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Identifier	Subject	Date	Office	Classification	Tags
06DAMASCUS145	ASAD VISITS JEDDAH, SHARM, AFTER QUICK SAUDI FM [...] (C) Summary: In a rapid, somewhat strangely choreographed set of visits January 8, President Bashar al-Asad met with Saudi King Abdullah in Jeddah and Egyptian President Mubarak in Sharm as-Sheikh, following a quick visit to Damascus by Saudi FM Saud al-Faisal the same day. The two sides is [...]	2006-01-09 14:26:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY

06DAMASCUS1508	SYRIA FIRST QUARTER REPORT ON FREEDOM AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: The Embassy's implementation of its 2005 Democratic Reform Strategy in the first three months of 2006 has been constrained by a hardening SARG attitude towards reform and SARG efforts to restrict Embassy operations, both largely prompted by the strained political atmosphere evid [...]	2006-04-04 12:48:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO KMPI AMGT
06DAMASCUS1754	C-NE6-00262: KHADDAM'S AND BAYANOUNI'S FAUSTIAN [...] (S/NF) Summary: Former VP Abdul Halim Khaddam's public criticism of the regime and his move to ally himself -- via the National Salvation Front -- with Syrian Muslim Brotherhood leader Sadreddin al-Bayanouni continue to provoke the regime and stir tremendous speculation among the public and [...]	2006-04-18 13:01:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR PREL PHUM SY
06DAMASCUS20	PROTEST TENTS COME DOWN AS SYRIANS BREATHE MORE [...] (C) Summary: On December 23-24, the SARG dismantled the anti-Mehlis protest tents and took down some of the banners in Rawda Circle near the Embassy and in Umawiyeen Square. Our contacts say the SARG no longer needs the tents as a rallying point against international pressure. Rumors are ru [...]	2006-01-02 14:23:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS200	Damascus Media Reaction: Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers today reported Egyptian President Mubarak's meeting with US Vice-President Dick Cheney and headlined Mubarak's statement that Syria has cooperated with the IIC. News reports featured a statement by Saudi FM Saud al-Faisal to the Financial Times that Saudi Arabia has p [...]	2006-01-18 14:19:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS2072	SEIF SAYS SARG ONLY FEIGNING CONFIDENCE, FACING [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Charge d'Affaires and PolChief on May 4, key opposition figure Riad Seif noted a recent decrease in SARG security scrutiny. However, he remains subject to a travel ban and will not participate in the upcoming Syrian-American Congress in person or via a live ho [...]	2006-05-04 13:37:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SY
06DAMASCUS208	IRANIAN PRESIDENT VISITS DAMASCUS [...] (C) Summary: Shortly after his noon arrival in Damascus, visiting Iranian President Ahmadinejad met January 19 with Syria's President Asad and later in an expanded session with Asad and Syrian and Iranian officials. Regional media reports previewing the two-day visit suggested that bilateral [...]	2006-01-19 15:31:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SY IR
06DAMASCUS209	Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers reported that Iranian President Ahmedinejad will arrive in Damascus today for a two-day state visit to Syria and will meet President Asad and senior Syrian officials. All papers featured a statement by President Ahmadinejad on Wednesday describing relations between Iran [...]	2006-01-19 16:07:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS214	AHMADINAJAD'S PHOTO OP VISIT TO DAMASCUS [...] (SBU) Syrian President Bashar al-Asad and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinajad met for three hours the afternoon of January 19, shortly after the latter's arrival in Damascus. The talks were attended by PM Naji al-Otri, FM Shara'a, Iranian FM Manouchehr Mottaki, and several other ministers [...]	2006-01-20 12:37:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON SY IR
06DAMASCUS2213	DAMASCUS COMMUNITY SCHOOL FACES CRITICAL SITUATION [...] (U) Summary. Our ongoing discussion with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding residency permits for overseas-hire teachers at the Damascus Community School (DCS) took an ominous turn for the worse today, with receipt of a diplomatic note asserting that DCS must be licensed before the iss [...]	2006-05-11 14:00:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT SY
06DAMASCUS2391	HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP: LABWANI CASE POSTPONED; [...] (C) LABWANI TRIAL DELAYED; ASSOCIATE TELLS OF SARG INTIMIDATION ATTEMPTS: The trial of Kamal Labwani, scheduled to begin May 22, has been delayed after court officials claimed that no trial had been scheduled for that day. Labwani's family members, human rights lawyers, and a number of oppo [...]	2006-05-23 12:38:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PGOV PREL SY IR
06DAMASCUS2496	EMBASSY DAMASCUS PROPOSAL FOR 2006 AMBASSADORS' [...] (U) Request: Post requests $20,000 from the Ambassadors, Fund for Refugees for the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) to buy X-ray equipment for a clinic under construction in the Damascus neighborhood of Saida Zeinab. 2. (U) Background and justification: The SARC was founded in 1942 and b [...]	2006-06-01 08:01:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF SY
06DAMASCUS250	Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Europe, Federation of [...] Summary: Syrian papers today reported President Asad's meeting with Francisco Javier Rojo Garcia, Chairman of the Spanish Senate, focusing on the necessity of reactivating the European role in the Middle East Peace Process, the ongoing modernization and reform process in Syria, and the Syria [...]	2006-01-24 13:02:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS251	Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Europe, Federation of [...] Summary: Syrian papers today reported President Asad's meeting with Francisco Javier Rojo Garcia, Chairman of the Spanish Senate, focusing on the necessity of reactivating the European role in the Middle East Peace Process, the ongoing modernization and reform process in Syria, and the Syria [...]	2006-01-24 13:14:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS2518	IRAQI REPRESENTATIVES IN SYRIA COMMENT ON NEW [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi contacts in Damascus commented recently on a range of issues, including the arrival of more Iraqis in Syria, Palestinian-Iraqis seeking refugee in Syria, the new Iraqi Prime Minister and next steps in the Syria-Iraq bilateral relationship. They asserted that up to 150,000 [...]	2006-06-01 14:06:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF SY IZ
06DAMASCUS2593	SYRIAN REGIME REBUILDING WALLS OF FEAR AND [...] (C) Summary: The crackdown on Syrian civil society and the opposition has gotten so intense that some observers argue that the regime of Bashar al-Asad is "rebuilding the walls of fear" that his father once erected. Even if the ten Damascus-Beirut Declaration activists are released, which i [...]	2006-06-05 11:43:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SY
06DAMASCUS2598	SYRIA POINTS FINGER AT FOREIGN-BACKED ISLAMISTS [...] (C) Summary: Early in the morning of June 2, SARG security forces engaged armed attackers in a 25-minute shoot-out in Damascus on the compound of the Syrian TV and Radio headquarters, according to Emboffs at the scene and regional media reports. Casualty reports have varied, with up to four [...]	2006-06-05 13:14:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY LE IZ JO
06DAMASCUS2599	SARG ENDS ITS PRESSURE ON EMBASSY SCHOOL -- FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: In the past ten days the SARG has issued all of the required residence visas for some 45 direct-hire American and Canadian teachers and family members, ensuring their orderly departure at the end of the school year and return to Damascus Community School in the fall. For months [...]	2006-06-05 14:04:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS2633	GAFTA: MORE BURDEN THAN BENEFIT FOR SYRIA? [...] (C) Summary: Although the Greater Arab Free Trade Agreement (GAFTA) was fully implemented on January 1, 2005, the benefits to Syria's economy have been limited. While trade exchange between Syria and the Gulf countries may have increased marginally, most Syrian business contacts and economis [...]	2006-06-06 12:23:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV SY
06DAMASCUS2668	PA ENVOY VISITS DAMASCUS, FACTIONS REPORTEDLY [...] (C) Summary: Visiting Palestinian Authority (PA) Special Envoy Ahmad Qureia (Abu Ala'a) met June 5 with Syria's President Bashar al-Asad, delivering a message from PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and discussing Syrian-Palestinian cooperation and developments in the Palestinian arena, according to [...]	2006-06-07 14:01:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PREL SY
06DAMASCUS2669	Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Yemen, Syria/Cuba, [...] Summary: Syrian papers reported Vice President Farouk al- Shara's two-day official visit to Yemen and his meeting with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah al-Saleh, conveying a message from President Asad on recent developments in the Arab and international arenas. Shara also met with Yemeni Vice Pr [...]	2006-06-07 14:22:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS2687	TEHRAN'S INFLUENCE SAID TO BE SPREADING IN SYRIA [...] (C) Summary: Syria and Iran have exchanged a number of visits in the past several days: longtime SARG regime insider and VP assistant Muhammad Nassif Kheirbek was in Tehran on June 7, and the commander of the Iranian Army's Air Forces was in Damascus on June 6. One of our contacts mentioned [...]	2006-06-08 13:53:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SY IR
06DAMASCUS286	HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP: ABDUL SALAAM FACES PRIME [...] (C): ABDUL SALAAM FACES WRATH OF PRIME MINISTER: The SARG has taken additional steps against Etana Press manager and civil society activist Maan Abdul Salaam, who has faced multiple confrontations with the SARG in recent months. According to Abdul Salaam, a directive was sent by the Prime M [...]	2006-01-26 12:59:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SY
06DAMASCUS287	SYRIA'S IRAN GAMBIT: CONSUMMATING A MARRIAGE OF [...] (C) Summary: Syria-Iran relations resemble a strong, long-time marriage, albeit one of convenience, with Syria now being the junior partner, according to contacts, commenting on Iranian President Ahmadinejad's January 19-20 visit to Damascus. Syria and Iran sought to use the visit to demon [...]	2006-01-26 13:06:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SY IR
06DAMASCUS2871	DAMASCUS SEES FLURRY OF VISITS, MEETINGS LINKED TO [...] (C) Visiting Palestinian Authority (PA) FM Zahar met June 13 with Syrian FM Mu'allim to discuss the situation in the Palestinian territories, as well as the Palestinian-Syrian bilateral relationship, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). The head of the Palestine Liberation Organi [...]	2006-06-15 14:43:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PREL SY
06DAMASCUS2976	HUMAN RIGHTS ROUND-UP: LABWANI TRIAL CONTINUES; [...] (C) LABWANI TRIAL CONTINUES: The trial of political activist Kamal Labwani continued June 19 at the Damascus Criminal Court, with numerous family members and Syrian activists present, as well as Poloff and a Finnish Embassy representative. Labwani, who faces charges of inciting a foreign p [...]	2006-06-20 14:00:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SY
06DAMASCUS3047	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ALEXANDER PASCAL [...] (U) Embassy Damascus warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Alexander Pascal, 2006 Summer Intern, for travel to Damascus from July 15 to August 20, 2006. 2. (U) POC for this visit is Elizabeth Lyne, Administrative Assistant, who can be reached at (work) (963) (11) 333-1342, Ext [...]	2006-06-25 11:15:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER SY
06DAMASCUS3049	Damascus Media Reaction: Asad/Mubarak Summit, [...] Summary: Syrian papers highlighted the Syrian-Egyptian summit held Thursday between Presidents Asad and Mubarak that focused on the situation in the Arab region and bilateral relations. The opening session was attended by VP Faruk al-Shara and FM Walid al- Mouallem, as well as Minister of Info [...]	2006-06-25 12:17:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS3177	Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Italy, Syria/Libya, [...] Summary: Syrian papers today featured a statement by Italian Journalist Stefanou Ciarini calling for more communication between Syrian and Italian intellectuals to bridge the gap created by 9/11 between the Islamic and Western civilizations. "European governments are following the US policy re [...]	2006-06-28 13:17:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS3186	SARG NEGOTIATES FOR RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT AS PART OF [...] (U) Syrian Minister of Transportation, Yarob Sulieman Bader, was in Moscow this past week negotiating with representatives from Ilyushin Finance and Voronezh Aircraft Construction Company on the purchase of seven new planes to update SyrianAir's fleet. Local, regional, and international press [...]	2006-06-29 11:10:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON EINV ETTC SY
06DAMASCUS3261	SOUTH AFRICA BUYS INTO 45% OF SYRIAN CELLULAR [...] (C) Local press reported that South African company MTN Group recently purchased Investcom, which owns Areeba, one of the two cellular companies in Syria. Deemed by the press to be a positive step for cellular services in Syria, the 5.5 Billion USD transaction, of which Areeba's share was 1 B [...]	2006-07-05 11:14:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD SY
06DAMASCUS3482	TFLE01: SYRIA AS OF 1500 HOURS LOCAL, SUNDAY, [...] (C) Summary: The situation in Syria remains relatively calm. DAO reports no signs of a higher state of alert, except for air defense units that were moved to a heightened level in late June. The official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that President Asad spoke by phone with Lebanon [...]	2006-07-16 13:08:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY LE
06DAMASCUS3485	TFLE01: SYRIA SITREP 02 AS OF 1230 LOCAL, MONDAY, [...] (S) Summary: Initial eyewitness reports estimated that as many as 20,000 Syrians participated in a SARG-orchestrated demonstration July 17 in downtown Damascus. Protesters mainly expressed pro-SARG and pro-Hizballah messages. Separately on July 17, the Syrian MFA's Protocol Director summone [...]	2006-07-17 12:00:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PREL PGOV SY LE
06DAMASCUS3515	TFLE01: SYRIA DAILY SITREP 03 FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY [...] (C) Summary: A Russian envoy and the EU's foreign policy chief are expected to make separate visits to Syria, perhaps as early as July 20, and the SARG may reverse its refusal to receive UN Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larsen, according to a media contact. The Ba'ath Party's highest policy-makin [...]	2006-07-19 12:28:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SY LE
06DAMASCUS3577	TFLE01: SYRIA DAILY SITREP 05 FOR THURSDAY, JULY [...] (S) Summary: On July 20, Syria's President Bashar al-Asad met with Russian Middle East envoy Saltanov and, separately, called Turkish PM Erdogan to discuss the Israel-Hizballah conflict, according to media reports. The Ba'ath party's most important policy-making body met for the third conse [...]	2006-07-20 13:48:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PREL PGOV SY LE
06DAMASCUS3578	TFLE01: SYRIA DAILY SITREP 06 FOR FRIDAY, JULY [...] (C) Summary: 2. (C) A demonstration in support of Hizballah began at 1900 hours July 20 at Ommayyad Circle, located about four blocks from the Embassy. Emboffs reported that the 1200-2000 demonstrators, mostly teenage males, waved Hizballah flags and shouted anti-American and anti-Israel [...]	2006-07-21 11:02:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS3601	TFLE01: SYRIA DAILY SITREP 07 FOR SUNDAY, JULY [...] (S) Summary: Contacts are reporting a dramatic rise in anti-American sentiment in Syria over the past ten days. The influential director of the Abu Noor Institute, Sheikh Saleh Kuftaro, called upon the SARG "to open the borders with Israel for resistance" during Friday prayers on July 21. O [...]	2006-07-23 13:31:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM SY LE
06DAMASCUS3627	TFLE01: SYRIA DAILY SITREP 08 FOR MONDAY, JULY [...] (S) Summary: Up to 250,000 people have entered Syria from Lebanon since the start of the Israel-Hizballah conflict, with up to 90,000 needing "immediate assistance," according to contacts. Displaced Lebanese are settling throughout the country, with many seeking aid from the government, Syr [...]	2006-07-24 14:30:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM SY LE
06DAMASCUS3655	TFLE01: SYRIA DAILY SITREP 09 FOR TUESDAY, JULY [...] (C) Summary: The SARG has yet to respond to a July 25 demarche from the Charge about steps required of Syria as part of efforts to halt the Israel-Hizballah conflict. The Damascus-based UN Resident Coordinator held a meeting July 25 for diplomatic representatives of donor countries to discus [...]	2006-07-25 14:29:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SY LE
06DAMASCUS3660	TFLE01: SYRIA DAILY SITREP 10 FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY [...] (U) Summary: Spain will present the Syrian position at the July 26 Rome conference on the Israel-Hizballah crisis, according to regional media, citing two visits this week by the SARG's Minister of Information to Madrid. Palestinian rejectionist groups in Damascus, including Hamas and Pales [...]	2006-07-26 11:04:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM LE SY
06DAMASCUS3700	TFLE01: SYRIA DAILY SITREP 11 THURSDAY JULY 27, [...] (U) Summary: The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, arrived in Damascus July 26 for talks with SARG officials on the crisis in Lebanon and the Rome Conference, according to Arab regional media. DAO reports increasing displays of pro-Hizballah Arabic-language banne [...]	2006-07-27 13:39:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM LE SY
06DAMASCUS3711	TFLE01: SYRIA DAILY SITREP 12 FOR SUNDAY, JULY [...] (C) Summary: An Israeli missile strike on July 29 destroyed the road serving a main Lebanese border crossing between Damascus and Beirut about five miles west of the official Syrian border crossing, effectively closing the crossing, according to contacts and press reports. Several hundred p [...]	2006-07-30 12:44:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM LE SY
06DAMASCUS3742	TFLE01: SYRIA DAILY SITREP 13 FOR MONDAY JULY 31, [...] (S) Summary: For the second time in two days Israel bombed the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria, more than three miles from the Syrian border. Syrian artillery, missile and ground forces are being defensively dispersed from their garrisons throughout Syria and Syrian air defenses [...]	2006-07-31 13:04:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF LE SY
06DAMASCUS3754	TFLE01: SYRIA DAILY SITREP 14 FOR TUESDAY, AUGUST [...] (U) Summary: Syrian President Asad asked the Syrian military to raise its readiness, pledging not to abandon support for the Lebanese "resistance" against Israel, according to reports of Asad's July 31 annual address commemorating the foundation of the Syria Arab Army. Israel launched its t [...]	2006-08-01 12:33:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM LE SY
06DAMASCUS3836	AMR MOUSSA EXPECTED IN DAMASCUS, SAUDI AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: During a July 30 visit to Damascus, Egypt's FM met with Syrian President Bashar al-Asad, repeating Egyptian demands from an earlier visit after the outbreak of the Israel-Hizballah conflict that Syria publicly and privately push Hizballah to return Israeli soldiers and cease fighting, [...]	2006-08-03 14:58:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EG LE
06DAMASCUS3851	TFLE01: SYRIA DAILY SITREP 17 FOR SUNDAY AUGUST 6, [...] (S) Summary: Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal called the August 4 al-Qaa strike that killed 26 Syrians "a racist, fascist and terrorist act committed with American weapons." The Syrian Foreign Minister on August 5 sent two letters regarding the al-Qaa killings to the UN SYG and the he [...]	2006-08-06 15:57:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM LE SY
06DAMASCUS393	NEW KFC IN SYRIA WITNESSES ITS FIRST ANTI-AMERICAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Having opened only recently with generous media coverage, demonstrators associated with the Committee to Boycott U.S. Products staged a protest against the new KFC restaurant in Damascus this week. The organizers of the protest are not affiliated with the Central Boycott Office [...]	2006-02-02 15:12:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV SY
06DAMASCUS3965	SYRIA,S INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ,S FUEL TRADE [...] (U) Syrians are involved in both the legal and illicit trade in oil and oil derivatives from Iraq. On the legal side, the Syrian Oil Marketing Bureau (OMB) imports 10,000 barrels per day (BPD) of crude oil and 1,000 BPD of residual fuel-oil (RFO) from Iraq. In exchange, the Syrians export 60 [...]	2006-08-14 09:53:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EPET KCOR JO KU SY TU IZ AE
06DAMASCUS4026	SYRIA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP: TRIALS, TRAVEL BANS [...] (C) Summary: The SARG continues to crack down on Syrians critical of the SARG, pursuing court cases against activists such as Ali and Mohammed Abdullah and Fateh Jammous, and restricting travel by civil society figures, according to contacts. Despite the ongoing crackdown, the Damascus Decl [...]	2006-08-16 14:09:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS404	ANTI-EUROPEAN RIOTS HIT DAMASCUS, AS FOUR [...] (C) Summary: Mobs angered about cartoon depictions of the prophet Mohammed published in Europe ransacked and set on fire the Norwegian Embassy and the building housing the Danish, Chilean, and Swedish Embassies in Damascus in the late afternoon of February 4, destroying the first and heavily damagi [...]	2006-02-05 14:36:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC SY
06DAMASCUS4200	DEFENSE SHOWS LABWANI INTERVIEW ON AL-HURRA IN [...] (C) Summary: The defense for jailed Syrian opposition figure Kamal Labwani showed in court August 23 two televised interviews with Labwani in which he repeatedly rejected foreign military intervention in Syria and the imposition of economic sanctions. A flap occurred at the end of the sessi [...]	2006-08-27 11:45:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SY
06DAMASCUS426	Damascus Media Reaction: Cartoons on Prophet Mohamed, [...] Summary: Syrian papers reported that on Saturday angry mobs protesting cartoons depicting the prophet Mohamed as a terrorist stormed the buildings housing the Danish and Norwegian Embassies in Damascus. Protestors set fire to both missions and pillaged the contents of the first-floor office o [...]	2006-02-06 15:19:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS427	SHEIKH CONFIRMS SARG INVOLVEMENT IN ESCALATING [...] (C) Summary: An influential Sunni sheikh provided details February 6 that seem to confirm SARG involvement in escalating the situation that led to the violent rioting in Damascus two days earlier, including communications between the PM's office and the Grand Mufti. He also noted that SARG aut [...]	2006-02-06 16:05:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS4274	UNHCR SEEKING ACCESS TO DETAINED AHWAZIS, SOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR Damascus has stepped up efforts to gain access to three Iranian Ahwazis, who are recognized refugees and who are believed to be in detention in Damascus, despite press reports about their extradition back to Iran, according to senior UNHCR protection officer Dietrun Gunther [...]	2006-08-30 14:45:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PINR SY IR IZ
06DAMASCUS4439	ARMED ASSAILANTS ATTACK U.S. EMBASSY, ONE LOCAL [...] (U) Summary: At least four assailants attacked the U.S. Embassy in Damascus at 1010 local time September 12, using grenades, gunfire and two apparent car bombs. One car exploded, but a van at the back gate did not. No U.S. Embassy personnel were injured, with the exception of a local guard [...]	2006-09-12 10:53:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS4441	CHARGE PUSHES ASSISTANT FM HARD ON SECURITY IN [...] (C) Summary: Following the armed attack on the embassy September 12, Charge met with Assistant FM Ahmad Arnous, to press the SARG on his concerns about security for the embassy. Charge urged the SARG to be transparent and to offer full cooperation on the investigation including through bet [...]	2006-09-12 14:21:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS4443	SITREP 2: UPDATE ON DAMASCUS ATTACK [...] (C) Information obtained by RSO from local security officials and Embassy video footage provides more details about what actually happened during the September 12 attack on the Embassy. Video footage indicates that the attack against the Embassy began 10 minutes earlier than previously repor [...]	2006-09-12 14:30:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC SY
06DAMASCUS4445	EMBASSY DAMASCUS REQUESTS PERMISSION TO RE-OPEN [...] (C) The EAC met September 13 to assess the threat environment and security issues in the wake of the September 12 armed attack on the Embassy (reported septel). As part of its discussion of the issue of the Embassy's medium-term security posture, the EAC decided to request that the departmen [...]	2006-09-13 13:56:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CASC AEMR AMGT
06DAMASCUS4446	SARG COMPLAINT RE PERSONAL BANKING PROBLEMS IN [...] (C) On the margins of a late August meeting with the director of protocol at the MFA, another MFA official, Bassam Sabbagh, raised with the Charge a complaint from the Syrian Embassy in Washington that it was being cut off from necessary banking services in the U.S. Sabbagh had no specifics o [...]	2006-09-13 13:56:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL SY
06DAMASCUS4448	LOCAL PRESS REACTION TO ATTACK ON U.S. EMBASSY [...] (U) No one has yet claimed responsibility for yesterday's attack, but the SARG is publicly blaming militant Islamists. Asharq Al-Awsat reported that a "Syrian security member was killed by the bullets of an American Marine element that was on the roof of the Embassy." However, the RSO confirms [...]	2006-09-13 15:39:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV SY
06DAMASCUS4482	MEETING WITH SYRIA'S RIAD SEIF, DAMASCUS-BEIRUT [...] (C) Summary: A/DCM met with Damascus Declaration leader Riad Seif on September 12, just shortly before the attack on the U.S. Embassy. Seif said he had chosen to stop reporting to the security services and was traveling outside the city, including to Homs to meet with recently released Dam [...]	2006-09-14 12:40:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SY
06DAMASCUS4534	Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/PLO, Pope Anti-Islam [...] Summary: Syrian papers reported the visit to Damascus by former Palestinian PM Ahmad Qurei, who met with President Asad and conveyed a message from President Abbas. He also met with VP Shara and held a press conference in which he expressed hope that a Palestinian national unity government wo [...]	2006-09-18 14:25:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS4588	REQUEST FOR PHYSICAL SECURITY ASSESSMENT TEAM [...] (C) Post appreciates Department's prompt reaction in dispatching DS agent Aylward who is serving a critical function supporting RSO at Embassy Damascus. RSO is currently involved in multiple efforts to investigate the attack on the Embassy and assess ways to make the Embassy safer. The SARG [...]	2006-09-20 14:23:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV ABLD SY
06DAMASCUS4612	INITIAL EMBASSY EFFORTS TO PRESS SARG ON INCREASED [...] (S) Summary: In the wake of the September 12 attack on the Embassy, the Embassy has pressed the SARG through various channels for increased security for USG facilities in Damascus and for complete sharing of details of the SARG investigation into the attack. RSO has relied on informal conta [...]	2006-09-21 16:31:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER SY
06DAMASCUS4613	SYRIA HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE: LABWANI IN COURT, [...] (C) Summary: Jailed political activist Kamal Lawbani appeared in court September 19, as an assistant public prosecutor reaffirmed potential capital changes against him. The public prosecutor's statement seemed to shift the basis for the charges from two televised interviews given by Labwani [...]	2006-09-21 16:44:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SY
06DAMASCUS4614	REACTIONS TO ATTACK ON EMBASSY IN DAMASCUS [...] (C) Summary: Syrian contacts have expressed relief that no Americans were killed or injured in the September 12 attack on the Embassy. Partly due to the almost complete lack of official information from the SARG on the attack, many contacts, echoing widespread street views, are speculating [...]	2006-09-22 08:56:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER SY
06DAMASCUS4779	Damascus Media Reaction: Post-war Maneuvering, Rice's [...] Summary: The Syrian press on October 4 and 5 focused on the October 1973 War between Arabs and Israel. All government-owned papers earmarked full pages to mark the 33rd anniversary of the war. They described it as "the first Arab War in the History of the conflict (between Arabs And Israel) [...]	2006-10-05 09:16:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS4797	SYRIA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP: PROTEST PREVENTED, [...] (C) Summary: Security services used limited force to prevent a demonstration October 5 in downtown Damascus, which had been called for by three leading Kurdish parties and publicly supported by the Damascus Declaration group and the externally based National Salvation Front. Security agents [...]	2006-10-06 07:18:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SY
06DAMASCUS4798	ASAD DEMANDS RE-ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary. In back-to-back interviews with European media, (Der Spiegel and El Pais),President Asad made points in public that we have heard in private: the SARG will not allow the status quo to endure; the only way to avoid further conflict is if there is a policy-level USG re-engagement [...]	2006-10-06 08:06:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS4844	Damascus Media Reaction: Post-war Maneuvering, MEPP, [...] Summary: The Syrian press focused on the following issues October 6-9: All government-owned papers published the full texts of the interviews which President Assad gave to the BBC on October 9 and to Kuwaiti daily al-Anbaa on October 7. They focused on the President's accusation that the [...]	2006-10-10 14:53:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS4846	SYRIA'S INTERIOR MINISTRY WRAPS UP INVESTIGATION [...] (C) Summary: An Interior Ministry official announced October 5 to the official media that it had concluded its investigation into the September 12 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Damascus. The impetus for the attack was U.S. policies in the region, according to the Ministry official. Two suspe [...]	2006-10-10 15:28:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC
06DAMASCUS4876	THE SARG OVERSTATES THE POWER OF A TURKISH-SYRIAN [...] (C) Summary: Turkey will begin supplying Syria with approximately 200 megawatts of electricity per year through an electrical grid connection with Turkey's Birecik power plant. After having remained static for three years, the implementation of this agreement will still only provide 3.3% of Sy [...]	2006-10-11 16:06:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG ETRD PREL SY
06DAMASCUS4886	Damascus Media Reaction: Post-war Maneuvering, MEPP, [...] Summary: The Syrian press focused on the following issues October 11-12: Syrian papers covered the visit to Damascus of Bahrain's Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled Ben Ahmad Al-Thani. Sheikh Khaled conveyed a message from King Hamad of Bahrain to President Assad on issues related to the Midd [...]	2006-10-12 12:19:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS5	SARG TRUMPETS NEW GULF INVESTMENT [...] (C) Summary: According to SARG announcements in local and international news, the Syrian economy attracted billions of dollars of foreign direct investment (FDI) from Arab sources during 2005. The investors have yet to make major commitments, however, and the announcements are a continuation [...]	2006-01-02 11:36:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON SY
06DAMASCUS5031	U.S.-SYRIA RELATIONS, SITUATION IN LEBANON, [...] (C) Summary: Describing U.S-Syria relations as at their lowest point ever, pro-regime foreign policy analyst Imad Shueibi, told A/DCM October 15 that anger and frustration in the regime towards the U.S. have reached new heights in the wake of the September 12 attack on the Embassy and what is [...]	2006-10-22 05:49:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE IS
06DAMASCUS516	SYRIA: ESF ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROJECT [...] (U) Post is submitting two projects in order of priority for the ESF Anti-Trafficking in Persons Projects. Post currently does not have any anti-trafficking projects and would be able to monitor and evaluate project progress with the assistance as described in reftel. 2. (U) First Projec [...]	2006-02-08 15:46:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN KCRM PHUM ASEC ELAB SMIG SY
06DAMASCUS5160	Damascus Media Reaction: Lebanon, Peace Process, Iraq, [...] Summary: The main focus in Syrian papers today was Lebanon. Papers featured reports on the confiscation of a 'suspicious' parcel by customs at Beirut International Airport containing silencers for military pistols. The parcel, dispatched from the UK through "Liban Post" Lebanon's postal serv [...]	2006-11-01 13:03:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS5189	SARG COMPLAINTS ABOUT SYRIAN EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON [...] (C) FM Mu'allim's chef de cabinet Bassam Sabbagh met Charge October 31 to complain that Syrian Ambassador to the U.S. Imad Mustafa has problems sending faxes and making phone calls to the MFA here from both the Syrian chancery and his residence. Sabbagh said Mustafa had called the Minister t [...]	2006-11-02 13:59:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS528	MOOD OF THE SARG; CABINET RESHUFFLE RUMORS [...] (C) Summary: A long-time Embassy contact reported February 8 that the regime is satisfied with the fallout from the February 4 rioting in Damascus, believing it allowed the SARG to present itself as a great protector of Islam and because the caricature/rioting "narrative" has overwhelmed any [...]	2006-02-09 15:37:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS5290	POST RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STATEMENT ON SYRIA [...] (C) Summary: In response to USG queries, Syrian civil society and human rights activists favor a U.S. statement in support of political reform and greater respect for human rights in Syria. There is also agreement that such a statement should call upon the SARG to ensure the well-being of a [...]	2006-11-09 16:19:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS5302	ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT MEETING - READOUT [...] (U) Summary. The semi-annual meeting of the Arab League Boycott Office (ALBO) was held November 6-9 in Damascus, with representation from the same 14 countries that attended the last meeting in May 2006 (ref A). Some participants feel the semi-annual conference has outlived its usefulness and [...]	2006-11-14 14:05:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ABLD ECON KBCT PHUM SY
06DAMASCUS5328	THE VIEW FROM THE SYRIAN HINTERLAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/DCM, ACCOMPANIED BY A/ARMA, VISITED DEIR AZOUR, NOVEMBER 13-14, MEETING TWICE WITH THE HEADS OF TWO LARGE BEDOUIN TRIBES THERE. THE TWO EXTREMELY URBANIZED SUNNI TRIBAL LEADERS WERE FOCUSED ON U.S. POLICY IN THE REGION AND ASKED REPEATEDLY ABOUT WHETHER THE US. HAD MADE OR IN [...]	2006-11-22 16:58:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS5348	STAFFDEL TALWAR MEETING WITH FM MU'ALLIM AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Professional staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Puneet Talwar, met with Foreign Minister Mu'allim and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikdad on November 22 in two separate meetings to discuss Lebanon, Iraq, U.S.-Syrian relations, and the broader issues of the Middle E [...]	2006-12-03 07:37:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SY
06DAMASCUS5362	IRAQ/SYRIA RESUMPTION OF RELATIONS [...] (C) Charge spoke to both the Iraqi Charge and the Algerian Ambassador (Iraq had been represented here as an interests section of the Algerian Embassy) on the status of resumption of Syrian-Iraqi diplomatic relations. Iraqi Charge Sabah al-Imam said that since the November 19-21 FM Muallim vi [...]	2006-12-04 15:27:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS5367	GERMAN FM STEINMEIER'S VISIT TO DAMASCUS [...] (C) Summary. German FM Steinmeier paid a very brief visit to Damascus to discuss, primarily, regional issues. Nothing was promised by either side and little progress was made on influencing either countries, stance on regional conflicts. Nonetheless, the local German Embassy assesses the vi [...]	2006-12-06 13:43:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SY
06DAMASCUS5378	SYRIANS REFUSE TO DEPORT ACCUSED AMCIT MURDERER [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) The Syrian MFA notified us by a dipnote (text included below) received December 2 that the SARG has rejected our request to deport Amcit accused murderer Muaz Haffar (AKA to the Syrians as Omar al-Sawwaf). The dipnote, dated [...]	2006-12-07 16:54:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL CASC ASEC SY
06DAMASCUS5390	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL DODD, DECEMBER 19-21 [...] (U) Embassy Damascus welcomes and grants country clearance for the visit of Senator Christopher Dodd, and the other members of his delegation: Ms. Janice O'Connell (SFRC),and COL Mike Barbero, U.S. Army Senate Liaison. 2. (U) Control officer and point of contact for this visit is Pol/Econ [...]	2006-12-12 13:00:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	AFIN AMGT ASEC OREP SY
06DAMASCUS5399	INFLUENCING THE SARG IN THE END OF 2006 [...] (S) Summary. The SARG ends 2006 in a much stronger position domestically and internationally than it did 2005. While there may be additional bilateral or multilateral pressure that can impact Syria, the regime is based on a small clique that is largely immune to such pressure. However, Basha [...]	2006-12-13 16:03:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER SY
06DAMASCUS5411	PRESIDENT ASAD TELLS SEN. NELSON SARG WILLING TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL),member on the Senate Armed Services Committee and on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (and soon-to-be appointed member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, we were told) met for approximately one hour with President Bashar al-Asad and FM Mu'allim [...]	2006-12-15 12:42:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SY
06DAMASCUS5419	REGIONAL SCIENCE CONFERENCE SEEN AS SUCCESS FOR [...] (U) Summary. Syria hosted from December 11-14 the fourth biannual Scientific Research Outlook (SRO-4) meeting of the UAE-based Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF) in Damascus. In attendance were a handful of Americans, including Dr. Osman Shinaishin from the National Science Founda [...]	2006-12-19 09:43:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	TSPL ECON EU SY
06DAMASCUS5422	REACHING OUT TO SYRIAN CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) Summary: While we continue to meet with and provide whatever support we can to political opposition figures and human rights activists in this very repressive atmosphere, we are also attempting to reach to Syria's wider civil society. This wider civil society in Syria may provide a signif [...]	2006-12-21 06:19:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS5431	SYRIA: 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Maria d.G. Olson is the Embassy POC. Address: 6110 Damascus Pl. Dulles, VA 20189. Unclassified e-mail: OlsonM@state.gov. Tel: (963) (11) 3391-3785. Cell Phone: (963) 94405166. 2. (SBU) The Syrian Government continued to provide political and material support to Hizballah and pol [...]	2006-12-21 12:11:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC PGOV SY
06DAMASCUS5447	SENATORS DODD AND KERRY PUSH PRESIDENT ASAD TO [...] (C) Summary. Senators Kerry and Dodd had a wide-ranging conversation with President Asad that focused on Iraq, Lebanon, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The Senators cautioned Asad that his relations with America would not improve without his regime changing its destabilizing policies [...]	2006-12-28 06:44:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SY
06DAMASCUS5448	SENATORS DODD AND KERRY DISCUSS REGIONAL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. Senators Kerry and Dodd told FM Walid Mu'allim that the time was ripe for strong unilateral action by the SARG if it truly wanted to be part of the solution for regional crisis in Lebanon, Iraq, and among the Palestinians. Mu'allim commented that the SARG would pursue security an [...]	2006-12-28 06:45:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SY
06DAMASCUS5449	CODEL SPECTER MEETS SYRIAN FM MU'ALLIM [...] (C) Summary: Visiting U.S. Senator Arlen Specter met with Syrian FM Walid Mu'allim for 75 minutes on December 25 in Damascus. The conversation covered U.S.-Syria relations, Syria's desire for resumed peace talks with Israel, allegations that Syria continues to meddle in Lebanon, steps to st [...]	2006-12-28 06:48:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV LE IZ SY
06DAMASCUS594	IRAQI CLERIC MOQTADA SADR VISITS SYRIA, MEETS ASAD [...] (C) Summary: Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr arrived February 5 in Damascus for an extended visit that included two meetings with the Syrian President on developments in Iraq and elsewhere regionally. Sadr also visited the city of Raqqa, located between the Syrian capital and the Iraqi [...]	2006-02-13 10:12:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SY IZ
06DAMASCUS605	ASSESSMENT OF TARGETED FINANCIAL SANCTIONS AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: Post offers the following observations based on its experience thus far with targeted financial sanctions against SARG officials and other Syrian entities. First, maximizing media coverage of the designation increases the "name and shame" effect. The designation of Asif Shawkat [...]	2006-02-13 14:27:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ETTC SY SANC
06DAMASCUS639	ALEPPO,S INDUSTRIALISTS GENERALLY UPBEAT [...] (C) Summary. During a recent visit to Syria,s second city, Aleppo, we found the business community there to be guardedly optimistic and pursuing expansion plans in a range of existing and new business sectors. The Aleppines attributed their less than critical assessments of the Bashar al-As [...]	2006-02-15 10:09:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD ETTC SY
06DAMASCUS641	SARG PROCLAIMS 2005 TO BE YEAR OF INVESTMENT [...] (C) Summary: Though Syrian officials and the government-controlled press have dubbed 2005 the &year of investment in Syria,8 SARG investment figures are generally highly exaggerated and the profit-making potential of approved projects remain largely unrealized. Recent investment in Syria fa [...]	2006-02-15 12:08:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD SY

06DAMASCUS642	SARG RELIEF AFTER UNIIIC'S VIENNA QUESTIONING; [...] (C) Summary: Long-standing Embassy contact Dr. Samir al-Taki told Polchief February 5 that the Syrian suspects who traveled to Vienna in mid-January for a second round of questioning emerged saying that UNIIIC investigators gave the impression they had no new leads to follow up on or question [...]	2006-02-15 12:27:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM SY IR
06DAMASCUS673	BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON SYRIA'S NEW MINISTERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Bashar al-Asad appointed eleven new ministers with portfolio and three new state ministers without portfolio on February 11. The following includes basic biographical (and previously unavailable) data on new appointees. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR [...]	2006-02-16 14:23:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SY
06DAMASCUS674	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BAGHDAD REFUGEE COORDINATOR [...] (U) Embassy Damascus welcomes and grants country clearance to Baghdad Refugee Coordinator Camille Hill for travel to Damascus from February 28 through March 4, 2006. After clearing customs, traveler will be met and assisted at the airport by an Embassy driver who will display a sign with the [...]	2006-02-16 14:40:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC OTRA PREF SMIG SY IZ
06DAMASCUS686	HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP: TAYYARA, ABDULLAH FREED; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Human rights contacts report that Najati Tayyara and Omar Abdullah have been released following their February 14 detentions. Meanwhile, the wheels of Syrian justice continue to grind slowly in the cases of human rights activists Nizar Rastanawi, Haithem Maleh, and Hassan Abdu [...]	2006-02-20 15:11:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SY
06DAMASCUS701	ANNOUNCEMENT TO FUND OPPOSITION HARSHLY CRITICIZED BY ANTI-REGIME ELEMENTS, OTHERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post contacts have been quick to condemn the USG's public statement announcing the designation of five million USD for support of the Syrian opposition, calling it "nave" and "harmful." Contacts insist that the statement has already hurt the opposition, and that the SARG will use it in [...]	2006-02-21 14:49:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS711	SCANDINAVIANS MOVING QUIETLY TO REPAIR RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Nearly three weeks after three Scandinavian embassies in Damascus suffered moderate to severe damage in SARG-sanctioned demonstrations to protest the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in European media, it appears that all three governments are moving quietly to repair relation [...]	2006-02-22 14:06:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
06DAMASCUS717	EGYPTIAN DIPLOMAT SIGNALS MUBARAK VISIT TO DAMASCUS [...] (C) An Egyptian diplomat cited two recent phone calls between Syrian President Bashar al-Asad and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, as well as a Kuwaiti news report, as indicators of a possible upcoming Mubarak visit. The Kuwaiti article reported that Mubarak would visit Damascus on February [...]	2006-02-23 13:31:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL EG SY LB
06DAMASCUS888	SYRIAN FOREIGN POLICIES PAYING OFF, SAYS REGIME [...] (C) Summary: Longtime Embassy contact and regime insider Imad Shuebi asserted that the SARG is feeling confident in its standoff with the U.S. and is looking ahead with renewed assurance. Syria has correctly played its foreign policy cards on Lebanon, Hamas and Iran, and is reaping the bene [...]	2006-03-02 14:11:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL LE IR SY
06DAMASCUS894	RIAD SEIF COMMENTS ON SARG PRESSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 2 meeting with Charge and PolChief, prominent opposition figure Riad Seif discussed his recent problems with Syrian security services and their strategy to shut down his activities, his interactions with other opposition figures as he continues to hone his politic [...]	2006-03-02 14:50:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SY
06DAMASCUS962	MANAGING A TEMPORARY STALEMATE WITH THE SARG [...] (C) Summary: In important respects, U.S. relations with Syria seem to have reached an impasse. Over the past six weeks, Syrian contacts, some of them regime proxies, have voiced the opinion that the SARG senses it has hung tough with a set of hard-line policies that are paying dividends. As [...]	2006-03-06 16:13:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SY
06DARESSALAAM1059	COMPLIANCE DIPLOMACY VISIT TO DAR ES SALAAM: DR. [...] (U) SUMMARY: VCI/PDAS Ford and his VCI team visited Dar es Salaam June 19-23, 2006, to hold compliance diplomacy discussions with key host country interlocutors and embassy staff on the U. S. approach to verification, compliance assessment, and compliance enforcement of arms control, nonprol [...]	2006-06-27 12:39:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	PHARM UNGA CDG NPT IAEA CWC OPCW
06DARESSALAAM1065	CHINESE PREMIER JIABAO VISIT FOCUSED ON TRADE AND [...] (SBU) The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's overnight visit, June 22 to 23, in Tanzania centered on improving trade and revitalizing construction projects between the two countries rather than military or strategic issues. While President Jakaya Kikwete hurried back from the legislative capital of [...]	2006-06-28 19:33:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID ETRD ECON CH TZ
06DARESSALAAM1076	CT IN HORN OF AFRICA; RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS [...] (S REL AUS UK CAN) SUMMARY: U.S. Chiefs of Mission and other Mission representatives from Kenya, Djibouti, Yemen, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Sudan met in Nairobi May 23-24 to discuss regional counterterrorism strategy with Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism Hank Crumpton, Commander CJTF-HO [...]	2006-07-03 07:07:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	SECRET	PGOV PTER PREL EAID
06DARESSALAAM1089	(CORRECTED COPY) CT IN HORN OF AFRICA; RESULTS AND [...] (S REL AUS UK CAN) SUMMARY: U.S. Chiefs of Mission and other Mission representatives from Kenya, Djibouti, Yemen, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Sudan met in Nairobi May 23-24 to discuss regional counterterrorism strategy with Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism Hank Crumpton, Commander CJTF-HO [...]	2006-07-03 10:11:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	SECRET	PGOV PTER PREL EAID
06DARESSALAAM1109	DIPLOMATIC NOTE RECEIVED: ACOTA, 505 AGREEMENT [...] (U) The Embassy received diplomatic note CKB 162/664/01 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on June 29, 2006. This note is in response to the request in reftel A for an agreement, by exchange of notes, regarding the use, transfer, sale and security of defense [...]	2006-07-05 13:32:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS KPKO KTIA TZ
06DARESSALAAM1175	2006 TRADE FAIR REFLECTS STRONGER U.S.-TANZANIAN [...] The 2006 Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF) revealed the Government of Tanzania's (GOT) efforts to gradually transition away from a "shopping mall" atmosphere toward a genuine international trade show. While there remains a long road ahead before the DITF, which ran from June 29 t [...]	2006-07-13 12:20:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ABUD AMGMT ECON EINV ETRD PREL TZ
06DARESSALAAM120	CIVAIR: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA PERSONNEL JOHN [...] Post welcomes the visit of the following FAA Personnel to Arusha from January 29 through February 11, 2006: John A Waltz, Anderson Begg, and Bryand Rozen. Please note: CJ Collins was already granted country clearance and her hotel/airport transportation requests were made in DAR 055. 2. [...]	2006-01-23 13:43:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA PTER TZ
06DARESSALAAM1260	TANZANIA READY FOR ACOTA ACTION; OPEN TO ARTICLE 98 [...] (S) SUMMARY: Tanzania is eager to get the ACOTA program underway. In mid-July meetings with ACOTA's Chip Beck, officials from the Ministry of Defence (MOD) addressed specific training and equipment options while Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials showed increased interest in, and [...]	2006-07-27 15:02:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	SECRET	PREL MARR ASEC TZ
06DARESSALAAM1286	TANZANIA'S PRESIDENT REQUESTS U.S. STUDY ABROAD [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a recent meeting with Ambassador Retzer, President Kikwete signaled his continuing personal role in managing relations with the U.S. Government. On July 31, President Kikwete called in the Ambassador to raise two issues: (i) his decision to appoint a military attache to Wash [...]	2006-08-02 06:11:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID PHUM EFIN KTFN KPAO OPRC KMDR
06DARESSALAAM1321	TANZANIA SUPPORTS WEDGWOOD; ACTION REQUEST [...] (U) The Embassy received diplomatic note Ref. No. CLA 119/738/01/8, dated July 20, 2006, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on July 26, in response to the USG request for support of Ruth Wedgwood's reelection to the UN Human Rights Commission (reftel A). The text of said note is in [...]	2006-08-04 09:51:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM US UNHRC TZ
06DARESSALAAM1430	TANZANIA'S FY06 BFIF PROGRAMS [...] (U) SUMMARY. FY 2006 funds from the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) enabled Post's participation in the 30th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF) and the International Franchise Expo (IFE) both held in June 2006. By exhibiting with the first-prize winning USA pavilion at t [...]	2006-08-23 09:18:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	AFIN BEXP BTIO ECON EINV ETRD ADPM TZ
06DARESSALAAM1503	THE SECRETARY'S REGIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVE [...] (C) At Africa's first Regional Strategic Initiative (RSI) Conference in Nairobi (reftel),Embassy Dar es Salaam asked to take the first cut at a "Regional Counterterrorism Action Plan" for the Horn of Africa. Our action plan presents a set of recommendations for greater regional collaboration [...]	2006-09-07 12:30:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PHUM KCRM SNAR TZ
