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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC [+] MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAID RAS RATIFICATION RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG [+] SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR [+] SNUC SO SOC SOCI [+] SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STET STP STR SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO [+] TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG WHA WHITMER WHO WHTI WI WILCOX WIPO WIR WJRO WM WMD WMDT WMN WMO WOMEN WPO WRTO WS WSIS WTO WTRD WTRO WTRQ WW WWARD WWBG WWT WZ XA XAAF XB XC XD XE XF XFNEA XG XH XI XJ XK XL XLUM XM XO XP XQ XR XS XT XTAG XU XV XW XX XXX XY XZ YE YEH YI YL YM YMCS YS YU YURIY ZA ZANU ZB ZC ZCTU ZEALAND ZF ZFR ZH ZI ZIM ZJ ZK ZKGM ZL ZM ZN ZO ZP ZR ZS ZT ZU ZW ZXA
AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANET ANTITERRORISM AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD ENGRG ENGY ENIV ENLT ENNP ENR ENRC ENRG [+] ENRL ENTG ENV ENVI ENVIRONMENT ENVR ENVT EON EOXC EP EPA EPAT EPCS EPE EPEC EPECO EPET [+] EPIN EPIT EPPD EPRT EPSC EPTE EPTED EPWR EQ EQRD ER ERA ERD EREL ERGR ERICKSON ERIN ERTD ES ESA ESCAP ESCI ESDP ESENV ESF ESLCO ESOC ESOCI ESPS ESS ESSO ESTH ESTN ESTRADA ET ETA ETAD ETC ETCC ETD ETDR ETEL ETER ETEX ETFN ETIC ETIO ETLN ETMIN ETR ETRA ETRAD ETRB ETRC ETRD [+] ETRDECD ETRG ETRK ETRN ETRO ETRP ETT ETTC [+] ETTD ETTF ETTN ETTR ETTRD ETTW ETZ EU EUC EUCOM EUE EUEAID EUFOR EUM EUMEM EUN EUR EUREM EURM EURN EV EVENTS EVN EWRG EWT EWTR EWWT [+] EX EXBS EXEC EXIM EXO EXPORT EXTERNAL EZ FA FAA FAC FAGR FAO FARC FARM FAS FATAH FBI FCC FCS FCSC FCSCEG FCUL FDA FDIC FEDULOV FEMA FERNANDO FGM FI FIN FINANCE FINE FINR FINREF FINV FIR FISO FJ FK FKFLO FKLU FLU FM FMC FMGT FMLN FMS FO FOI FOOKS FOR FORCE FORCES FOREIGN FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD 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| 08VATICAN47 | EMBASSY CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS LATIN AMERICAN AND CATHOLIC [...] Summary. Ambassador Glendon recently hosted a substantive and well-attended conference commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the critical contributions of Latin American countries and Catholic social teachings to the creation of that documen [...] | 2008-07-02 12:16:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL KPAO KIRF SOCI XM XL CU VT |
| 08VIENTIANE149 | INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR LAOS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-04 01:30:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV OPIC USTR KTDB LA |
| 09ACCRA1331 | ACCRA SUBMISSION FOR 2009-1010 INCSR PART II (AML, [...] SUMMARY. Post submits Q&A replies below in response to reftel. Post also submitted same content by email. Post POC is Philip Cummings, Economic Section Chief, cummingspm@state.gov. END SUMMARY. 2. Q: Describe the anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) plans, programs [...] | 2009-12-16 16:02:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM EFIN KTFN PTER SNAR GH |
| 09AITTAIPEI1203 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-06 10:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 09AITTAIPEI269 | MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused March 11 news coverage on the unexpected resignation of Taiwan's National Security Bureau Director-General Henry Tsai Tuesday; on Taiwan's sagging economy; and on the controversy over the assassination attempt against former President Ch [...] | 2009-03-11 09:29:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 09AITTAIPEI785 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. BEEF, U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their June 27-29 news coverage on the sudden death of Michael Jackson last Thursday; on the arrest of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya by the Honduran military Sunday and its impact on President Ma Ying-jeou's upcoming trip to Central Am [...] | 2009-06-29 09:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
| 09ANKARA1264 | GOT PROTESTS GEORGIAN SEIZURE OF MERCHANT SHIPS [...] (SBU) The GOT has protested the seizure of two ships, which, it claims, were stopped by the Georgian Coast Guard in international waters in the Black Sea off the coast of Georgia and taken into the port of Poti (see reftel). The Turkish-crewed Panamanian-flagged oil tanker "Buket," which was [...] | 2009-08-26 16:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EWWT TU GG |
| 09ANKARA385 | TURKEY OBJECTS TO CYPRUS BID FOR MEMBERSHIP IN [...] (C) On March 16, Basat Ozturk, MFA Deputy Director General for Maritime and Aviation Affairs, contacted us to encourage the USG to oppose including Cyprus in the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP). Ozturk, acting on instructions, said that he had been informed that the GOC sought, at the [...] | 2009-03-16 13:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL TU |
| 09ASTANA811 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON REMOVING H1N1-RELATED [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Akhmetzhan Sultanov, Vice Chairman of the Ministry of Agriculture's State Inspection Committee told us on May 6 that, in response to the H1N1 virus, the Government of Kazakhstan took preemptive steps to prevent the [...] | 2009-05-07 08:45:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR ETRD ECON SENV KZ |
| 09ATHENS1920 | Greece: 2009-2010 INCSR, Part 1 [...] (U) Greece's submission for the 2009-2010 INCSR, Part 1: Greece 2009-2010 INCSR Part I: Drugs and Chemical Control I. Summary Greece is a "gateway" country in the transit of illicit drugs and contraband. Although not a major transit country for drugs headed for the United St [...] | 2009-10-30 16:31:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SNAR KCRM GR |
| 09BAGHDAD2348 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING [...] This is an action request. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate from the Iraqi Security Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. 3. The name of the proposed candi [...] | 2009-08-31 13:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
| 09BAGHDAD3307 | Louis Dreyfus Commodities Moves Closer to Large [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-22 14:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ETRN BEXP IZ |
| 09BANGKOK706 | AIT CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT AND FM OU DISCUSS BILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Extradition, an FTA and visa waiver are Taiwan's top bilateral priorities, FM Ou told AIT Chairman Burghardt during their March 18 meeting. Although the leadership in Beijing has tacitly accepted Taiwan's diplomatic truce and mutual non-denial, this is not the case at lower lev [...] | 2009-03-20 04:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PHUM PTER SNAR PREL PARM PGOV KCRM KJUS |
| 09BELMOPAN171 | BELIZE RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE: HONDURAN INITIATIVE [...] (U) CDA met with MFA CEO Ambassador Alexis Rosado on May 5 and delivered the subject demarche. CDA informed Rosado that WHA/CEN Office Director Christopher Webster had delivered the same demarche to Belizean Ambassador to the U.S. Nestor Mendez in the evening of May 4. 2. (C) Rosado sta [...] | 2009-05-05 22:13:00 | Embassy Belmopan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OAS BH CU HO |
| 09BERLIN686 | GERMANY H1N1 FLU UPDATE: A 19-CASE SPIKE, 68 TOTAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The number of H1N1 cases in Germany rose to 68 on June 8 as nineteen more people were confirmed to be infected with the new virus. Two US soldiers at a military facility in Landstuhl (Rhineland-Palatinate) are infected with the virus and several other US military cases are suspe [...] | 2009-06-09 14:14:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU ECON PREL SOCI CASC EAGR MX GM |
| 09BERLIN695 | GERMANY H1N1 FLU UPDATE: ANOTHER SPIKE IN CASES, 86 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The number of H1N1 cases in Germany rose to 86 on June 10, as twenty more people were confirmed to be infected with the new virus. The four suspected military cases at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center were confirmed positive. RKI says the growth of cases in Germany does not rep [...] | 2009-06-10 16:48:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU ECON PREL SOCI CASC EAGR MX GM |
| 09BISHKEK740 | UPDATE ON KYRGYZ RESTRICTIONS ON U.S. MEAT EXPORTS [...] (U) Following the outbreak of the H1N1 (swine flu) virus, Kyrgyz authorities in late April announced a ban on the import of an unspecified variety of meat products from the United States. Kyrgyz authorities subsequently relaxed their ban to conform to similar bans established by Russian and K [...] | 2009-07-14 05:24:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD KG |
| 09BOGOTA1108 | NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Due to poor weather, 6,410 total hectares were sprayed in February; eradication aircraft were involved in one hostile fire incident. February's operations in Tumaco included several NAS humanitarian missions to aid victims of floods and violence. The GOC's 2009 manual eradicat [...] | 2009-04-02 21:44:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
