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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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06GEORGETOWN832PUSHING FOR POST-ELECTION REFORMS IN GUYANA
[...] (C) Chiefs of mission from the US, UK, Canada, EU, UNDP IDB, World Bank, and IMF (collectively, the "donors") met August 15 to identify and agree on donors' next steps to coax the incoming post-election government into implementing critical governance reforms. 2. (C) The donors agreed on se [...]
2006-08-17 21:28:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN833GUYANA ELECTION SCENARIOS: POSSIBLE UNREST,
[...] (U) SUMMARY: With elections just a week away, Guyana's 65-seat National Assembly is still up for grabs and the security situation remains on edge. While Bharrat Jagdeo looks all but certain to win another term as president with a plurality, his People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) may fal [...]
2006-08-21 18:08:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN838DISCIPLINED SERVICES VOTE: SMOOTH, BUT A COUPLE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In a preview of the August 28 elections, members of Guyana's disciplined services voted on August 21. Initially there was confusion over the ballots at a few polling stations and some service members did not find their names on the voters list. This underscores the fallibility of [...]
2006-08-22 20:57:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINS KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN839CHILD LABOR AND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) DIGEST-JULY
[...] NGO in project to combat child labor in Region Three 2. Shadick: TIP Networks to be established countrywide 3. Indigenous group calls for intervention by people trafficking unit in Region Seven 4. Shadick taps Amerindian Captains, Councillors for TIP training 5. Shadick Under Fire for Comm [...]
2006-08-23 16:54:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON PHUM SOCI KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN850GUYANA GENERAL ELECTIONS AUGUST 28: FINAL PREVIEW
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Heading into the final weekend before Guyana's August 28 general elections, international observers have descended upon the capital in force. Two dozen Mission employees and contractors will participate as observers under the OAS' auspices. The ruling People's Progressive Par [...]
2006-08-25 19:39:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN854GUYANA ELECTION STATUS REPORT AUGUST 28,
[...] (U) As of 15:30, election day is proceeding as smoothly as could be expected. We have spoken with all 17 OAS observer teams that include U.S. Mission personnel. Eight of these teams are around Georgetown, the others are dispersed throughout the country. Altogether, these teams have observed a [...]
2006-08-28 20:08:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN855GUYANA ELECTION STATUS REPORT: AUGUST 29
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Georgetown remained quiet overnight as the consensus solidified that the August 28 national and regional elections proceeded better than expected on a technical level. OAS A/SYG Albert Ramdin made a statement to this effect after the polls closed. Field reports from Embassy pers [...]
2006-08-29 18:50:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM OAS GY
06GEORGETOWN915SUBJECT: GUYANA ELECTION: FREE, FAIR AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guyana's 2006 national and regional elections: free, somewhat fair, but not transparent. International observers agree that: (1) the elections were technically a success; (2) proper procedures were followed at polling places in the subsequent vote count. However, there are lo [...]
2006-09-13 20:20:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV KDEM OAS GY
06GEORGETOWN925PARTY POLITICS, PERSONAL LOYALTY KEY IN CABINET
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Jagdeo's new cabinet, sworn in September 9, showcases a cadre of up-and-coming, Moscow-educated party leaders with close personal ties to the President. While this cabinet also confirms the ascendancy of the more venal Janet Jagan faction of the People's Progressive P [...]
2006-09-15 14:13:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN932SIGNIFICANT ELECTORAL REFORM DOUBTFUL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Broad national and international consensus says Guyana's August 28 elections were a qualified success. The vote itself was free, fair and transparent; even the losing opposition candidates conceded defeat before the last ballot was counted. But smooth voting and the unchara [...]
2006-09-15 20:24:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM OAS GY
06GEORGETOWN954STRING OF SUSPICIOUS FIRES FUELS GOSSIP
[...] (SBU) Summary: Unexplained fires have recently damaged a series of buildings in Georgetown and beyond. Arson is suspected, but authorities have not determined if there was foul play. Memories of previous post-election arson and the nature of the burned properties--two regional government he [...]
2006-09-20 19:56:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN97GEORGETOWN REQUESTS INCLUSION IN EDWARD R. MURROW
[...] Below is Embassy Georgetown's nomination for the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. The slate has full front office approval. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated processing in Washington and should not be [...]
2006-01-27 19:32:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC SCUL KPAO GY
06GEORGETOWN979T-MINUS 170 DAYS--STATUS REPORT ON GUYANA'S
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With just 170 days left until the scheduled opening of Cricket World Cup 2007, Guyana appears unprepared to host this major sporting event. A CARICOM review of Guyana's security arrangements has concluded that Guyana "has no plan" and appears to be "overwhelmed by the magnitude" [...]
2006-09-25 14:23:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV CASC ASEC EAID GY
06GUANGZHOU11043Short March: Shantou -- Still in the Dark On IPR,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Shantou officials state that despite its notoriety in the past as a haven for the production of counterfeit goods, the city has reformed dramatically in intellectual property rights (IPR). Through education, new laws, and law enforcement, Shantou is cracking down on producers [...]
2006-04-10 05:21:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ECON SCUL EINV PHUM KPAO PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU11045 Ma May Not Make It -- Xiamen University Taiwan
[...] (SBU) Summary: A prominent Xiamen University Taiwan Research Institute professor said that PRC leaders should not be complacent in assuming that Kuomintang (KMT) leader Ma Ying-jeou is a shoo-in to be the island's next president. PRC leaders have consistently underestimated the intensity of T [...]
2006-04-10 07:01:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON PINR TW CH
06GUANGZHOU11674 The Long March to Avian Influenza Preparedness in
[...] (SBU) Summary: Professional polls and Post's informal surveys show that only about half of American businesses in South China are actively planning for an Avian Influenza (AI) outbreak despite scientific reports that AI among birds is endemic in Guangdong, with concomitant higher risks of hu [...]
2006-04-14 07:50:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU CACS AMED ASEC ECON CH
06GUANGZHOU11680 "The Voice of Thy Brother's Blood Crieth Unto Me"
[...] (SBU) Summary: Senseless killing matters deeply to Chinese -- particularly when involving excessive governmental power (as in the "control" of public unrest). That's why governments, including those in south China, work assiduously to control and suppress public outcry, including that emanati [...]
2006-04-14 09:04:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KPAO SOCI SCUL PGOV PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU11683 AI Update: Guangdong Suspected Human AI Case
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 11, the front-page headline of the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported a second suspected bird flu case in Guangdong Province and a mainland news blackout on the subject. Guangdong's only confirmed human AI death occurred on March 2. Subsequent investigations b [...]
2006-04-14 09:14:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU13381 Heart of Gold: The Chinese Government (GONGOs)
[...] (SBU) Summary: While government-affiliated non- governmental organizations (GONGOs) provide needed social services, they in many cases by nature preclude or impede the development of a strong `western style' non-governmental organization (NGO) sector. Being so tightly aligned with the governm [...]
2006-04-27 08:05:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ECON SOCI KPAO PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU13563Guangzhou IPR Officials Tout 2005 Achievements,
[...] (U) Summary: In the run-up to National IPR Week, Guangzhou's IP enforcement agencies released a white paper detailing their 2005 accomplishments and some 2006 goals. Guangzhou authorities will focus their resources on specific markets within the city in 2006, and highlighted leather, auto part [...]
2006-04-28 09:05:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR KJUS KCRM ETRD CH
06GUANGZHOU14013The Rights Protection Movement Leadership in South
[...] (U) Classified by Consul General Edward Dong. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) The rights protection movement in China, a QvirtualQ network of democracy activists throughout the mainland, is gaining force and membership. This is the vision optimistically espoused by Guo Feixion [...]
2006-05-11 07:33:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU14707Long March: Country Roads Bring Tourists, Trade,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Longyan Prefecture in western Fujian Province is literally at a crossroads. Newly constructed highways and some still in the works are central to the area's plans to increase tourism, diversify agriculture, expand exports, and improve rural conditions. Leaders in the Prefectu [...]
2006-05-16 09:56:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV PHUM CMGT CH
06GUANGZHOU14710Guangdong IPR: Enforcement Efforts in 2005
[...] (U) Summary: Guangdong officials praised their intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement efforts and highlighted Guangdong enterprises' IP creation in the annual white paper on IPR enforcement and development. Guangdong courts concluded 94 IPR-related criminal cases in 2005, involving 2 [...]
2006-05-17 00:10:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR KJUS KCRM ECON ETRD WTRO CH
06GUANGZHOU14820Corruption and Customer-Service: Improving CCP
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the wake of countless land protests throughout Guangdong Province, the Guangdong Communist Party School wants to eliminate the corruption and management failures of its cadres and civil servants. Besides increased anti-corruption training, assessments of leaders are increasi [...]
2006-05-17 09:18:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU15230Shenzhen Optical Disc Forensics Lab Clarifies Its
[...] (SBU) Summary: Located in Shenzhen but falling under the authority of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS),the Disc Production Source Identification Center (DPSIC) is responsible for etching source identification (SID) codes onto production dies and analyzing optical discs to determine their [...]
2006-05-23 08:36:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR KJUS KCRM ECON ETRD CH
06GUANGZHOU15376 Heart of Gold: Chinese NGOs - What's in a Name?
[...] (SBU) Summary: What do the Guangdong Petroleum Society, the Communist Youth League Volunteers, the Guangdong Tobacco Society, and World Vision (a Christian charity group) have in common? According to the Chinese government, they are all NGOs. By broadening the definition of NGO beyond the t [...]
2006-05-24 08:28:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ECON SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU15429Typhoon Chanchu Blows into South China Causing
[...] (U) Summary: Typhoon Chanchu, following its strike on the Philippines, headed toward eastern Guangdong Province late last week with landfall on Thursday, May 18. Preparing for the typhoon's landfall, over 600,000 persons were evacuated, with numbers reaching more than one million by the time [...]
2006-05-25 06:14:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU15624Twelve Dongzhou Villagers Sentenced: Government
[...] (U) Western and Hong Kong media sources have reported that on May 24, sentencing was given for villagers involved with the December 2005 Dongzhou riot in Guangdong Province. Of the approximately 20 villagers standing trial for illegally using explosive materials and disturbing public order, 1 [...]
2006-05-26 09:08:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV SOCI ECON CH
06GUANGZHOU16447USDOC BIS Under Secretary McCormick Visit to South
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While in Guangzhou, USDOC BIS Under Secretary David McCormick gave a speech at Huawei SIPDIS Technologies, Inc. Training Center, met with the Guangdong American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Board of Governors, and conducted a site visit to True Temper Composite Material Prod [...]
2006-06-02 06:14:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON BEXP ETTC ETRD PGOV PREL CH
06GUANGZHOU16875Fujian Sees Gold in Geographical Indications
[...] (SBU) Summary: Fujian's agricultural sector can rise above its domestic and international competitors by tapping into China's trademark system for geographical indications (GIs),according to officials at a recent conference on GIs organized by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and [...]
2006-06-07 03:01:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ECON ETRD WTRO CH
06GUANGZHOU17422Shut Up Erin Brokovich!: China's Fear of Popular
[...] (U) Classified by Consul General Edward Dong. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) The Chinese government cannot allow rising political personalities to develop without its control. Zou Tao, a Shenzhen-based businessman with connections to the "Rights Protection Movement", single-ha [...]
2006-06-13 01:53:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU17671Moving on Up? Dongzhou Doesn't Faze Guangdong
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the problems of the December Dongzhou and other recent protests, the credibility of Guangdong Provincial Party leaders appears strong. On the public side, Party Secretary Zhang Dejiang has given a number of well-received speeches instructing local leaders on how to bett [...]
2006-06-14 07:47:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR SOCI PHUM CH
06GUANGZHOU20593 Can Pollution Harm an Unborn Child? Despite
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The following cable describes the perception and the basis for the perception many residents in South China have that the pollution in the region is harming unborn babies; it does not address the hard science related to this issue. Recent press reports and anecdotal accounts h [...]
2006-06-30 09:23:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO CH SOCI PGOV
06GUANGZHOU20891GHA Part 3: The May Fourth Movement and
[...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General William Martin. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary ------- 2. (C) A recent meeting with two pro-democracy activists revealed significant aspects of contemporary Chinese activism. These activists, involved with the magazine "Citizen" and the Guangdong Humanis [...]
2006-07-06 02:49:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU25675TYPHOON PRAPIROON SWEEPS THROUGH SOUTH CHINA
[...] (U) TYPHOON PRAPIROON MADE LANDFALL IN SOUTHERN CHINA'S GUANGDONG PROVINCE ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 3RD, SWEEPING THROUGH AN AREA ALREADY DAMAGED BY TYPHOONS BILIS AND KAEMI (REFS A AND B). NO AMCITS HAVE BEEN REPORTED KILLED OR INJURED. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MEDIA REPORT A TOTAL OF 80 PEOPLE KIL [...]
2006-08-08 03:04:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIEDEAID CASC SENV CH
06GUANGZHOU26903 THE HEAT IS ON: GUANGDONG PROVINCE H1 ECONOMIC
[...] (U) SUMMARY. This report offers an overview of the economic performance in the first half of 2006 for Guangdong Province. The province continues to be an economic hot spot despite government control measures, murky bookkeeping, and natural disasters. The strong industrial and export sectors [...]
2006-08-14 08:23:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EAGR ELAB CH
06GUANGZHOU27721IPR CONFERENCE EXPLAINS HOW TO BRING ADMINISTRATIVE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: CHINESE REPRESENTATIVES FROM A VARIETY OF IPR-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS TOLD US BUSINESSES HOW TO BRING JUDICIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS TO PROTECT THEIR IPR AT A RECENT CONFERENCE IN SHENZHEN. CONFERENCE SPEAKERS EXPLAINED TO U.S. BUSINESSES THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK IN CHINA THAT DEAL [...]
2006-08-17 06:58:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ECON PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU27723"Adapting to China's Situation": Self-Censorship by
[...] (SBU) Summary. Recent discussions with editors of two prominent South China newspapers revealed a conformist attitude and a willingness to "go with the flow." Based on these two interviews, Congenoffs found that mainstream journalists must be willing to work within the system in order to surv [...]
2006-08-17 06:59:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SOCI PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU29575South China Lawyer Detained in Guangzhou -- Law
[...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General James Turner. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) On September 6, labor rights lawyer and China Labor Watch employee, Tang Jingling, was detained at the Guangzhou East Train station while proceeding through passport control to board a train to Hong Kong. TangQs [...]
2006-09-08 06:18:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU29875IPR Enforcement in South China: USTR-led
[...] (SBU) Summary: Following JCCT IPR Working Group meetings in Beijing, a USTR-led delegation traveled to Fujian and Guangdong provinces in late August to engage local leaders on IPR issues and raise specific areas of concern. The visits were part of the provincial review of China announced in t [...]
2006-09-12 07:32:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ECON ETRD WTRO CH
06GUANGZHOU30165 Waiting to Inhale: Important First Steps in South China's
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Provincial and municipal governments have implemented many pollution-control measures, most notably installing desulfurization equipment, closing factories, developing an emissions trading scheme, implementing a "credit system," and increasing regional cooperation. Despite thes [...]
2006-09-18 03:24:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO CH SOCI PGOV
06GUANGZHOU30533Leading Member of "Rights Protection Movement"
[...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert X Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary: On September 14, Guo Feixiong, a leading figure in the "Rights Protection Movement," a nation-wide virtual network of activists, was arrested in Guangzhou on charges of "illegal business operation". This [...]
2006-09-22 08:35:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU30534Shenzhen Independent "Candidates" Zou Tao and
[...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert X Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) A PSB-led effort to crackdown on dissidents appears to have thwarted efforts by democracy activists to run as candidates in upcoming Shenzhen elections. Shenzhen-based activists Zou Tao and Jian [...]
2006-09-22 08:36:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU31579South China's White Collar Worker Shortage
[...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Speakers at an October 16 conference on human resources organized by the American Chamber of Commerce - South China addressed the increasingly serious competition among foreign multinationals in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) for the limited number of skilled professionals [...]
2006-10-20 08:30:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON EINV CH
06GUANGZHOU32263 Labor Law Implementation and CSR Cynicism are Key
[...] (U) Summary: Despite China's many international labor commitments, migrant workers remain poorly trained, overworked and underpaid, according to experts at a recent conference on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Shenzhen. Many legal experts said that China's labor laws are theoretical [...]
2006-11-13 08:28:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIEDELAB SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32264Guangdong Villagers Clash with 1,000 Police:
[...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Western and Hong Kong media sources reported that on November 8, villagers protesting in Shunde, Guangdong, (one hour southwest of Guangzhou) detained around 300 officials and foreign dignitarie [...]
2006-11-13 08:29:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32265Enron Prosecutors Share Lessons Learned with Guangdong
[...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In two days of meetings and roundtables with Guangdong officials, legal experts, students, and media, Department of Justice prosecutors John Hueston and Robb Addison discussed their involvement in the Enron case and highlighted the differences between the U.S. and Chine [...]
2006-11-13 08:29:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV KPAO CH
06GUANGZHOU32273Five Shenzhen Judges Arrested on Corruption: An
[...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Guangdong's Party Secretary Zhang Dejiang, although a Jiang Zemin appointee, is not expected to be affected by the November 10, arrest of five Shenzhen judges - including a rising star - on corruption charg [...]
2006-11-15 08:50:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS CH
06GUANGZHOU32305EPA A/A Wehrum Discusses Air Pollution Issues with
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EPA Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation William Wehrum stressed to Guangdong Province Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) officials that environmental protection, public health, and economic development can co-exist. Wehrum commended Guangdong for addressing sulfur d [...]
2006-11-21 03:54:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG BEXP CH
06GUANGZHOU32306Dongzhou Crackdown II: No Blood, but Amcit
[...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: On November 18, in a scene reminiscent of the violent clash on December 6, 2005 in the same village, up to 2,000 armed police, using tear gas and flash bullets, secured the release of eight local officials [...]
2006-11-21 08:20:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALCASC DENNIS DANFUNG PGOV PHUM SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32315Guangdong Development Bank: A Benefit or a Burden?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Citibank's Guangzhou branch manager said the Citibank-led bid for Guangdong Development Bank (GDB) is a "done deal" and that Citibank will gain significant management control over GDB as a result. Bank of America and Deutsche Bank representatives said Citibank would benefit from [...]
2006-11-22 09:14:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON EINV WTRO CH
06GUANGZHOU32317New Foreign Banking Regulations: Foreign Bankers are
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the November 15 release of banking regulations that permit wholly foreign-owned banks in China, Guangzhou-based representatives of foreign banks believe they can now operate on a level playing field with domestic banks. Citibank and Deutsche Bank branch managers said t [...]
2006-11-22 09:18:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN WTRO ECON EINV CH
06GUANGZHOU32364Two Shenzhen Labor Campaigns Stopped: NGOs Closed
[...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Shenzhen officials continue to be concerned about the activities of labor NGOs and recent government reaction to restrict their political activities seems to bear this out. On November 9, during investiga [...]
2006-12-04 07:47:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPHUM ELAB SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32368(C-AL6-01852) South China Rights Protection Part I:
[...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Rights activists in South China believe that access to money and the ability to organize and address issues of concern are among the key problems they will continue to face in the future. They know that f [...]
2006-12-06 06:17:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV PHUM SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32369(C-AL6-01852) South China Rights Protection Part
[...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Some South China Rights Protection Movement activists want to focus less on overt political activities that the government will view as opposition and more on information sharing and education, thereby bro [...]
2006-12-06 06:59:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32380Hostage Taking Again in Same Township: Do Foshan's
[...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Approximately 1,000 villagers in Foshan, Guangdong Province, stormed the local village committee office on November 30, to protest illegal land sales and to demand the release of 23 village rep [...]
2006-12-07 01:39:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI KCRM CH
06GUANGZHOU32394Guangdong Province Q3 Economic Report
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Guangdong Province registered double-digit gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the third quarter (Q3) of 2006 despite government control measures and an emphasis on increasing domestic consumption. Fixed asset investment did not grow as rapidly compared to the same period in 2 [...]
2006-12-13 05:20:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EAGR ELAB CH
06GUANGZHOU32406Visit of HHS Secretary to Guangzhou Highlights Infectious
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael O. Leavitt and his delegation met with doctors, hospital and orphanage administrators, students, and businesspersons to discuss infectious diseases and health-care issues during a December 11-12, 2006 visit to Guangzhou. Hi [...]
2006-12-18 02:33:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SOCI ECON ELAB PGOV SCUL SENV CH
06GUANGZHOU32421Labor Conditions in the Pearl River Delta (Part 1 of 3):
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Many migrant workers in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) - mostly little-educated young people, including some who are underage, from interior and western provinces - continue to face harsh and unsafe working conditions, long hours, overtime wage arrears, child labor, unsuitable liv [...]
2006-12-19 07:08:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PHUM EFIN PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32431Labor Conditions in the Pearl River Delta (Part 2 of 3):
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Provincial and municipal authorities both inside and outside of Guangdong Province have enacted protective measures such as labor rights training, vocational training, higher minimum wages, labor inspections, and the blacklisting of malfeasant companies to deal with labor viola [...]
2006-12-19 07:48:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PHUM EFIN PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32432Labor Conditions in the Pearl River Delta (Part 3
[...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary: Pearl River Delta (PRD) labor conditions remain poor because many migrant workers are ignorant of their basic rights, too destitute to pursue complaints legally, are barred from receiving minimum wages and [...]
2006-12-19 07:56:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALELAB PHUM EFIN PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32439Major Environmental Incidents in South China
[...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Enforcement of environmental regulations remains problematic in South China. Major environmental incidents occur with disturbing regularity, despite greater efforts by provincial and local governments to avert them. Increased reporting about such incidents does sugge [...]
2006-12-21 01:26:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIEDSENV PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32440Trial of Sanshan Farmers Begins: More Protests to
[...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A Foshan court official has confirmed that the trial of seven farmers - accused of Triad-related extortion - from a village in Guangdong has begun; outside lawyers have been barred from particip [...]
2006-12-21 04:18:00Consulate GuangzhouCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI KCRM CH
06GUANGZHOU5378 Progressive Magazine's 2005 Award Winners for
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Li Datong, the originator of the China Youth Daily's "Freezing Point" section, is the most prominent person named in the Nanfengchuang ("South Wind Window") list of 2005 annual award winners for acting "for the public good" -- the magazine's raison d'etre. Then agai [...]
2006-02-27 08:42:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KPAO OPRC OIIP PGOV PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU5379 The Woes of Foreign Banks in Southern China
[...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign banking representatives in Guangdong province expressed continued frustration at breaking into domestic markets, while acknowledging the easing of restrictions on paper. The banking officials cited administrative hurdles and a lack of transparency in regulations and gui [...]
2006-02-27 08:43:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV WTRO CH
06GUANGZHOU5479 Journey to the West: HIV/AIDS, Avian Influenza
[...] (SBU) Summary: Local governments have taken some measures to combat the threat of avian influenza (AI) and the spread of HIV/AIDS, but the scale of the threat appears to dwarf the size of government programs. In addition with respect to HIV/AIDS, the accuracy and availability of information [...]
2006-02-28 06:10:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKHIV KFLU EAID SOCI TBIO CH
06GUANGZHOU6174 New AI Case in Guangdong Grudgingly Admitted:
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At 1130 on Saturday March 4, the Guangdong Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) faxed a diplomatic note (completely in Chinese with no English translation -- Consulate Guangzhou's translation in full text below) confirming the death of a Guangzhou man after contracting the H5N1 strain [...]
2006-03-06 09:19:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU6981Staffdel Halpin: Thoughts on Chen Shuibian, Social
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chen Shuibian's pledge to abolish the national unification council and guidelines was the first step in a dangerous political game and has outraged mainland academics, said scholars at China's largest Taiwan Research Institute during a recent visit by Dennis Halpin, professional [...]
2006-03-14 09:04:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PHUM PGOV KCRM PREL CH TW KN
06GUANGZHOU6984PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY PREPARING FOR AI
[...] (SBU) Summary: A visiting PACOM/State delegation meeting with civil and military leaders to discuss Avian Flu (AI) preparedness was impressed with the level of planning by the Southern Military Command of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). Civil authorities, however, were less impressive as [...]
2006-03-14 09:06:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU CACS AMED ASEC ECON CH
06GUANGZHOU6985Staffdel Halpin: Thoughts on Chen Shuibian, Social
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chen Shuibian's pledge to abolish the national unification council and guidelines was the first step in a dangerous political game and has outraged mainland academics, said scholars at China's largest Taiwan Research Institute during a recent visit by Dennis Halpin, professional [...]
2006-03-14 09:06:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PHUM PGOV KCRM PREL CH TW KN
06GUATEMALA128URIBE'S VISIT TO GUATEMALA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Colombia's President Uribe paid a highly successful visit to Guatemala January 19-20. He publicly committed to support Guatemala's bid for the UNSC, to provide counter-narcotics cooperation and to conclude a free trade agreement. Uribe's address to the Guatemalan Congress was [...]
2006-01-24 21:00:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SNAR MASS PHUM ETRD CO GT UNSC
06GUATEMALA195GUATEMALA: REACTION TO DEATH OF PEACEKEEPERS IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The deaths of eight Guatemalan peacekeepers in the Congo has provoked some criticism of Guatemalan participation in international peacekeeping. The Guatemalan President praised the dead peacekeepers as heroes and reiterated his government's continued commitment to UN peacekeep [...]
2006-02-01 13:31:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PREL KPKO PHUM MASS GT CG UG SU UN
06GUATEMALA198GUATEMALAN JUDGE DISMISSES CASE AGAINST RIOS MONTT
[...] (SBU) A Guatemalan judge dropped charges of coercion, threats, sedition, and involuntary manslaughter against former army general and de facto head of state Efrain Rios Montt. The charges, tied to his presumed leadership of the "Black Thursday" riots of July 2003, were dropped at the request [...]
2006-02-01 17:43:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KJUS KCOR GT
06GUATEMALA247GUATEMALAN PROSECUTORS APPEAL RIOS MONTT DECISION
[...] (U) Summary. The Guatemalan Public Ministry is appealing a judge's decision to dismiss charges of threats, coercion, sedition, and involuntary manslaughter against FRG leader Rios Montt. It claims the judge was wrong to dismiss the case rather than respond to the prosecutor,s request for "pr [...]
2006-02-07 22:54:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KJUS KCOR GT
06GUATEMALA2471ILLEGAL ALIEN DETENTIONS IN THE U.S. REVIVE
[...] (C) Summary: The December 12 raids of Swift meatpacking plants in the U.S. that resulted in the reported detentions of some 500 Guatemalans have generated a media storm. Critics of the Berger Government have renewed charges that the GOG does not do enough to protect undocumented Guatemalans [...]
2006-12-19 16:13:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL SMIG GT
06GUATEMALA27GUATEMALAN REACTION TO HR 4437
[...] AMBASSADOR MET SEPARATELY ON JANUARY 4 WITH VICE PRESIDENT STEIN AND FOREIGN MINISTER BRIZ, AND MADE REF B POINTS ON ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT FOR COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM INCLUDING A TEMPORARY WORKERS PROGRAM, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT MAKING PUBLIC STATEMENTS THAT UNDERMINE THE PRESIDE [...]
2006-01-06 16:10:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSMIG PHUM PREL PGOV EAID KJUS GT
06GUATEMALA429GOG WEAKNESSES AND U.S. SUPPORT
[...] (C) Summary: The February 23 announcement that TPS (Temporary Protected Status) has been extended for citizens of El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua prompted immediate critical reaction from President Berger, Vice President Stein and Foreign Minister Briz, culminating in a reproachful meet [...]
2006-03-01 19:05:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID SMIG CVIS ETRD MASS SNAR GT
06GUATEMALA440GUATEMALA'S CAFTA LABOR PROJECT PROPOSALS
[...] As requested reftel, below please find six proposals for labor projects in CAFTA-DR countries. The proposals are not assigned to specific branches of the U.S. government as we hope the proposals will be discussed on their merits before any of them are linked to specific agencies or offices (a [...]
2006-03-03 14:43:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EAID ETRD GT
06GUATEMALA453GUATEMALAN PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIAL CLEANSING
[...] Summary: The phrase "social cleansing" has entered wide usage in Guatemala, even though it is generally used to refer to vigilantism. While no evidence has yet surfaced of a state policy of extrajudicial killings of undesirable elements -- the definition of social cleansing -- the Human Righ [...]
2006-03-06 22:33:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM PGOV EAID ASEC SNAR KJUS GT
06GUATEMALA668GUATEMALA TAKING ACTION TO CORRECT FAULTY LANGUAGE
[...] (U) The Guatemalan Congress is asking President Berger to veto the organized crime bill (reftel) because of ambiguous language in a last minute amendment that would have cut in half the maximum prison sentences for several types of major crimes, including murder and kidnapping. 2. (U) Pre [...]
2006-04-04 20:24:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV PHUM KCRM KJUS ASEC EAID PTER GT
06GUAYAQUIL939Cuenca's Leaders Foresee Correa Victory
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Cuenca's political, media, religious and business leaders told visiting Guayaquil Consul General that Rafael Correa would win the upcoming presidential elections. Few of the leaders we spoke with believe that Correa would necessarily pursue the radical policies on which he is ca [...]
2006-09-29 16:26:00Consulate GuayaquilUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EINV ETRD EFIS EC
06HALIFAX206CONSULAR OUTREACH TO AMERICAN CITIZENS IN NEWFOUNDLAND
[...] SUMMARY: In early October CONOFF and ACS assistant traveled to St John's, Newfoundland to provide services for American citizens living in the region. CONOFF met privately with nearly 50 American citizens to provide consular services normally available only in Halifax and to discuss issues ran [...]
2006-10-24 20:16:00Consulate HalifaxUNCLASSIFIEDCASC CPAS CA
06HANOI1090 PMU-18 Corruption Scandal: Donor Response
[...] (SBU) Summary: Following the break of the Project Management Unit 18 (PMU-18) corruption scandal involving a substantial amount of Overseas Development Assistance (ODA),bilateral and multilateral donors met to share reactions and discuss a coordinated response. Donors agreed: that corruptio [...]
2006-05-08 10:46:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV KCOR VM
06HANOI1113RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE NORTH PART II: POLOFF
[...] (SBU) At the recommendation of Protestants in Hanoi, an Embassy team visited Ha Giang Province in the third week of April to investigate allegations of district-level abuse against Protestant groups. The team was able to discuss with officials several serious allegations made against Ha Giang [...]
2006-05-10 09:56:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI VM
06HANOI1240VIETNAM DPM DZUNG DINNER ON CORRPUTION
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Deputy Prime Minister (and putative Prime Minister) Nguyen Tan Dzung gave assurances to international contributors to Vietnam's economic development that the Government of Vietnam (GVN) will get to the bottom of the major scandal involving misappropriation of funds [...]
2006-05-23 09:47:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV PREL PINR VM
06HANOI1245VIETNAM'S PARTY CONGRESS: CONSERVATIVES AND
[...] (SBU) Analysis of the new membership of the Communist Party of Vietnam's Central Committee and Politburo following the April National Party Congress indicates a barely perceptible victory of conservative over progressive elements within the Party (although Party insiders now say that the prog [...]
2006-05-24 04:13:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR VM
06HANOI1279VIETNAM DPM DZUNG DINNER ON CORRUPTION
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Deputy Prime Minister (and putative Prime Minister) Nguyen Tan Dzung gave assurances to international contributors to Vietnam's economic development that the Government of Vietnam (GVN) will get to the bottom of the major scandal involving misappropriation of funds [...]
2006-05-26 08:18:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV PREL PINR VM
06HANOI1280VIETNAM - MAY 26 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan met with members of Vietnam's National Steering Committee on Avian Influenza (AI),as well as bilateral and multilateral donors, on May 24 at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). The GVN gave an overview of the course AI in [...]
2006-05-26 08:18:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI1420VIETNAM - JUNE 9 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary. On June 2, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) and World Bank hosted a joint government-donor meeting in support of the Vietnam Integrated Operational (IO) Program for Avian and Human Influenza for the period 2006- 2010. The donors pledged USD 61 million over three years of a to [...]
2006-06-13 07:34:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI1629VIETNAM - JUNE 30 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT
[...] (U) Summary. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) will resume breeding of duck hatchlings starting in July. The breeding of waterfowl such as duck and geese was suspended in November 2005. State media continues to report that the national poultry vaccination campaign is behind schedule, with nine [...]
2006-06-30 09:45:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI173VIETNAM: FY2006 INCLE AND ESF TIP PROPOSALS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-19 23:27:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ELAB SMIG EAID KCRM KFRD VM
06HANOI180VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR JANUARY
[...] (SBU) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths since late October 2005 and no human cases over the past 64 days. As of January 20, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) reports no AI outbreaks in poultry since the last reported incident on December 17, 2005 in Cao Bang Pr [...]
2006-01-20 10:24:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDAMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM
06HANOI1803 VIETNAM'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES TEN NEW LAWS,
[...] (SBU) Summary: During an unusually long summer session convened May 16-June 29 to approve the new government selected by the Communist Party of Vietnam's (CPV) 10th Party Congress (Ref A),Vietnam's National Assembly (NA) also debated ten laws and approved three resolutions. These new laws in [...]
2006-07-17 04:46:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM HUMANR ETRD EINV ECON VM
06HANOI1814HANOI MUSEUM EXHIBITION CRITICIZES VIETNAM'S PAST ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) Summary: A new exhibition at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (VME) in Hanoi is currently enjoying considerable public interest and media attention, as the exhibit indirectly criticizes the GVN's past economic policies, while carefully praising current pro-market reforms. The museum's di [...]
2006-07-18 03:30:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR VM
06HANOI196SCENESETTER FOR THE U.S.-VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) Assistant Secretary Lowenkron: Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The bilateral Human Rights Dialogue, the first since 2002, will help us to bring into focus a number of key issues our two countries will need to address this year, particularly in [...]
2006-01-24 10:45:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV PREF VM
06HANOI1989VIETNAM - AUGUST 4 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT
[...] (U) Summary. There have been no new AI outbreaks in humans or poultry, however, Thanh Nhien Daily reported on August 3 that a large number of ducks in two flocks have perished in Tay Ninh, a province bordering Cambodia, and tests are being carried out to identify the cause. A Bloomberg News [...]
2006-08-04 07:02:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI2004VIETNAM'S POPULATION POLICY IN 2006
[...] (SBU) While Vietnam officially no longer restricts the number of children couples may have, GVN propaganda campaigns still strongly encourage individuals to practice family planning (FP) and keep family size to at most two children. Fines or administrative sanctions for larger families are rar [...]
2006-08-08 01:53:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM KPOP
06HANOI2114VIETNAM - AUGUST 17 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT
[...] (U) Summary. There have been no confirmed cases of AI outbreaks in humans or poultry, despite suspected cases at the beginning of August. A 35 year-old man from Kien Giang province, hospitalized with severe influenza symptoms, has tested negative for H5N1. Ducks from two flocks in Tay Ninh P [...]
2006-08-18 10:08:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI2263VIETNAM - SEPTEMBER 1 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT
[...] (U) Summary. There have been no reported human AI cases and no AI outbreak activity in poultry to date this year in Vietnam. Another 45 ducks in a household in the Mekong Delta's Ben Tre Province tested positive for carrying H5N1 and were subsequently culled. A Government of Vietnam (GVN) of [...]
2006-09-05 09:05:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI2361VIETNAM - SEPTEMBER 15 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT
[...] (U) Summary. There have been no reported human AI cases and no confirmed AI outbreak activity in poultry to date this year in Vietnam. A suspected outbreak of AI in ducks was reported in Dong Nai province in southern Vietnam. Vietnam has tested a vaccine for white-winged ducks and will soon [...]
2006-09-15 10:27:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI2412RECENT GVN ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS: SMOKE AND
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: In the wake of several high-profile corruption scandals, the GVN is taking steps, both substantive and symbolic, to address corruption involving government and Communist Party officials. In August, the National Assembly Standing Committee passed a resolution specifyi [...]
2006-09-20 09:45:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PHUM KCOR VM
06HANOI2420SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR HAGEL
[...] (SBU) Senator Hagel: Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Hanoi. Your visit will be an important step in strengthening our cooperative relationship with Vietnam while bringing into focus key issues, including those our two countries will need to address in the run-up to the President's [...]
2006-09-21 06:34:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL OTRA VM
06HANOI2497CHARGE REVIEWS POTUS-RELATED ISSUES WITH MFA
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 28, the Charge met with MFA Acting Director of Americas Department Pham Van Que to discuss a range of bilateral issues in the run-up to the President's visit. Reviewing the contents of the NSC draft Joint Statement with Que, the Charge described our hopes for progre [...]
2006-09-29 08:57:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV VM
06HANOI2510VIETNAM'S PRESIDENT MEETS WITH CATHOLIC LEADERS
[...] (SBU) On September 28, State President Nguyen Minh Triet met with leaders of Vietnam's Catholic Church for the first time since taking office in June. During the meeting, Triet underlined the GVN's willingness to allow Catholics to become more involved in Vietnam's socio-economic development. [...]
2006-09-29 10:14:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI2511VIETNAM'S PRESIDENT MEETS WITH CATHOLIC LEADERS
[...] (SBU) On September 28, State President Nguyen Minh Triet met with leaders of Vietnam's Catholic Church for the first time since taking office in June. During the meeting, Triet underlined the GVN's willingness to allow Catholics to become more involved in Vietnam's socio-economic development. [...]
2006-09-29 10:15:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI2512VIETNAM - SEPTEMBER 29 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT
[...] (U) There have been no reported human AI cases and no confirmed AI outbreaks in poultry to date this year in Vietnam. 2. (U) On September 29, state-owned media reported that the Government of Vietnam (GVN) has vaccinated 28.6 million poultry in 27 provinces and cities since the national va [...]
2006-09-29 11:00:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI2570Religious Freedom: CRA Chairman Discusses Recent Progress
[...] (SBU) Summary: During an October 5 meeting with the Charge, Committee on Religious Affairs Chairman Ngo Yen Thi described GVN efforts to accelerate registrations of Protestant congregations in the North. The late September conference for northern local officials was described as a success: o [...]
2006-10-05 10:45:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI2599CDA DISCUSSES POTUS VISIT, BILATERAL ISSUES WITH
[...] (C) The Charge met on October 10 with MFA Americas Department Acting Director General Pham Van Que to continue discussions related to the POTUS visit. Que suggested that President Bush consider adding a short visit with the Communist Party's General Secretary Nong Duc Manh, in part to balanc [...]
2006-10-11 09:48:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PREL PGOV ECON VM
06HANOI2606CDA DISCUSSES POTUS VISIT, BILATERAL ISSUES WITH
[...] (C) The Charge met on October 10 with MFA Americas Department Acting Director General Pham Van Que to continue discussions related to the POTUS visit. Que suggested that President Bush consider adding a short visit with the Communist Party's General Secretary Nong Duc Manh, in part to balance [...]
2006-10-11 11:06:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PREL PGOV ECON VM
06HANOI2630SCENESETTER FOR DRL A/S LOWENKRON'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) Embassy Hanoi looks forward to welcoming you back to Vietnam. Your visit will help us to address a number of key issues in the lead-up to the President's November visit. It will also underscore to the Vietnamese that progress on core American concerns and values must keep pace with the s [...]
2006-10-13 09:16:00Embassy HanoiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI2633Vietnam Addresses Workforce Anxiety in APEC Conference
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dealing with the anxieties and needs of the Vietnamese workforce as the country becomes more integrated into the world economy is high on the minds of the Vietnamese. This explains the huge turnout for a two-day APEC labor conference in Hanoi. Some 175 participants from Vietna [...]
2006-10-13 10:14:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EAID ECON ETRD EINV WTRO VM
06HANOI2642VIETNAM REACHING OUT TO VENEZUELA AND CUBA ON ENERGY
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Recent news reports have indicated that Vietnam has signed a series of energy deals with Venezuela and Cuba. According to a GVN official, such Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) are in line with the GVN's policy to seek more oil resources and partners outside of Vietn [...]
2006-10-16 09:26:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG OVIP EINV VE VM
06HANOI2705Ministry of Culture and Information Suspends Newspapers for
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Both Vietnamese and international media outlets reported extensively over the weekend on the GVN's October 20 suspension of two newspapers for a period of one month. These organizations, as well as numerous, more prominent papers, have carried stories in the last few months about [...]
2006-10-24 02:16:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KPAO VM
06HANOI2727ASSISTANT SECRETARY LOWENKRON DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS WITH
[...] (SBU) On October 19, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron told Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang that, while the United States recognizes there have been positive human rights developments in Vietnam, we will continue to urge the release of the two remaining [...]
2006-10-26 03:41:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV OTRA ECON VM
06HANOI28002006-2007 INCSR PART I -- VIETNAM
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-03 09:57:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV KCRM VM
06HANOI2803VIETNAM - NOVEMBER 3 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: There have been no reported human Avian Influenza (AI) cases and no confirmed AI outbreaks in poultry to date this year in Vietnam. On November 1, the Charge d'Affaires signed the Partnership Framework for Avian and Human Influenza (PAHI) along with nine donors and three non-g [...]
2006-11-06 00:49:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI2822VIETNAM'S FIRST HIV/AIDS LAW: TRANSFORMING NATIONAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 29, 2006, the National Assembly of Vietnam passed the Law on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control. The legislation, the first on this subject, goes into effect on January 1, 2007. While details are still under discussion, this bold and comprehensive new Law demonstrates Vie [...]
2006-11-08 00:50:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PGOV PINR PROP SOCI TBIO KHIV VM
06HANOI3019VIETNAM NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES NEW LABOR LAWS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The National Assembly passed two important pieces of labor legislation in its fall session, one governing labor disputes and another regulating the country's burgeoning export labor industry. Labor experts note that the new strikes law could help open the door to greater freedom [...]
2006-12-15 10:30:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON PGOV ETRD EIND EINV VM
06HANOI3021 MFA Protests Ambassador's Remarks in Support of Greater
[...] (SBU) During a roundtable with foreign correspondents on December 13, the Ambassador spoke on the issue of human rights, freedom of expression and the GVN's treatment of activists and others who peacefully voice their political views. Responding to a reporter's question about the activities of [...]
2006-12-18 00:23:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KPAO VM
06HANOI3081YEAR-END LABOR STRIFE SEEN LESS LIKELY IN VIETNAM
[...] (SBU) Summary: One year after a wave of labor unrest hit lower-paying foreign-owned factories in Vietnam, workers, businesses and government officials say that similar labor strife is less likely now. Labor experts state that tensions are lower because of last year's government-mandated wage i [...]
2006-12-28 09:27:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDECON ELAB PGOV ETRD EIND EINV VM
06HANOI3096VIETNAM'S MOBILE PHONE SECTOR SHOWS STRONG GROWTH; ADVANCES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam is the world's second fastest growing telecommunications market behind China. Mobile phone subscribers in Vietnam are reported to now stand at 17 million, a 70 percent increase over December 2005. Military-owned Viettel Mobile, with more than five million subscribers, i [...]
2006-12-29 11:02:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECPS ECON KPRV VM
06HANOI326CARTOON CONTROVERSY: GVN CONDEMNS VIOLENCE;
[...] (SBU) Pol/C met with MFA West Asia and Africa Department Deputy Director General Duong Huynh Lap February 14 to deliver reftel points. Lap relayed the GVN's regret at both the offensive cartoons and the violence they generated. Vietnam believes that this matter should be resolved through dial [...]
2006-02-14 10:00:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SOCI KISL KPAO XF VM
06HANOI561VIETNAM: MARCH 10 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT
[...] Summary. There have been no reported human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths since late October 2005 and no human cases over the past 105 days. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continues to issue statements that indicate no new AI outbreaks in poultry since December 17, 2005. A local newspaper re [...]
2006-03-10 11:16:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI667U.S.-VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE: AFTERNOON
[...] (SBU) In an agreed continuation of the morning session on religious freedom and ethnic minority affairs of the February 20 U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue, before beginning the afternoon schedule, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford presented the GVN side wi [...]
2006-03-22 10:06:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV VM
06HANOI678VIETNAM-CHINA TRADE: REPORT FROM LANG SON PROVINCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Econ Counselor met with provincial and customs officials in Lang Son province, one of two main transit provinces for goods to and from China on March 16- 17. Customs officials at Tan Thanh claimed that 80 percent of goods crossing the checkpoint were fruit, smuggling of pirat [...]
2006-03-23 09:35:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON CM VM
06HANOI736GVN AVOIDS HARSH CRITICISM OF 2005 HUMAN
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Unlike in previous years, the GVN has not launched an intensive media campaign against the 2005 Human Rights Report. This could reflect a decision to avoid possible repercussions with the U.S. Congress that would complicate a PNTR vote on WTO membership. It may al [...]
2006-03-31 08:21:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KIRF ETRD EINV ECON VM
06HANOI767LEADERSHIP RUMORS ABOUND FOLLOWING THE 14TH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Rumors continue to swirl about the likely changes in Vietnam's leadership following the 10th Party Congress in April. They have grown especially intense since last week's close of the 14th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (CPV),which announced that it had [...]
2006-04-04 02:55:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI771CORRUPTION IN VIETNAM: MINISTER FALLS, PARTY GETS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The media is gleefully reporting a sensational corruption scandal involving millions of dollars in graft that has cost the Minister of Transportation his job. The case amplifies the recent wave of calls for anti- corruption reform that has dominated recent public discussion of [...]
2006-04-04 07:28:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR VM
06HANOI783SCENESETTER FOR SPEAKER HASTERT'S VISIT TO VIETNAM
[...] (SBU) Mr. Speaker: Your visit to Vietnam comes at an important time in our bilateral relationship. Last year, the United States and Vietnam commemorated the tenth anniversary of normalized relations, the highlight of which was the very successful visit to the United States by Prime Minister [...]
2006-04-05 08:12:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PHUM PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EFIN VM
06HANOI833Vietnam Tackling Abusive Export Labor Firms
[...] (SBU) Summary: Confronted with problems related to a burgeoning export labor industry, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) is taking action to regulate the industry and protect workers from potential abuse. In an effort to mitigate unemployment and develop its pool of skilled workers, the Governm [...]
2006-04-12 10:20:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PGOV PHUM KCRM PINS VM TIP
06HANOI916VIETNAM - APRIL 20 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Despite the fact that the Government of Vietnam (GVN) does not have a BLS-3 laboratory, a credible source indicates that two animal health laboratories in Vietnam have been isolating the H5N1 virus. The Vice Director of the Ministry of Health's Drug Administration has confirm [...]
2006-04-21 12:27:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HARARE1010CURRENCY CHANGEOVER SPARKS CONFUSION
[...] (C) With five business days remaining until the currency conversion deadline of August 21, business contacts tell us the country is woefully unprepared for the expiration of the old bearer checks. Most businesses have suspended or significantly reduced sales, chiefly of imports, rather than [...]
