]	2009-11-09 09:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EPET PGOV BEXP IZ CH
09BAGHDAD2969	THE ELECTION LAW THAT ALMOST WASN'T; KEEPING IT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Representatives (COR) passed the Iraqi election law November 8 by a wide margin. After weeks of increasingly intense Embassy and UNAMI engagement, the final day witnessed dramatically more intense engagement, as the Ambassador met with Kurdish and Arab/Turkoman bl [...]	2009-11-09 15:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2970	THE LEADER OF IRAQ'S ASPIRING, BUT STILL UNLAWFUL, [...] (C) During an October 24-26 trip to Basra to assess Iraq,s southern oil and gas facilities (septels),emboffs met with the leader of a group aspiring to represent Iraq's oil workers. (Note: At the moment, unions are illegal in Iraq. End note) Hassan Jum,ah Al-Asadi, the apparently self-appo [...]	2009-11-10 07:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EINV ENRG EPET IZ PREL
09BAGHDAD2971	IRAQ'S SOUTHERN IRAQ OIL AND GAS SITUATION [...] (C) Summary: BP plans to sign and implement its contract to increase the production of Rumaila oil field as soon as early December, even though some Government of Iraq (GOI) officials claim parliament must first approve the contract. While a significant production increase will likely not occ [...]	2009-11-10 07:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EINV ENRG EPET IZ PREL
09BAGHDAD2973	SOUTHERN IRAQ OIL AND GAS SITUATIONAL ASSESSMENT, [...] (C) Summary: In the run-up to what promises to be an historic expansion of Iraqi oil and gas production, Econoffs visited Basrah-based Southern Oil, Southern Gas, and Southern Refining companies to assess their preparations and solicit their views. Southern Gas seemed upbeat but ill-prepared f [...]	2009-11-10 07:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2975	SOUTHERN IRAQ OIL AND GAS SITUATIONAL ASSESSMENT, [...] (C) Summary: USG help is still crucial to the security and operations of Iraq,s two offshore oil export terminals, through which 75 percent of Iraq,s oil exports flow. Without USG help, we assess that both terminals, at least in the short term, would experience periodic reduced throughput or [...]	2009-11-10 08:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2976	AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH BARZANI IN ERBIL [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: Ambassador Rice met with KRG President Masoud Barzani in Erbil October 24. She stressed the importance of holding national elections on time and including Kirkuk. She pressed for KRG flexibility to allow for the election law to move forwar [...]	2009-11-10 08:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD2977	ISCI'S HAKIM DISCUSSES ELECTORAL POLITICS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a November 1 meeting, the Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI),Ammar al-Hakim, told the Ambassador that U.S. praise for "secular" parties could be viewed as approval of the Ba'ath Party. Hakim lauded the October 20-21 Business Investment Conference in W [...]	2009-11-10 10:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ EINV
09BAGHDAD2980	IRAQI WATER RESOURCES NEGOTIATOR DESCRIBES WATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: During Iraq-Iran bilateral negotiations on water resources held October 23-25, Iraqi negotiators confronted their Iranian interlocutors with unclassified photographs of Iranian river blockages and diversions provided to the GOI by Embassy Baghdad, Ministry of Water Resources Gener [...]	2009-11-10 13:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON IZ PBTS SENV TNGD TPHY
09BAGHDAD2984	LARIJANI'S VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Iranian Parliament Speaker Larijani visited Iraq November 4-7, where he traveled to Baghdad, Karbala, and Najaf to meet with his Iraqi counterpart, parliamentary bloc leaders, PM Maliki, President Talabani, and Grand Ayatollah Sistani. His primary objective appears to [...]	2009-11-10 16:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR IZ
09BAGHDAD2991	EXPO NAJAF DRAWS SUPPORT FROM SHI,A CLERICS, [...] (U) This is a Najaf PRT reporting cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY. PRT members attended the October 12 opening session of Expo Najaf organized and hosted by the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and the Najaf Chamber of Commerce. The event was organized with the explicit support of their spi [...]	2009-11-12 15:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON IR IZ PGOV PREL
09BAGHDAD2995	WILL SHI,A COALITIONS JOIN FORCES? BALANCING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Local media is rife with speculation that the two leading Shi'a electoral coalitions, the Prime Minister's State of Law Alliance (SLA) and the ISCI/Sadrist-led Iraqi National Alliance (INA),will merge before coalition registration ends on November 13. Sources from bo [...]	2009-11-13 15:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD2996	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO IRAQI MFA: UNGA COUNTRY [...] (C) On November 11, POL M/C delivered the UNGA Country Specific Human Rights Resolutions demarche per reftel to MFA Chief of Staff, Srood Najib and Senior Policy Advisor Farid Yaseen. Najib and Yaseen were attentive, but noncommittal, saying they would examine our request. Post will report [...]	2009-11-14 09:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ PHUM UNGA
09BAGHDAD2997	SHEIKH WELCOMES U.S. PARTNERSHIP, STRESSES [...] (C) Summary: Mohsin Nayef Faisal al-Jarba, a politically well-connected sheikh in the influential Shammar tribal confederation, told poloff and military chaplains on November 10 that he welcomed continued partnership with the United States. The sheikh stressed support for non-sectarianism, in [...]	2009-11-14 09:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD30	NEXT SPEAKER OF THE IRAQI PARLIAMENT - A HERD OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: There is currently no clear Sunni Arab candidate emerging to succeed the erratic Mahmoud Mashhadani, who flamed out late last month (reftel) as speaker the Council of Representatives (CoR),Iraq's parliament. There is much jockeying for position, however, among the (Sunni Arab) Na [...]	2009-01-07 08:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD3001	ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE FOR NOVEMBER 15 [...] (C) Commission of Integrity (COI) head Judge Raheem Al-Ugaily asserted that there was resistance among some parliamentarians to submitting the legally required financial disclosure reports. The Baghdad Provincial Council's Integrity Committee chairman said that the Committee had uncovered "ma [...]	2009-11-15 11:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3003	BIG OIL'S ABOUT-FACE ON IRAQ: THREE WORLD CLASS [...] (U) The first week of November saw significant progress towards realizing the GOI's vision of tripling oil production over the next eight years. On November 1, a consortium led by Italian firm ENI and including U.S. firm Occidental and South Korea's Kogas initialed a contract for the Zubair oi [...]	2009-11-15 14:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD3004	UK NAVAL TRAINING MISSION SET TO RETURN TO IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: President Jalal Talabani earlier this week confirmed for the British Ambassador that the UK-Iraq bilateral security agreement has passed the Presidency Council and the British naval training contingent can return to Iraqi waters. Upon receiving this confirmation, the UK is planni [...]	2009-11-15 15:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS UK IZ
09BAGHDAD3005	ELECTION LAW UPDATE: HASHIMI CALLS FOR MORE SEATS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Two of the three members of the Presidency Council -- President Talabani and Vice President Abd al-Mahdi -- have signed the election law passed by Parliament on November 8. However, the third member, Vice President Hashimi (Sunni Arab),is withholding his signature, [...]	2009-11-15 16:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3006	RRT ERBIL: KURDISTANI REACTION TO THE ELECTION LAW [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) welcomed passage of the election law. The Kurds achieved their paramount objectives, by virtue of the law passing with the inclusion of Kirkuk and without compensatory seats reserved for Arabs or Turk [...]	2009-11-16 11:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU IZ
09BAGHDAD3007	IRAQ'S TELECOM REGULATOR: PUSHING FOR INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's recently reconstituted Communications and Media Commission (CMC) has been asserting its role as an independent regulator with increasing effectiveness. Noting he was working closely with Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) to ensure "appropriate" media condu [...]	2009-11-16 13:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ECPS EINT EINV IZ PGOV
09BAGHDAD3008	AMBASSADOR HILL DISCUSSES SECURITY, DETAINEES, AND [...] (C) Summary: In a November 10 meeting between the Ambassador and ICRC Head of Iraq Delegation Juan Pedro Schaerer, the latter provided an overview of the ICRC's activities related to detainees and the MEK, and introduced his replacement, Magne Barth. Schaerer praised the close cooperation [...]	2009-11-16 15:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KREF KJUS IO IZ
09BAGHDAD3011	VP HASHIMI LOOKS FOR FACE-SAVING ALTERNATIVE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi continues to refuse to sign the amended election law on the grounds that it unfairly dilutes the ballots of out-of-country voters. In a letter presented to the Council of Representatives (COR) on November 16, he proposed remedying the situat [...]	2009-11-16 20:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3033	ELECTION LAW UPDATE: VP HASHIMI MULLS OVER IHEC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi did not follow through on a threat to veto today the election law unless the percentage of compensatory seats was increased in consideration of the size of the out-of-country voter population. After a detailed discussion with election officials las [...]	2009-11-18 07:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3034	ELECTION LAW UPDATE: VP HASHIMI MULLS OVER IHEC [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-18 07:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3035	PRT NINEWA: A RISE IN ARAB-KURD RHETORIC [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) cable. 2. (U) Summary. A recent increase in public rhetoric and posturing between al-Hadba Gathering (AHG) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) officials in Ninewa Province has raised political tensions to a level not seen since the Ap [...]	2009-11-18 07:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PMIL IZ
09BAGHDAD3036	PRT NINEWA: A RISE IN ARAB-KURD RHETORIC [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) cable. 2. (U) Summary. A recent increase in public rhetoric and posturing between al-Hadba Gathering (AHG) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) officials in Ninewa Province has raised political tensions to a level not seen since the Ap [...]	2009-11-18 07:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PMIL IZ
09BAGHDAD3042	RIDING HIGH AFTER THE CONFERENCE: IRAQ'S NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Sami al-Araji, the chairman of Iraq's National Investment Commission (NIC) and our organizational partner for the October 20-21 U.S.-Iraq Business and Investment Conference (BIC) in Washington, outlined for us his plans to capture the momentum from Iraq's investment conference [...]	2009-11-18 13:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD IZ PREL FR GM PL
09BAGHDAD3045	ELECTION LAW UPDATE: VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI VETOES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite indications to the contrary the previous day, Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi vetoed Iraq's amended election law shortly before noon on November 18. In an explanatory letter to the Council of Representative (COR),Hashimi asked the parliament to make several revisions to [...]	2009-11-18 19:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD305	ARTICLE 23 COMMITTEE FINALLY VISITS KIRKUK, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The seven members of Parliament's Article 23 Committee traveled to Kirkuk February 2 and had a mostly positive, and somewhat productive, series of meetings with local officials. The Committee was facing a March 31 deadline, and had done little since the establishment of the com [...]	2009-02-05 12:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3053	VICE PRESIDENT HASHIMI CONSIDERS COMPROMISE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: After meeting with Speaker Samarraie and consulting other key political leaders, the Ambassador met with Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi to discuss a possible way forward in the wake of the vice president's veto of the election law. Appearing reluctant to compromise, Hashimi com [...]	2009-11-19 20:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3054	RRT ERBIL: PUK PLENUM - WOOING THE DISAFFECTED [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) political party held its first party plenum since 2006 on October 29-31 with the goal of reinvigorating the party and increasing party unity in the lead up to the national elections in January. The pa [...]	2009-11-20 10:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD3057	ANBAR CORRUPTION UPDATE NOVEMBER 2009 [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Officers of the Anbar Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and the Embassy Anti-Corruption Coordinator's Office met October 31-Nov 2 with local officials and PRT officers to discuss anti-corruption efforts in Anbar. Anti-corruption institutions are gaining legitimac [...]	2009-11-21 08:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM MOPS IZ
09BAGHDAD3059	ELECTION LAW UPDATE: KURD-SHIA OUTMANEUVER HASHIMI [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Council of Representatives (COR) failed to reach a consensus at its November 21 session on either reaffirming the election law amendments it adopted on November 8 or on a new amendment to the law. The latest UNAMI proposal gained, then quickly lost, traction this morni [...]	2009-11-21 20:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD306	RESULTS OF IRAQ'S PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: AN INITIAL [...] (C) Summary: A complex and nuanced political picture is emerging out of Iraq's provincial elections as preliminary results are announced. Across the board, the results are diffuse: in all but one case, no electoral list secured more than 38%, and in a number of cases, the leading parties sec [...]	2009-02-05 18:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3066	IRAQI MPS OFFER DEAL TO VP HASHIMI FOR WITHDRAWAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Shia and Sunni bloc leaders have submitted a letter to Vice President Hashimi requesting that he withdraw his veto of the amended election law in exchange for a promise that the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) will treat out-of-country voters as they do those in-countr [...]	2009-11-22 18:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3075	HASHIMI'S VETO BACKFIRES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dragging his feet on withdrawing his electoral law veto, Vice President Hashimi allowed his political opponents in the Council of Representatives (COR) to maneuver a successful vote on a new amendment that, among its provisions, could reduce parliamentary seats from Sunni-majority [...]	2009-11-23 20:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD308	MUTHANNA'S TOP CRIME FIGHTER MAY BE REPLACED [...] (U) This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: Criminal Investigative Unit (CIU) Chief, Brigadier General Ali, generally regarded as Muthanna's top crime fighter, was recently scheduled for reassignment by the Ministry of Interior (MoI). Provincial Council (PC) contacts state [...]	2009-02-06 12:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	POL PGOV EFIN IZ
09BAGHDAD3080	EMBASSY BAGHDAD 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Human trafficking for the purposes of labor and sexual exploitation continues to be a problem in Iraq according to senior GOI and judicial officials. While the GOI has drafted legislation to prosecute and punish those who engage in trafficking, the draft law remains stalled i [...]	2009-11-24 12:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ TIP NEA RA
09BAGHDAD3082	RRT ERBIL: KRG PM PROBING GOI TO RESOLVE OIL [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary: Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Barham Salih told RRT Team Leader that he has begun to explore with GOI officials how to resolve the impasse over payment to the producing companies on the two pre-2005 Kurdistan Region (KR) [...]	2009-11-24 15:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EFIN PGOV PREL IZ TU
09BAGHDAD3083	POSSIBLE NEW WAY FORAWRD ON ELECTION LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: After the previous day's wild and disappointing parliamentary session on the election law, Shia MP Hadi al-Amiri emerged November 24 with a proposal designed to persuade Vice President Hashimi to accept the latest electoral law amendment. This plan, which reportedly enjoys the su [...]	2009-11-24 20:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3090	ATTACKS IN NAJAF MAY SIGNAL TREND IN LEAD-UP TO [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-25 12:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR IZ
09BAGHDAD3095	EDUCATING ALI -- TEACHING SADDAM,S LOST GENERATION [...] (U) This is a PRT Dhi Qar reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Illiteracy plagues Dhi Qar. Thirty-seven percent of the residents of this Shi,a heartland province, and a higher percentage of women, can neither read nor write Arabic, according to Dhi Qar,s Director General (DG) of Education. Coa [...]	2009-11-25 14:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR IZ
09BAGHDAD3096	ELECTION LAW UPDATE: SUNNI AND SHIA EDGE TOWARD [...] (C) A opening to Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi's initial hard-line stance regarding the Shia-Kurd backed amendment to the election law appeared late the evening of November 24, after Hadi al-Amiri, who has taken the lead for the Iraqi National Alliance (Shia) on the law, had visited Hashimi [...]	2009-11-27 04:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3097	ELECTION LAW UPDATE: SUNNI AND SHIA EDGE TOWARD [...] (C) A opening to Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi's initial hard-line stance regarding the Shia-Kurd backed amendment to the election law appeared late the evening of November 24, after Hadi al-Amiri, who has taken the lead for the Iraqi National Alliance (Shia) on the law, had visited Hashimi [...]	2009-11-27 04:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD31	GEN PETRAEUS' MEETING WITH PM MALIKI [...] (C) During a December 26 meeting, CENTCOM Commander Gen. David Petraeus and Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki discussed the security situation in different regions of Iraq, the implementation of the Security Agreement, and the drawdown of coalition forces. General Petraeus congratulated the Prime M [...]	2009-01-07 09:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON IZ
09BAGHDAD3104	ELECTION LAW UPDATE: SUNNI-SHIA COMPROMISE [...] (C) Having reached agreement on the implementation of the November 23 amendment to the election law, Sunni and Shia negotiators (DPM Rafi al-Issawi and MP Hadi al-Amiri, respectively) today met with Kurdistan Alliance leader Fuad Massoum to seek Kurdish buy-in. Although Massoum said he was un [...]	2009-11-27 17:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3108	UNAMI PROPOSES ELECTION REVIEW COMMITTEE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Deputy SRSG Andrew Gilmour met with Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq Alan Misenheimer on November 12 to discuss the status of UNAMI's High Level Task Force (HLTF) and UNAMI's role in facilitating Arab-Kurd reconciliation. While [...]	2009-11-29 15:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ TU IR
09BAGHDAD3109	ANTI-CORRUPTION CONSULTATIONS IN BASRA [...] (C) During November 22-24 visit to Basra, Anti-Corruption Coordinator (ACCO),joined by officers of the Basra Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT),met with judicial officials, the Commission of Integrity's (COI) provincial office director and deputy, and the PRT-supported "Transparency Commit [...]	2009-11-30 03:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3116	PRT NINEWA: TURKMAN POLITICAL FIGURE ASSASSINATED [...] This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. The November 22 assassination in Mosul of Yauz Ahmad Efendi, head of Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) party operations in Ninewa, shocked the province's large Turkmen community, but sparked little public backlash. Ni [...]	2009-11-30 17:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL ASEC KDEM IZ TU
09BAGHDAD3117	ELECTION LAW UPDATE: NOVEMBER 30 [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a two-day "technical review" of a compromise election law proposal backed by both Shia and Sunni political leaders (ref A),the Kurds are hesitating and may reject the proposal. Kurdish Region President's Chief of Staff Fuad Husayn told CDA late November 30 that the Kurds [...]	2009-11-30 19:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3120	IRAQI REFUGEES AND IDPS: A/S SCHWARTZ AND NSC SR. [...] (SBU) The following is the second of two reporting cables on the visit to Iraq by the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Assistant Secretary Eric Schwartz and National Security Council Senior Director and coordinator for Iraqi refugees and IDPs Samantha Power, who visited the [...]	2009-12-01 12:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD3122	ELECTION LAW UPDATE: KURDISH DEMANDS NECESSITATE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Kurdish leaders have yet to provide an official response to the election law compromise proposed by Shia political leader Haydi Al-Amiri and Deputy Prime Minister Rafe Issawi (reftel) on November 28. Initial readouts from Kurdish contacts indicate that the Kurds will [...]	2009-12-01 17:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3124	IRAQ'S ACTING NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER ON THE MEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 25 meeting with Post's Iran Watchers (IW),Dr. Safa Al-Shaykh (Da'wa party),the GOI's Acting National Security Adviser (A/NSA),said the GOI's policy on the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) is dictated largely by domestic and regional (vice international) political cons [...]	2009-12-02 07:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ
09BAGHDAD3125	UNCERTAIN FATE FOR MILITARY SERVICE AND RETIREMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 22, the Iraqi parliament re-adopted a Military Service and Retirement Law after the first iteration, passed on November 2, was vetoed by Vice President Hashimi. The law would potentially provide hundreds of thousands of former soldiers and officers with a government- [...]	2009-12-02 07:56:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF IZ
09BAGHDAD3128	CHILDREN BEHIND BARS: IRAQI JUVENILES CHARGED WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Within the past year, there have been several high-profile cases of juveniles charged with terrorism. In the face of increasing detentions of children for serious crimes under Iraqi law, including terrorism, the Iraqi judiciary is ill-equipped to handle the volume and [...]	2009-12-02 12:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PHUM KCWI IZ
09BAGHDAD3134	ELECTION LAW UPDATE: KURDS ENGAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Having been advised by U.S., UNAMI, and Iraqi interlocutors that their foot-dragging on negotiations could diminish their clout with all, the Kurds conveyed late December 2 a formal response to the Sunni-Shia proposal. The Kurds say they are rejecting the proposal as [...]	2009-12-02 19:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ

09BAGHDAD3135	IRAQ'S PARTICIPATION IN THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES [...] (C) Iraq has constituted its stakeholder group as the third prerequisite for candidacy in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and intends to convene these stakeholders to formally adopt a workplan for EITI implementation that has been produced by the GOI under the leader [...]	2009-12-03 06:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EPET EINV KCOR IZ NO
09BAGHDAD314	DIWANIYAH CALM AFTER ELECTIONS, DA'WA SET TO [...] (C) Summary: Following peaceful voting in Diwaniyah Province, calm has prevailed as voters await preliminary and final results. Preliminary results, released February 5, show that Prime Minister Maliki's State of Law coalition came in first with over 23 percent of the vote. ISCI, which cur [...]	2009-02-06 14:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD3140	ELECTION LAW UPDATE: ALL ENGAGED, SUPREME COURT [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the arrival in Baghdad of Kurdish negotiators, all parties are now present and engaged in discussions aimed at reaching agreement on an election law before December 6, by which time the Presidency Council must either accept or veto the law approved by the Iraqi parliament on [...]	2009-12-03 17:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3143	MEK/ASHRAF: GOI PLANNING "SOFT MOVE" OF ASHRAF [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: According to senior GOI officials, the GOI will send buses and trucks to Ashraf on December 15 in order to encourage voluntary defection and departure of Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) residents from Ashraf. The GOI still ultimately plans to relocate residents to Camp Sama [...]	2009-12-05 07:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ
09BAGHDAD3144	ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE DECEMBER 4, 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: A major anti-corruption case is breaking over the Baghdad Amana (mayor's office),with early indications that the Commission on Integrity (COI) is planning enforcement actions on a possible theft of over USD 20 million in employee salaries. Iraq's Board of Supreme Audit (BSA) [...]	2009-12-05 08:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM PTER IZ
09BAGHDAD3145	E-PRT FALLUJAH: AUTUMN VIOLENCE FUELS PUBLIC [...] (U) This is the final e-PRT Anbar 1 (Fallujah) cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. As the embedded PRT (e-PRT) in Fallujah prepared to close in mid-November, e-PRTOffs held a series of farewell meetings with various local partners. They heard a common theme of rising anxiety from renewed vi [...]	2009-12-05 08:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR IZ
09BAGHDAD315	ELECTIONS RESULTS SPELL DIVIDED KARBALA COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: The results of the provincial elections in Karbala reveal a fractured electorate and presage a divided Provincial Council (PC). Only Yusef Majid al-Haboubi and his one-man "list" received double-digit support. The other 26 seats likely will be divided among candidates representi [...]	2009-02-06 15:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD3154	COMPENSATION FINALIZED TO REPAIR "HEART" OF IRAQ'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 20, a compensation agreement in the amount of USD $981,405 was finalized between MNF-I and the Chaldean Church of Iraq for rents incurred from the use of and damages caused to the Babel College seminary that Coalition forces occupied from March 1, 2007 until November 5 [...]	2009-12-07 12:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD3156	PRT SALAH AD DIN: BOMBS AT TIKRIT UNIVERSITY [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY The normally quiet University of Tikrit experienced two bomb incidents on November 22 and 23. In the past, this would have sent students and professors scurrying away from any American contact. Yet, ju [...]	2009-12-07 13:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KTER IZ
09BAGHDAD3157	DELAYED GRATIFICATION: ELECTION LAW ADOPTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following strong Embassy and UNAMI engagement with key Kurdish leaders in Baghdad, crucial calls by POTUS and VPOTUS to Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani broke the logjam to permit consensus approval of a UNAMI election law compromise proposal late Decemb [...]	2009-12-07 16:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3161	ELECTION DATE TO BE FIXED FOR MARCH 6 [...] (C) Despite assurances early on December 8 from advisors to the Presidency Council's members that elections would take place on February 27, Reuters reported late in the day that the date would instead be fixed for March 6. (Note: Under Iraqi law, the Presidency Council - President Talabani, VP [...]	2009-12-08 15:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	POL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3176	OBSERVATIONS FROM POST-VETO ELECTION LAW CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Events leading to the successful resolution of Iraq's election law crisis in the Council of Representatives (COR) on December 6 (ref A) showed encouraging signs of slowly growing political maturity among Iraqi political leaders. Although we saw a rise in sectarian tensions follo [...]	2009-12-09 18:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3177	EXECUTIONS IN IRAQ SET TO INCREASE [...] (C) The GOI appears set to accelerate the number of executions it carries out after the Eid holiday, having received signed death warrants from the Presidency Council for virtually all of the approximately 1,000 prisoners (including 17 women) currently sitting on death row. In a meeting on De [...]	2009-12-10 12:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KWMN SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD3178	PRT DIYALA: ARAB AND KURD LEADERS ACCUSE GOI OF [...] This is a PRT Diyala cable. 2. (C) Summary: During recent meetings with PRToffs, Kurd and Arab sheikhs and mayors in the disputed areas in Khanaqin agreed that their communities face ongoing neglect by both the GOI and Diyala provincial government (PGOV). They also voiced concerns about [...]	2009-12-10 15:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD3180	SALAH AD DIN'S PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR DISPUTE HEATING [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. Political maneuvering both in Baghdad and in the Salah Ad Din Provincial Government (PG) have led to an increasingly tense impasse in the province. Since the Iraqi Supreme Court upheld the Salah ad Di [...]	2009-12-10 15:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KTER IZ
09BAGHDAD3181	SALAH AD DIN'S PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR DISPUTE HEATING [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. Political maneuvering both in Baghdad and in the Salah Ad Din Provincial Government (PG) have led to an increasingly tense impasse in the province. Since the Iraqi Supreme Court upheld the Salah ad Di [...]	2009-12-10 15:28:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KTER IZ
09BAGHDAD3183	PM RESPONDS TO PARLIAMENT'S DEMAND FOR ANSWERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Nouri al-Maliki appeared alone in a closed session of the Council of Representatives (COR) on December 10 in response to MPs' demands for answers in the aftermath of the December 8 bombings. The Prime Minister emphasized to roughly 200 COR members that the bombings were not [...]	2009-12-10 17:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3186	IRAQ OIL, MAYSAN PROVINCE: AN ALLOTMENT? REPLACE [...] (U) On December 3, on the margins of a meeting hosted by Deputy Chief of Mission Ford, the Second Deputy Governor of Maysan Province Khalid Abdulwahid Qubian told Econoff the Baghdad federal government was considering allotting the Maysan provincial government -- as a "deprived region" under a [...]	2009-12-11 10:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD3188	MEK/ASHRAF: UNAMI RECONVENES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a follow-up meeting with members of the international community, UNAMI reiterated its call for (largely) EU cooperation on resettlement of Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) refugees and those with ties to Europe. He voiced concern about the possibility of MEK-provoked violence on [...]	2009-12-12 13:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ
09BAGHDAD3193	SECRETARY OF DEFENSE'S MEETING WITH KRG PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 11, 2009 Secretary of Defense Gates (SecDef) met Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masud Barzani in Irbil. SecDef discussed the importance of a timely, inclusive government formation process and reiterated the key messages delivered to Barzani on December [...]	2009-12-13 15:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3195	IRAN/IRAQ: THE VIEW FROM NAJAF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local interlocutors from Najaf's social, economic, political and military circles discussed with Post's Senior Iran Watcher (IW) and PRToffs the scope of Iranian influence in the province, the role of the Shia clerical establishment (Marja'iyyah),notably Grand Ayatollah Ali Sista [...]	2009-12-14 09:57:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR IZ ECON
09BAGHDAD32	PRESIDENT TALABANI ON KIRKUK, SYRIA, MALIKI [...] (C) Summary: During a December 27 lunch, Iraqi President Talabani told the Ambassador that his recent mission to Kirkuk had yielded tangible progress in reconciling the different ethnic groups in the area. Talabani confirmed that the Presidency Council had signed the parliamentary resolution [...]	2009-01-07 11:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS IZ
09BAGHDAD3202	IRAQ: STATUS OF DRAFT LABOR CODE [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI's efforts to enact meaningful labor standards continue, albeit at a slow pace. MOLSA Labor Directorate Director General Dr. Reyad Hassan is pushing to have the Shura Council approve a draft labor code that has been under consideration since 2007. (The draft code is then [...]	2009-12-14 15:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EFIN EINV IZ
09BAGHDAD3205	RRT ERBIL: GORAN (CHANGE) LEADERSHIP ON KURDISH [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) Summary. Goran (aka Change) Movement leadership has consistently said in meetings with USG officials that it does not want to be seen as differing with the two main Kurdish parties, the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdist [...]	2009-12-14 16:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD3210	PRESSURE MOUNTS TO OUST MOD'S HUMAN RIGHTS DIRECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the past few months, the Ministry of Defense's (MOD) Human Rights Director, Iman Naji, has come under increasing pressure as the Ministry has launched (seemingly baseless) investigations into her conduct on a recent prison inspection as well as her professional/academic crede [...]	2009-12-15 07:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS IZ
09BAGHDAD3228	IRAQ LICENSING OF BANK MELLI BRANCHES [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-15 12:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	GM IR IZ KNNP MNUC XF XG XT ZP ZR
09BAGHDAD3229	THE U.S. POSITION ON ARTICLE 140 AND KIRKUK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Calls by POTUS and VPOTUS to Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Masoud Barzani were critical in forging consensus approval of an election law compromise proposal. The related White House statement of December 7, including affirmation of respect for Article 140 in conne [...]	2009-12-15 12:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM UNSC IZ
09BAGHDAD323	UNSYG BAN KI MOON IN BAGHDAD [...] (C) Summary: In a cordial February 6 meeting with Ambassador Crocker and General Odierno, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said he was deeply impressed by the progress Iraq has made since his last visit in March 2007. The international community, led by the U.S., has achieved much and the c [...]	2009-02-08 08:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UN IZ
09BAGHDAD3233	SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MEETING WITH THE GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 11 meeting with Prime Minister Maliki in Baghdad, Secretary of Defense Gates (SecDef) expressed his condolences for the December 8 bombings and reassured Maliki that the United States was willing to assist in any way possible. SecDef explained the importance of coo [...]	2009-12-15 15:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3234	SECRETARY OF DEFENSE MEETING WITH THE GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 10 meeting with the Presidency Council (PC) in Baghdad, Secretary of Defense Gates (SecDef) expressed his condolences for the December 8 bombings and reassured the Iraqis that the United States was willing to assist in any way possible. SecDef explained the importanc [...]	2009-12-15 15:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3236	MEK/ASHRAF: NO VIOLENCE, NO MEK DEPARTURES ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-15 16:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ PGOV PREL PTER
09BAGHDAD3245	THE SIGNIFICANCE OF IRAQ'S OIL BID ROUNDS [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI's June and December oil bid rounds ) history's largest (by reserves) ) have the potential to significantly alter Iraqi economics and politics. While much can easily go astray (on contracts, timetables, onshore construction, or export infrastructure),Iraq could conceiv [...]	2009-12-16 13:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD3246	IRAQ'S OIL BID ROUND 2: DOMESTIC POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The job creation and spin-off benefits of economic development should provide a significant boost to the citizens of Basrah. If developments in other countries offer a guide, however, there remains a chance that Basrah residents, living near the source of much of Iraq's wealth, [...]	2009-12-16 13:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD3249	RECOMMENDATION FOR VPOTUS INVITATION TO IRAQ VP [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-16 14:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD3256	U.S. FORCES DETAINEE UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. At the Joint Subcommittee on Detainee Affairs (JSC-DA) meeting held Saturday, December 12, TF-134 commander BG Dave Quantock stated there are 6,358 detainees currently in U.S. custody. Since January 2009, the U.S. has released 7,570 detainees and transferred 1,481 detainees to [...]	2009-12-17 08:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PHUM PINS PTER CASC IZ XF
09BAGHDAD3257	IRAQ'S OIL BID ROUND 2: CAN IRAQ FULFILL THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraq's proposal to increase national oil production from 2.5 million barrels per day to perhaps as high as 12 million barrels per day is extremely aggressive and delivering on that promise poses significant challenges. These challenges include: limited project management capabil [...]	2009-12-17 09:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD3259	A/S FELTMAN DISCUSSES MEK, MINORITIES AND LGBT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on December 14 with NEA A/S Feltman, the Minister of Human Rights, Wijdan Selim, expressed her belief that her Ministry has made progress in inculcating a greater respect for human rights throughout Iraqi society, but that the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) remain proble [...]	2009-12-17 12:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF IZ