| 09BOGOTA1283 | NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR MARCH 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Aerial eradicators sprayed 10,920 total hectares in March; this number brought the calendar year total to 23,200 hectares of coca sprayed. Eradication aircraft were involved in three hostile fire incidents, resulting in four impacts for a total for the year of seven hostile f [...] | 2009-04-20 11:43:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
| 09BOGOTA1294 | COLOMBIA AND BRAZIL MOVING AHEAD ON JOINT SECURITY [...] (C) The GOC is reaching out to Brazil and Peru to raise its regional profile and improve trade and security relations with its neighbors. Colombian and Brazil recently concluded an agreement to jointly monitor each other's airspace to combat illegal armed groups (the FARC) and narco-traffickin [...] | 2009-04-20 20:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO SNAR |
| 09BOGOTA1359 | CODEL HOYER FOCUSES ON FTA AND PLAN COLOMBIA IN [...] (SBU) Summary. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer led a Congressional Delegation to Cartagena and Medellin, Colombia, from April 6-8, 2009. President Uribe outlined to the delegation the progress Colombia has made, with U.S. support, on counternarcotics efforts and the fact that much remains t [...] | 2009-04-27 18:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD OREP PGOV ECON CO |
| 09BOGOTA1481 | COLOMBIA EAGER TO PURSUE ECPA COOPERATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a series of senior-level meetings April 29-30, GOC officials told State Western Hemisphere Affairs Director for Economic Policy and Summit Coordination Matt Rooney that Colombia was very interested in pursuing cooperation with the U.S. and regional partners under the Energy a [...] | 2009-05-11 21:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PREL PGOV CO |
| 09BOGOTA1534 | FARC DESERTIONS SLOW, BUT MILITARY REGAINS [...] (C) FARC desertions dropped nearly 20% in the first quarter of 2009, slowing for the first time since 2005. Kills and captures also fell. Still, some military officials believe that FARC desertions are starting to "cut to the bone," citing the defections of more senior members. The Colombia [...] | 2009-05-14 21:09:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS MCAP PGOV PREL PTER MARR PHUM SNAR CO |
| 09BOGOTA1554 | CODEL LEVIN'S FACT-FINDING MISSION TO COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Representative Sander Levin, Chairman of the Trade Subcommittee, visited Bogota, Medellin, and Cali from April 12-17. President Alvaro Uribe outlined GOC efforts to reduce violence against trade union members, increase resolution of labor cases, protect vulnerable groups [...] | 2009-05-15 21:37:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD OREP PGOV ECON CO |
| 09BOGOTA1582 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF USNS COMFORT TO COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes the visit of the USNS Comfort and her crew to Colombia from June 6-17. The humanitarian and medical services you will provide will be welcomed by the Government of Colombia (GOC) and by the people of Tumaco, Narino -- one of the poorest areas of Colombia. Your visit [...] | 2009-05-19 21:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV PTER OIIP SNAR CO |
| 09BOGOTA1855 | NAS MONTHLY w5a hectares, with poor [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-10 13:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
| 09BOGOTA1982 | SUPREME COURT DENIES MARTIN SOMBRA'S EXTRADITION [...] (C) The Supreme Court denied our request for the extradition of FARC member Eli Mejia Mendoza ("Martin Sombra"),who was involved in the hostage-taking of the three American contractors rescued last July. The Court concluded that our request failed to meet the necessary "extraterritorial" req [...] | 2009-06-18 23:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PREL PTER SNAR CO |
| 09BOGOTA2030 | NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR MAY 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Aerial Eradication program sprayed 10,895 hectares in May, putting the program on schedule to reach the calendar goal of 100,000 hectares sprayed. Due to enhanced communication and synchronization, Accion Social management agreed to remove previously established, large no- [...] | 2009-06-24 22:02:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
| 09BOGOTA2062 | URABA SECURITY UPDATE [...] (C) Local security officialstold us major drug trafficker Daniel Rendon's (Don Mario's) capture has not affected local crime rates, and that narcotrafficking remains an enormous problem. The FARC, ELN, and criminal groups grow coca in the region's national parks, ship drugs out through the G [...] | 2009-06-26 21:10:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PHUM PREF PREL PTER CO |
| 09BOGOTA2345 | YOUTH OUTREACH VISIT FOCUSES ON COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY. The DCM traveled on June 27 to the city of Barranquilla (in the Caribbean coast department of Atlantico) to visit a drug demand prevention program sponsored by the Lion's Club International and to participate in the inauguration ceremony for the Latin American Little League Tourna [...] | 2009-07-23 21:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON ENRG EPET PGOV CO |
| 09BOGOTA2380 | NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR JUNE 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The aerial eradication team sprayed 14,380 hectares in June and is on schedule to reach the 100,000 hectare goal. Accion Social opened up more area to spray in Tumaco, Narino. Phase II of the manual eradication campaign will end in July and Phase III will start in mid-August; [...] | 2009-07-28 18:03:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
| 09BOGOTA2698 | NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR JULY 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The following developments occurred in July, 2009: The aerial eradication team sprayed 10,576 hectares (ha) and, with 57,219 ha sprayed so far this year, is on track to reach the 100,000 ha calendar goal. Total manual coca eradication through July was 28,739 ha. The GOC is ta [...] | 2009-08-24 19:55:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
| 09BOGOTA2714 | GOC SHARES LESSONS WITH MEXICO, BUT CHALLENGES [...] (C) Colombia is deepening its cooperation with Mexico and sharing the hard-won lessons it learned combating narcotraffickers under Plan Colombia. The two governments used Mexican President Felipe Calderon's August 12-13 Bogota visit to announce increased GOC training of Mexican police, while [...] | 2009-08-25 21:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR ECON PTER KJUS CO MX |
| 09BOGOTA2715 | GOC SHARES LESSONS WITH MEXICO, BUT CHALLENGES [...] (C) Colombia is deepening its cooperation with Mexico and sharing the hard-won lessons it learned combating narcotraffickers under Plan Colombia. The two governments used Mexican President Felipe Calderon's August 12-13 Bogota visit to announce increased GOC training of Mexican police, while [...] | 2009-08-25 21:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR ECON PTER KJUS CO MX |
| 09BOGOTA2925 | COLOMBIA SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF [...] (SBU) We welcome the visit of Paul Stockton, Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Western Hemisphere. Your visit comes as a regional debate over a U.S.-Colombia Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) has heated up and amidst significant political developments. The Government of Colombia (GOC) [...] | 2009-09-11 16:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PHUM MOPS MCAP MASS ASEC PREF ECON |
| 09BOGOTA2929 | NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR AUGUST 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The aerial eradication team sprayed 5,868 hectares (ha) and, with 73,084 ha sprayed so far this year, is on track to reach the 100,000 ha calendar goal. Phase III of the GOC's 2009 manual eradication campaign began in early August; total manual coca eradication through August [...] | 2009-09-11 21:39:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
| 09BOGOTA3045 | SCENESETTER FOR ONDCP DIRECTOR KERLIKOWSKE [...] (SBU) Embassy Bogota warmly welcomes the visit of R. Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Your visit comes as Colombia faces new challenges from narcotrafficking groups as well as some political uncertainty. The Colombian Congress has just approved a referend [...] | 2009-09-23 23:18:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR OVIP PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CO |
| 09BOGOTA3093 | COLOMBIA-ECUADOR TIES THAWING [...] (C/NF) Colombia and Ecuador announced on September 24 that they had begun the process of re-establishing diplomatic relations, which Ecuador severed in March 2008 after a Colombian military raid against a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) camp in Ecuadorian territory. The two sides [...] | 2009-09-29 15:02:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS PTER ETRD OAS CO EC |
| 09BOGOTA3204 | AMBASSADOR'S VISIT HIGHLIGHTS USG INTEREST IN SAN ANDRES [...] (SBU) The Ambassador traveled to San Andres, Colombia on September 22-23, to highlight U.S. interest in San Andres and discuss how the United States can best support the development of the island. The Ambassador was briefed by the Governor, leaders in conservation and tourism, leaders of the A [...] | 2009-10-09 15:04:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID OEXC PREL KLSO SNAR SENV PHUM CO |