06DARESSALAAM1509	FM MIGIRO WILL ATTEND WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT WORKING [...] (U) Foreign Minister Asha-Rose Migiro has accepted the Secretary's invitation to attend the Women's Empowerment SIPDIS Working Group in New York on September 23, the Minister's personal assistant, Mr. Innocent Shiyo, told Poloff September 8. Shiyo said that he would contact the Embassy t [...]	2006-09-08 13:20:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PHUM UNGA PREL SZ TZ
06DARESSALAAM1564	ACOTA: TANZANIA EAGER FOR TRAINING CONFERENCE AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Tanzania is eager to move ahead to the first substantive step in the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) partnership, the Training Strategy Conference (TSC). The Tanzania People's Defence Forces (TPDF) suggested an early November time frame for the T [...]	2006-09-19 15:20:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS KPKO KTIA TZ
06DARESSALAAM1593	URANIUM IN DAR COMMON KNOWLEDGE TO SHIPPING [...] (C) According to a senior Swiss diplomat, the shipment of uranium through Dar es Salaam is common knowledge to two Swiss shipping companies. Hans Peter Schoni, Counsellor at the Embassy of Switzerland in Tanzania, referred to the allegations of uranium from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) pa [...]	2006-09-27 08:38:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINR IAEA PGOV CG TZ
06DARESSALAAM1633	TANZANIA: TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND [...] The monitoring of trade agreements and responses to foreign trade barrier complaints are handled by the Embassy's Economic and Commercial section, whether the questions or complaints are lodged by U.S. companies, USAID implementing partners, potential U.S. investor companies or individuals. T [...]	2006-10-03 14:19:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD TZ
06DARESSALAAM164	TANZANIA'S SELF-HELP FUNDING REQUEST FOR FY2006 [...] Overall, the value of the Self-Help program in winning the hearts and minds of the Tanzanian public far exceeds our comparatively modest investment in this program. An increase in our Self-Help allocation is vital. Post's FY06 request is USD $150,000. 2. Tanzania's FY05 allocation of U [...]	2006-01-30 14:47:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID TZ
06DARESSALAAM1730	TANZANIA UNDERLINES INTEREST IN DEPLOYING [...] (U) SUMMARY: Tanzania's Defense Minister has warmly welcomed recent developments in the U.S.-Tanzania mil-to-mil relationship, including the latest timeline for ACOTA training, deployment of a CJTF-HOA civil affairs team to Tanzania, the reintroduction of IMET training, and the offer of sever [...]	2006-10-23 04:59:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS MARR PREL PGOV TZ
06DARESSALAAM1762	TANZANIA'S IMPLEMENTATION OF OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE [...] (U) Suleman Saleh, Assistant Director for Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, promised to determine the status of Tanzania's legislation on Chemical Weapons and inform the Embassy about the legislation's status by November 6. With the upcoming Eleventh Session of the Chem [...]	2006-10-31 03:46:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW AF BWC TZ
06DARESSALAAM1886	TANZANIA: DEMARCHE ON INTRODUCING A PROJECT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-30 13:18:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD TZ
06DARESSALAAM1946	SOFA WITH TANZANIA: PROPOSED LANGUAGE BEING [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-19 08:12:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KTIA MARR MOPS TZ
06DARESSALAAM1947	TANZANIA: TEXT OF DIPLOMATIC NOTE WELCOMING THE [...] The following Diplomatic Note FA/D.10/3/79 from the Zanzibar office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tanzania was received on December 7, formally accepting the Department's proposal to open an American Presence Post (APP) in Zanzibar. The Note also requests that the Department consider [...]	2006-12-19 10:55:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	AF AO PGOV AMGT TZ
06DARESSALAAM300	TANZANIA'S FOOD SHORTAGE: GOVERNMENT REQUESTS [...] (SBU) The Government of Tanzania (GOT) called all heads of mission to Dodoma, the legislative capital, on February 13 for a briefing by Prime Minister Edward Lowassa on the food crisis in Tanzania. On February 14, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr. Asha Rose [...]	2006-02-15 14:34:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID ECON EAGR TZ
06DARESSALAAM312	TANZANIA'S ENERGY CRISIS: INCREASING POWER CUTS [...] (C) In addition to facing a food shortage, Tanzania is currently mired in a full-fledged energy crisis (Ref A). On February 4 the Ministry of Energy and Minerals announced nationwide power rationing to ease pressure on the national power grid by 60 megawatts. A week and a half later, on Febr [...]	2006-02-16 17:35:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ENRG EPET TZ
06DARESSALAAM385	TANZANIA'S CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-28 10:36:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM ABUD AF TZ AROC CWC CBW OPCW
06DARESSALAAM498	TANZANIA: PRESIDENT KIKWETE ASSURES AMBASSADOR OF [...] (C) Taking time out from chairing a six-day working retreat for ministers and deputy ministers, President Jakaya Kikwete met with Ambassador Retzer in Arusha March 15 to discuss peacekeeping, Zanzibar, the MCC compact process, and his upcoming visit to the United States in May 2006. President [...]	2006-03-21 10:32:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID ECON PHUM TZ
06DARESSALAAM505	TANZANIA NONCOMMITTAL ON INTERACTION WITH HAMAS [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-22 09:23:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS TZ
06DARESSALAAM606	ACOTA OFFERED, WELL-RECEIVED IN TANZANIA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Meetings of the ACOTA (African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance) and Embassy team with officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Ministry of Defense and National Service (MOD) were positive and produced a way forward to bringing Tanzania into the [...]	2006-04-13 03:21:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS MARR MOPS PREL PGOV ETTC TZ
06DARESSALAAM616	SAFE SKIES FOR AFRICA VITAL FOR TANZANIA [...] (U) Post considers Safe Skies for Africa (SSFA) a highly valuable program that advances two key goals of the U.S. Mission in Tanzania and in the region: (i) counterterrorism and (ii) economic growth and development. As set forth in Tanzania's FY 2008 Mission Performance Plan (MPP),post's obj [...]	2006-04-14 13:57:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAIR ECON TZ
06DARESSALAAM617	SAFE SKIES FOR AFRICA VITAL TO TANZANAI [...] (U) Post considers Safe Skies for Africa (SSFA) a highly valuable program that advances two key goals of the U.S. Mission in Tanzania and in the region: (i) counterterrorism and (ii) economic growth and development. As set forth in Tanzania's FY 2008 Mission Performance Plan (MPP),post's obj [...]	2006-04-14 13:57:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAIR ECON TZ
06DARESSALAAM696	TANZANIA: ANTI-CORRUPTION DRIVE MARKS KIKWETE'S [...] (SBU) As Jakaya Kikwete passed the 120-day mark of his presidency, he continued to wage a sustained and very public attack on alleged corruption, urging probes into persons and institutions that for years enjoyed apparent immunity from scrutiny under previous administrations. The press carried [...]	2006-05-02 09:15:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID TZ
06DARESSALAAM715	AMBASSADOR RETZER AND PRESIDENT KIKWETE DISCUSS [...] (C) President Kikwete emphasized to Ambassador Retzer during an hour-long meeting in Dodoma that his administration intends to be "proactive in developing our relationship with the United States." Kikwete indicated he will use his mid-May trip to Washington, Boston and New York to forge stron [...]	2006-05-03 12:43:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID MARR TZ
06DARESSALAAM738	TANZANIA'S PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR FY 2006 ESF: [...] Project Summary: Utilizing wind-up radios, develop creative programming to enrich school curricula in order to attract children to stay in school. Such programs would potentially increase the school retention rate of girls, reduce the number of children recruited for child labor or traffick [...]	2006-05-05 13:51:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	AFIN AMGT EAID ECON PGOV PHUM TZ
06DARESSALAAM760	TANZANIA: LETTER FROM THE AMBASSADOR TO ASSISTANT [...] Please deliver the following letter to the Assistant Secretary Barry Lowenkron, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights SIPDIS and Labor. 2. Begin text: Dear Assistant Secretary Lowenkron: I am writing in support of two proposals to advance democracy in Tanzania that our Embassy recently [...]	2006-05-09 15:49:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM TZ
06DARESSALAAM993	TANZANIA RESPONSIVE TO USDA/APHIS PROPOSAL [...] Post delivered reftel on the USDA/APHIS proposal to streamline the process of establishing import requirements to the following Government of Tanzania officials on June 14: Grace Martin, Head of the America's desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Bede Lyimo, Assistant Director of Trade at [...]	2006-06-20 09:12:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD USDA USTR TZ
06DHAKA1052	DHAKA GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO MARY JO MELANCON [...] Embassy Dhaka welcomes and grants country clearance for Mary Jo Melancon and Kirsten Kings's March 5 through March 11 visit. Control officer is Nancy Langston, Legal Attache, Political/Economic Section (office) 880-2-885-5500 ext. 2516, (home) 880-2-885-5573, (fax) 880-2-882-4008. 2. Ho [...]	2006-03-02 08:31:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	BG KCRM ASEC EFIN PREL PTER OTRA
06DHAKA1108	CONGRESSMAN CROWLEY MEETS AWAMI LEAGUE LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary. Congressman Joseph Crowley met with Awami League (AL) leader Sheikh Hasina, with several AL members and embassy officials. Hasina and others said the international community and election monitors need to better understand the election situation in Bangladesh, perhaps by arriving [...]	2006-03-05 08:32:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PGOV BG
06DHAKA1109	CONGRESSMAN CROWLEY MEETS WITH JAMAAT ISLAMI [...] (SBU) Summary: Congressman Crowley and embassy officials met with JI's top leadership including Amir Nizami. Crowley noted JI's contributions in counter terrorism, asked JI to promote respect for minority rights, sought avoidance of election violence and intimidation, raised corruption issues, [...]	2006-03-05 08:32:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PREL PTER BG
06DHAKA1142	AVIAN INFLUENZA: SITUATION UPDATE MARCH 5 [...] Summary: An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in India (Ref B) has eventual consequences for Bangladesh, although no tripwires have been crossed. Progress has been made at post in disseminating information to AmCits and Embassy personnel, as well as in increasing post's ab [...]	2006-03-06 09:25:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR BG
06DHAKA1241	IAGGA REPORT SUBMISSION FOR BANGLADESH [...] (U) Post is pleased to provide its submission for the 2004-2005 International Anticorruption and Good Governance Act as requested reftel. 2. (SBU) Begin text: Bangladesh Government Efforts: The Government of Bangladesh (BDG) established an independent Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC [...]	2006-03-09 10:50:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PGOV BG
06DHAKA1251	DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY VISIT A SUCCESS; NUCLEAR [...] (U) Summary: The Department of Energy's visit to Dhaka was successful in moving forward on the Radiological Threat Reduction Program. After a two-year build up, contracts were signed at the Science Ministry, and a vendor has been hired to complete work. A demarche on the U.S.-India Nuclear [...]	2006-03-12 00:45:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PREL KSCA PARM KNNP OTRA ETTC IN BG
06DHAKA1252	DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY VISIT A SUCCESS; NUCLEAR [...] (U) Summary: The Department of Energy's visit to Dhaka was successful in moving forward on the Radiological Threat Reduction Program. After a two-year build up, contracts were signed at the Science Ministry, and a vendor has been hired to complete work. A demarche on the U.S.-India Nuclear [...]	2006-03-12 00:47:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG PREL KSCA PARM KNNP OTRA ETTC IN BG
06DHAKA1364	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR BALANCE BUFFALO 06-2 [...] This is an action request. See Paragraph 4. 2. The following units are scheduled to take part in Exercise Balance Buffalo 06-2 initiating deployment in MAY 2006: Bangladesh Army: 1st Para Commando Battalion. Bangladesh Air Force: Commandos from 101 Special Flying Unit, (Tpt Wing). [...]	2006-03-14 09:26:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MARR MASS PREL BG
06DHAKA1864	AVIAN INFLUENZA: BDG STOPS, THEN AUCTIONS, [...] Bangladesh has made strides in its plans to prepare against an eventual AI outbreak. A recent case in Rajshahi suggests that more than mere planning is necessary, as customs agents reportedly auctioned off thousands of smuggled Indian chicks that the border patrol forces successfully interdi [...]	2006-04-04 09:26:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR TBIO AMED AMGT ASEC CASC KFLO AEMR BG
06DHAKA1975	DHAKA GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO STEVE OSTROFF [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-09 07:33:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TBIO OSCI OTRA BG
06DHAKA2000	RIHS STILL IN BANGLADESH, PRESS REPORTS DESPITE [...] (SBU) Local media have speculated broadly on the visit of a Kuwait-based official of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) to discuss the future of the NGO allegedly linked to Jamaatul Mujahidin Bangladesh (JMB),the terrorist group responsible for a wave of bombing and suicide attack [...]	2006-04-10 10:30:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER BG
06DHAKA2001	RIHS STILL IN BANGLADESH [...] (SBU) Local media have speculated broadly on the visit of a Kuwait-based official of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) to discuss the future of the NGO allegedly linked to Jamaatul Mujahidin Bangladesh (JMB),the terrorist group responsible for a wave of bombing and suicide attack [...]	2006-04-10 10:33:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER BG
06DHAKA2079	EMBASSY DHAKA GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-13 09:41:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TBIO OSCI OTRA
06DHAKA2080	EMBASSY DHAKA GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DR. [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-13 09:41:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TBIO OSCI OTRA
06DHAKA2129	DHAKA GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO AMAR BHAT OF HHS [...] Embassy Dhaka welcomes and grants country clearance for Dr. Amar Bhat, Director, Office of Asia and the Pacific, Office of Global Health Affairs (OGHA),Office of the Secretary, HHS, April 22 - 25, 2006 visit. Control officer SIPDIS is Dr. Steve Luby from CDC (office) 88-02-988-1761, (mobi [...]	2006-04-17 04:52:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TBIO OSCI OTRA
06DHAKA2146	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALLS AT MFA [...] (C) Summary. MFA officials assured the Ambassador of their strong support for U.S.-Bangla relations, and of the BDG's commitment to combat extremism and conduct free elections. Foreign Minister Khan hoped the Secretary would soon visit Bangladesh, reiterated his request for CT equipment and [...]	2006-04-17 10:32:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PROG BG
06DHAKA2296	BANGLADESH CONFRONTED WITH HEROIN PROBLEM [...] (U) Summary: Intercepted heroin shipments to the UK spawned government attention to a drug problem that Bangladesh has been reluctant to acknowledge. A recently released report by the BDG on the matter reveals gaping holes in the country's counter-narcotics program. Although narcotics te [...]	2006-04-24 00:34:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM SNAR PGOV PTER BG
06DHAKA2378	BANGLADESH: LOCAL G8 CTAG MEETING [...] (SBU) On April 18, Dhaka based G8 countries embassies met at the Russian embassy for the local CTAG meeting chaired by Russia. Represented countries included France, German, UK, Australia, European Commission, Switzerland, Japan, Italy, Canada, and Russia, mostly at the Chief of Mission level. [...]	2006-04-25 08:31:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL BG
06DHAKA2440	BANGLADESH CAPTURES TERROR LEADERS [...] (SBU) BDG security forces have captured Khaled Saifullah and Salauddin, (who goes by only one name),the remaining two members of Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) terrorist group's seven man Majlish-i-Shura or ruling council. According to media reports, Khaled Saifullah was captured on Apri [...]	2006-04-26 09:29:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KISL KCRM BG
06DHAKA2450	AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON HOME MINISTER. [...] (SBU) On April 23, Ambassador paid an introductory call on Home Affairs Minister of State Lutfuzzoman Babar. Home Secretary Raj Hossain, Joint Secretary Ahkter Ahmed, MFA SIPDIS Americas DG Shahidul Islam, and RLA (notetaker) were also present. 2. (C) Babar thanked the USG for its gro [...]	2006-04-27 01:59:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER BG
06DHAKA250	DHAKA COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO ASSISTANT [...] Embassy Dhaka welcomes and grants country clearance for SA A/S Christina Rocca's January 26-28 visit. Control officer is Sarah Duffy, Economic Officer, Political/Economic Section (office) 880-2-885-5500 ext. 2180, (home) 880-2-885-5570, (fax) 880-2-882-4008, (mobile) 880 0171 595 661. 2 [...]	2006-01-18 10:24:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT BG OTRA PREL UK
06DHAKA2681	PRE ELECTION JOCKEYING CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Election Commission issued a voter list based on a fresh voter canvas, which showed a 22 percent increase over previous election lists. AL SYG Jalil responded to BNP SYG Bhuiyan to ask for mutual concessions in creating an acceptable dialogue committee to discuss AL demands f [...]	2006-05-09 09:47:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KISL BG
06DHAKA273	BFIF FY06 PROPOSALS FOR BANGLADESH [...] Embassy Dhaka welcomes the opportunity to submit the following request, totaling $11,000, for the FY06 Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF). Support from BFIF FY05 grants resulted in numerous achievements (ref B),and continues to position the Embassy's U.S. Trade Center to expand its a [...]	2006-01-19 01:01:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ABUD ETRD EINV BTIO BG
06DHAKA2739	FORMER PRESIDENT CALLS HOUSE FIRE BNP [...] (C) Summary. Former president B. Chowdhury and his son Mahi label the mysterious early morning fire that enveloped three areas of their Dhaka home an assassination attempt by BNP elements fearful of their party's allegedly growing popularity. BNP desire to deter the defection of restless parl [...]	2006-05-15 08:08:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV BG
06DHAKA2799	NARCOTICS ARREST: BIG FISH FOR LAW AND ORDER? [...] (C) Summary: The recent arrest of a prominent businessmen led to the BDG pronouncement of success against heroin traffickers in the country. The chairman of a large food export company is the government's "big fish" in the case, despite his arrest being based solely on the confessions of j [...]	2006-05-17 10:19:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM SNAR PGOV PTER BG
06DHAKA3079	A/S TREASURY PATRICK O'BRIEN MEETS BANGLADESH [...] (SBU) Summary: May 17 and 18, Department of Treasury (Treasury) Office for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Assistant Secretary (A/S) Patrick O'Brien visited key Bangladesh officials involved in counter-terrorist financing (CTF) policy making and implementation. Accompanying A/S O'Bri [...]	2006-05-29 07:36:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER EFIN BG
06DHAKA3389	CLASHES MARK OPPOSITION'S DHAKA SIEGE PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-11 16:09:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM BG
06DHAKA3453	IMPROVING BANGLADESHI COUNTER TERRORISM [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: See Paragraphs 14 and 22. 2, (S) Summary: After discussion of current mission Counter Terrorism efforts, embassy believes that enhancement to current programs is justified and should be explored. Embassy believes that next steps include steps towards initiation of a Rewa [...]	2006-06-13 10:42:00	Embassy Dhaka	SECRET	PTER KCRM KISL EAID ASEC BG
06DHAKA3538	TABLIGH-E-JAMAAT: ISLAMIC REVIVALISM STRIKING DEEP [...] (S) Summary. Tabligh-e-Jamaat (TJ) is a transnational Islamic missionary movement that has deep roots in Bangladesh. Its followers here probably number in the millions, and the organization's influence extends to every corner of the country. The most unique feature of TJ is its emphasis on [...]	2006-06-15 04:37:00	Embassy Dhaka	SECRET	PGOV PINR PINS PTER BG
06DHAKA3598	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DEMARCHE ON BANGLADESH [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-19 07:29:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL BG
06DHAKA361	HOME MINISTER ASSURES PEACE CORPS OF FULL [...] (C) Summary: Home Minister of State Babar told Peace Corps Chief of Security that security would be tightened at all Peace Corps sites and urged Peace Corps Volunteers (PCV) are staying and urged that the organization remain in Bangladesh so as not to give in to the terrorists. 2. (SBU) O [...]	2006-01-24 12:13:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV ASEC BD BG
06DHAKA3742	BANGLADESH MERGES ONTO THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY [...] Summary: With the inauguration of the submarine communication cable, the first land-based internet connection in the country, Bangladesh hopes to position itself as a competitor in the regional technology boom. Overnight, internet capacity has increased six-fold. Government and businessmen [...]	2006-06-22 10:36:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS TINT ECON TNGD BG
06DHAKA3887	AVIAN INFLUENZA: SITUATION UPDATE JUNE 21 [...] On June 21, the Mission Avian Influenza Working Group met to discuss updates to the preparedness stance at post and in-country. Since Ref C reports, significant changes in the country's detection infrastructure have been planned. The Department of Health and Human Services, has entered into [...]	2006-06-29 09:44:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU AMGT ASEC CASC AMED AEMR BG
06DHAKA3889	IMPROVING BANGLADESHI COUNTER TERRORISM [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: See Paragraph 21. 2. (S) Summary: Embassy thoroughly reviewed USG Counter Terrorism assistance to Bangladesh and believes that enhancement to current programs is fully justified and should be explored. Paragraph 21 outlines proposed next steps. We do not believe that [...]	2006-06-29 10:58:00	Embassy Dhaka	SECRET	PTER KCRM KISL EAID ASEC BG
06DHAKA3940	TWO DEAD AS OPPOSITION TRANSPORTATION BLOCKADE [...] (U) SUMMARY. On July 2 the Awami League (AL)-led transportation blockade of the country turned violent. Both an opposition activist and a policeman died during the protests, while over 100 people were injured. The AL and its opposition coalition partners announced a dawn-to-dusk hartal for J [...]	2006-07-03 11:09:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC CASC BG
06DHAKA4169	AMBASSADOR VISITS KIBRIA FAMILY [...] (U) On July 9, the Ambassador paid a call on the Kibria family, the third in a series of five visits to families of victims of political violence. Asma Kibria, Shah Kibria's widow, son Reza (an academic formerly resident in Brisbane, Australia),daughter Nazli, Reza's wife, and several grandch [...]	2006-07-10 10:29:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM BG
06DHAKA4408	DHAKA GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO HARDEEP SANDHU [...] Embassy Dhaka welcomes and grants country clearance for Hardeep Sandu, Epidemiologist, NIP, CDC, HHS for July 20- August 18 visit. Control officer is Phillip Smith, Public Health Advisor, WHO; TEL: 880-2-875-4505. 2. Per reftel, traveler has made arrangements at the Radisson Water Garde [...]	2006-07-18 07:28:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	BG KSCA OTRA
06DHAKA4409	DHAKA GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO MARC ALAIN [...] Embassy Dhaka welcomes and grants country clearance for Marc Alain Widdowson, Medical Epidemiologist, NCID, HHS/CED on his July 21-26 visit. Control officer is Dr. Steve Luby, Head, Programme of Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, ICDDR, B; TEL: (mobile) 88-01711-593-416, (home) 880-2- [...]	2006-07-18 09:54:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA BG
06DHAKA4410	DHAKA GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO GAVIN GRANT [...] Embassy Dhaka welcomes and grants country clearance for Gavin Grant, Epidemiologist, NCID, HHS/CDC for July 23 to August 1 visit. Control officer is Dr. Steve Luby, Head, Programme of Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Sciences, ICDDR, B; TEL: (mobile) 88-01711-593-416, (home) 880-2-885-5583. [...]	2006-07-18 09:54:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	BG KSCA OTRA
06DHAKA4741	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR PARTICIPATION [...] (U) This is an action request. See para three. 2. (SBU) The following participants have been selected for "ATA-5181 - Explosive Incident Countermeasures" training: Name: Md. Taherul Haq Chauhan Rank: Assistant Police Commissioner Department: Detective Branch Dhaka [...]	2006-07-31 08:05:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PTER BG
06DHAKA4743	BANGLADESH: DIPLOMATIC NOTE DELIVERED ON FRAMEWORK [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-31 09:46:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KAWC PHUM PINR BG
06DHAKA4994	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO OPIC OFFICER, RICHARD [...] Embassy Dhaka welcomes and grants country clearance for OPIC Officer, Richard Corrigan for your August 16-17 visit. Control officer is Sarah Duffy, Economic Officer, Economic and Commercial Office; TEL: 880-2-885-5500 ext. 2180, (fax) 880-2-882-4008. 2. Per reftel, no mission assistance ha [...]	2006-08-08 10:32:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	BG EINV OTRA
06DHAKA5332	INDO-BANGLADESH RELATIONS SHOW NEW STRAIN [...] (S) Summary. After a brief respite between the Dhaka SAARC summit in October and Prime Minister Zia's visit to New Delhi in March, Indo-Bangladeshi relations are again showing strain. Given India's support for the opposition Awami League, Indian antagonism towards the current government, and [...]	2006-08-22 08:23:00	Embassy Dhaka	SECRET	PTER PGOV KISL IN BG
06DHAKA5377	BANGLADESH GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO USGS [...] Embassy Dhaka welcomes and grants country clearance for John Whitney, Research Geologist, USGS for his September 19 to 29 visit. Local contact is Sarah Duffy, Economic Officer, 880-2-885-5500, extension 2180, duffysa@state.gov. 2. Per reftel, post will make arrangements for a travel ex [...]	2006-08-23 10:09:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	BG KSCA OTRA TPHY
06DHAKA5388	LAST CALL! CORRUPTION AT THE END OF THE BNP [...] (C) Summary: The BNP led government is engaged in an apparently unprecedented level of grand corruption in its waning days in power. Greed and the need to finance upcoming political campaigns are driving the upswing. The widely held belief that members of the Prime Minister's and other se [...]	2006-08-24 09:26:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KCRM BG
06DHAKA5422	FADING JUDICIARY REPUTATION TAKES TWO MORE HITS [...] (SBU) Summary. The appointment of 17 dubious judges to the High Court and the dropping of two more corruption charges against former President Ershad have further sullied the reputation of Bangladesh's judiciary. End Summary. Judges of Ill Repute -------------------- 2. (SBU) On August [...]	2006-08-24 12:17:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BG
06DHAKA5434	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR "ATA-6001 - PREVENTING [...] (U) This is an action request. See para three. 2. (SBU) The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Diplomatic Security Anti-Terrorism Assistance Preventing Attacks Against Soft Targets (PAAST) course from September 16-23, 2006 in Washington, D.C. Post vetting was [...]	2006-08-27 05:48:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PHUM BG MASS MARR PREL KCRM
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
06DHAKA5768	SQUABBLE RESOLVED BETWEEN CIVIL SOCIETY LEADER AND [...] (C) Summary. Diplomatic facilitation resolved a bizarre but potentially serious squabble between a civil society leader and the head of the GOB's Board of Investment. Neither protagonist was innocent of blame, but the dropping of defamation charges against CPD's Deb Bhattacharya is a notable [...]	2006-09-11 12:42:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BG
06DHAKA5796	GOB PROVIDES NAMES FOR S&T COMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary. After three years of foot-dragging, the GOB has provided names for an advisory committee to activate the 2003 Bangladesh-U.S. Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation. The GOB names reflect a strong nuclear bias and Science Minister Khan's determination to pursue [...]	2006-09-12 11:12:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	TSPL PREL BG
06DHAKA5911	SOLICITATION FOR 06 INCLE FUNDS FOR TIP [...] Per reftels, Post is forwarding the following TIP proposal submitted by Post in consultation with the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Training and Development (OPDAT) at the US Department of Justice. This is the same proposal that was submitted by Post on February 14, 2006 for a USD 190,000 [...]	2006-09-19 06:45:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL BG
06DHAKA6109	FORMER POWER MINISTER CLAIMS WHISTLEBLOWING LED TO [...] (U) The Prime Minister appointed Ukil Abdus Sattar as Power Secretary on October 3. Sattar replaces Anarul Kabir Talukder, who was forced to resign on September 29, just three months after taking over as Power Secretary. Talukder was forced out following attacks on power company offices an [...]	2006-10-04 10:46:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV KDEM KCRM BG
06DHAKA6225	CONTROVERSIAL JOURNALIST IN HIDING AFTER DISPUTED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Controversial Bangladeshi journalist Shoaib Chowdhury is in hiding following an attack on him last week at his newspaper office. He has been in touch with us multiple occasions to express concerns about his safety. We have flagged with the Home Minister, the Foreign Secretary, a [...]	2006-10-10 11:26:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC CASC BG
06DHAKA6257	JOURNALIST "SAFE AT HOME" AFTER NIGHT IN HIDING [...] (SBU) At 2030 hrs on October 11 Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury called POLOFF to provide an update of his situation. Choudhury told POLOFF that he was now "safe at home." Choudhury said his lawyer had arranged "anticipatory bail" for him on an arrest warrant regarding the charges filed against h [...]	2006-10-11 16:42:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC CASC BG
06DHAKA6258	GARMENT WORKERS RAMPAGE [...] (SBU) Local media reported that garment workers blocked roads, ransacked over 100 factories, and looted storefronts in the Dhaka areas of Mipur, Uttara, Gazipur and to a limited extent Savar over a period of four hours on 10 October. Police fired blank shotgun rounds and deployed tear gas in an [...]	2006-10-12 02:48:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ETRD PGOV BG

06DHAKA6261	JOURNALIST'S SEDITION CASE HEARING UNEVENTFUL [...] (SBU) On October 12, the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Court held a charge framing hearing on the sedition case against journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. An Embassy observer was present for the hearing, which lasted just five minutes. The defense attempted to compel the court to review a [...]	2006-10-12 11:12:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM BG
06DHAKA6262	HOME MINISTER PROVIDES BACKGROUND ON CHOUDHURY CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Charge d'Affaires a.i. met with Home Minister Lutfozzaman Babar on October 12 to discuss journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Charge informed Babar that the Embassy remains very engaged in the Choudhury case. She reminded the Home Minister of U.S. focus in the case, namely to [...]	2006-10-13 11:22:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BG
06DHAKA6263	HOME MINISTER PROVIDES BACKGROUND ON CHOUDHURY CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Charge d'Affaires a.i. met with Home Minister Lutfozzaman Babar on October 12 to discuss journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Charge informed Babar that the Embassy remains very engaged in the Choudhury case. She reminded the Home Minister of U.S. focus in the case, namely to [...]	2006-10-13 11:25:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BG
06DHAKA6264	HOME MINISTER PROVIDES BACKGROUND ON CHOUDHURY CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Charge d'Affaires a.i. met with Home Minister Lutfozzaman Babar on October 12 to discuss journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Charge informed Babar that the Embassy remains very engaged in the Choudhury case. She reminded the Home Minister of U.S. focus in the case, namely to [...]	2006-10-13 11:25:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BG
06DHAKA6265	HOME MINISTER PROVIDES BACKGROUND ON CHOUDHURY CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Charge d'Affaires a.i. met with Home Minister Lutfozzaman Babar on October 12 to discuss journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Charge informed Babar that the Embassy remains very engaged in the Choudhury case. She reminded the Home Minister of U.S. focus in the case, namely to [...]	2006-10-13 11:25:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM 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
06DHAKA6305	CONTROVERSIAL JOURNALIST FILES SUIT AGAINST "JMB [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 16, journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury updated us on his recent suit against the government to remove "JMB judges" from the bench, his sedition case, and the status of his case against his alleged attackers on October 5. Choudhury also provided the names of govern [...]	2006-10-16 11:11:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BG
06DHAKA6368	"STOLEN FILMS" ALLEGEDLY AT ROOT OF DISPUTE WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The October 5 incident involving journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury took a new turn with the revelation that the person he accused of attacking him, Hussain Khan Helal, is a U.S. citizen. POLOFF met with Helal when he came to the Embassy's Consular Section to complain abo [...]	2006-10-19 11:52:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BG
06DHAKA6390	BANGLADESH GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] (C) PolOff spoke with MFA Director of the America and Pacific Wing Mahbub Saleh on October 22 to discuss the BDG's October 16 diplomatic note (ref a) regarding the Bangladesh detainee. Saleh acknowledged the note did not expressly respond to the conditions in the Embassy's July 31 diplomatic [...]	2006-10-23 12:07:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM PINS KAWC BG
06DHAKA6416	STREET CLASHES CONTINUE AS POLITICAL LEADERS [...] (C) Summary. Street clashes in Dhaka resumed on Sunday as President Ahmed met separately with representatives of the four major parties to seek common ground for finding Bangladesh's next chief caretaker adviser. The ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party, its coalition partner Jamaat Islami, a [...]	2006-10-29 10:58:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM BG
06DHAKA6521	CARETAKER GOVERNMENT ADVISORS APPOINTED [...] (SBU) Summary. The opposition Awami League fared well with its nominees for caretaker advisers, though portfolios have yet to be assigned. Sporadic political violence persists, mostly outside of Dhaka. Under apparent pressure from the former ruling party, the caretaker government reversed two [...]	2006-11-01 10:16:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM BG
06DHAKA6642	SECOND DAY OF OPPOSITION BLOCKADE GRIPS BANGLADESH [...] (SBU) Summary. In the second day of the nationwide transportation blockade led by the Awami League, one demonstrator in Dhaka was killed and several dozen injured. Clashes, however, were sporadic, the number of demonstrators was relatively modest, and the violence was less than many had feared [...]	2006-11-13 11:00:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM BG
06DHAKA6665	BOUCHER STRESSES NON-VIOLENCE, DIALOGUE, AND FREE [...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary Boucher stressed to Bangladeshi political leaders U.S. government support for free, fair, credible and peaceful elections, and urged all parties to refrain from violence. Chief Advisor Ahmed expressed confidence that elections would take place peacefully and [...]	2006-11-19 08:21:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM BG
06DHAKA6683	TODAY'S ACTION AWAY FROM THE STREETS [...] (C) Summary. Embattled Chief Election Commissioner Aziz may be contemplating a long leave of absence, which could remove one opposition flash point, but the Awami League now demands that Chief Adviser Ahmed also go before lifting its nationwide blockade. Rumors that Chief Adviser Ahmed suffe [...]	2006-11-20 11:06:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PGOV BG
06DHAKA6790	UNHCR REPORTS PROGRESS ON ROHINGYAS [...] (C) On December 12 UNHCR Resident Representative Pia Pritz-Phiri updated POLOFF on the Rohingya refugee situation. Pritz-Phiri said she was preparing to sign UNHCR's 2007 sub-agreement with the GOB the following day. She said that in contrast to the 2006 agreement, which was completed only in [...]	2006-12-17 03:52:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM BG
06DHAKA6791	UNHCR REPORTS PROGRESS ON ROHINGYAS [...] (C) On December 12 UNHCR Resident Representative Pia Pritz-Phiri updated POLOFF on the Rohingya refugee situation. Pritz-Phiri said she was preparing to sign UNHCR's 2007 sub-agreement with the GOB the following day. She said that in contrast to the 2006 agreement, which was completed only in [...]	2006-12-17 08:10:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM BG
06DHAKA6792	UNHCR REPORTS PROGRESS ON ROHINGYAS [...] (C) On December 12 UNHCR Resident Representative Pia Pritz-Phiri updated POLOFF on the Rohingya refugee situation. Pritz-Phiri said she was preparing to sign UNHCR's 2007 sub-agreement with the GOB the following day. She said that in contrast to the 2006 agreement, which was completed only in [...]	2006-12-17 08:11:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM BG
06DHAKA682	DHAKA COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DOE/NNSA/NNTRAV [...] Embassy Dhaka welcomes and grants country clearance for the March 3-10 visit of U.S. International Radiological Threat Reduction Program team: Anne Stuart Kohnen, James Lewis Kauber, John Frank Pelletier, and Daniel Mack Rutherford. Control officer is Sarah Duffy, Economic Officer, Political [...]	2006-02-09 00:54:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP PARM OTRA BG
06DHAKA706	MORE PROTESTS PLANNED AGAINST DANISH AND EUROPEAN EMBASSIES [...] (U) According to police sources, several Islamic groups have plann a protest around the Baitul MukarramNationalMosque on Friday, Febru (after Friday prayers) followed bya march towards the Danish, French and the EC Mission. The protests are in response to the cartoons publ western newspapers de [...]	2006-02-09 09:21:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER BG
06DHAKA708	CODEL CROWLEY - BANGLADESH POC [...] Post welcomes the visit of CODEL Crowley as outlined in reftel. Control Officer/POC for Bangladesh is: David W. Renz Economic and Commercial Chief 8802 885-5500 x2532 (office) 8802 882-4008 (office fax) 8802 885-5500 (Embassy main switchboard, 24/7 coverage) 8802 882-3744 (Embassy ma [...]	2006-02-09 09:22:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN BG IN GM UK
06DHAKA709	HOME MINISTER BLAMES INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES FOR [...] (C) Summary: Home Minister Babar assured CDA that he agreed "100 per cent" that BDG intelligence agencies should inform the U.S. Embassy promptly of threats against American interests, that he would remind them of this responsibility, and that he would inform the Prime Minister about this situ [...]	2006-02-09 09:59:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PGOV BG
06DHAKA715	MORE PROTESTS PLANNED AGAINST DANISH AND EUROPEAN [...] (U) According to police sources, several Islamic groups have planned to organize a protest around the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Friday, February 10 at 1500 (after Friday prayers) followed by a march towards the Danish, French, and Italian embassies and the EC Mission. The protests are [...]	2006-02-12 00:48:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER BG
06DHAKA716	MORE PROTESTS PLANNED AGAINST DANISH AND EUROPEAN [...] (U) According to police sources, several Islamic groups have planned to organize a protest around the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Friday, February 10 at 1500 (after Friday prayers) followed by a march towards the Danish, French, and Italian embassies and the EC Mission. The protests are [...]	2006-02-12 00:49:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER BG
06DHAKA717	MORE PROTESTS PLANNED AGAINST DANISH AND EUROPEAN EMBASSIES [...] (U) According to police sources, several Islamic groups have plann 2. (U) The demonstration will originate from the downtown Dhaka Baitu 3. (U) There have been other smaller demonstrations in downtown Dhaka 4. (SBU) On February 8, Home Minister of State Babar assured Charge t 5. (SBU) RSO [...]	2006-02-12 00:49:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER BG
06DHAKA721	CONTINUED PROTESTS AGAINST DANISH AND EUROPEAN [...] (U) According to police sources, several Islamic groups have planned to organize a protest around the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Monday, February 13, 2006 at 1600 hours followed by a march towards the National parliament. The protests have been called because of the cartoons depicting [...]	2006-02-12 05:16:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER BG
06DHAKA724	EMBASSY DHAKA USAID LOCAL CONTRACTOR ROBBED AT [...] On February 12, 2006, ARSO was notified that a USAID contractor had been the subject of a robbery in the Diplomatic Enclave. 2. On February 12, 2006, ARSO interviewed the contractor (employee works for RTI International and this organization receives donor money from USAID and has a close E [...]	2006-02-12 08:23:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC
06DHAKA746	THREATENING LETTER AGAINST FOREIGN MISSIONS [...] (SBU) On 02/12/2006, RSO was informed by the Canadian High Commission Security Officer that the Swiss Embassy received a general threat against foreign missions reportedly by the Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). The message was sent via letter and a scanned copy was sent to RSO. In these l [...]	2006-02-12 10:26:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC BD PTER
06DHAKA768	JAMA'ATUL MUJAHIDEEN BANGLADESH'S "THREE TIERS OF [...] (C/NF) Summary. This telegram reviews Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh's (JMB) target selection and the evolution of its tactics since the August 17 bomb blasts. It also lays out JMB,s &Three Tiers of Threat8 as articulated to us by two senior Bangladeshi police officials, and highlights Emba [...]	2006-02-13 09:18:00	Embassy Dhaka	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER KISL ASEC BG
06DHAKA775	SOLICITATION FOR INCLE FUNDS [...] Per reftel, post is forwarding the following TIP proposal submitted by the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Training and Development (OPDAT) at the US Department of Justice. It is our understanding that this same proposal has already been submitted directly to the G/TIP office. 2. Post s [...]	2006-02-14 00:59:00	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
06DHAKA810	BANGLADESH: UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL [...] (SBU) Embassy contacted Dr. Hamidur Rashid, Director, United Nations Wing, Ministry of Foreign Affairs for an update on BDG's position on the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Expression. Dr. Rashid was unaware of BDG's position on the convention and directed embassy to other MFA offices. 2. ( [...]	2006-02-14 07:23:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD SCUL BG UNESCO
06DHAKA867	CONTRASTING LOCAL VIEWS ON DR. GHALIB [...] (SBU) Summary: Ahle Hadith Andolan Amir Assadullah Ghalib remains in prison while Ahle Hadith supporters claim his innocence, state their movement is non-political, is not a terrorist organization, and has no ties with JMB. Ghalib's proponents say his arrest was politically motivated, possibly [...]	2006-02-16 09:05:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PTER PGOV BG JI
06DHAKA887	Media Reaction: Prophet's Cartoon;Dhaka [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-20 08:38:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OIIP OPRC KPAO PREL ETRD PTER ASEC BG OCII
06DHAKA993	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO OPIC OFFICER: LYNN [...] Embassy Dhaka welcomes and grants country clearance for Lynn Nguyen's March 14 and 15 visit. Control officer is Dayle Johns, Economic Officer, Political/Economic Section (office) 880-2-885-5500 ext. 2206, (fax) 880-2-882-4008, (home) 885-5550, (cell) 011-804-344. 2. Per reftel, Embassy [...]	2006-02-27 09:46:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	BG EINV OTRA
06DHAKA994	BANGLADESH DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR REQUEST FOR [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-27 09:47:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV PTER BG
06DHAKA997	FRAUD SUMMARY - DHAKA [...] SUMMARY. Dhaka is a high fraud post with a full-time FPM and a busy FPU. Fraud, especially in IV and DV cases, is a daily occurrence for adjudicators, and is most often found in ages of children, marital status, and qualification for the DV program. Most Bangladeshi documents are unreliable, [...]	2006-02-27 10:08:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT KFRD ASEC CVIS CPAS BG
06DILI101	DISTURBING DEVELOPMENTS IN PREPARATIONS FOR ELECTIONS; UNDP [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent discussions with representatives of international election assistance NGOs and via requests for assistance relayed to the UN, senior Government of East Timor (GOET) officials have revealed an outline of their plans for the 2007 legislative and presidential elections. E [...]	2006-03-07 05:42:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM TT
06DILI112	TRUTH AND FRIENDSHIP COMMISSIONERS PUSH FOR ACCESS TO SCU [...] (C) The bilateral Indonesia-East Timor Truth and Friendship Commission (TFC) has made a surprise request for full access, with necessary redaction to assure witness confidentiality, to the files of the Serious Crimes Unit (SCU). After Prosecutor-General Longuinhos Monteiro refused the request, [...]	2006-03-11 11:05:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KJUS KAWC PHUM KPKO TT
06DILI135	PRESIDENT GUSMAO RESPONDS TO DISMISSAL OF STRIKING SOLDIERS [...] (U) On March 16, the Commander of East Timor's Defense Force (FDTL),Brigadier-General Taur Matan Ruak, publicly announced that all striking soldiers were officially dismissed and were considered to have become civilians as of March 1. The dismissed soldiers, numbered at 591, were part of a st [...]	2006-03-24 19:13:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV MARR TT
06DILI144	UNREST IN DILI OVER THE WEEKEND FOLLOWING FDTL DISMISSALS, [...] Summary: Beginning late last week and escalating over the weekend, there have been a number of incidents of unrest around Dili involving intimidation and threats as well as attacks on houses and other property. As of Monday night (March 27),widespread police patrols have resulted in a signifi [...]	2006-03-29 08:05:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV MARR ASEC TT
06DILI152	END OF WEEK UPDATE ON FDTL DISMISSALS AND UNREST IN DILI [...] (U) Summary: As of today, the situation in Dili remains calm and appears to have mostly returned to normal after the spate of incidences reported in Reftel D. Dili residents who had left their homes to stay with relatives or take refuge elsewhere out of fear of escalating violence, a number th [...]	2006-03-31 09:24:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV MARR ASEC TT
06DILI167	AMBASSADOR GUTERRES TO CHALLENGE ALKATIRI FOR FRETILIN PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary: Preparations for Fretilin's National Party Congress are well underway. Delegates to the Congress have been elected at district meetings that began in February. Within the party it has long been assumed that Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri would continue in a second term as Secreta [...]	2006-04-12 09:13:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM TT
06DILI18	EX-MILITIA MEMBERS KILLED IN CLASH WITH EAST TIMOR BORDER [...] (U) Summary: Three alleged members of 1999-era anti-independence militias were shot dead by officers of East Timor's Border Patrol Unit (BPU) on Friday, January 6. One of the three, Jose Mausorte, was a prominent member of the Halilintar militia and had been accused of involvement in several [...]	2006-01-09 15:18:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS PHUM ASEC KAWC TT ID
06DILI192	MORE VIOLENCE IN DILI AREA LAST NIGHT, BUT CALM TODAY [...] (U) Summary: There was more rioting yesterday evening in the village of Tasitolu, just west of Dili, and at least three more people died, apparently shot by members of the armed forces (FDTL) who had responded to the Tasitolu riot, in addition to the two who had died earlier in Dili. Although [...]	2006-04-29 15:57:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI194	DILI REMAINS CALM, BUT THOUSANDS STILL DISPLACED AS RUMORS [...] Summary: The situation in Dili was relatively calm last night, but there were still several disturbances reported, including shots fired in two Dili neighborhoods, reported clashes in the hills outside of Dili, and fighting at one of the major markets. There was another fight between groups of [...]	2006-04-30 15:04:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI200	UPDATE ON DILI SECURITY SITUATION: RETURN TO NORMAL IS SLOW [...] Dili remains abnormally quiet following Friday's rioting and the security operations in response. It appears that the armed forces (FDTL) have relinquished law enforcement responsibilities to the national police (PNTL),but they remain involved in patrolling. Currently, there are five confirm [...]	2006-05-01 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI203	DAS JOHN MEETING WITH PRESIDENT GUSMAO [...] (C) Summary: EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Eric John, along with Ambassador Rees and Emboffs, met with President Xanana Gusmao May 2 to discuss U.S. priorities and concerns in East Timor. The major focus of the discussion was the riots on Friday, April 28 and the subsequent intervention of th [...]	2006-05-03 11:06:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR PREL KJUS KCRM KAWC ID TT
06DILI213	EAST TIMOR UPDATE: ARMY RETURNS TO BARRACKS AS GOET URGES [...] (SBU) Summary. The Embassy's current assessment is that the potential for politically motivated violence in East Timor in the near future appears to be de-escalating. Although the likelihood of imminent violence appears low, the ongoing political and constitutional crisis caused by Prime Minis [...]	2006-05-05 15:36:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI214	AMBASSADOR GUTERRES ON POLITICAL/SECURITY SITUATION AND [...] (SBU) Emboff met with East Timor's Ambassador to the U.S. and the United Nations, Jose Luis Guterres, on May 6. Guterres is running against Prime Minister Alkatiri for Secretary General of the ruling Fretilin Party in the party congress scheduled for May 17-20. Ambassador Guterres conveyed st [...]	2006-05-06 14:17:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR KDEM TT
06DILI219	ALKATIRI, RAMOS-HORTA EXPRESS OPTIMISM, BUT PEOPLE ARE STILL [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-09 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI224	FRETILIN PARTY CONGRESS: RECENT EVENTS SIGNIFICANTLY ALTER [...] (C) Summary. In light of the serious unresolved issues and current potential for unrest, Fretilin party leaders continue to discuss whether the party Congress should go forward as planned in Dili on May 17-19. Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri's public popularity, never his strong suit, is at its l [...]	2006-05-11 15:07:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM TT
06DILI226	EAST TIMOR UPDATE: WHAT IS THE PRESIDENT THINKING? [...] (S) Summary: Despite the widespread popular belief in East Timor that the ongoing political and security crisis can only be resolved if the President invokes the constitutional provision permitting the dismissal of the Prime Minister, President Gusmao and his close associates have made clear t [...]	2006-05-11 19:08:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI228	EAST TIMOR UPDATE: WHAT IS THE PRESIDENT THINKING? [...] (S) Summary: Despite the widespread popular belief in East Timor that the ongoing political and security crisis can only be resolved if the President invokes the constitutional provision permitting the dismissal of the Prime Minister, President Gusmao and his close associates have made clear t [...]	2006-05-11 19:24:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI229	RAMOS-HORTA: WOULD ACCEPT PRIME MINISTER POSITION [...] (S) Summary: In a conversation with Ambassador Rees, Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said he believes Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri will probably be defeated in next week's Fretilin Party Congress. He believes Alkatiri has brought the defeat upon himself by his arrogant and sometimes abusive [...]	2006-05-12 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI231	FRETILIN PARTY CONGRESS WILL BE "A REAL FIGHT [...] (C) Summary: According to Embassy sources within and close to the ruling party, the Fretilin Party Congress scheduled to take place in Dili May 17-19, will be "a real fight". The competition will not only be between the two dominant candidates for Secretary General, but also over competing vi [...]	2006-05-14 08:15:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM TT