09BAGHDAD3267	AMBASSADOR AND CG DISCUSS OIL AND SECURITY ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 17 meeting, Ambassador Hill congratulated Prime Minister Maliki on the recent successful and transparent oil development bidding round, but cautioned the PM to resist pressure to renegotiate the terms of the signed contracts. Maliki agreed the contracts should stand [...]	2009-12-19 12:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV EWRG ECON IZ
09BAGHDAD3268	SALAH AD DIN: TIKRIT UNIVERSITY CONTINUES TO [...] (U) This is a Salah Ad Din Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Tikrit University's president Ali Salah Al Jebouri continues to defy insurgents by leading staff and students to forge even closer ties with Salah Ad Din PRT members and U.S. soldiers, despite Al Qaida' [...]	2009-12-19 13:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC KTER IZ
09BAGHDAD328	WOMEN'S AFFAIRS MINISTER AL-SAMARA'E RESIGNS [...] (C) Minister of State for Women's Affairs (MoSWA) Dr. Nawal Hamed Majid Al-Samara'e unexpectedly unannounced at a February 5 meeting with Poloff and Strateff CJ9 Women's Initiative Team Lead Officer that she had resigned from her post the same day. In a voice that belied anger and frustrati [...]	2009-02-08 15:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWMN PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD3282	IRAQ'S OIL BID ROUND 2: U.S. FIRMS' PARTICIPATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Only one U.S. firm bid for a contract in Iraq,s second oil bid round, as part of a larger consortium, and that consortium did not win. U.S. companies' decisions on whether or not to participate were driven by myriad complex factors and judgments the companies hold very close t [...]	2009-12-21 09:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD3287	IRAQ'S OIL BID ROUND 2: WHAT WILL OPEC SAY? [...] (SBU) Summary: Iraq is currently exempted from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil production quotas. Iraq's future quota would likely be similar to Iran's current quota of approximately 4.1 million barrels per day. We estimate that Iraq could reach levels of four million [...]	2009-12-21 10:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV EAID PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD329	UPDATE ON CONSULTATIONS WITH ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (C) Anti-Corruption Coordinator (ACC) and staff recently paid introductory calls separately on Iraq's top judicial official, Judge Medhat Al-Mahmoud, Interior Ministry Inspector General (MOI IG) Akeel Saeed, and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih's Office Director, Sirwan Ibrahim. Judge Medhat [...]	2009-02-08 16:19:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD3290	IHEC PREPARING FOR MARCH 7 ELECTIONS, BUT SECURITY [...] (C) Election Commissioners told poloff December 17 that the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) is working toward national parliamentary elections on March 7, as confirmed in the Presidency Council decree sent December 13, but a recent rise in attacks on IHEC personnel, including one [...]	2009-12-21 15:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM PGOV
09BAGHDAD3296	UNAMI BRIEFS A/S FELTMAN ON IRAQ ELECTIONS, DIBS, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Substantive discussion of Iraq's elections dominated NEA A/S Feltman's December 14 meeting with Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) Ad Melkert, including UNAMI's current assessments of out of country voting, election observers, security, and the complaints pr [...]	2009-12-22 13:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM PGOV
09BAGHDAD3297	A/S FELTMAN MEETING WITH IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT ADIL [...] (C) Summary: A/S Feltman on December 15 met with Iraqi Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi to offer congratulations on the Iraqi government successfully reaching agreement on an election law compromise and to discuss the road ahead as Iraq prepares for the national election and government formatio [...]	2009-12-22 13:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL
09BAGHDAD3299	HASHIMI ON ELECTION DIALOGUE, EMPOWERED [...] (C) Summary: DCM and PolM/C met with Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi on December 19 to follow up on a range of issues that NEA Assistant Secretary Feltman had raised with Iraqi leaders during his recent visit. During the meeting, Hashimi affirmed his dedication to pre-election dialogue with o [...]	2009-12-22 13:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD3300	A/S FELTMAN DISCUSSES GOVERNMENT FORMATION, THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: NEA Assistant Secretary (A/S) Feltman on 15 December met with Iraqi Council of Representatives (COR) Speaker Ayad al-Samarrai to discuss the ongoing U.S. commitment to Iraq and the near-term tasks for the Iraqi government, to include the budget law, the national election, and gove [...]	2009-12-22 13:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL XF
09BAGHDAD3301	PM MALIKI, A/S FELTMAN DISCUSS IRAN, SYRIA, [...] (C) Summary: NEA Assistant Secretary Feltman congratulated Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki December 14 on the recently passed election law and expressed confidence that the upcoming elections would facilitate fair representation of all Iraqi segments of society. Maliki acknowledged the importance [...]	2009-12-22 13:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ IR SY
09BAGHDAD3310	EMBASSY DELIVERS U.S. PROPOSAL ON OUT OF COUNTRY [...] (C) On December 22, Poloffs delivered the text of a proposed diplomatic note on Out of Country Voting (OCV) to Dr. Fadil Alwan Issa and Dr. Salwan Sinjaree of the International Conventions Section of the Iraqi Ministry of Affairs. The draft diplomatic notes were identical copies of those del [...]	2009-12-22 15:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3311	A/S FELTMAN, PM ADVISOR DISCUSS CHAPTER VII [...] (C) Summary: NEA A/S Jeffrey Feltman told PM Advisor December 17 that the U.S. is committed to a long-term partnership with Iraq. Rikabi welcomed the commitment but signaled frustration about the lack of progress on some issues and called for the two sides to establish some "milestones" and [...]	2009-12-22 15:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF IZ KU
09BAGHDAD3313	A/S FELTMAN DISCUSSES CHAPTER VII ISSUES WITH MFA [...] (C) Summary: Acting Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Haj Hamoud told visiting NEA Assistant Secretary Jeffrey Feltman on December 17 that the GOI accepts the border as demarcated in 833, noting "We must accept it," but also making clear in a sustained series of exchanges that the G [...]	2009-12-23 07:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS IZ KU
09BAGHDAD3314	NEA A/S FELTMAN'S MEETING WITH DPM AL-ISSAWI [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with visiting NEA A/S Feltman on December 14, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Rafi al-Issawi said that while erosion of the Kurdish, Shi'a and Sunni blocs that had dominated the last national election potentially opened opportunity for a more cross-sectarian, nationalist a [...]	2009-12-23 07:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM UNSC IZ
09BAGHDAD3316	NEA A/S FELTMAN'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TALABANI [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging discussion with visiting NEA A/S Feltman on December 14, President Talabani underscored the importance for Kurds of the POTUS/VPOTUS telephone calls with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Barzani, the December 7 White House statement on Iraq's electio [...]	2009-12-23 09:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL SY TU EG IR IZ
09BAGHDAD3319	PRT KIRKUK: WILL GORAN BE A FORCE IN KIRKUK? [...] (U) This is a PRT Kirkuk cable. 2. (C) Summary: The Goran ("Change") Movement's top priority in Kirkuk is to capitalize on its strong showing in the July 2009 Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) parliamentary elections to make further inroads against the PUK in Kirkuk in the upcoming nati [...]	2009-12-23 13:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3320	DELIVERING DEMARCHE ON WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION [...] (C) Pol M/C delivered the points contained in Ref A in general terms to FM Zebari at an already scheduled meeting December 23. Pol M/C committed to following up with senior officials at the MFA early next week to provide details of the three options for getting the WMD resolutions lifted. Ze [...]	2009-12-23 13:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IZ
09BAGHDAD3321	FOURTH TURKEY-IRAQ-U.S. TRILATERAL MINISTERIAL [...] (U) This cable has an action request, please see paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary: The fourth ministerial meeting of the Turkey-Iraq-U.S. trilateral security dialogue was held in Baghdad on December 20. The Turkish delegation also had a meeting with MNF-I CG immediately following the meetin [...]	2009-12-23 14:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ MARR PGOV PINR PREF PTER
09BAGHDAD3323	ELECTION COMMISSION SEEKS CIVIL SERVICE STATUS, [...] (C) Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) Board Chairman Faraj al-Haydari reported to POL M/C December 21 that IHEC is adhering to its operational time line for the March elections, but that security concerns have become the central focus at IHEC this week. Haydari briefed POL M/C on [...]	2009-12-23 15:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD3335	DIYALA GOVERNOR HIGHLIGHTS CENTRAL GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: Growing tension between Baghdad and provincial governments was highlighted during NEA Assistant Secretary Jeffrey Feldman,s meeting with Diyala Governor Abd al-Nasir al-Mahdawi on December 16 in Baqubah. The Governor raised his concern that the central government of Iraq was not [...]	2009-12-26 14:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD3340	PM ADVISOR ON PRESIDENCY COUNCIL, IHEC, ADDITIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Advisor Sadiq Rikabi told A/DCM December 21 that according to the Iraqi constitution, the Presidency Council would expire with the current government and that any constitutional fix to extend it would be extremely difficult. He expressed uncertainty about whether the Presiden [...]	2009-12-27 12:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM UNSC KJUS IZ SY
09BAGHDAD3343	FM ZEBARI ON DISPUTE WITH IRAN, PM'S CAIRO TRIP, [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Zebari told A/DCM December 23 that while the Iraqi side did not want to escalate the situation with Iran regarding the contested oil well in Fakka field, he had told Iranian FM Mottaki, in a "tough" conversation, that the Iranian move represented a "clear provocation. Zebari [...]	2009-12-27 13:09:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ IR SY
09BAGHDAD3346	RRT ERBIL: SULEYMANIYAH RIOT UNDERSCORES PUK,S [...] (U) This is an RRT Erbil cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: A riot, unusual in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR),recently broke out in the small town of Peramagron, Suleymaniyah Province, after the local mayor claimed in a television interview that his constituents were unaware of the benefits they [...]	2009-12-28 09:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3355	PRT NINEWA: PERCEPTIONS OF SECURITY IN NINEWA [...] (U) This is Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) Summary. The PRT queried a number of contacts throughout Ninewa Province to gauge perceptions of security, safety, and service delivery. These contacts came from a variety of economic, political, ethnic, tribal, and [...]	2009-12-29 13:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KCOR IZ
09BAGHDAD3356	ACTION REQUEST: FOLLOWING UP ON ISCI REQUEST FOR [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Chairman Ammar al-Hakim on December 23, 2009 met with A/DCM and inquired as to the status of previously discussed U.S. government assistance in procuring a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scan machine for a hospital in Tehran, notin [...]	2009-12-29 14:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AMED IR IZ
09BAGHDAD3358	MEK/ASHRAF: GOI SAYS IT WILL NOT MOVE MEK UNTIL [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-29 16:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ PGOV PREL PTER
09BAGHDAD3359	ISCI CHAIRMAN AMMAR AL-HAKIM ON REGIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A/DCM on December 23, 2009 met with Chairman of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) Ammar al-Hakim to discuss al-Hakim's recent regional engagement tour, election planning, and the Fakkah oil field dispute. Al-Hakim projected a more moderate tone than in previo [...]	2009-12-29 16:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL
09BAGHDAD3360	SENIOR IRAQI OFFICIALS CONVICTED OF CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) While prosecution of senior GOI figures for corruption has been rare in recent years, of late the courts have convicted four upper-echelon officials for abuses. On December 21, the Commission of Integrity (COI) announced the Baghdad-based Central Criminal Court of Iraq's (CCC-I) convict [...]	2009-12-30 07:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3362	DPM ISSAWI ON NINEWA MEDIATION EFFORT [...] (C) In a meeting with POL M/C and MG Lanza on December 28, DPM Rafi al-Issawi said that for "well-known" political reasons he strongly doubted that further progress could be made before national elections in March to reconcile the feuding (Sunni) al-Hadba Gathering (AHG) and (Kurdish) Ninewa F [...]	2009-12-30 10:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGO KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD3363	DPM ISSAWI ON COALITION NEGOTIATIONS, ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: DPM Rafi al-Issawi told the POL M/C and MG Lanza the Iraqia Alliance (IA) of which he is a part, and which includes significant Shi'a (including Sadrist Trend) elements will be formally announced in early January. Negotiations over possible post-election government coalitions were [...]	2009-12-30 11:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IZ IR
09BAGHDAD3364	KRG SEEKS TO BALANCE RELATIONS WITH TURKEY AND PKK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In recent meetings in Erbil, KRG interlocutors told the Ambassador's Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq (SANI) that the Turkish constitutional court's recent decision to outlaw the Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkey, together with the insistence by leaders of the Kurdi [...]	2009-12-30 11:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR PREF IZ TU
09BAGHDAD3367	FOLLOW UP ON THE WMD DEMARCHE AT MFA, BORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior MFA officials December 29 responded positively to follow-up on the WMD points contained in ref A. They seemed initially to favor the second option presented, pursuing a Security Council resolution that would automatically terminate Chapter VII WMD restrictions under UNSC [...]	2009-12-30 12:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IZ
09BAGHDAD3368	SENIOR ADVISOR'S MEETING WITH KRG INTELLIGENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting on December 21 with the Ambassador's Senior Advisor for Northern Iraq (SANI),the KRG's Director for National Security (intelligence),Masrour Barzani, said the election law compromise agreement was unfair to the Kurds, who had been disproportionately pressured to make [...]	2009-12-30 13:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PTER IZ
09BAGHDAD3369	HIGH-LEVEL TASK FORCE MEETS ON DIBS ISSUES [...] (C) The High-Level Task Force (HLTF) - a contact group of GOI, KRG and UN officials run under the auspices of UNAMI to address issues in the disputed internal boundary (DIBs) areas - met on December 23. Sadiq Rikabi (advisor to PM Maliki) and Faruq Abdullah (an Iraqi Turkoman and former member [...]	2009-12-30 14:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD3371	PRT NINEWA: MOSULIYYA IN A MUDDLE: PRESSURE ON [...] (U) This is a Ninewa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) message. 2. (C) SUMMARY: With a December 20 announcement to open a new satellite television station, Ninewa Provincial Governor Atheel al-Nujaifi publicized his festering battle with U.S.-supported station, al-Mosuliyya. Pointed in [...]	2009-12-30 15:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS KDEM KPAO IZ
09BAGHDAD3372	NSC ADVISOR ON ELECTIONS, FAKKA OIL WELL DISPUTE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi NSC Advisor Dr. Safa al-Sheikh told A/DCM December 29 that the post-election period will be a difficult, challenging period, in terms of formation of the new government and caretaker government performance, which could impact Iraqi security capability and decision-making. [...]	2009-12-30 15:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD3374	CHURNING IN NORTH BAGHDAD'S SUBURBAN GOVERNMENTS [...] (U) This is a Baghdad ePRT North message. 2. (U) Summary: Sub-provincial public managers and councils in North Baghdad's districts (qadas) of Tarmiyah, Taji, and Istiqlal, with a combined population of roughly 1.2 million, are unsure of their roles vis-a-vis the provincial and national g [...]	2009-12-31 07:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCOR IZ
09BAGHDAD3378	FOLLOW ON REPORT FOR RAMADI PGC ATTACKS [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-31 16:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER
09BAGHDAD339	PM ADVISOR ON STRATEGY TO INCREASE OIL PRODUCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 5 meeting with EMIN, Prime Ministerial Advisor Thamir Ghadban was confident that Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih's initiative to examine ways to boost oil production would not undercut the Ministry of Oil's licensing round. We heard separately that the Februa [...]	2009-02-09 16:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV IZ
09BAGHDAD344	DHI QAR: APPOINTMENT OF POLICE CHIEF RAISES LEGAL [...] (C) Summary. At a recent meeting with PRT Team Leader, Dhi Qar Provincial Police Commander MG Sabah al-Fatlawi stated that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had abandoned previous plans to transfer Sabah to Baghdad, and instead had appointed him permanently to his current position as Chief of Pol [...]	2009-02-10 12:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD358	MOHR REPORTS ON 2008 STATS ON AMNESTY, DETAINEES, [...] (U) Summary: The Ministry of Human Rights has released and will soon publish its annual reports on detention facilities and victims of terrorism. According to the detentions report, 7,542 detainees were released on amnesty release orders during the year. The victims of terrorism report as [...]	2009-02-11 14:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS IZ
09BAGHDAD361	MAKHMOUR REFUGEE CAMP: A WAY FORWARD THROUGH NEW [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-11 15:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR IZ TU
09BAGHDAD363	IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES PLANS TO EXPAND THE NAVY, [...] (C) Summary: At the February 8 meeting of the Iraqi National Security Council, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki acknowledged the need to improve the Iraqi Navy's ability to defend Iraq's ports and oil platforms, and that Iraq needed a more uniform posture when negotiating riparian border disput [...]	2009-02-12 08:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD364	DA'WA WHEELING AND DEALING IN KARBALA [...] (C) Summary: In an apparent attempt to minimize the influence the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) will have in the new Provincial Council (PC),Da'wa leaders in Karbala are working furiously to form alliances with the second-place Hope of the Two Rivers and the fourth-place Independent [...]	2009-02-12 12:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD370	IRAQ: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-12 16:08:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC KV IZ
09BAGHDAD375	THE AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON ACTING [...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassdor's farewell call at the Iraqi parliament, acting speaker Khalid Attiya expressed pleasure over the success of the provincial elections, regretted the continuing impasse over the parliamentary speakership, but predicted progress on the budget, the principal pend [...]	2009-02-13 09:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD376	VP MAHDI DISCUSSES SARKOZY VISIT, CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (C) Summary. On February 10, Ambassador Crocker held a farewell meeting with Vice President Adil Abd al-Mahdi during which they discussed the visit of French President Nicholas Sarkozy, Mahdi's concern that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is "monopolizing" power, the Islamic Supreme Council of [...]	2009-02-13 09:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD378	PM MALIKI: STRENGTHENED CENTER OR EMERGING [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-13 10:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINS KDEM KISL IZ
09BAGHDAD379	PM MALIKI: STRENGTHENED CENTER OR EMERGING [...] (C) With the strong performance of the Da'wa Party in the January 31 provincial council elections, Prime Minister Maliki will claim a public mandate. While many media analyses have tended to overstate this case (as Maliki won no more than 38 percent in two provinces, and less elsewhere) it is [...]	2009-02-13 11:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINS KDEM KISL IZ
09BAGHDAD380	THE AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALLS ON KEY SHI'A [...] (C) Summary: In farewell calls on Abdelaziz Al-Hakim, President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) and Ammar al-Hakim, his son and likely successor, each admitted they had been caught by surprise by ISCI's anemic performance in the January 31 provincial elections. Allowing that ISC [...]	2009-02-13 12:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL IZ
09BAGHDAD381	THE AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON FORMER PM ALLAWI [...] (C) Summary: Former PM Ayad Allawi, clearly pleased with the success of his Iraqiyya list in the recent provincial elections, told the Ambassador during a February 12 farewell call that he expected further gains for the party when the final results are released later this month. Allawi also r [...]	2009-02-13 12:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD382	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON DPM ESSAWI [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Rafi Essawi told the Ambassador that he was working with Osama al-Najafi to defuse lingering election-related tensions in Ninewa Province and help the winning parties in Anbar province form a power-sharing agreement. The DPM plans to travel to the KRG to dis [...]	2009-02-13 12:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON IZ
09BAGHDAD385	KARBALA PILGRIM ATTACK WORSE THAN REPORTED [...] (C) Summary: According to Karbala's police chief, the blast near the Imam Husayn shrine on February 12 that killed multiple people on Arba'ayniyah pilgrimage was caused by an explosive device (IED),not a suicide bomber as reported in the media. However, witnesses have told the PRT that the at [...]	2009-02-13 13:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINR ASEC IZ
09BAGHDAD387	SOUTHERN POST-ELECTION ALLIANCES [...] (C) Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa-led State of Law coalition list, which won a plurality of votes in nine of ten Shi'a-majority provinces, holds a commanding position as it negotiates with rival parties to develop coalitions and assign top provincial government positions. Da'wa and the Sadri [...]	2009-02-13 14:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD388	OIL MINISTER'S UPDATE ON PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 12 meeting with EMIN, Oil Minister Husayn al-Shahristani reinforced his commitment to the licensing round process and the Shell flared gas deal; dismissed the relevance of the oil production workshop convened by Deputy PM Barham Salih; said relations with KRG and [...]	2009-02-13 16:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV IZ
09BAGHDAD401	ISCI ACCEPTS ELECTION RESULTS BUT COMPLAINS MALIKI [...] (C) Summary. Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) leaders tell us they were shocked by their poor showing in the January 31 provincial elections and complain Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa party, their main rival, unfairly swayed the results. However, ISCI does not plan to protest publicly [...]	2009-02-16 11:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD402	ELECTION OF A NEW COR SPEAKER STILL ON HOLD [...] (C) Summary: The CoR has adjourned until February 18, at which time the major political blocs hope to have agreed on a candidate for the vacant CoR speakership an agreement that will allow the CoR to pass the 2009 Federal Budget bill and end the 2008 Fall legislative term. In addition to who w [...]	2009-02-16 12:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD410	SIGNS OF IMPROVING IRAQI-KUWAITI RELATIONS [...] (C/REL MCFI) In a February 12 meeting with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray, Deputy Foreign Minister Haj Hamoud detailed his February 4-5 visit to Kuwait. He said in meetings with Kuwait's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, he made progress on an array of issues, including: how to deal with shar [...]	2009-02-16 15:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU IR
09BAGHDAD417	MUTHANNA: MANY PARTIES REPRESENTED IN NEW [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: Perhaps as many as nine separate party lists will be represented on Muthanna's next Provincial Council (PC). While Da'wa and ISCI won an equal number of seats, Da'wa appears to have a stronger negotiating position for [...]	2009-02-17 13:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD419	IRAQ MAKING ENCOURAGING PROGRESS ON NUCLEAR CLEAN-UP [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) took EconOffs, MNFI, and two visiting Texas Tech University (TTU) Professors on a walking tour of the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Facility (TNRF) February 9 to assess the progress of MoST's nuclear facility dismantlement and disposal project. T [...]	2009-02-18 07:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	TPHY SEVN TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA ENRG
09BAGHDAD421	MP QASIM DAOUD ON PRO-/ANTI-MALIKI ALLIANCES IN [...] (C) Summary. Parliamentarian Qasim Daoud, leader of the Solidarity Party, told Poloffs on February 16 that the opposition to, and support for, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in parliament is becoming more cohesive. Daoud expressed optimism over a possible ISCI, IIP, Kurdish, Solidarity, and [...]	2009-02-18 11:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ

09BAGHDAD428	PRT KIRKUK: ARTICLE 23 COMMITTEE - LIMITED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Article 23 committee of the Council of Representatives followed up on its initial visit to Kirkuk last week (REFTEL) by returning on February 17. A promising agenda proposed by UNAMI covering voter registries, land issues and power sharing was derailed by the Committee's del [...]	2009-02-18 23:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD429	RRT ERBIL: THE SILENT IMAMS, DEALING WITH EXTEMIST [...] (C) Summary: A number of Muslim leaders in the Kurdistan region took to the pulpit in December/January to denounce Israeli actions in the Gaza strip and call for the destruction of the Israeli state and death to Jews. In response, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) banned these Imams fr [...]	2009-02-18 23:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PRL PHUM PTER SOCI PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD430	RRT ERBIL: PUK REFORM WING GATHERS MOMENTUM - [...] (C) Summary. A group of PUK members led by former PUK Deputy Secretary General Nawshirwan Mustafa is confident that their reform agenda will lead them to prevail over other PUK contenders in the contest for PUK leadership in a post-Talabani world. For the time being, this group does not com [...]	2009-02-18 23:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD431	SUPPORT COUNCILS IN SUNNI REGIONS: FAILURE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Support Councils (SC) (Arabic: Majlis Al Isnad),have not had as great an effect in the central Sunni-Arab majority provinces as in southern, Shi'a-dominated provinces (refs). Sunni suspicions of the Maliki Government of Iraq (GOI),already established tribal groupings and othe [...]	2009-02-19 10:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD432	PRT SALAH AD DIN: IRAQI POLICE RECRUITMENT ON [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Police (IP) force in Salah ad Din (SaD) continues to meet its targets for recruitment and training, but faces several challenges that could limit its effectiveness. With the number of recruits scheduled to graduate [...]	2009-02-19 10:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ
09BAGHDAD433	IRAQ'S ELECTION COMMISSION QUICKLY REVIEWS [...] (C) Summary. Iraq's Independent Electoral Commission (IHEC) has completed its review of the 2,023 complaints submitted after the provincial elections. According to UN and international technical advisors, the number of complaints has been much lower than anticipated. However, IHEC has iden [...]	2009-02-19 11:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD44	ASHURA CROWDS, SADRIST STATEMENT ON GAZA SPARK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Muqtada al Sadr's January 7 declaration to his followers to "carry out revenge operations" against Israel's "great accomplice" for Israel's military assault on Gaza caused concern to PRT local staff and contacts due to the enhanced crowds and religious fervor in the province dur [...]	2009-01-08 15:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PREL PGOV PTER IZ
09BAGHDAD446	ARAB-KURD RELATIONS: CURRENT TENSIONS THREATEN [...] (C) Summary. Tension between Arabs and Kurds is historical, multifaceted, and currently fueled by unresolved conflicts over oil revenue sharing, disputed internal borders (DIBs),and the struggle for authority between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the central government (GOI). P [...]	2009-02-21 10:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD447	RRT ERBIL: THE KURDISTAN ISLAMIC UNION - KRG'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the "Third Party" in the Kurdistan Region, the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) is a long way from threatening the tight patronage and emotional hold of the KDP and the PUK on the electorate. Nonetheless, with its strong anti-corruption message and popular media outlets, it appe [...]	2009-02-21 11:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	POL PGOV KDEM PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD449	FRIEND OF MALIKI AND MUQTADA DISCUSSES SADRIST-GOI [...] (C) Sheikh Mohammed Reda al-Numani, a close contact of both Prime Minister Maliki and the Sadr family, spoke optimistically in his February 18 meeting with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray about efforts to mediate between the Prime Minister and Sadrists. Numani, a Maliki supporter, offered insights [...]	2009-02-22 08:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IR IZ
09BAGHDAD45	DPM BARHAM SALIH - IRAQ LOOKING FOR A NEW APPROACH [...] (U) This cable is an action request, please see paragraph 10 2. (C) Summary: In a January 7 meeting with EMIN Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih stated that Iraq's Ministry of Oil has failed at the highest levels of management and that the situation of Iraq's oil sector is a "disaster". T [...]	2009-01-08 15:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD454	PRT SALAH AD DIN: PARTY AND INDIVIDUAL RIVALRIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Even before confirmation of which individuals have won seats, jockeying has begun in Salah Ad Din (SAD) for the five provincial offices that the new Provincial Council (PC) will elect. At the party level, the Tawafuq list (which includes the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP)) received [...]	2009-02-22 09:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD467	PRT KIRKUK:KIRKUK'S LOCAL ARTICLE 23 WORKING GROUP [...] (C) Summary. Kirkuk's Provincial Council Working Group (A23WG),established to address issues related to Article 23 of the Provincial Elections Law, has made a set of recommendations to present to the Council of Representatives (CoR) Article 23 Committee. The A23WG suggested that government [...]	2009-02-23 05:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD469	ROMANIAN FORCES IN IRAQ SET TO RESUME FULL [...] (C) Summary: Romanian forces are engaged in operational support of Coalition and Iraqi forces but are not conducting off base activities in Tallil pending the establishment of a Joint Committee for the implementation of their January 26 MoU. This is on track to be completed in conjunction wit [...]	2009-02-23 13:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR PTER IZ
09BAGHDAD470	PRT KIRKUK: ARAB NATIONAL PARTIES SEEK FOR [...] (C) Summary. While outside political parties continue to wield the most power and influence in Kirkuk, three Arab national parties are now attempting to get a foot in the door to compete in Kirkuk's elections. Since 2005, Kirkuk's Arab leaders have remained independent with minimal direction [...]	2009-02-23 15:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EMIN KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD471	PRT KIRKUK:MOI DIRECTS KIRKUK POLICE TO HIRE 241 [...] (C) Summary. On February 17, Kirkuk Provincial Council Acting Chair Ali Salihi convened a press conference to denounce the official Ministry of Interior (MoI) directive ordering the PC to hire 241 Dawa party affiliates into Kirkuk's Iraqi Police (IP) force. He described the directive as ill [...]	2009-02-23 15:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD475	SADR CITY POST-ELECTION: HIGH EXPECTATIONS AMID [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of informal conversations with Poloff, a diverse group of Sadr City residents -- ranging from day laborers and students to shopkeepers -- voiced overall confidence in the fairness and credibility of the January 31, 2009, Provincial Council (PC) elections, in which can [...]	2009-02-24 12:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL
09BAGHDAD476	RRT ERBIL: NAWSHIRWAN'S PLANNED ELECTORAL LIST [...] (C) Summary: Former PUK Deputy Secretary General Nawshirwan Mustafa's announcement of his intentions to run an independent list in the upcoming Iraqi Kurdistan Parliamentary elections has forced another showdown between President Talabani and PUK Politburo "reformists" who objected to Talaba [...]	2009-02-24 13:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD477	DA,WA FORMING PARTNERSHIP WITH HOPE OF TWO RIVERS [...] (C) Summary: The State of Law Coalition (Da'wa) and the Hope of the Two Rivers (disaffected Da'wa, tribal and others) each won nine Provincial Council (PC) seats in last month's provincial elections. Both separately have announced that their lists may form a governing partnership. State of L [...]	2009-02-24 13:11:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD49	CALLS TO POSTPONE DIYALA ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: During his December 30-31 visit to Diyala Province, Kurdish and Shi'a political leaders explained to visiting PMIN their demands for a postponement of the January 31 provincial elections in Diyala. The leaders cited security and logistical concerns to justify a delay, though it s [...]	2009-01-09 09:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD492	GOI INSIDERS ON MINISTER OF WOMEN'S AFFAIRS [...] Summary: (C) In the days following her abrupt resignation on February 5, it was unclear why Minister of State for Women's Affairs (MoSWA) Dr. Nawal Al-Samara'e she resigned, whether PM Maliki had in fact accepted her resignation, and whether Al-Samara'e might return if she could get more au [...]	2009-02-25 13:01:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KWMN PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD495	NAJAF BUSINESSMEN ON TRADE WITH IRAN: "NO OTHER [...] (C) Summary: Najaf businessmen expressed frustration with their limited choices of foreign business partners in a February 23 meeting with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray. Too often, they said, they are finding doors closed to them in Jordan, the Arab Gulf states, and Europe. End summary. 2. [...]	2009-02-26 07:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD ECON IR IZ
09BAGHDAD500	KARBALA: DA'WA-SADRIST DEAL ON CASE REVIEWS BEING [...] (C) As reported in reftels, Da'wa -- in order to guarantee the Sadrists' continued political quiescence in Karbala -- has offered to expedite the closure of criminal cases stemming from the deadly violence that marred the Shabaniyah observances in August 2007. In the crackdown that followed, [...]	2009-02-26 12:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KJUS IZ
09BAGHDAD503	PM ADVISOR RIKABI ON DEVELOPING THE BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary. Sadiq al-Rikabi, a close political advisor to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, told Emboffs in February that the Maliki government seeks a special, long-term alliance with the U.S. and asked for the U.S. to remain engaged in helping Iraqis solve internal political disputes. Iraq o [...]	2009-02-26 13:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR IZ
09BAGHDAD504	MAYSAN ELECTION: COALITION-BUILDING TIED TO BAGHDAD [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. Summary ------- 2. (C/REL MCFI) Maysan's new 27-member Provincial Council (PC) will be governed by four parties -- Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa-led State of Law, ISCI's Shahid al-Mihrab, the Sadrist-backed Free Independent Trend, and Dr. Ja'afar [...]	2009-02-26 14:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IZ IR
09BAGHDAD505	TURKISH SPECIAL ENVOY NOTES GOT SURPRISE AT MALIKI [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a February 17 meeting, Murat Ozcelik, Turkey's Special Envoy to Iraq discussed Turkey's surprise at the success of PM Maliki's list in the provincial elections and his strengthened position as a result. Ozcelik said Turkey would use its good relations within the KRG and the G [...]	2009-02-26 14:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ TU IR
09BAGHDAD507	NAJAF: GOVERNOR OPTIMISTIC ON U.S.-IRAQI [...] (C) In a February 23 meeting, Najaf Governor As,ad abu Gulal appeared upbeat about the January 31 provincial election results and the Iraqi-U.S. relationship. Once the election results are certified, he expects the Provincial Council to be seated quickly and confided the Council may ask him [...]	2009-02-26 15:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KIRF IZ
09BAGHDAD508	CENTRAL BANK OF IRAQ MONETARY POLICY AND [...] (C) Summary: The Central Bank of Iraq's (CBI's) moves to ease monetary policy, in light of the global economic slowdown, should dampen commodity prices and inflation. While the CBI still believes high interest rates have not impeded serious bank lending, their new policy stance will challenge [...]	2009-02-26 15:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	BEXP ECON EFIN IZ