| 09BOGOTA3236 | COLOMBIA: POTENTIAL DESTINATION FOR OPIC-SUPPORTED RENEWABLE [...] Summary: Colombia is a rich environment for renewable energy investment and would benefit from additional financing from the USRG Emerging Market Fund, LP. Colombia is a regional leader in the production of biofuels, specifically ethanol and biodiesel. Wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric pro [...] | 2009-10-15 00:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV OPIC CO ENRG |
| 09BOGOTA3256 | AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: SEPTEMBER 2009 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for September 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 1,703 tracks during September. There were three Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS) for the month. END SUMMARY. ------- Tracks [...] | 2009-10-15 23:58:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
| 09BOGOTA3269 | JUAN MANUEL SANTOS DISCUSSES PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTS WITH [...] (C) Former Minister of Defense and pre-candidate for President Juan Manuel Santos told Ambassador October 23 he believes President Alvaro Uribe is leaning toward reelection but may fail to fulfill the legal and electoral steps to achieve it. While promoting the third term for Uribe, Santos is [...] | 2009-10-27 23:00:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS PHUM CO EC VE |
| 09BOGOTA3300 | NAS Monthly Report for September 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During September, aerial and manual eradicators experienced an uptick in attacks on eradication efforts. The complaints committee's resources are strained as a deluge of new claims of alleged spray damage to legal crops in the CSDI-priority zone of Narino continues. The aeria [...] | 2009-10-16 19:09:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
| 09BOGOTA3309 | COLOMBIA PUSHES FORWARD WITH AMBITIOUS TRADE AGENDA [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Government of Colombia continues to make progress toward its goal of having nine free trade agreements (FTAs) with 45 countries in place by 2010. While not all nine are likely to be in force by next year, Colombia is already looking to other trade partners in the Hemisphere [...] | 2009-11-05 16:23:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ECIN PREL CO |
| 09BOGOTA335 | COLOMBIA RAISING ITS REGIONAL PROFILE, STARTING [...] (C) High-level meetings between Colombian and Mexican officials in recent months highlight the GOC's growing willingness to take on a leadership role in the region in combating terrorism, narcotics and other criminal activity. The two countries are working more closely than ever to fight narc [...] | 2009-02-03 21:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KJUS CO SNAR |
| 09BOGOTA3483 | COLOMBIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY SOURS ON ISRAELI DEFENSE FIRM [...] (S/NF) General Oscar Naranjo, Director of the Colombian National Police (CNP),told the Ambassador on November 24 that Defense Minister Gabriel Silva was souring on the Defense Ministry's relationship with Israel. Naranjo said that the CNP's relationship with retired Israeli Major General Yisr [...] | 2009-12-01 20:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MCAP MOPS PREL PGOV PTER IS PE PM CO |
| 09BOGOTA3536 | DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION'S VISIT TO BARRANQUILLA AND [...] (U) The Deputy Chief of Mission, accompanied by USAID Mission Director and other embassy officers, travelled to Barranquilla and Cartagena on October 22-23, where he met with local political, business, and community leaders; visited commercial enterprises; and visited with beneficiaries of USAI [...] | 2009-11-05 21:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EAID MARR CO |
| 09BOGOTA3559 | Charge Discusses Colombia-Panama Border Cooperation with [...] (S/NF) Charge d'Affaires met with General Oscar Naranjo, Director of the Colombian National Police (CNP),on December 15 to discuss Colombia - Panama law enforcement cooperation. Naranjo repeatedly stressed that cooperation with Panama would be completely coordinated with the USG, and that the [...] | 2009-12-16 20:21:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER SNAR PINR ASEC PM CO |
| 09BOGOTA3585 | Charge Discusses Venezuela, Ecuador and Mercosur with Acting [...] (C) Acting Foreign Minister Clemencia Forero told the Charge on December 18 that the GOC had sent a letter to UN Security Council members responding to Venezuela's call for a discussion on the alleged international threat posed by Colombia's security problems. The letter was intended to give UN [...] | 2009-12-21 14:05:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL UNSC MARR ENRG PREF CO VE EC UY |
| 09BOGOTA3662 | NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR OCTOBER 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Eradication numbers continue to lag behind last year's due to funding constraints affecting manual eradication progress. So far in 2009, the Colombian government has reported a total of 40 fatalities during manual eradication operations. Other GOC forces have also incurred ca [...] | 2009-11-18 13:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
| 09BOGOTA3670 | 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 17:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR |
| 09BOGOTA3672 | 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 17:12:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR |
| 09BOGOTA383 | SCENESETTER FOR FEBRUARY 9-13 VISIT OF AMBASSADOR [...] (C) The signing of a new defense cooperation agreement (DCA) with the United States is a priority for President Uribe. The current negotiations come at a time when the GOC is eager to cement the historically solid U.S.-Colombian bilateral relationship under the new U.S. administration. The GOC and [...] | 2009-02-05 19:21:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER MASS CO |
| 09BOGOTA3998 | 2009 Colombian Demobilization Rates Down, Yet More [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Colombia's robust Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) policy continues to bear fruit late into 2009 primarily due to several years of sustained security operations. Yet, after high rates in 2007 and 2008, a natural leveling off is evident with demobilization slowi [...] | 2009-12-15 18:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PHUM PREL PTER MOPS PGOV PREF SNAR PM VE PE EC |
| 09BOGOTA401 | DESERTIONS RISING, OPS SLOWING?: COLOMBIA CONFLICT [...] (C) The Colombian military did not score any high-profile tactical wins over the FARC in the fourth quarter of 2008, leading to a public perception that the GOC lost momentum following earlier successes. Some officers claimed commanders had become too cautious after the dismissal of 27 milita [...] | 2009-02-06 16:22:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM CO |
| 09BOGOTA413 | SCENESETTER FOR FEBRUARY 16-18 VISIT OF CHAIRWOMAN [...] (SBU) We welcome your visit as the first major CODEL to Colombia during the Obama administration. In ten years, Colombia has progressed from a near failed state and terrorist haven to an economic, political, and social leader in Latin America. Colombia has made major progress in its fight ag [...] | 2009-02-09 16:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP EAID PREL SNAR PTER ETRD CO |
| 09BOGOTA435 | SCENESETTER FOR FEBRUARY 18-22 CAPSTONE VISIT TO [...] (SBU) We welcome the visit of the CAPSTONE fellows to Colombia, which comes at a key time in the U.S.-Colombia bilateral relationship. In ten years, Colombia has progressed from a near failed state and terrorist haven to an economic, political, and social leader in Latin America. Colombia has [...] | 2009-02-11 20:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR EAID PREL SNAR PTER ETRD PREF CO |
| 09BOGOTA437 | REVISION: COLOMBIA-2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] This is a revised copy of the 2009 Colombia Investment Climate Statement (ref B). Please note minor changes in paragraphs 11 (Banking, Insurance and Telecommunications sections),41, 48, 51 and 71. Post will submit text via email to EEB/IFD/OIA and include in the 2009 Country Commercial Guid [...] | 2009-02-11 20:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON OPIC KTDB USTR EFIN KIPR PGOV CO |
| 09BOGOTA463 | PROTECTING COLOMBIA'S CRITICAL ENERGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In follow up to the August 2008 Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Secretary visit to Colombia and subsequent request by Colombian Minister of Mines and Energy Hernan Martinez, a team of DOE and U.S. Southern Command experts completed a preliminary scoping visit January 25-31, 20 [...] | 2009-02-13 21:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAID PGOV PREL CO |
| 09BOGOTA526 | SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 4-5 VISIT TO COLOMBIA OF [...] (SBU) We welcome the visit of Admiral Mullen to Colombia, which comes at a key time in the U.S.-Colombia bilateral relationship. As you know from previous visits, in ten years, Colombia has progressed from a near failed state and terrorist haven to an economic, political, and social leader in [...] | 2009-02-19 18:34:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PREF PTER PHUM MOPS MCAP ECON CO |
