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05NEWDELHI1554	US-INDIA PEACEKEEPING JOINT WORKING GROUP MEETING [...] (C) Summary: At the fourth US-India Joint Working Group on Peacekeeping on February 14, IO PDAS Swigert underscored US concerns about sexual exploitation committed within UN peacekeeping ranks and asked India, a main troop contributor, to play a leading role to ensure that the problem is deal [...]	2005-03-01 12:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM KPKO XA IN

05NEWDELHI1556	INDIAN EXPERTS CONTEMPLATE NEPAL WITHOUT A KING [...] (C) Summary: During a February 25 lunch that the Ambassador hosted for visiting Ambassador to Nepal Moriarty, Indian experts on Nepal agreed that: -- The RNA was unlikely to collapse as a result of the suspension of military assistance; -- A Maoist takeover is more likely to result from p [...]	2005-03-01 13:05:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS KDEM IN NP
05NEWDELHI1615	GOI OPPOSES NON-LETHAL MILITARY AID AND MEDICAL [...] (C) The GOI feels strongly that the USG should delay the first phase of the Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) for the Royal Nepalese Army, because this is not the time to send mixed messages to the King. In a March 2 meeting with Polcouns and Poloff scheduled to discuss Bhutan, MEA Join [...]	2005-03-02 12:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MOPS EAID IN NP
05NEWDELHI1715	ADVANCING USG EFFORTS ON BHUTANESE REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary: The Bhutanese Ambassador reaffirmed to us on March 3 that Thimphu remains committed to repatriate Category 1 refugees under the Dewey-Wangchuck framework, but is unlikely to allow any refugees to return until the constitution is finalized, and sees little prospect of progress on [...]	2005-03-04 13:58:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PREL PHUM IN NP BT
05NEWDELHI1764	SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL PRAKASH,S MARCH 19-28 VISIT TO USA [...] (C) Summary: Admiral Clark, we greatly appreciate your willingness to host the upcoming visit to the USA of your counterpart, Admiral Arun Prakash, India's Chief of Naval Staff and Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee. President Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agree that Indo-US relati [...]	2005-03-08 05:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHSA MASS MOPS PTER PK XD IZ IN
05NEWDELHI1824	REVITALIZING THE US-INDIA ENERGY RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Secretary Bodman, now that you have had a few weeks to settle into your new role, I want to share with you some thoughts and ideas on our relationship with India. You already know from our meeting last November my views on the emerging India, a vibrant, multi-faceted democracy that is a [...]	2005-03-09 12:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON ETTC PREL KNNP TRGY IN US NSSP
05NEWDELHI1854	INDIA'S COMMUNISTS - CONTENT TO SUPPORT THE [...] (C) Summary: The strong performance of the BJP following recent State Assembly elections has convinced India's mainstream Communists to downplay their differences with the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and cooperate for the time being to meet the "rightist" threat. The Communists [...]	2005-03-10 10:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB PREL PINR IN
05NEWDELHI1872	HOME MINISTER UPBEAT ON KASHMIR, WORRIES OF POTENTIAL MAOIST SPILLOVER FROM NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: In a March 9 meeting with the Ambassador, Home Minister Shivraj Patil credited Pakistan with reducing infiltration, called the law and order situation in the state ""more comfortable,"" and expressed confidence that the first Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus would roll on schedule on Apr [...]	2005-03-10 13:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PK NP IN
05NEWDELHI1873	AMBASSADOR PRESSES TIP WITH HOME MINISTER [...] (C) Meeting on March 9, the Ambassador again urged Home Minister Shivraj Patil to focus more on the trafficking issue in order to avoid the downgrading of India from the Tier 2 Special Watch List to Tier 3 in June, which could set in motion a series of unfortunate and restrictive developments [...]	2005-03-10 13:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM IN
05NEWDELHI2047	BHUTANESE CENSUS UNLIKELY TO FACILITATE FURTHER [...] (C) In response to Reftel and following our contacts with travelers to Thimphu, the Mission assesses little likelihood that the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) will use the upcoming census to justify further expulsions of ethnic Nepali citizens from Bhutan. United Nations Development Progr [...]	2005-03-17 12:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PREL PHUM IN NP BT
05NEWDELHI2049	UNCHR 61 DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO BHUTAN [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered the UNCHR 61 demarche (Reftel) to the Bhutanese Embassy on March 17. First Secretary Karma Rinchhen stated that he will forward our points to Thimphu for the official Royal Government of Bhutan response. 2. (C) During the meeting, Rinchhen inquired whether the USG [...]	2005-03-17 12:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM BT NP UNHCR
05NEWDELHI2050	INDIA ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT SECRETARY RICE'S VISIT [...] (C) Summary: In an upbeat assessment of Secretary Rice's first visit to India, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar described the action agenda that the Secretary left behind as "the most significant road map we've had in the last 47 years." Areas for immediate progress include expa [...]	2005-03-17 13:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PGOV PREL ENRG ETRD MASS TSPA ETTC IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI2138	UNCHR 61: INDIAN OBJECTIVES [...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered the UNCHR 61 demarche (Reftel) to MEA Deputy Secretary (UN Economic and Social) Gopal Baglay on March 17, and PolCouns double-tracked with Joint Secretary (UN) Hamid Ali Rao. Baglay reiterated that the GOI neither supports country-specific resolutions nor oppose [...]	2005-03-21 13:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IN
05NEWDELHI2185	MEA DEFENDS RECORD ON BURMA AHEAD OF FM SINGH TRIP [...] (C) Summary: Joint Secretary (SE Asia I) Mitra Vashishta defended India's policies in Burma in a March 17 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, suggesting that progress on democratic reforms was dependent on engagement with the Burmese body politic, and warning that the USG focus on Aung San Suu K [...]	2005-03-22 12:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ENRG PTER IN BM BD
05NEWDELHI2379	INDIA UNDECIDED ON CHR NEPAL RESOLUTION [...] (C) We shared reftel demarche with MEA J/S (North) Ranjit Rae on March 28 regarding the need to improve GON human rights record or face an Item 9 resolution at the CHR. After repeated attempts to elicit a response from the J/S proved unsuccessful, A/Polcouns managed to reach him in the early [...]	2005-03-30 14:40:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IN NP EU UK SZ
05NEWDELHI2410	SAARC: NO SUMMIT IN SIGHT, SAFTA ON TRACK [...] (SBU) Summary: Prospects for a rescheduled SAARC Summit in 2005 are diminishing amidst scheduling difficulties and Indian concerns over the coup in Nepal and instability in Bangladesh. In a March 30 meeting with USAIDoff and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (SAARC) V. Ashok expressed optimism, ho [...]	2005-03-31 11:47:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECIN PREL IN PK NP BG SAARC
05NEWDELHI2475	DELHI EU MEMBER STATE MISSIONS TAKE ROSY VIEW OF [...] (C) Summary: At a March 31 meeting of EU and "likeminded" countries hosted by the Danes, EU member state representatives evinced surprising optimism about the potential for a constituent assembly and constitutional changes to resolve the impasse in Nepal. We noted a clear preference for an I [...]	2005-04-01 14:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MASS KDEM IN NP BT DA NL SW SZ CA FR UK FI NO CH PK
05NEWDELHI2511	Scenesetter for Transportation Secretary Mineta's [...] (SBU) Mr. Secretary, I want to welcome you to India, a vibrant, diverse, multiethnic, multifaceted democracy that is emerging as an economic powerhouse and has growing global ambitions. Your visit comes close on the heels of an extraordinarily successful visit of Secretary Rice, who unveiled [...]	2005-04-04 13:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR BEXP ECON IN US
05NEWDELHI2550	SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL FALLON,S APRIL 13-16 VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Admiral Fallon, we welcome your upcoming visit to India, coming at a time of excellent relations in a fast maturing defense cooperation relationship. You also come soon after Secretary of State Rice's first visit last month, which has been characterized as the most successful visit o [...]	2005-04-05 14:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL MASS MOPS PTER IN US
05NEWDELHI2608	GWOT ASSESSMENT: MISSION INDIA INPUT [...] (C) Summary: Mission welcomes the opportunity to share its views on ways to expand our GWOT efforts and cooperation with New Delhi as solicited in Refs A and B. We agree with the overall thrust of the Bureau's approach (Ref C),but suggest additional focus on: -- Continued pressing of Isla [...]	2005-04-06 15:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV IN
05NEWDELHI2635	MEA ON NEPAL: HUMAN RIGHTS IMPORTANT, BUT [...] (C) Summary: India's highest priority with respect to Nepal remains the full restoration of democracy, not one or two human rights improvements, MEA Joint Secretary (Nepal, Bhutan) Ranjit Rae told PolCouns and Poloff on April 7. Although "very uncomfortable" with a UNCHR Item Nine resolution, [...]	2005-04-07 14:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM NP IN
05NEWDELHI2717	RGOB NON-COMMITTAL ON SUPPORT FOR UNCHR RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: In an April 7 meeting with Bhutanese Foreign Secretary Neden Zangmo, DCM urged the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) to support a UNCHR resolution against Cuba noting that Bhutan's vote could be decisive. The FS was non-committal citing the support Cuba had provided Bhutan in th [...]	2005-04-11 13:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PREL PHUM KDEM IN NP BT CU UNHCR
05NEWDELHI2844	BHUTAN WILL ABSTAIN ON CHR RESOLUTION ON CUBA WITH [...] (C) Bhutan has agreed in principle to abstain on the CHR resolution on Cuba, but has specifically asked for stronger US support and understanding on the issue of the refugee camps in Nepal, Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering stated during an April 14 phone call with the Ambassador. He commented t [...]	2005-04-14 14:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PGOV PREF PREL PHUM KDEM IN NP BT CU
05NEWDELHI2925	NARAYANAN WORRIED ABOUT NEPAL AND BANGLADESH, PLEASED WITH MUSHARRAF VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with SA A/S Rocca and Charge on April 18, Indian NSA MK Narayanan expressed concern about trends in Nepal and Bangladesh. On Nepal, the King had no policy to restore democracy or defeat the Maoists, which worried New Delhi because the insurgents were becoming more aggres [...]	2005-04-19 11:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IN BG NP PK
05NEWDELHI2951	REGIONAL DIALOGUE WITH A/S ROCCA: NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: During their April 18 Regional Dialogue discussion, A/S Rocca and MEA officials reviewed recent developments in Nepal, with the GOI offering a pessimistic assessment of the King's intentions. (See septel for Bangladesh and Sri Lanka portions). Following the Indian Ambassador's [...]	2005-04-20 10:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PTER NP IN
05NEWDELHI2968	INDIA WARNS OF "REPERCUSSIONS" FOLLOWING [...] (C) Summary: On April 16, India's Border Security Force (BSF) engaged the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on the border between the Northeastern state of Tripura and Southeastern Bangladesh in what the MEA has called a "fierce gun battle," which ultimately resulted in the death of an Indian officer. [...]	2005-04-20 13:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS BG IN
05NEWDELHI301	AFTER DIXIT, INDIA PONDERS ROLE OF ITS NSA AND WHO [...] (C) Summary: Two questions now swirl around India's National Security Advisor position: will it lose its major role in the Indian foreign policy establishment, and who will land the job permanently? JN Dixit's death has prompted media speculation that PM Manmohan Singh is reassessing what he want [...]	2005-01-12 12:05:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PINS PREL PGOV IN PK
05NEWDELHI3080	INDIA BREAKS RANKS TO OPPOSE GUANTANAMO RESOLUTION [...] (U) Following up earlier approaches by the Charge, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar called PolCouns on April 25 to make sure we had noticed the GOI's April 21 ""no"" vote on the Cuba-sponsored UNHRC resolution condemning US practices at Guantanamo. Jaishankar noted that most South Asia [...]	2005-04-25 10:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU IN
05NEWDELHI3086	PMO CONFIRMS MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO NEPAL STILL [...] (C) Summary: Contrary to reports sourced to the King of Nepal that India had reversed its suspension of military supplies, the PMO has confirmed to us press reports that India will only resume military assistance to Nepal in exchange for concrete progress towards restoration of democracy. Th [...]	2005-04-25 12:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS EAID IN NP
05NEWDELHI3147	BOEING WINS $8.5 BILLION AIR INDIA ORDER, LARGEST [...] Summary: (C) On April 26, Boeing won a $8.5 billion order from Air India to supply 50 wide body B777-B787 class aircraft powered by GE engines. Embassy believes it is unlikely that the PIB or the cabinet would reverse the selection, but advises we use high level visits to urge the GOI to qui [...]	2005-04-27 12:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR BEXP IN
05NEWDELHI3164	INDIA WAITING FOR ACTION FROM NEPAL'S KING [...] (C) Summary: India wants to see progress toward democracy on the ground, not just hear the right words, before resuming arms shipments to Nepal, MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae told PolCouns and Poloff on April 27. Dismissing media reports of a "U-turn in Indian policy" as "speculation [...]	2005-04-27 12:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS KDEM PHUM IN NP CH IS SF
05NEWDELHI3242	EXBS: EXPORT CONTROL SYSTEM STANDARDS FOR INDIA [...] (SBU) Export Control System Standards for India, in response to Ref A. The GOI is in the process of introducing new legislation aimed at licensing and controlling the export of WMD and their delivery systems. MEA contacts have stated that they expect to introduce and seek approval of the legi [...]	2005-04-29 10:20:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KSTC PARM PREL IN GOI
05NEWDELHI3250	FOREIGN MINISTER SHOOTS DOWN ARMS FOR NEPAL [...] (U) Reaffirming India's position that the GOI wants to see meaningful steps toward restoration of democracy before resuming military assistance to Nepal (Ref B),Foreign Minister Natwar Singh told the upper house of Parliament on April 28 that following the arrest the day before of former PM [...]	2005-04-29 11:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MASS KDEM IN NP
05NEWDELHI3308	INDIA UPBEAT WITH SHEINWALD ON CHINA AND PAKISTAN; [...] (C) Summary: Aside from nuclear issues (septel) UK NSA Sir Nigel Sheinwald's April 25-26 visit to New Delhi stuck to familiar ground, with the PM, NSA Narayanan, and Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran providing an encouraging backdrop for SIPDIS the September 7-8 India-EU and India-UK Summits. [...]	2005-05-02 13:20:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PK IZ NP BG CH IN AF UK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI3333	INDIA STILL PONDERING UN REFORMS, DEMOCRACY [...] (C) Summary: In a May 3 meeting with PolCouns and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Hamid Ali Rao welcomed the upcoming visit of the Secretary's Adviser on UN Reform Shirin Tahir-Kheli and requested more details on Washington's position on UN reform proposals. He acknowledged that In [...]	2005-05-03 13:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM IN KG UNSC
05NEWDELHI3401	UK NEPAL ENVOYS: MEA HARD LINE ON THE KING [...] (C) Summary: In a May 5 discussion with PolCouns and Emboffs, visiting UK Special Representative for Nepal Sir Jeffrey James, UK Ambassador to Nepal Keith Bloomfield, and UK Emboffs reported from their meeting with Foreign Secretary Saran that MEA Nepal policy vis-a-vis the King is hardening [...]	2005-05-05 12:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS IN NP UK
05NEWDELHI3431	GOI EXPECTS BHUTANESE REFUGEE SURVEYS TO CONTINUE, [...] (C) Summary: During a May 2 meeting with a visiting G/PRM/DRL/DHS delegation in India to review Tibetan and Bhutanese refugee issues, MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae offered his view that the UNHCR "had met the concerns" of HMGN in order to resume the registration of Bhutanese refugees [...]	2005-05-06 11:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PTER IN NP BT
05NEWDELHI3432	INDIA'S COMMUNISTS ADOPT AMBITIOUS AGENDAS AT [...] (C) Summary: India's Communist parties have been energized by their growing power as "kingmakers" who keep the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in power. During recently-concluded party congresses, they passed the baton to dynamic new leaders and broadened their agenda to take on ambitious [...]	2005-05-06 11:51:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PINR IN
05NEWDELHI3480	GOI TO RESUME NON-LETHAL MILITARY AID TO NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae called in PolCouns and Poloff on May 7 to inform us that the GOI, reviewing its suspension of military assistance to Nepal, had decided to release non-lethal supplies in the pipeline to the Royal Nepal Army (RNA). Indian Ambassador to Kathm [...]	2005-05-09 13:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS KDEM IN NP
05NEWDELHI3494	MEA HOPEFUL NEPAL'S KING MAY ENGAGE PARTIES ON [...] (C) Summary: In a May 9 meeting with visiting Assistant Secretary for South Asia Christina Rocca, MEA Joint Secretary SIPDIS (North) Ranjit Rae welcomed the May 8 publication of a common platform by the Nepalese political parties as a potential "basis for talks" with King Gyanendra. The GO [...]	2005-05-10 06:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MASS PTER IN NP
05NEWDELHI3646	INDIA SEEKS DIALOGUE ON NEPAL END-GAME [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns and Poloff met with MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae on May 13 to review A/S Rocca's SIPDIS and Indian Ambassador Shiv Mukherjee's recent audiences with Nepal's King Gyanendra. Rae emphasized that the King had not relented on his opposition to a dialogue with th [...]	2005-05-13 13:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM MASS IN NP
05NEWDELHI3653	FS SARAN PREPARES FOR WASHINGTON [...] (C) Summary. In a May 14 meeting with the Charge, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran gave an optimistic overview of the SIPDIS issues for his upcoming trip to Washington, emphasizing the GOI's intention to develop a rich menu of deliverables to make the Prime Minister's July White House visit "a [...]	2005-05-14 12:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP KDEM ETTC MASS NP CH IZ IN US
05NEWDELHI3717	NSA NARAYANAN PRESSES FOR ACTION AGAINST LET, WELCOMES EXCHANGE ON NEPAL [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-17 12:24:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	IN MASS NP PK PREL PTER INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI3769	MEA PROVIDES "NEXT STEPS" FOR US-INDIA CT JWG [...] (U) This is an Action Request -- see Para 4. 2. (U) Summary: MEA Director (Americas) Renu Pall recently gave Poloff the GOI's understanding of the next steps agreed to at the August 31-September 1, 2004, Sixth Meeting of the India-US Counter-Terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG),with a r [...]	2005-05-19 11:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PTER PREL EFIN SNAR TBIO IN AF PK CE BG NP US INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI3933	THE UPA SCORES BETTER THAN AVERAGE AFTER ONE YEAR [...] (C) Summary: The UPA government completed one year in office on May 22. Although the Left parties and the BJP predictably criticized its performance, commentary has been generally positive, reflecting widespread respect for Manmohan Singh's performance. Despite some initial weaknesses (such [...]	2005-05-27 05:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PARM PGOV PHUM PINR PREL IN
05NEWDELHI4091	USG ASSESSMENT OF TIBETAN REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to the Dalai Lama's request that the US consider a resettlement program for some 10,000 Tibetan refugees, a USG delegation traveled to India and Nepal from May 2-10, meeting with Tibetan, Indian, Nepalese, and Embassy officials to assess the political and logistical [...]	2005-06-01 14:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL CH BT NP IN
05NEWDELHI4131	INDIAN PUNDITS PRESS FOR NEW DIRECTION IN NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: Delhi-based Nepal-watchers are split in their diagnosis of the strength of the competing factions in Nepal, and on their prescriptions for an end to the country's political crisis. The GOI decision to release non-lethal military assistance to the RNA and press reports of Indian [...]	2005-06-02 12:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM MASS IN NP UK
05NEWDELHI4193	GOI WILL ENCOURAGE NEPALESE LEADER TO SHUN MAOISTS [...] (C) Summary: Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae told A/DCM and Poloff on June 3 that India will caution Nepali Congress leader GP Koirala to avoid allying with the Maoists during his upcoming visit to New Delhi. Following a visit to Kathmandu, Rae worried that the gap between the King and the [...]	2005-06-03 12:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MASS IN NP
05NEWDELHI4330	INDO-BANGLADESHI RELATIONS SOUR [...] (C) Summary: Relations between India and Bangladesh have soured since the April 16 killing of a BSF guard along the India-Bangladesh border, with increased concerns about illegal migration and terrorist groups along the border and calls for a more aggressive Indian policy towards the GOB. At [...]	2005-06-09 05:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KCRM KWMN BG IN
05NEWDELHI4531	GOI SATISFIED WITH KOIRALA VISIT, BUT NOT HOPEFUL [...] (C) Summary: As former Nepalese PM GP Koirala prepared to depart New Delhi after his meetings with GOI officials and politicians, MEA Under Secretary (Nepal) Manu Mahawar told Poloff on June 14 that the visit was a success for the GOI, allowing frank exchange of views on the political impasse [...]	2005-06-15 11:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MASS IN NP
05NEWDELHI4721	SCENESETTER FOR INDIAN DEFENSE MINISTER MUKHERJEE,S 25 JUNE - 2 JULY VISIT TO THE USA [...] (C) Summary: Secretary Rumsfeld, we appreciate your willingness to host the upcoming visit of Indian Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee, and see many opportunities to accelerate our burgeoning defense cooperation with a nation we believe to be the key to a prosperous and peaceful future for South A [...]	2005-06-21 12:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL ETTC ETRD KNNP MASS PTER IN NP PK IZ IR
05NEWDELHI496	BHUTANESE AMBASSADOR: SECURITY SITUATION IN NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: The poor security situation in Nepal, instability of the government in Kathmandu, and uncertainty over future GON willingness to deliver on any inherited agreements will hinder the refugee repatriation process, Bhutanese Ambassador Lyonpo Dago Tshering told the Ambassador on Jan [...]	2005-01-19 12:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF PTER IN NP BT UNHCR
05NEWDELHI5048	U/S BURNS' DISCUSSIONS ON SOUTH ASIAN ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: U/S Nicholas Burns met with Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran on June 25 to review Indo-Pak SIPDIS relations, Iran, Nepal, Bangladesh, and briefly Sri Lanka. Although pleased with the groundswell of support for people-to-people exchanges with Pakistan, Saran warned that a single [...]	2005-07-01 12:12:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PK AF IR NP BG CE IN US
05NEWDELHI5318	INDIA REVIVES TOP-LEVEL ENGAGEMENT WITH BANGLADESH [...] (C) Summary: Meetings between the Foreign Secretaries of India and Bangladesh in New Delhi on June 21-22 provided the first opportunity after a two year gap for the nations' top diplomats to turn around deteriorating relations by airing disagreements, reviving several working groups, and plann [...]	2005-07-11 12:47:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KCRM KWMN ETRD ENRG BD IN
05NEWDELHI5319	INDIA HOPING TO LURE NEPAL MAOISTS INTO POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: In a July 11 meeting with MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae, PolCouns emphasized the need to SIPDIS coordinate USG and GOI policy to prevent sending mixed messages to the Nepalese political parties, Maoists, and King, and expressed concern about the risks inherent in New [...]	2005-07-11 13:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PHUM PTER IN NP AF CE
05NEWDELHI5382	DELHI WORRIED ABOUT SPIKE IN TERRORISM, THREATS, [...] (C) Summary: Indian concerns over possible spectacular terrorist incidents are escalating, based on the recent London and Ayodhya attacks, widespread speculation on what high-profile target might be next, and a significant uptick in terrorism reporting in the Indian media, most of which point [...]	2005-07-13 12:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL SCUL ASEC IN PK
05NEWDELHI5480	BHUTAN REITERATES COMMITMENT TO DEWEY-WANGCHUCK [...] (C) Summary: The Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) remains committed to resolving the refugee problem using the Dewey-Wangchuck framework and is ready to meet with its Nepalese counterparts to hash out the modalities of the agreement, Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering told us on July 13. After rec [...]	2005-07-15 10:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL IN NP BT
05NEWDELHI5593	UTTAR PRADESH GOVERNMENT SHAKY - COULD FALL SHORTLY [...] (C) Summary: In a July 13-15 visit to Uttar Pradesh (UP) Poloff met with a wide variety of interlocutors who speculated that the two year rule of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav would soon come to an end. Pervasive mis-governance and corruption, and a fast-deteriorating law and order sit [...]	2005-07-20 09:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ECON PINR IN
05NEWDELHI5684	INDIAN OBSERVERS: TIME TO TURN UP PRESSURE ON [...] (C) Summary: Non-governmental Nepal-watchers in New Delhi remain pessimistic about the chances for a compromise between King Gyanendra and the Nepalese political parties. Many say that the next 2-3 months will be crucial for a rapprochement, with a strong likelihood that the parties and Maois [...]	2005-07-22 13:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PHUM IN NP
05NEWDELHI5756	INDIA SEEKS US INTERVENTION WITH PAKISTAN ON NEPAL [...] (C) Echoing the GOI appeal last March (reftel),MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar sought the Charge's SIPDIS assistance in conveying to Washington a formal GOI request for US intervention with Pakistan to prevent a possible Pakistan Ordinance Factory delivery of eight million roun [...]	2005-07-26 13:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL PTER IN NP PK
05NEWDELHI5814	INDIA AND NEPAL TO TEST BORDER CONTROLS [...] (SBU) Summary: India and Nepal have agreed to a pilot program to check documents at only one border crossing as an experiment in increasing security along the 1,750 km open border. MEA officials downplayed the significance of the decision with us, pointing out that any substantial control ov [...]	2005-07-27 12:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PGOV PBTS IN NP
05NEWDELHI5874	TRAIN BLAST CAUSED BY RDX, GOI LOSING PATIENCE [...] (C) A blast on a New Delhi-bound train killing at least 13 passengers on July 28 was caused by RDX, police sources told us, noting that the same explosive was found in the possession of the July 5 Ayodhya attackers (Ref B). Director General AK Suri of the Railway Protection Force reported tha [...]	2005-07-29 08:34:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV IN
05NEWDELHI5912	BHUTANESE DRAFT CONSTITUTION: A STEP IN THE RIGHT [...] (C) Summary: The RGOB released a draft constitution on March 26, continuing the process of democratic reform started when the King abdicated power to a council of ministers in 1998. The draft, if approved, would create a constitutional monarchy with a Parliament consisting of an upper and lo [...]	2005-07-29 13:12:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL ECON KDEM KIRF SENV IN NP BT
05NEWDELHI5960	MHA ADDRESSING TERRORISM, WILLING TO CONSIDER [...] (C) Summary: Special Secretary (Home) KP Singh told Charge, Consul General and Poloff on August 1 that recent terrorist attacks in India, while worrisome, represent a return to past levels of higher terrorist activity to which India was accustomed. He identified several new MHA initiatives t [...]	2005-08-02 08:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV ASEC MASS IN PK NP
05NEWDELHI5964	MHA WILLING TO PONDER DEPORTEE DOCUMENTATION FIX [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Ministry of Home Affairs Special Secretary Kanwar Pratap Singh told Charge, Consul General and Poloff on August 1 that MHA would be willing to meet with DHS representatives to explore developing a mechanism to speed up the process of documenting Indian nation [...]	2005-08-02 10:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS PREL KCRM IN US
05NEWDELHI6149	MEA GRASPING FOR A PLAN B IN NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae told PolCouns and Poloff on August 8 that the "window of opportunity" for reconciliation between the Palace and the political parties in Nepal is closing, and MEA is looking for new ways to increase pressure on the King. India was annoyed b [...]	2005-08-08 14:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS KDEM MOPS IN NP
05NEWDELHI6215	MEA PLAYS DOWN BHUTANESE KING'S VISIT [...] (C) Summary: King Wangchuck's August 1-4 visit to New Delhi was part of a routine exchange and did not focus narrowly on an imminent Bhutan-China boundary agreement, according to MEA Joint Secretary (Nepal/Bhutan) Ranjit Rae. Rae said that the border issue was discussed, along with other rout [...]	2005-08-10 12:30:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF ECON IN NP BT CH
05NEWDELHI6311	PUNJAB WORRIED ABOUT DRUGS AND JOBS, NOT TERRORISM [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to media reports warning of a resurgence in Khalistani terrorism in Punjab and northern India, Poloff traveled to Chandigarh August 4-5 to interview government, business, police, civil society and political leaders. They were uniformly unperturbed by reports of mil [...]	2005-08-12 13:47:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM ECON EAGR SNAR ELAB EINV IN PK
05NEWDELHI6340	MEA: TURN UP THE HEAT ON THE LTTE [...] (C) Summary: The GOI was saddened but not surprised by the August 12 assassination of Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar -- apparently by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) -- because he, as a moderate Tamil, was considered the LTTE's second-most important target after P [...]	2005-08-16 13:20:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL MOPS KCRM PGOV ECON IN CE
05NEWDELHI6411	INDIA ALLEGES PAKISTANI AND CHINESE WEAPONS SALES [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-18 13:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS IN PK NP CH
05NEWDELHI6519	NATWAR DECRIES BANGLADESHI DENIAL, QUESTIONS SAARC [...] (C) The Ambassador used an August 23 meeting with Foreign Minister Natwar Singh to probe Indian thinking on next steps in Bangladesh, underling our hope that we will be able to develop the same kind of fluid information exchange and close coordination of diplomatic strategies that characterizes [...]	2005-08-24 13:24:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KDEM IN BG SAARC
05NEWDELHI6594	MEA STICKS WITH TWIN PILLARS, SKEPTICAL ON UN [...] (C) A skeptical MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae told A/DCM on August 26 that the GOI will receive UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi in New Delhi on August 30, but was puzzled by what the UN might expect to accomplish in Nepal. In contrast to reports in Kathmandu and among non-governmental India [...]	2005-08-26 12:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM IN NP CH KS
05NEWDELHI6595	NEW DELHI NEPAL EXPERTS CALL FOR LONG-TERM STRATEGY [...] (SBU) Summary: New Delhi-based Nepal experts representing a wide spectrum of viewpoints agreed that the international community must take a longer-term view of the crisis in Nepal, and argued the US must lead in any recasting of strategy, as New Delhi is handcuffed by conflicting domestic int [...]	2005-08-26 13:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS KDEM PGOV MOPS PBTS IN NP
05NEWDELHI6694	MEA EAGER TO WORK WITH US ON BANGLADESH AND SRI [...] (C) Summary: In an August 31 meeting, new MEA Joint Secretary for Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar Mohan Kumar SIPDIS agreed to the need for greater information sharing and policy coordination between GOI and USG on Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Stressing that Bangladesh is "India's most impo [...]	2005-08-31 14:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV MOPS PBTS ECON IN BD PK SA
05NEWDELHI6803	NEW DELHI 2005 POLITICAL REPORTING OFFICERS' [...] (U) As previewed in recent e-mails to addressee posts, Embassy New Delhi is pleased to host the second annual Political Reporting Officers' Conference, September 29, 2005 in New Delhi. The event, for which we hope to attract participation from both India constituent posts and India's neighbors [...]	2005-09-02 14:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV APER ASEC ECON ETRD IN ABUD AMGT US
05NEWDELHI6847	INDIAN MINISTER: NEPAL'S KING UNREPENTANT, BUT GOI [...] (C) Summary: Indian Minister Jaipal Reddy told us that Nepal's King Gyanendra was unrepentant in a discussion at the August 29 SAARC information ministers' meeting. The King is hoping India will blink, but it will not, Reddy said. In the meantime, he argued, the Maoists are gaining ground an [...]	2005-09-06 15:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV IN NP
05NEWDELHI6903	BHUTAN FEARS MAOISTS IN REFUGEE CAMPS [...] (C) Summary: Bhutanese MFA officials expressed concern over Maoist intrusions into refugee camps in Nepal and indicated the government's main priority is keeping radical elements out of Bhutan during August 24-25 meetings with Poloff and Econoff in Thimphu. The MFA reiterated the Royal Govern [...]	2005-09-07 12:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV PHUM IN NP BT
05NEWDELHI6994	INDIA-EU,UK SUMMITS: THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY [...] (U) Summary: Tony Blair wrapped up two days of EU and UK summits on September 8, leaving behind an EU-India joint action plan, British and European support for Indian ITER participation, a framework agreement on Galileo, and UK assent to increased civil nuclear cooperation. Trade representatives [...]	2005-09-09 14:40:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EINV KPKO KDEM KNNP PHUM IN UK EU IR GM
05NEWDELHI7092	GOI MORE PESSIMISTIC THAN EVER ON NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae was less optimistic than ever that King Gyanendra would take steps to resolve the deteriorating political stalemate in Nepal. He told A/DCM and Poloff on September 12 that all Indian observers believe the King is in "self-destruct mode," an [...]	2005-09-13 10:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PBTS MOPS MASS ECON IN NP
05NEWDELHI7100	SCENE-SETTER FOR MEETINGS WITH MANMOHAN SINGH & NATWAR SINGH IN NEW YORK [...] (C) Summary: Madame Secretary, your meetings this week with (we hope) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Foreign Minister Natwar Singh provide an occasion to sketch the real challenges we face in implementing legislative actions necessary for us to fulfill the civil nuclear vision of the July 18 Jo [...]	2005-09-13 12:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN
05NEWDELHI7159	ECONOMIC INTERVIEWS IN BHUTAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Econoff traveled to Bhutan in late August to interview several Ministry officials at the working level and to establish additional contacts with non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The three day visit, which included over 15 meetings around Thimphu, resulted in a number o [...]	2005-09-14 12:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD IN BT
05NEWDELHI7197	BLAIR SUPPORTS INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION AND [...] (C) Summary: In a briefing on the September 7-8 India-EU Summit, British High Commissioner Sir Michael Arthur emphasized the UK's support for civil nuclear cooperation with India, the success of the UK's effort to play up its European personality during this visit, and the excellent personal [...]	2005-09-15 09:38:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EINV EAID KDEM KNNP PHUM IN UK EU IR GM NSSP
05NEWDELHI7241	EDUCATION IN A HIMALAYAN KINGDOM: ANOTHER FACET OF [...] (U) Summary: During Poloff's August 22-25 visit to Bhutan, our interlocutors insisted that Bhutan is committed to educating its children by providing free schooling for all. Primary school enrollment stands at 87.8 percent. The government's decision in the 1950s to use English as the medium [...]	2005-09-16 09:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF SCUL PHUM IN BT
05NEWDELHI73	LODI GYARI INFORMS INDIA OF PLANS FOR TIBETAN [...] (C) On January 3, the Dalai Lama's Special Representative Lodi Gyari told Ambassador Mulford that he had briefed MEA Joint Secretary (East Asia) Ashok Kantha that same day on Dharamsala's intention to relocate 10,000 Tibetan refugees from India and Nepal to the US. He emphasized that he had [...]	2005-01-04 13:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM IN CH NP
05NEWDELHI7505	NEPALESE MAOISTS STILL TOP CONCERN FOR GOI [...] (C) Summary: The GOI still sees the Maoists as its chief concern in the ongoing crisis in Nepal, MEA told us on September 27. However, the GOI believes the cease-fire could be a sign of progress toward an ultimate political solution, if the Maoists prove sincere in their professed commitment [...]	2005-09-27 08:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS KDEM IN NP PK CH
05NEWDELHI757	STRATEGIC DIALOGUE WITH CHINA JUST THE BEGINNING, [...] (C) Summary: "If China had proposed a strategic dialogue a few years ago, we would have been wary," MEA Joint Secretary (East Asia) told PolCouns and Poloff on January 31, SIPDIS adding that the PRC now seems willing to engage with India on issues of global importance. Echoing Foreign Secr [...]	2005-01-31 13:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN CH
05NEWDELHI7767	SECOND ANNUAL SOUTH ASIA POLITICAL REPORTING [...] (U) Summary: The September 29 South Asia Political Reporting Officers' Conference in New Delhi brought together almost 50 officers and FSNs from Indian consulates, South Asian countries, the broader region and Washington to discuss recent developments. Participants discussed the July 18 Indo [...]	2005-10-05 13:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER BD PK NP IN
05NEWDELHI7777	HOME SECRETARY UPBEAT ABOUT DECLINE IN TERRORISM, [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST FOR S/CT IN PARA 8. 2. (C) Summary: In an October 3 meeting with the Ambassador following an MLAT signing ceremony, Home Secretary VK Duggal was moderately upbeat over the security situation in Kashmir, noting that the situation was calm enough for the valley to welcome [...]	2005-10-06 08:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PTER CASC CJAN IN PK NP GOI
05NEWDELHI7795	DNSA NAMBIAR TO AMB CROCKER: PAKISTANI GLASS HALF [...] (S) Summary: Playing bad cop, Deputy National Security Advisor Vijay Nambiar gave visiting US Ambassador to Pakistan a twenty minute assessment of Pakistani terrorists' ties to regional and global jehadi groups as a way of "balancing Musharraf's rhetoric." Bangladesh, he feared, was the new hub for [...]	2005-10-06 11:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV PBTS ECON MOPS PK IN INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI7803	HOME SECRETARY OPTIMISTIC ON PAKISTANI TIES, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Reviewing India-Pakistan relations for visiting US Ambassador to Islamabad Ryan Crocker, Home Secretary VK Duggal observed on October 4 that Indo-Pak SIPDIS relations are generally "on the upswing," but lamented the lack of concrete evidence of a change of Pakistani intentions [...]	2005-10-07 05:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV IN PK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI792	INDIA RESPONDS QUICKLY TO NEPAL KING'S ACTIONS; [...] (S) Summary: Expressing "grave concern" over the King's decision to dissolve the multiparty government in Nepal, and calling the action "a serious setback to the cause of democracy," New Delhi responded swiftly and with unusual firmness to the February 1 developments in Kathmandu. In a statem [...]	2005-02-01 11:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MASS EAID PREF ASEC IN NP
05NEWDELHI8247	NEPAL, AFGHANISTAN, AND IRANIAN TERRORISM: FOREIGN [...] This message contains an ACTION REQUEST for SA. Please see para 11. 2. (C) Summary: Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran and his regional Joint Secretaries told visiting U/S for Political Affairs Nick Burns on October 22 that the GOI would announce that day the opening of several points along t [...]	2005-10-24 12:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS EAID ENRG PHUM IN NP AF PK CH CE BM TH
05NEWDELHI825	NEPAL SITUATION "WORST CASE SCENARIO" FOR INDIA [...] (C) Summary: King Gyanendra's decision to dissolve the government is a "worst case scenario," driving the Maoists and the political parties together, undermining the monarchy, and muzzling politicians rather than the Maoists, MEA Joint Secretary (Nepal and Bhutan) Ranjit Rae told PolCouns and [...]	2005-02-02 12:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MASS EAID PREF ASEC IN NP
05NEWDELHI826	REACTING TO NEPAL, INDIA WILL NOT ATTEND THE SAARC SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: The MEA announced on February 2 that India will not attend the SAARC Summit scheduled for February 6-7 in Dhaka. Both publicly and privately, GOI officials cited both King Gyanendra's actions in Nepal on February 1, and the security situation in Dhaka following the violence of J [...]	2005-02-02 12:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IN BG PK NP SAARC
05NEWDELHI8397	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY SNOW'S VISIT TO INDIA [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, I want to warmly welcome you to India, a vibrant, diverse, multi-ethnic, multifaceted democracy -- much like our own in important respects -- that is emerging as an economic powerhouse and has growing global ambitions. Your visit will help set the stage for President Bush's [...]	2005-10-28 13:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON BEXP PGOV PREL IN US
05NEWDELHI858	EXPLAINING INDIA'S ANGER OVER DEVELOPMENTS IN NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: New Delhi's surprisingly angry reaction to developments in Nepal underlines the serious mid to long-term implications the GOI believes King Gyanendra's actions will have on Nepal, India, and the GOI's larger foreign policy objectives. From New Delhi's perspective, the King has s [...]	2005-02-03 12:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MASS EAID PREF ASEC IN NP CH
05NEWDELHI859	GOI REWARDS BHUTANESE KING AS GUEST OF HONOR AT [...] (C) Summary: The Government of India (GOI) rewarded Bhutanese King Jigme Singye Wangchuck for conducting military operations in December of 2003 against Indian militants hiding out in Southern Bhutan by making him the guest of honor at Republic Day. During the King's January 24-28 visit, th [...]	2005-02-03 12:24:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM IN NP BT UNHCR
05NEWDELHI8749	OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: GOI PROPOSES US OBSERVER STATUS AT SAARC [...] (U) For SA: SEE ACTION REQUEST PARA 8. 2. (C) Summary: In a surprise development, the GOI has told us that it would welcome US participation as an Observer to SAARC. At a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit briefing on November 16, MEA Joint Secretary (SAARC) P.K. [...]	2005-11-17 13:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ECIN AORC BG SL NP PK ML BU IN SAARC
05NEWDELHI8750	FS SARAN GIVES AMBASSADOR MORIARTY READOUT OF [...] Summary (C) In a 16 November meeting, Indian Foreign Secretary Saran and visiting Ambassador Moriarty discussed SIPDIS the worrying political climate in Nepal. The Ambassador described options for increasing pressure on the King to reach out to Nepalese political parties to counter growing [...]	2005-11-17 13:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV MOPS ECON IN

05NEWDELHI8845	INDIA DOUBTS NEPALESE MAOIST/POLITICAL PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Recent press reports of a breakthrough between Nepalese Maoists and political parties are not true, outgoing MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae insisted on November 22, acknowledging nonetheless that the two sides have met in Delhi to discuss a solution to the ongoing crisis. [...]	2005-11-22 15:34:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV MOPS ECON IN NP
05NEWDELHI8893	INDIAN REPORTS BREAKTHROUGH IN BHUTAN/NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: The agreement reached in Dhaka between the RGOB and GON to restart the Joint Verification Process and allow for the return of Category 1 and 4 refugees from the Khudunabari refugee camp was a significant and positive step, outgoing MEA Joint Secretary (North) Ranjit Rae told PolCou [...]	2005-11-23 13:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM PTER IN NP BT
05NEWDELHI9029	RGOB: NEED CATEGORY 1 AND 4 REPATRIATION AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Bhutan is ready to accept category 1 and 4 refugees from the Khudunabari camp, but needs Nepal to agree to the proposal in writing, which Nepal seems unwilling to do, Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering stated in a December 1 meeting with PolCouns and PolOff. The Ambassador reported t [...]	2005-11-30 11:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PTER PHUM IN BT NP
05NEWDELHI909	INDIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN 2005 [...] (S) Summary: With political momentum in its favor, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) expects to solidify its hold on power in 2005. The Congress-led coalition's pursuit of closer US-India ties will continue unabated, but the exigencies of coalition government will slow progress on issues of i [...]	2005-02-04 11:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EAID MARR MOPS KPKO XD IN
05NEWDELHI9164	FS SARAN CALLS FOR ENHANCED BHUTAN TIES [...] (C) Summary: India and Bhutan have a vital stake in each other's well-being and greater economic, security and cultural ties will benefit both countries, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran argued during an unusual December 3 seminar focused on Bhutan. Underlining the growing GOI concern about con [...]	2005-12-05 14:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGREL PBTS ECIN ETRD PREF PTER PGOV IN BT NP
05NEWDELHI922	INDIA SUSPENDS MILITARY PIPELINE TO NEPAL, WORRIES [...] (C) With NSA Narayanan unavailable until February 7, the Ambassador used a February 4 meeting with Foreign Secretary Saran to convey reftel points detailing our goals and strategy in Nepal. He also addressed these issues in broad brush during a pull aside with Foreign Minister Natwar Singh. [...]	2005-02-04 13:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID MASS NP IN RS
05NEWDELHI9245	INDIA FACES GROWING NAXALITE MENACE [...] (C) Summary: Despite India's rapidly expanding economy, Naxalite groups in poor rural areas and their educated urban sympathizers continue to spread and have extended their areas of influence into 12 states, proving they can launch spectacular attacks on government facilities. The GOI has respon [...]	2005-12-08 08:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PHUM PTER KCRM ASEC SCUL IN NP
05NEWDELHI9319	INDIA SEEKS TO PROTECT CITIZENS, SECURE ENERGY INTERESTS IN MIDDLE EAST (C-NE5-00945) [...] (C) Summary: While India has major interests in the Middle East (energy, trade, expatriate workers, and religious ties),it has historically had lackluster relations in the area. GOI attention focuses on a few nations of particular importance to those interests, primarily Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq [...]	2005-12-12 01:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG EPET PTER PINR IN BA IR IS IZ QA MU AE XF
05NEWDELHI9393	URGENT REQUEST FOR RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW DELHI [...] This is an ACTION REQUEST for NEA/SA/EX and HR/RMA. Please see paragraph 6. 2. Summary: Embassy New Delhi respectfully requests that the DRI position (10504002 vice Nair) in our Political Section be immediately re-established and filled for 2006- 2008. Our workload has skyrocketed as US- [...]	2005-12-14 09:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	APER AMGT PREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KDEM BT IN US