09BAGHDAD513	ANTI-CORRUPTION ITEMS [...] (C) Amidst the GOI's heightened profile of late on the anti-corruption dossier (ref a),sources in the Inspectors General (IG) corps claimed to us that PM Maliki recently instructed each of the 35 IG's (located in ministries and other GOI institutions)to come up with two "major" anti-corruptio [...]	2009-02-27 11:34:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD514	PUK RESHUFFLE POINTS TO DPM BARHAM SALIH FOR KRG PM [...] (C) Summary. Internal wrangling among the Kurdish political leadership is going to generate changes among the Kurdish leaders in Baghdad and Kurdistan and will likely leave the Kurds less able to work with PM Nouri al-Maliki in a serious way, at least in the short term. The latest spate of h [...]	2009-02-27 11:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD518	GOI REACTION TO THE PRESIDENT'S IRAQ SPEECH [...] (C) Foreign Minister Zebari told the Charge this afternoon that he liked the President's Camp Lejeune speech on Iraq, especially the clear statement that the U.S. does not support sectarian security forces. He also liked the President's insistence that the GOI focus on building its capacity [...]	2009-02-28 14:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PREL GCC IR
09BAGHDAD520	IN DIWANIYAH PROVINCE, POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Although Da'wa, which won 11 of Diwaniyah's 28 Provincial Council (PC) seats, is in a strong political position, infighting within that party has left the governorship and PC chairmanship up for grabs. Under the circumstances, coalition-building is proving a difficult, albeit p [...]	2009-02-28 14:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD532	KUWAITI FM'S VISIT TO IRAQ: SHORT ON SUBSTANCE [...] (C) Summary: Ending 20 years of senior-level bilateral estrangement, Kuwait's Foreign Minister visited Iraq February 26. In his meetings with Vice Presidents Abdul-Mehdi and Hashmi (President Talabani is in Iran) and Prime Minister Maliki, and over lunch with Foreign Minister Zebari, the [...]	2009-03-02 07:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IZ KU
09BAGHDAD533	PARLIAMENT LIFTS MEMBER'S IMMUNITY AS SUNNI ARABS [...] (C) Summary: On February 25, the Council of Representatives (CoR) voted to remove parliamentary immunity from Mohamed al-Daeni, from the Sunni Arab Hewar party, the second time in six months that it has voted to lift immunity from a member. In the other case, in September, Parliament voted to [...]	2009-03-02 10:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM IZ
09BAGHDAD536	MOD HOSTS INAUGURAL HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE [...] (U) Summary: The Ministry of Defense's (MOD) first-ever conference on human rights on February 10 highlighted the actions the Ministry has undertaken to promote respect for human rights, including: education and training programs for soldiers; establishment of internal procedures to handle [...]	2009-03-02 11:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM IZ
09BAGHDAD537	IRAQIS REACT TO PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SPEECH: MOST [...] (U) SUMMARY: Iraqi leaders and citizens largely welcomed President Obama's February 27, 2009, speech announcing U.S. plans to begin the drawdown of American combat units from the country in line with the Seucurity Agreement. Most said they favored the continuation of a strong American partner [...]	2009-03-02 12:51:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL
09BAGHDAD543	MOHR ON NEW MINISTERS, MASS GRAVES, MP AL-DAINI [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Human Rights Wijdan Salim told us on February 24 that she expects the newly appointed Judge Dara will be an effective Minister of Justice, once he negotiates his learning curve. By contrast, she expressed concern about the new Acting Minister of State for Women's A [...]	2009-03-02 14:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KWMN PTER KU IZ
09BAGHDAD545	IRAQI PARLIAMENTARIAN DENOUNCES CORRUPTION IN [...] (U) In a February 28 press statement, the chairman of the Council of Representatives' (COR) Integrity Committee, Sheikh Sabah, called for the removal of Trade Minister Abdel Falah Sudani as well as Labor and Social Affairs Minister Mahmud Radi because of the "growing corruption" in their minist [...]	2009-03-02 16:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM KCRM IZ
09BAGHDAD546	PRT SALAH AD DIN: PROVINCIAL INVESTMENT COMMISSION [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In recent months, the Salah al-Din (SaD) Provincial Investment Commission (PIC) has improved its working relationship with the National Investment Commission (NIC) and committed itself to a rigorous campaign of outreach to pot [...]	2009-03-03 03:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREF EAID ETRD IZ PINR
09BAGHDAD548	BAATHISTS IN NORTHWEST BAGHDAD: 500 PARTIES, WHY [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Tarmiyah, Taji and Abu Ghraib "qadas" (rural counties) of northwest Baghdad Province are home to many former members of the Baath Party, Iraqi Army, and other security institutions of the former regime. Most were low-ranking members, but many remain unemployed and suspicious [...]	2009-03-03 12:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD559	THE U.S.-IRAQI RELATIONSHIP IN 2009: THE VIEW FROM [...] (C) Provincial-level contacts throughout Iraq, while excited about the prospect of full Iraqi sovereignty, hope and expect that the U.S. will continue to provide development and security assistance and maintain a role in internal dispute resolution over the next year. The U.S.-Iraq Security [...]	2009-03-04 15:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD560	PRT SALAH AD DIN: OLD AND NEW PROVINCIAL COUNCIL [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Chairman of the outgoing Salah ad Din (SaD) Provincial Council (PC) hosted an introductory meeting on March 1 for members of the outgoing and incoming PC's. The outgoing PC members offered their full support to the incomin [...]	2009-03-04 16:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD565	IRAQ'S NEGLECTED MONEY LAUNDERING REPORTING OFFICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's two year-old Money Laundering Reporting Office (MLRO) is under-budgeted and under-staffed; lacks capacity; works out of woeful office conditions; and its work is hindered further by loophole-ridden anti-money laundering legislation that is self-contradictory and unenforceab [...]	2009-03-05 08:02:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER KCRM PGOV SNAR IZ
09BAGHDAD567	BAGHDAD UPDATE: WHAT'S AHEAD? [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-05 08:35:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL
09BAGHDAD570	A NEW SUNNI ARAB COALITION THAT CALLS ITSELF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 1, ex-Council of Representatives (COR) speaker Mahmoud Mashhadani joined the leaders of three political blocs, Saleh al-Mutlak (Iraqi Front for National Dialogue/IFND),Abid Mutlak al-Jeboori (Iraqi Arab Independents),and Khalaf al-Ulyan (National Dialogue Council) to an [...]	2009-03-05 10:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD574	BAGHDAD UPDATE: WHAT'S AHEAD AS TROOPS DRAWDOWN? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As Iraq's capital, Baghdad is inherently important. It is home to a large and diverse population (approximately six million of Iraq's estimated 28 million total),with increasing numbers of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) returning to mixed neighborhoods. Baghdad's politica [...]	2009-03-05 13:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL
09BAGHDAD575	IRAQ: MAKE IT A STRONG PARTNER IN DEALING WITH [...] (C) The 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the subsequent seating of a Shia-led government, opened new opportunities for Iran to influence Iraqi politics and to bleed U.S. forces. Many Iraqis, especially Sunnis, still view Shi'a Islamist parties ISCI and Badr, which have their origins in Iran, as n [...]	2009-03-05 13:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON IR IZ
09BAGHDAD579	THE SUNNI ARAB CENTRAL PROVINCES: MORE STABLE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Anbar, Salah Ad Din (SAD),and Diyala, the three majority-Sunni Arab provinces stretching west to east across Iraq's center, have witnessed a dramatic reduction in violence over the past two years. Thanks to the Sahwa (Awakening)/Sons of Iraq (SOI) security programs, aggressive [...]	2009-03-06 11:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD583	PRIME MINISTER CLOSELY MANAGING PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Prime Minister Maliki is closely managing coalition-building in provinces where his Da'wa-led State of Law list performed well in the elections, and has reached agreements on alliances in most of the ten Shi'a-majority provinces. March 2-3 meetings in Babil and Karbala with Senior Adviso [...]	2009-03-06 15:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD584	CORRUPTION IN IRAQ REMAINS IN THE PUBLIC SPOTLIGHT [...] (C) The Prime Minister's point-man on the anti-corruption dossier announced a "campaign to combat bribery," while the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry's Inspector General reported the uncovering of widespread corruption in a provincial social welfare program. The Interior Ministry's Inspecto [...]	2009-03-06 15:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD585	IRAQI FY09 BUDGET AS A TOOL FOR PARLIMENTARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: After more than two months of difficult negotiations and multiple draft laws, Iraq's parliament approved on March 5 a 2009 budget that both spends less money than the government requested and allocates spending on COR priorities that differ from those of the government. There was [...]	2009-03-06 16:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EFIN IZ
09BAGHDAD587	MAYSAN: SADRIST LEADER EAGER TO WORK WITH U.S. [...] (U) This is a Maysan PRT reporting cable. 2. (C/REL MCFI) Summary: The leader of the OMS-backed Tayar al-Ahrar (Free Independent Trend) party in Maysan, Fadil Na'ama Hussein al-Tammimi, expressed enthusiasm about the current direction of American policy in Iraq and an eagerness to coopera [...]	2009-03-07 12:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IZ IR
09BAGHDAD588	THE SOUTH AND ITS POLITICAL INFLUENCE [...] (C) As evidenced by the recent provincial elections, won decisively by Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa-led State of Law coalition, southern Iraqis have moved from overt Shi'a identification to a more nationalist, pragmatic stance. Maliki catalyzed and capitalized on this shift by carrying out mi [...]	2009-03-07 12:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD594	INFLUENTIAL SUNNI ARAB SHEIK HOSTS PRT AT HIS HOME [...] (C) SUMMARY: At his country home on 24 February, Sheikh Abdullah Sami al-Assi hosted a diwan attended by the PRT and Sunni Arab tribal sheikhs and notables in the area. Among the main questions and concerns raised by the assembled Arabs were the future status of Kirkuk province, detentions, [...]	2009-03-08 07:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD598	PRT SALAH AD DIN: BA'ATHISTS READY TO RECONCILE, [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The top sheikh of Saddam Hussein's tribe, along with other local figures from his home village in Salah Ad Din (SAD) province, recently asked the PRT to convey to the USG that Ba'athists in SAD seek direct dialogue and reconciliation [...]	2009-03-08 11:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETTC IZ
09BAGHDAD611	IRAQI NSC DISCUSSES FALSE ACCUSATIONS AND THE [...] (C) Summary: At the March 1 National Security Council meeting, Chief Justice Medhat briefed the NSC on issues involving false accusations in the justice system, as well as the use of secret informants. The PM directed that a press conference be organized to discuss false accusations, includin [...]	2009-03-09 13:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ MARR PGOV PHUM PREL
09BAGHDAD612	CHRISTIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS ASSESS PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: Key Christian politicians acknowledge that the January 31 provincial elections were generally well organized and that security was excellent, and are pleased that nationalist and secular parties gained at the expense of major Islamic parties. They complained, however, that int [...]	2009-03-09 15:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD615	IRAQ 201: WHERE IS THE GREEN LINE? [...] (C) Summary: None of the many interpretations of a "Green Line" separating Kurdish-administered areas from the rest of Iraq has either support across ethnic lines or a conclusive legal basis. The term "Green Line" was first used to describe the "front-line trace" between Peshmerga and Iraqi [...]	2009-03-10 07:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PMIL MOPS IZ
09BAGHDAD616	KIRKUK: ARTICLE 23 COMMITTEE PLEDGES TO WORK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Council of Representatives (CoR) Article 23 Committee returned to Kirkuk on March 8 and decided that the March 31 deadline set by the Provincial Elections law was "artificial" and therefore set April 14 for release of their report. The Committee deferred until the end of the M [...]	2009-03-10 08:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD622	PRT NINEWA: AL-HADBA ALLIANCE ON SHEIKHY GROUND [...] (C) Summary. Riding high in the wake of the Sunni Arabs' Al-Hadba list dominance in the provincial elections, Iraqi Justice and Reform Movement Party Founder Sheikh Abdullah Hemdi Ajil al-Yawar is now distancing himself from Al-Hadba leader Athiel al-Najaifi and presenting himself as the real [...]	2009-03-10 09:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PTER IZ
09BAGHDAD623	PUK INTERNAL SQUABBLING AND THE KRG ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. While we monitor Arab-Kurd tensions, the control-oriented Kurdish political leadership is traversing serious political turbulence. Protracted Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) internal power negotiations with Nawshirwan Mustafa have Kurdish leaders insisting on a closed candida [...]	2009-03-10 09:50:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD624	PRT SALAH AD DIN: PILGRIMAGE SIGNALS [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The predominantly Sunni city of Samarra in Salah Ad Din (SAD) province has made significant progress in Sunni and Shi'a reconciliation. On March 6, up to three million Shi'a pilgrims from Karbala, Baghdad and elsewhere visit [...]	2009-03-10 11:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD625	NSC DISCUSSES COMBATING AQI, SECURITY SERVICES [...] (C) Summary. At the March 8 National Security Council, Iraqi officials discussed the ongoing threat from Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI),how to fix the overlapping duties across Iraq's intelligence services, moving ahead on a draft agreement with Saudi Arabia regarding prisoner exchanges, and avoiding [...]	2009-03-10 11:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD628	PRT DIYALA: SUNNI ARABS CLAIM GOI REINSTITUTING [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Members of the Tawafuq/IIP party in Diyala fear that the Government of Iraq (GOI) is using the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) to prevent Sunni Arab leaders from forming a new provincial government in Diyala (reftels). They claim that after a p [...]	2009-03-10 13:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD629	PRT DIYALA: DIYALA TAWAFUQ/IIP AIMS TO SHARE PC [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRT Diyala recently discussed formation of the new Provincial Council (PC) with members of the United Accord and Reform Front (Tawafuq) list, the leading vote getter in Diyala's PC elections. Tawafuq members asked for PRT technic [...]	2009-03-10 14:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PSOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD636	IRAQ WANTS A JUNE WTO WORKING PARTY BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Iraqi Ministry of Trade is eager to hold its Third WTO Working Party (WP) in June. However, Trade Minister al-Sudani and WTO Unit officials acknowledge that if they do not make substantial progress in several areas by April, a June WP would not be justified. They appear to be [...]	2009-03-11 12:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PGOV EINV IZ
09BAGHDAD64	GOI ARRESTS STOKE DIYALA SUNNIS' SENSE OF [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) operations in Diyala province have exhibited a consistent pattern of sectarian bias. The Government of Iraq (GOI) has launched a number of security operations in Diyala ostensibly to combat Al-Qa'ida in [...]	2009-01-11 13:14:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD642	RRT ERBIL: KRG ELECTIONS PREVIEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Key issues for the Kurdistan regional parliamentary elections remain undecided, and the President has yet to sign an important amendment to the election law. Nonetheless, the KDP and PUK have already announced the details of post-elections power-sharing, including swapping the po [...]	2009-03-11 14:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD643	FY 2009 IRAQI BUDGET -- INITIAL NUMBERS [...] (C) The GOI has yet to complete an accounting of the impact of the last minute amendments to the 2009 Iraqi budget, which was approved on March 5 (reftel). The bill has yet to be sent from the Council of Representatives (CoR) to the Presidency for formal approval. Debate continues within the [...]	2009-03-11 15:30:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD645	PRT DIYALA: DIYALA'S IRAQ NATIONAL PROJECT [...] (U) This is a PRT Diyala Reporting Cable 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRT Diyala recently met local representatives from the Iraqi National Project Gathering (INPG) list, which tied for second in Diyala's provincial elections. INPG representatives articulated a vision for improving Diyala that focus [...]	2009-03-12 06:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD651	IRAQ CONSIDERS STEPS TO BOOST OIL OUTPUT; EARLY [...] (C) Summary: The GOI is considering a number of steps to improve management of the oil sector and streamline contracting procedures, all with a view to boosting near-term output. The steps, including creation of an Oil and Gas Council led by the PM that would reduce the Oil Ministry's role, [...]	2009-03-12 14:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD655	MUTHANNA: NEW PC LEADERS FOCUS ON DELIVERING [...] (C): The Senior Advisor for Southern Iraq and Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) officers held separate meetins with representatives from three of the leading winning political lists in Muthanna on March 9. The next governing coalition will be led locally by Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa-b [...]	2009-03-12 15:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EINV IZ
09BAGHDAD657	IRAQ REGIONAL STRATEGY - PRELIMINARY UNAMI [...] (C) The UN, like us, is in the process of formulating ideas on how best to promote Iraq's regional engagement. On March 11, Ambassador Gerard Sambrana, SRSG de Mistura's Special Political Advisor (and the senior UNAMI official most directly involved in the Neighbors Process),shared with us [...]	2009-03-13 10:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ TU KU IR UN
09BAGHDAD659	SUNNI POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: SECTARIAN VERSUS SECULAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraq's Sunni Arabs are a composite group of moderate Islamists, secular nationalists, unreconstructed Ba'athists, Former Regime Elements (FRE),and tribal leaders. While Sunni Arabs share a sense of marginalization in post-Saddam Iraq, they are highly divided and have been unable [...]	2009-03-13 12:58:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD660	SRSG DE MISTURA LAYS OUT UNAMI'S IMMEDIATE [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-13 13:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM PGOV PREL
09BAGHDAD661	DHI QAR UNEASILY PREPARES FOR SADRISTS IN [...] (C) Leading Dhi Qar politicians and religious authorities are uneasy with Sadrist participation in an incoming provincial governing coalition with the Prime Minister's State of Law list and ex-Prime Minister Ja'afari's National Reform Trend. In March 8 meetings with visiting Senior Advisor [...]	2009-03-13 14:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IZ IR
09BAGHDAD662	SRSG DE MISTURA LAYS OUT UNAMI'S IMMEDIATE [...] (C) In his March 9 debrief of his recent trip to Washington, SRSG Staffan de Mistura told the Charge that he plans to use the political capital he's gained after the successful elections to advance the UNAMI agenda on Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs). The UN seeks close support from the U [...]	2009-03-13 14:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM PGOV PREL
09BAGHDAD670	PRT SALAH AD DIN: TUZ DISTRICT'S ELECTION RESULTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Credible, legitimate, and peaceful Provincial Council (PC) elections in the Tuz district of SAD province reflect low ethnic tensions in this disputed area. The Kurdish parties in SAD added non-Kurds to their electoral list, and Turcoman engagement in the democratic process resu [...]	2009-03-14 11:05:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD671	MALIKI RESHAPING KARBALA POLITICAL SCENE IN [...] (C) Summary. Senior political leaders tell the PRT that Prime Minister Maliki has been the decision-maker in determining the Karbala political line-up following the January 31 elections. Maliki reportedly brokered the political deal between the Dawlat al-Qanun (State of Law) and Amal al-Raf [...]	2009-03-14 14:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON IZ
09BAGHDAD675	ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE [...] (C) Anti-Corruption Coordinator (ACC) and staff recently met separately with three Iraqi religious figures: Grand Ayatollah Hussein Al-Sadr, the senior Shia cleric in Baghdad, Ahmed Abdel Ghafour Al-Sammarraie, head of the GOI's Sunni Endowment, and Harith Al-Obaidy, Sunni cleric and parliamen [...]	2009-03-15 09:42:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD676	RRT ERBIL: PROFILE OF PUK NAWSHIRWAN MUSTAFA [...] (C) Summary. This cable profiles Nawshirwan Mustafa, the former Deputy Secretary General of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and leader of the "unofficial" PUK reformist movement in Sulaimaniyah. Long an advocate of change within the PUK, he continues to be a gadfly to the PUK establis [...]	2009-03-15 11:17:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD680	NINEWA: BIO OF LIKELY INCOMING NINEWA GOVERNOR [...] (C) Summary: Ninewa,s likely future Governor, Atheel Alnujaifi, is a sophisticated politician and astute businessman, but also a polarizing figure in a province where Arab and Kurdish Iraq meet along a legally, ethnically and geographically blurred line. He has deep links to former Ba,ath p [...]	2009-03-15 17:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL TU IZ
09BAGHDAD691	IRAQ 201: IRAQ'S PRESIDENCY AND CABINET [...] (C) Summary. The Presidency Council and Council of Ministers (Cabinet) reflect a broad-based membership of the Iraqi Government and are institutions that sometimes attempt to restrain an increasingly assertive Prime Minister. The Presidency has used its authorities to ensure consensus on key i [...]	2009-03-16 07:55:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD712	DISGRUNTLED SHI'A THREATEN TO BOYCOTT NEW [...] (C) Representatives of four major Shi'a parties that fared poorly in the 2009 Diyala Provincial Elections have rejected the election results, alleging fraud and irregularities. They say they will boycott the new Provincial Government unless there is a new election under different conditions. [...]	2009-03-17 08:31:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD72	ACTION REQUEST: MANAGING NATO EXPECTATIONS FOR [...] (U) This is an action request; see paragraphs 6 and 7. 2. (C) Summary: According to USNATO (Ref A and B),in the North Atlantic Council (NAC) meeting on 7 January, NATO member states proposed to send Assistant Secretary General for Operations Howard and Legal Advisor DeWidts to Baghdad to c [...]	2009-01-12 04:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ NATO
09BAGHDAD721	JOURNALISTS ASSESS IRAQ'S PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Local and international media gave a mixed press freedom grade to Iraq's January 31 provincial elections. While many journalists cited the event as a noteworthy step forward in the country's push toward greater freedom of the press, they also complained that overly restricti [...]	2009-03-17 15:40:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ
09BAGHDAD729	GOI TO MOVE FORWARD ON KUWAITI MASS GRAVES [...] (C) Summary: Iraq's Minister of Human Rights told us that she regrets the delays the GOI has caused in the ICRC-assisted effort to find Kuwaiti missing persons and open Kuwaiti mass graves. Noting that the GOI has worked out the internal issues that had stymied progress, Salim said she has [...]	2009-03-18 08:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KU IZ
09BAGHDAD731	IRAQ 201: SHI'A POLITICAL LANDSCAPE COLORED BY [...] (C) Summary. This cable outlines Iraq's primary Shi'a parties and the major events Shi'a actors will likely face before national elections, planned for late 2009 or early 2010. Prime Minister Maliki's Da'wa party, and the other Shi'a who won seats during the January 31 provincial elections n [...]	2009-03-18 11:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD733	IRAQ 201: SNAPSHOT OF IRAQ'S REGIONAL DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) Ref A provided a broad overview of Iraq's diplomatic relations with its neighbors and a proposed U.S. strategy for consolidating Iraq's regional reintegration. Ref B analyzed Iraqi-Iranian relations. This cable aims to complement those messages by providing a snapshot of practical effort [...]	2009-03-18 12:04:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ GCC
09BAGHDAD740	COR PASSES BUDGET BILL [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-18 15:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON IZ
09BAGHDAD750	NINEWA: SONGS IN THE KEY OF AIN SIFNI [...] (C) Summary: What do you get when a US Army band plays an Eastern Orthodox wedding hall in a Yezidi town with Arab, Christian and Kurdish musicians under the watchful gaze of the Barzani patriarch, a crucifix, and the Iraqi flag, plus a banner celebrating the anniversary of an anti-Saddam up [...]	2009-03-19 08:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI IZ
09BAGHDAD751	IRAQI BUDGET: "DIFFICULT YEAR" SAYS MINISTER OF [...] (C) Summary: Finance Minister Bayan Jabr told EMIN on March 16 that the USD 59 billion FY 2009 Budget as passed by the Council of Representatives was lower than the government had requested and that Iraq faces "a difficult year." Cuts to operational budgets are expected in every ministry. Jab [...]	2009-03-19 08:59:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON CVIS PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD756	IRAQ DPM BARHAM SALIH ON OIL, ICI, AND BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih expressed satisfaction with the results of the late February oil symposium and said that he expects swift cabinet approval of recommendations to streamline management of the oil sector. While Oil Minister Shahristani has agreed to the recommendat [...]	2009-03-19 09:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV EPET ETRD IZ
09BAGHDAD763	AFTER THE AWAKENING: TRIBES AS GOVERNMENT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Sahwa's success at helping beat back Al-Qaida and associated extremists led to its first-place finish in Anbar Province's January provincial election. Winners now move, amid high expectations, from electoral victory into governing. Fallujah-area tribal sheikhs, including the pro [...]	2009-03-19 14:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL PINR KDEM
09BAGHDAD766	FINANCE MINISTER JABR ON BUDGET, SONS OF IRAQ, AND [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Finance Bayan Jabr on March 19 told EMIN that the government has not yet decided whether to acquiesce with the changes that parliament included in the 2009 budget or to insist that the Council of Representatives (CoR) approve additional expenditures. The Council of Mi [...]	2009-03-19 17:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV EAIR ETRD IZ
09BAGHDAD77	PRT SALAH AD DIN: GEO PREPARES FOR PROVINCIAL [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: PRT Salah Ad Din (SaD) and local Coalition Forces (CF) met recently with the SaD Governorate Elections Officer (GEO) to discuss preparations for upcoming provincial elections. The GEO detailed the procedure for holding electi [...]	2009-01-12 13:29:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINS IZ
09BAGHDAD774	RRT ERBIL: KURDISH PUBLIC SYMPATHETIC TO PKK [...] (U) This is an Erbil Regional Reconstruction Team cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Even those Iraqi Kurds who disagree with the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) methods find it emotionally difficult to separate the PKK cause from the larger struggle for Kurdish rights and the hope for Kurdish un [...]	2009-03-22 07:23:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR SY TU XF IZ
09BAGHDAD775	PRT SALAH AD DIN: PC JOCKEYING ATTEMPTS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sources told the PRT that many members of the new Salah ad Din (SaD) Provincial Council (PC) met on March 15 to form a coalition called "Fortress Salah ad Din." The coalition aims to prevent current Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein Jebara or any Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP)/Tawafuq [...]	2009-03-22 07:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD787	POTENTIAL ISSUES WITH KRG ELECTIONS: USG SHOULD [...] (C) Summary: Elections for the 111-member Kurdish parliament are planned for May 19. These elections are not likely to be a potential flashpoint in Kurd-Arab tensions. That said, the Kurdish elections are important to U.S. interests. How they are conducted, both in terms of meeting (or not [...]	2009-03-23 07:27:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD788	KURDISH PRESS IN POLITICAL NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's (PUK) internal power-sharing negotiations (Ref A, B, C) have generated a plethora of wildly inconsistent press reports about upcoming KRG elections as well as the negotiations themselves. Parliamentary recess combined with Kurdish New Year's and [...]	2009-03-23 07:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ

09BAGHDAD789	DA'WA TANZIM CLAIMS MALIKI IS TARGETING CORRUPT [...] (C) Summary. During a series of recent meetings, Da'wa Tanzim members of parliament said that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is investigating high-ranking Iraqi officials involved with violence and corruption and voiced concern over a lingering threat from Ba'thists who seek to return to power. [...]	2009-03-23 07:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD792	RSO MEETING WITH ERBIL POLICE CHIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: On 03/19/2009, the RSO met with the Erbil Police Chief, Brigadier General Adbulkhaliq Talat, to extend courtesies, discuss items of mutual interest, and forge a working protocol regarding notification of incidents and investigations that cross into Iraqi jurisdiction. The Poli [...]	2009-03-23 09:47:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC
09BAGHDAD796	ERBIL RRT: KURDISTAN REGION TALKS ABOUT CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Perceptions of widespread government corruption are common in the Kurdistan Region (KR). The dominant role that the two major parties play in the political and economic life of the KR is believed to encourage corruption and act as an impediment to reform. Domestic and internatio [...]	2009-03-23 13:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EINV SOCI ECON IZ
09BAGHDAD797	ICRC PRESIDENT DISCUSSES SECURITY, DETAINEES, MEK [...] (C) Summary: Visiting Iraq for the first time since May 2003, ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger praised relations with the Embassy and Multinational Forces-Iraq (MNF-I) in a meeting with the Charg and MNF-I CG Odierno on March 17. Kellenberger noted that ICRC is involved in many protection [...]	2009-03-23 13:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KREF KJUS IO IZ
09BAGHDAD799	DIWANIYAH: COALITION-BUILDING REMAINS STYMIED, [...] (C) Summary: Impatience appears to be growing that Diwaniyah's new Provincial Council (PC) has not been seated. The composition of the eventual ruling coalition and the identity of the new governor remain highly uncertain due to a lack of clear signals from Baghdad, coupled with continued in [...]	2009-03-23 14:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD80	PRT SALAH AD DIN: THE DEPUTY GOVERNOR RETURNS TO [...] (U) This is a PRT Salah ad Din reporting cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Following a successful last-minute appeal of his disqualification from provincial elections on de-Ba'athification grounds, Salah ad Din (SaD) Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein Mohammed Jebara is now on the ballot for provincial [...]	2009-01-12 15:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD804	MALIKI'S CALL FOR "RECONCILIATION" STIRS BA'THIST [...] (C) Summary. Rivals of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki are using his recent call for "national reconciliation" to score political points by portraying him as soft on the loathed Ba'th Party. As a consequence, Maliki's office has been on the defensive, clarifying that the government distinguishes [...]	2009-03-24 11:03:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD807	ISCI WORRIED ABOUT SADRISTS, RECRIMINATIONS IN FAR [...] (C) ISCI/Badr provincial leaders in the far south (Basra, DhiQar, Muthanna) expect Da'wa/State of Law and its coalition partners to target ISCI/Badr members for removal from key positions in provincial ministry offices and the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF). The potential re-entry of Sadrists i [...]	2009-03-24 12:48:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IR
09BAGHDAD808	NAJAF: ISCI BOXED OUT AS COALITION-BUILDING [...] (C) Summary: The provincial election results mark the end of one-party Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) domination in Najaf and will usher in a power-sharing coalition in one of southern Iraq's most religiously and politically important provinces. ISCI's Shahid al-Mihrab list and Prim [...]	2009-03-24 13:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD811	KRG & GOI PRIME MINISTERS AGREE TO RE-START [...] (C) Summary: Kurdish Regional Government Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani (Massoud's nephew) agreed with Prime Minister Maliki during their meeting in Baghdad on March 24 to reduce tensions between the central and Kurdish region governments. Barzani told us after that meeting that he and Ma [...]	2009-03-25 09:24:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS IZ
09BAGHDAD82	U.S. AND IRAQ CONDUCT INAUGURAL MEETING OF [...] (C) Summary. On January 8, 2009, the United States and the Republic of Iraq conducted the first meeting of the Joint Military Operations Coordinating Committee (JMOCC) established under the new U.S.-Iraq Security Agreement (SA). The Iraqi delegates proved enthusiastic but had failed to resolv [...]	2009-01-13 06:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR MASS PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD828	ANTI-CORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) Per a March 17 letter to the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) from the head of the Commission on Integrity (COI),Judge Rahim Al-Ugaili, the GOI has submitted a formal request to join the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative, jointly sponsored by the UNODC and the World Bank. This [...]	2009-03-27 09:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD83	SHIA PARTIES FACE ISSUE-BASED FISSURES BEFORE [...] (C) Shia political parties, especially ISCI and Da'wa, are engaged in ideological and policy-based battles among themselves that might foreshadow a permanent split of the Shia electoral alliance at the national level, according to numerous meetings with our Shia contacts in Baghdad. These ba [...]	2009-01-13 12:06:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KISL IZ
09BAGHDAD831	KURDISH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RULES ON UPCOMING [...] (SBU) According to contacts at UNAMI, on 25 March the Kurdistan National Assembly (KNA) adopted a number of amendments to the electoral law for the Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly. KRG President Barzani is expected to sign the bill shortly, and we do not anticipate challenges. These amend [...]	2009-03-27 12:12:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ KDEM PGOV
09BAGHDAD832	LEAVING FALLUJAH -- AND ANBAR: "TIME TO TEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: The last Marine departed the symbolic city of Fallujah -- twice the scene in 2004 of the Iraq war's most intense fighting -- on March 3, 2009. In a series of recent discussions, a diverse cross-section of Fallujah residents (a shopkeeper, an Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) official, tw [...]	2009-03-27 12:26:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL
09BAGHDAD836	COORDINATION, CAPACITY AND BUDGET, MISSING IN GOI [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Iraq's (GOI) efforts to support returns of internally displaced persons and refugees suffer from a chronic lack of coordination, capacity and resources. The GOI cut the Ministry of Displacement and Migration's (MODM) budget for benefits to the displaced by 80 [...]	2009-03-27 14:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PHUM PREL EAID IZ
09BAGHDAD842	IRAQ-TURKEY-U.S. TRILATERAL DIALOGUE WORKING GROUP [...] (C) The Iraq-Turkey-U.S. trilateral security dialogue working group met on March 26 and agreed on an agenda for the Ministerial-level meeting proposed for Baghdad on April 11: Â [...]	2009-03-29 07:25:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR TU IZ
09BAGHDAD845	PRT DIYALA: POTENTIAL NEW PC ALLIANCES CROSSING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Coalition negotiations in Diyala province remain fluid and inconclusive. After weeks of behind-the-scenes talks, two major blocs are forming; both cross traditional ethnic and sectarian divisions. The first bloc is comprised of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP)-dominated Tawafuq coa [...]	2009-03-29 08:18:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD857	IRAQ'S PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS: AN IRAQI SHOW, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Although the GOI was in the lead on the successful January provincial elections, U.S. assistance greatly facilitated the elections logistically and helped the GOI to conduct the voting in a manner approximating international norms. Our support for the Iraqi provincial election [...]	2009-03-30 09:10:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD858	PRT NINEWA: SINJAR PARTY BOSS AND THE PARADE OF [...] (C) Summary. A crowd of 300 Sinjar residents under the choreography of KDP Branch Chairman Serbast Turwanishi pressed for the integration of Sinjar district into the Kurdistan Region on March 26. Speaker after speaker insisted that if Sinjar reverted to Arab control following the departure [...]	2009-03-30 09:38:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD859	IRAQ 201: KURDISH POLITICAL LANDSCAPE [...] (C) Summary. The Kurdish political landscape is mostly about the delicate balance maintained by the two dominant secular parties - the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Changes in leadership for either party set off a game of musical chairs for Kur [...]	2009-03-30 09:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD871	MUTHANNA INTEGRITY COMMISSION: A TOOTHLESS TIGER [...] This is a Muthanna PRT reporting cable 2. (C) Summary: Muthanna PRT Team Leader met with the province's Commission on Public Integrity (CPI) representative to better understand that organization's function, limitations and track record. This group has been largely ineffective due to a la [...]	2009-03-30 14:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EFIN IZ