| 09BOGOTA570 | COLOMBIA'S NINTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Embassy point of contact on trafficking in persons is human rights officer Carolyn Cooley, phone number (57-1) 315-2129, fax number (57-1) 315-2163. Officer spent 50 hours preparing the report. 2. (SBU) Responses below are to questions in paragraphs 23-27 of reftel. ------- SUMMA [...] | 2009-02-24 13:35:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG KWMN |
| 09BOGOTA715 | PRESIDENT URIBE APPROVES THE "STRATEGIC LEAP" [...] (C) On February 19, President Uribe approved a comprehensive plan known as the "Strategic Leap," designed to achieve irreversibility in the GOC's fight against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and other criminal groups before his term ends in 2010. The plan calls for the deci [...] | 2009-03-02 21:49:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PTER MOPS MCAP MASS MARR CO |
| 09BOGOTA981 | SCENESETTER FOR APRIL 6-8 VISIT OF CODEL HOYER AND [...] (SBU) We welcome the visit of Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and delegation to Colombia. Your visit comes at a key time in the U.S.-Colombia bilateral relationship. As many members of the delegation know from previous visits, in ten years Colombia has progressed from a near failed state and ter [...] | 2009-03-24 22:03:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD KJUS PHUM PTER CO |
| 09BRASILIA1282 | BRAZIL: ILLICIT FINANCE CONFERENCE USES THE "T" [...] (SBU) Summary: An S/CT funded regional conference entitled "Illicit Financial Crimes" held in Rio de Janeiro during October 4-9, 2009, successfully brought together representatives from Brazil,s federal and state law enforcement community and countries from throughout Latin America. The week [...] | 2009-10-30 20:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PINR BR |
| 09BRASILIA132 | BRAZIL: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009 [...] This cable transmits the text of the Brazil Investment Climate Statement for 2007. BEGIN TEXT: A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment Brazil is open to and encourages foreign investment. According to a recent United Nations report, Brazil is the largest foreign direct investment (FDI) re [...] | 2009-02-03 16:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC USTR BR |
| 09BRASILIA178 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 117 [...] The following is part of a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do not n [...] | 2009-02-12 13:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 09BRASILIA78 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 116 [...] The following is number 116 in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do [...] | 2009-01-16 18:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
| 09BUENOSAIRES1168 | ARGENTINA TRIP REPORT OF A/S TREASURY DAVID COHEN [...] (U) Summary. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes David S. Cohen traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 2 to address members of the U.S.-Latin America Private Sector Dialogue (U.S.-LA PSD) and conduct meetings with the Central Bank of the Republic o [...] | 2009-10-28 15:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV AR |
| 09BUENOSAIRES123 | Argentina: Codel Costello Supports Expanding Bilat Ties, [...] (SBU) Codel Costello, a delegation of eight U.S. Representatives plus professional staff from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Civil Aviation Subcommittee, met with representatives of U.S. civil aviation companies and with senior GoA officials, including Planning Minister De Vido and [...] | 2009-02-05 17:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL EAIR EWWT ETRD AR |
| 09BUENOSAIRES332 | ARGENTINA: EMBASSY REQUEST FOR DOD ASSISTANCE IN GOA SEARCH [...] Summary. Embassy requests that DOD and Southern Command consider training-related activities that might assist Argentine authorities in their ongoing search for the wreckage of a Douglas C-54 Air Force plane lost on November 3, 1965, during a training flight from Howard AFB Panama to San Salva [...] | 2009-03-22 17:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MASS MARR OPRC AR |
| 09BUENOSAIRES553 | TFFLU01: H1N1 Influenza Outbreak and Argentina: SITREP #2 [...] (U) Summary: The first confirmed case of Influenza A (H1N1) in Argentina - a traveler who had returned from Mexico on April 25 - was confirmed by health authorities on May 7. The Ministry of Health (MOH) has installed thermal scanners at all international airports. The GoA's suspension of di [...] | 2009-05-08 23:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU CASC AEMR AMED ASEC KSAF PREL PINR AMGT |
| 09CAIRO1749 | EGYPT'S ECONOMY: September 10 PRESS ROUND-UP [...] (U) The following are notable economic news stories that appeared over the past week in the Egyptian press: --------------------------------------------- -- Preparing for Free Trade Negotiations with MERCOSUR --------------------------------------------- -- 2. (U) Minister of Trade and In [...] | 2009-09-10 08:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD EAGR ENRG PGOV EG |
| 09CARACAS103 | ECONOMIC TIES WITH IRAN GROWING SLOWLY [...] (C) Summary. Emboffs met with a local businessman to discuss his possible involvement in the establishment of a Venezuelan-Iranian Chamber of Commerce. In the private sector, expatriate Iranians cautiously build enterprises within Venezuela, ever wary of the political and economic pitfalls of doing [...] | 2009-01-26 21:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL EINV PGOV VE |
| 09CARACAS1181 | THE CUBANS IN VENEZUELA'S PORTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Post has comfirmed that a wholly Venezuelan government-owned company, Bolipuertos, is now charged with the management of Venezuela's ports. Cuba's ASPORT has a 49 percent share in Puertos del Alba, a separate company, which will reportedly be focused on business development. Contac [...] | 2009-09-09 12:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV ETRD EINV MARR CU VE |
| 09CARACAS1266 | BANESCO PRESIDENT CONCERNED OVER ALLEGATIONS OF [...] (C) In a September 28 meeting with the Ambassador, Banesco president Juan Carlos Escotet expressed concern that allegations in the blogosphere of Banesco's involvement with Iranian banks, although they were false, could damage Banesco's reputation. (Note: Banesco is privately held and by some measu [...] | 2009-09-30 19:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN VE IR |
| 09CARACAS1461 | VENEZUELAN AIRLINE NO LONGER AUTHORIZED TO MAKE UNSCHEDULED [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to a senior executive of Venezuelan cargo carrier Vensecar, the Government of Colombia (GOC) has retaliated against a September 10 decision by the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) that it would no longer authorize unscheduled flights by Colombia [...] | 2009-11-17 14:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON ETRD PREL SNAR VE CO BEXP EINT ETTC |
| 09CARACAS1489 | Students Occupy Embassies; Plan Second Hunger Strike [...] (C) On November 19 student activist Julio Rivas told Polcouns and Human Rights Officer that students would convene a demonstration in Caracas on November 21 in which they would announce their initiation of a second round of political actions, to include a hunger strike by about 50 student [...] | 2009-11-20 20:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM VE |
| 09CARACAS1559 | C-AL9-02397 GBRV TIGHTENS THE NOOSE ON COLOMBIAN IMPORTS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 8, the Executive President of the Venezuelan-Colombian Economic Integration Board (CAVECOL),Luis Alberto Russian, told EconOffs that while custom offices remain open on the Colombian border the Venezuelan Government (GBRV) has erected a series of administrative barrier [...] | 2009-12-16 13:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR PINR PREL VE CO |
| 09CARACAS418 | CHAVEZ GOES AFTER OPPOSITION LEADER ROSALES [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) continues to go after emblematic targets among the democratic opposition, including Maracaibo Mayor and 2006 opposition presidential candidate Manuel Rosales. As of March 31, rumors abound regarding whether Rosales, who is b [...] | 2009-03-31 21:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM VE |
| 09CARACAS673 | VENEZUELA REPORTS THREE CONFIRMED H1N1 CASES [...] On May 28, via a press release on its website (www.mpps.gob.ve),the Venezuelan Ministry of Health (MoH) confirmed the first case of H1N1 in Venezuela. According to the press release, the individual, a male of 22 years, returned May 25 from a five day trip to Panama and subsequently checked [...] | 2009-06-01 19:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED ASEC CASC KPAO KSAF TBIO KFLU KSEAO KSTH |
| 09DHAKA301 | BANGLADESH INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] This is Embassy Dhaka's submission for reftel tasking. 2. Begin text of the 2009 Bangladesh Investment Climate Statement: Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ Bangladesh actively seeks foreign investment under its industrial policy and export-oriented, private [...] | 2009-03-29 09:26:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR BG |