2006-08-11 13:13:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALASEC ECON PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE11GOZ INTENSIFIES ASSAULT ON MDC MUNICIPAL
[...] (C) All 19 of Mutare's MDC city councilors resigned on January 4 in response to their December 29 suspension by Minister of Local Government Ignatius Chombo over alleged mismanagement. The Minister appointed an acting council of ruling party loyalists to run the city. Chombo also suspended [...]
2006-01-09 05:30:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC ZANU PF
06HARARE113ADDENDUM TO ZIMBABWE SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-03 07:24:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ELAB ZI KDEM
06HARARE1143GOVERNMENT INTIMIDATION AND PREEMPTIVE ARRESTS
[...] (C) Government preemptive actions forestalled a series of planned protests by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions' (ZCTU) on Wednesday, September 13. Over 100 ZCTU members were detained and police reportedly severely beat several union leaders. The government press called the ZCTU protests [...]
2006-09-15 11:29:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV ELAB ZI
06HARARE1164STEVENSON ATTACK COMMISSION POINTS FINGER AT GOZ
[...] (SBU) Anti-Senate leader Morgan Tsvangirai held a Press Conference September 20 to announce the findings of the commission appointed by the anti-Senate MDC to investigate the July 2 attack on pro-Senate MDC MP Trudy Stevenson. According to Tsvangirai, the commission concluded that GOZ securit [...]
2006-09-21 15:07:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALASEC ECON PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE1175AMERICAN LABOR DELEGATION DENIED ENTRY TO ZIMBABWE
[...] (U) An African-American labor delegation was denied entry to Zimbabwe September 22 despite holding valid visas. The visit had been in the planning for months. The only explanation from the GOZ was that the visit was now "unacceptable.Q8 We believe the GOZ feared the visit would draw attenti [...]
2006-09-25 06:47:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV ELAB ZI
06HARARE124GOZ CASTS MDC'S ZAMBIA EXCURSION AS USG PLOTTING
[...] (C) Following Zambia's expulsion of a delegation of senior MDC officials on February 2 (refs A, B),Zimbabwe's state media has alleged that the U.S. Embassy had arranged a meeting in Zambia between the delegation and "officials from US-funded Freedom House". The articles appear to be part of [...]
2006-02-06 13:53:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAO ASEC PHUM PGOV ZI MDC
06HARARE128ZIMBABWE ESF ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROJECT
[...] Summary. Embassy Harare submits the following International Organization for Migration (IOM) proposal for funding consideration from FY2006 ESF appropriations. The proposal is for assistance to IOM's activities in Zimbabwe as part of the Southern African Counter-Trafficking Assistance Progra [...]
2006-02-07 14:14:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASEC ELAB SMIG ZI KWMN KCRM
06HARARE1280LOOK EAST "SUCCESSES" FALL FLAT
[...] (C) In the GOZ's most recent flirtation with countries to its east, state-controlled media on October 10 reported that a Russian delegation had signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with the GOZ totaling US$300 million. South African journalists checking into the contracts, however, coul [...]
2006-10-24 14:57:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL ZI
06HARARE1283UPCOMING RURAL ELECTIONS LIKELY TO DEMONSTRATE
[...] (SBU) Rural district council elections to be held on October 28 are expected to reinforce the ruling party's hold over the rural areas. ZANU-PF has already secured a third of the 1,328 council seats after several hundred would-be opposition candidates were barred from nomination. The anti-S [...]
2006-10-25 09:52:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC ZI
06HARARE1294LOW VOTER TURNOUT LEADS TO BIG ZANU-PF WIN
[...] (SBU) Preliminary results reported in the government-controlled press today are calling Saturday's rural district council elections a ZANU-PF victory. Official results are expected by Tuesday, October 31. The key feature of the elections was very low voter turnout. Initial reports from elec [...]
2006-10-30 15:55:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL ASEC ZI
06HARARE1299CHURCH LEADERS "NATIONAL VISION" REJECTED BY
[...] (C) Summary. A group of religious leaders presented President Mugabe October 27 with a so-called "national vision" document they said is intended as a road map for dialogue leading to a resolution of Zimbabwe,s problems. While stating that the document could lead to consensus among Zimbabwea [...]
2006-10-31 14:43:00Embassy HarareSECRETPREL PGOV PHUM ZI
06HARARE1413ZANU-PF POLITBURO MEMBER OFFERS SUCCESSION INSIGHTS
[...] (C) ZANU-PF Secretary for Information and Publicity Nathan Shamuyarira told the Ambassador on November 28 that the forthcoming ruling party conference was unlikely to finalize the succession issue. The party would instead settle the issue in 2007. He opined that the presidential and parliam [...]
2006-11-29 12:59:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ZI
06HARARE159MDC MP COLTART: GOZ WEAKENING
[...] (C) In a meeting on February 8 with the Ambassador, MDC MP for Bulawayo South David Coltart said the GOZ was beginning to show signs of crumbling under the strain of economic deterioration. The inner circle of the regime was getting rich but patronage was no longer reaching second tier membe [...]
2006-02-13 13:25:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ZI MDC
06HARARE185SUPREME COURT REJECTS TSVANGIRAI ELECTION CHALLENGE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Supreme Court on February 12 rejected MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai's application to have it take over his 2002 presidential election challenge from the High Court, where it has languished for years. Strapped for resources, the MDC will likely scale back its strategy of ch [...]
2006-02-17 09:47:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC
06HARARE200MUGABE AT 82 - RIGID, DEFIANT, ISOLATED
[...] (SBU) In a taped, edited 90-minute state media interview televised locally on Febuary 19, Robert Mugabe sounded familiar anti-western themes and evidenced little inclination to countenance economic or political reforms on the eve of his 82nd birthday. He was familiarly cagey about the process [...]
2006-02-22 12:20:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON PINR KPAO ZI
06HARARE252ZIMBABWE ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (SBU) Zimbabwe is a country of origin and transit for trafficked persons. This year there were also two cases of girls trafficked to Zimbabwe from South Africa. Most of the information about the scope of trafficking remains anecdotal, however, the government and the police investigate and tra [...]
2006-03-02 09:53:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB ZI KWMN KFRD
06HARARE279ZIMBABWE 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] (U) The Government of Zimbabwe,s misgovernance has severely crippled the local economy, making it unlikely to attract or absorb significant foreign direct investment in 2006. Investment prospects in Zimbabwe are bound to remain dismal due to the country,s unstable economic and political env [...]
2006-03-07 14:18:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV
06HARARE310ZIMBABWE - INPUT FOR 2006 REPORT ON AGOA
[...] Zimbabwe continues to fall short of AGOA,s qualifying criteria. Post,s input for the annual AGOA report (reftel) follows: ------- Economy ------- 2. The government has an interventionist approach to the economy and Zimbabwe is generally unwelcoming to foreign investment. Private sec [...]
2006-03-10 12:44:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD PGOV PHUM ZI
06HARARE317ARMS CACHE SUSPECTS CHARGED, LINKED TO
[...] (SBU) The GOZ on March 11 charged eight suspects connected to last week,s arms seizure in Mutare (reftel). The eight were charged under Public Order and Security Act (POSA) prohibitions against processing weapons to commit banditry, sabotage, or terrorism. Appearing in a Mutare court to be c [...]
2006-03-14 16:53:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE319JUDGE FREES SEVEN ARMS CACHE DEFENDANTS
[...] (C) Ruling that police had acted improperly, High Court Judge Charles Hungwe on March 14 withdrew charges against all suspects linked to the arms cache discovered in Mutare last week, except for Michael Peter Hitschmann (reftel). The seven were released the morning of March 15. Zimbabwe Lawy [...]
2006-03-15 16:48:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE374IOM CHIEF ON LACK OF GOZ COOPERATION, FUNDING WOES
[...] (C) On March 22, Mohammed Abdiker, Chief of Mission for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Harare, told the Ambassador that the GOZ continued to hinder efforts to assist internally displaced persons (IDPs),many of whom were living in dire conditions. IOM nonetheless was bui [...]
2006-03-27 15:37:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM PREL KWMN ZI
06HARARE424REENERGIZED ANTI-SENATE MDC WING PLANS INCREASED
[...] (C) In a series of separate meetings with the Ambassador, leaders of the anti-Senate faction of the MDC depicted an opposition party that was reenergized by a successful Congress and prepared to confront the regime with greater energy and focus. Morgan Tsvangirai said he would conduct nation [...]
2006-04-11 11:28:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE434NEW LEGISLATION WOULD TIGHTEN GOZ'S GRIP
[...] (C) The GOZ in recent weeks has put forward several bills to Parliament, many of which would bolster the state's security apparatus. The Suppression of Foreign and International Terrorism Bill would update Zimbabwe's counterterrorism laws, and the Interception of Communications Bill would al [...]
2006-04-13 14:30:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC PINR EAGR TBIO PGOV ECPS PHUM PREL
06HARARE49TSVANGIRAI ON MDC CONGRESS(ES),ACTION PLAN,
[...] (C) Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai told the Ambassador on January 13 that he was pleased with progress on his party's provincial congresses and ongoing reconstitution of the party leadership. He reported on preparations for the March 18-19 MDC national congress, which included meetings [...]
2006-01-17 15:04:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE532AU REQUESTS "PROVISIONAL MEASURES" FROM GOZ IN
[...] (C) Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) Executive Director Arnold Tsunga conveyed to the Ambassador on May 5 a copy of a letter dated April 7, 2006, to President Mugabe from Ambassador Salamata Sawadogo, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' rights (ACPHR) (full text [...]
2006-05-09 14:15:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE59HARARE BFIF PROJECT PROPOSAL
[...] (U) Embassy Harare proposes to draw on the Business Facilitation and Incentive Fund (BFIF)(reftel) to sponsor a business/economic policy forum on "A Foundation for Economic Turnaround: Private Sector Perspectives." 2. (SBU) With Zimbabwe's GDP having contracted by more than a third in jus [...]
2006-01-20 04:46:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYABUD AMGT BEXP BTIO ECON ETRD ZI
06HARARE610ANTI-SENATE MDC FACTION WINS PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (C) The anti-Senate MDC faction candidate, Emmanuel Chisvuure, successfully defended the Budiriro constituency in a by-election held on May 20. The seat was vacant as a result of the February death of MDC M.P. Gilbert Shoko. In a tally confirmed by an independent election observing body, Ch [...]
2006-05-22 16:08:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALASEC PREL PGOV ZI
06HARARE670ZVOBGO ON STASIS, PROSPECTS FOR CHANGE IN ZANU-PF
[...] (C) ZANU-PF businessperson and provincial official Eddie Zvobgo told poloff June 1 that the ruling party would remain in disarray and paralyzed by succession tensions until Mugabe passed from the scene. However, he did not believe Mugabe intended to leave office any time soon. Moreover, neit [...]
2006-06-07 14:15:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE731GOZ POLICIES CRIPPLING BANKING SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Stricter liquidity controls implemented in January by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) are sapping the banking sector of vital capital at the same time as the industry struggles to comply with higher capital requirements that take effect later this year. This impending crunch has fue [...]
2006-06-19 15:32:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV PREL ZI
06HARARE765INFORMATION MINISTER'S PASSING LEAVES NO VOID
[...] (U) The state media on June 22 announced the June 21 death of Minister of Information and Publicity Tichaona Jokonya. A former Permanent Representative at the UN and Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority, Jokonya was 67. The minister had been treated in the United States for [...]
2006-06-27 15:43:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KPAO ZI
06HARARE770NO STABILITY IN SIGHT FOR ZIMBABWE'S LAND REFORM
[...] (C) Commercial Farm Union Vice President Trevor Gifford on June 27 updated poloff on the GOZ's latest 99-year lease form, which would vest in the GOZ unfettered authority to repossess any properties distributed in its ongoing chaotic land reform process. Gifford said the form offered insuffi [...]
2006-06-28 15:26:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALEAGR PGOV ASEC EINV PHUM PREL ECON ZI
06HARARE783MUTARE BISHOP ON DIALOGUE WITH MUGABE, NATIONAL
[...] (C) In a June 29 meeting with the Ambassador, Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe Bishop Trevor Manhanga said President Mugabe seemed genuine in his recent efforts to reach out to religious leaders. He said Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) head Happyton Bonyongwe was facilitating the bis [...]
2006-07-03 14:06:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE791PRO-SENATE MDC MP LLEGEDLY ATTACKED BY ANTI-SENATE FACTION
[...] (SBU)MDC pro-Senate faction MP Trudy Stevenson was severely assaulted on July 2 along with four other pro-Senate faction officials. Stevenson, who was reportedly attacked with a machete and rocks, has alleged that youths aligned to the anti-Senate MDC faction of Morgan Tsvangirai carried out [...]
2006-07-05 16:19:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL ZI ASEC PGOV
06HARARE884CENTRAL BANK HEAD - RUNNIN' OUT OF ZEROES
[...] (S/NF) Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono acknowledged to the Ambassador in a July 13 meeting that the Zimbabwean economy was in a state of crisis. Despite a modest drop in the annual rate, which he claimed reflected an abundant harvest, inflation remained the country,s greatest problem. It wa [...]
2006-07-17 07:05:00Embassy HarareSECRET//NOFORNPREL ZI
06HARARE908GEARING UP FOR AUGUST RURAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) chairperson Reginald Matchaba-Hove told the Ambassador July 12 that ZESN was planning to observe the local elections expected to be held August 19. He said there were rumors the elections might be delayed but there had been no official announcement [...]
2006-07-18 13:11:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL ZI
06HARARE95MDC INSIDER ON INTRA-PARTY NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (C) MDC MP Tendai Biti, who has been negotiating with Welshman Ncube,s faction on behalf of MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai, told the Ambassador January 19 that he had SIPDIS prepared a document that would lead to an amicable MDC &divorce.8 The Harare East MP said he had also prepared a dr [...]
2006-01-30 15:32:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE96ADVERSE REACTION TO GONO'S POLICY STATEMENT
[...] (C) Reaction to Reserve Bank (RBZ) Governor Gideon Gono's Monetary Policy Statement for the Fourth Quarter (details septel) has been largely negative. The independent media gave the most prominent coverage to Gono's public reference to the regime,s concern about public unrest over food insec [...]
2006-01-30 16:02:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE964GOZ HYPING CHINA'S ROLE IN ZIMBABWE,S ECONOMY
[...] (C) Despite GOZ attempts to hype supposed dividends from its relationship with China including the June visit of Vice President Joyce Mujuru to Beijing, business sector contacts tell us that promised Chinese investments have largely failed to materialize. The only major industry in which Chin [...]
2006-08-01 07:44:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ZI CH
06HARARE977ZIMBABWE - FY-2006 ESF REQUEST
[...] (SBU) As stated in the Mission Performance Plan, Zimbabwe today is a paradox. On the one hand, President Robert Mugabe and his ruling party have tightened their grip over the country in the past year and have benefited from the split in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). On [...]
2006-08-03 13:04:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAFIN AMGT EAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREL XA ZI
06HAVANA10078PAYA PRESENTS PROPOSAL FOR DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION
[...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban pro-democracy activist Oswaldo Paya has unveiled his latest push for a democratic Constitution, calling for a legal framework that would embrace multiple political parties, private enterprise and "social justice." The document, entitled "All Cubans," stems from a "N [...]
2006-05-11 22:30:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM PREL SOCI CU
06HAVANA10189CARTAS DE CUBA, SPRING 2006
[...] (U) The latest installment of Cartas de Cuba features the following items: - GOC Delirious Over HRC Win - PR on the Prowl - PR vs. BR - Robinson Liked His Whiskey - Party Shuffle - Feisty - New Strategy: Give 'Em Money, Make 'Em Spend It - Just Below the Surface - CDRs... Who [...]
2006-05-12 16:54:00US Interests Section HavanaSECRETPGOV PINR PINS ECON EFIN EAGR SOCI UN CU
06HAVANA11516"FRIENDS OF DEMOCRATIC CUBA" INSPIRE ACTIVISTS,
[...] (C) Summary: Cuban pro-democracy activists got a boost from the May 24 conference call with the "Group of Friends of Democratic Cuba," a loose alliance of US Representatives, European diplomats in Washington, prominent members of the Miami exile community and others. One of the activist part [...]
2006-06-02 20:53:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA15749ANTI-DISSIDENT ACTIVITIES CONTINUE IN CUBA
[...] (C) Summary: Cuban regime agents continue to carry out "acts of repudiation" and other aggressive actions against pro-democracy activists, but to no greater or lesser extent than before the July 31 announcement of Fidel Castro's temporary withdrawal. Since then, at least five anti-dissident i [...]
2006-08-09 11:49:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM PREL SOCI CU
06HAVANA16137REGIME IMAGES: CASTRO PASSES TORCH TO CHAVEZ
[...] (C) Cuban state media on August 14 released still images, and then a video, of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's bedside visit with Fidel Castro a day earlier. Photographic images charged with symbolic meaning are among the hallmarks of Castro's reign; the latest images symbolize Castro's e [...]
2006-08-15 20:01:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV PREL VE CU
06HAVANA16867CUBAN ACTIVIST FERRER PREPARES CALL FOR PLEBISCITE
[...] (C) Summary: Dissident Cuban doctor Darsi Ferrer remains conspicuously out of prison, two weeks after calling on the Cuban people to openly defy the Government. Ferrer told us August 23 he is fearful and uneasy over the GOC's failure to arrest him for his appeal, which was carried by five Mia [...]
2006-08-23 20:43:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA16868ROQUE ON TENTATIVE COOPERATION WITH PAYA, OTHERS
[...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban activist Martha Beatriz Roque expressed optimism August 23 over what she described as her warming ties with Oswaldo Paya, the other heavyweight in the splintered dissident community. Roque said that at an August 17 event, she and Paya conversed and saw eye to eye on [...]
2006-08-23 22:02:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA17683CUBAN FARINAS ENDS HUNGER STRIKE AFTER SEVEN MONTHS
[...] (C) Summary: Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas ended his hunger strike August 31 after surviving on IV fluids for seven months in a campaign for internet access for all Cubans. The independent journalist decided to end the hunger strike following a joint appeal by three leading women dissiden [...]
2006-09-01 18:55:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA20783CUBANS UNEASY WITH DPRK NUKE TEST
[...] (C) Summary: The Cuban Government on October 10 signaled its displeasure with North Korea's reported nuclear test. In language lacking the warmth usually reserved for a fellow communist nation, Cuban state media reported the UN Security Council's condemnation of the reported underground blast [...]
2006-10-11 20:24:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPREL KN PARM KNNP CU
06HAVANA21268CUBAN GOVT SIGNALS LINGERING IRE OVER DPRK NUKE
[...] (C) Cuban state media on October 14 disseminated a statement from the 183-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM),currently headed by Cuba, on North Korea's reported nuclear blast. The statement, approved the previous day at UN headquarters, urges North Korea, a NAM member, to halt its nuclear tes [...]
2006-10-16 21:01:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPREL KN PARM KNNP CU
06HAVANA22158DISSIDENT DETENTIONS AND ROBBERIES ON RISE IN CUBA
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: While rumors abound over how much time Fidel Castro has left (septel),Cuban authorities are increasingly detaining and even robbing pro-democracy and human rights activists. In the past 10 days, at least seven dissidents were detained, most for brief periods, after v [...]
2006-10-25 22:31:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23544CUBA RELEASES 3 DETAINEES, PROLONGS JAILING OF 2
[...] (C) Summary. The Cuban Government has released from prison three more dissidents, one of whom had been convicted and two held without charges since a July 22, 2005 protest in Havana. The releases bring to at least five the number of political detainees/prisoners freed in recent weeks. Meanwhi [...]
2006-11-27 14:29:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23546LANDMARK FORUM BRINGS TOGETHER YOUNG CUBAN
[...] (C) Summary: An unprecedented opposition youth forum brought together young Cuban pro-democracy activists and counterparts from Monterrey, Mexico on November 24 in Havana. The three-hour-long event, held at the PAO Residence, saw participants engage in open debate after watching an inspiration [...]
2006-11-27 19:37:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23564RAUL DELIVERS CASTRO BIRTHDAY SPEECH
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-04 20:33:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALCU PGOV PREL
06HAVANA23582ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, CUBAN MOB ATTACKS ACTIVISTS
[...] (C) Summary: A large group of Cuban communist militants and State Security officials broke up a Human Rights Day march by 12 peaceful activists, throwing several to the ground in front of UNESCO's Havana office. The activists, led by Dr. Darsi Ferrer Ramirez, were pushed, kicked and punched, [...]
2006-12-11 21:11:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23588SCENESETTER FOR CODEL FLAKE: FIDEL EBBING AWAY
[...] (SBU) Summary: CODEL Flake arrives at a pivotal, historic time in Cuba. We and others consider Fidel Castro's health to be so critical that he could die any day. His brother, Raul Castro, has been in charge since July 31, 2006, and has done nothing to significantly change the Cuban regime's [...]
2006-12-12 18:10:00US Interests Section HavanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV ECON PHUM KDEM SMIG CU
06HAVANA23608CUBAN REGIME STIFFS CODEL FLAKE
[...] (C) Summary: A Congressional Delegation led by Rep. Jeff Flake (R/AZ) spent the December 15-17 weekend publicly urging a change in US policy, but privately getting rebuffed by a Cuban regime that insisted it had no reason or desire to reform itself. The CODEL presented a letter requesting re [...]
2006-12-18 17:00:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALOREP PREL ECON PHUM KDEM CU
06HAVANA23612CODEL FLAKE PRESS CONFERENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: CODEL Flake was besieged by international press upon arrival in Havana on December 15 (reftel). Both in their individual comments to the media and in a joint statement read at a December 17 press conference, CODEL members characterized this as a time for dialogue and an "histor [...]
2006-12-18 20:55:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALOREP PREL ECON PHUM KDEM CU
06HAVANA23624RESTRICTIONS ON INTERNATIONAL PRESS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-21 19:01:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALCU KPAO PGOV
06HAVANA8769CASTRO'S YOUTHFUL RECRUITS WAGE WAR ON CORRUPTION
[...] (C) Summary: One of Castro's top concerns this year is the battle against corruption. In a campaign that began five months ago, hundreds of state workers have been fired or transferred. Thousands of "social workers" (unemployed youth) were enlisted to man the gas pumps and oversee the books at ho [...]
2006-04-24 15:33:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI ECON CU
06HAVANA9469CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP
[...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque is recovering after being roughed up by Communist militants outside her home. Roque, weary but defiant, met with COM April 29 and expressed pleasure with the wide media coverage of the incident and subsequent foreign-government attenti [...]
2006-05-05 14:36:00US Interests Section HavanaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU
06HELSINKI1025FINLAND: I2010 INFORMATION SOCIETY CONFERENCE
[...] European decision-makers and leading experts convened in Espoo, Finland on September 28th to discuss the challenges of the information society during the i2010 Conference, "Towards a Ubiquitous European Information Society." The Conference examined the opportunities and challenges that new in [...]
2006-10-10 13:44:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDECPS EINT ELTN FI
06HELSINKI1112EU-RUSSIA JHA PERMANENT PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL READOUT
[...] The EU-Russia Permanent Partnership Council on Justice and Home Affairs met in Helsinki on 30 October. The Finnish Minister of Justice Luhtanen and Minister of the Interior Rajamaki represented the Presidency, German Minister of Justice Zypries and Minister of the Interior Schauble represented [...]
2006-11-01 06:45:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KJUS PHUM PTER EUN FI RU
06HELSINKI1137U.S.-EU HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE ON CLIMATE CHANGE,
[...] At the first-ever High Level Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development (HLD) October 24-25 in Helsinki, the U.S. and EU agreed to strengthen bilateral efforts in areas including clean coal, carbon sequestration, energy efficiency, renewables, methane recovery, and b [...]
2006-11-07 12:50:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG TRGY TSPL ELTN EUN EPET FI
06HELSINKI1173DAS KRAMER AND FINNISH DG ESKELINEN DISCUSS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary David Kramer on 15 November met with Finnish Director General Eskelinen and other foreign ministry staff to discuss U.S. consultations around the G-8 Political Directors' meeting in Moscow and Finnish preparations for the upcoming EU-Russia summit on 24 [...]
2006-11-21 14:26:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG RU FI EUN BO MD PL UP
06HELSINKI182FINLAND: 2006 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING-IN-PERSONS REPORT
[...] (SBU) The following responses are keyed to the checklist in ref A. Embassy Helsinki's point of contact on TIP is Political Officer David Allen Schlaefer; SchlaeferDA2@state.gov; 358-09-6162-5482 or 358-050-322-7923. The Embassy estimates that 80 hours of time were spent preparing this rep [...]
2006-03-08 07:56:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SOCI SMIG PGOV KCRM ELAB KWMN ASEC KFRD PREF FI
06HELSINKI254AVIAN INFLUENZA EXPECTED TO REACH FINLAND WITHIN A
[...] The Finnish government (GOF) is convinced that avian influenza (AI) will spread to Finland by migratory birds returning north. GOF says it is not a matter of "if" AI will arrive in Finland, but rather "when." It is assumed that the virus will be found in Finland as increasing numbers of migr [...]
2006-03-27 12:44:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU ECON AMGT AEMR CASC PREL WHO FI
06HELSINKI465FINNISH VIEW ON US-EU SUMMIT PREPARATIONS, AFGHAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: U/S for Political Affairs Lyra told Ambassador that the US and EU are making good progress toward finalizing Summit Declarations, although more work needs to be done to create a real dialogue on climate change and to find language that is not counterproductive to our shared goals [...]
2006-05-26 09:55:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPGOV SENV PREL MARR FI EU
06HELSINKI467FINLAND: THE FAR LEFT SLOWLY IMPLODES
[...] (U) Summary: Finland's only far-left party, the Left Alliance (LA),is struggling in the wake of the resignation of its popular chairperson, Suvi-Anne Siimes. An extraordinary congress elected a radical labor leader as the new chairperson, alienating some party leaders and leading to the r [...]
2006-05-26 10:25:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV FI
06HELSINKI733TFLEO1: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES LEBANON CRISIS WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Ware met with Finland's Foreign Minister, Erkki Tuomioja, on July 31. Tuomioja said that his just-completed trip to the Middle-east confirmed his view that Israel could not achieve its military goals, and that an immediate cease-fire followed by a comprehensive settl [...]
2006-07-31 15:45:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MEPP EUN FI
06HELSINKI75PAAVO LIPPONEN'S SILLY SEASON COMMENTS ON NATO AND
[...] (SBU) Finnish Speaker of Parliament and former Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen prompted a media feeding frenzy this week when he publicly criticized Conservative (CONS) presidential candidate Sauli Niinisto's increasingly pro-NATO arguments and urged caution toward NATO membership because it wou [...]
2006-01-27 08:44:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MARR PINR FI
06HELSINKI842FINLAND TO STRONGLY URGE SYRIA TO RESPECT LEBANON
[...] (C) Summary: DCM and PolChief met with MFA Political Director Vierros-Villeneuve Aug. 22 to express US disappointment regarding the Aug. 23 visit of Syrian FM Walid Al-Moallem to Helsinki; to remind the GOF of the need to isolate Syria diplomatically; and to urge that the Finns use the meeting [...]
2006-08-22 12:25:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PGOV MARR FI SY LE
06HELSINKI994SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS PEKALA'S VISIT TO HELSINKI, OCTOBER
[...] Half way through its EU Presidency, Finland has proven to be the behind-the-scenes negotiator we expected rather than the more out-in-front leader we might have preferred. Often valuing consensus above all, the Finns have been unusually content to see the Commission take the lead on many issu [...]
2006-09-28 13:43:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OTRA SENV ENRG ECON FI
06HELSINKI995GOF ENVIRONMENT MINISTER CONFIRMS TO AMBASSADOR THE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Ware met with Environment Minister Enestam on September 27 to discuss the upcoming High Level Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development (HLD),which he confirmed would take place on October 24-25. Enestam also confirmed he will co- chair th [...]
2006-09-28 13:43:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SENV ENRG EU PREL FI
06HERMOSILLO166SPIKE IN DRUG VIOLENCE IN HERMOSILLO
[...] (U) Summary: Over the past several months there appears to be a trend of increasing violence in the area in and around Hermosillo, Sonora, culminating with several events during Holy Week. The violence appears to be largely confined to rival drug trafficking groups. Although there is no elemen [...]
2006-04-22 00:20:00Consulate HermosilloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SNAR ASEC CASC MX
06HERMOSILLO228MAJOR PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS VISIT SONORA
[...] (SBU) Summary. All three major presidential candidates campaigned in Sonora over the last two weeks, with none of them making a big splash. The calculated distancing of Governor Bours from Robert Madrazo was obvious. However, the Governor still studiously avoided an irrevocable split with Ma [...]
2006-05-31 02:18:00Consulate HermosilloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM MX
06HERMOSILLO274CULIACAN CONFERENCE EXPLORES REFORM ALTERNATIVES FOR MEXICAN
[...] (U) Summary: On May 25, little more than a month before Mexico's national elections, the annual binational academic conference in Sinaloa on democratic development comparatively examined presidential and parliamentary systems. Participants reviewed the strengths and weaknesses of Mexico's p [...]
2006-06-27 00:31:00Consulate HermosilloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ECON EINV OEXC MX
06HERMOSILLO29SONORA PRI AND PAN PARTIES PREPARE FOR 2006 ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Electoral politics are beginning to grab the local headlines in Sonora. In a state where the National Action Party (PAN) is strongest, Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Governor Bours has visibly asserted his local political identity and independence from the PRI nation [...]
2006-01-21 01:18:00Consulate HermosilloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM MX
06HERMOSILLO36PRD AND "ALTERNATIVA" PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES CAMPAIGN IN
[...] (SBU) Summary. PRD presidential candidate Lopez Obrador made his first official campaign swing through Sonora state January 27. His visit culminated in political rally in Hermosillo, which was well attended, but not as large as claimed. He made 32 promises to Sonoran voters - local media fo [...]
2006-01-31 03:48:00Consulate HermosilloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EINV ENRG SNAR MX
06HERMOSILLO79PRISON CONDITIONS IN SONORA: JUST AS BAD AS ALWAYS, ONLY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: After the prison break of January 15 in Hermosillo (Ref A),Governor Eduardo Bours Castelo fired top management and ordered a review of the entire state prison system. The investigation uncovered serious irregularities in 15 of the 16 prisons in Sonora. As a recent visit by Cons [...]
2006-02-25 01:34:00Consulate HermosilloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC PGOV ASEC ALOW MX
06HERMOSILLO9SONORA STATE OFFICIALS SEE 5 PERCENT ECONOMIC GROWTH IN
[...] (U) Summary. Sonora economic officials are projecting that the state's economic growth rate for 2006 will be 5 percent. This would match 2005, when the Ford Company's major expansion of its automobile assembly operations in Hermosillo gave Sonora a major boost. Plans for a new LNG terminal i [...]
2006-01-10 23:24:00Consulate HermosilloUNCLASSIFIEDECON EIND ENRG EINV EPET MX
06HERMOSILLO95PRESIDENT FOX BRIEFLY VISITS HERMOSILLO
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Vicente Fox made a lightning visit to Sonora March 4, ostensibly for ribbon cuttings on two highway infrastructure projects in Hermosillo. Local media described the visit as a low-key campaign stop on behalf of the National Action Party (PAN),which it seemed to be, [...]
2006-03-07 00:42:00Consulate HermosilloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON ELAB MX
06HILLAH100MADHI MILITIA ACTIVITY ON THE RISE IN BABIL PROVINCE
[...] (U) This is a Babil PRT cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) Throughout the second half of May and into early June, the Madhi Militia (MM and also commonly referred to as Jaysh al Mahdi or JAM) has increased its presence in Al-Hillah and Babil, engaging in overt attacks directed agains [...]
2006-06-11 09:50:00REO HillahSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PTER MOPS KISL IZ
06HILLAH101BAGHDAD THREATENS REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Baghdad-based Iraqi Media Network (IMN) and national Al-Sabah newspapers are threatening to cut subsidies to South Central regional independent newspapers, potentially forcing the closure of journals Al-Fayhaa in Babil, Al-Diwaniyah in Diwaniyah, and Al-Ilam Al-Iraqi in Karbal [...]
2006-06-11 17:45:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PROP KISL SCUL IZ
06HILLAH124HOW THE SOUTH WAS WON - TALLYING UP ELECTION DAY FRAUD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: For perspective on potential problems in upcoming provincial council elections, REO Staff spoke to representatives of the South Central Iraqi National Accord (INA),Communist Party, Iraqi Election Commission (IECI),and other contacts about ballot tampering and other forms of voter [...]
2006-07-25 04:59:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL PROP IZ
06HILLAH135MALIKI, SISTANI MEET TO DISCUSS SECURITY, SHABANIYA AND THE
[...] (C) Summary and comment: A day after relating his concerns regarding the security of Iraqis, the shortage of essential services and a "crippled" judicial system to the Prime Minister, who was paying him a call on the eve of a major religious holiday, Shi'a Islam's leading religious figure repor [...]
2006-09-10 15:32:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS IZ
06HILLAH157SADR RENEWS CALL FOR IRAQI UNITY, WITHDRAWAL OF FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary. December 11, Muqtada Al Sadr issued a statement outlining his issues with United States presence in Iraq. Sadr decried what he sees as the systematic destruction of Iraqi society by the twin demons of the United States and Ba'athists. He repeated his call for the withdrawal or ou [...]
2006-12-16 11:01:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PINS PREL IZ
06HILLAH24JAFARI NOMINATION VARIOUSLY GREETED WITH PRAISE, DISBELIEF,
[...] (SBU) Summary: The selection of Ibrahim Jafari as the choice of the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) to serve as Prime Minister of the new Iraqi government was greeted by widely divergent reactions across South Central Iraq. Most Shi'a Islamist contacts praised Jafari, even as some UIA constituent g [...]
2006-02-22 13:47:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KISL IZ
06HILLAH4NAJAF OFFICIALS PLAN INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT CONFERENCE,
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Najaf Deputy Governor told REO Al-Hillah staff of his intention to hold an international investment and economic development conference in Najaf in February. In a January 4 meeting, the Deputy Governor asked for U.S. support in publicizing the conference to American officials [...]
2006-01-06 17:03:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EINV ECIN EAGR PGOV KISL IZ
06HILLAH54FORMER NAJAF GOVERNOR ON AL-SADR, IRANIAN INFLUENCE
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Former Najaf Governor and head of the Loyalty to An Najaf party Adnan Al Zurfi believes Muqtada Al-Sadr wishes to avoid armed confrontation with coalition forces, but is finding it difficult to keep Madhi Army militia under his direct control. Sadr, Zurfi commented, is listening to [...]
2006-04-05 10:05:00REO HillahSECRETPGOV PREL KDEM IZ
06HILLAH58NAJAF QUIET, BUT ANTI-CF RUMORS FLY; BABIL QUIET DESPITE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: REO Al-Hillah media contacts reported that while Najaf city was calm and under tight police and army control, Mahdi Army members were seen massing in the cemetery area. The city is abuzz with rumors, and several contacts reported that much of the chatter blames the attacks on th [...]
2006-04-07 18:07:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV KIBL IZ
06HILLAH66NAJAF: SADR MEETS WITH SISTANI'S SON, SUPPORTS JA'AFARI FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On the evening of April 13, Mohammad Ridha Sistani, son of Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, visited Moqtada Al-Sadr at his residence in the Al-Hannah district of Najaf to discuss the ongoing government formation process. According to sources from within Sadr's and Sistani's offices, Sadr [...]
2006-04-15 15:15:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM IZ
06HILLAH91DECONSTRUCTING BABIL? SECULAR SHI'AS AND SUNNIS WARY OF PC,
[...] (U) This is a Babil PRT cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The unabated efforts of the Babil Provincial Council (PC) to usurp power from local municipalities and gain control of the provincial security forces continue to provoke a secular Shi'a and Sunni backlash against the SCIRI-controlled body (ref [...]
2006-05-23 15:08:00REO HillahCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM IZ
06HOCHIMINHCITY1009POPULAR ANGER OVER LAND DISPUTES; PROTESTS IN HCMC
[...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past few months, ConGen has observed a steady stream of small, peaceful protests over land, representing disgruntled groups from the Mekong Delta and the HCMC region. HCMC media contacts tell us of popular dissatisfaction over land expropriation policy and associated o [...]
2006-09-06 10:00:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SOCI KJUS EAID ECON PREL KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1066HCMC SCENE SETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL HAGEL
[...] (SBU) Senator Hagel: It is my pleasure to welcome you and your delegation to Ho Chi Minh City on October 5. The city has changed enormously since your last visit here in 1999. There is a new, modern satellite city to the south, extensive new construction in the center and a commercial [...]
2006-09-20 05:21:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON KIRF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1086MEDIA APPROVES AMBASSADOR'S HCMC POLICY SPEECH
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-25 10:09:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ECON VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1128AVIAN INFLUENZA PREPAREDNESS IN CENTRAL VIETNAM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff visited Danang, Quang Nam, and Thua Thien Hue provinces in Central Vietnam to assess provincial Avian Influenza (AI) preparedness activities. Animal Health and Preventive Health authorities are generally satisfied with current AI prevention programs in their provinces, [...]
2006-10-04 09:58:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1276DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL VIETNAM: A VISIT TO QUANG NAM, DANANG
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent visit to the coastal provinces of Central Vietnam, Econoff discussed with area contacts the region's economic development, particularly infrastructure upgrades and its impact on attracting investment. The region has yet to see a significant influx of foreign investme [...]
2006-11-07 11:55:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EWWT PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1386HCMC LABOR OFFICIAL IN HOT WATER OVER TALK TO U.S. BUSINESS
[...] (C) Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai (protect),Vice Director for Labor Affairs at HCMC's Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, ConGen HCMC's best government contact on labor issues, told us on December 12 that she faces Party disciplinary action following a speech she gave to the HCMC American [...]
2006-12-12 10:40:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityCONFIDENTIALELAB PREL ECON PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1404HCMC CONTACT ON CHINA, INTERNAL CPV POLITICS AND PRESSURE ON
[...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment: On December 12 we met with Huy Duc (protect),a well-placed HCMC media contact, to review the results of the APEC Leaders' Summit, media issues and internal political developments. Duc reportedly is close to Politburo member Truong Tan Sang, head of the Communist P [...]
2006-12-15 11:45:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL CH PGOV PHUM PINR VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1492ALL HIS (PRIME MINISTER DZUNG'S) CHILDREN
[...] (S/NF) Summary and Introduction: ConGen has been seeking additional information on the biographies of the three children of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung. We understand that Dzung, in his meeting with the President during the APEC Leaders' Summit, sought to deflect or downplay the ties of h [...]
2006-12-26 09:36:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CitySECRET//NOFORNPINR ECON EFIN PGOV PREL VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1497AVIAN INFLUENZA: ADDITIONAL POULTRY FLOCKS INFECTED IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Animal Health Authorities have confirmed that Avian Influenza (AI) has been detected in additional poultry flocks in southern Vietnam's Ca Mau province. This comes only days after 6,000 birds, mostly ducks, died from AI in Ca Mau and neighboring Bac Lieu Province (Ref A). GVN [...]
2006-12-28 09:52:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY18VISIT TO ETHNIC MINORITY MINORITY RETURNEES IN DAK LAK
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a January 4-5 visit to the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, PolOff met with four ethnic Jarai voluntary returnees from Cambodia and the family of a fifth. Government officials reported -- and other returnees confirmed -- that a sixth returnee was killed in a late De [...]
2006-01-06 11:23:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI EAID VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
06HOCHIMINHCITY229(SBU) HCMC NEWSPAPERS PUSH BOUNDS OF POLITICAL DEBATE
[...] (C) Summary: Although all of HCMC's newspaper are subject to Party control and censorship, two of its leading national dailies -- Tuoi Tre and Thanh Nien -- have become more assertive, even on some political matters. The newspapers, financially independent, politically well-connected, and i [...]
2006-03-03 10:37:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SOCI PHUM VM LABOR DPOL HUMANR
06HOCHIMINHCITY31HCMC STRIKES FORCE AN INCREASE IN VIETNAM'S MINIMUM WAGE
[...] (SBU) Summary: A rash of strikes in foreign-owned factories in the Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) area since December 28 has led local authorities to urge the GVN to raise the national minimum wage for employees in Foreign-Invested Enterprises (FIE) by as much as 40 percent. The strikes started in [...]
2006-01-10 03:22:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON ETRD PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY320HCMC MEDIA CONTINUES TO PRESS THE REFORM ENVELOPE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of articles that coincided with the recently-concluded 14th Party Plenum, HCMC-based newspapers continued a public push for reform. Emphasizing rule of law, one of the articles questioned the hitherto-sacrosanct Article 4 of the Constitution, which codifies Communis [...]
2006-03-28 11:44:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SOCI KCOR ECON VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY412VIETNAM INTERNET: NEW CHANNELS FOR MEDIA AND POLITICAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Internet use in HCMC and other towns -- small and large -- in Vietnam is expanding dramatically. Although the GVN has established a tight regulatory and technical framework to control the Internet, its impact on use and access appears relatively muted thus far. Political and r [...]
2006-04-21 10:58:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SOCI PREL PINR PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY435CAO DAI ACTIVIST JAILED
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 14, a Cao Dai activist, Tran Huu Phuoc, was sentenced by a Tay Ninh court to two years' imprisonment for "slandering" government officials and members of the GVN-recognized Cao Dai Executive Council. Government-controlled press in Tay Ninh Province subsequently accused [...]
2006-04-25 10:09:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KIRF SOCI VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY503VIETNAM PARTY CONGRESS: HCMC REACTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary. HCMC-based businessmen, bureaucrats and journalists are disappointed, but realistic about the results of the Party Congress. Despite the strong push from the reform wing, in their view, conservatives and supporters of the status quo prevailed. They are uncertain about the orie [...]
2006-05-17 03:18:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL ECON SOCI PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY551CONSUL GENERAL MEETS UBCV PATRIARCH THICH HUYEN QUANG
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a private meeting on May 18, Thich Huyen Quang, Patriarch of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) told the Consul General that he is not optimistic about prospects for normalization of his organization's status. The 87 year-old monk said that he remains under e [...]
2006-05-24 10:16:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL KIRF SOCI PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY590ETHNIC KHMER OF TRA VINH PROVINCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In early May, the Ambassador visited Tra Vinh Province in the Mekong Delta and discussed ethnic Khmer issues with provincial officials, local Khmer and a leading Khmer Buddhist cleric. Ethnic Khmer make up 30 percent of the population of Tra Vinh and conditions for this minorit [...]
2006-06-02 11:28:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL ECON EAID KIRF SOCI PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY607TRAN KHUE DISCUSSES THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF VIETNAM
[...] (C) Summary: On June 6 we met with political dissident Tran Khue in HCMC to discuss developments related to the "Democratic Party of Vietnam," which Khue and other dissidents launched in Hanoi on June 1. Khue said that he has been tasked with opening a Party office in HCMC; he has sufficient [...]
2006-06-06 09:49:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY808DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF VIETNAM PRESSES; GVN RESPONDS CAREFULLY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Political activist and senior member of the nascent Democratic Party of Vietnam (DPV) Tran Khue faces official harassment as he presses his party's agenda. HCMC authorities restricted Khue's movement and briefly detained him on July 15, 16 and 18, when he was questioned about t [...]
2006-07-25 12:33:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV PINR VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY87ANALYSIS OF PROVINCIAL PARTY CONGRESSES IN CENTRAL AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: In late 2005, provincial Communist Party Committees in southern and central Vietnam conducted their Party Congresses to select the new crop of provincial leaders for the 2006-2010 term. The results may offer some indication of the thinking and direction of the Party as it prepa [...]
2006-01-25 08:58:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PREL SOCI KIRF PHUM VM DPOL
06HOCHIMINHCITY925(C) DISSIDENTS AND POLICE STEP UP ACTIVITIES IN HCMC
[...] (C) Summary: Two new political activist networks are emerging in the HCMC consular district working alongside more established dissidents. The new groups - the 8406 Bloc (named for their April 8, 2006 manifesto) and the Bach Dang Giang Foundation -- are more activist and daring than the more c [...]
2006-08-18 09:18:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PINR KIRF VM
06HONGKOG2054MNUSCRIPT OF ZHAO ZIYANG CONVERSATIONS LEAKED TO
[...] (C) Summary: On May 15, Liu Baopu, the son of Zhao Ziyang's aide Bao Tong, discussed with poloff the recent controversy over a leaked manuscript about Zhao written by Zong Fengming, Zhao's qigong meditation coach. Zong, 86, recently complained to the media that portions of his manuscript, ba [...]
2006-05-18 03:29:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1072ARTICLE 45 CONCERN GROUP FORMS HONG KONG'S NEWEST
[...] (C) Summary: On March 19, Hong Kong's Article 45 Concern Group plans to announce the formal inauguration of its new political party, the "Civic Party," with Article 45 co-founder and Legislative Councilor Audrey Eu as the party's first parliamentary leader. Two independent democrats in the L [...]
2006-03-15 09:26:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH HK
06HONGKONG1252DRL OFFICER RANA SIU'S VISIT TO HONG KONG: CIVIL
[...] (C) During a March 13-16 visit to Hong Kong, DRL Foreign Affairs Officer Rana Siu discussed civil society and political party developments with Hong Kong-based NGOs. According to the National Democratic Institute (NDI),the pro-Government parties have become more skittish about participating i [...]
2006-03-24 09:21:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL HK CH PINR PHUM ELAB
06HONGKONG1284NPC DELEGATES DISCUSS HONG KONG'S ROLE IN CHINA
[...] (C) Summary: During a March 24 lunch with the Consul General, seven Hong Kong delegates to the PRC National People's Congress (NPC) and/or the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) discussed the role of Hong Kong in the PRC's Eleventh Five-Year Plan. Several delegates sa [...]
2006-03-27 09:56:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH HK
06HONGKONG1285CODEL GRAHAM FOCUSES ON CURRENCY AND PORT SECURITY
[...] (C) Renminbi (RMB) valuation, port security, and mainland urban/rural disparity dominated the March 25-26 visit to Hong Kong of Senators Lindsey Graham and Charles Schumer. Hong Kong Monetary Authority Chief Executive Joseph Yam encouraged the Senators to continue pressing the mainland to libe [...]
2006-03-27 10:02:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD EFIN WTRO PGOV OREP HK CH
06HONGKONG1362CARDINAL ZEN OPTIMISTIC ON SINO-VATICAN RELATIONS;
[...] (C) Summary: On March 30, newly appointed Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun said he was optimistic about the restoration of ties between the Holy See and Beijing. According to Zen, the Pope had made clear that he wanted to visit the mainland. During a special Vatican ceremony for the new cardinals o [...]
2006-03-31 10:27:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1512DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S ELECTION STRATEGY
[...] (C) Summary: On April 7, Consul General Cunningham met with Lee Wing-tat, Democratic Party (DP) Chairman to review the party's election strategy. Lee said he welcomed the creation of the Civic Party and seemed pretty confident that the pan-democrats could get the hundred plus Chief Executive [...]
2006-04-11 09:57:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1594WHAT'S ON HONG KONG'S MIND THESE DAYS?