06DILI232	FRETILIN PARTY CONGRESS WILL BE "A REAL FIGHT [...] (C) Summary: According to Embassy sources within and close to the ruling party, the Fretilin Party Congress scheduled to take place in Dili May 17-19, will be "a real fight". The competition will not only be between the two dominant candidates for Secretary General, but also over competing vi [...]	2006-05-14 08:15:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM TT
06DILI238	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR MAY 16, 2006 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: -- Life in Dili -- Fretilin Central committee meeting -- Guterres announces running mate -- Fretilin Congress security update -- Latest from TMR (See septel) -- Ramos-Horta on the campaign trail? -- Status of Other Embassies -- Petitioner Update -- Consular Issues End summa [...]	2006-05-16 15:47:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC AMGT PGOV KPKO TT
06DILI239	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR MAY 17, 2006 [...] (U) Commercial, transportation, and civic activity in the city are normal. A few roadblocks have been established around the area where the Fretilin Party Congress is taking place. There were 76 seats open on outbound flights. The Australian, British Irish, Korean, New Zealand, Philippines, [...]	2006-05-17 16:03:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC AMGT PGOV KDEM TT
06DILI240	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR MAY 18, 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY. - LIFE IN DILI - FRETILIN CONGRESS DAY 2 - AMERICAN CITIZENS ISSUES - EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE - SECURITY ASSESSMENT LIFE IN DILI Â [...]	2006-05-18 15:15:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MARR KDEM TT
06DILI243	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR MAY 19, 2006 [...] (U) The city continues to return to normal and there were several reports of additional refugees returning to Dili Transportation was functioning normally; schools and markets were open. Despite a heavy security presence, restaurants in the immediate area around the party congress were open. [...]	2006-05-19 11:11:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MARR KDEM TT
06DILI247	EAST TIMOR SITREP #1 FOR MAY 23, 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary: GOET PROPOSAL FOR TALKS FALTERS AS REINADO AND FDTL CLASH COMMENTS FROM THE FOREIGN MINISTER REQUESTS FROM THE GOET POLICE ISSUES IDP CAMPS SITUATION IN DILI End Summary. GOET PROPOSAL FOR TALKS FALTERS AS REINADO AND FDTL CLASH 2. (C) Charge Stein and USDR traveled to [...]	2006-05-23 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM TT
06DILI252	EAST TIMOR SITREP #1 FOR MAY 24, 2006 [...] (U) Summary. - EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF COMMENCMENT OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN FDTL AND DISSIDENTS - FDTL ACTIVITIES - OTHER VIOLENCE IN DILI - AIR TRAFFIC ISSUES - DISIDENT MILITARY GROUPS - OTHER POLICE ISSUES - IDP CAMPS OVERCROWDED - AMCIT PHOTO JOURNALIST COMES UNDER FIRE IN TASITOLU - AMC [...]	2006-05-24 07:12:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM CACS TT
06DILI253	EAST TIMOR SITREP #2 FOR MAY 24, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: GOET REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION CONTINUED FIGHTING BETWEEN FDTL AND DISSIDENT FORCES UPDATE ON DISSIDENT LEADERS POLICE UPDATE THE SITUATION IN DILI IDP UPDATE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY EVACUATION End summary. GOET REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION 2. (C) At a meetin [...]	2006-05-24 15:33:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM TT
06DILI254	EAST TIMOR REQUESTS FOREIGN MILITARY INTERVENTION; PRIME [...] (S) Summary: East Timor's four top government leaders today announced that the government would request military intervention from Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, and Malaysia to restore order and to end what President Xanana Gusmao called "this climate of panic." Foreign Minister Jose Ramo [...]	2006-05-24 15:36:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI255	EMBASSY DILI EAC MEETING ON MAY 24, 2006 [...] (SBU) On May 24, 2006, the DCM convened a meeting of Embassy Dili's EAC to review the Embassy's contingency planning in light of the deteriorating security environment. The Ambassador, RSO, POL, MGMT, USAID, CONS, and ODC attended the meeting. 2. (C) POL and ODC reported of continued factio [...]	2006-05-24 15:36:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC AMGT ID TT
06DILI258	EAST TIMOR SITREP #2 FOR MAY 24, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: GOET REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION CONTINUED FIGHTING BETWEEN FDTL AND DISSIDENT FORCES UPDATE ON DISSIDENT LEADERS POLICE UPDATE THE SITUATION IN DILI IDP UPDATE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY EVACUATION End summary. GOET REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION 2. (C) At a meetin [...]	2006-05-25 07:15:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM TT
06DILI259	EAST TIMOR SITREP #2 FOR MAY 24, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: GOET REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION CONTINUED FIGHTING BETWEEN FDTL AND DISSIDENT FORCES UPDATE ON DISSIDENT LEADERS POLICE UPDATE THE SITUATION IN DILI IDP UPDATE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY EVACUATION End summary. GOET REQUESTS INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION 2. (C) At a meetin [...]	2006-05-25 07:15:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM TT
06DILI261	EMBASSY DILI EAC MEETING ON MAY 24, 2006 [...] (SBU) On May 24, 2006, the DCM convened a meeting of Embassy Dili's EAC to review the Embassy's contingency planning in light of the deteriorating security environment. The Ambassador, RSO, POL, MGMT, USAID, CONS, and ODC attended the meeting. 2. (C) POL and ODC reported of continued factio [...]	2006-05-25 07:27:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC AMGT ID TT
06DILI262	EAST TIMOR REQUESTS FOREIGN MILITARY INTERVENTION; PRIME [...] (S) Summary: East Timor's four top government leaders today announced that the government would request military intervention from Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, and Malaysia to restore order and to end what President Xanana Gusmao called "this climate of panic." Foreign Minister Jose Ramo [...]	2006-05-25 07:27:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT
06DILI263	DILI UPDATE: FIGHTING IN DILI INCREASES, PRESIDENT ASSUMES [...] (U) Summary: -- President Assumes Control of the Military (on Paper) -- FDTL Soldiers Shoot Unarmed Police and UN Personnel -- Violence in the Capital Worsens -- Casualty Information -- Military Reportedly Arming Civilians -- Status of Amcits -- Special Police Unit Requests Embassy Assistanc [...]	2006-05-25 15:11:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM CASC TT
06DILI268	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR MAY 26, 2006 [...] (U) SUMMARY -- AUSTRALIAN PATROLS COMMENCE, SOME VIOLENCE CONTINUES -- GOVERNMENT DEFIES PRESIDENT -- PRESIDENT INTENDS TO DISMISS THE GOVERNMENT -- FOREIGN MINISTER: PRIME MINISTER SHOULD RESIGN -- SECURITY ENVIRONMENT IMPROVES BUT REMAINS TENSE -- NATIONAL HOSPITAL STRUGGLING TO CARE FOR WO [...]	2006-05-27 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM CASC TT
06DILI274	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR MAY 29, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: PRIME MINISTER MAY ENDORSE PRESIDENT'S ASSUMPTION OF SECURITY POWERS MINISTERS OF INTERIOR AND DEFENSE WILL BE REPLACED TOMORROW ALKATIRI REFUSES TO RESIGN, BUT MAY SOON BE DISMISSED VIOLENCE SIGNIFICANTLY DOWN, LOOTING CONTINUES FDTL WITHDRAWS FROM DILI HQ ADF SUCCESSFULLY RESP [...]	2006-05-30 11:30:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM CASC TT
06DILI276	EAST TIMOR SITUATION REPORT FOR MAY 30 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-30 19:20:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM KPKO CASC TT
06DILI279	EMBOFFS INTERVIEW NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSIONER IN HIDING [...] (C) Summary: Vice Interior Minister Alcino Barris, Police Commissioner Paulo Martins and dozens of police officers from all branches have reassembled the national police (PNTL) hierarchy at an orphanage in the hills overlooking Dili. The group has been disarmed by the Australian Defense Forces [...]	2006-05-31 15:15:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR PHUM TT CU CH
06DILI280	EAST TIMOR SITUATION REPORT FOR MAY 30 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-31 15:15:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM CASC TT
06DILI281	EAST TIMOR SITUATION REPORT FOR MAY 31 [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-31 15:15:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PGOV MARR PHUM CASC TT
06DILI291	AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH MINISTER RAMOS-HORTA [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-03 19:12:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	ASEC PGOV MOPS PHUM TT KDEM KPKO
06DILI293	EAST TIMOR WEEKEND UPDATE: JUNE 3-5, 2006, [...] (U) Summary: Pro-Xanana security ministers are sworn in; Superior Council endorses President's security plan; Ramos-Horta begins Defense Minister duties; FRETILIN Central Committee endorses Alkatiri, promotes Lobato; Australia on post-UNOTIL planning; Anti-Alkatiri demonstration reportedly ca [...]	2006-06-05 15:11:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM UN CASC KPKO AU PO TT
06DILI296	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 6, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: 1500 Anti-Alkatiri demonstrators arrive from western districts; Ambassador meets with new Minister of the Interior Parliament deliberates with a bare quorum; Portuguese paramilitary police continue operations without JTF Coordination; Malaysian diplomats announce need for externa [...]	2006-06-06 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM UN CASC AU PO TT
06DILI298	EAC MEETING: REVERSE TRIPWIRES ESTABLISHED [...] (U) Summary: Embassy Dili's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met on 7 June to develop reverse tripwires related to the current political and security situation in East Timor, discuss added security measures at the Embassy, and review the Mission's policy for travel within East Timor. Deputy C [...]	2006-06-07 11:17:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	AEMR ASEC AMGT TT
06DILI299	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 7, 2006 [...] (U) Summary. - Demonstrators return to their districts; - UN envoy Ian Martin departs Dili; - International police force update; - Readout on Ramos-Horta's meetings with dissident leaders; - Australian and New Zealand Defense Ministers visit; - Parliament's [...]	2006-06-07 15:11:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM UN KPKO CASC PO MY TT AS
06DILI300	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 8, 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary - GNR restricted to barracks after confrontation with Australian forces; - Provisional cooperation agreement reached between JTF and Portuguese forces; - Armed group claims Alkatiri gave them weapons to kill opponents; - Foreign Defense Attaches inv [...]	2006-06-08 19:25:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM UN KPKO CASC PO MY AS TT
06DILI301	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 9, 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary: - AFP commander gives policing plan to Ramos-Horta; - GNR Equipment Arrives in Baucau; - Former Minister of Police Bids Farewell to PNTL Commanders; - Sources confirm Fretilin Headquarters in Ermera District was burned; - Status of the news media; - JTF agrees to provide secur [...]	2006-06-09 11:26:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM UN KPKO CASC PO MY TT AS
06DILI303	EMBOFFS MEET WITH ALLEGED FRETILIN "SECRET SECURITY" FORCE [...] (C) Summary. U.S. Embassy and United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste (UNOTIL) PolOffs met today with the leaders of the "Fretilin Secret Security" force in their mountaintop compound outside of Liquica. The group, comprised entirely of former Falintil resistance fighters, showed PolOffs t [...]	2006-06-12 15:16:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINS ASEC TT
06DILI304	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 12, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: GOET Calls on UN to Establish Independent Special Inquiry Commission; Opposition MP Joins Major Reinado to Call for Changes to the Constitution; GNR Cooperates Effectively with JTF; Security environment. End summary. GOET Calls on UN to Establish Independent Special Inquiry [...]	2006-06-12 15:16:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM UN KPKO CASC PO MY TT AS
06DILI306	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 13, 2006 [...] (C) Summary: Pro-Alkatiri armed group reported in Los Palos; Ramos-Horta casts doubt on whether UN investigation would include "Fretilin Security Forces"; Fretilin National Planning Committee may meet to discuss current crisis; Opposition MPs walk out of Parliament in protest of a Fretilin r [...]	2006-06-13 15:14:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM KPKO CASC PO MY TT AS
06DILI308	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 14, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: President addresses Parliament; Fretilin presents itself as the victim; Ramos-Horta briefs diplomatic corps on GOET requests for post UN-mission; Prime Minister wants Timorese control of police; Security environment; End Summary. President addresses Parliament -------------- [...]	2006-06-14 15:05:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM KPKO CASC PO MY TT AS
06DILI313	EMBASSY DILI VIEWS ON POST-UNOTIL MISSION [...] (U) Summary: This message discusses possible components of a follow-on United Nations mission in East Timor after the expiration of the anticipated two-month extension of the United Nations Office in Timor-Leste (UNOTIL). Whether or not the mission is conducted under Chapter VII authority and [...]	2006-06-16 19:27:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	KPKO PREL PGOV PHUM AU PO MY TT
06DILI316	PRESIDENT GUSMAO SAYS HE WILL DISMISS PRIME MINISTER THIS [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-19 19:20:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV MOPS KPKO KCRM TT AS
06DILI320	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR JUNE 20, 2006 [...] (C) Summary: --- President still plans to dismiss Prime Minister after Council of State meeting tomorrow; --- Arrest warrant issued for Lobato; --- Ramos-Horta in Baucau, plans to head further East tomorrow; --- Anti-Alkatiri demonstration begins, may grow in coming days; --- Weapons confisca [...]	2006-06-20 15:11:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM KPKO CASC PREF EAID AS TT
06DILI322	EAST TIMOR SITREP: PRIME MINISTER PERSUADES PRESIDENT TO [...] (U) Summary: --- Prime Minister persuades President to delay dismissal --- Anti-Alkatiri demonstration continued; --- Lobato's house surrounded; --- Security environment in Dili. End Summary. Prime Minister persuades President to delay dismissal ----------------------------------- (S) A [...]	2006-06-21 11:19:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM KPKO CASC PREF EAID AS TT
06DILI325	UPDATE FROM AFP ON INTERNATIONAL POLICING IN DILI [...] (C) Summary: Emboff met yesterday with Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commander Steve Lancaster to review the current status of international policing in Dili. Lancaster reported that the international police have not yet reached full capacity, primarily due to a delay in the arrival of the [...]	2006-06-22 07:07:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS ASEC PHUM AU PO NZ TT
06DILI327	EAST TIMOR SITREP: PRESIDENT WILL RESIGN TOMORROW UNLESS [...] (U) Summary: --- President will resign tomorrow if Prime Minister does not; --- Ex-Minister Lobato arrested; --- More anti-Alkatiri demonstrators arrive in Dili.. End summary. President will resign tomorrow if Prime Minister does not --------------------------------------------- ----------- [...]	2006-06-22 15:16:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV MOPS ASEC KPKO MY AS TT
06DILI329	EAST TIMOR SITREP: ALKATIRI MAY RESIGN TOMORROW [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-23 23:04:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC KPKO AS TT
06DILI333	EAST TIMOR SITREP: PRESIDENT ACCEPTS PRIME MINISTER'S [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-26 15:23:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC KCRM AS TT
06DILI334	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR 27 JULY [...] (U) Summary: --- President Gusmao will lead interim government for 30 days; --- Alkatiri resisting summons to defend against criminal charges; --- Pro-Alkatiri demonstrators may enter Dili tomorrow; --- Senior Australian official may visit Dili on Thursday; --- Security update. End Summary. [...]	2006-06-27 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV MOPS ASEC KCRM AEMR AS TT
06DILI335	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR 28 JULY [...] (U) Summary: --- Dili security situation deteriorates overnight; --- President "considering all options" for new Government; --- Demonstration update: westerners prepare to depart, easterners undecided; --- UDT leadership announces the replacement of its two Members of Parliament; --- Govern [...]	2006-06-28 11:22:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PGOV MOPS ASEC KCRM AEMR AS TT
06DILI341	EAST TIMOR SITREP FOR 30 JUNE [...] (U) Summary: --- Ramos-Horta to head interim government? --- President may negotiate with Fretilin on new Prime Minister ---- Demonstrators depart after speeches by Gusmao, Alkatiri, Lu'olo; --- Alkatiri claims Parliamentary immunity in arms case; --- Fretilin activists contend their leader [...]	2006-06-30 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS ASEC KCRM AEMR PO AS TT
06DILI35	RESPONSE TO CRIMINALIZATION OF DEFAMATION IN NEW PENAL CODE [...] (U) Last month the Council of Ministers announced their approval of a new penal code for East Timor. The law is now in the hands of the President either to promulgate or to veto. Although no official copies of the law are available, leaked copies have been circulated among civil society organi [...]	2006-01-20 08:50:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KPAO TT
06DILI355	RAMOS-HORTA BECOMES PRIME MINISTER IN NEW FRETILIN [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-10 15:11:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL MOPS TT

06DILI357	PRESIDENT GUSMAO SAYS RAMOS-HORTA WILL LEAD A REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met today with President Xanana Gusmao, who gave a detailed account of the negotiations that led up to the appointment of the new Government that was sworn in today. The President also expressed his confidence that Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta will lead a reform gov [...]	2006-07-11 15:12:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET	PREL PGOV PREF KJUS KCRM KDEM PINR TT
06DILI358	JAPANESE EMBASSY VIEWS NEXT UN MISSION [...] (C/NF) Summary: A Japanese diplomat meeting with DCM spoke highly of Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Sukehiro Hasegawa and suggested Hasegawa should head the next UN mission in East Timor. Japan will not contribute troops or police to the peacekeeping operation (PKO),b [...]	2006-07-12 07:51:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KPKO UN TT
06DILI363	BISHOP NASCIMENTO IS WORRIED, BUT WILLING TO HELP [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-13 11:06:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KJUS KCRM KDEM PINR KPKO TT AS PO
06DILI381	CONTINUED TENSIONS OVER NATIONAL POLICE REINTEGRATION [...] (C/NF) Summary: Tensions have continued in recent weeks between the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Minister of Interior, Alcino Barris, regarding how to handle the reintegration of East Timor's national police (the PNTL). Each have presented proposals with competing approaches and pr [...]	2006-07-25 11:05:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KPKO PREL PGOV KJUS UN AU TT
06DILI387	PRO-REINADO DEMONSTRATIONS SMALL BUT WORRYING [...] (SBU) Summary: Demonstrations are being staged in Dili to protest the arrest and detention by international forces earlier this week of Major Alfredo Reinado, the leader of a group of dissident Military Police that played a prominent role in the violent clashes in and around Dili in late May. [...]	2006-07-29 15:05:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR AU PO TT
06DILI394	EAST TIMOR UPDATE JULY 24-31, 2006 [...] (U) Summary: Continued repercussions of Reinado arrest Prime Minister presents his Government Program to Parliament Council of State extends the "State of Crisis" through August 20 International Commission of Inquiry: Briefing by the Executive Director End summary. Continued repercussions [...]	2006-08-01 09:05:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR UN TT
06DILI404	INCREASED GANG ACTIVITY STRETCHES LIMITS OF INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: There has been a notable increase in disturbances around Dili in recent days, beginning late last week and continuing through today. These have mostly occurred in neighborhoods that have been regular sites of conflict during the last few months. Additionally, there has been a r [...]	2006-08-08 10:16:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PHUM ASEC AU TT
06DILI424	REDUCED VIOLENCE IN DILI, BUT SERIOUS PROBLEMS REMAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: During the last week there was a significant reduction in the gang-related incidents reported in reftel, but late last week there were several serious incidents and the potential for renewed gang activity remains. Although some of the factors contributing to the resumption of ga [...]	2006-08-21 02:44:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PHUM ASEC AU CASC PREF KJUS TT PGOV
06DILI427	RAMOS-HORTA WILL REINFORCE SUPPORT FOR JAPANESE DRAFT [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-22 09:36:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL UNSC KPKO TT PO AS CH JA
06DILI428	FRETILIN FACTIONS RESPOND TO COURT DECISION AFFIRMING [...] (U) Summary: The Court of Appeals this week issued its official decision rejecting the argument that the re-election of Mari Alkatiri and Francisco "Lu'olo" Guterres to the Fretilin party leadership at the party congress in May was illegal. The case was brought by members of Fretilin's interna [...]	2006-08-22 11:07:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS KDEM TT
06DILI429	PRESIDENT GUSMAO ASKS ANNAN TO RETAIN SRSG HASEGAWA THROUGH [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-23 09:13:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC KPKO TT JA
06DILI439	PRESIDENT GUSMAO CONCERNED ABOUT CAPE VERDE SRSG CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-29 02:56:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	CV PO TT KPKO UN PREL KDEM PHUM
06DILI455	THE VIEW FROM AILIEU: REINADO'S POPULARITY ENDURES, F-FDTL [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs on Wednesday, September 6 traveled to Aileu to look into developments there since dissident Major Alfredo Reinado escaped from prison in Dili last week. Aileu is the location where he established his initial base following his departure from his armed forces (FDTL)post i [...]	2006-09-11 00:23:00	Embassy Dili	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO ASEC AU TT
06DILI463	DILI SECURITY UPDATE: GANG DISTURBANCES BECOMING ENTRENCHED [...] (SBU) Summary: Following a spike in gang activity in early August in the period immediately following the arrest of dissident Major Alfredo Reinado, there was a reduction in such incidents later in the month. However, gang incidents have gradually escalated during the ensuing weeks, particular [...]	2006-09-13 02:04:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PHUM ASEC CASC PREF AU PO TT
06DILI487	PREVIEW OF UN COMMISSION OF INQUIRY REPORT ON TIMOR CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. According to one of its principal authors, the UN Special Commission of Inquiry report pulls no punches in naming the direct perpetrators and assessing responsibilities for the April-May crisis. The report recommends prosecution of former Interior Minister Rogerio Lobato and elem [...]	2006-10-03 07:47:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KJUS KPKO ASEC UN TT
06DILI491	EAST TIMOR'S STRONGEST OPPOSITION PARTY GAINING MOMENTUM [...] (SBU) Summary: East Timor's strongest opposition party, the Democratic Party (PD),held its national congress on September 29 - October 1, reelecting the incumbent leadership. The congress demonstrated that PD has emerged as a well-organized and well-funded party with a strong base among the y [...]	2006-10-05 05:54:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM ID TT
06DILI517	RELEASE OF UN COMMISSION OF INQUIRY REPORT ON TIMOR CRISIS [...] Summary: The Report of the United Nations Independent Special Commission of Inquiry for Timor-Leste was released today to the National Parliament of East Timor and to the public. The UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) will now commence with an effort to distribute it widely throughou [...]	2006-10-17 13:07:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPKO ASEC UN AU TT
06DILI518	RELEASE OF UN COMMISSION OF INQUIRY REPORT ON TIMOR CRISIS [...] Summary: The Report of the United Nations Independent Special Commission of Inquiry for Timor-Leste was released today to the National Parliament of East Timor and to the public. The UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) will now commence with an effort to distribute it widely throughou [...]	2006-10-17 13:07:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KJUS KPKO ASEC UN TT
06DILI534	DETERIORATION IN DILI SECURITY SITUATION, AIRPORT CLOSED [...] (U) Summary: A significant increase in communal conflict occurred in Dili today, resulting in two confirmed deaths and reports of other casualties as well. The first clashes, beginning early in the morning, involved the area around airport IDP camp where disturbances that began last night esca [...]	2006-10-25 11:24:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC MARR PREF KPKO CASC AU TT
06DILI540	UNMIT ADDRESSES SECURITY ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: UNMIT sees ongoing disturbances in Dili becoming more organized and UNPOL notes drug related behavior and evidence that payments are being made to perpetrators. Recognizing the counterproductive effect of freeing most of those of those arrested after only a short period of deten [...]	2006-10-27 11:59:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPKO MARR ASEC CASC UN TT
06DILI549	EXPLAINING LAST WEEK'S UPSURGE OF VIOLENCE IN DILI [...] (C) Summary: While gang-related disturbances have become a regular feature of day-to-day life in recent months, last week's upsurge of violent confrontation was on a greater scale and with more lethal consequences. In addition, these disturbances were accompanied by what appeared to be a conce [...]	2006-11-03 12:02:00	Embassy Dili	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF ASEC KJUS KPKO AU TT
06DILI578	MULTIPLE DIALOGUE INITIATIVES ATTEMPT TO ADDRESS TIMOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent weeks have seen a flurry of dialogue and reconciliation efforts among East Timorese institutions and leaders. These have included series of meetings between the armed forces (F-FDTL) and the national police (PNTL),initiatives by youth group and gang leaders, and a high l [...]	2006-11-29 11:03:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM MARR KPKO TT
06DILI600	UPDATE ON ELECTION ISSUES: STILL NO ELECTORAL LAW [...] Summary: Parliament has made some progress on passing electoral legislation but the overall process remains excruciatingly slow. While a law governing the supervisory body was finally passed on December 6, the review of the legislation on parliamentary elections, begun last week, has made only [...]	2006-12-18 10:20:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM UN TT
06DILI65	LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH FROM PRESIDENT KAY RALA XANANA [...] Post received a letter addressed to President George W. Bush on February 10, 2006. 2. Following is the text of the letter: Dili, 18 January 2006 Excellency, The Commission For Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) established in 2001, during the transitional administrati [...]	2006-02-14 09:06:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC AMGT TT
06DILI70	UPDATE ON JANUARY BORDER INCIDENTS [...] (U) Summary: Two border incidents that occurred in January have caused a spike in tension between East Timor and Indonesia. First, on January 6, three alleged members of 1999-era militias were shot dead by East Timor's Border Patrol Unit (BPU). See Reftel. Then, on January 24, it was reporte [...]	2006-02-15 05:37:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS PHUM ASEC TT ID
06DILI84	INDONESIAN TRUTH AND FRIENDSHIP COMMISSIONERS ARRIVE IN [...] (SBU) Summary. The five Indonesian members of the bilateral Truth and Friendship Commission (TFC) arrived in Dili on Sunday to commence a weeklong program. The program is to include meetings with high-level Government officials, site visits, meetings with victims of violence in 1999, and a fo [...]	2006-02-21 14:21:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL JKUS KCRM KAWC ID TT
06DJIBOUTI21	ATTEMPTED BREAK-IN [...] (U) On January 4, 2006 at approximately 1900 an attempted break-in of an embassy residence was prevented by the Local Guard Force (LGF) Mobile Patrol. The Local Guard Force (LGF) was alerted by a phone call to the embassy reporting a suspicious person loitering near an embassy residence. The [...]	2006-01-08 06:22:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC DJ
06DJIBOUTI26	ATTEMPTED BREAK-IN [...] (U) On January 4, 2006 at approximately 1900 an attempted break-in of an embassy residence was prevented by the Local Guard Force (LGF) Mobile Patrol. The Local Guard Force (LGF) was alerted by a phone call to the embassy reporting a suspicious person loitering near an embassy residence. The [...]	2006-01-08 11:51:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC DJ
06DJIBOUTI283	SOMALIA THROUGH DJIBOUTI'S CONSULAR [...] SUMMARY. Embassy Djibouti agrees with the analysis in reftel. Djibouti is also responsible for providing consular services to Somalia. Post is unable to confirm identities or relationships to petitioners. The consular section concurs with Nairobi's stated concerns about possible ACS fraud. E [...]	2006-03-06 03:48:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT PTER ASEC KE ET DJ SO CIVS KFRP
06DJIBOUTI30	ATTEMPTED BREAK-IN [...] (U) On January 4, 2006 at approximately 1900 an attempted break-in of an embassy residence was prevented by the Local Guard Force (LGF) Mobile Patrol. The Local Guard Force (LGF) was alerted by a phone call to the embassy reporting a suspicious person loitering near an embassy residence. The [...]	2006-01-08 11:52:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC DJ
06DJIBOUTI300	DJIBOUTI'S INPUT FOR 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-08 06:01:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON PHUM XA DJ
06DJIBOUTI301	US DIPLOMATS ATTACKED BY ROCK YIELDING YOUTHS [...] On March 7, 2006 at approximately 1830 the Ambassador's OMS and the GSO were going to an exercise class at the Dolto school in Djibouti City when the vehicle they were driving in was attacked. The attackers consisted of a dozen Djiboutian youths who were loitering in the area. The occupants [...]	2006-03-08 11:53:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC
06DJIBOUTI347	LAUNCH OF U.S. REGIONAL "ROADS" HIV/AIDS PROGRAM [...] (U) USAID and U.S. Embassy in Djibouti launched March 2 its regional HIV/AIDS program in Djibouti entitled the "ROADS Project." The "ROADS Project" supports local activities to mitigate the effects of HIV/AIDS. It is principally funded by the Regional Economic Development Support Office (REDS [...]	2006-03-19 13:09:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KHIV EAID SOCI DJ
06DJIBOUTI392	DJIBOUTI IS DRAFTING A SPECIAL LAW [...] SUMMARY. With the assistance of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO),the Government of Djibouti (GoD) has initiated a project on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR),including a special law on IPR and an implementing office. This endeavor is expected to boost confidence level [...]	2006-03-27 14:20:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON EIND EINV DJ
06DJIBOUTI43	DJIBOUTI: 4TH QUARTER STATUS REPORT - OCT, NOV, DEC [...] Summary of Significant Events -------------------------------- A. Narrative Overview of Significant Events Â [...]	2006-01-08 12:37:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC DJ KSEO
06DJIBOUTI564	CONFIRMED HUMAN CASE OF AVIAN [...] Post EAC met to discuss the Djibouti's first confirmed human case of Avian Influenza (H5N1). 2. Background: An 8-year old girl in Damerjog, a village 25 km south of the capital, was tested on April 26 after arriving at the local health clinic with flu-like symptoms. The test sample was [...]	2006-05-11 15:36:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED CASC TBIO KFLU EAID EAGR
06DJIBOUTI578	UPDATE 1: AVIAN INFLUENZA IN DJIBOUTI [...] SUMMARY. Three poultry cases, and one human case of H5N1 Avian Influenza were confirmed in Djibouti on May 11. The Government of Djibouti is actively engaging the international community on measures to address this issue, but many unknowns still remain. --------------------- WHAT WE KNOW - [...]	2006-05-15 08:41:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED CASC TBIO KFLU EAID EAGR DJ
06DJIBOUTI614	UPDATE 2: AVIAN INFLUENZA IN DJIBOUTI [...] (U) Summary. Since our last update, very little new information h confirmed. In reftel we referred to a confirmed case in an eight-yea Since then we have learned that the child in question was only two-ye She has since recovered nicely. We believe she may be one of the you survivors of H5N1 [...]	2006-05-23 12:27:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED CASC TBIO KFLU EAID EAGR DJ
06DJIBOUTI615	UPDATE 2: AVIAN INFLUENZA IN DJIBOUTI [...] (U) Summary. Since our last update, very little new information has been confirmed. In reftel we referred to a confirmed case in an eight-year-old girl. Since then we have learned that the child in question was only two-years-old. She has since recovered nicely. We believe she may be one of [...]	2006-05-23 13:38:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMED CASC TBIO KFLU EAID EAGR DJ
06DJIBOUTI633	UPDATE 3: AVIAN INFLUENZA IN DJIBOUTI [...] Summary. The Government of Djibouti (GoD) has reported that results from the previously identified human case of H5N1 may now be incorrect due to errors that appear to have occurred during the testing process. The sample taken from the two-year-old girl in Dammerjog may have actually been mixe [...]	2006-05-30 08:31:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED CASC TBIO KFLU EAID EAGR DJ
06DJIBOUTI65	DJIBOUTI RATIFIES CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION [...] (U) Ambassador confirmed, and received a copy of the decree as proof, that the Republic of Djibouti has ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention referred to in reftels. 2. (U) The ratification process was in two stages, beginning with formal ratification by the National Assembly on 24 Decem [...]	2006-01-16 10:34:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CN DJ CWC
06DJIBOUTI66	TERRORISM FINANCE - SAJID MOHAMMED BADAT [...] (U) Ambassador passed January 14 to Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Yousuf pertinent content of reftel during a meeting on other matters. Customarily, Djibouti channels information of this kind received from the Embassy directly to its Ministry of Finance for handling. RAGSDALE [...]	2006-01-16 10:34:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KSEP ETTC EFIN PTER CVIS DJ
06DJIBOUTI79	DJIBOUTI RESPONSE TO PROPOSED [...] Post has reviewed the cost saving measures proposed in OBO's most recent Value Engineering (VE) study as outlined in Refs A and B. While some of the proposed changes are acceptable, post feels that it is critical to oppose proposed changes that - coupled with the extreme climate of this co [...]	2006-01-19 12:19:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ABLD DJ
06DJIBOUTI82	PII CASE # CT09-1205-191-1945 [...] (S) On 01/19/2006 at approximately 1030 hours, a man approached the Embassy requesting to speak with Michael Fogarty from the security office. ARSO was notified and identified the subject as Kader Dirar Ragueh reported in REFTEL. After careful screening the subject was escorted to a secured a [...]	2006-01-20 05:41:00	Embassy Djibouti	SECRET	ASEC DJ PINR PTER
06DJIBOUTI94	FIGHTING DROUGHT IN DJIBOUTI [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Djibouti has launched an appeal to the donor community, including Western and Arab countries with missions accredited to Djibouti, to fight famine currently threatening more than 70,000 of Djibouti's citizens. Like other countries in the Horn of Africa region, Dji [...]	2006-01-23 09:53:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PINS ECON SENV EAID SOCI DJ
06DOHA104	ENTERING ITS TENTH YEAR, AL JAZEERA COVETS GLOBAL [...] (C) Summary: PAO met 1/18 with Wadah Khanfar, Al Jazeera Managing Director, to discuss Ref A demarche and continuing USG concerns with Al Jazeera programming. Khanfar described a series of initiatives planned by Al Jazeera to mark its tenth anniversary year with a view to positioning itself on [...]	2006-01-23 08:24:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAO QA ALJAZEERA
06DOHA1237	PALESTINIAN DIASPORA IN QATAR: C-NE6-00547 [...] (C) Summary. Embassy officer spoke to several Palestinian private-sector businessmen on issues facing the community in Qatar. They viewed the election of Hamas as a protest vote but believed Hamas should have been given a better chance to govern and through governance, adapt to the reality of t [...]	2006-08-17 14:05:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR KPAL QA
06DOHA1268	QATAR'S ASSISTANCE TO LEBANON [...] Mohamed al-Rumaihy, Assistant to the Foreign Minister and Vice Chairman of the Qatari National Committee for the Relief of the Lebanese People, told Ambassador August 22 that his country has spent USD 10-11 million post-conflict in Lebanon to date. He returned from a trip to Lebanon August 20 a [...]	2006-08-23 11:09:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL LE QA
06DOHA1288	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL TO QATAR [...] (C) Mr. Attorney General: Embassy Doha is pleased to welcome you to Qatar. Yours is the highest-ranking visit by a U.S. official to Qatar since the President himself came in June 2003, and the first cabinet-level visit to Qatar since Energy Secretary Bodman came in April 2006. The Qataris app [...]	2006-08-27 10:43:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL PGOV OVIP QA
06DOHA152	QATARI VIEWS ON ELECTION OF HAMAS IN PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Summary. The Qatari foreign minister said that Palestinian election results should be respected, as they came about by democratic means. Other Qataris and non-Qatari resident Arabs are cautiously optimistic that the Hamas victory will change the terrorist organization and will benefit the [...]	2006-01-31 14:03:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER XF QA
06DOHA1575	QATARI MFA: AL JAZEERA S NOT A BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: After recalling its Ambassador from Qatar October 19 in protest at the content of an Al Jazeera interview with a Tunisian opposition member concerning the Tunisian government's hijab policy, the Tunisian government (GOT) announced the closure of its mission to Qatar October 25. A [...]	2006-10-30 05:05:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPAO PGOV QA TS
06DOHA1610	IRAQ: QATAR CAN SUPPORT EDUCATION, INFLUENCE SUNNI [...] (S) SUMMARY. In contrast to its support for our military in the region, Qatar has not been an important partner on political issues regarding Iraq. Post believes Qatar can provide increased support in areas where it can achieve leadership, such as education and training. Its contacts with Iraq [...]	2006-11-05 14:28:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL MARR MOPS IZ XF QA
06DOHA1745	AL JAZEERA QUALITY ASSURANCE CHIEF BELIEVES [...] (C) Summary: PAO met December 14 with Al Jazeera Quality Assurance Chief, Jaafar Abbas Ahmed, to review progress made by the Qality Assurance (QA) Unit in his assessment since Ref A report in October 2005. In the intervening period, Abbas was named head of QA for the overall Al Jazeera Network, [...]	2006-12-14 13:12:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PREL QA ALJAZEERA
06DOHA213	HUMAN RIGHTS STANDARDS IN QATAR,S LEGISLATION [...] Summary: At a recent workshop sponsored by the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC),participants examined and discussed the extent to which Qatar's constitution and legislation meets international human rights standards. Participants from the government sector, academia, the press and quasi [...]	2006-02-13 10:31:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI QA
06DOHA219	AL JAZEERA AND KIDNAPPING TAPES [...] (S) Summary: Officials from Embassies Doha and Baghdad met with Al Jazeera leadership on Feb 11 to discuss Al Jazeera,s handling of videos that Al Jazeera receives from terrorist hostage takers, its broader editorial polices, and the media,s role in hostage and terrorist crises. Al Jazeera o [...]	2006-02-13 13:07:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL KPAO QA ALJAZEERA
06DOHA293	U/S HUGHES' MEETINGS WITH QATARI FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (U) Summary: U/S Karen Hughes visited Doha Feb 17-19 to attend the US-Islamic World Forum, sponsored by the Saban Center at the Brookings Institution and the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs. While in Doha, she met with the Foreign Minister and Sheikha Mozah, wife of the Amir. This cable rep [...]	2006-02-26 13:14:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAO IZ IR QA
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
06DOHA317	U/S HUGHES MEETINGS AT AL JAZEERA [...] (C) Summary: U/S for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes met February 19 with Al Jazeera managing director Wadah Khanfar at the Al Jazeera studios in Doha. She also participated in a roundtable discussion with Khanfar and four senior Al Jazeera staff members and recorded an Al Jaz [...]	2006-03-01 12:38:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAO IZ QA ALJAZEERA
06DOHA328	Al Jazeera website director to quit; start new [...] (SBU) Summary: The director of the Al Jazeera Arabic website, Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud, said he is quitting his Al Jazeera job to take up the chief editorship of an Arabic newspaper called "Al Arab", which will become the fourth Arabic daily newspaper on the Qatari market. Al Mahmoud is the only s [...]	2006-03-02 14:24:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PREL QA ALJAZEERA
06DOHA360	NATIONALITY LAW: CITIZENSHIP AND POLITICAL RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary. The recent Amiri decision to restore citizenship to approximately 6,000 people who were stripped of their Qatari nationality last year came as a welcome surprise to thousands of people whose fate has been uncertain for over a year. Not coincidentally, the decision comes on the hee [...]	2006-03-09 06:02:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL QA
06DOHA461	COUNSELOR ZELIKOW'S MEETING WITH QATARI FOREIGN [...] (S) Summary. Department Counselor Dr. Philip Zelikow met with the Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, and the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs March 20 to begin a strategic dialogue between the two countries, consult on Iran, and enlist support for [...]	2006-03-27 09:41:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL MARR KPAL XF IR IZ QA
06DOHA465	SCENESETTER FOR U/S ROBERT JOSEPH'S VISIT TO DOHA [...] (C) Embassy Doha is pleased to welcome you. You will find the Qatari foreign minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ),will be interested to meet you to further the nascent Strategic Dialogue put forth by Counselor Zelikow during his visit March 20-21. HBJ will be particularly intereste [...]	2006-03-27 13:48:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KNNP QA
06DOHA5	SCENESETTER - VISIT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY ANTHONY [...] (C) Embassy Doha is pleased to welcome you back to Doha. We expect that you will find the Qatari leadership open and responsive to the proposed Strategic Investment Initiative (SII) for several reasons. Our goals for regional democratic reform largely coincide with those of Qatar. Also, the Qat [...]	2006-01-02 09:30:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET EFIN KTFN QA
06DOHA51	2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT: QATAR [...] This report serves as the 2006 Investment Climate Statement for Qatar. It will be provided to assist U.S. investors wishing to do business in Qatar. 2. Begin text of Investment Climate Statement. A.1 Openness to Foreign Investment: The government of Qatar, under the leadership of the [...]	2006-01-10 15:11:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ELAB ENRG EPET QA KTBD OPIC USTR ECON
06DOHA526	AMCIT AL JAZEERA NETWORK BOARD MEMBER CRITICIZES [...] (C) Summary: Mahmud Shammam, Washington bureau chief for the Dar Al Watan Newspaper and Newsweek Arabic, is an American citizen of Libyan descent, well-known for his criticism of the current Libyan regime and reportedly close to Qatar's Amir. Recently named a member of the newly-formed Al Jaze [...]	2006-04-06 12:55:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PREL PTER QA ALJAZEERA
06DOHA559	FIVE YEARS ON: THE STATUS OF EDUCATION REFORM IN [...] (U) Summary: In 2001, the government of Qatar embarked on an ambitious mission to reform the country's education system. Under the banner of, "Education for a New Era," this initiative, led by the Amir's consort, Sheikha Mozah, aims to comprehensively reform education from kindergarten throug [...]	2006-04-12 11:22:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO SCUL KMPI QA
06DOHA77	SCENESETTER FOR A/S SILVERBERG'S VISIT TO QATAR [...] (C) Embassy Doha is pleased to welcome you. We expect that you will find the Qatari leadership welcoming -- in principle -- of cooperation with the United States on UN Security Council issues. Our goals for regional security largely coincide with those of Qatar; the number two in the foreign m [...]	2006-01-17 14:53:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL PGOV ECON QA UNSC
06DOHA868	A/S WELCH'S MEETINGS JUNE 4 WITH QATAR'S HEIR [...] (S) Summary. A/S David Welch met with the Qatari leadership, including Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and later with Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ),June 4 to discuss Iran, Iraq, and Israel/Palestine. Relaxed and well-prepared, Sheikh Tamim, who handles defense [...]	2006-06-06 12:28:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL KNNP KPAL IR IZ IS QA
06DUBAI10	GENERAL ABIZAID MEETING WITH ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE AND [...] (S) Summary: CENTCOM Commander General Abizaid met December 27 in Dubai with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ) and Dubai Crown Prince and UAE Minister of Defense General Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Ma [...]	2006-01-02 12:28:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET	PREL MOPS MARR PTER XF TC IR IZ SY LE XD SO
06DUBAI1904	SITUATION IN IRAN'S KHUZESTAN AND REQUESTS FOR SUPPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-04 14:33:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET	PGOV PREL IR PHUM PINR SOCI
06DUBAI2756	IRANIAN STUDENT ACTIVIST VIEW OF IRAN AND US POLICY [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-15 13:33:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET	PGOV PREL IR PHUM
06DUBAI2762	ETHIOPIAN DOMESTIC WORKERS IN THE UAE [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-16 11:02:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PHUM SOCI KCRM ET AE SY
06DUBAI2819	IRAN-LIBYA SANCTIONS ACT (ILSA): IRAN-DANA GAS DEAL UPDATE [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-17 14:42:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	AE IR PGOV PREL ETRD EPET ENRG
06DUBAI3360	NEXT IPR STEP: COMBATING TRANSSHIPMENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-06 13:10:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TC PREL PGOV ZR ECIN ETRD AE
06DUBAI347	UAE OFFICIAL PUBLICLY OPPOSES IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (S) Stepping far ahead of the Gulf governments' previous public comments on Iran's nuclear program, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ) told reporters while in France (meeting President Chirac) that the UAE was opposed to the acquisition of nuclear capability by Ira [...]	2006-01-24 15:06:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET	KNNP PARM PREL IR TC
06DUBAI3675	SHARJAH AIRPORT - IRBIS FOLLOW-UP [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-14 13:13:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAIR ETTC PGOV PINS SOCI KCRM LI AE
06DUBAI4793	STREAMLINING VISA PROCESS FOR IRANIANS WOULD REINFORCE US [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-26 13:21:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IR PREL CMGT
06DUBAI5323	UAEG OFFICIALS DISCUSS UAE-IRAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-20 14:33:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR ECON EFIN AE
06DUBAI5462	IRPO: LITTLE PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HIZBALLAH IN IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-29 08:06:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	IR IS LE PGOV PINR PTER
06DUBAI6919	IRAN-LIBYA SANCTIONS ACT (ILSA): DANA GAS: EXISTING [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-07 14:05:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EPET IR AE
06DUBAI6926	AIR FORCE SECRETARY WYNNE DISCUSSES COOPERATION WITH UAE [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-13 14:32:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET	PREL PARM MOPS MASS KNNP IR IZ AF LE AE
06DUBAI6928	PHILIP MORRIS CONVEYS IPR FRUSTRATIONS REGARDING THE [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-14 14:45:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON EINV KIPR PGOV PREL ETRD IZ AE
06DUBAI6954	DUBAI CUSTOMS DIRECTOR PRAISES COOPERATION, ASKS SENATOR [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-27 11:43:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD ETTC AE
06DUBAI730	IN IRAN, CARTOON CONTROVERSY SIMMERS BUT DOESN'T BOIL OVER [...] (U) Summary: In response to the publishing of "blasphemous" cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a number of European newspapers, Tehran has recalled its ambassador to Denmark and announced a cut in all trade ties with the country. Denmark pulled its diplomats out of Iran due to unspecified thre [...]	2006-02-14 14:05:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	IR PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI
06DUBAI857	IRANIAN OIL MINISTER TO RENEGOTIATE UAE GAS DEAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-20 06:33:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	TC IR PGOV PREL ETRD EPET
06DUBLIN1	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO FAA THOMAS FRISHE [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employee, Thomas T. Frishe, Aviation Safety Inspector, to travel to Shannon, Ireland, from January 12 to 13, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to perform surveillance on World Airways in accordance with National [...]	2006-01-04 08:14:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA EI
06DUBLIN1020	EMERGING CONSTRAINTS ON U.S. MILITARY TRANSITS AT [...] (C) This is an action request. Please see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: Although supportive of continued U.S. military transits at Shannon Airport, the Irish Government has informally begun to place constraints on U.S. operations at the facility, mainly in response to public sensitivities ov [...]	2006-09-05 14:45:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL EAIR PTER EI
06DUBLIN118	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO SEAN CREIGHTON [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Sean Creighton, Investigator, Office of Regulatory Affairs, FDA, HHS to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from February 24 to March 3, 2006 and to Galway, Ireland, from March 3 to 10, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to inspected medical device manufacturer [...]	2006-02-03 09:08:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TBIO OTRA GM EI
06DUBLIN119	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO FAA PERSONNEL [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees Daniel Smiley, Michael J. Sammartion and Robert F. Everson to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from April 17 to 24, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to attend the NAM/EUR ATFM Task Force Conference. 2. P [...]	2006-02-03 09:08:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA EAIR EI
06DUBLIN120	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DHS/TSA SPECIALISTS [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Senior Aviation Security Inspectors Gregory Kurver and Kevin Paul Cahill to travel to Dublin and Shannon, Ireland, from March 06 to 17, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to perform airport and air carrier [...]	2006-02-03 09:08:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	KHLS EAIR ASEC PTER OTRA EI