05NEWDELHI9484	SARAN: NEPAL'S KING PROMISES OUTREACH TO PARTIES [...] (C) Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran told the Ambassador on December 15 that Nepal's King Gyanendra committed to "some initiative with the political parties" during his December 13 audience in Kathmandu. The monarch accepted Saran's argument that he was isolating himself and contributing to the [...]	2005-12-16 12:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS IN NP
05NEWDELHI9485	INDIA: 2005 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Below is Post's submission for the 2005 Country Reports on Terrorism: Begin text: India remains an important and vigorous ally in the global war on terror. India's law enforcement, paramilitary and armed forces neutralized over 1,500 terrorists in 2005, according to a leading indepen [...]	2005-12-16 12:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO MASS PGOV PHUM
05NEWDELHI9750	GOI TURNING PESSIMISTS ON NEPAL [...] (C) Summary. GOI officials told us on December 27 that developments in Kathmandu since Foreign Secretary Saran's early December visit have made them less hopeful of a resolution any time soon to the continued political stalemate in Nepal. Hardening of the positions of both the Palace and th [...]	2005-12-27 12:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PTER MASS IN NP CH
05NEWDELHI9751	INDIA READY TO PUSH HARDER ON BHUTAN REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary: The GOI is ready to take a more proactive role in prodding Bhutan to resolve the long-running refugee problem, an MEA official told A/DCM and Poloff on December 27. Bhutan's King had previously informed New Delhi of his plan to abdicate in 2008 following elections, and India is [...]	2005-12-27 12:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF KDEM PGOV ENRG IN BT
05NEWDELHI9752	GOI NON-PAPER ON LINKAGES AMONG TERRORIST GROUPS [...] (S) MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan/Afghanistan/Iran) Dilip Sinha in a December 27 meeting passed to Acting DCM a 10-page non-paper on connections among various terrorist groups, entitled "Inter-Group Linkages". The terrorist groups addressed in the non-paper include the following: al-Qaida an [...]	2005-12-27 12:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PTER PREL PGOV EFIN PINR SNAR IN PK BG AF
05NEWDELHI9754	TIBETANS IN INDIA BRIEF VISITING STAFFDEL SZYMANSKI [...] (U) Summary: Members of the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, including the chief executive of the Central Tibetan Authority and the Dalai Lama, told visiting professional staff of the House Small Business Committee during a December 11-12 visit that although human rights conditions [...]	2005-12-28 05:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KDEM PREF IN CH
05NEWDELHI9761	THE BJP ATTACKS UPA FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The BJP leadership, meeting in Mumbai on December 26-27, continued its twisting foreign policy trajectory, issuing a public statement on ""The UPA's Mismanagement of our Foreign Policy,"" that was so shrilly critical of Congress initiatives that it drew a public rebuke from former Pr [...]	2005-12-28 09:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN
05NEWDELHI997	NEW NSA SIGNALS COMMITMENT TO US-INDIA [...] (C) Summary: In his first meeting with the Ambassador since his elevation as National Security Adviser, MK Narayanan identified progress in US-India relations as one of the three or four top priorities that the PM has tasked him to focus upon. Although Narayanan was uninformed about Phase 2 o [...]	2005-02-08 12:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC PTER BG NP IN PK US
05OTTAWA3454	CANADA'S DELEGATION TO THE DECEMBER 4-5 KABUL [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-21 21:54:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PREL ECON KPWR PGOV AF CA
05OTTAWA641	U.S.-CANADA CONSULTATIONS IN PREPARATION FOR THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The U.S. and Canada held consultations on February 14 in Ottawa in preparation for the upcoming session of the CHR. Both sides agreed that engaging Mexico before the CHR in a tri-lateral meeting would be important, particularly if Mexico goes forward with an initiative that coul [...]	2005-03-01 19:13:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV CA CHR
05PARIS349	FRANCE 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Investment Climate Statement Contents A. French Investment Regime A1. Openness to Foreign Investment A2. Conversion and Transfer Policies A3. Expropriation and Compensation A4. Dispute Settlement A5. Performance Requirements and Incentives A6. Right to Private Ownership and Establis [...]	2005-01-19 15:07:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ELAB PGOV KTDB FR OPIC USTR
05PARIS7308	PARIS CLUB - OCTOBER 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) At the October 2005 Paris Club meeting, creditors reached agreement with Nigeria on a comprehensive treatment to eliminate Nigeria's approximate $30 billion debt in exchange for cash payments totaling $12.6 billion ($12.4 billion in the deal itself, and $200 million upfront to meet a prec [...]	2005-10-26 08:55:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
05RANGOON1199	SOUTH ASIAN VIEWS ON BURMA: ENGAGE THE GENERALS [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime has generally looked North and East (China and ASEAN) for its foreign political relationships and to China and Thailand for its primary economic ties to the outside world. India's two-year old policy of sustained engagement with the current SPDC regime, howeve [...]	2005-10-21 09:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BM IN PK CE NP BG
05ROME1142	FAO'S AVIAN INFLUENZA ACTIVITIES [...] Summary. USUN Rome has been holding informal meetings with technical experts of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to ascertain FAO's activities to contain Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). Since January 2004 when the outbreaks first occurred, FAO and its [...]	2005-04-05 08:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREF SENV XC UN FAO
05ROME715	WFP EMERGENCY NEEDS ASSESSMENT UPDATE [...] Summary. At its third regular Executive Board session in October 2004, WFP presented an update on actions already taken and activities to be implemented in a 30-month timeframe that will enable it to strengthen "its competencies and capacities to ensure the quality, credibility, comparability [...]	2005-03-03 13:59:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREF AORC WFP
05ROME917	UNCHR 61: ITALIAN RESPONSES [...] (C) Laborcouns met 3/17 with Carlo Campanile, Director of the MFA's Human Rights Office, to deliver reftel points. Italy remains supportive of almost all U.S. positions on pending UNCHR resolutions but will continue to work primarily within the EU framework. Specific Italian concerns include [...]	2005-03-17 15:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IT UNHRC
05TELAVIV6923	UNDOF COMMANDER REPORTS LIMITED RESOURCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Major-General Bala Nanda Sharma of Nepal, United Nations Disengagement Observor Force (UNDOF) Commander, told the Ambassador December 12 that UNDOF has "no money, no manpower, and no resources" with which to employ new technologies or to expand its mission. Sharma reported th [...]	2005-12-14 15:32:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS SY LE EG JO PGOV GOI EXTERNAL
05THESSALONIKI7	NORTHERN NOTES JANUARY 2005 [...] (U) In a case that marks the first reported sentence handed down under Greece's 2002 Anti-trafficking law, a Kavala court convicted a 40-year-old trafficker, Petros Kokkalidis, to 12 years and 10 months of imprisonment and fined him 52,625 Euros. [Note: The anti-TIP legislation came into forc [...]	2005-02-03 17:03:00	Consulate Thessaloniki	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM ECON SMIG ZL GR AMB
05VATICAN444	INDIA: JESUITS SEE RISING HINDU FUNDAMENTALISM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Father Lisbert D'Souza, South Asia Regional Director at the Jesuit Curia in Rome said February 16 that recent attacks against Christians in India were motivated by increasing Hindu fundamentalism. D'Souza distinguished between simple banditry and religiously motivated attacks, and [...]	2005-02-24 10:51:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	VT IN KIRF PGOV
05VILNIUS530	LITHUANIA'S MFA WARY OF PROPOSED ARMS SALE TO NEPAL [...] This is a short-fuse action request; see para 6. We need input from Washington and Katmandu by OOB May 24. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Kestutis Jankauskas, Director of the MFA'a Security Policy Department, notified us on May 18 of an application of a Lithuanian company for a license to export ammuni [...]	2005-05-23 09:24:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP KSTC PARM PGOV PTER PINR LH NP
05VILNIUS648	LITHUANIAN MFA OPPOSES ARMS SALE TO NEPAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lithuania's MFA will oppose the approval of a license for JSC Manubaltas to export ammunition manufacturing equipment to the Kingdom of Nepal at the GOL's next inter-agency meeting on this issue. The GOL had consulted with the USG on this sale, pursuant to its Wassenaar commitme [...]	2005-06-21 12:43:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PARM LH NP
06ABUDHABI2809	RE: TIP/UNITED ARAB EMIRATES ACTION PLAN [...] (C) Summary: On June 26, PolOff delivered the trafficking in persons (TIP) action plan (ref A) to the head of the UAE National Anti-Trafficking Committee, Sultan bin Saeed Al-Badi, Undersecretary at the Ministry of Justice. Al-Badi acknowledged UAE trafficking problems but was concerned about [...]	2006-07-09 13:11:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB PGOV AE
06ABUDHABI3166	FAREWELL CALL BY NEPAL CHARGE, NESA ALUMNUS, [...] (C) Nepal Charge d,Affaires Madhuban Prasad Paudel paid a farewell call on CDA August 1 and said he would be assuming his new position as MFA Director of South Asian Affairs in Kathmandu later this month, having turned down the Director of Protocol job. Mr. Paudel said he had served formerly [...]	2006-08-05 12:17:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL NP AE
06ABUDHABI3204	UAE CENSUS RESULTS FINALLY RELEASED [...] (C) Summary: On July 30, the UAEG finally released results of a census conducted months earlier. Minister of Economy Sheikha Lubna Al-Qasimi reported that as of December 6, 2005 the UAE's population was 4.1 million, up from 2.4 million in 1995. UAE nationals account for just over 20 percent [...]	2006-08-08 11:35:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI ECON PREL AE
06ABUDHABI4321	TIP: INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR NEA SPECIAL WATCHLIST-UAE [...] (U) Summary: Since the release of the June 2006 TIP Report, the UAEG has made steady progress in addressing the problem of trafficking in the UAE, especially with regard to women in the sex trade and laborers working in servitude. The answers in paragraphs 2-7 below are keyed to the six questi [...]	2006-11-21 11:53:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG AE
06ABUDHABI4322	TIP: INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR NEA SPECIAL [...] (U) Summary: Since the release of the June 2006 TIP Report, the UAEG has made steady progress in addressing the problem of trafficking in the UAE, especially with regard to women in the sex trade and laborers working in servitude. The answers in paragraphs 2-7 below are keyed to the six questi [...]	2006-11-21 12:31:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG AE
06AMMAN1691	JORDAN'S SIXTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) Embassy point of contact on trafficking in persons is political officer Jonathan Peccia (grade 4),phone number 202-536-4173, ext. 6597 or 962-6-590-6597, fax number 962-6-592-0159. Officer spent approximately 40 hours preparing the report. Pol FSN spent 16 hours preparing the report. [...]	2006-03-07 15:22:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB JO
06BANGKOK1286	RTG ADVANCES ON HILL TRIBES CITIZENSHIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On January 2, 2006, the RTG granted Thai citizenship or permanent residency to nearly 14,000 individuals. Members of hill tribes accounted for 6,678 of this number. This action is part of the MOI,s effort to clear the backlog of thousands of applications, and accelerate the a [...]	2006-03-02 07:32:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV TH
06BANGKOK7429	UNHCR REGIONAL RESETTLEMENT STRATEGIC PLANNING [...] Terry Rusch, PRM Refugee Admissions Director, Mike Honnold, Bangkok Regional Refugee Coordinator and Jessica Adler, Deputy Regional Refugee Coordinator participated in the December 7 - 8 Regional Resettlement Strategic Planning Meeting organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refu [...]	2006-12-15 03:52:00	Embassy Bangkok	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF
06BEIJING13004	PRC/NEPAL: BEIJING ASSESSING HOW TO ENGAGE WITH [...] (C) Summary: The eight-point agreement between the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and the Maoists in Nepal could be a turning point in the peace negotiations between the two sides, a Chinese MFA official said. The SPA and the new government are aware that if they do not solve the Maoist question, [...]	2006-06-20 06:59:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP CE CH
06BEIJING13795	AMBASSADOR RAISES BURMA WITH VFM WU DAWEI [...] (C) China does not want to see its differences with the USG over Burma exposed at the UN, Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei stated when the Ambassador expressed USG concerns over Burma and urged China to support, or at least not block, a UN Security Council resolution on the situation in that co [...]	2006-06-28 11:16:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SNAR UNSC CH BM NP
06BEIJING16162	CHINESE TELL BOUCHER STABILITY, SECURITY AND GOOD [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials, academics, and oil industry professionals told Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard A. Boucher during his July 30 ? August 2 visit to China that stability and security are China's foreign policy goals in the Central and Sou [...]	2006-08-07 08:07:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV XD XK CH
06BEIJING16165	WU DAWEI AND BOUCHER TALK NEPAL AND (NO) [...] (C) Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei told Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher the purpose of Wu's visit to SIPDIS Nepal was to show China's support for Nepal's new government. China believes the United Nations can play a positive role in the process of stabilizing Nepal's political situation [...]	2006-08-07 08:14:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH XD
06BEIJING1773	CHINA/INDIA: INDIAN EMBASSY READOUT ON FOREIGN [...] (C) India and China maintain different positions on Iran and Nepal, according to Indian Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Vinay Kwatra. Providing a readout on Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran's January 9-11 visit to Beijing and in follow-on discussion, Kwatra noted India's continued opposit [...]	2006-01-27 08:50:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CH IN NP IR
06BEIJING1992	(CORRECTED COPY) CHINA/INDIA: DIFFERENCES ON IRAN, [...] (C) India and China maintain different positions on Iran and Nepal, according to Indian Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Vinay Kwatra. In a readout to Acting Polmincouns on Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran's visit to Beijing and in follow-on discussion, Kwatra noted India's continued oppos [...]	2006-02-06 06:58:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CH IN NP IR
06BEIJING20223	DDG LUO ON CHINA-SOUTH ASIA DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: China remains concerned about instability in Nepal, MFA Asia Department Deputy Director General Luo Zhaohui told Polmincouns in a September 22 discussion of China-South Asia issues. China continues to avoid contact with the Maoists in Nepal and wonders what role the UN could play [...]	2006-09-22 12:08:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR XD AF NP IN PK CH
06BEIJING21638	AMBASSADOR RAISES REPORTED SHOOTINGS OF TIBETANS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador expressed to Vice Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi the United States' deep concern about reports that Tibetans crossing into Nepal were fired upon on September 30 by a Chinese border patrol. Reports indicate a Tibetan nun and perhaps one other Tibetan were shot and ki [...]	2006-10-12 10:19:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF CH
06BEIJING21641	OCTOBER 12 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK NUCLEAR TEST; [...] Key Points made at the October 12 Press Briefing were: -- The DPRK must not further worsen the Korean peninsula nuclear situation. -- Six-Party Talks remain the best method for resolving the crisis, however direct dialogue between the United States and DPRK would help narrow differences. [...]	2006-10-12 11:36:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM CH KN KS NP
06BEIJING21987	OCTOBER 17 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: UNSCR 1718; [...] Key Points made at the October 17 Press Briefing were: -- China will implement UNSCR 1718 seriously and in a responsible manner. -- Regarding reports that China is controlling truck traffic from China to North Korea and that banks in Dandong are restricting transfers of money into North K [...]	2006-10-17 10:01:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM CH KN
06BEIJING22983	OCTOBER 31 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK, CHINA-AFRICA [...] Key Points made at the October 31 Press Briefing were: -- Japan's demand that North Korea not rejoin the Six-Party Talks as a nuclear power can be handled within the framework of the Talks. -- There has been no change in China's policy regarding the normal trade relations with the DPRK. [...]	2006-10-31 10:54:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM CH PK KN
06BEIJING23549	CHINA/CENTRAL ASIA - URUMQI HIGH LEVEL FORUM [...] (SBU) Summary: At the fourth session of the Central, West and South Asia Regional Economic Cooperation High- Level Forum held in Urumqi, Xinjiang on September 2, 2006, participants effused about the future of regional cooperation and economic integration. The Executive Director of the Sunbr [...]	2006-11-06 23:20:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN ETRD PREL PTER EFIN CH ZK RS TU PK
06BEIJING23849	PRC/INDIA: DESPITE CHINA'S AMBASSADOR'S PRESS [...] (C) China and India are working closely together to ensure that Preident Hu Jintao's November 20 ) 23 trip to India is a success, according to a Chinese MFA official and an Indian Embassy officer. In separae meetings, both officers confirmed that recent press statements made by China's Ambass [...]	2006-11-17 10:06:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN PK CH
06BEIJING24199	PRC/INDIA: PRESIDENT HU JINTAO'S STATE VISIT TO [...] (C) Chinese President Hu Jintao's November 20)23 visit to India strengthened the "mutual political trust" and "strategic cooperation" between Beijing and New Delhi, according to MFA officials and third country diplomats. The Summit between President Hu and Indian Prime Minister Singh resulted [...]	2006-11-30 10:39:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN CH
06BEIJING24495	HUMAN RIGHTS: MFA OFFICIAL TOUTS JUDICIAL PROCESS [...] (C) MFA Human Rights official Xu Jing touted the Chinese Government's handling of Chen Guangcheng's retrial (reftel) during a December 8 meeting, claiming that "it shows China is governed by the rule of law." Xu told poloff she would inquire about the Chinese Government's investigation into th [...]	2006-12-13 12:15:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV CH
06BEIJING2778	PRC/NEPAL: TANG JIAXUN POSTPONES TRIP AFTER [...] (C) Summary. State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan has postponed his trip to Nepal originally scheduled for later this week, according to MFA Director for India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan Huang Xilian. China views King Gyanendra as "only one of the important forces" that could bring peace and stabilit [...]	2006-02-15 10:43:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER NP CH
06BEIJING3851	PRC/NEPAL: MFA OFFICIAL DOES NOT DENY THAT PRC IS [...] (C) MFA Director for India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan Huang Xilian did not deny that Beijing is pressuring King Gyanendra to seek reconciliation with Nepal's political parties. In a March 2 meeting, Huang stressed that the PRC is reaching out to all the "constitutional forces" in Nepal, inc [...]	2006-03-02 11:23:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP CH
06BEIJING4361	PRC/NEPAL: TANG JIAXUAN RESCHEDULES TRIP TO NEPAL, [...] (C) State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan has rescheduled his trip to Nepal and will go March 16-18 (as reported Ref A),though the trip has yet to be officially announced by the PRC. MFA Asian Department Division Director for India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan Huang Xilian told Poloffs March 8 that Ta [...]	2006-03-08 05:17:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP CE CH
06BEIJING4362	PRC RAISES QUESTIONS IN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON [...] (C) China welcomes the development of U.S.-India relations, believing that better relations between big powers will contribute to world stability, stated MFA Director for India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan Huang Xilian. In response to reftel points delivered March 8, he reiterated China's pos [...]	2006-03-08 05:22:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN CH
06BEIJING4479	MARCH 9 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT, [...] Key points made at the March 9 MFA press briefing are as follows: - The State Department's 2005 Human Rights Report turned a blind eye to the basic facts and made irresponsible remarks regarding the status of human rights in China. - China hopes Iran will fully cooperate with the IAEA a [...]	2006-03-09 10:27:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PARM CH JP IR KN
06BEIJING5223	MARCH 21 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CONGRESSIONAL VISIT, [...] Key points made at the March 21 MFA press briefing are as follows: - During a March 21 meeting with U.S. Senators Graham, Schumer and Coburn, Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing emphasized that the two countries should view bilateral relations from a strategic perspective and properly resolve dis [...]	2006-03-21 11:03:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON PHUM PARM CH IR
06BEIJING5355	PRC/NEPAL: AFTER TANG'S VISIT, PRC READY TO WORK [...] (C) China is interested in taking a more active role in working with the United States to encourage reconciliation talks between the King and Nepal's political parties, according to MFA Asia Department Deputy Director General Luo Zhaohui. In a March 21 meeting with visiting U.S. Ambassador to [...]	2006-03-23 14:19:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP CE CH
06BEIJING7692	PRC/NEPAL: BEIJING CONCERNED SITUATION MAY [...] (C) Beijing is worried that the situation in Nepal is deteriorating, and believes that civil war is "an immediate possibility," Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei told the CDA April 24. After requesting the meeting to share PRC concerns over the deteriorating situation in Nepal and ask for U.S. v [...]	2006-04-24 22:56:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP CE CH
06BEIJING7837	APRIL 25 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: HU VISIT, NEPAL, [...] Key points made at the regular April 25 MFA press briefing are as follows: - The United States apologized for the Falungong incident but has to answer for the lapse in security. Washington should take firmer steps to stop FLG activities. - The MFA spokesman said he had no specifics on th [...]	2006-04-25 12:16:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PARM PTER KNNP CH
06BEIJING7838	PRC/NEPAL: CHINA ENCOURAGED BY KING'S SPEECH BUT [...] (C) China has already issued a statement of support for the agreement reached by the King and the Seven-Party Alliance to restore order and stability to Nepal, according to MFA Asian Department Division Director for India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan Huang Xilian. In an April 25 meeting, Huan [...]	2006-04-25 13:00:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP CE CH
06BEIJING8027	AFM HE YAFEI DISCUSSES IRAN, NEPAL, HUMAN RIGHTS, [...] (C) Assistant Foreign Minister He Yafei told the CDA that Beijing welcomes the May 9 New York meeting of P-5 plus one Foreign Ministers and appreciates close consultation with the United States on Nepal. Raising the apparent detention of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, the CDA pointed ou [...]	2006-04-27 11:41:00	Embassy Beijing	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PHUM PGOV CH
06BEIJING8028	APRIL 27 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: IRANIAN NUCLEAR [...] Key points made at the April 27 MFA press briefing are as follows: - China is awaiting IAEA Director General ElBaradei's upcoming report on Iran and expects the report to provide a comprehensive and objective assessment. - China firmly opposes Taiwan political figures conducting activiti [...]	2006-04-27 11:43:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PARM PTER KNNP CH IR TW
06BEIJING8836	PACOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL FALLON'S DIALOGUE WITH [...] (C) Pacific Command Commander Admiral Fallon stressed the importance of transparency and engagement between militaries in the Asia-Pacific region during a May 10 discussion with Chinese academics hosted by the Ambassador. Admiral Fallon reviewed U.S. commitments and responsibilities in the ar [...]	2006-05-12 01:35:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS CH TW KN JP
06BRUSSELS3278	DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELA'S ARMS [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-29 04:58:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PARM PREL VE BE
06BRUSSELS491	FOLLOW-UP ON BHUTANESE REFUGEE DEMARCHE TO EC [...] (SBU) PRM Assistant received feedback from the European Commission, DG RELEX India/Bhutan/Nepal Desk Officer, Rensje Teerink, on the February 2 courtesy visit between the Benita Ferrero-Walder, Commissioner for External Affairs, and Bhutan's Foreign Minister, Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk which was p [...]	2006-02-13 14:52:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	BT IN NP PREF EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS791	LEVERAGING EU ASSISTANCE FOR US FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Bush's historic visit to Brussels in February 2005 has been followed by increased US-European cooperation on a range of political and security issues. An important component of that cooperation is greater synergy between US and EU approaches to development and humani [...]	2006-03-08 10:55:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON KDEM PREF PREL KMCA EUN UN USEU BRUSSELS
06CALCUTTA137	BIHAR GOVERNMENT STRUGGLES TO ERADICATE POLIO AND FACES [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 23 CG had introductory meetings with recently elected Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his senior officials to discuss the new state government's economic development, public health and security initiatives. Kumar and other contacts expressed a strong interest in [...]	2006-04-03 10:02:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON SOCI ASEC KHIV IN
06CALCUTTA173	INDIAN HIMALAYAN STATE SIKKIM SLOWLY OPENING FOR TRADE AND [...] (SBU)Summary: From April 13-19 CG visited the Himalayan state of Sikkim to assess its political, social and economic issues. An independent kingdom until its annexation by India in 1975, Sikkim offers an interesting contrast to its neighbors, Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet, with which it shares many [...]	2006-04-28 11:25:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON SENV SOCI ETRD IN CH
06CALCUTTA349	UNITED LIBERATION FRONT OF ASOM CONDUCTS DEADLY EXPLOSIVE [...] (SBU) In the run-up to India's August 15 Independence Day celebrations, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) conducted two deadly explosive attacks in the Northeast Indian state of Assam. On August 11, six policemen were killed when a landmine exploded under a police convey conducting [...]	2006-08-14 12:36:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINR ASEC CASC IN BG NP
06CALCUTTA413	SHADOW LINES - INDIA STRUGGLES WITH SECURITY ON ITS EASTERN [...] (C) Summary. Porous borders with Bangladesh and Burma present a serious threat to India's security that India so far has been unable to manage effectively. In West Bengal, politicians, intelligence, law enforcement, and academics all agree on the growing problem of Islamist infiltration int [...]	2006-09-13 12:11:00	Consulate Kolkata	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL BG IN NP PK
06CALCUTTA430	NEPAL MAOIST LEADER RELEASED THEN DETAINED [...] (U) Summary: On September 18 in Chennai, W. Bengal police attempted to arrest Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPNM) Politburo member Chandra Prakash Gajurel upon his release from a Chennai prison after serving a three year term for passport forgery. The W. Bengal police action was in conn [...]	2006-09-21 12:53:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PINR PGOV IN NP PTER
06CALCUTTA447	INDIA'S CEASE-FIRE WITH ULFA ENDS [...] (U) Summary: Citing continuing violence and extortion, the Government of India (GOI) on September 24 ended the six-week ceasefire it had with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). The GOI decision comes in the wake of ULFA's reluctance to commit in writing to taking part in direct peace [...]	2006-09-28 12:33:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER IN BT PGOV
06CALCUTTA463	DHAKA POL/ECON COUNSELOR DUNDAS MCCULLOUGH INTERACTS WITH [...] (U) Summary: On October 5, Embassy Dhaka Pol/Econ Counselor Dundas McCullough visited Calcutta to assess Indian perspectives on security and infiltration of terrorists from Bangladesh into India and for an overview of India's economic relationship with Bangladesh. The prevailing sentiment in [...]	2006-10-16 13:08:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS ECON IN BG NP PTER
06CALCUTTA464	INDIA'S LOOK EAST ECONOMIC POLICY - JUST LOOKING, NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: India continues to adopt a contradictory attitude in its trade relations with its Eastern neighbors, claiming to seek more bilateral trade agreements but placing severe limits and barriers to those agreements to make them essentially meaningless. The opening on July 1 of Indo-C [...]	2006-10-17 11:52:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV WTRO EIND IN NP BG
06CALCUTTA495	INDIA'S COMMUNISTS LOBBY FOR CHINA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In anticipation of Chinese President Hu Jintao's November 20-24 visit to India, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) has been pressuring the GOI to conduct a more conciliatory foreign policy towards China. In its September Central Committee meeting, the CPM criticized the r [...]	2006-11-01 12:35:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON CH ETRD ENRG PBTS IN PGOV PREL
06CALCUTTA533	BOMBS ON TRAIN IN W. BENGAL KILL AT LEAST SIX [...] (U) Summary: On November 20, an explosion on the Haldibari-New Jalpaiguri passenger train in northern West Bengal killed at least 6 and injured more than 50 people. Unofficial estimates indicate the death toll may rise to 15. No Americans have been reported injured. Although no one has cl [...]	2006-11-21 12:22:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PTER IN
06CALCUTTA535	RESOURCE WEALTHY JHARKHAND FACES INSTABILITY AND RISING [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-24 11:59:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM IN PTER
06CALCUTTA556	GOVERNANCE, DEVELOPMENT, AND NAXALISM IN BIHAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After one year in office, expectations remain high for Bihar's Janata Dal United (JDU)-led government. During a December 4-6 visit to Bihar, state officials, journalists, and NGOs told Poloff, however, that the new state government has to start from scratch after fifteen years [...]	2006-12-15 08:40:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ECON PREL SOCI IN
06CHENNAI1247	NEPALI MAOIST SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS BY [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) C.P. Gajurel, a Nepali Maoist leader who has been held in a Chennai jail since his arrest in 2003 on charges of presenting a forged passport at Chennai airport, was sentenced to three years imprisonment by a Chennai court on June 13. The sentencing follows continued demands for [...]	2006-06-15 04:40:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PTER IN NP
06CHENNAI2308	SCA/INS DIRECTOR BERNICAT ENGAGES SOUTH INDIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Political analysts Lt. General V.R. Raghavan and N. Sathiya Moorthy agreed that prospects for the upcoming October 28 talks were somewhat encouraging between the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during discussions on October 5 with [...]	2006-10-10 11:47:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PTER IN NP CE
06CHIANGMAI93	GOLDEN TRIANGLE TO BECOME GOLDEN GATEWAY [...] Summary. Northern Thailand's physical proximity to southern China has led the eight provinces of upper northern Thailand to promote the region as the "Golden Gate of Trade to the World." Although the area is still better known as the "Golden Triangle" of opium fame, new river, air and land ro [...]	2006-06-20 00:52:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV ETTC TH
06COLOMBO111	Special Media Reaction: Further Reaction to [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sri Lankan media over the holiday weekend continued to analyze the Ambassador's January 10 speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in which he expressed grave concern over LTTE violence and predicted the Tigers would face a stronger Sri Lankan military if they chose to ab [...]	2006-01-17 11:44:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE LTTE
06COLOMBO159	SRI LANKAN NOMINEES FOR EDWARD R. MURROW PROGRAM [...] Post nominates Ms. Zainab Ibrahim, Assistant Editor, Lanka Business Online, as principal nominee, and Ms. Namini Wijedasa, Assistant Editor, Sunday Island, and Ms. Dilshani Samaraweera, Senior Business Journalist, Lanka Business Online, as first and second alternate nominees respectively, for [...]	2006-01-27 06:15:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO
06COLOMBO321	IMI - INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2006 ? SRI LANKA [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-28 10:56:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC PGOV
06COLOMBO568	AVIAN INFLUENZA PREPARATIONS IN MALDIVES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Lack of a concentrated poultry sector keeps Maldives at low risk for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). At the same time, it also presents challenges for surveillance and detection in the case of infection due to inadequate animal testing facilities, underdeveloped quara [...]	2006-04-10 05:45:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO EAGR CASC MV
06DARESSALAAM1788	TANZANIA: 2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-03 09:44:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SNAR TZ
06DHAKA3330	FINANCE MINISTER FRETS ABOUT THE UPCOMING BUDGET, [...] (C) Summary: According to Asian Development Bank (ADB) ResRep Hua Du, Finance Minister Saifur Rahman is frustrated by his declining influence as a senior advisor to the PM. He told Du that he wants development partners to know that he understands the need to act on key issues, like cutting [...]	2006-06-07 10:35:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN ETRD EAID BG
06DHAKA5706	FOREIGN MINISTER KHAN STILL HAS FOREIGN RELATION [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Khan requested a meeting with Secretary Rice during the time he would be in the United States, outlined his views to improve relations with India, and confirmed that Bangladesh hopes to open an embassy in Afghanistan by the end of the year. End Summary. 2. (C) [...]	2006-09-07 04:31:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER BG
06DHAKA630	SOLICITATION FOR INCLE FUNDS [...] Per 2005 STATE 221416, post is forwarding the following TIP proposal submitted by The Asia Foundation (TAF). Given the limited resources available through INCLE this year, we do not feel this is this is a strong proposal. The problems addressed in this proposal are either adequately address [...]	2006-02-08 01:39:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL BG
06DHAKA776	REQUEST FOR ESF FUNDING [...] Per reftel, post is forwarding the following TIP proposal submitted from the Daywalka Foundation. Post supports the enclosed proposal. 2. Daywalka, in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM),submitted this 2 year proposal for funding in 2005 with Post's input [...]	2006-02-14 00:59:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN KCRM PHUM ELAB PREL SMIG ASEC BG PGOV
06DOHA303	QATAR: 2006 ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified--entire report. 2. (U) Embassy Point of Contact is Political Officer, Farah Chery-Medor. Tel. 974-488-4101 ext. 6453. Fax 974 488-4163. One FS-04 officer spent 34 hours in the preparation of this report cable. 3. (U) Following is post's sixth annual Anti- [...]	2006-02-27 12:58:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB QA
06GENEVA2169	DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES' GENEVA HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles held a series of bilateral meetings in Geneva August 31 and September 1 with select missions to discuss the upcoming Human Rights Council (HRC) session. The meetings are summarized below. United Kingdom -------------- 2. (C) DAS Barks-Ruggles discussed w [...]	2006-09-06 15:31:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA2171	UNITED STATES CONSULTATIONS WITH THE OFFICE OF THE [...] DRL Deputy Assistant Secretary Erica Barks-Ruggles and Ambassador Tichenor, accompanied by PolCouns and Washington- and Geneva-based staffers, met with High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour August 31 to discuss a broad range of human rights-related issues, including OHCHR field ope [...]	2006-09-06 15:37:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA582	36TH UNHCR STANDING COMMITTEE - PROGRAM BUDGETS [...] (U ) Summary. The Deputy High Commissioner, the Controller and the head of External Relations provided a briefing to member states on UNHCR strategies to meet the current budget crisis. Member states were frank in their remarks to UNHCR, sometimes highlighting the organization's shortcoming [...]	2006-03-14 16:10:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL UNHCR
06HANOI584	CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: UNHCR TO VISIT MARCH 22; UNHCR [...] (SBU) Summary: A UNHCR team will visit Gia Lai Province March 22-23 to meet with the families of "double-backers." The team has also requested private meetings with two individuals who were allegedly mistreated by local authorities. The GVN has invited Assistant High Commissioner Erika Felle [...]	2006-03-14 10:34:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF VM CB
06HONGKONG3973	OVERVIEW 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 06:51:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV PREL PREF PINR HK CH
06HONGKONG4780	HONG KONG AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: In late December, the Hong Kong government (HKG) will submit a revised paper on Hong Kong,s Avian Influenza (AI) preparations to the Hong Kong Legislative Council (Legco). Bonnie Yau, Assistant Secretary responsible for AI at the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau (HWFB),provide [...]	2006-12-20 02:16:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TBIO SENV EAGR AMED KFLU HK CH

06ISLAMABAD16256	PESHAWAR CLEARANCE REQUEST [...] Embassy requests post clearance for Mohammed Motiwala, Rohit Nepal, Ragini Gupta, and Jennifer Maatta. The party will travel to Peshawar for meetings with local officials and consultations at the Consulate. 2. The party will travel via armored GOV. The tentative itinerary is as follows: [...]	2006-08-17 09:59:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC SNAR OTRA PK
06JAKARTA11475	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): INDONESIA [...] (U) The Fourth Regional Meeting of CWC States Parties in Asia met in Jakarta, Indonesia from September 5-7, 2006. The meeting was attended by 24 States Parties from the Asian Group: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, N [...]	2006-09-15 10:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM PTER PHUM AMGT ASEC CWC SA AF MV
06JAKARTA2819	ADMIRAL FALLON CALLS ON PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO [...] (C) PACOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon called on President Yudhoyono (SBY) Feb. 23. SBY emphasized the importance of bilateral cooperation in multiple areas. He spoke of the progress in implementing peace in Aceh, and judged that in his view the situation will be fully settled within [...]	2006-03-02 13:18:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PTER KN BM ID MASS PGOV
06JEDDAH346	PAKISTANI CHRISTIAN WORSHIP IN JEDDAH [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 6, as part of the Consulate's ongoing efforts to conduct a long-term inquiry into Christian worship in Jeddah, ConGenOff met with a Pakistani preacher who heads an all-Pakistani Evangelical church based in Jeddah. Their group has the support of the Consul General of Pakista [...]	2006-05-10 06:53:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM SA SOCI
06KATHMANDU1000	WORRIED FORMER PM THAPA URGES KING TO ACT [...] (C) On April 17, the King expressed to former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa a determination to hand over power to the political parties as quickly as possible. King Gyanendra had a similar conversation with royal confidant Prabhakar Rana, also on April 17. Both Thapa and Rana expressed [...]	2006-04-18 13:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1001	KING 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 14:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1006	MFA PROTESTS AMBASSADOR'S CNN INTERVIEW [...] (C) On April 18, Acting Foreign Secretary Hari Bahadur Thapa summoned the Ambassador and said that he had been asked to "stage a strong protest" regarding the Ambassador's statement in an April 17 CNN interview that the King might be forced to abdicate if he did not transfer power quickly. Tha [...]	2006-04-19 06:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CVIS NP
06KATHMANDU1007	NEPAL'S G8 COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTION GROUP [...] (SBU) On April 13, Russian Ambassador Andrey Trofimov organized a discussion among the local G8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) to discuss the terrorism threat in Nepal. (Note: Our discussion did not focus on "ideological radicalization," nor did any member promote a law-enforcement ap [...]	2006-04-19 06:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU101	NEPALI CONGRESS LEADER WON'T JOIN HANDS WITH THE [...] (C) In a January 9 meeting, Nepali Congress (NC) President GP Koirala stressed to the Ambassador that his party would continue its stance of not cooperating with the Maoists as long as the latter had arms. Koirala said that he had "rejected outright" a proposal by CPN-UML leader MK Nepal that [...]	2006-01-10 09:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1012	NO SUPPORT FOR TAX BOYCOTT [...] (C) Business leaders told Emboff they do not support the seven-party alliance's recent call to boycott the paying of taxes and customs duties (ref A). Prakash Shrestha, President of the Hotel Association of Nepal (HAN),said that because democracy should bring peace and stability, both good f [...]	2006-04-19 13:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1013	PROTESTORS 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 13:15:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER CASC ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU1015	MORE 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 09:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1016	INDIA AND JAPAN CONCERNED ABOUT BHUTANESE REFUGEES [...] (C) On April 20, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran told the Ambassador that he had raised the issue of refugees during his April 18 visit to Thimpu (ref A) to see whether he could get something going. He opined that the best way forward was for India to pressure Bhutan to take a token hundred refu [...]	2006-04-21 10:21:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1017	JAPANESE AMBASSADOR URGES KING TO ANNOUNCE [...] (C) On April 19, Japanese Ambassador Hiraoka explained to the Ambassador that in a recent meeting with Vice-Chairman Giri he had delivered a three-point message to the Government of Nepal: security forces were reacting too strongly to demonstrators; Japan hoped security forces would act mode [...]	2006-04-21 11:12:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF NP
06KATHMANDU1019	CPN-UML LEADER MK NEPAL WAITING FOR KING TO ACT [...] (C) In an April 21 meeting with the Ambassador, the sixteenth day of the seven-party alliance's general strike/demonstrations and two days after he was released from detention, CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal seemed to be waiting for the King to act. The Ambassador emphasized the [...]	2006-04-21 12:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU102	NEPALI CONGRESS PARTY (DEMOCRATIC) CONVENTION [...] (U) At its general convention January 5 to 9, the Nepali Congress (Democratic) Party (NC(D)) decided to remove the term "constitutional monarchy" from the party's statute. The NC(D) stated its position that elections to a constituent assembly were the only solution to the current political and [...]	2006-01-10 10:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1020	MASS GATHERINGS AS PEOPLE WAIT FOR KING'S MESSAGE [...] (C) On April 21, seven-party alliance leaders reported that the largest number of people to date took to the streets in Kathmandu in support of democracy, as people waited for a message from the King, expected at 1900 local time. Minendra Rijal, NC(D) Spokesman, noted that the mass demonstrat [...]	2006-04-21 13:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1022	DID THE KING WAIT TOO LONG? [...] (C) Following the King's message turning power over to the seven-party alliance (reftel),Sher Bahadur Deuba, NC(D) President and former Prime Minster, told the Ambassador that he thought the speech was an "opening." However, he lamented that he had to "follow the consensus" of the seven-par [...]	2006-04-21 15:16:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1029	APRIL 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 11:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU1030	AMBASSADOR URGING PARTIES TO DEVELOP GAMEPLAN, AND [...] (S) On April 23, the eighteenth day of the seven-party alliance general strike and demonstrations, the Ambassador contacted the Party leaders to urge them to develop a gameplan for transferring power, should the King publicly accede to their agenda. While the leaders were concerned about the [...]	2006-04-23 11:47:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1033	MAOISTS ATTACK DISTRICT NEIGHBORING KATHMANDU [...] (C) On April 23, Maoists launched simultaneous attacks on security forces deployed to guard a Nepal Telecom repeat tower, District Headquarters buildings, and a Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) Battalion at Chautara, district headquarters of Sindhupalchowk District, northeast of the Kathmandu Valley. [...]	2006-04-24 06:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1034	PARTIES AND PALACE NEGOTIATING OVER ROYAL [...] (C) On April 23 and 24, the Palace and Nepali Congress leader GP Koirala and UML Secretary General MK Nepal exchanged notes on a possible text for a Palace Communique that would be acceptable to the seven-party alliance. Although the King at times indicated he was leaning toward more repressiv [...]	2006-04-24 09:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1035	SUPPLIES DECREASE AS LAWLESSNESS INCREASES [...] (C) Supply shortages continued on April 24, day nineteen of the seven party alliance's general strike and closure, and the fifth consecutive day-time curfew in Kathmandu. Although shops opened and closed before the 1100-1800 curfew, few supplies entered the Valley to replenish stocks (ref A). [...]	2006-04-24 09:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC KCRM NP
06KATHMANDU1036	PARTIES CALL FOR APRIL 25 MASS PROTEST [...] (C) Defying a fifth consecutive day-time curfew in Kathmandu, pro-democracy demonstrations continued in the capital and throughout the country on April 24, day nineteen of the seven-party alliance's general strike and protest program. However, protests in the capital were smaller, and the num [...]	2006-04-24 10:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1042	JUBILATION AS KING REINSTATES PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Seven-Party alliance leaders and people on the street declared victory for democracy following the King's April 24 late night message announcing the reinstatement of Parliament and meeting all the Parties' demands (ref A). The King called on the seven-party alliance to follow its road map [...]	2006-04-25 12:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER PINR NP