[...] (SBU) Inevitably our reporting concentrates on major political and economic developments, but the full flavor of Hong Kong life, and the context for the major developments, is also important. Hong Kong people are concerned about Constitutional Reform and maintaining their competitive edge ov [...]
2006-04-18 10:12:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINR PREL PGOV SOCI CH HK
06HONGKONG1656UPDATE ON COVERT SURVEILLANCE AND WIRETAPPING
[...] (C) Summary: As committee debate continues in the Legislative Council (Legco) on the Government's bill to regulate covert surveillance and wiretapping, critics of the legislation say they want to amend several troubling aspects of the legislation. Two prominent legal groups recently issued re [...]
2006-04-20 09:11:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL HK CH PINR MC
06HONGKONG1687PRC PLANS FOR INDIVIDUAL INVESTMENT ABROAD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: China's recent announcement of steps to allow expanded individual access to foreign exchange as well as the creation of new channels for investment abroad has driven up Hong Kong's stock market, drawn out enthusiastic prognostications from media, and even impressed our financial [...]
2006-04-24 03:22:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV HK CH
06HONGKONG1744CIVIC PARTY: SEEKING FUNDS AND SUPPORT
[...] (C) Summary: More than one month after its inauguration as Hong Kong's newest political party, the Civic Party (CP) continues to promote itself and its platform to the public and to seek financial support for its activities. On April 22, CP Chairman Kuan Hsin-chi and party leader Audrey Eu mi [...]
2006-04-26 10:05:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1819CHIEF EXECUTIVE DONALD TSANG AND THE DAB: CORE
[...] (C) Summary: Since his early March return from the National People's Congress (NPC) annual meeting in Beijing, Chief Executive (CE) Donald Tsang has drawn closer to Hong Kong's leading pro-Beijing political party, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB). Beg [...]
2006-05-02 10:09:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1839CHINA CURRENCY AND MACRO POLICY: IMF'S
[...] (SBU) Media coverage of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) May 2 unveiling in Hong Kong of its Asia-Pacific regional outlook is based primarily on an advance press release and does not capture the prescriptive approach put forward at the event with regard to China's currency and macroecon [...]
2006-05-03 11:01:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV HK CH
06HONGKONG1862FORMER JUSTICE SECRETARY ELSIE LEUNG TO LEAD
[...] (C) Summary: On May 7-18, former Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Elsie Leung, will lead a "Better Hong Kong Foundation" (BHKF) delegation to the U.S. to explain implementation of the "One Country, Two Systems" principle in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover to the PRC, as well as other politic [...]
2006-05-04 10:55:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH HK
06HONGKONG1863ARTICLE 23 NATIONAL SECURITY DEBATE REAPPEARS IN
[...] (C) Summary: On April 27, Professor Wang Zhenmin, a PRC member of the Hong Kong Basic Law Committee, publicly listed six prerequisites for implementation of universal suffrage in Hong Kong, one of which was enactment of Article 23 national security legislation (ref a). Reaction in Hong Kong t [...]
2006-05-04 11:25:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH HK
06HONGKONG1941HONG KONG PRIVACY COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE
[...] (C) Summary: On May 2, Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner confirmed to poloff that the Commission was investigating whether information provided by Yahoo! regarding mainland journalist Shi Tao, had violated the territory's Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. Although Shi is not a Hong Kong resi [...]
2006-05-10 09:37:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1943COMPETITION LAW DEBATE AHEAD; LIKELY FOCUS TO BE
[...] (C) On May 8, the Chairman of Hong Kong's Competition Review Committee told the Deputy Principal Officer (DPO) that his group's report on whether Hong Kong needs a competition law should be completed in mid-June and made public in early July. The committee's present inclination is to assess a [...]
2006-05-11 03:42:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PREL PGOV CH HK
06HONGKONG2054MANUSCRIPT OF ZHAO ZIYANG CONVERSATIONS LEAKED TO
[...] (C) Summary: On May 15, Liu Baopu, the son of Zhao Ziyang's aide Bao Tong, discussed with poloff the recent controversy over a leaked manuscript about Zhao written by Zong Fengming, Zhao's qigong meditation coach. Zong, 86, recently complained to the media that portions of his manuscript, ba [...]
2006-05-18 03:29:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2094BANK OF CHINA GOING PUBLIC IN A VOLATILE MARKET
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a financial history milestone for both Hong Kong and the mainland, the Bank of China (BOC) is going public. The USD 10 billion initial public offering (IPO) now underway will almost certainly be the world's biggest this year and the largest ever for Hong Kong. The high degree [...]
2006-05-19 10:39:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN ECON HK CH
06HONGKONG2210WATCH THIS SPACE: ANSON CHAN AND THE ELECTION OF
[...] (C) Summary: On May 25, in her first public speech in more than three months, former Chief Secretary Anson Chan told a media awards dinner that at this time she was "not willing to disclose" her future plans regarding the 2007 Chief Executive election; instead, she instructed the press to "ju [...]
2006-05-26 09:46:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR CH HK
06HONGKONG2239VICTORY FOR DONALD TSANG: LEGCO SUBCOMMITTEE
[...] (C) Summary: On May 29, the Legislative Council (Legco) Public Works Subcommittee voted in favor of the Hong Kong Government's long-contested HKD 5.1 billion (USD 660 million) proposal to construct a new Government headquarters complex at the Tamar waterfront site. If, as expected, the Legco [...]
2006-05-30 10:04:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR CH HK
06HONGKONG2335CATHAY PLUS DRAGONAIR EQUALS ASIA'S LARGEST AIRLINE
[...] (C) A JP Morgan transportation analyst told us that he is confident that media reports are accurate regarding plans for Cathay Pacific to take over Dragonair. He anticipates the deal will be announced tomorrow (June 7). If true, Cathay Pacific would become the Asia-Pacific region's top carrie [...]
2006-06-06 09:28:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EAIR PREL PGOV CH HK
06HONGKONG2493UPDATE ON COVERT SURVEILLANCE AND WIRETAPPING
[...] (C) Summary: The government is becoming frustrated with the Legislative Council's (Legco) slow progress in scrutinizing a covert surveillance and wiretapping bill and has signaled that it may force a vote by August 2. On June 12, Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee called the progress "unsatis [...]
2006-06-15 10:06:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL HK CH PINR MC
06HONGKONG2509EVOLVING DISCUSSION OF AIR POLLUTION'S
[...] (C) Positive reaction to the Consul General's (CG) recent speech encouraging business to be proactive in addressing worsening air pollution suggests a growing realism and sophistication in the local smog debate. Shortly after the speech, a local NGO published a report listing dramatic health [...]
2006-06-16 07:40:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG SENV CH HK
06HONGKONG2606COULD A "CHINA ENRON" HAPPEN IN HONG KONG?
[...] (C) The expanding role of Hong Kong's stock market, now Asia's top location for raising new equity, underscores the importance of Hong Kong effectively vetting which firms list here and then regulating those companies in a manner that protects investor interests while also advancing China's ec [...]
2006-06-23 10:16:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EFIN PGOV HK CH
06HONGKONG2607THE FIGHT FOR PCCW
[...] (C) Summary: PCCW Limited (formerly known as Pacific Century CyberWorks Limited) is considering bids from three foreign suitors for its core telecommunications and media assets. Mainland Chinese telecommunications company China Network Communications Group Corporation (China Netcom),which h [...]
2006-06-23 10:36:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EFIN PGOV PREL CH HK
06HONGKONG2608SUBJECT: THE FIGHT FOR PCCW
[...] (C) Summary: PCCW Limited (formerly known as Pacific Century CyberWorks Limited) is considering bids from three foreign suitors for its core telecommunications and media assets. Mainland Chinese telecommunications company China Network Communications Group Corporation (China Netcom),which h [...]
2006-06-26 00:17:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNTAGS
06HONGKONG2609THE FIGHT FOR PCCW
[...] (C) Summary: PCCW Limited (formerly known as Pacific Century CyberWorks Limited) is considering bids from three foreign suitors for its core telecommunications and media assets. Mainland Chinese telecommunications company China Network Communications Group Corporation (China Netcom),which h [...]
2006-06-26 00:17:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EFIN PGOV PREL CH HK
06HONGKONG2635UPDATE ON COVERT SURVEILLANCE AND WIRETAPPING
[...] (C) Summary: The Bills Committee on the Interception of Communications and Covert Surveillance (BC) finished scrutinizing the legislation on June 22 -- only 10 days after Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee criticized the Committee SIPDIS for its slow progress (see ref a). Pro-democracy memb [...]
2006-06-26 09:24:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL HK CH PINR MC
06HONGKONG2638ANSON CHAN JOINS WITH DEMOCRATS IN URGING PUBLIC
[...] (C) Summary: On July 25, former Chief Secretary Anson Chan announced that she would join the July 1 pro-democracy march and urged Hong Kongers to turn out for the rally. Appearing in a joint press conference with fourteen democratic legislators, Chan denied that her decision to participate in [...]
2006-06-26 10:09:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2693CPPCC CHAIRMAN'S VISIT FOCUSES ON ECONOMIC TIES
[...] (C) Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Chairman Jia Qinglin visited Hong Kong June 27-29 and made a point on several occasions of commenting positively on Chief Executive Donald Tsang's leadership. With the exception of the Civic Party, most pan-democratic legislators [...]
2006-06-29 10:51:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL EFIN HK CH
06HONGKONG2709LOW TURNOUT EXPECTED FOR JULY 1 MARCH DESPITE
[...] (C) Summary: Organizers expect only 30,000 to 40,000 people to participate in this year's July 1 pro-democracy march in Hong Kong, despite the high-profile participation of popular former Chief Secretary Anson Chan. Nevertheless, the organizers hope that by placing less emphasis on other socia [...]
2006-06-30 09:21:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM PINR PGOV PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2728JULY 1 DEMONSTRATIONS: PRELUDE TO 2007 CHIEF
[...] (C) Summary: on July 1, Hong Kong marked the ninth anniversary of its reversion to the PRC with three major events: an official flag-raising ceremony led by Chief Executive Donald Tsang, a "patriotic" parade organized by a coalition of pro-Beijing and pro-business organizations that drew 40-5 [...]
2006-07-03 10:02:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL PINR CH HK
06HONGKONG2786QUASI-OFFICIAL PRC MAGAZINE ALLEGES U.S.
[...] (C) Since the 1997 handover, the PRC Government has conveyed its displeasure with U.S. policy towards Hong Kong through two primary channels -- formal demarches in Hong Kong and/or in Beijing, and/or the pro-Beijing local media -- often alleging U.S. "interference" in China's "internal affairs [...]
2006-07-07 09:34:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2851PCCW FOR SALE - SOLD!
[...] (C) Summary: On July 10, 2006, Pacific Century Cable & Wireless (PCCW) Chairman Richard Li announced that he would sell his 23 percent stake in PCCW to veteran investment banker and former Li Ka-shing (Hong Kong tycoon and Richard Li's father) ally Francis Leung. PCCW is Hong Kong's dominant [...]
2006-07-12 11:31:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EFIN ECPS PGOV PREL CH HK
06HONGKONG2908HONG KONG CONTACTS DISCUSS THE MEANING OF "WEI
[...] (C) Summary: According to Consulate contacts, the Chinese term "wei quan" is being used with increasing frequency to describe a broad range of protests occurring in China, as well as the work of a group of mainland lawyers and citizens/activists involved in these protests. While there is no d [...]
2006-07-17 09:36:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2966FORMER SECRETARY FOR SECURITY REGINA IP RETURNS TO
[...] (C) Summary: On July 18, following a well-choreographed return to Hong Kong, former Secretary for Security Regina Ip launched the Savantas Policy Institute, a think tank which will focus on how to transform Hong Kong into a knowledge-based economy and develop the city into the mainland's platf [...]
2006-07-20 10:17:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3063HONG KONG REACTIONS TO MARGARET CHAN,S NOMINATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: ON JULY 25, THE PRC CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN BEIJING NOMINATED DR. MARGARET CHAN, FORMER HONG KONG DIRECTOR OF HEALTH, TO BE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO). MEDIA REPORTS AND CONTACTS IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH FIELD SUGGEST BROAD SUPPORT FOR HER CANDIDACY, BELIE [...]
2006-07-28 08:56:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNAMED ECON PREL KSTH TBIO EAGR CVIS HK CH
06HONGKONG3066USCC MEETING WITH CARDINAL ZEN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A JUNE 25 MEETING WITH MEMBERS OF THE U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION (USCC),CARDINAL JOSEPH ZEN SAID THE TWO RECENT PRC ORDINATIONS OF BISHOPS WITHOUT VATICAN APPROVAL HAD CONSTITUTED A RETURN TO THE PRACTICE OF FIFTY YEARS AGO, ALTHOUGH HE BELIEVED THE IM [...]
2006-07-30 04:46:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR PHUM CH HK
06HONGKONG3109COVERT SURVEILLANCE BILL TO PASS DESPITE
[...] (SBU) SUMARY: PAN-DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATORS ANNOUNCED ON JLY 28 THAT THEY WOULD VOTE EN BLOC AGAINST THE COVERT SURVEILLANCE BILL WHEN IT COMES UP FOR A VOTE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AS EARLY AS AUGUST 2. DESPITE THIS, PASSAGE OF THE LEGISLATION IS ALL BUT ASSURED GIVEN THE SUPPORT OF THE PRO [...]
2006-08-01 10:27:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL HK CH PINR MC
06HONGKONG3207PROMINENT HONG KONG PROTESTANT DISCUSSES
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. On July 31, Reverend Chan Kim-kwong, Executive Secretary of the Hong Kong Christian Council (HKCC) told poloff that the issue of Sino-Vatican relations had moved beyond the State Council's purview and was currently being deliberated by the General Office of the Centra [...]
2006-08-09 11:23:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH VT
06HONGKONG3208PROMINENT HONG KONG PROTESTANT DISCUSSES ELECTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. ON JULY 31, REVEREND CHAN KIM-KWONG, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE HONG KONG CHRISTIAN COUNCIL (HKCC) AND FORMER CHIEF EXECUTIVE (CE) ELECTION COMMITTEE MEMBER, PREDICTED TO POLOFF THAT IN THE UPCOMING CE ELECTION, 26 OF THE 40 VOTES FROM THE RELIGIOUS SUB-SECTOR WOULD GO TO THE CAN [...]
2006-08-09 11:30:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH KCRM SMIG
06HONGKONG3271HONG KONG JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION AND LOCAL MEDIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: "STRAITS TIMES" JOURNALIST CHING CHEONG IS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR IN THE BEIJING SECOND INTERMEDIATE PEOPLE'S COURT ON AUGUST 15 FOR A TWO-DAY HEARING, THE INDEPENDENT HONG KONG DAILY "MING PAO" REPORTED AUGUST 14. THE NEWSPAPER SPECULATED THAT THE TRIAL WOULD BE CLOSED TO THE PUBLI [...]
2006-08-14 11:22:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM PGOV PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG335TROUBLED MAINLAND FINANCIAL SYSTEM HELPS FUEL
[...] (C) China-related listings boomed again last year in Hong Kong, led by China Construction Bank's USD 9 billion IPO, the world's largest for 2005. Hong Kong now ranks fourth in the world for raising equity capital. This impressive performance, however, derives in part from dysfunction within [...]
2006-01-26 06:20:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALECON EINV EFIN PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3374DEMOCRATIC PARTY VICE CHAIRMAN AND LEGISLATOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: FOUR BAT-WIELDING ASSAILANTS ATTACKED DEMOCRATIC PARTY (DP) VICE CHAIRMAN ALBERT HO ON AUGUST 20; HO SUFFERED INJURIES TO HIS HEAD, ARM, AND FACE. AFTER VISITING THE LAWMAKER IN THE HOSPITAL, CHIEF EXECUTIVE (CE) DONALD TSANG DECLARED, "WE WILL ARREST THEM (THE CULPRITS) AND BRI [...]
2006-08-21 11:03:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3559HONG KONG NEWSPAPERS PUBLISH CHING CHEONG VERDICT
[...] (SBU) SEVERAL HONG KONG NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHED "STRAITS TIMES" JOURNALIST CHING CHEONG'S ALLEGED COURT JUDGMENT ON SEPTEMBER 5. ACCORDING TO THE PRESS, THE PRO-BEIJING SING TAO NEWS CORPORATION WAS THE FIRST MEDIA ORGANIZATION TO DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THE LEAKED VERDICT TO ITS WEBSITE ON SEPTEMBER [...]
2006-09-06 00:30:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3596VISIT TO THE U.S. OF HONG KONG SECRETARY FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Wong Yan-lung will visit the U.S. September 10-17 for meetings with USG officials, including Attorney General Gonzales; public speaking opportunities; and participation in legal and academic exchanges. The November 2005 appointment of Wong, an out [...]
2006-09-07 09:31:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR OVIP CH HK
06HONGKONG3633AIR POLLUTION: HURTING HONG KONG'S ECONOMIC
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-12 01:36:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG SENV CH HK
06HONGKONG3750HONG KONG GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA FRENZY OVER COVERT
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: The late-August publication of sneak paparazzi-style photos of partially clad "canto-pop" singer Gillian Chung has sparked a public debate in Hong Kong over the proper balance between right to privacy and freedom of the press. Women's rights activists and some politici [...]
2006-09-19 08:44:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3794VISIT TO HONG KONG OF EAP DAS THOMAS CHRISTENSEN
[...] (C) Summary: During his September 14-16 visit to Hong Kong, EAP DAS Thomas Christensen reviewed Hong Kong economic and political issues with Financial Secretary Henry Tang, who said the central government leadership in Beijing closely followed but did not fully understand political development [...]
2006-09-22 03:34:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR OVIP ECON CH HK
06HONGKONG3872ANSON CHAN RULES OUT RUNNING FOR TOP POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: In a move undoubtedly welcomed in Beijing, former Hong Kong Chief Secretary Anson Chan announced on September 23 that she would not contest the 2007 Chief Executive (CE) election, removing the most serious complication for incumbent CE Donald Tsang's reelection bid. Chan told the [...]
2006-09-27 09:45:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3973OVERVIEW OF HONG KONG'S ASYLUM POLICIES
[...] (C) Summary: Hong Kong, which is not a signatory to the United Nations Refugee Convention, does not grant asylum to refugees but allows the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Hong Kong Office to assess all refugee claims submitted by asylum seekers. A recent doubling of as [...]
2006-10-06 06:51:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM PGOV PREL PREF PINR HK CH
06HONGKONG4115FALUN GONG: STRUCTURE AND FINANCING AS SEEN FROM
[...] (C) Summary: The Falun Gong (FLG) movement has virtually no organizational structure, coordinated policy, or central financing, according to numerous Falun Gong contacts in Hong Kong. It is better thought of as a very loose association of practitioners who communicate through emails and regu [...]
2006-10-17 09:26:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM PINR PGOV HK CH
06HONGKONG4159SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL'S VISIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong looks forward to your visit this week. The fourteen USG agencies with representatives here address and protect key U.S. interests, including expansion of democracy and protection for human rights; enhancement of transportation security, par [...]
2006-10-19 11:14:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EFIN EWWT HK KN MC OVIP PARM PREL PTER
06HONGKONG4214EAP ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL IN HONG KONG
[...] (C) Summary: EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill, accompanied by EAP Special Assistant Thomas Gibbons, exchanged views on local and regional issues with a broad spectrum of key Hong Kong contacts, during an October 21-23 visit. William Ryback, the Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong [...]
2006-10-25 09:25:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH TW KN
06HONGKONG4288CARDINAL ZEN REQUESTS RETIREMENT AS BISHOP OF HONG
[...] (C) Summary: Monsignor Eugene Nugent, the papal representative in Hong Kong, told us that even though Cardinal Joseph Zen has publicly stated his desire to retire as Bishop of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese in order to concentrate on Sino-Vatican issues, he did not believe that the Pope had a [...]
2006-11-02 04:20:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH VT
06HONGKONG4398CHIEF EXECUTIVE ELECTION COMMITTEE -- ACCOUNTING
[...] (C) Summary: Mandy Tam, the functional constituency legislator representing the accounting sector, told us on November 2 about the challenges of recruiting pro-democracy accountants to compete for the twenty accounting subsector seats in the Chief Executive (CE) Election Committee. Many acco [...]
2006-11-09 06:25:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG4495PCCW SALE: LI FAMILY TIES REVEALED
[...] (U) SUMMARY. In early November, the Singapore Exchange announced that Richard Li would not be permitted to vote on the sale of Singapore-listed Pacific Century Regional Development's (PCRD) 23% share of PCCW to Francis Leung. Richard Li is the Chairman and 75% stakeholder of PCRD, Li is also [...]
2006-11-17 10:58:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ECPS PGOV PREL CH HK
06HONGKONG4610CHINA ORDAINS THIRD "ILLICIT" BISHOP OF THE YEAR;
[...] (C) Summary: Monsignor Eugene Nugent, the papal representative in Hong Kong, told us on December 1 that the installation of Wang Renlei, the Vicar General of the Xuzhou Diocese in Jiangsu Province, as the auxiliary bishop of the diocese was "quite worrying" and "provocative." The participati [...]
2006-12-01 11:15:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH VT
06HONGKONG4649PRC NPC CHAIRMAN WU BANGGUO'S LOW-KEY VISIT TO
[...] (C) Summary: PRC National People's Congress (NPC) Chairman Wu Bangguo visited Hong Kong December 2-4 to preside at the opening ceremony of the International Telecommunications Union's "ITU Telecom World 2006" and meet with Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive Donald [...]
2006-12-05 09:53:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR CH HK
06HONGKONG4666UNOFFICIAL MARCH 25 REFERENDUM TO ASSESS VIEWS ON
[...] (C) Summary: Former legislator Cyd Ho, Co-Convenor of "Project Civil Referendum", recently discussed her plans for a large-scale unofficial referendum in Hong Kong on March 25, 2007 -- the same day as the Chief Executive (CE) election by the 800-member CE Election Committee. Ho and the other [...]
2006-12-07 03:01:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG4772(S) HKMA PLANS DELICENSING OF BDA SUBSIDIARY DELTA
[...] (S) Summary. Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) Deputy Chief Executive William Ryback and Executive Director for Banking Supervision Arthur Yuen told the DPO on December 14 that HKMA plans to commence procedures to delicense Banco Delta Asia's Hong Kong deposit-taking subsidiary, Delta Asia [...]
2006-12-18 10:08:00Consulate Hong KongSECRET//NOFORNECON EFIN KJUS PREL HK MC
06HONGKONG715Special 301 Recommendation for Hong Kong
[...] (SBU) Post recommends that, based on its overall performance, Hong Kong not be placed on any Special 301 lists or be referred to as a country of special concern ("Special Mention") at this time. We note that if the legislature enacts revisions that significantly weaken Hong Kong's Copyright O [...]
2006-02-22 04:27:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ETRD EIND HK
06HONGKONG8172006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: HONG KONG
[...] (SBU) Hong Kong is in compliance with the standards described in Ref A for the elimination of trafficking in persons. There has been further improvement over the past year in those areas that have, for the past five years, justified Hong Kong's inclusion on the Department's "Tier 1" list. Th [...]
2006-02-28 06:23:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PGOV HK CH KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD
06HONGKONG851LU XINHUA, HONG KONG'S NEW MFA COMMISSIONER
[...] (C) Summary: On February 27, Lu Xinhua arrived in Hong Kong and took up his new post as the Commissioner of the PRC Foreign Affairs Office, replacing the outgoing Yang Wenchang. Lu will be Hong Kong's fourth commissioner since the handover and at 55, will also be the youngest. During his thi [...]
2006-03-01 10:32:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG943BEIJING LEADERS, YET AGAIN, REAFFIRM SUPPORT FOR
[...] (C) Summary: On March 6, Chief Executive (CE) Donald Tsang concluded a five-day trip to Beijing to attend the fourth session of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing -- his first time as CE. In recent weeks, Tsang has been dogged by speculation, prompted by dissatisfaction among [...]
2006-03-07 11:59:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALCH HK PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
06HONGKONG957HONG KONG REACTIONS TO GUANGZHOU CASE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 3, 2006 the Health Department of Guangdong Province informed the Hong Kong Department of Health (DOH) of a suspected human case of H5N1 avian influenza (AI). After the case was confirmed by Guangdong Provincial authorities as a definite H5N1 case (see reftels) on Marc [...]
2006-03-08 07:11:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON TBIO SENV EAGR AMED KFLU HK CH
06IRANRPODUBAI14IRANIAN ACTIVISTS LAUD US HUMAN RIGHTS PRESSURE, ADVISE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-29 17:16:00Iran RPO DubaiSECRET//NOFORNIR PREL PGOV PHUM
06IRANRPODUBAI15IRGC: AN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL POWERHOUSE (C-NE6-00566)
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-30 18:09:00Iran RPO DubaiSECRETPGOV PTER ECON EPAT MCAP IR
06IRANRPODUBAI16REACTION TO LARIJANI'S PROPOSAL FOR IRAN-GULF ALLIANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-07 15:35:00Iran RPO DubaiCONFIDENTIALIR PREL
06IRANRPODUBAI20IRANIAN INSIDER CLAIMS AHMADINEJAD IS LOSING SUPPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-14 17:37:00Iran RPO DubaiSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV IR KNNP PHUM
06ISLAMABAD10261FM KASURI TELLS IRAN "TAKE THE OFFER"
[...] (C) On June 2, Pakistani Foreign Minister Kasuri told the Ambassador that he had telephoned Iranian Foreign Minister Muttaki the previous day to share Pakistan's assessment that Secretary Rice's May 31 statement on Iran (Ref B) was a SIPDIS positive shift in U.S. policy. Kasuri told Muttak [...]
2006-06-02 12:46:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PREL PGOV IR KNNP
06ISLAMABAD10429KABUL DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE TO GENERATE PRESS IN
[...] Pakistani papers continue to give attention to last week's demonstrations in Kabul, with most characterizing the precipitating incident as a sign of American arrogance and the resulting demonstrations as a bellwether of increasing Afghan impatience with the American presence. The high point [...]
2006-06-05 10:52:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PK AF
06ISLAMABAD10467ELECTION COMMISSION STARTS TO UNVEIL ITS PLAN FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Encouraging developments out of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and from senior GOP officials indicate that US-led international pressure may be chipping away at the business-as-usual approach many expected from Pakistan,s electoral machinery. Building on over one year [...]
2006-06-05 12:49:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV KDEM PREL PK AADP EAID
06ISLAMABAD10555PAKISTAN OBJECTION TO NAM STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) On June 3 Poloff meet with Ministry of Foreign Affairs UN Director, Imran Siddiqui. After delivering demarche points on the NAM's statement on Iran (reftel B),Poloff asked Siddiqui to explain why the Pakistani delegation objected to a paragraph in the final document at the NAM's Minister [...]
2006-06-06 12:30:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALAF PK IN PREL
06ISLAMABAD11311POLITICAL SCENESETTER FOR VISIT BY PAKISTAN VICE
[...] (S) Pakistan,s President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are western-oriented modernizers who are trying to move Pakistan toward Musharraf's goal of "enlightened moderation." Both viewed President Bush,s March visit to Pakistan as a landmark in the bilateral relationship. In [...]
2006-06-15 12:56:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNEAID MCAP MOPS PGOV PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD11675FATA: MISSING PAKISTANI JOURNALIST FOUND DEAD IN
[...] (U) On June 17, Pakistani media reported that the body of Hayatullah Khan Dawar, a Pakistani journalist who has been missing since December 5, 2005, was discovered by local officials in North Waziristan on Friday, June 16. The Mir Ali Assistant Political Agent Muhammad Fida Khan told the "D [...]
2006-06-20 05:46:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD11740POLITICAL SCENESETTER FOR DOD U/S RYAN HENRY'S
[...] (S) Embassy Islamabad welcomes your June 25-28 visit to Islamabad. Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are western-oriented modernizers who are trying to move Pakistan toward Musharraf's goal of "enlightened moderation." Both viewed President Bush,s March vis [...]
2006-06-21 08:22:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPK PREL PGOV MASS
06ISLAMABAD12517END OF THE HUDOOD ORDINANCES?
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Following a two month public awareness campaign, President Musharraf on July 1 instructed the Council on Islamic Ideology (CII) to prepare a revised Hudood Ordinance for review and adoption by August. In addition, the President announced his intention to sign an order on July [...]
2006-07-03 12:21:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM KISL KWMN PK
06ISLAMABAD12740PAKISTANI OFFICIALS, JOURNALISTS DISCUSS
[...] (c) Summary: Visiting S/CT DAS Virginia Palmer, Chief S/CT Strategist David Kilcullen and SCA DAS John Gastright met June 22-24 in Islamabad and Peshawar with a range of officials and journalists to review developments in Pakistan's troubled tribal region. All interlocutors, whether civilian [...]
2006-07-06 05:55:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV PK PTER
06ISLAMABAD13344WOMEN'S RIGHTS: ONE STEP FORWARD, MORE IN THE
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Minister of Women's Development Sumaira Malik's campaign to improve the state of women's rights in Pakistan won its second battle on June 8, when President Musharraf signed an Ordinance into law that will release nearly 1300 women from prison. The Ordinance orders women current [...]
2006-07-12 09:39:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPK PREL PGOV
06ISLAMABAD13376MUKHTARAN MAI: ACCUSATIONS OF FAMILY MEMBERS
[...] (S/NF) A range of credible NGO contacts have confirmed to post serious problems within the local community being instigated by Mukhtaran's family in her home district of Mianwalli. These six well-respected Pakistani NGOs, including Strengthening Participatory Organizations, Pattan, and Awaz C [...]
2006-07-12 13:41:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNKWMN PHUM PGOV PK
06ISLAMABAD13519MUMBAI BLASTS: BROAD CONDEMNATION IN PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary. Pakistani leaders and politicians have been unanimous in their condemnation of the July 11 Mumbai bombing, with the Foreign Ministry issuing a strong statement within hours of the attack that cited both President Musharraf and the Prime Minister Aziz. On July 13, President Mus [...]
2006-07-14 12:16:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PK IN PREL
06ISLAMABAD16302DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SOLITICITING UNIFIL
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request; please see para. 5. 2. (C) On August 18, poloff presented reftel points to MFA (UN) Director Haider Shah. Poloff also asked about the accuracy of August 18 reports in the Pakistani press quoting Foreign Minister Kasuri, traveling in the Middle [...]
2006-08-18 11:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALIS LE MARR MOPS PK PREL UN
06ISLAMABAD16739ISLAMIC BANKING IN PAKISTAN (C-TN6-00207)
[...] (C) Summary. With limited government support, Islamic banking has gained momentum in Pakistan in the past three years. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reports that the capital base of the Islamic banking system has more than doubled since 2003 as the number of Islamic banks operating in P [...]
2006-08-24 12:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPINR ECIN EFIN KTFN PK
06ISLAMABAD16956HUDOOD AMENDMENTS MOVED TO COMMITTEE AS ASSEMBLY
[...] (C) Summary and Introduction: After a initial failure to convene a quorum on August 18, the Pakistan Muslim League-led (PML) government of Prime Minster Shaukat Aziz introduced a bill during the August 21 National Assembly session proposing amendments to the Hudood Ordinance, the draconian 19 [...]
2006-08-28 13:20:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PGOV KWMN KDEM PHUM
06ISLAMABAD17594BUGTI INTERRED, FAMILY IGNORED, BALOCHISTAN QUIET
[...] (U) Protests over the August 26 death of Bugti tribal leader Nawab Bugti (refs A,B, and C) continued over the weekend. On August 31, the government announced that it had retrieved Bugti's remains from the cave in which he was killed. Its decision to bury the body rather than to return the rem [...]
2006-09-05 12:23:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPK PREL PGOV KTER PINR
06ISLAMABAD18917HUDOOD ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS: A BIG SLOPPY MESS
[...] (C) Summary and Introduction: With President Musharraf on official travel in the U.S., the governing Pakistan Muslim League (PML) announced a tactical retreat in it beleaguered campaign to amend the Hudood Ordinance, the Sharia-based laws on criminalizing extramarital sexual relations and e [...]
2006-09-25 11:38:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKDEM KWMN PGOV PHUM PK
06ISLAMABAD19126PAKISTAN ELECTIONS (6): THE U.S. ROLE
[...] (C/NF) Summary and introduction: The U.S. casts an outsized shadow over Pakistani domestic politics; with the onset of these elections, we have an opportunity to nudge Pakistan toward a stable and sustainable democratic order. Throughout the coming year, we should confirm our support for a [...]
2006-09-27 13:29:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKDEM PGOV PINR PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD20837PESHAWAR BOMBING UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: The October 22 explosion in Peshawar's old city that killed at least seven people and wounded 40 others is a reminder that, while much of the world focuses on Pakistan's efforts to fight the export of terror, the GOP is also combating domestic terror and many other [...]
2006-10-23 13:27:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PTER
06ISLAMABAD21222INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSSES BORDER AREA SECURITY,
[...] (S/NF) Summary and Introduction: In an October 26 meeting with the Ambassador, Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao offered a candid assessment of the security situation in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (FATA),sharing his private assessment that vigorous Government of Pakist [...]
2006-10-31 10:08:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNMOPS PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD21223PAK-AFGHAN JIRGAS: PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF
[...] (C) Summary and introduction: In a October 30 meeting, Presidential Chief of Staff Hamid Javaid shared with Ambassador a non-paper passed to Government of Pakistan (GOP) from the Government of Afghanistan (GOA) via the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Javaid noted that the GOP envisione [...]
2006-10-31 10:09:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNAF PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD21879PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF DETERMINED TO DEAL WITH BORDER
[...] (S) Summary: In a November 7 meeting at his Army HQ office, President Musharraf told Asstsant Secretary Boucher that he would propose selective mining of the border with Afghanistan. Saying that it is too early to judge whether the North Waziristan jirga agreement is a success, the Preside [...]
2006-11-08 08:46:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNAF EAID ECON ETRD IN MOPS PGOV PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD22023PAK-AFGHAN JIRGAS: PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF
[...] (C) Summary and introduction: In a October 30 meeting, Presidential Chief of Staff Hamid Javaid shared with Ambassador a non-paper passed to Government of Pakistan (GOP) from the Government of Afghanistan (GOA) via the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Javaid noted that the GOP envisione [...]
2006-11-16 10:40:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNAF PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD22070TRIBAL AREAS: VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN THE
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The jury is still out on the September 5 North Waziristan Agency (NWA) Jirga Agreement. Violations of the agreement continued during October 29 to November 12 period. However, cross-border attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan's Paktika province appear to have decre [...]
2006-11-20 08:23:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNMOPS PGOV PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD22174TERROR FINANCE: EMBASSY PRESSES GOP ON UN 1267
[...] (C) Summary: As noted in Ref A, post has raised the ongoing operations of two UN 1267 Committee-designated entities -- Al Rashid Trust, Al Akhtar Trust and Lashkar-e-Tayyba/Jamaat ud-Dawa (LeT/JuD) -- with contacts throughout the Government of Pakistan (GOP). While the Ambassador has pressed the is [...]
2006-11-27 09:55:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETAF EFIN PK PREL PTER KTFN UN
06ISLAMABAD22323PAKISTAN'S ELITE REACT DIFFERENTLY TO PRESIDENT
[...] (U) On December 4, Indian television network NDTV interviewed President Musharraf in Islamabad for an Indian audience. Although his remarks were reported widely in the international press the day after the interview, Pakistan's news media was slower in picking up the story. During the interv [...]
2006-12-06 12:06:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PK
06ISLAMABAD22365GOP ARRESTS BALOCH POLITICAL LEADERS TO STOP LONG
[...] (U) On November 27, police raided Baloch National Party (BNP) President Sardar Akhtar Mengal's office and put him under house arrest. The arrest was the most prominent of a series that have occurred since the announcement of a "long march" from Gwadar to Quetta to protest President Musharraf's [...]
2006-12-08 03:08:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD22449TRIBAL AREAS: TALIBANIZATION THREAT PERSISTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Twelve weeks after the signing of the September 5 North Waziristan Agency (NWA) Jirga Agreement, the number of cross-border attacks from Pakistan into Afghanistan has declined. However, it is perhaps more likely that the decline is due to coalition force operations in Afghanistan [...]
2006-12-14 05:14:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNMOPS PGOV PK AF PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD22462ANTI-TERRORISM COURT DECLINES JURISDICTION OVER
[...] (U) On December 13, 2006, a judge of the Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) dismissed charges under Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) against 25 year old Rashid Rauf, who was arrested in August 2006 on charges of planning to carry explosives (29 bottles of hydrogen peroxide) aboard a [...]
2006-12-14 11:42:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PREL PTER UK
06ISLAMABAD22479VERBAL ATTACKS BY AFGHAN PRESIDENT WEARING ON
[...] (U) Summary: A series of public statements by Afghan President Karzai accusing Pakistan of fomenting instability and violence in Afghanistan have deeply irritated Pakistani officials and popular opinion generally. Although official statements in response have thus far been restrained, Pakis [...]
2006-12-15 11:37:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALAF MOPS PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD22499LEADING PAKISTANI PASHTUN BROADCASTER TROUBLED
[...] (C) Summary and introduction: According to Hassan Khan, editor of Pakistan's leading Pashtun language foreign affairs television program on Khyber TV, Afghan President Karzai seemed "confused about many things" during their lengthy meeting in early December meeting. Khan, who described his [...]
2006-12-18 10:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALAF PK PREL PTER NATO
06ISLAMABAD22618FOREIGN MINISTER KASURI ON ANTI-PAKISTAN RHETORIC
[...] (C) During a December 22 meeting following his return from Iran, Foreign Minister Kasuri speculated on the motives behind the verbal offensive that Afghan President Karzai and other senior Government of Afghanistan (GOA) officials launched against Pakistan only days after the Foreign Minister [...]
2006-12-28 05:35:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNAF MOPS PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD22643DUBAI WEDDING BRINGS PML, PPP TOGETHER
[...] (U) On 26 December, ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (Shujatt) and Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto (BB) spoke for more than 20 minutes at the Dubai wedding of Haji Abdul Razzak Yaqoob's daughter (Yaqoob is the Pakistani founder and chai [...]
2006-12-29 07:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PK
06ISLAMABAD3576KARACHI BOMBING: CONDOLENCES AND CONDEMNATIONS
[...] Summary. Pakistani politicians at all levels--from President Musharraf and PM Aziz to a wide-spectrum of political party representatives--have reached out to US Embassy and Consulate officials to offer their condolences and express their condemnation of the 2 March bombing outside of the US Co [...]
2006-03-04 02:51:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPK PHUM PGOV PTER
06ISLAMABAD3807POLITICAL SCENESETTER FOR PM - A/S JOHN HILLEN
[...] (S) The U.S. Mission in Pakistan warmly welcomes your planned March 15 - 18 visit to Pakistan. As demonstrated during President Bush's recent visit to Islamabad, both President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are western-oriented modernizers who are trying to move Pakistan to [...]
2006-03-08 14:31:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETKDEM MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD4373POLITICAL SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL PACE
[...] (S) The U.S. Mission in Pakistan warmly welcomes your planned March 20 - 22 visit to Pakistan. As demonstrated during President Bush's recent visit to Islamabad, both President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are western-oriented modernizers who are trying to move Pakistan to [...]
2006-03-17 11:38:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETEFIN ETTC PK PREL PTER KTFN
06ISLAMABAD5123A/S HILLEN VISIT TO PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Introduction: On his March 15-18 visit to Pakistan, A/S John Hillen and PM/RSAT Tom Canahuate met with senior Government of Pakistan (GOP) officials, as well as Pakistan's top military leadership. Describing his role in soliciting support for USG security assistance to Pakistan from the U [...]
2006-03-28 08:54:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPK PTER MOPS MASS MCAP PREL
06ISLAMABAD5307PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary. President Bush's March 3-4 visit to Pakistan inspired a range of opinions on the state of the US-Pakistan relationship. Government officials, such as President Musharraf, PM Aziz, and FM Kasuri expressed satisfaction with the visit and its outcomes, including the launching of a [...]
2006-03-29 12:52:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPK PREL PGOV
06ISLAMABAD5382AMBASSADOR'S BILATERAL TOUR D'HORIZON WITH FOREIGN
[...] (S) Summary: On March 29, Ambassador called on Foreign Secretary Mohammed Riaz Khan to discuss follow-on action SIPDIS after the March 3-4 visit by President Bush, particularly a time frame for the Foreign Secretary's Strategic Dialogue discussions with P - U/S Burns and cooperation on e [...]
2006-03-31 02:48:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL EAID ETRD PGOV PK AF PTER PARM KNNP
06ISLAMABAD5537POLITICAL SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR HAGEL
[...] (S) The U.S. Mission in Pakistan warmly welcomes your planned April 12-15 visit to Pakistan. As demonstrated during President Bush's recent visit to Islamabad, both President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are western-oriented modernizers who are trying to move Pakistan towa [...]
2006-04-03 06:07:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETEAID MASS MOPS OVIP PGOV PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD6242INDIA-PAKISTAN COMPOSITE DIALOGUE MOVES FORWARD
[...] (C) Summary: Although there have been no major breakthroughs since the opening meetings of the third round of Composite Dialogue talks in January, delegations from India and Pakistan have been busy working on a variety of issues. The frequency of these high-level meetings suggests that Pak [...]
2006-04-13 13:33:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALIN PK PREL ETRD
06ISLAMABAD6419PRIME MINISTER AZIZ BRIEFS SENATOR HAGEL ON
[...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging conversation with visiting Senator Hagel (R-NE),Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz reiterated Pakistan's opposition to any nuclear weapons program in Iran, but supported Iran's right to a civil nuclear energy program. He praised Afghan President Karzai, and highligh [...]
2006-04-14 14:54:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMNUC PREL MARR PK AF IN PGOV IR
06ISLAMABAD6420PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF EXPRESSES CONCERN TO SENATOR HAGEL ON HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S.
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-14 15:07:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETAF IN MNUC PGOV PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD7564SCENESETTER FOR S/CT AMBASSADOR CRUMPTON
[...] (S) The U.S. Mission in Pakistan warmly welcomes your planned May 3-4 visit to Pakistan. As demonstrated during President Bush's visit to Islamabad, both President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are western-oriented modernizers who are trying to move Pakistan toward Musharra [...]
2006-04-28 15:13:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PK PGOV MASS MOPS PTER MCAP
06ISLAMABAD7629POLITICAL AND SECURITY ASSISTANCE SCENESETTER FOR
[...] (U) In anticipation of the U.S.-Pakistan Defense Consultative Group (DCG) meetings in Washingont May 1-5, Embassy Islamabad offers the following snapshots of political and security assistance developments in Pakistan. U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Partnership ----------------------------------- [...]
2006-05-01 11:45:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETMASS MCAP MOPS PGOV PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD7780SCENESETTER FOR U.S. CENTRAL AIR FORCES COMMANDER
[...] (S) The U.S. Mission in Pakistan warmly welcomes your May visit to Pakistan. As demonstrated during President Bush's visit to Islamabad, both President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz are western-oriented modernizers who are trying to move Pakistan toward Musharraf's goal of [...]
2006-05-02 12:20:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETMASS MCAP MOPS PGOV PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD8148A STRATEGY FOR FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: With the appointment of a credible, permanent Chief Election Commissioner (CEC),Pakistan is moving in the necessary direction for free and fair elections in 2007. Post believes that the credibility of the 2007 contest has significant implications for long-term stability and de [...]
2006-05-05 08:40:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV KDEM EAID OIIP KPAO PK
06ISLAMABAD9358PAKISTANI COMMENTS ON UPCOMING SIACHEN-SIR CREEK
[...] (U) Summary. The Pakistani press has cast reports on the upcoming Composite Dialogue talks on Siachen glacier (May 23-24) and Sir Creek (May 25-26) in a lackluster light, mostly by lifting bylines from the Indian press. There has been little discussion on what proposals the GOP will bring [...]
2006-05-22 13:16:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIN PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD9473EXPLAINING THE SECURITY FORCES IN THE FATA
[...] (U) This cable provides an introduction to the myriad of security forces besides the regular Pakistani Army that operate in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and adjoining regions of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). 2. (U) Frontier Corps. The paramilitary Frontier Corp [...]
2006-05-23 12:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PK MARR SNAR KCRM PTER EAID
06ISLAMABAD9696LIMITED PROGRESS ON DOMESTIC EXTREMISM
[...] (U) This is the third in a series of four cables assessing the GOP's progress in its crackdown on extremism. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Progress on combating domestic extremism, part of the GOP's July 2005 crackdown, has suffered from competing priorities, limited political capital, and a vocal op [...]
2006-05-25 11:31:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPTER PGOV PREL PK
06ISLAMABAD9711NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR SUPPORTING WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN
[...] (C/NF) Summary: In an introductory call with the Ambassador on May 25, recently appointed Minister for Women's Development and Youth Affairs Sumaira Malik provided an overview of her key programmatic priorities, offering new and valuable areas for immediate and medium-term USG assistance. Mal [...]
2006-05-26 04:59:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM KWMN EAID PGOV SOCI PK
06ISTANBUL1048TURKEY'S HOLDINGS BRACE FOR A BRAVE NEW WORLD
[...] (SBU) Summary: The positive evolution of Turkey's macroeconomic environment over the past four years, together with the prospect of EU accession, has prompted Turkish companies at all levels to redefine their corporate strategies. Whereas previously it was rare for a CEO to look out beyond a o [...]
2006-06-13 09:42:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN TU
06ISTANBUL1049TURKEY'S HOLDINGS BRACE FOR A BRAVE NEW WORLD
[...] (SBU) Summary: The positive evolution of Turkey's macroeconomic environment over the past four years, together with the prospect of EU accession, has prompted Turkish companies at all levels to redefine their corporate strategies. Whereas previously it was rare for a CEO to look out beyond a o [...]
2006-06-13 09:43:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN TU
06ISTANBUL1098WHEN THE EARTHQUAKE STRIKES, WILL ISTANBUL BE
[...] (U) Summary: Istanbul lies near a fault-line and on the seismic path of past earthquakes. The question is not if one will strike, but when. Earthquake preparedness is thus a key issue for private and public sectors alike. Discussions with scientific and business groups show that Istanbul,s [...]
2006-06-16 15:55:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDECON
06ISTANBUL1227QARADAWI'S THINLY VEILED STATEMENT
[...] (C) Summary: Speaking in Istanbul to the "Muslims in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities" conference, renowned Muslim scholar Yousef al-Qaradawi stressed the importance of living together as good neighbors but underscored the obligation of Muslims to adhere to their "holy obligations," no ma [...]
2006-07-07 14:10:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL TU ZR
06ISTANBUL124MICROSOFT TARGETS TURKEY
[...] (U) Summary: In his third trip to Turkey in a little over a year, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates met in Istanbul with senior Turkish government and business leaders and announced a range of new initiatives aimed at increasing internet penetrationin Turkey. These included a new Turkey web portal [...]