06DUBLIN121	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO NIH/FIC DR. HARFORD [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Joe Harford, Director, Office of International Affairs, National Cancer Institute, NIH, to travel to Dublin and Galway, Ireland, from February 28 to March 5, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to attend the Irish Association for Cancer Research Co [...]	2006-02-03 09:08:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TBIO OTRA MO EI
06DUBLIN122	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HHS/FDA MARIBETH [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Maribeth Grattan, Investigator, Office of Regulatory Affairs, FDA, HHS to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from March 3 to 10, 2006 and to Tullamore, Ireland, from March 10 to 17, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to Dublin is to conduct and inspection of H [...]	2006-02-03 09:08:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TPHY TBIO OTRA FR EI
06DUBLIN128	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO HHS/FDA ARTHUR [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Arthur Williams, Investigator, Office of Regulatory Affairs, FDA, HHS to travel to Cork, Ireland, from February 25 to March 3, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to inspect one medical device manufacturer for compliance with FDAs Good Manufacturing P [...]	2006-02-06 09:06:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TBIO OTRA EI
06DUBLIN1284	THE AMBASSADOR AND FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. In a November 1 discussion, the Ambassador and Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern did a tour d'horizon of key bilateral issues. Ahern: -- urged bilateral cooperation to avoid "surprises" regarding U.S. military use of Shannon Airport; -- noted that the Irish Cabinet had charged [...]	2006-11-03 12:58:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PREF EI
06DUBLIN130	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USSS PERSONNEL GOULDING AND [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for Hugh Goulding and Todd Madison to travel to Shannon, Ireland from February 7 through February 12, 2006. Purpose of visit is to participate in protective support activites for First Lady Laura Bush. 2. Embassy POC for this visit is RSO Ter [...]	2006-02-07 13:39:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	MGTA OTRA
06DUBLIN132	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO NIH/FIC DR. MARTINO [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Robert Martino, Senior Investigator, Center for Information Technology, NIH, to travel to Dublin and Cork, Ireland, from February 28 to March 11, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to conduct site visits of Trinity College Medical School, in Dubli [...]	2006-02-07 14:38:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TBIO OTRA EI
06DUBLIN1359	AER LINGUS CEO PRESSES FOR BILATERAL OPEN SKIES [...] (SBU) Summary: In a November 21 discussion with the Ambassador, Aer Lingus CEO Dermot Mannion recommended bilateral talks to establish U.S.-Ireland Open Skies, with a view to providing Aer Lingus additional access to the U.S. market. Mannion said that he and the Irish Government doubted that [...]	2006-11-24 15:50:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON ETRD PREL EI
06DUBLIN138	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FBI INTELLIGENCE ANALYST [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for Mark Fitterer and Mark Bullock to travel to Dublin, Ireland from February 15 through February 17, 2006. Purpose of visit is consultations with the Garda Siochana. 2. Embassy Control Officer for this visit is RSO Terry Cobble, office telep [...]	2006-02-08 12:41:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA IE UK
06DUBLIN1384	IRAN'S FLAWED ELECTIONS [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche to Stephen Dawson, Deputy Director of Middle East Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs, on December 4. Dawson agreed that the political equation in Iran is fundamentally skewed and undemocratic, though Ireland would not view the election of the Assembly [...]	2006-12-04 16:56:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PGOV IR IE
06DUBLIN139	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR IRELAND DESK OFFICER MIKE [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for Mike O'Malley to travel to Dublin, Ireland for February 13 and February 14, 2006. Purpose of visit is consultations regarding the Walsh Visa Program. 2. Embassy Control Officer for this visit is POL OMS Timothy Markley, office telephone 3 [...]	2006-02-08 13:29:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA IE UK

06DUBLIN1395	IRELAND'S VIEWS ON DECEMBER GAERC [...] (C) POLOFF delivered Ref A - D demarches on December 7 to Mary Connery, Deputy European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs. Ireland continues to support work aimed at lifting the arms embargo on China, though does not expect a relaxation of the current embargo to emerge from the GAE [...]	2006-12-08 16:01:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	IS PREL PGOV PHUM IE
06DUBLIN1396	NEXT STEPS ON TFTP: IRELAND TAKES HARD LINE ON [...] (C) Summary: Ireland's Data Protection Commission and Department of Finance have taken a hard line in support of the Article 29 Report criticizing financial data transfers under the SWIFT program. Both the Commission and the Department support U.S.-EU cooperation on tracking terrorism financ [...]	2006-12-08 18:02:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN PGOV PREL EI
06DUBLIN1416	IRELAND TO CONSIDER EXPANDED ISAF CONTRIBUTION [...] (C) Ireland, a NATO Partnership for Peace member, is committed to maintaining its presence in ISAF (now four officers and three non-commissioned officers in Kabul),but would have to consider contributing additional personnel in the context of constraints on Ireland's current and planned peac [...]	2006-12-15 16:18:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL NATO PINS AG EI
06DUBLIN150	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR OPERATIONS OFFICER PAUL BAYER [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for Operations Officer Paul Bayer to travel to Dublin, Ireland from February 23 through February 26, 2006. Purpose of visit is consultations with RSO regarding upcoming projects. 2. Embassy Control Officer for this visit is RSO Terry Cobble, [...]	2006-02-10 12:06:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ABLD ACOA AMGT ASEC
06DUBLIN16	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO CARTER DIGGS [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Carter Diggs, Technical Advisor to the USAID Malaria Vaccine Development Program, to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from January 11 to 15, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to participate in a Donor Coordination Meeting hosted by Development Cooperation [...]	2006-01-10 14:42:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID OTRA EI
06DUBLIN181	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DEA SA RONALD GEER [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for SA Ronald Geer to travel to Dublin, Ireland from February 21 through February 22, 2006. Purpose of visit is to attend Ambassador's reception. 2. Embassy Control Officer for this visit is RSO Terry Cobble, office telephone 353 1 630-6215, [...]	2006-02-17 14:24:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA IE UK
06DUBLIN185	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USSS PERSONNEL [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for USSS John Gill to travel to Shannon, Ireland for February 21 and 22, 2006. Purpose of visit is to participate in protective support activites for POTUS. 2. Embassy POC for this visit is RSO Terry Cobble, office telephone 353 1 630-6215, [...]	2006-02-21 11:43:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	MGTA OTRA
06DUBLIN186	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USSS PERSONNEL [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for USSS David Rosser, Preston Fairlamb, Michelle Coleman, John Marengo, William Smarr, Terry Bank, John Lockwood, Jeremy Casey, John Shirley, Jason Sturdivant, Frank Walkup and Robert Donovan to travel to Shannon, Ireland for February 22 through Ma [...]	2006-02-21 11:43:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	MGTA OTRA
06DUBLIN196	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RFMS DIRECT CONNECT TRAINING [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for Robin Faass, Jacques Anime, Brandee Thacker, and Aldo Bottari to travel to Dublin, Ireland from March 11 through April 8, 2006. Purpose of visit is to provide training on the Web-based version of RFMS/Momentum. 2. Embassy Control Officer [...]	2006-02-24 11:12:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	AADP ACOA AFIN AMGT ASEC OTRA
06DUBLIN198	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HHS PERSONNEL [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for Judith Fradkin, M.D., Director, Polly Sager, Ph.D., Assistant Director and Philip Budashewitz,R.Ph. to travel to Dublin, Ireland for the dates noted in Reftel. Purpose of visit is to meet with Irish and Northern Ireland counterparts to discuss [...]	2006-02-24 11:31:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TBIO OTRA EI UK
06DUBLIN213	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO NSF DR. MARK SUSKIN [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Mark Suskin, Head, NSF Europe Office, to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from March 5 to 7, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to attend the Science Foundation of Ireland Physics Panel Meeting. 2. Per reftel, post understands that no assistance is [...]	2006-02-28 16:21:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPL TNGD TPHY OTRA KSCA EI
06DUBLIN23	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO FAA PERSONNEL [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to the following Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees: Leon Alfred Awalt, Principal Avionics Inspector and Dennis Ray Tom, Principal Operations Inspector, to travel to Shannon, Ireland, from January 24 to 25, 2006. Purpose of the visit is [...]	2006-01-11 16:41:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR OTRA EI
06DUBLIN235	SCENE-SETTER FOR IRISH PRIME MINISTER AHERN'S [...] (SBU) Recent intensive efforts by the Irish and British Governments to jump-start the stalled Northern Ireland peace process will frame this year's St. Patrick's Day visit to Washington by Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach, TEE-SHUCK) Bertie Ahern. In mid-2005, the IRA's historic decision to a [...]	2006-03-07 11:59:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON EINV ETRD CASC CJAN CPAS CFED KCRM
06DUBLIN25	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO NSF DR. CAROLINE [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to National Science Foundation (NSF) Official, Dr. Caroline Wardle, Senior Science Advisor to travel to Cork, Ireland, from January 18 to 22, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to attend an advisory board meeting of the Cork Constraint Computation Centre [...]	2006-01-12 10:29:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY OTRA KSCA NSF EI
06DUBLIN253	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR COMSEC AUDITOR WILLIAM MILLS [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for William Mills to travel to Dublin, Ireland for March 31 through April 5, 2006. Purpose of visit is to audit posts' COMSEC accounts. 2. Embassy Control Officer for this visit is IMS Jack Swope, office telephone 353 1 630-6209, home telephon [...]	2006-03-10 15:00:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	ACKM ACOA KRIM OTRA
06DUBLIN26	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO EPA JAMES ALWOOD [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to EPA Official, James Alwood, Director, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances (OPPT) to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from January 23 to 24, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to make a presentation and participate in a panel discussion at [...]	2006-01-12 10:29:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV OTRA KSCA TPHY EPA EI
06DUBLIN262	IRELAND - 2006 ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The most significant trafficking development in Ireland in 2005 was an increase in government attention to the problem. The government formed a working group between the Department of Justice and the police and wrote legislation bringing Ireland into conformity with UN and EU [...]	2006-03-13 15:33:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EI
06DUBLIN266	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DOE/NNSA/DPTRAV RALPH [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Office of Defense Programs personnel: Ralph Henry Castain to travel to Cork, Ireland, from April 1 to 8, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to present talks on resilient computing [...]	2006-03-14 09:37:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	ENGR TRGY KSCA OTRA KNNP EI
06DUBLIN270	IRELAND: EU COMMON CHARGING SCHEME FOR ANS SHOULD [...] The EUROCONTROL draft regulation on the Common Charging Scheme for Air Navigation Services (ANS) is evolving toward a version that would protect exemptions of state aircraft from ANS fees, according to Fintan Towey, Department of Transport Principal Officer for Aviation Security, to whom embof [...]	2006-03-14 15:26:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR MARR MOPS PREL NATO EUN
06DUBLIN277	PRE-GAERC RESPONSE: IRELAND NOT CONSIDERING BALKAN [...] (C) Summary: On March 15, Post delivered ref A and B demarche points to Jim Kelly, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) EU Correspondent. Regarding the Balkans, Kelly said that Member States would respect the electorate's chosen outcome in the Montenegrin referendum, but had not begun to deve [...]	2006-03-16 17:20:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EUN YI MW SR BK BO IR
06DUBLIN28	COUNTRY CLEARANCE DEE O'HAIR [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) officer, Dee O'Hair, Senior Attorney, to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from January 16 to 20, 2006. Purpose of visit is to conduct voluntary testimonies related to SEC investigation. 2. Embassy control [...]	2006-01-12 11:44:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA EFIN EI
06DUBLIN29	COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO USCBP OFFICIALS ROSS AND SAVA [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Glenn Naoman Ross, Program Manager and Jennifer Sava, Director, Preclearance OPS to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from January 17 to 20, 2006. Purpose of visit is meet with Post officials, air carriers and Dublin Airport Authority regarding facility [...]	2006-01-12 11:45:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC OTRA EI
06DUBLIN3	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DHS EMPLOYEE KIMBERLY [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for Kimberly Weissman to travel to Dublin, Ireland from January 25 through January 30, 2006. Purpose of visit is to attend the Holiday World Travel and Tourism Show and educate attendees abour US visit entry and exit procedures. 2. Embassy te [...]	2006-01-04 13:50:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	MGTA OTRA
06DUBLIN30	COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO USCBP OFFICIALS MCKEVITT AND [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Kathleen McKevitt, Acting Director, Field Programs, OFO and Dominique V. Boisseau, Program Manager, OFO Field and Resource Management, Field Programs to travel to Dublin and Shannon, Ireland, from January 17 to 26, 2006. Purpose of visit is to c [...]	2006-01-12 11:46:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC OTRA EI
06DUBLIN313	IRELAND CONSIDERING REDEPLOYMENT OF PEACEKEEPERS [...] (C) Summary and Action Request. On March 23, the DCM met with Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Deputy Political Director Colm O'Floinn and UN/Terrorism and Illicit Drugs Director John Deady regarding GOI plans for the potential redistribution of its peacekeeping forces by the end o [...]	2006-03-28 07:01:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR KPKO PGOV PREL EI SU XY
06DUBLIN315	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR OBO AUDIT IN DUBLIN [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for OBO Auditor Clifford Mecklenburg to travel to Dublin, Ireland from April 22 through May 1, 2006. Purpose of visit is to conduct audit. 2. Embassy Control Officer for this visit is GSO Facility Manager Gil Serrao office telephone 353 1 630 [...]	2006-03-28 12:28:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	ABLD AMGT ASEC KPWR
06DUBLIN33	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO USSS EMPLOYEES [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Secret Service employees, Jonathan Heslep and William Gage to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from January 14 to 18, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to meet with Garda Law Enforcement and Embassy Officials. 2. Per reftel, post understands that [...]	2006-01-12 14:00:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC OTRA EI
06DUBLIN332	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR COMPTROLLER GENERAL, [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for Comptroller General David Walker and Donald Drach to travel to Kenmare, Co. Kerry, Ireland from April 10 through April 14, 2006. Purpose of visit is to attend the annual meeting of Auditor's General Global Working Group. 2. Embassy Contro [...]	2006-03-30 10:54:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	AGAO OTRA EI
06DUBLIN338	IRELAND ESPONSE TO U.S. CANDIDACY FOR [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-30 16:08:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS AORC EI
06DUBLIN34	COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO OES/OMC DEPUTY DIRECTOR [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to OES/OMC Deputy Director Stetson Tinkham to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from January 17 to 18, 2006. Purpose of visit is to discuss Atlantic salmon issues with Post and local officials. 2. Embassy control officer for this visit is Econ Officer [...]	2006-01-12 14:02:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS OTRA XT EI
06DUBLIN36	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DOJ MARY TROLAND [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Mary Troland to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from January 16 to 17, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to meet with Embassy officials on an extradition matter. 2. Per reftel, post understands that no assistance is required. Embassy telephone numbe [...]	2006-01-13 13:40:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA UK EI
06DUBLIN374	GAERC: IRELAND STILL AVERSE TO BELARUS SANCTIONS [...] (C) Summary: On April 6, Post delivered reftels' demarche points to Jim Kelly, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) EU Correspondent. Kelly noted Ireland's support for the April 10 GAERC's likely approval of an expanded visa ban against Belarusian officials culpable in the fraudulent March 19 [...]	2006-04-07 17:15:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER OPRC EUN ECON ETRD SOCI EI
06DUBLIN40	EMBASSY DUBLIN AVIAN INFLUENZA CONTINGENCY PLANNING AND [...] American Embassy Dublin has the advantage of being located in an administratively and technically advanced host nation. The Irish Government has actively participated in the US-led global planning efforts for Avian Influenza (AI) and has developed an AI- specific contingency plan that tracks wi [...]	2006-01-13 15:45:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO
06DUBLIN420	POST NOMINATION FOR USEU COUNTERTERRORISM/JHA CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-19 17:07:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	EUN KCRM PREL PTER CVIS EI KJUS
06DUBLIN43	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO SANTIAGO RICH III [...] (SBU) Post welcomes and grants country clearance to OBO/OM/FAC Maintenance Support Branch Chief Santiago Rich III to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from January 28 to February 01, 2006. Purpose of visit is to consult with post management and the FM regarding the establishment and integration of [...]	2006-01-17 08:58:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ABLD AMGT ASEC EI
06DUBLIN444	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR OVP ADVANCE [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for lead advance Jesse Suskin to travel to Shannon, Ireland from April 28 through April 29, 2006. Purpose of visit is OVP advance 2. Embassy Control Officer for this visit is GSO Ernest Parkin, office telephone 353 1 668-8777 x 2232, home tel [...]	2006-04-25 12:51:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA IE UK
06DUBLIN455	POST NOMINATION FOR USEU COUNTERTERRORISM/JHA [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-26 15:14:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	EUN KCRM KJUS PREL PTER CVIS EI
06DUBLIN467	IRELAND AND THE SWEDISH EXAMPLE: SUSPICIONS ON [...] (C) Post read reftel with interest, having confronted similar sensitivity from the Irish Government over a criminal deportation flight in late 2005 that was originally scheduled to transit Ireland. At the time, we quietly informed the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) that the charter flight [...]	2006-04-27 16:42:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAIR MARR PGOV PINR SW EI
06DUBLIN48	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO USAID/DCHA/OFDA BART [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to USAID/DCHA/OFDA Disaster Operations Specialist Bart Deemer to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from January 20 to 22, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to monitor emergency relief initiatives of USAID implementing partner goal. 2. Per reftel, post under [...]	2006-01-18 11:06:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA EI
06DUBLIN529	IRISH HESITANT BUT OPEN TO TERRORIST SCREENING [...] (C) On May 11, emboff met to discuss reftel matters with Irish Department of Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Ray Bassett and Department of Justice Head of Division Michael Walsh. Bassett and Walsh initially met with hesitation emboff's proposal to establish a Framework [...]	2006-05-12 11:27:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PTER PINR PGOV PREL EUN EI
06DUBLIN54	IRELAND SUPPORTS REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNSC [...] (C) Ireland fully supports the EU-3's intention to request that the IAEA Board of Governors report Iran's nuclear safeguard violations to the UNSC, said Therese Healy, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) First Secretary for Disarmament and Nonproliferation, to whom Post delivered reftel demar [...]	2006-01-19 13:41:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC EI
06DUBLIN559	OPTIMISM ON U.S.-EU OPEN SKIES: DOT U/S SHANE'S [...] (SBU) Summary: In a May 17 meeting with Transport Minister Martin Cullen and the Ambassador, U.S. Undersecretary of Transportation for Policy Jeffrey Shane expressed optimism about concluding the U.S.-EU air services agreement this autumn. He believed that the U.S. Administration's efforts t [...]	2006-05-19 12:30:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON EAIR EINV EI
06DUBLIN6	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USSS PERSONNEL [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for SA Jonathan Heslep and SA William Gage to travel to Dublin, Ireland from January 14 through January 18, 2006. Purpose of visit is to meet with post personnel and Garda Siochana. 2. Embassy POC for this visit is RSO Terry Cobble, office te [...]	2006-01-05 09:38:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	MGTA OTRA
06DUBLIN60	INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 - IRELAND [...] Over the past twenty years, the Irish Government has actively promoted foreign direct investment (FDI),a strategy that has underpinned unprecedented economic growth during this "Celtic Tiger" period. FDI flows into Ireland increased from an annual average of USD 140 million in the mid-1980s [...]	2006-01-20 13:54:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN USTR ECON KTDB OPIC EI
06DUBLIN646	2006 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] Below is Post's submission pursuant to Section 527 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, requested ref A. There have been updates to last year's submission,given developments in the case before the Irish High Court (ref B). 2. The United State Government is aware of one (1) claim of [...]	2006-06-07 13:55:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	KIDE EINV PGOV EFIN EI
06DUBLIN664	IRELAND CONSIDERS U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN HUMAN [...] On May 31 emboff delivered reftel dipnote and talking points to Department of Foreign Affairs Human Rights Section Director Eamonn MacAodha. MacAodha confirmed Ireland's participation at the September 7 New York meeting of the States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Politica [...]	2006-06-09 13:27:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM US UNHRC EI
06DUBLIN677	IRELAND TO ATTEND PROLIFERATION SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-13 13:56:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	MNUC KNNP PARM US PL XX EI
06DUBLIN680	FORMER PRIME MINISTER HAUGHEY DIES [...] On June 13 the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs informed Post of the death the same day of former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Charles J. Haughey and invited the Ambassador to attend his State Funeral Mass to be held at 12 noon on June 16 in Dublin. We do not expect that invitations for dele [...]	2006-06-14 12:47:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR EI
06DUBLIN684	IRISH NGOS PLEASED WITH TIP REPORT [...] This is an action request: see paragraph 11. 2. SUMMARY: On June 9, the Ambassador held a roundtable discussion with NGO representatives in regards to the release of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. The representatives were very pleased with the report overall, citing its worldwide [...]	2006-06-15 13:58:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KCRM KWMN PGOV PREL EI
06DUBLIN69	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO SPECIAL ENVOY FOR NI [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Special Envoy for Northern Ireland Mitchell Reiss and Special Assistant Genevieve Libonati to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from January 29 to 31, 2006. Purpose of visit is to meet with GOI and party officials to advance the Northern Ireland Pe [...]	2006-01-23 11:13:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA EI
06DUBLIN706	BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO IRELAND NAMED NEW UK [...] (SBU) The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced on June 9 the appointment of UK Ambassador to Ireland Stewart Eldon to succeed Sir Peter Ricketts as the UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council. Eldon will leave to take up his new appointment in late August 2006. [...]	2006-06-19 13:46:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO NAC PINR PREL EI
06DUBLIN718	GOI CONCERNED ABOUT VENEZUELAN NGOS [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-21 09:56:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV VE EI EAID
06DUBLIN73	COLLECTING VWP FINGERPRINTS IN IRELAND [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-23 14:58:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT PREL CVIS EAIR
06DUBLIN731	UZBEK HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST PRESENTED AWARD IN [...] (U) On June 16, Uzbek national Ahmadjan (aka Akhmadian) Madumarov was named as the recipient of the second annual Front Line Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk for his work as an activist in Uzbekistan. According to the Irish NGO Front Line, Mr. Madumarov, of the Independent Human Right [...]	2006-06-22 16:08:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV UZ ZK PINS EI
06DUBLIN76	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR OBO ELEVATOR PROJECT MANAGER [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for Tim Phares to travel to Dublin, Ireland from January 30 through February 3, 2006. Purpose of visit is to conduct an elevator survey/evaluation for the future upgrade and modernizaation of the chancey elevator. 2. Embassy Control Officer f [...]	2006-01-24 09:53:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ABLD AMGT ASEC
06DUBLIN774	IRELAND HIDES BEHIND EU SMOKE SCREEN ON DOHA TALKS [...] Summary: Regarding ref A points on the Doha negotiations, Irish Government officials maintain that key WTO partners, particularly the United States, have not offered enough to reciprocate EU concessions. Irish trade officials believe that EU movement on agricultural market access is possible [...]	2006-06-30 14:25:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	WTRO ETRD ECON EI
06DUBLIN778	IRAQI PARLIAMENTARIANS MAKE THEIR CASE IN IRELAND [...] (U) In a June 18-24 trip sponsored by the International Republican Institute (IRI) and organized with embassy assistance, a group of Iraqi parliamentarians visited Ireland to learn from the Irish experience of reconciliation and to plead for more Irish assistance. During this visit the group [...]	2006-06-30 15:49:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM IZ EI
06DUBLIN798	IRELAND: ISLAM IN EUROPE (C-DI5-01478) [...] (U) Summary. Embassy Dublin salutes the initiative of Washington analysts (ref A.) to look at the role of Islamic thinkers across Europe. In 2004, we launched a new outreach program to Muslims in Ireland, a group that has grown rapidly in recent years from a population of less than 4,000 ac [...]	2006-07-07 16:45:00	Embassy Dublin	SECRET	PINR PTER SCUL KTFN AU PINS KPAO BE FI FR
06DUBLIN81	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR OBO EUR AREA MANAGEMENT [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for Eur Area Management Officer Karen Davidson to travel to Dublin, Ireland from February 14 through February 17, 2006. Purpose of visit is post familiarization and discussion of ongoing OBO programs. 2. Embassy Control Officer for this visit [...]	2006-01-24 15:09:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	ABLD AMGT ASEC KRIM
06DUBLIN887	PRIME MINISTER AHERN AND GOVERNOR BUSH DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: In a July 21 meeting, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, and the Ambassador discussed the importance of education, R&D funding, and liberal commercial aviation policies in sustaining Ireland's and Florida's economic successes. Prime Minister Ahern cited Iris [...]	2006-07-28 13:25:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON EIND PREL EI
06DUBLIN89	CBP, DUBLIN AIRPORT AUTHORITY DISAGREE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) have reached an apparent impasse on whether CBP facility expansion or additional CBP staff would resolve congestion problems with CBP pre-inspection operations at Dublin and Shannon Airports. In a [...]	2006-01-26 14:03:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR DHS ECON APER AMGT EI
06DUBLIN898	POST NOMINATION FOR REGIONAL OMS TRAINING, OCTOBER [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-01 13:15:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	APER AOMS AFSI AMGT XG DA EI KPAO
06DUBLIN918	IRELAND WELCOMES LEBANON UNSC RESOLUTION, WANTS [...] (SBU) Ireland would welcome the passage of the draft UNSC resolution on Lebanon, according to Stephen Dawson, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) First Secretary for Middle East and North African Affairs, to whom emboffs delivered reftel demarche on August 8 (with Ireland observing a holiday o [...]	2006-08-09 11:56:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER MOPS UN IS EI
06DUBLIN925	POST REQUEST TO DESIGNATE DAVID TIEDGE AS DHS [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-11 13:05:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	CPAS EAIR EWWT PGOV PREL PINS PTER EI
06DUBLIN95	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO NSF OFFICIAL DR. [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to National Science Foundation (NSF) official, Dr. Alexandra Isern, Program Director in the Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE) to travel to Dublin, Ireland, from February 7 to 11, 2006. Purpose of the visit is to attend the 4th International Workshop o [...]	2006-01-27 13:28:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY OTRA KSCA NSF EI
06DUBLIN96	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR OBO CONTRACTOR RAUL [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for OBO Conttractor Raul Carrasquillo to travel to Dublin, Ireland from January 30 through February 4, 2006. Purpose of visit is to repair the generator. 2. Embassy Control Officer for this visit is GSO Facility Manager Gil Serrao office tele [...]	2006-01-27 14:05:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ABLD AMGT ASEC KPWR
06DUSHANBE1013	PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER ON TAJIK-RUSSIAN RELATIONS, UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although they met ostensibly for Presidential Adviser Rahmatulloyev to give a read-out of the Putin-Rahmonov meeting in Sochi, Rahmatulloyev, clearly authorized by President Rahmonov, spent much of the 90-minute meeting laying out Tajikistan's exasperation with Russia and Uzbekis [...]	2006-05-31 11:07:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR ECON EINV ENRG UZ RS TI
06DUSHANBE1027	TAJIKISTAN'S POWER POLITICS: DEPUTY PM GHULOMOV REMAINS [...] (SBU) Tajikistan is the most attractive country in Central Asia for hydro power investment, according to Deputy Prime Minister Ghulomov, and he intends to demonstrate that to investors and suppliers alike at the "Energy Without Borders" conference in Istanbul June 12-14. In a 45-minute meeti [...]	2006-06-02 11:46:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG ECON EAID AF TI
06DUSHANBE1067	TURKISH EMBASSY WANTS BETTER INVESTMENT CLIMATE IN [...] (C) Turkey supports U.S. efforts to develop Tajikistan's energy sector and other infrastructure projects, but Turkish Embassy Chargi d' Affaires Askin Cakmak suggested that for those projects to succeed, donor countries need to send the Tajik government a strong message to improve the investm [...]	2006-06-07 07:15:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EINV EAID TI TU
06DUSHANBE1174	TAJIKISTAN: HELSINKI COMMISSION COUNSEL'S FIRST VISIT [...] (U) SUMMARY: H. Knox Thames, Counsel for the U.S. Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, visited Tajikistan June 14-17 for the first time. During his trip, he met with political party representatives, religious leaders, government officials, [...]	2006-06-26 05:53:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KISL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1176	TAJIKISTAN: RUSSIA AND CHINA INTERESTED IN RESULTS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: "So the United States plans to invest a billion dollars in Tajik hydropower this year?" asked Zheng Wei, political officer at the Chinese Embassy in Dushanbe. As a result of local press coverage of the U.S.-sponsored energy conference in Istanbul, Chinese and Russian diplomats [...]	2006-06-26 06:06:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EINV EAID RS CH TI
06DUSHANBE1178	RUSSIAN BUSINESSES IN TAJIKISTAN: "WE HAVE A LOT OF TROUBLE [...] (C) According to Vasiliy Beldugin, the Russian Embassy's Economic Counselor in Dushanbe, Russian companies experience the same problems with corruption and bureaucracy that frustrate other foreign investors. "Some people assume that because of the strategic partnership, Russian companies coul [...]	2006-06-26 06:29:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EINV EAID PREL TI RU
06DUSHANBE1222	RAO UES AND WORLD BANK PRESSING TAJIK ENERGY MINISTRY [...] (C) The World Bank is advocating that Russian energy giant RAO UES be the official sponsor of an international energy meeting in Dushanbe, but Tajik energy officials are unsure of the signal that will send to other investors, and hope to get a "more neutral" sponsor, such as the Asian Develop [...]	2006-06-30 13:01:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EINV RS TI
06DUSHANBE1223	TAJIK PRESIDENT HELPS DEDICATE NEW EMBASSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: After giving remarks at the June 29 dedication ceremony for Dushanbe's new Embassy, Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov spent twenty minutes in a private meeting with CdA and OBO Director Williams discussing Tajikistan's future and the influx of new investment and infrastructure pr [...]	2006-06-30 13:09:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG RS CH TI
06DUSHANBE1283	TAJIKISTAN: MODERATE IRPT DEPUTY REFUSES PARTY CHAIRMANSHIP [...] (C) Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan's (IRPT) First Deputy Chairman, Muhiddin Kabiri refused to accept the party's chairmanship. Kabiri told PolOff at the Embassy's July 4th celebration that the party's current chairman, Said Abdullo Nuri, asked Kabiri to be the next IRPT head, but Kabi [...]	2006-07-06 09:10:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KIRF KISL TI
06DUSHANBE1294	LET THEM EAT SOMETHING OTHER THAN CAKE! DUSHANBE'S MAYOR [...] (SBU) A letter from the French Ambassador asking the Dushanbe city government to halt street construction during an outdoor Bastille Day celebration has led to the temporary closure of a popular Dushanbe restaurant and highlighted just how risky it is to invest in Tajikistan, or even more dan [...]	2006-07-12 08:47:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EINV EAID ECON TI
06DUSHANBE1296	RUMSFELD VISIT AND RUSSIA - WHO'S ON THE SIDE OF THE [...] (S) Russian Charge Viacheslav Svetlichny was the first diplomat to seek a readout of Secretary Rumsfeld's visit to Tajikistan and his meeting with President Rahmonov. The Ambassador joked with him on July 12 that Svetlichny must surely already have a near-verbatim treatment of the meeting fro [...]	2006-07-12 11:35:00	Embassy Dushanbe	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR TI
06DUSHANBE1315	TAJIKISTAN: RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-13 13:31:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PARM KN KNNP TI
06DUSHANBE1329	TAJIKISTAN'S SDPT CHAIRMAN SUFFERS STROKE, ALLEGES FOUL [...] (C) Rahmatullo Zoyirov, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT) met with PolOff July 13 after suffering a minor stroke two weeks earlier. Zoyirov, an energetic opposition politician, was noticeably absent during the Embassy's official opening on June 28 and the July 4 r [...]	2006-07-14 13:18:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1361	TIT-FOR-TAT OP-ED SLAMS AMBASSADOR'S SUPPORTING TAJIK [...] (U) SUMMARY: The steady stream of (probably) Russian-influenced black propaganda against the United States continues in the Tajik press. A recent article alleges U.S. NGOs foment "color revolutions," the United States has done nothing for Tajikistan's economic development, the purpose of th [...]	2006-07-19 13:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KPAO TI
06DUSHANBE1362	TAJIKISTAN'S NEW MEDIA COALITION NOT ENTIRELY INDEPENDENT [...] (SBU) Three prominent media associations formed the new Partnership for Democracy in June, a media coalition group designed to address misunderstandings among journalistic bodies and foster improved relations between mass media and the government. However, despite the group's good intentions [...]	2006-07-20 08:56:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1420	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PRESIDENT RAHMONOV [...] (C) During the Ambassador's 90-minute one-on-one farewell call with President Rahmonov July 19, the President spoke without notes, because, we learned later, he had not expected a working meeting. President Foreign Policy Adviser Erkin Rahmatulloyev told us, "Generally, ambassadors come to sa [...]	2006-07-24 08:48:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PROP ECON EINV ENRG MARR KDEM IR
06DUSHANBE1423	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON TAJIK FM TALBAK NAZAROV [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his July 17 official farewell call on Tajik Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov, the Ambassador summed up the progress in the U.S.-Tajik relationship over the past three years, including increased border assistance, a new U.S. Embassy and U.S. involvement in hydropower and infra [...]	2006-07-25 11:08:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON MARR KDEM IR RS TI
06DUSHANBE1424	TAJIK INDUSTRY MINISTER WANTS U.S. JOINT VENTURE TO FLY [...] (SBU) An antimony mining joint venture with New Jersey-based COMSUP has been so successful, according to Minister of Industry Zaid Saidov, the Tajik government would prefer the U.S. firm own one hundred percent of the operation, rather than 49%. In a July 18 meeting with PolOff, Saidov expl [...]	2006-07-25 11:09:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EINV TI
06DUSHANBE1425	NDI NOT GETTING THE ANSWERS THEY WANT FROM TAJIK GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov and Deputy Minister of Justice Sharipova, National Democratic Institute (NDI) representatives pressed the Tajik government to register the organization and issue a visa for an American staff member to manage the Dushanbe office. [...]	2006-07-25 11:10:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1434	IRANIAN AND AFHGAN PRESIDENTS' VISIT TO DUSHANBE BRINGS NO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranian President Ahmadinejad's July 25-26 visit to Dushanbe confirmed the close linguistic and cultural ties between Tajikistan and Iran; the multiple agreements signed further strengthened the bonds forged during Tajik President Rahmonov's January visit to Tehran. When Afghan [...]	2006-07-27 13:11:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG TI AF IR
06DUSHANBE1435	IRANIAN AND AFHGAN PRESIDENTS' VISIT TO DUSHANBE BRINGS NO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranian President Ahmadinejad's July 25-26 visit to Dushanbe confirmed the close linguistic and cultural ties between Tajikistan and Iran; the multiple agreements signed further strengthened the bonds forged during Tajik President Rahmonov's January visit to Tehran. When Afghan [...]	2006-07-27 13:11:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG TI AF IR
06DUSHANBE1436	RUSSIAN MILITARY NEWSPAPER ASSERTS MOSCOW'S RIGHT [...] SUMMARY: A seminal July 25 analytical article in Russia's official military newspaper asserts Russia's right to dominate Central Asia and to prevent the United States and NATO - "[Russia's] traditional geopolitical rivals" - from any sort of further military presence in the region. The artic [...]	2006-07-27 17:17:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINR PROP ECON MARR RS ZK
06DUSHANBE1439	REFLECTIONS ON THREE YEARS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) Three years ago, before I arrived in Dushanbe, I noticed wryly that nearly every reporting cable from the Post seemed to include the descriptive phrase, "Tajikistan, destroyed by civil war~." Greatly harmed and set back? Yes. Destroyed? No. Especially not the spirit of the nation and p [...]	2006-07-28 08:16:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID AMGT KPAO KDEM RS TI
06DUSHANBE1440	RUSSIAN MILITARY NEWSPAPER ASSERTS MOSCOW'S RIGHT [...] SUMMARY: A seminal July 25 analytical article in Russia's official military newspaper asserts Russia's right to dominate Central Asia and to prevent the United States and NATO - "[Russia's] traditional geopolitical rivals" - from any sort of further military presence in the region. The artic [...]	2006-07-28 09:29:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINR PROP ECON MARR RS ZK
06DUSHANBE1442	PRESIDENT KARZAI WORRIES ABOUT RUSSIAN INTENTIONS IN CENTRAL [...] (SBU) Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai invited the Ambassador for a private one-hour breakfast at the Presidential Guest House in Dushanbe before returning to Kabul July 28. After a 20-minute one-on-one, Karzai invited his foreign minister and two other advisers to join. WHAT'S RUSSIA UP [...]	2006-07-28 10:36:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR RS AF IR TI
06DUSHANBE1462	U.S.-RUSSIA COOPERATION STILL POSSIBLE IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) The departing U.S. Ambassador hosted a final farewell reception at the U.S. Residence July 31. Russian Charge d'affairs Vyacheslav Svetlichniy, a career diplomat, attended. He pulled the Ambassador aside and said he sincerely wished our two governments could attain the same degree of mutu [...]	2006-08-01 10:43:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG SNAR RS TI
06DUSHANBE1463	TAJIK-UZBEK TENSIONS GROWING IN GAS, WATER AND COUNTER [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In the last six weeks, the Tajik media has reported on a series of small incidents, the sum of which suggest that the already fractious relationship between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan is not getting smoother, despite the hopes raised when Uzbekistan joined the Eurasian Eco [...]	2006-08-01 11:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER ECON ENRG TJ UZ
06DUSHANBE1464	OLD-GUARD TAJIK MINISTER OF DEFENSE OBSESSES ON NATO, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador endured a three-hour-plus one-on-one lunch August 1 with Tajikistan's Minister of Defense Sherali Khairulloyev. Apart from the general conversation, the minister apologized for previous mil-mil relations that didn't meet expectations; harped repeatedly on NATO, Georgia, [...]	2006-08-01 12:12:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR GG RS TI
06DUSHANBE1465	TAJIKISTAN: U.S. EMBASSY PROVIDES ASSISTANCE TO EARTHQUAKE [...] Two earthquakes, ranging from 5.0 to 6.0 on the Richter scale, struck southern Tajikistan's Qumsangir district July 29. The earthquakes affected over 1,600 households and nearly 9,000 people. Officially, three deaths were reported, all of them children. The media reported approximately 20 pe [...]	2006-08-01 13:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EAID TI
06DUSHANBE1469	THREE "IRAN-FREE" STEPS TO BRING TAJIKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) The "Persian Language Summit" in Dushanbe July 26 highlighted the cultural and linguistic ties between Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Iran, but also provided an opportunity for the three presidents to declare publicly their economic and energy ties (Reftel A). At the close of the press con [...]	2006-08-02 11:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG TI AF IR
06DUSHANBE1470	TAJIKISTAN'S POLITICAL PARTIES CONSIDER BOYCOTTING ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The three main opposition political parties are considering boycotting Tajikistan's presidential election as a statement of protest. Knowing Rahmonov will win handily and worried legitimate opposition candidates may not even have a chance to run, the Democratic Party of Tajikis [...]	2006-08-02 12:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1498	RADIO SILENCE CONTINUES FOR BBC IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (SBU) Tajikistan's State Radio and Television Committee (SRTC) announced August 2 it refused to give BBC a license to broadcast in Tajiki/ Farsi on FM radio. Margaret Belof, the British DCM, told PolOff August 3 the committee based its refusal on two grounds: the BBC is still not properly re [...]	2006-08-04 11:51:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE1512	BUILD MORE BRIDGES! AFGHAN BUSINESSMEN VISIT DUSHANBE [...] "You can select your friends, but not your neighbors," said Sharif Saidov, Tajikistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chairman (TCCI). "If your neighbor is calm, then you are calmer." The August 3 visit of Afghan businessmen to Dushanbe underscored the calm on both sides of the border and t [...]	2006-08-08 09:36:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD BEXP AF TJ
06DUSHANBE1523	TAJIKISTAN'S EARTHQUAKE RELIEF STATUS REPORT [...] More than a week after two earthquakes shook Tajikistan's Qumsangir District in Khatlon province on the southern border with Afghanistan July 29 (reftel),the Tajik government and donors continue to help displaced residents. Under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Ghulomov, the Tajik g [...]	2006-08-09 13:22:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EAID TI

06DUSHANBE1545	WIIL ROGUN EVER GET BUILT? TAJIKISTAN AND RUSAL ENGAGE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Is RusAl on the verge of abandoning Rogun, or merely posturing to hasten its acquisition of Tajik state-owned aluminum smelter TadAZ? In the past week, Tajik and regional news agencies have published several articles on Rogun and other Russian-Tajik investments, questioning the [...]	2006-08-11 06:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN TI AF IR
06DUSHANBE1549	THE END OF AN ERA FOR TAJIKISTAN'S ISLAMIC PARTY [...] SUMMARY: Chargi d'Affaires attended Said Abdullo Nuri's funeral held in Dushanbe August 10. Nuri, the Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) passed away August 9 (reftel) after a long battle with cancer. The funeral was well-attended by prominent officials and leader [...]	2006-08-11 10:04:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM KISL TI
06DUSHANBE1557	TAJIK FOREIGN MINISTER DISAPPOINTED IN ISRAEL [...] (C) Tajik Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov responded to the points on UNSC resolution 1701 (reftel) by voicing his concern over the situation in Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. In a 45-minute discussion with Charge, Nazarov suggested Israel should compensate Lebanon for the "$3 billio [...]	2006-08-14 12:58:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR IR TI
06DUSHANBE1558	TAJIKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN: LET THE FLOOD GATES OF WATER [...] SUMMARY: Senior Afghan water officials visited Tajikistan August 2-9 to discuss bilateral cooperation in developing joint projects along the Amu Darya and Pyanj Rivers, which form the Afghan-Tajik border. The highly successful visit initiated a practical dialogue and strong partnership betw [...]	2006-08-15 03:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON EAID EAGR ENRG AF TI
06DUSHANBE1575	TAJIKISTAN: FORMER DCA CHAIRMAN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON [...] (U) A Tajik court sentenced former Drug Control Agency Chairman, Lieutenant General Ghaffor Mirzoyev August 11 to life imprisonment for planning to overthrow Tajikistan's President Rahmonov. Mirzoyev was arrested August 6, 2004 and officially charged with 36 crimes including attempt to toppl [...]	2006-08-17 04:12:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1576	INDIAN EXPECATIONS FOR TAJIKISTAN POSITIVE, BUT REALISTIC [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: India will continue to assist Tajikistan through exchanges, grants, military cooperation and targeted investment, but the memoranda signed during President Rahmonov's August 6-10 state visit to India only "legalized" initiatives already underway. G. Balusubramanian, [...]	2006-08-17 06:07:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID IN TI
06DUSHANBE1587	TAJIKISTAN: KABIRI LEADS ISLAMIC PARTY AFTER NURI'S DEATH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan elected Muhiddin Kabiri as its acting-chairman after Nuri's death. The press and some political analysts speculate the party will split without Nuri's leadership and it will not elect Kabiri as the chairman because, as a moderate, he is [...]	2006-08-18 11:46:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1588	TAJIKISTAN'S ISLAMIC PARTY CONDEMNS ISRAELI ATTACKS [...] (SBU) At an internal party meeting August 16, several Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan members spoke out strongly against Israel's strikes in Lebanon and Palestine and criticized the U.S. response. Since the beginning of the recent Lebanon-Israeli conflict, the IRPT criticized Israel [...]	2006-08-18 12:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL TI
06DUSHANBE1593	TAJIK FM NAZAROV'S MEETING WITH DAS EVAN FEIGENBAUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tan and relaxed from his trip to the EurAsEC meeting in Sochi, Tajikistan's Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov told Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum August 18 that U.S- Tajik bilateral relations were based on trust, and hoped the next phase would focus on economic assista [...]	2006-08-21 12:32:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG KDEM PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE1594	REGIONAL INTEGRATION: TAJIKISTAN'S FIRST PRIVATE-PUBLIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pamir Energy, Tajikistan's first private-public energy joint venture, manages at best 40% cost recovery and faces a local government that refuses to enforce collection. In a theatrical August 19 site visit with cameras rolling and an audience including Deputy Assistant Secretar [...]	2006-08-21 13:06:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN TI AF
06DUSHANBE1597	TAJIKISTAN: DEMONSTRATIONS IN AUTONOMOUS REGION A SIGN OF UNREST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two demonstrations in front of the Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast governor's office August 18-19 illustrate increasing unrest in the economically downtrodden remote area also known as the Pamirs. The several hundred strong crowd protested against the central government and [...]	2006-08-22 12:12:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON AF TI SNAR