06KATHMANDU1051	HCOC DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-26 10:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA NP
06KATHMANDU1052	MAOISTS LIFT BLOCKADE FOR NOW [...] (C) On April 26, the Maoists announced they had lifted their blockade of the capital and district headquarters until April 28, when the Parliament will convene. The Maoists say they will reinstitute their blockade, which had effectively stopped all goods coming up from India for the past three [...]	2006-04-26 10:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV ECON NP
06KATHMANDU1059	PRC OFFICIALS STILL CONCERNED ABOUT MAOISTS [...] (C) In an April 26 meeting with the Ambassador, PRC MFA Asia Department Deputy Director General Luo Zhaohui, accompanied by Ambassador Sun Heping, said China was happy to hear the crisis had passed with the King's decision to restore Parliament and cede power to the Parties. Luo said that the [...]	2006-04-27 09:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER CH NP
06KATHMANDU1063	MAOISTS ANNOUNCE THREE MONTH UNILATERAL CEASE-FIRE [...] (C) On April 27, Maoist leader Prachanda declared a three month unilateral cease-fire, calling for the new Parliament to announce unconditional elections to a constituent assembly. The Parties denied that they had reached a deal with the Maoists on a date for such elections. Instead, they sa [...]	2006-04-27 11:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU1064	MAOISTS TO JOIN IN PEACEFUL RALLY IN CAPITAL [...] (C) On April 27, three days after the King announced the reinstatement of the Parliament, over ten thousand people took part in a peaceful "victory rally" organized by seven-party alliance leaders in the capital. Senior leaders of the seven-party alliance addressed the crowd, outlining the al [...]	2006-04-27 12:18:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1067	TERRORIST FINANCING DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-28 07:31:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC NP
06KATHMANDU1068	POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS TAKE CAUTIOUS APPROACH TO [...] (C) In separate conversations with Nepali Congress (Democratic) (NC(D)) President Sher Bahadur Deuba on April 27 and CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal on April 28, the Ambassador emphasized that the U.S. looked forward to supporting the new government as it moved ahead, but cautione [...]	2006-04-28 09:05:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU107	MAOISTS REJECT "PEACE FETISHISM" AND RESUME ARMED [...] (U) Maoist deputy Dr. Baburam Bhattarai has publicly reiterated that "to achieve a democratic republic both armed and unarmed struggles" in the villages and cities must be used. In the op-ed "Question of Armed and Unarmed Struggle," dated January 4, 2006, in the January 6 Nepali-language week [...]	2006-01-11 09:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1074	OHCHR LOOKING AT TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE ISSUES IN [...] (C) On April 27, Ian Martin, Representative of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR),told representatives of OHCHR donor Embassies that, following the King's April 24 announcement to hand power back to the Parties and the Maoists' April 27 announcement of [...]	2006-04-28 10:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER KPKO NP
06KATHMANDU1082	PARLIAMENT OPENS FOR SHORT SESSION [...] Hours after its planned 1300 local time opening, Deputy Speaker, now Acting Speaker upon the former Speaker's April 26 resignation, Chitralekha Yadav opened the House of Representatives. The session lasted only about one-half hour. Yadav started the session by reading King Gyanendra's April [...]	2006-04-28 11:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1085	NEPALI PARLIAMENT ENDORSES CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY [...] (U) On April 30, the King swore in a frail G.P. Koirala as Nepal's new Prime Minister. Koirala subsequently addressed the House, calling on the Maoists to come for dialogue, and shun violence as early as possible. The House unanimously passed Koirala's motion (ref A) supporting a constituent [...]	2006-05-01 10:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1087	MAOISTS 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 11:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU1090	SEVEN 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 09:20:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1128	CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF SEEKS U.S. ASSISTANCE [...] (C) In a May 2 meeting with SCA Assistant Secretary Boucher, NSC Senior Director Millard and the Ambassador, Chief of Army Staff General Pyar Jung Thapa stressed that the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) would welcome, and work with, a civilian, democratically-elected government. General Thapa said [...]	2006-05-04 08:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PGOV PTER MCAP NP
06KATHMANDU1129	GOVERNMENT 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 10:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1154	NORWAY'S ERIK SOLHEIM VISITS NEPAL [...] (C) Norwegian Minister for International Development Erik Solheim briefed members of the international community on his four-day visit to Nepal May 5, stressing that Norway wanted to show support for the government of Nepal (GON). He said he had assured PM Koirala that Norway would resume its [...]	2006-05-05 11:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1157	MAOISTS 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 11:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU118	TERRORISM FINANCE: SAJID MOHAMMED BADET [...] (SBU) On January 12, Post delivered demarche information on the addition of Sajid Mohammed Badet to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee List to Under Secretary Kali Prasad Pokhrel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ref A). Pokhrel stated that His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) continued to be su [...]	2006-01-12 09:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KTFN EFIN PTER CVIS KVPR UN NP
06KATHMANDU1183	CABINET REVOKES OVER 100 POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS [...] (U) The Cabinet on May 7 recalled twelve Ambassadors and revoked over 100 political appointments made since October 4, 2002 when the King took over executive power for the first time. The Cabinet has not yet published a list of all those affected by the decision. However, the Ministry of Fore [...]	2006-05-08 11:29:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV OFDP NP
06KATHMANDU1184	GREATER UN INVOLVEMENT IN NEPAL? [...] (C) Tamrat Samuel, visiting special advisor to the UN Undersecretary General for Political Affairs, joined by UN Resident Representative Matthew Kahane, and UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) head Ian Martin discussed with the Ambassador on May 8 the prospects for incr [...]	2006-05-08 11:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KPKO NP
06KATHMANDU1185	JUBILANT POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS STILL WORRIED [...] (C) During separate May 2 discussions with SCA Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher, NSC Senior Director Elisabeth SIPDIS Millard, and the Ambassador, political party leaders explained that the government was taking preliminary shape and moving toward constituent assembly elections. CPN-UML [...]	2006-05-09 02:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL EAID MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1186	CIVIL SOCIETY WARNS A/S BOUCHER OF MAOIST THREAT [...] (C) In a May 2 meeting with SCA A/S Boucher and NSC Senior Director Millard, Nepali civil society and human rights organization representatives voiced concern over the continuing Maoist threat as Nepal transitioned to a democratic government. A/S Boucher stressed the need for the political pa [...]	2006-05-09 02:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU1189	STUDENT POLITICAL LEADERS WANT INTRA-PARTY [...] (C) Student political leaders representing all major political parties met with the Ambassador on May 5 to discuss Nepal's transition to democracy and their hopes for the future. A dynamic group, the students demonstrated a keen understanding of the difficulties faced by their party leaders. [...]	2006-05-09 06:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KDEM NP
06KATHMANDU1190	PM KOIRALA TO U.S.: WE WELCOME SUPPORT AND HELP [...] (C) PM Koirala thanked A/S Boucher and NSC Senior Director Millard for U.S. support, and said more help would be needed as Nepal tries to become peaceful and prosperous. He agreed that the government needed to find a way to institute a ceasefire that will hold, and to get the Maoists to turn [...]	2006-05-09 07:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID NP IN UK
06KATHMANDU1191	INDIAN AND UK AMBASSADORS BRIEF BOUCHER AND NSC [...] (C) In a wide-ranging discussion with A/S Boucher, NSC Senior Director Elisabeth Millard, the Ambassador and Acting DCM, Indian Ambassador Shiv Mukherjee and U.K. Ambassador Keith Bloomfield said they expected the remaining seats in a 21-member cabinet would be filled May 3 or 4. Mukherjee s [...]	2006-05-09 08:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PTER NP IN UK
06KATHMANDU1195	PRIME MINISTER KOIRALA ON THE WAY AHEAD [...] (C) Prime Minister Koirala appealed May 10 to the Ambassador for assistance in gaining Indian support for a third party witness for negotiations with the Maoists and for international monitors of the cease-fire. Koirala liked the suggestion of having two witnesses - perhaps an Indian and an o [...]	2006-05-10 11:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PTER PREL MASS PINR IN NP
06KATHMANDU1196	NEW MINISTERS REQUEST U.S. ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Fourth-time Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat and Minister for Physical Planning and Works Gopal Man Shrestha both separately asked the Ambassador for U.S. support in May 9 meetings. The Ambassador agreed it was important the government show it could deliver services to the people and sho [...]	2006-05-10 12:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EAID PREF MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1198	NEPAL ASKS FOR SUPPORT FOR 2008 UNSC SEAT [...] (C) K.P. Oli, Nepal's new Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, in a May 10 meeting with the Ambassador asked for USG support for Nepal's candidacy for the Asia non-permanent United Nations Security Council seat to be selected at the UN General Assembly this fall. He noted that Nepal la [...]	2006-05-11 06:15:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC NP
06KATHMANDU1199	NEW FOREIGN MINISTER: NO IMMEDIATE PROGRESS LIKELY [...] (C) In a May 10 meeting with K.P. Oli, new Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, the Ambassador highlighted recent USG efforts to find a permanent solution for the Bhutanese refugees. The Ambassador urged the government to allow UNHCR to register and verify people in the camps, and aske [...]	2006-05-11 06:29:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU12	SMALLPOX AGENDA ITEM DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Post delivered the smallpox agenda item demarche (reftel) to Mr. Kali Prasad Pokhrel, Under Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and to Dr. Hari Nath Acharya, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health, on December 30. Acharya stated that he would convey the talking points to other concerne [...]	2006-01-03 10:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC TBIO WHO NP
06KATHMANDU1200	MINISTERS ON CONTROLLING THE KING, MAOISTS, AND [...] (C) In separate May 9 meetings with the Ambassador, Minister of Finance Ram Sharan Mahat and Minister of Physical Planning and Works Gopal Man Shrestha both expressed concern that the King might try to reassert himself in the future. Shrestha noted that the Parliament was considering how to br [...]	2006-05-11 06:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1201	DEPUTY PM WORRIED KING STILL PLOTTING, MAOISTS [...] (C) K.P. Oli, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and CPN-UML Central Committee Member, told the Ambassador on May 10 that the King would not stay in his box for long and would be looking at his constitutional options. The King had already instructed loyalists to contact the military to [...]	2006-05-11 06:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER EAID NP
06KATHMANDU1203	INSINCERE MAOISTS ABDUCT AND EXTORT, ANNOUNCE [...] (C) At the same time that the Maoists reportedly formed a team to hold talks with the government, they abducted five Armed Police Force members and intensified extortion nationwide. Seven-party alliance leaders urged the Maoists to end extortion and stop terrorizing civilians. M.K. Nepal, CP [...]	2006-05-11 12:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU123	SUGGESTED NEXT STEPS IN U.S.-NEPALI BILATERAL [...] (C) This is an action request. We seek Washington's concurrence on the steps outlined below. Summary and Introduction: Re-examining Our Policy in Nepal --------------------------------------------- ------------- 2. (C) Since assuming control of the government of Nepal last February 1, K [...]	2006-01-12 12:02:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1238	UML 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 11:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1239	DEFENSE SECRETARY: GOVERNMENT'S RELATIONSHIP WITH [...] (C) Bishnu Dutta Uprety, Ministry of Defense Secretary, told A/DCM and Pol/Econ Chief May 12 that the Ministry of Defense would soon become a "player." Uprety said that Prime Minister Koirala had stressed to him that the focal point for military policy issues must be the Ministry of Defense, a [...]	2006-05-12 11:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR NP
06KATHMANDU1248	GOVERNMENT ARRESTS FORMER MINISTERS, SUSPENDS [...] (U) The government arrested five former ministers in the King's government and suspended the heads of three of Nepal's security agencies on May 12. Cabinet sources told the press that the government acted on the recommendation of the newly-appointed Rayamajhi Commission, formed to investigate [...]	2006-05-15 10:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1251	MAOIST 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 11:54:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU1254	WOMEN POLITICAL PARTY MEMBERS WANT INTRA-PARTY [...] (C) The Ambassador met with nine members of the newly formed Women's Caucus, a group of women politicians from the seven-party alliance and other major parties, on May 15 to discuss the role of women in Nepali politics. The women noted that there was now a higher understanding of the importan [...]	2006-05-16 08:29:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NP
06KATHMANDU1258	MESSAGE TO PRIME MINISTER KOIRALA [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered the message from President Bush to Prime Minister Koirala (reftel) on May 17. The Ambassador extended the President's offer of congratulations and assistance to Nepal during this historic, hopeful, but difficult time. The Prime Minister expressed his appreciation [...]	2006-05-17 06:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1262	PROTESTORS 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 10:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1266	USFPA NEPAL PROGRAM [...] (C) On May 18, Emboff spoke with Safieh Anderson, United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) Deputy Representative in Kathmandu, who confirmed Nepal-specific information in reftel. Anderson explained that the ongoing political instability led UNFPA Nepal to request an extension of their current [...]	2006-05-18 11:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF SOCI NP
06KATHMANDU1267	POWER PLAY TO WATER DOWN PROCLAMATION FAILS [...] (C) Just a few hours before the Prime Minister's planned May 18 3:00 pm proclamation to limit the King's power and place the army under civilian control, rumors swirled around Kathmandu that the Army and the King were planning a preemptive coup. The leaders of two of Nepal's biggest parties, [...]	2006-05-18 11:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1268	PARLIAMENT 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 12:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1281	NEPAL: SEIZING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR [...] (C) I believe we have a four-six month window to use our assistance to consolidate recent gains in democracy in Nepal. While some argue that development and governance should take a back seat to peace, I disagree. We need to help the government show it is making a difference in people's lives [...]	2006-05-19 11:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1282	EUPHORIA, BUT SOME QUESTIONS, OVER PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Nepalese throughout the country took to the streets on May 18 and 19 to peacefully celebrate the May 18 "historic" Declaration of the sovereignty of Parliament (reftel). Civil society leaders welcomed the Declaration, but privately worried about its implementation and legality. Business p [...]	2006-05-19 11:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KDEM ECON NP
06KATHMANDU1283	GON SEEKS HELP FROM DONORS [...] (SBU) During a May 17 donor meeting, Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat outlined the Government of Nepal's (GON) immediate needs, which included budgetary support and new investment in public works and services. He urged donors to make financial commitments to the government's next fiscal budg [...]	2006-05-19 12:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EINV ECON PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1284	PRIME MINISTER APPROVES USG PROVIDING TRAINING TO [...] (C) On May 19, Dr. Suresh C. Chalise, the Prime Minister's External Affairs Advisor, told us that the Prime Minister had approved all the courses, seminars, and conferences we had planned as part of our FY 06 security assistance program. He indicated that we should take a quiet approach. He s [...]	2006-05-19 12:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU1285	EUPHORIA, BUT SOME QUESTIONS, OVER PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Nepalese throughout the country took to the streets on May 18 and 19 to peacefully celebrate the May 18 "historic" Declaration of the sovereignty of Parliament (reftel). Civil society leaders welcomed the Declaration, but privately worried about its implementation and legality. Business p [...]	2006-05-19 12:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KDEM ECON NP
06KATHMANDU1286	GON SEEKS HELP FROM DONORS [...] (SBU) During a May 17 donor meeting, Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat outlined the Government of Nepal's (GON) immediate needs, which included budgetary support and new investment in public works and services. He urged donors to make financial commitments to the government's next fiscal budg [...]	2006-05-19 12:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EINV ECON PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1287	CONSOLIDATING 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 13:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MCAP IN NP
06KATHMANDU1290	FM OLI TELLS DIPLOMATIC COMMUNITY MAOISTS MUST [...] (U) In a May 19 briefing for the diplomatic community, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister K.P. Oli said Nepal's relationship with its immediate neighbors would remain unchanged, and that Nepal would continue its policy of friendship and cooperation with all countries. He highlighted N [...]	2006-05-22 06:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PREF ETRD NP
06KATHMANDU1293	GOVERNMENT EXPANDS CABINET TO EIGHTEEN [...] (C) The Prime Minister announced eleven new Ministers on May 22, including one women and three minorities. Several key posts remained vacant as smaller parties in the seven-party alliance had yet to submit their names to the Prime Minster for consideration and one of the newly appointed Minis [...]	2006-05-22 12:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1294	FORMER AFGHAN FOREIGN MINISTER OPTIMISTIC FOR [...] (C) Afghanistan's former Finance Minister, Ashraf Ghani, in Nepal for two weeks of consulting for the World Bank (WB) on the transition of the Government of Nepal (GON),stressed the need for rapid progress on the part of the new government during May 21 discussions with several Ambassadors. H [...]	2006-05-22 12:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID EINV PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1298	WHITE PAPER HIGHLIGHTS DISMAL STATE OF NEPAL'S ECONOMY [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-23 10:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EFIN PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1299	MAOISTS 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 12:07:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU13	MAOISTS END CEASE-FIRE [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. See paragraph 9. Summary ------- 2. (C) On January 2, the Maoists announced the end to their four month unilateral cease-fire, claiming the government "compelled" them to do so in "self-defense." The Maoists said action would be directed tow [...]	2006-01-03 11:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1319	JAPANESE AMBASSADOR SUPPORTS ACTING QUICKLY TO [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Japanese Ambassador Tsutomu Hiraoka on May 24 in order to push the message that Nepal's traditional donors should increase assistance as quickly as possible to consolidate the democratic transition. Hiraoka replied that he supported increasing assistance to the new [...]	2006-05-25 08:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EAID ASEC NP JP IN
06KATHMANDU1328	NEPAL RESUMES ISSUING TRAVEL DOCUMENTS TO REFUGEES [...] (C) K.P. Oli, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, confirmed to the Ambassador on May 24 that the Government of Nepal (GON) had decided to resume issuing travel documents to Tibetan and Bhutanese refugees effective immediately. Oli commented that the previous government had halted issua [...]	2006-05-25 11:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1329	MAOISTS FANNING VIOLENCE IN NEPAL'S CITIES? [...] (C) Mob violence broke out at the Lumbini Zonal Hospital on May 23 in the south-central city of Butwal, after the alleged negligence of a doctor led to a patients death. Reports indicate that after news of the patient's death spread, a mob of several hundred, comprised of youths, street childr [...]	2006-05-25 11:16:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1330	CABINET 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 11:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1338	FINANCE 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 09:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID EINV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1340	MAOISTS PROJECT POWER IN MID-WESTERN DISTRICTS [...] (C) During a May 22-24 visit to the mid-western districts of Bardiya and Banke, Emboffs found an atmosphere of fear instilled by the Maoists, despite the cease-fire and 12-point understanding with the seven-party alliance. The Maoists continue to extort, kidnap, train and recruit, while claimi [...]	2006-05-26 09:31:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KDEM NP
06KATHMANDU1344	EUROPEAN DONORS ON WORKING WITH THE MAOISTS [...] (SBU) During a May 24 meeting among international donors, DFID-GTZ Risk Management Officer Dan Huntington presented a paper on Suggested Development Approaches that argued that there were two governments in existence and that donors should treat them equally. His paper acknowledged that "the [...]	2006-05-26 10:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1345	PARTY LEADERS WORRIED ABOUT MAOIST ACTIVITIES [...] (C) In separate meetings, Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D) President Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal both shared the USG's concern SIPDIS about Maoist activities, particularly the threat that the Maoists were undermining the government's legitimacy. They [...]	2006-05-26 10:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER EAID NP
06KATHMANDU1346	UNHCR ON REFUGEE ISSUES [...] (C) Abraham Abraham, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Country Representative, told the Ambassador on May 26 that he had met with K.P. Oli, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, on May 25 and was pressing the new government to focus on refugee issues. Abraham said he [...]	2006-05-26 11:40:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU135	CONTACTS RELATING TO KIDNAPPED SDU SHIFT LEADER [...] (S/NF) On January 12, at the recommendation of Post's EAC (ref A),Emboff contacted a political party member known to have contacts with the Maoists, Hridayesh Tripathi, and asked that he convey to the Maoists that the USG would not tolerate threats and/or attacks against its employees and woul [...]	2006-01-13 10:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PTER ASEC PGOV CASC NP
06KATHMANDU1368	HOME MINISTER POSITIVE ON REFUGEE ISSUES [...] (C) Home Minister Krishna Sitaula, joined by new Home Secretary Umesh Mainali, raised refugee issues with the SIPDIS Ambassador during a May 30 meeting. Sitaula cited the recent GON decision to issue travel documents to refugees (reftel). In response to whether "follow-to-join" Tibetan refu [...]	2006-05-30 10:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV CMGT NP
06KATHMANDU1371	INDUSTRIAL SECURITY GROUP CONDEMNS MAOIST EXTORTION [...] (C) On May 26, the Ambassador hosted a meeting of the Industrial Security Group (ISG) to discuss Maoist extortion, the Government of Nepal's (GON) ability to revive the economy, and the trouble the Maoist aligned All Nepal Trade Union Federation (ANTUF) had been causing. (Note: The ISG compri [...]	2006-05-30 10:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1373	GOVERNMENT 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 12:16:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1374	HOUSE ENDORSES WOMEN'S RIGHTS [...] (U) The Parliament on May 30 unanimously approved a broad proposal endorsing women's rights. The proposal included a provision to allow children to acquire citizenship through their mothers. "This is meant to ensure that all Nepalis get citizenship," Member of Parliament (MP) Jaganath Khatiwa [...]	2006-05-31 07:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1375	MAOIST 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 08:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1376	OHCHR REPORTS 49 PEOPLE "LOST" IN NEPALESE ARMY [...] (U) The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal on May 26 recommended that the government "establish a credible, competent, impartial and fully independent investigation" into the arrest, detention, torture, and ultimate fate or whereabouts of people who [...]	2006-05-31 08:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER KPKO NP
06KATHMANDU1377	NEPAL: 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 08:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EAID KSCA SOCI TBIO PREL WHO NP
06KATHMANDU138	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION [...] (C) On January 12, the Ambassador separately discussed the current political situation in Nepal with British Ambassador Keith Bloomfield, Indian Ambassador Shiv Mukherjee, and Finnish CDA Pauli Mustonen who represents the European Union in Nepal for the next year (now on Austria's behalf, then [...]	2006-01-13 10:29:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER NP

06KATHMANDU1391	PREDICT LARGE BUT PEACEFUL MAOIST RALLY IN CAPITAL [...] (C) Leaders of two "royalist" parties separately told the Ambassador that the Maoists were gathering large numbers of people for the planned June 2 rally in Kathmandu as a show of strength; as the Maoist goal was to pave the way for a "second revolution" if they were unable to achieve power th [...]	2006-06-01 12:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1398	CHINESE AMBASSADOR CLAIMS NO INFLUENCE WITH NEPALI [...] (C) The Ambassador met with his Chinese counterpart Sun Heping on June 1 to encourage China to provide increased assistance to Nepal to support the current government. Sun agreed that it was important to support the current government, and said that China was trying to find funding for additi [...]	2006-06-02 06:15:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER EAID CH NP
06KATHMANDU1399	VISITING EUROPEAN COMMISSION DELEGATION ON NEED TO [...] (C) Herve Jouanjean, Deputy Director General of the European Commission's Directorate for External Relations told the Ambassador and Pol/Econ Counselor June 2 that he was visiting Nepal to demonstrate the European Commission's (EC) support for the new government. Jouanjean stressed that the i [...]	2006-06-02 08:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EAID NP
06KATHMANDU1403	TIBETAN REFUGEE JUNE 2 UPDATE [...] (C) A United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Nepal representative told Emboff June 1 that the Home Ministry had indicated that the Government of Nepal (GON) would resume issuing exit permits for Tibetan refugees transiting Nepal from Tibet to India. The previous government stop [...]	2006-06-02 10:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF NP
06KATHMANDU1405	MAOISTS 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 11:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU141	2006 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 11:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR NP
06KATHMANDU1425	U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) The Ambassador on June 5 informed Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister KP Oli of the U.S. announcement that, if Iran fully and verifiably suspended enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, the U.S. was willing to become a full party in the EU-3 negotiations with Iran (reftel). [...]	2006-06-05 10:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1426	LEAHY VETTING OF NEPALI UNDERGOING TRAINING IN THE [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para. 7. Summary ------- 2. (C) Post recently determined that a Nepalese Army officer, who had undergone Leahy vetting (refs B-D) and who is currently in the U.S. for training, served - and continues to serve - in a unit alleged to have been invo [...]	2006-06-05 11:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1428	FORMER ROYAL MINISTERS RELEASED [...] (U) On June 4, the Supreme Court ordered the release of three former ministers of His Majesty's Government of Nepal from jail. The Government of Nepal (GON) had arrested them on May 12 under the Public Security Act (PSA) for suppressing the "People's Movement," but had not charged them with a [...]	2006-06-05 11:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1429	DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR PROFESSOR RUTH WEDGWOOD'S [...] On June 5, 2006 A/DCM Larry Schwartz met with Acting Foreign Secretary Pradeep Kumar Khatiwada to seek Nepal's support for Professor Ruth Wedgwood's re-election to the U.N. Human Rights Committee. The A/DCM specifically highlighted Ms. Wedgwood's commitment to human rights and trafficking as [...]	2006-06-05 11:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNHRC PREL NP US
06KATHMANDU1431	TIBETAN REFUGEES - PRIME MINISTER CAUTIOUS ON NEXT [...] (C) During a June 5 meeting with Prime Minister Koirala, Ambassador Moriarty and A/DCM Schwartz raised the USG proposal to resettle Tibetan refugees in the United States. The Ambassador told the Prime Minister that the U.S. planned to offer 5000 Tibetan refugees asylum in the United States. T [...]	2006-06-05 12:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	PREF CH NP
06KATHMANDU1432	PRIME 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 12:02:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER IN NP
06KATHMANDU1433	MAOIST EFFORTS TO PROMOTE A PARALLEL GOVERNMENT [...] (C) The Maoists have recently been taking steps to establish a parallel government in parts of Nepal. During the week of May 29, the Maoist-aligned "Interim Rupandehi District People's Council" (southwest Nepal) publicly submitted a tender for bids on a contract to collect rocks, pebbles, and [...]	2006-06-06 02:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ECON NP
06KATHMANDU1434	DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON MAOISTS; ON BHUTANESE [...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister KP Oli told the Ambassador and Pol/Econ Chief June 5 about his concerns regarding Maoist activities. The Ambassador saluted the Deputy PM for his recent statements in Parliament calling the Maoists to account for their violation of the Code of Co [...]	2006-06-06 02:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PREF NP
06KATHMANDU1435	PM'S NEW MILITARY ADVISOR REQUESTS HELP FOR [...] (C) Newly-appointed Military Advisor to the Prime Minister Ramesh Jung Thapa explained to the Ambassador and Pol/Econ chief that, in his position as the Prime Minister's Military Advisor, he would act as "coordinator" between the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Defense and the Nepalese Army [...]	2006-06-06 02:45:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1438	POLTICOS PONDER JUNE 2 PEACEFUL MAOIST RALLY [...] (C) Three days after the Maoists' June 2 mass-rally in Kathmandu (reftel),red flags and posters were beginning to come down around the capital, but there was little public recognition of the massive first public demonstration by the Maoists as a significant event. Politicos agreed that the g [...]	2006-06-06 07:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1462	UN CLARIFYING ITS POSSIBLE ROLE IN OBSERVING [...] (C) David Johnson, Senior Human Rights Officer at the United Nations Nepal Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR),told members of the diplomatic corps on June 6 that OHCHR was examining the role it might play in monitoring the cease-fire between the Government of Nepal (GON) [...]	2006-06-07 11:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KPKO NP
06KATHMANDU1463	2006 TIP REPORT DELIVERED [...] On June 6 Post delivered the country narrative on Nepal from the 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report as well as the demarche information in reftel to Under Secretary Shankar Bairagi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Joint Secretary Shyam Sunder Sharma, Ministry of Women, Children and Soci [...]	2006-06-07 11:31:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN PREL PGOV SMIG KPAO IIP NP
06KATHMANDU1464	MAOISTS 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 11:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1471	UNHCR FINDS MANY INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE IN [...] (C) The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) briefed members of the international community on June 7 about a May 18-29 mission it led to nine districts in eastern Nepal, where it found that, using the international definition of internally displaced people (IDPs),there could be [...]	2006-06-09 07:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PHUM PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1477	MAOIST 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 11:21:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1494	PARLIAMENT'S NEW REGULATIONS FURTHER CURB KING'S [...] (C) The House of Representatives on June 10 passed "the House of Representatives Regulations 2006" further limiting the King's powers. While hailed by the seven-party alliance as a "landmark for democracy" and meant to move toward implementing the Parliament's May 18 Proclamation (reftel),c [...]	2006-06-12 09:53:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU1495	CABINET EXPANSION INCLUDES LEFTIST AS DEPUTY PRIME [...] (SBU) Prime Minister GP Koirala named three additional ministers to his Cabinet June 11, including Amik Sherchan, head of the extreme left People's Front Nepal (PFN),as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population. Koirala also appointed Hridayesh Tripathi, General Secretary of [...]	2006-06-12 10:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR NP
06KATHMANDU1504	CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF ON HUMAN RIGHTS; MAOISTS [...] (C) On June 12, the Charge d'Affaires, accompanied by A/DCM and ODC Chief, met with Chief of Army Staff General Pyar Jung Thapa to inform him of the USG decision to return Captain Indiver Rana to Nepal from U.S-based training due to our concerns that he was serving in a unit currently facing s [...]	2006-06-12 11:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1505	GOVERNMENT 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 12:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1510	CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF TO RETIRE [...] (C) Defense Secretary Bishnu Datta Uprety told A/DCM Shelton June 13 that Chief of Army Staff General Pyar Jung Thapa will take official leave starting August 9 and retire from duty as scheduled on September 9. Uprety said that although other rumors were swirling about as to Thapa's successor [...]	2006-06-13 08:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MCAP PINR NP
06KATHMANDU1522	HOPE AND CONCERN IN WESTERN NEPAL [...] (C) During a June 6-7 trip to Western Nepal, civil servants, political and business leaders, military officials, and human rights workers all expressed to the Ambassador their continued concern about Maoist activities; their concern was tempered with hope for peace. Surprisingly, and perhaps [...]	2006-06-14 04:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EAID MASS MOPS NP
06KATHMANDU1529	MDA DEMARCHE DELIVERED PRIOR TO JUNE 20 CONFERENCE [...] On June 14, Emboff delivered reftel's talking points about the June 20-21 International Conference on the Red Cross and the Red Crescent Movement to Narayan Pant, Under Secretary for the United Nations and International Organizations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Emboff stressed the impo [...]	2006-06-14 10:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC IS NP
06KATHMANDU1532	MAOIST VIOLATIONS OF CODE OF CONDUCT OBSERVED [...] (C) RSO James Gayhart and USAID Director Donald Clark recently traveled separately in eastern and mid-western Nepal, respectively, where they observed widespread violations of the twenty-five point Code of Conduct entered into by the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists (Reftel). The Mao [...]	2006-06-14 11:47:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM EAID NP
06KATHMANDU1533	INDIA PLEDGES SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT TO NEPAL [...] (C) Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat briefed Parliament on June 12 about the 12.6 billion Nepali Rupees (NRs) (USD 177 million) of financial pledges, including budgetary support (ref C),promised by the Government of India (GOI) during the Prime Minister's June 6-9 visit to New Delhi. The pl [...]	2006-06-14 13:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1555	MAOISTS CONTINUING TO CONSOLIDATE GAINS [...] (C) NDI's Dominic Cardy (protect) expressed to ADCM on June 15 his concern that the Maoists could simply walk into Kathmandu in the weeks ahead. Cardy said that morning he had met with a Nepali Congress (NC) politico (NFI) who said they planned to offer the Maoists four Ministries: Health, La [...]	2006-06-15 12:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER EAID NP
06KATHMANDU1562	PARLIAMENT TAKES FINAL ACTIONS BEFORE RECESS [...] (SBU) On June 15, the Government of Nepal (GON) took further actions to curb the powers of the King. The House of Representative passed a regulation that took away the King's power to appoint the Chief of Army Staff, putting the Nepal Army completely under civilian control. The House also t [...]	2006-06-16 11:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1563	PRIME MINISTER AND MAOIST LEADER MEET DURING [...] (S/NF) The Prime Minister's Foreign Affairs advisor told us June 16 that during the first meeting since Prime Minister Koirala resumed the post, Koirala and Maoist leader Prachanda agreed earlier in the day on the dissolution of Parliament in about two months but that Parliament would be restor [...]	2006-06-16 12:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PTER EAID NP
06KATHMANDU1564	GOVERNMENT HOLDS DONOR MEETING ON CHILD LABOR, [...] (SBU) In a June 1 meeting, the Government of Nepal's (GON) Minister of Labor and Transport Management (MOLTM) Ramesh Lekhak and MOLTM Secretary Deependra Bickram Thapa requested donor and NGO support for the GON's Master Plan on Child Labor that established a goal of eliminating all child labor [...]	2006-06-16 12:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PREL PGOV EAID ECON KOCI NP
06KATHMANDU1575	MDA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] On June 19, Emboff delivered talking points (Ref A) to Nirmal Kafle in the office of the United Nations and International Organizations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) about preventing a conference disruption at the June 20-21 International Conference on the Red Cross and the Red Cres [...]	2006-06-19 13:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PHUM PREF PREL IRCE SZ NP
06KATHMANDU1576	MAOISTS-PARTY AGREEMENT ON INTERIM GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Just one day after a Government-Maoist announcement that summit talks between Maoist leader Prachanda and Prime Minister G.P. Koirala would happen soon (reftel),the two leaders met and Maoist and Party negotiators announced an eight-point agreement on June 16. While the eight points are [...]	2006-06-19 13:18:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1577	DEMARCHE ON USDA/APHIS STREAMLINED IMPORT [...] (SBU) On June 16, Emboff delivered reftel talking points about APHIS' proposal to establish criteria for more effective approval of imports of certain fruits and vegetables into the U.S. to Ganesh K.C., Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives; Prachanda Man Shrestha, Joint Secretar [...]	2006-06-19 13:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD USDA USTR NP
06KATHMANDU1578	NEPAL ARMY SHARES ITS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL REPORT [...] (C) The Nepal Army (NA) will present its human rights report to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva during the upcoming session. The Army is aware that it has problems with human rights abuse and alternates between trying to explain the reasons for violations and trying to addr [...]	2006-06-19 13:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV MASS NP
06KATHMANDU1582	FORMER PM DEUBA COMPLAINS PARTIES LEFT OUT OF [...] (C) On June 19, Charge D'Affaires Larry Schwartz met with former PM Sher Bahadur Deuba, President of the Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D),to seek his impression of the eight-point agreement reached between the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists on June 16 (Septel). Deuba replied that [...]	2006-06-20 02:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1596	GON OFFICIALS AND BUSINESSMEN EXPLAIN MAOIST [...] (C) During June 15-16 meetings, Government of Nepal (GON) officials and businessmen explained to Emboff how the Maoists go about funding their movement by looting rural banks, "taxing" businesses and organizations and engaging in flagrant extortion by preying on some of the country's poorest p [...]	2006-06-20 12:05:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV ECON NP
06KATHMANDU1597	SHOCKWAVES 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 12:47:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1614	PRIME MINISTER KOIRALA WRITES TO PRESIDENT BUSH [...] (SBU) On June 21, Post received the following letter to President Bush from Prime Minister G.P. Koirala. In the letter, PM Koirala thanked the President for his May 17 letter of congratulations (reftel),outlined some recent developments in Nepal's government, and expressed a hope for future [...]	2006-06-21 10:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1615	MAOISTS 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 10:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1617	GOVERNMENT TRYING TO WALK BACK THE EIGHT-POINT [...] (C) Prime Minister Koirala's Foreign Policy Advisor, Dr. Suresh Chalise, told the Ambassador and Pol/Econ chief June 21 that the Government of Nepal (GON) now had to work on "damage control," following the June 16 eight-point agreement with the Maoists (ref A). Chalise agreed with the Ambassad [...]	2006-06-21 11:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KPKO NP
06KATHMANDU1629	NEPAL ISSUES EXIT PERMITS TO TRANSITING TIBETAN [...] (C) Douglas DiSalvo, Associate Protection Officer for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR),reported to Emboff that, on June 16, the Nepal Department of Immigration (DOI) had requested a list from UNHCR of Tibetan refugees at the Tibetan Reception Center (TRC) who needed exit [...]	2006-06-21 12:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF NP
06KATHMANDU1630	GOVERNMENT 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 12:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1649	HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP CITES CONTINUING MAOIST [...] (U) On June 21, the Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC),a Nepali human rights group with representation throughout the country, issued a press release expressing serious concern over continuing Maoist human rights violations, despite the Code of Conduct signed between the Maoists and the G [...]	2006-06-22 11:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1650	SUPPORTING THE GOVERNMENT IN THE WEEKS AHEAD [...] (C) Since the signing of the June 16 eight-point agreement with the Maoists, the government and seven-party alliance appear to have realized that unilateral concessions could ultimately result in a Maoist takeover and have since returned to their previous bottom line: the Maoists must lay dow [...]	2006-06-22 11:28:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EAID NP
06KATHMANDU1652	MAOISTS 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 11:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PTER ETRD EINV PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1663	FORMER PRIME MINISTER SURYA THAPA WORRIED ABOUT THE EIGHT-POINT AGREEMENT AND POSSIBLE MAOIST-LED GOVERNMENT [...] (C) In a June 22 meeting with the Ambassador, Surya Bahadur Thapa, chairman of the Rastriya Janashakti Party (RJP) and five-time Prime Minister, condemned the eight-point agreement that Prime Minister G. P. Koirala had signed with Maoist chairman Prachanda on June 16. He stressed that the po [...]	2006-06-23 12:40:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR NP PREF
06KATHMANDU1664	POLITICAL LEADERS AGREE MAOISTS MUST GIVE UP ARMS [...] (C) On June 22, the Ambassador met separately with Madhav Kumar Nepal, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML),and Deputy Prime Minister Amik Sherchan of People's Front Nepal (PFN) to stress that the Maoists must give up arms before they could be [...]	2006-06-23 12:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL KPKO EAID NP
06KATHMANDU1665	COMMERCIAL TURBO PROP AIRCRAFT CRASHES, NO [...] (C) On June 21, a Yeti Airlines DeHavilland DH-6 Twin Otter aircraft crashed in a failed landing attempt at the remote Jumla airport in western Nepal killing all nine Nepalis on board. Mohan Adhikari, Officiating Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN),explained to E [...]	2006-06-23 12:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAIR CASC NP
06KATHMANDU1666	DISCONTENTED 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 12:45:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1667	DEPUTY PM: IMPOSSIBLE TO BRING MAOISTS INTO [...] (C) In a June 23 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister K.P. Oli stressed that it would be "quite impossible" to bring the Maoists into the Government of Nepal (GON) before "demobilization and decommissioning" had taken place. During the meeting, Oli excused h [...]	2006-06-23 12:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1678	MAOIST 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 12:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1689	AMBASSADOR CAUTIONS HOME MINISTER/CHIEF NEGOTIATOR [...] (C) In a June 27 meeting, the Ambassador cautioned Government of Nepal (GON) chief negotiator and Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula that if the Maoists came into government without committing to give up violence irrevocably and permanently giving up their weapons, the USG would have to cut [...]	2006-06-27 10:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1692	GOVERNMENT WILLING TO SUPPORT SOLUTION ACCEPTABLE [...] (C) On June 23, the Ambassador discussed with Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy PM K.P. Oli the seven-nation core group's preparations for a July 14 meeting in New York on Bhutanese refugees (ref A). Oli conveyed the willingness of the Government of Nepal (GON) to accept repatriation, th [...]	2006-06-27 11:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PREL PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU1694	CODE 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 12:12:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP PINR
06KATHMANDU1702	TIBETAN REFUGEE UPDATE, JUNE 28 [...] (C) Douglas DiSalvo, Associate Protection Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),told Emboff that there were currently 99 Tibetan refugees at the Tibetan Refugee Center (TRC). Of those, 41 were scheduled to depart Kathmandu for India on June 29 with exit permits [...]	2006-06-28 11:16:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1714	JANUARY 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 08:40:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU172	MAOISTS 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 10:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1722	EU PRESENTS REASSURING STANCE ON AID [...] (C) In a June 29 meeting, Eduardo Lechuga Jimenez, Acting Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Nepal, told the Ambassador that the EU wanted to help the people of Nepal but not finance the Maoist insurgency. Jimenez, clarifying the EU's position (reftel),said that the EU woul [...]	2006-06-30 10:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER EAID NP