09BAGHDAD872	PRT SALAH AD DIN: FIRST JUDICIAL CONFERENCE SINCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 12 - 14, the Salah ad Din (SAD) judiciary held its first conference since 1999. The conference enhanced esprit de corps and exchange of information among the judges, and helped facilitate improved relations between the judiciary and police. The Iraqis gladly gave up [...]	2009-03-30 14:49:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD880	IRAQ 201: CENTRALIZATION AND POWER-SHARING -- A [...] (C) Summary. Conflicting visions of the role of the state are increasing divisions among Iraqis, and have become a catalyst for political realignment at the national level. Most Sunni and Shi'a Arabs are inclined toward a strong central state, especially for the purpose of maintaining a unifi [...]	2009-03-31 08:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD883	THE GROWTH OF IRAQ'S HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER AND HER [...] (U) Summary: The Ministry of Human Rights has grown into a stronger and more independent ministry under the leadership of Minister Wijdan Salim, particularly during the last year. In her almost three years as minister, Salim has increased the capacity of her staff, giving them the resource [...]	2009-03-31 11:22:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS IZ
09BAGHDAD885	IN SUNNI PROVINCES, NO MAJOR REACTIONS YET TO SOI [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent arrest of Sahwa/Sons of Iraq (Awakening/SOI) leader Adel Al Mashhadani and the subsequent violence in the Fadhil section of Baghdad has not yet raised strong concerns from other SOI leaders and members, or from other Sunni Arab leaders outside of Baghdad. In one hopef [...]	2009-03-31 12:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD887	IRAQ 201: CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW [...] (C) Summary: For more than three years an issue hovering in the back of the political debates in Iraq is that of amending the Iraqi constitution that had been ratified in late 2005. Contentious issues such as hydrocarbons revenue sharing, federalism, and the status of Kirkuk and other disp [...]	2009-04-01 10:52:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD898	PRT SALAH AD DIN: TUZ KHURMATO: THREE VERY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 26, Poloffs and PRT and CF staff met with representatives from each of the three main ethnic groups in the Tuz Khurmato district of Salah ad Din (SaD): Turkmen, Sunni Arabs, and Kurds. The United Nations (UN) views Tuz as one of the areas with Disputed Internal Boundari [...]	2009-04-01 12:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PTER PINS IZ
09BAGHDAD899	SOI OUTSIDE BAGHDAD WANT TO SEE THE MONEY, LESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sahwa/Sons of Iraq (SOI) and Sunni Arab contacts outside of Baghdad have not voiced major interest in the weekend arrest of local SOI leader Adel Al Mashhadani in the Fadhil neighborhood of Baghdad (ref B). In discussions with PRTs and Coalition Forces (CF) in the majority Sunn [...]	2009-04-01 12:39:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD90	PROSPECTS FOR IRAQI NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION AND [...] (C) Summary: Iraq sits on top of the world's tenth largest natural gas reserves. The vast majority of the gas is associated gas suspended in oil reservoirs and separates as the oil is produced; while some of this associated gas is captured for use in power generation and domestic production, [...]	2009-01-13 15:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD91	MFA READOUT OF PM MALIKI'S VISITS TO TEHRAN AND [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Maliki was warmly received during his January 3-5 visit to Tehran, in sharp contrast to his last trip in June, which was soured by belligerent Iranian opposition to the SOFA negotiations. According to a senior MFA official who accompanied Maliki, the visit focuse [...]	2009-01-14 06:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD IZ IR
09BAGHDAD910	PRT SALAH AD DIN: MOI HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 24 meeting, Idris Ahmed Khalaf, Deputy Chief of the Salah ad Din (SaD) Office of Human Rights, told the PRT that overall conditions in Ministry of the Interior (MOI) Detention facilities have "marginally" improved but are still severely overcrowded. Idris said that al [...]	2009-04-02 07:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD911	FINANCE MINISTER ON GE PAYMENTS, SONS OF IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary. Finance Minister Bayan Jabr told EMIN on March 30 that he had directed Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) to make $400 million in loan proceeds available to the Minister of Electricity to pay some of the $580M arrearage due to General Electric (GE) on March 29 Jabr further discussed his [...]	2009-04-02 07:43:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD912	LIKELY REACTIONS TO UNAMI'S DIBS REPORTS AND [...] (C) Summary: Likely reactions to the release by UNAMI of its reports on the Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) areas in mid-April, absent diplomatic intervention by us, will range from public outrage to suspicious dismissal to private relief. In our recent, very light conversationswith Kurd [...]	2009-04-02 11:00:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD918	SENIOR GOI FIGURE REPORTS CHILLY IRAQ-KUWAIT [...] (C) During an April 1 meeting, Dr. Tariq Najm Abdullah, Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Maliki, told the Charge that PM Maliki had held a chilly bilateral meeting with Sheikh Sabah, the Amir of Kuwait, on the margins of the Doha Arab League Summit. According to Dr. Tariq, the Kuwaitis linked [...]	2009-04-02 15:33:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ KU
09BAGHDAD92	NINEWA: IHEC SAYS IDP VOTING MAY CAUSE PROBLEMS [...] (C) Summary: The Ninewa Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) representative, Abdel Khaleq al-Dabbagh, said he foresees Election Day complications, including possible voting disruptions, due to unresolved issues surrounding Ninewa IDPs who now reside in the KRG. Dabbagh claimed that N [...]	2009-01-14 08:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD931	IRAQIS STILL THIRSTY FOR TURKISH WATER AFTER [...] (C) Summary: GoI contacts are pleased with Turkish President Gul,s visit to Iraq last week. They described a trust and warmth between the two countries not known for years. However, differences remain over Iraq,s desire for an increased flow of water from the Tigris and Euphrates. In the a [...]	2009-04-05 11:46:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON MOPS TU IZ
09BAGHDAD934	COALITION DRAWDOWN DEMONSTRATES IRAQ,S MIXED [...] (C) Coalition Forces, once representative of 39 countries participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom, have now mostly departed Iraq, indicative of significant improvements in Iraq's security environment and Iraq's own recognition of its sovereignty. Coalition members provided varying degrees of [...]	2009-04-06 09:07:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ ES RO AS EN UK
09BAGHDAD937	FM ZEBARI PESSIMISTIC ON IRAQ-KUWAIT RELATIONS [...] (C) Iraq-Kuwait relations are stuck following what appears to have been a difficult bilateral on the margins of last week's Arab League Summit in Doha. FM Zebari, in an April 4 meeting with PMIN, recounted a tense exchange between PM Maliki and Kuwaiti Amir al-Sabah: Maliki refused to commit [...]	2009-04-06 10:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ KU
09BAGHDAD938	FM ZEBARI ON PROPOSED APRIL 26 GCC3 MEETING IN [...] (C) This message contains an action request. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Foreign Minister Zebari confirmed to PMIN April 4 Iraq's intention to host a one-day GCC 3 Ministerial in Baghdad on April 26, as proposed in Zebari's April 2 letter to Secretary Clinton (reftel). Zebari said the date [...]	2009-04-06 10:37:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GCC IZ
09BAGHDAD946	PRT NINEWA: IN RABIYA DID ABDULLAH A STATELY [...] (C) Summary: Sheikh Abdullah Hamedi Ajil al-Yawer al-Shammari has parlayed control of the Rabiya port of entry, large tracts of irrigated farmland, and a close relationship with Coalition Forces (CF) into a strong position in the incoming Ninewa Provincial Council and administration. His rel [...]	2009-04-07 07:15:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IZ
09BAGHDAD954	DHI QAR: AT LAST, A COALITION [...] (SBU) After long negotiations, representatives of the Dhi Qar branches of the Da'wa/State of Law, National Reform Trend, and the Sadrist Free and Independent People's Trend parties jointly announced they had formed a coalition in the provincial council (PC),dubbed the "Coalition for Dhi Qa [...]	2009-04-07 12:32:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD958	ABU MAZEN COMES TO BAGHDAD - FINALLY [...] (U) After repeated delays caused by conflicting schedules, the Gaza crisis, and most recently a press leak, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) visited Baghdad April 5 -- his first as President of the Palestinian Authority and the first by a Palestinian leader since the 2003 fall of Saddam. During the [...]	2009-04-08 07:45:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ KPAL
09BAGHDAD963	UNAMI'S DIBS REPORT ROLLOUT STRATEGY: SRSG DE [...] (C) In an April 6 meeting with Charge and poloffs, SRSG De Mistura laid out his strategy and the specific steps he intends to take in the next ten days to roll out UNAMI's Disputed Internal Boundaries (DIBs) reports. De Mistura and his team have thought through possible reactions and strate [...]	2009-04-08 08:13:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD967	ANTI-CORRUPTION CONSULTATIONS IN DIYALA PROVINCE [...] (C) During a recent visit to Ba'aquba, capital of Diyala province, the Anti-Corruption Coordinator and staff (ACCO) attended a PRT/USAID-organized workshop for the recently elected provincial council members, giving a presentation on ways of combatting corruption at the provincial and local le [...]	2009-04-08 10:21:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR IZ
09BAGHDAD976	THREE KEY US-IRAQ AGREEMENTS STILL UNRATIFIED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI and the USG signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA),an OPIC Investor Incentive Agreement (IIA),and a Bilateral Assistance Agreement (BAA) in 2005, but all three remain unratified. These agreements would bolster US efforts to expand trade and investment a [...]	2009-04-09 06:20:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EINV PREL ETRD PGOV IZ
09BAGHDAD979	ISCI SEEKS TO REFINE IMAGE, TOYS WITH MORE DRASTIC [...] (C) Summary. The Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI) is seeking to refine its public message away from religious themes and regionalism to regain lost political ground. Our recent meetings with ISCI officials indicate the party will continue to support good ties with the U.S. and remain in [...]	2009-04-09 07:44:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD980	RRT ERBIL: KRG: LAST DIVIDED MINISTRIES MERGE [...] (C) Summary. On April 6, the Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament voted to approve the merger of the ministries of Finance, Interior and Peshmerga affairs, heretofore separated into KDP and PUK ministries, and to swear in the new Deputy Prime Minister, Emad Ahmad Sayfor (PUK). The merger completes a p [...]	2009-04-09 11:36:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD981	POLICE DISRUPT DIYALA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL INAUGURAL [...] SUMMARY (C) Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP)/Tawafuq leaders in Diyala report that the GOI attempted to arrest three of its newly elected Provincial Council (PC) members on April 6, at a meeting to elect the new Diyala governor. There are unconfirmed reports of a fourth warrant. The operation was c [...]	2009-04-09 12:16:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM IZ
09BAGHDAD987	OIL MINISTER COMPLACENT ABOUT UPSTREAM PRODUCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an April 7 meeting with EMIN, Oil Minister Husayn al-Shahristani appeared unruffled by the February 27-March 1 Oil Policy Symposium and instead highlighted some of the recommendations likely to benefit the Oil Ministry. He detailed the Ministry's current efforts to expand [...]	2009-04-09 16:54:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PREL IR IZ
09BAGHDAD990	WHO IS BEHIND LGBT PERSECUTION IN IRAQ? [...] (C) The London-based Iraqi LGBT (Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender) organization's March 30 claim that the GOI planned to execute over 100 gay men in the near future has sparked a storm of protest from gay rights activists around the world. Post has rigorously investigated the Iraqi LGBT cla [...]	2009-04-10 15:41:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL IZ
09BAGHDAD991	RRT ERBIL: MND-N MG CASLEN MEETING WITH KRG PRIME [...] (C) Summary: MND-N MG Caslen met with Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani on March 31 to discuss political and military tensions in Kirkuk and Mosul, to assure the KRG of U.S. efforts in creating a climate of trust and to resolve conflicts between the Iraqi Ar [...]	2009-04-10 15:53:00	Embassy Baghdad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IZ IR TU
09BAKU10	PRESIDENTIAL LEGAL ADVISER ADVISES POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: On January 8 the Charge and the British Charge met with Shahin Aliyev, head of the legal department of the Presidential Administration, regarding the closure of Radio Liberty, Voice of America, and the BBC. Aliyev in large part stuck to talking points we have heard previously: t [...]	2009-01-08 13:18:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KHUM AJ
09BAKU101	AZERBAIJAN HAS NO PLANS TO CUT 2009 OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite public comments by President Aliyev, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has no intention to curtail 2009 oil production in an attempt to stabilize prices, and indeed, all indications are that Azerbaijan will seek to maximize its oil production in 2009. According [...]	2009-02-06 10:22:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG
09BAKU109	AZERBAIJAN AND RUSSIA: CAN BAKU MAINTAIN THE [...] (C) Summary: Analysts across the political spectrum in Baku suggest that Russia has stepped up diplomatic efforts to lure Azerbaijan away from its political, security, and energy links to the West. They note that this is part of a broader Russian effort to regain its position as the politica [...]	2009-02-10 12:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ AM RU
09BAKU123	OBAMA CAMPAIGN MANAGER BAKU VISIT SPARK [...] (C)Summary: A Feb. 8-10 visit to Azerbaijan by former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe sparked a flurry of speculation and protest that bounced between Baku and Washington. Azerbaijan's opposition press speculated that Plouffe's quick visit was a sign that the Obama Administration was re [...]	2009-02-13 11:33:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ KDEM KPAO PREL
09BAKU126	AZERBAIJAN SHAKEN BY GENERAL'S MURDER [...] (C) Summary: Baku is in a state of shock following the February 11 murder in broad daylight of the commander of the country's air force and air defense forces, Lt. Gen Rail Rzayev. He held the rank of Deputy Minister of Defense. Rzayev died from a single gunshot from an assailant who attack [...]	2009-02-13 13:25:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RU AJ
09BAKU13	PATTERN OF GOAJ CONFUSION OR DECEPTION ON FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the two months from October 31 when the National Television and Radio Council (NTRC) first announced that it may ban foreign broadcasts from FM frequencies until the Council's December 30 final decision to do so, USG officials actively advocated against the decision. GOA [...]	2009-01-09 07:58:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
09BAKU136	AZAL: WECAN COOPERATE, BUT WE NEED SPECIFICS [...] (C) Summary. Following up on President Aliyev,s earlier indication of willingness to consider increased logistical support to supply operations in Afghanistan (ref),Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) President Jahangir Askerov, who manages Baku's Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD,) was highly [...]	2009-02-19 10:07:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR AJ
09BAKU144	AZERBAIJAN: SHAH DENIZ PHASE TWO GAS -- MORE, [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to BP Azerbaijan executives, gas production from the second phase of the giant offshore Shah Deniz gas field will be approximately sixteen billion cubic meters annually, higher than expected. However due to inability to reach agreement with Turkey on a gas transit regi [...]	2009-02-24 12:35:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG TU
09BAKU146	AZERBAIJAN: REFERENDUM STATE OF PLAY [...] (U) Summary: Azerbaijan's constitutional referendum, primarily intended to remove the two-term limit on the presidency, is proceeding without major fanfare to its March 18 culmination. Some opposition groups have successfully registered to campaign legally against the referendum, and their le [...]	2009-02-24 13:19:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AJ
09BAKU147	AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENT ALIYEV SIGNS NEW ANTI-MONEY [...] (U) SUMMARY: On 24 February 2009, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed the latest draft of the new Anti-Money Laundering (AML)/Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF) Law. Although USG is still awaiting comments from the Council of Europe,s MONEYVAL on the law, the Embassy applauded Azerbaija [...]	2009-02-25 10:10:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EINV PTER PREL AJ
09BAKU151	AZERBAIJAN REFLECTS, LOOKS FOR HIGH-LEVEL U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Advisor Novruz Mammadov bemoaned a Russian resurgence in the Caucasus, calling the CSTO Rapid Reaction Force "a bloc of resistance" against NATO. New Russian assertiveness and growing disillusionment with western support, especially on Nagorno Karabakh, is influenci [...]	2009-02-26 18:38:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU TU AJ
09BAKU153	STAFFDEL SOCHA'S VISIT TO AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) Summary: On 15-17 February 2009, Embassy Baku hosted Senior Policy Adviser Chris Socha and Legislative Assistant Jack Julson from the staff of Senator DeMint (R-SC). Staff del expressed interest in energy issues; security issues, particularly vis-a-vis Russia and Iran, and the effectiven [...]	2009-02-27 10:18:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ IR KISL PGOV PHUM PREL TU
09BAKU154	AZERBAIJAN: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER UNDER FIRE AS [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijan,s Minister of Internal Affairs continues his lawsuit against human rights defender Leyla Yunus, though the case seems to have lost momentum. Baku,s Yasamal District Court may resume hearings on March 2, even though some senior officials may privately be expressing res [...]	2009-02-27 11:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL KDEM PHUM AJ PGOV
09BAKU157	PRESIDENTIAL APPARAT EXPLAINS RADIO LIBERTY [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Apparat insider Elnur Aslanov complained that Radio Liberty's content is unfair and unbalanced, presenting a poor view of Azerbaijan and government officials. Content was markedly pro-opposition during the 2008 presidential campaign, he said. Aslanov, with help fr [...]	2009-02-27 13:52:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL
09BAKU16	CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS REFERENDUM UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijan's Parliament and Constitutional Court have cleared the way for a referendum to be held on March 18 on 29 proposed amendments to Azerbaijan's Constitution on a wide range of topics. While some amendments appear to be benign, such as protecting wildlife, several challe [...]	2009-01-12 12:33:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU163	AZERBAIJAN'S SOCAR INKS PSA WITH TOTAL TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: French Company Total has signed an Exploration and Development Production Sharing Agreement with French Company Total for Azerbaijan's offshore "Absheron" field, thought to contain gas and condensates. Gaz De France is expected to be brought in shortly as the third partner. A pr [...]	2009-03-02 14:01:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENERG
09BAKU169	IRANIAN SCHOOLTEACHER RELATES STUDENT PROTESTS AND [...] (C) An Iranian schoolteacher from XXXXXXXXXXXX told Iran Watcher that the vast majority of Iranians (but not necessarily the regime) want good relations with the United States, though most are too caught up with their daily problems to focus on this. She described Iranian intellectuals as "c [...]	2009-03-04 08:52:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SCUL SNAR AJ IR
09BAKU17	ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS DETAINED-- SOME RELEASED [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 2 approximately 150-200 people, largely young religious people, attempted to protest Israel's actions in Gaza outside the Israeli Embassy in Baku. About 150 were temporarily detained, and 25 were charged with violations of the administrative code. Journalists and re [...]	2009-01-12 13:26:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
09BAKU172	IRANIAN FILM DIRECTOR ON IRANIAN ROCK, DRUGS, AND [...] (C) An Iranian film Director told Iran watcher that Iranian society is becoming more liberal even as the regime becomes more "backward." He described a widespread youth culture, embracing all regions and classes, in which underground rap and rock music bands are proliferating and "classic ro [...]	2009-03-04 12:05:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM SCUL SNAR AJ IR
09BAKU186	AIRBUS PUSHING AZERBAIJAN AND CENTRAL ASIANS TO [...] (U) This is an action/ guidance request: see paragraph 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Boeing Regional Sales Director told Econoff that due to recent aggressive action by Airbus and the Government of France (GOF),Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) may soon cancel an order for four 737-900s (part of an August [...]	2009-03-10 14:48:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON EINV AJ FR NL
09BAKU188	WHY NOW FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS REFERENDUM? [...] (C) Summary: The GOAJ's announcement to hold a referendum on changing the constitution to remove, inter alia, the two-term limit on the presidency was rushed through parliament just two months after President Ilham Aliyev overwhelmingly won a second five year term in office. The speed of th [...]	2009-03-11 12:09:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU189	MFA ON LAVROV VISIT, NARYSHKIN DIPLOMACY [...] (C) Summary. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives in Baku March 11 for a two-day working visit that will include meetings with President Aliyev and Foreign Minister Mammadyarov as well as the ceremonial opening of a Russian cultural center. In advance of Lavrov's arrival, Pol/Econ [...]	2009-03-11 12:12:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ RS PINR
09BAKU192	AZERBAIJAN: NABUCCO PARTNER RWE CAUTIOUSLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A high-level executive from Nabucco Consortium partner RWE Gas Midstream said the next four to six months were "crucial" for the pipeline project's fate. If the Nabucco transit countries can initial an Intergovernmental Agreement at the May 7 Prague Summit it would "send a strong [...]	2009-03-11 12:42:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TU ENRG
09BAKU195	AZERBAIJAN: MFA DEPMIN FURTHER EXPLAINS [...] (C)Summary: Azerbaijan Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov described a stark situation in Pakistan and expressed fears of Afghanistan losing control of its southern regions in a February 2 meeting with the Ambassador. Social instability and corruption are exacerbating the situation, and many [...]	2009-03-12 09:12:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF AJ
09BAKU2	AZERBAIJAN: TURKMAN AMBASSADOR POSITIVE ON ENERGY [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to the Turkmenistan Ambassador to Azerbaijan, the November 28-29 trilateral Heads of State Summit in Ashgabat with GOAJ President Aliyev and GOT President Gul was a "historic" first step in energy cooperation among the three countries. Turkmenistan is eager to share its [...]	2009-01-02 08:32:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TX AJ ENRG
09BAKU201	AZERBAIJAN-TURKEY: STILL ONE NATION, TWO STATES? [...] (C) Summary: Although Azerbaijan is a former Soviet republic and is still properly considered part of the ex-Soviet space, it is culturally, linguistically and economically much more a satellite of Turkey than Russia. Ties between the two countries are exceptionally strong along the entire spe [...]	2009-03-13 11:34:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG SOCI ECON ETRD AJ TU
09BAKU206	NGO LEADERS DEBATE REFERENDUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 25 the Ambassador held a roundtable discussion with leaders of Azerbaijani NGOs and youth groups. The discussion centered on the environment surrounding the March 18 referendum on changes to the constitution. The participants felt the public has little information a [...]	2009-03-17 09:59:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
09BAKU21	NAKHCHIVAN UPDATE: MORE HR VIOLATIONS AND RETURN [...] (C) Summary: The authorities of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic continue to pressure ordinary citizens attempting to protect their rights. On January 4 an elderly blind man was imprisoned, and possibly put into a mental institution, for complaining about the police beating his son. Separa [...]	2009-01-13 12:48:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KHUM AJ
09BAKU210	RESPONSE: DEMARCHE ON AZERBAIJAN'S CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points to Presidential Administration International Relations Advisor Novruz Mammedov on March 17. Mammedov received the demarche agreeing that we need to find the right approach under the new administration to constructively and productively address issues of [...]	2009-03-17 14:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM
09BAKU212	AZERBAIJAN: REFERENDUM SITREP #1 [...] (C) Azerbaijan's polling stations opened largely on time (08:00 local time) on March 18, with observers noting an orderly process with minimal technical violations or issues, and very high voter turnout with in the first hour. As of 13:00 Baku time, there were no reports of violence or wides [...]	2009-03-18 08:55:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU216	AZERBAIJAN: REFERENDUM SITREP #2 [...] (C) As of 16:00 local time, Azerbaijan's referendum on 29 changes to its Constitution continued peacefully, without any reports of large demonstrations. The Central Election Commission (CEC) announced after 1200 local time that more than 25% of registered voters had already voted across the [...]	2009-03-18 13:03:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AJ
09BAKU217	AZERBAIJAN: REFERENDUM SITREP #3 [...] (U) Polls in Azerbaijan's referendum closed on time at 1900 local time and the counting process began immediately thereafter. No results are available yet, as counting and tabulation is likely to take many hours. CLOSING PROCEDURES ------------------ 2. (C) In the nine precincts obser [...]	2009-03-18 16:47:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU222	AZERBAIJAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON LAVROV VISIT, [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-19 09:17:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ IR RU TU AM
09BAKU224	AZERBAIJAN'S ECONOMY: TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE? [...] (U) SUMMARY: In public February 23 remarks, President Ilham Aliyev lauded Azerbaijan's social development and economic situation with confidence and optimism, claiming that the goals of the 2004-2008 "State Program for Socio-Economic Development of the Regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan" [...]	2009-03-19 10:10:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECIN ECON EFIN EPET ETRD EINV AJ
09BAKU23	IFIS WEIGH IN ON EFFECT OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: In early December, EconOffs met separately with representatives of the EBRD, IMF, and World Bank in Azerbaijan who unanimously expressed confidence that the Azerbaijani economy and banking sector would be able to absorb the twin shocks of the global credit crisis and the sharp d [...]	2009-01-13 13:50:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD EXIM EINV AJ
09BAKU238	AZERBAIJAN: TURNING AWAY FROM DEMOCRACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: All 29 proposed changes to Azerbaijan's constitution were passed in a referendum held on March 18. Embassy observers and other international and domestic monitors found serious flaws in the voting process, but these likely did not change the outcome. The passage of the amendment [...]	2009-03-30 11:18:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU246	AZERBAIJAN: SOCAR: GAZPROM MOU NOT SIGN OF ENERGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Azerbajian's State Oil Company (SOCAR) has denied reports that its March 27 Memorandum of Understanding with Gazprom implies any change in Azerbaijan's energy policy. Cautioning that these words "must not reach the Turks," a high-level SOCAR executive said that the MOU was prima [...]	2009-04-01 11:46:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TU TX
09BAKU25	IFIS COMMENT ON INVESTMENT CLIMATE IN AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) Summary: In early December, EconOffs met individually with representatives of the EBRD, IFC, IMF, and World Bank in Azerbaijan to discuss financial developments, business conditions and the investment climate. The financial experts noted the effects of the global financial crisis on the [...]	2009-01-14 10:26:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD EXIM EINV AJ
09BAKU256	AZERBAIJAN: YOUTH ASK U.S. HELP IN EDUCATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 31 the Ambassador held a discussion with leaders of Azerbaijani youth groups. While these young people agree that their compatriots are largely apathetic towards politics and the referendum reflected a clear turn away from democratic reform, they have many ideas on ways [...]	2009-04-02 11:27:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
09BAKU26	YOUNG IRANIAN ACTIVIST SPEAKS OUT [...] (C) A young Iranian women's rights activist and writer studing in Baku discussed women's rights issues in Iran with Baku Iran watcher. The activist, forced to study in Azerbaijan due to politically-motivated withdrawal of her university acceptance in Iran, discussed recent incidents of Irani [...]	2009-01-14 10:53:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR AJ TU IR
09BAKU266	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT ALIYEV ON AFGHANISTAN "ASKS" [...] (C) Ambassador Derse and DAS Matt Bryza raised reftel points with President Aliyev, FonMin Mammadyarov and Deputy FonMin (handling national security issues) Araz Azimov on April 3. Additional Troop Contributions ------------------------------ 2. (C) Underscoring that &we are committed [...]	2009-04-06 08:59:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR AF AJ TU
09BAKU27	YOUNG IRANIAN ACTIVIST SPEAKS OUT [...] (C) A young Iranian women's rights activist and writer studing in Baku discussed women's rights issues in Iran with Baku Iran watcher. The activist, forced to study in Azerbaijan due to politically-motivated withdrawal of her university acceptance in Iran, discussed recent incidents of Irani [...]	2009-01-14 11:05:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR AJ TU IR
09BAKU274	AZERBAIJAN: REQUEST FOR POTUS LETTER, HIGH-LEVEL [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Embassy Baku strongly recommends that the USG participate in the June 2-5 Caspian Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference (COGS) COGS at the most senior level possible, in order to demonstrate continuing USG resolve in support of the Southern Corridor project and [...]	2009-04-07 06:45:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ ENRG OVIP PGOV PREL
09BAKU275	AZERBAIJAN: GOAJ'S "IRAN POINT MAN" ENDORSES [...] (C) In an April 3 meeting with Ambassador, GOAJ Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov warmly applauded President Obama's and Secretary Clinton's outreach efforts to foreign partners, including their commitment to increased consultation on international issues. He praised President Obama's [...]	2009-04-07 09:55:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELTN PREL SNAR RU IR AJ
09BAKU3	CLOSURE OF FOREIGN RADIO BROADCASTS: STATIC ON FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 30 2008, the Azerbaijan National Television and Radio Council (NTRC) announced that as of January 1 it revoked the broadcast licenses for operations on FM frequencies of the Voice of America, Radio Liberty (Radio Azadliq),and of the BBC. The decision came as a surpris [...]	2009-01-05 12:34:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KHUM AJ
09BAKU30	AZERBAIJAN: BP DOWNBEAT ON 2009 SHAH DENIZ PHASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Acording to BP Azerbaijan, inability to reach agrement between Azerbaijan and Turkey on the price of Shah Deniz Phase One gas currently being sold toTurkey and on transit of Shah Deniz Phase Two ga has delayed and will continue to delay the deveopment of the Shah Deniz Phase Two projec [...]	2009-01-15 11:01:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TU ENRG
09BAKU300	AZERBAIJAN: MINENERGY DESCRIBES SOCAR-GAZPROM GAS [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijan Minister of Energy Natiq Aliyev described to EUR DAS Matt Bryza April 3 a natural gas swap agreement between Azerbaijan,s SOCAR and Russia,s Gazprom that would provide gas to the North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan in exchange for Russian gas for an Azerbaijani-owned pe [...]	2009-04-14 08:05:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON AJ
09BAKU302	AZERBAIJAN: AZIMOV ON TURKEY-ARMENIA PROCESS [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Presidetial Envoy on Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) Araz Azimov addressed an exclusive group of diplomats, academics, parliamentarians and commentators on the Turkey-Armenia situation at MFA's Diplomatic Academy on Friday, April 10. In a nearly three-ho [...]	2009-04-15 08:53:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM AJ TU

09BAKU305	AZERBAIJAN: UPDATE ON ANTI-MONEY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Council of Europe,s MONEYVAL issued a statement March 20 welcoming the progress that Azerbaijan had made in adopting an anti-money laundering/countering terrorism financing (AML/CTF) law, signed by President Aliyev February 24, and the steps that were being taken to complete [...]	2009-04-15 11:08:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PTER SNAR AJ
09BAKU306	AZERBAIJAN: AMBASSADOR, MINISTER OF ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met April 1 with the somewhat reclusive new Minister of Economic Development Shahin Mustafayev to discuss ongoing commercial and economic cooperation, including WTO accession. Mustafayev presented a very favorable assessment of Azerbaijan,s economy and suggested t [...]	2009-04-15 14:07:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EIND EINV AJ
09BAKU31	AZERBAIJAN: MOTION ON SHAH DENIZ PHASE TWO TURKEY [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to Shah Deniz Consortium members SOCAR, StatoilHydro and BP Azerbaijan, there has been no progress in talks with Turkey on either the price of Shah Deniz Phase One gas currently being delivered to Turkey or on the marketing and transit of Shah Deniz Phase Two gas to and [...]	2009-01-15 13:45:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TK ENRG
09BAKU314	AZERBAIJAN: CONOCO-PHILLIPS SAY NOW IS KEY TIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a Conoco-Phillips executive, the project for moving Kazakhstan crude oil from the Kashagan mega-field to market is at a stage similar to where BTC was in 1997-1998, where major decisions are being made that will shape the project's future and its commercial viability. [...]	2009-04-17 11:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TU KZ
09BAKU315	AZERBAIJAN: SPOT REPORT - U/I HIGH SPEED BOATS [...] (C) At 22:50 local time on 14 April 2009, the head of the Off-Shore Production Unit Center for British Petroleum (BP) called the DATT to report that two fast boats came within one mile of their offshore platforms, tracking at speeds in excess of 45 knots. The incident allegedly took place 13 [...]	2009-04-20 03:59:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TX PTER SNAR
09BAKU322	ANOTHER AZERBAIJANI JOURNALIST FACING COURT [...] (U) SUMMARY: In what press freedom advocates are characterizing as another attempt to crush dissent, Azerbaijani authorities continue the prosecution of opposition daily "Yeni Musavat" columnist Mahal Ismayiloglu. The charges of hooliganism and intentional infliction of bodily harm brought ag [...]	2009-04-21 10:22:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAO KDEM PHUM AJ
09BAKU323	AZERBAIJAN: FINANCE MINISTER TALKS CIS, G20, NO [...] SUMMARY: In an April 7 meeting, Azerbaijan's Finance Minister, Samir Sharifov, defended his ministry's policy of supporting the manat (currency) and indicated that the policy would not likely be changed any time soon. He also described deliberations at the March 30 meeting of CIS Finance Mi [...]	2009-04-21 10:25:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EFIN AJ
09BAKU326	AZERBAIJAN: DEFMIN SIGNALS TEP INTEREST TO CG [...] (C) Summary. On April 17, Commander, USAREUR General Carter Ham met with Azerbaijani Minister of Defense General-Colonel Safar Abiyev on the eve of the combined U.S.-Azerbaijan exercise REGIONAL RESPONSE 09 (RR09). During the meeting Abiyev expressed interest in a Train and Equip Program (TE [...]	2009-04-22 03:41:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM AJ RU IR GE NATO MARR
09BAKU329	AZERBAIJAN: DAS BRYZA MEETS APPARAT OFFICIALS ON [...] (C) Summary. Following meetings with President Aliyev on April 15, as well as with Foreign Minister Mammadyarov and Minister of National Security Mahmudov (septels),EUR DAS Matthew Bryza and Ambassador Derse met with Presidential Apparat chief Ramiz Mehdiyev and foreign policy counselor Novr [...]	2009-04-22 04:33:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM AJ TU
09BAKU337	AZERBAIJAN: A SHIFT IN GAS EXPORT STRATEGY? [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the face of President Aliyev's recent high profile, energy-focused trip to Russia, SOCAR continues to insist that the goal of its gas export strategy remains export to Europe via Turkey. However, SOCAR now states that due to continued inability to find a mutually acceptable gas [...]	2009-04-22 12:39:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TK RU