| 09DUSHANBE1059 | QATAR TO BUILD FIRST-CLASS RETAIL & RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company in Tajikistan recently announced plans to build a large office, retail and residential development in central Dushanbe. Office Manager Manuchehr Kurbonali said the project is the result of direct talks between President Rahmon and the E [...] | 2009-09-04 10:40:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL EAID TI QA |
| 09GENEVA1265 | 98TH IOM COUNCIL - GENERAL DEBATE AND RESOLUTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: IOM Director General William Swing presided over the organization's Ninety-Eighth Council meeting November 23-26, which focused on a number of institutional issues, including budget and structural reform initiatives. Member States agreed to a 1.5 percent increase in IOM's 2010 [...] | 2009-12-23 11:09:00 | Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL SMIG |
| 09GENEVA127 | FEBRUARY 2009 TRADE POLICY REVIEW OF GUATEMALA [...] SUMMARY: WTO Members conducted the Trade Policy Review of Guatemala on February 4 and 6, 2009. The head of Guatemala's delegation, Vice-Minister Morales, discussed Guatemala's export market diversification efforts and its firm belief in the rules-based multilateral trading system, unshaken i [...] | 2009-02-12 16:30:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTRO USTR GT XK XM |
| 09GENEVA16 | UNHCR REFORM EFFORTS CULMINATE INTO A NEW WAY OF [...] (U) SUMMARY. The UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) is fundamentally reshaping every aspect of its work to become a streamlined, efficient organization that delivers more robust protection and assistance to its beneficiaries on the ground. UNHCR's new approach harnesses technological adva [...] | 2009-01-13 12:23:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL |
| 09GENEVA250 | (SBU) UNHCR 44TH STANDING COMMITTEE: FOCUS ON [...] (U) SUMMARY. Developments related to UNHCR's operational management and program budgets figured prominently during the March 3-5, 2008, Standing Committee meeting. Discussions included UNHCR's ongoing structural and management change process, implementation of recommendations made by the Board [...] | 2009-03-23 17:15:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL |
| 09GUATEMALA145 | DEMARCHE ON CAFTA-DR LABOR SUBMISSION REPORT [...] (U) The Ambassador, DCM, and Embassy officers have met with the full range of GOG officials since January 16 to discuss the CAFTA-DR Labor Submission Report and to seek prompt and effective cooperation to address the concerns raised in the report. Embassy officers delivered reftel demarche an [...] | 2009-02-17 12:03:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL GT |
| 09GUATEMALA197 | GUATEMALA'S INPUT FOR 2009 TIP REPORT [...] Below is post input (keyed to ref B) on anti-trafficking efforts undertaken by the Guatemalan government between April 2008 and February 2009 in the areas of prevention, protection of and assistance to trafficked victims, and investigation and prosecution of traffickers. While challenges remai [...] | 2009-03-03 17:15:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG ASEC GT |
| 09GUATEMALA347 | GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST - [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-13 19:33:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT |
| 09GUATEMALA691 | GUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING REQUEST - [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-17 15:43:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT |
| 09GUATEMALA925 | CICIG Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary with Compounding [...] (S) SUMMARY: On September 4, the UN-led International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) celebrated its two-year anniversary and the approval of another two-year mandate. CICIG Commissioner Carlos Castresana summarized CICIG's successes, including numerous CICIG-led investigati [...] | 2009-10-05 23:23:00 | Embassy Guatemala | SECRET | SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS KDEM GT |
| 09GUATEMALA955 | President Calderon Bolsters Ties with Guatemala in Oct 26-27 [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 26-27 visit to Guatemala, Mexican President Felipe Calderon discussed a number of initiatives with his Guatemalan counterpart, Alvaro Colom, to better control migration and enhance security along their shared border. The two leaders pledged to reinforce joint eff [...] | 2009-10-29 23:51:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS SNAR SENV ENRG CVIS MX GT |
| 09HAVANA16 | DR HILDA MOLINA AND THE VISIT OF ARGENTINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Though she would dearly like to travel to Argentina to visit her family, Dr Hilda Molina says she has little real hope that anything will come out of the upcoming visit to Cuba of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK). End Summary. 2. (C) Dissident neurosu [...] | 2009-01-12 12:43:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | AR CU PHUM PREL |
| 09HAVANA210 | CAUGHT IN THE ACT: AMCIT IN CUBA CAUGHT SMUGGLING [...] (C) Summary: On 30 March 2009 the American Citizens Services (ACS) unit at the United States Interests Section (USINT) in Havana, Cuba, received notice from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations that on 27 March, the Government of Cuba (GOC) took into custody an American Citizen (AMCIT) su [...] | 2009-04-09 19:40:00 | US Interests Section Havana | SECRET | ASEC CU PGOV PREL SMIG SNAR |
| 09HAVANA345 | CUBA BREAKS UP CONGLOMERATE CUBALSE [...] (C) The Cuban Council of Ministers decided on May 26 to "extinguish" Cubalse, the second largest conglomerate in Cuba, and transfer its assets within 90 days to seven other entities. Cubalse was originally created to serve the diplomatic community with local employees and housing. The entit [...] | 2009-06-10 19:13:00 | US Interests Section Havana | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL PINR PBIO CU |
| 09HAVANA35 | THE SPECULATION ON FIDEL'S HEALTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fidel Castro's extended absence from public view, especially during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the revolution, combined with the long time since he has written one of his occasional "Reflections" pieces is prompting speculation in the international press that his health [...] | 2009-01-15 17:22:00 | US Interests Section Havana | SECRET | PINS PGOV PINR SMIG PREL CU |
| 09HOCHIMINHCITY670 | SOUTHERN VIETNAM'S DEEPWATER PORT FIRST PHASE UP AND [...] (SBU) Summary: After just five months in operation, the two terminals in Vietnam's southern deepwater port facility at Cai Mep have already begun to shift container traffic away from the overly-congested ports in Ho Chi Minh City. Even more importantly, because the new facilities can handle t [...] | 2009-12-03 14:00:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EIND ECON PGOV ENRG KNNP VM |
| 09HONGKONG2025 | HONG KONG 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Summary: The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is not a major transshipment point for illicit drugs destined for the international market. Some narcotics shipments do transit Hong Kong's high volume port, but its efficient law enforcement efforts, the availability of alternate rou [...] | 2009-11-03 09:08:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR HK |
| 09HONGKONG62 | HONG KONG 2008-2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Summary: The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is not a major transshipment point for illicit drugs destined for the international market. Some narcotics shipments do transit Hong Kong's high volume port, but its efficient law enforcement efforts, the availability of alternate [...] | 2009-01-09 09:59:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR HK |
| 09JAKARTA1458 | GOI CLAIMS MIX-UP IN SMALL ARMS SEIZED IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the GOI, the recent seizure of Indonesian-made small arms by the Philippines was a mistake, as the arms were lawfully exported from Indonesia. The seizure has hit the press here and Indonesian lawmakers have pledged to investigate the country's arms-related export [...] | 2009-09-02 07:18:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ID RP |
| 09JAKARTA26 | IN ANNUAL SPEECH, FOREIGN MINISTER REVIEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a review of Indonesian foreign policy priorities, Foreign Minister Wirajuda portrayed Indonesia as a "bridge and consensus builder" and defender of fundamental principles, particularly in the United Nations. He highlighted Indonesia's role as a key emerging economy and a voi [...] | 2009-01-07 10:33:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ID |
| 09KINGSTON113 | JAMAICA: SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL ENGEL [...] (SBU) Post welcomes the visit of CODEL Engel at a time when Jamaica is at a crucial "tipping point." Jamaica faces challenges to its resource-strapped public services sector, crumbling infrastructure, environmental degradation, the spread of HIV/AIDS, an exorbitant debt burden, and high violen [...] | 2009-02-12 19:35:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON ASEC JM XL |