06KATHMANDU1725	INDIAN AMBASSADOR ON BHUTANESE REFUGEES [...] (C) During a June 30 meeting, Indian Ambassador Shiv Mukherjee told the Ambassador that Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary Pankaj Saran, following his visit to Thimpu, had sent up a suggestion that the Government of Nepal (GON) allow a small joint verification team (JVT) perhap [...]	2006-06-30 11:18:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1726	MONITORING COMMITTEE CONTINUES TO TAKE SHAPE WHILE [...] (C) The work of the Ceasefire Code of Conduct National Monitoring Committee is proceeding at a far slower pace than it took to reach the eight-point agreement (ref A) that created it. Members of the monitoring committee explained to us that the committee was busy developing its working framew [...]	2006-06-30 11:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1727	US-FUNDED FACILITATOR CONCERNED ABOUT PEACE [...] (C) USAID-funded contractor Hannes Siebert told the Ambassador June 29 that he was worried about the lack of progress by the Government of Nepal (GON) in the constitutional drafting committee as well as in establishing the cease fire monitoring committee. Siebert shared the Ambassador's assess [...]	2006-06-30 11:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1731	UN PREVIEWS GON REQUEST FOR PEACE PROCESS SUPPORT [...] (C) UN Resident Representative Matthew Kahane previewed the eagerly anticipated GON request for support to the United Nations in a briefing for selected countries June 30. Kahane insisted that he could not predict when the UN might receive the letter from the GON, ascribing the delay to dynam [...]	2006-06-30 13:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO NP
06KATHMANDU1744	GOVERNMENT FORMALLY REQUESTS UN ASSISTANCE [...] (C) On July 3, the UN officially received a letter from Prime Minister GP Koirala to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan requesting help with the management and monitoring of Maoist and government arms. The GON declined to publicly disclose the contents of the letter "in the interest of the count [...]	2006-07-05 11:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KPKO NP
06KATHMANDU1745	CHINESE 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 12:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1755	PRIME 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 12:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR NP
06KATHMANDU1757	PRACHANDA SAYS WEAPONS WILL NOT BE DECOMMISSIONED [...] (C) Following the Ambassador's June 28 speech and subsequent public remarks on July 1, Prachanda gave a TV interview July 3 in which he stated that the Maoists would not give up arms before joining an interim government. In a somewhat contradictory July 3 press statement, he issued a directiv [...]	2006-07-05 12:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1784	CONSTITUENT 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 11:50:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NP
06KATHMANDU1785	CODE OF CONDUCT MONITORING COMMITTEE MOVING AHEAD [...] (C) On July 7, Charge met with Birendra Mishra, Coordinator of the National Monitoring Committee on Code of Conduct for Ceasefire (NMCC),to discuss the future plans of the NMCC and its role in peace negotiations. Mishra said that the committee, set up in the Peace Secretariat since just July [...]	2006-07-07 12:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR EAID NP
06KATHMANDU1786	NEPAL POLICE READY FOR TRAINING AND TECHNICAL [...] (C) Maoists have decimated Nepal Police posts in most parts of the country and forced most police personnel to move into district headquarters. There has been no government security presence in most rural areas during the last few years of the Maoist insurgency. In addition, foreign assistan [...]	2006-07-07 12:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL KCRM EAID NP
06KATHMANDU1794	NEPAL ASKS USG SUPPORT FOR UN ASSISTANCE [...] (C/NF) The GON shared with Post a copy of Prime Minister Koirala's letter requesting assistance from the United Nations (full text in para. 5) and asked for our support in getting the UN to give a prompt, positive response. The GON is worried that India is opposing UN action. According to th [...]	2006-07-10 10:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1795	CRIME ON THE RISE IN KATHMANDU VALLEY? [...] (C) Leading dailies have recently been reporting an upsurge of criminal activity in Kathmandu (ref A). However, according to police sources, despite the press reports, crime, and robbery in particular, have actually been decreasing in Kathmandu Valley. Keshab Adhikari, Superintendent of Poli [...]	2006-07-10 11:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KCRM PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1796	PRC APPLYING UNPRECEDENTED PRESSURE ON UNHCR [...] (C) Douglas DiSalvo, Associate Protection Officer at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Nepal (UNHCR),told Emboff that on July 7, the PRC Embassy sent a diplomatic note to UNHCR requesting that UNHCR not provide assistance to a group of 16 Tibetans who had crossed the border [...]	2006-07-10 12:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1797	NEPAL'S "STATE OF THE UNION" IMPRESSES FEW [...] (C) On July 9, Deputy Prime Minister K.P. Oli presented to Parliament the Government of Nepal's (GON) annual policy and program statement for the 2006-2007 fiscal year (full text emailed to SCA/INS). (Note: The Nepali fiscal year runs from July 15 - July 14. End Note.) The statement to Parli [...]	2006-07-10 12:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREF NP
06KATHMANDU1799	RESIGNATION 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 12:15:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1806	MAOIST 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 10:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1816	CALL 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 10:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1828	FORMER PM DEUBA URGES "OUTSIDERS" TO HELP NEPAL [...] (C) In a July 11 meeting, Nepali Congress - Democratic (NC-D) President and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba told CDA that the Government of Nepal (GON) seemed to be in a hurry to make concessions to the Maoists. Deuba expressed concern that the GON was going to forfeit its gains, suc [...]	2006-07-12 10:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR NP
06KATHMANDU1841	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] On July 12, Emboff delivered reftel's talking points to Shanker Bairagi, Under Secretary in the Europe/Americas Division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stating our strong condemnation of the North Korean missile launch and the serious threat it poses to the region and to the international [...]	2006-07-12 11:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PARM KNNP KN NP
06KATHMANDU1865	UML GENERAL SECRETARY CONCERNED ABOUT WAY FORWARD [...] (C) During a July 12 meeting, CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal told CDA he was worried about the way forward in the peace process. MK Nepal lamented the ground already lost to the Maoists in the eight-point agreement (ref A). He stressed the importance of achieving a consensus wi [...]	2006-07-13 11:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1866	PEACE SECRETARIAT STRAINING TO SUPPORT OPERATIONAL [...] (C) CDA and A/DCM met July 10 with Vidya Dhar Mallik, Secretary of the Peace Secretariat, to discuss the role the SIPDIS Secretariat was playing in the peace process and the SIPDIS Secretariat's plans for the future. The Secretariat is SIPDIS currently supporting four important commit [...]	2006-07-13 11:50:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1867	TWO PAKISTANIS ARRESTED IN KATHMANDU: ALLEGED [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-13 12:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU190	NOMINATION FOR APRIL 3-14 POLITICAL TRAINING FOR [...] Post nominates Tisa Lacoul Shrestha for the April 3-14 political training course for LES/FSNs who work in political sections. The requested information is below. Tisa Lacoul Shrestha Grade: FSN 7-4 Length of Service: 3 1/2 years English language ability: excellent Time spent in the U.S.: [...]	2006-01-18 08:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	AFSI AFSN AMGT PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU1906	NEPAL'S ECONOMIC SURVEY DEPICTS DISMAL ECONOMY [...] (C) Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat recently presented to Parliament Nepal's annual Economic Survey Report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2005-2006, which highlighted decreases in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the agricultural sector and a rise in inflation. A nominal increase in per capita income [...]	2006-07-17 12:29:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID EFIN NP
06KATHMANDU1908	CONFUSION 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 13:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1918	PAKISTANIS ARRESTED IN KATHMANDU REPORTEDLY HAVE [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-18 11:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1920	NEPAL'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 12:12:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID EFIN NP
06KATHMANDU1925	TASK FORCE TO PRESENT UNIFIED VOICE FOR POLITICAL [...] (C) On July 18, the Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) formed a 20-member task force to incorporate the differing opinions of the political party leaders into a unified agenda for the July 21 talks between the Government of Nepal (GON) and Maoist negotiation teams. Nepal Sadbhavana Party - Anandi De [...]	2006-07-19 12:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1966	POLITICAL LEADERS TOUGHEN ATTITUDE ABOUT ARMS [...] (C) In separate meetings with CDA on July 19 and 20, Nepali Congress (NC) Vice President Sushil Koirala, Speaker of the House and CPN-UML Central Committee member Subash Nemwang, and Nepal Workers and Peasants' Party (NWPP) Chairman Narayan Man Bijukchhe expressed increasingly hardline positi [...]	2006-07-21 12:29:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1974	DEMARCHE ON P5+1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-24 12:02:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP EU AORC NP
06KATHMANDU1976	MK NEPAL DECRIES SLOW ARMS MANAGEMENT, PEACE [...] (C) In a July 21 meeting with CDA, CPN-UML Secretary General Madhav Kumar Nepal complained about the sluggishness in decision-making about managing Maoist and Nepal Army weapons, the interim constitution, the interim government, and the inability of the Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) and GON to a [...]	2006-07-24 12:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1982	TIBETAN REFUGEE UPDATE: JULY 25 [...] (C) Douglas DiSalvo, Associate Protection Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Nepal (UNHCR),told Emboff that the 16 Tibetans who were the subject of PRC pressure in early July (reftel) left Nepal on July 24 and arrived in India on July 25. The Government of Nepal [...]	2006-07-25 12:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU1983	HOME MINISTER SITAULA: NO DECISIONS BEFORE UN [...] (C) On July 24, Home Minister and GON negotiation team leader Krishna Sitaula told DCM that the GON and the Maoists would agree on an arms management strategy after meeting with the UN assessment team, scheduled to arrive on July 26. Home Minister Sitaula assured DCM that the Maoists would no [...]	2006-07-25 12:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU1984	PRACHANDA 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 12:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU199	AMBASSADOR SUGGESTS HMGN POSTPONE MUNICIPAL [...] (C) In separate meetings on January 18 with Home Minister Kamal Thapa, Vice-Chairman Tulsi Giri, and Vice-Chairman Kirti Nidhi Bista, and in a January 19 meeting with Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey, the Ambassador pushed for His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) to postpone the munici [...]	2006-01-19 11:28:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU1993	FOREIGN MINISTER COMMENTS ON JULY 14 CORE GROUP [...] (C) On July 25, the Ambassador met with Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister K.P. Oli to give a read-out of the July 14 Core Group meeting and to confirm points on Bhutanese and Tibetan refugees (reftel). Oli confirmed the Government of Nepal's (GON) commitment to allow resettlement of t [...]	2006-07-26 11:12:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PREL BT IN NP
06KATHMANDU1994	DEPUTY PM SHERCHAN: ARMS MANAGEMENT A SECONDARY [...] (C) On July 25, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health Amik Sherchan told DCM that the issue of the management of Maoist arms was secondary to resolving the wider political conflict. Deputy PM Sherchan said that the GON and Maoists had reached a bottleneck over the matter of Nepal Army [...]	2006-07-26 11:16:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP

06KATHMANDU200	GOVERNMENT ARRESTS POLITICAL PARTY AND CIVIL [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. See paragraph 11. Summary ------- 2. (C) Citing fears that the Maoists would infiltrate the January 20 mass protest program of the seven-party alliance and turn it violent, the government cut phone services and arrested political party and ci [...]	2006-01-19 11:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2003	NEPAL PARLIAMENT POISED TO RATIFY ROME STATUTE [...] (C) On July 25 the House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution directing the Government of Nepal (GON) to ratify the Rome Statute to become a member of the International Criminal Court. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs K.P. Oli pledged that the GON would rati [...]	2006-07-26 11:45:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU2004	GOVERNMENT 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 11:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2007	FOREIGN MINISTER TAKES A STRONG LINE AGAINST THE [...] (C) On July 25, the Ambassador met with Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister K.P. Oli to discuss the current situation in Nepal. Oli complained that he had been blasted from both within and without the government for his hard stance against the Maoists. Oli also expressed concern about [...]	2006-07-26 12:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL UNGA NP
06KATHMANDU2019	DEMARCHE IN PREPARATION OF THE UN HIGH LEVEL [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-27 11:05:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREF SMIG UNGA NP
06KATHMANDU2028	PRC VFM SAYS CHINA AND THE U.S. SHARE A COMMON [...] (C) In a July 27 meeting with PRC visiting Vice Foreign Minister Wu Tawei, Ambassador Moriarty stressed the importance of a unified approach to the Maoist issue in Nepal. Wu shared the Ambassador's perspective that the PRC and the U.S. must work together to assist Nepal during this time of tr [...]	2006-07-28 11:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CH NP
06KATHMANDU2030	MAOIST ARMS ISSUE MUST BE SOLVED FIRST, CPN-UML [...] (C) On July 27 the Ambassador met separately with CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal and Speaker of the House Subash Nemwang (also CPN-UML) to discuss what the Government of Nepal could do to resolve the arms management issue. Both interlocutors agreed that the issue of Maoist arms h [...]	2006-07-28 12:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2045	NEPAL PLANS TO SEND REP TO FORCE GENERATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-31 11:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO LE NP
06KATHMANDU205	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES BHUTANESE REFUGEES WITH [...] (C) On January 17, the Ambassador met with Norwegian Ambassador Tore Toreng to discuss Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. As Norway was the current chair of the Bhutanese resettlement countries group, Toreng explained, he is actively engaging with Foreign Minister Pandey on the Bhutanese refugee is [...]	2006-01-20 07:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL NP
06KATHMANDU2087	NEPAL: 61ST UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HIGH LEVEL [...] (SBU) Post provides the following response, keyed to ref A, regarding high-level Nepali attendance and requests for meetings at the 61st UN General Assembly (UNGA). We will provide additional details as they become available: A. King Gyanendra will not atend the UNGA. (Note: The King rema [...]	2006-08-01 11:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA NP
06KATHMANDU2088	WELCOME MESSAGE FOR CODEL KOLBE [...] (SBU) Embassy Kathmandu warmly welcomes the August 25-28 visit of Representative Jim Kolbe, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs of the House Appropriations Committee (HACFO),along with Representatives Fred Upton, Brian Baird, Ander Crensha [...]	2006-08-01 11:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NP
06KATHMANDU2089	NEPAL 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 11:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2097	NEPAL: U.S. AND INDIA READING FROM THE SAME PAGE [...] (C) In an August 2 conversation with the Ambassador, Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee indicated that the Government of India (GOI) was moving in unison with the U.S. on Nepal policy, insisting that the Maoists give up their weapons before entering an interim government. Mukherjee also [...]	2006-08-02 12:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PREF IN NP
06KATHMANDU21	NEPAL WOOD PACKAGING EXPORT REQUEST [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph two. NEPAL SEEKS WAIVER OF WOOD PACKAGING EXPORT PROVISION --------------------------------------------- -------- 2. (U) Post requests Department guidance to reply to the diplomatic note below from His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) requ [...]	2006-01-04 09:45:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD NP
06KATHMANDU211	CITY QUIET DURING CURFEW, BUT PARTIES STILL [...] (SBU) The January 20 government-called curfew from 0800 to 1800 inside the ring road in Kathmandu and Lalitpur was strictly observed. The city was quiet and the seven-party alliance was unable to hold its planned mass demonstration against the King. INSEC, a reputed human rights NGO, report [...]	2006-01-20 09:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2110	NEPAL'S KING REMAINS ISOLATED [...] (C) King Gyanendra's confidant Prabhakar Rana told the Ambassador on August 3 that popular animosity against the King had not died down since the April "People's Movement." Rana had suggested in vain that the King give his testimony to the high-level Rayamajhi Commission. Rana denied that the [...]	2006-08-04 10:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU212	DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM: THE WAY FORWARD [...] (C) On January 19, the Ambassador raised the issue of UN reform with Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey drawing on ref A's points on management reform and the Human Rights Council. FM Pandey also asked about UN Security Council expansion. Pandey indicated that Nepal agreed with the U.S. in [...]	2006-01-20 09:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR PHUM UN ADCO NP
06KATHMANDU213	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION FOR RNA COL. [...] Embassy verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by Colonel Sudhir Shrestha of the Royal Nepalese Army, as of this date. Post has notified requesting agency. MORIARTY [...]	2006-01-20 09:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2130	NEPALI CONGRESS-DEMOCRATIC LEADERS WORRIED ABOUT [...] (C) During an August 1 meeting with Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D) President Sher Bahadur Deuba, Spokesperson Minendra Rijal and Central Committee Member Prakash Sharan Mahat, the Ambassador expressed his concern about the Maoists' expanded influence and stressed to the NC-D leaders that th [...]	2006-08-04 11:50:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU214	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION FOR RNA COL. [...] Embassy verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by Colonel Pramod Kumar Lama of the Royal Nepalese Army, as of this date. Post has notified requesting agency. MORIARTY [...]	2006-01-20 09:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2140	WELCOME MESSAGE FOR CODEL SPECTER [...] (SBU) Embassy Kathmandu warmly welcomes the August 12-14 visit of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman and Mrs. Specter and staff to Kathmandu. 2. (SBU) Overall control officer for this delegation will be Political/Economic Section Chief Bill Martin. He can be reached 24/7 via the Embassy s [...]	2006-08-07 10:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NP
06KATHMANDU2142	DEMARCHE ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-07 12:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS UN IS LE NP
06KATHMANDU215	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION FOR LTC HIRA [...] Embassy verifies that the Department of State possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by Lieutenant Colonel Hira Lal Joshi of the Royal Nepalese Army, or Senior Superintendent of Armed Police Lakshmi Prasad Bashyal, as of this date. Post has notified requesting a [...]	2006-01-20 09:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2152	MAOIST LETTER DEMANDS U.S. REMOVAL OF TERRORIST TAG [...] (C) On August 7, a group of five individuals associated with the Magar National Liberation Front, an organization associated with the Maoists, appeared at the Chancery and delivered a letter to the U.S. President. The letter demanded that the USG remove the terrorist tag on the Maoists and st [...]	2006-08-08 11:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2153	NEPAL'S DEPUTY PM REQUESTS UNGA MEETING WITH [...] (C) On August 7, Acting Foreign Secretary Bhagirath Basnet conveyed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs K.P. Oli's request to meet President Bush during Oli's planned visit to the U.S. in mid-September (ref A) for the UN General Assembly (UNGA)(the Deputy PM was ill so Basnet [...]	2006-08-08 11:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NP
06KATHMANDU2154	ARMS MANAGEMENT STILL KEY ISSUE BUT TEMPORIZING [...] (C) Since the August 3 departure of the UN assessment mission without a deal on arms management, the Government of Nepal (GON) and Maoist negotiating teams have struggled to reach an agreement. Neither party wants to be blamed for missing this opportunity for peace. According to at least one [...]	2006-08-08 12:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU216	LETTER ON BHUTANESE REFUGEES FROM A/S ROCCA [...] (C) On January 19, the Ambassador delivered A/S Rocca's letter on Bhutanese refugees to Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey. The Ambassador explained that the USG supported Nepal's efforts to set a firm time table to engage with the RGOB to resolve the issue. The Ambassador also urged the Fo [...]	2006-01-20 09:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF NP
06KATHMANDU2166	GON 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 13:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2167	NEPAL SCENESETTER FOR AUGUST 12-14 VISIT OF CODEL [...] (C) Your visit comes at a critical moment in Nepal's history. The country 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 Prachanda signed a [...]	2006-08-09 14:07:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU217	AMBASSADOR PRESSES HMGN TO ISSUE EXIT PERMITS TO [...] (C) In a January 18 meeting with Home Minister Kamal Thapa and a January 19 meeting with Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey, the Ambassador urged His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) to issue exit permits to the transiting Tibetan refugees. Thapa replied that he expected to receive a sta [...]	2006-01-20 09:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL TB NP
06KATHMANDU2173	WELCOME MESSAGE FOR STAFFDEL FORSYTH [...] (SBU) Embassy Kathmandu warmly welcomes the August 23-26 visit of Minority Deputy Chief Counsel of the House International Relations Committee (HIRC) Bart Forsyth, along with Democratic Deputy Staff Director Peter Yeo, Democratic Professional Staff Member David Killion, and Staff Associate Tod [...]	2006-08-10 10:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NP
06KATHMANDU2174	REACTIONS TO GOVERNMENT-MAOIST AGREEMENT VARY [...] (C) Reactions to the August 9 agreement between the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists outlining ideas for future United Nations (UN) involvement in Nepal's peace process (reftel) have varied. Political parties disagreed on whether the agreement was good or bad for the peace process, a [...]	2006-08-10 11:50:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU2178	PROPOSED UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SPECIAL SESSION [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-10 16:47:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PHUM PREL PTER IS LE NP
06KATHMANDU2179	REVISED NEPAL SCENESETTER FOR AUGUST 12-14 VISIT [...] Your visit comes at a critical moment in Nepal's history. The country 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 Prachanda signed a join [...]	2006-08-11 13:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2187	NEPAL: SENATOR SPECTER MEETS WITH GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Senator Arlen Specter met with Government of Nepal (GON) officials on August 13 to gain insight into Nepal's political situation and to remind the GON of the USG's continuing support in its move toward democracy. The GON representatives stressed their commitment not to allow the Maoists [...]	2006-08-14 01:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PINR NP
06KATHMANDU2188	PRIME MINISTER TAKES A STRONG STANCE ON MAOISTS [...] (C) A spry Prime Minister Koirala thanked Senator Specter for continued support, explaining that United States financial assistance had helped stabilize the government. Koirala stressed his strong support of democracy, and emphasized that unless the Maoists gave up their weapons they could not [...]	2006-08-14 01:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2195	NEPAL 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 12:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NP
06KATHMANDU2203	INDIANS WANT TO WORK WITH US ON UN PRESENCE IN [...] (C) In an August 14 conversation with the Ambassador, Indian Ambassador Mukherjee expressed Indian support for an expanded UN presence in Nepal, as long as the UN Security Council did not have to authorize that revised role. Mukherjee believed that the GON gave in to all Maoist demands in the [...]	2006-08-15 11:18:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU2204	NEPAL GOVERNMENT'S TEMERITY PUTS INDIAN CONSULATE [...] (C) Indian Ambassador Mukherjee told the Ambassador August 14 that government forces had done little earlier that day to protect the Indian Consulate in Birgunj against a group of hostile demonstrators. Not until Mukherjee threatened to cancel India's assistance program did the police attempt [...]	2006-08-15 11:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL IN NP
06KATHMANDU2205	NEPALI PM OKAYS NON-LETHAL EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES [...] (C) The Ambassador asked PM Koirala on August 13 whether the Prime Minister would approve delivery of Nepal's U.S.-financed Excess Defense Articles (EDA). Koirala replied, "Yes, please go ahead with that non-lethal equipment." 2. (C) This agreement to accept the EDA also solves a transpor [...]	2006-08-15 11:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU223	41 TIBETANS ARRESTED AND RELEASED [...] (SBU) On January 22, Nepali police arrested forty-one Tibetans at Thankot, the main entry point for the Kathmandu valley. (Note: This checkpoint was the site of a high profile Maoist attack on January 14. Reftel. End note.) The group of Tibetans were returning to Kathmandu, en route to Tibe [...]	2006-01-23 10:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF NP
06KATHMANDU2251	(C/NF) NEPAL'S FINANCIAL SITUATION AND CAPITAL [...] (C) The continuing extortion and intimidation of businesses in Nepal by the Maoists has created a significant problem for foreign- and Nepali-owned businesses in Nepal. Maoist activities against business have continued despite the cease-fire Code of Conduct. This threat has caused many busine [...]	2006-08-18 11:21:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR ECON EFIN EINV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2253	UN TEAM EXPECTED IN KATHMANDU BY SEPTEMBER 1 [...] (C) UNDP Resident Representative Mathew Kahane told DCM August 18 that a small UN team will arrive in Kathmandu by September 1 to start work on the 5-point GON/Maoist request to the UN for assistance (ref A). Kahane said that the five-person team would include representatives of UN technical [...]	2006-08-18 11:50:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2254	ARREST OF INDIAN GANG LEADER HIGHLIGHTS THE [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-18 12:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	SMIG SOCI PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2255	NEPAL SUPPORTS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador explained the U.S. position on UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1701 on Lebanon to Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Oli on August 17. A senior Nepali Foreign Ministry (MFA) official told us August 18 that Nepal completely supports the resolution. Acco [...]	2006-08-18 12:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS UN UNSC IS LE NP
06KATHMANDU2256	ARREST OF INDIAN GANG LEADER HIGHLIGHTS THE [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-18 12:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	SMIG SOCI PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2257	ARREST OF INDIAN GANG LEADER HIGHLIGHTS THE [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-21 01:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	SMIG SOCI PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2268	GOVERNMENT BACKS DOWN AFTER PROTESTS OVER [...] (C) The poorly handled attempt by the Government of Nepal (GON) on August 18 to bring its subsidized rates for petroleum products more in line with world prices ended with a complete reversal on August 20. Street protests in the 10-20,000 person range in Kathmandu on August 19 and 20 compelle [...]	2006-08-21 11:50:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL ECON NP
06KATHMANDU2269	OHCHR 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 12:02:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU2270	TERRORISM FINANCE: LISTS 78 AND 79 [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-21 12:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN ETTC PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU228	PARTY 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 12:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER MOPS NP
06KATHMANDU2281	CLEAR PUBLIC MESSAGE ON ARMS MANAGEMENT FROM PRIME [...] (C) On August 21 former Prime Minister and Rastriya Janashaki Party founder Surya Bahadur Thapa agreed with the Ambassador that the issue of Maoist arms management "will decide everything." Thapa stressed that the Prime Minister needed to publicly and clearly explain why the Maoists could not [...]	2006-08-22 12:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2284	NEPAL: PUSHING BACK THE MAOIST TIDE [...] (C) We are reaching the crunch point in Nepal. Four months after Nepal's people's movement uprising, the Maoists appear intent on intimidating their way into power. Till now, the Seven Party Alliance government appears to have been more worried about alienating the Maoists than about preservi [...]	2006-08-23 11:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER IN NP
06KATHMANDU2286	NEPAL'S PETROLEUM CRISIS NOT YET SOLVED [...] (C) Nepali Finance Minister Mahat told the Ambassador August 21 the Government of Nepal (GON) had mishandled its attempt to abolish most of the subsidies on petroleum products. He expressed regret that it had not been possible to retain at least some portion of the price increase. Mahat said [...]	2006-08-23 12:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EAGR EAID PGOV PREL ECON MARR NP
06KATHMANDU232	GOVERNMENT AND PARTIES NERVOUS, BUT UNBENDING [...] (C) During the evening of January 23, His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) withdrew the curfew in effect in Kathmandu and Lalitpur, which it had put in place on January 16 (ref A),restored cellphone service, and once again allowed political activity and demonstrations in much of Kathmandu [...]	2006-01-24 09:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU2335	NEPALI INTERIM CONSTITUTION STILL HAS GAPS [...] (C) The committee of party and Maoist-affiliated representatives tasked with preparing an interim constitution for Nepal presented its draft to the Government and Maoist peace negotiating teams on August 25. The Interim Constitution Drafting Committee (ICDC) took a little more than two months [...]	2006-08-29 12:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2340	PEACE PROCESS MAKES PROGRESS - SLOWLY [...] (C) USAID-contracted peace facilitator Olivier told the Ambassador August 24 that the peace process in Nepal seemed to be making progress. Nonetheless, Olivier said that the Maoists continued to exert pressure on the Prime Minister to dissolve the Parliament. He reported that the Maoists had [...]	2006-08-30 09:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER UN NP
06KATHMANDU2343	CODEL KOLBE PUSHES FOR SOLUTION FOR BHUTANESE [...] (C) Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister K.P. Oli suggested to CODEL Kolbe on August 25 that the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) and the Government of Nepal (GON) should give bilateral talks one more chance, even though the last 15 rounds of talks have been unsuccessful. During a sub [...]	2006-08-30 10:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2344	MAOIST INFLUENCE STRONG IN CENTRAL NEPAL [...] (C) During an August 24 dinner with House International Relations Committee Staffdel Forsyth, Deputy Inspector General of Police in Pokhara (central Nepal) Ramesh Kumar Shrestha told Emboff that the Maoists could do "more or less whatever they want" in and around the city of Pokhara. Shrestha [...]	2006-08-30 11:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2345	PM KOIRALA SEES UN AS THE PANACEA [...] (C) In an August 28 meeting, Prime Minister Koirala told House Foreign Operations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Kolbe that the United Nations would solve Nepal's problems and help to bring a lasting peace. The PM indicated that he would continue to hold the line against allowing the Maoists into [...]	2006-08-30 11:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2346	NEPAL TO SEND PKO FORCE TO LEBANON [...] (C) The cabinet of the Government of Nepal (GON) decided on August 29 to send a batallion of soldiers to Lebanon to join the UN peacekeeping force. Brigadier General Chand, Director of Public Relations for the Nepal Army, told the Defense Attache that there could be up to 860 soldiers sent to [...]	2006-08-30 11:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNIFIL IS LE NP
06KATHMANDU2348	NEW 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 11:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER UN NP
06KATHMANDU2349	GON STRUGGLES WITH MAOIST CHALLENGE [...] (C) Prime Minister Koirala's Foreign Policy Advisor Dr. Chalise told DCM August 29 that the GON is acutely aware of stepped-up Maoist presence in Nepal's urban centers and the deteriorating law and order situation throughout the country. He said that the GON was trying to bind the Maoist ins [...]	2006-08-30 11:50:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2363	CODEL 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 11:12:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ECON PREF NP
06KATHMANDU2364	AMBASSADOR URGES HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT SUPPORT [...] (S) The Ambassador made the case for continued UK political engagement in Nepal in an August 29 meeting with the new British Ambassador. The Ambassador explained why he did not believe a Maoist victory was inevitable. UK Ambassador Hall expressed concern that nothing be done to impede the pe [...]	2006-08-31 12:05:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER UK NP
06KATHMANDU2390	TIBETAN UPDATE, AUGUST 31 [...] (C) According to Douglas DiSalvo, Associate Protection Officer at the Kathmandu Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),there were 105 transiting Tibetan refugees housed in the Tibetan Reception Center (TRC) as of August 31. There were 185 new arrivals and 126 dep [...]	2006-09-01 11:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF NP
06KATHMANDU2391	NEPAL SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDACY TO THE UN HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-01 11:31:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV UNGA NP
06KATHMANDU2405	DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR ATTENDEES OF NAM SUMMIT [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-05 10:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA PTER PHUM CU NP
06KATHMANDU2418	INDUSTRIAL SECURITY GROUP CONDEMNS MAOIST ACTIONS [...] (C) The Industrial Security Group (ISG),which brings together key Embassies, bilateral Chambers of Commerce and industry associations (with the U.S. Embassy as Acting Chair),issued a strong condemnation of Maoist extortion and other threats after an ISG meeting on September 5. Participants w [...]	2006-09-06 11:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ECON NP
06KATHMANDU2422	NEPAL: INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION ELECTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-07 11:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA NP
06KATHMANDU2423	NEPAL: NONPAPER DELIVERED ON U.S. VIEWS OF UNSC [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-07 11:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL KNNP MNUC WMD CT KPAO PTER KN KS
06KATHMANDU2424	NEPAL: PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH ON DETAINEES IN THE WAR [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-07 11:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL NP
06KATHMANDU2425	MAOIST 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 12:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM MARR UN NP
06KATHMANDU2434	PRIME MINISTER PLANS TO APPOINT NEW HOME MINISTER [...] (C) USAID-contracted peace facilitator Hannes Siebert told the Ambassador September 7 that Prime Minister Koirala is probably going to appoint a new Home Minister. Siebert expects incumbent Home Minister Sitaula to keep his position on the Government of Nepal's (GON) negotiating team with Koi [...]	2006-09-08 11:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU244	MAOIST DEPUTY DEFENDS VIOLENCE TO END AUTOCRATIC [...] (SBU) Maoist Deputy Baburam Bhattarai published an article in the January 18 issue of Budhabaar, a Nepali-language weekly (mouthpiece of CPN-UML, a major party of the seven-party alliance) with a circulation of about 10,000, explaining that the Maoists intended to use armed struggle to accompl [...]	2006-01-25 08:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU245	HEAVY 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 09:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV MOPS NP
06KATHMANDU2457	NEPAL KEEN FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT [...] (C) During a September 8 meeting with heads of diplomatic missions, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs K.P. Oli requested that the diplomatic community support Nepal's candidacy for a non-permanent member seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for 2007-2008. The [...]	2006-09-11 12:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC NP
06KATHMANDU2458	NEPAL: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-11 12:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PTER IAEA UNSC IR NP
06KATHMANDU2461	PRIME MINISTER TO ACT AGAINST MAOISTS IN TWO WEEKS [...] (C) In a meeting on September 10, the Ambassador told Prime Minister Koirala that the Government of Nepal (GON) was losing control of the country. The Maoists were acting with impunity and they clearly assumed the GON would do nothing. PM (and Nepali Congress Party chief) Koirala responded tha [...]	2006-09-11 12:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2463	DPM OLI WORRIED, BUT WILLING TO STAND UP TO THE [...] (C) After listening to DPM/Foreign Minister Oli's pitch to the diplomatic community for support for Nepal's bid for a UNSC rotating seat on September 8 (reftel),I asked for a few minutes of Oli's time. In a subsequent one-on-one meeting, I told Oli that the GON was losing the country to the [...]	2006-09-11 13:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU247	MUNICIPAL ELECTION PRIMER [...] (U) Fourteen percent of the total number of voters in Nepal live in the 58 municipalities. Voters must be at least 18 and candidates must be at least 21. In the 58 municipalities where February 8 elections are scheduled for over 4,000 seats, depending on population, there are between nine a [...]	2006-01-25 10:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS NP
06KATHMANDU2478	MAOIST MILITIA AND NEPAL POLICE CLASH OVER [...] (C) OHCHR told us on September 12 that the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and the Maoists had decided to pursue the idea of a joint deployment of Nepal Police and Maoist Militia forces to provide security at the Bhutanese refugee camps in Jhapa District (southeastern Nepal). OHCHR said this was d [...]	2006-09-12 13:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREF NP
06KATHMANDU2479	NEPAL: OHCHR AND NHRC PRESS MAOISTS ON HUMAN [...] (SBU) On September 11, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal sent a document to the Maoists demanding that they stop human rights abuses and fulfill their commitments in the peace process. The document focused on Maoist killings, abductions, tortur [...]	2006-09-12 13:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER PGOV PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU2489	NEPAL: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-13 10:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINS KPKO UNSC KDEM PGOV SU NP
06KATHMANDU2491	MAOISTS FLEX THEIR MUSCLES [...] (C) On September 13, the Maoists called a nationwide traffic strike to protest an alleged shipment of weapons from India to the Nepal Army in violation of the government-Maoist cease-fire Code of Conduct. The Government of Nepal (GON) denied these allegations. It said that no weapons had ent [...]	2006-09-13 12:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2495	UN REP MARTIN WAITING FOR COALITION TO AGREE ON [...] (C) Ian Martin, UN Secretary General Annan's personal representative for the peace process, told the DCM September 11 that in spite of their rhetoric, the Maoists were prepared to move ahead. He remarked that they had recently hammered out a unified position and had taken steps to ensure their [...]	2006-09-14 04:53:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM UN NP
06KATHMANDU2518	STUDENT 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 10:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR NP
06KATHMANDU252	CPN-UML PARTY LEADER WORRIED [...] (C) UML leader MK Nepal, who remains under house arrest, welcomed the Ambassador's visit to his home on January 25. He claimed he had not been in touch with UML party cadre or Maoists recently. MK Nepal speculated that Maoist second-in-command Baburam Bhattarai was making strong statements to [...]	2006-01-26 07:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU2524	NEPAL: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (SBU) On September 13, the DCM chaired a meeting of Post's avian influenza working group. There have still been no confirmed human or bird cases of avian influenza (AI) in Nepal. The Embassy website is updated with the latest AI fact sheet and the country team has distributed pandemic influe [...]	2006-09-15 10:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU KSCA SOCI PREL WHO NP
06KATHMANDU2538	CALL FOR SEVEN-PARTY ALLIANCE UNITY RECEIVES WEAK [...] (C) The Ambassador met separately with President of the Nepali Congress (Democratic) Party (NC-D) Sher Bahadur Deuba and Secretary General of the Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) Madhav Kumar Nepal on September 16 to deliver a message: unity among the seven politica [...]	2006-09-19 01:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU2539	MAOISTS ALLEGEDLY PLANNING URBAN REVOLUTION IN [...] (C/NF) On September 12, Chauyen Lai Shrestha, member of the Nepali Congress (NC) Party and assistant to Prime Minister Koirala's daughter, passed two Nepali-language documents to the Embassy. The documents, which appear to reflect the results of the recent Maoist Central Committee meeting, ou [...]	2006-09-19 01:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU254	NEPAL-WIDE GENERAL STRIKE WIDELY OBSERVED; [...] (C) The January 26 general strike/closure (bandh) of all of Nepal called by the Parties to protest against the King and the upcoming February 8 municipal elections was widely observed. In Kathmandu and Patan, few vehicles were on the roads and most shops and businesses were closed (although s [...]	2006-01-26 09:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU255	RNA WORRIED THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO CONSENSUS ON HOW [...] (C) On January 20, Lt. General Katawal, Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) Chief of General Staff, told the Ambassador he was worried that the government did not have a unified strategy for tackling the Maoist insurgency. Katawal reiterated that there was no purely military solution to the insurgency [...]	2006-01-26 10:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU2551	WORLD BANK REP TRIES TO ENGAGE MAOISTS [...] (C) On September 15, World Bank (WB) Country Representative Ken Ohashi told Emboff that he had requested a meeting with the Maoists' 20-member economic advisory committee, but was rebutted. Frustrated with the Government of Nepal (GON),Ohashi suggested the Maoists should be allowed to run a [...]	2006-09-19 10:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2557	NEWLY APPOINTED ARMY CHIEF STILL FACING HUMAN [...] (C) PM Koirala swore in Rookmangud Katawal as the new Chief of Army Staff on September 18. Katawal, who has repeatedly affirmed his intention to loyally serve the democratic Government of Nepal (GON) received cabinet approval on September 5. The government's decision came in the face of com [...]	2006-09-20 12:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV MARR NP
06KATHMANDU2558	INDIAN AMBASSADOR AFFIRMS IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) In a meeting on September 18, Indian Ambassador Mukherjee told the Ambassador that he had heard that the recent meeting between Prime Minister Koirala and Prachanda had been successful. Two-on-two talks were planned, he said for September 26, 27 and 28 between the Government of Nepal (GON [...]	2006-09-20 13:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ECON MARR IN NP
06KATHMANDU2573	PM TELLS AMBASSADOR: GIVE PEACE A CHANCE [...] (C) Prime Minister Koirala and Foreign Policy Advisor Dr. Chalise told the Ambassador September 21 that the Government of Nepal had to give the Maoists every chance to make peace. Maoist Supremo Prachanda had accepted the PM's demand in a meeting September 17 that Maoist arms management would h [...]	2006-09-21 11:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2587	CRUNCH TIME IN NEPAL? [...] (S/NF) It looks like we're getting to crunch time here in Nepal. The Maoists are still stringing along talks with the GON, hoping that the GON will follow up on its past four months of unilateral concessions by caving in and allowing an armed Maoist movement into an interim government. The Prime [...]	2006-09-22 11:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER IN NP
06KATHMANDU2589	SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ASSERTS MINISTRY'S CONTROL OF [...] (C) Ministry of Defense Secretary Upreti invited Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) Chief to a meeting on September 18 to learn more about U.S.- Nepal security assistance and agreements. ODC Chief emphasized U.S. security assistance hinged on the promotion of human rights. He asked if the M [...]	2006-09-22 11:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PGOV PHUM PINS NP
06KATHMANDU2590	FAR-WESTERN NEPAL: IN TROUBLE, BUT NOT HOPELESS [...] (SBU) During a trip to the far-western region of Nepal September 12-15, Ambassador Moriarty met with government and military officials, business and political leaders, human rights organizations, and USAID project partners to gauge the situation on the ground and the impact of U.S. assistance [...]	2006-09-22 11:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ECON MARR MCAP PHUM SENV EAID NP

06KATHMANDU2596	ECONOMIC GROWTH UNLIKELY UNTIL RESOLUTION OF [...] (SBU) During a recent visit to Nepal, two INR economic analysts gained insight into Nepal's poor economic state. Industrialists in Kathmandu and the key border town of Birgunj explained how Maoist extortion and the activities of Maoist-affiliated trade unions had greatly disrupted their enterp [...]	2006-09-25 10:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2597	NEPAL: THREE VULNERABLE BHUTANESE REFUGEES LEAVING [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-25 11:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF CVIS CA BT NP