06DUSHANBE1599	TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR RAHMATULLOYEV MEETS DAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Advisor on Foreign Policy Erkin Rahmatulloyev waxed philosophical on Central Asia's history and role in U.S. policy and the challenges facing his country, but agreed with Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum that the U.S. and Tajik governments share the same pr [...]	2006-08-23 12:15:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG KDEM KISL TI
06DUSHANBE16	RUSSIA PLEASED WITH BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) The year 2005 was very fruitful for Russia in Tajikistan, according to the Russian DCM Viacheslav Svetlichny. He highlighted the realization of long-standing commitments, particularly those made by President Putin in October 2004 to withdraw Russian border forces and increase economic ass [...]	2006-01-03 10:58:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG TI RS
06DUSHANBE1608	TAJIK GOVERNMENT SETS LOOSE THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS [...] (U) Tajikistan's parliament adopted an amnesty law August 17 that would free 4,000 prisoners and reduce the terms of 11,000. All women above the age of 55, children under the age of 18, first time offenders, along with other designated groups will be eligible for amnesty. Families will be g [...]	2006-08-28 07:37:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1613	TEN WEEKS TO ELECTIONS, TAJIKISTAN MOVING SLOWLY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ten weeks out from the November Presidential election, Tajik authorities are moving very slowly to implement improvements to the electoral process. After a significant step forward in May, when Tajik authorities presented donors with a the first government plans to address previ [...]	2006-08-28 12:30:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1620	REGIONAL INTEGRATION: TAJIK ENERGY MINISTER SAYS "DON'T [...] (C) A rumored Russian-led hydropower consortium will not threaten a U.S. company's plans to export Tajik electricity to Afghanistan. Energy Minister Asadullo Yerov told PolOff August 28 that the "informal discussions" at the August 15-17 Eurasian Economic Community (EurasEC) meeting in Sochi [...]	2006-08-29 12:48:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG
06DUSHANBE1621	TAJIKISTAN: UNKNOWN ASSAILANT SETS SYNAGOGUE ON FIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: An unknown assailant set Dushanbe's synagogue on fire August 18 by throwing a Molotov cocktail through a first floor window. Fortunately, a neighbor sounded the alarm and the fire was put out before it was able to spread and engulf the entire building. Dushanbe's Fire Departme [...]	2006-08-29 12:48:00	Embassy Dushanbe	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ASEC KIRF KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1623	TAJIKISTAN: SDPT CHAIRMAN RETURNS FROM MEDICAL TREATMENT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan's (SDPT) Chairman, Rahmatullo Zoyirov met with PolOff August 28 after returning from treatment in Moscow and Switzerland following his stroke. Zoyirov appeared healthy and reinvigorated, and discussed the upcoming presidential election [...]	2006-08-30 05:19:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TI RS
06DUSHANBE1628	MERCY CORPS UNDER SCRUTINY FROM TAJIK JUSTICE MINISTRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tajik authorities, reacting to a secret poison pen letter to the Ministry of Justice from disgruntled Mercy Corps local staff, threatened to deport a Mercy Corps expat unless the Embassy intervened to correct the situation. Mercy Corps conducted an internal investigation, and fo [...]	2006-08-31 07:06:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1650	CHINESE MAKING BIG FOOTPRINT ON TAJIKISTAN'S INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: With $637 million in low-interest credits for roads, a tunnel and high voltage transmission lines, China has positioned itself as Tajikistan's biggest and fastest-moving foreign investor. By funding key infrastructure projects, China seeks to strengthen its ties with Tajikistan [...]	2006-09-05 11:02:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID EFIN ENRG TI CH
06DUSHANBE1655	TAJIKISTAN: AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT [...] (U) SUMMARY. On September 4, just one business day after arriving at post, Ambassador Jacobson presented her credentials to Tajik President Emomoli Rahmonov. Rahmonov thanked the United States for its support of counter terrorism and counter narcotics efforts and said he looked forward to [...]	2006-09-06 13:30:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EAID SNAR KDEM PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE1661	TAJIKISTAN CONSIDERS NUCLEAR FREE ZONE TREATY "OPEN AND [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Yatimov said that Tajikistan had not made a final decision about signing the Central Asian Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (CANWFZ) agreement in Kazakhstan September 8, and that they regarded the treaty as "open." In a 90-minute meeting with DCM and PolOff September 6 ( [...]	2006-09-07 10:18:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR KNNP UN TI
06DUSHANBE1662	IRPT CONFIRMS KABIRI AS CHAIRMAN IN EMOTIONAL CONGRESS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) confirmed Muhiddin Kabiri as its chairman during an emotional political party congress with members still mourning the loss of former chairman Said Abdullo Nuri. The IRPT delegates presented a united front and members gave impa [...]	2006-09-07 10:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1667	IT'S ALL RELATIVE: THE TAJIK TEXTILE BIZ [...] (U) SUMMARY: Two major textile manufacturers in Tajikistan have taken two different roads to success. Tajik Textiles uses its familial and political networks to succeed, while Giovani Manufacturing features a glitzy, Western-style approach. Although President Rahmonov's development program c [...]	2006-09-08 10:03:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV EAID PGOV EAGR EIND TI
06DUSHANBE1700	DUSHANBE RESPONSE TO THE GLOBAL INTERNET FREEDOM TASK FORCE [...] Embassy Dushanbe provides the following information in response to the request by the Secretary's Global Internet Freedom Task Force Request (REFTEL). Internet availability in Tajikistan remains extremely limited, particularly in remote areas. Programs that provide Tajik youth access to the [...]	2006-09-12 11:31:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EINT
06DUSHANBE1711	AMBASSADOR'S FIRST SUBSTANTIVE MEETING WITH TAJIK FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a Letter of Agreement signing ceremony 9/13 (reftel a),Foreign Minister Nazarov invited Ambassador for a one-on-one meeting to discuss issues she had raised prior to presenting credentials 9/4 (reftel b). While Nazarov could not offer any concrete assistance on any o [...]	2006-09-14 08:32:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID EINV TI
06DUSHANBE1717	TAJIKISTAN - AN OCEAN OF IRONY: ABUNDANT WATER IN A [...] (U) SUMMARY: Water gushes down the mountains of Tajikistan, the most water-rich country in Central Asia. Yet people lack clean drinking water, utilities are poorly managed, and poor irrigation hinders agricultural development. There exists tremendous potential for hydropower development fo [...]	2006-09-15 11:46:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID SENV TBIO TI
06DUSHANBE1720	TAJIK SYNAGOGUE AND ORTHODOX CHURCH SUFFERS ANOTHER MOLOTOV [...] (U) Assailants threw Molotov cocktails onto the premises of the Jewish synagogue and Russian Orthodox Church September 14. The assailants and their motives are unknown but synagogue members verified that two young Tajik men ages 17-20 threw three Molotov cocktails into the synagogue. Two Mo [...]	2006-09-18 07:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE1726	DUSHANBE SCO CONFERENCE - MOVING BEYOND SECURITY INTO [...] SUMMARY: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) focused on economic and energy cooperation in its Dushanbe meetings September 15-16. The six member countries issued a joint communique affirming their intention to further cooperate in economic, trade, scientific, technological, social, cu [...]	2006-09-20 12:16:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECIN ECON EFIN ENRG EAID TBIO TI
06DUSHANBE1738	TAJIKISTAN RESPONSE TO TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND [...] (U) In response to reftel, Embassy Dushanbe submits the following information regarding Tajikistan's compliance with U.S. and international trade agreements. 2. (U) Tajikistan has not entered into trade agreements with the United States directly, and is not a member of the World Trade O [...]	2006-09-21 08:29:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD TI
06DUSHANBE1749	FASHION ALERT - TAJIKISTAN'S TEXTILES HIT THE WORLD MARKET [...] This cable responds to action request (ref A) for data on the textile and apparel market in Tajikistan. 2. INTRODUCTION: Walking down the streets of Dushanbe, a trained eye easily spots the latest fashion trends among the many pedestrians. Men sport short-sleeve button-down shirts and t [...]	2006-09-22 14:24:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD TI EAGR EIND ELAB PGOV
06DUSHANBE175	TAJIKISTAN'S SOUTH SHOWS LITTLE SIGN OF DEVELOPMENT [...] SUMMARY: Kulob, the President's home region and nearby Qurghon-Teppa face the same corruption, high unemployment, and political and free press restrictions that plague the rest of the country. In meetings with PolOff January 23-24, journalists, NGOs and community leaders from Kulob, Qurghon [...]	2006-01-27 09:20:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1758	TAJIK BORDER POSTS STILL SUFFER FROM LAST YEAR'S FLOODING [...] (SBU) Embassy Officers visited four border posts in the Moscovsky region bordering Afghanistan and saw how last year's severe flooding destroyed the units' buildings, seriously hindering the border guards' ability to protect the Tajik border from illicit activity. In addition to flood damag [...]	2006-09-26 11:19:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID SNAR AF TI
06DUSHANBE1765	CHINESE DRAGON STEPS GENTLY IN TAJIKISTAN [...] SUMMARY: Chinese Ambassador to Tajikistan Li Huilai laid out the founding principles of friendship between Tajikistan and China, including economic, security, and cultural relations, at an academic conference hosted by the Tajik Center for Strategic Research in Dushanbe on September 26. Acad [...]	2006-09-27 10:22:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECIN ECON EFIN ENRG TBIO TI
06DUSHANBE178	AMBASSADOR PROTESTS SECURITY MINISTRY CRACK-DOWN ON NDI [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 27, the Ambassador forcefully protested to Foreign Minister Nazarov the Security Ministry's recent crackdown on the National Democratic Insitute in Dushanbe. Nazarov agreed to intervene with the Minister of Security and to bring the problem to President Rahmonov's at [...]	2006-01-27 10:25:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PROP KDEM RS TI
06DUSHANBE179	COUNTERING NEO-SOVIET ANTI-U.S. AND ANTI-DEMOCRACY [...] (U) Especially when analyzing the so-called "color revolutions" in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, neo-Soviet authoritarians have dominated the information space and defined the world view in Central Asia. U.S. Embassies' Public Affairs Sections face an up-hill battle because Russian media [...]	2006-01-27 10:34:00	Embassy Dushanbe	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR PROP KDEM KPAO RS TI
06DUSHANBE1803	SCENESETTER FOR A/S BOUCHER'S VISIT TO DUSHANBE [...] (U) Embassy Dushanbe welcomes Assistant Secretary Boucher back to Tajikistan. This visit will be a good opportunity for you to build upon your May meetings in Dushanbe and give an extra push for better conduct one month before the presidential election. 2. (C) The U.S.-Tajikistan bilat [...]	2006-09-29 11:23:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID EINV TI
06DUSHANBE1841	TAJIK PRESIDENT TELLS BOUCHER ELECTION SHOULD MEET [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a two-hour meeting with Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher October 6, Tajikistan's President SIPDIS Emomali Rahmonov stressed the positive bilateral relationship with the United States. Stating he wanted to deepen contacts at every level, Rahmonov thanked the United Stat [...]	2006-10-07 08:24:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID EINV ENRG TI
06DUSHANBE1844	VROOM! VROOM! CAR SHOPPING IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Tajikistan's automotive imports reached $177.4 million for the first eight months of 2006, a 300% jump from the previous year, according to GosKomStat. Despite high gasoline prices and massive shipping costs, Tajikistan's "nouveau riche" enjoys spending its wealth on high-priced [...]	2006-10-10 05:54:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD ELTN EINV EIND ELAB PGOV TI
06DUSHANBE1848	ONE MONTH OUT: TAJIK GOVT SHUTS DOWN WEBSITES AHEAD OF THE [...] (U) Tajikistan's internet service providers blocked access to several websites deemed "opposition" sites one month ahead of the November 6 presidential election. Sites include popular news information agencies such as Ferghana.ru and Centralasia.ru. The Ministry of Communications' Agency o [...]	2006-10-10 09:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1863	FOUR WEEKS OUT: POLITICAL PARTY FACTION BRIBES MINISTRY OF [...] (SBU) Four weeks out from the November 6 presidential election, five candidates have successfully registered candidate. Opposition political parties are weaker than ever, as a faction of the Democratic Party has won government approval. The government ordered internet providers to block ne [...]	2006-10-12 11:10:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1935	THREE WEEKS OUT: OBSERVER MISSION DEPLOYING WITH MORE VIGOR [...] (C) Three weeks out, Tajikistan shows few visible signs of an impending presidential election. Aside from a two-story poster of President Rahmonov (resplendent with five by two foot eyebrows) on Dushanbe's main boulevard, campaign materials are conspicuously absent in the capital. PolOffs sa [...]	2006-10-23 06:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1945	GRADUAL PROGRESS, BUT VISIBLE PROBLEMS AT TWO TAJIK-AFGHAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An October 18 visit to two border posts revealed extremely basic living conditions and a slow but solid start to U.S.-funded reconstruction efforts. Soldiers at Bakhorat and Bog outposts on the border with Afghanistan face winter with limited electricity and supplies, and alm [...]	2006-10-25 11:39:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV SNAR PINR TI AF
06DUSHANBE195	FRAUD SUMMARY - TAJIKISTAN [...] (SBU) COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Tajikistan, independent since the Soviet breakup in 1991, is the poorest Central Asian republic and the ninth poorest country per capita in the world. The vast majority of the population lives well below the poverty line, inducing many working-age Tajik males to bec [...]	2006-01-30 11:36:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC TI
06DUSHANBE1950	"FAIR AND ACCURATE" INFORMATION THE KEY TO GOOD U.S.-UZBEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The key to improved U.S.-Uzbek relations is to provide leadership with "true, accurate and fair information," according to Mirodil Abdurazzakov, the Uzbek Ambassador in Dushanbe. In an Oct. 19 meeting with PolOff, Abdurazzakov described Uzbek democracy as "more diplomatic" than [...]	2006-10-26 09:00:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD TI UZ
06DUSHANBE1977	IRAN HAWKS WARES IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) Summary: Iran staged a business exhibition in Dushanbe October 27-30 with over 40 Iranian companies participating. The well-attended exhibition featured building materials, engineering consulting services, consumer goods, medical equipment, furniture, pharmaceuticals, and other goods. [...]	2006-10-30 12:35:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECIN ECON EFIN ENRG PREL TBIO TI
06DUSHANBE199	TAJIK CABINET SHUFFLE PLACES OLD RAHMONOV ALLY IN KEY ECON [...] (U) Tajik President Rahmonov appointed Matlubkhon Davlatov as State Advisor to the President for Economic Policy, replacing Faizullo Kholboboyev. The January 30 decree elevated Davlatov to the senior economic position in Tajikistan and named Kholboboyev Representative to the CIS and the Eura [...]	2006-01-31 11:48:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON TI
06DUSHANBE1998	ONE WEEK OUT: RAHMONOV'S PR CAMPAIGN STRENGTHENS, DPT DRAMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: With six days to go before the election, the pocket party candidates have hit the campaign trail and look more like public relations agents campaigning for Rahmonov than candidates in their own right. The Democratic Party of Tajikistan's (DPT) drama continues with the remnant DP [...]	2006-10-31 12:41:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2000	"PLEASE TRAIN OUR WORKERS" -- TAJIK BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE [...] (U) Summary. While the upper echelons of the Tajik government focus on immense energy projects, a frank and lively discussion by local businesspeople offered fresh examples of corruption and decay in the small and medium enterprise sector, especially related to customs, standards, and the lac [...]	2006-10-31 12:59:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECIN EIND EFIN EAID PREL TBIO ETRD PGOV TI
06DUSHANBE2019	DUSHANBE ELECTRICITY CONFERENCE PRODUCES MEMORANDUM OF [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan moved three steps closer to establishing a regional transmission system and electricity market at the Second Central and South Asia regional electricity market conference. During the October 26-28 conference in Dushanbe, [...]	2006-11-03 07:07:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN TI AF KG PK
06DUSHANBE2020	TAJIK POLITICAL PARTIES FEAR SITUATION WILL DETERIORATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the Tajik presidential election a foregone conclusion, Tajik political parties try to plan for after the election, but from their perspective, the future looks bleak. Political party leaders predict that the government will clamp down on political activity. Some are runni [...]	2006-11-03 07:08:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2033	TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION REPORT #1 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The polls have yet to close, but Tajikistan's presidential election seems to suffer from many of the same problems as the 2005 parliamentary election. The pre-election period did witness positive cooperation between international organizations (especially the United Nations a [...]	2006-11-06 14:02:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2038	RAHMONOV WINS TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WITH 79.3 PERCENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Rahmonov won a third term with 79.3 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results. Embassy observers deployed throughout Tajikistan witnessed the gamut of election practices from completely transparent tabulation processes to blatant ballot stuffing by commissi [...]	2006-11-07 12:26:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE204	NDI LOCAL DIRECTOR DEPARTS [...] (U) National Democratic Institute (NDI) local Director Gegham Sargsyan left Tajikistan on Wednesday morning, February 1, after a final unannounced police check and brief detention on the evening of January 31. The NDI Director had been wrangling with authorities for the past week or so, sinc [...]	2006-02-01 10:39:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR TI
06DUSHANBE2044	POLITICAL PARTIES REACT TO RAHMONOV'S WIN [...] (U) Tajik president Emomali Rahmonov won 79.3 percent of the vote in the November 6 election. Although his popularity is genuine among the people, opposition parties remain vocal in criticizing the election and will continue to express dissatisfaction with the current president and call him [...]	2006-11-08 13:25:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2050	TAJIK ELECTION NUMBERS SHOW SURPRISING REGIONAL DIFFERENCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rahmonov's re-election to a third term November 6 indicates his genuine popularity among Tajiks and reflects the people's recognition that Rahmonov's years as president have coincided with a period of relative stability in the country. Many in fact were surprised Rahmonov did [...]	2006-11-09 13:10:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE208	TAJIK PRISON FACILITIES IN POOR CONDITION [...] (U) PolOff visited a youth detention center and Tajikistan's central penitentiary medical facility January 31. Both facilities are in poor condition and lack adequate medical supplies and equipment. Deputy Minister of Justice, Izzatullo Sharipov, granted EmbOffs access in hopes the United St [...]	2006-02-01 11:37:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE2109	CONTRACTUAL ISSUES IMPEDE CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS AT THE [...] (SBU) EmbOffs along with General Zuhurov, Chairman of the State Border Protection Committee surveyed the Tajik-Afghan border posts of Khirmanjo, Bakhorat and Bog November 15 and discovered slow progress at two of the three U.S.-funded renovation sites. Contractual issues impede substantive p [...]	2006-11-20 15:10:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR SNAR TI AF
06DUSHANBE2111	PRESIDENT RAHMONOV CELEBRATES THIRD TERM WITH PRECIOUS [...] SUMMARY: President Rahmonov was sworn in to his third term on November 18, a warm sun-filled day. The festivities were low key, but expensive, filled with precious jewels, flag waving patriots, a military parade, and one shiny new car. Embassy sources estimate inauguration costs amount from [...]	2006-11-22 05:16:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2113	WHETHER TO COOPERATE: MIXED SIGNALS FROM THE RUSSIANS IN [...] (C) Summary: On September 21 Embassy Dushanbe, together with our Russian diplomatic and military colleagues, commemorated the 1992 evacuation of American diplomats from Dushanbe at the start of the Tajik civil war. The Russian 201st Motorized Rifle Division resident in Dushanbe was instrumental in [...]	2006-11-22 14:03:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS TI
06DUSHANBE2147	DEMONSTRATORS CHARGE ILLEGAL DETENTION AND VIOLATION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three Democratic Party of Tajikistan members were released November 19 after serving 15 days in prison for organizing a demonstration. Khairiddin Gulyaev and Temur Toshev (also known as Temur Iskandarov),two of the imprisoned members, met with Poloff November 22 to assert thei [...]	2006-11-28 11:56:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2153	VISIT TO TAJIK BORDER GUARD TRAINING CENTER [...] (SBU) Summary: A Russian-run training facility for Tajik troops has some modern conveniences, but the training program relies on Soviet educational methods to teach under-educated Border Guards the basics. PolOff and Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) representative visited the Leninsky Trai [...]	2006-11-29 12:42:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR SNAR TI AF
06DUSHANBE2201	TAJIKISTAN'S NEW CABINET: PRO-RUSSIAN OLD GUARD ENSCONCED ON [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Despite some pre-election hints that Tajik President Rahmonov planned to clean house in the Defense and Security Ministries, the old guard remains firmly ensconced and has consolidated power by incorporating the Border Guards into the security structure. After winni [...]	2006-12-11 12:49:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PINL SNAR TI AF
06DUSHANBE2205	TAJIKISTAN'S NEW CABINET INCLINED TO SUPPORT ECONOMIC GROWTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tajik and foreign observers agree Tajikistan's economy and infrastructure need a total overhaul. President Rahmonov's November 30 governmental restructuring and early December cabinet appointments to economic positions suggest he understands that he needs a competent set of advi [...]	2006-12-12 12:37:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON EAIR ENRG EAID ETRD TI
06DUSHANBE2206	IRPT MEMBER CONVICTED, FREEDOM OF SPEECH VIOLATED [...] (C) SUMMARY: A city court convicted Mukhtorjon Shodiev, an Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) member, December 6 of inciting violence and calling for an overthrow of the government in remarks he gave in front a small, private audience. He was sentenced to nine months in prison. [...]	2006-12-12 12:38:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KISL TI
06DUSHANBE2209	TAJIKISTAN'S NEW CABINET: NO GOOD NEWS FOR U.S. DEMOCRACY [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Nothing about President's Rahmonov's new cabinet suggests that democracy and human rights programs will now operate more freely. After months of Tajik officials counseling us to "wait until after the November 6 election" to push for registration of the National Democr [...]	2006-12-13 12:57:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2210	DUSHANBE'S MAYOR STRIKES AGAIN, AS GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dushanbe's Mayor Ubaidulloyev, known for his autonomy in governing Tajikistan's capital, has his eye on a building owned by the Grace Sun Min Church and wants to turn the building into a school. However, his motives appear suspect, in light of his past attempts to take the chur [...]	2006-12-13 12:57:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2219	TRADING PLACES: TAJIKISTAN'S NEW CABINET OF OLD HANDS WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: With a few exceptions, Tajik President Rahmonov's post-election appointments simply shuffled loyalists and favorites into different positions, further concentrating power in the hands of those from his home region of Kulob. Instead of naming new, younger officials or educated tech [...]	2006-12-14 13:50:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID ENRG SNAR KDEM TI AF
06DUSHANBE2223	INITIAL MEETING WITH NEW TAJIK BORDER GUARDS CHIEF [...] (U) SUMMARY: The newly appointed head of the Tajik Border Forces within the State Committee on National Security, General-Major (US 1-star equivalent) Mirzoev, invited representatives from the U.S. Embassy and other donor countries and implementing agencies to an introductory meeting. General [...]	2006-12-18 06:43:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SNAR MASS TI
06DUSHANBE2225	ANOTHER DAM CABLE FROM TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) Boom!! After four hours of waiting for Tajik President Rahmonov and Russian energy utility RAO UES head Anatoli Chubais to arrive by car, when thick fog prevented helicopter travel, observers witnessed a single explosion block the mighty Vaksh River at Sangtuda. The river was diverted th [...]	2006-12-19 11:32:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN TI
06DUSHANBE2226	HUMAN RIGHTS DAY EVENTS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Dushanbe commemorated International Human Rights Day/Week with a variety of events: having students paint a mural on the Embassy walls, showing a Human Rights related movie followed by a discussion group, and hosting a number of public speaking events focused on the theme "De [...]	2006-12-19 12:52:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KPAO KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2227	TAJIKISTAN NOT YET AN APPROPRIATE TERRORIST-RELATED DATA [...] (SBU) Post is engaged in informal information sharing with Tajik Government law enforcement and security service entities. However, the limited biometric and biographic information in Tajik travel documents, as well as their elementary and improperly used immigration and security databases, ma [...]	2006-12-19 12:57:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS KVPR
06DUSHANBE2228	HOW WE CAN HELP THE TAJIK ELECTION COMMISSION PREPARE FOR [...] (U) This is an Action cable. See Paragraphs 5 and 9. 2. (U) Without the pressure of an upcoming election and with the international spotlight shining elsewhere, we have an unusual opportunity to engage Tajikistan's Central Commission for Elections and Referenda. The CCER would like to ma [...]	2006-12-20 11:07:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KPOA KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2229	AMBASSADOR'S FIRST MEETING WITH NEW TAJIK FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met December 20 with Hamrakhon Zaripov in his new capacity as Tajikistan's Foreign Minister. Zaripov agreed to "coordinate with relevant ministries and the president" on responses to the Ambassador's requests for forward movement on registration and visas for Natio [...]	2006-12-20 12:06:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID ENRG TI
06DUSHANBE224	NDI DIRECTOR SHOULD RETURN TO TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador and Acting Foreign Minister Yatimov paved a way for National Democratic Institute (NDI) local Director Gegham Sargsyan to register and return to Dushanbe. Sargsyan left for Moscow on February 1 after harassment and pressure from Tajik officials. Yatimov knew the [...]	2006-02-02 13:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR TI
06DUSHANBE2243	A MINOR MIRACLE? TAJIK SETTLEMENT WITH NORSK HYDRO COULD BE [...] (C) With the December 20 signing of a cooperation agreement between Norwegian aluminum giant Norsk Hydro and Tajikistan's state-owned aluminum factory TadAZ, Tajikistan resolved one of its stickiest investment cases. Moscow-based Norwegian Ambassador Oyvind Nordsletten called on Ambassador J [...]	2006-12-22 09:59:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EINV ETRD TI NO
06DUSHANBE227	TAJIK PRISON FACILITIES IN POOR CONDITION [...] (U) This message replaces REFTEL A, adding TAG: CASC. 2. (U) PolOff visited a youth detention center and Tajikistan's central penitentiary medical facility January 31. Both facilities are in poor condition and lack adequate medical supplies and equipment. Deputy Minister of Justice, Izz [...]	2006-02-03 03:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TI
06DUSHANBE236	TAJIKISTAN: RUSSIA KICKS OFF ITS G-8 YEAR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Ambassador convened the other G-8 ambassadors on February 2 to announce a cooperative effort during the Russian G-8 presidency. Although this seems to be mostly a public re [...]	2006-02-03 12:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL RS TI
06DUSHANBE237	TAJIKISTAN'S BORDER CHIEF DISCUSSES U.S. ASSISTANCE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Chairman of the Border Protection Committee General Saidamir Zuhurov on February 2 to assess his views on U.S. assistance and to seek his views on Russia's role in Tajik border affairs. Zuhurov praised the United States as a most reliable partner. Thoug [...]	2006-02-03 13:01:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC SNAR RS TI
06DUSHANBE239	THE CIS NEEDS A CNN RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE SERVICE [...] (C) This message is Central Asia specific, but it is relevant to the other countries of the former Soviet Union, including Russia, as the other U.S. ambassadors to CIS countries agreed during a January 4 meeting in the Department with U/S Burns. 2. (C) Russia is increasingly flexing its p [...]	2006-02-06 04:54:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PROP KDEM KPAO RS ZK
06DUSHANBE250	DPT ACTING LEADER: "WE DON'T FEEL YOUR SUPPORT" [...] (C) The Ambassador and PolOff met for an hour on February 6 with Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan (DPT),Rahmatullo Valiyev. The imprisoned Mahmadruzi Iskandarov is still the DPT's titular head. The meeting was within the context of a DPT effort, as evidenced by its Febr [...]	2006-02-07 04:07:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE272	TAJIKISTAN: MURKY BUSINESS AND GEO-POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In two meetings with U.S. businessmen on February 9, a reliable CEO passed along the rumor that the largest cell-phone and Internet company in Tajikistan, Babilon-T, is founded on drug money and may sooner or later be bought by Moscow's Sistema-MTS. A less reliable U.S. interlo [...]	2006-02-10 05:31:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON EINV ENRG SNAR RS TI
06DUSHANBE275	TADAZ CLAIMS POLLUTION HAS DECREASED [...] (U) SUMMARY: Central Asia's Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officer (REO) and PolOff visited the Tajikistan Aluminum (TadAZ) plant in Tursun-Zoda near the Uzbekistan border February 9. Uzbekistan blames the Tajik government for allowing TadAZ to pollute the environment, [...]	2006-02-10 12:35:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EIND ETRD SENV RS TI
06DUSHANBE276	REQUEST TO DOUBLE AMERICAN CORNERS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] This is an action request. See para six below. 2. The Ambassador's February 7 visit to the American Corner in Khujand, where he met with FLEX alumni and was warmly welcomed by provincial and city education officials, reaffirms the enormous value of American Corners in Tajikistan - and th [...]	2006-02-11 05:19:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KISL KDEM PREL TI
06DUSHANBE277	REQUEST TO DOUBLE AMERICAN CORNERS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] This is an action request. See para six below. 2. The Ambassador's February 7 visit to the American Corner in Khujand, where he met with FLEX alumni and was warmly welcomed by provincial and city education officials, reaffirms the enormous value of American Corners in Tajikistan - and th [...]	2006-02-11 05:56:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KISL KDEM PREL TI
06DUSHANBE278	TAJIKISTAN'S RECENT UPSURGE IN VIOLENCE HIGHLIGHTED BY [...] (SBU) Since the beginning of the year, the local media have reported a number of killings of government security officials. The Tajik government often linked the murders to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). However, no credible links to the IMU have been proven. Because of the report [...]	2006-02-11 06:31:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PGOV TI
06DUSHANBE284	KHUJAND, THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA OF TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Khujand, Tajikistan's "second city," in the Ferghana Valley and separated from Dushanbe by a formidable mountain range, represents what Tajikistan could be - not a democratic paradise, but a confident, relatively progressive, stable society open to new ideas and cautiously resist [...]	2006-02-13 08:36:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID KPAO KDEM RS UZ KG TI
06DUSHANBE300	TAJIKISTAN HUMANITARIAN DEMINING: REQUEST FOR PM SUPPORT [...] Post appreciates PM/WRA information (reftel) and strongly supports further engagement on demining in Tajikistan, including a Policy Assessment Visit and funding for the Tajik Mine Action Committee through the United Nations Development Program. MINES ALONG THE AFGHAN BORDER 2. Russia la [...]	2006-02-14 07:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL KHDP TI
06DUSHANBE301	CHINA WANTS TO BE A GOOD, BUT DISCREET, NEIGHBOR TO [...] (SBU) China shares the United States' desire to see an economically stable Tajikistan, but is keeping its specific investment and trade priorities close hold. Chinese Trade Representative Wan Shungan told PolOff and BISNIS representative February 13 that China regards infrastructure and hydr [...]	2006-02-14 11:44:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAID EINV
06DUSHANBE302	TAJIK TRANSPORT MINISTER PLEASED WITH BRIDGE [...] On his first visit to the U.S.-funded bridge construction site at Nizhniy Pyanzh, Transportation Minister Ashurov expressed great satisfaction and offered to get involved personally if problems arise regarding the cement supply or customs. During the February 13 visit with PolOff and a visit [...]	2006-02-14 12:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ELTN ECON TI AF
06DUSHANBE304	BBC IN DUSHANBE: "DON'T DIS A SMALL COUNTRY AND YOU CAN GET [...] (C) In a surprisingly tough meeting February 14, the Ambassador joined his European and OSCE colleagues for what was supposed to have been a joint Western demarche about the BBC Tajik Service having lost its permission January 10 to broadcast on FM-106 in Dushanbe (reftel). French Ambassador [...]	2006-02-15 05:54:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO UK TI
06DUSHANBE305	TAJIK GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE TO CREATION OF SCA BUREAU [...] The Ambassador presented reftel talking points as a non-paper to First Deputy Foreign Minister Saimumin Yatimov on February 14. Yatimov was familiar with the issue. He said the Tajik Embassy in Washington had already reported the information and had characterized it as a positive development [...]	2006-02-15 07:10:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT PREL TI
06DUSHANBE306	ONE STEP FORWARD: NDI ACTING DEPUTY RE-REGISTERED BY TAJIK [...] As First Deputy Foreign Minister Yatimov categorically promised the Ambassador February 14, the Tajik Government re-registered National Democratic Institute (NDI) Acting Deputy Director Nurul Rakhimbekov February 15, the last possible day before his legal status would have lapsed. 2. DCM [...]	2006-02-15 09:00:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE307	FM NAZAROV SAYS NGO DRAFT LAW "POSTPONED INDEFINITELY" [...] (C) At the end of a long meeting February 14 on BBC registration and licensing (ref A),the Ambassador noted to Foreign Minister Nazarov a February 11 press statement (ref B) in which a Ministry of Justice official called for a "law stipulating strict control over activities of NGOs." The [...]	2006-02-15 09:01:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PROP KDEM RS TI
06DUSHANBE31	EMERGENCY SUPPLIES FOR TAJIKISTAN BORDER GUARDS [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-04 07:53:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR
06DUSHANBE311	SOMETIMES IT'S BETTER TO ASK PERMISSION THAN BEG [...] (U) USAID Dushanbe requested guidance from the Ambassador February 15 on a sensitive issue. The U.S. NGO Community Habitat and Finance (CHF)'s Alternative to Conflict in Tajikistan program has an Economic Opportunity Center (EOC) in Isfara in the sensitive Farghana Valley that offers computer [...]	2006-02-16 11:45:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EAID KISL KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE32	EMERGENCY SUPPLIES FOR TAJIKISTAN BORDER GUARDS [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-04 12:34:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PGOV PREL TI
06DUSHANBE321	NEW ECONOMIC ADVISER INTENDS TO ACCELERATE REFORM [...] (C) Newly appointed Presidential Adviser on Economic Affairs Matlubhon Davlatov characterized his appointment not as a change in President Rahmonov's economic reform agenda but as a means to accelerate it. "I'm not new to this team," he told the Ambassador during a February 17 initial meeting [...]	2006-02-21 05:41:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID TI
06DUSHANBE322	TAJIKISTAN: POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR KEY VISITORS FROM [...] (C) During an interagency meeting in Washington in January to elaborate the Tajikistan section of the policy document, "A Strategy for Central Asia," the Ambassador undertook to recommend names of key Tajik insiders who could be invited to Washington for low-profile but high-level conversation [...]	2006-02-21 05:51:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE326	HYDROPOWER 101: A GUIDE TO TAJIKISTAN'S PROSPECTS, PROJECTS, [...] (U) Tajikistan's mountains and rivers provide it an estimated four percent of the world's hydropower resources. The Tajik government has no shortage of promises and offers to help develop this natural resource, and is currently balancing competing interests and priorities to maximize the fina [...]	2006-02-21 11:46:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ENRG ECON PREL TI AF

06DUSHANBE327	TAJIK HYDROPOWER 201: ADVANCED GAME THEORY [...] (C) In Tajik hydropower, a new conventional wisdom is emerging. If we want the Central Asian Infrastructure Initiative to succeed in Tajikistan, we need to consider the following: 2. (C) The United States is behind the curve on hydropower. Russia is building Sangtuda I and has first grab [...]	2006-02-21 11:54:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ENRG ECON PREL TI AF
06DUSHANBE328	TAJIKISTAN'S NATIONAL PARKS SEEK U.S. COOPERATION [...] SUMMARY: Central Asian Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officer (REO),and Environmental Specialist and Embassy PolOff, visited the Tigrovaya Balka National Reserve February 8. Officials from State Committee on Environmental Protection (SCEP) accompanied EmbOffs. The g [...]	2006-02-21 14:12:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON EIND SENV TI
06DUSHANBE329	DUSHANBE CITY GOVERNMENT FINALLY ACTS AND DEMOLISHES HALF OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: City authorities tore down half of Dushanbe's synagogue February 8 along with several private homes remaining in the largely cleared vicinity to build a road leading to the new Presidential Palace. The synagogue has known about this planned demolition for at least three years [...]	2006-02-21 14:34:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE33	TAJIK MFA SUDDENLY YANKS IVLP PARTICIPANTS [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a diplomatic note informing the Embassy that two participants selected for the International Visitor's Leadership Program "The Government of the States and the Local Government" will no longer be able to participate due to a "great workload." The sudden de [...]	2006-01-04 18:22:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV TI
06DUSHANBE337	TAJIKISTAN: FINANCING NEEDED TO PROTECT URANIUM STORAGE [...] SUMMARY: Central Asian Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officer (REO),Regional Environmental Specialist and Embassy PolOff visited three of ten uranium waste sites in Tajikistan's northern Sughd region where processed uranium waste has been stored since 1942, the start of [...]	2006-02-23 05:29:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON EIND SENV TI
06DUSHANBE338	TAJIKISTAN: POLITICAL PARTY ACTIVIST FREED FROM JAIL [...] Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT) activist and lawyer Fayzinoso Vohidova was released from prison February 21. On October 13 the Sughd regional prosecutor's charged Vohidova with "forgery and the production and sale of forged documents", "evading tax payments", and "causing damage b [...]	2006-02-23 05:36:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE359	IN TAJIKISTAN, THIS WEEK'S MEDIA BOUT GOES TO IRAN [...] Groundbreaking for the Iran-funded Sangtuda-2 hydropower station dominated weekly press coverage, from Tajik and Russian Internet agencies to radio, television, and print media news outlets. This followed heavy government and independent media attention on last week's announcement of the immi [...]	2006-02-24 11:00:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV IR TI
06DUSHANBE39	TAJIKISTAN ATTEMPTS TO INFLUENCE IRAN ON NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES [...] (C) Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov may take another run at influencing Iran to cooperate with the EU on nuclear issues during his upcoming summit in Tehran. Rahmonov will meet with Afghan President Karzai and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on January 16. The summit is designed to elevate trilat [...]	2006-01-05 09:52:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MNUC TI IR
06DUSHANBE390	TAJIKS SHOW STRONG ALLEGIANCE TOWARDS U.S. DURING BORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: General Saidamir Zuhurov, Chairman of the State Border Protection Committee, highlighted the United States' close relationship with Tajikistan and Russia's waning influence with the Border Guards at a reception in his honor. The dynamics of the private reception indicated that f [...]	2006-02-27 11:53:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR RS TI
06DUSHANBE394	DUSHANBE SYNAGOGUE DEMOLITION GAINING MEDIA INTEREST [...] SUMMARY: The February 8 partial demolition of the Dushanbe synagogue (reftel A) is beginning to make waves in the international media and is stimulating letters of protest to Embassy Dushanbe from private citizens in the United States. The media accounts emphasize the reported intemperate and [...]	2006-02-28 11:13:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PROP KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE397	TAJIKISTAN'S 2005-2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] The following is Embassy Dushanbe's 2005-2006 Trafficking in Persons Report. Post's lettering system matches reftel's. OVERVIEW OF TAJIKISTAN'S ACTIVITIES TO ELIMINATE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS A. Tajikistan is an origin country for trafficking. International trafficking for the purposes [...]	2006-02-28 14:58:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD ASEC
06DUSHANBE402	TAJIKISTAN: AGA KHAN SERENA HOTEL PROBABLY DOWN THE TUBES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prince Amyn Aga Khan visited Dushanbe February 24 to break ground for the long-awaited Dushanbe Serena Hotel. Instead, President Rahmonov and Dushanbe Mayor Obaidulloyev, improbable allies for once, probably broke the project for good, on camera. Although this appears to be high [...]	2006-03-01 09:03:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EINV TI
06DUSHANBE410	TAJIK BORDER UPDATE [...] (SBU) This begins a series of cables summarizing Tajikistan's border security developments and activities of Embassy Dushanbe's Border Law Enforcement Working Group (BLEWG). Led by the DCM, with participation from the Senior Law Enforcement Advisor (SLEA),the EXBS advisor, the Defense Attac [...]	2006-03-02 11:25:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR RS TI
06DUSHANBE419	CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO TAJIKISTAN: "WHY NOT COOPERATE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese Ambassador to Tajikistan Li Huilai said China shared many of the United States' priorities in Tajikistan, including economic growth, counter-terrorism and border stability. In a very frank and open 90-minute meeting with Ambassador Hoagland, Li suggested there was room f [...]	2006-03-04 06:47:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR ECON EINV EAID ENRG TI CH
06DUSHANBE44	TAJIK ENERGY MINISTRY RELUCTANT TO WORK WITH MEHRON OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Energy Minister Emomiddin Aslov reported the Tajik government would only allow a $20 million oil refinery project if the investors assume 100 percent of the risk and make no claims on the Tajik Government, should the project fail. The actions and background of Mehron Oil [...]	2006-01-05 12:45:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD PGOV TI
06DUSHANBE442	TAJIK STUDENTS DEMAND APOLOGY FROM EMBASSY OVER 2004 HUMAN [...] (U) Students from Tajikistan's Technological University published an open letter March 2 criticizing by name an Embassy Public Affairs Section FSN for distributing the State Department's 2004 Human Rights Report on Tajikistan. The students charge the report with being slanderous and inaccur [...]	2006-03-06 10:48:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO TI
06DUSHANBE447	TAJIK STUDENTS DEMAND APOLOGY FROM EMBASSY OVER 2004 HUMAN [...] Students from Tajikistan's Technological University published an open letter March 2 criticizing by name an Embassy Public Affairs Section FSN for distributing the State Department's 2004 Human Rights Report on Tajikistan. The students charge the report with being slanderous and inaccurate. [...]	2006-03-07 03:46:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO TI
06DUSHANBE489	KAZAKHSTAN LOOKING, BUT NOT JUMPING INTO TAJIK ENERGY [...] (C) Kazakhstan is not yet serious about the Tajik energy sector. Deputy Energy Minister Akhram Suleimanov told PolOff that despite a press release quoting the Kazakhstani Ambassador to Tajikistan saying Kazakhstan might invest in Sangtuda I, "Sangtuda is for the Russians only." Suleimanov o [...]	2006-03-14 08:43:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG ECON RS CH KZ TI
06DUSHANBE493	TAJIKISTAN'S MOI WITH AES ON POWER TRANSMISSION LINES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post received the following letter from the Minister of Energy regarding Tajik government cooperation with AES, including the nine-page Memorandum of Intent for the "construction of a 220kV transmission line connecting the energy systems of Tajikistan and Afghanistan." The l [...]	2006-03-14 13:55:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ENRG ECON RS TI AF
06DUSHANBE499	TAJIKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DEFEATING VENEZUELA IN [...] (U) Post delivered talking points per reftel on defeating Venezuela in the 2006 election for non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council to Tajikistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. (C) The government of Tajikistan has not discussed the vote with Venezuela or Guatemala and has not yet [...]	2006-03-15 11:07:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN UNSC GT VE TI
06DUSHANBE502	EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE BRIEFS ON MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a read-out of his just-concluded meeting with President Rahmonov, EU Special Representative for Central Asia Kubis said that a calm and confident Rahmonov undertook to improve (to a degree) Tajik elections, reasserted his unreserved willingness to support coalition efforts in [...]	2006-03-15 12:20:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ECON KDEM RS IR UZ AF TI
06DUSHANBE509	DUSHANBE HOSTS INAUGURAL SCA REGIONAL REPORTING OFFICERS [...] Embassy Dushanbe hosted the first-ever reporting officers conference for Central and South Asia March 10-11 to discuss challenges of reporting in the age of transformational diplomacy and to identify emerging trends in crosscutting issues. Officers from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrg [...]	2006-03-16 14:02:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON KDEM KPAO RS CH IR AF ZK KG TI
06DUSHANBE524	TAJIK SNAPSHOT OF THE UNITED STATES THROUGH THE LENS OF [...] Reporting on the United States in the independent Tajik print media varies from week to week and issue to issue, but a definite pattern is discernable. The United States, along with Russia and Iran, are always featured prominently in the weekly independent print media. While each paper will [...]	2006-03-20 12:49:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO TI
06DUSHANBE525	TAJIKISTAN: CITY CONTINUES DEMOLITION, TARGETS BUSY MARKET [...] Dushanbe Mayor Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloyev signed an order to level a busy market for the construction of two new four-story apartment buildings. Tarrakiet Development owns the Rohi Abreshim market, more commonly known as the "82nd Bazaar" due to its location in the 82nd district of Dushanbe. T [...]	2006-03-20 13:00:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON SOCI TI
06DUSHANBE53	TAJIK GOVT CORRUPTS HAJJ, MAINTAINS TIGHT CONTROL OVER [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 23, the first of more than 20 planeloads of Tajik hajjis, Muslim pilgrims journeying to Mecca, left Dushanbe for Saudi Arabia. These hajjis are the lucky, well-connected or wealthy few. For the majority of Tajiks, government restrictions, corruption and expensive br [...]	2006-01-09 09:48:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE535	TAJIKISTAN'S WOMEN'S COLONY, PRISON OR PARADISE? [...] (U) Nestled in the mountains near the Nurek dam, one hour from Dushanbe, Tajikistan's sole women's prison is far more sanitary and progressive than men's prisons. The manicured gardens, relatively clean buildings, holiday activities and good management attempt to mask the sub-standard condit [...]	2006-03-23 12:09:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KWMN KIRF SOCI SNAR TI
06DUSHANBE540	TAJIKISTAN: POLITICAL VIGNETTES OF RAHMONOV AND ABDULATIPOV [...] (C) On March 18, President Rahmonov had his annual meeting with the country's intelligentsia in the newly restored central cinema and then invited them, members of his government, and the diplomatic corps to a formal luncheon in a specially constructed, 250-foot-long, temporary banquet hall in [...]	2006-03-24 08:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI RS TI
06DUSHANBE546	TAJIKISTAN: HOW TO IMPROVE THE NOVEMBER 2006 ELECTION [...] (SBU) Although it is getting late in the game, we still have an opportunity, if we begin work now, to influence the Government of Tajikistan to take steps forward toward meeting international standards in the November 2006 presidential election. If we can achieve this modest goal, we will hav [...]	2006-03-27 11:09:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE55	FIRE IN TAJIK ORPHANAGE RAISES QUESTIONS [...] (U) At least 13 disabled children died when a fire destroyed Chorbogh orphanage early January 8. Neighbors pulled children out of the burning Dushanbe facility, home to almost 100 mentally and physically disabled children. Many victims were bedridden and unable to escape. Metal bars on the [...]	2006-01-09 14:28:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE576	CORRUPTION, TAJIK STYLE: "WE PAY FOR EVERYTHING BUT THE AIR [...] (SBU) During EmbOff's March visit to southwestern agrarian Farkhar district, Mahmadali Hakimov, head of "Zamin," a successful conglomerate with businesses in farming, textiles, construction, banking, and hotels, philosophized about the high price of doing business in Tajikistan. "We pay for e [...]	2006-03-30 12:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI TI
06DUSHANBE582	GAZPROM SLOWLY STEPS INTO TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) After three years, and three days of intensive meetings, Gazprom signed an agreement March 28 with the Government of Tajikistan to create a joint venture to explore Tajikistan's southern gas and oil reserves. Deputy Minister of Energy Aslov told PolOffs the Memorandum of Understanding est [...]	2006-03-31 13:19:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG TI
06DUSHANBE583	TAJIKISTAN: AMBASSADOR'S SPEECH ON ECONOMIC REFORM AND [...] At the invitation of the Strategic Research Center (SRC) of the President of Tajikistan, the Ambassador delivered a speech March 31 at a business conference in Dushanbe. Participants included government officials and private business people. The venue was especially influential because the S [...]	2006-03-31 13:46:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON EINV TI