09BAKU34	AZERBAIJAN'S 2009 BUDGET: A SUSTAINABLE POLICY IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 11 the Azerbaijan government (GOAJ) published the 2009 state budget, which the Milli Mejlis (Parliament) passed 92 to 8 in November. Coming from several years of strong economic growth, with increasing reserves, at the start of the global financial crisis and having [...]	2009-01-16 08:48:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECIN ECON EFIN EPET ETRD EINV AJ
09BAKU341	AZERBAIJAN: DON,T FORGET ABOUT OUR INTERESTS IN [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Administration National Security Advisor Novruz Mammedov relayed to DAS Matt Bryza April 24 in Baku the nervousness and skittishness that some in Azerbaijan are feeling on the heels of Turkey,s and Armenia,s decision to initial a roadmap on normalization, and Washing [...]	2009-04-24 14:07:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AJ
09BAKU342	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR HAS LITTLE NEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 24 the Ambassador met with Presidential Advisor on Social-Political Affairs Ali Hasanov to discuss the intergovernmental agreement (IGA) proposed by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to return Voice of America and Radio Liberty to FM frequencies. Hasanov began t [...]	2009-04-24 14:08:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL
09BAKU360	AZERBAIJAN: POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST ANS TV [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 27 three employees of ANS TV channel were subject to physical attack while investigating a story of the destruction of a mosque. The reporters' equipment was damaged during the struggle. The incident sparked outrage both among some government officials and from domesti [...]	2009-05-01 09:55:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
09BAKU366	AZERBAIJAN: OIL ACADEMY SHOOTING UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 1, the day after the shooting at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy which has left 13 people dead, several large protests were held. The demonstrators seemed to be expressing both sadness over the incident and some anger at the GOAJ over its decision not to announce an offi [...]	2009-05-04 12:10:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU367	AZERBAIJAN: KOSOVO DEMARCHE INADVISABLE AT THIS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-04 12:12:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KV AJ
09BAKU37	IRANIAN STUDENT ACTIVIST ON IRANIAN YOUTH, [...] (C) Maryam, an Iranian women's rights activist studying medicine here, met on two occasions recently with Baku Iran watcher to discuss her views of the women's rights movement in Iran (ref A),and of the lifestyle and attitudes of Iranian students in Baku and of Iranian youth generally (the s [...]	2009-01-16 13:15:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR AJ IR
09BAKU376	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT ALIYEV'S EU MEETINGS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his trip to Brussels, President Ilham Aliyev met with both European Commission President Barroso and EU Council High Representative Javier Solana. According the readout provided by the Council representative in Baku, Aliyev and Barroso discussed Azerbaijan's economy, the [...]	2009-05-08 12:47:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EU AJ
09BAKU377	NEXT STEPS ON EURASIAN ENERGY STRATEGY [...] (U) Embassies Ashgabat, Ankara and Astana have provided input for this cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The USG needs to intensify its engagement on Eurasian energy issues, and do it quickly. In Azerbaijan, lack of progress on creating a "Southern Corridor" for Caspian gas, due primarily to Turkey [...]	2009-05-10 08:20:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ ENRG TU KZ TX
09BAKU381	AZERBAIJAN: RULING PARTY ANGRY AT PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-12 13:50:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM AJ
09BAKU386	AZERBAIJAN: RULING PARTY ANGRY AT PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 8 several Members of Parliament (MP) from the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party (YAP),including the First Lady's sister Ganira Pashayeva, made speeches during a parliamentary session complaining about President Obama's statement on World Press Freedom Day. All accused the U.S. [...]	2009-05-13 10:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM AJ
09BAKU387	AZERBAIJAN: OVER 60 YOUTH DETAINED IN MAY 10 [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 10 dozens of young people, in two separate groups, organized demonstrations to mourn the victims of the April 30 shooting at the Oil Academy (reftel). At least five political party youth leaders were arrested before May 10 in a clear attempt by the GOAJ to prevent the pro [...]	2009-05-13 12:40:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM AJ
09BAKU392	AZERBAIJAN: ERDOGAN SAYS NK RESOLUTION FIRST, [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev called Turkish PM Erdogan's May 13-14 visit to Baku "very productive," applauding the PM's strong public messages on Turkey-Armenia reconciliation and resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Erdogan, addressing Azerbaijan's Parliament and in a joint press c [...]	2009-05-14 12:28:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EPET ENRG PHUM KDEM AJ AM TU
09BAKU394	AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT REACTS MILDLY TO OBAMBA [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev complained of double standards on democracy and human rights, based on President Obama's recent statement on press freedom. The President joked that it was probably just copied reflexively from last year's statement and he hoped this would not continue to be emp [...]	2009-05-14 13:56:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ AM TU
09BAKU396	AZERBAIJAN: DESTRUCTION OF YASAMAL DISTRICT MOSQUE [...] (C) Summary: On 26-27 April 2009, the Yasamal District Executive Authority (YDEA) and the District Police destroyed a newly constructed mosque in Baku. As noted reftel, several journalists were harassed while documenting the event. The leader of the Yasamal District religious community, Mir [...]	2009-05-15 07:14:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ IR KISL PGOV PHUM PREL
09BAKU400	AZERBAIJAN: AIRLINES THREATEN TO CEASE BAKU [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 22, 2009, officials at Baku's Heydar Aliyev International Airport announced that a nightly curfew, to begin July 2, 2009, would shut the airport from 0000 to 0700. Airlines reacted with shock and said they might cease operations to Baku, as trans-Atlantic connections in [...]	2009-05-15 12:23:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAIR ETRD ADCO AJ
09BAKU401	AZERBAIJAN: APPARAT, MFA, SOCAR, TURKISH EMBASSY [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish Embassy DCM confirmed May 14th that press reports on PM Erdogan's May 13-14 Baku visit, which characterized meetings as "very productive," were accurate. The PM's private message to Azerbaijan's leadership was the same as the public message -- that Turkey will not fin [...]	2009-05-15 14:20:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EPET ENRG PHUM KDEM AJ AM TU
09BAKU404	AZERBAIJAN: SOUTHERN CORRIDOR BREAKTHROUGH [...] (C) SUMMARY: After 18 months of stasis, there seems to have been a breakthrough on bilateral negotiations between Azerbaijan and Turkey that could lead to creating a "Southern Corridor" for gas. Azerbaijan's State Oil Company (SOCAR) believes this breakthrough is at least partially due to the [...]	2009-05-18 12:19:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ TK PGOV PREL ENRG
09BAKU406	IRANIAN DESCRIBES ECONOMIC WOES, NARCOTICS [...] (C) An Iranian architect from Karaj told Baku Iran watcher that economic conditions for most people in Iran are steadily deteriorating. The architect cited examples of crony corruption, inflation, rising unemployment, decreased consumer purchasing power, and credit obstacles in illustrating [...]	2009-05-19 10:39:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SNAR AJ IR
09BAKU408	AZERBAIJAN: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-19 11:54:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ AM ECON EFIN EINT GG PINR
09BAKU409	AZERBAIJAN: WILLING TO ASSUME GREATER TRANSPORT [...] (C) Summary. On April 28, U.S. TRANSCOM Commander General McNabb met with Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov to discuss the status of Northern Distribution Network (NDN). Azimov focused on Russia's reaction to NDN activities and wondered aloud if there was a risk in using Georgia as a transit [...]	2009-05-20 03:31:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ
09BAKU415	AZERBAIJAN: HEAD OF STATE COMMITTEE FOR WORK WITH [...] Summary: POLOFF met with Hidayat Orucov, head of the State Committee for Works with Religious Structures (SCWRS) in April to discuss his role in leading the Government of Azerbaijan (GOAJ) delegation to the Alliance of Civilizations (AOC) event in Turkey on 06-07 April 2009. The primary pur [...]	2009-05-21 07:08:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM AJ
09BAKU433	AZERBAIJANI DEFENSE MINISTER: SEEKING STRONG [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 21, the Defense Minister told visiting EUCOM Commander Craddock that Azerbaijan is committed to building strong military relations with the U.S. and NATO. However, the Minister continued, Azerbaijan is under pressure from Iran, Russia and Armenia and requires greater com [...]	2009-06-01 03:35:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ENRG ETRD PREL RS IZ TU AJ
09BAKU443	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT EXPRESSES INTEREST IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 5, Acting DASD(P) for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Mary Warlick met with President Ilham Aliyev. During their meeting, he provided his views on the Nagorno-Karabakh Peace Process and the Turkey-Armenia Reconciliation Process, stating the two issues were linked and a pot [...]	2009-06-02 09:28:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR PREL AJ RU IR TR
09BAKU445	AZERBAIJAN: TURKISH FM'S VISIT STRESSES NEED FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 28 Congressional Staff Delegation Markovsky and Katz met with Deputy Chief of Mission of the Turkish Embassy Erkan Ozoral. Ozoral gave a detailed account of the recent "crisis" in Turkish-Azerbaijani relations over Turkey's plan to normalize relations with Armenia. Ozoral [...]	2009-06-02 11:58:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TU AJ
09BAKU448	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Congressional Staff Members Markovsky and Katz met with the Head of the Foreign Relations Division Novruz Mammadov May 27 and 29 to discuss GOAJ relations with its neighbors and the U.S. Mammadov's comments focused on Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) and the seven occupied districts. [...]	2009-06-03 06:16:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ IR PGOV PREL RU TR
09BAKU456	AZERBAIJAN: FOREIGN MINISTER PESSIMISTIC ON NK [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-05 12:17:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM AM IR TU RU IS AJ
09BAKU457	AZERBAIJAN: STAFFDEL DISCUSS GEORGIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 28 Congressional Staff Delegation Markovsky and Katz met with Georgian Ambassador Nikoloz Natbiladze. Natbiladze gave a detailed account of the 20 May visit of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to Baku. The recent visit was characterized as a great success with both [...]	2009-06-05 12:23:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EPET ENRG AJ GG
09BAKU464	IRAN ELECTION: IRANIAN AZERIS STRONGLY FOR MOUSAVI [...] (C ) Feedback to Baku Iran watcher from more than twenty Iranians in Baku (half normally resident in Iran) suggests that the recent much-publicized upsurge of support for Mousavi is real, at least among ethnic Azeris (the majority of this sample). All but three of the contacts said they woul [...]	2009-06-09 05:26:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR AJ
09BAKU465	AZERBAIJAN: NEW OSCE AMBASSADOR TO CONTINUE PUSHING REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The new head of the OSCE Office in Baku, Ambassador Ali Bilge Cankorel, told the Ambassador on June 1 that as a career Turkish diplomat, there was some concern before his arrival that he would not actively promote political reforms in Azerbaijan, as the Turkish government does n [...]	2009-06-09 08:48:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TU AJ
09BAKU468	AZERBAIJAN: USING IDPS TO SEND TOUGH MESSAGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 5, the Azeri IDP community held a congress supposedly to elect new leadership and to educate the international community about its plight. In reality, this was a Foreign Ministry-organized event intended to send strongly negative messages about the role of the Minsk Grou [...]	2009-06-09 12:35:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ AR PGOV PREF PREL TU
09BAKU469	AZERBAIJAN: POSITIVE BUT CAUTIOUS RESPONSE TO [...] (SBU) Summary: President Obama's speech in Cairo on June 4 received a positive response from major political and religious figures as well as much of the press. Many expressed the hope that this speech will mark a new era in U.S. foreign policy towards the Muslim world. The two most noted [...]	2009-06-09 13:03:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL OPRC AJ
09BAKU470	SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE [...] (C) Your visit to Baku comes on the heels of a successful visit by U.S. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Issues Morningstar and the June 4 meeting between the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents in St. Petersburg. The mood here with respect to US-Azerbaijani relations remains skeptical, fed [...]	2009-06-09 13:24:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM AF AM TU AJ
09BAKU474	IRAN ELECTION: BAKU RALLY FOR MOUSAVI; ISFAHAN [...] (C) Iranians in Baku held a relatively sedate, "invitation-only" election rally at an auditorium at Khazar University for Mir Hussein Mousavi on June 9. This rally, held with the permission of the GOAJ, was the only such political rally held for any Iranian Presidential candidate in Azerbaij [...]	2009-06-12 10:45:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ IR
09BAKU475	AZERBAIJAN: DRAFT LAW WOULD RESTRICT NGO ACTIVITY [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-12 10:57:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU477	AZERBAIJAN: DRAFT LAW WOULD RESTRICT NGO ACTIVITY [...] (C) This is an action request. See paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: On June 8 the Presidential Administration delivered draft changes to the law on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to parliament. These draft changes would restrict the activities of both foreign and domestic NGOs in a nu [...]	2009-06-12 11:34:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU481	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT ALIYEV TALKS EURASIAN ENERGY [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Aliyev told Special Envoy Morningstar that lack of transit through Turkey for Azerbaijani gas destined for European markets was the biggest obstacle facing a "Southern Corridor" for Caspian gas westwards. The European Union should recognize that Nabucco, although perha [...]	2009-06-16 05:04:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TU ENRG
09BAKU482	AZERBAIJAN: DELAY IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Although the Anti-Money Laundering/ Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF) law was signed in late February 2009, as of June 2009 progress seemed to be halted. Despite previous desire to accept technical assistance from the United States, the Government of Azerbaijan (GOAJ) was r [...]	2009-06-16 05:58:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PTER EFIN SNAR AJ
09BAKU484	AZERBAIJAN: NEW CONSORTIUM OF NGOS FORMED [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 12 meeting with the Ambassador, the leadership of the new Azerbaijani NGO Consortium "The Dialogue for Peace and Progress" discussed issues including Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs),the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) resolution, human rights, women's rights and media fr [...]	2009-06-18 04:52:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL AJ
09BAKU487	AZERBAIJAN: CIVIL SOCIETY WANTS TO HELP SOLVE NK [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary: On June 8 human rights defender Arzu Abdullayeva asked the Ambassador for USG help in organizing a dialogue between Azerbaijani and Armenian civil society actors, with a view to helping solve the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) [...]	2009-06-18 12:08:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AM AJ
09BAKU488	AZERBAIJAN: RESPONSE TO NGO LAW DEMARCHE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 18 DCM spoke to Head of the Presidential Administration's Office of Legal Policy Shahin Aliyev regarding proposed changes to Azerbaijan's NGO Law. Poloff also delivered Embassy concerns to Head of the Human Rights Protection Unit in the Department of Work with Law Enforce [...]	2009-06-18 12:28:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AJ
09BAKU494	AZERBAIJAN: A/S GORDON MEETS CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) Summary: On June 11 EUR Assistant Secretary Philip Gordon met with five prominent members of Azerbaijan's civil society. The group explained that civil society has increasingly less freedom to act within Azerbaijan, and that newly proposed changes to the law on NGOs would be a death knel [...]	2009-06-22 07:42:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM AJ
09BAKU504	AZERBAIJAN: PARLIAMENT POSTPONES DEBATE ON NGO LAW [...] (C) Summary: On June 19 the GOAJ held a second extraordinary session of parliament to discuss a long 13- item agenda of legislative changes. Items 12 and 13 were changes to the law on religious freedom, mass media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) -- all of which were controversial ( [...]	2009-06-23 11:51:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU506	AZERBAIJAN: KARABAKH IDP LEADER SURPRISINGLY CALM [...] (C) Summary: In a June 19 meeting with Pol-Econ Counselor and poloff, the newly designated leader of the Azeri Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) IDP community showed himself to be surprisingly calm and reasonable, in contrast to the somewhat uncouth figure he cut at the government-organized "Congress" t [...]	2009-06-23 12:11:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ
09BAKU507	AZERBAIJAN: UPDATE ON THE HUMAN DIMENSION [...] (C) Summary: On June 9 poloff hosted a meeting of western embassies and international organizations including the EU (Council and Commission),the OSCE and the Council of Europe accredited in Baku in order to discuss a wide range of issues related to democracy and human rights-- the human di [...]	2009-06-24 07:14:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KIRF AJ
09BAKU512	AZERBAIJAN: CONTROVERSY ON NGO LAW MAY YIELD [...] (C) Summary: Discussion of the amendments to the Law on NGOs continues fast and furious in Baku. Embassy officials have delivered the reftel demarche to the Presidential Advisor on Legal Policy Shahin Aliyev and to the Deputy Head of the Yeni Azerbaijan Party Ali Ahmadov. Both GOAJ official [...]	2009-06-25 12:11:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL PINR AJ
09BAKU52	AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT COMMITS TO NEGOTIATIONS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 19 meeting with EUR DAS Bryza, President Aliyev said that he had directed his staff to begin negotiations on the resumption of VoA, BBC and Radio Liberty. He continued that he was surprised by the January 13 letter from President Bush given his good discussion with [...]	2009-01-23 12:50:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ ENRG ETRD IR KDEM PGOV PREL RS TU
09BAKU526	AZERBAIJAN: NGO LAW PASSES WITH MAJOR REVISIONS [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijan's parliament passed a revised version of amendments to the law on NGOs and mass media June 30, as well as previously debated changes on the law on religious freedom. The revised amendments to the NGO law largely exclude the controversial provisions previously discusse [...]	2009-06-30 13:28:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU527	ISRAEL'S PERES MAKES AN IMPRESSION IN BAKU [...] (C) The "iceberg" (as President Aliyev calls its because "nine tenths of it is below the surface") (Reftel A) that is the Azerbaijan-Israel relationship just got a higher profile as Israeli President Shimon Peres made a two-day official visit to Baku June 29-30. By hosting this visit, Presiden [...]	2009-07-01 03:38:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ IR IS
09BAKU529	AZERBAIJAN'S SECOND CITY A MICROCOSM OF DIFFICULT [...] (C) Summary: Ganja, Azerbaijan's historic capital and second largest city, has experienced economic stagnation since the end of the Soviet Union. Endemic corruption and brain drain have exacerbated this decline. There is little hope that reform will come through involvement of opposition p [...]	2009-07-01 08:48:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ
09BAKU535	BRINGING ILHAM ALONG: HOW TO CONVINCE AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijan has loudly and repeatedly complained that the Turkey-Armenia reconciliation process potentially weakens Azerbaijan's position in its conflict with Armenia (reftel a). They have through domestic pressure and threats of a natural gas cutoff tried to force the Turks to [...]	2009-07-02 12:21:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU AM AJ
09BAKU546	SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S VISIT [...] (C) Your visit to Baku comes on the heels of successful visits by U.S. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Issues Morningstar, EUCOM General Craddock and Transcom General McNabb, and A/S EUR Gordon. The mood here remains skeptical about the new U.S. administration, fed by perceptions that the [...]	2009-07-07 15:04:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG KDEM ECON AJ AM TU
09BAKU58	AZERBAIJAN: SOCAR CLAIMS TURKEY SEEKS TO BURY, [...] (C) SUMMARY. SOCAR is increasingly convinced Turkey is seeking to stop, not promote, the Southern Corridor project, in a quest to minimize the price it must pay for Azerbaijani gas. Despite making what it feels are convincing political and commercial arguments to Turkey in support of the Sou [...]	2009-01-26 06:31:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TU ENRG
09BAKU580	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT SAYS ARREST OF TWO YOUTH [...] (C) Summary: On July 20 a Baku appeals court upheld the pre-trial detention for two months of bloggers and youth activists Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade (Reftels). The case has been distinguished by unusual levels of intervention by the European Union and national governments, although the E [...]	2009-07-22 12:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM AJ
09BAKU588	AZERBAIJAN: AFGHAN POST-ELECTION DEMARCHE [...] (C) Poloff delivered Reftel demarche July 22 to Anar Jahangirli, acting director of the division on international security and international organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Azerbaijan has recently doubled its troop level in Afghanistan to 90 and is considering expanding to a [...]	2009-07-27 02:32:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR AF AJ
09BAKU594	AZERBAIJAN: CONTINUED EFFORTS TO ADVOCATE FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: International and local efforts continue in Azerbaijan to encourage the GOAJ to release detained youth activists Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade. Deputy Foreign Minister (and uncle of the First Lady) Hafiz Pashayev told the Charge that has already once tried to get the President t [...]	2009-07-29 13:02:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU597	AZERBAIJAN: HASANOV SAYS MAYBE TO BBC, VOA FM [...] 1. (C) Summary: Eight months after Radio Liberty, Voice of America and BBC broadcasts were removed from the FM airwaves, Presidential Administration Political Chief Ali Hasanov has openly indicated that the GOAJ would consider allowing BBC and VOA to broadcast their "alternative" views if a [...]	2009-07-30 06:20:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL
09BAKU598	OSCE HUAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE [...] (C) On July 30 the Charge delivered the demarche on the upcoming OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (reftel A) to Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mammadguliyev. Mammadguliyev thanked the Embassy for sharing these points early in the process, and stated that he would study them, inform [...]	2009-07-30 11:42:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PHUM OSCE AJ
09BAKU6	MORE GOAJ HARASSMENT OF RADIO LIBERTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology is threatening to cut the Azerbaijan office of Radio Liberty's satellite connection to Radio Liberty's headquarters in Prague. This action appears to be illegal, as Radio Liberty has a functioning agreement with the Minis [...]	2009-01-06 12:57:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KHUM AJ
09BAKU60	AZERBAIJAN: SOCAR CLAIMS TURKEY SEEKS TO BURY, [...] (C) SUMMARY. SOCAR is increasingly convinced Turkey is seeking to stop, not promote, the Southern Corridor project, in a quest to minimize the price it must pay for Azeri gas. Despite making what it feels are convincing political and commercial arguments to Turkey in support of the Southern [...]	2009-01-26 10:44:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TU ENRG
09BAKU604	THE NEVER-ENDING STORY OF THE BAKU NEC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The history of Embassy and OBO efforts to secure property for a New Embassy Compound (NEC) reads like a Greek tragedy. It is a story complete with unfilled promises, betrayal within families, and political intrigues. Over the course of the past nine years, we have many times be [...]	2009-07-31 09:56:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ABLD AJ AMGT
09BAKU605	AZERBAIJAN'S PERSPECTIVE ON CASPAIN DELIMITATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 30, the Charge met with SOCAR Vice President Elshad Nassirov to discuss the recent public quarrel between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan over Caspian Sea Delimitation. Nassirov had more questions than answers regarding the "strange and sudden" behavior of the Turkmen Presi [...]	2009-07-31 12:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV PREL TX AJ
09BAKU61	AZERBAIJAN: SOCAR CLAIMS TURKEY SEEKS TO BURY, [...] (C) SUMMARY. SOCAR is increasingly convinced Turkey is seeking to stop, not promote, the Southern Corridor project, in a quest to minimize the price it must pay for Azeri gas. Despite making what it feels are convincing political and commercial arguments to Turkey in support of the Southern [...]	2009-01-26 11:10:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ TU ENRG
09BAKU614	AZERBAIJAN: TOUGH TALK ON U.S. DEMOCRACY POLICY [...] (C) Summary: In a July 31 meeting with poloff, opposition leader Isa Gambar explained that democratic forces in Azerbaijan have diminishing confidence in the United States and its ability to or interest in promoting democracy and human rights in Azerbaijan. Gambar outlined a number of specif [...]	2009-08-04 11:56:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU62	AZERBAIJAN: OPPOSITION HARASSED COLLECTING [...] (C) Summary: Across the country, members of opposition parties collecting signatures to register as campaign "advocacy" groups for the March referendum report being harassed by police. Several say they were detained for hours at police stations and had their signature sheets confiscated. T [...]	2009-01-26 12:28:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU624	AZERBAIJAN: ANOTHER YOUTH ACTIVIST ARRESTED [...] (C) Summary: On August 3 Agasif Shakiroglu, the leader of a small youth group, was arrested and sentenced to one month of pre-trial detention for evading military service. According to Shakiroglu, he is not in breach of his military obligation and this arrest is an attempt by the GOAJ to sile [...]	2009-08-06 08:20:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU625	SOCAR RESTRUCTURING: BACK IN THE USSR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In July, President Ilham Aliyev issued and signed several decrees affecting the oil and gas industry, primarily expanding the role and power of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR). A July 1 decree placed the state gas company, Azerigaz, under SOCAR's control, with the s [...]	2009-08-06 11:27:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV PREL AU AJ
09BAKU637	AZERBAIJAN: ARRESTS SUCCEED IN SUPPRESSING SOME [...] (C) Summary: Youth activist Agasif Shakiroglu was released from detention on August 7, and immediately conscripted into the army, despite the normal August break in conscriptions. Detained bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade remain in detention, however, and their lawyers indicate that th [...]	2009-08-13 12:35:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU644	AZERBAIJAN: DAS BRYZA ENGAGES PRESIDENT ALIYEV ON [...] (C) Summary: During his August 12 visit to Azerbaijan, outgoing EUR DAS Matthew Bryza discussed the case of arrested youth group leaders Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade (reftel A) with President Aliyev. The President took a more positive tone in this discussion than he had previously with Europ [...]	2009-08-17 04:36:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU655	AZERBAIJAN'S PERSPECTIVE ON CASPAIN DELIMITATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 30, the Charge met with SOCAR Vice President Elshad Nassirov to discuss the recent public quarrel between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan over Caspian Sea Delimitation. Nassirov had more questions than answers regarding the "strange and sudden" behavior of the Turkmen Presi [...]	2009-08-19 07:39:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV PREL TX AJ
09BAKU674	AZERBAIJAN: HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES ROUNDUP, AUGUST [...] (U) This cable is the first of a regular series that will summarize major ongoing human rights issues in Azerbaijan. This series aims to pull together many different sources of information into one readable biweekly summary of human rights cases, with the aim of giving a fuller picture of Azer [...]	2009-08-26 11:01:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KTIP AJ
09BAKU677	AZERBAIJAN: COMBATING TIP UPDATE FROM MIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) Anti-trafficking Unit is open to dialogue with the USG on the issue of combating trafficking in persons (TIP). On August 25 poloff met with the deputy head of the Unit, who offered an update on the many activities it is conducting in all thr [...]	2009-08-28 08:14:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL PINR KTIP AJ
09BAKU678	IRAN: IRANIAN MARTIAL ARTS COACH CLAIMS MARTIAL [...] (C) Hooshang, a licensed martial arts coach and trainer from Tabriz currently visiting Baku (protect),told Baku Iran watcher that private martial arts clubs and their managers are under intense pressure to cooperate with Iranian intelligence and Revolutionary Guard organizations, both in tr [...]	2009-08-28 08:14:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AJ IR
09BAKU680	AZERBAIJAN: GERMAN MOD COMMENTS CLOSE OFF AWACS [...] (C) Summary. Local media gave top billing August 28 to reporting Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan's apparent refusal to allow Konya (Turkey)-based NATO AWACS aircraft to overfly their territory en route to their NATO missions over Afghanistan. The news broke through a statement by a German MOD sp [...]	2009-08-31 03:51:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR AJ GE TX
09BAKU687	IRAN: NINJA BLACK BELT MASTER DETAILS USE OF MARTIAL ARTS CLUBS FOR REPRESSION; SAYS TABRIZIS "PRAGMATIC," CONFLICTED ON POST-ELECTION PROTESTS [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-01 05:38:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AJ IR
09BAKU688	AZERBAIJAN: SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR, PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: Suggesting that Turkey is putting short-term gas needs for its domestic market ahead of longer-term objectives to transport gas to Europe, PresidentAliyev questioned Turkey's commitment to constructng Nabucco. In a conversation with Special Envo Morningstar on August 27, Aliyev [...]	2009-09-01 10:36:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET AJ TU TX
09BAKU690	AZERBAIJAN: PRESS AND OFFICIAL REACTION TO [...] (C) Summary: Baku's official reaction to the announcement of Turkey and Armenia's intention to complete the protocols leading to their normalization of relations has thus far been surprisingly restrained. Charge spoke with the Foreign Minister and the President's foreign policy advisor to en [...]	2009-09-01 11:58:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU AM AJ
09BAKU693	AZERBAIJAN: SE MORNINGSTAR, PRESIDENT ALIYEV [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev and Foreign Minister Mammadyarov separately told Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar August 27 that, despite Baku's diplomatic efforts, Turkmenistan largely remains a mystery. The Turkmen President's recent statements on Ashgabat claims to the A [...]	2009-09-02 07:09:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET AJ KZ TX
09BAKU694	IRAN POLITICS: TEHRAN UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR DICSUSSES [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-02 11:06:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR KIL AJ IR
09BAKU695	IRAN POLITICS: TEHRAN UNIVERSITYSCHOLAR STRESSES [...] (C) XXXXXXXXXXXX, told Baku Iran watcher that the latter is "more powerful than Ahmadinejad," and played a key role in the Iranian election fraud and other regime activities. He described Mesbah-Yazdi's political ideology as profoundly anti-democratic, and argued that his behind-the-scenes influenc [...]	2009-09-02 11:09:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR KISL AJ IR
09BAKU697	SMOOTHER TURKISH DIPLOMACY KEEPS AZERBAIJANIS CALM [...] (C) Summary: Official Baku's reaction to the August 31 joint announcement by Turkey, Armenia and Switzerland on the next steps in the normalization process has been unexpectedly restrained (reftel A),particularly compared to their ferocious reaction to similar developments in March and Apri [...]	2009-09-02 12:21:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU AM AJ
09BAKU7	PRESIDENTIAL POLITICAL ADVISER HOLDS OUT HOPE FOR [...] (C) Summary: After listening to warnings from UK Ambassador and the Charge that the ouster of VOA, Radio Liberty and the BBC from Azerbaijan's FM airwaves could seriously harm relations with the EU and the USG, Presidential Administration Social Policy Chief Ali Hasanov replied that "we are n [...]	2009-01-07 12:09:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KHUM AJ
09BAKU707	AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTER WELCOMES THE [...] (C) On September 4, the Charge presented reftel talking points to Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov on the appointment of Ambassador Robert Bradtke as the new Minsk Group Co-Chair for the Nagorno-Karabakh Peace Process. Mammadyarov said that he hoped that this appointment would mark an impor [...]	2009-09-04 08:34:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AJ AM
09BAKU709	BAKU DISAVOWS REPORTS OF ANTI-TURKEY RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijan's public response to the latest revelations about the Turkey-Armenia process has differed markedly from March and April 2009 (reftels). By contrast, this time the GOAJ has taken pains to emphasize their closeness to the Turks, and even took the extraordinary step of o [...]	2009-09-04 11:50:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU AM AJ
09BAKU722	GOAJ: THE NEXT GENERATION [...] (C) Summary: Ireli Public Union, formerly the Ireli Youth Movement, is a pro-government NGO focused on "developing Azerbaijani youth." In a September 2 meeting, Ireli's leadership explained the various projects the group is conducting, including summer camps, IT training, and a small grants [...]	2009-09-10 06:18:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL PINR AJ
09BAKU724	VIOLATIONS WITNESSED IN FIRST HEARING FOR JAILED [...] (C) Summary: A pre-trial procedural hearing was held on September 4 in the case of jailed youth activists and bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade (reftels). Embassy officials were able to observe the hearing, unlike earlier hearings in this case, but many people, including officials from [...]	2009-09-10 12:43:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU731	HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES ROUNDUP, AUGUST 25-SEPTEMBER 11 [...] (U) This cable is part of a regular series that will summarize major ongoing human rights issues in Azerbaijan. This series aims to pull together many different sources of information into one readable biweekly summary of human rights cases, with the aim of giving a fuller picture of Azerbaija [...]	2009-09-11 12:42:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KIRF AJ
09BAKU733	AZERBAIJAN DOWNPLAYS NAGORNO-KARABAKH LINE OF [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijani media reported a firefight 10 September at 0900 local in the Aghdam sector of the Line of Contact (LOC) with the ethnic Armenian forces of the "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" (NKR) that left five NKR troops dead and ten wounded, with one Azerbaijani soldier also wounded. [...]	2009-09-14 11:34:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PRGOV PINR TU AM AJ
09BAKU738	AZERBAIJAN: SUMMER 2009 MOSQUE CLOSURES, [...] (C) Summary: Through open source reporting and communication with embassy contacts, Post provides a list of specific allegations regarding mosque closures and destruction over the last four months. Much has been made in the press regarding these closures, with some alleging a trend of religio [...]	2009-09-16 08:48:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ IR KISL PGOV PHUM PREL
09BAKU739	THE AQTAU SUMMIT: MUCH TO DO ABOUT NOTHING [...] (C) Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalfov told Eurasian Energy Senior Advisor Daniel Stein that the September 11 Caspian Summit (minus Iran) in Aqtau was "short, informal and not exclusively about Caspian delimitation." Khalafov attended the Summit, but was not in the 90-minute i [...]	2009-09-16 11:16:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ ENRG IR KZ PREL TX RU

09BAKU742	AZERBAIJAN: TRIAL CONTINUES FOR JAILED BLOGGERS [...] (C) Summary: The first hearing on evidence in the trial of youth activists and bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade was held on September 16. Before the hearing began, six well-known youth activists were arrested for wearing t-shirts saying "I am also a hooligan." All were released after t [...]	2009-09-17 13:07:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU743	AZERBAIJAN'S DIASPORA SMALL, NOT POLITCALLY ACTIVE [...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijan's diaspora of permanent migrs is small, although there are possibly 2 million labor migrants in Russia and Turkey. The diaspora has not been active in affairs in Azerbaijan or in the United States, but two new groups have recently formed: one pro-government and one pro [...]	2009-09-18 06:05:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL SMIG AJ