2006-02-02 10:34:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV ECPS TU
06ISTANBUL130TURKISH PM ENCOURAGES WOMEN POLS AT ISTANBUL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Erdogan pushed forcefully for an increased role for women in public life in Turkey at the January 28 opening of a conference organized within the Alliance of Civilizations initiative. He acknowledged that social mores and traditions have inhibited such participa [...]
2006-02-02 14:35:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1302ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE - EUR DAS BRYZA JULY 12
[...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Bryza discussed a potential way to resolve the long-standing Halki issue with the Ecumenical Patriarch during a July 12 meeting. The Patriarch also raised property issues, noting that the Government of Turkey (GOT) had begun selling seized Ecumenical Patriarchate prope [...]
2006-07-19 07:05:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV TU
06ISTANBUL1341BTC PRE-INAUGURATION MEETINGS IN ISTANBUL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Energy Deputy Secretary Sell and senior U.S. officials met with high-level delegations from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Kazakhstan in Istanbul on July 12 to discuss issues related to the Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline on the eve of its inauguration. Deputy Secretary Sell and [...]
2006-07-26 13:04:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG PREL AJ GG KZ RU TU
06ISTANBUL1501A BITTER DAY: THE SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1999
[...] (SBU) Summary: On August 17, the seventh anniversary of the deadly 1999 Marmara earthquake, newspapers published articles evaluating ongoing efforts, especially in Istanbul, to prepare for the next big quake. The commentators unanimously criticized insufficient preparations and planning and t [...]
2006-08-21 10:20:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDEAID CASC TU
06ISTANBUL1504SCENESETTER FOR AUGUST 25-26 VISIT OF CODEL MCCAIN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mission Turkey warmly welcomes the visit of Codel McCain to Turkey. Turkey is an ally in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT),facilitating the distribution of supplies and fuel to the coalition in Iraq and supporting the NATO Training Mission (NTM-I) there; publicly calling on Ir [...]
2006-08-22 08:32:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAFIN AMGT ASEC DA GG IT MW OREP TU
06ISTANBUL172ARMENIAN CONFERENCE FALLOUT: TRIAL OF FIVE
[...] (U) Summary: Nationalist tensions took center stage at the opening hearing of five Turkish journalists charged with insulting and seeking to influence the Turkish judiciary as a result of columns they wrote criticizing the court injunction that temporarily blocked last September's "Alternativ [...]
2006-02-09 14:13:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL1818TURKEY'S CHIEF RABBI ASSESSES COMMUNITY'S SITUATION
[...] (C) Summary. Turkey's Chief Rabbi, Rav Isak Haleva, underlined concerns in the Jewish community over a growing "negativity" in the minds of average Turks toward Jews as demonstrated in the press and daily interchanges between neighbors. Describing Turks as characteristically and traditional [...]
2006-10-05 07:47:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL192TURKISH ACADEMICS, STUDENTS COMMENT ON MIDDLE EAST
[...] (SBU) Summary. Media savvy academics and students involved in democracy building expressed mixed views to a visiting counter-terrorism team about America and its foreign policy in meetings earlier this month. One academic fretted over Turks, generally more negative opinion of the U.S. and [...]
2006-02-14 06:05:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KPAO TU
06ISTANBUL2013ISTANBUL'S KURDISH INTELLECTUALS: THE TIME IS NOW
[...] (S) Summary. Istanbul's Kurdish intellectuals opine the evolving political situation in Turkey and the region sets a favorable stage for agreement to end the Kurdish conflict in Turkey. According to these intellectuals, Turkey's Kurds -- accepted as equals during Turkey's war of independenc [...]
2006-11-02 13:59:00Consulate IstanbulSECRETPGOV PHUM PTER TU
06ISTANBUL2015ISTANBUL'S ECUMENICAL RAMAZAN: BOREK, BARDAKOGLU
[...] (U) Summary: Turkey's lively diversity and internal contradictions are no more apparent than in Istanbul during the month of Ramazan. While nearly 70% of Turks as a whole are reported to fast during this period, the evenings' numerous iftars are often more social and political than they are s [...]
2006-11-02 14:05:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2068SWT STUDENTS SHOW THE WRITE STUFF
[...] (U) Summary: In preparing for the 2007 Summer Work and Travel (SWT) season, we invited representatives of the educational companies here that recruit and help prepare the students' applications to a kick-off meeting at the Consulate on November 3. To pique interest in the SWT program, Post had [...]
2006-11-13 15:08:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI CVIS PREL SCUL KPAO TU
06ISTANBUL2081PRESS ACCREDITATION FOR POPE'S VISIT TO ISTANBUL
[...] (SBU) The Turkish press today carried a story accusing the Ecumenical Patriarchate of trying to usurp the government's role by issuing press credentials to reporters covering the Pope's visit later this month. According to the story, members of the press must receive accreditation both from [...]
2006-11-15 14:23:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINS PGOV TU
06ISTANBUL2084ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS NOT CLASH OF
[...] (SBU) Summary. The UN Alliance of Civilizations High-Level Group presented its final report on November 13 in Istanbul to UNSYG Annan as well as the Turkish and Spanish Prime Ministers. The report focuses on political developments, rather than religious or cultural differences, as a primar [...]
2006-11-16 12:29:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UN TU VT
06ISTANBUL210AKP: THE RIFTS WITHIN (A BREATH OF SCANDAL IN THE
[...] (C) Summary: Cuneyd Zapsu, independent businessman, senior advisor to PM Erdogan and founding member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party),is no stranger to controversy. This time, however, his wife Beyza made the front pages, photographed praying in an Istanbul mosque Jan [...]
2006-02-16 11:25:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2104FOUNDATIONS, TRANSFORMATIONS AND EU ACCESSION:
[...] (SBU) Summary: The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) completed its nine-day fact finding mission in Turkey with a generally positive view of religious freedom here. Delegation members clearly recognized the significant challenges facing religious minority co [...]
2006-11-24 12:10:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2105URBANCIC AND BASER DISCUSS EFFORTS TO COMBAT PKK
[...] (C) Summary. S/CT Deputy Coordinator Urbancic met Gen. (ret) Baser, the GOT's counter-PKK envoy, in Istanbul on November 11. After expressing appreciation for Urbancic's efforts to curb PKK criminal support in Europe, which was the subject of Urbancic's Ankara meetings, Baser took the opport [...]
2006-11-24 12:57:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPTER EFIN PREL TU IZ
06ISTANBUL211BMENA: TURKS KEEP DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE DIALOGUE
[...] (U) Summary: A February 6-7 conference organized by the Turkish NGO TESEV within the framework of the Democracy Assistance Dialogue (DAD) brought together 150 NGO and government representatives from around the Middle East and North Africa to develop an action platform to increase the role o [...]
2006-02-17 09:10:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL TU XD XF XI KDEM KWMN
06ISTANBUL2111SAADET PARTY PROTESTS POPE'S VISIT
[...] Summary: On November 26, the Islamist Saadet (Felicity) Party organized a rally in the Sisli district of Istanbul to protest the Pope's upcoming visit to Turkey. Despite claims of hundreds of thousands of attendees on the party's website press estimates on participation varied from 20,000 to [...]
2006-11-28 06:10:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ASEC CASC TU
06ISTANBUL2115ISTANBUL POLICE CLOSE PATRIARCHATE PRESS CENTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: On November 27, Istanbul police briefly shut down a press center organized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate at a local hotel. Press arrangements for the Papal visit to the Patriarchate had been the subject of some dispute earlier in November (reftel) but both Patriarchate staff [...]
2006-11-28 12:43:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL2154AMERICAN COUNCIL OF YOUNG POLITICAL LEADERS ENGAGES WITH
[...] Begin Summary: A visiting American Council of Young Political Leaders (AYCPL) delegation engaged over dinner December 4 at the Consul General's Residence with a group of Turkish political party leaders, academics, business executives, and senior press columnists and editors. The lively excha [...]
2006-12-12 09:13:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO OEXC SCUL PREL CVIS TU
06ISTANBUL372ISTANBUL CONFERENCE TACKLES TURKEY'S "KURDISH
[...] (C) Summary. A March 11-12 Istanbul conference on "Turkey's Kurdish Problem" brought together a range of leading figures from Turkey's Kurdish community with the ambitious goal of hammering out an alternative to the leadership of imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. Organizers argued that [...]
2006-03-15 05:40:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM TU
06ISTANBUL498TURKISH BANKS ATTRACT MORE FDI -- FINANSBANK SALE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish bank values hit a new peak on April 3 with the announcement in Athens that the National Bank of Greece (NBG) will purchase a near controlling stake in Finansbank, Turkey's ninth largest bank, for 2.8 billion USD. The sale price values the bank at 5.05 billion USD, 3.6 [...]
2006-04-04 13:45:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV TU
06ISTANBUL504ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY ARMENIAN CONFERENCE: A SMALL
[...] (C) Summary: A March 15-17 conference at Istanbul University brought defenders of the official Turkish narrative on the events of 1915-16 together with a handful of more independent voices, including Israeli and Armenian presenters, who openly used the term "Armenian Genocide." The conferenc [...]
2006-04-05 08:35:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PHUM TU AM
06ISTANBUL578AMBASSADOR WILSON'S ISTANBUL APRIL 2-4 VISIT
[...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Wilson visited Istanbul on April 2-4, 2006. He attended and addressed the openings of two significant conferences and met with business, religious, and community leaders. Concerns in Istanbul focused on U.S. actions regarding the PKK, U.S. intentions in Iran, and the [...]
2006-04-18 07:14:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON PGOV EINV TU
06ISTANBUL596AMBASSADOR WILSON'S ISTANBUL APRIL 2-4 VISIT -
[...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Wilson visited Istanbul on April 2-4, 2006. He attended and addressed the openings of two significant conferences and met with business, religious, and community leaders. Concerns in Istanbul focused on U.S. actions regarding the PKK, U.S. intentions in Iran, and the [...]
2006-04-20 07:47:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON PGOV EINV TU
06ISTANBUL733CONSUL GENERAL OUTREACH TO BURSA, TURKEY
[...] (U) Summary: The Consul General traveled May 2-3, 2006 to Bursa -- Turkey,s fourth largest city and one of its most dynamic commercial centers with important textile and automobile manufacturing -- to address a conference on globalization and entrepreneurship. In addition to meeting with the [...]
2006-05-15 05:09:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV TU
06JAKARTA10043INDONESIA - HAZE SEASON UNDERWAY AGAIN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Fires burning in Sumatra and Kalimantan have sent haze once again throughout the region. Haze problems reached alarming levels in late July, with the Indonesian press reporting over 2,000 hot spots on Sumatra island and another 1,000 hot spots in Kalimantan during the week of [...]
2006-08-09 23:38:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KTIA TPHY TBIO ECON ID
06JAKARTA10136ILLICIT ARMS CACHE ACTIVATES INDONESIAN RUMOR MILL
[...] (C) Summary: On August 9 the Indonesian Army,s National Military Police announced the results of its investigation into the 185 guns and other weaponry discovered by authorities in Brigadier General Koesmayadi,s homes and office following his June 25 death of natural causes. TNI Commander D [...]
2006-08-11 13:26:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA10140INDONESIA - AUGUST 11 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. On August 9, Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie stated, according to the media, that Jakarta had yet to receive promised foreign aid to fight bird flu. Bakrie's statement was puzzling and frustrating to donors. The May 2006 Donor Coordination Meeting, h [...]
2006-08-14 04:12:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA10297TIMIKA TRIAL SESSIONS PROCEED WITHOUT DEFENDANTS
[...] (U) The trial of the seven men accused of killing two Amcits in Timika, Papua in 2002 crept along August 15 in spite of the defendants' continued refusal to take their assigned seats in the court and the absence of defense attorney Johnson Panjaitan. As the session opened, Judge Nurdin read f [...]
2006-08-15 10:45:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS ID
06JAKARTA10359INDONESIA'S FINANCIAL SECTOR POLICY PACKAGE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-16 08:52:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON PGOV PREL ID
06JAKARTA10361INDONESIA'S FINANCIAL SECTOR POLICY PACKAGE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Indonesia issued its Financial Sector Policy Package on July 5, tackling two important issues of non-performing loans at state-owned banks, and insolvent insurance firms. Success in these areas will represent one of the most significant changes in the financ [...]
2006-08-16 09:03:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON PGOV PREL ID
06JAKARTA10539RICK NESS TESTIFIES IN NEWMONT CASE THIS WEEK
[...] (C) Summary. Newmont mining executive and Amcit Richard Ness is scheduled to take the stand in his own defense this week on August 25 in a Manado, North Sulawesi courthouse. He faces fifteen years in prison if convicted on charges of polluting Buyat Bay, the site of the now-closed Newmont Min [...]
2006-08-24 11:10:00Embassy JakartaSECRET//NOFORNEMIN CASC SENV EINV PHUM ID
06JAKARTA10563BA'ASYIR SPOUTS OFF ABOUT SHARIA`, JIHAD AND BALI
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Abu Bakr Ba'asyir, the spiritual head of Jemaah Islamiyah and its political wing, the Majelis Mujahiddin Council (MMI),continues to speak publicly on a variety of topics following his release from prison on June 14, 2006. Most notably, Ba'asyir has pontificated about the need [...]
2006-08-25 06:56:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KISL KJUS ASEC AS ID
06JAKARTA1078INDONESIA REACTS TO RELEASE OF CAVR REPORT
[...] (C) Summary. Senior GOI figures and Indonesian politicians have reacted defensively to the allegations of human rights abuses made in the report of East Timor's Committee of Reception, Truth and Verification (reftel). East Timor President Xanana Gusmao presented the report to UN Secretary Gen [...]
2006-01-26 11:06:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KJUS ID TT
06JAKARTA10880ACEH'S SHARIA POLICE TARGETING AID WORKERS, WOMEN,
[...] (SBU) Summary. After a year of peace in Aceh, negative fall-out from the imposition of Islamic law (sharia) under Aceh's special autonomy arrangement is apparent. While the Acehnese themselves have borne the brunt of the consequences, on August 17 sharia police raided the World Food Program' [...]
2006-09-01 01:09:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC PREL KISL SA ID
06JAKARTA11149RESPONSE TO US EFFORTS ON WATER AND SANITATION
[...] (U) Response was prepared jointly with USAID Jakarta Mission Staff. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Post is actively engaged with Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials on water and sanitation issues under the auspices of a Strategic Objective Grant Agreement between the USG and the GOI to support higher [...]
2006-09-11 03:35:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ID
06JAKARTA11214KEITH LUSE'S MEETING WITH INDONESIAN MOD DEFENSE
[...] (C) Summary: Senate SFRC Senior Professional Staff Member Keith Luse met with Indonesian Defense Ministry Director General for Defense Strategy Major General Dadi Susanto on August 28 in Jakarta. Susanto characterized U.S.-Indonesian relations and military cooperation as positive. Susanto w [...]
2006-09-11 10:01:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS PGOV PHUM ID
06JAKARTA11376CRUCIAL 2007 JAKARTA GOVERNOR,S RACE TAKING SHAPE
[...] (C) Approximately one year before Jakarta holds its first ever directly elected Governor's race, behind the scenes political maneuvering is already in full swing, reflecting the high stakes involved in what will be the most significant Indonesian election prior to the 2009 Legislative and Pres [...]
2006-09-13 08:56:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ID
06JAKARTA11379INDONESIA - 2007 BUDGET RAISES SOCIAL SPENDING
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Indonesia's (GOI) Rp 746.5 trillion (USD 82.1 billion) draft 2007 budget proposes double digit percentage increases in spending on health, education and social welfare programs, with the total amount of central government spending on these programs reaching Rp [...]
2006-09-13 10:27:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KMCA KCOR PGOV ENRG TBIO ID
06JAKARTA11474DRAFT MOU ON ILLEGAL LOGGING - EMBASSY JAKARTA
[...] (SBU). Embassy Jakarta supports the conclusion of a properly-structured MOU on illegal logging between the U.S. and Indonesia. Reducing widespread illegal logging is one of Indonesia's top development challenges, and the issue touches on several core areas of our assistance program, including [...]
2006-09-15 10:47:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ECON ETRD PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA11767INDONESIA'S ECONOMY - RIGHT DIRECTION, WRONG SPEED
[...] Summary. Private sector and Government of Indonesia (GOI) interlocutors expressed optimism about the financial sector's growth and progress, but concern about the real sector, during the September 13-15 visit of Department of Treasury officials Andrew Baukol and Seth Searls. Most agreed Indo [...]
2006-09-21 09:40:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON PGOV KCOR ID
06JAKARTA11769GOI TROUBLED BY EVENTS IN THAILAND
[...] (C) On September 20, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono convened a meeting of top advisors to discuss the coup's implications for Indonesia. Several times during that day, one of the President's top foreign policy advisors pressed the Charge for information about the USG's understanding of th [...]
2006-09-21 10:15:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ID
06JAKARTA1185FREEPORT PURSUES "NO TALL TREES" STRATEGY IN ARMY
[...] (C/NF) Summary. A senior executive from the U.S. mining giant Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold told us on January 25 that his company will avoid the media spotlight while cooperating fully with GOI inquiries regarding the legality of the mining giant's payments to Indonesian security forces in [...]
2006-01-31 23:48:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALECON EMIN ENIV ID
06JAKARTA12031EAST KALIMANTAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS
[...] Summary: Economic and political leaders in East Kalimantan praised the Government of Indonesia's (GOI) decentralization policy during a four-day embassy trip through the resource-rich province on the Indonesian part of Borneo. However, the same leaders criticized strongly the execution of tha [...]
2006-09-29 06:29:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG EINV SENV PREL TBIO ID
06JAKARTA12253AN ENHANCED U.S. ROLE IN COMBATING AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI)
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Summary. After a slow start that led to the unchecked spread of AI across much of Indonesia, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) has developed a simplified AI strategy with re- aligned priorities under a functioning National Comm [...]
2006-10-05 09:53:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA12254INDONESIA'S ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS CONTINUE TO
[...] (C) Summary. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,s (SBY) multi-faceted anti-corruption efforts continue to make progress in Indonesia. SBY has thrown his political support behind successful reformers and other anti-corruption "champions", has permitted prosecutions against senior Government o [...]
2006-10-05 10:07:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EINV KCRM ID
06JAKARTA12300CONVICTION IN MUNIR MURDER OVERTURNED
[...] (C) Summary. On October 4, the Indonesian Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, acquitting him in the September 2004 poisoning of prominent Indonesian human rights activist Munir Thalib. The case is widely considered a litmus test of the Indonesian [...]
2006-10-06 10:47:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR PGOV KCRM ID
06JAKARTA12379AMBASSADOR REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR JUSTICE IN MUNIR
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador asked Suciwati, the widow of slain human rights activist Munir, to meet with on him on October 11 in order to reassure her of the USG's continuing support for justice in the wake of the October 4th Supreme Court acquittal of Pollycarpus Priyanto, who had been previo [...]
2006-10-11 11:23:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KJUS ID
06JAKARTA12494MUHAMMADIYAH YOUTH CONCERNED ABOUT EXTREMISM AMONG
[...] (C) Summary. On October 2 and 3, Poloff made courtesy calls on Muhammadiyah Youth Chairman Izzul Muslimin and Secretary General Gunawan Hidayat. As part of its six-month SIPDIS strategic plan, the Muhammadiyah Youth Central Board will carry out a "census" of local Muhammadiyah Youth leade [...]
2006-10-13 01:05:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER SOCI KISL PHUM ID
06JAKARTA12545INDONESIA - OCTOBER 12 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. On October 6, Dr. Ir Anton Apryanto, Minister of Agriculture promised Manho So, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative more vigorous coordination and communication in controlling AI. Local press reported on October 10 that faculty from Udayana University detected [...]
2006-10-13 10:46:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA12547U.S.-INDONESIA SOFA TALKS LAY BASIS FOR POSSIBLE
[...] (C) Summary: U.S. delegation's exploratory talks with the Indonesian government on October 5 in Jakarta made considerable headway in establishing a basis of understanding for possible formal negotiation of a bilateral Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). Embassy shared a draft template text (r [...]
2006-10-13 11:39:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PREL ID
06JAKARTA12555US-ASEAN BUSINESS COUNCIL DELEGATION VISITS JAKARTA
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) told a visiting U.S. ASEAN Business Council (USABC) delegation on October 12 that he remains optimistic about Indonesia's economic outlook and committed to economic reforms and the process of democratization. Vice President Jusuf Kalla [...]
2006-10-16 05:38:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV ENRG ETRD EFIN PGOV ID
06JAKARTA12607REVISED DRAFT CRIMINAL CODE WORRIES ACTIVISTS
[...] (C) Summary: Legal analysts and NGOs told us that the latest draft of the revised Indonesian Criminal Code (KUHP) continues to include controversial provisions on the protection of government officials and state ideology from defamation, and the criminalization of pornography. They feared tha [...]
2006-10-17 05:30:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KJUS KCRM ID
06JAKARTA12687 INDONESIA AND MCC COMPACT ELIGIBILITY
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) administration has made important progress in the past year implementing a broad-based development strategy emphasizing poverty reduction, private sector growth, and good governance. SBY's bold anti-corruption efforts continue to dism [...]
2006-10-18 10:04:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON KMCA KCOR ID
06JAKARTA12773INDONESIAN TERRORISTS:RECENT RELEASES AND UPCOMING
[...] (C) Four years after the 2002 Bali bombing, several individuals convicted of terrorism for their involvement in that attack and the 2003 Marriot bombing are starting to complete their prison terms. According to information obtained from the Australian Embassy, nine convicted terrorists have b [...]
2006-10-20 09:26:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KJUS ASEC CASC ID
06JAKARTA12776TNI ANNIVERSARY SPEECHES EMPHASIZE REFORM AND
[...] Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudoyono and Commander-in-Chief (Panglima) Air First Marshal Djoko Suyanto urged the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) to continue along the path of reform as the TNI celebrated its 61st anniversary on October 5. The speeches exhorted the TNI to complete its tr [...]
2006-10-20 10:26:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR PHUM ID
06JAKARTA12782THE TWO PAPUAS: A CONSUL GENERAL'S VIEW
[...] (C) Summary. Papua New Guinea,s Consul General in Jayapura, Papua shared his views on the often prickly relations between Indonesia and his government in an October 12 meeting. He charged that the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) were involved in both illegal logging and drug smuggling in PNG. [...]
2006-10-20 11:55:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM ID PP
06JAKARTA12783THE TWO PAPUAS: A CONSUL GENERAL'S VIEW
[...] (C) Summary. Papua New Guinea,s Consul General in Jayapura, Papua shared his views on the often prickly relations between Indonesia and his government in an October 12 meeting. He charged that the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) were involved in both illegal logging and drug smuggling in PNG. [...]
2006-10-20 12:24:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM ID PP
06JAKARTA13121SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT WEATHERS VOUCHER SCANDAL
[...] (C) Agung Laksono, Chairman of Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR),has apparently emerged relatively unscathed from a scandal surrounding his involvement in a school voucher distribution exercise. The controversy erupted following the revelation that he improperly handed out vouchers [...]
2006-11-07 08:23:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ID
06JAKARTA13173SHOWDOWN BETWEEN PRESIDENT AND VP OVER REFORM UNIT
[...] (C) President Yudhoyono and Vice President Kalla have skirmished publicly over SBY's decision to advance the President's reform agenda. Although referred to in general terms for months, the "Presidential Work Unit on Managing Policy and Reform Programs (UKP3KR)" was reportedly designed and un [...]
2006-11-09 11:33:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ECON EFIN KCOR PINR ID
06JAKARTA13181NEW ZEALAND DCM CALLS ON JI'S POLITICAL WING
[...] (C) Summary. New Zealand's Deputy Head of Mission briefed us about his meeting with Irfan Awwas, the leader of Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI),Jemaah Islamiyah's political wing (his reporting cable has been sent by classified email to EAP/MTS and INR/EAP). Awwas spoke about MMI's goal of p [...]
2006-11-13 07:09:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KISL SOCI ID
06JAKARTA13229INTERFAITH YOUTH DELIVER POTUS LETTER TO AMBASSADOR
[...] In advance of President Bush's upcoming visit to Indonesia, a group of Indonesian interfaith youth leaders met with the Ambassador to present a letter to the President (full text in para 6). The delegates represented all of Indonesia's major religions: Islam (the youth wings of mass-based [...]
2006-11-17 06:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM SOCI KISL ID
06JAKARTA13233BALL IN SBY'S COURT ON REFORM UNIT
[...] (C) With Golkar's November 13-16 annual national leadership meeting as a backdrop, Vice President Jusuf Kalla publicly called for Golkar's continued support for the Yudhoyono administration and privately sought to mend fences with the President following last week's public feud over plans for [...]
2006-11-17 10:22:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ECON EFIN KCOR PINR ID
06JAKARTA13236INFRASTRUCTURE FORUM ATTRACTS INVESTORS AND
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Indonesia (GOI) renewed its appeal for private investment under it's five-year, USD 150 billion infrastructure development program at a November 1-3 Infrastructure Forum in Jakarta. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) touted improvements in Indonesia's i [...]
2006-11-19 23:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON ENRG EAIR ELTN ECPS PREL ID
06JAKARTA13237INFRASTRUCTURE FORUM ATTRACTS INVESTORS AND
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Indonesia (GOI) renewed its appeal for private investment under it's five-year, USD 150 billion infrastructure development program at a November 1-3 Infrastructure Forum in Jakarta. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) touted improvements in Indonesia's i [...]
2006-11-19 23:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON ENRG EAIR ELTN ECPS ID
06JAKARTA13303Central and East Java: Increasing
[...] (C) Summary/Introduction: Over the past several months, what began as a debate of the controversial draft pornography law has revealed deeper fissures with the leadership of Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU),showing a quiet shift to the right of NU clerics and the [...]
2006-11-27 10:09:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KISL ID
06JAKARTA13324INDONESIA'S INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (U) Embassy Jakarta provides the following interim assessment of targeted actions by Indonesia on trafficking in persons (TIP) since the June release of the 2006 TIP report, as requested in ref A. Anti-Trafficking Legislation ---------------------------- 2. (SBU) A comprehensive anti-tra [...]
2006-11-28 09:18:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV ELAB KWMN SMIG ID
06JAKARTA13328AMBASSADOR CALLS ON FORMER PRESIDENT HABIBIE
[...] (C) On November 27 the Ambassador met with former President B.J. Habibie at his residence in suburban Jakarta. Looking relaxed and displaying characteristic energy and enthusiasm, the former President declared President Bush's November 20 visit a success, discussed his recently released memoir [...]
2006-11-28 09:59:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM ID
06JAKARTA13370INDONESIA - DECEMBER 1 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Dutch hosted a workshop on November 25 and 26 that will make recommendations on animal vaccine strategy to the Ministry of Agriculture. The local television station Lativi began broadcasting AI mini- documentaries on November 10 and will continue these broadcasts through t [...]
2006-12-01 08:22:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR KFLU PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13372YUDHOYONO ALLEGEDLY APPROVES TRYING SOLDIERS IN
[...] (C) Summary: According to media reports citing Indonesian Justice and Human Rights Minister Awaluddin, President Yudhoyono has signaled his support for draft legislation which would clear the way for military personnel charged with criminal acts to be tried in civilian courts. The report, if [...]
2006-12-01 09:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS MARR ID
06JAKARTA13392SBY'S CT RECORD AFTER TWO YEARS: A MIXED BAG
[...] (C) Two years into the Yudhoyono Administration, Jakarta remains stalwart in its commitment to identify, arrest, and convict terrorist operatives. The combination of strong political support for tactical CT operations and substantial international assistance has enabled Indonesian law enforce [...]
2006-12-04 10:04:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREL KJUS ASEC KISL ID
06JAKARTA13419PKS SUFFERS ELECTORAL SETBACK
[...] (C) The ascendant Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) fell just short in its attempt to register a defining victory in the November 26 Banten provincial governor's race. The Banten Electoral Commission certified the election results on December 1 and declared Golkar's Ratu Atut Chosiyah the winner [...]
2006-12-06 08:42:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KDEM KISL ID
06JAKARTA13450DPR PASSES NEW PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COUNCIL BILL
[...] (C) On December 7, the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) unanimously passed a bill requiring the creation of a new presidential advisory council within three months. The nine-member council will be charged with advising the President on a full range of issues, its mandate expiring at [...]
2006-12-08 10:06:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ECON EFIN KCOR PINR ID
06JAKARTA13452INDONESIA - DECEMBER 8 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-08 10:46:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR KFLU PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13476CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULES INSULTING THE PRESIDENT
[...] (U) Summary: A divided Constitutional Court on December 7 struck down three articles of the Criminal Code which made insulting the President or Vice President a criminal act. The instant case involved an appeal brought by two political activists being tried for insulting President Yudhoyono [...]
2006-12-14 07:27:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13481U.S. OBSERVATION TEAM FOR ACEH ELECTIONS: WHAT WE
[...] (SBU) Summary: A comprehensive post-election analysis of questionnaires returned by members of the official U.S. election observation team confirm our initial report (reftel) that the gubernatorial and district administrative elections in the Indonesian province of Aceh on December 11 were fre [...]
2006-12-14 09:14:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM KPAO ID
06JAKARTA13496AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ASSISTANCE AND LOCAL
[...] (U) Summary. Ambassador Pascoe met with Indonesian Minister for Home Affairs Mohammad Ma'ruf on December 12 to discuss cooperation and assistance issues. The Ambassador congratulated the Government of Indonesia on the success of the provincial elections in Aceh, urged closer coordination to [...]
2006-12-15 08:49:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ECON ID
06JAKARTA13498YUDHOYONO'S VISIT TO RUSSIA: DEFENSE COOPERATION
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesia and Russia signed a range of intergovernmental and other agreements during the visit of Indonesian President Yudhoyono to Russia November 29-December  [...]
2006-12-15 10:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR EINV EIND ENRG SOCI ID RS
06JAKARTA13521FORMER MINISTER DETAINED ON CORRUPTION CHARGES
[...] (U) Former Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Rokhmin Dahuri was detained on November 30 in conjunction with a Commission for the Eradication of Corruption (KPK) investigation into his administration of an off-budget fund of nearly IDR 32 billion (approximately USD 3.5 million). The fund alleged [...]
2006-12-19 05:54:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALECON KCOR ID
06JAKARTA13526INDONESIAN BIOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL GOSSIP,
[...] (S/NF) Allegations of increasing influence peddling by the first family......The latest scuttlebutt on possible cabinet moves......Survival of the fittest for Golkar leadership.....Snapshots of likely/possible 2009 presidential contenders.....Continued dissatisfaction with Megawati in the PDI- [...]
2006-12-19 06:47:00Embassy JakartaSECRET//NOFORNPINR PGOV PTER KISL ID
06JAKARTA13577WIRANTO LAUNCHES NEW PARTY
[...] (C) Summary. Retired General Wiranto unveiled his new political party, the People's Conscience Party (Hanura),on December 21. Flanked by several prominent political and military personalities, the failed 2004 presidential candidate announced his new party would help serve as a vehicle for th [...]
2006-12-22 05:20:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ID
06JAKARTA13603CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECLARES ANTI-CORRUPTION
[...] (U) In a controversial decision, on December 19 the Constitutional Court of Indonesia (CC) ruled that the legal provision which created the Anti-Corruption Court was unconstitutional, but allowed the court to continue functioning for a period of three years. The overturned provision was part [...]
2006-12-28 03:47:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS PCRM KTIA ID
06JAKARTA13609IO PDAS WARLICK'S MEETING WITH FORMER FORMIN ALI
[...] (C) Summary. On December 19, IO PDAS James B. Warlick met with Ali Alatas, former Foreign Minister of Indonesia (1987-99),to discuss Indonesia's upcoming term as a non-permanent member of the U.N. Security Council. Alatas said that both President Yudhoyono (SBY) and Foreign Minister Hassan [...]
2006-12-28 09:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC AORC PHUM MNUC KNNP BM IR ID
06JAKARTA13616NO TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION FOR INDONESIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 8, the Constitutional Court (CC) scrapped Indonesia,s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, arguing that it was unconstitutional. There are mixed views here about the importance of this decision and the likely impact on the prosecution of past human rights abuses. [...]
2006-12-29 08:54:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KJUS PGOV ID
06JAKARTA1819INDONESIA-U.S. POLITICA-MILITARY TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: U.S. and Indonesian delegations held a day of political-military talks February 1 to explore expanded bilateral cooperation following the U.S. decision in November to end restrictions on military-to-military relations. The U.S. delegation, led by Dr. John Hillen, Assistant Secre [...]
2006-02-10 12:11:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA2030CARTOONS CAST SHADOW OVER REGIONAL INTER-FAITH MEET
[...] (SBU) Summary: Indonesia hosted religious leaders representing 10 religious faiths from 17 East Asian nations to an inter-faith conference February 12-13. While the gathering produced a helpful declaration that included calls for greater inter-religious tolerance and understanding to deter ex [...]
2006-02-15 09:40:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KISL ID
06JAKARTA2112INDONESIA-ET TRUTH/FRIENDSHIP COMMISSION FACES
[...] (C) Indonesia's senior bureaucrat responsible for human rights in a February 8 meeting described the Indonesia-East Timor Commission on Truth and Friendship (CTF) as "stagnant," due to East Timor's presentation of its human rights report to the UN, the shooting of three Indonesians on the East [...]
2006-02-16 11:51:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KJUS KAWC TT ID
06JAKARTA2316INDONESIAN OUTBRIEF ON KOREAN MEDIATION MISSION
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesian Special Envoy Amb. Nana Sutresna briefed representatives of the nations participating in the Six Party talks on his travels to Pyongyang and Seoul earlier in the month. Sutresna, following the instructions of President Yudhoyono (SBY) urged the North Koreans to resume [...]
2006-02-21 11:50:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNUC MARR KN KS ID
06JAKARTA2392SBY'S ANTI-CORRUPTION PROGRAM DEALT A SETBACK
[...] (C) Summary. In a verdict that took many observers by surprise, Indonesia's Anti-Corruption Court acquitted three former Bank Mandiri officials of corruption charges on February 20. The Attorney General reportedly stated that he wants to appeal the case to the Supreme Court, and President Su [...]
2006-02-22 11:20:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KCOR PGOV EINV ID
06JAKARTA240INDONESIA - ECONOMIC AND ESTH HIGHLIGHTS - DECEMBER
[...] Summary. Indonesian financial markets reacted favorably to a December 6, 2005 cabinet reshuffle, with the rupiah gaining two percent through the end of December to close at 9,840/USD. The Jakarta Stock Exchange composite index also rose six percent after the reshuffle to close at 1,162 on Dec [...]
2006-01-06 08:15:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETRD ENRG SENV TBIO MARR ID
06JAKARTA2492FREEPORT PAPUA MINE CLOSED BY ILLEGAL MINERS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Approximately 400 illegal miners in Papua launched a picket of Freeport-McMoRan,s Grasberg Mine on February 21, forcing its temporary closure for the past 48 hours. As of COB February 23, the mine remained closed. In a separate but perhaps related incident, at approximately 04 [...]
2006-02-23 23:50:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EMIN ENIV PGOV ID
06JAKARTA2514SENATOR FEINGOLD MEETS INDONESIAN HUMAN RIGHTS AND
[...] (SBU) Senator Russ Feingold met February 23 with Indonesian human rights and judicial reform NGOs, and expressed strong support for the promotion of human rights in Indonesia and justice for past abuses. Human rights advocates expressed disappointment at lack of progress in accountability fo [...]
2006-02-24 08:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL KJUS ID
06JAKARTA2515CODEL KOLBE AND HDAC ENGAGE INDONESIAN LEGISLATORS
[...] CODEL Kolbe met on February 21-22 with top legislators from the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) in the first overseas visit of the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC). Indonesian legislators welcomed the CODEL,s expertise on legislative affairs and its encouragement for the [...]
2006-02-24 08:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EAID KDEM ID
06JAKARTA2527TERRORIST FINANCE: ENGAGING TEH GOI ON TF ADN
[...] (S) Summary: Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials raised concerns about the effect of additional UN 1267 designations of Indonesia's on the country's international reputation. Generally speaking, though, they did not voice specific initial opposition to a U.S. and Australian plan to move [...]
2006-02-24 09:58:00Embassy JakartaSECRETEFIN ETTC PREL AS ID
06JAKARTA2532SENATOR FEINGOLD'S FEBRUARY 23 MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Introduction and Summary. In a February 23 meeting with Senator Russell Feingold, Indonesian Foreign Minister Wirajuda expressed optimism that Indonesia's historic experience with Islamic fundamentalism would eventually lead to success in stemming the current threat posed by Muslim extrem [...]
2006-02-24 11:06:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL OREP PTER PGOV KAWC KNNP IR TT ID
06JAKARTA2564IMPLEMENTING INDONESIA'S BROADCASTING LAW
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-26 23:54:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOIIP OPRC KPAO ID
06JAKARTA2849INDONESIA ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT, MARCH 2005 TO MARCH 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-03 11:42:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EAID ELAB KFRD KJUS KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
06JAKARTA2917YOUR VISIT TO INDONESIA: MOVING OUR RENEWED
[...] (U) Madame Secretary: Your team in Jakarta warmly welcomes your March 14-15 visit to Indonesia, the most senior USG visit since Secretary Powell's of January 4-6, 2005. We have underway preparations to ensure a visit high in substance and symbolism. Introduction ------------ 2. (C) Su [...]
2006-03-06 13:35:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA3159CONTROVERSIAL PORNOGRAPHY BILL POISED TO TARGET
[...] (U) Indonesian political interest groups portray the ongoing legislative debate over a pornography law as a struggle for the nation's soul. Some fear that Islamists see the bill as a way to impose a strict "Arabic" ethos while conservatives believe the time as nigh to take a stand against mor [...]
2006-03-09 11:34:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KJUS KCRM KWMN ID
06JAKARTA3161 NORTH SUMATRA GOVERNOR NAMED DESPITE ALLEGATIONS
[...] (SBU) North Sumatra Deputy Governor Rudolf Pardede will become Acting Governor of North Sumatra on March 10, months after former Governor Rizul Nurdin's unfortunate death. The announcement of his appointment came after several weeks of increased activity in the investigation of Pardede's alleg [...]
2006-03-10 00:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM ID
06JAKARTA3199INDONESIA - MARCH 10 AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. A USAID Washington avian influenza (AI) team met with a range of stakeholders during a March 1-5 visit to Indonesia, including the Ambassador and the Embassy's Avian Influenza Working Group (AIWG),to discuss USAID's USD 11 million FY 2006 AI allocation for Indonesia. Officials [...]
2006-03-10 11:28:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT KFLU ID
06JAKARTA3246SUEBU, ATURURI LIKELY WINNERS IN CONTROVERSIAL
[...] (C) Summary: Preliminary results indicate that Barnabas "Bas" Suebu and Alex Hesegem were elected as governor and vice governor of Papua province on Friday, March 10. On the following day, incumbent Abraham Atururi and Rahimin Katjong won in neighboring West Irian Jaya province, prevailing ov [...]
2006-03-13 12:24:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS ID
06JAKARTA3314INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS - JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2006
[...] Summary: The Rhino Conservation Program and the GOI co- hosted an "Indonesian Rhino Conservation Strategy Meeting" on February 26-27 to discuss strategies for conserving the Sumatran and Javan rhinos. The National Agency for Drug and Food Control's (BPOM) December 2005 discovery of formaldah [...]
2006-03-15 06:46:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TPHY TBIO EIND ID
06JAKARTA3482CODEL FEINGOLD MEETS TNI COMMANDER DJOKO SUYANTO
[...] (C) Senator Feingold called on Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) Commander (Panglima) Air Chief Marshal Djoko Suyanto February 24. The Panglima reviewed structural reforms that the military has undertaken over the past several years and affirmed civilian control over the institution. The Panglima [...]
2006-03-17 11:10:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KJUS OREP ASEC ID
06JAKARTA3490SBY'S ANTI CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN MOVES FORWARD
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) anti-corruption campaign, the most significant since Indonesia's independence, has made progress in recent months with a slew of high-profile investigations and prosecutions of current and former Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials [...]
2006-03-20 00:33:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KMCA ECON EINV ID
06JAKARTA3892EAST JAVA POLICE CONFERENCE ON IPR LAWS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Several branches of the GOI and East Java government cosponsored an IPR seminar on March 4 to educate East Java area police chiefs on the importance of IPR to Indonesia and its economy. Senior GOI and provincial officials used persuasive arguments and data to try and motivate [...]
2006-03-24 08:30:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR EFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
06JAKARTA3896INDONESIA - MARCH 22 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Yudhoyono signed a Presidential Regulation on March 13 establishing a "National Committee on Avian Influenza Control and Pandemic Preparedness." The decree designates the Coordinating Minster for Peoples' Welfare as the "National Coordinator" for AI policy and activi [...]
2006-03-24 11:12:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT KFLU ID
06JAKARTA3897INDONESIA: 2006 IPR PROJECT PROPOSALS
[...] Summary: The tide is turning in a favorable direction on IPR enforcement in Indonesia. A year ago, the IP industry, which was oddly cutting resources here, had marked Indonesia as the next hub for regional piracy and counterfeit syndicates. However, contrary to such expectations, over the [...]
2006-03-24 11:47:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ETRD ID
06JAKARTA4035INDONESIA: MORE ABEPURA AFTERMATH
[...] (C) Summary. While Papuan provincial authorities deal with the aftermath of the March 16 Abepura riot, senior GOI figures hint that foreign interests and Jakarta politicians had a hand in the disturbance. An important group of Papuan political and religious leaders wrote President Yudhoyono [...]
2006-03-27 11:08:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CASC ASEC ID
06JAKARTA4365CENTRAL SULAWESI: "POSO 3" CLEMENCY APPEAL REJECTED
[...] (SBU) Summary: The executions of the so-called "Poso 3"-- Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da Silva and Martinus Riwu--in Central Sulawesi following their 2001 convictions for mass murder, torture and arson, could take place next week. "Procedural" reasons delayed the executions from their planned Apr [...]
2006-04-04 09:50:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINS PGOV KJUS ID
06JAKARTA4413INDONESIAN POLICE DESTROY 1.6 MILLION BOOTLEG DISCS
[...] The Jakarta Metro police destroyed a significant quantity of drugs, pornography, and bootleg CDs, VCDs, and DVDs at a contraband destruction ceremony on April 5. During the ceremony, the police incinerated more than 750 kilograms of narcotics and 110,000 ecstasy tablets, and burned a large pi [...]
2006-04-05 23:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR PGOV ID
06JAKARTA4464AUSTRALIAN ASYLUM GRANT TO PAPUANS SPARKS SHARP
[...] (C) Summary: The Australian Government's March 23 decision to grant three-year "protection visas" to 42 Indonesian nationals from troubled Papua province has provoked condemnation from the GOI and the Indonesian public. The GOI recalled its ambassador from Canberra, postponed a bilateral [...]
2006-04-06 10:36:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM AS ID
06JAKARTA4465GROWING WORKER PROTESTS AGAINST CHANGES IN LABOR
[...] (SBU) Indonesia experienced its largest labor protest in at least four years, as Indonesian workers took to the streets of Jakarta and other major cities on April 5 to oppose the GOI's plan to amend the basic labor law. The proposed amendments would scale back 2003 concessions to workers and [...]
2006-04-06 10:43:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON EINV PGOV PHUM KJUS ID
06JAKARTA4515AFTER ELECTIONS, PAPUAN LEADERS FOCUS ON FREEPORT
[...] (C) Summary: Following the March 10 and 11 elections in Papua and West Irian Jaya provinces, Papuan leaders have opted against staging a confrontation with the Indonesian central government, at least for the time being. Instead, in the wake of anti-Freeport demonstrations in Jayapura and els [...]
2006-04-07 11:17:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV EINV EMIN ID
06JAKARTA4519INDONESIA'S ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS - PART II
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-11 00:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR KMCA ECON EINV ID
06JAKARTA4520INDONESIA'S ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS - PART II
[...] (SBU) Summary. A slew of high-profile corruption prosecutions of current and former Government of Indonesia (GOI) officials over the past year has energized the media and civil society groups and placed newfound and largely positive pressure on the bureaucracy (Reftel). Permanently reducing t [...]
2006-04-11 00:07:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR KMCA ECON EINV ID
06JAKARTA4965SEMI-UNHINGED PALESTINIAN AMBASSADOR ALLEGES ABU
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ordered by the new Hamas-led Palestinian Authority to leave his post after 14 years, Palestinian Ambassador to Indonesia Ribhi Awad is not going quietly and his ravings are providing mirth for the diplomatic corps and a protocol headache for the Indonesian government. In antics [...]
2006-04-19 10:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER KPAL ID IS
06JAKARTA4967SEMI-UNHINGED PALESTINIAN AMBASSADOR ALLEGES ABU
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ordered by the new Hamas-led Palestinian Authority to leave his post after 14 years, Palestinian Ambassador to Indonesia Ribhi Awad is not going quietly and his ravings are providing mirth for the diplomatic corps and a protocol headache for the Indonesian government. In antics [...]
2006-04-19 12:17:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER KPAL ID IS
06JAKARTA5217SBY OPPONENTS WAVE ECONOMIC NATIONALISM FLAG
[...] (C) Summary: Former People's Consultative Assembly Chairman Amien Rais and retired General Wiranto continue to wave the flag of economic nationalism in hopes of strengthening their likely presidential bids in 2009 and stirring up trouble for President Yudhoyono in the meantime. In their latest [...]
2006-04-26 07:27:00Embassy JakartaSECRETECON EMIN ENIV PGOV ID
06JAKARTA5420TAX, CUSTOMS CHIEFS REPLACED IN REFORM EFFORT
[...] (C) Summary. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) replaced the long-serving, corrupt, and powerful Directors General of Taxation and Customs on April 21. The decision shows SBY's strong support for Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati's efforts to reform the Ministry of Finance (MOF) b [...]
2006-04-29 02:17:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALEFIN PINR KCOR KMCA PGOV ID
06JAKARTA5485INDONESIAN POLICE KILL, CAPTURE TERRORISTS, BUT
[...] (C) On April 29, Indonesian anti-terrorism police killed two terrorists and captured a third in a pre-dawn raid in Central Java in their continuing hunt for terrorist mastermind and recruiter Noordin M. Top. The manhunt then led to the arrest of a second terrorist suspect and the discovery of [...]
2006-05-01 11:45:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KJUS KISL KVPR ASEC AS ID
06JAKARTA5486UNIONS USE MAY DAY TO CONTINUE PROTESTS AGAINST
[...] (SBU) Indonesian unions used May Day to continue their street protests in Jakarta and other major cities against earlier government plans to amend the 2003 Manpower Act to improve the investment climate. United firmly against any revisions to the law, labor leaders turned out 30,000 or more [...]
2006-05-01 11:47:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON EINV PGOV PHUM KJUS ID
06JAKARTA5580UNIONS BESIEGE PARLIAMENT (AGAIN),PROTEST TURNS
[...] (SBU) Tens of thousands of union-led demonstrators besieged the gates of the Indonesian Parliament (DPR) on March 3 to force Parliament to agree to refuse any amendment to the Manpower Act. The demonstration, with an estimated turnout of 50,000, turned tense in the afternoon as labor leaders [...]