06KATHMANDU2598	PARTIAL PEACE DEAL POSSIBLE BEFORE DASHAIN? [...] (C) On September 22, peace facilitator Hannes Siebert and UN Secretary General Annan's representative to the peace process Ian Martin told the Ambassador that the Government of Nepal and the Maoists were getting closer to agreement on several of the key peace documents. There were also, they [...]	2006-09-25 11:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU26	BIMSTEC 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 09:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON BTIO BEXP EINV ETRD NP
06KATHMANDU2619	CHINESE AMBASSADOR WORRIED ABOUT THE MAOISTS [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador September 26, Chinese Ambassador Sun denied that China supported the entry of the Maoists with their arms into an interim Nepali government. To the contrary, the PRC still had a Maoist no-contact policy in place. Sun stated that China's key interest in Nepa [...]	2006-09-27 10:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER CX NP
06KATHMANDU2620	AMBASSADOR UNDERSCORES SERIOUSNESS OF SITUATION [...] (C) During a September 25 meeting with the British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Dr. Kim Howells and British Ambassador Dr. Andrew Hall, the Ambassador strongly reinforced the need for the separation of Maoists from their weapons. The Ambassador stated that he thought [...]	2006-09-27 10:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER UK NP
06KATHMANDU2625	BUCKING UP THE PARTIES ON MAOIST ARMS MANAGEMENT [...] (C) According to various sources, Home Minister and chief Government of Nepal (GON) negotiator Krishna Sitaula is pushing his Seven Party Alliance (SPA) colleagues, including Prime Minister Koirala, to accept a deal that brings the Maoists into an interim government quickly without dealing wi [...]	2006-09-27 11:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU2634	AMBASSADOR TELLS DANISH AMBASSADOR AND VATICAN [...] (C) In a meeting on September 26 with Danish Ambassador Thilstead and another on September 28 with Vatican Nuncio Quintana on September 28, the Ambassador stressed that Nepal's peace process was important, but most important was the outcome. Ambassador Thilstead, who had just hosted his Minis [...]	2006-09-28 13:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREF DA VT BT NP
06KATHMANDU2636	JAPANESE AMBASSADOR SUGGESTS UNGA RESOLUTION ON [...] (C) In a September 27 meeting with the Ambassador, Japanese Ambassador Tsutomu Hiraoka acknowledged that, while a resolution from the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on arms management was an option, the Government of Nepal was not very interested in the idea. The Ambassador explained [...]	2006-09-28 13:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER JP NP
06KATHMANDU2637	TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR: UPDATED STATISTICS [...] (U) The following is post's response to information on textiles requested in reftel. DATA ON TEXTILES ---------------- 2. (U) The following is available data through mid-July 2006 unless otherwise specified. -- Total production in USD value: Data not available -- Total textiles and ap [...]	2006-09-30 09:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTEX NP
06KATHMANDU2638	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SCA PDAS STEVEN R. MANN [...] Embassy Kathmandu warmly welcomes SCA PDAS Steven R. Mann to Nepal from October 3-6, 2006, for meetings with embassy and host government officials. Country clearance is hereby granted for travel to and within the Kathmandu Valley. For the traveler's safety, you should review the security inf [...]	2006-09-30 09:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA IN NP
06KATHMANDU2660	RETAINING THE KATHMANDU AMERICAN CENTER [...] During consultations October 12-13, the Ambassador looks forward to learning Washington?s reaction to our recommendation that the American Center Library remain in its present location and not/not be relocated to the New Embassy Compound. Reftel spells out in detail our reason for recommendin [...]	2006-10-06 09:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL ABLD AMGT ASEC ACOA OPRC KPAO
06KATHMANDU2666	CHIEF GOVERNMENT NEGOTIATOR OPTIMISTIC ABOUT [...] (C) The Government of Nepal's chief peace negotiator Krishna Prasad Sitaula told visiting SCA PDAS Steven Mann and the Ambassador October 6 that he was optimistic the summit meeting on October 8 would be successful. PDAS Mann stressed the USG's view that it was difficult to imagine how the tal [...]	2006-10-06 12:16:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREF CVIS UN CX NP
06KATHMANDU267	NEPAL-INDIA TRANSIT TREATY EXTENDED ONLY THREE [...] (C) India and Nepal agreed at meetings held in New Delhi at the beginning of January to extend the Indo-Nepal transit treaty for three months instead of renewing it for seven years. The treaty provides for smooth movement of commercial goods through India, Nepal's largest trading partner. In [...]	2006-01-27 10:18:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV BEXP ELTN IN NP
06KATHMANDU2673	LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS CERTIFICATION: BRIGADIER [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-10 09:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU2677	CHINESE SHOOTING SPREE RESULTS IN ONE DEAD TIBETAN [...] (C) UNHCR confirmed to us that, on October 1, approximately 75 Tibetans trying to cross into Nepal via the Nangpa La pass (north-east Nepal near Mt. Everest) came under 20 minutes of fire from a Chinese patrol that resulted in one death and one injury. Forty-three of the Tibetans arrived safe [...]	2006-10-10 11:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF UN CH NP
06KATHMANDU2679	DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SHARES U.S. CONCERN OVER [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-10 11:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KN PARM KNNP NP
06KATHMANDU2680	OUTCOME OF PEACE TALKS NOT YET CLEAR [...] (C) With the second day of the staggered peace summit between the governing Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) having drawn to a close, it is not yet clear where things stand. All the parties have agreed that constituent assembly elections should take [...]	2006-10-10 12:07:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2695	MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION'S FY 07 SCORECARD [...] (U) On October 11, Emboff presented the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC's) FY 07 Nepal Scorecard to Ministry of Finance Under Secretary for the Foreign Aid Coordination Division Madhu K. Marasini. Mr. Marasini was not familiar with the MCC. Emboff explained the purpose of the scoreca [...]	2006-10-12 02:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC NP
06KATHMANDU270	FEW CANDIDATES FILE FOR ELECTIONS [...] (C) On January 26, the deadline to file for candidacy in the February 8 municipal elections, the government announced that 3,255 people had filed to run for 4,416 open seats. However, as there were multiple candidates for some posts, more than one-third of the seats had no registered candidate, [...]	2006-01-27 12:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2700	PEACE DEAL APPEARS UNLIKELY ON EVE OF THIRD DAY OF [...] (C) USAID contracted peace facilitator Siebert and leaders of two of the three major political parties in the Government of Nepal (GON) told the Charge d'Affaires and visiting SCA India, Nepal, Sri Lanka Office Director Bernicat in separate meetings on October 11 that they did not expect the GO [...]	2006-10-12 11:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2701	U.S. CANDIDACY FOR ITU COUNCIL AND ITU RADIO [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-12 11:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ECPS ITU NP
06KATHMANDU2702	PARLIAMENT SPOKESMAN TO U.S.: "TAKE A CHANCE" WITH [...] (C) Parliament Spokesman Manohar Bhattarai told SCA/INS Office Director Marcia Bernicat on October 12 that the U.S. should aid the peace process by establishing informal dialogue with the Maoists. He stressed that there were many in Parliament, including himself, who agreed with the Ambassad [...]	2006-10-12 12:18:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2703	PEACE TALKS POSTPONED UNTIL OCTOBER 15 [...] (C) After a third day of peace talks on October 12, Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) and Maoist leaders have decided to postpone peace talks until October 15. The leaders met for less than two hours during the afternoon of October 12 before deciding to continue the talks at a later date. Arjun Nar [...]	2006-10-12 12:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU271	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES NEPAL WITH CONCERNED JAPANESE [...] (C) On January 26, Japanese Ambassador Hiraoka told the Ambassador he was concerned about the deteriorating situation in Nepal. He noted that 2006 was the 50th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations with Nepal, and although Japan had not planned any major celebration, the Japanese F [...]	2006-01-27 12:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP JA
06KATHMANDU2731	GUATEMALA-VENEZUELA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-13 11:20:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC GT VE NP
06KATHMANDU2732	NORWEGIAN/DANISH AMBASSADORS FAVOR MAOIST [...] (C) In a luncheon October 12 with SCA/INS Director Marcia Bernicat and Charge, Ambassador Finn Thilsted of Denmark and Ambassador Tore Toreng of Norway stressed the need for Maoist outreach and engagement to ensure a viable peace process, while Indian Political Counsellor Prabhat Kumar remained [...]	2006-10-13 11:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU2733	IAN MARTIN'S SHOP STAFFED UP AND POISED TO [...] (C) In consultations October 12 with Charge and SCA/INS Director Marcia Bernicat, the UN Secretary General's Personal Representative to Nepal, Ian Martin, and Tamrat Samuel, visiting UN Political Advisor expressed measured optimism on the progress of GON-Maoist summit talks. Martin seemed poi [...]	2006-10-13 13:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PARM UN NP
06KATHMANDU2734	OCTOBER 15 PEACE AGREEMENT LIKELY [...] (C) It appears that agreement on Maoist entry into the interim government, arms management and the Constituent Assembly could be reached at the October 15 Summit Talks. October 13 discussions with USAID-contracted peace facilitator Hannes Siebert, the Prime Minister's (PM's) Defense Advisor Ra [...]	2006-10-13 13:31:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2735	PEACE FACILITATORS BRIEF ON STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) USAID-contracted peace facilitator Hannes Siebert (please protect) told SCA PDAS Steven Mann and USAID Mission Director Don Clark on October 5 that the Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) and the Communist Party of Nepal - Maoist (CPN-M) had narrowed their differences on key issues in the peace pro [...]	2006-10-16 08:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2738	CENTER-LEFT LEADER DESCRIBES CHALLENGES AS PEACE [...] (C) SCA PDAS Steven Mann heard October 4 from Madav Kumar Nepal, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML),that success at the upcoming peace summit would depend in large part on reaching an agreement on the monarchy and Maoists arms management. MK Nep [...]	2006-10-16 08:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2743	CENTER-RIGHT LEADER CONCERNED AS PEACE TALKS DRAW [...] (C) Nepali Congress - Democratic President Sher Bahadur Deuba told visiting SCA PDAS Steven Mann October 4 that the Seven Party Alliance government would have to overcome considerable mistrust of the Maoists if it was going to reach a peace deal at the upcoming talks. The main question was Ma [...]	2006-10-16 08:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2749	PEACE PROCESS OBSTRUCTED BUT ONGOING [...] (C) Contrary to the indications we had on October 13, the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) did not reach a peace deal at their meeting on October 15. No new date for talks was announced. According to our sources, Maoist arms management was the princi [...]	2006-10-16 11:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER UN NP
06KATHMANDU2763	MAOISTS ACTIVE IN RURAL SOLUKHUMBU [...] (C) From September 29 to October 4, Emboffs traveled to southern portion of Solukhumbu District in eastern Nepal and observed and heard about the Maoist activities in that rural area. In Salleri, the district headquarters, the Maoists had established a "People's Government" office, complete wi [...]	2006-10-18 02:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2773	PM'S FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR UPBEAT ON PEACE TALKS [...] (C) PM Koirala's Foreign Policy Advisor, Dr. Suresh Chalise, was upbeat regarding the prospects for a peace deal between the (Government of Nepal) GON and Maoists in a meeting with CDA October 18. He said that the PM had instructed him to deliver a hard-line message to the UN peace team on t [...]	2006-10-18 11:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER UN NP
06KATHMANDU2774	NEW DELHI JOINS THE FRAY OVER NEPAL'S PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) USAID-contracted peace facilitator Siebert told Charge October 18 that the Government of India (GOI) has recently engaged in a powerful way in Nepal's peace process. Siebert said the intervention took place after a visit to New Delhi on October 13 by Indian Ambassador to Nepal Mukherjee. [...]	2006-10-18 11:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PARM UN IN NP
06KATHMANDU2776	INDIAN 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 12:50:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER UN NP
06KATHMANDU2777	UPDATE ON NEPAL'S PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) USAID-contracted peace facilitator Siebert highlighted the difficulties Government of Nepal (GON) and Maoist negotiators faced in addressing the Maoist militia and security issues in an update for Charge on October 18. Senior politicians in the center-right Nepali Congress (NC) and the cen [...]	2006-10-18 13:28:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PARM NP
06KATHMANDU279	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FINAL NEGOTIATIONS ON [...] (SBU) Acting Deputy Chief of Mission delivered the points (reftel) to Mr. Shree Krishna Shrestha, Director General, Nepal Bureau of Standards and Metrology, Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies. Shrestha said, in general, he agreed with our comments, but he needed to review the documen [...]	2006-01-30 07:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ETRD ECON PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2790	GUATEMALA-VENEZUELA: NEPAL WILL SUPPORT GUATEMALA [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-19 12:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC GT VE NP
06KATHMANDU2799	REQUEST FOR LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING: CRITICAL [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates, who have been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. These candidates are scheduled to participate in Diplomatic Security's Critical Incident Management Course f [...]	2006-10-20 11:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2800	REQUEST FOR LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING: CSTR [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates, who have been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. The candidates are scheduled to participate in Comprehensive Security Responses to Terrorism (CSTR) training [...]	2006-10-20 11:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2801	LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST: SSTR [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates, who have been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. The candidates are scheduled to participate in Stability Security, Transition and Reconstruction (SSTR) trai [...]	2006-10-20 11:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2807	LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING: NESA [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate, who has been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. The candidate is scheduled to participate in a Near East and South Asia (NESA) course from November 29 to Dece [...]	2006-10-25 02:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU284	MAOISTS THREATEN ELECTION PARTICIPANTS [...] (U) Pravakiran, Kathmandu Valley Commander of the Communist Party of Nepal, released the following press statement on January 28, 2005, warning people "not to participate in the elections in any way." He threatened that those who did so would "face the most serious consequences." Begin text [...]	2006-01-30 10:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU286	600 ELECTION CANDIDATES WITHDRAW; MORE MAOIST [...] (U) More than 600 people withdrew their candidacy between filing to participate in the municipal election on January 26 and the deadline to withdraw on January 28. Some people withdrew voluntary, others claim the government forced them, and still others wished to withdraw but security forces [...]	2006-01-30 11:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS NP
06KATHMANDU287	AMBASSADOR URGES FOREIGN MINISTER TO RELEASE [...] (C) On January 30, the Ambassador urged Foreign Minister Pandey to release political leaders in custody, including those in jail and those under house arrest. The Foreign Minister noted ongoing security concerns, but promised to discuss the matter with Home Minister Thapa. The Ambassador stre [...]	2006-01-30 12:02:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU2877	JUNE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY ELECTION WOULD BE [...] (C) The new chief of party for IFES told the Ambassador recently that meeting the peace negotiators' announced target date of mid-June 2007 for constituent assembly elections would be a tall order. Bill Chilvers, a twenty-two year veteran of the Australian Electoral Commission, cited five rea [...]	2006-10-27 09:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID NP
06KATHMANDU2879	FINANCE MINISTER CONCERNED ABOUT MAOIST INTENTIONS [...] (C) On October 26, Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat expressed his concern to the Ambassador, World Bank Country Director Ken Ohashi and IMF Resident Representative Alexander Pitt that bilateral and multilateral donors not give legitimacy to the Maoists by signing assistance agreements with th [...]	2006-10-27 12:21:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EAID PTER NP
06KATHMANDU2880	INDIA 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 12:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF PTER IN NP
06KATHMANDU290	CY-2005 END-USE MONITORING REPORT [...] The following is Post's CY-2005 End-Use Monitoring Report. Begin text: A. RESOURCES 1996 PROGRAM ------------ NARCOTICS LAW ENFORCEMENT (USD 13,800): Twenty bicycles, five Yamaha motorcycles, two motor scooters and five cameras were given to the Narcotics Drug Control Law Enforceme [...]	2006-01-31 00:54:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	AFIN SNAR KCRM KWMN EFIN NP
06KATHMANDU2903	PEACE AGREEMENT MOVING CLOSER? [...] (C) Dr. Shehkar Koirala, Prime Minister G.P. Koirala's nephew and a key member of the Government of Nepal (GON)'s informal talks team, told the DCM October 27 that the two sides were converging on a peace deal. He claimed the GON and the Maoists had managed to reach agreement on nearly all of [...]	2006-10-31 11:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR NP
06KATHMANDU2904	CPN-UML AND NC-D WEIGH IN ON ARMS MANAGEMENT [...] (C) On October 27, the Ambassador met with General Secretary of the Nepal Communist Party - United Marxist SIPDIS Leninist (CPN-UML) MK Nepal and Nepal Congress-Democratic (NC-D) President Sher Bahadur Deuba to discuss the Ambassador's consultations in the U.S. and the status of peace tal [...]	2006-11-01 01:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR NP
06KATHMANDU2909	PRIME MINISTER'S CLOSE ADVISOR AND HOME MINISTER [...] (C) Over the recent Nepali holidays, Embassy LES discussed the arms management process with the Prime Minister's nephew and close advisor, Dr. Shekhar Koirala, as well as Home Minister Sitaula, the Government of Nepal's chief peace negotiator. Both argued for a phased strategy, highlighting [...]	2006-11-01 11:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR NP
06KATHMANDU2919	TWO CONFIRMED CASES OF XDR TB IN NEPAL [...] (SBU) Post has recently become aware of two cases of XDR TB in Nepal. According to Post's medical officer, both of the reported XDR TB patients in Nepal are Tibetan refugees. XDR is an extremely drug resistant form of Tuberculosis. The first patient died in March 2006 and Post's medical offic [...]	2006-11-02 08:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SOCI PREF CDC HHS NP
06KATHMANDU2930	NEW TIBETAN WELFARE SOCIETY REGISTERED BUT IN [...] (C/NF) Tamdin Dorje Tuladhar, a Nepali Citizen, told the Ambassador on October 26 that he, Tuladhar, had registered the Bhota Welfare Society (BWS) as an NGO with the Government of Nepal (GON) on June 29, 2006. Tuladhar said that he had formed the NGO to take the place of the Tibetan Refugee [...]	2006-11-02 10:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREF PREL SOCI CH NP
06KATHMANDU2931	DEPUTY 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 12:53:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL IN NP
06KATHMANDU2955	2006-2007 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 08:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV KTFN NP
06KATHMANDU2959	TIBETAN REFUGEE UPDATE, NOVEMBER 3 [...] (C) According to Douglas DiSalvo, a UNHCR officer in Kathmandu, 41 out of the group of 43 Tibetan refugees who arrived in Nepal safely after the shooting incident at the Chinese border on October 1 (ref A) departed Nepal for India on October 20 and arrived on October 21; the other two should t [...]	2006-11-03 10:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREF PINR NP
06KATHMANDU2960	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OPPOSING CUBA EMBARGO [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-03 10:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA UN CU NP
06KATHMANDU2961	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS ON THE [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-03 11:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA PHUM PREL PTER LE IS NP
06KATHMANDU2962	PRIME 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 12:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR EU IN NP
06KATHMANDU2971	NEPAL ARMY PUNISHES SOLDIERS WHO ABUSED POLICE [...] (U) According to an October 29 press release from the Nepal Army (NA),the General Military Court had issued sentences against four NA officers and 12 non-commissioned officers involved in the July 29, 2006 attack on a Nepal Police post in central Kathmandu (reftel). The soldiers had surround [...]	2006-11-06 11:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU2972	CHALLENGES FACING THE NEPALI POLICE: SECURING LAW [...] (SBU) From September 20 to 29, 2006 TDYers Christa Skerry and Holly Benner from the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) met with officials from the USG, Nepal security forces, Nepal government officials, journalists, local and international NGOs, the United [...]	2006-11-06 11:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MARR NP UN
06KATHMANDU2973	LAW AND ORDER DURING THE TRANSITION: CHALLENGES [...] (C) Interviewees, including Nepal security forces, Government of Nepal officials, journalists, local and international NGOs, UN agencies and the UK Embassy, who met recently with TDYers from the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) described a sharp downward [...]	2006-11-07 01:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UN NP MARR PREF PTER
06KATHMANDU2974	LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST: COMBINED [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening Lieutenant Colonel Santosh Kumar Dhakal, who has been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. The candidate has been nominated for a one-year0 posting as the Combined Planning Group Strate [...]	2006-11-07 01:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2975	LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST: CSTR TRAINING [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Kishor Kumar Lama, who has been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. The candidate is scheduled to participate in Comprehensive Security Responses t [...]	2006-11-07 01:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2976	LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST: NESA [...] Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates, who have been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant to the Leahy Amendment and Foreign Assistance Act. These candidates are scheduled to participate in the Near East and South Asia (NESA) course in Washing [...]	2006-11-07 01:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU2996	TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-07 11:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KTFN NP
06KATHMANDU2997	MAOISTS RUNNING THE SHOW IN BIRATNAGAR AND [...] (C) Recent visits to two towns on Nepal's southern border with India revealed a sharp deterioration in law and order with Maoist extortion, opportunistic violence, and intimidation interrupting the local economies while government security forces stood idly by. The South and Central Asia Bure [...]	2006-11-07 11:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PHUM PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU2998	2006-2007 INCSR REPORT, FINANCIAL CRIMES AND [...] (SBU) This is Post?s 2006-2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report II, Financial Crimes and Money Laundering, per ref A. Begin Text: Nepal is not a regional financial center. There are no indications that Nepal is used as an international money laundering center. The Governm [...]	2006-11-07 11:28:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KCRM KTFN NP
06KATHMANDU2999	LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS CERTIFICATION: CRITICAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-07 11:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3000	U.S.-NEPAL POLICY AT THE CROSSROADS: SUPPORTING A [...] (C) With the governing Seven-Party Alliance and the Maoists in their second straight day of marathon peace talks, there is increasing expectation in Kathmandu that a peace deal might be on the way. While the text of an actual agreement or agreements could be delayed, the outlines of how Maois [...]	2006-11-07 11:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR EAID UN EU NP
06KATHMANDU3001	LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION: CSTR, [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-07 11:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3011	SUPPLEMENTAL DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON COUNTRY [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-08 10:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC NP
06KATHMANDU3012	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AMENDING THE CUBA EMBARGO [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-08 10:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA CU NP
06KATHMANDU3013	GOVERNMENT AND MAOISTS SIGN PEACE DEAL: WHERE'S [...] (C) Following two days of marathon talks and weeks of anticipation, the Seven-Party Alliance and the Maoists signed a package agreement in the early morning hours of November 8th (full text below). While punting many vital implementation details to a November 16 "comprehensive peace agreement [...]	2006-11-08 11:54:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MARR NP
06KATHMANDU3014	CORRECTED COPY: GOVERNMENT AND MAOISTS SIGN PEACE [...] (U) This is a corrected copy of Kathmandu 3013 with text of the agreement attached. Summary And Introduction ------------------------ 2. (C) Following two days of marathon talks and weeks of anticipation, the Seven-Party Alliance and the Maoists signed a package agreement in the early mo [...]	2006-11-08 13:07:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MARR NP
06KATHMANDU3022	NEPAL ARMY: IMPROVING NEPAL'S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD [...] (C) In a meeting on November 6 with Ramesh Jung Thapa, Defense Advisor to the Prime Minister, and Bishnu Uprety, Defense Secretary, the DCM delivered ref A talking points, strongly urging the Government of Nepal (GON) to take action on human rights abuses in the Nepal Army (NA). The DCM made [...]	2006-11-09 11:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3023	GETTING A SECURITY COUNCIL MANDATE FOR NEPAL'S [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST -- see paras. 7-9. Summary -------- 2. (C) In discussions November 9 with Ian Martin, the UN Secretary General's Personal Representative to Nepal, the SIPDIS Ambassador stressed the need for a strong UN Security Council mandate to enforce the November 8 [...]	2006-11-10 10:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER UN NP
06KATHMANDU3024	PM KOIRALA OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR PEACE [...] (C/NF) In a November 10 meeting with the Ambassador, Prime Minister GP Koirala shared his optimism on the future of the Government of Nepal's (GON) peace process with the Maoists, but underscored the need for a large presence of foreign observers on the ground in Nepal. The Ambassador pressed [...]	2006-11-10 11:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER NP
06KATHMANDU3032	MAOISTS KIDNAP AND TORTURE MP'S BROTHER [...] (C) A Nepali Congress (NC) Member of Parliament representing Bajhang District told us recently about the kidnapping of Malla's younger brother October 29 by the Maoists. Suresh Malla, who leads a faction of 15-20 anti-Maoist MPs, told Emboff that his brother had been tortured for three days a [...]	2006-11-13 10:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3033	FOREIGN MINISTER OLI PESSIMISTIC ON PROSPECTS FOR [...] (C) In a November 10 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister KP Oli expressed strong personal reservations about the November 8 agreement between the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists (ref A). Oli worried that the November 8 agreement set a bad example b [...]	2006-11-13 10:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL PREF NP
06KATHMANDU3034	INDIA URGES RAPID ACTION IN THE UN [...] (C) In a November 13 meeting with the Ambassador, Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee emphasized the need for rapid action in the United Nations regarding Maoist arms management and peace and election monitoring in Nepal. Ambassador Moriarty stressed the need for a UN Security Council res [...]	2006-11-13 10:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR IN NP
06KATHMANDU3038	WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT IN NEPAL [...] On November 2, Emboff delivered reftel "Summary Recommendations of the Women's Empowerment Working Session" to Nepal's Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare Urmila Aryal. The Minister welcomed the fact sheet and provided Emboff with a list of recent legislative efforts on behalf of [...]	2006-11-14 01:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KWMN PREL UNGA NP
06KATHMANDU3049	UN POLITICAL ADVISOR ON ARMS MANAGEMENT AND UNSC [...] (C) During a November 13 meeting with DCM, John Norris, political advisor to Ian Martin, the UN Secretary General's Personal Representative to Nepal, provided an update on progress toward a detailed arms management agreement among the governing Seven-Party Alliance (SPA),the Maoists, and th [...]	2006-11-16 08:21:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP UN
06KATHMANDU3050	DEMARCHE ON BELARUS ANTI-U.S. RESOLUTION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-16 10:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UN BO NP
06KATHMANDU3051	DEMARCHE ON INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION ELECTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-16 10:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN NP
06KATHMANDU3055	LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION FOR [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-17 01:45:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU3060	MINISTRY OF FINANCE CALLS ON DONORS TO SUPPORT [...] (U) On November 14 at the Ministry of Finance's (MOF) bimonthly donors meeting, Finance Minister Mahat requested an increase/realignment of foreign aid to support the peace process. Minister Mahat and Finance Secretary Vidyadhar Mallik outlined four specific areas in need of international sup [...]	2006-11-17 09:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EFIN PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU3061	NOW IS THE TIME FOR UN MONITORS IN NEPAL [...] This is an action request. Please see para 4. State of Play On Expanded UN Role --------------------------------- 2. (C) On November 17, Acting Foreign Secretary Bhagirath Basnet confirmed to the DCM that Ambassador Acharya, Nepal's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, had del [...]	2006-11-17 11:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PTER MARR UN NP
06KATHMANDU3062	UN 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 11:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR PREF UN UK NP
06KATHMANDU3063	NEPAL PEACE PROCESS STALLED [...] (C) According to a joint statement the Government of Nepal (GON) and Maoists issued on November 16, the signing of the comprehensive peace accord, which was supposed to take place that day, was postponed until November 21. According to political leaders on November 16 and Dr. Shehkar Koirala, [...]	2006-11-17 11:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR UN NP
06KATHMANDU3064	NEW OHCHR HEAD NOT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PEACE [...] (C) On November 17, Lena Sundh, the new Swedish head of the Nepal Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR),told the Ambassador that impunity remained a big problem on both sides of the conflict in Nepal -- for both the security forces and the Maoists. Sundh stated that she wa [...]	2006-11-20 10:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV PTER MARR PINR NP
06KATHMANDU3076	LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION: COMBINED [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-21 09:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3077	LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION: CSTR [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-21 09:21:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3078	LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CERTIFICATION: NESA [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-21 09:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3086	BOUCHER DISCUSSES THE FUTURE OF THE NEPAL ARMY [...] (C/NF) In a November 16 meeting with Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher, Ramesh Jung Thapa, Defense Advisor to the Prime Minister, and Bishnu Uprety, Defense Secretary, described an improving relationship between the Nepal Army and the civilian leadership. [...]	2006-11-22 07:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PTER PREL MASS NP
06KATHMANDU3090	UNHCR DONORS DECIDE TO MOVE FORWARD ON BHUTANESE [...] (C) During a November 20 meeting, Janet Lim, Director of the Bureau for Asia and the Pacific for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),updated core group Ambassadors on the status of the census and potential resettlement for Bhutanese refugees in camps in eastern Nepal. T [...]	2006-11-22 08:12:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU3091	NEPAL 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 10:05:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP

06KATHMANDU3093	REACTIONS TO COMPREHENSIVE PEACE AGREEMENT: [...] (C) Reactions to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists signed on November 21 (ref A) have varied across sectors, although the majority of interlocutors have expressed cautious optimism. Political party leaders from the main Nepali Congress party worrie [...]	2006-11-22 10:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU3097	BOUCHER STRESSES PARLIAMENT'S OVERSIGHT ROLE [...] (C) During November 16 discussions with Speaker of the House of Representatives Subash Nemwang, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher, accompanied by the Ambassador, stressed the important role Parliament must play in overseeing Nepal's democratic transition [...]	2006-11-24 00:47:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER NP
06KATHMANDU3103	UN PEACE TEAM CHIEF: UN MONITORS URGENTLY REQUIRED [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-24 10:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU3104	IMPLEMENTING NEPAL'S PEACE [...] (C) Three days after the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists signed the "Comprehensive Peace Agreement," the Government and the Maoists are moving to implement its provisions, but considerable challenges lie ahead. Maoist extortion and violence as well as illegal recruitment are continu [...]	2006-11-24 11:05:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR EAID UN NP
06KATHMANDU3112	FINANCE MINISTER DISCUSSES NEXT STEPS WITH UN [...] (C) During a November 26 meeting with the Ambassador, Finance Minister Mahat gave his views on what the United Nations was doing and should be doing soon to assist the peace process. He expressed appreciation for Secretary General Annan's November 22 letter to the UN Security Council Presiden [...]	2006-11-27 06:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR EAID UN IN FI NP
06KATHMANDU3115	FINANCE MINISTER WANTS UN TO SET STRICT STANDARDS [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador November 26, Finance Minister Mahat asked the United States to use its influence on the United Nations to ensure that only true Maoist combatants be permitted to go into cantonments. Mahat expressed concern that the latest draft of the tripartite (Governme [...]	2006-11-27 12:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR UN NP
06KATHMANDU3116	NEGOTIATORS FOCUSED ON HOW MANY COMBATANTS WILL [...] (C) The political adviser to the UN peace team told DCM November 27 that the Government of Nepal and the Maoists were arguing over how many combatants would get jobs in the security forces. John Norris said the issue preventing an arms management agreement was not who was a combatant. The po [...]	2006-11-27 12:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR UN NP
06KATHMANDU3118	PEACE AGREEMENT STICKING POINT: MILITARY TRAINING [...] (C) In a meeting on November 28, the lead UN negotiators told the Ambassador that an agreement on arms management between the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists was stalled over the Maoist desire to conduct military training for their combatants in the cantonments. The Ambassador pushe [...]	2006-11-28 12:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU3124	ARMS 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 12:05:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM PREL NP
06KATHMANDU3126	TIBETAN REFUGEE UPDATE: NOVEMBER 29 [...] (SBU) On November 27, 28, and 29, RefCoord met with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Country Representative Abraham Abraham, Office of Tibet Representative Jigme Wangdu, and the Director and Deputy Director of the Government of Nepal,s National Unit for the Coordinatio [...]	2006-11-29 12:18:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PREL CVIS SOCI CH NP
06KATHMANDU313	PARTY 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 09:40:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU3131	COAS KATAWAL DOWNPLAYS RUMORS OF ROYAL RESURGENCE [...] (C/NF) On November 28, Siddharta Rana, a prominent businessman and son of a close confidante of the King, told the Ambassador that the King believed he was going to make a comeback soon, and that he still did not realize he was responsible for his own downfall. Rana said the King blamed India [...]	2006-11-30 09:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU3136	NEPAL: MECHANISMS FOR PEACE SLOW-MOVING [...] (C) ON November 30, Hannes Siebert and Retief Olivier, USAID-funded peace facilitators working with Nepal's Peace Secretariat, told the Ambassador that the primary focus of SIPDIS the Secretariat during the past week had been Terms of Reference for the various mechanisms envisioned in the N [...]	2006-11-30 11:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU3141	NEPAL: TIBETANS VIEW RESETTLEMENT AS ZERO-SUM GAME [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-01 08:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV CH NP
06KATHMANDU3148	UN MOVING AHEAD ON CANTONMENT OF MAOIST COMBATANTS [...] (C) Key staff of the Office of Personal Representative of the UN Secretary General briefed members of the diplomatic corps and the donor community December 1 on the status of cantonment of Maoist combatants. Ian Martin's security advisor Dan Huntington, political advisor John Norris and milit [...]	2006-12-04 09:16:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR UN NP
06KATHMANDU3149	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL [...] (SBU) On December 4, Emboff delivered reftel talking points to Shanker Bairagi, Under Secretary for the Europe and Americas Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stressing the need for the Government of Nepal (GON) to promulgate and enact implementing legislation for the Chemical Weapon [...]	2006-12-04 09:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW BWC NP
06KATHMANDU315	INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Per ref B, Post delivered Nepal's Interim Assessment report of progress made on anti-trafficking efforts (ref A) on January 31 to Shyam Sundar Sharma, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare, Yadav Kanal, Under Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Parbati T [...]	2006-01-31 09:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KHUM SMIG NP
06KATHMANDU3163	POLITICOS IN RAJBIRAJ: WE HAVE NO VOICE [...] (C) During a meeting in Rajbiraj (about 200 kilometers south-east of Kathmandu) on December 3, local political leaders told Emboff that they felt isolated from their parties and the government. The politicos in this rural community stated that the party leaders in Kathmandu did not listen to [...]	2006-12-06 08:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU3164	STUDENT LEADERS FEEL LEFT OUT OF NEPAL'S POLITICS [...] (C) In meetings December 1 and 2 in Kathmandu and Biratnagar (eastern Nepal),student leaders from a range of political parties told Emboff that they were feeling increasingly left out of politics in Nepal. Although they disagreed on many social issues, they were united on the need for greate [...]	2006-12-06 09:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU3165	NEPAL'S NATIONAL PARKS MAY GET UPGRADE IN [...] (SBU) Barna Bahadur Thapa, Warden of the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve in south-eastern Nepal, told Emboff on December 3 that poaching was a big problem in the park. Thapa stressed that most poaching was for food (wild buffalo, fish, or birds) or shelter (trees or thatch grass). Under Nepali l [...]	2006-12-06 09:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SENV MARR NP
06KATHMANDU3167	NEPALI CONGRESS PARTY "INCLUSIVE" IN EASTERN NEPAL [...] (C) On December 2, Emboff accompanied Sujata Koirala, Head of the Nepali Congress (NC) Department of International Relations and daughter of Prime Minister GP Koirala, to a political program in Inaruwa, Sunsari District in south-eastern Nepal. The NC leaders of the rural district discussed ma [...]	2006-12-06 09:40:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR NP
06KATHMANDU3168	NEPAL: INDIAN AMBASSADOR WANTS TO GET THE PROCESS [...] (C/NF) In a December 6 meeting with the Ambassador, Indian Ambassador Shiv Shankar Mukherjee stressed that the logistical realities of the peace agreements between the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists needed to move quickly in order to succeed. Mukherjee worried about continued Maois [...]	2006-12-06 10:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER NP
06KATHMANDU317	LABOR LAW REVISION TO ATTRACT FDI [...] (U) On January 31, the government promulgated a revision to the 1991 Labor Law intended to boost foreign direct investment (FDI). The revision opened the door for appointment of up to fifteen percent non-Nepali nationals as managers, executive directors and experts in firms. Existing laws di [...]	2006-01-31 11:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV EINV PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU3175	TRIP REPORT: AMBASSADOR TRAVELS TO POKHARA [...] (C) On December 1, in a speech in Pokhara, the Ambassador reaffirmed that the U.S. welcomed the signing of the recent peace deals and would now push for their successful implementation. Until Maoist actions matched their words, Maoists laid down their arms, and renounced violence and intimi [...]	2006-12-07 08:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU3176	NEPAL GOVERNMENT SLOW TO ADDRESS IDP PROBLEM [...] (SBU) The Maoist insurgency in Nepal has created significant population displacement, although the scope of the problem and location of internally displaced persons (IDPs) have been difficult to assess due to social stigmatization, lack of material assistance and Nepal's open border with India [...]	2006-12-07 08:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PREL PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU3178	SECURITY 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 09:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER SNAR NP
06KATHMANDU3184	NEPAL: 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 04:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV PREL CH NP
06KATHMANDU3193	NEPAL: UN HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIAL SESSION ON SUDAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-11 00:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIA PHUM PREL SU NP
06KATHMANDU3199	PEACE PROCESS: THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS [...] (C) USAID-contracted peace facilitator Hannes Siebert told the Ambassador December 8 that the Government of Nepal (GON),the Maoists and the UN had established an effective working group to handle the nitty-gritty of the People's Liberation Army cantonments. The approximately USD 2.4 million i [...]	2006-12-11 10:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR UN NP
06KATHMANDU3207	POLITICAL LEADERS AGREE THAT MAOIST FEAR MUST BE [...] (C) In separate December 11 meetings with the Ambassador, MK Nepal, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) and Sher Bahadur Deuba, President of the Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D),agreed that effective management of Maoist weapons was critical to [...]	2006-12-12 10:21:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU3209	NEPAL: AMBASSADOR ENCOURAGES JAPAN TO ASSIST WITH [...] (C) In a December 12 meeting with the Japanese Ambassador to Nepal, Tsutomu Hiraoka, Ambassador Moriarty expressed optimism that Nepal's transition could proceed if arms management were successful and monitors flooded the Nepali countryside. The Ambassador indicated U.S. support was likely [...]	2006-12-13 07:02:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM MARR PREF JA NP
06KATHMANDU321	ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF KING'S TAKEOVER [...] (U) On February 1, in a content-free speech marking the one-year anniversary of his takeover, the King announced no new initiatives, but highlighted the success of his plan to restore democracy to Nepal. He reconfirmed his intention to go ahead with municipal elections on February 8 and with [...]	2006-02-01 08:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU3210	NEPAL: UN SECY GENERAL'S REP. DISCUSSES NEED FOR [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador December 11, the UN Secretary General's personal representative Ian Martin SIPDIS welcomed the U.S. plan to provide assistance to Nepal's peace process in two principal areas: electoral support and local security and governance. He agreed it would be cru [...]	2006-12-13 07:40:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR UN IN UK NP
06KATHMANDU3216	NEPAL: NEXT STEPS ON INTERIM CONSTITUTION, [...] (C) Speaker of the Parliament Subash Nemwang informed the Ambassador December 12 that the current parliament should have five to six days to consider the interim constitution before the Parliament promulgated it. Nemwang also suggested that the current parliament could enact some of the requir [...]	2006-12-14 05:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR UN NP
06KATHMANDU3218	POLITICAL LEADERS IN GORKHA: WE MUST FACE THE [...] (C) In a meeting on December 9 in Gorkha District (just west of Kathmandu),political leaders from the Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML),the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D) told Emboff that the only way to create an atmosphere for free an [...]	2006-12-14 07:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU322	DEMARCHE ON JANUARY 30 P5+2 DELIVERED [...] As requested in reftel, Emboff delivered demarche on the January P5 2 statement to Rishi Ram Ghimire, American Desk Officer, and Kali Prasad Pokhrel, United Nations and International Law Section Officer, both with the Nepal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They undertook to look into the issue. [...]	2006-02-01 10:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KNNP PREL NP