09BAKU744	"LORDS OF THE MOUNTAINS" WILL FIGHT NO MORE FOREVER [...] (C) The Kashgai are a little-studied, semi-nomadic Turkic minority in Iran with a history of anti-government resistance. Recent interviews with Kashgai members, supplemented with information from other Iranians, suggest that most of the 1.5 million Kashgai, while still poorly educated and impo [...]	2009-09-18 06:32:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR AJ IR
09BAKU746	AZERBAIJAN'S REACTION TO MISSILE DEFENSE ALL ABOUT [...] (C) Summary. Charge briefed Foreign Minister Mammadyarov on the United States' new approach to missile defense in Europe on September 18. The Minister focused on the relevance of Gabala radar station in the new architecture, and maintained the line the GOAJ has followed since the missile def [...]	2009-09-18 10:11:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL EZ RU IR PL CZ AJ
09BAKU754	SOCAR ON SOUTHERN CORRIDOR ENERGY TRANSIT OPTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: SOCAR continues negotiate transit fees and seek additional financial data to make a final decision on whether to throw its weight behind the Nabucco Pipeline or the competing Italy Turkey Greece Interconnector (ITGI). This past week's meetings in Baku gave the Azerbaijani national [...]	2009-09-23 11:59:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON AJ
09BAKU756	RWE AND OMV CONTINUE TO PROMOTE NABUCCO PIPELINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Advisor to the Eurasian Energy Envoy Dan Stein met with Nabucco promoters RWE and OMV in Baku. Both remain bullish on the prospects for the Nabucco Pipeline, but admit the project must move ahead within the next year or face eclipse by competing projects such as the ITGI ( [...]	2009-09-23 12:39:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON AJ
09BAKU776	NAGORNO-KARABAKH STATE OF PLAY VIEWED FROM BAKU [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Baku realistically sees few prospects for a near-term breakthrough, i.e., at Chisinau and immediately thereafter, that would pave the way for a peaceful and favorable resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) conflict. The fallout from the August 2008 war in Georgia and th [...]	2009-09-30 03:43:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM RU GG AJ
09BAKU777	HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES ROUNDUP, SEPTEMBER 11-28 [...] (U) This cable is part of a regular series that will summarize major ongoing human rights issues in Azerbaijan. This series aims to pull together many different sources of information into one readable biweekly summary of human rights cases, with the aim of giving a fuller picture of Azerbaija [...]	2009-09-30 06:26:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ
09BAKU782	SUBJECT: SCENESETTER FOR DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Your visit to Baku comes on the heels of successful visits by Department of State Deputy Secretary Steinberg and U.S. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Issues Morningstar. The mood here remains skeptical about the new U.S. Administration, fed by perceptions that the U.S. is pro [...]	2009-09-30 13:16:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV PREL ARM TU AJ
09BAKU784	AZERBAIJANI PARLIAMENT OPENS FALL SESSION [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 30 parliament opened its fall session. Pro-government MPs congratulated themselves on opening a large new office building. Opposition MPs complained about the arrest of youth activist bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade (reftel),and the opposition,s lack of inf [...]	2009-10-01 10:05:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AJ
09BAKU787	CRACKS IN THE FACADE: BAKU LOSING PATIENCE WITH [...] (C) Summary: This cable contains an action request, please see paragraph 5. Reftels describe the uncharacteristically calm reactions of the GOAJ to developments between Turkey and Armenia since the August 31 announcement of a six-week period of political consultations leading up to the signi [...]	2009-10-02 12:57:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU AM AJ
09BAKU790	3 MONTHS AND COUNTING: JAILED BLOGGER CASE DRAGS ON [...] (C) Summary: On September 18, 29 and October 1 three more hearings were held in the trial of jailed youth activists Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade (reftel). The defense lawyers continued to question prosecution witness intensely, while state prosecutor Jeyhun Kazimov continued to object forcef [...]	2009-10-05 11:56:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU802	FORMER YOUTH LEADER JOINS THE OPPOSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 6 Emboffs met with Razi Nurullayev, the newly elected deputy-chairman of the Azerbaijan Popular Front (PFP) to discuss the party's plans for the December municipal elections. Nurullayev stated that the six major opposition parties would not/not be running as a bloc. He [...]	2009-10-07 13:35:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR AJ
09BAKU808	AZERBAIJAN: GOAJ REQUEST FOR MORE TIME; UPDATE ON [...] (C) Summary: On 12-16 October 2009, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plans to review Azerbaijan,s status with regards to the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG). On 06 October, the Government of Azerbaijan (GOAJ) raised their concerns with the Embassy that this review would be base [...]	2009-10-08 13:37:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ ECON EFIN PREL PTER EINV
09BAKU810	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT ALIYEV, DOE DEPSEC PONEMAN [...] (C) Summary: President Aliyev, meeting with Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman on October 5, expressed support for the Southern Corridor, but blamed Turkey for delays. Azerbaijan is exploring alternatives, but the President acknowledged the inadequacies of each. Azerbaijan has not mad [...]	2009-10-09 09:08:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET EINT PREL AJ TX TU GG
09BAKU813	LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Azerbaijan's municipal elections will be held on December 23 this year. The Central Election Commission (CEC) is working hard to prepare all necessary regulations for the election, although choosing this late date looks suspiciously like the GOAJ is trying to avoid international [...]	2009-10-14 09:44:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU825	CONOCPHILLIPS SEEKS EXPLORATION BLOCK IN AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConoCPhillips (CP) representatives visited Embassy Baku October 15 to discuss interest in renewing their energy exploration in Azerbaijan. CP left its two exploration fields in Azerbaijan about 4 years ago due to differences with SOCAR, the state oil company. It now believes the [...]	2009-10-16 10:57:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET AJ TX RS
09BAKU829	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT INTENT TO ENFORCE TURKISH [...] (C) Summary. Azerbaijani reaction to the signing of the Turkey-Armenia protocols has been cagey but restrained. The interval between the announcement of the "road map" in April and the ultimate signing of the protocols appears to have given Aliyev time to overcome his anger at what he still p [...]	2009-10-16 12:34:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM TU AJ
09BAKU836	AZERBAIJAN'S PARLIAMENT DEBATES TURKEY-ARMENIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the first session of parliament in three weeks, MPs debated the recent signing of the protocols between Turkey and Armenia. Several opposition MPs criticized the recent anti-Turkish rhetoric used by the GOAJ, including the removal of Turkish flags from public parks. High-level [...]	2009-10-20 13:11:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL TU AM AJ
09BAKU849	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT DISCUSSES TURKEY-ARMENIA, [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-28 08:46:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER AM TU RU AJ
09BAKU856	AZERBAIJAN: LARGE TRAFFICKING RING OF BOSNIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 28 poloff and OSCE were introduced by a local NGO to a house full of victims of trafficking for labor exploitation. There are about 346 Bosnian Serb men who were brought over the last six months to Azerbaijan to work on construction projects. According to their stories [...]	2009-10-29 20:02:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL PINR KTIP BK SR AJ
09BAKU86	EU COMMISSIONER FERRERO-WALDNER TRIP TO AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 21 EU Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner visited Baku. Her first point in her meeting with President Aliyev was media freedom; President Aliyev took the opportunity to criticize sharply the content of Radio Liberty while suggesting that he had [...]	2009-02-02 12:04:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AJ
09BAKU861	SCENESTER FOR NOVEMBER 4 SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: This Security Dialogue comes at a frankly uncomfortable point in our bilateral relations. U.S. support for Turkey-Armenia rapprochement adds to the pre-existing disquiet over Section 907 in particular, and the general sense of doubt in Baku that the United States has enough inte [...]	2009-10-30 13:08:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ
09BAKU865	HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES ROUNDUP, OCTOBER 1-30 [...] (U) This cable is part of a regular series that will summarize major ongoing human rights issues in Azerbaijan. This series aims to pull together many different sources of information into one readable biweekly summary of human rights cases, with the aim of giving a fuller picture of Azerbaija [...]	2009-11-02 13:44:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ
09BAKU868	DAS KAIDANOW DISCUSSES POLITICAL REFORM WITH CIVIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: EUR DAS Tina Kaidanow met with six leaders of Azerbaijan's civil society on October 23. All six agreed that Azerbaijan is headed in the wrong direction on democracy and human rights, and that USG support was needed on this issue. They highlighted support of youth as critical, in [...]	2009-11-04 06:01:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU87	NAKHCHIVAN: A WORLD UPSIDE DOWN [...] (C) Summary: On January 27 Poloff visited the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (AR) along with Claire Delessard, the Political Advisor to the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus. Nakhchivan is the ancestral home of late president Heydar Aliyev, and has been run essentially as a fi [...]	2009-02-02 13:10:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM AJ
09BAKU870	"WAR OF THE FLAGS" OVER, TURKISH PARLIAMENTIANS [...] (C) Summary: The so-called "war of the flags" is over, and the consensus among observers is that the result of Baku's tantrum over the "trashcan incident" in Bursa and the removal of Turkish flags from a war memorial in Baku is a net loss in Turkish sympathy for Azerbaijan. On Turkey's nati [...]	2009-11-04 10:18:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU AM AJ
09BAKU886	AZERBAIJAN: RFI ON SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (C) This cable responds to reftel A. Answers follow Reftel A sequence. A.) The United States and Azerbaijan have established a Security Dialogue, chaired by State and MFA at the Deputy Minister/Assistant Secretary level; and Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDC),at the Deputy Chief of Genera [...]	2009-11-10 13:33:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AJ
09BAKU892	AZERBAIJAN: DEMARCHE ON UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C)On November 13 poloff delivered reftel demarche to Jala Ibrahimova of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office of International Security, which coordinates all UN votes for Azerbaijan. Ibrahimova stated that a final decision on Azerbaijan's votes on these resolutions was not yet made, and sh [...]	2009-11-13 12:48:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM PGOV AJ
09BAKU898	REACTIONS TO BLOGGER GUILTY VERDICT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU, the OSCE, and the Council of Europe, in addition to the Norwegian and German governments, have issued statements of concern regarding the November 11 guilty verdict and sentencing of youth activists Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade. EU Special Envoy Peter Semneby raised it [...]	2009-11-17 12:46:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL AJ
09BAKU904	AZERBAIJAN: EUSR VISIT DISCUSSION OF BLOGGERS, [...] (C) Summary: On November 18, the political advisor to Peter Semneby, EU Special Representative (EUSR) for the South Caucasus, briefed poloff on Semneby's recent trip to Baku and Yerevan that concluded November 16 and included meetings with both Presidents, the Azerbaijani FM and Russian Ambass [...]	2009-11-19 12:45:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ENRG RU TX AM TU AJ
09BAKU906	AZERBAIJAN WILL LIKELY BE ABSENT FROM UNGA VOTE ON [...] (C) Azerbaijani MFA Attache Jaleh Ibrahimova informed poloff of Azerbaijan's voting decision on the reftel votes at UNGA. Azerbaijan will abstain from all resolutions on the DPRK and will vote against all resolutions on Burma, as they had in the past. While the final decision has not been mad [...]	2009-11-20 11:38:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM PGOV AJ
09BAKU916	AZERBAIJAN: GAS TRANSIT TALKS REMAIN A STRUGGLE [...] (C) In a series of meetings over the last two weeks with Dan Stein, Senior Advisor to the Eurasian Energy Envoy, SOCAR and GOAJ interlocutors reported surprising and hopeful progress on Azerbaijan,s gas negotiations with Turkey. However, much-anticipated November 24 Azerbaijani-Turkish tran [...]	2009-11-25 09:39:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL TU AJ
09BAKU919	AZERBAIJAN: DEVELOPING A PLAN B FOR GAS TRANSIT [...] (C) In the event that Turkey disappoints Azerbaijan once again on the on-going gas transit negotiations, SOCAR and the GOAJ are developing a "plan B" to market Azerbaijani gas, involving small but diversified gas sales to the north (Russia),south (Iran),and west (Bulgaria and Romania). How [...]	2009-11-25 09:49:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	AJ ECON ENRG EPET IR PREL TU
09BAKU923	AZERBAIJAN: ADDIDTIONAL AFGHAN SUPPORT DEMARCHE [...] (C) Charge, accompanying Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Celeste Wallander, delivered Reftel A demarche November 23 to President Ilham Aliyev, Minister of Defense Gen-Col Safar Abiyev and Minister of Foreign Affairs Elmar Mammadyarov. 2. (C) The primary additional contribution con [...]	2009-11-25 11:17:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR AJ AF
09BAKU940	AZERBAIJAN: PRESIDENT'S FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR ON [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Novruz Mammadov, meeting December 3 with EUR/CARC Office Director Ethan Goldrich, had kind words of support for President Obama's December 1 speech and the Afghanistan mission. Azerbaijan, based on Turkey's assurances, sees a link between Turke [...]	2009-12-08 11:30:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG IR AF AM AJ
09BAKU942	HITTING THE PERSIAN POCKETBOOK: IRAN INFLATION [...] (C) The magnitude of inflation in Iran and the reliability of Iranian government inflation and income statistics are long-standing matters of dispute among Iran watchers within and without the USG. This cable attempts to clarify these issues by providing the results of an informal salary and [...]	2009-12-08 12:56:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN SNAR PGOV AJ IZ IR
09BAKU955	AZERBAIJAN: MPS DEBATE NK AND DEMOCRATIC REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a lively, sometimes heated, discussion on December 3, Members of Parliament from different political parties talked about the major problems facing Azerbaijan with Ethan Goldrich, visiting Director of the State Department's Office of Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts. Al [...]	2009-12-11 10:44:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL SZ AJ
09BAKU958	GAS TRANSIT NEGOTIATIONS DRAG IN WAKE OF ERDOGAN [...] (C) All eyes in the Azerbaijani energy sector have been on Washington, where President Obama and Prime Minister Erdogan met this week. Azerbaijan and Turkey appear to have engaged in a last minute flurry of negotiations in the hopes of striking a deal before the visit. Success eluded them. [...]	2009-12-11 11:29:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL TU AJ
09BAKU976	AZERBAIJAN: SOCAR INSIGHTS ON BOTAS FINANCIAL [...] (C) In a lengthy December 15 meeting, SOCAR Vice President Elshad Nassirov provided details of his recent visits to Turkey on December 7 and Tehran on December 14-15 (reftel A). Nassirov analyzed the continuing difficulties with the gas negotiations as follows: BOTAS' driving motivation in [...]	2009-12-18 14:10:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET PREL TU RU AJ
09BAKU979	AZERBAIJAN: US COUNCIL ON INTL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (C) Summary: From 07-12 December 2009, Embassy Baku hosted Catherine Cosman and Mary Zeng from the staff of the U.S. Council for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Cosman and Zeng met a wide range of official and religious contacts before attending a 10-11 December human rights confere [...]	2009-12-21 13:04:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KISL IR AJ
09BAKU980	AZERBAIJAN: A MODEST PIPELINE PROPOSAL? [...] (C) In a lengthy December 15 meeting, SOCAR Vice President Elshad Nassirov laid out a new natural gas pipeline proposal, and provided details of his recent visits to Turkey and Iran. (reftels A and B). Nassirov suggested combining Nabucco and White Stream into one energy transit corridor, [...]	2009-12-22 11:46:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL TU AJ
09BAKU985	SOCAR SIGNS MOU TO SELL GAS TO IRAN [...] (C) Following up on a discussion regarding FM Mammadyarov and SOCAR delegation trip to Tehran (reftel),SOCAR Vice President Elshad Nassirov told Energy Off in an 18 December email: "We have signed a memo with Iran on sales of 1 million cubic meters (mcm) (per day) for 100 days. (This is) [...]	2009-12-23 08:27:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL IR AJ TU TX
09BAKU994	INFORMATION ON IRAN OPPOSITION ARRESTS; HARSH [...] (C) Baku-based Iranian contacts with known contacts with opposition figures provided Baku Iran watcher with a validated arrest list of some key opposition figures arrested late on December 27 and early on December 28. The list is not comprehensive but does provide a sense of the breadth of wha [...]	2009-12-29 08:57:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AJ IR
09BAKU996	AZERBAIJAN: THE VIEW FROM BAKU ON THE [...] (C) Summary: The recent launching of the TransAsia gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to China made much press in the Caspian region, particularly here in Baku. Azerbaijan has no role in the project now, but pundits and others are wondering aloud about potential for exporting future gas east to [...]	2009-12-30 09:29:00	Embassy Baku	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL TU AJ
09BAMAKO104	A SPOONFUL OF CHINESE SUGAR SOURS U.S. INVESTORS [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-23 11:20:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ETRD EINT EAGR ML
09BAMAKO105	A TUAREG PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN 2012? [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-23 14:09:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINR ML
09BAMAKO107	THIS WEEK IN NORTHERN MALI: REBEL DISARMAMENT AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-23 15:23:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ASEC PTER PREL ML
09BAMAKO12	TALKS BETWEEN MALI AND TUAREG REBELS BREAK DOWN IN [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-09 09:16:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PINS ASEC ML
09BAMAKO128	WITH EYE ON 2012, SECOND LARGEST POLITICAL PARTY [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-03 16:50:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ML
09BAMAKO141	AQIM TACTICS FORCE RED CROSS TO RECONSIDER [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-06 11:20:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PINS PINR ASEC ML
09BAMAKO145	CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (C) Post is not aware of any critical infrastructure or key resources in Mali that meet the criteria laid out in reftel. MILOVANOVIC [...]	2009-03-10 16:23:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV ML
09BAMAKO146	PRESIDENT TOURE'S BOOSTERS FACE IDENTITY CRISIS AS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-11 11:28:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM ML
09BAMAKO15	WHAT ARE WE MARCHING FOR? ANTI-ISRAELI PROTESTERS [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-09 11:17:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL KPAL SMIG ML
09BAMAKO151	MALI FORECASTS A CHANCE OF OIL FOR 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Five years into its renewed push for oil exploration (Ref. A),Mali has yet to strike black gold. During a January 4 speech to the nation, however, President Amadou Toumani Toure served up a rather optimistic New Year's resolution: Malian oil would flow by the end of June 2009. T [...]	2009-03-13 09:33:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ETRD EINT EAGR ML
09BAMAKO155	MAYOR OF ANDERAMBOUKANE DISCUSSES AQIM KIDNAPPINGS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-16 09:18:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINR PINS PREL ASEC ML
09BAMAKO163	PROMINENT TUAREG'S VIEW OF ARAB MILITIAS, [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-18 15:33:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS PINR PREL ASEC ML
09BAMAKO194	FORM OVER FUNCTION: MALI'S FIGHT AGAINST [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-30 13:02:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KTIP ML
09BAMAKO199	PRIME MINISTER FACING POLITICAL FALLOUT FOLLOWING [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-31 09:52:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID ETRD EINT EAGR PINR ML
09BAMAKO211	TUAREG LEADER: FORGET THE ACCORDS, JUST GIVE US [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-06 13:39:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS PINR PREL ASEC PTER ML
09BAMAKO217	LOCAL ELECTIONS TRUMP TUAREG REBEL CONCERNS IN [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-09 14:21:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINS PINR ASEC PREL ML
09BAMAKO232	MALI ARRESTS ITS OWN AUDITOR GENERAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-16 13:40:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR PHUM ML
09BAMAKO24	GAO POLICE BLOTTER: MORE GRENADES AND CARJACKINGS [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-13 16:27:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC PINS PINR PHUM ML
09BAMAKO245	FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER RENEWS PLEDGE TO [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-20 16:55:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR PREL ASEC PTER ML
09BAMAKO246	MALI RELEASES SOME TUAREG PRISONERS AND ONE MURDER [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-20 16:58:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS PINR PREL PGOV ASEC ML
09BAMAKO257	TUAREG CLAIMS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AS ICRC [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-27 09:27:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PREL PTER PGOV ML
09BAMAKO262	DECODING ANOTHER LIBYAN SUPPORTED TUAREG [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-28 13:53:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PINR PREL ML
09BAMAKO266	MALI ANSWERS INTERPOL'S CALL BY ARRESTING DRUG [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-30 09:48:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM KJUS PREL ML
09BAMAKO268	MORE TUAREG PESSIMISM OVER ACCORDS AND AQIM [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-30 14:53:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS PINR ASEC PGOV PREL ML
09BAMAKO280	ELECTORAL TENSIONS IN TARKINT: WHERE AQIM, ARAB [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-08 11:05:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINS PINR ASEC PTER ML
09BAMAKO281	DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE: NO ONGOING MILITARY [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-11 16:08:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PINR PINS ASEC ML
09BAMAKO288	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ATT: MALI'S SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) on May 8 to inquire about Mali's plans for addressing northern security in a theoretical post-hostage situation future and his views of how the U.S. might best assist these efforts. ATT spoke of the dynamics surroundi [...]	2009-05-12 14:58:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ML
09BAMAKO3	A NORTHERN MALI NEW YEAR'S SPECIAL: GRENADES, [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-05 16:42:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PINS ASEC ML
09BAMAKO321	IN HASTE, MALI POSTS FLAWED LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-28 16:30:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ML
09BAMAKO355	NORTHERN MALI'S REACTION TO EXECUTION OF BRITISH [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-05 11:10:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINR PINS PGOV ML
09BAMAKO36	TUMULT WITHIN TUAREG REBEL ADC FOLLOWING FAILED [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-16 14:26:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PINS ASEC ML
09BAMAKO37	ONE OF EIGHT CAPTURED TUAREG REBELS DIES IN [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-16 14:58:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PINS ML
09BAMAKO383	ARMED ASSAILANTS ASSASSINATE COL. LAMANA OULD BOU [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-11 15:41:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINR PINS PHUM PGOV ASEC ML
09BAMAKO387	PRESIDENT TOURE READY TO TARGET AQIM, WITH HELP [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-12 11:16:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV PINS PINR ASEC ML
09BAMAKO399	NORTHERN MALIAN ARABS TAKE DEMOCRACY HOSTAGE FOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-16 16:17:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS ASEC KDEM ML
09BAMAKO415	RUNNING ON FUMES: MALI'S SOLDIERS EXPOSED IN THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-25 15:18:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR PREL PTER ML
09BAMAKO44	YOUTH GROUP LEADER ARRESTED AFTER CALLING FOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-22 15:22:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM ML
09BAMAKO445	AMBUSH: AQIM INFLICTS HEAVY LOSSES IN BATTLE WITH [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-06 16:09:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR PREL PTER ML
09BAMAKO460	LICKING ITS WOUNDS: MALI REGROUPS, HOSTAGE RELEASED [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-14 07:19:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR PREL PTER ML
09BAMAKO504	MALI FINDS NEW ALLIES AGAINST AQIM [...] (U) Embassies Algiers and Tripoli have cleared on this message. 2. (C) Summary: During a pause in Mali's offensive against Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM),Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) has been active in lining up new allies for that fight. On the margins of a confere [...]	2009-07-29 14:19:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR PREL PTER ML
09BAMAKO509	ARBITRARY DETENTION: ATT ORDERS ACQUITTED MAN TO [...] (C) Summary: On May 27, the Supreme Court of Mali reversed the conviction for embezzlement of Mamadou Baba Diawara, the former CEO of one of Mali's largest banks, and ordered that he and an accomplice be released from prison. The Minister of Justice, on orders from President Amadou Toumani Tou [...]	2009-07-31 09:39:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM ML
09BAMAKO51	DOW CHEMICALS V. CHINA: DOW WINS, FOR NOW [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-26 16:46:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ETRD EINT EAGR ML
09BAMAKO53	LOCAL ELECTIONS, LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES, AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-27 09:01:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC
09BAMAKO55	MALI'S AUDITOR GENERAL RESISTS PRESSURE TO RESIGN, [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-27 13:51:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR ML
09BAMAKO551	MALI APPROVES NEW FAMILY CODE: ISLAMISTS UPSET [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-18 16:28:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ML
09BAMAKO567	KIDAL TUAREGS DISCUSS THEIR ROLE IN CHANGING [...] (C) Summary: On August 4, EmbOffs met with Kidal Iforas Tuareg leaders Ahmada ag Bibi, Deputy of Abeibara and head of the Tuareg alliance, Democratic Alliance for Change (ADC); Alghabass ag Intallah, Deputy of Kidal; and Presidential Advisor Acherif Ag Mohamed. The three presented themselves [...]	2009-08-26 14:19:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS ML
09BAMAKO58	BAHANGA RELEASES LAST THREE MALIAN SOLDIERS [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-28 16:40:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS ASEC PREL ML
09BAMAKO580	NOT SO FAST: ATT SENDS FAMILY CODE BACK TO [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-02 15:47:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ML
09BAMAKO598	NORTHERN MALIAN ETHNIC COMMUNITIES MEET IN AGOUNI, [...] (C) Summary: On August 1-2, the Berabiche Arab community of Timbuktu organized and hosted a rare meeting of representatives of all Northern Malian ethnic communities, (the first such meeting in 10 years),to discuss the threat posed by Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). G [...]	2009-09-14 16:16:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS ML
09BAMAKO602	MALIAN UNGA AND AFRICA-SOUTH AMERICA SUMMIT [...] (SBU) UNGA: PolCouns delivered reftel demarches and invitations to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas/Europe Bureau Chief Hamadou Albachir Toure and took the opportunity to speak both about UNGA objectives and the Africa-South America Summit (SASA) hosted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. [...]	2009-09-15 18:37:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNGA ML VE
09BAMAKO619	PRESIDENT TOURE READY TO TARGET AQIM, WITH HELP [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Milovanovic met with President Amadou Toumani Toure (ATT) on September 17 to reinforce the need for Malian cooperation with the extensive program of training and equipping the Malian Army to confront Al Q,Aeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in the North of [...]	2009-09-24 11:19:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV PINS PINR ASEC ML
09BAMAKO623	RFI REPORTED MALIAN ARMY SEIZURE OF ARMS AND DRUGS [...] (C) Summary: Radio France International (RFI) reported on September 17 that the Malian Army seized arms and drugs from a three vehicle caravan heading across the Malian desert to Mauritania. The report was reprinted in a few Malian newspapers, however, not the official government newspaper, [...]	2009-09-25 12:59:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PTER ML
09BAMAKO642	MALIAN VIEWS ON GUINEA CRISIS [...] (C) Mali is increasingly concerned with the situation in Guinea. High-level meetings have taken place over the past few days, most recently in the Foreign Ministry on the morning of October 5, with participants at the Deputy and Under-Secretary-equivalent level. Americas Bureau Chief Albachi [...]	2009-10-06 07:28:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF XY GV ML
09BAMAKO666	COSMETIC CHANGES IN STORE FOR THE MALIAN JUDICIARY [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-16 13:02:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KJUS PHUM ML
09BAMAKO679	A STOLEN MILITARY VEHICLE? DEPENDS WHO YOU TALK TO [...] (C) Several POL contacts recently reported that on September 29 militia elements close to a Malian Army Colonel stole a vehicle from the Malian Army's base in Kidal city. The contacts said about five to seven armed perpetrators entered the base in broad daylight and with no resistance from Arm [...]	2009-10-20 16:23:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV MARR MCAP ML

09BAMAKO680	MALI'S LARGEST PARTY PREPARING FOR 2012 [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the next presidential elections are over two years away, Mali's political scene is already gearing up for what is expected to be a wide-open campaign. As the first declared candidates announce the start of their campaigns, Mali's largest political party, the Alliance for [...]	2009-10-20 18:47:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM ML
09BAMAKO69	FROM THE LIBYAN PEOPLE: A TUAREG "DISARMAMENT" [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-02 14:15:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC ML
09BAMAKO694	MANEUVERING CONTINUES AROUND FAMILY CODE [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-27 16:27:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ML
09BAMAKO695	THE HIGH ISLAMIC COUNCIL - A VIEW FROM THE [...] (SBU) In a recent conversation with the Embassy, Kidal's representative to the national High Islamic Council (HCI),Moussa ag Ali, noted the presence of internal tensions between the provincial and national level of the HCI and between ethnic groups represented in the HCI. Moussa's account i [...]	2009-10-27 16:30:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI ML
09BAMAKO697	NORTHERN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY SLOWLY RAMPING UP [...] (SBU) The Northern Mali Development Agency (ADN) announced in July 2009 the start of its economic reinsertion program for Northern Malian youth who were participants in the 2006 rebellion. The program is starting with CFA 1.1 billion (USD 2.4 million) of a total CFA 22.6 billion (USD 50.2 [...]	2009-10-29 17:00:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PREL ML
09BAMAKO713	SEASONAL ETHNIC VIOLENCE ALONG MALI-NIGER BORDER [...] (C) Summary: Malian press reports of violence between Tuareg and Peuhls along the Mali-Niger border reflect a seasonal phenomenon routine since the mid-1980s, but according to contacts from the Gao region scarce resources, differing pastoral cultures, and politics in Niger have aggravated the [...]	2009-11-03 13:33:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL PBTS ML NG
09BAMAKO73	FREE TO BE: OPPOSITION LAMBASTS GOVERNMENT AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-05 10:58:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ML
09BAMAKO77	LAW ENFORCEMENT, PRISONS, AND JUSTICE IN MALI: A [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent visit to detention centers in Bamako, Mali's Public Prosecutor for the Court of Appeals Mahamadou Boire met with staff and inmates to verify prison conditions, identify areas of concern, and propose potential solutions to the two most pressing problems facing [...]	2009-02-06 09:07:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI PGOV ML
09BAMAKO788	RESPONSE TO ACTION REQUEST: SEEKING CANDIDATES FOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-04 09:49:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ML
09BAMAKO794	NORTHERN RECONCILIATION EFFORTS YIELDING SOME FRUIT [...] (C) Summary: The ethnic communities of northern Mali met October 31 to November 2 to discuss security and development problems in their region. All northern communities participated, including former caste groups such as the Bellah. A follow-up commission was formed to dialogue with the cen [...]	2009-12-10 15:29:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL ML
09BAMAKO806	MALI'S SECOND LARGEST UNION LEFT OUT IN THE COLD [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-15 14:02:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ML
09BAMAKO820	MALIAN MILITARY COULD MAKE GOOD USE OF CESSNA [...] (C) I understand questions have arisen regarding funding of two Cessna Caravan surveillance/transport aircraft to Mali. This is the second year Embassy Bamako has requested support for this program. It remains, we believe, a vital step toward Malian efforts to regain control of the vast, und [...]	2009-12-21 06:42:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR ML PINR PTER
09BAMAKO85	IS THE REBELLION OVER? MALI BEATS BACK BAHANGA AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-12 12:28:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS PINR PREL PGOV ASEC ML
09BAMAKO98	OFF AGAIN ON AGAIN REGIONAL HEAD OF STATE SUMMIT [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-19 16:57:00	Embassy Bamako	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINS PGOV ML
09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN141	DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE OF ASEAN IMPLEMENTATION OF [...] (C) Ambassador Todd met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) Permanent Secretary, Datin Maimunah, to deliver reftel demarche. Ambassador Todd stressed the important role both Brunei and ASEAN play in support of UNSCR 1874. While highlighting the need to avoid unnecessary confro [...]	2009-06-24 07:55:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC KNNP BX
09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN205	SENATOR BILL NELSON WELL RECEIVED VISIT TO BRUNEI [...] (C) Senator Bill Nelson's well received visit to Brunei focused on numerous key USG policy goals and objectives. During wide ranging meetings with the Sultan of Brunei, as well as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade II, Pehin Lim Jock Seng, the Senator received assurances that Brunei res [...]	2009-08-28 03:29:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BX PINR
09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN226	DEMARCHE RESPONSE: EXPANDING THE CHORUS ON IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-18 08:33:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP UNGA PARM IAEA PREL AORC BX
09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN227	DEMARCHE RESPONSE: KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] (C) Charge d' Affaires (CDA) delivered reftel demarche to Florence Chong, Director, International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). CDA urged Brunei to meet with Kosovo's UN delegation on the margins of the UNGA, in addition to continuing to urge Brunei to formally r [...]	2009-09-18 08:33:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA AORC BX
09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN31	BRUNEI STILL CONSIDERING KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-13 08:38:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ICJ KVIR AORC BX
09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN49	BRUNEI DISTANCING ITSELF FROM ROHINGYA ISSUE [...] (SBU) Deputy Chief of Mission met with Brunei Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to discuss Brunei's position regarding the Rohingya refugee issue. Reading primarily from a prepared text, MFA Deputy Director, Politics I, Haji Mulok Jamat, stated that the Brunei's position is this is an issue [...]	2009-03-13 07:15:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL BM BX
09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN69	BRUNEI SUPPORTIVE OF TCG EFFORTS IN BURMA [...] (C) Per Reftel, CDA McIntyre noted USG concerns regarding adverse actions taken by the Burmese government against the Tripartite Core Group's (TCG) existing authority in a March 26th meeting with Government of Brunei (GoB) officials. CDA urged GoB to discourage the recent restrictive conditions [...]	2009-03-26 07:53:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PHUM PREL BM BX