| 09KINGSTON1190 | JAMAICA: SCENE-SETTER FOR DAS REYNOSO'S VISIT, JANUARY 11-13 [...] (SBU) Post welcomes the visit of DAS Reynoso at a time when Jamaica faces serious challenges on multiple fronts: -- a crushing debt burden, negative growth, high unemployment, and the prospect of painful new taxes and budget cuts needed to conclude an indispensable standby arrangement wi [...] | 2009-12-30 14:25:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SNAR PHUM ASEC CJAN IBRD IMF |
| 09KINGSTON270 | JAMAICA: SCENE SETTER FOR RADM JOSEPH KERNAN [...] (SBU) Post welcomes the visit of Rear Admiral Joseph Kernan at a time when Jamaica is at a crucial "tipping point." Jamaica faces challenges to its resource-strapped public services sector, crumbling infrastructure, environmental degradation, the spread of HIV/AIDS, an exorbitant debt burden, [...] | 2009-04-07 14:10:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ASEC XL JM |
| 09KINGSTON58 | JAMAICA: AMBASSADOR JOHNSON'S FAREWELL CALLS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-21 15:31:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EAID ECON SNAR MARR MOPS PHUM KCRM |
| 09KYIV1271 | UKRAINE: FEWER SUMMER WORK AND TRAVEL STUDENTS IN 2009, BUT [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. 2. (U) Summary: Between January and June, Post interviewed 8288 Ukrainian university students aspiring to participate in the summer work and travel and camp counselor (SWT) program in the U.S. The number of SWT applicants was approximately 14 percent lower tha [...] | 2009-07-31 14:09:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KFRD CMGT ECON UP |
| 09LAPAZ305 | EVO NAMES EMBOFF AS CIA; TARGETS "TRAITORS" [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Bolivian President Evo Morales named EmbOff Francisco "Frank" Martinez as a "Mexican infiltrator" while sharing his vision of a vast CIA network that permeates all sectors of Bolivian government and social groups February 26. Morales' message was clear: Martinez is a CIA [...] | 2009-02-26 23:21:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL PTER PINR PROP EMIN EPET EINV |
| 09LIMA123 | Smugglers Already Targeting Korean VWP Travel [...] SUMMARY: On January 21, 2009, the Peruvian National Police (PNP) arrested eight PRC nationals for allegedly planning to smuggle Chinese asylum-seekers to the U.S. with phony Japanese passports. A raid of the ring's "labs" in Lima suggests they were also targeting Korea's VWP program, by conco [...] | 2009-01-28 22:36:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS ASEC SMIG KFRD PE |
| 09LIMA544 | NAS LIMA END OF MONTH REPORT - MARCH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-13 20:41:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE |
| 09LISBON608 | IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT DOMINATED BY HONDURAS DISPUTE [...] (U) Delegations from twenty-two Iberian and Latin American nations attended the nineteenth Ibero-American Summit in Estoril, Portugal November 29-December 1. The summit's theme was "Innovation and Knowledge" and featured discussions on technology and innovation collaboration, social developm [...] | 2009-12-04 07:03:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN EFIN PREL AN XM CU DR SP PO |
| 09LONDON109 | 2009 UK INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] In response to reftel, the following is the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for the United Kingdom. The information is updated as of January 1, 2009. 2. Much of the data supplied in this report is from 2007, since end-of-year 2008 figures are not yet available. Given the economic down [...] | 2009-01-15 13:20:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV OPIC USTR KTDB UK |
| 09LONDON2001 | IMO: REPORT OF THE 86TH SESSION OF THE MARITIME [...] Summary. The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) held its 86th session (MSC 86) at IMO Headquarters in London under the chairmanship of Mr. N. Ferrer (Philippines) on May 27 - June 5, 2009. Regarding armed response to piracy, the MSC recommends th [...] | 2009-08-27 16:30:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT IMO PHSA UK |
| 09LONDON2676 | IMO: 14TH SESSION OF THE DANGEROUS GOODS, SOLID [...] Summary: The fourteenth session of the IMO Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers (DSC) Sub Committee (S/C) met in London from 21-25 September 2009, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Olga Pestel-Lefevre (France). The session was attended by delegations from fifty-nine member states, one as [...] | 2009-12-01 17:03:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EWWT IMO IR PHSA SENV UK |
| 09LONDON730 | WILLIAM HAGUE VISITS CUBA; ADVISES CHANGE IN U.S. [...] (C/NF) Summary. Conservative MP and Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague offered his views to Charge after a recent trip to Cuba. Hague, a respected politician who may be staking out a "safe" political position on the Cuban issue in advance of becoming foreign secretary, offered these obse [...] | 2009-03-25 13:21:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UK CU |
| 09MADRID59 | JANUARY 8-9 VISIT BY WHA A/S SHANNON REAFFIRMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A/S Shannon's January 8-9 Madrid program and subsequent media play were characterized by bilateral goodwill and Spanish optimism for a new phase in U.S.-Spanish cooperation in Latin America despite significant challenges in the region. He highlighted U.S. engagement in the Americas, [...] | 2009-01-16 16:59:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KSUM AR BL CU SP |
| 09MADRID688 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, JULY 6-10 [...] (U) The IMF predicted on Wednesday that Spain,s economy will shrink 4% this year, a significant downward assessment from the previous forecast of -3%. The IMF also lowered its 2010 growth forecast for Spain to -.08%, making Spain the only country to have its 2010 forecast revised downward. T [...] | 2009-07-10 12:06:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EIND EINV ENRG EWWT SP |
| 09MANAGUA1198 | NICARAGUA: HUMAN RIGHTS INDIVIDUAL VETTING REQUEST FOR U.S. - SPONSORED TRAINING: MILGP, CENTRAL AMERICA REGIONAL DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND RELIEF SEMINAR IN PANAMA CITY [...] We request the Department's assistance in screening the following individuals who have been nominated for USG-funded training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and the Foreign Assistance Act. 2. The following individuals will attend the Central America Regional Disaster Preparedness and Relief [...] | 2009-11-18 18:28:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PHUM MOPS PINR NU |
| 09MANAGUA152 | INL MANAGUA 2008 END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] Embassy Managua submits its 2008 End Use Monitoring Report per reftel instructions. 2. Begin Text: PROCEDURES A. Inventory Management EUM Program Coordinator Byron Tsao, 505-252-7711, TsaoBF@state.gov, United States Embassy, Km 4.5 Carretera Sur, Managua, Nicaragua. Inventor [...] | 2009-02-09 18:58:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AFIN NU |
| 09MANAGUA284 | NICARAGUA: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Embassy Managua reports three international submarine fiber optic telecommunication cables, two in the Caribbean and one in the Pacific, parallel to Nicaragua's coasts and within the country's 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone. They are the Americas Region Caribbea [...] | 2009-03-17 17:46:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG |
| 09MANAGUA301 | VISIT NICARAGUA! NO VISA NEEDED [...] (C) SUMMARY. On Friday, March 13, 2009, during a late-night event Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega signed a presidential decree relaxing visa requirements for foreigners seeking to visit Nicaragua. Initial media reports that Nicaragua was removing visa requirements for all countries appear [...] | 2009-03-19 21:40:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | SMIG CVIS ASEC PGOV PREL NU |
| 09MANAGUA308 | NICARAGUA: PANDEMIC AND AVIAN INFLUENZA TRIPWIRES [...] (U) Summary and Introduction: With no cases of the virulent H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI) strain existing yet in the Americas, the Emergency Action Committee reviewed and approved the Mission Response Plan and Tripwires for Pandemic and Avian Influenza. The plan recognizes Nicaragua,s current i [...] | 2009-03-23 13:17:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | AMED AMGT ASEC KSAF KSEO SENV TBIO KFLU NU |
| 09MANAGUA314 | VISIT NICARAGUA! DECREE TEXT AND REVISED COUNTRY [...] (U) Late on March 18, 2009, the Government of Nicaragua (GON) released the official text of Decree 07-2009 that changed Nicaragua's visa policy. Our unofficial English translation appears below. The decree's fundamental change to Nicaragua's visa regime is that citizens from countries in "C [...] | 2009-03-24 18:03:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS ASEC PGOV SMIG PREL NU |
| 09MANAGUA343 | NICARAGUA: BANKERS REPORT STABILITY, BUT NO GROWTH [...] (C) Summary. Despite rumors of economic meltdown and possible capital flight, Nicaragua's highly dollarized banking sector appears to be holding its own. Officials from the Superintendent of Banks (SIBOIF) and the Central Bank as well as prominent banking executives tell us that liquidity i [...] | 2009-03-31 23:11:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL PGOV NU |