2006-05-03 11:39:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON EINV PGOV PHUM KJUS ASEC ID
06JAKARTA5851INDONESIAN BIOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL GOSSIP, Q4
[...] (S/NF) Yudhoyono's relatives seen as key advisors on policy... Yudhoyono held off pressure on Taufik Kiemas... Yudhoyono directed intelligence agency to surveil State Secretary... Cabinet members seen as sympathetic toward SIPDIS radicals... Security forces' ties to Islam Defenders' Front ( [...]
2006-05-09 09:29:00Embassy JakartaSECRET//NOFORNPINR PGOV PTER KISL ID
06JAKARTA59YOUR VISIT TO INDONESIA: LAUNCHING A RENEWED
[...] (U) Madame Secretary: Your team in Jakarta warmly welcomes your January 8-10 visit to Indonesia, the most senior USG visit since Secretary Powell's of January 4-6, 2005. We have underway preparations to ensure a visit high in substance and symbolism. Introduction ------------ 2. (C) [...]
2006-01-03 11:22:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL ID
06JAKARTA5917Makassar Killing Sparks Fears of Race Riot
[...] (SBU) Summary: Protests led by thousands of university students in Makassar, South Sulawesi against an alleged killing of a local maid by an ethnic Chinese man briefly escalated into a near-riot in the evening of May 9. Police ably negotiated with demonstrators to quickly and peacefully dispe [...]
2006-05-11 00:03:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINS CASC PGOV ID
06JAKARTA6017THE DOWNSIDE OF DECENTRALIZATION: LOCALIZED
[...] (C) Summary: Proponents of Islamic Shariah law enjoy growing success exploiting Indonesia's political decentralization to implement "Islamic morality" principles on a local basis. Promulgated by local governments through legislation or executive decrees, Shariah measures or more deceptively-p [...]
2006-05-12 08:48:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA6025INDONESIA/IRAN: AHMADI-NEJAD A DIFFICULT GUEST
[...] (C/NF) Summary: On May 11 the Ambassador conveyed to Dino Patti Djalal, National Security Advisor to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, our objections to the GOI's initiative to create a new U.N. grouping to address Iran's nuclear program. Djalal took our points on board, but it [...]
2006-05-12 12:22:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KNPP KISL IR ID
06JAKARTA6026INDONESIA/IRAN: AHMADI-NEJAD A DIFFICULT GUEST
[...] (C/NF) Summary: On May 11 the Ambassador conveyed to Dino Patti Djalal, National Security Advisor to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, our objections to the GOI's initiative to create a new U.N. grouping to address Iran's nuclear program. Djalal took our points on board, but it [...]
2006-05-14 23:55:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KNPP KISL IR ID
06JAKARTA6331LEGISLATURE AIMING TO PASS ACEH LAW
[...] (C) The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) aims to pass the Law on Governing Aceh within weeks, and a senior member of the Special Committee deliberating the draft considered this goal attainable. Golkar legislator Marzuki Darusman told us on May 8 that political parties sought to avoi [...]
2006-05-18 09:41:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ID
06JAKARTA6332GOI DROPS CORRUPTION CHARGES AGAINST FORMER
[...] (C) The Yudhoyono administration appeared inconsistent and confused as prosecutors dropped corruption charges against ailing former President Suharto. The handling of Suharto's case illustrates poor policy coordination at the top level of the GOI, and the outcome appears to have reduced, at le [...]
2006-05-18 10:31:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KDEM KJUS KCRM ID
06JAKARTA6392POLICE KILL TWO IN CLASH WITH MOB IN WAMENA
[...] (C) Summary. Police reportedly fired on an attacking mob of some 200 villagers in Wamena, Papua, killing two persons. The clash occurred on May 17 when police move to arrest David Hubi, a former district chief who faces corruption charges. Police briefly detained over 100 villagers, including [...]
2006-05-19 09:56:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KJUS KCRM ID
06JAKARTA6493SCENESETTER: SECRETARY RUMSFELD'S VISIT TO JAKARTA
[...] (C) Summary: Mr. Secretary: Your strong support for the Administration's decision to move quickly in November to normalize military-to-military ties with Indonesia has given a new, more cooperative quality to bilateral relations across the range of our interests. You will have the opportuni [...]
2006-05-22 09:51:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR ID
06JAKARTA6771INDONESIA: MAY 30 EARTHQUAKE SITREP
[...] (U) The GOI has raised its count of victims from the May 27 earthquake to 5,427 dead and 7,519 seriously injured. So far, no Americans appear among the dead or wounded. The GOI has begun a needs assessment but will likely focus on reconstruction of public facilities, infrastructure, and hous [...]
2006-05-30 10:03:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR ASEC CASC ECON EAID PREF PREL PGOV SENV
06JAKARTA6772INDONESIA: MAY 30 EARTHQUAKE SITREP - CORRECTED
[...] (U) The GOI has raised its count of victims from the May 27 earthquake to 5,427 dead and 7,519 seriously injured. So far, no Americans appear among the dead or wounded. The GOI has begun a needs assessment but will likely focus on reconstruction of public facilities, infrastructure, and hous [...]
2006-05-30 10:21:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR ASEC CASC ECON EAID PREF PREL PGOV SENV
06JAKARTA6802PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MAKES LOW-KEY VISIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a May 26 visit to Indonesia, Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Mahmud Al-Zahar elicited statements of support for Palestinian statehood from GOI President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and other senior GOI officials. After meeting with his Palestinian counterpart, Foreign Mi [...]
2006-05-31 06:39:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL ID IS
06JAKARTA6813INDONESIA: MAY 31 EARTHQUAKE SITREP
[...] (U) The GOI has raised its count of victims from the May 27 earthquake to 5,846 dead and 22,731 injured. No Americans appear among the dead or wounded. USAID partners provide medical treatment and supplies to afflicted areas. Approximately 75 U.S. military personnel have arrived, and we expe [...]
2006-05-31 10:28:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC ECON EAID PREF PREL PGOV SENV
06JAKARTA6910INDONESIA: JUNE 1 EARTHQUAKE SITREP
[...] (U) The GOI has raised its count of victims from the May 27 earthquake to 6,234 dead and 46,148 injured. No Americans appear among the dead or wounded. Experts report that basic medical supplies remain in need. USAID partners have surveyed water systems and sanitation conditions in afflicted [...]
2006-06-01 09:04:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR ASEC CASC ECON EAID PREF PREL PGOV SENV
06JAKARTA7010INDONESIA: JUNE 2 EARTHQUAKE SITREP
[...] (U) As of June 2, the GOI continued to report 6,234 dead and 46,148 injured, with no Americans among the dead or injured. NGOs appear primarily concerned about the lack of potable water. As of June 1, USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance has provided 1,660,682 USD in assistance for t [...]
2006-06-02 08:56:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR ASEC CASC ECON EAID PREF PREL PGOV SENV
06JAKARTA7013INDONESIA SAYS IT WILL REPAY IMF EARLY
[...] (SBU) Summary. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) announced on May 23 that Indonesia would repay the USD 7.7 billion remaining of its standby reserve loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) three years ahead of schedule by 2007. Bank Indonesia (BI) has reportedly prop [...]
2006-06-02 09:56:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON PGOV PREL ID
06JAKARTA7014COORDINATING MINISTER BOEDIONO ON THE INVESTMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Boediono told the Ambassador May 24 that the Government of Indonesia (GOI) would "step back" from the labor reform process to give unions and employers time to work out a compromise on severance pay and other issues. He provided detail [...]
2006-06-02 10:55:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN PREL KFLU ID
06JAKARTA7340INDONESIA - ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS MAY
[...] Summary. On May 31, the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) announced a slight increase in consumer price inflation, at 15.6 year-on-year (YoY) and 0.4 percent month- on-month (MoM). BPS also announced on May 15 first quarter GDP growth of 4.6 percent YoY, the slowest pace in two years. On M [...]
2006-06-09 09:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
06JAKARTA7397REMOVING FORMER JI-LEADER NASIR ABAS FROM
[...] (C) Summary. We believe the time has come for former Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist network leader Nasir Abas to be removed from the U.S. and UN terrorist finance lists. We believe that it is critical to respond to the requests to do so by our closest national security contacts. Now conside [...]
2006-06-12 09:53:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO ID
06JAKARTA7555JEMMAH ISLAMIYAH EMIR ABU BAKAR BA'ASYIR RELEASED
[...] (C) Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, left Cipinang Penitentiary a free man June 14 at the conclusion of his 25 1/2 month sentence. Family, defense attorneys, and a few hundred supports greeted the cleric in a generally muted public response. Ba'asyir gave a short [...]
2006-06-14 10:23:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KJUS KISL ASEC AS ID
06JAKARTA7626INDONESIA - JUNE 16 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Executive Director of the National Committee for AI and Pandemic Control (Komnas) Bayu Krisnamurti told participants in a June 12 AI donor meeting that the GOI would host a WHO-led technical assessment of its AI strategy June 21-23, with participation from the World Bank and [...]
2006-06-16 05:00:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA7661NORTH SUMATRA AVIAN INFLUENZA CLUSTER - LESSONS
[...] (SBU) Summary. The May 2006 avian influenza (AI) outbreak in a North Sumatra family represents the largest human H5N1 cluster to date and brought with it intense worldwide media attention to Indonesia's AI response capacity. A look back at the response to the cluster by the Government of Indo [...]
2006-06-16 09:50:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA8063LUMINARIES STRUGGLE TO SUGGEST WAY FORWARD AT
[...] (C) Summary. Nahdlatul Ulama (NU),Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, hosted some 300 scholars from 53 countries for its second International Conference of Islamic Scholars June 20-22 in Jakarta and Bogor to address Islamic solutions for economic and social ills facing Muslims, especia [...]
2006-06-27 09:32:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL ID
06JAKARTA8259INDONESIA - JULY 3 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: A Government of Indonesia (GOI) chaired AI experts group concluded on June 23 that limited human-to- human transmission took place during the May 2006 North Sumatra cluster. However, the group noted that the confinement of the human-to-human transmission to the affected family [...]
2006-07-03 08:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA8383OPENING OF TIMIKA TRIAL DEFERRED UNTIL JULY 11
[...] (SBU) The trial of Anthonious Wamang, Agustinus Anggaibak and five other co-conspirators in the 2002 murders of two Amcits in Timika, Papua did not begin in Central Jakarta District Court on July 4 as originally planned (reftel). The suspects accepted the advice of their legal counsel, a team [...]
2006-07-05 08:16:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM ASEC KJUS CASC ID
06JAKARTA8506YUDHOYONO AND HOWARD BURY THE HATCHET IN BATAM
[...] (C) Summary. After a three-month chill in bilateral ties following Australia's decision to grant temporary asylum to 42 Papuan asylum seekers, Prime Minister John Howard and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sealed the two governments' reconciliation with a lightweight, feel-good [...]
2006-07-06 10:19:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PTER AS ID
06JAKARTA8686INDONESIA - ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS JUNE
[...] Summary. The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) announced on July 3 a slight decrease in year-on-year (YoY) inflation in June 2006 to 15.5 percent. Citing improving macroeconomic trends, Bank Indonesia (BI) cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 12.25 percent on July 6. At their June 14 m [...]
2006-07-11 10:40:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV ECON PGOV ID
06JAKARTA8929BA'ASYIR ENJOYING HIGHER PROFILE AFTER RELEASE
[...] (C) Since his release from Cipinang prison on June 14, 2006 (ref A),Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) spiritual leader and Indonesia Mujihadin Council (MMI) Amir Abu Bakar Ba'asyir has used the public spotlight to promote jihad in the Middle East and Shari'a law in Indonesia in an attempt to broaden his [...]
2006-07-18 01:10:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KJUS KISL ASEC AS ID
06JAKARTA9043WEST JAVA: A SNAPSHOT OF THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
[...] (C) With the second most registered voters and the largest population of any Indonesian province, West Java will figure prominently in the political calculus of each of the major parties as they begin to position themselves for the 2009 legislative and presidential election. West Java,s nation [...]
2006-07-19 10:04:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM ID
06JAKARTA9159INDONESIA TSUNAMI-EARTHQUAKE JULY 21 UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-21 09:44:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR CASC EAID PREL SENV SOCI ID
06JAKARTA9160GOI EFFORTS STOKE OPTIMISM FOR POSO PEACE
[...] (C) Summary. GOI initiatives spearheaded by the Indonesian National Police (INP) are moving conflict-ridden Central Sulawesi toward peace, according to top INP investigators focused on the area. The arrest of the terrorists behind many of the violent attacks since the 2001 Malino peace agreem [...]
2006-07-21 10:00:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO KVPR CVIS ID
06JAKARTA9161PAPUAN POLITICAL ROUND-UP, JULY 2006
[...] (C) Introduction and summary. This messages provides a survey of recent developments in Papuan politics. During a July 10 - 15 visit to Jayapura, poloff found the Papuan scene in a holding pattern. Barnabas "Bas" Suebu, the winner of the March 10 direct elections for governor, had still not [...]
2006-07-21 11:20:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ID
06JAKARTA9515INDONESIA - JULY 27 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-27 09:58:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID KFLU
06JAKARTA9865INDONESIA ENERGY AND MINING HIGHLIGHTS-JULY 2006
[...] Summary. On June 17, the Downstream Regulatory Body BPH MIGAS announced the Bakrie Group won the tender for the USD 1.2 billion, 1,120-km pipeline from East Kalimantan to Central Java. On July 24, Britain's BP, Indonesia's Medco and a consortium of state oil company Pertamina and Amerada Hes [...]
2006-08-07 00:16:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEPET ENRG EINV PREL ID
06JAKARTA9867INDONESIA POWER HIGHLIGHTS-JULY 2006
[...] Summary. On July 5, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) issued Government Regulation 26/2006, revising provisions for electricity purchases under the direct appointment method. On July 18, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources issued Decree 44/2006 for the purchase of power under the Acc [...]
2006-08-07 05:34:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEPET ENRG EINV PREL ID
06JEDDAH101MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA: DENMARK BASHING
[...] (U) For the second straight week, cartoons run in Danish and Norwegian newspapers allegedly "vilifying" the Prophet Muhammad took center stage at Friday sermons in Saudi Arabia. On January 28, the Jeddah-based "Arab News" reported that "imams of mosques across the Kingdom yesterday denounced [...]
2006-02-01 14:48:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PTER PREL SA
06JEDDAH136JEDDAH JOURNAL 5: INDIAN INTEREST IN ARABIA,
[...] (U) Local media have reported extensively on the Saudi interest in strengthening ties with India. The recent India National Day celebration in Jeddah provided evidence that the Indian Mission reciprocates that interest. At the entrance to the celebration, guests were offered samples of India [...]
2006-02-11 12:41:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON IN KISL KWMN PREL SA
06JEDDAH171JEDDAH JOURNAL 6. SAUDI INVESTORS MOB BANKS, 11%
[...] (C) On the evening of February 19, several late-arriving members of the Executive Committee of the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ) blamed their tardiness on unexpected traffic jams in central Jeddah. Executive Council member and banker Anees Moumina announced that crowds were surroundin [...]
2006-02-26 05:04:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KISL KWMN PGOV PREL SA SCUL EINV
06JEDDAH172MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA: FEBRUARY 17 -
[...] (U) On Friday February 17, the sermon from the Holy Mosques in Mecca and Media dealt with Islamic identity and the importance of ethics in Islam. From Mecca, Shaykh Sa'd Bin-Ibrahim al-Shuraym delivered a sermon regretting the current state of affairs in the Islamic world saying "Those obser [...]
2006-02-26 05:10:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL PTER SA
06JEDDAH220MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - MARCH 10 AND 3:
[...] (C) On March 10 from the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar, Imam Shaikh al-Qahtani spoke to an audience of approximately 500. During the first part of his sermon, the imam talked at length about tolerance and why and how Muslims must practice it. He illustrated his homily with examples [...]
2006-03-15 13:20:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL KWMN PGOV PREL PTER SA
06JEDDAH227CG'S DISCUSSION WITH ALIREZA BUSINESSMEN
[...] (C) On March 13, Consul General and Pol/Econ Chief met at Xenel Industries with Executive Director Sheikh Khaled Alireza, his son and Managing Director, Aamer and General Manager and American citizen David Joury. Khaled Alireza told CG that Xenel is producing a television public service ann [...]
2006-03-21 08:20:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KWMN PREL SA
06JEDDAH232MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA - MARCH 17: AN
[...] (C) At the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Khobar on March 17, Shaikh al-Qahtani delivered an aggressively anti-American sermon to an audience of approximately 500 worshipers. The sermon was the strongest condemnation of the Untied States yet delivered by this imam. He began by recounting h [...]
2006-03-22 06:43:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KISL KWMN PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH236OIC DISMISSES RECENT BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL MEETING AS
[...] (C) SUMMARY; The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) insisted in a March 25 meeting with Consulate staff that the recent session of the Israel Boycott Office was a routine annual event, sponsored solely by the OIC and that no significant recommendations resulted. No list of repres [...]
2006-03-26 11:26:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALETTC IS KBCT KISL KPAL PREL SA
06JEDDAH263JEDDAH JOURNAL 9: MEDINA IMAM SUSPENDED, FASHION
[...] (C) Over the weekend rumors were circulating in Jeddah that the Imam of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, the second largest in Saudi Arabia after the Haram in Mecca, was suspended on Friday by an official decree. The rumored reason for this suspension is that in his Friday sermon, he spoke d [...]
2006-04-05 09:04:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL KWMN PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH300JEDDAH: BRINGING HOPE TO EXCEPTIONAL NEEDS CHILDREN
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The Consul General and Pol/Econ Chief visited the Hope Center for Exceptional Needs in Jeddah on April 12. The Center is Saudi Arabia's first multilingual school for rehabilitating disabled children whose plight is often ignored by the larger society. After a tour of the faciliti [...]
2006-04-17 13:16:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SCUL SOCI SA
06JEDDAH328RECENT POLICE ROUND-UPS HEIGHTEN ANXIETY AMONG
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Anxiety is growing in Jeddah's large Filipino population following the round-up, arrest, and interrogation this month of hundreds of Filipinos in Jeddah in connection with a serious of high-profile crimes, including the discovery of human remains in a dumpster in Jeddah and th [...]
2006-04-30 11:27:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALELAB KCRM PHUM SA SOCI
06JEDDAH356ARABIC LANGUAGE WEB-SITE AL SAHAT PRESENTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Within hours of the May 12 drive-by shooting at ConGen Jeddah, the Arabic language web-site Al Sahat carried a brief biography of the suspect and described him as a psychopath. By May 14, this web-page had been amended with additional information on the suspect, including a ref [...]
2006-05-15 05:48:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL PTER SA SOCI
06JEDDAH368MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA MAY 12:
[...] (C) For the second consecutive week, Shaikh Mohammad al-Qahtani lectured the congregation at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in al-Khobar about the dangers associated with technology and the unpardonable suffering of the Palestinians. His sermon began by denouncing rumors, but then disting [...]
2006-05-20 07:35:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL KPAL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH372INTERNAL SAG RIVALRIES ON CLOSING PALESTINE STREET
[...] (S) SUMMARY: As part of his research for a SAG-commissioned report on improving the issuance of US visas to Saudi nationals, Nawaf Al Obeid, an advisor to Saudi Ambassador to the US Turki bin Feisal Al Saud, met with the Consul General and Conoff on May 17. The CG emphasized that though mino [...]
2006-05-20 13:51:00Consulate JeddahSECRETCMGT CVIS PGOV PREL SA PTER ASEC ABLD AMGT
06JEDDAH374AL-SAHAT: AFTER BRIEF SHUTDOWN, ACCUSATIONS THAT
[...] SUMMARY. Al-Sahat, a popular Arabic-language website frequently denounced as extremist, mysteriously went offline from April 18 to 22, sparking rumors the Saudi government had caused the site to be shut down. ConGen Jeddah and its officers are regular subjects of commentary, criticism, and [...]
2006-05-21 08:28:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDKISL KWMN PGOV PREL PTER SA SCUL SOCI
06JEDDAH379CONVERSATION WITH TABUK GOVERNOR: "ROAD MAP,"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 16, the Consul General and Pol/Econ Chief met Prince Fahad, Governor of Tabuk. In a wide-ranging discussion of Middle Eastern and domestic conditions, Prince Fahad singled out the Palestinian problem as the most critical issue and a fundamental cause of extremism in the [...]
2006-05-22 13:51:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL KPAL KWMN PREL PTER SA SCUL
06JEDDAH381JEDDAH BUSINESSMAN: IRAN ESTABLISHING GRASSROOTS
[...] (S) SUMMARY: During a recent meeting with ConGenoff, a Jeddah businessman and former International Visitors Program participant claimed that he had been approached by representatives of the Iranian government to participate in a new strategic media initiative to foment anti-US sentiment in th [...]
2006-05-23 01:37:00Consulate JeddahSECRETPGOV PINR PREL PROP PTER SA SCUL
06JEDDAH399MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA, MAY 26: EASTERN
[...] (C) Speaking at the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal Mosque in Al-Khobar on May 26, Shaikh Mohammad al-Qahtani devoted both his sermons solely to an indictment of Shi'a for what he perceives is their unmitigated hostility toward all things Sunni and making common cause with the West in its war against S [...]
2006-05-31 13:17:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KPAL PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH407JEDDAH JOURNAL 13: NEW DIRECTOR FOR SAUDIA;
[...] (U) On the morning of June 7, Saudi media carried a report that by Royal Decree Khaled Abdullah Al-Mulhim, who was Chief Executive Officer of Saudi Telecom Company until February, has been named the new Director General of Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia). Mulhim has an engineering degree fro [...]
2006-06-07 12:54:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON KISL KWMN PREL SA SENV SOCI TBIO
06JEDDAH425ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMENTS AT MAY BUSINESS
[...] SUMMARY. Business leaders attending a monthly speech sponsored by the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ) maintain their optimism for the Saudi economy. They are, however, cautious when commenting on the local stock exchange. Their concern is that the market is still grossly overvalued. [...]
2006-06-17 14:08:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH427JEDDAH JOURNAL 14: COMMOTION IN JCCI BOARDROOM;
[...] (C) Contacts have informed the Consulate and recent news reports have confirmed that a substantial majority of the Board of Directors of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry have expressed opposition to Chairman, Engineer Abdullah Yehya Al Moallemi. Over the past few weeks, press repo [...]
2006-06-20 06:01:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL KWMN PREL PTER SA SOCI
06JEDDAH446A GRAND VISION FOR JCCI WOMEN'S CENTER
[...] (C) Summary. During a meeting with Mrs. Oberwetter and Consulate General officers, the new director of the JCCI's women's center outlined her plan to expand the center's services and role in the development of Saudi women. Moving training and placement to other facilities, the women's center [...]
2006-07-03 11:06:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON ELAB KWMN PINR SA
06JEDDAH453JEDDAH JOURNAL 15: JCCI TURMOIL ENDS; CONVICTION
[...] (U) Ending several months of controversy (reftel),the Consulate learned from a contact on July 1, that embattled Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) Chairman, Engineer Abdullah Yehia Al-Moallemi, had resigned, formally citing a disagreement over management style with the Board as [...]
2006-07-05 07:48:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON KISL KWMN PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH466GUARDED OPINION OF CAPABILITIES OF OIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: An AmCit employee of the Islamic Development Bank dismissed the Organization of the Islamic Conference as an organization that has no credibility with its members or the rest of the international community. He described the OIC as little more than a forum for Arab outrage. He [...]
2006-07-10 13:11:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH474POSITIVE FIRST MEETING WITH NEW OIC DIRECTOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Director General of Political Affairs held a positive introductory meeting with ConGenOffs. He outlined the OIC's 10-year action plan that emerged from the organization's extraordinary summit held in Mecca in December 2005, and no [...]
2006-07-12 12:11:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI TSPL
06JEDDAH476JEDDAH JOURNAL 16: INTERNET POSTINGS; MUTAWAA;
[...] (U) On July 12, an anonymous source posted a message on the fundamentalist Al Saha website that called for a "Holocaust" type event that would "burn" Minister of Culture and Information Iyad Madani, Minister of Labor Ghazi al-Qusaybi, and prominent writer Turki Al Hamad. Using easily recogni [...]
2006-07-12 14:25:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH486MINISTER OF LABOR TELLS RELIGIOUS POLICE ONLY MOL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The religious police, or Mutawwa denied that it was responsible for the recent firing of 69 saleswomen at cosmetic and lingerie department stores in Jeddah. The Mutawwa ordered the stores closed after accusing the saleswomen of mingling with men, and criticized them for not coveri [...]
2006-07-19 14:35:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR SA KISL
06JEDDAH495YOUNG SAUDI WOMEN SPEAK: THEIR VIEW OF THE FUTURE
[...] (C) Summary. In a discussion with Saudi college-aged women, EconOff learned about some of the issues confronting young females in Jeddah, what concerns they have for the future, and their thoughts about their portrayal in the West. As Saudi society undergoes numerous changes, young Saudi wome [...]
2006-07-25 05:22:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON KISL KWMN PINR SA SCUL SOCI
06JEDDAH505HEJAZI SCHOLARS SHARE VIEWS ON RELIGION AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Consul General and ConGenOffs reached out to religious scholars, including the liberal religious scholar Dr. Sami M. Angawi, in Jeddah to hear their views on the status of Islam in the Kingdom and how it is practiced in the nation's traditionally diverse Hejaz region. The scholars focu [...]
2006-07-29 04:05:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH531LABOR MINISTER DISCUSSES TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS,
[...] (C) Summary: On August 7, Labor Minister Dr. Ghazi al-Qusaibi described the SAG's efforts against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) to the Ambassador. Minister al-Qusaibi agreed that this was a serious issue for the SAG, and he outlined the steps that it is taking, adding that Saudi Arabia must m [...]
2006-08-09 11:14:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKCRM PHUM SMIG ELAB ECON PGOV SA
06JEDDAH557NEW "KING ABDULLAH ECONOMIC CITY" ON THE RED SEA:
[...] (C) Summary: Among the Saudi Government's many new megaprojects, the planned $26.7 billion "King Abdullah Economic City" has attracted the most media and investor attention. Its organizer, Saudi General Investment Chairman Amr Dabbagh, is pushing ahead. In a recent meeting, CG and EconCoun [...]
2006-08-23 13:09:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALECON PREL SA
06JEDDAH578 LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
[...] The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) conveyed the following letter via fax to Consulate General Jeddah for transmission to Secretary Rice: 2. Begin text: [Page 1] Organization of the Islamic Conference The Secretary General OIC/SG-1/2006 Jeddah 15, August 2006 Exce [...]
2006-09-03 13:12:00Consulate JeddahUNCLASSIFIEDKISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH625YOUNG PRESIDENTS SPEAK THEIR MINDS TO AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with several members of the Saudi chapter of the Young President's Organization (YPO) on August 20. The group said Israel,s actions in Lebanon were disproportionate, and claimed there is growing anti-US sentiment in the Kingdom and increasing fears of Iran. [...]
2006-09-25 12:40:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PINR SA ECON KISL
06JEDDAH643IIRO SECRETARY-GENERAL TALKS OF SAUDI PROGRAMS AND
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In a meeting at the headquarters of the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) on September 18, Secretary-General Dr. Adnan Khalil Basha told PolOffs that IIRO headquarters in Jeddah has administrative and budgetary control of all 28 country branches and receives no [...]
2006-10-09 07:52:00Consulate JeddahSECRETPGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06JEDDAH658VISITING DESK OFFICER MET WITH OIC DG OF POLITICAL
[...] (C) Poloff and visiting NEA/ARP Desk Officer met with Director General of Political Affairs for the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Mahdy Fathallah, on October 10. Fathallah laid out the reasons why the U.S. would benefit from closer relations with the OIC. He pointed to the pot [...]
2006-10-16 11:58:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL PINR PREL SA
06JEDDAH659MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, SEPTEMBER 22:
[...] (C) Shaykh Usamah bin-Abdallah Khayyat delivered the sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on September 22. The imam condemned statements made against Islam without mentioning Pope Benedict XVI by name. The sermon opposed the view that Islam has been spread through violence. The imam said, " [...]
2006-10-16 12:03:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH664MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, SEPTEMBER 29:
[...] (C) Shaykh Abd-al-Rahman al-Sudays delivered the sermon at the Grand Mosque in Mecca on September 29. The sermon largely dealt with the significance of Ramadan for piety and purification of the soul. The imam added that Ramadan has come "while our nation is unaware of the plotting and challe [...]
2006-10-18 04:07:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH765MOSQUE SERMONS FOR SAUDI ARABIA, DECEMBER 15:
[...] (C) Sheikh Salih bin-Abdallah bin-Humayd delivered the sermon in Mecca on December 15. He began by encouraging Muslims to follow Allah and participate in the Hajj. The imam continued, "Muslims are feeling that their religion is being exposed to fierce onslaught. They talk about this onslau [...]
2006-12-19 14:05:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KISL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH99"REAL PEOPLE TOUR": STUDENTS PROVIDE TOUR OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY. As Post previously reported, Poloff visited on January 22 the central campus of Um al-Qura University, known as a center of Islamic learning in the Kingdom, in the heart of the Islamic holy city of Mecca and met with University Rector Dr. Nasir A. al-Saleh and several administrat [...]
2006-02-01 14:34:00Consulate JeddahCONFIDENTIALKISL CVIS PTER SCUL PREL SA
06JERUSALEM1080PASF SUPPORT TO CONGEN DURING JERICHO CRISIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite widespread anger over rumors of USG complicity in the March 14 IDF attack on the Jericho prison, PA Security Forces (PASF) worked closely with the ConGen to mitigate violence against AmCits over the course of March 14. ConGen officers were able to enlist Interior Ministry [...]
2006-03-15 15:24:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL ASEC CASC MOPS IS PTER PGOV
06JERUSALEM1119JERICHO RAID: POLITIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR KEY
[...] (C)SUMMARY: The March 14 Israeli raid on the Jericho prison has hurt President Abbas, (Abu Mazen) standng among Palestinians and bolstered the perceptin that his administration is vacillating and oftn incompetent. Criticism from the HAMAS leadershp has been focused on the U.S. and U.K., rather [...]
2006-03-17 17:06:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPAL PGOV ASEC IS
06JERUSALEM114PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP
[...] (C) Summary. Central Elections Commission (CEC) officials January 9 reported to the Consul General that the Ministry of Interior (MOI) has provided conflicting messages on its ability to provide Election Day security. The MOI has agreed to abide by CEC procedures for early voting for the [...]
2006-01-09 18:33:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM1153JOB-SEEKING MILITANTS ATTACK PA OFFICIALS, OFFICES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A series of intense gun battles erupted on March 20 in Gaza between armed gunmen and Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF). During the fracas, Civil Police Chief BG Ala'a Husni's motorcade was attacked and at least twelve people were injured. PA Ministry of Interior (MOI) [...]
2006-03-21 16:17:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM1175HAMAS-LED CABINET TAKING SHAPE
[...] (C) During a March 19 meeting in Gaza with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas, Hamas PM-designate Isma'il Haniyyah presented Abbas with a list of cabinet ministers for the next Palestinian government. The Palestinian media, citing unnamed Hamas and PA sources, has identified [...]
2006-03-22 16:08:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1287PALESTINIAN REACTIONS TO ISRAELI ELECTIONS
[...] (C) President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) welcomed acting PM Olmert's comments after the election supporting negotiations, and a number of Fatah interlocutors stressed Abu Mazen's genuine willingness to negotiate. Fatah members all stressed that any progress in negotiations depended upon Israel [...]
2006-03-29 15:30:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1342VIOLENT CLASHES IN GAZA FOLLOWING KILLING OF PRC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Four Palestinians were killed and 33 were wounded in clashes following the killing of Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) military leader 'Abd Yusif al-Quqa (Abu Yusif) in Gaza City. Al-Quqa was killed on March 31 when a bomb exploded as he walked past a parked car. PRC spokesmen [...]
2006-04-03 14:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNASEC KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM1382IAF BOMBS NSF SITE NEAR ABU MAZEN'S GAZA OFFICE
[...] (SBU) Israel Air Force (IAF) aircraft fired three missiles at 1440L at a helicopter-landing pad in the Gaza City Ansar 2 compound, a largely abandoned National Security Force (NSF) facility that was used for the storage and maintenance of former President Arafat,s helicopters. The facility is [...]
2006-04-04 14:28:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMOPS KPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM1410PA SECURITY FORCES: CONTINUED LACK OF CLARITY IN
[...] (C) Over a week after the assumption of power by the Hamas cabinet, the reporting relationships of the component parts of the PA Security Forces (PASF) remain unclear - both to us and to Palestinians. Hamas Interior Minister Said Siyam was named on March 29 by incoming PM Hanniyyah, and Siyam [...]
2006-04-05 12:28:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG MCAP MOPS
06JERUSALEM1469ESCALATING VIOLENCE IN GAZA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The IDF responded to several weeks of steadily increasing Qassam rocket attacks with a barrage of artillery and missile strikes in Gaza. Presidential Security sources reported the Israeli strikes killed 17 Palestinians, including several civilians, and destroyed two homes. Local [...]
2006-04-10 15:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALMOPS KPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM1486VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN GAZA AMID REPORTS OF HAMAS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The IDF continued shelling Gaza for a fourth day in response to the launching of six more Qassam rockets into Israel. PA Interior Minister Siad Siam and Foreign Minister Mahmud al-Zahar reportedly initiated a low profile political effort to convince Fatah and Palestinian Islamic [...]
2006-04-11 14:17:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALMOPS KPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM1487NABIL AMR DESCRIBES HIS ROLE AS PRESIDENTIAL MEDIA
[...] (C) Former PA Minister of Information Nabil Amr told PolChief on April 6 that he had been appointed as media advisor in the President's office. (Note: In an April 10 meeting, President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) said he had yet to officially appoint any assistants, but planned to do so. End no [...]
2006-04-11 14:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM1524TAXI PERMIT DISPUTE PRECIPATES AL-AQSA ATTACK ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Fatah-affiliated militants attacked the offices of the PA Prime Minister Isma'il Hanniyah and Transportation Minister Ziad Thatha on April 13 in response to the HAMAS-led government,s decision not to disburse taxi permits that PA officials have used in the past to co-opt armed Fat [...]
2006-04-14 14:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM1590MIXED PALESTINIAN REACTIONS TO TEL AVIV BOMBING
[...] (C) Summary. Disparate Palestinian reaction to the April 17 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv has shed further light on divisions between the Hamas leadership and President Abbas. While Abbas and the senior Fatah leadership have condemned the attack, Hamas officials -- either affiliated with th [...]
2006-04-18 16:14:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1644CONTINUING FATAH-HAMAS FRICTION
[...] (C) Supporters of Fatah and Hamas continue to clash in the wake of Khalid Meshaal's statements in Damascus on April 21, the appointment of Jamal Abu Samhadanah to the Interior Ministry, and Abu Mazen's subsequent cancellation of that appointment. Damascus-based Hamas leader Meshaal, speaking [...]
2006-04-24 15:18:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG PTER
06JERUSALEM1672ABU MAZEN AND GOVERNMENT AT ODDS ABOUT "NEW"
[...] (C) The ongoing dispute between the PA President and government regarding the formation of a "new" security force sheds light on tensions regarding security relationships and attempts by Hamas to promote law and order in Gaza. Hamas appears to be looking for a way to use its military wing, the [...]
2006-04-25 14:48:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG MCAP MOPS
06JERUSALEM1685NABLUSIS CONCERNED ABOUT PALESTINIAN GOVERNMENT,
[...] (C) In a series of meetings with prominent Nablus personalities on April 25, Consul General heard concerns about the future of the Palestinian government and relations with Israel. Munib al-Masri, a leading businessman and host for the meetings, outlined his private-sector initiative intended [...]
2006-04-26 14:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM1854ABBAS-HANIYYAH TALKS PRODUCE FEW RESULTS; CLASHES
[...] (C) Summary. Talks initiated over the May 6-7 weekend between President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Hamas PM Isma'il Haniyyah failed to resolve disagreements over security responsibilities and appointments. Clashes erupted between Fatah and Hamas for a second day, May 9, in the Gaza Stri [...]
2006-05-09 16:05:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL
06JERUSALEM1904HAMAS RESPONSE TO QUARTET MEETING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The PA government and HAMAS leadership put out varied responses to the Quartet's decision to establish a mechanism to deliver aid to Palestinians. Prime Minister (PM) Isma'il Hanniyah complained that the international community is still placing conditions on the PA. Foreign Mi [...]
2006-05-12 09:52:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM1917PALESTINIAN PRISONERS PROPOSE "NATIONAL ACCORD
[...] (C) The "National Accord Document" put out by prominent Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on May 10 has been placed on the agenda of the "National Dialogue" due to be held on May 24-25. However, initial tepid Hamas reactions have exacerbated concerns among Palestinian observers that the [...]
2006-05-12 16:11:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM1918SETTLER HARASSMENT OF PALESTINIAN SCHOOLCHILDREN
[...] SUMMARY. Settlers from Ma'on and Hill 833 outpost in the southern Hebron Hills have waged an ongoing campaign of harassment against Palestinian schoolchildren traveling from Um Tuba to their school in al-Tuwani, according to Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). CPT believes that settlers attack [...]
2006-05-12 16:15:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHUM KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM2028SECURITY FORCES DEPLOYED IN PARALLEL AS EGYPT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Security forces under President Abbas' (Abu Mazen) control deployed throughout Gaza on May 17 and 18 in response to the HAMAS-led government's deployment of a new security force composed of militants from factions loyal to HAMAS. Egyptian officials hosted a meeting between high-l [...]
2006-05-18 16:10:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG MOPS PREL IS
06JERUSALEM2066ASSASINATION ATTEMPTS AGAINST FATAH SECURITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sporadic but intense clashes between Fatah- and HAMAS-affiliated forces left at least six people dead in Gaza between May 20-22. The clashes began following the attempted assassination of General Intelligence (Mukhabarat) Chief Tariq Abu Rajab, who was severely injured on May 20 [...]
2006-05-22 15:12:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM2098RELATIVE CALM RETURNS TO GAZA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Gaza was relatively calm on May 23 after senior Fatah and HAMAS officials agreed to take steps to prevent further violence. However, rival armed groups continue to patrol the streets and a potential remains for a return of violent clashes. PA government spokesman Ghazi Hamad tol [...]
2006-05-23 15:26:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC CASC
06JERUSALEM2118SPORADIC VIOLENCE IN GAZA; IDF OPERATION LEAVES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sporadic violence continued in Gaza May 23-24. In Ramallah, a May 24 IDF arrest operation targeting a PIJ activist resulted in four Palestinians dead and at least 35 wounded. HAMAS spokesmen publicly accused the Fatah-dominated Preventive Security Organization (PSO) of orches [...]
2006-05-24 14:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC CASC
06JERUSALEM2134FATAH AND HAMAS MEET TO EASE TENSIONS IN GAZA AS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Tensions remain high in Gaza despite efforts by Fatah and Hamas to calm the situation. Clashes took place in Gaza City and a kidnapping elsewhere. The death of a PSO chief appears to be a "work accident" and not part of the ongoing clashes. Fatah and Hamas representatives me [...]
2006-05-25 15:57:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC
06JERUSALEM2150INTERIOR MINISTRY PULLS BACK SOME OF ITS FORCES;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The PA Interior Ministry scaled back its deployment of the HAMAS-affiliated Special Security Force in Gaza on May 26. The HAMAS commander of the force, Yusif al-Zahar, told the media that the move is intended to reduce tensions in Gaza, while noting that the Interior Minister exp [...]
2006-05-26 14:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC CASC
06JERUSALEM2165IDF RAID IN GAZA KILLS 4 MILITANTS; INTERIOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Undercover IDF units operating in Gaza killed 4 militants and injured 8 others during a May 30 pre-dawn ambush of a PIJ cell preparing to launch Qassam rockets into Israel. The raid followed several days of increasing Qassam attacks from Gaza. Interior Minister Said Siyyam May 28 [...]
2006-05-30 13:30:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC CASC
06JERUSALEM2223EREKAT DENOUNCES ISRAELI PLAN TO REVOKE JERUSALEM
[...] (SBU) PLO Chief Negotiator Sa'eb Erekat June 1 faxed to the ConGen a letter addressed to NEA A/S Welch criticizing statements by Israeli Interior Minister Roni Bar-On, published in the Israeli media on May 30, threatening to revoke the residency status of three Hamas PLC members from Jerusa [...]
2006-06-01 15:11:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2244SEVERAL KILLED AND WOUNDED IN HAMAS-FATAH CLASHES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sporadic but intense clashes June 1-5 between Fatah and Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip resulted in eight Palestinians deaths and 21 injuries. Hamas gunmen on June 5 set fire to the official PBC Palestinian TV broadcasting station in Khan Yunis. Four Palestinian military wing [...]
2006-06-05 15:16:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC CASC
06JERUSALEM2245BANK OF PALESTINE PAYS SOME PA SALARIES; OTHER
[...] (C) Summary: In response to instructions from the PA Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Palestine (BoP) began June 4 to deposit PA salary payments into BoP accounts of PA employees. Funds for the payments reportedly came from a PA account for domestic revenues held at the BoP's Ramallah branc [...]
2006-06-05 15:47:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM2299VIOLENT CLASHES CONTINUE IN GAZA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sporadic clashes between Hamas and Fatah-affiliated forces continued throughout the Gaza strip on June 6 and 7. Two Preventive Security Organization (PSO) members (and three construction workers) were injured June 5 as a result of an attack on PSO headquarters in Gaza City. A [...]
2006-06-07 15:04:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM2381HAMAS FIRES QASSAMS INTO ISRAEL; INTENSE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the June 9 deaths of 8 Palestinian civilians by a suspected errant Israeli shell, HAMAS militants launched a barrage of Qassam rockets into Israel. In statements to the media, PM Haniyyah and other PA government spokesmen called on the international community to halt Isr [...]
2006-06-12 16:19:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC
06JERUSALEM2399INTENSE FATAH-HAMAS CLASHES; AT LEAST 9 KILLED IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Violent clashes between Fatah and Hamas groups continued in Gaza on June 12, spreading to the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Nablus and Salfit. Two people were killed in Gaza as a result of these clashes. There were no fatalities or major injuries in the West Bank incidents, but [...]
2006-06-13 13:57:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ASEC KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM240SUBJECT: PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Fatah and Hamas candidates in Gaza signed an agreement pledging to refrain from displaying weaponry and abide by the democratic process. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met January 18 for additional discussions regarding Jerusalem voting. During a January 18 meeting at C [...]
2006-01-19 17:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PGOV PINS PTER KPAL IS PBTS KDEM
06JERUSALEM2442ONGOING FATAH-HAMAS DISCUSSIONS ON PRISONERS'
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Abbas (Abu Mazen) reportedly agreed to continue discussions with the PA government on the prisoners' initiative during a June 13 meeting with PM Isma'il Haniyyah in Gaza. Fatah officials report that HAMAS is insisting on modifying the prisoners' document to include lang [...]
2006-06-14 14:20:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKPAL KWBG PREL PGOV IS
06JERUSALEM2444GAZA VIOLENCE AND WEST BANK UNREST CONTINUE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Fatah-Hamas violence continued in Gaza June 14, resulting in the death of a Hamas activist and the wounding of a Preventive Security Organization (PSO) official in Khan Yunis. President Mahmud Abbas condemned the June 13 Israeli air strike in Gaza that killed 11 Palestinians, in [...]
2006-06-14 14:46:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PTER ASEC KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM2470ABU MAZEN/HANIYYAH REACH REPORTED DEAL ON SSF;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Abbas (Abu Mazen) and PM Isma'il Haniyyah reportedly agreed June 14 to integrate members of the HAMAS-affiliated Special Security Force (SSF) into the PA Civil Police. Presidential security sources report that the two sides have yet to agree on whether the SSF will be i [...]
2006-06-15 15:07:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKPAL KWBG PREL PGOV IS
06JERUSALEM2509NABIL AMR ON REFERENDUM, ABU MAZEN
[...] (C) Summary. During a June 14 meeting in Ramallah with the Consul General, presidential media advisor Nabil Amr said that Abu Mazen was correct to proceed with the national referendum -- despite Amr's own objections to the prisoners' initiative -- in order to force the demise of the Hamas-l [...]
2006-06-19 08:19:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2576MUNIB AL-MASRI TOUTED AS POTENTIAL PM IN NATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. Amid speculation that Fatah and Hamas are nearing consensus on the prisoners' initiative, and possibly agreement on a National Unity Government (NUG),Fatah and private sector sources have suggested that prominent Nablus businessman, Munib al-Masri, is a potential candidate for [...]
2006-06-21 15:41:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL
06JERUSALEM2650GAZA MILITANTS ABDUCT ISRAELI SOLDIER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) and HAMAS militants staged a brazen raid on an IDF outpost on the Israeli side of the Gaza border June 25, killing two soldiers and abducting a third. President Abbas (Abu Mazen) issued a statement denouncing the attack as a violation of the "un [...]
2006-06-26 15:28:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKPAL KWBG PREL PGOV PTER IS
06JERUSALEM2680MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JUNE
[...] (C) Israeli ground and air forces initiated operations in Gaza late on June 27 and early on June 28. Israeli ground forces now occupy land in the southern Gaza strip, including the disused Gaza airport. Israeli aircraft damaged three bridges in central Gaza, and Palestinian contacts report l [...]
2006-06-28 09:20:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM2751MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JUNE
[...] (C) The IAF conducted an airstrike against PIJ militants in Gaza City and IDF forces continued to shell Qassam launching areas; however, Qassam rockets continued to be launched. Press reports indicate that Hamas militants blew a hole in the border wall between Gaza and Egypt, and that both E [...]
2006-06-29 14:41:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2762MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JUNE
[...] (C) Airstrikes in Gaza and shelling of open areas continue; IDF forces have conducted a number of raids in the West Bank. IDF ground forces have reportedly not entered northern Gaza. PA sources say that the breach blown in the Gaza/Egypt border wall has been repaired. There has been intens [...]
2006-06-30 09:50:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2766MGGZ01: FACTIONS CONDEMN HAMAS ARRESTS, REFUSE TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A full day after the June 29 arrest of approximately 90 Hamas cabinet ministers, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members, and others, Fatah and Hamas continue to condemn the Israeli action. Hamas is reportedly still working out what steps are necessary for the government [...]
2006-06-30 11:03:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM2771MGGZ01- QUICK ACTION CLOSES BREECH IN WALL BETWEEN
[...] (C) At 1245L on June 29, gunmen from the Popular Resistance Committees and the Hamas-affiliated Izzedine Qassam Brigades detonated a landmine along the Egypt-Gaza border, according to Khalil Khatib, a security officer in President Abbas' office (reftel). The explosion blasted out two adjace [...]