06KATHMANDU3224	NEPAL: TIBETAN SETTLEMENT LEADERS DESCRIBE [...] (C) In a December 12 meeting with RefCoord, Tibetan settlement leaders described the lack of employment opportunities for Tibetan youths and the difficulties in obtaining and renewing identification and travel documents from the Government of Nepal (GON). Out of roughly 4,000 Tibetan resident [...]	2006-12-15 06:54:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF CH NP
06KATHMANDU3225	CENSUS OF FIRST BHUTANESE REFUGEE CAMP CONCLUDED [...] (C) Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Durable Solutions Officer Kim Roberson reported on December 13 that nearly all Beldangi I camp residents had appeared for the census, which was completed December 8. UNHCR has identified 120 vulnerable cases, of which only 20 had expr [...]	2006-12-15 07:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF BH NP
06KATHMANDU3237	CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF COMMENTS ON THE KING [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on December 13, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Katawal dismissed the recent coup rumors sparked by the King's issuing commands to prepare his palace at Hetauda (reftel). The COAS said he had reassured Koirala of his and the Nepal Army's trustworthiness and had [...]	2006-12-18 09:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL IN NP
06KATHMANDU3238	CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF COMMENTS ON ARMS MANAGEMENT, [...] (C) Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Katawal told the Ambassador December 13 that he had emphasized to Prime Minister Koirala earlier that day that the Maoists had to be completely separated from their weapons before they were included in the interim parliament and the interim government. K [...]	2006-12-18 09:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU3249	ELECTION COMMISSION NEEDS USD 32.8 MILLION FOR [...] (SBU) On December 13, Nepal's Election Commission (EC),told international donors it would need an estimated USD 32.8 million would be needed for the preparation and conduct of the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections. After sharing EC-identified areas of priority need, the EC said it would [...]	2006-12-20 06:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU3252	AMBASSADOR 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 08:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PTER MARR PREF NP
06KATHMANDU3253	PRIME MINISTER TAKES FIRM STAND ON ARMS [...] (C) Prime Minister GP Koirala, who was recovering from a cold, stressed to the Ambassador December 20 that he would not permit the Maoists to enter the interim government until arms management was complete. He confirmed, however, that he had agreed to promulgate the interim constitution and st [...]	2006-12-20 08:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR PREF CASC UN BT NP
06KATHMANDU3256	NEPAL'S INTERIM CONSTITUTION INITIALED [...] (SBU) On December 16, the Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) and the Maoists signed the much-anticipated interim constitution. While the 77-page document places the fate of the monarchy in the hands of the constituent assembly, it strips the King of all powers vested in the head of state and transfers [...]	2006-12-20 09:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MARR UN IN NP
06KATHMANDU3257	ELECTION COMMISSION NEEDS USD 32.8 MILLION FOR [...] (SBU) On December 13, Nepal's Election Commission (EC),told international donors it would need an estimated USD 32.8 million would be needed for the preparation and conduct of the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections. After sharing EC-identified areas of priority need, the EC said it would [...]	2006-12-20 09:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU3264	NEPAL NOT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST SAFE HAVEN...YET [...] (C) Top GON security officials indicated to S/CT Deputy Coordinator Virginia Palmer December 15-17, that although non-Maoist terrorist activity was currently minimal, Nepal's troubled law and order situation offered potential safe haven conditions to such groups. Despite progress in the peace [...]	2006-12-22 02:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL EFIN KTFN NP
06KATHMANDU3265	NEPAL: FOOD FOR BHUTANESE REFUGEES AT RISK, GON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 8. 2. (C) Foreign Ministry Joint Secretary Dinesh Bhattarai expressed concern to RefCoord December 21 about a possible break in the World Food Program's food supply to the Bhutanese refugees. WFP Deputy Country Director separately requested t [...]	2006-12-22 04:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREF PREL PGOV CH BH NP
06KATHMANDU3268	U.S., UK, INDIA, AND THE UN DIALOGUE ON SECURITY [...] (C) In a December 19 dialogue on security challenges and police support, the U.S. and UK Ambassadors and Ian Martin, the UN's Secretary General's Personal Representative to Nepal, agreed that improved security across the countryside in the next six to eight months would be vital for reducing [...]	2006-12-22 05:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP UN
06KATHMANDU3273	NEW COORDINATOR FOR CANTONMENT MANAGEMENT FACES [...] (C) On December 18 Sushil Rana, Coordinator of the newly formed Office of the Central Coordinator for Cantonment Management within the Home Ministry, told Emboffs that his office was working hard to get the People's Liberation Army (PLA) camps up and running. Rana's office is tasked with ma [...]	2006-12-22 06:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER UN
06KATHMANDU3274	U.S., UK, INDIA, AND THE UN DIALOGUE ON SECURITY [...] (C) In a December 19 dialogue on security challenges and police support, the U.S. and UK Ambassadors and Ian Martin, the UN's Secretary General's Personal Representative to Nepal, agreed that improved security across the countryside in the next six to eight months would be vital for reducing [...]	2006-12-22 06:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP UN
06KATHMANDU3275	NEPAL NOT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST SAFE HAVEN...YET [...] (C) Top GON security officials indicated to S/CT Deputy Coordinator Virginia Palmer December 15-17, that although non-Maoist terrorist activity was currently minimal, Nepal's troubled law and order situation offered potential safe haven conditions to such groups. Despite progress in the peace [...]	2006-12-22 06:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL EFIN KTFN NP
06KATHMANDU328	REQUEST 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 12:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KCOR KFRD CVIS SNAR PTER NP
06KATHMANDU3282	ELECTION COMMISSION NEEDS USD 32.8 MILLION FOR [...] (SBU) On December 13, Nepal's Election Commission (EC),told international donors it would need an estimated USD 32.8 million would be needed for the preparation and conduct of the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections. After sharing EC-identified areas of priority need, the EC said it would [...]	2006-12-22 07:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU3283	NEW COORDINATOR FOR CANTONMENT MANAGEMENT FACES [...] (C) On December 18 Sushil Rana, Coordinator of the newly formed Office of the Central Coordinator for Cantonment Management within the Home Ministry, told Emboffs that his office was working hard to get the People's Liberation Army (PLA) camps up and running. Rana's office is tasked with ma [...]	2006-12-22 07:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER UN
06KATHMANDU331	MORE VIOLENCE AND PROTESTS ON "BLACK DAY" [...] (U) The one year anniversary of the royal takeover, termed "Black Day" by parties and journalists, saw continued Maoist violence and government arrests of politicos and journalists throughout the country. Political party leaders claimed that the King's address to the nation contained "nothing [...]	2006-02-02 12:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU3323	NEPAL HOLIDAY GREETINGS TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-29 06:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPDC PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU3324	NEPAL: PEACE PROCESS MOVES FORWARD IN FITS AND [...] (C) PM Koirala's foreign policy advisor told Charge December 28 that the Government of Nepal would not promulgate the interim constitution until UN arms management had begun in earnest. Chalise noted that Koirala had charged Maoist Supremo Prachanda with undermining the planned June 2007 Cons [...]	2006-12-29 10:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR UN NP
06KATHMANDU333	REQUEST 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 12:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KCOR KFRD CVIS SNAR PTER NP
06KATHMANDU345	ADMIRAL FALLON TELLS NEPAL ARMY U.S. ASSISTANCE [...] (C) On February 1, Admiral William J. Fallon, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, stressed to the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) Chief of Army Staff (COAS),General Pyar Jung Thapa, that the U.S. military could not fully resume military assistance to Nepal absent movement toward representative g [...]	2006-02-06 12:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINS MASS NP
06KATHMANDU346	RUN-UP TO ELECTION FILLED WITH MAOIST VIOLENCE [...] (C) Maoist violence, including bombings throughout the country and within the Kathmandu Valley, continued in the lead-up to the February 8 municipal election. Fear of Maoist violence kept many people indoors on the first two days of the Maoist's February 5-11 national general strike, and caus [...]	2006-02-06 12:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER NP
06KATHMANDU347	ADMIRAL 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 12:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU348	PACOM ADMIRAL FALLON DISCUSSES NEPAL WITH HUMAN [...] (C) During a meeting with PACOM Commander Admiral Fallon on February 2, human rights activists highlighted the distance between the King and the Parties and called for a consensus on a way forward, while noting the dangers of a Maoist takeover. They agreed that the King should reach out to th [...]	2006-02-06 12:53:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL NP
06KATHMANDU349	PACOM ADMIRAL FALLON DISCUSSES NEPAL WITH HOME AND [...] (C) In his meetings with the Foreign and Home Ministers on February 1, visiting PACOM Commander Admiral Fallon called for the King to begin reconciliation with the political parties. Foreign Minister Pandey assured the Admiral that Nepal was "ready to go to any extent" to improve relations wi [...]	2006-02-06 12:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU372	NEPAL: INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE MOUNTING? [...] (C) At a February 6 luncheon hosted by Japanese Ambassador Hiraoka, visiting MFA Southwest Asia Division Director Shinsuke Simiju told the Ambassador that he wanted to coordinate closely with the U.S. regarding policy toward Nepal. The Ambassadors and Simiju agreed that the U.S. and Japan sha [...]	2006-02-07 12:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PREF NP
06KATHMANDU373	MAOIST VIOLENCE AND ALL-NEPAL STRIKE CONTINUE ON [...] (U) This cable is an action request, see paragraph 12. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Maoist-called nationwide February 5-11 strike continues to envelop the country in a state of fear highlighted by the Maoist murder of a taxi driver near Kathmandu and continued Maoist violence and multipl [...]	2006-02-07 13:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU376	PROPOSALS 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 01:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KWMN KCRM ELAB PREL SMIG ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU379	MAOIST 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 10:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU381	MOSTLY 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 12:54:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU383	DEMARCHE ON IAEA REPORTING IRAN TO UNSC DELIVERED [...] As requested in reftel, Emboff briefed Kali Prasad Pokhrel, United Nations and International Law Section Officer, Nepal Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the IAEA Board resolution reporting Iran to the United Nations Security council. We shared copies of the President's and Secretary's statement [...]	2006-02-09 08:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KNNP PREL IR
06KATHMANDU385	GENERIC ANTI-RETROVIRAL DRUGS APPROVED AND [...] ADCM informed Minister of Health and Population Mani Lama and Minister of Commerce, Industry and Supplies Buddhi Man Thamang that the anti-retroviral drug preparations approved and tentatively approved by HHS/FDA now appear on the WHO pre-qualification list. The ADCM also urged that Nepal spee [...]	2006-02-09 09:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID TBIO SOCI KIPR KHIV NP
06KATHMANDU389	DEMARCHE ON PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE DELIVERED [...] As requested in reftel, Emboff briefed Mahendra Gurung, Under Secretary, East Asian Division, Nepal Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Palestinian assistance. Gurung thanked Emboff for the information. MORIARTY [...]	2006-02-09 11:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IS KPAL NP
06KATHMANDU390	LOW ELECTION TURNOUT; GOVERNMENT, PARTIES AND [...] (C) The February 8 municipal elections saw an average 20 percent voter turnout across the country. The Government proclaimed the polls a success. However, the Maoists and political parties separately claimed victory for the low turnout, believing their actions (Maoists used a campaign of vio [...]	2006-02-09 12:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU391	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES BHUTANESE REFUGEES WITH [...] (C) In a February 9 discussion with Indian Ambassador Shiv Mukherjee, the Ambassador conveyed our concerns about the lack of progress toward a comprehensive, durable solution for the Bhutanese refugees. The Ambassador noted that we expected Foreign Minister Pandey to send a letter to his Bhut [...]	2006-02-09 12:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PTER NP
06KATHMANDU404	CHINESE AMBASSADOR SOFTLY PUSHING RECONCILIATION [...] (C) In a February 10 discussion, Chinese Ambassador Sun agreed with the Ambassador about the need for the King to reconcile with the political parties. Sun informed the Ambassador that State Counselor Tang Jiaxuan's visit was postponed until mid-March because of Chinese domestic political mee [...]	2006-02-10 12:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER CH NP
06KATHMANDU409	FOREIGN MINISTER PANDEY SEEKS GUIDANCE ON WAY [...] (C) In a February 10 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey lamented that the USG press statement on February 8th elections showed a "misunderstanding in Washington of the ground realities" in Nepal. He again stressed his desire for a strategic relationship with the [...]	2006-02-10 12:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN NP
06KATHMANDU410	LETTER FROM FM PANDEY TO A/S ROCCA ON BHUTANESE [...] (C) During a meeting on February 10, Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey gave the Ambassador a letter for Assistant Secretary Rocca in response to her December 30 letter on SIPDIS Bhutanese refugees. In his letter, Pandey thanks A/S Rocca for U.S. support to resolve the Bhutanese refugee is [...]	2006-02-10 12:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF NP
06KATHMANDU424	FOREIGN MINISTRY CRITICIZES FOREIGN REACTION TO [...] (U) In response to widespread international condemnation of the February 8 municipal polls, the Foreign Ministry issued a press release on February 10, requesting foreign powers to refrain from making "insolent comments" on matters that fall within the domestic jurisdiction of a sovereign coun [...]	2006-02-13 12:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU426	BHUTANESE CHIEF JUDGE: REFUGEES ARE NOT CITIZENS [...] (U) The February 12 English-language daily The Himalayan Times reported that the Bhutanese government-owned "kunselonline" quoted Bhutan's Chief Justice as saying that the Bhutanese refugees in Nepal were not Bhutanese citizens as per Bhutan's 1985 Citizenship Act. Checking kunselonline, the [...]	2006-02-13 12:40:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL NP
06KATHMANDU427	VIOLENCE 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 12:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU429	SUPREME COURT ORDERS RELEASE OF FORMER PRIME [...] (U) This cable is an action request, see paragraph 6. SUPREME COURT DISSOLVES RCCC; THROWS OUT ALL DECISIONS --------------------------------------------- --------- 2. (C) In a major decision, Nepal's Supreme Court on February 13 declared the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC) [...]	2006-02-13 13:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU430	KOIRALA 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 13:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN NP
06KATHMANDU443	NEXT 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 12:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU448	PANDEY 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 07:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF NP
06KATHMANDU450	MAOIST LEADER CALLS U.S. THE ENEMY [...] (C) The Maoists appear engaged in a big push to declare the U.S. the enemy and India the good guy. In his early February interview with the Hindu, Maoist Chairman Prachanda contrasted the roles of India and the U.S since the King's February 1, 2005 takeover. Although he urged India to abando [...]	2006-02-15 09:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PTER PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU454	VICE CHAIRMEN RECEPTIVE AND READY FOR [...] (C) In separate February 14 meetings with the Vice Chairmen of Nepal's Council of Ministers, Tulsi Giri and Kirti Nidhi Bista, the Ambassador relayed USG satisfaction with the Supreme Court decision finding the Royal Commission on Corruption Control (RCCC) unconstitutional and ordering the rel [...]	2006-02-15 10:40:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU455	SUPREME 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 11:15:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU465	BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE SKEPTICAL OF U.S. POSITION [...] (C) In a February 15 conversation, Anthony Stokes, head of the South Asia Group of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, questioned the Ambassador's urging reconciliation between the Parties and Palace before engaging the Maoists. Stokes pushed instead to start a three-way negotiation p [...]	2006-02-16 12:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU467	REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT RESPONSE FOR NEPAL BANK [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph five. 2. (SBU) On February 16, the Ambassador met with Craig McAllister, the Chief Executive Officer of Nepal Bank Limited (NBL),and undertook to provide a formal response from Washington regarding NBL's attempts to recover approximately USD 758 [...]	2006-02-17 08:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN NP
06KATHMANDU468	DEUBA RELEASED, COMPROMISE QUESTIONABLE [...] (C) In a February 16 meeting with the Ambassador, newly-released former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, head of the Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D) party, expressed his thanks to the USG for its support while he was in detention, and had a generally positive reaction to the Ambassador's [...]	2006-02-17 08:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU47	UML WORRIED ABOUT KING MORE THAN MAOISTS [...] (C) Arguing that the King forced the Maoists to end their cease-fire, UML leader MK Nepal suggested to the Ambassador on January 4 three scenarios in which the Parties would chastise the Maoists for violence. The Ambassador countered that there was no excuse for the resumption of violence. MK [...]	2006-01-05 08:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU474	RELEASES CONTINUE AMID VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) The government has released more than 900 student leaders, political activists and others arrested in the days leading up to the February 1 anniversary of the King's takeover and the February 8 municipal elections, although 800 remain in detention. Maoist violence throughout the country, [...]	2006-02-17 12:07:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PTER MOPS NP
06KATHMANDU482	KING ATTEMPTS TO REACH OUT IN HIS DEMOCRACY DAY [...] (U) In his message to the nation on Nepal's Democracy Day, February 19, King Gyanendra apparently attempted to reach out to the political parties. He called "on all willing political parties to come forth to fully activate, at the earliest, the stalled democratic process in the greater intere [...]	2006-02-21 10:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU553	REFOULEMENT OF TWO TIBETAN REFUGEES [...] (C) On February 24, UNHCR Protection officer told Emboff about a case of two sisters, age eight and thirteen, now at the Tibetan Reception Center (TRC),whom the Nepali authorities had turned over to the Chinese authorities in October/November 2005. The UNHCR officer has used two interpreters [...]	2006-02-24 10:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF CH NP
06KATHMANDU558	U.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 12:20:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU566	INDIAN AMBASSADOR: SUMMIT AN IDEAL OPPORTUNITY TO [...] (S/NF) Indian Ambassador Mukherjee believes it important that we show the King and the people of Nepal that we remain closely lashed up with respect to handling the situation here. In a February 27 conversation, Mukherjee suggested that it would be particularly useful if the President and Pr [...]	2006-02-27 11:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV MARR PINS IN NP
06KATHMANDU57	NEPAL LOSES PATIENCE ON BHUTANESE REFUGEES [...] (C) In a January 5 conversation with the Ambassador (other topics reported septel),FM Pandey reviewed his assessment of the Bhutanese refugee issue and how best to reach a solution. Noting that his main concern was the fate of the remaining ethnic Nepalese in Bhutan and his conviction that Bh [...]	2006-01-06 06:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL NP
06KATHMANDU58	TREASURY ADVISORY NOTICE ON NORTH KOREA DELIVERED [...] (U) Post delivered the Department of Treasury's advisory notice on North Korean Government agencies and associated front companies' illicit activities to Mr. Yadav Kanal, Under Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and to Mr. Surendra SIPDIS Pradhan, Executive Director of Nepal's Central B [...]	2006-01-06 07:05:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN KJUS KNNP KTFN NP
06KATHMANDU583	CRITICAL AMMUNITION SHORTAGE [...] (S) Royal Nepal Army (RNA) Master General of Ordnance Major General Prakash Bahadur Basnyat told Emboff on February 28 that the RNA was running critically low on almost all types of ammunition. The RNA had 16,800 rounds of M-16 ammunition remaining in the depots for its 16,000 M-16s. In othe [...]	2006-02-28 12:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PREL MOPS MASS PTER NP
06KATHMANDU597	FIGHTING IN WEST CONTINUES [...] (C) Since the January 31 Maoist attack on Tansen, headquarters of Palpa District (refs A and B),Embassy sources tell us up to 4,000 Maoists have remained in the area - Palpa, Rupandehi, Arghakhachi, and Nawalparasi Districts. The Royal Nepal Army (RNA) launched a counter-offensive, including [...]	2006-03-02 12:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PTER NP
06KATHMANDU599	POLITICAL 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 13:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV 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 13:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL PREL KMDR OPRC KPAO NP
06KATHMANDU623	SUPPORTING THE U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) On March 6, the Ambassador demarched Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey to encourage support for the U.S.-India civil nuclear initiative (reftel). The Ambassador also encouraged Nepal to issue a public statement of support for the initiative. FM Pandey indicated Nepal supported the i [...]	2006-03-06 12:16:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM KNNP ETTC NP
06KATHMANDU624	CHINA CONFIRMS NO LARGE-SCALE MILITARY SALES [...] (C) In a March 6 discussion, Chinese Ambassador Sun again stressed that China had decided not to proceed with large-scale lethal security assistance/sales to Nepal because India was "so sensitive" about it. Sun added that the utility of providing the lethal equipment was unclear, in light of [...]	2006-03-06 12:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PTER NP
06KATHMANDU628	MDA: DEMARCHE ON SIGNING THE THIRD PROTOCOL [...] On March 6, Embassy delivered talking points, reftel, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Joint Secretary for United Nations, International Organizations, and International Law Dinesh Bhattarai and urged the Government of Nepal (GON) to sign the Third Additional Protocol. Bhattarai undertook to r [...]	2006-03-07 07:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ICRC PHUM PREF PREL SZ NP
06KATHMANDU629	NEPAL 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 07:54:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF KCRM KWMN KFRD ELAB SMIG ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU633	SEVEN PARTIES URGE MAOISTS TO CALL OFF STRIKE [...] (U) As Maoist violence throughout the country continued, including an attack on the Ilam District headquarters killing 37 people, the leaders of the seven-party alliance urged the Maoists to call off their indefinite general strike planned to begin April 3. At the same time, the Parties reaffi [...]	2006-03-07 12:45:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MOPS PREL NP
06KATHMANDU637	GOVERNMENT OFFERED TOO-GOOD-TO-BE-TRUE LOAN [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. USD 250 Million Loan at 5 percent --------------------------------- 2. (C) In a March 7 meeting, Minister of State for Finance Roop Jyoti sought the advice of the Ambassador regarding a proposed foreign loan to His Majesty's Government of N [...]	2006-03-08 06:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KCRM EFIN UK NP
06KATHMANDU638	GOVERNMENT 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 09:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU658	POLITICAL LEADERS SEEKING CLARITY WITH MAOISTS, [...] (C) On March 9, SCA PDAS Donald Camp met separately with leaders from the three largest political parties, G.P. Koirala - Nepali Congress (NC),Sher Bahadur Deuba - Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D),and Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist Leninist (UML) Acting General Secretary Amrit Kuma [...]	2006-03-10 07:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU660	FOREIGN MINISTER PANDEY DEFENDS KING [...] (C) Foreign Minister Pandey assured visiting SCA PDAS Camp on March 9 that the King was committed to multiparty democracy. Camp emphasized the importance of the King reaching out to the Parties, but Pandey asserted that the King had reached out and was waiting for the Parties to respond. Pan [...]	2006-03-10 09:21:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF NP
06KATHMANDU663	FINANCE MINISTER TELLS AMBASSADOR FUNDING NEEDED [...] (C) In a March 7 meeting, Minister of State for Finance Roop Jyoti told the Ambassador that Nepal needed external funding to support additional security costs. (Note: For FY 2004-2005 Nepal's security budget was 17.2 percent of the total government budget.) Jyoti noted that security in the [...]	2006-03-10 11:18:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS EFIN PTER PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU672	HEAD 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 11:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU676	NEPAL'S INTERNATIONAL DONORS INCREASINGLY [...] (SBU) Nepal's international donors, in a March 6 meeting with Finance Minister Jyoti, vented their frustration over poor conditions for development work in rural areas, the HMGN's inconsistent adherence to development operating guidelines and human rights violations. Several bilateral donor [...]	2006-03-13 11:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EINV ECON PREL PGOV 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 12:10:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OEXC SCUL PREL KMDR OPRC KPAO NP
06KATHMANDU688	CHINA 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 11:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD ECIN NP
06KATHMANDU689	PDAS CAMP VISIT: INDIAN, UK ENVOYS ON STATE OF [...] (S) Visiting SCA PDAS Camp and the Ambassador alerted the Indian and British ambassadors in a March 9 meeting that the Chief of Army Staff had acknowledged that the Royal Nepalese Army's stocks of ammunition were so low as to have reached a "crisis" point. Indian Ambassador Mukherjee maintain [...]	2006-03-15 11:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR NP
06KATHMANDU690	MAOIST BLOCKADE DISRUPTS DAILY LIFE IN NEPAL [...] (U) Transport came to a standstill on March 14, crippling routine activity in many areas of the country on the first day of the Maoists' indefinite blockade of district headquarters. Although only about ten percent of normal traffic entered or exited the Valley, there was little impact on dai [...]	2006-03-15 11:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU723	MDA: NEPAL SIGNS THIRD PROTOCOL [...] On March 16, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Joint Secretary for United Nations, International Organizations, and International Law Dinesh Bhattarai informed Emboff that the Government of Nepal (GON) had signed the Third Additional Protocol in Geneva on March 15. SCHLOSSER [...]	2006-03-16 07:40:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ICRC PHUM PREF PREL SZ NP
06KATHMANDU741	MAOIST 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 11:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU743	NEPAL DELEGATION TO USTDA TRANSPORTATION [...] (U) Embassy Kathmandu was pleased to have one of its Emboffs accompany a two-member government delegation from Nepal to the United States Trade and Development Agencies' (USTDA) "Transportation Solutions for South Asia Trade" conference held in Mumbai, India, March 7-9, which highlighted trans [...]	2006-03-16 11:18:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAIR EINV ELTN NP
06KATHMANDU745	MARCH 16 REFUGEE UPDATE [...] (C) The Nepal Country Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) agreed with Nepal that the Bhutanese government continued to stall on progress toward returning Bhutanese refugees in Nepal to Bhutan and UNHCR was prepared to assist countries to internationaliz [...]	2006-03-16 12:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL NP
06KATHMANDU751	HUMAN RIGHTS: DRL VISITORS FIND MIXED REVIEWS [...] (C) In a February 26 - March 3 visit to Nepal, DRL officers Saba Ghori and Jennifer King met with local human rights groups, politicians, and government officials in Kathmandu and Pokhara to discuss human rights, democracy, and labor issues in Nepal. Human rights groups explained that followi [...]	2006-03-17 12:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER EAID NP
06KATHMANDU752	NEW IDP POLICY [...] (U) His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) announced a new policy for internally displaced persons (IDPs) on March 13. Home Minister Kamal Thapa, releasing the policy, explained that it was drafted in accordance with international humanitarian principles and designed to provide immediate h [...]	2006-03-17 12:53:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU753	NO MAOIST-PARTY AGREEMENT YET [...] (C) Late in the afternoon of March 17, the leaders of the seven-party alliance decided they needed more time to discuss the terms of an agreement modifying and clarifying the Maoist-Parties November 2005 12-point understanding (ref A) stemming from recent negations between Maoists and Party c [...]	2006-03-17 12:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU762	MAOISTS, PARTIES STICK TO UNDERSTANDING; BLOCKADE [...] (U) On March 19, as a result of negotiations between the Parties and the Maoists in New Delhi (ref A),leaders of the seven-party alliance and the Maoists signed separate documents reiterating their commitment to the 12-point understanding (ref B). Both sides stated they would continue dialog [...]	2006-03-20 12:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PREL PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU766	FIGHTING WITH MAOISTS CONTINUES [...] (C) Early in the morning on March 21, Maoists attacked police stations in three areas across the country. They attacked an area police office in Birtamod, Jhapa District (southeastern Nepal). According to Jhapa Chief District Officer Bhola Shivakota, the Maoists killed nine policemen and inj [...]	2006-03-21 11:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MOPS NP
06KATHMANDU767	HOME 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 11:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREF PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU768	CHINESE DELEGATION SUPPORTS DIALOGUE OF [...] (C) State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan led a Chinese delegation to Kathmandu from March 16-18 that expressed hope for unity among "constitutional forces" in Nepal and signed two financial agreements. Tang delivered the message of the need for unity to leaders of three major parties of the seven-par [...]	2006-03-21 12:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF NP
06KATHMANDU77	FOREIGN MINISTER PANDEY ON RELATIONS WITH U.S. [...] (C) In a January 5 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Pandey repeatedly stressed that good relations with the U.S. was key for Nepal as it tried to balance relations with its two powerful neighbors. Strained relations with the U.S. and India in the wake of the King's February, 2005 [...]	2006-01-09 07:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM CH IN NP
06KATHMANDU770	MAOIST THROWS SOCKET BOMB OVER WALL OF NEPALI [...] (C) During the evening of March 21, a suspected Maoist riding a bicycle threw a socket bomb over the wall of the King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation office in Jawalakhel (Patan, south of Kathmandu, within the Kathmandu Valley). The bomb injured two people, one seriously. The police d [...]	2006-03-22 06:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU776	HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH URGES MAOISTS AND GOVERNMENT TO [...] (C) Saman Zia-Zarif, Deputy Director Asia Division of Human Rights Watch (HRW),met with Emboffs on March 17 to outline the key human rights concerns related to the Maoist insurgency he encountered during his February 24-March 17 visit to Nepal. Major concerns included militarization of civil [...]	2006-03-23 06:50:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU781	DEUBA 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 09:47:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU791	SAARC SECRETARIAT ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT OBSERVER [...] (C) Prior to the Ambassador's return, Charge delivered reftel talking points in a March 22 meeting with South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Secretary General Mr. Chenkyab Dorji, who reacted positively to the U.S. request for observer status in SAARC. Dorji said the next s [...]	2006-03-23 12:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL XD NP
06KATHMANDU798	RESIDENT TIBETANS APPEAL FOR HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) On March 23, A.G. Tashi, the Dalai Lama's Representative for Tashi Palkhiel and Dhorpatan Tibetan Settlements near Pokhara in western Nepal, visited the Embassy, with instructions from the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) to draw attention to key issues facing Tibetan residents in Nepa [...]	2006-03-24 09:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU80	KING WORKING TO SPLIT ROYALIST PARTY [...] (C) Pashupati Shumsher Rana, Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) President, told the Ambassador that the King was "using the full resources of the state to break" the RPP, traditionally viewed as a pro-King party. Rana said that the King's goal was to use the RPP to field candidates in the Febru [...]	2006-01-09 08:07:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU807	GOVERNMENT 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 12:00:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU814	NORWAY 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 10:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU817	UPDATE ON DEPT OF LABOR-FUNDED PROJECTS IN NEPAL [...] (SBU) During a February 27 - March 7 visit to Nepal, Department of Labor (DOL) International Relations Officer Vivita Rozenbergs found a mixed picture with respect to projects geared towards addressing child labor in Nepal. The regional anti-trafficking and child Timebound program executed by [...]	2006-03-27 11:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON KOCI SMIG KWMN NP
06KATHMANDU819	MAOIST BOMBS AND KIDNAPPING OF POLISH CITIZENS; [...] (C) A Central Committee Member of the United Marxist-Leninist (UML) publicly urged the Maoists to declare a cease-fire to "open a door" for dialogue between the "three political powers." A Maoist bomb inside Kathmandu's Ring Road on March 25, another at a college campus in western Nepal on Ma [...]	2006-03-27 12:21:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CASC ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU829	NEPALI CONGRESS LEADER ADAMANT THAT SEVEN-PARTY [...] (C) In a March 28 meeting, ailing Nepali Congress President G.P Koirala stressed to the Ambassador that the seven-party alliance was "not joining hands with the Maoists because the Maoists have guns." He explained that the political parties did not want to be associated with the Maoist-called [...]	2006-03-28 11:28:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU830	RNA HUMAN RIGHTS CELL WORKING [...] (C) In a March 24 meeting, Col. Dharma Baniya, head of the Human Rights Cell of the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA),and Brig. Gen. B.A. Kumar Sharma, Judge Advocate General, told Emboffs that the RNA was working hard to improve its human rights record. Baniya gave a point by point reply to the U.S. [...]	2006-03-28 11:34:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER MASS NP
06KATHMANDU831	GOVERNMENT CONTEMPLATING APPOINTING A PRIME [...] (C) In separate March 27 meetings with the Ambassador, Vice Chairman Tulsi Giri and Home Minister Kamal Thapa each stated that the King was considering appointing a Prime Minister and relinquishing his Chairmanship of the Government. Giri mentioned that he was pushing former Prime Minister (a [...]	2006-03-28 11:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU833	PARTIES 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 13:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER NP
06KATHMANDU835	DID 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 08:02:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PGOV CASC KPAO EAID NP
06KATHMANDU836	DANISH AND NORWEGIAN AMBASSADORS INTERESTED IN [...] (C) Danish Ambassador Finn Thilsted and Norwegian Ambassador Tore Toreng separately met with the Ambassador to discuss a joint approach to Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey on internationalizing the Bhutanese refugee issue. They suggested that the three of them together go in to discuss Bhut [...]	2006-03-29 08:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PTER IN NP
06KATHMANDU838	UPBEAT CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF SEES POSSIBILITY FOR [...] (C) In a March 28 meeting, Chief of Army Staff General Pyar Jung Thapa told the Ambassador that he thought Nepal could successfully address the Maoist insurgency if enough military, diplomatic, political and economic pressure could be brought to bear on the Maoists. He cited a number of recen [...]	2006-03-29 11:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM MASS MOPS MARR NP
06KATHMANDU863	POLICE PUNISH HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATORS [...] (C) On March 27, the police announced that they had taken departmental action against 996 police personnel for behaving "against the ethics of the police department" between April 2005 and March 2006. The Police Human Rights cell told Emboff that internal police investigations found 109 police [...]	2006-03-31 11:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KCRM NP
06KATHMANDU866	INDIA NOT INTERESTED IN CHINA-U.S.-INDIA [...] (C) On March 29, Indian Ambassador Shiv Mukherjee told the Ambassador that "pretty definitively, New Delhi is not interested" in the proposal that India, China and the U.S. Ambassadors co-host talks between the Palace and the political parties. On March 31, the Ambassador met with Chinese Amb [...]	2006-03-31 12:05:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU867	POSITIVE SUPREME COURT DECISION ON GENDER EQUALITY [...] (U) On March 30, the Supreme Court ruled that the provision in the Civil Code allowing men to divorce women on the grounds of a woman's infertility was contrary to the constitutional guarantee to equality. Under the old law, a married man could seek divorce after ten years of marriage if a go [...]	2006-03-31 12:07:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV NP
06KATHMANDU869	NEPAL-INDIA TRANSIT TREATY EXTENDED FOR SEVEN YEARS [...] (C) India and Nepal extended on March 30 their bilateral transit treaty for seven years, until January 5, 2013. In early January 2006, Indian and Nepali delegations had failed to agree on treaty extension criteria and the treaty was extended only three months until April 6 (reftel). Thus, ti [...]	2006-03-31 12:36:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV BEXP ELTN IN NP
06KATHMANDU883	PARTIES 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 11:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU884	FINANCE MINISTER DISCUSSES SHAKY LOAN [...] (C) On March 31, the Ambassador and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Advisor Sukhwinder Singh met with Minister of State for Finance Roop Jyoti to urge His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) to refrain from proceeding with a shaky loan deal (ref A). Jyoti stated that he "heard" ou [...]	2006-04-03 11:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PTER PGOV PREL NP
06KATHMANDU891	IFIS ARGUE FOR CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT IN NEPAL [...] (C) During an April meeting with the Ambassador, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Representative Sukhwinder Singh, World Bank (WB) Country Director Ken Ohashi, and Asian Development Bank (ADB) Country Director Hafeez Rahman stressed that ongoing development work was important and mak [...]	2006-04-04 12:13:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID EFIN PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU894	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES BHUTANESE REFUGEES WITH [...] (C) On April 3, Australian Ambassador Graeme Lade and Japanese Ambassador Tsutomu Hiraoka separately met with the Ambassador to discuss the Bhutanese refugee issue. While neither the Australians nor the Japanese could immediately agree to the idea of a joint approach with the Danes and Norweg [...]	2006-04-04 12:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF IN NP JA AS BT
06KATHMANDU895	MAOIST 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 12:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV MOPS NP
06KATHMANDU896	NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION WORKING [...] (C) In a March 31 meeting, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Khatri and two other Commissioners thanked the Ambassador for USG support of the Commission, and detailed the NHRC's activities, especially its work to resolve old disappearance cases. While Nepalis had not reported a [...]	2006-04-05 05:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU906	UNSC: NEPAL TO SUPPORT GUATEMALA [...] (C) On April 5, the Ambassador again raised with Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey the importance the U.S. attaches to electing Guatemala to the UN Security Council for the Latin American seat. FM Pandey assured the Ambassador that Nepal would support Guatemala. MORIARTY [...]	2006-04-05 11:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA UNSC NP
06KATHMANDU907	U.S. CANDIDATE FOR ITU RADIO REGULATIONS BOARD [...] (SBU) On April 4, Post delivered a diplomatic note requesting support for the U.S. nomination of Julie Napier Zoller for election to the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Radio Regulations Board (reftel) to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and a copy to the Ministry of Informa [...]	2006-04-05 11:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC ECPS NP
06KATHMANDU908	GOVERNMENT PREEMPTIVELY ARRESTS PARTY LEADERS [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. See paragraph 11. Summary ------- 2. (C) Citing fears that the Maoists would infiltrate the April 6-9 peaceful protest program of the seven-party alliance and turn it violent through targeted assassination, the government arrested over 100 po [...]	2006-04-05 12:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER NP
06KATHMANDU910	SCENESETTER FOR APRIL 12-14 VISIT OF CODEL HASTERT [...] (SBU) I warmly welcome your upcoming visit to Kathmandu. Your visit here should help further our two principle objectives in Nepal: restoring multi-party democracy and dealing with the Maoist insurgency. The King's takeover of February 1, 2005 was a step back for both of these goals. Since th [...]	2006-04-05 15:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PGOV PREL PHUM PTER PREF MASS NP
06KATHMANDU911	SUDAN: LEVERAGING NEPAL TOWARDS DARFUR [...] (C) On April 5, the Ambassador discussed with Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey Nepal's ability to contribute troops to a UN peacekeeping operation in Darfur (ref A). The Ambassador noted that he had talked informally with Chief of Army Staff General Pyar Jung Thapa, who had volunteered to [...]	2006-04-07 04:29:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU KPKO NP
06KATHMANDU912	FOREIGN MINISTER ON REFUGEES [...] (C) In an April 5 meeting, Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey urged the Ambassador to keep any process relating to Tibetan refugees as quiet as possible. He also asked the Ambassador not to put anything in writing as that increased the possibility of leaks to the Chinese, who continued to put [...]	2006-04-07 06:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL NP
06KATHMANDU928	PARTIES TERM DAY ONE OF GENERAL STRIKE "TOTAL [...] (U) On April 7, the second day of the Parties' announced April 6-9 nationwide general strike, demonstrations and arrests continued in parts of the Kathmandu Valley. Normal life in Kathmandu remained largely quiet, however, as virtually all shops remained closed and few private vehicles were s [...]	2006-04-07 12:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL PINS NP
06KATHMANDU929	FORMER PM THAPA STRESSES KING MUST BE MENTALLY [...] (C) On April 7, Surya Bahadur Thapa, former Prime Minister and current chairman of Rastriya Jyanashakti Party, told the Ambassador that he had recently met with Prabhakar Rana who convinced Thapa to have "not exactly hope, but some indicator" that the King was thinking of moving. Thapa recoun [...]	2006-04-10 09:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU931	DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST IN DEFIANCE OF GOVERNMENT [...] (C) On April 10, pro-democracy protesters took to the streets nationwide for the fifth day, in defiance of the third day of a government-called curfew, and despite security forces killing at least four protesters in the last two days. The seven-party alliance announced an indefinite continuat [...]	2006-04-10 10:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU934	GOVERNMENT LOSING CONTROL? [...] This is an action request. Please see para. 8. Summary ------- 2. (C) There is a growing sense in Nepal that time is running out for King Gyanendra and that the situation is slipping out of control. Since the seven-party alliance started their general strike on April 6, which they have [...]	2006-04-10 11:29:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU944	MAOIST LEADERS' STATEMENT: WE'RE IN CHARGE [...] (C) In their April 9 statement (unofficial translation in para. 5),Maoist leaders Prachanda and Dr. Baburam Bhattarai appear as if they are trying to make it clear that the Maoists, not the political parties, have the upper hand in directing the current anti-King, pro-republic movement. Stres [...]	2006-04-11 11:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU946	AMBASSADOR PRESSING NEPALI GOVERNMENT FOR [...] (C) On April 10, the Ambassador spoke separately with Vice-Chairmen Tulsi Giri and Kirti Nidhi Bista to urge His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) to release political detainees, reach out to the political parties, and lift the curfew. Bista limited his response to agreeing that matters we [...]	2006-04-11 12:09:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU948	PROTESTS CONTINUE AS PARTIES ENJOY MOMENTUM [...] (C) His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) announced a day-time curfew in Kathmandu for the fourth consecutive day in an attempt to deal with growing civil unrest on the sixth day of the Party-organized pro-democracy movement. Protests continued across the country while political party leade [...]	2006-04-11 13:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU950	INDIANS THINKING OF PRESSURING BHUTAN ON REFUGEES [...] (C) On April 7, the Ambassador met separately with his Indian and Australian counterparts and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Resident Representative Abraham Abraham to discuss Bhutanese refugee issues. Cognizant of His Majesty's Government of Nepal's (HMGN) fear that Bhu [...]	2006-04-12 05:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PREL PHUM NP