09BANDARSERIBEGAWAN71	AMBASSADOR TODD HOLDS WIDE RANGING DISCUSSION WITH [...] (C) Ambassador Todd met with Brunei Deputy Foreign Minister, Pehin Lim Jock Seng, on March 19th at Pehin Lim's request. Ambassador Todd pressed USG concerns regarding religious freedom, especially at private religious schools. Pehin Lim Jock expressed surprised and consternation that this iss [...]	2009-03-27 07:57:00	Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM PREL KIPR BX
09BANGKOK1004	THAI PRIME MINISTER ABHISIT AIMS FOR [...] (C) The Ambassador recommended to a top MFA official on April 21 that the RTG lift the state of emergency (SOE) in Bangkok as soon as possible. RTG officials tell us that they understand our view and are eager to rescind the SOE, but they are concerned about a continuing possibility of destab [...]	2009-04-21 09:45:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KJUS KDEM ASEC TH
09BANGKOK1028	LAO HMONG: THAIS OPEN INFORMAL DIALOGUE ON NONG [...] (C) On April 22, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited representatives from the four countries that have received UNHCR referrals of the 158 recognized refugees detained for over two years in the Nong Khai Immigration Detention Center - the U.S. (70 referrals),Australia (47),Canada (16) [...]	2009-04-24 05:44:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM TH LA
09BANGKOK1034	THAI PRIME MINISTER LIFTS STATE OF EMERGENCY, [...] (C) The RTG at mid-day April 24 rescinded the state of emergency that had existed in Bangkok since April 12. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, meeting with Charge and visiting civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, said he hoped that Secretary Clinton would be able to sign an instrument for U.S [...]	2009-04-24 10:12:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KJUS KDEM ASEC TH
09BANGKOK1059	THAKSIN'S REVOLUTIONARY RHETORIC [...] (C) In the run-up to mid-April riots in Bangkok, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra used increasingly incendiary rhetoric. Although Thaksin has subsequently asserted he supports only peaceful measures, his public call for a "revolution" and for the supremacy of "the people" over sometim [...]	2009-04-29 10:33:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KJUS TH
09BANGKOK1101	CROWD CONTROL DURING RECENT PROTESTS IN THAILAND [...] (C) The Thai Army, rather than the police, played the leading role in quelling angry demonstrations in Bangkok April 12-14. The Thai government's decision to rely on the Army may have stemmed from several factors, including the political views of leading Army and police officers, as well as l [...]	2009-05-01 09:43:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS PHUM KJUS KDEM ASEC MOPS TH
09BANGKOK1103	THAILAND: ASSISTANCE NGO TO LEAVE LAO HMONG [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 24, the NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) informed us of its plans to leave the detention center in Petchabun within the next two to four weeks. MSF cited Royal Thai Armed Forces (RTARF) interference with its work providing medical care, food and water/sanitation. The B [...]	2009-05-01 10:25:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK1132	RECOMMENDATION TO PRUDENTIALLY REVOKE THAI EX-PM [...] (C) Post recommends that the Department prudentially revoke former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's U.S. non-immigrant visas. This recommendation is based on our belief that Thaksin has possibly committed a crime involving moral turpitude. The RTG has two arrest warrants outstanding for T [...]	2009-05-07 07:30:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PREL PGOV PINR TH
09BANGKOK114	NEW "THAI PRIDE" PARTY (PHUMJAI THAI) BECOMES [...] (SBU) As legislators from dissolved political parties develop new party affiliations, it appears a faction of former People's Power Party legislators will comprise the second-largest coalition partner of the Democrat Party. This faction, loyal to Buriram politician Newin Chidchob, is at the c [...]	2009-01-15 10:01:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KJUS TH
09BANGKOK1157	LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT OF THE POLITICAL IMPASSE: [...] (C) As was the case in 2008 during the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) extended occupation of Government House, there are a variety of possible options for the Thai political elite to pursue in negotiating its way out of the current political impasse: constitutional amendments; amnesty f [...]	2009-05-12 09:34:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM TH
09BANGKOK1166	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR ENGAGES PRIVY COUNCILORS ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador hosted a lunch for Privy Council Chair Prem Tinsulanonda, Privy Councilor Surayud Chulanont, and Deputy Principal Private Secretary to the King Krit Garnjana-Goonchorn May 11. The conversation centered around former PM Thaksin Shinawatra, his motivations behind launchi [...]	2009-05-13 07:26:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK1167	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: LOCAL OFFICIALS' VIEWS OF THE [...] (C) Summary: A range of provincial government and security officials gave us differing views about the security situation in the deep south, the state of the Malay Muslim insurgency, and possible government countermeasures during a mid-March trip to southern Thailand. A Narathiwat vice govern [...]	2009-05-14 02:51:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09BANGKOK1188	THAI FM KASIT SENDS LETTER TO BURMESE FM ON ASSK; [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya told Ambassador on May 12 that he would engage the Burmese government on Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) situation, on behalf of both Thailand and ASEAN. Kasit's personal aide told us late May 14 that Kasit had signed a letter to the Burm [...]	2009-05-14 10:18:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK1190	THAI MFA NOT SUSPICIOUS OF GROWING CHINESE POWER [...] (C) Summary. According to the Thai MFA Director of Chinese Affairs, Thailand agreed that increased transparency of Chinese military intentions would help regional stability, but Thailand had no reason to be concerned with growing Chinese military power and accepted as natural China's growing [...]	2009-05-14 10:52:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PM PREL TH CH
09BANGKOK1195	DARFUR PEACEKEEPING: THAI DEPLOYMENT APPROVED BUT [...] (C) Summary and Recommendation: The Thai Peace Operations Center has confirmed a May 7 media report that the Thai Cabinet had given formal approval for Thai troops to join UNAMID. Despite the approval, preparations by the Thai military remain held back by Sudanese government refusal to approv [...]	2009-05-15 08:14:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MARR TH SU
09BANGKOK1196	THAI HOUSE SPEAKER ON CONGRESS AND BALANCING [...] (C) Speaker of the House of Representatives Chai Chidchob, in a May 14 call by the Ambassador, requested assistance in helping the Thai House build stronger ties with its U.S. counterpart. Chai said that the Thai-American Parliamentarian Friendship Group, consisting of 121 members, had reache [...]	2009-05-15 09:17:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ECON TH CH
09BANGKOK1197	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: FAMILIES OF DETAINEES VOICE [...] (SBU) Summary: The plight of families in the deep south that have had members detained as the result of counterinsurgency operations was the focus of a seminar at Prince of Songkhla University in Pattani that we attended in early May. The seminar organizer, the Cross Cultural Foundation (CCF [...]	2009-05-15 09:21:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09BANGKOK1200	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES POLITICS AND THE WAY FORWARD [...] (C) A leading associate of former Prime Minister Thaksin told the Ambassador in mid-May that pro-Thaksin supporters had poorly served their interests by engaging in violent riots in mid-April; a second associate reiterated his earlier assertion that the redshirt movement was now "way beyond Th [...]	2009-05-15 10:06:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM TH
09BANGKOK1201	THAILAND: RESPONSE TO ASSK'S ARREST [...] (C) Summary: Thai FM Kasit held a press conference May 15 to express concern over Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) situation, to call on the Burmese government not to extend her detention, and to ask the Burmese authorities to clarify the situation about the Amcit swimmer who visited ASSK's compound. [...]	2009-05-15 10:19:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK121	THAI RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON TRIPARTITE CORE GROUP [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points regarding the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) to Jirusaya Biranada of the Department of East Asia Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on January 15. We explained that the TCG has played a critical role in facilitating post-cyclone Nargis assistance in [...]	2009-01-16 09:05:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BM TH
09BANGKOK1217	THAILAND RESPONSE TO ACTION REQUEST ON CUBA REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Thailand does not have significant economic or political interests in Cuba. Nevertheless, we provide information on Thai-Cuban ties below, as requested reftel. End summary. 2. (C) Response: (a) - Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advanceme [...]	2009-05-19 08:41:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU TH
09BANGKOK1219	THAILAND ISSUES AN ASEAN CHAIR STATEMENT CALLING [...] (SBU) Summary: In the absence of ASEAN consensus over the arrest/trial of Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK),Thailand issued an ASEAN Chair statement May 18 calling for the immediate release of ASSK. FM Kasit circulated the statement under the cover of a letter to ASEAN FMs and SecGen Surin May 18; on [...]	2009-05-19 10:25:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TH
09BANGKOK1223	THAILAND: FM KASIT AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS BURMA, [...] (C) Summary: Thai FM Kasit Piromya hosted Ambassador for lunch May 20 to follow-up Kasit's April 24-26 visit to Washington and his May 16 telcon with Secretary Clinton. Burma and bilateral relations dominated the conversation. On Burma, Kasit stressed that the top priority should be Aung Sang [...]	2009-05-20 10:32:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF TH
09BANGKOK1225	LAO HMONG IN PETCHABUN: NGO PULLS OUT, ARMY [...] (C) Summary: NGO Doctors with Borders (MSF),the only outside organization in the military-run camp for Lao Hmong in Petchabun, announced its decision to case humanitarian assistance citing army interference in its work. There is clear evidence that Thai authorities are preparing to return a [...]	2009-05-21 03:59:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL SMIG TH LA
09BANGKOK124	AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ALLEGES TORTURE IN SOUTHERN [...] (C) Amnesty International (AI) released a report entitled "Thailand: Torture in the Southern Counter-Insurgency" on January 13. The report cited 34 accounts of alleged torture in the four southernmost provinces, including four cases that resulted in the death of the detainee. The report claim [...]	2009-01-16 10:15:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO KJUS TH
09BANGKOK1246	ASEAN DEBATES ASSK DETENTION [...] (C) EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary (and U.S. Ambassador to ASEAN) Scot Marciel attended the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Senior Officials' Meeting (SOM) in Phuket May 19-20. He had a brief encounter with his Burmese counterpart, Director General for ASEAN Affairs U Than Tun, on the margins and [...]	2009-05-21 10:20:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TH BM
09BANGKOK125	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: NEW PM ABHISIT'S PLAN FOR [...] (C) In a press conference for the Foreign Correspondents, Club of Thailand on January 14, Prime Minister Abhisit said resolution of the conflict in southern Thailand was among his government's top policy priorities. He said his government would restore the rule of law in all of Thailand, incl [...]	2009-01-16 10:57:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09BANGKOK1265	THAI DOMESTIC POLITICAL ROUNDUP: PAD PROTEST GROUP [...] (SBU) The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) behind the "yellowshirt" protests in 2008 has resolved to form a political party, name and leader as yet uncertain. Deputy Agriculture Minister Chartchai Pookyaporn, under pressure from his Phumjai Thai party, resigned from the cabinet on May 26 [...]	2009-05-26 10:00:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM TH
09BANGKOK1266	TRAVELS ALONG THE MEKHONG: THAKSIN,S AURA [...] (C) Contacts along the border with Laos in northeastern Thailand told us prior to the mid-April Songkran riots that rural voters had begun to shift their focus beyond the personal draw of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to issues that affected their local communities. Despite the app [...]	2009-05-26 10:36:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK1267	THAI MFA CLARIFIES ASEAN STATEMENT ON ASSK; AIPMC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to Burmese criticism of the May 18 ASEAN Chair Statement calling for Aung Saan Suu Kyi's (ASSK) release (reftel),the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) released a clarification May 26 (text below). The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) convened [...]	2009-05-26 10:44:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK1268	TRAFFICKING A PRIORITY CONCERN FOR THAI SECURITY [...] (C) During a recent trip to Northeast Thailand, security officials along the border with Laos emphasized to us concerns regarding illegal smuggling as cross-border trade and travel have increased. Officials were particularly worried about movements of people and goods through the Northeast du [...]	2009-05-26 10:49:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR TH
09BANGKOK1275	THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: MILITARY DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary. A May 21 phone conversation between Thai Army Commander General Anupong Paochinda and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen underscored efforts to preclude further clashes between the militaries of the two countries. The Director of the Thai Army's Foreign Liaison Division called talk [...]	2009-05-27 10:28:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB
09BANGKOK1276	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: ACADEMICS AND NGOS REFUTE [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-27 10:33:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09BANGKOK1290	THAI MFA ISSUES STATEMENT ON DPRK NUCLEAR TEST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) issued a statement May 26 condemning the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) May 25 nuclear test and expressing support for continued Six-Party Talks. Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya attended the Asia-Europe (ASEM) m [...]	2009-05-28 09:26:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH KN
09BANGKOK1291	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: COORDINATED ARSON ATTACKS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Suspected insurgents conducted a series of coordinated bomb and arson attacks on commercial targets close to Yala city center, in Yala province early May 27. All though there were no casualties, press sources as well as independent analysts believe this was the largest coordinate [...]	2009-05-28 09:30:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09BANGKOK1305	AMBASSADOR RAISES SECURITY, REFUGEES, CUSTOMS, AND [...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban assured the Ambassador that there would be no security problems during Secretary Clinton's July visit, in part because the authorities and local population in Phuket were sympathetic to the government. Suthep complained that former Prime Minister Th [...]	2009-06-01 09:20:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PINS ECON ETRD TH BM LA
09BANGKOK1315	THAI SENATORS ASK GENERAL THAN SHWE TO RELEASE [...] (SBU) Thirty Thai Senators, led by Bangkok Senator Rosana Tositrakul, signed a May 25 letter to the Burmese State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) Chairman Senior General Than Shwe, requesting that the GOB free Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) and create a better democratic environment in Burma. Th [...]	2009-06-02 09:26:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK1320	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: TAK BAI DEATHS - NO ONE [...] (C) The Songkhla Provincial Court on May 29 ruled that security forces were not responsible for the deaths of 78 Malay Muslim Thais who died after security forces put down a demonstration at the Tak Bai police headquarters in 2004. The court decided that officers were merely performing their d [...]	2009-06-02 10:18:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09BANGKOK1340	THAI SUPREME COMMANDER ASSURES AMBASSADOR ON [...] (C) Summary. Thai Armed Forces Supreme Commander General Songkitti Jaggabartra told the Ambassador that the Thai military was in the lead for security arrangements for the upcoming ASEAN ministerial meetings and assured that security would not be a problem during the visit of Secretary Clinton [...]	2009-06-03 10:08:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF KPKO MOPS TH SU UN LA
09BANGKOK1360	THAI FM PRESSES CASE AGAINST BURMA AT ASEAN-EU [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Department of ASEAN Affairs Director Suchart Liengsaengthong on June 2 provided us with a readout of the ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) on May 27-28 in Phnom Penh (ref A). Suchart highlighted for us the efforts of Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya to add [...]	2009-06-04 10:08:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK1374	THAI HOUSE MEMBERS PUBLICLY CALL ON BURMA TO [...] (SBU) Twenty-two Thai women members of the House of Representatives issued an open letter to the media on June 3 calling on Burma to unconditionally release Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) and other political prisoners. All but one of the 22 MPs are members of the Democrat Party. MP Pusadee Tamthai [...]	2009-06-08 09:27:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK1388	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: TWELVE KILLED IN MOSQUE ATTACK [...] (C) Summary: In one of the most lethal recent acts of violence, gunmen on June 8 entered a mosque during evening prayers in Cho Airong District of Narathiwat province (bordering Malaysia) and killed 12 people. The killings follow a surge in violence that appears to have resulted from the May [...]	2009-06-09 10:34:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09BANGKOK140	THAI COURT SENTENCES AUSTRALIAN TO THREE YEARS FOR [...] (C) The Thai Criminal Court sentenced Australian author Harry Nicolaides January 19 to three years imprisonment for the criminal offense of lese majeste, or offense to the monarchy, related to remarks in his 2005 novel Verisimilitude. Nicolaides had remained imprisoned without bail since bein [...]	2009-01-20 10:50:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO KJUS TH
09BANGKOK1401	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: FOREIGN VIEWS OF THAI [...] (C) The brutal June 8 attack by unknown perpetrators on a mosque in Narathiwat province (reftel) may set back efforts to ameliorate the conflict in southern Thailand. Over the past weeks, various foreign observers privately expressed divergent views about the likelihood and possible modalities [...]	2009-06-10 09:55:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER PINS TH MY
09BANGKOK1415	ASEAN SYG SURIN DISCUSSES ASSK TRIAL AND OTHER [...] (C) Embassy Rangoon Charge d'Affaires Dinger met in Bangkok with ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan June 10. Surin sees the ASEAN Charter as already building political will in the region. He praised ASEAN Ministers for spending an hour at the recent ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting (AEMM) in [...]	2009-06-12 07:49:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TH BM
09BANGKOK1417	SIX THAI POLICEMEN CHARGED WITH TEEN'S 2004 MURDER [...] (C) The Department of Special Investigations (DSI) has charged six Royal Thai Police (RTP) officers with the July 2004 premeditated murder of 17-year-old Kiattisak Thitboonkrong. Kiattisak is just one of over 20 young men who died suspiciously in Kalasin Province from 2003-2005 in what appear [...]	2009-06-14 23:45:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM TH
09BANGKOK1437	THAI BUREAUCRACY IMPEDES PROGRESS ON HCOC [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-16 10:44:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA TH
09BANGKOK1485	ENGAGEMENT ON LAO HMONG ISSUE YIELDS CONTINUED [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to Laos, Ravic Huso, met with Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) International Organizations Deputy Director General Ittiporn Boonpracong, and Royal Thai Armed Forces (RTARF) Border Division Chief LTG Niphat Thonglek on June 11 and 12 to discuss the ongoing cu [...]	2009-06-19 09:53:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF TH LA
09BANGKOK1486	THAI MFA DEMARCHE ON UNESCO/AMCIT VISIT TO PREAH [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-19 10:22:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCUL TH
09BANGKOK1491	PRO-THAKSIN CANDIDATE WINS BELLWETHER HOUSE [...] (C) A pro-Thaksin candidate trounced the representative of coalition member Phumjai Thai party in a June 21 House of Representatives by-election in the upper northeastern province of Sakon Nakhon. The election was widely seen as a test of the influence of both former Prime Minister Thaksin an [...]	2009-06-22 07:54:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM TH
09BANGKOK1494	THAI MFA STILL NEBULOUS ON AHF RECALL DETAILS, [...] (U) This is an action request cable; see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: Thai officials are still unclear on the details of when and how an interdicted shipment of anhydrous hydrogen fluoride (AHF) might be returned to Thailand from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and told us June 16 that they have d [...]	2009-06-22 10:26:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL TH
09BANGKOK1500	THAILAND TO ENFORCE UNSCR 1874 [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador stressed to MFA Permanent Secretary Virasakdi Futrakul the importance of Thailand fully implementing UNSCR 1874 during a June 22 meeting. The RTG would implement the resolution, and relevant Thai agencies had already met to discuss the resolution and determine legal [...]	2009-06-23 09:01:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC KN TH
09BANGKOK1541	THAKSIN SUPPORTER WINS BY-ELECTION; "REDSHIRTS" [...] (C) The Puea Thai (opposition) party won a by-election for a House of Representatives seat in the northeastern province of Sisaket on June 28. Garnering 124,327 votes, Surachart Charnpradit defeated Sakulthip Angkasakullkiat, from the Chart Thai Pattana party (a member of the governing coalit [...]	2009-06-29 08:29:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM ASEC TH
09BANGKOK1545	THAI POSITION ON DPRK CARGO SHIP KANG NAM 1 [...] (C) We raised June 29 reftel points on UNSCR 1874 with Pattarat Hongtong, Deputy Director of the MFA's Peace, Security and Disarmament Division. Pattarat said she would share the U.S. position with other agencies involved in enforcing the resolution and would work with the MFA's ASEAN and Eas [...]	2009-06-29 10:11:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC KN TH BM
09BANGKOK1569	THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: TENSIONS INCREASE, [...] (C) Summary: Tensions between Thailand and Cambodia in regard to their border dispute have increased recently after the Thai Cabinet decided to renew its objection to the World Heritage Committee's (WHC) listing of the Preah Vihear temple, based on a unilateral Cambodian submission in 2008, in [...]	2009-07-01 10:46:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB
09BANGKOK1572	THAILAND TO ENFORCE FINANCIAL MEASURES OF UNSCR 1874 [...] (C) Econoff delivered reftel A talking points June 29 to Ms. Pattarat Hongtong, Deputy Director of the Peace, Security, and Disarmament Division; Department of International Organizations; Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Hongtong stated the Royal Thai Government (RTG) has established an inter [...]	2009-07-02 06:46:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PARM PREL MNUC KNNP KN TH
09BANGKOK1574	THAI FINANCE MINISTER ON AMERICAN BUSINESS [...] (C) Summary: In a June 29 meeting with Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij, the Ambassador raised concerns about less than fair and transparent treatment U.S. business receives from the Ministry's Customs Department. The Ambassador also raised the Megaports Initiative, encouraging the Thai go [...]	2009-07-02 10:32:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL TH
09BANGKOK164	PUSHING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY, THAI PM LIGHTS FIRE [...] (C) Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva ordered top police officers to accelerate investigations into unsolved high-profile crimes during a closed-door meeting on January 21. Abhisit flagged several Thaksin-era cases, including the 2004 disappearance of Muslim lawyer Somchai Neelaipaijit and th [...]	2009-01-22 11:39:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO KJUS TH
09BANGKOK165	THAILAND'S HANDLING OF ROHINGYA "BOAT PEOPLE" OFF [...] (C) Summary: Thai military officials and villagers along Thailand's southern Andaman Sea coast described push-back actions of ethnic Rohingya to RefCoord January 22, but maintained that Thai civil defense volunteers and fishing boats, not Thai military officials, had been involved. UNHCR rep [...]	2009-01-22 12:07:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL TH
09BANGKOK1653	PROBLEMS FOR THAI FOREIGN MINISTER KASIT - [...] (C) Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya is again under scrutiny for his role in the late 2008 protests which shut down Bangkok's airports for eight days. On July 1 Royal Thai Police quietly issued a summons to Kasit and several dozen other leading People's Alliance for Democracy figures for [...]	2009-07-10 11:37:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK1662	THAILAND SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY CLINTON'S JULY [...] (C) Madam Secretary: You will arrive July 21 in a Kingdom of Thailand divided politically and focused inward, uncertain about the country's future after revered but ailing 81 year old King Bhumibol eventually passes. Despite a deep and broad alliance partnership that continues to deliver sign [...]	2009-07-13 07:18:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK1684	THAI DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER PLEDGES GREATER [...] (C) Summary: As part of the Mission,s campaign to improve the treatment of American firms in Thailand, Ambassador John, accompanied by representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand, raised July 2 with Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Korbsak Sabhavasu issues of concern to th [...]	2009-07-14 07:17:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD TH
09BANGKOK1686	LAO HMONG: CONGRESSIONAL STAFFDEL VISITS PETCHABUN [...] (C) Summary. A House Foreign Affairs Committee Staffdel visited Thailand July 2-4 in a fact-finding trip relating to Thai policy towards Lao Hmong detained in the army-run camp in Petchabun, and a smaller group of UNHCR-recognized refugees in an immigration detention center in Nong Khai, Thai [...]	2009-07-14 07:36:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM SMIG TH LA
09BANGKOK1720	SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL CASEY'S MEETING WITH THAI [...] (C) Summary. General Casey, your meeting with Thai Army Commander General Anupong will afford the opportunity to highlight the importance of Thailand to our regional security interests and emphasize our support for important areas of our mil-mil relationship. Our military relationship provide [...]	2009-07-16 23:43:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS PINS PHUM TH
09BANGKOK1729	LINGERING APPEAL OF THAKSIN IN THAILAND,S [...] (SBU) Summary. A range of contacts from the local Buriram powerbase for Newin Chidchob in lower Isaan (northeastern Thailand) told us that Phumjai Thai, Newin's political party, held considerable advantages through control of ministries and the allegiance of local power brokers. While these a [...]	2009-07-17 10:06:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK1817	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH RED-SHIRT LEADERS [...] (C) The Ambassador on July 17, as part of an on-going embassy effort, met with a group of core United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) red-shirt activists to encourage domestic political dialogue, assess their plans surrounding the July ASEAN and ARF meetings in Phuket, and to as [...]	2009-07-29 09:06:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK1822	THAILAND: EAP A/S CAMPBELL'S MEETING WITH DPM [...] (C) Summary. During a July 21 meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban told EAP Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell and the Ambassador that the Abhisit Vejjajiva government was committed to resolving the political conflict via the rule of law and democracy. The government would not be [...]	2009-07-29 10:12:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS PHUM PTER TH CB
09BANGKOK1841	THAILAND: EAP A/S CAMPBELL'S MEETING WITH PHEU [...] (C) Summary. During a July 21 meeting with the opposition Pheu Thai party leaders and supporters, East Asian and Pacific Affairs Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell urged more open dialogue among political actors and peaceful reconciliation to Thailand's political conflict. Chaturon Chaiseng, [...]	2009-07-30 09:51:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER TH
09BANGKOK1842	THAILAND: FM KASIT EXPLAINS ASEAN AND ARF RESULTS, [...] (C) Summary: Thai FM Kasit invited the diplomatic corps to an ASEAN Ministerial and ASEAN Regional Forum readout session July 30. His comments covered ASEAN aspirations going forward as a "community of peoples," global challenges facing the region, and security challenges, specifically North K [...]	2009-07-30 11:33:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ARF TH BM KN
09BANGKOK1939	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR ENGAGES FM KASIT ON US-THAI [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador engaged Thai FM Kasit Piromya August 6 on U.S.-Thai relations, DRPK and the ARF Chair Statement, Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK),Cambodian border issues, the Lao Hmong, and Viktor Bout's extradition. Ambassador and Kasit agreed on the need to elevate the nature of t [...]	2009-08-07 09:18:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM BM TH
09BANGKOK1980	SOUTHERN THAILAND: ENDURING VIOLENCE AND THE WAY [...] (C) The conflict in Thailand's Deep South, which entered a new, more violent phase in January 2004, has ground on for five and a half years, cost some 3500 lives, and has no end in sight. At its core, the conflict is about identity, sovereign control, justice, and the Royal Thai Government,s [...]	2009-08-12 06:31:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TH
09BANGKOK2002	AMBASSADOR ENGAGES FOREIGN MINISTER KASIT AGAIN ON [...] (C) During an August 13 telephone conversation with Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, currently in Malaysia, the Ambassador stressed that the USG was disappointed and mystified by the August 11 Thai Lower Court ruling against the extradition of Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout. The Ambassado [...]	2009-08-13 10:48:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KCRM TH RS CO
09BANGKOK2003	THAILAND ISSUES ASEAN CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT IN [...] (C) Summary and comment. Thailand issued an ASEAN Chairman's statement on August 11 reiterating the call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) as well as all other political prisoners, with the goal of allowing them to participate in the 2010 general elections and paving the way for nati [...]	2009-08-13 10:55:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL TH BM
09BANGKOK2009	ABHISIT,S SIX MONTH CHECK-UP: STAYIN ALIVE, [...] (C) Defying the longevity projections of seasoned Thai political handicappers everywhere, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva recently marked the six-month point in his tenure by mounting a public defense of his administration's record to date. Abhisit expressed optimism that his government had [...]	2009-08-14 08:30:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2019	UNESCO DEMARCHE DELIVERED; THAI MFA SHARES ITS [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-14 10:23:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AORC UNESCO UN TH
09BANGKOK2034	RED SHIRTS PEACEFULLY PETITION THE KING [...] (C) On August 17, more than 20,000 "red-shirt" sympathizers of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra assembled in a park adjacent to the Grand Palace to show support for a massive signature gathering petition campaign seeking royal amnesty for Thaksin (Ref A). Despite wide spread concerns [...]	2009-08-17 11:15:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2041	PRM PDAS WITTEN OPENS DOOR ON LAO HMONG IN THAILAND [...] (C) Summary. During a busy July 28-August 1 visit to Thailand, PRM PDAS Samuel Witten met with senior Royal Thai Government (RTG) civilian and military officials on the Lao Hmong issue, and toured the two sites in Thailand where a total of almost 5,000 Lao Hmong are being held. Witten push [...]	2009-08-18 06:15:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM SMIG TH LA
09BANGKOK2042	FIRST U.S.-THAI-LAO DISCUSSION ON LAO HMONG IN [...] (C) DCM and RefCoord traveled to Petchabun on August 7 to participate in closed discussions with Royal Thai Armed Forces (RTARF) Deputy Chief of Joint Staff General Vorapong Sa-nga-net, Director of Border Affairs Lt. General Nipat, and Lao counterparts Brigadier General Bouaxieng Champaphahn [...]	2009-08-18 06:20:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM SMIG TH LA
09BANGKOK2045	SENATOR WEBB FOCUSES ON BURMA WITH PM AND FM; [...] (C) Summary. During the course of August 17 meetings with Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Foreign Minister Kasit Pirmoya, Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) shared the details of his recent visit to Burma and outlined his thoughts on breaking the impasse with the regime. Both Kasit and Vejjajiva not [...]	2009-08-18 08:46:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER TH BM RS

09BANGKOK206	AMBASSADOR AND CROWN PRINCE DISCUSS POLITICS, [...] (U) The Ambassador had a private New Year's audience with Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn for 45 minutes at the Amporn Palace in Bangkok on January 26. The Crown Prince's consort, Princess Srirasmi, also attended. Political Scene --------------- 2. (C) The Crown Prince noted it was clear to [...]	2009-01-27 09:55:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ECON ETRD KJUS KCRM TH
09BANGKOK208	ONE MONTH CHECK: AMBASSADOR'S INTERLOCUTORS [...] (C) One month into the government of PM Abhisit Vejajjiva, a series of interlocutors shared generally positive impressions of the new PM's initial weeks in office with Ambassador but seemed more animated discussing the opposition, particularly ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra's lingering influence fro [...]	2009-01-27 10:18:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KJUS TH
09BANGKOK209	THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: THAI FM KASIT'S [...] (U) Summary: A January 26 visit to Cambodia by Thai FM Kasit Piromya produced positive statements by both sides regarding the ongoing border dispute centered on territory around the Preah Vihear temple. Kasit met Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong; press reports [...]	2009-01-27 10:28:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB
09BANGKOK2125	THAILAND: PM ABHISIT LOSES POLICE CHIEF [...] (C) In the latest sign of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's tenuous political positioning, the Royal Thai Police Office's 11-member board rejected Abhisit's nominee for the National Police Chief job August 20. The vote represented not only an embarrassing public rebuke for Abhisit, but it al [...]	2009-08-24 10:28:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2167	KING BHUMIBOL WARNS OF RUIN IN THE ABSENCE OF [...] (C) On August 21, 81-year-old Thai King Bhumibol carefully dipped his feet into Thailand's boiling political waters, warning the Thai people that, among other things, "without cooperation, the country may actually fall to ruin." The comments, delivered during an audience with civil servants [...]	2009-08-27 06:56:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2180	THE RED-SHIRTS ARE COMING....AGAIN [...] (C) Despite King Bhumibol's August 21 appeal for national unity (REF A),the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD),aka the "red-shirts," continued preparations for a planned August 30 demonstration. In response, on August 25 Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's [...]	2009-08-28 08:29:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2182	AMBASSADOR GOLDBERG DELEGATION MEETINGS IN BANGKOK [...] (C) Summary. During meetings with the Thai Ministry of Foreign Relations and the Bank of Thailand, Ambassador Philip Goldberg and delegation stressed the importance of full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1874 and 1718. Thai Foreign Ministry officials reiterated [...]	2009-08-28 10:25:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PGOV ECON MNUC EFIN KNNP UNSC TH KN
09BANGKOK2186	THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: THAI ARMY ASSESSES [...] (C) Thai and Cambodian press reports over the past week indicated that Cambodia would reduce the number of troops in the Preah Vihear area after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen August 22 announced a troop reduction, possibly by much as fifty percent. Hun Sen's announcement preceded a visit by [...]	2009-08-28 11:22:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB
09BANGKOK2187	THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: THAI ARMY ASSESSES [...] (C) Thai and Cambodian press reports over the past week indicated that Cambodia would reduce the number of troops in the Preah Vihear area after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen August 22 announced a troop reduction, possibly by much as fifty percent. Hun Sen's announcement preceded a visit by [...]	2009-08-28 11:23:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB
09BANGKOK2195	COUP RUMORS REAPPEAR BUT EVEN REDS DOUBT THEM [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Despite renewed rumors of potential military intervention in the political conflict, spread as far as we can tell by anti-government red-shirt sources, Royal Thai Army (RTA) Commander in Chief General Anupong Paochinda appears resolute in his stance in keeping the Army [...]	2009-08-31 09:07:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINS KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2207	THAILAND: DEMOCRAT PARTY PREVAILS IN SOUTHERN [...] (SBU) According to unofficial results reported in the Thai media, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's governing Democrat party won a resounding victory in an August 30 House of Representatives by-election in the southern province of Surat Thani. Democrat candidate Thani Thaugsuban -- Deputy PM [...]	2009-08-31 11:02:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2260	PRIVY COUNCIL MEMBERS, PALACE OFFICIAL QUASH [...] (C) Summary: Privy Council Members and a palace official publicly and privately September 2-3 have dampened speculation about the potential for any pardon or "deal" for fugitive former PM Thaksin Shinawatra. The Thai media widely reported the September 2 comments of Privy Councilor Ampol Sena [...]	2009-09-04 08:47:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2278	THAI THOUGHTS ON NPT REVIEW AND HOPES FOR BANGKOK [...] (C) We met September 4 with Cherdkiat Atthakor, Director of the MFA's Peace, Security and Disarmament Division, to discuss reftel questions regarding the NPT review cycle. Cherdkiat welcomed President Obama's prioritization of non-proliferation concerns and of arms control. The approach was a [...]	2009-09-08 09:31:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09BANGKOK2286	EXECUTIONS RESUME IN THAILAND AFTER SIX YEAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 24, the Royal Thai Government (RTG) executed two Thai drug traffickers by lethal injection after their request for a King's pardon was rejected; these were the first executions in Thailand since 2003. The overall Thai reaction was a shrug; there remains high societal [...]	2009-09-09 04:24:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM DRL TH
09BANGKOK2289	THAI DOMESTIC POLITICAL ROUNDUP: ABHISIT,S [...] (C) Above and beyond the challenges associated with steering Thailand out of the economic morass, PM Abhisit continues to grapple with a seemingly endless litany of political problems both inside and outside his party, including in-fighting with Deputy PM Suthep. Questions about possible elec [...]	2009-09-09 10:03:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK23	SENATOR WEBB REVIEWS U.S.-THAI RELATIONS WITH FM [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Senator Jim Webb underscored the importance of the U.S.-Thai bilateral relationship in a series of wide ranging meetings that included Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya; former Ambassador to the U.S. and now Deputy Principal Private Secretary to His Majesty the King, Krit Garn [...]	2009-01-07 07:12:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OVIP TH
09BANGKOK2307	SOUTHERN THAILAND: NOT ALL VIOLENCE INSURGENT [...] (SBU) Summary: The violence in Thailand's Deep South cannot exclusively be attributed to the insurgency, according to a range of academic, government, and NGO contacts we engaged on an August 16-19 trip to Thailand's southern three provinces. Other key factors behind incidents of violence/mur [...]	2009-09-10 08:54:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09BANGKOK233	ROHINGYA BOAT PEOPLE: THAI GOVERNMENT MEETS [...] (C/NF) Summary: On January 29th, UNHCR Regional Representative Raymond Hall met with FM Kasit in a meeting Hall described to us as "positive overall." The encounter, heavily covered by local media, was the first direct meeting by UNHCR with Thai officials on the Rohingyas issue. After hearing [...]	2009-01-29 10:36:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM KTIP SMIG TH BM
09BANGKOK2342	"KILL THE CHICKEN TO WARN THE MONKEY": NEW LESE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Thai judiciary sentenced red political activist Daranee "Da Torpedo" Charnchoengsilpakul to 18 years in prison August 28 for lese majeste offenses committed in a series of speeches at red-shirt rallies in June-July 2008. The handling of the case demonstrated both the sensitivi [...]	2009-09-15 10:14:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM DRL TH
09BANGKOK2352	THAILAND: ELECTION COMMISSION FLEXES MUSCLES ON MP [...] (C) Over the course of the last three months, the Election Commission has indicted a total of 29 House members and 16 Senators, out of 480 and 150 respectively, from across the party spectrum for conflict of interest transgressions related to share holdings in media or telecom firms with state [...]	2009-09-16 09:12:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2368	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR ENGAGES MFA ON IRAN AND [...] (SBU) On September 16, the Ambassador met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Acting Permanent Secretary Chitriya Pinthong to deliver Ref A talking points on Iran, as well as to emphasize the importance of Thailand fulfilling its commitment to the UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur, Sudan (U [...]	2009-09-17 07:55:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2369	THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: WEEKEND PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary: Yellow-shirt supporters plan a September 19 protest in the vicinity of Preah Vihear temple to demand that Cambodia civilians vacate the disputed territory adjacent to the temple. The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) claims that the Thai government has surrendered sovereignty [...]	2009-09-17 09:46:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB
09BANGKOK2385	THAILAND: NEW SURVEY POINTS TO STRENGTH OF THAI [...] (C) On September 16, the Asia Foundation released the results of a new public opinion survey on Constitutional Reform and Democracy in Thailand. The Ambassador met with the Asia Foundation's leadership on September 17 to discuss the survey's findings, which among other things, revealed a deep [...]	2009-09-18 08:38:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2386	THAILAND: RED SHIRTS PREPARE TO MARCH ON THIRD [...] (C) Summary: The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD),aka the "red-shirts," will gather at Sanam Luang on Saturday, September 19 to mark the third anniversary of the coup that ousted fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. UDD leaders claim an estimated 50-60,000 [...]	2009-09-18 08:51:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2388	PAPER AIRPLANE AND PANDA NAMING CONTEST WINNERS [...] (U) Summary: Two recent high profile feel-good cases involving stateless children winning nationwide contests with overseas trip prizes have drawn attention to the plight of those in Thailand who lack citizenship. Mong Thongdee, the Chiang Mai-born son of Burmese migrants, won a national paper [...]	2009-09-18 09:46:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2401	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR ENGAGES PM ABHISIT ON UNGA, [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Ambassador met PM Abhisit Vejajjiva at Government House September 18 to review a wide range of issues likely to arise during Abhisit's upcoming September 21-26 trip to NY and Pittsburgh for the UN General Assembly, the G20 Summit, and a Thai "business roadshow" outreac [...]	2009-09-21 10:18:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2402	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR,S MEETING WITH THE OPPOSITION [...] (C) On September 18, the Ambassador met with Yongyuth Wichait, the leader of the opposition Puea Thai Party, to sound him out on a number of issues of importance to the opposition. Former Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama joined the meeting as well. Yongyuth expressed confidence in Puea Thai [...]	2009-09-21 10:25:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2405	THAILAND'S MARCHING SEASON: BRAWL NEAR BORDER [...] (SBU) Summary: September 19 proved to be a day of dueling political rallies in Thailand. The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD),aka "the red-shirt" supporters of fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, gathered in Bangkok to mark the third anniversary of the mil [...]	2009-09-21 11:23:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2418	THAILAND: RUBBER SAPLING VERDICT BOUNCES [...] (C) On September 21, the Supreme Court acquitted all 44 defendants -- including five former cabinet ministers under fugitive former PM Thaksin -- of corruption and malfeasance charges stemming from a 2003 rubber sapling procurement project. Newin Chidchob, godfather of government coalition p [...]	2009-09-23 11:16:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2459	THAILAND: CHARTER CHANGE ONE STEP CLOSER TO REALITY [...] (U) Summary: On September 24, the joint parliament whips resolved to draft legislation to amend six articles of the 2007 Constitution. The whips will meet again on October 1 to determine the modalities of presenting and approving the proposed amendments, which touch on how MPs and Senators are [...]	2009-09-28 06:59:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2464	THAILAND: PREVIEWING THE RESULTS OF THE BURMA [...] (C) Summary: Charge previewed the results of our Burma policy review to MFA East Asian Director General Kittiphong na Ranong September 28, per reftel. Kittiphong probed U.S. thinking on how we planned to handle incremental next steps, expressed both doubt that the regime would take the first [...]	2009-09-28 10:56:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM TH
09BANGKOK247	OPPOSITION PARTY AND ACTIVISTS PUT PRESSURE ON [...] (C) Pro-Thaksin legislators and activists have criticized Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his administration on issues ranging from substantive to petty. Abhisit's critics have focused substantial attention on his appointment of figures linked to the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) [...]	2009-01-30 09:53:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KJUS ASEC TH
09BANGKOK248	OHCHR BANGKOK REGIONAL OFFICE FAVORS PROMOTION OF [...] (C) In response to reftel, we queried employees of NGOs, diplomatic missions, and the legal community for an assessment of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Bangkok, the regional office for Southeast Asia. Many viewed OHCHR as focused on the promotion of human ri [...]	2009-01-30 09:53:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2489	THAILAND: PREAH VIHEAR IN PLAY AGAIN AS BOTH A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The swirl of issues around the Preah Vihear temple on the Thai-Cambodian border once again garnered headlines as both a domestic issue and irritant in Thai-Cambodian relations, as it did in mid-2008. The Thai National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) voted on September 29 t [...]	2009-09-30 10:16:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2539	THAILAND: RULING COALTION AGREES TO PATH FORWARD [...] (U) SUMMARY: The coalition partners in the Abhisit government reached a consenss on October 4 on the way forward in amending th 2007 Constitution. All six coalition parties agreed to empower a parliamentary committee to draft separate bills for each of the six proposed amendments. The full [...]	2009-10-05 09:59:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2540	WHERE ARE THEY NOW? TWO THAI MUSLIMS CONVICTED IN [...] (C) Summary: Two ethnic Malay Muslim Thai nationals sentenced to life in prison in Cambodian court in 2003 after being convicted of providing material support to Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) returned quietly to Thailand in July following negotiations between Bangkok and Phnom Penh. Both men are livi [...]	2009-10-05 09:59:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09BANGKOK2555	AMBASSADOR MEETS DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER; VIKTOR [...] (C) Summary: On October 6, the Ambassador met with Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban to discuss the latest political developments in Thailand, including Secretary General Niphon Promphan's recent resignation. Suthep characterized the resignation decision as hard to explain and expressed [...]	2009-10-06 10:52:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER TH BM RS
09BANGKOK2587	THAILAND'S LOWER NORTHEAST: A LOOK AT NEWIN [...] (C) Newin Chidchob, godfather of government coalition partner Phumjai Thai, has had a good year by almost any measure. His father is Parliament Speaker; his party holds a disproportionate number of cabinet jobs compared to its 32 MPs; Phumjai Thai aspires to increase its share of MP seats in [...]	2009-10-09 00:33:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2588	THAI POLICY TOWARDS BURMA: THAI OFFICIALS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thai officials, academics, and activists debated Thailand's position, role, and policy vis-a-vis its problematic western neighbor Burma at Chulalongkorn University's Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) October 6. The speakers covered the wide array of issu [...]	2009-10-09 00:33:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK26	PLOTTER CONVICTED IN 2004 KILLING OF THAI [...] (C) The Criminal Court sentenced provincial lawyer Thanu Hinkaew to death on December 31 for allegedly orchestrating the 2004 killing of environmental activist Charoen Wataksorn; the court also acquitted two co-defendants due to lack of evidence. Thanu remained in court custody, pending an ap [...]	2009-01-07 07:58:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO KJUS TH
09BANGKOK2625	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES POLICE CHIEF BATTLE AND [...] (C) Summary: On October 13, the Ambassador met with Chuan Leekpai, a two-time former Prime Minister and senior statesmen within the ruling Democrat party. Chuan told the Ambassador he believed PM Abhisit would stick to his principles -- and not back down in his support of Police General Prate [...]	2009-10-14 09:45:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK263	SCENESETTER FOR SENIOR MILITARY VISITORS TO [...] (C) Summary. Coming visits by component commanders, and other senior leaders of various U.S. military commands will afford a chance to affirm the United States Government's commitment to working with a democratically elected Thai government, to promoting a continued strong bilateral relations [...]	2009-02-02 08:00:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR MOPS PINS PHUM TH
09BANGKOK2642	THAILAND: FUTURE OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Following an October 13 teleconference with fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the Puea Thai party reversed course and announced its opposition to the same six proposed amendments to the 2007 Constitution it had previously supported in negotiations with representati [...]	2009-10-15 08:56:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2644	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES RETURN TO POLITICS WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador October 13 met with Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, a former Prime Minister who October 1 joined the opposition Puea Thai party. Chavalit claimed that he had been saddened by the political troubles of the past few years, and had re-entered politics in order to bring about r [...]	2009-10-15 10:43:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2657	ANOTHER MONTH, ANOTHER RALLY: RED SHIRTS PLAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) plan to rally October 17 to protest a perceived delay in processing the petition for a royal pardon for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (Ref E). Unlike previous protests, UDD leaders expect most partic [...]	2009-10-16 10:54:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2683	URGING ASEAN ON BURMA: THAILAND TO ENGAGE BURMA ON [...] (C) The Charge October 20 conveyed reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Americas and South Pacific Director-General Chirachai Punkrasin. Chirachai told the Charge that the RTG realized the seriousness of the new U.S. effort on Burma and would do all it could to urge the Burmese to r [...]	2009-10-20 10:06:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK2712	SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF THAI CHIEF OF DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary. The visit of Royal Thai Armed Forces (RTARF) Chief of Defense Forces General Songkitti Jaggabartra to the PACOM-sponsored Chiefs of Defense conference and to Washington to meet with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen affords a chance to affirm support for our im [...]	2009-10-22 09:42:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS PINS PHUM TH
09BANGKOK2723	LET,S PLAY TWO: THAILAND HOSTS ASEAN+6 SUMMIT [...] (C) Thailand successfully hosted the 15th ASEAN Summit, as well as the follow-on ASEAN 3 and East Asian Summits, October 23-25. The meetings took place without incident and represented a face saving victory of sorts for a government still struggling to distance itself from the stain associate [...]	2009-10-26 11:06:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2724	THAI ARMY: REMAINING LAO HMONG TO BE DEPORTED FROM [...] (C) Royal Thai Armed Forces (RTARF) General Nipat Thonglek, head of the Thai delegation to the bilateral Thai-Lao committee handling the Lao Hmong in Petchabun, unexpectedly told Charge on October 26th that all remaining 4,221 Lao Hmong in the facility would be deported to Laos in early Novem [...]	2009-10-26 11:16:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM SMIG TH LA
09BANGKOK2771	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: THAILAND REVIEWING POSITION ON [...] (C) PolCouns October 28 conveyed reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of International Organizations Deputy Director-General Medha Promthep and pressed for RTG support for upcoming U.N. Third Committee resolutions on human rights in Iran, Burma, and DPRK, as well as thematic [...]	2009-10-30 06:39:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2791	THAILAND: TWO NETIZENS ARRESTED IN CONNECTION TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Royal Thai Police (RTP) arrested two Thai citizens November 1 for allegedly contributing to the panic that triggered the Thai stock market to plunge in mid-October (Ref A). RTP personnel detained Teeranun Wipuchanin and Katha Pajariyapong on suspicion of violating Thailand' [...]	2009-11-02 11:22:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL DRL TH
09BANGKOK2792	SOUTHERN THAILAND: MALAYSIAN PM NAJIB WADES INTO [...] (C) Summary: When it comes to discussing the insurgency-related violence in Thailand's majority ethnic Malay Muslim Deep South provinces, two of the most sensitive issues are suggestions of outside involvement and proposals for autonomy. Armed with an invitation from Thai PM Abhisit to make a [...]	2009-11-03 00:00:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH MY
09BANGKOK2806	THAILAND WILL SUPPORT GERMANY, ITALY, AND GREECE [...] (C) PolOff engaged Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Department of International Organizations official Ranoppun Kapittai November 3 to follow up a meeting we had October 28 with Department of International Organizations Deputy Director-General Medha Promthep to seek support for Lucretia Myer [...]	2009-11-03 11:27:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNGA KUNR KJUS KAWC
09BANGKOK2842	THAILAND AND LAO HMONG: PM ABHISIT PUSHES [...] (C) Summary. During a November 5 call by Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams on Prime Minister Abhisit, the Ambassador raised concerns regarding Lao Hmong in Petchabun and stressed the need for transparent processing of the "screened-in" Hmong. PM Abhisit told the Ambassador that he had push [...]	2009-11-05 09:36:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM SMIG TH LA
09BANGKOK2844	SOUTHERN THAILAND: CHAVALIT'S "PATTANI CITY" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition Puea Thai Party's new Chairman Chavalit Yongchaiyut's November 2 suggestion that a separate administrative unit be established for Thailand's insurgency-plagued southernmost provinces elicited immediate opposition from many quarters, from officials to political cartooni [...]	2009-11-06 01:29:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09BANGKOK2849	THAILAND-CAMBODIA SPAT: RTG RECALLS AMBASSADOR TO PROTEST HUN SEN'S NAMING OF THAKSIN AS ADVISER [...] (C) Summary: The Royal Thai Government recalled its Ambassador to Cambodia late November 5 and announced a review of all diplomatic engagement in protest of Cambodian PM Hun Sen's naming of fugitive Thai ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra as an economic adviser. The decision, which led to a dramatic spike in [...]	2009-11-06 10:14:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2851	THAI FM KASIT AND DAS MARCIEL REVIEW BURMA AND [...] (C) Summary. During a November 5 meeting with Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel reviewed objectives for U.S. Burma policy as well as developments from the November 3-4 visit to Burma led by EAP Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell. DAS Marciel and FM Kas [...]	2009-11-06 11:01:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV PREF MASS TH BM
09BANGKOK2855	THAILAND: COLOR ME GREEN - YELLOW-SHIRTS ENTER THE [...] (C) The New Politics party (NPP),led by media tycoon Sondhi Limthongkul, is the newest entry into Thailand's political sweepstakes. Built on the yellow-shirt People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD),whose leaders comprise the NPP leadership, the NPP aspires to channel the energy and nationali [...]	2009-11-09 03:31:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2867	THAI-CAMBODIAN SPAT: THAKSIN REPORTEDLY TO VISIT [...] (C) Summary: In a move certain to inflame bilateral tensions, fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra reportedly will visit Phnom Penh November 12 to address the Cambodia Ministry of Economy and Finance. The Thai government has repeatedly stated that it will ask Cambodia to extradit [...]	2009-11-09 10:40:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB
09BANGKOK2874	THAILAND CONFIRMS NO MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN [...] (SBU) Poloff engaged Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Latin America Division official Trit Kiriratnikom November 11 regarding updated information on the Thai-Cuban relationship. Trit explained that there had been no major developments in the Thai-Cuban relationship in the past six months, s [...]	2009-11-10 09:37:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU TH
09BANGKOK2887	THAI-CAMBODIAN SPAT: EXTRADITION REQUEST REJECTED, [...] (C) Summary: Fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra reportedly criticized the current Abhisit administration for encouraging false patriotism during a November 12 address in Phnom Penh to Cambodian business leaders and government officials in his role economic advisor to Hun Se [...]	2009-11-12 10:39:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB
09BANGKOK2902	THAILAND: REDS AND YELLOWS SET TO CONGREGATE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The upcoming weekend will see red and yellow political rallies, though on different days and different parts of the country. On Saturday, November 14, the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD),aka "red-shirts," will hold a fundraising concert in Khao Yai National [...]	2009-11-13 11:06:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2903	THAILAND: UPPER NORTHEAST - THIS IS THAKSIN COUNTRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra remains very popular in Thailand's upper northeastern provinces, a recent traverse of three provinces along the Mekong River revealed. Contacts consistently asserted that the majority of eligible voters still support Puea Thai a [...]	2009-11-13 12:08:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2905	THAILAND: FIREWORKS AT FIRST YELLOW-SHIRT RALLY IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The People's Alliance for Democracy,s (PAD) first yellow-shirt rally in almost a year attracted approximately 20,000 well-behaved supporters in Bangkok late November 15 to the old PAD themes of defending the monarchy against fugitive former PM Thaksin and denouncing the actions of [...]	2009-11-16 09:44:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK291	STAFFDEL LUSE, THAI OFFICIALS DISCUSS HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: In a December 12 discussion with Professional Staff Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Keith Luse, who was in Thailand to explore alleged trafficking issues, Thai forensic science expert Porntip Rojanasunan claimed that ten thousand unidentified bodies turn up in Tha [...]	2009-02-04 04:32:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB KTIP PREL PHUM PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2929	THAILAND: NO CHANGE IN APPROACH TO [...] (C) DCM and PolCouns engaged Acting PermSec Chitriya Pimthong, the highest ranking MFA official in country November 18, on U.S. priorities for upcoming country human rights resolutions on Iran, Burma, and North Korea (ref A; Thai positions previously reported in Ref B). Referencing Thai FM Ka [...]	2009-11-18 09:53:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK2930	THAILAND: ON MIDDLE EAST UNGA RESOLUTIONS, THREE [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-18 10:09:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA TH
09BANGKOK2931	THAI DOMESTIC POLITICAL ROUNDUP: ABHISIT GOVT HAS [...] (C) Following a politically disastrous fortnight for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his Puea Thai political party (REF B),current Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is riding a wave of newfound popularity and enjoying the fruits of Thaksin's missteps. However, Abhisit recognizes [...]	2009-11-18 10:59:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK2955	SOUTHERN THAILAND: A VIOLENT WEEK, EVEN BY [...] (U) Summary: It has been an active week on the southern Thai front. On November 16 and 17, there were two separate school bus shootings in Pattani. On November 17, a prolonged standoff and gunfight took place between government security forces and insurgents, ending in the death of six insurg [...]	2009-11-19 09:54:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09BANGKOK2962	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR AND FM KASIT DISCUSS U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya called Ambassador to the Foreign Ministry on short notice late November 19, primarily to discuss Cambodia and Thaksin. Kasit began the meeting expressing "profound thanks" for the President and Secretary's effective re-engagement in Asia this y [...]	2009-11-20 10:28:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK3003	AMBASSADOR ENGAGES THAKSIN,S SISTER AND ADVISER ON [...] (C) On November 23, the Ambassador met with fugitive former PM Thaksin's sister Yingluck Shinawatra and former Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama, key unofficial figures within the opposition Puea Thai party leadership. The Ambassador underscored U.S. concerns about the potential for unrest du [...]	2009-11-25 07:51:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK3006	SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF GENERAL NORTH AND [...] (C) General North and Brigadier General Crowe, Embassy Bangkok welcomes your visit to Thailand during the celebration of King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 82nd birthday. Your visit signals the United States' appreciation for the long-standing bilateral relationship, which has facilitated shared bene [...]	2009-11-25 09:46:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS PINS PHUM TH
09BANGKOK3009	THAILAND: THAKSIN PULLS THE PLUG ON NEXT BIG RED [...] (SBU) Summary: Fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra used separate November 24 phone-ins to urge leaders of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD),aka the "red-shirts," and the opposition Puea Thai party to stand down from a planned multi-day rally scheduled to [...]	2009-11-25 10:33:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK3013	THAILAND: PRESSING FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA [...] (C) EAP DAS Marciel briefed Thai FM Kasit and the Bangkok-based Burma watcher crowd of host government officials, diplomats, journalists, and activists November 5 immediately after the November 3-4 visit of EAP A/S Campbell and Marciel to Burma; his messages included the need for Thailand and [...]	2009-11-27 06:55:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH BM
09BANGKOK3015	THAILAND: ABHISIT CANCELS CHIANG MAI TRIP IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Bowing to concerns about his security in the wake of local red-shirt threats to "cremate" him (ref A),Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on November 26 announced that he would not travel to the northern city of Chiang Mai as previously planned for a November 29 meeting with business [...]	2009-11-27 07:48:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK3018	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES THAKSIN AND LAO HMONG WITH [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban on November 27 to discuss the latest political developments in Thailand. The Ambassador outlined for Suthep USG outreach efforts with Thaksin's inner circle and core "red-shirt" leaders in recent weeks (REF B),noting that we [...]	2009-11-30 03:42:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PREF SMIG TH
09BANGKOK3025	THAILAND: KING'S FRAIL HEALTH FORCES HIM TO OPT [...] (C) On November 30, the Office of His Majesty's Principal Private Secretary (PPS) announced that King Bhumibol Adulyadej would not participate in any of the public events scheduled around his December 5 birthday, Thailand's National Day. Though the King has been hospitalized since mid-Septem [...]	2009-11-30 10:30:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK3044	LAO HMONG: AMBASSADOR PUSHES THAI FM ON NO FORCED [...] (C) The Ambassador, in a meeting with Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya the evening of December 1 at the Foreign Ministry, stressed that the Thai government should not forcibly repatriate Lao Hmong at Phetchabun and Nong Khai, per Ref A. Recalling Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's assurances to [...]	2009-12-02 09:53:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM SMIG TH LA
09BANGKOK3045	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR PREVIEWS THE PRESIDENT'S [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-02 09:56:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AF PK TH
09BANGKOK3066	RUSSIA LOOKS TO REINVIGORATE BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Thai-Russia bilateral relationship blossomed earlier this decade after years of stagnation during the Cold War but has had little forward momentum since then, despite a November 27 visit to Bangkok by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sobyanin and Thai pledges that the Prime Minister a [...]	2009-12-04 08:28:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV RU TH
09BANGKOK3067	THAILAND: RED-SHIRTS SET THEIR SIGHTS ON DECEMBER [...] (C) Just one-week after abruptly cancelling their promised November 28-December 1 "showdown" rally out of alleged deference to the King's birthday celebration (REF A),the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD),aka the "red-shirts," announced that they would hol [...]	2009-12-04 08:43:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK3074	LAO HMONG: DCM STRESSES USG POSITION ON HMONG, [...] (C) Summary: The DCM, in a December 4 meeting with Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters (RTARF) Director of Border Affairs Lieutenant General Nipat Thonglek, emphasized USG concern regarding plans to accelerate the return to Laos of the Hmong at Phetchabun and Nong Khai. In particular, the DC [...]	2009-12-04 09:52:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM SMIG TH LA
09BANGKOK311	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR ENGAGES PM ABHISIT, FM KASIT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador engaged PM Abhisit Vejajjiva during a February 3 AMCHAM dinner and FM Kasit during a February 4 office call on the Thai response to Rohingya boat people from Burma and Bangladesh. Abhisit reiterated that his government, once made aware of the issue, insisted that all T [...]	2009-02-05 08:14:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF TH
09BANGKOK3110	THAILAND: KING'S BIRTHDAY AUDIENCE DECEMBER 5 - [...] (C) Summary and Comment: 82 year-old Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej held court in his throne hall at the Grand Palace on his birthday December 5, in what was seen by many Thai as a possible last public hurrah. Leaning heavily on his right side, the King offered brief remarks to several hundred [...]	2009-12-09 08:48:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH PINR
09BANGKOK3145	THAILAND: A KEY, IF SOMETIMES RELUCTANT, PARTNER [...] (C) Introduction: Thailand is one of our closest partners on refugee affairs, having hosted perhaps the largest number of long-term refugees in the world over the past four decades. Over the past thirty-five years, some half-million refugees have moved through Thailand to resettle in third countrie [...]	2009-12-15 09:41:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM TH BM
09BANGKOK3147	CENTRAL THAILAND: CHART THAI PATTANA PARTY NO [...] (C) As the breadbasket of Thailand and gateway to the north, the central Thai heartland has long played an integral role in shaping Thailand's political and economic destiny. That remains the case to this day. With large swaths of the North and Northeast dominated by the opposition Puea Thai [...]	2009-12-15 11:17:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TH
09BANGKOK3164	THAILAND TACKLES POLICE CORRUPTION AND BRUTALITY [...] (SBU) In a major victory for police reform efforts and accountability in Thailand, a Bangkok district court found eight members of the 41st Border Patrol Police (BPP) unit guilty on charges of assault, illegal detention and extortion. The unprecedented December 8 district court ruling followe [...]	2009-12-16 09:20:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM DRL TH
09BANGKOK3179	SCENESETTER: A/S SCHWARTZ VISIT TO THAILAND [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-17 08:58:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM TH LA
09BANGKOK3188	THAI-CAMBODIAN SPAT: THAKSIN RETURNS TO CAMBODIA [...] (C) Summary: Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra December 13 returned to Phnom Penh to take credit for the by-all-accounts orchestrated release of Siwarak Chutipong, a Thai engineer who had been imprisoned for reportedly sharing flight details for Thaksin's November visit to Cambodia [...]	2009-12-17 09:54:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB
09BANGKOK3196	SCENESETTER: A/S SCHWARTZ VISIT TO THAILAND [...] (SBU) Assistant Secretary Schwartz: Embassy Bangkok warmly welcomes you to Thailand and looks forward to working with you on the objectives you have outlined. Though it is the long-standing issue of the Lao Hmong refugee community that brings you here, the U.S. has many refugee and migrant-re [...]	2009-12-18 09:08:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM TH LA
09BANGKOK3234	THAI PUBLIC OPINION SWINGS IN FAVOR OF DPRK [...] (C) Public commentary regarding the Thai government's December 11 seizure of a cargo plane carrying 35 tons of weapons from North Korea at a Bangkok airport has turned markedly positive after some initial media coverage and statements from the political opposition that questioned the interdict [...]	2009-12-23 07:30:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PARM PREL TH KN
09BANGKOK324	THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: JOINT BORDER [...] (C) Summary. The Thai and Cambodian Joint Border Commission met February 3-4 in Bangkok for friendly talks but was unable to make substantive progress in resolving their border dispute. The two sides could not agree on the official name for the temple at the heart of the border dispute and fo [...]	2009-02-06 10:11:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB
09BANGKOK3248	THAILAND FORCIBLY RETURN PETCHABUN HMONG TO LAOS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Thai government December 28 began forcibly returning Lao Hmong at Petchabun back to Laos in an operation anticipated to result in the return of all 4,351 Hmong from the Huay Nam Khao camp by the end of the day. There were no public or NGO reports of significant resistance or [...]	2009-12-28 10:02:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG TH LA
09BANGKOK363	THAILAND: AMBASSADOR ENGAGES FORMER PM CHUAN ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and Polcouns called on former PM Chuan Leekpai, senior statesman of the ruling Democrat Party, on February 10 to discuss the current political situation in Thailand, prospects for progress in the unsettled south, the overly broad application of lese majeste laws, and th [...]	2009-02-12 07:21:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN TH
09BANGKOK364	HOPING FOR JUSTICE: FOLLOWING UP ON CASES [...] (C) There has been some movement in three of the four "cold cases" highlighted by PM Abhisit in January as priorities for resolution to restore a sense of accountability: the 2004 disappearance of Muslim lawyer Somchai; the 2003 murder of a witness in a possible tax evasion case by former PM T [...]	2009-02-12 07:40:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO KJUS TH
09BANGKOK377	THAILAND STILL NOT READY TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO [...] (SBU) We engaged Pachuen Phornmongkol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director of Central and Eastern Europe, on reftel's request for recognition of Kosovo February 12. Pachuen explained that Thailand was not yet prepared to move forward. The RTG had two main concerns: Thailand felt it w [...]	2009-02-13 06:30:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK396	THAI SECURITY FORCES RAID OFFICE OF OUTSPOKEN [...] (SBU) Summary: Military and police officers raided and searched the Pattani office of the Working Group on Justice for Peace (WGJP),a Thai NGO that advocates for the human rights of Malay Muslims in southern Thailand and is harshly critical of security force efforts to combat the insurgency i [...]	2009-02-17 10:38:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09BANGKOK454	ASEAN SEC-GEN SURIN DISCUSSES ASEAN, BURMA, [...] (C) Summary. ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan engaged U.S. officials from Embassies Rangoon and Bangkok, as well as EAP/MLS, in Bangkok February 9 on ASEAN, engagement in Burma, the Rohingya, and efforts to resolve the situation in Thailand's deep south. Surin stated optimistically that [...]	2009-02-23 08:44:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH
09BANGKOK458	THAI POLITICAL ROUNDUP: DEMONSTRATION, [...] (SBU) Anti-government "redshirt" protesters plan a large rally at Government House on February 24. Opposition legislators unsuccessfully floated the idea of a "national reconciliation" bill that would provide amnesty to disenfranchised politicians. Opposition figures continue to file complai [...]	2009-02-23 10:32:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM TH
09BANGKOK486	THAI PROTEST UPDATE: REDSHIRTS RALLY AT GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) As many as 10,000 anti-government protesters loyal to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, also known as "Redshirts", continued to protest at Government House on February 25. The Redshirts began their protest on February 24, when a group of 10,000 to 15,000 marched to the Governmen [...]	2009-02-25 10:56:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TH

09BANGKOK504	CIVIL SOCIETY ASSESSMENT OF POST-NARGIS RELIEF AID [...] (SBU) Taking advantage of the proximity of the ASEAN Summit, civil society groups unveiled the first independent assessment of Cyclone Nargis relief efforts at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) on February 27 and called for the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) to be [...]	2009-02-27 11:14:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TH

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