06DUSHANBE607	TAJIKISTAN'S SERENA HOTEL: "OH, ALL RIGHT, WE'LL DO IT YOUR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) At an Aga Khan lunch March 31 for Deputy Prime Minister Gulomov, Aga Khan Resident Representative Munir Merali told the Ambassador senior levels at Aga Khan offices in Geneva have reconsidered th [...]	2006-04-05 10:52:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV RS TI
06DUSHANBE616	TAJIKISTAN'S STRATEGIC RESEARCH CENTER'S SURPRISINGLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a March 23 posting on the "Asia-Plus" website, the director of President Rahmonov's Strategic Research Center think tank discussed his preliminary findings from an on-going study mandated by President Rahmonov about corruption in Tajikistan. His conclusions are surprisingly [...]	2006-04-07 07:26:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON SOCI KCRM MCC TI
06DUSHANBE618	EMBASSY DUSHANBE REQUESTS EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOW [...] Embassy Dushanbe requests an Embassy Science Fellow for the proposals below. The projects described below benefit the environment and have a direct effect on the well-being of the people of Tajikistan. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan's impoverished status has directed scie [...]	2006-04-07 09:45:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER KSCA TSPL OTRA SENV TI
06DUSHANBE620	TAJIKISTAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) Dear Assistant Secretary Lowenkron: I would like to solicit your help in advancing democracy in Tajikistan. See request in para eight. 3. (U) Tajikistan's next presidential election will be i [...]	2006-04-07 10:49:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE629	IRPT LEADER SAYS TAJIKS SHOULD LOOK TO WEST TO LEARN ABOUT [...] (SBU) Muhiddin Kabiri, Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) suggested that Tajiks need to travel to the West to learn about Islam in an April 6 meeting with U.S. Speaker Ahmed Younis and PolOff. Younis, the National Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Counc [...]	2006-04-10 12:01:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE648	TAJIKISTAN: IRPT SAYS RAHMONOV WILL USE LIBEL SUIT AS [...] (C) Muhiddin Kabiri, the Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) told PolOff April 6 President Rahmonov likely will stop the lawsuit filed by Dushanbe Vodokanal against IRPT Chairman Said Abdullo Nuri closer to the election in November. 2. (U) Dushanbe Vo [...]	2006-04-11 10:12:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE666	TAJIKISTAN'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAY SPLIT IN TWO [...] (SBU) Rahmatullo Valiev, Democratic Party of Tajikistan (DPT) Deputy Chairman, told Embassy sources April 8 that he is confident a new DPT faction, "Homeland" (Vatan) formed by Masud Sobirov, will not supercede the DPT and may not have the support necessary to be formally adopted. Sobirov c [...]	2006-04-11 12:29:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE669	TAJIKISTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER AGREES TO TRY TO HELP RESOLVE [...] (S) Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov agreed to designate a government point of contact to help resolve the issue of transferring Tajik citizens from Guantanamo to Tajikistan (reftel). In a 40-minute meeting April 6, Nazarov listened carefully as the Ambassador explained the assurances necessar [...]	2006-04-12 09:03:00	Embassy Dushanbe	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM PROP PTER ECON KAWC RS TI
06DUSHANBE703	TAJIK GOVERNMENT ENACTS HOUSEHOLD EXCESS ELECTRICITY RATE [...] (U) According to media reports, the Tajik Anti-Monopoly Committee approved on April 11 an excess electricity consumption rate above 250 kWh per month for private households retroactive to the beginning of April. The base electricity rate remains the same at 0.5 cent. Per reftel, the 0.5 cent [...]	2006-04-14 05:44:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV SOCI AF PK TI
06DUSHANBE704	TAJIK JOURNALISTS UNION SUSPENSION NOT A CRACK DOWN ON MEDIA [...] On April 11 the Ministry of Justice announced a Dushanbe district court suspended the Union of Journalists of Tajikistan for three months. The suspension is not seen as a threat to media freedom, but rather a move by the government to oust the Union's current chairman, Hayot Davlatov. 2. [...]	2006-04-14 06:55:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE705	TAJIKISTAN: WHY MOUNTING CORRUPTION MATTERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Tajikistan's mounting corruption exacerbates growing income inequalities and degrades the relatively high human capital left from Soviet times. Pervasive corruption limits local and international investment, distorts donor and government development strategies, and undermines ec [...]	2006-04-14 07:20:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV KCOR SOCI TI
06DUSHANBE711	TAJIKISTAN: AES STILL IN TEH GAME FOR SANGTUDA-I? [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Bank Chairman Murodali Alimardonov remarked April 14 that AES might still have a role to play in Sangtuda I or Rogun hydropower stations. In an elegant two-hour private lunch at the new National Bank building, Alimardonov outlined next steps for Tajikistan to integrate [...]	2006-04-15 11:50:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EINV ENRG RS AF TI
06DUSHANBE734	POSSIBLE IRANIAN SURVEILLANCE - DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN (APRIL [...] (S/NF) On April 18, 2006 at approximately 1400 hours, RSO was contacted by the Surveillance Detection (SD) supervisor who stated that at approximately 1306 hours local, SD personnel spotted two male subjects located at Rudaki Avenue and Said Nosir street intersection (approximately 2 blocks f [...]	2006-04-19 12:15:00	Embassy Dushanbe	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC TI
06DUSHANBE745	BADAKHSHAN TO BADAKHSHAN: TAJIKS REACHING ACROSS THE BORDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: "We consider Afghanistan like our own." Ayubek Bekmurodov, Deputy to the Governor of Tajikistan's remote Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region said his government was looking at ways to increase trade, the power supply, and food and humanitarian aid to the Afghan regions across th [...]	2006-04-21 04:36:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ENRG ECON EAID AF TI
06DUSHANBE748	TAJIKISTAN'S NEW MAGIC WORD? DAST-I-ZHUM! [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Want to take a helicopter ride with the Deputy Prime Minister and three of Tajikistan's most influential energy players? Say "Dast-i-Zhum"-- a proposed 4000 MW hydropower station on the Tajik-Afghan border - and the Tajik government pays attention, rallying busy ministers and [...]	2006-04-21 08:59:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG ECON EAID AF TI
06DUSHANBE751	TAJIKISTAN: UNTOP AND OSCE SPONSOR FIRST PRESIDENTIAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) The UN Secretary General's Special Representative for the Tajikistan Office for Peace Building (UNTOP),Ambassador Vladimir Sotirov (secunded to the UN from the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry),cond [...]	2006-04-24 09:34:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE752	RAHMONOV'S ANNUAL SPEECH TO PARLIAMENT ELECTION-YEAR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: President Rahmonov's annual speech to the nation, one of his longest in recent memory, was clearly a populist election-year tract, but also a statesmanlike balancing act that leaned, at [...]	2006-04-24 09:35:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EAID EINV SOCI KCOR IR CH RS TI
06DUSHANBE768	TAJIKISTAN: SHAKE UP AT MINISTRY OF ENERGY, MINISTER [...] President Rahmonov signed a decree April 24 dismissing the Minister of Energy and other ministry officials. According to press reports Abdullo Yerov will replace Jurabek Nurmahmadov as the Minister of Energy. Yerov was the former Minister of Energy until replaced by Nurmahmadov in 2004, when [...]	2006-04-24 13:20:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON ENRG TI
06DUSHANBE776	INDIA LOOKS TO REVIVE SILK ROAD HERITAGE, NOT GREAT GAME [...] (SBU) In an April 26 meeting with U.S. DCM, Indian Deputy Chief of Mission Govinda Khampa took great pains to explain India's priorities in Tajikistan. Far from extending India's "strategic reach," the repair of the Ayni Airfield outside of Dushanbe is part of India's Technical Economic Coope [...]	2006-04-26 09:57:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR MASS ECON ETRD TI
06DUSHANBE779	TAJIKISTAN'S SHARIPOV DISCUSSES CORRUPTION, IRAN, RUSSIA, [...] (C) The Ambassador met April 26 with Director of the President's Strategic Research Center (SRC) Suhrob Sharipov for a wide-ranging discussion on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),anti-corruption efforts in Tajikistan, Iranian-Tajik relations, and Tajikistan's increasing unease with [...]	2006-04-27 08:35:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG SOCI KCOR KMCA KDEM IR RS
06DUSHANBE781	TAJIK SECURITY SERVICES DETAIN NDI'S ACTING DIRECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of Interior officers detained National Democratic Institute (NDI) Acting Director Nurul Rahimbekov April 26 as he was attempting to board a domestic flight to Khujand to conduct a training program for political parties. Contacts in the Ministry of Security, which has ta [...]	2006-04-27 10:59:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE789	A LITTLE FOOD AID GOES A LONG WAY IN TAJIKISTAN'S RASHT [...] SUMMARY: In a place where a covered pit latrine is considered a sanitary leap forward, USAID's Food for Peace/Development Assistance Program (DAP) provides more than 3,800 poor families in Tajikistan's isolated Rasht valley with supplemental food, and nutrition and hygiene education. Through [...]	2006-04-28 08:29:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAGR EAID TI
06DUSHANBE798	TAJIK FM SAYS NDI DETENTION AN ISSUE FOR KAZAKHSTAN, NOT US [...] (C) Foreign Minister Tabak Nazarov told the Ambassador April 28 the allegations against detained National Democratic Institute (NDI) Acting Director Nurul Rahimbekov were too "shameful" to discuss, but the Embassy of Kazakhstan, not the United States, must handle the situation (reftel). In a [...]	2006-04-28 11:28:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE799	TAJIKISTAN'S SEQUOIAS, FROM CALIFORNIA TO DUSHANBE [...] A recent letter from a 75-year-old amateur historian William Allen in California shows Tajikistan is not totally unknown. Allen wanted to know if sequoia trees, native to California's Sierra Nevada, were thriving in Tajikistan and attached a copy of a 1964 news article that reported Dushanbe i [...]	2006-04-28 12:03:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAGR SENV TI
06DUSHANBE801	TAJIKISTAN SCENE-SETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER AND [...] (SBU) Richard and Elisabeth, we are very grateful you are visiting Tajikistan. As you have quickly learned, Central Asia is not the easiest place for the United States to do business, especially since Russia has declared these countries its sphere of influence and is taking all sorts of measu [...]	2006-04-29 09:31:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR SNAR KDEM KPAO RS TI
06DUSHANBE802	NEW ENERGY MINISTER, SAME ENERGY POLICY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his third day on the job, Energy Minister Yorov reported Tajikistan's energy policy would continue to focus on attracting foreign investment for key infrastructure projects. He cited the reforms of the past five years, notably in improved fee collection, as evidence that Ta [...]	2006-05-02 11:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ENRG ECON EAID AF TI
06DUSHANBE817	NDI: PROTEST SUBMITTED TO MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Post submitted the following diplomatic note to the MFA May 3 lodging a formal protest against the treatment of NDI: BEGIN TEXT: The Embassy of the United States of America presents its comp [...]	2006-05-03 11:22:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE827	TAJIKISTAN'S MOST ISLAMIC REGION FEELS MOST NEGLECTED [...] SUMMARY: Rasht Valley, one of Tajikistan's most isolated and devoutly Islamic districts, feels left behind. The economic boom evident elsewhere in Tajikistan has yet to reach this agricultural area. NGO and civil society leaders observe that while international organizations are active, mor [...]	2006-05-03 13:25:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID SOCI TI
06DUSHANBE834	TAJIKISTAN'S RELIGIOUS LEADERS REACT TO DRAFT LAW ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In a series of meetings with PolOff April 12-25, religious leaders unanimously expressed grave concerns with the State Committee on Religious Affairs' (SCRA) new draft law on religion. [...]	2006-05-04 16:49:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE835	TAJIK DEPUTY PM OUTLINES VISION FOR HYDROPOWER SECTOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Although the Chinese have made the Tajiks an offer too good to refuse on a South-North transmission line project, according to Deputy Prime Minister Asadullo Ghulomov, many energy proje [...]	2006-05-04 17:47:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG AF TI
06DUSHANBE836	TAJIKISTAN: NDI IN WASHINGTON WANTS SHOWDOWN MEETING WITH [...] (U) National Democratic Institute (NDI) President Ken Wallach and the Ambassador spoke by telephone May 5. Wallach thanked the Ambassador and Embassy Dushanbe for continuous support and advocacy for NDI. 2. (C) Wallach said he had spoken by telephone with Nurul Rakhimbekov, NDI's former [...]	2006-05-05 09:34:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EAID KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE840	TAJIKISTAN: WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY EVENTS [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Dushanbe marked World Press Freedom Day with an on-line press conference with the Ambassador answering questions from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Russia. The Ambassador also participated in a World Press Freedom Day roundtable hosted by Internews, the Institute for War and P [...]	2006-05-07 07:49:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE841	TAJIKISTAN: IRPT SAYS DETAINED MEMBER MURDERED [...] (U) Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) member Sadullo Marupov died by falling from the third story of a police station in Isfara, a northern Tajikistan town in the Sughd region known for its strong Islamic roots. Officials state that Marupov committed suicide; however, IRPT membe [...]	2006-05-07 08:41:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KISL KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE858	SCA A/S BOUCHER, NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR MILLARD ESTABLISH SOLID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher and National Security Council Senior Adviser Elisabeth Millard met with President Emomali Rahmonov for nearly two hours on May 8 to discuss strengthening cooperation between Tajikistan and the United States i [...]	2006-05-10 06:39:00	Embassy Dushanbe	SECRET	PREL PGOV EAID ENRG SNAR KDEM KISL KPAO RS IR
06DUSHANBE861	TAJIKISTAN: NDI DEBRIEFS RAKHIMBEKOV ON HIS DETENTION, [...] (C) Embassy Dushanbe received the following memo dated May 5 from National Democratic Institute headquarters in Washington. Although it arrived via unclassified e-mail, we are sending it through the classified network because of the sensitivity of the information. 2. (C) BEGIN TEXT: ND [...]	2006-05-10 09:28:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EAID KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE862	SCA A/S BOUCHER, NSC MILLARD MEET FM NAZAROV, DISCUSS SCO, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and NSC Senior Director Elisabeth Millmetwith Tajik Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov May 8. Boucher delivered the reftel demarche on countering attempts to use the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ( [...]	2006-05-10 10:39:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR KDEM IN TI
06DUSHANBE865	TAJIKISTAN: SCA A/S BOUCHER, NSC MILLARD MEET WITH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and National Security Council Senior Director Elisabeth Millard met May 8 with Tajikistan's political party leade [...]	2006-05-10 17:08:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO TI
06DUSHANBE867	WILL SCO SUMMIT RAISE WESTERN NGOS? [...] (SBU) Russian Ambassador Ramazan Abdulatipov has gone public denouncing Western NGOs in Tajikistan. "Biznis i Politika" (April 20) published the long texty of a speech he delivered earlier at a Dushanbe roundtable for Russian-speaking Tajik intelligentsia, "The Role of NGOs in the Development [...]	2006-05-11 11:47:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PROP KDEM RS TI
06DUSHANBE870	URGENT REQUEST FOR DEMARCHE ON SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARA NINE BELOW. 2. (S) ON MAY 11 AT 1800 LOCAL, GENERAL-COLONEL SAIDIMIR ZUHUROV, CHAIRMAN OF THE TAJIK STATE BORDER COMMITTEE, CALLED THE U.S. DEFENSE ATTACHE AND REQUESTED AN URGENT MEETING. GENERAL ZUHUROV TOLD THE DATT HE HAD A SERIOUS INTERNATIONA [...]	2006-05-11 16:47:00	Embassy Dushanbe	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR SNAR RS TI
06DUSHANBE903	TAJIKISTAN: MFA SUBMITS GUANTANAMO DIP NOTE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) Post received a diplomatic note from Tajikistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs agreeing to accept four Tajik Guantanamo detainees. The dip note is likely the result of the meeting of LTC Ron Miller, Military Advisor to the [...]	2006-05-18 03:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC TI
06DUSHANBE909	TAJIKISTAN HOSTS REGIONAL CN CONFERENCE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies along with U.S. CENTCOM and Tajikistan's Committee on State Border Protection organized the International Conference on Counter Narcotics and the second Meeting of the Central and South Asia Counter Narcotics Securi [...]	2006-05-18 13:22:00	Embassy Dushanbe	SECRET	PGOV PREL SNAR TI
06DUSHANBE945	TAJIKISTAN: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR IRAQI GOVT FORMATION [...] DCM delivered talking points per reftel to Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs May 22. Nasredinov promised to pass the points on to the MFA's Asia and Africa desk and will respond to the Embassy if the desk has any [...]	2006-05-23 11:14:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO IZ TI
06DUSHANBE949	TAJIKISTAN: UNTOP MANDATE NEEDS IMMEDIATE RENEWAL ACTION [...] (C) UN Secretary General's Special Representative Ambassador Vladimir Sotirov (please protect throughout) of the United Nations Tajikistan Office of Peace-building (UNTOP) asked to see the Ambassador urgently on May 24. 2. (SBU) In mid-May every year, the UN Security Council extends the U [...]	2006-05-24 08:41:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM UN TI
06DUSHANBE978	TAJIKISTAN AND AES FINALLY SIGN MOU [...] (C) AES Corporation President and CEO Paul Hanrahan and his team met with President Rahmonov for an hour on May 24. With the president were Deputy Prime Minister Ghulomov, Minister of Energy Yorov, Minister of Economy Soliyev, Chairman of Barqi Tojik (state electricity company Samiyev, Presid [...]	2006-05-25 11:18:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EINV ENRG RS TI
06DUSHANBE986	TAJIKISTAN: A RESOLUTION TO THE SYNAGOGUE'S PROBLEMS? [...] Local Tajik news sources have reported that Alexsandr Mashkevich, president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) and Kazakh oligarch, agreed to fund the construction of a new synagogue in the center of Dushanbe. The existing synagogue has already been partly demolished along with other bu [...]	2006-05-26 07:45:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KIRF KISM TI
06DUSHANBE995	TAJIKISTAN: LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR BETTER ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although we can predict six months before Tajikistan's presidential election that it will not fully meet international standards, we have the opportunity to ensure that the election is conducted significantly better than any previous election in Tajikistan's short independent his [...]	2006-05-30 10:01:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TI
06DUSSELDORF15	AL-QAIDA TRIAL OPENS IN DUESSELDORF [...] (U) Summary: A trial against suspected members of the Al-Qaida terrorist network opened in Duesseldorf May 9. One Iraqi and two Palestinian defendants have been charged with violating post-9/11 German legislation prohibiting membership in or support of a foreign terrorist organization, as we [...]	2006-05-12 13:36:00	Consulate Dusseldorf	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KCRM ASEC MNUC ETTC KTFN KNNP PARM GM
06DUSSELDORF47	GERMAN BUSINESS COMMUNITY DISAPPOINTMENT WITH FEDERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: German business leaders are expressing disappointment with the lack of economic reforms under the Merkel government. Some executives go so far as to say that the previous SPD-led government was more active in pushing reforms and paid greater attention to business' concerns. T [...]	2006-12-14 11:22:00	Consulate Dusseldorf	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB BEXP GM
06DUSSELDORF48	GERMAN COURT CONVICTS TWO IN ILLEGAL EXPORTS CASE TO IRAN [...] (U) In a December 15 decision, the Duesseldorf Regional Court convicted two defendants on charges of illegally exporting sensitive technology to Iran. The first defendant, Ali Mobaraki, an Iranian businessman resident in Duesseldorf, was sentenced to two years and two months in prison. The [...]	2006-12-20 08:15:00	Consulate Dusseldorf	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM MASS KOMC ETTC IR GM
06DUSSELDORF49	RUSSIAN INTEREST IN INVESTMENTS IN GERMANY [...] (SBU) Summary: Russian interest in buying into German/European companies, including Deutsche Telekom and energy companies has been a front page story. At the moment, in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and other parts of Germany, the level of actual transactions has not come close to equaling th [...]	2006-12-20 17:11:00	Consulate Dusseldorf	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG PGOV RS GM
06EFTOATHENS1738	SOUTHERN CORRIDOR ENERGY OFFICERS' CONFERENCE, [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2.(SBU) This is an update to the Energy Conference to be held in Athens on July 14, 2006. All Energy Officers, Economic Counselors and other appropriate officers from addressee posts who plan to attend should e-mail K [...]	2006-07-06 14:23:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EPET GR
06EFTOATHENS2950	GREECE'S EFFORTS IN IPR PROTECTION; EARLY SPECIAL [...] (U) Summary: Since the receipt of the USG's Special 301 action plan for Greece in April 2006, the GoG has made a bona fide effort to improve its overall IPR protection stance. There has been positive, concrete, action on aspects of the action plan, including noteworthy first steps with the J [...]	2006-11-09 12:30:00	Embassy Athens	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON GR KIPR
06EFTOBRUSSELS3952	BELGIAN CONTRIBUTION TO EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY [...] (SBU) Belgium's Senate is having heated discussions over Belgium's contribution to the European Space Agency (ESA) budget. The Senate's advisor and legislation manager for Space and Technology Issues told Econoff that the 200 million euro annual contribution of Belgium to the ESA was dominant [...]	2006-11-29 06:19:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPA PGOV BE
06EFTOCAIRO6192	EMBASSY CAIRO RESPONSE TO HIV/AIDS AND THE GLOBAL [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Embassy Cairo comments on the the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria Parallel Review Process follow. Responses are keyed to format in reftel. 2. Country: Egypt Region: Middle East Title: Support for the National Plan for the Control of TB Plus A. Proposing Gro [...]	2006-10-03 14:19:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHIV EAID SOCI TBIO EG
06EFTOPORTMORESBY194	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - CANDIDACY OF IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-27 06:04:00	Embassy Port Moresby	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PUNR PHUM PP BP NH
06EFTOPORTMORESBY350	NOTHING FISHY ON THE INDONESIAN BOARDER [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-28 03:05:00	Embassy Port Moresby	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PP ID
06EFTORABAT1713	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (SBU) Summary: MFA Minister delegate Taieb Fassi Fihri warmly welcomed the U.S.-Russian joint proposal that it host the first Global initiative meeting, and fully supported the initiative itself, but asked for a little time to respond, given that key decision makers are out of the country. He [...]	2006-09-14 14:19:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KGIC PTER KNNP MO
06FRANKFURT1273	March 26 Elections in Rheinland-Pfalz/Baden-Wuerttemberg [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With four weeks until state elections in Rheinland-Pfalz and Baden-Wuerttemberg, polls show both state governments in the lead. In Rheinland-Pfalz, the SPD/FDP coalition (Social Democratic/Free Democratic) is banking on the popularity of long-time Minister-President Kurt Beck ( [...]	2006-02-24 15:02:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
06FRANKFURT1288	Hesse Local Election Update [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 26, Hesse will hold state-wide communal (local) elections in the most important test this year for Minister-President Roland Koch (CDU/Christian Democrats). The SPD/Social Democratic Party (which holds the most mayoral and local assembly seats in the state) is hoping to [...]	2006-02-24 16:00:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
06FRANKFURT1927	March 26 Elections in Rheinland-Pfalz/Baden-Wuerttemberg [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the days leading up to March 26 state elections, Rheinland-Pfalz (R-P) Minister-President Kurt Beck (SPD/Social Democrats) and Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) Minister- President Guenther Oettinger (CDU/Christian Democrats) appear to be leading in their efforts to win re-election. [...]	2006-03-21 16:15:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
06FRANKFURT4083	State-Wide Raids Target Radical Muslims in Baden- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 1, law enforcement officials throughout the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) conducted large- scale raids in areas they believed were frequented by Muslim extremists. State officials say they obtained no specific terrorist-related information, but believe the rai [...]	2006-06-13 12:12:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC KISL GM
06FRANKFURT4232	TIP: Follow-Up on Pre-World Cup Raids in State of Hesse [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In pre-World Cup raids against forced prostitution and trafficking in the German state of Hesse on May 10, German law enforcement officials detained 74 persons. Police and NGOs are now working with prostitutes to identify trafficking victims and build cases against pimps/traffic [...]	2006-06-21 06:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC GM
06FRANKFURT4327	Two German States Tackle Demographic Challenges [...] SUMMARY: The states of Hesse and Saarland, like much of Germany, face tectonic shifts as their populations stagnate and age. Whereas Saarland is home to Western Germany's most rapidly shrinking population, Hesse's uneven growth is causing public policy challenges. Their differing approaches t [...]	2006-06-23 14:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI ECON ELAB PGOV GM
06FRANKFURT4401	German officials make Ansar al-Islam arrest, bring other [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 12 German police arrested "Burhan B." at Frankfurt Airport and charged him with breaking German export laws and with membership and support for Ansar al-Islam. Separately, on June 20 authorities launched the trial of Ata Abdoulaziz Rashid and two accomplices. They stand [...]	2006-06-27 15:03:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC KISL IZ GM
06FRANKFURT5016	Court Ruling on Headscarf Raises New Questions on Ban [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 7, the Stuttgart Regional Court ruled that public school teacher Doris Graber should be permitted to wear her headscarf in class. While the court recognized that a headscarf violates religious neutrality, it acknowledged that it cannot prohibit a headscarf while allowing C [...]	2006-07-25 14:20:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KISL GM
06FRANKFURT7499	Ansar al-Islam Trial Update [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The trial of three suspected members of Ansar al-Islam accused of plotting to assassinate then-Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi during a visit to Germany in December 2004 is ongoing in Stuttgart-Stammheim (a high-security court facility). One defendant has spoken out in recent proceed [...]	2006-10-31 15:30:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC KISL IZ GM
06FRANKFURT7622	German MOI Standoff on TSA Air Security Inspections [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration (TSA) regularly conducts observations of both U.S. and German carriers in Germany at airports with direct service to the U.S., as mandated under U.S. law. Recently, the German Ministry of the Interior ( [...]	2006-11-06 14:49:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR KSEC PTER ASEC GM
06FRANKFURT7767	GM Europe Working on Fuel Cell, Other New Transport [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: General Motors Europe representatives, meeting with visiting Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chairman James Connaughton, described the work being done in the facility to develop passenger vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells as well as work on intermediate technologie [...]	2006-11-13 15:50:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON SENV GM

06FRANKFURT7910	Hesse/Roland Koch in Party Financing "Blackmail" Scandal [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A week before Hesse Minister-President Roland Koch (CDU/Christian Democrats) expects to be elected CDU national deputy chairman, he finds himself entangled in a scandal over taxpayer-funded campaign financing. Koch is accused of using public financing to entice a competing part [...]	2006-11-21 09:09:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR TBIO GM
06FRANKFURT7924	ALLEGED FRANKFURT AIRPORT TERROR PLOT DISRUPTED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: German authorities temporarily detained six suspected terrorists November 17 for alleged involvement in a plot to blow up an aircraft, presumably from Frankfurt International Airport. END SUMMARY. The Alleged Plot ---------------- 2. (SBU) According to a press release fro [...]	2006-11-21 14:36:00	Consulate Frankfurt	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER ASEC PGOV KISL JO KU IZ GM
06FRANKFURT8141	German Women, Economy Stuck at Glass Ceiling [...] In a city of skyscrapers and boardrooms, the absence of top female management in Frankfurt is striking -- nor is Frankfurt unique in Germany. The "glass ceiling" for women in the German workforce is remarkably pervasive and persistent, fueling Germany's demographic problems and lowering potent [...]	2006-12-08 14:46:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI KWMN ECON ELAB PGOV GM
06FREETOWN1007	MIXED REACTIONS TO BLOOD DIAMOND MOVIE IN SIERRA [...] (SBU) Sierra Leonean reactions to the soon-to-be released Blood Diamond movie set in Sierra Leone are mixed. Due for release on December 8, the movie comes amidst an upsurge in public awareness about the conflict diamond trade and has drawn increasing attention to the African diamond mining [...]	2006-12-11 10:05:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EAID ETRD EMIN SL
06FREETOWN1054	DEMARCHE: 2007 LIBERIA PARTNERS' FORUM [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-28 16:25:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PREL SL
06FREETOWN247	SIERRA LEONE FORECASTS INCREASED DIAMOND EXPORTS, [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-23 17:10:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EMIN ETRD SL
06FREETOWN321	MEDIA PLACEMENTS FOR MARCH 2006 [...] Post and Mission Activities/Press Releases: A. Post issued a press release on the Nationwide HIV/AIDS education tour. The US Government, through the US Department of Defense, sponsored the tour. Sierra Leone's internationally acclaimed musician Steady Bongo and the Republic of Sierra Leon [...]	2006-04-19 15:57:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO SL
06FREETOWN341	USS CARR VISIT TO FREETOWN -- FRUITFUL EXCHANGES, [...] (C) The USS Carr called on Freetown April 22-24 as part of its ongoing mission to strengthen partnerships in the Gulf of Guinea. The Navy wants to keep tabs on maritime activity connected to trafficking in drugs, trafficking in persons, illegal fisheries, and pollution, Task Force Commodore (N [...]	2006-04-26 18:02:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KPAO EWWT EFIS PINR MOPS EAID SENV
06FREETOWN360	AMCIT DETAINED FOR PHOTOGRAPHING SPECIAL COURT, NO [...] (C) On May 2, AmCit Michael Chemidlin was arrested for taking photographs of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (reftel) where war crimes indictee former Liberian President Charles Taylor is incarcerated awaiting trial. Chemidlin was accompanied by two Sierra Leoneans who he said told him to [...]	2006-05-05 17:13:00	Embassy Freetown	SECRET	ASEC CASC PREL SL LI
06FREETOWN379	GOVERNMENT STOPS COOPERATION WITH UN MISSION OVER [...] (C) President Kabbah and his Government did not like the criticisms in the recent UN Secretary General's quarterly report to the Security Council on the UNIOSIL mission and reacted by discontinuing cooperation with the UN mission. The international community supports UNIOSIL and the Executive [...]	2006-05-11 19:44:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL USUN KDEM SL
06FREETOWN409	RE-ARRESTED: AMCIT ACCUSED OF TREASON [...] (C) On May 16, one day after a magistrate judge released American Citizen Michael Chemidlin and three Sierra Leoneans held on charges of conspiracy and treason for taking photographs of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, police re-arrested Chemidlin and two of the three Sierra Leoneans. The m [...]	2006-05-24 10:07:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PINS KCRM PREL PHUM KDEM KAWC SL
06FREETOWN441	SIERRA LEONE DEBATES A STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL [...] The newly formed National Commission on Environment and Forestry (NaCEF) is reaching out to other stakeholders in the development of its Strategic Action Plan. The Regional Environmental Hub Officer made a presentation at a one-day conference about the lessons Sierra Leone could learn from th [...]	2006-06-01 17:15:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID PREL SL
06FREETOWN496	Liberians Riot At Freetown UNHCR Office [...] On June 12, a small contingent of disgruntled Liberian refugees, including ex-combatants who were recently refused refugee status, led an assault on the Freetown UNHCR office. Police arrested 61 people, but only after approximately $50,000 worth of damage was done to UNHCR vehicles and ground [...]	2006-06-19 17:01:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PINS ASEC SL LI
06FREETOWN499	SIERRA LEONE PREPARES FOR 2007 ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-19 18:46:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SL
06FREETOWN542	EAC MEETING: ACUTE WATER SHORTAGE -- POST PLANS [...] A July 5 Emergency Action Committee meeting discussed the acute water shortage in Freetown and what actions post can take to mitigate its effects. The Guma Valley reservoir is seriously drawn down and municipal water rationing was instituted last week. On July 4, the Government established [...]	2006-07-06 16:27:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT AEMR ASEC CASC EAID SL
06FREETOWN603	TFLE01: LEBANESE IN SIERRA LEONE APPEAL TO U.S. [...] SUMMARY: On July 25, five representatives from the Lebanese community in Sierra Leone met with the Ambassador and PolOff to present a letter asking for strong U.S. action to broker a ceasefire with Israel. The President of the Lebanese Community in Sierra Leone said that the bombings are out [...]	2006-07-26 08:52:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL CASC ASEC MOPS SL LE IS
06FREETOWN646	IMF REP ON SIERRA LEONE COMPLETION POINT: MAYBE BY [...] (C) The IMF Representative for Guinea and Sierra Leone told DCM on August 4 that Sierra Leone has hard work to do on increasing government revenues and controlling expenditures. With substantial effort, the HIPC completion point (put off several times) could be reached by late 2006. Collecting [...]	2006-08-10 13:04:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID EINV SL
06FREETOWN755	SIERRA LEONE: LOSING THE BATTLE AGAINST CORRUPTION? [...] (C) Summary: On August 24, the High Court of Sierra Leone acquitted six defendants accused of procuring an overvalued, non-functional forklift for the Sierra Leone Port Authority for lack of evidence. The acquittal in this case, which was the only corruption case involving high-level governmen [...]	2006-09-11 18:37:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR UK SL
06FREETOWN809	HEALTH OF PRESIDENT KABBAH OF SIERRA LEONE [...] (C) As requested Reftel, Embassy Freetown is providing an assessment of the apparent health and leadership qualities of the President of Sierra Leone. Information is based on observation. 2. (U) Biographic Information: Name: President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah Term of Office: President sin [...]	2006-09-29 14:44:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR SL
06FREETOWN810	AMBASSADOR HOSTS SUCCESSFUL RAMADAN IFTAR [...] On September 27, the Ambassador invited members of Sierra Leone's Muslim community to the residence to participate in a Maghreb Prayer and Ifter to break the Ramadan fast. The event was well attended by about 75 prominent Muslim Sheiks, clerics and Imams, as well as Minister of Labor Alpha Tim [...]	2006-09-29 14:48:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KISL KPAO SL
06FREETOWN852	SIERRA LEONE CONTINUES SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA [...] (C) Per reftel C instructions, Charge met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General Umaru Wurie October 17 to confirm GoSL's continuing support of Guatemala's UNSC candidacy. DG Wurie confirmed the message received by the Embassy on October 16 (Ref D) that he had contacted the GoSL [...]	2006-10-18 07:24:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC GT VT SL
06FREETOWN876	REQUEST TO PURSUE STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT WITH [...] This is an action request. See Para. 5 2. Since 2001 DOD has assigned at least three U.S. Military personnel to serve as U.S. liaison at the International Military Advisory Training Team (IMATT). Although the UK concluded a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Sierra Leone (G [...]	2006-10-26 17:13:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL SL
06FREETOWN953	Embassy Freetown Dedicates New Embassy Compound November [...] On November 16, Embassy Freetown officially dedicated the New Embassy Compound. OBO Director General Charles E. Williams and Sierra Leone Vice President Soloman E. Berewa (representing President Kabbah who was out of the country) and the Ambassador participated in the outdoor ceremony, unveile [...]	2006-11-21 09:37:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO ABLD AGMT CVIS SL
06FREETOWN957	FREETOWN GRANTS G/TIP COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST [...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance for the visit of Amy Lemar, Program Analyst for Africa in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),to Freetown December 10 - 14. A contract expediter meets all visitors - see para 9 below. Visitors are urged to read the conten [...]	2006-11-22 14:52:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA KCRM KWMN PHUM ELAB SMIG NI BN SG SL
06GABORONE836	DEMARCHE RESPONSE: IRAN ARMS DEAL CANCELED [...] (S) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for Europe and North America, Sesara George, informed the Embassy on 22 June of the cancellation of Botswana's small arms ammunition purchase from Iran (refs). Earlier in the week he had telephoned to tell us that the MFA had confirmed the existence o [...]	2006-06-26 14:29:00	Embassy Gaborone	SECRET//NOFORN	BC ETRD ETTC IR PARM PREL
06GABORONE865	BOTSWANA YOUTH STRUGGLE WITH UNEMPLOYMENT [...] SUMMARY: Botswana's youth face a lack of both training and job opportunities, creating situations of poverty that can lead to commercial sex work, HIV/AIDS, and anti-social behavior. Despite a significant problem of commercial sex work, none of our contacts have heard of scenarios in which [...]	2006-06-29 09:45:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PHUM SOCI BC
06GENEVA2102	ANTI-VEHICLE MINE PROTOCOL: ENGAGING RUSSIA ON NEW [...] (U) This is an action request. Mission Geneva requests that Department ask Embassy Moscow to convey the points at para 5 to appropriate host government officials in the MFA's Department of International Security and Arms Control (note: MFA/DVBR Director Anatoliy Antonov has been involved in o [...]	2006-08-29 15:44:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP PARM PREL RS
06GENEVA2131	TAXATION OF UN MISSION RESIDENCES [...] Summary. Reftel requested information about Swiss taxation of foreign-owned diplomatic mission residences, and asked post to describe any USG or post-owned properties used as residences by US Mission personnel. Mission can confirm that there are no/no USG-owned properties used as residences [...]	2006-09-01 05:08:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT KLIG SW
06GENEVA2170	HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PRESIDENT DISCUSSES ISRAEL'S [...] (C) In an open and friendly meeting August 31 with DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles, Mexican Permanent Representative and Human Rights Council (HRC) President Luis Alfonso de Alba explained his interactions with the Israeli and Lebanese missions in the aftermath of three resolutions calling for in [...]	2006-09-06 15:35:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA2178	ANTI-VEHICLE MINE PROTOCOL: ENGAGING PAKISTAN ON A [...] (C) This is an action request. As recommended by Pakistani Amb Masood Kahn to USDEL in Aug 28-Sept 6 CCW meeting, Mission Geneva requests that Department convey the points at para 6 to Pakistani ambassador in Washington and that DoD request military attach in Islamabad to convey same points [...]	2006-09-08 07:13:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP PARM PREL PK
06GENEVA2614	GEORGIAN PERMREP ASKS FOR HIGH-LEVEL U.S. [...] (C) Georgian PermRep Levan Mikeladze and Political Counselor Valerian Katamadze met with Ambassador Tichenor Oct. 13 to request U.S. intervention on behalf of Georgia in response to Russia's retaliation against Georgia following the arrest and later expulsion of four Russian military officers [...]	2006-10-16 15:39:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS GG AM RS
06GEORGETOWN1	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN. VON GEIJER AND [...] Post welcomes TSA Senior Aviation Security Inspector Dan Von Geijer and Aviation Security Inspector Jon Christensen from January 23 until January 31, 2006 and grants country clearance. 2. Per the travelers' request, hotel reservations are confirmed at the Le Meridien Pegasus hotel, phone [...]	2006-01-03 11:27:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ASEC GY
06GEORGETOWN101	REVISED CABLE: GEORGETOWN REQUESTS INCLUSION IN [...] Below is Embassy Georgetown's nomination for the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. The slate has full front office approval. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated processing in Washington and should not be [...]	2006-01-30 13:21:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO GY
06GEORGETOWN1037	TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING (GUYANA) [...] Post provides to following information in response to reftel: A) The Economic/Commercial Section has dual responsibility for economic monitoring and reporting as well as for Post's commercial diplomacy efforts. The section consists of one Economic/Commercial Officer and one Foreign Service Na [...]	2006-10-04 19:53:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD GY
06GEORGETOWN104	TV CO-OP PROPOSAL - GUYANA [...] SUMMARY: Guyana is a fragile state with a history of ethnic-related post-election violence. General elections are due by called by August 2006. Post proposes a television co-op with the theme "The Role of the Media in Elections". Reporters would focus on the large overseas Guyanese communi [...]	2006-01-31 13:53:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP OPRC KPAO GY
06GEORGETOWN1097	MEETING OF G8 COUNTER-TERRORISM ADVISORY GROUP IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Embassy in Georgetown hosted the first local meeting of the G-8 Counter-Terrorism Advisory Group (CTAG) on October 20. Guyana ForMin Rudy Insanally said the terrorist threat is not prominent in Guyana but also called for capacity-building assistance in enacting count [...]	2006-10-23 19:30:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL GY
06GEORGETOWN1172	POLICE COMMISSIONER GREENE: GIVE US BARABBAS [...] (C) Summary: President Bharrat Jagdeo appears set to make Acting Police Commissioner Henry Greene the permanent head of the Guyana Police Force. Elevating Greene makes political sense--his aggressive response to out of control street crime is a hit--but the president fears it may cause prob [...]	2006-11-07 15:43:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN1186	STAFFDEL MEACHAM AND TOON VISIT: DISCUSS MLO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Carl Meacham and Bernard Toon, Senior Professional Staff Members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, traveled to Guyana November 2-4. The primary focus of their visit was to understand the process and procedures whereby the State Department oversees security assistan [...]	2006-11-09 21:24:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MARR KDEM OREP GY
06GEORGETOWN132	PROPOSAL FOR TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS INCLE PROJECT [...] Below is Embassy Georgetown's proposal for an FY 2006 INCLE funded anti-trafficking in persons program to build the capacity of the Guyanese criminal justice system: A. Title: Technical Assistance Proposal to Increase the Capacity of Guyana's Criminal Justice System to Combat [...]	2006-02-07 15:29:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM SMIG SNAR KWMN KCRM KJUS GY
06GEORGETOWN139	TEIXEIRA SHARES INFORMATION ON SUSPECT VISA SEEKERS [...] (C) Ambassador met with Minister of Home Affairs Gail Teixeira on January 12 and January 20 to discuss various matters. At the January 12 meeting, Teixeira handed a document to Ambassador containing a list of Indian nationals who had applied for Guyanese tourist visas through Indian "tour ope [...]	2006-02-09 20:53:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR SMIG KFRD KCOR KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN140	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN- [...] Post welcomes Dr. David Williams, International Affairs Specialist, from USDA/FAS, o/a 2/13/2006 to o/a 2/18/2006, to interview candidates for the 2006 Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellow Program and to advise partners at the National Agricultural Researc [...]	2006-02-10 11:55:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID OVIP AMGT ASEC
06GEORGETOWN141	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN- [...] Post welcomes from USAID/Washington Virginia Gidi "Secret Security Clearance" o/a 2/15 -22/2006, to meet with Guyana Core Team Members and Key Partners and conducting site visits; and grants country clearance. 2. Hotel reservation is confirmed at the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel, Seawall R [...]	2006-02-10 11:56:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID OVIP SOCI AMGT ASEC KHIV
06GEORGETOWN150	EMBASSY GEORGETOWN NOMINATION FOR FY-06 ECA/A/E/USS [...] Embassy Georgetown nominates Ms. Geetangeli Geer to the U.S. Institute on U.S. Foreign Policy. Ms. Geer is the Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and a lecturer at the University of Guyana. Ms. Geer lecturers on a international relations, conflict resolution. Her classes incl [...]	2006-02-13 20:38:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO GY
06GEORGETOWN162	Firearms Seized from US Commercial Aircraft [...] Action request para 5. 2. On February 11, 2006, Guyanese Customs Officials intercepted 3 firearms at Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) that were found in exported cargo from the U.S. on North American Airlines flight 091 from JFK International Airport. Customs official examined a [...]	2006-02-16 12:11:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EAIR PGOV GY
06GEORGETOWN166	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN - BOURNE [...] Post welcomes NSF Integrative Biology Program Director Dr. Godfrey Bourne from March 5 until March 21, 2006 and grants country clearance. 2. No Embassy assistance was requested. 3. Control officer is Ed Luchessi, Economic/Commercial Officer, telephone 592-225-4900 ext. 220, IVG 747-0 [...]	2006-02-17 12:16:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TPHY KSCA GY NSF
06GEORGETOWN197	SIXTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ASSESSMENT- [...] (SBU) The following is Embassy Georgetown's submission of information requested in reftel for the 2006 Annual Trafficking in Persons Report: BEGIN REPORT. Overview of a country's activities to eliminate trafficking in persons: -- A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destinat [...]	2006-03-01 15:31:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD GY
06GEORGETOWN206	Georgetown Volunteers for Participation - Revising [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-02 20:48:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR CASC AMGT PINS KFLO GY
06GEORGETOWN269	GUYANA COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR KEVIN W. [...] Post welcomes Kevin W. Currier, Legal Attache from Caracas, Venezuela and grants Country Clearance for routine visits to territories covered by Legat from Caracas to meet with Embassy and Host Country Officials on 03/23/06 - 03/25/06. 2. Hotel reservations will are confirmed at the Le Me [...]	2006-03-22 17:58:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC
06GEORGETOWN270	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE PAUL PASUCO AND EDWARD [...] Post welcomes Paul Pasuco and Edward Newnom and grants country clearance to escort Samuel Cromwell on 03/29/2006 for criminal alien removal to Georgetown, Guyana. 2. Guyanese Immigration officials will meet and assist at Cheddi Jagan International Airport. NO EMBASSY ASSISTANCE WILL BE P [...]	2006-03-14 15:46:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CVIS GY
06GEORGETOWN271	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE ERIC PECORARO AND DANIEL [...] Post welcomes Eric Pecoraro and Daniel Henderson and grants country clearance to escort John Hintzen on 03/27/2006 for criminal alien removal to Georgetown, Guyana. 2. Guyanese Immigration officials will meet and assist at Cheddi Jagan International Airport. NO EMBASSY ASSISTANCE WILL BE [...]	2006-03-10 10:56:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CVIS GY
06GEORGETOWN272	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE THOMAS WENDLING AND LEE [...] Post welcomes Thomas Wendling and Lee Mitchell and grants country clearance to escort Chetram Singh on 03/27/2006 for criminal alien removal to Georgetown, Guyana. 2. Guyanese Immigration officials will meet and assist at Cheddi Jagan International Airport. NO EMBASSY ASSISTANCE WILL BE [...]	2006-03-10 13:11:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CVIS GY
06GEORGETOWN274	COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE ROBERT WOODSON AND DAVID [...] Post welcomes Eddie Robert Woodson and David Cuffee and grants country clearance to escort Martin Stanford Durant on 03/28/2006 for criminal alien removal to Georgetown, Guyana. 2. Guyanese Immigration officials will meet and assist at Cheddi Jagan International Airport. NO EMBASSY ASSIST [...]	2006-03-09 09:03:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CVIS GY
06GEORGETOWN281	NATIONAL MILLING COMPANY FENDS OFF OPENING [...] SUMMARY: Acting Chief Cabinent Secretary, Nanda Gopaul, announced at a March 23 press conference that the GOG had reached agreement with the National Milling Company of Guyana (NAMILCO),a subsidiary of Kansas-based Seabord Corporation, to reduce the price of flour by G$200 (US$1) per bag. The [...]	2006-03-24 19:07:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ECON GY
06GEORGETOWN292	GUYANA TO SEEK ADDITIONAL FIBER OPTIC [...] Pierre Strasser, the French-national Chief Operating Officer of American-owned wireless communications provider Cel*Star Guyana, informed Embassy on March 27 that the GOG will likely pursue inclusion in a second fiber optic communications cable, with construction to be completed by early 200 [...]	2006-03-29 15:20:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS EINT ECON GY
06GEORGETOWN293	INVITATION FOR BIDS -AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT SERVICES [...] This invitation for Bids follow the General Procurement Notice for this project that appeared in the Development Business, Issue No. 639 dated September 30, 2004. 2. The Co-operative Republic of Guyana has received financing the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) toward the cost of th [...]	2006-03-29 15:22:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP BTIO EAID EAGR GY