06KATHMANDU957	PROFESSIONALS INCREASING SUPPORT FOR PRO-DEMOCRACY [...] (C) Numerous professionals and professional organizations have either announced their support through press statements or staged protests around the country as pro-democracy demonstrations called by the seven-party alliance continued into a seventh day. Health services in major hospitals arou [...]	2006-04-12 12:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KDEM NP
06KATHMANDU958	DAY-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 13:21:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER NP
06KATHMANDU959	POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS HOPING KING WILL OFFER [...] (C) In separate meetings on April 12, the Ambassador urged Nepali Congress (NC) President G.P. Koirala and CPN-UML Acting General Secretary Amrit Bohara and Central Committee Member Bharat Mohan Adhikari to respond positively if the King makes a good faith offer in his New Year's Message on Ap [...]	2006-04-12 13:37:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU962	POKHARA: 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 11:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR PINS PREL NP
06KATHMANDU964	HMGN REPORTS SUPPORT FOR U.S. OBSERVER STATUS IN [...] (C) During an April 11 conversation on other subjects with the Ambassador, Indian Ambassador Shiv Mukherjee mentioned that GOI reports from the ongoing South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) sub-ministerial meeting in Dhaka indicated that the Nepal delegation was actively o [...]	2006-04-13 12:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL XD NP
06KATHMANDU965	MAOISTS BLOCK FOOD ACCESS TO BHUTANESE REFUGEE [...] (C) Maoist roadblocks on the highways in eastern Morang District, part of the Maoist "support of the seven-party alliance movement" (reftel),have prevented the World Food Program (WFP) from resupplying Bhutanese refugee camps with foodstuffs. Over 100,000 Bhutanese refugees in seven camps i [...]	2006-04-13 12:07:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PTER NP
06KATHMANDU966	MINISTRY OF LABOR HOLDS FIRST EXHIBITION ON [...] (SBU) On April 5, the Ministry of Labor and Transport Management (MLTM) organized and funded its first ever one-day exhibition on foreign employment at Kathmandu's convention center. MLTM spokesperson Dhruba Sharma, said the purpose for organizing the exhibition was to acquaint overseas job s [...]	2006-04-13 12:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB SMIG NP
06KATHMANDU969	WAITING 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 13:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC NP
06KATHMANDU971	KING'S NEW YEARS' MESSAGE DISAPPOINTING [...] (C) The King's much anticipated New Year's speech on April 14 contained no concrete initiatives, but called on "all political parties to join in a dialogue, which we have always advocated, to bear the responsibility of and contribute towards activating the multiparty democratic polity." Par [...]	2006-04-14 07:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PGOV PTER KDEM NP
06KATHMANDU990	BANKING SECTOR PROVIDING LIMITED SERVICES, CASHING [...] (C) A possible paycheck crisis (reftel) has yet to materialize in Kathmandu as officials from one state-owned bank and two private banks told Emboff that they had been cashing checks and providing limited banking services throughout the now twelve-day strike. Bursa Shrestha of Nabil Bank (pri [...]	2006-04-17 13:22:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN NP
06KATHMANDU991	MAOISTS SHOOT AND INJURE ONE BHUTANESE REFUGEE [...] (C) The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (OHCHR) office reported to Emboff that Maoists shot and injured a Bhutanese refugee on April 16 outside the Beldangi refugee camp in Jhapa District during an Armed Police Force (APF) and Maoist gunfight. On April 15 several s [...]	2006-04-17 13:31:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PTER PREL NP
06KATHMANDU992	FUEL SHORTAGES AND INCREASE IN FOOD PRICES GROWING [...] (C) Fuel has become increasingly hard to find in Kathmandu and may reach a critical shortage within ten days due to the Maoist road closures (ref A). Ikshya Bikram Thapa, Manager of Nepal Oil Corporation's (NOC) fuel depot in Thankot (western Kathmandu Valley) explained to Emboff that no new [...]	2006-04-17 13:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER ECON AMGT NP
06KATHMANDU993	PARTIES 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 13:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER NP
06KINSHASA100	GUATEMALAN PEACEKEEPERS KILLED IN FIRE FIGHT WITH [...] (U) MONUC Director of Information Kemal Saiki confirmed to PAO that eight Guatemalan peacekeepers were killed on January 23 in an operation against Lord's Resistance Army forces in Garamba National Park near the Sudanese border. An additional fourteen peacekeepers were injured, and have been [...]	2006-01-23 14:20:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS KPKO PREL CG UG GT
06KINSHASA1008	TWO MONUC PEACEKEEPERS RELEASED FROM CAPTIVITY [...] (C) MONUC-Bunia Head of Office Charles Gomis confirmed that two of the seven MONUC Nepalese peacekeepers being held hostage by Peter Karim (reftels) were released unharmed at 3am local time June 27. Gomis said the two were in "good condition," and reported that the five remaining peacekeepers [...]	2006-06-27 11:04:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1019	ITURI UPDATE: STATUS OF EFFORTS TO RELEASE MONUC [...] (C) Summary: The June 27 release of two MONUC Nepalese peacekeepers held by militia leader Peter Karim (ref A) comes after a series of intense negotiations between the militia leader and GDRC officials. According to MONUC and Congolese military officials in Bunia, efforts are still underway to [...]	2006-06-28 09:21:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA105	EIGHT UN SOLDIERS, 14 LRA KILLED IN FIRE FIGHT [...] (U) As reported reftel, MONUC Director of Information Kemal Saiki confirmed that eight Guatemalan peacekeepers were killed January 23 in an operation against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Garamba National Park near the Sudanese border. 2. (C) In a separate conversation January 23, MON [...]	2006-01-23 17:23:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KPKO CG UG SU GT UN
06KINSHASA1165	ITURI UPDATE: KARIM AGREES TO DISARM MILITIA, [...] (C) Summary: Peter Karim, leader of the Ituri-based Front for National Integration (FNI),has agreed to disband his militia in exchange for the promise to be integrated in the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) and given the rank of colonel. In addition, all militia members from the FNI who volun [...]	2006-07-21 07:21:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1186	ITURI UPDATE: MONUC SUSPENDS OPS FOR ELECTIONS; [...] (C) Summary: One week before the DRC's presidential and legislative elections, MONUC peacekeepers have suspended all offensive operations in Ituri District to focus on providing security and logistical support to election workers. Meanwhile, militia leader Peter Karim, who agreed earlier this [...]	2006-07-26 10:10:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1567	ITURI MILITIA LEADERS AWARDED RANK OF COLONEL IN [...] (C) Summary: Ituri militia leaders Peter Karim of the Front for National Integration (FNI) and Mathieu Ngonjolo of the Congolese Revolutionary Movement (MRC) will be named as colonels by the GDRC after they agreed earlier this year to surrender their weapons and demobilize their respective mil [...]	2006-10-12 13:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA192	MONUC PROVIDES UPDATE ON MILITARY ACTIVITIES [...] (SBU) Due to recent actions by armed groups (reftel) and the high level of MONUC activity in response, MONUC spokesperson included an extended briefing on MONUC military activities in the east during the weekly MONUC press cQrence held on February 1. Main points follow: NORTH KIVU -------- [...]	2006-02-03 13:16:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA631	ITURI UPDATE: NEW ANTI-MILITIA CAMPAIGN IMMINENT [...] (C) Summary: MONUC and the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) are making final preparations for a new anti-militia campaign in Ituri District. While no date for the operation has been set, MONUC commanders believe fighting will begin soon. Meanwhile, militia forces of the Congolese Revolutionary [...]	2006-04-20 16:58:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA640	ITURI UPDATE: MONUC, FARDC ADVANCE ON MILITIAS [...] (C) According to internal reports from MONUC's Eastern Division military headquarters, MONUC forces conducted joint operations with the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) April 21-23 to seize several towns in Ituri District from militia control. The recent operations were meant to prepare the gro [...]	2006-04-24 16:13:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA851	ONE MONUC PEACEKEEPER KILLED, SEVEN OTHERS [...] (C) Officials with MONUC and the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) confirmed that one Nepalese peacekeeper was killed May 28 during an anti-militia operation in Ituri and that seven other Nepalese peacekeepers were captured. During Operation Ituri Element 3, a joint search-and-cordon operation w [...]	2006-05-30 11:22:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS KPKO CG
06KINSHASA853	ITURI UPDATE: MONUC CONFIRMS CAPTURED PEACEKEEPERS [...] (C) MONUC sources told PolOff May 30 they have verified that the seven Nepalese peacekeepers captured during operations May 28 (reftel) are alive and being held by militia leader Peter Karim. According to MONUC officials, MONUC is working with a group of intermediaries in Ituri to make contact [...]	2006-05-30 15:56:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS KPKO CG
06KINSHASA898	ITURI UPDATE: TALKS STILL UNDERWAY FOR RELEASE OF [...] (C) According to MONUC and Congolese government officials, talks are still underway with militia leader Peter Karim and his Front for National Integration (FNI) regarding the release of seven Nepalese peacekeepers captured in Tsupu May 28 (ref C). MONUC officials confirm that a Crisis Managemen [...]	2006-06-06 12:17:00	Embassy Kinshasa	SECRET	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA978	ITURI'S MILITIAS: WHY THEY CONTINUE TO FIGHT [...] (C) Summary: Ituri District's security has long been threatened by the presence of local armed militias backed by Congolese and Ugandan elements seeking to profit from the region's abundant natural resources, instability, and lack of central government authority. Over the past three years, a s [...]	2006-06-22 13:14:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO KDEM CG UG
06KUWAIT1095	2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT UPDATE: [...] (C) Summary and comment: While much work remains to be done, Post believes that the GOK is making significant efforts to combat human trafficking and to improve the working conditions and status of the large expatriate labor community. In the 2006 TIP report, we recommend that Kuwait be li [...]	2006-03-29 13:57:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB KU TIP
06KUWAIT2231	CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES OF FOREIGN LABORERS IN [...] (C) Summary: The Egyptian expatriate labor community is Kuwait's second largest, surpassed only by the Indians. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Egyptian workers do not suffer as badly as workers from other expatriate communities. Post consulted with Egyptian Embassy officials as well as E [...]	2006-06-12 10:22:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM ELAB PREL EG KU TIP
06KUWAIT2235	(C) LABOR MINISTRY GIVES APPROVAL FOR UN-SPONSORED [...] (C) Mohammad Al-Nassery, IOM Chief of Mission in Kuwait, informed the labor-sending countries' labor officers in a June 10 meeting that the GOK has provided written approval of an international labor conference to be sponsored by the UN and held in Kuwait at the end of 2006. (Note: Post in [...]	2006-06-12 12:57:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB XD XF

06KUWAIT3741	KUWAIT TAKES ACTION ON KEY TIP ACTION PLAN ITEMS: [...] (C/NF) Summary. The GOK has made progress on a number of key items on the Kuwait TIP Tier 2 Watchlist Action Plan. The Ministry of Interior announced the implementation of a standardized domestic worker contract beginning October 1. Post will monitor implementation closely. GOK contacts hav [...]	2006-09-18 07:04:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV ELAB PHUM KU TIP
06LJUBLJANA576	SLOVENIA: LOOKAHEAD TO THE IAEA BOARD OF [...] (C) Summary: PolMilOff met with MFA Department of Security Policy Officer Bostjan Jerman to discuss the recent visit of International Atomic Energy Agency Secretary General Mohamad El Baradei to Slovenia and Slovenia's upcoming Chairmanship of the IAEA Board of Governors. Jerman said that disc [...]	2006-09-07 14:09:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PINR PREL ENRG SI
06LONDON7206	(U) S/CRS HERBST MEETS WITH DFID AND FCO OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: S/CRS Ambassador John Herbst met in London October 5 with the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) and Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). In both meetings, the two sides updated each other on their respective efforts to improve coordination of the civilian [...]	2006-10-06 16:55:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID UK
06LONDON7250	(C) UK-INDIA SUMMIT: BUILDING ON THE STRATEGIC [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Prime Ministers Blair and Singh met in London October 10 for the third annual UK-India summit since the bilateral strategic partnership was launched in 2004. This was not intended as a summit of breakthrough agreements, but rather of building on the multi-faceted relationship. [...]	2006-10-11 16:05:00	Embassy London	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL KNNP ETRD PTER IN AF UK
06MANAMA389	BAHRAIN ANTI-TRAFFICKING RESPONSES 2006 [...] (SBU) Post's response to reftel follows. Answers are keyed to reftel questions. Please note that during the reporting period the Ministry of Social Affairs, which has the lead in establishing a shelter for victims of trafficking and abuse, was renamed the Ministry of Social Development. [...]	2006-03-14 04:35:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF BA HUMRIT
06MINSK148	Suspicious Belarusian Trade [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent years, Minsk has actively sought to increase trade and relations with pariah states as a counterbalance to Western pressures to democratize and as evidence that Lukashenko's rule is accepted abroad. Despite these efforts, trade with these Outposts of Tyranny and State [...]	2006-02-13 10:14:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL USTR BO
06MOSCOW5760	MFA HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIALS ON THE NGO LAW, [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a May 29 meeting with Mikhail Lebedev, Acting Director of the MFA Department on Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, DRL Deputy Assistant Secretary Barks-Ruggles underscored USG concerns that the new NGO law be implemented fairly and transparently. Barks-Ruggles also em [...]	2006-05-31 14:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KUNR KREL RS
06MUMBAI1261	MAHARASHTRA POLICE UPDATE ON ISLAMIC TERRORISM IN WESTERN [...] (C) A top Maharashtra anti-terrorist official has told us that the three suspected terrorists killed in the foiled June 1 attack on the RSS headquarters in Nagpur were probably foreigners. J.J. Singh, Additional Chief of Police in the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS),also acknowledged t [...]	2006-07-06 10:29:00	Consulate Mumbai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV KIRF KISL CASC ASEC PK IN
06MUMBAI1307	MUMBAI REMAINS CALM AS POLICE DETAIN HUNDREDS IN CONNECTION [...] (U) Nearly 48 hours after bombs exploded aboard seven trains traveling Mumbai's western commuter railway line, casualty figures continue to rise, varying between 200 and 186 depending on the source. The number injured has also increased to 772. There have been no reports of Amcit deaths or in [...]	2006-07-13 12:51:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KISL PGOV PREL ASEC CASC IN
06MUMBAI1332	(C) PAKISTAN'S ISI INVOLVED IN MUMBAI BOMBINGS, TOP POLICE [...] (C) Maharahstra's top police official told the Consul General on July 19 that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) had a clear hand in the July 7 Mumbai train bombings. P.S. Pasricha, Director General of the state police, said the bombs used in the attacks may point to an A [...]	2006-07-19 13:29:00	Consulate Mumbai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV KISL CASC ASEC PK IN
06MUMBAI1356	POLICE MAKE FIRST ARRESTS IN MUMBAI TRAIN BOMBING CASE [...] (C) Investigators have reportedly made the first formal arrests in connection with the July 7 train bombings in Mumbai that killed over 180 people. If the media reports match information we have received from the police, then those arrested are suspected of having helped move materials for the [...]	2006-07-21 10:17:00	Consulate Mumbai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV KISL CASC ASEC PK IN
06MUMBAI1506	STILL NO BREAKTHROUGH IN MUMBAI TRAIN BOMBING INVESTIGATION, POLICE SAY [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-11 18:17:00	Consulate Mumbai	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC IN KISL PGOV PK PREL PTER
06MUMBAI1652	MUMBAI BOMBING INVESTIGATIONS REVEAL DETAILS OF MUSLIM [...] (C) Although police have now arrested 14 men in connection with the July 11 Mumbai train bombings, investigators still appear to know little about the actual perpetrators of the well-planned act of terrorism that killed 187 people and left few traces. All those arrested have been charged on th [...]	2006-09-08 11:48:00	Consulate Mumbai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV KISL CASC ASEC PK IN
06NEWDELHI1320	INDIA AND THE US ON NEPAL: STILL NO DAYLIGHT, WE [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (North) Pankaj Saran sought reassurance on February 22 that India and the US were still reading off the same page on Nepal policy, and underlined that India still sees the Maoist insurgency as the principle problem in Nepal. He requested USG action to convinc [...]	2006-02-22 14:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS IN NP PK
06NEWDELHI1572	RGOB REMAINS COMMITTED TO REFUGEE RETURNS [...] (C) Summary: In contrast to Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering's comments in Ref A that the RGOB my not repatriate SIPDIS any refugees, in a February 15 meeting with Poloff, Bhutanese Second Secretary Karma Thinley (Strictly Protect) stated that Thimphu remains committed to repatriating those in [...]	2006-03-06 12:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF IN NP BT
06NEWDELHI1653	GOI COMPARES NOTES ON NEPAL WITH PDAS CAMP [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (North) Pankaj Saran told visiting SCA PDAS Don Camp on March 7 that the GOI was not worried about the RNA's ammunition supplies (Refs A and B). New Delhi is "revisiting" its policies toward Nepal, but continues to stand by supporting the seven-party alliance [...]	2006-03-09 12:16:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PTER IN NP
06NEWDELHI1806	PRESIDENT KALAM IN BURMA: BALANCING REALPOLITIK WITH HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-16 11:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEAN BM ECON ELAB ENRG EPET KDEM PHUM PREL
06NEWDELHI1854	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BOND [...] (SBU) Senator Bond, your delegation's 22-23 March visit to India provides a significant opportunity to assess the accelerating India-US relationship on the heels of President Bush's historic summit and help shape the next phase of this growing partnership. After forty years of mutual indiffe [...]	2006-03-17 14:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM INCB IN
06NEWDELHI2151	BHUTAN HINTS AT QUID PRO QUO FOR VENEZUELA UNSC [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche asking Bhutan to support Guatemala's candidacy to represent GRULAC in the 2007-2008 UNSC and detailed our concerns about Venezuela. Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering responded that he would forward the message to Thimphu. 2. (C) Tshering noted that the Ro [...]	2006-03-30 10:44:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNSC PREF GT VE IN
06NEWDELHI2167	BHUTAN INVITES NEPALESE FM TO THIMPHU TO DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering told PolCouns and PolOff on March 30 that the RGOB invited Nepalese Foreign Minister Pandey to Thimphu to expedite a solution to the refugee problem. In a welcome reversal of his previous statements to us, Tshering asserted that the RGOB position on [...]	2006-03-30 11:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM IN BT NP
06NEWDELHI2172	INDIA WILL SUPPORT OUR INCB CANDIDATE IF WE [...] (SBU) After PolCouns raised reftel points regarding the nomination of Ambassador Levitsky for re-election to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) on March 29, MEA Joint Secretary (UN Economic and Social) Manjeev Puri responded that India would be pleased to support the US candidat [...]	2006-03-30 12:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR AORC PREL UN IN
06NEWDELHI2229	GOI GETS GOOD ATMOSPHERICS BUT LITTLE SUBSTANCE [...] (C) Summary: The GOI went to great lengths to cast a positive glow over Bangladesh Prime Minister Zia's March 20-22 visit to New Delhi in an effort to improve the tone of the bilateral relationship. Our MEA contacts lamented that this positive turn-around came just in time for Zia's lame duc [...]	2006-03-31 13:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EINV ETRD ENRG EPET IN BG
06NEWDELHI2231	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HAGEL [...] (SBU) Senator Hagel, your delegation's 8-12 April visit to India provides a significant opportunity to assess the accelerating transformation of the India-US relationship following President Bush's historic March 1-3 meeting and help shape the next phase of this growing partnership. After fo [...]	2006-03-31 15:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM INCB PTER
06NEWDELHI2255	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HASTERT [...] (SBU) Speaker Hastert, your delegation's 9-12 April visit to India provides a significant opportunity to assess the accelerating transformation of the US-India relationship following President Bush's historic March 1-3 meeting and help shape the next phase of this growing partnership. After [...]	2006-04-03 13:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM PTER ECON
06NEWDELHI2323	INDIA GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT SAARC [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns and Poloff's April 4 introductory call on Preeti Saran, the new MEA Joint Secretary for SAARC, revealed an element in the GOI that is generally upbeat about SAARC's potential to improve regional cooperation, in line with Prime Minister Singh's long-term vision of Indian [...]	2006-04-05 14:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG ECIN EAID IN AF BG BT
06NEWDELHI2496	MEA PROVIDES A/S BOUCHER WITH TOUR D'HORIZON OF [...] (C) Summary: Over an April 7 lunch, MEA regional Joint Secretaries provided Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher with SIPDIS a review of India's relations with its neighbors in South and Central Asia. Boucher probed them specifically on Nepal, Pakistan (including Kashmir),Afghanistan, Cent [...]	2006-04-13 06:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ENRG ETRD PBTS MOPS ELTN EPET KDEM
06NEWDELHI2587	SCENESETTER FOR APRIL 19 US-INDIA CT JOINT WORKING [...] (C) Summary: The US-India counterterrorism dialogue reflects our shared values and encompasses the range of CT issues in South Asia. New Delhi focuses on combating jihadi terrorism launched from Pakistan, which complicates USG efforts to engage Delhi in a more vibrant intelligence dialogue without [...]	2006-04-18 07:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PTER PGOV PINR PREL PINS MASS KJUS KTIA TBIO
06NEWDELHI2699	INDIAN ENVOY TO NEPAL KING: ASSUME CEREMONIAL ROLE [...] (C) Summary: As the Indian establishment debates the effectiveness of envoy Karan Singh's visit to Kathmandu, New Delhi is still reaching out to Nepalese actors to try to pull the parties and Palace together. Speaking with the Charge on April 21, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said the King ha [...]	2006-04-21 11:44:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM PGOV PBTS OREP NP IN
06NEWDELHI2747	INDIA STILL HOPEFUL ON NEPALESE PARTIES, TEMPERS [...] (C) Summary: Following criticism of its statement of support for Nepalese King Gyanendra's April 21 announcement, the MEA reassured us on April 23 and 24 that it continues to work with the Nepalese political parties and believes the "door is not closed" to a compromise between the parties and [...]	2006-04-24 11:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PHUM KDEM IN
06NEWDELHI2790	NEW DELHI ADAPTING TO CRITICISM AS NEPAL SITUATION [...] (C) Summary: The GOI issued a strong statement of support for the "Nepalese people" on April 25, after widespread criticism over its Nepal policies including former Foreign Minister Natwar Singh on April 24 who assailed India's Nepal policy as "masterly inactivity" that "let down the people of [...]	2006-04-25 14:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV KDEM IN NP
06NEWDELHI2983	INDIA'S STATE ELECTIONS: A REFERENDUM ON CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary: The usual religious and caste issues have been all but absent in the April/May electoral contests in four states and one Union Territory, raising the prospect that the vote will be viewed as a referendum on UPA economic and foreign policies. The Communists hope to move the elect [...]	2006-05-02 09:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM IN
06NEWDELHI3048	BOUCHER AND INDIAN OFFICIALS AGREE ON NEPAL [...] (C) Summary: Having just returned from Kathmandu, Assistant Secretary Boucher related to MEA Joint Secretaries Pankaj Saran (Nepal) and S. Jaishankar (Americas) that the political parties intended to show progress. The U.S. would wait for the civilian government to issue a formal request for [...]	2006-05-04 07:16:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PGOV IN NP PTER
06NEWDELHI3050	INDIAN SPECIAL ENVOY PROPOSES WAY FORWARD IN NEPAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Special Envoy to Nepal Dr. Karan Singh told visiting SCA A/S Richard Boucher and NSC Senior Director Elisabeth Millard that he believes that the Nepalese political situation remains very fragile, and that it is uncertain who will lead the political process forward should c [...]	2006-05-04 08:40:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR IN
06NEWDELHI3313	PARLIAMENT SET TO DEBATE THE UPA'S PRO-AMERICAN [...] (C) Summary: The UPA's pro-American foreign policy could come under intense criticism from both the Left Front (LF) and the BJP during the current parliamentary session that began May 10. The Communists, energized by victories in the just-concluded state assembly elections, will take a hosti [...]	2006-05-12 11:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MNUC KNNP PINR IN
06NEWDELHI3382	GOI FAVORS NEPAL CEASE-FIRE MONITORING UNDER UN [...] (C) Summary: Noting that that India does not want to be unilaterally involved in maintaining the peace in Nepal, MEA Under Secretary (Nepal) Manish Gupta indicated on May 16 that the GOI would not oppose UN involvement in monitoring the cease-fire between the Maoists and Government of Nepal. [...]	2006-05-16 12:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER AORC ECON EPET MASS KDEM IN NP
06NEWDELHI3433	POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC SUPPORT TO NEPAL VITAL, [...] (U) This is an ACTION REQUEST for G, IO and USUN. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (C) Summary: The international community needs to provide full diplomatic and political support to the Government of Nepal (GON) and be ready to provide aid when requested, MEA Joint Secretary (North) Pankaj Sa [...]	2006-05-18 06:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER AORC ECON EPET MASS KDEM IN NP
06NEWDELHI3499	SARAN ARGUES FOR PRESSURE ON MAOISTS, CRITICIZES [...] (U) This is an action request for SCA and USUN. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Foreign Secretary Saran used a May 19 meeting with the Ambassador (other topics septel) to explain India's concern about the current UN Secretariat approach to Nepal and to appeal for US engagement with the UN to ens [...]	2006-05-19 12:12:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER UNSC MOPS NP IN
06NEWDELHI3580	BHUTANESE REFUGEES ON BACKBURNER BUT NOT [...] (C) In light of the turmoil in Nepal, the GOI has not recently discussed the refugee situation with the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB),MEA Joint Secretary (North) Pankaj Saran told visiting PDAS Camp and PolCouns in a May 17 meeting. Saran indicated that he would visit Bhutan during the [...]	2006-05-23 12:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM IN BT NP
06NEWDELHI4169	FS SARAN BRIEFS ON NEPAL PM VISIT [...] (C) Summary: The most important outcome from the June 5-9 visit of Nepalese Prime Minister G.P. Koirala to New Delhi was the GOI's expression of unconditional political support for the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and the announcement of an economic aid package worth USD 210 million, in finite t [...]	2006-06-14 11:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO ECON ENRG MASS IN NP
06NEWDELHI4200	CONGRESS ON THE DEFENSIVE WITHIN ITS COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Congress is feeling increasingly isolated, as regional parties nominally part of the UPA openly join BJP and Left Front (LF) protests against the recent petroleum product price hikes. The Prime Minister on June 7 asked the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MPNG),s Secretary [...]	2006-06-15 11:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON EINV EFIN ELAB EPET ENRG IN
06NEWDELHI4254	MEA AWAITING CENTRAL ASIAN ENERGY TRADE [...] (C) Summary: USAID South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy (SARI/E) regional coordinator delivered ref A demarche to the GOI Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary for Eurasia Jaimini Bhagwati, who was generally supportive of all trade initiatives but cautious about the prospects [...]	2006-06-16 12:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID EINV ENRG EPET ETRD IN PGOV
06NEWDELHI4336	COMMUNISTS HOPE TO "CAPITALIZE" ON NAXALITE [...] (C) Summary: Communist ideologues view the resurgent Naxalite movement as a potential political windfall. Looking closely at events in Nepal, they have concluded that the Indian Naxalites could eventually reform, join the Indian mainstream and ally with the Communists. The non-Maoist Commu [...]	2006-06-20 11:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PTER SCUL IN
06NEWDELHI4369	NEW KASHMIR BUS SAFELY LAUNCHED, BUT TERROR [...] (SBU) Summary: The second trans-LoC bus, connecting Poonch in J&K with Rawalkote in Pakistani Kashmir for the first time in 58 years, kicked off yesterday without a hitch or an attack. This bus may end up being more heavily used than the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route because more families are [...]	2006-06-21 12:51:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PBTS SCUL ELTN IN PK
06NEWDELHI4466	MEA WILL NOT ATTEND BHUTANESE REFUGEE MEETING [...] (C) The GOI will not attend the proposed July 14 meeting in New York of the truncated Core Group on Bhutanese Refugees (Reftel),MEA Director (North) Vikas Swarup told PolOff on June 26. Swarup stated that the GOI would be interested in receiving a read-out of the meeting, but that due to "s [...]	2006-06-26 11:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL IN BT NP
06NEWDELHI4729	GOI PRESSING MAOISTS TO FOREGO VIOLENCE, OPPOSES [...] (C) On July 5 Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran agreed with the Ambassador's assertion that the UN needs to play a role in Maoist disarmament and welcomed the Government of Nepal's (GON's) dispatch of a letter to this effect. Saran underlined the need for the Maoists to disarm. In a separate Ju [...]	2006-07-06 11:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO ECON ENRG MASS IN NP
06NEWDELHI4928	J&K CROSS-SECTION AGREES, EVERYTHING SLIPPING [...] (C) Summary: July 5-8 meetings in Srinagar and Jammu with a cross-section of journalists, police officials, NGO activists, businesspeople, and politicians from most major J&K parties demonstrated to Poloff and PolFSN that our J&K interlocutors are united as never before in their assessment th [...]	2006-07-13 10:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL CASC PHUM PBTS SCUL SOCI PREF
06NEWDELHI4947	INDIAN THINK TANKS STRESS NEED FOR UN INVOLVEMENT, [...] (C) Summary: Representatives from Delhi-based think tanks stressed to PolOffs on July 11 that proposed negotiations with the Maoists in Nepal will not be successful without UN involvement and a strong and united front by the country's political parties. The representatives also stressed their [...]	2006-07-13 12:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO IN NP
06NEWDELHI5035	DALAI LAMA REPRESENTATIVE REQUESTS USG SUPPORT IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dalai Lama Representative Tempa Tsering, delivered a letter to the charge' on July 17 requesting greater USG engagement with the Government of Nepal (GON) on the Tibetan refugee issue in light of increased pressure from China. He noted that the PRC will send Vice Foreign Minis [...]	2006-07-18 13:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IN PREF
06NEWDELHI5135	INDIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORY BOARD: ADVISING [...] (C) Summary: The National Security Advisory Board -- populated by civilians, but supported by the GOI National Security Council Secretariat -- is a little-discussed institution designed to provide creative long-term assessments to the National Security Advisor, and through him to the Cabinet [...]	2006-07-21 07:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR IN
06NEWDELHI5136	INDIA'S NSCS: PROFESSIONALS IN A "BUREAUCRATIC [...] (C) Summary: India's National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) was a little-known institution until a SIPDIS recent series of "Indian Express" articles alleged that several of its employees were involved in a spy ring (Ref A). From collating intelligence inputs to supporting National S [...]	2006-07-21 07:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PINR IN
06NEWDELHI550	GOI STUMPED ON ITS NEPAL POLICY [...] (C) Summary: New Delhi is trying to decide its next steps on Nepal, and hopes for more "clarity" in a few days, Joint Secretary Pankaj Saran said in a January 25 meeting with SIPDIS PolCouns and Poloffs. The GOI is committed to maintaining its current pro-democracy position (including the [...]	2006-01-25 13:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MASS PTER ASEC IN NP
06NEWDELHI555	GOI WILLING TO ENGAGE RGOB ON REFUGEES IN NEPAL, [...] (C) Summary: The GOI pressed Bhutanese Foreign Minister Wangchuk to find a solution to the refugee problem during his January 15 visit to New Delhi, Joint Secretary-North (Nepal-Bhutan) Pankaj Saran told us during a January 25 meeting. Acknowledging a direct GOI interest, he noted that Indi [...]	2006-01-25 14:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM IN BT NP
06NEWDELHI5609	A/S BOUCHER AND FOREIGN SECRETARY SARAN TALK [...] (S) Summary. In an August 7 meeting between A/S Boucher and Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, A/S Boucher: -- told Saran that the U.S. is committed to maintaining the spirit of the civil-nuclear deal as agreed on July 18; and -- explained concrete steps the U.S. has taken against Pakistani t [...]	2006-08-11 10:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PARM KNNP AORC UN NP PK
06NEWDELHI5798	INDIA STILL UNDECIDED ON ENHANCED UNIFIL [...] (C) The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) UN Political (UNP) Division, in charge of India's UNIFIL portfolio, reported that as of August 21 the GOI has still not decided on a contribution to an enhanced UNIFIL mission. UNP Under Secretary Manish confirmed senior level officials from MEA, S [...]	2006-08-21 13:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS KPAL IN
06NEWDELHI6320	MEA STILL CAUTIOUSLY POSITIVE ON NEPAL [...] (C) Summary. MEA North Division Joint Secretary Pankaj Saran told PolCouns: -- in his analysis, the desire for success in Nepal's peace process "is overwhelming;" -- India continues to see eye-to-eye with the U.S. on key issues regarding Nepal; -- the Seven-Party Alliance must appear s [...]	2006-09-11 10:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MARR NP IN
06NEWDELHI6409	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SASHASTRA SEEMA [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and CS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Post-shipment Verification (PSV) at Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB),New Delhi on September 8 [...]	2006-09-14 06:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC ETRD BEXP IN
06NEWDELHI6527	EMBASSY, INDIAN EXPERTS COORDINATE ON NEPAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over Sep. 18th and 19th, PolCouns led a round-table on Nepal and met with leading Indian Nepal experts with the objective of enhancing our ability to coordinate with India on Nepal. From these meetings, it appears that two camps exist within India's policy making elite on prosp [...]	2006-09-19 14:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS KDEM NP IN
06NEWDELHI6766	"PRAGMATIC" MAOISTS GETTING CLOSER TO KOIRALA? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nepalese Maoists are getting closer to PM Koirala, according to Sudhindra Bhadoria of the left-leaning New Delhi-based South Asian Forum for People's Inititatives, because they are pragmatists who are not "hard and fast" on the issues of arms and the role of the monarchy in the fu [...]	2006-09-28 12:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS KDEM PK NE IN
06NEWDELHI7005	HIGH STAKES FOR INDIA IN NEPAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: India's stakes in Nepal are high, yet, of all its neighbors, Nepal is the easiest to manage, according to MEA Americas Director Santosh Jha. Jha said the Maoists are long on guns, but short on strategy. They have created an "aura" of support, said Jha, but would be exposed in e [...]	2006-10-11 10:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM NE IN
06NEWDELHI7106	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: OIL AND NATURAL [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and BIS FSN Kavita Vijh conducted a Post-shipment Verification (PSV) at Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. (ONGC),Kolkata, on [...]	2006-10-16 09:40:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC ETRD BEXP IN
06NEWDELHI7155	MAOISTS UNWILLING TO SHARE, ACCORDING TO INDIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dr. Ajai Sahni of the Institute for Conflict Management, warned that current peace talks will result in Nepal being handed over to the Maoists, who have no intention of sharing power. The Maoists are tactical negotiators who should not be underestimated, said Sahni. Describing [...]	2006-10-18 04:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PBTS KISL NP IN
06NEWDELHI7205	UN SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ASSURES GOI PEACE TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 17 visit to New Delhi, UN representative Ian Martin told GOI interlocutors that, although talks have stalled in Nepal, they have not completely broken down and he is optimistic the GON and Maoists will eventually resume negotiations, although he did not have a [...]	2006-10-19 13:12:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP UN IN
06NEWDELHI736	BHUTANESE AMBASSADOR, CITING FEAR OF MAOISTS, [...] (C) The Government of Bhutan is focusing on Bhutan's constitutional process and may not have time to address the refugee issue, Bhutanese Ambassador Tshering told PRM/A Director Rusch and Poloff on January 31. During the meeting, in which Rusch reiterated points in Ref. A, Tshering stated tha [...]	2006-02-01 12:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM IN BT NP
06NEWDELHI761	INDO-US GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM REVIEWS PRM/TIP ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: A US delegation led by Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky discussed Bhutanese and Tibetan refugees, trafficking in persons, and forced labor with the Indian delegation headed by Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran at the Global Issues Forum in New Delhi [...]	2006-02-03 03:05:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF ELAB PHUM IN NP BT
06NEWDELHI7759	BOUCHER DISCUSSES NUCLEAR TALKS, BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reflecting the rapid maturation and quickly broadening scope of US-India strategic coordination, visiting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. Subramanyam Jaishankar discussed the o [...]	2006-11-13 10:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI7762	AN INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH COMMUNIST LEADER [...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 meeting with PolCouns, CPI(M) leader and ideologue Sitaram Yechury expressed a desire to maintain regular relations with the Embassy. With a straight face, Yechury was adamant that good relations benefited both India and the US and had moved beyond the stage of [...]	2006-11-13 11:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB PGOV PINR PREL IN BG NP SL
06NEWDELHI7767	BOUCHER AND MENON TOUR D'HORIZON: PAKISTAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Secretary Menon told Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher SIPDIS and Ambassador Mulford in a Nov. 10 meeting that countering Pakistani mistrust about India's role in Baluchistan will be difficult. India is concerned about the growin [...]	2006-11-14 04:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK
06NEWDELHI7870	FS MENON TELLS USDP EDELMAN INDIA WILL EMPOWER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a 15 November meeting with Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, visiting Under Secretary of SIPDIS Defense for Policy, Eric Edelman, outlined the reorganization of the Department of Defense (DOD) Policy Office, noting the addition of an Assistant Secretary for all Asia incl [...]	2006-11-20 12:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PTER MOPS IN
06NEWDELHI7937	NEPALESE MAOIST SUPREMO PRACHANDA CONQUERS DELHI, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nepal's Maoist Chairman Prachanda made a splashy debut in New Delhi last week, addressing a leadership conference and sharing the stage with world leaders like Afghan President Karzai and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Prachanda criticized Stalin and Lenin, preached [...]	2006-11-22 12:16:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM IN
06NEWDELHI8003	INDIA'S COMMUNIST PARTIES DEBATE HOW TO USE THEIR [...] (C) Summary: India's Left parties have a guaranteed niche in Indian politics and enjoy some advantages. India has the largest number of poor people of any country on earth, including many of the most exploited and oppressed populations found anywhere. These make a natural constituency for [...]	2006-11-28 06:58:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON IN CH NP
06NEWDELHI8047	GOI BRIEFING: ARMS MANAGEMENT IN NEPAL MUST BE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Ambassador to Nepal Shiva Shankar Mukherjee presided over a November 28 briefing of the New Delhi diplomatic corps, with International Organizations Additional Secretary K.C. Singh also in attendance, to stress the need for speed in getting a team of UN monitors to observe [...]	2006-11-30 01:20:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS KDEM NP CH IN
06NEWDELHI8280	U.S.-INDIA BILATERAL DIALOGUE: BURNS AND MENON [...] (C) Summary. During the December 7 U.S.-India Bilateral Dialogue, chaired by Undersecretary Burns and Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, the two sides followed up on SIPDIS the list of Presidential initiatives agreed upon in July 2005 and March 2006 by President Bush and PM Singh, as wel [...]	2006-12-11 13:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ETRD EFIN ECON EINV KIPR MARR
06NEWDELHI8356	HOME MINISTRY AGREES TO CLOSER COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an extremely collegial exchange, S/CT Deputy Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Virginia Palmer identified several areas for future counterterrorism (CT) cooperation in a Dec. 8 meeting with three senior Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) officials, who briefed her on the current [...]	2006-12-15 01:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV PARM KISL PK BG IN
06NEWDELHI8373	MOVING THE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP FORWARD: PDAS MANN AND JOINT SECRETARIES JAISHANKAR AND KUMAR [...] (S) Summary: On December 13, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Steven Mann met SIPDIS with out-going MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Dr. Jaishankar and his designated replacement Ms. Gyatri Kumar to follow-up on the progress made during Under Secretary Burns' [...]	2006-12-15 08:40:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV PINR EAGR MASS IN
06OSLO427	NORWAY'S ROLE IN NEPAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-04 14:35:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV PTER IN NP NO
06OSLO543	NORWAY'S DEVELOPMENT MINISTER SOLHEIM'S NEPAL VISIT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-28 13:23:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV PTER IN NP NO
06OSLO553	A/S BOUCHER'S MEETING WITH NORWEGIAN DFM JOHANSEN [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-03 12:35:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETTC PARM PREL IN PGOV PHUM PTER NP CE
06PARIS332	FRANCE 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Investment Climate Statement Contents A. French Investment Regime A1. Openness to Foreign Investment A2. Conversion and Transfer Policies A3. Expropriation and Compensation A4. Dispute Settlement A5. Performance Requirements and Incentives A6. Right to Private Ownership and Establis [...]	2006-01-18 17:12:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ELAB PGOV KTDB FR OPIC USTR
06PARIS4174	FRANCE AND WORKING GROUPS SUPPORTING THE SRI [...] (C) Deputy Political Counselor and poloff discussed reftel points June 13 with French MFA A/S equivalent for Asia, Herve Ladsous. Ladsous said that the GoF had no objections in principle to forming the two working groups, though, he added, France would probably not insert itself into a leade [...]	2006-06-16 16:58:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MARR PINS FR
06PARIS4955	UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' JULY 13 MEETING WITH INDIAN [...] (U) July 13, 2006; 10:30AM - 2:45PM; Paris, FRANCE 2. (U) Participants: U.S. U/S Nicolas Burns Anja Manuel, P Staff Political Officer Greg D'Elia, U.S. Embassy, Paris Political Officer Leslie Ordeman, U.S. Embassy, Paris (notetaker) India: Foreign Minister Saran S. Jaishankar, H [...]	2006-07-20 16:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL BM NP CE IR IZ VE GT CU FR
06PARIS5276	U.S. DELEGATION REPORT: 30TH SESSION OF THE WORLD HERITAGE [...] Summary: The World Heritage Committee, the 21-nation governing body of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention, held its 30th Session in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 8-16, 2006. The Committee added eighteen cultural and natural sites to the prestigious World Heritage List and also decided to rem [...]	2006-08-03 16:59:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL UNESCO LH
06PARIS7101	FRANCE CONFIRMS TO S/CRS HERBST THAT IT HAS NO [...] (C) Summary: October 19, visiting S/CRS Ambassador John Herbst met with both working and senior-level French counterparts to share the USG experience in establishing a central coordinating office for reconstruction and stabilization activities and to encourage creation of a similar structure [...]	2006-10-30 09:08:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS FR
06PARIS7201	PRESIDENT CHIRAC'S VISIT TO CHINA-STRENGTHENING THE [...] (SBU) French President Jacques Chirac's most recent four-day visit to China on October 25th through the 28th was notable due to the signing of trade deals worth approximately 5 billion euro and for his personal efforts to improve Franco-Chinese political ties. 2. (U) "Never have we been s [...]	2006-11-03 13:45:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EIND EINV ELAB PREL PGOV FR CH
06PORTAUPRINCE1365	JULY 20 REPATRIATION OF 139 HAITIAN AND 2 CUBAN [...] According to lead UN Police Maritime advisor, Officer Pat Evans, Haitian Coast Guard Detachment Cap-Haitien intercepted a 40 foot Haitian sailing sloop with 141 persons on board near Point Picholet on July 20 at 0315. The vessel was escorted back to Maritime Operations Center/Coast Guard Stat [...]	2006-07-27 18:41:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR SMIG HA
06PRAGUE427	MARTIN BURSIK, MEAN GREEN CHAMELEON, POSSIBLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. It looks increasingly likely that the Czech Green Party will cross the 5% threshold in the June 2-3 parliamentary elections, and have a say in the formation of the next coalition government. Martin Bursik, who became Chairman of the party six months ago, and who is given credit [...]	2006-04-25 10:46:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EZ PGOV PINR PREL