| 09MANAGUA781 | NICARAGUA: HUMAN RIGHTS INDIVIDUAL VETTING REQUEST FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING: INL, CYBERCRIME CONFERENCE IN PANAMA CITY [...] We request the Department's assistance in screening the following individuals who have been nominated for USG-funded training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and the Foreign Assistance Act. 2. The following individuals will attend the Cybercrime Conference in Panama City, Panama from August 25 [...] | 2009-08-06 22:08:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PHUM MOPS PINR NU |
| 09MANAGUA871 | GON NON-COOPERATION ON FARC ARMS SMUGGLING CASE [...] (S) SUMMARY. In a series of communications and meetings between June 17 and June 19, various senior-level officials of the Government of Nicaragua (GON) refused to cooperate with a routine USG request for the transfer of evidence pertinent to an on-going Department of Justice (DOJ) investigat [...] | 2009-09-02 15:54:00 | Embassy Managua | SECRET | PGOV SNAR PTER PREL NU |
| 09MANAGUA907 | NICARAGUA PASSES RETIREES AND RESIDENTS LAW TO BOOST FOREIGN INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) The National Assembly approved a foreign retirees and residents law to promote Nicaragua as a retirement destination. The law was drafted in close consultation with the private sector, which sought legislation that would provide a stimulus to the construction, real estate, and tourism indust [...] | 2009-09-16 21:30:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND EINV ECON NU |
| 09MEXICO1 | GOM Views on Next Steps in Regional Precursor Control [...] (SBU) Summary: Nadia Levy-Popp, Director of Precursor Chemicals in PGR/SIEDO, recently shared with Emboffs a report that reviews the status of precursor controls in Central America (below). Levy-Popp stressed the importance of training to the development of new precursor regimes in Central Ame [...] | 2009-01-02 14:48:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL MX |
| 09MEXICO1034 | SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IP A SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Embassy, with the financial support of the Department of Justice (DOJ),the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO),and the Copyright Office, sponsored the Second International Conference on Intellectual Property, held in Monterrey from March 25- 27. This event, organi [...] | 2009-04-08 21:00:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD MX |
| 09MEXICO160 | 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - MEXICO [...] Mexico is open to foreign direct investment (FDI) in most economic sectors and has consistently been one of the largest recipients of FDI among emerging markets. In recent years, Mexico has become increasingly aware of its loss of competitiveness relative to other emerging economies, notably Ch [...] | 2009-01-21 22:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD OPIC USTR KTDB MX |
| 09MEXICO2616 | MEXICO READY TO SUPPORT THE ECONOMIC AND CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Energy Secretariat officials told State/WHA's visiting Director for Economic Policy and Summit Coordination that Mexico supports the Economic and Climate Change Partnership (ECPA). The GOM wants to highlight an ongoing initiative to promote North American standards for househol [...] | 2009-09-02 17:34:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV SENV MX |
| 09MEXICO2922 | GOM REMAINS CAUTIOUS ON HONDURAS [...] (C) Summary. Mexico regards as hollow the threat by Honduras' de facto president, Roberto Micheletti, to suspend the diplomatic privileges of several states, including Mexico, if they continue to deny his government recognition. Nevertheless, the GOM is reluctant to inject the Rio Group, of w [...] | 2009-10-07 18:00:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MX HN |
| 09MEXICO3311 | Mexico Economic Weekly - November 20 [...] (U) The Mexico Economic Weekly supplements reporting from Mission Mexico Consulates and the Embassy Mexico Economic Section to provide a sense of ongoing trends. Please contact Adam Shub (shubam@state.gov) or Sigrid Emrich (emrichs@state.gov) for questions or comments about this report. 2 [...] | 2009-11-23 18:18:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG ELTN EAIR PGOV SENV MX |
| 09MEXICO3364 | GOM ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT U.S.-BOLIVIA TALKS [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche November 23 to Raphael Bernal, Director for South America, emphasizing that USG views the new Framework Agreement concluded October 27-28 as the opening of a more collaborative relationship with the Bolivian Government. Cuevas expressed appreciation for the US [...] | 2009-11-27 19:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MX PGOV PINR PREL BO |
| 09MEXICO3623 | MEXICO: UNODC REPRESENTATIVE SUGGESTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) regional and country representatives recently met and discussed ways to promote greater regional coordination among our Merida partners on combating narco-trafficking with a view to producing more concrete progress. [...] | 2009-12-23 21:56:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL UN MX |
| 09MEXICO509 | MEXICO LOOKS TO COLOMBIA AS SECURITY, REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Mexico's increased outreach to Colombia is driven by a number of factors, principally by both countries' shared security struggles. Mexico's outreach to its South American neighbor probably also is part of a desire to increase its influence in the hemisphere and cultivate Latin A [...] | 2009-02-23 19:01:00 | Embassy Mexico | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR MX |
| 09MEXICO586 | NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT - [...] The mission's point of contact on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report is Poloff Suzanne Archuleta. She may be reached by telephone at (52) (55) 5080-2000, ext. 4806, or by fax at (52) (55) 5080-2247 or ArchuletaMS@state.gov. Post requests that the names of the non-governmental organizatio [...] | 2009-02-27 23:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG KTIP |
| 09MEXICO869 | MEXICO ON THE 2009 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS [...] (C) Summary. Mexico believes future prospects for the Summit of the Americas (SOA) very much rely on the success of U.S. President Obama in injecting a new sense of purpose for the gathering. To Mexico's view, it is imperative the summit tackle the ongoing financial crisis. Interestingly, [...] | 2009-03-24 21:04:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV OAS PHUM VZ CU MX |
| 09MONTEVIDEO444 | URUGUAY: PRESIDENT VAZQUEZ SEEKS MEETING WITH [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) On July 16, Foreign Minister Gonzalo Fernandez passed along to Charge a second request for President Vazquez to meet with President Obama in September (the first request was made in March 2009 and reiterated in Fernandez, meeting [...] | 2009-07-30 17:46:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UY |
| 09MONTEVIDEO580 | URUGUAY: DAS BASTIAN TOUTS U.S. BUSINESS' ROLE IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Department of Commerce DAS Walter Bastian stressed opportunities for commercial and technical exchange with Uruguay, especially at the state level, and emphasized to U.S. business representatives the importance of corporate social responsibility and their roles as representatives [...] | 2009-10-09 12:13:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD UY |
| 09MONTEVIDEO584 | URUGUAY: DAS BASTIAN TOUTS U.S. BUSINESS' ROLE IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Department of Commerce DAS Walter Bastian stressed opportunities for commercial and technical exchange with Uruguay, especially at the state level, and emphasized to U.S. business representatives the importance of corporate social responsibility and their roles as representatives [...] | 2009-10-13 17:13:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD UY |
| 09MONTEVIDEO614 | Uruguay 2009-02010 INSCR Part I (draft) [...] (U) Following is Embassy Montevideo's draft text for the INCSR Part I which was also submitted by email per reftel instructions. BEGIN URUGUAY INSCSR DRAFT TEXT: Uruguay 2010 I. Summary Uruguay is not a major narcotics producing or transit nation. Foreign [...] | 2009-11-03 16:06:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR |
| 09MOSCOW1161 | RUSSIA EASES RESTRICTIONS ON U.S. MEAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) advised via official letter that restrictions placed on all pork and pork products from 10 U.S. states, using influenza A H1N1 as justification, have been lifted effective immediately (REF A). As of to [...] | 2009-05-06 13:15:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS |
| 09NICOSIA6 | CYPRIOT FM TO VISIT CARACAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his second official foray to Latin America -- his first took him to Havana in September -- Cypriot Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou will visit Caracas on January 10 for two days of meetings with BRV officials, then fly to Panama, Brazil, and possibly Costa Rica. A working-l [...] | 2009-01-09 14:32:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CY VE |