06GEORGETOWN295	INVITATION FOR BIDS -AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT SERVICES [...] This invitation for Bids follow the General Procurement Notice for this project that appeared in the Development Business, Issue No. 639 dated September 30, 2004. 2. The Co-operative Republic of Guyana has received financing the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) toward the cost of th [...]	2006-03-30 15:13:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP BTIO EAID EAGR GY
06GEORGETOWN296	INVITATION FOR BIDS - SUPPLY OF WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT FOR [...] The Government of Guyana has received financing the Inter- American Development Bank towards the cost of the Basic Education Access Management Support Programme - Phase 1. It is intended that part of the proceeds of this financing will be applied to eligible payments under the Contract for [...]	2006-03-30 15:16:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP BTIO EAID EAGR GY
06GEORGETOWN330	EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS REQUEST: GUYANA [...] Embassy Georgetown requests an Embassy Science Fellow with expertise in agro-meteorology to work with the Embassy and the Government of Guyana to assess and build capacity in forecasting techniques and water management. Post is hopeful that NOAA or USDA in particular would be able to accommoda [...]	2006-04-10 19:18:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPL SENV KSCA GY
06GEORGETOWN39	AVIAN INFLUENZA TRIPWIRES - EMBASSY GEORGETOWN [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Georgetown's Avian Influenza Response Committee has prepared the following tripwires in the event of an avian influenza outbreak in the region, the United States or Guyana itself. The committee reviewed tripwire reports by other posts especially the excellent tripwires prepar [...]	2006-01-12 21:17:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR GY
06GEORGETOWN424	INTERAGENCY EFFORT TO APPREHEND GUYANESE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met April 20 in Port of Spain with Ambassador to Suriname Marsha E. Barnes and officials from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),Department of Homeland Security (DHS),Department of Justice (DOJ),and Embassies Georgetown and Paramaribo. The meeting accomplish [...]	2006-05-11 15:53:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PREL PINS KCRM GY NS
06GEORGETOWN433	NARCO-CRIMINAL ROGER KHAN LASHES OUT AT USG [...] (U) Guyana's leading narco-trafficker Shaheed "Roger" Khan has stepped up his public relations attack since news of his grand jury indictment emerged May 5 on conspiracy to import cocaine emerged. Khan approached various media organizations May 10 with a statement painting himself as a victim [...]	2006-05-11 20:20:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV PREL KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN44	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN - LUFTIG [...] Post welcomes WHA Desk Officer Laura Luftig from January 25 until January 27, 2006 and grants country clearance. 2. Hotel reservations are confirmed at the Le Meridien Pegasus hotel, phone 592-225-7943. Rate is $130 per night plus a 10% tax. Confirmation number is 336. Visitor will be met [...]	2006-01-13 21:26:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA GY
06GEORGETOWN45	FLOODS PLAGUE GUYANA, AGAIN [...] SUMMARY. Since late December, flooding has plagued coastal Guyana, particularly the centers of agricultural production. After initially dismissing the magnitude of the flooding, the GOG has begun a massive public relations and relief spending effort. The GoG's initial underestimate of the magn [...]	2006-01-13 21:28:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV PGOV EAGR EAID ECON GY ASEC CASC
06GEORGETOWN47	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN - WARFIELD AND [...] Post welcomes U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Technical Assistance advisors Robert Warfield and Lee Niederman from January 22 until January 26, 2006 for purpose of consultations with the Caribbean Organization of Tax Administrators and host country revenue officials and grants co [...]	2006-01-17 11:36:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA ASEC GY
06GEORGETOWN48	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN - MCNEIR [...] Post welcomes Transportation Security Administration Representative Loretta McNeir from January 26 until January 31, 2006 to participate in an assessment of security conditions at Cheddi Jagan International Airport and grants country clearance. 2. Per the travelers' request, hotel reserva [...]	2006-01-17 11:42:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ASEC OTRA GY
06GEORGETOWN489	REQUEST AND RATIONALE FOR DEA OFFICE IN GUYANA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In light of the great and increasing influence of the narcotics trade and related transnational crimes in Guyana, Post requests the formal establishment of a DEA office at Embassy Georgetown. Guyana is well on its way to narco-statehood -- a prospect that poses a real threat to [...]	2006-05-24 20:05:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN518	GOG REQUESTS FOLLOW-UP MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR [...] The GOG has requested that the USG provide follow-up medical attention for Guyana Defense Force (GDF) soldier Calvin Lewis, who suffers from severe venous stasis disease. 2. Private Lewis was originally injured in an ammunition storage point explosion in December 2000. He was evacuated to [...]	2006-06-02 16:21:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL GY
06GEORGETOWN52	NOMINATION FOR SPRING 2006 FSN ECONOMIC TRAINING: [...] Post nominates Economic/Commercial Assistant Jillian R. Duncan for the Spring 2006 PE220 FSN Economic Training from May 1-12, 2006. Information requested in Reftel follows: A. Name and grade of FSN Jillian R. Duncan FSN-8/1 B. Date of birth January 22, 1977 C. Nationality Guyanese [...]	2006-01-17 20:04:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON AFSI AFSN
06GEORGETOWN53	GUYANA FLOODING: Conservancy Dams near danger level [...] SUMMARY. The Cabinet decided early Monday to open the Maduni sluices, which will greatly exacerbate flooding in agricultural areas on the Mahaica and Mahaicony Rivers, in order to relieve pressure on the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) which is reaching dangerous levels. While this is a [...]	2006-01-17 21:38:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID PGOV EAGR ECON ASEC CASC GY
06GEORGETOWN60	FRAUD SUMMARY - GEORGETOWN, GUYANA [...] SUMMARY: Economic and cultural pressure to migrate continues to motivate all forms of immigration fraud in Guyana. Cooperation with elements of the Government of Guyana (GoG) and civil society enables post to detect and combat some types but corruption and cultural support for migration compl [...]	2006-01-18 21:16:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN64	GEORGETOWN FY06 BFIF PROPOSAL [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Georgetown submits a proposal for USD $6,000 under the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) to host a seminar on electronic commerce. Post proposes to coordinate this project with the regional Foreign Commercial Service (FCS) office in Santo Domingo and the U.S. Agenc [...]	2006-01-19 15:05:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ABUD BTIO ECON EINV ETRD GY
06GEORGETOWN640	(C/NF) GUYANA RESPONSE: DESI BOUTERSE AND SHAHEED [...] (C) Post presents response to ref A. Noting that Shaheed "Roger" Khan is now in custody, Post takes this opportunity to mention other narco-criminals in Guyana eager to take over Khan's turf (see paras 14-17). As Minister of Home Affairs told Ambassador at their June 23 meeting: "When one st [...]	2006-06-29 18:22:00	Embassy Georgetown	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV GY NS
06GEORGETOWN673	GUYANA: RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered message and statement July 7 per reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs' acting director for Department of Americas and Asia, Audrey Waddell. Waddell did not have a response to the points about North Korea's missile launches and did not seem very familiar with the issue. [...]	2006-07-10 20:26:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM KNNP KN GY
06GEORGETOWN725	GOG PICKS CROOKED POLICE CHIEF DESPITE REVOKED VISA [...] (S) SUMMARY: The GoG moved ahead with its plan to elevate Deputy Commissioner Henry Greene to Acting Police Commissioner, despite his visa ineligibility for involvement with drug traffickers. Greene assumed his new position July 24. Greene's elevation will bring much international assistan [...]	2006-07-24 21:24:00	Embassy Georgetown	SECRET//NOFORN	SNAR PGOV PINR PREL KCOR GY
06GEORGETOWN741	GEORGETOWN REQUESTS INCLUSION IN EDWARD R. MURROW PROGRAM [...] Below is Embassy Georgetown's nomination for the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. The slate has full front office approval. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated processing in Washington and should not be [...]	2006-07-27 19:57:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO GY
06GEORGETOWN760	GUYANA ECONOMIC & COMMERCIAL ROUND-UP [...] Mining: Cambior prepared to sell bauxite stake 2. ESTH: Environmental permit sought for Berbice River bauxite project 3. Banking: Republic Bank Rebrands, Introduces Debit Cards 4. Debt: World Bank grants US$322M debt relief 5. Public Finance: Revenue Authority reports 2005 tax exemptions [...]	2006-08-03 20:55:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EMIN EAID EAIR ECIN ENRG ECON GY
06GEORGETOWN804	ALLIANCE FOR CHANGE OUTLINES STRATEGY, GAINS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dick Morris, political advisor to third-party contender Alliance for Change (AFC),described the party's strategy as it heads into the final weeks of its campaign. The AFC is optimistic that it can continue to siphon votes from the opposition People's National Congress (PNC) while [...]	2006-08-10 19:20:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN817	INFORMATION ON DAR-UL-ULOOM ISLAMIC CENTER AND [...] (U) Post has gathered the following information in response to the questions posed in Ref A: A. (S/NF) What is the relationship between the Dar-ul-Uloom Islamic Center in Guyana and the center in Trinidad? Individuals from the center in Guyana and Trinidad share personal and professional [...]	2006-08-14 18:46:00	Embassy Georgetown	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR PK TD GY
06GEORGETOWN855	GUYANA ELECTION STATUS REPORT: AUGUST 29 [...] (U) SUMMARY: Georgetown remained quiet overnight as the consensus solidified that the August 28 national and regional elections proceeded better than expected on a technical level. OAS A/SYG Albert Ramdin made a statement to this effect after the polls closed. Field reports from Embassy pers [...]	2006-08-29 18:50:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM OAS GY
06GEORGETOWN90	Budget Speech Unveils Government Program For 2006 [...] SUMMARY: The Minister of Finance presented Guyana's 2006 budget, which includes ambitious projections for economic growth, increased public spending, tax reform, and resource extraction. Despite the President's pledges not to use the budget for political ends, the election year budget diminish [...]	2006-01-25 17:42:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON EAID GY
06GEORGETOWN91	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN- [...] Post welcomes Darren Roman, Andy Nguyen, Lyne Paquette and Mauricio Guzman from USAID/Regional Inspector General office (RIG/ San Salvador) with "Top Secret" Security Clearances, o/a 1/30/2006 to o/a 2/17/2006, to perform the Audit of USAID's Progress in Implementing PEPFAR in Guyana and gran [...]	2006-01-25 17:43:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID OVIP AMGT ASEC
06GEORGETOWN915	SUBJECT: GUYANA ELECTION: FREE, FAIR AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guyana's 2006 national and regional elections: free, somewhat fair, but not transparent. International observers agree that: (1) the elections were technically a success; (2) proper procedures were followed at polling places in the subsequent vote count. However, there are lo [...]	2006-09-13 20:20:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM OAS GY
06GEORGETOWN92	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL - GEORGETOWN- [...] Post welcomes from USAID/Washington 1) Michael Hope, SCMS Pharmaceutical Advisor, "Secret Security Clearance" o/a 2/11 - 28/2006 and 2) Heidi Mihm, SCMS Advisor, "Top Secret Clearance" o/a 1/12 - 18, 2006, and grants country clearance. 2. Hotel reservations are confirmed at the Le Meridie [...]	2006-01-25 17:44:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID OVIP AMGT ASEC
06GEORGETOWN925	PARTY POLITICS, PERSONAL LOYALTY KEY IN CABINET [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Jagdeo's new cabinet, sworn in September 9, showcases a cadre of up-and-coming, Moscow-educated party leaders with close personal ties to the President. While this cabinet also confirms the ascendancy of the more venal Janet Jagan faction of the People's Progressive P [...]	2006-09-15 14:13:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN933	BLUE LANTERN PROGRAM INFORMATION - GUYANA [...] Embassy Georgetown's Blue Lantern Coordinator is: Name: Edward Luchessi Title: Economic/Commercial Officer Telephone: 592-226-4309 IVG: 747-0220 Fax: 592-227-0240 E-mail: LuchessiEP@state.gov Effective November 29, 2006, Post's Blue Lantern Coordinator will be: Name: Nancy Long Titl [...]	2006-09-15 21:19:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC KSEP GY
06GEORGETOWN97	GEORGETOWN REQUESTS INCLUSION IN EDWARD R. MURROW [...] Below is Embassy Georgetown's nomination for the Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists. The slate has full front office approval. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated processing in Washington and should not be [...]	2006-01-27 19:32:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO GY
06GUANGZHOU10088	An Overview of the Pearl River Delta: Hong Kong's [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a recent visit to Guangdong, Hong Kong Consul General Cunningham met with officials and business leaders to discuss the rapid economic growth of southern Guangdong and its consequences for Hong Kong industry and the region's environment. The Consul General visited Guang [...]	2006-04-04 09:06:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PGOV SOCI EINV ELAB CH
06GUANGZHOU11042	THAT WAS JUST A DREAM: HAINAN NOT LOSING ITS [...] (SBU) Summary. According to Hainan officials, only 80,000 Hainanese, or about 1% of Hainan's population, practice an officially sanctioned religion. Of these, 40,000, or half, are Protestants. For Hainan's government, the protection of religious freedom is important, but the need to "coordi [...]	2006-04-10 05:21:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV SCUL CH
06GUANGZHOU11468	Disagreement on Building a New Socialist [...] (U) Summary: A substantial number of Chinese rural development experts at a major think tank conference believed that the rural-urban gap is a startling eight to one (when taking into consideration "public services") instead of three to one. There was a virtual consensus among conference del [...]	2006-04-12 05:51:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR PHUM SENV EIND SOCI PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU13564	Migrant Labor and Rural Disputes in Guangdong: [...] (SBU) Summary: Migrant labor and land issues headed the agenda of the recent visit by two human rights officers to Guangdong province. The trip was an excellent opportunity to probe some of Southern China's most sensitive issues: migrant laborer discrimination and corruption in land compensa [...]	2006-04-28 09:33:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ELAB EAGR SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU14013	The Rights Protection Movement Leadership in South [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Edward Dong. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) The rights protection movement in China, a QvirtualQ network of democracy activists throughout the mainland, is gaining force and membership. This is the vision optimistically espoused by Guo Feixion [...]	2006-05-11 07:33:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU15230	Shenzhen Optical Disc Forensics Lab Clarifies Its [...] (SBU) Summary: Located in Shenzhen but falling under the authority of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS),the Disc Production Source Identification Center (DPSIC) is responsible for etching source identification (SID) codes onto production dies and analyzing optical discs to determine their [...]	2006-05-23 08:36:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR KJUS KCRM ECON ETRD CH
06GUANGZHOU16392	Shenzhen High-Tech Company SiBiono on the Cutting [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: High-tech company SiBiono has received significant government support in its cutting-edge efforts to introduce new gene therapy medicines to treat serious diseases. The company's key product, the State Food and Drug Administration of China (SFDA)-approved anti-cancer drug Gend [...]	2006-06-01 07:22:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV CH
06GUANGZHOU16447	USDOC BIS Under Secretary McCormick Visit to South [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While in Guangzhou, USDOC BIS Under Secretary David McCormick gave a speech at Huawei SIPDIS Technologies, Inc. Training Center, met with the Guangdong American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Board of Governors, and conducted a site visit to True Temper Composite Material Prod [...]	2006-06-02 06:14:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON BEXP ETTC ETRD PGOV PREL CH
06GUANGZHOU16875	Fujian Sees Gold in Geographical Indications [...] (SBU) Summary: Fujian's agricultural sector can rise above its domestic and international competitors by tapping into China's trademark system for geographical indications (GIs),according to officials at a recent conference on GIs organized by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and [...]	2006-06-07 03:01:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON ETRD WTRO CH
06GUANGZHOU17685	AI Update: Guangdong 2nd Possible Human AI Case [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 14, the Guangdong Provincial Health Department confirmed Guangdong has a second suspected avian influenza (AI) case, in Shenzhen, near the Hong Kong border. On June 15, the Guangdong Province Foreign Affairs Office sent a diplomatic note to the Consulate also detailin [...]	2006-06-15 08:37:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU20593	Can Pollution Harm an Unborn Child? Despite [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The following cable describes the perception and the basis for the perception many residents in South China have that the pollution in the region is harming unborn babies; it does not address the hard science related to this issue. Recent press reports and anecdotal accounts h [...]	2006-06-30 09:23:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TBIO CH SOCI PGOV
06GUANGZHOU20753	IPR Conference Highlights Local Issues; Guangdong [...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese and U.S. officials and companies discussed a range of IPR issues and generally agreed on the direction Guangdong must take on IPR matters at a recent conference co-hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Guangdong Provincial IP Office. The conference was part of [...]	2006-07-03 08:42:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON ETRD WTRO CH
06GUANGZHOU20888	Rise in Number of Middle Easterners: Threat or [...] (SBU) Summary. Over the past five years, the number of Middle Eastern businessmen in Guangdong Province has exploded to an estimated 7,000 (the majority coming from Yemen, Jordan and Syria). Additionally, during the Canton Trade Fair, as many as 11,000 Middle Eastern visitors flood the city [...]	2006-07-05 23:27:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL SCUL SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU27482	WAITING TO INHALE: THE STATE OF AIR POLLUTION IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AIR POLLUTION IN CHINA HAS GROWN SO BAD THAT CHINESE OFFICIALS ARE ACKNOWLEDGING THE CHALLENGE IT PRESENTS, AND VARIOUS FOREIGN SCHOLARS ARE OFFERING ALARMING STATISTICS ABOUT THE FINANCIAL AND HEALTH COSTS IT BRINGS. IN SOUTH CHINA, FACTORIES AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT SUPPOR [...]	2006-08-16 07:09:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TBIO CH SOCI PGOV

06GUANGZHOU27721	IPR CONFERENCE EXPLAINS HOW TO BRING ADMINISTRATIVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: CHINESE REPRESENTATIVES FROM A VARIETY OF IPR-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS TOLD US BUSINESSES HOW TO BRING JUDICIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS TO PROTECT THEIR IPR AT A RECENT CONFERENCE IN SHENZHEN. CONFERENCE SPEAKERS EXPLAINED TO U.S. BUSINESSES THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK IN CHINA THAT DEAL [...]	2006-08-17 06:58:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU30648	U.S. Industry Promotes Transparent Standards System in [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Representatives from Intel, Qualcomm, and Cisco encouraged China to adopt a transparent, market-oriented standards development process during a DOC-hosted seminar on standards and IPR in Shenzhen on September 21. Chinese industry attendees, who have a generally sophi [...]	2006-09-25 08:24:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON ETRD WTRO CH
06GUANGZHOU30986	Chinese Authorities Ban AMCIT from Leaving China Pending [...] (SBU) Summary: PRC immigration authorities detained AMCIT Robert Jonathan Carr for 12 hours at the Zhongshan port of entry on October 3 and ordered him to remain in China until the resolution of a civil case brought against him by a manufacturing company in Changsha, Hunan. The Hunan company c [...]	2006-10-05 05:24:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC CJAN ECON EINV KJUS CH
06GUANGZHOU32092	Fighting Copyright Infringement at the Canton Fair [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Representatives from U.S. and Canadian art publishing companies spotted numerous vendors selling copies of their products at both the Canton Fair and the Jinhan Fair in Guangzhou on October 25, 2006. Officials at the Canton Fair IPR complaint center, after first insi [...]	2006-11-02 09:26:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON ETRD CH
06GUANGZHOU32144	U.S.-China Bilateral on Margins of Seventh North Pacific [...] (SBU) Vice Admiral Wurster, Commander of the Coast Guard's Pacific Area, told Deputy Director General Li Qingping of the Maritime Safety Administration (under the Ministry of Communications),at an October 25 bilateral meeting on the margins of the Seventh North Pacific Coast Guard Forum that t [...]	2006-11-03 08:35:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHSA MARR CH
06GUANGZHOU32146	U.S.-China Bilateral on Margins of Seventh North Pacific [...] (SBU) Summary: Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen and PRC Vice Minister of Public Security Meng Hongwei exchanged views October 25 on a variety of maritime safety and security topics, including `border security, search-and-rescue and disaster relief issues. The Admiral said that the U.S. was pre [...]	2006-11-03 08:35:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHSA MARR CH
06GUANGZHOU32161	Fujian Dissident Calls for Efforts on Behalf of [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Former Tiananmen-era activist and dissident writer Lin Xinyu discussed with poloffs his efforts, along with other activists, to pressure the Chinese government for the release of detained activists Gao Zhi [...]	2006-11-06 01:44:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32173	Limited Constitutional Reform OK, say Xiamen [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: In October 30 meetings with U.S. officers, Xiamen-based Taiwan experts, city officials and Taiwan businessmen were upbeat about cross-Strait ties, touted increased economic and cultural exchanges and said th [...]	2006-11-06 07:42:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI CH TW
06GUANGZHOU32306	Dongzhou Crackdown II: No Blood, but Amcit [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: On November 18, in a scene reminiscent of the violent clash on December 6, 2005 in the same village, up to 2,000 armed police, using tear gas and flash bullets, secured the release of eight local officials [...]	2006-11-21 08:20:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC DENNIS DANFUNG PGOV PHUM SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU8841	HAINAN AIRLINES APATHETIC ABOUT UPCOMING U.S.-CHINA [...] (U) Summary. Hainan Airlines expressed little interest in the upcoming April 19-20 U.S.-China aviation talks, citing its inability to operate flights to the United States at this point. This inability stems from three reasons: the airline is not a designated carrier; it does not have the nec [...]	2006-03-29 05:35:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON KTIA CH
06GUANGZHOU8842	PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT IN HAINAN, CHINA'S [...] (U) Summary. According to Hainan officials, the province's environmental quality is China's best. Largely because of its efforts to attract increasing numbers of tourists, Hainan realizes that a clean environment is an asset that must be preserved. At the same time, the island must balance [...]	2006-03-29 05:36:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON EIND PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU9084	AI Update: Guangdong Authorities Coming Clean? [...] SUMMARY: Guangdong provincial health and veterinary officials are showing increased levels of openness and cooperation. On March 29, officials hosted a private information meeting for Guangzhou foreign consulates about the March 2 human avian influenza (AI) death and subsequent health polici [...]	2006-03-30 08:48:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU9166	AI Update: Guangdong Authorities Coming Clean? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guangdong provincial health and veterinary officials are showing increased levels of openness and cooperation. On March 29, officials hosted a private information meeting for Guangzhou foreign consulates about the March 2 human avian influenza (AI) death and subsequent health [...]	2006-04-03 03:28:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV CH
06GUATEMALA107	DEBT DEAL WITH SPAIN CLEARS WAY FOR CREDIT UPGRADE [...] (U) The GOG and the Spanish government (GOS) signed an agreement on January 11 laying out the terms for forgiveness of the twenty-six year old debt that has hampered the bilateral relationship and complicated Guatemala's treatment in multilateral financial forums. The deal involved direct pa [...]	2006-01-20 16:26:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV EAGR GT
06GUATEMALA1087	2006 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES - GUATEMALA [...] CLAIMANT A - MARGARET ARGUDO: EMBASSY HAS NOT BEEN CONTACTED BY CLAIMANT A ON THE STATUS OF EVICTING ILLEGAL SETTLERS FROM HER FARM. AS PER REF A, SHE HAD ALSO NOT RETURNED TELEPHONE CALLS OR E-MAILS IN 2005. THIS CASE APPEARS TO BE RESOLVED OR INACTIVE. 2. CLAIMANT B - FERROVIAS GUATE [...]	2006-06-02 15:08:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV KIDE PGOV ECON CASC OPIC GT
06GUATEMALA1088	ECONOMIC LEGISLATION STAGNATES IN CONGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: DURING THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS OF ORDINARY SESSIONS, CONGRESS PASSED ONLY 10 NEW LAWS, WITH 22 ECONOMIC BILLS (PLUS 54 FROM 2005) WAITING TO BE REVIEWED BY THE RESPECTIVE COMMITTEES BEFORE THEY CAN BE DISCUSSED BY THE PLENARY. IMPORTANT PROPOSALS SUCH AS AMENDMENTS TO THE MINING [...]	2006-06-02 16:23:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD GT
06GUATEMALA1150	GUATEMALAN SOLDIERS ALLEGEDLY BEAT STREET KIDS [...] (U) Summary: Allegations surfaced that Guatemala's joint military-police patrols are not operating as designed. Guatemalan Army units are in some instances patrolling without their police counterparts and thus without any legal authority to conduct arrests or detentions. Worse, a respected N [...]	2006-06-13 19:08:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCRM KJUS MOPS PGOV EAID GT
06GUATEMALA1187	GUATEMALA: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT HAS BROAD IMPACT [...] (SBU) Summary: Guatemala's Constitutional Court has a broad mandate to weigh in on political and social issues. The newly-elected court includes some notable legal scholars. The new court portends to be less partisan and more independent than previous courts. End Summary. 2. (U) The pr [...]	2006-06-16 16:38:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS ETRD EAID SNAR GT
06GUATEMALA128	URIBE'S VISIT TO GUATEMALA [...] (SBU) Summary: Colombia's President Uribe paid a highly successful visit to Guatemala January 19-20. He publicly committed to support Guatemala's bid for the UNSC, to provide counter-narcotics cooperation and to conclude a free trade agreement. Uribe's address to the Guatemalan Congress was [...]	2006-01-24 21:00:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SNAR MASS PHUM ETRD CO GT UNSC
06GUATEMALA1313	SPANISH JUDGE DEPARTS GUATEMALA EMPTY-HANDED [...] Summary: Spanish judicial personnel departed Guatemala without having obtained any official testimony regarding the 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy and the deaths of two Spanish citizens. They did, however, draw international attention to the lack of activity by the Guatemalan authorities [...]	2006-07-07 12:44:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KJUS MASS GT
06GUATEMALA1419	GUATEMALA: CONGRESS APPROVES REVISED ORGANIZED [...] (SBU) Summary: The Guatemalan Congress approved a revised organized Crime Bill on July 19. Passage of the bill was a major victory for the Embassy's efforts over the past three years to get Guatemala to adopt modern law enforcement authorities (a conspiracy statute and provisions for wireta [...]	2006-07-24 15:01:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PGOV PHUM KCRM KJUS ASEC EAID PTER GT
06GUATEMALA168	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Derham hosted a meeting with 10 leaders of the Guatemalan human rights community to share views on security and violent crime. Most agreed that while violence has many sources, the current government does not engage in social cleansing or violence against any sector of [...]	2006-01-30 15:10:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM EAID SNAR KJUS GT
06GUATEMALA1831	GUATEMALA: END-USE ASSURANCES FOR TRANSFER OF UH-1 [...] On September 11, post received a diplomatic note from the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry that provided end-use, retransfer, and security assurances for the transfer of one U.S.-origin UH-1 helicopter frame and 261 lines of spare parts from Jamaica. The text of the diplomatic note is unchanged f [...]	2006-09-14 20:45:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS GT JM
06GUATEMALA188	FOREIGN MINISTER'S COMMENTS ON GUATEMALA'S UNSC BID [...] (C) SUMMARY. IN JANUARY 31 CONVERSATION WITH THE AMBASSADOR, FOREIGN MINISTER BRIZ COMMENTED ON LATEST DEVELOPMENTS REGARDING GUATEMALA'S CAMPAIGN TO BE ELECTED TO THE 2007-8 UN SECURITY COUNCIL. GUARDEDLY OPMISTIC ABOUT GUATEMALA'S LOBBYING EFFORTS, HE REQUESTED U.S. INTERCESSION WITH PANA [...]	2006-01-31 21:12:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GT UNSC
06GUATEMALA2080	GUATEMALA: REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO NEGOTIATE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) Special Operations Command South (SOCSOUTH),a component command of U.S. Southern Command, plans to carry out two Special Operations Forces (SOF) Joint Combined Exercise Training (JCET) deployments to Guatemala in Fiscal Year [...]	2006-10-23 22:38:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR KTIA GT
06GUATEMALA2196	TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICER [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-03 17:06:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER GT
06GUATEMALA2246	GUATEMALA: CWC DEMARCHE ON U.S. REQUEST TO EXTEND [...] (C) In a follow up to October 30 delivery of reftel demarche, Poloff met November 3 with Luis Carranza, Deputy Director for UN Affairs in the Foreign Ministry's Multilateral Affairs Directorate, and again on November 7 to seek further clarification. During the November 3 meeting, Carranza opi [...]	2006-11-08 18:41:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL CBW CWC OPCW GT
06GUATEMALA2473	GUATEMALA SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH UN TO CREATE [...] Summary: The Government of Guatemala (GOG) signed an agreement with the United Nations December 12 to establish the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). Pending approval and ratification by the Guatemalan Congress, the independent UN-led body will investigate illeg [...]	2006-12-19 18:12:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KJUS EAID SNAR KCRM KDEM GT
06GUATEMALA2485	GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-21 22:00:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
06GUATEMALA2486	GUATEMALAN WOMEN'S GROUP REPORTS DECLINE IN [...] Summary: According to a recent study by Grupo Guatemalteco de Mujeres (GGM),only 11 percent of the total number of murders of women in Guatemala should be labeled "femicide," which GGM considers the most extreme manifestation of violence against women. Based on investigations conducted over [...]	2006-12-21 22:00:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KJUS EAID SNAR KCRM KDEM GT
06GUATEMALA2504	GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-26 18:03:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PREL PHUM PINS GT
06GUATEMALA2505	GUATEMALAN HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-26 18:27:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PREL PHUM PINS GT
06GUATEMALA379	GUATEMALA: MILITARY RESERVISTS TO AID POLICE [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to steadily increasing violent crime and personnel shortages in Guatemala's National Civilian Police (PNC),the GOG announced a plan to deploy 3,000 military reservists and ex-soldiers as auxiliary police agents until the end of 2006. After receiving a month of tr [...]	2006-02-24 14:18:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PHUM KCRM PGOV ASEC GT
06GUATEMALA421	GUATEMALA'S TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT SUBMISSION [...] Embassy Guatemala's point of contact for trafficking in persons (TIP) is Labor Attache Troy Fitrell, [502]2326-4635, and fax [502]2334-8474. Troy Fitrell (FS-2) spent 10 hours on the preparation of this report. PolOff Sarah Palaia (FS-4) spent 25 hours on the preparation of this report. PolS [...]	2006-03-01 15:50:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GT
06GUATEMALA428	GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT WRITES TO PRESIDENT BUSH ON [...] At a February 28 meeting with the Ambassador and DCM (septel),Guatemalan President Berger handed over a letter to President Bush and asked that it be forwarded to the White House. The Embassy is sending the original to WHA/CEN by pouch but provides text of the letter in para 2. 2. Embas [...]	2006-03-01 17:25:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OPDC CVIS SMIG EAID PREF ETRD MASS SNAR GT
06GUATEMALA429	GOG WEAKNESSES AND U.S. SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: The February 23 announcement that TPS (Temporary Protected Status) has been extended for citizens of El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua prompted immediate critical reaction from President Berger, Vice President Stein and Foreign Minister Briz, culminating in a reproachful meet [...]	2006-03-01 19:05:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID SMIG CVIS ETRD MASS SNAR GT
06GUATEMALA431	The Guatemalan private sector's priorities and [...] (SBU) Summary: Private sector leaders are increasingly concerned about the country's social and economic conditions and their consequences. Intractable poverty, rising crime, and fears of populism are making them reevaluate traditional attitudes. Their solutions focus on economic growth and [...]	2006-03-01 21:18:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL EINV PGOV GT
06GUATEMALA44	RESULTS OF SENIOR SCEINCE ADVISOR AND SCIENCE [...] As per reftel, the visit of Senior Science Advisor Madelyn Spirnak and work of Embassy Science Fellow Kitty Cardwell on educating the GOG and the local scientific community on biotechnology use in agriculture were very productive. One positive result was that biotechnology legislation that l [...]	2006-01-11 14:55:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR ETRD TBIO SENV TSPL GT
06GUATEMALA440	GUATEMALA'S CAFTA LABOR PROJECT PROPOSALS [...] As requested reftel, below please find six proposals for labor projects in CAFTA-DR countries. The proposals are not assigned to specific branches of the U.S. government as we hope the proposals will be discussed on their merits before any of them are linked to specific agencies or offices (a [...]	2006-03-03 14:43:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EAID ETRD GT
06GUATEMALA450	NEW MONEY LAUNDERING INVESTIGATIVE UNIT [...] (SBU) Post is coordinating with the GOG regarding support for a new anti-money laundering investigative unit. The multi-agency unit would be supported with INL/NAS funds and vetted according to DEA guidelines. The idea is to create a unit capable of working closely with the DEA to target maj [...]	2006-03-06 18:12:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN GT KCOR PTER SNAR KTFN
06GUATEMALA769	BLUE LANTERN END USE CHECKS UNRELIABLE IN [...] (SBU) EconOff attempted to conduct a pre-license end-use check on potential US munitions exports to private Guatemalan distributor, Poligonos S.A. Due to unreliable GOG counterparts, private sector practices that lack transparency, porous borders, and generally weak law enforcement, meaningf [...]	2006-04-20 14:41:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC GT KCOR PM
06GUATEMALA84	GUATEMALAN JANUARY 23-24 MEETINGS WITH INL, WHA, DEA, NSC, TREASURY, AND ONDCP [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann and Presidential Secretary Alfredo Vila will be visiting Washington January 23-24 to request greater USG counter- narcotics assistance. They intend to emphasize that Guatemala is an embryonic Colombian situation, the Ber [...]	2006-01-18 17:34:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR GT
06GUATEMALA99	VENEZUELAN INTRIGUE IN THE GUATEMALAN OIL MARKET? [...] (C) Summary: The Franco-US oil company KLP Industries has contacted the Embassy repeatedly alleging that it is the victim of a plot to revoke an exploration contract it won from the Government of Guatemala (GOG). The contract has, in fact, been revoked by the GOG. KLP believes that it has be [...]	2006-01-19 19:55:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ETRD EINV ECON PGOV PINR GT VE
06HALIFAX206	CONSULAR OUTREACH TO AMERICAN CITIZENS IN NEWFOUNDLAND [...] SUMMARY: In early October CONOFF and ACS assistant traveled to St John's, Newfoundland to provide services for American citizens living in the region. CONOFF met privately with nearly 50 American citizens to provide consular services normally available only in Halifax and to discuss issues ran [...]	2006-10-24 20:16:00	Consulate Halifax	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC CPAS CA
06HAMBURG85	HAMBURG POLICE TRACK POLONIUM TRAIL [...] (SBU) Summary: Hamburg State Police (LKA) confirmed December 14 that Dmitry Kovtun had left positive traces of polonium 210 in Hamburg prior to his departure from Hamburg for London on November 1. A senior official in the Federal Interior Ministry in Berlin also confirmed the reports and noted the [...]	2006-12-19 11:38:00	Consulate Hamburg	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PTER EAIR PINR PINS KNNP RS GM UK
06HANOI1010	VETERANS AFFAIRS SECRETARY NICHOLSON MEETS MOLISA [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 28, 2006 Secretary of Veterans Affairs James Nicholson, met in separate meetings with Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) Nguyen Thi Hang and with the President of the Vietnam Association of Veterans (VAV),Lieutenant General (retired) Dang Quan Thu [...]	2006-05-03 09:52:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PREL PGOV SOCI PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI111	VIETNAM CPC DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN GENERAL MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met with Assistant FM Nguyen Duc Hung to deliver reftel demarche on a way forward on religious freedom, and took the opportunity to raise other bilateral issues, including human rights, family reunification for Vietnamese refugees in the United States, repatriatio [...]	2006-01-13 06:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI1112	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE NORTH PART I: POLOFF [...] (SBU) At the recommendation of Protestants in Hanoi, an Embassy team visited Lao Cai Province in the third week of April to investigate allegations of district-level abuse against Protestant groups. The team was able to discuss with officials several serious allegations made against Lao Cai p [...]	2006-05-10 09:41:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PGOV SOCI PHUM VM
06HANOI1113	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE NORTH PART II: POLOFF [...] (SBU) At the recommendation of Protestants in Hanoi, an Embassy team visited Ha Giang Province in the third week of April to investigate allegations of district-level abuse against Protestant groups. The team was able to discuss with officials several serious allegations made against Ha Giang [...]	2006-05-10 09:56:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI VM
06HANOI1115	AMBASSADOR MEETS MPS VICE MINISTER [...] (SBU) During a May 9 meeting with Vice Minister of Public Security Nguyen Van Huong, the Ambassador welcomed progress in developing cooperative bilateral law enforcement contacts, but called on MPS to do more; recognized improvements in the religious freedom situation in Vietnam, but underline [...]	2006-05-11 03:00:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF PHUM KIRF PGOV ASEC VM
06HANOI1220	GVN Demarches Embassy on Belgium Catfish Arrest [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. SUMMARY: (U) ConsChief received a demarche and diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on May 18 regarding the May 11 arrest in Belgium of BUU, Huy on charges of illegally transshipping catfish into the United States (r [...]	2006-05-19 09:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EFIS KCRM CFED ASEC KJUS VM
06HANOI1232	BAPTISTS MEET IN VIETNAM, HIGHLIGHT THEIR SITUATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Baptist World Alliance - an international umbrella group for some (perhaps 30 million, according to their President),but not all, of the world's Baptists - visited Vietnam May 16-21 to meet with the GVN and hold a large meeting of Baptists in Ho Chi Minh City. The delegati [...]	2006-05-22 09:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM VM
06HANOI1235	VIETNAM SUPPORTIVE OF NEW GOVERNMENT IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary: The GVN will publicly congratulate the new Government of Iraq and will re-extend its invitation to senior Iraqi officials to visit Vietnam, including the Minister of Trade. Vietnam says it has a long history of friendly relations with Iraq and would like to get them back on tra [...]	2006-05-22 23:46:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO IZ PREL KDEM VM
06HANOI1320	VIETNAMESE DISSIDENTS ANNOUNCING A NEW PARTY; [...] (C) Summary: On May 29, a meeting convened by prominent Hanoi dissident Hoang Minh Chinh to prepare documents in advance of a planned June 1 declaration of the re-establishment of the Democracy Party of Vietnam (DPV),was raided by police. A member of the new party called a public meeting wit [...]	2006-05-30 11:59:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	HUMANR PHUM PGOV PREL VM
06HANOI1338	VIETNAMESE DISSIDENTS ANNOUNCE NEW PARTY; GVN [...] (SBU) Summary: The DPV made the public announcement today of the reestablishment of the long-defunct DPV, and there was no overt reaction by the GVN. The MFA did, however, call in representatives of the Embassies who met with the DPV leadership on May 30 to protest foreign involvement in "il [...]	2006-05-31 10:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	HUMANR PREL PGOV PHUM VM
06HANOI1368	SITREP: VIETNAMESE NEW PARTY DISSIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Activists report that following the June 1 announcement of the re-establishment of the Democratic Party of Vietnam (DPV) police have harassed some of its members. The activists have publicly called for help. Other western diplomats are cautious about maintaining contact with t [...]	2006-06-05 00:23:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	HUMANR PREL PGOV PHUM VM
06HANOI1369	Vietnam/TIP: DEMARCHE DELIVERED, RECEIVED WELL [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and an advance copy of the Vietnam language in the TIP report to Americas Desk Section Chief Le Chi Dzung June 5. Dzung was well briefed on the main TIP issues of concern regarding Vietnam in the report. He said that Vietnam appreciates the overall bala [...]	2006-06-05 00:23:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN PREL PGOV SMIG VM
06HANOI1389	FURTHER VIETNAMESE NEW PARTY DISSIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 6, Poloff delivered a verbal message to a representative of the Democracy Party of Vietnam (DPV) representative that we will continue to meet with dissidents, but this should not be misconstrued as active support presaging intervention with the GVN. Police harassment of [...]	2006-06-06 10:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	HUMANR PREL PGOV PHUM VM
06HANOI1398	THE AMBASSADOR AND VFM LE VAN BANG DISCUSS HUMAN [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST: PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 5. 2. (SBU) Summary: Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang made a push for a meeting with Secretary Rice for Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan in Washington on June 19, reviewed noncommittally our proposals for possible substance for the Preside [...]	2006-06-07 07:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD APEC PHUM AMGT OVIP CVIS CASC
06HANOI1454	DISSIDENTS PUSH HARD WITH LITTLE BACKLASH SO FAR [...] (U) The reporting and comment in this cable is by Consulate General Ho Chi Minh City, with additional reporting and commentary by Embassy Hanoi. 2. (C) Summary: Dissidents in Ho Chi Minh City, including Dr. Nguyen Dan Que, report that they are receiving increased attention but that harassme [...]	2006-06-14 10:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1466	VIETNAM PLANS TO REGISTER A FEW PROTESTANTS, RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Although the GVN Religious Affairs authorities are non-committal about future Embassy visits to monitor religious freedom developments in the North, they have begun a pilot project for registering eight ethnic minority Protestant congregations in three provinces. In addition, th [...]	2006-06-15 09:14:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1520	THANH HOA PROTESTANTS REPORT BEATING BY POLICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 20, Poloffs met with a Protestant individual from Thanh Hoa Province who provided a credible report that he and another Protestant had been beaten by police on June 18 after they were taken from their house church. Poloffs presented this information, including graphic ph [...]	2006-06-20 12:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1554	SOME PROGRESS FOR QUANG NINH PROTESTANTS [...] (SBU) On June 16, Poloff met Quang Ninh Province religious affairs officials and visited a Ha Long City Protestant house church. Poloff was allowed to participate in a frank dialogue between provincial officials and congregants at the church concerning the group's one year delayed registration [...]	2006-06-23 07:30:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR RELFREE VM
06HANOI1598	MISSION VIETNAM CONDUCTS AI TABLETOP EXERCISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 7, selected members of the Mission Avian Influenza Working Group (AIWG) in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City participated in a table top exercise responding to an avian influenza pandemic scenario. The exercise, which was conducted via digital video conference, was designed s [...]	2006-06-29 06:39:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI1666	PROTESTANT BEATING: EMBASSY INVESTIGATES REPORT FROM THANH [...] (SBU) On June 29 Poloff met with provincial, district and district police officials in Thanh Hoa Province to look into the alleged June 18 beating of un-registered Protestants by police in Thieu Vien Commune (reftel). Although some provincial officials attempted to pass off the beatings as the [...]	2006-07-06 10:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1678	POLOFF VISITS BAC GIANG, MEETS WITH LOCAL BAPTISTS AND [...] (SBU) On June 19, Poloff met with provincial officials in Bac Giang Province and sat in on a heated exchange between Baptist believers and local commune officials. Provincial officials acknowledge that the province does not plan to register the group anytime soon under the GVN's framework on r [...]	2006-07-06 10:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI173	VIETNAM: FY2006 INCLE AND ESF TIP PROPOSALS [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-19 23:27:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB SMIG EAID KCRM KFRD VM
06HANOI1747	(SBU) HANOI MUSEUMS CONTINUE TO DEFAME THE UNITED STATES, [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Pol Assistant recently surveyed the depiction of the United States in Hanoi's main military and political museums. Exhibits at most military service and political museums cast a negative image of U.S. involvement during the Vietnam War, but the denigration is on par [...]	2006-07-11 07:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR VM
06HANOI1751	Vietnam: Contrasting Support for Religious Freedom in Two [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The issue of religious freedom featured prominently during the Ambassador's visit to the two northern provinces of Yen Bai and Phu Tho on June 25 and 26. The visit was a study in the contrasting treatment by provincial authorities of religious communities in these t [...]	2006-07-11 10:10:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PGOV SOCI PHUM VM
06HANOI180	VIETNAM: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY REPORT FOR JANUARY [...] (SBU) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths since late October 2005 and no human cases over the past 64 days. As of January 20, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) reports no AI outbreaks in poultry since the last reported incident on December 17, 2005 in Cao Bang Pr [...]	2006-01-20 10:24:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI PGOV TBIO VM
06HANOI188	Central Highlands: UNHCR, Protestant Pastor Discuss [...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR representatives traveled to Dak Lak and Kon Tum provinces January 17-20 to meet with local officials and ethnic minority returnees. In both provinces, UNHCR interviewed a number of returnees in private. There were no allegations of mistreatment by the authorities. Howev [...]	2006-01-23 10:41:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF VM CB
06HANOI1880	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PROTESTANT ISSUES IN THREE NORTHERN [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: During a July 5-7 provincial outreach trip, the Ambassador discussed Protestant issues with the leaders of Thai Nguyen, Bac Giang and Lang Son provinces. Thai Nguyen officials were open-minded about the issue of registration, but tightlipped about their future plans. [...]	2006-07-25 07:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI1896	TFLE01: Vietnam Seeks USG Assistance in Evacuating its [...] (U) Action Request -- See paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) On July 26, Post received an urgent request from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs seeking USG assistance in evacuating approximately 200 Vietnamese citizens from Lebanon (full text of request in paragraph 5). According to the MFA, most of these [...]	2006-07-26 07:10:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR LE VM
06HANOI1897	(SBU) MFA CONFIRMS DISSIDENT'S RELEASE UNDER CONSIDERATION; [...] (SBU) On July 25, the MFA confirmed to the Ambassador that prominent dissident Dr. Pham Hong Son will (likely) be released September 2, but requested we keep this information close-hold within the USG until the GVN makes their final decision in August. The GVN has not decided if it will release [...]	2006-07-26 07:11:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1903	AMBASSADOR VISITS USG-FUNDED COUNTERNARCOTICS TASK FORCE IN [...] (SBU) Summary: During a July 7 visit to Lang Son Province, the Ambassador received a briefing on USG-funded, UNODC-administered counternarcotics efforts in the region. Since the inception of this effort, coordination has improved among local, regional and cross-border security officials, and a [...]	2006-07-27 06:30:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SNAR CH VM
06HANOI1947	SBV DEPUTY GOVERNOR DETAILS NORTH KOREAN BANKING [...] (S) Summary: In a July 19 meeting with State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Deputy Governor Tran Minh Tuan, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart SIPDIS Levey reiterated U.S. concerns over North Korean financial transactions with Vietnam,s State-owned commercial ban [...]	2006-08-01 11:53:00	Embassy Hanoi	SECRET	EFIN CTERR ECON IO PREL KN VM
06HANOI1964	Repatriation Agreement Delivered [...] On August 2, Pol/C delivered the points and revised agreement contained in reftel to Nguyen Huu Trang, Deputy Director General of the MFA's Consular Department. Trang promised to review the revised draft as quickly as possible and inform the Embassy if the GVN will seek any further modificatio [...]	2006-08-02 23:25:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC CVIS KJUS PREL VM