06PRETORIA4598	NEC MEMBER EBRAHIM SAYS TOO EARLY TO SPECULATE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: This is the second in a series of cables on the strengths and weaknesses of the emerging candidates for the ANC and national presidencies in South Africa (Ref A). This messages presents the view of Ebrahim Ebrahim, ANC National Executive Council member and forme [...]	2006-11-06 14:46:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SF
06ROME1555	COESPU: ITALIAN PROPOSALS FOR NEXT CANDIDATE [...] (U) This is an Action Request. See Paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary: Italy recommends inviting Chile, Ghana, Nigeria, Serbia and Montenegro (SaM),and South Africa to participate in the Center of Excellence for Police Stability Units (COESPU) in Vicenza. In addition, Italy looks to the U.S. [...]	2006-05-23 07:45:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IT
06ROME315	FAO EMERGENCY PROGRAMS: INFORMAL DONORS' [...] Summary and Background. On January 25, 2006, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (TCE) held an informal donors' meeting to provide an overview of 2005 activities and special requirements for 2006. Recently appointed TCE Assistant Direc [...]	2006-02-03 11:07:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR ECON SENV UN FAO
06SANAA2063	WTO MEETING BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO TRADE REFORMS [...] SUMMARY: When it comes to trade reform, Yemen may finally be willing to do business. The ROYG's World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiating team recently returned from the third Working Party meeting in Geneva reporting significant progress. Despite some differences on tariff rates, the ROYG [...]	2006-07-18 13:21:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EAID ECIN KMCA KMPI YM
06SEOUL549	LABOR SNAPSHOT: MEETING THE STANDARDS [...] (SBU) This is the final report in a three-part series on labor-management relations in the ROK. In previous cables we described the major players (Ref A) and current issues (Ref B). We now focus on whether Korean labor laws meet the core labor standards contained in the Trade Promotion Autho [...]	2006-02-17 06:07:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB ETRD KS PGOV
06TELAVIV915	ISRAEL: SIXTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) This cable forms the first part of a four-part message in response to reftel A. Embassy point of contact is poloff James Miller, phone (972)3-519-7437, fax (972)3-519-7484. Poloff spent approximately 120 hours in preparation of TIP report; deputy polcouns spent six hours, polcouns spe [...]	2006-03-06 15:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL
06THEHAGUE1080	NETHERLANDS: APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche May 10 to Deputy European Correspondent Bahia Tahzib-Lie and attended subsequent diplomatic community pre-GAERC briefing with European Correspondent Desiree Kopmels. The MFA does not expect significant progress on enlargement during this GAERC but does exp [...]	2006-05-12 13:57:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM UNAUS EUN MW SR BO IR IZ CG SU
06THEHAGUE1301	DONOR COUNTRIES COALESCE ON BHUTANESE REFUGEE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 1, 2006, seven members of the Core Group on Bhutanese Refugees, the UNHCR and the European Commission met in The Hague to set a near-term strategy to break the impasse in resolving the 16-year-old Bhutan refugee problem. Representatives agreed to lobby both Nepal (to take [...]	2006-06-09 11:46:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PREL BT IN NP NL
06THEHAGUE1303	DONOR COUNTRIES COALESCE ON BHUTANESE REFUGEE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 1, 2006, seven members of the Core Group on Bhutanese Refugees, the UNHCR and the European Commission met in The Hague to set a near-term strategy to break the impasse in resolving the 16-year-old Bhutan refugee problem. Representatives agreed to lobby both Nepal (to take [...]	2006-06-09 12:10:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PREL BT IN NP NL
06THEHAGUE1383	CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) Del reps met with French, German and UK delegations on June 15 to deliver talking points, proposed draft decision text, and suggested site visit parameters. Del reps met initially with UK rep to express concern over the UK insistence upon visits to capitals (in the context of site visit p [...]	2006-06-20 15:13:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CWC
06TOKYO1570	VISITING U.S. AMBASSADOR TO NEPAL URGES MOFA'S [...] (C) Summary: Thanking Japan for its cooperation on Nepal, visiting U.S. Ambassador Moriarty stressed to his MOFA interlocutors on March 20 the importance of continued pressure on the King and political parties to cooperate on democratic reforms. MOFA underscored its support for U.S. policy [...]	2006-03-24 08:39:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PROV PTER NP JA
06TOKYO2322	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/28/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-28 04:26:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO2330	MEDIA REACTION NEPAL/IRAQ - TOKYO [...] "Nepal: Back to the Starting Point for Democratization" An editorial in the top-circulation, moderate Yomiuri commented (4/28): "Facing daily demonstrations by over 100,000 people calling for the reinstatement of parliament, the defiant king had no choice but to yield. King Gyanendra announced [...]	2006-04-28 06:11:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO JA
06TOKYO2445	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/08/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-08 01:20:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO2450	MEDIA REACTION DARFUR/NEPAL - TOKYO [...] "Bring an End to the Human Crisis" The liberal Asahi editorialized (5/7): "...A faint hope has emerged regarding an end to the civil war in Darfur, as officials from the Sudanese government and the largest anti- government force signed a peace agreement following talks in Nigeria mediated by t [...]	2006-05-08 04:17:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO JA

06TOKYO2990	SCA A/S BOUCHER'S MAY 30 MEETING WITH MOFA ASIAN [...] (C) Summary: In a May 30 meeting with visiting SCA A/S Boucher, MOFA Asian Affairs Bureau DG Sasae stated: -- Japan is committed to nation building in Sri Lanka; -- MOFA is carefully explaining to the public and the Diet Japan's interests in supporting the India nuclear initiative; -- [...]	2006-05-31 09:35:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PARM IN AF NP CE IR JA
06TOKYO3252	SHIZUOKA PREFECTURE EAGER TO HOST FOREIGN BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary. Shizuoka Prefecture, located between Tokyo and Nagoya is eager to attract foreign direct investment even as it confronts problems with its large population of foreign factory workers. End Summary 2. (SBU) Introduction. Shizuoka will roll out the welcome mat for foreign inv [...]	2006-06-13 09:01:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD JA
06TOKYO484	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/30/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-30 02:33:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO6569	2006 JAPAN INCSR PART I [...] (U) Japan's efforts to fight drug trafficking comply with international standards. A party to the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Trafficking in Narcotics, Japan cooperates with other countries in intelligence sharing and law enforcement. Methamphetamine abuse remains the bigg [...]	2006-11-16 05:43:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR SOCI JA
06TOKYO6695	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/24/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-24 01:02:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06TOKYO6877	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/07/06 [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-07 00:46:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA
06USUNNEWYORK1016	INDIA REJECTS UNSC BRIEFING ON NEPAL AS WELL AS UN [...] (C) Summary. During a May 16 meeting on Nepal hosted by UK PermRep to the UN Sir Emyr Jones Parry and attended by Special Adviser to SYG Annan Vijay Nambiar and USUN Deputy PermRep Wolff -- but not Indian PermRep Nirupam Sen, who decided at the last minute not to attend -- the UK pushed for a [...]	2006-05-18 20:40:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV UNSC NP
06USUNNEWYORK1033	INDIAN DPR PLEDGES TO COOPERATE WITH USG ON NEPAL, UN BUDGET, AND SYG SELECTION [...] (C/NF) During a May 19 lunch with USUN Deputy PermRep Wolff, Indian Deputy PermRep Ajai Malhotra (protect) reported that he had been sent to New York with instructions from Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran to cooperate with the USG on the broad range of issues facing both countries at the UN. [...]	2006-05-19 21:04:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV UNSC KUNR AORC NP IN
06USUNNEWYORK1075	UN SECRETARIAT SAYS NEPALIS SUPPORT EXPANDED UN [...] (SBU) Summary. During a May 23 meeting with visiting IO/UNP Deskoff and USUN Poloff, UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) officer Tamrat Samuel briefed on his recently-completed visit to Nepal and India and outlined his views of a possible expanded role for the UN in Nepal. Samuel said ne [...]	2006-05-26 13:07:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UNSC KPKO NP IN
06USUNNEWYORK1287	NEPAL: INDIA SUPPORTS UN ROLE IN MAOIST DDR BUT IS [...] (SBU) Summary. Indian Mission to the UN diplomat Harsh Shringla told Poloff June 20 that while his government supports the early establishment of a UN mission in Nepal to monitor Maoist disarmament, New Delhi would greatly prefer to avoid adding Nepal to the UNSC agenda for discussion -- lest [...]	2006-06-29 14:57:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER UNSC KPKO NP IN
06USUNNEWYORK1570	UNIFIL FORCE GENERATION UPDATE: MEMBER STATES [...] (U) Summary. During a meeting with current and potential troop contributing countries (TCCs) to an expanded UNIFIL force in south Lebanon on August 17, UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown made an impassioned SIPDIS appeal to member states to help secure a lasting peace by committ [...]	2006-08-18 01:57:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPKO UNSC IS LE
06USUNNEWYORK1619	KOREA TO WITHDRAW FROM SECURITY COUNCIL RACE TO [...] (C) Korean Deputy Permanent Representative Oh Joon called USUN Ambassador Mark Wallace on Thursday August 24 to inform USUN that Seoul would be withdrawing its candidacy for the Asian non-permanent seat on the Security Council. Oh Joon said that Korea would inform the Asian group next week of [...]	2006-08-24 16:41:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KS
06USUNNEWYORK1974	UN COUNTER-TERRORISM COMMITTEE (CTED) LOOKING BACK [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-13 19:01:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK2155	NEPALESE PERMREP TO FORMALLY ASK FOR UN [...] (C) Summary and comment: DPR Wolff met November 13 with Indian DPR Malhotra and November 14 with Nepalese PermRep Acharya to discuss the Nepalese request for UN assistance in implementing the November 8 peace deal between the government of Nepal and the Maoists. Malhotra and Acharya confirmed [...]	2006-11-14 23:56:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IN NP UNSC
06USUNNEWYORK2165	NEPAL PEACE PROCESS: NEXT STEPS AT THE UN [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Following the November 8 peace agreement between the Government of Nepal and the Maoists, the UN has begun contingency planning for its potential role in providing support for the implementation of the agreement, including assistance in the security sector ("arms manag [...]	2006-11-17 00:50:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP UNSC
06USUNNEWYORK2196	SECURITY COUNCIL DISCUSSES NEPAL; PROMISES QUICK [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 29, the Security Council discussed during a private meeting the November 22 letter from the Secretary-General proposing UN support for the peace process in Nepal. The SYG,s Personal Representative to the peace process, Ian Martin, briefed and responded to questions [...]	2006-11-30 00:19:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UNSC NP
06USUNNEWYORK2291	CONDEMNATORY HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION ON BURMA [...] (U) A strong and unambiguous resolution deploring the situation of human rights in Burma gathered momentum and passed by a significant margin of 57 votes in a late-night session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on December 22. The final vote count was 82 in favor (U.S.) - 25 opposed - 45 ab [...]	2006-12-26 20:24:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM AORC UNGA BM XC
06USUNNEWYORK351	UN SECRETARIAT AND JAPAN SUGGEST RAISING NEPAL IN [...] (SBU) UN Undersecretary for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari will raise possible UN Security Council consideration of the political crisis in Nepal during his February 27 visit to Washington, UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) Asia Political Officer Tamrat Samuel told Poloff on February [...]	2006-02-24 21:06:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV NP
06VIENNA3297	WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE IN VIENNA [...] Delegates from 306 national trade union organizations representing 168 million workers in 154 countries met Nov. 1-3 in Vienna to found the International Trade Union Confederation. "The Confederation exists to unite and mobilize the democratic and independent forces of world trade unionism i [...]	2006-11-09 14:48:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON ETRD EAID PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI ILO
07ADDISABABA2796	A/S Frazer's Meeting with AU Commission Chair Alpha Oumar [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-10 15:27:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPKO UN SO SU AU
07AMMAN968	JORDAN'S CONTRIBUTION TO SEVENTH ANNUAL [...] (U) Embassy point of contact on trafficking in persons is political officer Miriam Schwedt, phone number 202-536-4173, ext. 6597 or 962-6-590-6597, fax number 962-6-592-0159. Officer spent approximately 48 hours preparing the report. Political Analyst Manal Hashweh spent 16 hours preparing the [...]	2007-03-04 13:46:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB JO
07ATHENS2100	GREECE INFORMED OF NEW GLOBAL INITIATIVE MEMBERS [...] On October 24, DepPolCouns/Global Initiative Coordinator informed Greek counterparts per reftel instructions of the endorsement by Hungary, Luxembourg, Nepal, Seychelles, and Tajikistan of the principles of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. COUNTRYMAN [...]	2007-10-24 06:26:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM PTER KGIC GR
07BEIJING1065	REINCARNATE LAMA DISCUSSES GOVERNMENT PLANS FOR [...] (C) Summary: According to a well-respected reincarnate lama from Gansu Province, the Chinese government has a secret plan to select the next reincarnation of the Dalai SIPDIS Lama, but cautioned that people would not respect a Government choice. The Rinpoche said the Chinese Government a [...]	2007-02-14 23:03:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF CH
07BEIJING1362	MARCH 1 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS [...] Key points made at the March 1 MFA press conference were: -- China expects a positive outcome from talks in New York between DPRK VFM Kim Kye-gwan and A/S Hill. -- The Spokesperson repeated the schedule for Deputy Secretary Negroponte's visit. SIPDIS -- China hopes Iran will abide by [...]	2007-03-01 11:53:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETRD ELAB IR KN JA CH GH NP
07BEIJING1508	PRC/NEPAL: MFA THINKING ON FUTURE DEALINGS WITH [...] (C) Summary. China considers the Maoists to have joined the political mainstream in Nepal, despite the ongoing struggle between the Maoists and the Seven Party Alliance to strike a power sharing arrangement, MFA Asian Department India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan Division officer Zhi Luying st [...]	2007-03-07 23:34:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER NP CH
07BEIJING2599	BEIJING HUMAN RIGHTS WATCHERS DISCUSS DIALOGUES, [...] (C) Beijing-based human rights watchers reported that: -- Chinese officials referred to the Nangpa La Pass shooting incident on the Nepal border as "an accident" during the recent UK-China human rights dialogue. -- Germany will host the 23rd round of the China-EU human rights dialogue in mid-May in [...]	2007-04-18 11:35:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV CH
07BEIJING3171	PRC/NEPAL: BEIJING SEES EARLY ELECTION DATE AS [...] (C) The Government of Nepal needs to set a date for the constituent assembly elections as soon as possible, according to MFA Asia Department Director for India, Nepal and Sri Lanka Huang Xilian. The postponement of the elections could reignite political differences between the "eight parties." [...]	2007-05-11 12:03:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH NP
07BEIJING3173	PRC: BORDER TALKS WITH INDIA MAKING STEADY [...] (C) The last round of border talks between China and India was the most in depth to date, according to MFA Asian Affairs Department Director for India, Nepal and Sri Lanka Huang Xilian. The two countries' differences on the Eastern section of the border remain quite large. Beijing and New De [...]	2007-05-11 12:11:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN CH
07BEIJING376	JANUARY 16 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: EAST ASIA SUMMIT, [...] Key points made at the January 16 MFA press conference: -- China supports the East Asia Summit (EAS),believes ASEAN-Plus-Three is the main venue for regional cooperation and discussed the Korean Peninsula during a PRC-Japan-ROK trilateral meeting in Cebu, Philippines. -- Premier Wen discu [...]	2007-01-16 11:49:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ASEAN PTER KN CH
07BEIJING501	HUMAN RIGHTS: MFA OFFICIAL DEFENDS JUDICIAL [...] (C) MFA Human Rights official Xu Jing defended the Chinese Government's handling of Gao Zhisheng's case (reftel) during a January 22 meeting, claiming that Gao Zhisheng's legal rights were protected and that he received a "light sentence." Xu Jing said she will inquire about the Chinese Gover [...]	2007-01-23 12:31:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV CH
07BEIJING619	A/S SILVERBERG'S MEETINGS WITH FM LI, IO DG WU AND [...] (C) Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing told A/S Silverberg Beijing hopes U.S.-China cooperation on international organizations issues will continue in 2007, with the United States and China addressing problems arising in various hotspots based on a constructive, cooperative, win-win approach. FM L [...]	2007-01-26 10:35:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC CH IR KS KN SU
07BEIJING6937	NOVEMBER 1 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DALAI LAMA, BURMA, [...] Key points at the November 1 MFA Press Briefing: -- Countries that meet with the Dalai Lama have been deceived or wish to meddle in the internal affairs of China. Seeking to undermine China's policy of peaceful development in Tibet is doomed to failure. -- China hopes the relevant parties [...]	2007-11-01 09:22:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM CH KN KS CA IR
07BEIJING772	FEBRUARY 1 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: US-DPRK FINANCIAL [...] Key points made at the February 1 MFA press conference were: -- Despite comments from VFM Wu that the Fifth Round of Six-Party Talks would last 3-4 days, the MFA gave no timetable and had no substantive comments on the recent financial talks between the United States and the DPRK. -- The [...]	2007-02-01 10:41:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL CH
07BERN200	TIP - SWITZERLAND: ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-01 15:40:00	Embassy Bern	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG SZ
07BERN923	D/EUCOM GEN WARD DISCUSSES ENGAGEMENT IN AFRICA [...] (SBU) During a September 7 office meeting with Swiss DefMin Schmid, and a subsequent joint MFA/MOD roundtable discussion, Deputy EUCOM Commander General Ward and senior Swiss MFA and MOD officials exchanged views on efforts to enhance African security and stability. DefMin Schmid characterize [...]	2007-09-18 15:01:00	Embassy Bern	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MASS PREL AF SZ
07BRUSSELS1462	A/S BOUCHER DISCUSSES SOUTH ASIA WITH THE EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 17, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher led the U.S. South Asia delegation to the COASI (the EU's Asia-Oceania Working Party) Troika on South Asia, discussing Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, U.S.-EU-India relations, and the situati [...]	2007-05-02 12:49:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN AF PK IN CE NP BG
07BUENOSAIRES1947	ARGENTINA'S INVESTMENT PITCH MARRED BY POOR GRADES ON [...] (U) Summary: During President and Mrs. Kirchner's New York business-focused visit (reftel),two highly respected and widely read international business reports released their annual surveys - and Argentina came up wanting. Transparency International's "Corruption Perceptions Index 2007" (CPI) [...]	2007-09-28 18:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON PGOV PREL AR
07BUENOSAIRES2044	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period September 17 - October 5, 2007. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state. [...]	2007-10-12 18:32:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV AR
07CHENGDU159	BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILES OF TIBET AUTONOMOUS REGION FOREIGN [...] (C) During a recent seven-day road trip through Nagchu Prefecture in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR),Consulate had over 40 hours of "quality" time to dialogue with the TAR Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) official assigned to accompany us to remote field sites. In the course of our trip, in [...]	2007-06-26 03:46:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL CH
07CHENGDU192	TAKING A STROLL DOWN "TIBET STREET" [...] (C) Summary: A recent visit to "Tibet Street" in the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu underscored the neighborhood's role as a magnet for a mostly transient or floating population of ethnic Tibetans, which may number as many as 300,000 during any given year. Some of the area's denizens s [...]	2007-07-23 02:03:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI CH
07CHENGDU236	HIV/AIDS AND POLITICAL CONTROLS IN ONE OF TIBET'S MOST [...] (C) Summary: While optimistic their outreach efforts can have a positive impact, Swiss Red Cross representatives in China's Tibetan prefecture of Shigatse believe that a continued overall lack of education and awareness about HIV/AIDS, the spread of prostitution in the wake of increased number [...]	2007-09-25 08:54:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	KHIV PGOV SOCI ECON CH
07CHENGDU243	EVEREST AND BEYOND -- A RARE GLIMPSE INTO WESTERN TIBET [...] (C) Summary: The remote western areas of China's Tibetan Autonomous Region are a mixture of active military facilities, sensitive religious sites, and vulnerable archeological ruins. The Everest Base Camp, at which a People's Armed Police station was recently added, has become a rather squalid [...]	2007-10-09 04:29:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ECON CH
07CHENGDU252	ETHNIC TIBETANS REACT TO DALAI LAMA'S GOLD MEDAL [...] (C) Summary: Despite stepped-up security, a number of ethnic Tibetans both inside the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) and in other areas of southwest China reacted to the Dalai Lama's Congressional Gold Medal by praying in monasteries and by setting off firecrackers. Unconfirmed reports indi [...]	2007-10-19 09:06:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CH
07CHENGDU289	REINCARNATION BEFORE DEATH: MORE COMMON THAN YOU THINK [...] (C) Summary: The Dalai Lama's recent statement that he may choose a successor before his death drew accusations from self-styled protectors of religious orthodoxy in the Chinese Communist Party that the Dalai Lama was breaking with Tibetan tradition. According to Congen's Tibetan Buddhist relig [...]	2007-12-12 03:39:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI CH
07CHENGDU297	A PRC SCHOLAR LOOKS AT LHASA'S FLOATING POPULATION [...] (C) Summary: The July 2006 opening of the Qinghai-Tibet railway greatly boosted access to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) for both tourists and migrant workers, accelerating economic growth and ethnic Han immigration to the TAR. Sichuan University Tibetology Department PhD student Bao Do [...]	2007-12-20 02:23:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ELAB PHUM SOCI CH
07CHENGDU88	SED ENVOY HOLMER SEES WESTERN CHINA'S DEVELOPMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-05 06:38:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EFIN KIPR PGOV SENV CH
07CHENNAI363	BOMBING AT HISTORIC MOSQUE IN HYDERABAD KILLS FIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A bomb exploded at Hyderabad's historic Mecca Masjid, the city's oldest and largest mosque, today at approximately 1:25 p.m. local time, killing five people and injuring many others. The bomb detonated during Friday prayers when the mosque was filled with up to 10,000 worshi [...]	2007-05-18 13:39:00	Consulate Chennai	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC IN KISL PGOV PTER
07CHENNAI500	SOUTH INDIAN COPS CONFIDENT THEY CAN HANDLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Aggressive police activity in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has pushed the Maoists (also known as the Communist Party of India - Maoist and/or "Naxalites") into neighboring Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, both of which historically have seen less Maoist activity. However, p [...]	2007-08-10 09:55:00	Consulate Chennai	CONFIDENTIAL	IN PGOV PHUM PTER SOCI
07CHENNAI77	TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED, GIRLS RESCUED IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] Summary: Since mid-October 2006, the Andhra Pradesh (AP) Police, assisted by local NGOs, have rescued 80 girls and arrested 94 traffickers from four districts in the state. Most of the traffickers have been booked under non-bailable charges. Most of the rescued girls were placed in shelter h [...]	2007-01-31 11:02:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN SOCI KCRM ELAB IN
07COLOMBO1284	BUILDING A SOUTH ASIA COUNTERTERRORISM STRATEGY [...] (S) SUMMARY: Chiefs of Mission and other Embassy representatives from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan met under the auspices of the Regional Security Initiative (RSI) in Colombo on September 7 to discuss regional counterterrorism strategy with the Coordinator for Counterte [...]	2007-09-17 11:13:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET	PTER PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS CE
07COLOMBO130	SRI LANKA: OPPOSITION LEADER SEEKS TO MEND PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met opposition leader Wickremesinghe on January 22 to urge him to seek common ground with his UNP critics, including leading dissident Karu Jayasuriya. Our only interest was in supporting the peace process, Ambassador noted, but the current round of political wrangli [...]	2007-01-23 05:22:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS PREL CE
07COLOMBO1371	256TH SESSION OF THE COLOMBO PLAN COUNCIL [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 27, 2007, The Colombo Plan Council convened for the 256th Session and discussed FY 2005/6 audited accounts, the 2006/7 draft annual report, a special paper on "Strategic Plan of The Colombo Plan 2025," and the needs assessment questionnaire. Ambassador Blake present [...]	2007-10-04 12:04:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SNAR SOCI ECON EAID CE
07COLOMBO1399	SRI LANKA: LAGGING IN WORLD BANK EASE OF DOING BUSINESS [...] Summary: Sri Lanka rated poorly in the World Bank Group's just-released Doing Business 2008 index and in the middle of Transparency International's 2007 Corruption Perception Index. In the Ease of Doing Business index, Sri Lanka ranked 101 out of 178 economies. Notable was its ranking of 133 [...]	2007-10-10 09:14:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EAID KMCA KCOR CE
07COLOMBO170	SRI LANKA: CABINET RESHUFFLE NARROWS MAJORITY FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Mahinda Rajapaksa reshuffled his cabinet on January 28. Joining the government ranks were 18 "dissident" MPs from the opposition United National Party (UNP) and all 6 MPs from the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC). This gave the government, which previously had 98 seat [...]	2007-01-29 15:15:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS ETRD EINV CE
07COLOMBO189	SRI LANKA: NORWEGIAN AMBASSADOR SAYS TIGERS WILL [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met Norwegian Ambassador Hans Brattskar on January 31 to discuss the January 28-29 Sri Lanka Development Forum and the ramifications of the Government of Sri Lanka's (GSL) military victories in Vakarai and elsewhere in the east. The Ambassadors shared concerns over sp [...]	2007-01-31 12:24:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE
07COLOMBO256	UN A/SYG KANE PROPOSES HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORS TO [...] (C) Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Angela Kane briefed on February 9 Co-Chair Ambassadors regarding her current visit to Sri Lanka. She has met with Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister, Human Rights Minister, political party leaders and other senior government officials to gain a [...]	2007-02-09 10:44:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM AORC PGOV CE
07COLOMBO536	SRI LANKA: 2006 GDP GREW 7.4 PERCENT; 2007 GROWTH LIKELY TO [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Sri Lanka's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 7.4 percent in 2006, its highest annual growth rate since 1978. The Central Bank Governor announced that he expects 2007 growth to come in between and 7.5 and 8 percent. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) forecasts only [...]	2007-04-06 06:15:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EINV ETRD PREL CE
07COLOMBO676	UNSCR 1747: SRI LANKA CITES ASIAN CLEARING UNION [...] (SBU) Summary: Sri Lanka has not yet taken any action to sever the correspondent bank relationship between the state-owned Bank of Ceylon and Bank Sepah of Iran, as required by UNSCR 1747. Central Bank officials say that Sri Lanka's membership with Iran in the eight-country Asian Clearing Uni [...]	2007-05-10 08:17:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETRD KNNP PARM IR CE
07COLOMBO82	INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2007 - SRI LANKA [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-16 12:01:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	CE EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC PGOV USTR
07DHAKA38	COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR RLA NANCY LANGSTON [...] This is an action request (please see paragraphs 2 - 5). 2. Country clearance is requested for Nancy Langston, Regional Legal Advisor with the Department of Justice, to travel to Kathmandu, Nepal to prepare a Trafficking in Persons (TIP) program from January 14 - 20, 2007. 3. Country cle [...]	2007-01-09 09:58:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA KJUS BG
07DOHA260	QATAR: INPUT FOR THE SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) The following is post's input for the seventh annual Anti-Trafficking in Persons Report. Answers are keyed to reftel questions. 2. (SBU) Paragraph 27. Overview of a country's activities to eliminate trafficking in persons: A. (SBU) Is the country a country of origin, transit, or des [...]	2007-03-08 09:25:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB QA
07DOHA764	FREEDOM AGENDA: SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Qatar's April 1 municipal elections, the country's third, served as a focal point for democracy promotion in 2007. Ambassador and Emboffs engaged in a program of support and undertook the following activities: -- Ambassador hosted a series of salons at his residence to discuss election [...]	2007-08-01 10:23:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KMPI KDEM SCUL KPAO QA
07DUBAI179	DUBAI TO DEPORT 200 WORKERS FOR ENGAGING IN VIOLENCE DURING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The UAE Ministry of Labor announced that more than 200 workers would be deported for having participated in violence and instigating other workers to protest. Nearly 8000 workers, principally South Asian construction workers, had been involved in a two-day protest in which they de [...]	2007-03-14 13:21:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV PINS SOCI AE
07GENEVA2184	HUMAN RIGHTS HIGH COMMISSIONER ARBOUR DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: In a September 14 meeting with the Ambassador, High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said she had felt obliged to attend the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) conference in Tehran even though she would have preferred another venue, given Iran's poor human rights record. She [...]	2007-09-19 05:33:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC IR CE
07ISLAMABAD2530	SUBMISSION OF G/TIP PROPOSALS -- PAKISTAN [...] SUMMARY: Following are summaries of three anti-trafficking in persons proposals received by Embassy Islamabad for consideration for funding from G/TIP-managed FY07 funds to strengthen Pakistan's efforts in combating trafficking in persons. As requested, post forwarded the original proposals t [...]	2007-06-07 05:21:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PK
07JAKARTA2317	INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS: MAY - JULY 2007 [...] Summary: The Ministry of Forestry (MOF) signed a letter of intent with the Zoological Parks Authority of the Government of Western Australia on May 21 to cooperate on wildlife conservation. On May 21-24, Indonesia hosted the second meeting of the ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network (WEN) program [...]	2007-08-24 05:39:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TPHY TBIO TRGY ENRG ID
07JAKARTA3181	COUNTERNARCOTICS STRATEGY REPORT (INSCR) PART II: [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia--the fourth largest country in population in the world--has historically has not been considered a major drug producing, consuming or transit country. However, in recent years Indones [...]	2007-11-16 07:48:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCRM SNAR AFIN PREL ID
07JAKARTA3267	INDONESIAN PEACEKEEPING -- LEBANON, DARFUR AND THE [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Indonesia is sending a fresh battalion of peacekeeping troops to the United Nations Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The 850-member battalion from the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) replaces the initial [...]	2007-11-28 09:34:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR KPKO PGOV PHUM ID
07KATHMANDU1001	BHUTANESE REFUGEES WORRY ABOUT ONGOING [...] (C) Recent press reports in Nepal and India have concluded that 70,000 - 80,000 Nepali-ethnic Bhutanese, called Lhotsampa, were not permitted to participate in the mock elections held in Bhutan in April. The reports also suggested that these people might be subject to eviction from Bhutan. G [...]	2007-05-18 11:58:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL PGOV BT IN NP
07KATHMANDU1002	UNMIN CHIEF CONFIRMS VERIFICATION, ELECTION PREP [...] (C) UNMIN Chief Ian Martin told the Ambassador May 17 that he continued to urge the Government of Nepal (GON) and the Maoists to allow the second phase of combatant verification to begin, but so far had seen little movement. Martin and visiting Senior UN Political Affairs Officer for South A [...]	2007-05-18 12:24:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR UN NP
07KATHMANDU1003	NEPAL: SILENCE HANDICAPS OHCHR [...] (C) On May 17, the Ambassador told Lena Sundh, the Representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal (OHCHR),that OHCHR's silence regarding the Young Communist League (YCL) was destroying OHCHR's credibility. Sundh assured the Ambassador that OHCHR was preparing [...]	2007-05-18 12:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER NP
07KATHMANDU1008	NEPAL: NEW PEACE MINISTER STARTING TO MAKE PROGRESS [...] (C) USAID-contracted peace facilitator Hannes Siebert told the Ambassador May 18 that Peace and Reconstruction Minister Ram Chandra Poudel was getting things done. Under his leadership, the Government of Nepal (GON) was finally starting to come to grips, most importantly, with conditions in t [...]	2007-05-21 12:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KDEM MARR UN NP
07KATHMANDU1009	NEPAL: MAOIST COMBATANT VERIFICATION TO BEGIN SOON [...] (C) On May 21, the Prime Minister's Foreign Policy Advisor Dr. Suresh Chalise confirmed to Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Robert Hugins that the Maoists had agreed to allow verification of Maoist combatants to begin. Chalise expected verification might commence within a week. Prime Minister [...]	2007-05-21 12:32:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER MARR UN NP
07KATHMANDU1027	UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES MEETS WITH CORE [...] (C) On May 23, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres thanked the Core Group in Kathmandu for paving the way for third-country resettlement of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. He had observed in his May 22 meetings that the Government of Nepal (GON) had accepted and endorsed a [...]	2007-05-23 12:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV CH BT NP
07KATHMANDU1028	NEPAL: FORMER PM: "EVERYONE IS KEEPING MUM" [...] (C) On May 23, former Prime Minister and President of the Rastriya Janashakti Party (National People's Power Party) (RJP) Surya Bahadur Thapa told the Ambassador that King Gyanendra had no intention to step down. Thapa had told Gyanendra that it might be wise to abdicate in order to "preserve [...]	2007-05-23 12:54:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN PTER NP
07KATHMANDU1032	SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT TO NEPAL [...] Barry, I'm delighted that you are able to make it out to Nepal at this crucial point in the country's history. You will find a country that is teetering on the brink of becoming either a showcase for democratic transformation or a failed or totalitarian state threatening stability in the reg [...]	2007-05-24 11:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KDEM PTER NP
07KATHMANDU1033	NEPAL: CHINESE AMBASSADOR AGREES MAOISTS HAVE NOT [...] (C) The Maoists have not given up violence and intimidation, agreed Chinese Ambassador Zheng Xianglin in a May 23 meeting with the Ambassador. The two Ambassadors also discussed splinter ethnic groups in the Terai, their potential impact on elections, and the Maoist reaction to these groups. [...]	2007-05-24 12:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PREF PHUM KDEM CH NP
07KATHMANDU1035	MELAMCHI FIASCO HAS JAPANESE WONDERING ABOUT [...] (C) On May 24, Japanese Ambassador Tsutomu Hiraoka indicated to the Ambassador that Japanese soft lending may be affected by recent mishandling of the Melamchi Water Supply Project by Minister of Physical Planning and Works Hisila Yami. Her decision to refuse to award the management contract [...]	2007-05-25 09:38:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL ECON EAID ADB ABLD JA NP
07KATHMANDU104	NEPAL: INDIANS WANT POLICE ADVISORS, EXPLOSIVES [...] (C) Indian Ambassador Mukherjee requested a meeting with the Ambassador January 18 to relay New Delhi's concern with references in the draft UN Security Resolution (UNSCR) on Nepal to police advisors as well as the U.S.-proposed clause on explosive devices. Ambassador Mukherjee said that, whil [...]	2007-01-18 12:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP UN
07KATHMANDU1042	NEPAL: FOREIGN MINISTER AGREES TO RAISE PENDING [...] (C) In response to a request from the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Pradhan agreed May 24 to raise the U.S. interest in a speedy process for parents with pending Nepali adoptions with Maoist Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare Biswokarma and in the cabinet. At the same time, the Am [...]	2007-05-25 12:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CVIS KFRD KOCI PREF PTER EAID ADB
07KATHMANDU1045	NEPAL: MADHESI CONCERNS ARE PRIORITY IN CENTRAL [...] (C) Political leaders and government officials in the capitals of three Central and Eastern Terai districts -- Janakpur, Siraha, and Biratnagar -- expressed concern to Emboff during a May 16-18 visit that political turmoil in the troubled Southern borderland with India would increase dramatica [...]	2007-05-25 12:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM IN NP
07KATHMANDU105	NEPAL: UN ARMS MONITORING BEGINS [...] (C) On January 17, Ian Martin's political advisor John Norris told the Deputy Chief of Mission that the UN arms monitoring team had begun the arms management process at the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) 3rd Division cantonment site in Chitwan District at around noon. The process began with [...]	2007-01-18 12:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR UN IN NP
07KATHMANDU1058	NEPAL: NEW ELECTION DATE STILL PROVING ELUSIVE [...] (C) A leading Nepali Congress - Democratic politician told the Ambassador May 28 that the governing Eight-Party Alliance was still at loggerheads over a new date for the Constituent Assembly election. According to Member of Parliament Minendra Rijal, Alliance meetings on May 27 and 28 failed t [...]	2007-05-29 12:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KDEM NP
07KATHMANDU1059	AMBASSADOR VISITS BHUTANESE REFUGEE CAMPS, [...] (SBU) On May 25, despite rocks thrown by Young Communist League activists in Jhapa District (ref A),the Ambassador held several successful meetings with refugee teachers, youth and the elected camp management. Questions regarding resettlement were largely practical. On May 26, Communist Par [...]	2007-05-29 13:01:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV BT NP
07KATHMANDU1064	NEPAL: PURE PROPORTIONAL SYSTEM FOR CONSTITUENT [...] (C) In two recent meetings, IFES Country Representative Peter Erben told the Acting Deputy Chief of Mission that the Government of Nepal's agenda for the Constituent Assembly election was largely stalled. Certain steps, such as the registration of political parties, were moving ahead, but man [...]	2007-05-30 11:02:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KDEM UN NP
07KATHMANDU1069	AMBASSADOR URGES HOME MINISTER TO HOLD MAOISTS [...] (C) In a May 30 meeting with Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula, the Ambassador sharply criticized the Maoist-affiliated Young Communist League (YCL) for attacking his vehicle in Jhapa on May 25 and for threatening and intimidating Nepalese with impunity across the country. The Maoist leade [...]	2007-05-30 12:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PTER PHUM ASEC PREL PGOV BT NP
07KATHMANDU1077	NEPAL: PARTY LEADERS GROWING INCREASING [...] (C) In separate meetings with the Ambassador on May 22 and May 30 both Sher Bahadur Deuba, President of the Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC-D),and Madhav Kumar Nepal, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist SIPDIS Leninist (CPN-UML),blamed Prime Minister Koirala for [...]	2007-05-31 09:51:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM NP
07KATHMANDU1078	ROYAL CONFIDANT SAYS PROGRESS ON "DEMOCRATIC [...] (C) Royal confidant Prabhakar Rana told the Ambassador May 30 that he and others were working to build a democratic front that would unite the main political parties in support of the Prime Minister. The front would then pressure the Maoists to uphold peace agreement commitments. Rana repor [...]	2007-05-31 09:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP
07KATHMANDU1089	FOREIGN MINISTER HOPES FOR MORE PROGRESS ON MAOIST [...] (C) On May 31, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights Barry Lowenkron highlighted to Foreign Minister Sahana Pradhan U.S. concern regarding continued Maoist abuses; he also stressed the need to set a timetable for the Constituent Assembly (CA) election and to include marginalized ethnic [...]	2007-06-01 12:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM PTER PGOV BT NP
07KATHMANDU1091	NEPAL: SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT HOPEFUL POLITICAL [...] (C) Speaker of the Interim Parliament Subash Nemwang told visiting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron and Ambassador Moriarty May 31 that the governing Eight-Party Alliance had reached an informal understanding on a new date for a Constituent Assembly ele [...]	2007-06-01 12:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREF NP
07KATHMANDU1092	NEPAL: ELECTION COMMISSION HAS PLAN BUT LACKS LAWS [...] (C) Chief Election Commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokharel told visiting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron and Ambassador Moriarty May 31 that the externalities, including the uncertain security situation and the absence of election legislation, were the Election [...]	2007-06-01 13:08:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM NP
07KATHMANDU1093	NEPAL: PRIME MINISTER RESOLUTE THAT ELECTION BE [...] (C) On June 1, Prime Minister G.P. Koirala explained to Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron and the Ambassador that the Eight-Party Alliance had agreed the day before to hold the Constituent Assembly election in November. All of the parties had si [...]	2007-06-02 05:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM NP
07KATHMANDU1099	OHCHR FAILING TO REPORT ON MAOIST HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) On May 31 Lena Sundh, head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal, defended her recent newspaper interview in which she slammed the failure by the Government of Nepal (GON) to implement its human rights commitments while saying nothing about Maoist abuses [...]	2007-06-04 11:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM UN NP
07KATHMANDU1112	INDIAN AMBASSADOR ACKNOWLEDGES MAOISTS ARE OUT OF [...] (C/NF) Indian Ambassador Shiv Mukherjee agreed with the Ambassador June 4 that the Maoists had intensified their campaign of threats and intimidation. Mukherjee admitted he was being recalled by the Government of India (GOI) for consultations amid fears that the Maoists were out of control. [...]	2007-06-05 12:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN NP
07KATHMANDU1116	NEPAL: MEETING LEAHY AMENDMENT CONDITIONS ON [...] (C) There is a strong case for certifying that the requirements of the Leahy Amendment for U.S. Foreign Military Financing (FMF) have been met for Nepal given the significant progress the Government of Nepal (GON) has made in restoring human rights. Resumption of FMF is also in U.S. national [...]	2007-06-05 13:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM NP
07KATHMANDU1117	KATAWAL CONFIRMS NEPAL ARMY'S COMMITMENT TO [...] (C) Chief of Army Staff General Rookmangud Katawal(COAS) told visiting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron and Ambassador Moriarty June 1 that the Nepal Army (NA) was uncomfortable with the prospect of working under a "leftist" regime. Katawal explained th [...]	2007-06-06 10:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR PHUM NP
07KATHMANDU1118	NEPAL: MINORITY LEADERS DEMAND MEANINGFUL ELECTIONS [...] (C) On May 31, three leaders from politically underrepresented groups and a human rights leader expressed to visiting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron and Ambassador Moriarty their concerns about equal representation in the Government and a meaningful C [...]	2007-06-06 11:26:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM NP
07KATHMANDU1119	NEPAL: INTERNATIONAL NGOS PESSIMISTIC ON NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) The IFES Country Representative, Asia Foundation Country Representative, and Carter Center Field Director told Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron on June 2 that many complex issues would have be resolved if the Government of Nepal hoped to [...]	2007-06-06 12:27:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID KDEM NP
07KATHMANDU1132	HOME MINISTER RELINQUISHES ROLE AS NEGOTIATOR WITH [...] (C) Home Minister Sitaula stressed to the Ambassador June 6 that "it was no longer my job" to negotiate with Maoists on behalf of the Seven-Party Alliance. Peace and Reconstruction Minister Poudel would now be taking the lead. Sitaula told the Ambassador that the four Young Communist League [...]	2007-06-07 12:02:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PREF KDEM BT NP
07KATHMANDU1133	NEPAL: MAOIST LEADER CLAIMS ATTACK ON AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) On June 5, Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, who is the second-most senior Maoist leader, phoned the British Deputy Chief of Mission Paul Bute, to ask that he pass two messages to the U.S. Embassy. According to Bute, Bhattarai said that the May 25 stoning by Maoist Young Communist League (YCL) activ [...]	2007-06-07 13:20:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KSEC NP

07KATHMANDU1137	NEPAL: NHRC STILL AWAITING COMMISSIONERS [...] (C) On June 1, Acting Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC),Padma Mathema, told visiting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron that the absence of Commissioners was the NHRC's most critical concern. Mathema said that she had stressed to [...]	2007-06-08 10:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UN NP

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