2006-06-30 15:31:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM2775MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 2
[...] (C) Israeli airstrikes over the last 24 hours damaged the Gaza office of Prime Minister Ismael Hanniyyah, among other targets. IDF forces continued their raids on Hamas-associated offices in the West Bank. Statements made by the office of President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) that blamed Hama [...]
2006-07-02 09:38:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2813MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 4
[...] (C) A 0600 ultimatum regarding kidnapped IDF Corporal Galid Shalit passed without any significant developments. The IDF arrested three al-Aqsa Brigades' militants implicated in the June 25 killing of Israeli settler Eliyahu Ahsheri. The PLC held an emergency session on July 3, focused on the [...]
2006-07-04 08:54:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2825MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 6
[...] (C) IDF forces on July 6 expanded their incursion in the northern Gaza to the three dismantled settlements that had been the site of previous Qassam rocket launches. The Israeli move follows the launching of two additional Qassam rockets, one of which came near the southern city of Ashkelon. [...]
2006-07-06 12:29:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2835MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 7
[...] (C) The casualty rates associated with ongoing IDF operations spiked sharply on July 6 and 7, with at least 21 Palestinians reported killed and over 65 wounded; one Israeli soldier was reported killed and several more wounded. At least eight Qassam rockets were fired, with no reported injurie [...]
2006-07-07 10:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2854MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 8
[...] (C) ConGenoffs assisted in the transfer of 68 American citizens from Erez Crossing to the Allenby Bridge for passage to Jordan on July 8. Another 34 Amcits originally scheduled to depart Gaza either failed to bring the proper documentation for transit or failed to show up at Erez. IDF mil [...]
2006-07-08 12:26:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2855MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY 9
[...] (C) IDF forces appear to have withdrawn from parts of the northern Gaza strip, but remain present in the central and southern sections. An explosion near Gaza City on July 8 that killed a mother and two of her children has attracted wide media attention. Prime Minister Hanniyyah released a 5 [...]
2006-07-09 10:59:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2867MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) The IDF continues its presence in central and southern Gaza. IDF raids continue, as do Qassam rocket launches. The factions claiming responsibility for the abduction of IDF corporal Gilad Shalit told the media on July 9 that they alone control Shalit's fate, and reiterated their demands [...]
2006-07-10 10:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2886MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) IDF operations are continuing in central and southern Gaza. IAF air strikes on suspected Palestinian militants July 10-11 resulted in nine Palestinian deaths. One air strike near Beit Hanoun targeting gunmen instead struck Palestinian civilians, killing four. Israeli media reported t [...]
2006-07-11 13:58:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM PTER
06JERUSALEM2902MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) IDF military action in Gaza continued on July 12-13, although news coverage was overshadowed by the developing situation on the Israeli-Lebanese border. PA sources list 26 Palestinians killed on July 12, including the family that died in the IDF attack that reportedly wounded Hamas milita [...]
2006-07-13 12:18:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2937MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) Violence declined in Gaza on July 13-14, in comparison to previous days. Palestinian gunmen and activists attempted to force open the Rafah border crossing on July 13, but were dispersed by the Palestinian Presidential Guard. President Abbas (Abu Mazen) told the press July 13 that the f [...]
2006-07-14 14:25:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM2940MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) Palestinian gunmen blew open a six-meter hole in the wall separating Gaza from Egypt near the Rafah crossing on the evening of July 14, enabling close to 3,000 Palestinians to cross from Egypt into Gaza. At least one Egyptian security officer was injured in the exchange of gunfire; Eg [...]
2006-07-15 10:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3001MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) IDF forces reentered northern Gaza on July 17; at least two Palestinians have been reported killed in this latest incursion. IAF aircraft struck government buildings, and supported ongoing operations in northern Gaza. There were approximately 15 Qassam launches from Gaza, with damage but [...]
2006-07-17 10:53:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3005PLO ENVOYS RETURN EMPTY-HANDED FROM DAMASCUS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Two PLO envoys traveled to Damascus on July 9 in order to deal with the crisis that began with the kidnapping of IDF Corporal Gilad Shalit on June 25. The envoys met with Syrian Vice President Farouq al-Sharaa', Syrian Ba'ath officials, the Democratic Front for the Liberation o [...]
2006-07-17 11:42:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG PREL ASEC IS
06JERUSALEM3022MGGZ01 - ISRAELI GAZA INCURSION - JERUSALEM JULY
[...] (C) The Rafah crossing opened July 18 to allow 2,000-3,000 Palestinians on the Egyptian side of the crossing to enter Gaza. Palestinian contacts report that more than 700 Palestinians transited into Gaza as of 1300 local. The IDF July 18 withdrew from parts of Beit Hanoun following its Ju [...]
2006-07-18 11:38:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3080MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM JULY 20 SITREP
[...] (C) One hundred and three American citizens were evacuated from Gaza to Amman on July 19. IDF operations in the central Gaza Strip continued on July 20, killing two and wounding four. In Nablus, the IDF continued an operation against the main PA security forces compound. Palestinian Presid [...]
2006-07-20 15:03:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3093MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM JULY 21 SITREP
[...] (C) Israeli Defense Forces withdrew from the al-Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza on July 21 after a three-day operation that left 16 Palestinians dead and approximately 130 wounded. In Nablus, the IDF continued its operation against the PA headquarters complex. Two Qassams were fired from Gaza i [...]
2006-07-21 13:57:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3100MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM JULY 23 SITREP
[...] (C) The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) continued arrest operations in the West Bank and small incursions into the Gaza Strip on July 22-23, and Qassam rockets continued to be launched from Gaza into the western Negev and Sderot. Media reports that Palestinian factions in Gaza had reached agree [...]
2006-07-23 11:22:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3129MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM JULY 24 SITREP
[...] (C) There continued to be isolated incidents of violence in Gaza July 23-24, with reports of three Palestinian fatalities. The IDF arrested 20 Palestinians in the West Bank on July 24. 11 Qassams were launched from Gaza into Israel on July 23, and an additional three were launched on July 2 [...]
2006-07-24 12:32:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM3163MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM JULY 25 SITREP
[...] (C) There continued to be incidents of violence in Gaza, July 24-25, with reports of six Palestinian fatalities. The IDF arrested 12 Palestinians in the West Bank July 24. At least four Qassam rockets were launched at the western Negev and Sderot July 24, and another three were launched, as [...]
2006-07-25 14:55:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM3178MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM JULY 26 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Heavy fighting between IDF forces and Palestinian factions in Gaza is ongoing, with reports of at least 14 Palestinian fatalities. At least nine Qassam rockets were launched into Israel, as of 1500 local July 26. Local media gave prominent coverage to Secretary Rice's meeting with PA [...]
2006-07-26 12:37:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM324PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A senior Fatah activist associated with Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) candidate Ghassan Shakaa was killed in Nablus early on January 24, reportedly by gunmen associated with rival Fatah leader Jamal al-Tirawi. Large Fatah and Hamas rallies on January 23 marked the officia [...]
2006-01-24 17:05:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PGOV PINS PTER KPAL IS PBTS KDEM
06JERUSALEM338PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY
[...] (C) Con Gen election observers report elections proceeding smoothly in Jerusalem and Ramallah in the first hours of voting. PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen),speaking to the media, commended the ongoing polling and described the events as "an election festival." Three polling stations i [...]
2006-01-25 09:33:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM340PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY
[...] (C) As of 12:30 pm local time, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections continued to go smoothly. There was media coverage of PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Hamas leader Mohammed Zahar casting votes in their respective locations. There continued to be reports of some votin [...]
2006-01-25 12:01:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM3415MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 4 SITREP
[...] SUMMARY: Three Palestinians were killed and two wounded August 4 as a result of IDF operations in Gaza. In the West Bank, the IDF arrested 11 Palestinians. The Rafah crossing remains closed as of August 4, but the Karni/al-Mintar and Nahal Oz crossings are operational. Nine of ten electric [...]
2006-08-04 14:18:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM345PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY
[...] (C) As of 2:30 pm local time, PLC elections continued to go smoothly with 45 percent voter turnout in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip after seven and a half hours of voting. CEC Chairman Hanna Nasser estimated that voter turnout would be 75-80 percent by the end of the day and predicted that [...]
2006-01-25 14:19:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS KDEM KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM347PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY
[...] (C) As of 6:00 pm local time, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections continued to go smoothly with only sporadic reports of violence. The Central Elections Commission reported voter turnout at 64.7 percent with 810,000 voting in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Slow lines at East Jerusa [...]
2006-01-25 17:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS ASEC KDEM KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM348PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY
[...] (C) As of 9:00 pm local time, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections continued to go smoothly in most areas, with nearly 81 percent voter turnout in the West Bank and Gaza Strip after over 12 hours of voting. The CEC determined that there would not be an overall extension of the votin [...]
2006-01-25 20:37:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV
06JERUSALEM349PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As of midnight on Election Day, the Central Elections Commission (CEC) was counting votes with preliminary results not expected until later on January 26. Polls in Jerusalem closed at 2100L, two hours after the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The election was notably free of serious vo [...]
2006-01-25 22:43:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL
06JERUSALEM3519MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 9 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Summary. Three Qassam rockets were fired from northern Gaza into Israel on August 8. The IDF responded with shelling, resulting in at least two injuries. In the West Bank, an Israeli air strike August 9 in the Jenin refugee camp killed two Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) activists, [...]
2006-08-09 14:13:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3540MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 10 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sporadic violence continued in the Gaza Strip on August 9-10. Three Palestinians, including a five-year old girl, were killed and two homes destroyed in separate Israeli Air Force strikes. In the West Bank, Israeli forces arrested 13 people on August 9-10. The Rafah, the Ka [...]
2006-08-10 13:53:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3560MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 11 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Israeli military operations destroyed three homes in Gaza on August 10-11; there were no reports of fatalities. An Italian tourist was stabbed to death in Jerusalem on August 10 in what Israeli officials are describing as a "possible terror attack." In the West Bank, three P [...]
2006-08-11 13:20:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL CASC ASEC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3596MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 14 SITREP
[...] (SBU) Summary. Low level violence in Gaza continued over the weekend, August 11-13, with no reported Qassam rocket fire. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) claimed responsibility for the firing of two rockets on August 14 from northern Gaza toward Ashkelon. Israeli media reported some l [...]
2006-08-14 14:25:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3651HAMAS STAKES OUT TOUGH LINE ON NATIONAL UNITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Hamas representatives have staked out a tough position on the creation of a new national unity government (NUG) in public statements following the August 16 agreement between PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Prime Minister Isma'il Hanniyah to begin negotiations on such [...]
2006-08-17 13:43:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KWBG KPAL
06JERUSALEM3893FATAH CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING: FEW RESULTS, LOTS
[...] (C) Summary. The August 23-25 meeting of the Fatah Central Committee (FCC) in Amman produced few if any results. Participants stated publicly that no firm date has been set for the Sixth Fatah Congress, but announced ongoing efforts to field representatives. Separately, FCC sources said t [...]
2006-08-29 16:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG PHUM IS
06JERUSALEM3932MGGZ01- JERUSALEM AUGUST 30 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Nine Palestinians were killed in separate incidents throughout Gaza August 28-29. Palestinian militants fired several antitank shells against the IDF in Gaza, injuring one IDF soldier. One Qassam rocket landed near Sderot on August 29, causing no injuries. Israeli forces k [...]
2006-08-30 14:20:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3949ABBAS PROCLAIMS SUPPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 2 GENERAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) told striking PA employees gathered outside his Ramallah office August 30 that they have a right to express their opinion by all appropriate means, thus signaling his support for a planned general strike set to start September 2. He urge [...]
2006-08-31 14:57:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM ELAB
06JERUSALEM3965MGGZ01- JERUSALEM SEPTEMBER 1 SITREP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IDF troops withdrew from the Gaza City neighborhood of Shajayah on August 31, after a four-day incursion. Unknown gunmen kidnapped and later released a relative of HAMAS' Executive Force commander in Khan Younis on August 31. In a separate incident, Palestinian gunmen kille [...]
2006-09-01 13:59:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM3996JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (09/06): THE HAMAS GOVERNMENT
[...] Ahmad Majdalani commented in independent Al-Ayyam under the headline, "Is it a Salary Crisis or a Ruling Crisis?" (9/6): "None of the slogans of change and reform, the basis on which the current parliament and government were voted, has been implemented. Although the government would like to bl [...]
2006-09-06 09:45:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
06JERUSALEM4031TEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL MECHANISM: FIRST
[...] (C) Summary: The first meeting of the Temporary International Mechanism (TIM) Consultative Group, September 1, reviewed implementation progress to date. Both Windows II (provision of fuel to health, water, and sanitation sectors in Gaza) and III (allowances) have been implemented fully by th [...]
2006-09-06 15:32:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN EAID KWBG
06JERUSALEM458HAMAS EMPHASIZING UNITY AND MODERATION; FATAH AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Hamas leaders inside the West Bank and Gaza continue to emphasize unity and moderation in their public statements, while the ConGen has received reports that senior PASF and Fatah officials are growing increasingly fearful of the impending transfer of governmental authority. Hamas [...]
2006-02-01 16:00:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL
06JERUSALEM4757PROPOSED FIFTH MINARET RENEWS DEBATE OVER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A JORDANIAN PROPOSAL TO BUILD A FIFTH MINARET FOR THE AL AQSA MOSQUE ON OF THE HARAM A-SHARIF/TEMPLE MOUNT HAS RENEWED CALLS BY RIGHT-WING ISRAELIS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SYNAGOGUE IN THE SAME AREA. JORDANIAN KING ABDULLAH ANNOUNCED A CONTEST FOR THE DESIGN OF THE MINARET IN OCT [...]
2006-11-08 15:04:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM483HAMAS LEADERS: BIOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL DATA
[...] (C) The incoming, newly elected Hamas PLC membership is a diverse and well-educated group. Some of the most prominent incoming PLC members bring with them administrative experience developed during the al-Aqsa Intifada, when Islamic charities and traditional reconciliation committees moved in [...]
2006-02-02 17:01:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL
06JERUSALEM5065MASKIYYOT: NEW SETTLEMENT DEVELOPMENT OPPOSITE
[...] (C) Summary. During a visit to the Maskiyyot pre-army school on December 29, students told Poloff that houses for 30 families evacuated from Gush Katif would be constructed in a separate, uncleared area, opposite the highway from the school. Peace Now's chief settlement watcher told Poloff [...]
2006-12-29 14:25:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG PBTS KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM561HAMAS GOVERNMENT TALKS ONGOING IN CAIRO
[...] (C) Senior Hamas officials, representing the political leadership in Gaza and Damascus, February 6 commenced talks in Cairo on the formation of the next Palestinian cabinet. The Damascus delegation included Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mish'al, deputy chief Musa Abu Marzouk, and burea [...]
2006-02-07 16:32:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM EG
06JERUSALEM620ABDUCTION OF EGYPTIAN DIPLOMAT POSSIBLE WARNING TO
[...] (C) The kidnapping of Egyptian diplomat Husam al-Musly February 9 in Gaza has been met with condemnation by both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Initial press reports link the kidnapping to Fatah-affiliated factions aggrieved over their non-inclusion in the PA security services and/or s [...]
2006-02-10 15:18:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC PREL KWBG EG
06JERUSALEM693MUSTAFA BARGHOUTHI ON GOVERNMENT FORMATION
[...] (C) Summary. During a February 14 meeting in Ramallah with the Consul General, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)-elect member Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi denied reports emanating from Hamas sources that he or other individuals from his faction, "Independent Palestine", were engaged in negot [...]
2006-02-15 16:06:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM723JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (2/17): HAMAS IN A NEW
[...] Columnist Samih Shbeib commented in independent Al-Ayyam under the headline, "Following the Formation of the [Palestinian] Legislative [Council]" (2/17): "Israel and the United States do not view Hamas as a political party capable of standing up to recent Middle East developments, and accordi [...]
2006-02-17 11:22:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
06JERUSALEM79OLIVE GROVE DESTROYED IN SOUTHERN WEST BANK VILLAGE
[...] (SBU) Palestinian villagers from the southern West Bank village of Juwaya January 6 discovered 102 olive trees -- planted over 30 years ago -- deliberately cut down, presumably by settlers residing in nearby Ma'on settlement. According to contacts from the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT),[...]
2006-01-06 17:25:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALASEC CASC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PHUM
06JERUSALEM795EREKAT URGING ABU MAZEN TO TAKE TOUGH STAND
[...] (C) Summary. During a February 22 meeting with NEA DAS Dibble and the Consul General, PLO Chief Negotiator Dr. Sa'eb Erekat said that he had urged Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) to stand firm against Hamas. Erekat, who speculated that Hamas could announce the [...]
2006-02-23 17:12:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM936PLANNED MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE STIRS CONTROVERSY
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Israeli Supreme Court issued an injunction February 22 halting construction of the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, funded by the U.S.-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, and appointed former Chief Justice Meir Shamgar to lead a 30-day mediation period. The first arbitratio [...]
2006-03-06 15:37:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KPAO IS
06JERUSALEM974PLC SUSPENDS PROCEEDINGS AMIDST FATAH/HAMAS RANCOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Speaker Aziz Dweik suspended PLC sessions for two weeks following a rancorous March 6 session that featured a Fatah walkout and the passage of a HAMAS-sponsored resolution that revoked a series of expanded presidential powers and bureaucratic [...]
2006-03-08 16:37:00Consulate JerusalemCONFIDENTIALKPAL PGOV IS
06JOHANNESBURG415SOUTH AFRICA: MINERALS AND ENERGY NEWSLETTER "THE ASSAY" --
[...] (U) Introduction: The purpose of this monthly newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chrom [...]
2006-10-20 15:04:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN EPET ENRG ECON SF
06JOHANNESBURG467SOUTH AFRICA: STATE OF ALUMINUN INDUSTRY
[...] (U) The South African aluminum industry is well developed and a major contributor to the economy. During 2005, primary and semi-fabricated aluminum sales amounted to 920,000 tons valued at about $1.7 billion, of which exports accounted for more than 70% by mass and value. All plants are curre [...]
2006-11-17 13:04:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ETRD ENRG ECON ELAB EIND SF
06JOHANNESBURG468SWAZILAND: RECLISA CHILD LABOR CONFERENCE URGES FREE AND
[...] Representatives of the Swazi Ministries of Education and of Enterprise and Employment, academia, NGOs and media, as well as the International Labor Organization (ILO),attended a conference on Child Labor in Manzini, Swaziland, from November 7-8. The conference, held under the auspices of the [...]
2006-11-17 14:31:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PHUM SOCI ECON SW
06JOHANNESBURG95SOUTH AFRICA: SERIOUS POWER DISRUPTIONS IN THE WESTERN CAPE
[...] SUMMARY: (U) Recent power outages in the Western Cape have resulted in major financial losses in the retail and tourism industries, with the Cape Chamber of Commerce predicting losses in the millions. Further outages and/or rolling blackouts are likely until Unit 1 of the Koeberg nuclear powe [...]
2006-03-13 09:27:00Consulate JohannesburgUNCLASSIFIEDENRG PGOV ASEC SF
06KABUL107PRT/TARIN KOWT: SUICIDE BOMB TARGET UNCLEAR; PRT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Contrary to media reports, the January 5 suicide bombing in Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan, did not take place in proximity to Ambassador Neumann and was probably intended as an attack on senior police officials ) although the actual motive is not yet known. A final casualty count of app [...]
2006-01-09 14:20:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC PGOV AF
06KABUL1201Afghanistan: Ambassador Gross Promotes
[...] (U) Summary: Ambassador David Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy visited Afghanistan February 25-27, 2006 to meet with senior Afghan government officials, including Vice President Massoud and the newly created Parliamentary Committee on Communicati [...]
2006-03-19 09:34:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EINV ECON PREL OPIC EAID PGOV AF
06KABUL1281KARZAI PROPOSES NEW CABINET
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 22, President Karzai presented his new Cabinet to Parliament for approval. The new Cabinet does not represent a significant departure from the previous one. The most important change was the replacement of Dr. Abdullah as Foreign Minister with Karzai advisor Dr. Spanta. Other [...]
2006-03-23 17:58:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL1358PRT/MAZAR-E SHARIF DOSTUM PRESIDES OVER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: General Dostum, the paramount warlord in northern Afghanistan, presided over a Feb. 23 ceremony in Sheberghan, capital of Jowzjan Province north of Mazar-e Sharif, during which over 100 of his commanders turned in 2.5 tons of boxed ammunition and roughly 400 small arms, RPG lau [...]
2006-03-28 12:24:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL1440CORRECTED COPY: KARZAI PROPOSES NEW CABINET
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 22, President Karzai presented his new Cabinet to Parliament for approval. The new Cabinet does not represent a significant departure from the previous one. The most important change was the replacement of Dr. Abdullah as Foreign Minister with Karzai advisor Dr. Spanta. [...]
2006-03-30 11:12:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL1554THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT: AFGHAN VS AMERICAN BELIEFS
[...] (C) Summary: Afghanistan is in flux, fully exposed to a barrage of new concepts, economic and social change after decades of war, with a populace that both welcomes many changes and yet can react negatively and forcefully when new ideas and events seem to threaten the fragile social structur [...]
2006-04-08 03:50:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL2021PRT/HELMAND FROM THE STARS AND STRIPES TO
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-05 03:24:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL2323PARLIAMENT REJECTS BUDGET
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 21, the lower house of the Afghan Parliament rejected the GOA budget by a clear majority (although with only around half of MPs voting). The impasse occurred after the GOA rejected Parliament's suggested changes to the budget, including an increase in salaries for civil s [...]
2006-05-22 13:49:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL2366REPORT FROM KANDAHAR: CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN U.S.
[...] (S) Conflicting reports about the U.S.-led forces (CJSOTF) attack the evening of May 21 on the village of Azizi in Panjwai district about 25 kilometers from Kandahar City reflect, in part, an ongoing Taliban psychological operations (psyops) campaign to misrepresent coalition military operat [...]
2006-05-24 16:01:00Embassy KabulSECRETPREL PGOV EAID PTER AF
06KABUL2436SITREP 5/29 1600: MILITARY CONVOY ACCIDENT LEADS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A vehicle accident on the outskirts of Kabul involving a US military supply convoy resulted in at least one Afghan casualty and led to rioting around Kabul on May 29. The situation in Kabul as of 1600 local time was calm except for some small protests in the northwestern suburbs [...]
2006-05-29 13:55:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PTER AF
06KABUL2473PARLIAMENT REACTS TO CONVOY CRASH
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Both houses of the Afghan Parliament resumed debate on security in closed session on Tuesday, May 30. According to MPs, the US military convoy vehicle accident of May 29 was discussed, but debate quickly moved to larger security issues. No statements were made calling into quest [...]
2006-05-30 14:26:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PINS AF
06KABUL265PRT/KHOST: BOMBINGS IN KHOST TARGET CIVILIANS; NEW
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-18 10:27:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER
06KABUL2685PRT/FARAH - DIAG PHASE 1, MILESTONE OR MILLSTONE?
[...] (C) Summary: Phase I Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) commenced May 21 in Farah, with great official fanfare. Although the televised event was high on GOA and ISAF voltage, a last minute change of IAG lists by the Herat DIAG Committee led to participation of only two of nineteen IA [...]
2006-06-12 11:03:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINR PGOV AF
06KABUL2723CODEL HAYES MEETS KARZAI, WARDAK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 31, Congressmen Robin Hayes (R-NC),Joe Wilson (R-SC),Jeff Miller (R-FL),Richard Keller (R-FL),and Henry Cuellar (D-TX),and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) met separately with Defense Minister Wardak and President Karzai. The President blamed the recent distu [...]
2006-06-15 05:45:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC AF
06KABUL2841ASSESSING THE PASHTUN BELT
[...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Kabul-Embassy Islamabad-CFC cable. 2. (C) Summary: On June 7, Ambassador Neumann, Ambassador Crocker, CFC Commanding General Eikenberry, and their senior staffs met at Embassy Kabul for the first of a series of planned periodic inter-Embassy meetings prompte [...]
2006-06-24 02:52:00Embassy KabulSECRETPREL PGOV ECON PREF PTER USAID MASS PINR AF
06KABUL294SURVEY POINTS TO SUCCESS IN COUNTER NARCOTIC
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-23 10:06:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER SNAR KCRM AF
06KABUL2970NDS DIRECTOR SALEH ON INSURGENCY - CAUSES AND
[...] (S/Rel Aus and GB) Summary: NDS Director General Amarullah Saleh told visiting S/CT Deputy Coordinator and Chief Strategist on June 27 that the Taliban insurgency is now focused largely on Zabul, Helmand, Kandahar, and Uruzgan. For the moment it is still a "measurable problem," he said. S [...]
2006-07-02 13:27:00Embassy KabulSECRETPTER PREL MOPS AF PK
06KABUL2972ISAF STABILITY OPERATION IN FARAH TO SUPPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: ISAF has begun a stability operation in Farah province to mitigate potential affects of Operation Mountain Thrust. Known as Operation Turtle, the activity consists of three elements: security, engagement, and development. On the security side, ISAF has begun increasing its g [...]
2006-07-03 03:09:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PGOV PTER NATO AF
06KABUL3037ISAF STABILITY OPERATION IN FARAH TO SUPPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: ISAF has begun a stability operation in Farah province to mitigate potential effects of Operation Mountain Thrust. Known as Operation Turtle, the activity consists of three elements: security, engagement, and development. On the security side, ISAF has begun increasing its g [...]
2006-07-06 13:29:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS PGOV PTER NATO AF
06KABUL3123PRT/KHOWST - TAKING THE ERRATIC POLITICAL PULSE OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Khowst's July 2, IRI-sponsored town hall meeting for GOA officials to discuss security, corruption, and reconstruction issues devolved into a heated series of speeches denouncing and defending the GOA, local officials, and the international community. Two MPs made negative rem [...]
2006-07-12 13:01:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER AF
06KABUL3135DISSATISFACTION IN THE PROVINCES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: : On 10 July, Poloff met with Arif Khan, a member of the Paktika Provincial Council who has been in Kabul trying to meet with GOA officials to express his concerns over poor governance, corruption and deteriorating security in Paktika. His efforts to have government meetings had [...]
2006-07-13 11:16:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER AF
06KABUL317TRIP REPORT PDAS SCHWEICH TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] Summary: From January 11 to January 13 PDAS Thomas Schweich led a team from INL Washington to review the status of the INL-supported civilian police training, justice reform and counter narcotics programs in Afghanistan. The trip included a trip to the Kandahar air base and regional police tr [...]
2006-01-24 05:49:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER SNAR KCRM AF
06KABUL3179DEPT FOR THE PREVENTION OF VICE AND THE PROMOTION
[...] (C) The feared Department of the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue that existed during and before the Taliban era may resurface again if Acting Supreme Court Chief Justice Shinwari has his way. Two months ago, at a meeting of the National Ulema Council for Afghanistan, Shinwari and [...]
2006-07-17 08:11:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI PINR AF
06KABUL3198KARZAI: A LAME DUCK PRESIDENT?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: With the Middle East again in turmoil, Washington does not need a leadership crisis involving President Karzai ) and the good news is that he is not in immediate danger of political collapse. The bad news, however, is that public confidence has eroded badly in recent weeks, as hi [...]
2006-07-17 16:29:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC PINS AF
06KABUL328KANDAHAR: A GOVENOR'S INTENTIONS
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Neumann and senior Embassy staff had several meetings with the Governor of Kandahar, Asadullah Khalid, between December 26, 2005 and January 14, 2006. In these meetings Govenor Khalid spoke about his intention to fight illegal poppy cultivation, detailed his problem with the m [...]
2006-01-24 13:30:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL PGOV PTER KCRM AF
06KABUL3454NOMINATIONS OF FIVE NEW CABINET MEMBERS ANNOUNCED
[...] (U) The nominations of five new cabinet members were announced by the Presidential Palace on the afternoon of August 2. The nominations are for the Ministries of Commerce, Culture and Information, Economy, Transportation, and Women's Affairs. 2. (SBU) The Minister of Commerce nominee is [...]
2006-08-02 14:32:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR AF
06KABUL3455KOREAN RALLY UPDATE - 08-02-2006
[...] (SBU) Post continues to track a group of approximately 1150 Koreans in country to participate in a peace rally and relief work. News reports characterize the groups as "Christian Evangelicals" and there has already been one Afghan demonstration in Mazar-e-Sharif to protest this event and the s [...]
2006-08-02 14:39:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC PGOV PHUM PREL PTER AF KS
06KABUL3515PRT/QALAT - BORDER INCIDENT LEAVES SEVERAL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-07 09:51:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF AF PK
06KABUL3597GOA VIEWS ON THE PROPOSED DEPT OF VICE AND VIRTUE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Minister for Religious Affairs and the Hajj, in whose ministry the proposed Department for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue would be located, is a strong supporter for the reinstatement of the Department. Minister Shirani met with Ambassador Neumann on August 8 [...]
2006-08-13 06:55:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM AF
06KABUL405PRT/HELMAND HELMAND RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-30 08:06:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL4161PAG REPORT SEPT 14: SECURITY SITUATION STRETCHED
[...] (C) An Afghan National Directorate for Security (NDS) briefing to the September 14 Policy Action Group (PAG) continues to paint a stretched security situation in the four southern provinces of Helmand, Farah, Zabul, and Uruzgan. Military gains are being put into jeopardy due to lack of police [...]
2006-09-15 15:45:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF
06KABUL426FREED EDITOR ASKS FOR US FUNDING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A/DCM and EMBOFFS met with freed editor Ali Mohaqeq Nasab. He expressed thanks for the Embassy's efforts to influence his release and asked for substantial funding to supplement his women's rights publication and other endeavors. While funding for the scale of projects Nasab w [...]
2006-01-31 11:37:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL4783PAG REPORT OCT 2: MOVING ON GOVERNANCE AND AUX POLICE
[...] (C) The October 2 Policy Action Group (PAG) meeting agreed on an general action plan for Afghan Development Zones (ADZs). Two GOA teams will be going to Helmand and Kandahar provinces to assess the state of governance there, with the aim of identifying and removing incompetent or corrupt offi [...]
2006-10-04 05:32:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALAF NOTAG
06KABUL4899PAG REPORT OCT 4: KARZAI RALLIES HIS TEAM
[...] (C) At a three-hour marathon session of the PAG October 4, an engaged, focused and energetic President Karzai, appearing at times frustrated, directed both his own government and the international community to move forward rapidly on the full menu of security, reconstruction, and strategic c [...]
2006-10-08 14:52:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF
06KABUL494Update on CN Activities: 1/06/06-1/31/06
[...] Summary: The eradication phase of the Counter Narcotics Public Information (CNPI) campaign is underway. CNPI messages are focusing on alternative livelihoods programs (AL) and rule of law in the context of eradication. AL programs report success in Nangarhar Province. PEP teams have been deplo [...]
2006-02-05 12:44:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL PGOV PTER KCRM AF
06KABUL510SOLICITATION FOR ESF ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Post submits the following proposal from International Organization for Migration IOM) for Economic Support Funded (ESF) anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) project. This is a new project that will cover a ten-month period at a cost of USD 277,095. The target audience are journ [...]
2006-02-06 09:46:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM IR RS BO AF UNGA SEP
06KABUL5124PHASE III ANP COL - BIODATA FOR LEAHY VETTING, PART SIX OF
[...] (U) In order to comply with Leahy requirements per reftel, post is forwarding the names and biodata of 355 Afghan officers selected to serve as Colonels in Phase III of the Afghan National Police (ANP) rank and reform process. The United Nations Misson in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has vetted these in [...]
2006-10-22 09:16:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM SNAR PTER PINR AF
06KABUL5238 AFGHAN COMMERCE MINISTER VISIT - OPPORTUNITY TO STRESS OUR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-29 03:22:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EINV EFIN AF
06KABUL5399PRT LASHKAR GAH - NORTH QUIET AFTER ISAF
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The situation in Musa Qala district in the north of Helmand Province, the site of serious clashes between ISAF and Taliban forces, remains relatively stable following ISAF,s recent withdrawal from the district center (DC). The withdrawal followed an arrangement between the l [...]
2006-11-07 14:38:00Embassy KabulSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF
06KABUL5400READOUT OF HADLEY MEETING WITH CHIEF JUSTICE
[...] (SBU) National Security Advisor Steven Hadley met with Chief Justice Azimi to learn more about the present challenges to rule of law in Afghanistan and provide encouragement for the future. Unqualified judges in office and a lack of trained recruits create a long-term challenge to the justice [...]
2006-11-07 15:09:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KJUS AF
06KABUL5518PRT GHAZNI - MULLAHS ADOPT A PRO-GOVERNMENT
[...] (U) SUMMARY. At a meeting of Ghazni mullahs called by former Governor Sher Alam, the mullahs heard a series of speeches stressing the mullahs' responsibility, and past failures, to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan. While the meeting was taking place, a small group of mullahs drafte [...]
2006-11-16 12:08:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDMCAP MOPS PGOV PREL PTER AF
06KABUL5556AFGHANISTAN COMPACT: THIRD JCMB SESSION TAKES A HARD LOOK
[...] The third session of the Afghanistan Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB) was held in the presence of a visiting UN Security Council delegation on November 12. UNAMA and Afghan co-chairs reported that the Afghanistan Compact process is taking hold and actively helping to shape Afgha [...]
2006-11-21 12:02:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN PREL PGOV SNAR KCRM AF
06KABUL5700NEW DRAFT OF AFGHAN MEDIA LAW SMACKS OF
[...] (SBU) The Afghan Parliament's Committee on Religious and Cultural Affairs has circulated draft language amending the Afghan Mass Media Law (Media Law) - adopted by Presidential Decree in 2005 but never approved by Parliament - that troubles many in the Afghan media and international community [...]
2006-12-06 09:06:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMCAP MOPS PREL PGOV PTER PHUM AF
06KABUL573WARDAK PROVINCE JUSTICE INITIATIVE - AN EMERGING
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On January 29, the Maidan Wardak province judicial sector coordinating committee, a joint U.S - U.N funded effort, highlighted major accomplishments towards its goal of reforming the provincial judicial system. Key accomplishments thus far include approval for renovation of th [...]
2006-02-08 11:08:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM IR RS AF UNGA SEP
06KABUL5734KHOST SECURITY AGREEMENT NOT LIKE MUSA QALA:
[...] (C) Summary: Governor Jamal underlined that the November 23 Khost Security Resolution was "totally different" from the Musa Qala agreement, and that there was nothing in the resolution that would limit the operation of ISAF/Coalition forces or Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). He asked [...]
2006-12-07 10:41:00Embassy KabulSECRETMARR MOPS NATO EAID PGOV AF
06KABUL5809PRT/KUNDUZ: BAGHLAN GOVERNOR'S BIG TALK NOT YET
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Four months into his term as Governor of Baghlan Province, Sayed Ekramuddin Masomi outlined his ongoing plan of engagement with district leaders to stop narcotics-related activities, control corruption, pursue the Disbandment of Armed Groups (DIAG) process, and bring security to [...]
2006-12-12 03:21:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV INR AF
06KABUL5825AN EMOTIONAL KARZAI LAUNCHES ACTION PLAN FOR
[...] (SBU) President Karzai broke into tears during his December 10 speech launching Afghanistan,s Action Plan for Peace, Justice and Reconciliation. While recounting the atrocities suffered by the Afghan people over the past 30 years, he noted that Afghans had suffered at the hands of both terro [...]
2006-12-12 16:37:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMCAP PHUM PREL PGOV PTER MOPS AF
06KABUL5839AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN JIRGA DOCUMENTS
[...] (C) As reported reftel, below are the GOA and GOP jirga documents provided to us by Foreign Minister Spanta. The documents have not been provided to other nations, nor to the UN, although many have been given oral briefings. 2. Text of Afghanistan Jirga Document: ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF AF [...]
2006-12-13 13:10:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF
06KABUL5929POSITIVE REACTIONS TO PRESIDENTIAL PAG IN KANDAHAR
[...] SUMMARY: (SBU) According to a sampling of official, press, and political analyst reactions to President Karzai's December 11-13 PAG visit to Kandahar, most Afghans viewed his visit to the South positively. They felt it was about time he criticized Pakistan publicly and want him and his Mini [...]
2006-12-23 07:26:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF
06KABUL5939SAYYAF UNDER SIEGE: LAND DEALS AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN
[...] (SBU) Begin summary: Member of Parliament and former warlord Abdulrab al-Rasul Sayyaf has come under serious attack in the media because of allegations of land-grabbing as well as for his role in the civil war that almost destroyed Kabul. Truth and facts in Afghanistan are always difficult to [...]
2006-12-24 05:42:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PINS PREL SOCI AF
06KABUL5952PRT/QALAT: SUICIDE BOMBING IN QALAT BAZAAR
[...] (S/REL TO USA, ISAF, NATO) SUMMARY: On December 14, a suicide bomber detonated himself in the Qalat bazaar killing four locals, including a 12 year old child. Thirty others were wounded, but all were treated at the provincial hospital without outside assistance, a noteworthy accomplishment. [...]
2006-12-26 09:14:00Embassy KabulSECRETPREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF
06KABUL5964THE AFGHAN PARLIAMENT AFTER ONE YEAR
[...] (U) BEGIN SUMMARY: Celebrating it's first anniversary on December 19, the Afghan Parliament has established a strong foothold as a powerful force in Afghan politics. With members representing the last many decades of diverse philosophies and all sides of the various conflicts and coups which t [...]
2006-12-27 10:45:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL AF
06KABUL5971PRT/HERAT: ONGOING SECURITY ISSUES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The normal tranquility of Herat has been disturbed in recent weeks by political cross-currents that exist below the surface. The tribal tensions in the aftermath of Amanullah Khan,s murder in Shindand District, Iranian nervousness over border training activities at a U.S. facil [...]
2006-12-27 12:23:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PGOV PINR PINS PREL AF IR
06KABUL778MEDIA CLIMATE CAUTIOUS AS "UN-ISLAMIC" TV STATION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Afghan officials continue to fine or warn Afghan media outlets against broadcasting programming which is counter to Afghan culture or law. This month, the government fined Afghan TV $1000 for broadcasting "un-Islamic" material; Governor Joma Khan Hamdard of Jowzjan warned two loca [...]
2006-02-23 04:06:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALECPS PGOV PINR SCUL AF
06KABUL806PRT/LASHKAR GAH - POPPY ERADICATION PLANS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOA's Afghan Eradication Force (AEF) will participate in Helmand's opium poppy eradication campaign, due to commence within the next 10 days. Helmand Governor Daud and Prosecutor Sattar Khan cited "constitutional requirements" to provide specific alternative development [...]
2006-02-24 14:23:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SNAR PREL AF
06KABUL839PRT FARAH - GOVERNOR WASIFI SINGS ECONOMIC
[...] (C) Summary. Farah Province,s Governor Isatollah Wasifi met with officials of Bejend and Meshand in the city of Bejend in the province of South Khorasan in northern Iran December 20-27. They discussed joint border control, economic expansion and construction, cultural, and education project [...]
2006-02-27 06:30:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL851PRT FARAH - GOVERNOR WASIFI SINGS ECONOMIC
[...] (C) Summary. Farah Province,s Governor Isatollah Wasifi met with officials of Bejend and Meshand in the city of Bejend in the province of South Khorasan in northern Iran December 20-27. They discussed joint border control, economic expansion and construction, cultural, and education project [...]
2006-02-27 09:08:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL865PRT/KABUL - AFGHANS REACTION TO LONDON
[...] (SBU) Summary: Reaction in Afghanistan to the London Conference has been largely positive, with a surprisingly high percentage of the population having heard of the results and impressed with the USD10.5 billion in pledges. Significant skepticism remains, however, on the part of Afghans wh [...]
2006-02-28 08:52:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL912AFGHANISTAN'S 2005-2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-03 09:52:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD ASEC
06KABUL99Update on CN Activities: 12/21/05 - 01/06/06
[...] Summary: The Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) and INL are developing a series of media availabilities to complement the radio and printed products associated with the Governor-led eradication phase of the public information campaign. Afghan Poppy Elimination Program (PEP) team staffing ha [...]
2006-01-09 07:32:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL PGOV PTER KCRM AF
06KAMPALA1540NORTHERN UGANDA: GOU PRESENTS CEASE-FIRE PROPOSAL,
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uganda formally presented its position paper on disarmament, amnesty, repatriation, demobilization, and re-integration of the Lord's Resistance Army on August 11 at the peace talks in Juba. Key provisions include the assembly of LRA forces within 14 days of [...]
2006-08-14 10:55:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PREL PGOV UG SU
06KAMPALA1616NORTHERN UGANDA: GOVERNMENT MAXIMIZING PEACE
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uganda's efforts to expand its options regarding the Lord's Resistance Army and the Juba Peace Talks intensified over the past week. These include consulting with Sudanese Vice President Salva Kiir, opening direct discussions with LRA number two Vincent Otti [...]
2006-08-28 03:47:00Embassy KampalaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL PGOV WCI UG SU
06KATHMANDU1001KING MAKES POSITIVE STEP, BUT THEN A REVERSAL?
[...] (C) On April 18, the government temporarily released Madhav Kumar Nepal, President of the Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) from jail, while the Supreme Court ordered 172 Party cadre and human rights activists to be released from jail on April 17. As demonstrations [...]
2006-04-18 14:26:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1013PROTESTORS GEARING UP FOR LARGE APRIL 20 RALLY IN
[...] (C) Large pro-democracy protests continued in terai cities on April 19, day fourteen of the seven-party alliance general strike. Security forces killed four demonstrators in Jhapa District in Eastern Nepal, bringing the total to ten the number of protesters killed during the general strike. T [...]
2006-04-19 13:15:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER CASC ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU1015MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DEFY CURFEW TO
[...] (C) Large pro-democracy demonstrations continued in Kathmandu and throughout the country on April 21, day sixteen of the seven-party alliance general strike. People responded to the Parties' call to continue to demonstrate until the King restores democracy to the people. The government anno [...]
2006-04-21 09:14:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1029APRIL 23 PARTIES KEEP DEMONSTRATING
[...] (C) On April 23, day eighteen of the Parties' general strike and protest program, large scale pro-democracy demonstrations continued throughout Nepal. Despite the government's day-time curfew and cutting off cell phone service, more than one hundred thousand protesters demonstrated in Kathman [...]
2006-04-23 11:03:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU1087MAOISTS ASSERT THEIR PRESENCE
[...] (C) Following their three month cease-fire announcement on April 27, the Maoists have been organizing mass meetings openly in Kathmandu (ref A) and the western terai, presumably to remind the seven-party alliance of their power and support in rural areas, and to pressure the Parties to meet th [...]
2006-05-01 11:37:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU1090SEVEN MEMBER CABINET FORMED
[...] (U) Prime Minister GP Koirala announced a seven-member cabinet on the afternoon of May 2, adding he would expand the Cabinet to 21 members in the future. Key members include KP Oli, CPN-UML as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Krishna Sitaula, Nepali Congress (NC),as Home Minister, [...]
2006-05-02 09:20:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1129GOVERNMENT RECIPROCATES CEASE-FIRE, LIFTS MAOIST
[...] (C) The Cabinet on May 3 declared an indefinite cease-fire, and announced it would remove the terrorist label, allowing the Maoists to operate above ground throughout the country, all with the purpose of preparing for talks with the Maoists. The Cabinet also annulled the February 8 municipal [...]
2006-05-04 10:49:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1157MAOISTS ACCEPT GOVERNMENT'S OFFER OF TALKS
[...] (U) Maoist leader Prachanda on May 4 said his party would sit for talks with the government. Prachanda's statement came in response to the Cabinet's invitation to talk on May 3 (reftel). Prachanda welcomed other government actions, including the government's May 3 announcement of an indefinit [...]
2006-05-05 11:25:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1238UML LEADER SEEKS GREATER INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT
[...] (C) CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal told the Ambassador in a May 11 meeting that the government needed the international community to continue to play a positive role in dealing with both the King and the Maoists. He hoped to have international observers monitoring the cease-fire, [...]
2006-05-12 11:42:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1251MAOIST TEN POINT ROAD MAP
[...] (C) The Maoists on May 13 laid out a ten-point road map and announced that Prachanda, CPN-Maoist Chairman, would lead the Maoist's dialogue team in the top-level negotiations with the government. Prachanda stressed the need to follow the 12-point understanding and cautioned the political parti [...]
2006-05-15 11:54:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU1262PROTESTORS CALL FOR CIVILAN CONTROL OF MILITARY
[...] (U) Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Kathmandu on May 16 to protest the House of Representatives' delay in announcing a proclamation to bring all political and military powers under the Parliament. The expected proclamation was delayed because seven party alliance leaders wer [...]
2006-05-17 10:19:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1268PARLIAMENT ASSERTS SUPREMACY
[...] (U) Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala presented the much-awaited Declaration limiting the power of the King to the House of Representatives on May 18. Despite rumors that the language would be muted (ref A),the Declaration stated that Nepal was now a secular state, with the Parliament hav [...]
2006-05-18 12:42:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1287CONSOLIDATING NEPAL'S FRAGILE DEMOCRACY
[...] (S/NF) Nepal is transforming. The May 18 proclamation of Parliamentary supremacy by Nepal's House of Representatives has clipped the King's wings; the three-corner struggle of Nepal's politics in recent years (the King versus the parties versus the Maoists) should turn into a more straightfor [...]
2006-05-19 13:14:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER MCAP IN NP
06KATHMANDU1299MAOISTS ATTEMPT TO RAISE PROFILE, BUT GET PUSHBACK
[...] (U) Maoists continued to raise their profile by organizing mass gatherings throughout the country, bombing the house of a Nepali Congress party member, recruiting new fighters, and extorting businesses. Businessmen in central Bara District pushed back, and threatened to close their businesses [...]
2006-05-23 12:07:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1330CABINET ORDERS PRISONS TO RELEASE MAOISTS
[...] (C) The Cabinet announced the government's code of conduct on May 25, and, as part of the process, ordered the release of almost all Maoists detained in prisons across the nation to help move the peace process along. The peace coordinating committee of the nine major parties in the House of R [...]
2006-05-25 11:30:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1338FINANCE MINISTER APPRECIATES U.S. EFFORTS TO
[...] (C) On May 24, the Ambassador, USAID Country Director Don Clark, and three representatives of USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) met with Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat and Finance Secretary Bhoj Raj Ghimire to convey the USG's interest in supporting development work and Governm [...]
2006-05-26 09:09:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID EINV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1373GOVERNMENT AND MAOISTS SIGN CODE OF CONDUCT
[...] (C) The Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists on May 26 announced a 25-point Code of Conduct governing the cease-fire. There is talk about the United Nations monitoring the cease-fire. In the House of Representatives on May 29, Parliamentarians questioned the Maoist commitment to the Cod [...]
2006-05-30 12:16:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1375MAOIST LEADER APPEARS IN PUBLIC WARNING GOVERNMENT
[...] (U) Maoist Chairman Prachanda, in his first public appearance in Nepal in a number of years, said on May 30 that his party was committed to making the current peace talks a success. The party's second-in-command, Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, also appeared at a Maoist rally in Makwanpur District, so [...]