06HANOI1999	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH UNHCR REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE [...] (SBU) On August 1, UNHCR provided the Ambassador with a readout of recent Vietnmam-related developments. UNHCR is working to resolve the status of 9,500 Cambodians (Khmer Krom) living in southern Vietnam through a joint working group with the GVN and Government of Cambodia, though progress is [...]	2006-08-07 08:43:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PREF VM CB
06HANOI2045	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NEW GVN OFFICE OF THE GOVERNMENT VICE [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 7, the Ambassador met with Office of the Government Vice Chairman Nguyen Xuan Phuc, the new number two official in the Prime Minister's office. During the broad-ranging conversation, the Ambassador pressed for: quick resolution of the proposed Boeing, Liberty Mutual an [...]	2006-08-11 09:47:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ETRD EINV ECON AMGT KNNP EAID VM
06HANOI2051	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, PEACE CORPS, UNGA [...] (SBU) On August 10, the Ambassador discussed the upcoming visit of United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford with Acting Director General Pham Van Que of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Americas Department. Regarding USG concerns about the slow pac [...]	2006-08-11 12:11:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PTER KIRF UN EAID VM
06HANOI2080	VIETNAM REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT [...] (SBU) On August 15, the Ambassador met with MFA International Organizations Department Director General Pham Binh Minh and was officially informed of Vietnam's candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the term 2008-2009. The texts of a diplomatic note and aide memoire [...]	2006-08-16 07:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UN VM
06HANOI2084	VIETNAM MFA NONCOMMITTAL ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-16 10:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNHRC VM
06HANOI2103	VIETNAM - CONSULTATION ON NUCLEAR FUEL SUPPLY ASSURANCES [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-17 10:00:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM KNNP VM
06HANOI2114	VIETNAM - AUGUST 17 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT [...] (U) Summary. There have been no confirmed cases of AI outbreaks in humans or poultry, despite suspected cases at the beginning of August. A 35 year-old man from Kien Giang province, hospitalized with severe influenza symptoms, has tested negative for H5N1. Ducks from two flocks in Tay Ninh P [...]	2006-08-18 10:08:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI2148	EMBASSY ASSESSMENT OF CONDITIONS FOR PROTESTANTS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GVN appears to be fighting an uphill battle to force northern provincial officials to change their approach to religion. Suspicions that Protestants are agents of the United States are still deeply ingrained in the region, and some local officials find it hard to take seriou [...]	2006-08-23 06:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI2152	MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES PRESIDENT'S VISIT, HIGH-LEVEL [...] (SBU) On August 22, MFA Americas Department Acting Deputy Director General Pham Van Que reviewed a number of issues of bilateral concern with the DCM. According to Que, the GVN's top two goals for the President's visit are passage of PNTR and removal of Vietnam's CPC designation; the GVN also [...]	2006-08-23 10:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM OVIP OTRA CASC VM
06HANOI2163	S&T VICE MINISTER ON CONVERSION OF VIETNAM'S REACTOR AND [...] (SBU) Summary. During an August 23 meeting with Science and Technology Vice Minister (VM) Tran Quoc Thang, the Ambassador strongly encouraged Vietnam to approve DOE's proposal for converting the Dalat experimental reactor's fuel from highly enriched uranium to low enriched uranium. He pushe [...]	2006-08-25 02:22:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP ENRG TRGY KIPR VM
06HANOI2164	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. NOMINEE FOR UN INTERNATIONAL LAW [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-25 06:04:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA PREL VM
06HANOI2186	GVN Previews National Day Amnesties, Including One Amcit and Two Prisoners of Concern [...] (SBU) Summary: The MFA informed us August 28 that Amcit Nguyen Bach and two prisoners of concern to the USG -- Dr. Pham Hong Son and Ma Van Bay -- will be released on the occasion of Vietnam's September 2 National Day amnesty. Although the releases are "without conditions," there will be cert [...]	2006-08-28 07:30:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF OASC CASC VM
06HANOI2263	VIETNAM - SEPTEMBER 1 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT [...] (U) Summary. There have been no reported human AI cases and no AI outbreak activity in poultry to date this year in Vietnam. Another 45 ducks in a household in the Mekong Delta's Ben Tre Province tested positive for carrying H5N1 and were subsequently culled. A Government of Vietnam (GVN) of [...]	2006-09-05 09:05:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI2296	ARRESTED AMCIT CONG THANH DO: MFA WORKING ON [...] (C) On September 7, Pol/C discussed the arrest of Amcit Cong Thanh Do with MFA Americas Department Deputy Director Le Chi Dzung and underscored the seriousness with which the USG is viewing this case. Pol/C stressed that keeping Do in custody without any charges -- particularly now that it see [...]	2006-09-07 09:12:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CASC VM
06HANOI2305	CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: POINTS TO RAISE WITH THE GVN ON [...] (U) Action Request. See paragraph 5. This request was coordinated with ConGen HCMC (Ref A). Summary ------- 2. (C) Mission Vietnam is concerned about an up-tick in police activities directed against ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands who are in cellular telephone contact with [...]	2006-09-08 08:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF VM
06HANOI2309	THANK YOU LETTER FROM PRESIDENT TRIET TO PRESIDENT GEORGE [...] (SBU) On September 6, 2006, under cover of diplomatic note, the MFA sent the Embassy a letter from State President Nguyen Minh Triet to President George W. Bush. In the letter, President Triet thanks President Bush for his recent National Day message (reftel) and seeks the President's support [...]	2006-09-08 09:19:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OPDC VM
06HANOI2319	DOE VISIT IDENTIFIES SECURITY CONCERNS AT [...] (SBU) Keith Young, Physical Security Protection Specialist from Sandia National Laboratories, working under contract to the Department of Energy (DOE),conducted a site assessment of a radioactive waste storage facility approximately 47 kilometers NW of Hanoi on August 28. Young visited the [...]	2006-09-11 09:03:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP OTRA PARM VM
06HANOI2344	CORRECTED COPY DOE VISIT IDENTIFIES SECURITY [...] (SBU) Keith Young, Physical Security Protection Specialist from Sandia National Laboratories, working under contract to the Department of Energy (DOE),conducted a site assessment of a radioactive waste storage facility approximately 47 kilometers NW of Hanoi on August 28. Young visited the [...]	2006-09-13 04:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP OTRA PARM VM
06HANOI2389	VIETNAM ECONOMIC DELEGATION TO NORTH KOREA REBUFFS [...] (C) Summary: The GVN recently sent a Ministry of Trade-led delegation to Pyongyang and Nampo. According to a GVN readout of the visit provided to the ROK Embassy, during the delegation's August 28-September 1 visit, the Vietnamese turned down a DPRK request for food and other assistance, say [...]	2006-09-19 09:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ECON KS KN VM
06HANOI2399	COMMITTEE FOR RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS UPDATES DCM ON RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) On September 15, Chairman Ngo Yen Thi of the GVN's Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) briefed the DCM on recent religious freedom developments in Vietnam. The CRA reports that eighteen congregations have been chosen in five out of 19 northern provinces for "pilot registration." These [...]	2006-09-19 10:39:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI243	VIETNAM: ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL'S CALL ON [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: On January 13, Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill met with Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan. The Deputy Prime Minister laid out a roadmap of five steps to prepare for the visit of President Bush in November: work to close bilateral WTO market access negoti [...]	2006-02-06 06:53:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV WTRO PREL PGOV TBIO VM
06HANOI244	A/S HILL DISCUSSES BURMA, CAMBODIA, LAOS, CHINA [...] Summary: In a frank lunch meeting January 13 with visiting EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill, senior GVN diplomats said that Vietnam is worried about China's increasing influence in Southeast Asia, particularly Burma, Cambodia and Laos, and urged the United States to engage more wit [...]	2006-02-06 06:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM CB BM LA VM
06HANOI2477	SIGNAL PIRACY AND COMPETITION PROBLEMS IN VIETNAM'S TELECOM [...] (SBU) Summary: Econ/C met with Director General (DG) Quan Dzuy Ngan Ha of the Ministry of Posts and Telematics (MPT) to deliver a strong message on USG concerns over signal piracy. DG Ha replied that MPT has urged the state-owned broadcaster, VTC, to discontinue its re-broadcasting of pirated [...]	2006-09-28 02:20:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD ECPS KPRV WTRO VM

06HANOI249	EAP A/S Hill's Meeting with Vietnamese FM Nguyen [...] (SBU) Summary: During his meeting January 13 with Foreign Minister Nguyen Dzy Nien, EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill underlined the need for the United States and Vietnam to systematize their bilateral discussions on issues of mutual interest, such as Burma and Cambodia; expressed [...]	2006-02-06 09:47:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV APEC ETRD PHUM CB CH BM KN VM
06HANOI250	EAP A/S Hill's Meeting with Vietnam VFM Le Van Bang [...] (SBU) Summary: During his January 13 meeting with Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang, EAP A/S Christopher R. Hill underscored the importance of making progress in next week's WTO talks, urged Vietnam to improve its human rights situation and welcomed Vietnam's role in regional structures such [...]	2006-02-06 09:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM CB BM CH VM
06HANOI2514	TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING [...] Below is post's response to reftel. 2. A. Description of how posts are currently organized for monitoring agreements and responding to foreign trade barrier complaints, including the establishment of teams at posts. The Trade Agreement Compliance Team in Hanoi consists of the Economic S [...]	2006-09-29 11:39:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD VM
06HANOI2543	LETTER FROM MINISTE OF TRADE TUYEN RE TERM OF COPYRIGHT [...] Summay: Embassy received the letter below, dated October 2, 2006, from Minister of Trade Truong Dinh Tuyen to USTR Susan Schwab. The letter confirms that Vietnam will grant U.S. nationals at least 75 years of copyright protection in accordance with the provisions of our Bilateral Trade Agree [...]	2006-10-05 08:01:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	CON ETRD KIPR VM
06HANOI2571	INITIAL GROUNDWORK FOR APP IN DANANG [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 28, the Charge discussed USG interest in opening an American Presence Post (APP) in Danang with MFA Americas Department Acting Director General Pham Van Que. Earlier in September, an Embassy team looked at potential locations in Danang for the APP. Among the three [...]	2006-10-06 00:34:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT ABLD ASEC VM
06HANOI2582	GVN Responds on Repatriation Agreement [...] (SBU) On October 6, Embassy received the GVN's response to the draft repatriation agreement post delivered to the MFA on August 2 (Refs A and B). The GVN: seeks to replace the term "relevant authorities/officials" with "competent authorities/officials;" presented for USG consideration a stand [...]	2006-10-06 08:30:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC CVIS KJUS PREL VM
06HANOI2598	VIETNAM WILL SUPPORT UNITED STATES AT ITU [...] (SBU) As reported in Reftel B in July, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) will support the candidacy of the United States for re-election to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council and the candidacy of Mrs. Julie Napier Zoller for election to the ITU Radio Regulations Board. The [...]	2006-10-11 08:06:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS AORC ECON ITU VM
06HANOI2599	CDA DISCUSSES POTUS VISIT, BILATERAL ISSUES WITH [...] (C) The Charge met on October 10 with MFA Americas Department Acting Director General Pham Van Que to continue discussions related to the POTUS visit. Que suggested that President Bush consider adding a short visit with the Communist Party's General Secretary Nong Duc Manh, in part to balanc [...]	2006-10-11 09:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV ECON VM
06HANOI2602	MISS WORLD EXPOSES SIGNAL PIRACY IN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnamese press has widely reported on accusations by national television broadcaster Vietnam Television (VTV) that its competitor Vietnam Television Technology Investment and Development Company (VTC) violated VTV's copyright as the sole authorized broadcaster of the Miss World [...]	2006-10-11 10:09:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD ECPS KPRV WTRO VM
06HANOI2607	CODEL HAGEL CALLS ON MINISTER OF DEFENSE, COLONEL GENERAL [...] (SBU) On October 6, Senator Hagel called on Vietnam's new Minister of Defense, Colonel General Phung Quang Thanh. During this meeting, Colonel General Thanh reviewed the positive trend in bilateral military relations, and noted several key areas where the U.S.-Vietnam defense relationship coul [...]	2006-10-12 03:12:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER MARR VM
06HANOI2619	SENATOR HAGEL MEETING WITH VIETNAM FINANCE MINISTER VU VAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Hagel met with Finance Minister Vu Van Ninh on October 6 to discuss Vietnam's economy and financial system. During the meeting Minister Ninh stressed that Vietnam aims to join the WTO as soon as possible and that it appreciates the support from the U.S. administration an [...]	2006-10-13 01:32:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG OVIP EIND EINV VM
06HANOI2624	MFA PROTESTS AMBASSADOR'S REMARKS CONCERNING DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 11, MFA Americas Department Acting Director General Pham Van Que called in the Charge to protest remarks about the Vietnamese political movement 8406 Bloc made by the Ambassador during an October 2 Radio Free Asia interview. According to Que, the remarks caused a negat [...]	2006-10-13 04:39:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI2630	SCENESETTER FOR DRL A/S LOWENKRON'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Embassy Hanoi looks forward to welcoming you back to Vietnam. Your visit will help us to address a number of key issues in the lead-up to the President's November visit. It will also underscore to the Vietnamese that progress on core American concerns and values must keep pace with the s [...]	2006-10-13 09:16:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI2633	Vietnam Addresses Workforce Anxiety in APEC Conference [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dealing with the anxieties and needs of the Vietnamese workforce as the country becomes more integrated into the world economy is high on the minds of the Vietnamese. This explains the huge turnout for a two-day APEC labor conference in Hanoi. Some 175 participants from Vietna [...]	2006-10-13 10:14:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EAID ECON ETRD EINV WTRO VM
06HANOI2662	RESPONSE FROM MFA ON PROPOSED U.S.-VIETNAM NONPROLIFERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The GVN is apparently not interested in quickly pursuing two formal agreements on nonproliferation which have been under negotiation between the Department of Energy and the Ministry of Science and Technology since 2004. MOST remains open, however, to discussion of the transfe [...]	2006-10-19 08:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP ENRG TRGY VM
06HANOI2686	VIETNAM - OCTOBER 20 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary. There have been no reported human Avian Influenza (AI) cases and no confirmed AI outbreaks in poultry to date this year in Vietnam. With the winter season approaching, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) has announced the need to tighten AI controls. On October 19, the RAND Corpo [...]	2006-10-23 02:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI
06HANOI2687	LOOSING TRACTION: S&T VICE MINISTER ON FUEL CONVERSION OF [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 26, 2006, the Charg d'Affairs paid a return visit to Vice Minister of Science and Technology Tran Quoc Thang to seek the Government of Vietnam's (GVN) prompt approval for the fuel conversion of the Dalat research reactor and conclusion of two related agreements on [...]	2006-10-23 03:08:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP ENRG TRGY KIPR VM
06HANOI2727	ASSISTANT SECRETARY LOWENKRON DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS WITH [...] (SBU) On October 19, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron told Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang that, while the United States recognizes there have been positive human rights developments in Vietnam, we will continue to urge the release of the two remaining [...]	2006-10-26 03:41:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV OTRA ECON VM
06HANOI2734	MFA GIVES NOD ON FUEL CONVERSION OF VIETNAM'S RESEARCH [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 24, 2006, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration Assistant Deputy Administrator (ADA) Andrew Bieniawski met separately with Vice Minister of Science and Technology Le Binh Dinh and Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Phan Binh Minh to c [...]	2006-10-26 10:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP ENRG TRGY KIPR VM
06HANOI2765	PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung's recent trip to Japan was intended to reaffirm the two countries' friendship and cooperation in a highly visible manner. The PM's schedule included a full array of high-level events and meetings (Ref B). In addition to protocol-driven events, t [...]	2006-10-30 10:00:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON ETRD EINV ENRG KIPR JA VM
06HANOI2767	PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO JAPAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung's recent trip to Japan was intended to reaffirm the two countries' friendship and cooperation in a highly visible manner. The PM's schedule included a full array of high-level events and meetings (Ref B). In addition to protocol-driven events, t [...]	2006-10-30 10:49:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON ETRD EINV ENRG KIPR JA VM
06HANOI2772	OPEN TO IDEA OF FFDO PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary. Vietnamese Civil Aviation Official was generally open to the idea of the proposed Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) program. Embassy is seeking answers to his questions about the program from the Transportation Security Administration representative in Bangkok. End summary. [...]	2006-10-31 01:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PTER VM
06HANOI2775	GVN Responds on Repatriation Agreement [...] (SBU) On October 30, Embassy received the GVN's response to the clarifications requested (Ref A) regarding the draft repatriation agreement Post delivered to the MFA on August 2 (Refs B and C). The GVN agrees with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's interpretation of Article 4, section [...]	2006-10-31 03:42:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC CVIS KJUS PREL VM
06HANOI2800	2006-2007 INCSR PART I -- VIETNAM [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-03 09:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV KCRM VM
06HANOI2884	PANDEMIC INFLUENZA: MISSION VIETNAM PREPARATIONS FOR [...] (U) Embassy Hanoi and the Consulate General Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) have developed basic shelter-in-place plans and taken a number of steps to inform all employees and their families of the need to prepare for pandemic influenza, including the need to maintain emergency food stocks, per previo [...]	2006-11-21 08:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT AMED TBIO ASEC KFLU KSAF KSEO VM
06HANOI2916	EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS VISIT PHAM HONG SON [...] (C) Summary and Comment: European diplomatic representatives in Hanoi were able to visit Pham Hong Son in his home on November 23. However, the meeting -- in which Son described his democratic beliefs, explained his unwillingness to join forces with newly formed activist groups in Vietnam an [...]	2006-11-29 09:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM VM
06HANOI293	MEETING WITH AFM HUNG: VFM LE VAN BANG MAY TRAVEL [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Assistant Foreign Minister Nguyen Duc Hung informed the Charge February 10 that National Assembly Vice Chairman Nguyen Van Yeu tentatively plans to lead an Assembly delegation to Washington February 26 for discussions with Congress on WTO and the PNTR vote. VFM Le [...]	2006-02-10 10:12:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM OTRA VM
06HANOI2944	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF EDUCATION ON U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Marine had his first official meeting with Minister of Education and Training Dr. Nguyen Thien Nhan on November 30. The meeting took place days before Dr. Nhan's first visit as Minister to the United States on what his staff is calling a "study tour." Minster Nhan ex [...]	2006-12-01 09:41:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID OEXC SCUL PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI3007	VIETNAM SEEKS TO BOLSTER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Vietnam recently co-hosted East Asia's first-ever conference on International Humanitarian Law, during which it pledged to take steps to strengthen its commitment to humanitarian law. Significantly, Vietnam's decision to host the conference is part and parcel of its [...]	2006-12-13 10:12:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UN VM
06HANOI301	AVIAN INFLUENZA: VIETNAM WEEKLY REPORT FEBRUARY 10, [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths since late October 2005 and no human cases over the past 85 days. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continues to report no AI outbreaks in poultry since the last reported incident on December 17, 2005. The GVN will launch [...]	2006-02-10 10:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED AMGT CASC EAGR KFLU PINR SOCI TBIO VM
06HANOI3019	VIETNAM NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PASSES NEW LABOR LAWS [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Assembly passed two important pieces of labor legislation in its fall session, one governing labor disputes and another regulating the country's burgeoning export labor industry. Labor experts note that the new strikes law could help open the door to greater freedom [...]	2006-12-15 10:30:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON PGOV ETRD EIND EINV VM
06HANOI3021	MFA Protests Ambassador's Remarks in Support of Greater [...] (SBU) During a roundtable with foreign correspondents on December 13, the Ambassador spoke on the issue of human rights, freedom of expression and the GVN's treatment of activists and others who peacefully voice their political views. Responding to a reporter's question about the activities of [...]	2006-12-18 00:23:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KPAO VM
06HANOI3071	TRADE MINISTER -- THANKS ON QUOTA ELIMINATION BUT STILL [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Trade Tuyen has sent a letter thanking USTR for clarifying the timing of the elimination of textile and apparel quotas. He also expresses appreciation for President Bush's signing of PNTR. At the same time, he notes continued concern about the development of a "Moni [...]	2006-12-26 10:20:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KTEX ECON PREL WTRO VM
06HANOI368	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY VICE-CHAIRMAN TO TRAVEL [...] (U) Post received a note dated February 16 from the Office of the National Assembly formally conveying the plans of the Vice Chairman of the National Assembly to travel to the United States. We will report delegation and itinerary details as they become available. 2. (SBU) Begin text of no [...]	2006-02-17 09:39:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OPDC VM
06HANOI421	TAIWANESE ASK FOR HELP WITH DISCRIMINATION IN APEC [...] (C) Summary: In a February 22 meeting, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office Hanoi (TECOH) representatives expressed concern over inequitable treatment they claim they are experiencing in both the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the World Health Organization (WHO),a result, they sa [...]	2006-02-22 10:07:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	APEC ECON IO PREL TW VM
06HANOI504	AVIAN INFLUENZA: VIETNAM WEEKLY REPORT MARCH 3 [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths since late October 2005 and no human cases over the past 105 days. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continues to report no AI outbreaks in poultry since the last reported incident on December 17, 2005. The Prime Minister [...]	2006-03-03 10:21:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI505	AVIAN INFLUENZA: VIETNAM WEEKLY REPORT MARCH 3 [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths since late October 2005 and no human cases over the past 105 days. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continues to report no AI outbreaks in poultry since the last reported incident on December 17, 2005. The Prime Minister [...]	2006-03-03 10:21:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI549	CONDITIONS FACING ETHNIC MINORITY PROTESTANTS IN [...] (SBU) An Embassy and DRL/IRF team recently visited the Northwest provinces of Lao Cai and Yen Bai to examine social conditions for ethnic minorities and to advocate for the rapid registration of ethnic minority Protestant groups. Protestant leaders from the region reported that local officials [...]	2006-03-09 10:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM VM
06HANOI561	VIETNAM: MARCH 10 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT [...] Summary. There have been no reported human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths since late October 2005 and no human cases over the past 105 days. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continues to issue statements that indicate no new AI outbreaks in poultry since December 17, 2005. A local newspaper re [...]	2006-03-10 11:16:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI582	AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS CHAIRMAN THI OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford met February 21 with the head of Vietnam's Committee for Religious Affairs. They agreed that the GVN has taken important steps to establishing religious freedom in most of the country; however the Northwe [...]	2006-03-14 03:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI612	VIETNAM RATIFIES CTBT [...] On March 10, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivered Diplomatic Note 89/NG-TCQT informing the Embassy that Vietnam ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty on February 23, 2006. President Tran Duc Luong was the ratifying official. MARINE [...]	2006-03-16 08:37:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM CTBT VM
06HANOI625	VIETNAM: WILL LIKELY APPROVE ADDITIONAL GENEVA [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-17 02:58:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ICRC PHUM PREF IS SZ VM
06HANOI627	VIETNAM AND DPRK WORK TO IMPROVE TIES [...] (C) DPRK MFA Asia Director Ma Chol-su visited Vietnam March 2-5 as part of the two countries' continuing efforts to patch up relations following the mass defection incident of July 2004. During meetings in Hanoi with Government and Party representatives, the two sides agreed to pursue high-le [...]	2006-03-17 05:56:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VM KN KS
06HANOI628	POLITICAL DEBATE, VIETNAMESE STYLE: THE PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The public's response to the call for comments on the Communist Party's draft Political Report has been enthusiastic and, by Vietnamese standards, refreshingly open. Many commentators have taken on overtly political issues, expressing dissatisfaction with the Party's [...]	2006-03-17 06:12:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR VM
06HANOI630	VIETNAM: MARCH 17 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths since late October 2005 and no human cases since November 9, 2005. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continues to report no AI outbreaks in poultry since the last reported incident on December 17, 2005. The Minister of Agr [...]	2006-03-17 10:32:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI657	U.S.-VIETNAM BILATERAL WTO ACCESSION MARKET ACCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Working within a theme of liberalization, linkages, and legislation, U.S. and Vietnamese negotiators made significant progress in bilateral WTO Accession market access negotiations held January 16-18 in Hanoi. In the agricultural market access negotiations, tariff lines coveri [...]	2006-03-21 09:58:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO PREL USTR VM
06HANOI670	AMBASSADOR AND VFM LE VAN BANG DISCUSS WTO, HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador focused on Vietnam's WTO entry, practical developments in our human rights discussions, possible Congressional visits and developments in the bilateral relationship over the next six months during a March 21 lunch with Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang. VFM Bang [...]	2006-03-22 23:19:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD APEC PHUM AMGT OVIP CVIS CASC VM
06HANOI683	VIETNAM FOREIGN POLICY EXPERTS ON CHINA, THE UNITED [...] (SBU) Summary: During a frank discussion with visiting Deputy NIO Terrence Markin and Poloff, senior officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Institute for International Relations (IIR) encouraged the United States to stay closely engaged in Southeast Asia, but avoid making Southeast Asia [...]	2006-03-24 08:42:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL APEC ASEAN CH VM
06HANOI685	VIETNAM - MARCH 23 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT [...] (U) Summary. There have been no new human Avian Influenza (AI) deaths since late October 2005 and no human cases since November 9, 2005. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continues to report no AI outbreaks in poultry since the last reported incident on December 17, 2005. The GVN has ordered [...]	2006-03-24 08:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI736	GVN AVOIDS HARSH CRITICISM OF 2005 HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Unlike in previous years, the GVN has not launched an intensive media campaign against the 2005 Human Rights Report. This could reflect a decision to avoid possible repercussions with the U.S. Congress that would complicate a PNTR vote on WTO membership. It may al [...]	2006-03-31 08:21:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF ETRD EINV ECON VM
06HANOI771	CORRUPTION IN VIETNAM: MINISTER FALLS, PARTY GETS [...] (SBU) Summary: The media is gleefully reporting a sensational corruption scandal involving millions of dollars in graft that has cost the Minister of Transportation his job. The case amplifies the recent wave of calls for anti- corruption reform that has dominated recent public discussion of [...]	2006-04-04 07:28:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCOR VM
06HANOI782	VIETNAM: PSI ENDORSEMENT UNLIKELY SOON [...] (SBU) Summary: Heavy Embassy pressure on the GVN has forced the issue of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) all the way to the Prime Minister's office, where we are told the decision has been made to authorize Vietnam's participation in PSI-related activities on a case-by-case basis, [...]	2006-04-05 06:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KNNP MNUC PARM PHSA PREL VM
06HANOI823	VIETNAM'S EVENTUAL PKO PARTICIPATION LIKELY, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The MFA is in charge of preparing the political ground for Vietnam's eventual participation in international peacekeeping operations, which means winning internal consensus and gaining public opinion support. Neither task is complete yet, and the internal consensus- building wil [...]	2006-04-11 10:44:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SU PKO MOPS VM
06HANOI835	HANOI DISCUSSES NEW LAW ON ASSOCIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: On April 3, the GVN presented its ninth draft of a New Law on Associations to donor community Ambassadors, representatives of Vietnam's associations and international NGOs and other interested parties. Follow-on discussion was open and pointed. Controversial elemen [...]	2006-04-13 04:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD EINV ECON VM
06HANOI839	10th Party Congress: CPV Offers Preview, Aims for [...] (SBU) In a preview of the Communist Party's upcoming 10th National Congress, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan underscored that the Party's key focus will be on how to continue Vietnam's economic and social development efforts. Sticking close to well-known positions in a presentation to the diplo [...]	2006-04-13 08:30:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR VM
06HANOI852	COUNTERNARCOTICS PROJECT PROPOSAL FROM UNODC [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Hanoi has received a three-year, USD 1.1 million project proposal from UNODC to improve the GVN's capacity to gather, use and share counternarcotics information and intelligence in order to build its capacity to interdict illegal drugs. Additional benefits for GVN borde [...]	2006-04-17 04:24:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SNAR EAID VM
06HANOI875	VIETNAM: INDEPENDENT INQUIRY COMMITTEE [...] (U) Post received a note dated April 7 from the Ministry of Trade formally conveying their response to Post's inquiry regarding the Independent Inquiry Committee investigation. 2. (SBU) Begin text of note: Ministry of Trade Socialist Republic of Vietnam Hanoi, April 7, 2006 The Min [...]	2006-04-18 08:50:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KFIN PGOV IZ VM
06HANOI894	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: PROTESTANT EFFORTS TO REGISTER; [...] (SBU) House church leaders affiliated with the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (ECVN) recently updated Poloff on their efforts to officially register the activities of their congregations in Vietnam's northern provinces. Progress in registration and other improvements in conditions for Protestan [...]	2006-04-20 09:25:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM VM
06HANOI895	Party Begins 10th Congress [...] (SBU) The Communist Party opened its 10th National Party Congress (NPC) April 18 with a five-year review of Party achievements and failures that included a reference to an ongoing corruption scandal that has claimed a number of high- level officials (Ref A). The final draft of the Party's Pol [...]	2006-04-20 10:01:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR VM
06HANOI916	VIETNAM - APRIL 20 AVIAN INFLUENZA REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite the fact that the Government of Vietnam (GVN) does not have a BLS-3 laboratory, a credible source indicates that two animal health laboratories in Vietnam have been isolating the H5N1 virus. The Vice Director of the Ministry of Health's Drug Administration has confirm [...]	2006-04-21 12:27:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR SOCI VM
06HANOI943	Party Selects New (Old) Leadership; Senior [...] (SBU) The Communist Party closed its 10th National Party Congress (NPC) April 25 after re-electing Nong Duc Manh to the position of Party General Secretary. The Party's new Central Committee, elected April 23, also selected the new Politburo and Party Secretariat. Although many of those who [...]	2006-04-25 11:19:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR VM
06HANOI964	Ambassador Meets Vietnam's Chief of Police, Signs [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and Vice Minister of Public Security Le The Tiem signed April 26 the Amendment to the U.S.- Vietnam Letter of Agreement on Counternarcotics. Prior to the signing ceremony, the two discussed bilateral law enforcement cooperation and other issues, agreeing that both sides' [...]	2006-04-27 07:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SOCI SNAR EAID ECON OSCI VM
06HARARE1010	CURRENCY CHANGEOVER SPARKS CONFUSION [...] (C) With five business days remaining until the currency conversion deadline of August 21, business contacts tell us the country is woefully unprepared for the expiration of the old bearer checks. Most businesses have suspended or significantly reduced sales, chiefly of imports, rather than [...]	2006-08-11 13:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC ECON PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE1078	LABOR LEADERS IMPRESS STAFFDEL WITH CANDID TALK OF [...] (U) A congressional staff delegation visiting Zimbabwe came away from a meeting with two prominent labor leaders impressed with their candid discussion of the fractured state of the opposition movement and sobering description of the daily challenges workers face in Zimbabwe's severely depress [...]	2006-09-06 13:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB ZI
06HARARE11	GOZ INTENSIFIES ASSAULT ON MDC MUNICIPAL [...] (C) All 19 of Mutare's MDC city councilors resigned on January 4 in response to their December 29 suspension by Minister of Local Government Ignatius Chombo over alleged mismanagement. The Minister appointed an acting council of ruling party loyalists to run the city. Chombo also suspended [...]	2006-01-09 05:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC ZANU PF
06HARARE112	GOZ INTENSIFIES ATTACK ON ZIMBABWE LAWERS FOR [...] (C) According to several Embassy sources in civil society, the GOZ,s crackdown on the independent radio station Voice of the People (VOP) is actually directed at the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) and its head Arnold Tsunga. Tsunga and other ZLHR employees, as VOP trustees, have been [...]	2006-02-02 13:21:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE1164	STEVENSON ATTACK COMMISSION POINTS FINGER AT GOZ [...] (SBU) Anti-Senate leader Morgan Tsvangirai held a Press Conference September 20 to announce the findings of the commission appointed by the anti-Senate MDC to investigate the July 2 attack on pro-Senate MDC MP Trudy Stevenson. According to Tsvangirai, the commission concluded that GOZ securit [...]	2006-09-21 15:07:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC ECON PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE124	GOZ CASTS MDC'S ZAMBIA EXCURSION AS USG PLOTTING [...] (C) Following Zambia's expulsion of a delegation of senior MDC officials on February 2 (refs A, B),Zimbabwe's state media has alleged that the U.S. Embassy had arranged a meeting in Zambia between the delegation and "officials from US-funded Freedom House". The articles appear to be part of [...]	2006-02-06 13:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAO ASEC PHUM PGOV ZI MDC
06HARARE125	ZANU-PF SENATOR/FINANCIER PURSUES ENHANCED [...] (C) Aguy Georgias, a recently appointed ZANU-PF aligned Senator and CEO of Trinity Engineering, on January 31 sought Embassy participation in an informal dialogue he hoped to set up with a to-be-named interlocutor selected by President Mugabe. He asserted that in Zimbabwe's dysfunctional pol [...]	2006-02-06 13:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ZI ZANU PF
06HARARE1256	TANZANIAN PRESIDENT EXPRESSES INTEREST IN MEETING [...] (C) Summary. Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) director Reginald Matchaba-Hove told polchief that while in New York last month he met Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete and that Kikwete had expressed interest in the current situation in Zimbabwe and had said he was committed to a regi [...]	2006-10-17 14:49:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI TZ
06HARARE128	ZIMBABWE ESF ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROJECT [...] Summary. Embassy Harare submits the following International Organization for Migration (IOM) proposal for funding consideration from FY2006 ESF appropriations. The proposal is for assistance to IOM's activities in Zimbabwe as part of the Southern African Counter-Trafficking Assistance Progra [...]	2006-02-07 14:14:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ASEC ELAB SMIG ZI KWMN KCRM
06HARARE1294	LOW VOTER TURNOUT LEADS TO BIG ZANU-PF WIN [...] (SBU) Preliminary results reported in the government-controlled press today are calling Saturday's rural district council elections a ZANU-PF victory. Official results are expected by Tuesday, October 31. The key feature of the elections was very low voter turnout. Initial reports from elec [...]	2006-10-30 15:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC ZI
06HARARE1299	CHURCH LEADERS "NATIONAL VISION" REJECTED BY [...] (C) Summary. A group of religious leaders presented President Mugabe October 27 with a so-called "national vision" document they said is intended as a road map for dialogue leading to a resolution of Zimbabwe,s problems. While stating that the document could lead to consensus among Zimbabwea [...]	2006-10-31 14:43:00	Embassy Harare	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM ZI
06HARARE1322	KEY ZANU-PF MP ENCOURAGES USG SUPPORT FOR REFORM [...] (C) U.S. Economics Professor Craig Richardson, who was in Harare to speak at the October 5 American Business Association of Zimbabwe (ABAZ) forum (reftel),along with econoff, met October 4 with Walter Mzembi, the outspoken ZANU-PF Chairman of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands, La [...]	2006-11-06 15:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	CH EAGR ECON EFIN PGOV ZI
06HARARE1396	MUCH BALLYHOOED 99-YEAR LEASES DISAPPOINT ALL ROUND [...] (SBU) The terms of the few dozen much ballyhooed 99-year leases issued on November 9 by President Mugabe left many questions unaddressed. Bankers say they do not appear to meet collateral requirements for lending into the sector. Security of tenure under the leases is tenuous, as the GOZ ret [...]	2006-11-22 13:04:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV ASEC ZI
06HARARE1433	WOMEN'S RIGHTS MARCHERS ARRESTED, ASSAULTED [...] (SBU) Police in Bulawayo brutally suppressed a demonstration of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) on Wednesday, November 29 as the women's rights group launched their "People's Charter," a demand for social justice and affordable basic services. According to WOZA, more than 70 women were arreste [...]	2006-12-01 10:29:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC ZI
06HARARE1472	PAT2007FEB: ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-15 10:25:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC ECON EFIN ETRD KIPR OTRA ZI
06HARARE1492	NEW LAND SEIZURE LAW; DUTCH FARMERS CHALLENGE [...] (SBU) An Act requiring most farmers whose land was compulsorily acquired by the GOZ to cease farming and vacate their homes during the present summer growing season passes into law on December 20. Over 700 farmers could face eviction if the Act is implemented. In the meantime, an internation [...]	2006-12-21 06:36:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAGR ZI
06HARARE1499	ZIMBABWE: 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) This cable responds to reftel request to update information for the 2006 Country Reports on Terrorism. ------------------ GENERAL ASSESSMENT ------------------ 2. (SBU) Zimbabwe does not fit the criteria stipulated in paragraph 10 (a) and (b) of reftel instructions. Despite our str [...]	2006-12-28 06:11:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER PGOV PREL ZI
06HARARE158	ZIMBABWE RAW SUGAR TARIFF RATE QUOTA UPDATE [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel demarche to Zimbabwe Sugar Sales (ZSS),Zimbabwe,s designated sugar certifying authority, on January 30, 2006. ZSS informed EconOff that it plans to use its current quota and could supply up to 17,000 additional metric tons of raw sugar if there is an increase in [...]	2006-02-13 12:52:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD ECON ZI
06HARARE159	MDC MP COLTART: GOZ WEAKENING [...] (C) In a meeting on February 8 with the Ambassador, MDC MP for Bulawayo South David Coltart said the GOZ was beginning to show signs of crumbling under the strain of economic deterioration. The inner circle of the regime was getting rich but patronage was no longer reaching second tier membe [...]	2006-02-13 13:25:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI MDC
06HARARE179	SANCTIONS INFORMATION FOR BUSINESS COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) This is an action request; please see para 3. 2. (SBU) Embassy has received numerous inquiries from American companies about the USG's targeted sanctions policy in Zimbabwe and its implication for their operations here. To be responsive to our business community, pre-empt additional i [...]	2006-02-16 07:21:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ETRD ASEC ZI
06HARARE180	BELEAGUERED BUSINESS LEADERS SAY POLICY CHANGES [...] (C) At an economic roundtable hosted by the Ambassador on February 8, five leading businessmen had little doubt about the inevitability of a GOZ shift to market-driven policies but differed on its likely timing. They agreed that the speed of economic deterioration was accelerating, the econom [...]	2006-02-16 14:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV EINV ETRD ZI
06HARARE215	FORMER STUDENT LEADER EMERGES AS PRO-SENATE [...] (C) On February 19, former student leader Arthur Mutambara, who now resides in South Africa, announced his decision to run for president of the pro-senate faction of the MDC. A number of pro-senate MDC MPs expressed strong support for Mutambara and said he would breathe new life into the part [...]	2006-02-23 13:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC
06HARARE298	GOZ EYING CONTROL OF MINING SECTOR [...] (C) Minister of Mines Amos Midzi announced on March 3 that Cabinet had approved in principle amendments to the Mines and Minerals Act that would force foreign-owned mining companies to hand over 51 percent of their shares to the GOZ. The GOZ is preparing to present the legislation to Parliamen [...]	2006-03-08 17:29:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EMIN ECON EFIN PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE300	GOZ EYING CONTROL OF MINING SECTOR [...] (C) Minister of Mines Amos Midzi announced on March 3 that Cabinet had approved in principle amendments to the Mines and Minerals Act that would force foreign-owned mining companies to hand over 51 percent of their shares to the GOZ. The GOZ is preparing to present the legislation to Parliamen [...]	2006-03-09 10:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN PGOV PREL ZI
06HARARE383	MFA OFFICIAL CRITICIZES GOZ FOR STATE OF U.S. [...] (C) In a March 27 courtesy call on the Ambassador, the outgoing MFA Head of Protocol and new DCM at the Zimbabwean Embassy in Washington, Gideon Gapare, told the Ambassador that the GOZ wanted dialogue with the U.S. The Ambassador responded that the U.S. was also open to dialogue but that the [...]	2006-03-28 13:48:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ZI
06HARARE42	MUGABE CONFIDANT FLOATS TRIAL BALLOON [...] (C) In a January 10 meeting with Ambassador, Father Fidelis Mukonori, Zimbabwe's senior Jesuit and a confidant of Robert Mugabe, recommended western re-engagement, including a secure "way out" for Mugabe. The Ambassador responded he would be open to discussing with GOZ leaders the post-Mugabe [...]	2006-01-12 15:40:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID PHUM ZI
06HARARE46	INFLATION ENDS 2005 ON A HIGH, POISED FOR INCREASE [...] (S/NF) Summary: The GOZ,s Central Statistical Office (CSO) reported that the cost of living increased to 585.8 percent in December, up from the annualized November rate of 502 percent (ref A). A steep increase in the price of transportation services and food dominated the month-on-month ri [...]	2006-01-13 09:26:00	Embassy Harare	SECRET	ECON EFIN PGOV ASEC ZI
06HARARE469	AG EXECUTIVES GLOOMY ON ECONOMIC SITUATION, [...] (C) At an agriculture roundtable hosted by the Ambassador on April 12, five sector leaders lamented the GOZ's paralysis on economic policy and its continuing negative impact on agriculture. Expressing concerns over prospective chaos and even violence if the economy deteriorated further, some [...]	2006-04-21 12:39:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PGOV BEXP ECON PHUM SOCI ZI
06HARARE533	DEMONSTRATORS TAP SCHOOL FEE RESENTMENT [...] (U) Police arrested 185 demonstrators who had been protesting school fees at a Women of Zimbabwe Arise! (WOZA) demonstration in Bulawayo on May 4; all were released as of May 8. A brief WOZA demonstration in Harare May 8 attracted 80-100 participants. None of the participants were arrested [...]	2006-05-09 15:34:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE583	"OPERATION ROUND-UP" SO FAR LARGELY ILLUSORY [...] (U) The GOZ-controlled Herald daily reported in a front-page story on May 15 that Harare police last week had picked up 10,000 "squatters, vagrants and street youths" for relocation to rural areas after "screening." According to the article, the exercise was part of "Operation Round-Up", an [...]	2006-05-17 16:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC ZI
06HARARE59	HARARE BFIF PROJECT PROPOSAL [...] (U) Embassy Harare proposes to draw on the Business Facilitation and Incentive Fund (BFIF)(reftel) to sponsor a business/economic policy forum on "A Foundation for Economic Turnaround: Private Sector Perspectives." 2. (SBU) With Zimbabwe's GDP having contracted by more than a third in jus [...]	2006-01-20 04:46:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ABUD AMGT BEXP BTIO ECON ETRD ZI
06HARARE666	BENNETT'S LAWYER ON ASYLUM CASE [...] (C) Arnold Tsunga, the attorney for MDC Treasurer Roy Bennett, on May 31 told the CDA that Bennett had appealed the South African Department of Home Affairs' recent rejection of Bennett's asylum application. (Embassy has forwarded the original application and judgment to AF/S.) However, Tsun [...]	2006-06-05 17:14:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE698	FLAGGING PRO-SENATE MDC FACTION WRITES OFF [...] (C) MDC pro-Senate faction leaders on June 6 outlined their plans for the immediate future to emboffs, especially including outreach to the Embassy and a possible trip to the United States by the faction's president. Pro-Senate faction Secretary General Welshman Ncube and deputy Secretary Gen [...]	2006-06-13 11:26:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE724	US SUBSIDIARY CONFESSES SANCTIONS SINS [...] (C) The Managing Director of the Zimbabwe branch of Greif, an Ohio-based packaging company, told poloff on June 14 that his branch had been knowingly violating US financial sanctions for several years by providing services to Robert Mugabe and other specially designated nationals (SDNs). Tich [...]	2006-06-15 17:32:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KFPC PREL ZI
06HARARE770	NO STABILITY IN SIGHT FOR ZIMBABWE'S LAND REFORM [...] (C) Commercial Farm Union Vice President Trevor Gifford on June 27 updated poloff on the GOZ's latest 99-year lease form, which would vest in the GOZ unfettered authority to repossess any properties distributed in its ongoing chaotic land reform process. Gifford said the form offered insuffi [...]	2006-06-28 15:26:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PGOV ASEC EINV PHUM PREL ECON ZI
06HARARE783	MUTARE BISHOP ON DIALOGUE WITH MUGABE, NATIONAL [...] (C) In a June 29 meeting with the Ambassador, Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe Bishop Trevor Manhanga said President Mugabe seemed genuine in his recent efforts to reach out to religious leaders. He said Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) head Happyton Bonyongwe was facilitating the bis [...]	2006-07-03 14:06:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE785	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: WTO DOHA ROUND NEGOTIATIONS, [...] On June 29, the Embassy conveyed the WTO demarche (reftel) to Beatrice Mutetwa, Director of International Trade at the Ministry of Industry and International Trade, Mr. Thadeous Chifamba, Director of Multilateral Affairs and Mr. Vova Chikanda, Director, the America Desk at the Ministry of Fore [...]	2006-07-03 16:05:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	WTRO ETRD ECON
06HARARE803	VICTIMIZED MP DOWNPLAYS TSVANGIRAI LINK IN PRIVATE [...] (SBU) Pro-Senate MDC MP Trudy Stevenson on July 7 told USAID local staff member that she did not believe the anti-Senate leadership ordered the July 2 attack on her and four other pro-Senate officials (reftel). Recovering at home and in high spirits, she said it was even possible that the GOZ [...]	2006-07-10 16:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI

06HARARE824	SELF-HELP INTERIM OBLIGATION REPORT - HARARE [...] Following is the interim report on project selection of AmEmbassy Harare's FY-05 Self-Help allowance of US $100,000. Post does not anticipate returning any money for re-allocation. Post has focused funding on the following areas based on the current harsh economic climate and the HIV/Aids p [...]	2006-07-12 13:32:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON AFIN

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