2006-05-31 08:00:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1377NEPAL: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE FOR MAY
[...] (SBU) At the May 24 meeting of Post's avian influenza working group chaired by the A/DCM, Emboff reported that a World Bank (WB) "pre-appraisal" mission (team) decided in April to use USD 10-15 million of their normal annual assistance to Nepal to fund a three-year project to support the Gover [...]
2006-05-31 08:11:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EAID KSCA SOCI TBIO PREL WHO NP
06KATHMANDU1405MAOISTS MOBILIZE NEARLY HALF A MILLION FOR MASS
[...] (C) The Maoists mobilized an estimated four-to-five hundred thousand people to participate in a peaceful, well-organized rally in Kathmandu on June 2. Emboffs estimated that Maoists bused in most attendees from outlying districts to participate in their first public rally in the capital. The [...]
2006-06-02 11:49:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU1412006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] (SBU) This is Post's 2006 Investment Climate Statement, per reftel. Post has also sent the Investment Climate Statement by unclassified email, per reftel. Begin Text. INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT Although the Government of Nepal (GON) is open to fore [...]
2006-01-13 11:25:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR NP
06KATHMANDU1432PRIME MINISTER BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON UPCOMING NEW
[...] (S/NF) Ambassador Moriarty, accompanied by A/DCM Schwartz met June 5 with Prime Minister G.P Koirala and Senior Foreign Policy Adviser Chalise on the eve of the Prime Minister,s upcoming visit to New Delhi. Although press accounts have speculated that the trip will focus on economic and trade [...]
2006-06-05 12:02:00Embassy KathmanduSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PTER IN NP
06KATHMANDU1464MAOISTS PRESSING THEIR ADVANTAGE DESPITE CEASE-FIRE
[...] (C) The Maoist spokesperson Mahara again threatened to walk out of peace talks unless the Government of Nepal (GON) dissolved the House of Representatives. The Maoists are still abducting, recruiting, extorting and preventing government officials from doing their jobs in large parts of the co [...]
2006-06-07 11:41:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1477MAOIST SUPREMO MAKES THREATENING NOISES DURING
[...] (SBU) In his first-ever Nepali television interview, aired June 8, Maoist commander-in-chief Prachanda emphasized the Maoist road map: that Parliament should be dissolved; an interim government, including the Maoists, should be formed; and constituent assembly elections should be held. He str [...]
2006-06-09 11:21:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1505GOVERNMENT SCRAPS TERROR ORDINANCE
[...] (C) According to media reports June 12, the Government of Nepal (GON) Council of Ministers decided to scrap the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Ordinance (TADO),effective immediately. TADO allowed security forces to detain suspected terrorists for up to 360 days without charging them wit [...]
2006-06-12 12:25:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1597SHOCKWAVES FOLLOW EIGHT-POINT AGREEMENT
[...] (C) Political party members and commentators have launched a storm of protests against the eight-point agreement Maoist leader Prachanda and Prime Minister G. P. Koirala announced on June 16. While party leaders expressed hope that the agreement might lead to peace, they also expressed disapp [...]
2006-06-20 12:47:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1615MAOISTS PURSUING PARALLEL GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS
[...] (C) Media recently reported that Maoists have established "People's Courts" in the Kathmandu Valley. A local businessman told Emboff that Maoist People's Courts in Kathmandu had been issuing instructions to businessmen on behalf of workers. In one case, the businessman's friend had paid his [...]
2006-06-21 10:52:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1630GOVERNMENT CLARIFIES ARMS MANAGEMENT NEEDED BEFORE
[...] (SBU) Leader of the GON talk team and Home Minister, Krishna Prasad Sitaula stated that an interim government with the Maoists would be formed only after the issue of Maoist arms was resolved. While addressing a meeting of the Nepali Congress (NC) in Pokhara (western Nepal) on June 20, Sitaula [...]
2006-06-21 12:26:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1652MAOISTS CREATE HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT FOR BUSINESS IN
[...] (C) According to local businessmen, Nepal is becoming a less hospitable business environment each day as the political turmoil continues and the possibility of the Maoists entering the government increases. Nepali businessmen assert that the Maoists can not be trusted and many businesses are [...]
2006-06-22 11:36:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALECON PTER ETRD EINV PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1666DISCONTENTED PARTIES DISCUSS HOW TO IMPLEMENT
[...] (SBU) Members of the seven-party alliance (SPA) are meeting to discuss implementation of the eight-point agreement signed with the Maoists on June 16, which they recognize as flawed. During its June 22 discussion, the SPA committed to peace talks as long as party members remained included in [...]
2006-06-23 12:45:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1678MAOIST CONFUSION REIGNS: INCHING CLOSER TO
[...] (C) The Government of Nepal (GON) continues to issue vague statements about Maoist arms and an interim government. Home Minister Krishna Sitaula announced that the Maoists would join the government as soon as the UN started monitoring weapons, explaining that an interim government and arms [...]
2006-06-26 12:25:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1694CODE OF CONDUCT MONITORING COMMITTEE STARTS WORK
[...] (C) On June 26, the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists determined the terms of reference allowing the cease-fire Code of Conduct monitoring committee (also called the National Monitoring Committee) to begin its work. The National Monitoring Committee will form a network of sub-committ [...]
2006-06-27 12:12:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP PINR
06KATHMANDU1714JANUARY POLITICAL POLL SHOWS SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY
[...] (U) In May 2006, the Asia Foundation and a group called Interdisciplinary Analysts released the results of a poll, "Nepal Contemporary Political Situation -- II," conducted across Nepal in January, which showed that the overwhelming majority of Nepalese thought democracy was right for Nepal. P [...]
2006-06-29 08:40:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU172MAOISTS BOMB CAPITAL, GOVERNMENT BANS GATHERINGS
[...] (C) On January 14, the Maoists simultaneously attacked different police posts and government buildings in the Kathmandu Valley, detonating at least three bombs and raiding two police posts, killing at least twelve policemen. In reaction, the government issued a nighttime curfew with "shoot on [...]
2006-01-17 10:58:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1745CHINESE UPSET OVER TIBETAN REFUGEES
[...] (C) The Government of Nepal (GON) on July 5 refuted the July 4 media reports that it had agreed to the resettlement of 5000 Tibetan refugees to the United States. Media had reported that the PRC had expressed concern to K.P. Oli, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, over the [...]
2006-07-05 12:10:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1755PRIME MINISTER KOIRALA HOSPITALIZED WITH PNEUMONIA
[...] (SBU) Prime Minister GP Koirala was admitted to the Martyr Gangalal National Heart Center in Kathmandu late on July 3 following respiratory difficulties. Dr. Madhu Ghimire, Koirala's personal physician, announced at a midnight press briefing that the Prime Minister had pneumonia in the lower [...]
2006-07-05 12:42:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINR NP
06KATHMANDU1784CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS -- A LONG AND
[...] (C) On July 5, a team visiting from the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) told Charge and Emboffs that ideal election preparations to a constituent assembly would likely take at least one year from the time the Government of Nepal (GON) begins planning. The IFES team conced [...]
2006-07-07 11:50:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM NP
06KATHMANDU1799RESIGNATION OF COMISSIONERS AFTER PRESSURE
[...] (C) The Commissioners of the Election Commission (EC) and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) tendered their resignations on July 9 after intense pressure from members of Parliament. Political party leaders conceded the Maoists had been pressing for the resignations of the Commissioner [...]
2006-07-10 12:15:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1806MAOIST DEPUTY: NO SURRENDER OF ARMS BEFORE
[...] (U) The Maoists are publicly emphasizing their opposition to decommissioning their weapons before constituent assembly elections, despite increasing public pressure to do so. During a July 10 media interview, Maoist number two in command Baburam Bhattarai stated, "let everybody be clear -- we' [...]
2006-07-11 10:11:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1816CALL FOR HOME MINISTER'S RESIGNATION BY HIS OWN
[...] (C) Media reports indicated that on July 10, Nepali Congress (NC) Members of Parliament demanded the resignation of Krishna Sitaula, Home Minister and Chief of the Government of Nepal's (GON) negotiation team with the Maoists. The demand came during a meeting of the NC parliamentary committee [...]
2006-07-11 10:52:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1908CONFUSION MOUNTS OVER INTERIM PARLIAMENT; MORE
[...] (C) Informal talks July 14 between leaders of the two largest parties of the Seven-Party Alliance and the Maoists set the stage for agreement between the GON/Maoist negotiation teams to hold the next talks on July 21. The July 14 talks among the Nepali Congress (NC),the CPN-UML, and Maoists [...]
2006-07-17 13:27:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1920NEPAL'S ANNUAL BUDGET HEAVY ON FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) On July 12, Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat presented to Parliament the Government of Nepal's (GON) USD 1.97 billion annual budget for FY 2006/07, which was 28 percent higher than in FY 2005/06 (Note: Nepal's fiscal year runs from July 15, 2006 - July 14, 2007. End Note). Mahat said the [...]
2006-07-18 12:12:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALECON EAID EFIN NP
06KATHMANDU1984PRACHANDA STRIKES OUT AGAINST MAOIST-ONLY
[...] (C) Maoist Supremo Prachanda sent a letter to United Nations (UN) Secretary General Kofi Annan July 24 protesting that the Government of Nepal (GON) had sent its July 2 request for assistance (ref A) to the UN without consulting the Maoists. The Maoist letter denounced the GON letter for refe [...]
2006-07-25 12:19:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2004GOVERNMENT AND MAOISTS WRANGLE FOR CONTROL OF
[...] (C) On July 25, Suresh Chalise, Prime Minister GP Koirala's foreign relations adviser, told DCM that the Government of Nepal (GON) was uncertain as to what the Maoists wanted out of the peace process. He accused Maoist Chairman Prachanda of objecting to the spirit of the June 16 eight-point [...]
2006-07-26 11:55:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2089NEPAL ARMY TORTURES NEPAL POLICE OFFICERS
[...] (C) On July 29, dozens of soldiers from the Nepal Army's Bhairabnath Battalion in Kathmandu surrounded a local police station, abducted three police officers by force, and then allegedly beat and tortured the police officers in the battalion's barracks. The Bhairabnath Battalion is the same u [...]
2006-08-01 11:52:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2166GON AND MAOISTS KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD
[...] (U) Nepali media have reported that negotiations between the GON and Nepal's Maoists on August 9 resulted in an agreed letter to the United Nations signed by Prime Minister G.P. Koirala and Maoist leader Prachanda. In a joint press conference, the two announced agreement on a 5 point request [...]
2006-08-09 13:11:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2195NEPAL SCENESETTER FOR AUGUST 25-28 VISIT OF CODEL
[...] Your visit comes at a critical moment in Nepal's history. Many in the country hope that Nepal is perhaps closer to establishing lasting peace than it has been at any other time during the 10-year-old Maoist insurgency. On August 9, the Nepalese Prime Minister GP Koirala and the Maoist leader [...]
2006-08-14 12:23:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NP
06KATHMANDU2269OHCHR ACTIVE AND EFFECTIVE IN NEPAL
[...] The work of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal (OHCHR) has been effective and useful for Post's reporting. The office in Kathmandu is the largest UN human rights presence anywhere (ref A). OHCHR has played an active role in monitoring various aspects [...]
2006-08-21 12:02:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU228PARTY DEMONSTRATIONS THWARTED; MAOIST VIOLENCE
[...] (U) The demonstrations rescheduled by the Parties on January 21 led to clashes between demonstrators and security forces, disrupting the Parties' hopes for a mass turnout. The armed police force (APF) and civil police used tear gas, baton charges, and arrests to control demonstrators, who cha [...]
2006-01-23 12:00:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER MOPS NP
06KATHMANDU2348NEW UN SPECIAL ENVOY UNDER NO ILLUSIONS
[...] (C) On August 29, the UN Secretary General's newly appointed special envoy, Ian Martin, told the Ambassador he was under no illusions about the difficulty of bridging the differences between the Government and the Maoists on the key question of managing Maoist arms. Martin stated that he was [...]
2006-08-30 11:48:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER UN NP
06KATHMANDU2363CODEL KOLBE STRESSES ARMS MANAGEMENT
[...] (C) During their August 25-28 visit, a four-member Congressional delegation led by Jim Kolbe, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, stressed to the Government of Nepal (GON) that arms management must occur before Maoists could be allowed into the government. [...]
2006-08-31 11:12:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER ECON PREF NP
06KATHMANDU2425MAOIST LEADERSHIP RATCHETS UP THE PRESSURE; SAYS
[...] (C) The leadership of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has decided after its recent Central Committee meeting to increase its pressure on the Government of Nepal. The most striking result of the August 27-31 meeting was the leaders' announcements September 2 and 3 that Maoist combatants w [...]
2006-09-07 12:37:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM MARR UN NP
06KATHMANDU245HEAVY FIGHTING IN WESTERN NEPAL; ELECTION
[...] (C) Heavy fighting occurred when Maoist rebels attacked Nepalese security forces the evening of January 24 in the western border town of Nepalgunj. Reports indicated that fighting started around 8:15 pm local time and continued until approximately 10:00 pm. According to the press, there were [...]
2006-01-25 09:10:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV MOPS NP
06KATHMANDU2518STUDENT POLITICS IN NEPAL: NOT YOUR COLLEGE
[...] (C) Student organizations - the starting point for many Nepalese leaders - have been instrumental in stimulating political change during the past 60 years. Students have been able to operate when and where mainstream politicians could not. Student organizations were the legal arms of politi [...]
2006-09-15 10:23:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINR NP
06KATHMANDU26BIMSTEC FREE TRADE AGREEMENT CLOSER TO
[...] (U) According to Ramesh Nath Pandey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and head of Nepal's delegation to the 8th Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Ministerial Meeting on December 19, representatives from member states made important decisions th [...]
2006-01-04 09:59:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON BTIO BEXP EINV ETRD NP
06KATHMANDU2776INDIAN CHARGE ADAMANT ON MAOIST ARMS MANAGEMENT,
[...] (C) CDA called on Indian Charge Dr. Kheya Bhattacharya October 18 to discuss UN Nepal peace team leader Ian Martin's trip to New Delhi the day before and the overall status of the peace process. She applauded Prime Minister Koirala's firm stance on the need for the Maoists to disarm before [...]
2006-10-18 12:50:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER UN NP
06KATHMANDU2880INDIA SUPPORTS SEPARATION OF MAOIST ARMS
[...] (C) During an October 26 meeting with the Ambassador, Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee reiterated that the Government of India (GOI) supported the separation of Maoists from their arms and enforcement of law and order by the Government of Nepal (GON). Ambassador Mukherjee acknowledged [...]
2006-10-27 12:52:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PTER IN NP
06KATHMANDU2931DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OLI CONCERNED ABOUT MAOIST
[...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on November 1, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister KP Oli shared his concerns about whether the Maoists intended to enter the political mainstream peacefully. He explained that the international community was playing an important role in the peace [...]
2006-11-02 12:53:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL IN NP
06KATHMANDU29552006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] Although Nepal is neither a significant producer of, nor a major transit route for, narcotic drugs, domestically-produced cannabis, hashish and heroin are trafficked to and through Nepal every year. An increase in the number of Nepalese couriers apprehended by the police suggests that Nepalis [...]
2006-11-03 08:04:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV KTFN NP
06KATHMANDU2962PRIME MINISTER ANGRY INDIA AND EU COSYING UP TO
[...] (C) The Ambassador stressed to Prime Minister Koirala in a meeting November 3 that any arms management agreement with the Maoists had to begin to drain the fear and would thus require substantial domestic and international monitoring. The Ambassador's third point was that the Government of Nep [...]
2006-11-03 12:35:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MARR EU IN NP
06KATHMANDU3062UN REP. AND BRITISH AMBASSADOR DEALING WITH
[...] (C) On November 15, the UN Secretary General's personal representative Ian Martin and UK Ambassador Andrew Hall gave their views on the Maoists, the peace process and challenges for Nepal to Assistant Secretary Boucher and the Ambassador. Martin was not willing to wager on the Maoist intentions [...]
2006-11-17 11:38:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MARR PREF UN UK NP
06KATHMANDU3091NEPAL PEACE DEAL: TEETH, BUT NOT MUCH BITE
[...] (C) The Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists signed a comprehensive peace accord on November 21, after finally coming to a consensus on the remaining sticking points (ref A). Although the accord calls for an end to violence and states that anyone found carrying weapons will be subject to [...]
2006-11-22 10:05:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU3124ARMS MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT: VAGUE WORDING, BUT
[...] (C) On November 28, the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists signed an arms management agreement, in the presence of the UN, creating a concrete mechanism for the separation of Maoist combatants from their weapons. The agreement provides that all Maoist People's Liberation Army (PLA) mem [...]
2006-11-29 12:05:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM PREL NP
06KATHMANDU313PARTY LEADER DISCUSSES MEDIATION
[...] (C) On January 27, Ram Sharan Mahat, Joint General Secretary of the Nepali Congress (NC) Party, told the SIPDIS Ambassador that the involvement of a third party was needed for the King and the Parties and the Maoists to come together. Mahat stated that the Parties were ready for dialogue w [...]
2006-01-31 09:40:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU3178SECURITY FORCES IN EASTERN NEPAL: MAOISTS HAVE TO
[...] (C) In separate meetings on December 3, Nepal Army (NA) and Nepal Police (NP) contacts in Sunsari District in south-eastern Nepal told Emboff that the Maoists had to earn the trust of the public for the peace process to succeed. An NA Major told emboff that some soldiers believed the NA did n [...]
2006-12-07 09:34:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER SNAR NP
06KATHMANDU3184NEPAL: TIBETANS VIEW RESETTLEMENT AS ZERO-SUM GAME
[...] (C) In October 2006, Post's Tibetan-speaking staff conducted an informal survey of 18 Tibetans on the proposed resettlement of 60,000 Bhutanese refugees and about refugee resettlement generally. Generally, the reactions from the respondents indicated that some Tibetan refugees viewed U.S. res [...]
2006-12-08 04:09:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV PREL CH NP
06KATHMANDU3252AMBASSADOR HEARS ABOUT MADHESIS AND MAOISTS IN
[...] (C) Political leaders, business representatives, student leaders and government officials in Janakpur, southeast of Kathmandu, near the Indian border, expressed concern to the Ambassador over the lack of Madhesi representation in the Government of Nepal (GON) and their disadvantaged economic s [...]
2006-12-20 08:17:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PTER MARR PREF NP
06KATHMANDU328REQUEST FOR JIATF-WEST ASSESSMENT
[...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 6. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) There is considerable political instability in Nepal, which is in the midst of an ongoing Maoist insurgency. The current condition of the country has contributed to Nepal being used as a staging and transit area fo [...]
2006-02-02 12:04:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KCOR KFRD CVIS SNAR PTER NP
06KATHMANDU333REQUEST FOR JIATF-WEST ASSESSMENT
[...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 6. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) There is considerable political instability in Nepal, which is in the midst of an ongoing Maoist insurgency. The current condition of the country has contributed to Nepal being used as a staging and transit area fo [...]
2006-02-02 12:43:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KCOR KFRD CVIS SNAR PTER NP
06KATHMANDU347ADMIRAL FALLON URGES POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS TO
[...] (C) On February 1, Admiral William J. Fallon, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, met with Ram Sharan Mahat, Central Committee Member, Nepali Congress Party (NC); K.P. Oli, Central Committee Member, Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML); and Minendra Rizal, Central Co [...]
2006-02-06 12:37:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU376PROPOSALS FOR FY 2006 G/TIP INCL AND ESF FUNDING
[...] Embassy Kathmandu is pleased to propose the following eight projects, in rank order, for consideration for FY 2006 International Narcotics, Crime and Law Enforcement (INCLE),and Economic Support Funds (ESF) funding. Post has pouched the full text of the proposals to the Office to Combat Tra [...]
2006-02-08 01:39:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KWMN KCRM ELAB PREL SMIG ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU379MAOIST LEADER PLAYS GOOD COP, SORT OF
[...] (SBU) Playing off a series of bloody interviews by his deputy, which have been matched by a lot of violence, Maoist leader Prachanda gave an interview in the country's largest daily on February 7, saying, "we are open to holding unconditional discussions on all issues including constituent ass [...]
2006-02-08 10:25:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU381MOSTLY QUIET ELECTION DAY
[...] (U) On February 8, for the first time since 1997, Nepalis were able to vote in municipal elections, though few chose to do so, due either to fear of Maoist violence, lack of candidates contesting the election, or calls by major Parties to boycott the elections. Kathmandu was quiet as the gove [...]
2006-02-08 12:54:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU427VIOLENCE CONTINUES ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF
[...] (SBU) February 13 marked the 10-year anniversary of the beginning of the Maoist insurgency in Nepal. Following a major Maoist ambush on Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) troops attempting to remove a blockade across a key highway in Sunwal-Butwal in Nawalparasi District on February 10, in which 17 se [...]
2006-02-13 12:48:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU430KOIRALA OPEN TO GESTURE BY KING, STRESSES INDIAN
[...] (C) In a February 13 meeting with the Ambassador, Nepali Congress (NC) President G.P. Koirala explained that, unless the first move was made by the Palace, he could not meet with any representatives of His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN),rejecting a suggestion by Foreign Minister Pandey [...]
2006-02-13 13:38:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IN NP
06KATHMANDU443NEXT STEPS FOR POLITICAL PARTIES?
[...] (C) In separate February 13 meetings with Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, central committee member of the Communist Party of Nepal, United Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML),and Surya Bahadur Thapa, the Chairman of the National Democratic Party (Rastriya Janashakti Party-RJP),the Ambassador conveyed U.S. [...]
2006-02-14 12:10:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU448PANDEY PREVIEWS POSSIBILITY OF OUTREACH TO THE
[...] (C) In a February 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Pandey suggested that the King could, in his scheduled February 19 address to the nation, make an outreach to the Parties calling for an alliance of political forces, if the King could be assured of a positive response from the [...]
2006-02-15 07:33:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF NP
06KATHMANDU455SUPREME COURT DECISIONS REINFORCE CONSTITUTION,
[...] (C) The February 13 decision of the Supreme Court to dissolve the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC) (reftel) reinforced Nepal's constitution as a viable document and could limit the King's authority. Reactions from the Parties and the media were generally positive. The Court als [...]
2006-02-15 11:15:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU558U.S. POLICY RESULTS IN SLOW PROGRESS
[...] (C) In the wake of the failure of the February 8 municipal elections Nepal's King Gyanendra might have to be more flexible. Up until now, the seven-party alliance is maintaining its 12-point understanding and remains locked in an increasingly dangerous embrace with the Maoists. Meanwhile, th [...]
2006-02-24 12:20:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU599POLITICAL LEADERS CONSIDERING RECONCILIATION
[...] (C) In recent meetings with political party leaders ranging from pro-royalist to democratic center to parliamentary left, the Ambassador pushed the need for reconciliation should the King reach out to the Parties. Narayan Khadka of the Nepali Congress-Democratic Party (NC-D) indicated the Part [...]
2006-03-02 13:33:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU600 ALTERING THE DISCUSSION: EMBASSY PUBLIC
[...] In a case study of the value of public diplomacy, the Embassy has recently waged a broad and largely effective public discussion about the goals and intentions of the country's Maoist insurgents. Our centerpiece was a February 15 speech by Ambassador Moriarty that raised concrete questions ab [...]
2006-03-02 13:49:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC SCUL PREL KMDR OPRC KPAO NP
06KATHMANDU629NEPAL 2006 TIP REPORT
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Kathmandu's submission for the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report. 2. (SBU) OVERVIEW -- A. Nepal is a country of origin for the trafficking of women and children, and to a lesser extent boys and men. The majority of persons are trafficked to India, while othe [...]
2006-03-07 07:54:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF KCRM KWMN KFRD ELAB SMIG ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU638GOVERNMENT PARTIALLY DEREGULATES PETROLEUM
[...] (SBU) On February 13, His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) announced an end to government control over retail pricing of petrol and diesel. After successive financial crises faced by the monopoly state-owned Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) in 2005, a major move toward deregulation of the pet [...]
2006-03-08 09:10:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU672HEAD OF CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION AGENCY
[...] (U) In a March 12 front page story, the Kathmandu Post reported that the Chief of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA),Surya Nath Upadhyay, was responsible for assisting a man in gaining false citizenship in 1993. The Kathmandu District Administration Office was [...]
2006-03-13 11:19:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU677 PDAS CAMP REITERATES BUSH MESSAGE ON NEPAL
[...] (U) At a press conference in Kathmandu March 9, visiting PDAS Donald Camp built on President Bush's March 2 statement on Nepal and Ambassador Moriarty's February 15 policy speech to reiterate that the United States wanted to see the King reach out to the political parties and the Maoists give [...]
2006-03-13 12:10:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOEXC SCUL PREL KMDR OPRC KPAO NP
06KATHMANDU688CHINA TO PROVIDE DUTY-FREE ACCESS FOR 500 NEPALI
[...] (SBU) On March 14, news media reported that China would provide duty-free access to approximately 500 Nepali items, on a non-reciprocal basis. This news comes in advance of a three-day visit to Nepal by a Chinese delegation led by Chinese State Counselor Tang Jiaxuan, beginning March 16. Nain [...]
2006-03-15 11:19:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD ECIN NP
06KATHMANDU741MAOIST BLOCKADE CONTINUES, DISRUPTING KATHMANDU
[...] (U) Fear of Maoist retribution continued to affect daily life around the country on March 15, the second day of the Maoist-called blockade of district headquarters and the capital. Due to limited supply, commodity prices soared in Kathmandu, and thousands of local commuters were inconvenienc [...]
2006-03-16 11:01:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREL PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU767HOME MINISTER OFFERS PARTIES LITTLE SPACE
[...] (C) In a March 20 meeting, the Charge urged Home Minister Thapa to release the ten remaining civil rights and political leaders in detention since January 19. The Charge also argued that His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) should allow the political parties to conduct their planned peacef [...]
2006-03-21 11:03:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PREF PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU781DEUBA NOT OPTIMISTIC KING WILL REACH OUT
[...] (C) In a March 18 meeting with the Charg, Former Prime Minister and current President of the Nepali Congress Democratic party Sher Bahadur Deuba was not optimistic that the King would reach out to the Parties. Deuba noted that the King was "very clever" in saying he wanted democracy, but in r [...]
2006-03-23 09:47:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU807GOVERNMENT JAILS UML LEADER
[...] (U) On March 23, the government took Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) General Secretary MK Nepal into police custody for "spreading false information" about the government. Nepal had been under house arrest of the previous two months. The government's actions foll [...]
2006-03-24 12:00:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU814NORWAY CREATING "ARENA" TO GET PEOPLE TOGETHER
[...] (C) On March 24, Norwegian Ambassador Tore Toreng briefed the Ambassador on a Norwegian effort to bring a group of about 40 influential Nepalis from a broad spectrum together to share "Norwegian Experiences in Conflict Resolution and Mediation." Toreng, explaining this was not a "Norwegian in [...]
2006-03-27 10:37:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU833PARTIES RESCHEDULE DEMONSTRATION
[...] (C) According to Party contacts, the seven-party alliance canceled the mass demonstration set for April 8 in Kathmandu, and instead announced that the Parties would hold rallies in the districts April 6-9, in light of transportation difficulties associated with the general strike called during [...]
2006-03-28 13:01:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER NP
06KATHMANDU835DID MAOISTS ATTACK RADIO STATION BECAUSE OF U.S.
[...] (C) Members of a visiting international media mission told Emboff that Maoists had told them a Maoist attack on a radio station in May 2005 was due to its American connection and that the Maoists had threatened future harm to any media with U.S. ties. Further investigation by the Embassy, ho [...]
2006-03-29 08:02:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC PGOV CASC KPAO EAID NP
06KATHMANDU883PARTIES STRESS APRIL 6-9 GENERAL STRIKE WILL BE
[...] (C) In separate meetings with the Ambassador on March 30, United Marxist Leninist Party (UML) Acting General Secretary Amrit K. Bohara and Nepali Congress (Democratic) Party (NC(D)) Acting President Gopal Man Shrestha both stressed that the upcoming April 6-9 general strike (bandh) called by t [...]
2006-04-03 11:33:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU895MAOIST CALL KATHMANDU VALLEY-ONLY CEASE-FIRE
[...] (C) On April 3, before the April 6-9 general strike and rallies planned by the seven-party alliance focused on the capital, the Communist Party of Nepal - Maoists announced a unilateral cease-fire for the Kathmandu Valley until further notice. Seven-party alliance leaders welcomed the "positiv [...]
2006-04-04 12:46:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV MOPS NP
06KATHMANDU958DAY-TIME CURFEW IN KATHMANDU LIFTED; CURFEW
[...] (U) On April 12, day seven of the seven-party alliance nationwide general strike and demonstrations, Nepalis across the country again took to the street to participate in pro-democracy protests. Following April 8-11 day-time curfews, which protesters had increasingly disregarded, the governme [...]
2006-04-12 13:21:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU962POKHARA: STUNNED NEPALI TOURIST TOWN COPES WITH
[...] (C) Summary: During an April 8-10 visit to the tourist city of Pokhara, A/DCM witnessed an almost total lockdown of the city in the wake of occasionally violent demonstrations, the fatal shooting of one protestor, vandalism of government property and widespread road blockages during a genera [...]
2006-04-13 11:11:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR PINS PREL NP
06KATHMANDU969WAITING FOR KING'S NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE
[...] (U) On the eighth day of the seven-party alliance nationwide general strike and demonstrations, Nepalis across the country continued to take to the street to participate in pro-democracy protests. Though there was no day-time curfew in Kathmandu on April 13, the government arrested over 200 p [...]
2006-04-13 13:44:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU993PARTIES TRYING TO INCREASE PRESSURE ON KING
[...] (C) As pro-democracy demonstrations continued throughout the country and in Kathmandu on April 17, the twelfth day of the seven-party alliance general strike, media reported that the King had invited former Prime Ministers to the Palace to talk. Party leaders expected seven-party alliance memb [...]
2006-04-17 13:58:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER NP
06KHARTOUM1002 Response to Humanitarian Access Demarche
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GNU maintains that UN agencies in country continue to operate under their individual agreements, and do not automatically benefit from UNMIS status of forces agreement (SOFA) provisions. On the Voluntary and Humanitarian Work Law, the Government believes it enforces coordi [...]
2006-04-26 15:48:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID SOCI UN SU
06KHARTOUM1008SUDAN: TOO EARLY TO SET DATE OF EASTERN FRONT TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 25 meeting, Dr. Hassan Haj Ali, National Congress Party (NCP) Deputy General Secretary for External Relations, said that President Bashir and First Vice President Kiir would determine in early May the date of the GNU-Eastern Front negotiations and the composition of th [...]
2006-04-27 13:01:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ER SU
06KHARTOUM1024SUDAN: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN/NGO ACT: NO PROGRESS
[...] (C) Summary: On April 26 the Sub-Joint Implementation Mechanism (SUB-JIM) met to discuss Sudan's progress on combating violence against women (VAW). Overall, the Government of National Unity (GNU) believes that it has almost fulfilled its legal obligation to combat violence against women. T [...]
2006-05-01 07:06:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KWMN SU
06KHARTOUM1029A CONVERSATION WITH KHARTOUM MONITOR EDITOR ALFRED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-01 14:21:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPHUM KPAO SCOM SU
06KHARTOUM1031 Pres. Bashir Interview with Saudi News Channel
[...] Summary: On April 17, Riyadh Al-Ikhbariyah Satellite Channel in Arabic broadcast an interview of President Bashir by Sharif Husayn Sharif. During the broad-ranging interview, Bashir commented on the Darfur conflict and characterized it as a tribal issue. He claimed the Darfur problem had t [...]
2006-05-02 05:27:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SOCI AL US SU
06KHARTOUM1035 Presidential Call Makes Local News
[...] On May 2, the Sudanese News Agency, a government news service, posted the following account: (Begin text) U.S. President George Bush telephoned Monday night the President of the Republic Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir. The two Presidents discussed, through the telephone contact, Darfur issue [...]
2006-05-02 13:28:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPREL US SU
06KHARTOUM1082 Sudanese Government Sends Mixed Signals on UN
[...] Summary: Following the May 5 signing of the Darfur peace agreement, the Sudanese Government is giving mixed signals to the international community regarding UN peacekeeping operations in Darfur. On May 5, a Ministry of the Interior spokesman stated that there was "no problem" with UN peacek [...]
2006-05-07 14:41:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KPKO PREF UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM1116GOSS CONTACTS WITH THE LORD,S RESISTANCE ARMY (LRA)
[...] (C) Summary: UNMIS, UNHCR, and Ugandan consulate officials, among others, have confirmed at least two meetings between GoSS Vice President Riek Machar and Vincent Otti of the LRA. In April, Machar reportedly offered to mediate peace talks with Kampala, an offer that Otti did not refuse. A fo [...]
2006-05-11 15:03:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PHUM UG SU CG
06KHARTOUM1117AMIS TRANSITION AND DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT
[...] (C) Summary: Initiating the transition from the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to a UN peacekeeping operation and implementing the Darfur Peace Agreement require well targeted and bold steps taken in a timely manner. Advancing this agenda will require strengthening AMIS during the int [...]
2006-05-11 15:56:00Embassy KhartoumSECRETPREL KPKO PGOV PREF EAID AU US UN SU
06KHARTOUM1122SUDANESE VP TAHA SAYS NO DECISION YET ON UN
[...] (C) Summary: On May 13, Sudanese VP Taha told CDA Hume that Sudan had not yet decided on whether to accept transition to a UN peacekeeping force in Darfur. The Government of Sudan is committed to the Darfur Peace Agreement, and it is ready to take concrete steps, such as expanding delivery o [...]
2006-05-13 13:58:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PREF EAID PGOV US AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM1123 Sudan and Its Nine Neighbors: Part 2 of 4; The
[...] (SBU) Introduction: Sudan, the largest and arguably the most complex country ethnically in Africa, has nine neighbors. This cable, the second of a series of four, seeks to depict the bilateral relationship between Sudan and each of its adjacent states in terms of history, social and cultural [...]
2006-05-14 03:59:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SOCI SCUL ECON ETRD ER ET SU
06KHARTOUM1134Sudan - Cattle Rustling, Emerging Government,
[...] From May 3 to 8, 2006, a USAID/DCHA program officer visited Eastern Equatoria State (EE) to assess humanitarian conditions in Southern Sudan. The greatest driver of conflict in EE is cattle rustling and retaliatory violence between tribes. Though all EE counties are absorbing returning inte [...]
2006-05-15 05:48:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU
06KHARTOUM1150 Darfur Peace Agreement: Seizing the Opportunity
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: To ensure a lasting and just peace, the USG must move quickly to support the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) and help the African Union (AU) establish its institutions. The DPA outlines some ambitious timelines and requires AU action in almost all areas. The security provisions [...]
2006-05-15 15:10:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF KPKO US SU
06KHARTOUM1155 SUDAN: OFAC WAIVER NEEDED IN SUPPORT OF SAWA START-
[...] (U) This is an action request - see para 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: After long negotiations, an agreement for the establishment of Radio SAWA in Sudan is nearing the point of signature. At this juncture, Post has learned that the Department of Treasury's Office Foreign Assets Control (OFAC),wh [...]
2006-05-15 16:52:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC BEXP PREL KPAO OIIP PGOV US SU
06KHARTOUM1158VICE PRESIDENT MACHAR ON NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE
[...] (U) The following is an action request - see para 3. 2. (C) Summary: CG met with Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Vice President Riek Machar and Minster for Parliamentary Affairs Gabriel Changson on May 12 to discuss the security climate in Southern Sudan. Machar spoke at length on his [...]
2006-05-16 07:57:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PHUM MOPS PTER PEL SU
06KHARTOUM1171 VICE PRESIDENT MACHAR SAYS UGANDA AGREES TO
[...] (SBU) United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Operations Manager for South Sudan Bhairaja Panday told CG on May 16 that he had received a telephone call from GoSS Vice President Riek Machar informing him that the Government of Uganda (GOU) had declared itself open to a role for th [...]
2006-05-17 11:04:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PREF PGOV MOPS SU
06KHARTOUM1175D-DAY+1: DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT UPDATE
[...] (U) Summary: The following cable outlines current activities and events relating to the implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA): -- JAM Planning Begins -- Khalifa Outlines GNU Strategy for Implementation -- Darfur Leaders Support DPA After Meeting -- Minawi Outreach Has Begun - [...]
2006-05-17 14:30:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS KPKO PREF EFIN UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM1177EPISCOPAL PRIEST ARRESTED FOR "KIDNAPPING" MUSLIM
[...] (C) The Rev. Elia Kumundan, a priest of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, was arrested in Khartoum on Sunday, May 14, in connection with the disappearance of a Muslim woman who wanted to convert to Christianity. According to the Episcopal Bishop of Khartoum, Rt. Rev. Ezekiel Kondo, the woman is [...]
2006-05-17 15:24:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KIRF KWMN SCUL SU
06KHARTOUM1183EASTERN SUDAN: OUTLOOK UNCERTAIN
[...] (C) Summary. On May 16 representatives from the US, UN, Canada, Netherlands, Norway and Britain met to discuss the situation in East Sudan. The discussion centered on the next steps for peace talks between the Eastern Front and the GNU. The Dutch and Norwegian representatives reported that Yas [...]
2006-05-18 12:25:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM ER SU
06KHARTOUM1184UN SECURITY COUNCIL CAN STEM JEM ATTACKS IN
[...] (C) The May 19 Security Council briefing with Jan Egeland presents an opportunity to send a message that the problems in Eastern Sudan have not been forgotten. With the signing of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) there is increased potential for violence in the East, just as violence in Darfu [...]
2006-05-18 12:35:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ER SU
06KHARTOUM1230MEETING WITH UN SPECIAL ENVOY LAKHDAR BRAHIMI
[...] (C) Summary: On May 25 CDA Hume at his request met with UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to discuss prospects of transition to a UN peace-keeping force in Darfur. Brahimi was accompanied by A/SYG for peacekeeping, Hedi Annabi. During the 90 minute meeting Brahimi sought USG views on the viab [...]
2006-05-24 12:47:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM1254AU HEAD OF MISSION AGREES TO USG SUPPORT FOR
[...] (C) On May 26 CDA Hume, accompanied by USAID Director Almquist and OTI Officer Jeanne Briggs, met AU Head of Mission Kingibe to discuss USG support for Darfur implementation. Following up on his discussion earlier in the week (REF A),Hume reiterated that the USG thought it was urgent to ste [...]
2006-05-25 16:03:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM1282SITREP 12: DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT UPDATE
[...] (U) Summary: The following cable outlines current activities and events relating to the implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA): -- Kiir,s Mini-Summit: June 2 -- Minawi Tours North Darfur -- AU Describes Needs for Peace Secretariat -- UNMIS Outlines Thinking on Transition -- DL [...]
2006-05-31 09:57:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SU MOPS KPKO AU
06KHARTOUM1308SUDAN/CPA: NCP AND SPLM HOLD THREE-DAY OFFICIAL
[...] (C) Summary. From May 26-29 the NCP and the SPLM discussed CPA implementation; according to a participant the session began somewhat acrimoniously but warmed throughout. Vice President Salva Kiir highlighted three main CPA issues; security, oil revenue transparency, and Abyei. President Bas [...]
2006-06-05 11:21:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SU
06KHARTOUM1322 SOUTHERN SUDAN: LATEST INFORMATION ON THE LORD,S
[...] (SBU) Summary. Ugandan officials have confirmed that the GOU has accepted the concept of contact with the Lord,s Resistance Army (LRA),but they were uncertain on the modalities. An initial meeting was postponed due to Vice President Machar,s travel to Khartoum but is expected to take place [...]
2006-06-05 14:37:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PHUM UG SU CG
06KHARTOUM1324SOUTHERN SUDAN: A TENSE CALM RETURNS TO JONGLEI,
[...] (SBU) Summary. Two security hotspots in Jonglei and Upper Nile have calmed, according to UNMIS security officers. Fighting between the SPLA and the Lou Nuer militia known as the White Army has abated, and GoSS-approved disarmament continues. In Fangak, a power struggle between the local SP [...]
2006-06-05 14:40:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PHUM MOPS SU
06KHARTOUM1359 SUDAN: Update on U.S. Government Support for
[...] (SBU) As described in previous cable traffic, U.S. Government priorities for Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) implementation are three-fold: (1) quickly disseminate information about the content of the DPA to counter confusion and anger among Sudanese due to misinformation or lack of information; [...]
2006-06-08 09:50:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID PREF PHUM SOCI SU MOPS KPKO AU
06KHARTOUM1362SUDAN/UN SECURITY COUNCIL VISIT: STROKING THE
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. The UN Security Council held a series of meetings in Khartoum on June 6, including with President Bashir and FM Lam Akol. SRSG Jan Pronk counseled the group to be aware of Sudan's sensitivities with regard to international intervention and Sudan's sovereignty as it p [...]
2006-06-08 10:17:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC SU
06KHARTOUM1368SOUTH SUDAN: VISIT OF UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL TO JUBA
[...] Summary. The UN Security Council paid a whirlwind visit to Juba on June 8. Led by UK Permanent Representative Emyr Jones Parry, the delegation spent much of its time in meeting with United Nations staff. The only other meetings were with GoSS President Kiir and Vice President Machar and sel [...]
2006-06-09 12:33:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM EPET SU UN PREL
06KHARTOUM1389AU-UN JOINT ASSESSMENT MISSION BRIEFS ON AMIS TO
[...] (C) Summary: During a June 11 briefing of the diplomatic community, AU Peace and Security Commissioner Djinnit and UN U/S General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guehenno said their joint mission seeks to strengthen AMIS and prepare for a possible transition to a UN peacekeeping operati [...]
2006-06-12 11:46:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM1391AU-UN JOINT ASSESSMENT MISSION BRIEFS ON AMIS TO
[...] (C) Summary: During a June 11 briefing of the diplomatic community, AU Peace and Security Commissioner Djinnit and UN U/S General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guehenno said their joint mission seeks to strengthen AMIS and prepare for a possible transition to a UN peacekeeping operati [...]
2006-06-12 12:00:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM1396LRA NEGOTIATORS IN TOWN; UGANDANS YET TO COME
[...] (C) Summary: On June 7, CG met with David Pulkol, Chairman of the Africa Leadership Institute in Kampala and the former GOU Director of External Intelligence. Pulkol explained that he had come to Juba on behalf of President Museveni for two reasons ) to encourage the GoSS to stick with CPA [...]
2006-06-12 16:23:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINS PHUM UG SU
06KHARTOUM1402DARFUR: UN PKO WORRIED ABOUT AU/UN TRANSITION
[...] (C) Summary: The UN is worried about the transition from an AU to a UN peacekeeping force in Darfur, UN Peacekeeping Under SYG Guehenno confided to the Charge on June 12. Guehenno hopes to both bolster the current AU force and pave the way for a UN deployment in January 2007 -- difficult enou [...]
2006-06-13 14:46:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KPKO SU UN AU
06KHARTOUM1429AU THINKING ABOUT DARFUR-DARFUR DIALOGUE, BUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The AU has not yet identified a suitable candidate to lead the Darfur-Darfur Dialogue, AU Special Representative Kingibe told CDA Hume, but it has started thinking about possible candidates, as well as models for discussions. Kingibe also thanked the United States for a recent [...]
2006-06-17 13:37:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS KPKO UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM1460CHARGE'S VISIT TO DARFUR: SIX WEEKS AFTER DPA, A
[...] (C) Summary: A tentative peace has emerged in Darfur six weeks after the signing of the Darfur Peace Agreement. However, more must be done to create security around IDP camps and build confidence in the peace process. Some attacks between rebel groups continue, and banditry remains rife. Go [...]
2006-06-21 18:06:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO MOPS SU AU UN
06KHARTOUM1469 Sudan/CPA: AEC receives briefing on SPLM/NCP
[...] (SBU) Paragraph 3 contains the final Joint Communique from the recently held NCP/SPLM senior level meetings (reftel). At the Assessment and Evaluation Committee meeting on June 20, both sides were invited to brief the results of the meeting. For the NCP, Sayed el-Khatib, Director of the Ce [...]
2006-06-22 12:01:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID PREL SU
06KHARTOUM1478MINAWI UPBEAT ON PEACE IN DARFUR, BUT NOT IN CHAD
[...] (C) Summary: SLA/M leader Minawi told the Charge he has had few problems since signing the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA). However, Minawi,s troops continue to be harassed by Chadian militiamen and JEM forces in West Darfur. Minawi agreed to release Suleiman Jamous to his family under AU and [...]
2006-06-23 12:32:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO UNM AU CH SU
06KHARTOUM1480 Darfur - Press Coverage and Health in Zam Zam
[...] Recent media attention on gaps in the provision of health services in Zam Zam internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in North Darfur prompted USAID's Darfur Field Office (DFO) to verify the reports. Zam Zam camp had been adequately served by three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) provi [...]
2006-06-25 08:59:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU
06KHARTOUM1484SOUTH SUDAN VP MACHAR OUTLINES TALKS WITH LORD'S
[...] (C) Summary: Fifteen Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) negotiators in Juba are still awaiting the arrival of a Ugandan delegation for peace talks, Southern Sudan Vice President Riek Machar told the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) on June 23. The group -- which does not include any of t [...]
2006-06-25 14:40:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINS PHUM SU
06KHARTOUM1534SLM DENIES MEDIA REPORT OF SUSPENSION OF DPA
[...] (SBU) On June 28, online news service Sudan Tribune posted an article dated June 27 stating that the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) headed by Mini Minawi had suspended implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA). Alluding to a press release, which was neither re-printed nor made other [...]
2006-06-28 14:08:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PGOV SOCI MARR AU SU
06KHARTOUM1548SUDAN: UN SUPPORT FOR DPA IMPLEMENTATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite GNU opposition to UNPKO in Darfur, the UN is preparing several avenues of support for the DPA, including transferring resources to the AU and seconding staff. It also hopes to coordinate other donor DPA support, such as the two recently arrived UK media advisors. Top [...]
2006-07-02 12:37:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KPKO PGOV SOCI US UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM1549UN SRSYG PRONK BLOG CRITIQUES DPA
[...] (C) Summary: Media accounts of UN SRSYG Pronk's weblog selectively quote him as calling for re-writing of the Darfur Peace Agreement, and criticizing the agreement for not including the Abdel Wahid SLM faction and the African Union for its limited capacity to implement the agreement. A fulle [...]
2006-07-02 13:50:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO SOCI AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM1557 Fight Continues Over Eviction of Islamic
[...] SUMMARY: The dispute over the eviction of the branch of the Koran Al Karim Islamic University from the premises of former Juba Girl's Senior Secondary School in Juba continues as both the government of Central Equatorial State (CES) and the administration of the Koran Al Karim Islamic Univer [...]
2006-07-03 06:54:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM SCUL SU
06KHARTOUM1558 UNSRSG Pronk Elaborates on Blog
[...] SRSG Pronk's blog of June 28 continues to draw attention, and he is now trying to clarify what he wrote. An editorial in the Sudan Vision Daily, a pro-government daily newspaper, states in its July 3 edition that Pronk's blog represents a "complete U-turn," and that this would infuriate both [...]
2006-07-03 07:33:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM1560DPA IMPLEMENTATION: NEXT STEPS
[...] (C) Summary: Charge chaired a meeting of AU partner representatives July 1 on next steps in DPA implementation. The participants agreed the challenges included institutional weakness on the part of the AU, the continued issue of non-signatories, and the uncertainty of AMIS to UN PKO transitio [...]
2006-07-03 12:52:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO SOCI AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM1567 UN RADIO MIRROR BEGINS BROADCASTING IN THE SOUTH; NORTH
[...] (SBU) Summary. While UN Radio has now opened in the South, UNMIS reports that UN radio broadcasting is still blocked nation-wide, in non-compliance with the UNMIS SOFA. End Summary. 2. (U) UN Radio Mirror went on the air for the first time on June 30 with live coverage of the inauguratio [...]
2006-07-05 12:08:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER PINS PHUM ECPS SU
06KHARTOUM1568 UN RADIO MIRROR BEGINS BROADCASTING IN THE SOUTH; NORTH
[...] (SBU) Summary. While UN Radio has now opened in the South, UNMIS reports that UN radio broadcasting is still blocked nation-wide, in non-compliance with the UNMIS SOFA. End Summary. 2. (U) UN Radio Mirror went on the air for the first time on June 30 with live coverage of the inauguratio [...]
2006-07-05 12:09:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER PINS PHUM ECPS SU
06KHARTOUM1573SOMALIA: MFA READOUT ON SOMALI TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: MFA Director of Arab Affairs Mabrouk described the June 21-22 Somali talks in Khartoum as achieving a breakthrough, reflecting mutual interest in restoring a united Somalia. He described the tone as cordial and committed. Clarifying Sudan's role in the talks as facilitator and [...]
2006-07-05 12:50:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER SO US AL SU
06KHARTOUM1590 UPDATE ON SITUATION IN THE EAST AND CONCERNS OVER HAMESH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN and international partners are optimistic following the conclusion of the first round of talks in Asmara between the Eastern Front and Sudanese Government under Eritrean mediation. The signing of the Declaration of Principles and Cessation of Hostilities agreement were g [...]
2006-07-08 14:40:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM ER SU UN
06KHARTOUM1591 UPDATE ON SITUATION IN THE EAST AND CONCERNS OVER HAMESH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN and international partners are optimistic following the conclusion of the first round of talks in Asmara between the Eastern Front and Sudanese Government under Eritrean mediation. The signing of the Declaration of Principles and Cessation of Hostilities agreement were g [...]
2006-07-08 14:43:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM ER SU UN
06KHARTOUM1612UGANDAN CONSUL GENERAL DISCUSSES THE LRA
[...] (C) Summary: On June 27, CG met with newly arrived Ugandan Consul General, Ambassador Busho Ndinyenka. The Ugandan CG complained Vice President Riek Machar continued to overplay his hand by allowing LRA fighters to move back onto Sudanese soil and by continuing to inflate the size of the LRA [...]
2006-07-10 06:17:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINS MOPS PINR PHUM UG SU
06KHARTOUM1635SLM ADVANCE TEAM PROVIDES UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary: The SLM advance team, now in place in Khartoum, numbers around 112 individuals. Chairman Abdul Karim noted its efforts to propagate the Darfur Peace Agreement and welcomed U.S. Government efforts to advance its implementation. The SLM seeks African Union support for the process [...]
2006-07-11 17:12:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PGOV PINR PHUM US AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM1637 Darfur: Update on Korma Attacks and Rape Allegations
[...] (SBU) Summary: Media accounts and a UN Sudan Situation Report detail hostilities in several areas of North Darfur State during the July 5-10 timeframe, resulting in perhaps 80 deaths and thousands of IDPs. In addition, the Report contains IDP accusations that members of the SLM/Minni Minawi f [...]
2006-07-11 17:40:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV MOPS KPKO PREF UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM1643 UGANDA-LRA MEDIATION INITIATIVE INCHES FORWARD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Vice President Riek Machar will return from Maridi on July 12, where he traveled to meet with Lord's Resistance Army leaders. Ugandan Consulate officials say that the Ugandan delegation is prepared to travel as soon as Machar returns and conf [...]
2006-07-12 11:34:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL PTER UG SU
06KHARTOUM1648REPORTS OF SKIRMISHES AROUND KORMA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Media reporting appears to have combined two separate and unconfirmed incidents of fighting, mixing a significant element of speculation in an active campaign to discredit SLM/A-Minni Minawi forces. Fighting reportedly broke out between SLM/A- Abdel Wahid and SLM-Minawi forces s [...]
2006-07-12 14:14:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV MOPS KPKO SU
06KHARTOUM1652AMIS INTEL REPORT OUTLINES RISE OF NRF
[...] (C) Summary and comment: An AMIS intelligence report details the evolution of the National Redemption Front (NRF),formed in May 2006 by elements of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM),Sudanese Liberation Movement/Abdel Wahid faction (but not Abdel Wahid himself),and the Sudan Federal D [...]
2006-07-13 15:13:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PGOV PINR PHUM US AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM1659DPA IMPLEMENTATION: AU ADMITS DRAMATIC LACK OF
[...] (C) Summary and recommendations: In a frank three- hour discussion among the donors, UNMIS deputy, and AU DPA implementer Sam Ibok, it became clear that the AU was dramatically understaffed and underfunded to lead DPA implementation. Ibok admitted that he will be totally reliant on the UN an [...]
2006-07-13 16:11:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PGOV US AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM1675 UGANDA-LRA MEDIATION INITIATIVE OPENS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) President Salva Kiir hosted the formal July 14 opening of the GoSS mediation initiative between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GOU). The head of the Ugandan delegation delivered brief, conciliatory remarks that [...]
2006-07-16 11:19:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV PTER UG SU
06KHARTOUM1682SLM/A-MINAWI REQUESTS UN INTERCESSION ON BORDER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: SLM/A leader Minawi reports that more forces are preparing to cross the Chadian border and move against his positions. Circumstantial evidence suggests fighting continues in North Darfur, although at a lower level of intensity that during the previous week. AMIS and UNMIS are u [...]
2006-07-17 11:03:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KPKO PGOV US AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM1684 UPDATE ON UGANDA-LRA TALKS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Southern Sudan's (GoSS) mediation initiative between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GOU) has made limited progress to date. On July 16 the parties agreed to basic ground rules and exchanged opening position papers, which were rep [...]
2006-07-17 13:09:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL UG SU
06KHARTOUM1716DARFUR AND DPA IMPLEMENTATION ON THE EVE OF MINNI
[...] (C) On the eve of Minni Minawi's visit to Washington, the security situation in Darfur is fragile, and DPA implementation is off to a slow start. The AU and AMIS are showing a disturbing lack of capacity and energy in security and political areas. The issue of transition to UN PKO still loo [...]
2006-07-18 15:21:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SU
06KHARTOUM1718 Sudan Economic Round-Up, July 1-15, 2006
[...] Statistics released by the Central Bank of Sudan (CBOS) show that between 1999 and 2004, Sudan accumulated a total USD 9 billion in foreign investment. In 2005, USD 3.2 billion in foreign investment was added to the total, and the Ministry of Investment expects another USD 5 billion in 2006. [...]
2006-07-18 17:10:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EFIN EPET ECON EAID ELTN SU
06KHARTOUM1723 First Darfur-Darfur Dialogue and Consultation
[...] The UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) Civil Affairs unit held the first in a series of planned workshops to launch conflict resolution initiatives through the Darfur-Darfur Dialogue and Consultation (DDDC) process in Nyala, South Darfur, on July 5. The primary goal of the workshop was to review th [...]
2006-07-19 09:30:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU
06KHARTOUM1775SANT'EGIDIO ANALYSIS OF LRA/GOU TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: Representatives of the Community of Sant'Egidio (CSE) assisting with the mediation of talks between the Lord's Resistance Army/Movement (LRA/LRM) and the Government of Uganda (GOU) have provided a detailed readout on where the talks now stand. After long discussions, the groups [...]
2006-07-24 12:35:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER PREL UG SU
06KHARTOUM1778SANT'EGIDIO ANALYSIS OF LRA/GOU TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: Representatives of the Community of Sant'Egidio (CSE) assisting with the mediation of talks between the Lord's Resistance Army/Movement (LRA/LRM) and the Government of Uganda (GOU) have provided a detailed readout on where the talks now stand. After long discussions, the groups [...]
2006-07-24 12:35:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER PREL UG SU
06KHARTOUM1780VICE PRESIDENT MACHAR COMMENTS ON LRA MEDIATION,
[...] (SBU) Summary: CG Juba met with GoSS Vice President Machar on July 21 to review Machar's mediation between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GOU),the strained GoSS relationship with the World Bank, and the need for GoSS cooperation in completing due diligence req [...]
2006-07-24 12:45:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ABLD EFIN IBRD UG SU
06KHARTOUM1781 PRESS/INFORMATION FREEDOM ISSUES AT THE FORE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Authorities from two states in the South of Sudan have moved against press outlets and the representative of a NGO for disseminating information that the authorities judged inimical to their interests. The UN and the EU have engaged on two of these cases, and we stand ready to [...]
2006-07-24 13:08:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV SU
06KHARTOUM1782 CORRECTED: PRESS/INFORMATION FREEDOM ISSUES AT THE FORE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Authorities from two states in the South of Sudan have moved against press outlets and the representative of a NGO for disseminating information that the authorities judged inimical to their interests. The UN and the EU have engaged on two of these cases, and we are prepared to [...]
2006-07-24 13:26:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV SU
06KHARTOUM1792SUDAN TO PROPOSE ALTERNATIVE PEACEKEEPING
[...] (C) On July 24, FBIS carried an account of an article placed in the internet version of The Post in Lusaka, which quoted Sudanese Ambassador to Zambia Salah Mohamed Ali as stating, "Our President made our position on changing mandate to UN very clear when he met Koffi Anan during the AU summit [...]
2006-07-25 16:38:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PGOV AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM1795 LRA'S KONY TO SEE HIS MOTHER
[...] (SBU) CG spoke with two contacts involved in the GoSS mediation initiative between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GOU). They said that no session took place on July 24, but that local press reports stating the talks had broken down were overstated. There were t [...]
2006-07-26 10:47:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL UG CG SU
06KHARTOUM181SUDAN: SRSG PRONK BRIEFS PRESS ON UN REHAT, ABUJA,
[...] Summary: UN Special Representative (SRSG) for Sudan Jan Pronk briefed the press on January 22. His statement and the following Q&A focused mainly on the possibility of a UN rehat of the AU force and the Abuja peace talks. He also reported that UNMIS is monitoring the East and said the recen [...]
2006-01-24 13:53:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SU
06KHARTOUM1852GNU ADVISOR DETAILS HISTORY OF TROUBLED BILATERAL
[...] (C) On August 3, Charge Hume briefed Yahya Hussein Babiker on the Washington visits of First Vice President Kiir and Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Minawi. He also noted USG efforts to convince Chad to end support to rebels operating along the Chad-Sudan border (reftel),as well as [...]
2006-08-03 13:55:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU
06KHARTOUM1881LRA Talks: UN Begins Technical Assistance
[...] (SBU) Summary: UNICEF and UN OCHA have begun providing limited support to the talks between Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),currently being mediated by Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Vice President Riek Machar. UNICEF has sent a protection officer to visit the LRA camps and [...]
2006-08-09 04:24:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM EAID UG UN SU
06KHARTOUM1894 Sant'Egidio Returns From the Bush with Hope
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While the negotiating team focuses on social issues and power sharing, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) cares only about his own fate and that of his commanders, according to mediators from the Communita' Di Sant'Egidio (CSE). Returning from a trip to the LRA camp, [...]
2006-08-09 13:07:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS UG SU
06KHARTOUM1942 LRA Talks Remain in Limbo Due to Ceasefire
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) walked out of talks on August 9, demanding a ceasefire, consultations between mediators and the parties have continued and talks are resuming. Observers commented that the walkout was not a serious threat, only an attempt to gain levera [...]
2006-08-15 04:14:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS UN UG SU
06KHARTOUM1943 JURY STILL OUT ON IMPLICATIONS OF SLA-ABDEL WAHID OUSTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Several Fur activists in South Darfur, including an SLA commander, justify Abdel Wahid's ouster as Chairman on the basis of his lack of leadership and increasing distance from Darfurian popular opinion. The SLA faction now led by Ahmed Abdul Shafi is organizing itself in Asmara [...]
2006-08-16 04:15:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU
06KHARTOUM1966 UNDSS Security Briefing, North Darfur Aug 17
[...] Summary: At UNDSS Security briefing on August 17, NMIS and the humanitarian community expressed extreme apprehension about the implications of the AU's directive to expel JEM and SLA-Abdel Wahid representatives from the CFC process and AMIS compound. Concerns were expressed that AMIS access [...]
2006-08-17 16:07:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV MOPS PREL SU
06KHARTOUM1971DPA PARTNERS DISCUSS WAY FORWARD
[...] (C) Summary: An August 17 meeting of DPA partners, chaired by visiting UK Special Envoy Pullen, discussed the need to be inclusive, broadening the base of support for the DPA. Strategies discussed included building trust among Darfurians, coordinating support for the DPA, rendering the Cease [...]
2006-08-18 14:16:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PGOV PINR AU US UN SU
06KHARTOUM1978 LRA Talks Resume, New Position Papers Requested
[...] (SBU) After taking a three-day break, talks between Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) resumed on August 18. During the break, taken to mourn fallen LRA Commander Raska Lukwiya, Chief Mediator Riek Machar asked both parties to return with new position papers that had room for compromi [...]
2006-08-19 17:46:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS UN UG SU
06KHARTOUM2036 LRA Talks: Workshops and then the Real Work
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over the past week, the two delegations in the talks between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the government of Uganda have been presenting their new position papers and having workshops on various aspects of the talks. Once all the position papers are presented, likely by [...]
2006-08-28 08:36:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS UN UG SU
06KHARTOUM2038 LRA Talks: Cessation of Hostilities
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Using guidelines from their ceasefire workshop (reftel),intense negotiations between the Ugandan Government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on a cessation of hostilities continued through the night of August 25 and into the morning of August 26. Once an agreement was rea [...]
2006-08-28 09:12:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS UN UG SU
06KHARTOUM2043 LRA Mediator: Justice Should be Universal
[...] (SBU) One of the leading mediators in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) talks believes this process is the only way to avoid real impunity. He said that for justice to truly be served, all sides, including the Ugandan Government, must be held accountable for its actions. Hizkias Assefa, Riek [...]
2006-08-29 11:43:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS UN UG SU
06KHARTOUM207EASTERN FRONT AGREES TO TALK IN LIBYA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Dr. Amna Dirar, Vice President of the Eastern Front confirmed that the Eastern Front has agreed to February 7 negotiations with the Sudanese government in Tripoli and confirmed that humanitarian access to Hamesh Koreib through Sudan would be discussed. Dirar added that the Suda [...]
2006-01-26 14:25:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV SU
06KHARTOUM2107 Sudan - Nile River Flooding
[...] Flooding that began in mid-August along the Nile River has affected more than 100,000 people in the northern, central, and eastern regions of Sudan. The most severely affected areas include the towns of Omdurman, Tokar, and Sinnar State. Humanitarian concerns for flood-affected areas include [...]
2006-09-04 12:40:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU
06KHARTOUM2113DARFUR: PROTESTS LEAD TO VIOLENCE AS N. DARFUR GOVERNOR
[...] (SBU) The Governor of North Darfur state led a peaceful demonstration against UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1706 on September 2. In prepared remarks, he called for "jihad" against any "foreign invaders" and urged the Government of National Unity (GNU) to support all efforts to resist [...]
2006-09-04 14:33:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU
06KHARTOUM2140SOMALIA: COMMUNIQUE FROM SECOND ROUND OF SOMALI
[...] (C) Summary: The final communique released on September 4 by the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) at the closure of the second round of talks in Khartoum calls for peaceful co-existence between factions and the cessation of encouragement and assistanc [...]
2006-09-05 17:48:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IGAD MOPS EAID SU SO
06KHARTOUM2161 LRA Talks Resume as LRA Assembles
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Talks between Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) resumed in Juba on September 6, amidst increasing reports of LRA fighters moving to their assembly points. Talks are now focusing on the social issues in northern Uganda. Most observers are optimistic about the talks, but [...]
2006-09-07 15:11:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS UN UG SU
06KHARTOUM2176KHARTOUM - DEMONSTRATIONS IN CITY/EAC MEETING
[...] Summary: On September 6, a series of demonstrations was held in the adjoining cities of Omdurman and Khartoum. The Embassy and its community were not significantly impacted. End summary. 2. Prior to September 6, there had been local media reporting as well as reporting from Embassy cont [...]
2006-09-10 13:57:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASC SOCI SU PGOV
06KHARTOUM2181RICHARDSON - BASHIR MEETING
[...] (U) This is an action request ) see para 8. -------------------------------------------- President Bashir Agrees to Free Paul Salopek -------------------------------------------- 2. (C) At the outset of the 30 minute meeting between Gov. Bill Richardson and President Bashir, Bashir agreed [...]
2006-09-10 15:17:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PHUM PGOV AU US UN SU
06KHARTOUM2228 LRA Talks: Ceasefire Progresses, Egeland Asks for Help
[...] As the ceasefire between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government increasingly takes hold, UN Under Secretary General (UN/USG) for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland visited Juba to meet with the parties to the talks and assess ways that the UN could further support the peace [...]
2006-09-14 14:29:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM EAID MOPS UN UG SU
06KHARTOUM2288VP TAHA UNYIELDING ON UN TROOPS, ANNOUNCES DARFUR
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a September 18 press conference, Vice President Ali Osman Taha maintained the Sudanese government's complete rejection of UN intervention in Darfur, denied allegations of escalating violence, and announced the establishment of a Darfur interim authority. He also critic [...]
2006-09-19 10:56:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PTER KPAO KPKO UN SU
06KHARTOUM229FVP GETS TOUGH, PUSHES NCP ON CPA, ABYEI, AND
[...] (U) After months of focusing on southern politics while remaining quiet on CPA problems, Salva Kiir -- Government of National Unity (GNU) First Vice President and President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) -- lashed out at the National Congress Party (NCP) during a January 28 press [...]
2006-01-30 08:51:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR SU
06KHARTOUM2348 Inauguration of El Fasher DPA Implementation Office
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The El Fasher DPA Implementation Office opened officially on September 17. Fully staffing the Peace Secretariat, guiding its operation, and maximizing its potential role in facilitating implementation activities are challenges that must be confronted in the weeks ahead. END SUMM [...]
2006-09-26 06:05:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU
06KHARTOUM2367DARFUR - PRECEDENT-SETTING CASES OF RAPE PROSECUTION
[...] (SBU) In the last five months, USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI) grantees assisted in prosecuting several potentially precedent-setting cases of rape in Darfur. The cases had positive outcomes; however, USAID cautions that these cases may represent anomalies, rather than a d [...]
2006-09-26 10:31:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU
06KHARTOUM2371SUDAN HAS MUTED REACTION TO POPE'S REMARKS, SAYS
[...] (C) Sudan's reaction to Pope Benedict XVI's controversial remarks on Islam has been muted, Papal Nuncio to Sudan--and the Vatican's new Secretary for Relations with States--Dominique Mamberti told CDA Hume on September 26. Mamberti had returned from Rome on September 16, and promptly called on [...]
2006-09-26 16:19:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV SCUL PHUM KIRF PREL SU VT
06KHARTOUM2384 NCP POLITICIANS: "CLOSE U.S. MISSION"
[...] (U) During an annual conference of military conscripts on September 23, several pro-National Congress Party (NCP) politicians said that proposed UN intervention in Darfur was a ruse to steal Sudan's resources and called on the Sudanese government to close the U.S. Mission for violating Sudanese [...]
2006-09-27 20:06:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SOCI EAID UN US SU
06KHARTOUM2454DESPERATE ABDULWAHID THREATENS WAR IN KHARTOUM
[...] (U) In a September 28 article in the pan-Arab daily "Asharq Al Awsat," Abdulwahid Al Nur vowed to continue the struggle in Darfur until the Sudanese government grants political rights to the people of the region and recognizes it as a single entity, disarms government-backed militias, allows t [...]
2006-10-05 10:35:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SU ER
06KHARTOUM2483DARFUR: ARAB FACTIONALIZATION, INCREASING
[...] (C) In meetings September 21-24, UN officers, Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM) Minni Minawi representatives, and Government of National Unity (GNU) officials in West Darfur all highlighted continued insecurity, a lack of humanitarian access and an absence of information about the Darfur Peace [...]
2006-10-10 14:17:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AU SU
06KHARTOUM2527LRA LEAVES CAMPS, ATTACKS NEAR JUBA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Lord's' Resistance Army (LRA) combatants killed approximately 17 civilians in attacks on vehicles on major roads east of the southern Sudanese capital of Juba on October 18. Nine persons were confirmed killed on the Juba-Nimule road, a major transportation route between Juba and [...]
2006-10-19 15:04:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS ASEC UG SU
06KHARTOUM2535IBOK SAYS DPA NOT WORKING, AU MUST TRANSITION TO UN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Special Envoy Andrew Natsios met African Union Ambassador Sam Ibok October 17 at the U.S.-funded Darfur Peace Agreement Implementation Office in Khartoum. Ibok asked for U.S. support for strengthening the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) while planning for a future UN re-hat. [...]
2006-10-23 10:47:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM2558VIOLENCE CONTINUES NEAR JUBA
[...] (C) Summary: Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) Chief of Staff Oyai Deng says that 38 people died on October 18 in violence reportedly linked to the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Deng said that eight vehicles had been burned in the incidents on roads east and south of Juba. [...]
2006-10-27 10:11:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MCAP ASEC UG SU
06KHARTOUM2559SUDAN/UGANDA: MUSEVENI VISITS GOSS, MEETS LRA
[...] (U) The Governments of Sudan and Uganda have traded accusations in the wake of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's one-day visit to Juba October 21. Khartoum says Museveni had no authorization to visit Sudan, and in any case should have first landed in the Sudanese capital. Ugandan officials [...]
2006-10-27 10:14:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UG SU
06KHARTOUM2561SENIOR SPLA COMMANDER BLAMES SAF, LRA FOR RECENT
[...] (C) Summary: Major General Thomas Cirillo, a senior commander in the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and Deputy Commander of the Joint Integrated Units (JIUs) for all of Sudan, blames the Sudanese Government's Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fo [...]
2006-10-27 10:20:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MCAP UG SU
06KHARTOUM2564GOSS VICE PRESIDENT TELLS SPECIAL ENVOY THAT
[...] GOSS-mediated peace talks between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army were difficult and protracted even before the latest upsurge in LRA-related violence, GOSS Vice President Riek Machar told visiting Presidential Special Envoy Andrew Natsios October 17. Their discus [...]
2006-10-29 05:31:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS UG SU
06KHARTOUM2571 Sudan/UN: Text of MFA Letter to UNSYG SR Pronk
[...] On October 26, post received a copy of the following letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to UN Special Representative of the Secretary General for Sudan Jan Pronk. SIPDIS 2. The text of the letter, received from UNSYG SR Pronk's office, is as follows: (Begin text) REPUBLIC O [...]
2006-10-29 14:36:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPKO UN SU
06KHARTOUM2572SUDAN: FIVE MORE DEAD IN JUBA VIOLENCE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Five more persons were killed on the night of October 26-27 in fighting just east of Juba. Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) commanders once again pointed either to the -Sudan Armed Forces (SAF),Khartoum-backed militia, or the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) as r [...]
2006-10-29 14:59:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MCAP ASEC UG SU
06KHARTOUM258 Bashir Interview: AU Summit, Darfur, AIDS,
[...] (U) Summary and comment: Post received an English copy of President Omer Al-Bashir's interview with Sudan News Agency Director General Mohamed Hatim Sulieman on the occasion of the convening of the 6th African Union Summit in Khartoum. Bashir responded to questions on a number of issues rang [...]
2006-02-02 13:25:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ETRD EAGR EPET KPKO KHIV AU SU
06KHARTOUM2599SUDAN/UGANDA: RENEWAL OF CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES
[...] (C) Summary: Representatives of the Government of Uganda (GoU),the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),and the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) renewed their Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CHA) in Juba on November 1 after a night of intensive negotiations. The full text of the new agreeme [...]
2006-11-01 15:01:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR KPKO SU CG UG
06KHARTOUM2609SO. SUDAN: SOUTH BLAMES NORTH FOR UPSURGE IN
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) has yet to produce concrete evidence that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) are behind the current upsurge in violence in areas east and south of Juba. The deployment of a brigade of Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) troops to the affected a [...]
2006-11-02 16:37:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV ASEC SOCI UG UN SU
06KHARTOUM2632 Bashir Calls for Commitment to National Unity
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Sudanese President Omer Bashir addressed the opening of the third session of the National Legislative Council (the National Assembly and Council of States in joint session) on October 30, reiterating the government's commitment to implementing peace agreements reached with groups [...]
2006-11-08 07:21:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SU
06KHARTOUM2650SUDAN/UGANDA/CONGO: LRA PEACE TALKS RECESS,
[...] (C) Summary: Peace talks between the Government of Uganda (GOU) and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) recessed November 8 after the parties failed to reach agreement on a lengthy protocol addressing "root causes" of the 20-year LRA insurgency. LRA combatants missed a November 8 deadline [...]
2006-11-09 16:14:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR CG UG SU
06KHARTOUM2666SUDAN/UGANDA/DRC: PREPARATIONS FOR UN U/S EGELAND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs (USYG) Jan Egeland departed Juba November 12 for a meeting with Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) chief Joseph Kony on the Sudan-Congo border. Before the meeting, Egeland had expressed serious doubt about whether it would actually [...]
2006-11-14 13:02:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM SOCI PGOV UN SU UG CG
06KHARTOUM2694Sudan/Uganda/DRC: UN Humanitarian Chief Meets Head of
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Lord's Resistance Army LRA rebel chief Joseph Kony pressed for the withdrawal of Ugandan forces from Southern Sudan during a brief meeting with UN Under Secretary General (USYG) Jan Egeland on November 12 at the village of Nabanga on the Sudan-Congo border. Kony refused Egeland's [...]
2006-11-19 08:29:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM SOCI PGOV UN SU UG CG
06KHARTOUM2698CDA MEETING WITH MINISTER OF CABINET AFFAIRS DENG
[...] (C) On November 18, CDA Hume met with Minister for Cabinet Affairs Deng Alor at Deng's request. Deng wanted to discuss peace-keeping in Darfur and the statement of principles recently concluded in Addis Ababa. He said that the international media had presented the agreement as including all [...]
2006-11-19 15:20:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO CVIS ASEC AU SU US UN
06KHARTOUM2701SUDAN/UGANDA/DRC: LAWYER BRIEFS LRA,S KONY ON ICC
[...] (C) Ugandan human rights lawyer Barney Afako held a detailed one-hour discussion with LRA leader Joseph Kony November 14 about the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the legal consequences of ICC indictments. Afako is a consultant to the UN mediation team assisting peace talks [...]
2006-11-19 16:17:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC MARR SU CG UG
06KHARTOUM2720MEDIA REACTION TO "PLAN B" FOR SUDAN
[...] Several Sudanese newspapers carried stories about Special Envoy for Sudan Andrew Natsios' November 20 press briefing in which he referred to a "Plan B" for Sudan. Some included the entire briefing. There were only two editorials about Darfur and "Plan B," although we would expect there to be [...]
2006-11-22 12:09:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OIIP PREL PGOV PINR PHUM SU
06KHARTOUM2727MINAWI THREATENS TO MOBILIZE AGAINST JANJAWEED
[...] (C) Summary: SLM leader and Senior Assistant to the President Minni Minawi has reached an apex of frustration with the Sudanese government's inaction on implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) and obvious attempts to foil his efforts to engage non-signatories. Of immediate concern [...]
2006-11-22 15:11:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS SU
06KHARTOUM2732CONTINUING EFFORTS ON COMMANDERS' CONFERENCE
[...] (C) Commanders representing the SLA-Unity, G-19, SLA-Abdel Wahid Al Nur, and SLA-Ahmed Abdul Shafi continue to engage in efforts to hold a conference of Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatory commanders in North Darfur with the facilitation of the African Union (AU). A working group of in [...]
2006-11-22 17:09:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AU SU
06KHARTOUM2747PRES. BASHIR,S JUBA VISIT: SECURITY, ABYEI, CPA,
[...] (C) Summary: President Bashir,s November 18 visit to Juba has done little to assure southern Sudanese of Khartoum,s sincerity in ending support for the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and militia groups widely believed to be responsible for recent violence in Juba and surrounding areas. Bashir pled [...]
2006-11-27 16:08:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EAID MOPS SOCI ASEC US SU
06KHARTOUM2749DARFUR'S AGONY AND BASHIR'S PLAN
[...] (C) Summary: Darfur's agony is not ending. The territory is awash with weapons, including shipments of sniper rifles, assault rifles, and machine guns. Traditional social structures, already weakened, no longer keep the peace--even within internally displaced persons (IDP) camps. The new co [...]
2006-11-28 12:54:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AU SU UN US
06KHARTOUM278EASTERN FRONT DELAYS PARTICIPATION IN TRIPOLI TALKS
[...] (C) On February 5, we spoke with Dr. Amna Dirar, Vice President of the Eastern Front, who said the Eastern Front had decided to delay participation in the scheduled negotiations with the Sudanese Government in Tripoli because certain pre-conditions had not been met. Dirar said these were to a [...]
2006-02-06 13:55:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM SU
06KHARTOUM2786AU SPECIAL ENVOY SALIM BRIEFS INT'L PARTNERS,
[...] (C) Summary: AU Special Envoy Salim A. Salim told international partners and CDA Hume separately on Nov. 29 that getting DPA non-signatories on board when signatories were not abiding by it was difficult. He noted Pres. Bashir's continued opposition to a hybrid AU/UN PKO force, and said a jo [...]
2006-12-03 16:48:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EAID MOPS SOCI ASEC US SU
06KHARTOUM282ACTION NEEDED TO STEM WORSENING SECURITY IN DARFUR
[...] (C) A February 4-5 visit to Darfur confirmed that the security situation in Darfur is getting worse. A companion message will report on separate meetings with the local governor, the new AMIS commander, UN staff, U.S. military observers, and international NGOs. All are worried what will happ [...]
2006-02-07 11:00:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KPKO MOPS EAID US UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM2829 DARFUR: SLA/M REACHES OUT TO ALL PARTIES
[...] Summary: SLM/Minawi representatives hosted a widely attended general meeting in El Fasher November 28-29 to discuss the progress of DPA implementation, new initiatives to bring signatory and non-signatory groups back to the negotiating table, and ways to work productively with the African Uni [...]
2006-12-11 13:17:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREF AU SU
06KHARTOUM2866 SUDAN: 2006 Country Reports on Terrorism
[...] (SBU) Sudan remains a cooperative partner in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). The Sudanese government has been a strong ally in the war on terrorism, aggressively pursuing terrorist operations directly involving threats to U.S. interests and personnel in Sudan. Sudanese officials have indicat [...]
2006-12-18 14:52:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EFIN KCRM KPAO PTER KHLS AEMR
06KHARTOUM2877SUDAN: HAC INTERROGATES USAID PARTNER
[...] (C) The Government of National Unity (GNU) Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) is in the process of collecting information on all humanitarian organizations working in Sudan. The effort appears to be part of an annual exercise aimed at identifying humanitarian staff and assets. The process inc [...]
2006-12-19 16:56:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALEAID PREF PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI SU KHDP
06KHARTOUM2916SOUTHERN SUDAN: VIOLENCE FLARES BEFORE LRA TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: The weeks prior to the December 15 resumption of peace talks between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GOU) saw an upsurge in violence east and south of Juba that claimed the lives of about 40 civilians in a half-dozen incidents in late November/early [...]
2006-12-27 16:06:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS PREF PHUM SU
06KHARTOUM292SOUTHERN SUDAN: Fighting in Jonglei State
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In a meeting with CG Juba, Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Minister of Culture, Youth, and Sports John Luc Jok spoke about the recent fighting in the Jonglei area. The minister is from Jonglei state, and has been in contact with all the parties involved. According to Jok, on [...]
2006-02-07 17:43:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV MOPS PINR SU
06KHARTOUM2925 AEC Plenary Minutes - Dec. 12 Meeting
[...] Summary: The Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) held its 15th plenary session in Khartoum on December 12. The plenary session involved somewhat heated discussion about the AEC Chairman's recent remarks to the press about the oil fields and other armed groups (OAGs) operating in the S [...]
2006-12-31 06:14:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID PREL SOCI SU
06KHARTOUM350SUDAN/DARFUR: NO IMPLEMENTATION OF VAW PLAN OF
[...] (SBU) A visit to the field reveals there is little real progress to date in the implementation on the ground of the Plan of Action to Combat Violence Against Women. Government officials had recently (reftel A) cited some human rights training for the police, the stationing of female police off [...]
2006-02-13 13:30:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV KWMN PHUM PREL SOCI SU
06KHARTOUM447SUDAN PRESSES OPPOSITION TO INTERNATIONAL
[...] SUMMARY: Facing mounting pressure for increased international intervention, the Government of National Unity (GNU) has started a broad effort to resist UN and International Criminal Court (ICC) action. Over the past week, this campaign has included media events, newspaper articles, engagemen [...]
2006-02-21 15:27:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PINR KPKO UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM466 MFA Summons UN SRSG Pronk
[...] On February 20, the Government of National Unity (GNU) summoned Jan Pronk, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) in Sudan, to register a protest regarding UN statements that the GNU believes are biased and exceed the UN mandate. The GNU complained about his recent present [...]
2006-02-23 11:24:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PINR KPKO UN SU
06KHARTOUM467 Sudan: Full Court Press Against UN
[...] The Government of Sudan is continuing its intensive public and diplomatic efforts to oppose UN intervention in Darfur. In addition to a significant media blitz, and the public chastising of SRSG Jan Pronk, the government has pushed in the National Assembly. Foreign Minister Lam Akol address [...]
2006-02-23 12:34:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SOCI PINR KPKO UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM494SUDANESE FIRST VICE PRESIDENT,S TRIP TO ERITREA
[...] (C) On February 23 Sudanese First Vice President Salva Kiir traveled to Eritrea with a delegation that included Director of the National Intelligence and Security Services Salah Gosh, MFA Under Secretary Mutriff Saddiq, and SPLM-bloc parliamentary leader Yassir Arman. Eritrean President Isaias [...]
2006-02-27 07:38:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL ER SU
06KHARTOUM499DARFUR PEACE PROCESS: CHARTING A WAY FORWARD
[...] Summary. The Darfur peace process needs to enter the endgame. The Abuja peace talks, despite gradual progress, have failed to deliver a deal between key rebel leaders and the Sudanese government. The African Union has yet to request the United Nations to take over the peace-keeping operati [...]
2006-02-27 09:55:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM502Yassir Arman Reflects on Negotiating Peace
[...] Summary: The following is an interview with SPLM National Assembly Leader Yassir Arman, recently published in the Sudan Vision daily, a pro-government English daily newspaper. Arman discussed the process that led to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and emphasized that all the Sudanes [...]
2006-02-27 11:27:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR SU
06KHARTOUM528 SOUTHERN SUDAN: MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. On February 28, CG Juba met with GoSS Presidential Security Advisor Samuel Abu John to discuss SPLA reform, military force structure, and CPA implementation modalities. Abu John said that the GOSS realizes the importance of paying the SPLA, but is still trying to get good rol [...]
2006-03-01 10:17:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MARR MOPS PINS PINR SU
06KHARTOUM545UNMIS HEAD OF OFFICE ON SPLA, JONGLEI CONFLICT,
[...] (SBU) Summary. UNMIS Head of Office in South Sudan James Ellory and CG met on February 24 to discuss security issues in South Sudan, including developments in the SPLA, how to keep a lid on the situation in Jonglei State, and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Ellory expressed frustration wit [...]
2006-03-02 13:07:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS MOPS PGOV SU CG UG UN
06KHARTOUM571DARFUR: SUDAN CONTINUES ALL-FRONTS CAMPAIGN
[...] (SBU) Sudan continues its campaign against U.N. intervention in Darfur, with President Omar al-Bashir telling military academy graduates that the government was opposed to "foreign" troops in the region, but favored keeping the current African Union force. Foreign Ministry officials, however, [...]
2006-03-06 14:35:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR KPKO UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM578SUDAN BRIEFS: TRADE/AID TO KENYA; NORWAY IN
[...] SUMMARY: This week's installment of news briefs not included in post's other reporting includes prospects for a Sudan-Kenya trade agreement, together with South Sudan's USD 1 million donation for Kenyan famine relief; Norway's assurances that it will continue to support peacekeeping and reli [...]
2006-03-07 06:25:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ETRD EPET SOCI SENV SU KE NO CH
06KHARTOUM655DARFUR: CHARGE MEETS WITH MFA UNDERSECRETARY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge Cameron Hume and MFA Undersecretary Saddiq Mutriff discussed the AU mediation's new "Enhanced Humanitarian Ceasefire" proposal on March 14. Hume advised Mutriff to use the document to engage the other side in negotiations, and work constructively on the proposal. Mutriff b [...]
2006-03-14 13:02:00Embassy KhartoumSECRETPGOV PREL KPKO SU AU
06KHARTOUM660DARFUR: MEETING WITH UN POL ADVISOR ON AMIS/UNMIS
[...] (C) On March 15 CDA Hume met with Jack Christofides, senior political adviser to UNSRSG Jan Pronk. Hume said he had urged the Sudanese government to cooperate with the UN on planning for a mission, whether or not they reserved their position on conditions in which it would take place. He des [...]
2006-03-15 12:53:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO SU UN
06KHARTOUM685SLA INFIGHTING SPREADS
[...] (C) SLA (Minawi) forces attacked Korma, a town under the control of SLA (Wahid),and drove Wahid's forces out on March 15. An SLA (Minawi) defector told AMIS that Minawi had planned the attack for months. Wahid's forces plan to counter-attack to regain Korma. This may be part of a land-grab [...]
2006-03-17 10:20:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALMOPS MASS AU SU
06KHARTOUM720KHARTOUM IDPS - CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE
[...] On March 14, the Consultative Committee on Khartoum internally displaced persons (IDPs) met with Khartoum State authorities to discuss the status of IDP relocations in Khartoum. The committee wished to gain assurances from Khartoum State authorities that agreed- upon procedures for relocatin [...]
2006-03-22 10:39:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KAWC SU
06KHARTOUM724WEST DARFUR: SUDO LIKELY CLOSED FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Sudan Social Development Organization, a USAID-supported Sudanese NGO, had not worked according to its mandate and had to be closed down, West Darfur Governor Gaffar Abdel Hakam told Charge Steinfeld during a March 20-21 visit to El Geneina. The Governor, however, refused to [...]
2006-03-22 15:01:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL EAID KPAO OPSC SU
06KHARTOUM754FIRST VICE PRESIDENT SALVA KIIR SPEAKS ON LRA,
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Charge and USAID Almquist on March 23 (Darfur part reported ref A),First VP Salva Kiir reiterated his allegation that NCP elements of the GNU and the SAF continue to provide support to the LRA, and that SAF forces have not sufficiently redeployed out of the sout [...]
2006-03-26 11:41:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID PINR EPET SU
06KHARTOUM780POLITICS IN THE EASTERN FRONT
[...] (C) On March 22, Poloff spoke with Dr. Amna Dirar, Vice President of the Eastern Front, who stated that the Sudanese government is trying to divide the Eastern Front along ethnic lines. Dr. Amna named Mohamed Tahir Eli, Wali of the Red Sea State, as the main perpetrator, who she said had launc [...]
2006-03-28 13:46:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ER SU
06KHARTOUM791DARFUR/ARAB LEAGUE: RESOLUTION PASSED TO
[...] (C) Summary and comment: In the Arab League resolution adopted on Sudan and Darfur at the Khartoum Summit on March 29, the AL decided to increase support for AMIS, and "to bear the AU forces' expenditures in Darfur from six months starting from 10/01/06." Preambular language includes referen [...]
2006-03-29 14:50:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SU AU UN
06KHARTOUM796 Pres. Bashir Interview with Al-Jazira at Arab
[...] Summary: In a March 29 interview with Al-Jazira, President Bashir said: many southern forces had supported the government during the North-South civil war; Khartoum was both a northern state and the national capital subject to shari'ah law; the Arab League had pledged to support AMIS financ [...]
2006-03-30 13:26:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SOCI AL US SU
06KHARTOUM798 Local Press, AU Special Rep React to Arab
[...] Summary: Khartoum media coverage of the Arab League Summit was favorable, with extensive coverage on television, radio, and newspapers, both in English and Arabic. AU Special Representative Kingibe criticized Arab League offers of financial support for AMIS, referring to it as "medicine aft [...]
2006-03-30 15:12:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SOCI AL US SU
06KHARTOUM814 RUMORS OF CORRUPTION, AND ITS COSTS: AN ANALYSIS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Corruption remains an elusive subject in Southern Sudan, as it is easy to deny and difficult to prove. A weak media, the secretive instincts of the SPLM/A honed by two decades of war, and a flourishing rumor mill also make it difficult to winnow speculation from fact. Nonethe [...]
2006-04-02 13:50:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON KCOR EINV EFIN SU
06KHARTOUM850MFA Paper Outlines Foreign Policy Objectives
[...] Summary: During the April 1-5 MFA ambassadorial corps conference (reftel),the ministry circulated a thought piece on the future of Sudanese foreign policy. Its key points are as follows: Sudan is entering a new era following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, Sudan must thus [...]
2006-04-06 15:52:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV US SU
06KHARTOUM861THE ANGLOPHONES: SUDAN,S NEIGHBORS, PART ONE OF
[...] (SBU) Introduction: Sudan, the largest and arguably the most ethnically complex country in Africa, has nine neighbors, tied with the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the most in Africa. This is the first of a series of four cables describing the bilateral relationship between Sudan and [...]
2006-04-09 14:08:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SOCI SCUL ECON ETRD KEAI UG SU
06KHARTOUM888 Sudan: Anti-American Rhetoric Continues from
[...] SUMMARY: Over the past month, high-ranking government officials have been giving interviews to the state press organ (SUNA) and major Arabic news sources to reiterate and amplify their claim that the crisis in Darfur is a Western creation, and that the U.nited S.tates is only interested in d [...]
2006-04-12 18:47:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PINR SU
06KHARTOUM901 SPLM Position on Darfur and Eastern Sudan
[...] During its April 2-5 Interim Political Bureau meeting in Rumbek, the SPLM discussed a number of issues (reftel). Aside from its Final Communique, the SPLM also issued a formal position paper on Darfur and the East. In essence, the SPLM holds that both Darfur and the East involve legitimate p [...]
2006-04-13 15:28:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SU
06KHARTOUM924 Sudan/Iran: President Bashir to Visit Tehran
[...] (U) This is an action request - see para 4. 2. (SBU) On April 15, the government-operated Khartoum Sudanese Media Centre stated that President Bashir plans to visit Iran on April 24. The report, carried by numerous Arabic daily newspapers on April 15-16, noted that the visit would involve [...]
2006-04-17 10:11:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM KNNP IR SU
06KHARTOUM952NO ASMARA-MEDIATED TALKS WITHOUT ERITREAN
[...] (C) In an April 20 conversation with Dr. Hassan Al Haj, National Congress Party (NCP) Deputy to Kamal Obied, Chair of the East Committee, he confirmed that the government had agreed initially to Asmara hosting talks between the GNU and the Eastern Front. However, he added that the GNU had req [...]
2006-04-20 13:27:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM UN ER SU
06KHARTOUM973 Written Statement of FM Lam Akol on Chad-Sudan
[...] Summary: On April 23, Foreign Minister Lam Akol briefed the diplomatic corps on the state of Chad-Sudan bilateral relations. The statement cites Chad as the source of tension in the relationship, and maintained that Sudan did not support rebel groups against it. It further describes the hi [...]
2006-04-24 11:55:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPREL CD SU
06KHARTOUM989SOUTHERN SUDAN IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH LRA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) officials have confirmed newspapers reports that they have opened discussions with the Lord,s Resistance Army, which continues to terrorize the people of Southern Sudan. According to Minister for Culture, Youth, and Sports John Luk Jok, Riek Ma [...]
2006-04-25 15:08:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS PTER UG SU
06KIEV1015UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S MARCH 14 remarks ON FREE AND
[...] (U) Summary: On March 14, shortly after the Rada (parliament) had passed a series of amendments designed to address technical problems regarding the administration of the March 26 elections (reftel),President Yushchenko held a press-conference devoted to the election campaign and the domesti [...]
2006-03-15 14:43:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM UP
06KIEV1020UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: GOU BLAMES TIRASPOL
[...] (C) Summary: In a March 15 briefing of OSCE member state reps, GOU officials accused Transnistrian authorities of purposefully engineering the ongoing border standoff and refusing GOU attempts to discuss the situation. GOU officials appealed to EU states to advise their shippers to avoid tra [...]
2006-03-15 15:42:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PINR OSCE
06KIEV1021UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: EUR DAS KRAMER
[...] (C) Summary: During March 13 meetings in Kiev, EUR DAS David Kramer praised the Ukrainian government's decision to implement a customs protocol to control the flow of goods across its border with Moldova/Transnistria. Drawing on reftel, Kramer told PM Yuri Yekhanurov, Deputy Minister of Defe [...]
2006-03-15 15:54:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS MD UP OSCE
06KIEV1022UKRAINE: PARTY OF REGIONS ELECTION STRATEGY: A NEW
[...] (C) Summary: Ukrainians and outside observers are currently contemplating the increasing possibility that Party of Regions, led by Viktor Yanukovych, may return to power as part of a coalition emerging from the March 26 elections in which Regions will by all accounts win a plurality (an estim [...]
2006-03-15 17:05:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM
06KIEV1039UKRAINE: CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Yaroslav Davydovych told Charge March 16 that Ukrainian authorities were working hard to address the organizational concerns that have arisen regarding the administration of March 26 elections, specifically staffing of polling station [...]
2006-03-16 15:51:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM
06KIEV1055UKRAINE: ZAPORIZHZHYA PRE-ELECTION SNAPSHOT --
[...] (SBU) Summary: In 2004, the abuse of administrative resources by a coordinated "Blue" power "vertikal" and an extra 100,000 dead souls voting in the city of Melitopol delivered 70 percent of Zaporizhzhya oblast to Viktor Yanukovych. In 2006, the absence of administrative pressure from an "Or [...]
2006-03-17 14:28:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM
06KIEV1073UKRAINE: SIXTH ELECTION ROUNDTABLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 14, Charge hosted a roundtable discussion with NGOs on the March 26 Rada (parliament) and local government elections. One NGO representative predicted long lines at polling stations, and attributed the poor organization of the elections to a lack of government meddlin [...]
2006-03-20 13:33:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE
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