| 09OSLO424 | NORWEGIANS MUSE ON CGPCS AND ASPIRANT COUNTRIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide ranging discussion, Norway's representative to the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS),Carl Salicath, expressed reticence about admitting flag-of-convenience states to membership. He also discussed Cyprus's membership, Egypt's "odd" behavior with r [...] | 2009-06-30 11:13:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL |
| 09OTTAWA291 | CANADA AND THE AMERICAS [...] (C) Summary: Under Prime Minister Harper, Canada has devoted more of its diplomatic and aid attention to the Americas, notably a 2007 high-profile Latin America trip by the PM, as well as other high level visits. The government has apparently abandoned an initial effort to develop a strategic [...] | 2009-04-15 20:23:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EAID XM BR CA |
| 09PANAMA114 | PANAMA: IMPROVED COOPERATION WITH COLOMBIA AS THE [...] (C) Colombia's implementation of a new security doctrine that emphasized improved governance on its border with Panama had facilitated cross-border cooperation, Panama's National Security Advisor Marcel Salamin told POLOFF on January 20. In a January 27 conversation, he told POLOFF that he ha [...] | 2009-02-06 20:16:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA115 | PANAMA: BALBINA'S PLATFORM UNDERSCORES CONTINUITY [...] (C) Governing Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) presidential candidate Balbina Herrera and her party in January released their electoral platform that stresses continuity, particularly with respect to current president Martin Torrijos's economic and social welfare policies. Interestingly th [...] | 2009-02-06 20:37:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM ECON PREL |
| 09PANAMA119 | PANAMA: SENAN SEIZES 2.5 TONS OF COCAINE IN GAME [...] (C) Panama's National Aero-Naval Service (SENAN) police seized 2.46 tons of cocaine in a mangrove swamp February 1 that had been off-loaded from a go-fast vessel. The vessel had been hiding in the Lavaina river since January 28 after being trapped by SENAN vessels acting on information gener [...] | 2009-02-10 13:45:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA120 | PANAMA: HEAD-TO-HEAD RACE FOR PRESIDENCY BEGINS [...] (C//NF) Summary: In a remarkable turn of events in Panama, there will be a head-to-head race for the presidency as governing Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) nominee Balbina Herrera heads off against Democratic Change (CD) presidential nominee Ricardo Martinelli and "Alliance for Change. [...] | 2009-02-10 15:20:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PM |
| 09PANAMA122 | PANAMA: REFINERY ON HOLD DUE TO WORLD ECONOMIC [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive proprietary business information concerning on-going negotiations. Please handle accordingly. SUMMARY 2. (C) Occidental Petroleum (OXY) and Qatar Petroleum (QP) representatives privately informed the Ambassador their firms are putting on hold (not cance [...] | 2009-02-10 18:33:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EINV ECON EIND EPET PM |
| 09PANAMA123 | CODEL COSTELLO MEETS PRESIDENT TORRIJOS [...] (SBU) Summary. CODEL Costello, composed of members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, called on President Martin Torrijos Espino during the afternoon of February 2 to discuss transportation and the overall bilateral relationship. During the cordial meeting, Torrijos e [...] | 2009-02-10 22:05:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETRD EWWT OREP PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA127 | PANAMA: VP/FM DISCUSSES DARIEN OPTIONS WITH [...] (S//NF) First VP and FM Samuel Lewis met with the Ambassador on February 4 to discuss the situation in the Darien and the Ambassador's recent meetings at SOUTHCOM in response to Lewis' December 12 request for USG planning assistance for Darien operations. The Ambassador told Lewis that SOUT [...] | 2009-02-11 16:01:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA149 | PANAMA: GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOLLOW-ON WORKSHOP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-18 21:48:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA15 | PANAMA: NEW MOGJ MINSTER LAYS OUT PLANS [...] (C) Security has become the government's weak spot, newly appointed Minister of Government of Justice Dilio Arcia told the Ambassador December 19. He described plans to address gang violence, including tougher sentences and implementation of community policing initiatives. In discussing the FA [...] | 2009-01-07 20:22:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA151 | PANAMA: PROSECUTERS REQUEST ACCESS TO PAS DATA [...] (SBU) Summary. The Embassy received a diplomatic note from the Panamanian MFA on February 17 asking whether five individauls had "benefited from any kind of program" from the USG from 2007-2008. The note said the information was being requested in relation to a corruption investigation. Afte [...] | 2009-02-19 21:52:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPAO CVIS CJAN OEXC PM |
| 09PANAMA153 | PANAMA: NEW THINK TANK AIMING HIGH [...] (C) Panama's newest think tank, the Foundation for the Economic and Social Development of Panama (FUDESPA) on January 15 presented its brain-child, a document entitled "Public Policy Proposals: Popular Elections, May 2009" that is designed to influence the government plans of candidates runnin [...] | 2009-02-23 15:31:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA156 | PANAMA: MARTINELLI MAINTAINS LEAD BUT LOSES GROUND [...] Democratic Change (CD) opposition presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli lost six points in the polls, shortly after naming former Panamenista Party presidential candidate Juan Carlos Varela as his vice presidential running mate and thereby cementing a grand opposition "Alliance For Change" [...] | 2009-02-23 20:19:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PM |
| 09PANAMA16 | PANAMA: NEW AERO-MARITIME SERVICE DIRECTOR MAKES [...] (S//NF) "Something is going on," Rigoberto Gordon, Director of the National Aero-Naval Service (SENAN),told EMBOFFs December 5, referring to apparent corruption among former National Maritime Service (SMN) members now in SENAN's ranks. (Note: SENAN, formed on December 22, combines the pervio [...] | 2009-01-07 22:33:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA163 | PANAMA: OBJECTION TO THE INCLUSION OF PORNOGRAPHY [...] (SBU) Post appreciates the opportunity to review the documents used by DOL to determine whether a "significant incidence" of child labor is used in Panama to produce pornography, but is troubled by the conclusions drawn from these sources. Of the two sources that post was able to obtain, one [...] | 2009-02-26 20:58:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP PM |
| 09PANAMA171 | PANAMA'S SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-02 13:54:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC PTER |
| 09PANAMA176 | PANAMA: HOW MERIDA FITS INTO THE EMERGING SECURITY [...] (C) The threat from home grown gangs and international criminal organizations in Panama is growing and worrisome. As Panamanians feel increasingly threatened in their homes and on their streets, some are arguing that Panama must choose between protecting itself and stopping the flow of drugs [...] | 2009-03-03 20:16:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA182 | PANAMA: NEW THINK TANK AIMING HIGH [...] (C) Panama's newest think tank, the Foundation for the Economic and Social Development of Panama (FUDESPA) on January 15 presented its brain-child, a document entitled "Public Policy Proposals: Popular Elections, May 2009" that is designed to influence the government plans of candidates runnin [...] | 2009-03-04 21:46:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA184 | PANAMA: MARTINELLI'S "GOVERNMENT PLAN FOR CHANGE" [...] (C) Leading presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli of the Alliance for Change on February 11 released his "Government Plan for Change," that lays out 179 proposals designed to "make a better Panama reach everyone" (que un mejor Panama llegue a todos). The document is flashy, includes big c [...] | 2009-03-06 15:38:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA194 | PANAMA: TORRIJOS TRUMPETS ACHIEVEMENTS IN FINAL [...] (C) In his final address to the National Assembly before the end of his term, President Martin Torrijos touted his administration's greatest achievements, acknowledged the cooperation of the Assembly, and called on the next government to build upon these successes. (Note: Constitutionally, Pa [...] | 2009-03-10 13:43:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA195 | PANAMA CANAL EXPANSION BIDS SUBMITTED [...] (U) Under the lights of TV cameras in a packed auditorium, three consortia, including one led by American firm Bechtel, submitted bids to the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) on March 3 to build the 3.3 billion USD set of locks for the already under-construction third lane of the Panama Canal. The bid [...] | 2009-03-10 15:14:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD MARR PM EWWT |
| 09PANAMA196 | PANAMA: PLANS FOR NORMALIZATION FOR COLOMBIANS [...] (C) The GOP planned to offer legal immigrant status to individuals living in the Darien region under Temporary Humanitarian Protection (THP) status, said MFA DG of Exterior Policy Javier Bonagas told POLOFF on February 20. The official census of THP persons taken in 2004 counted 542 Colombia [...] | 2009-03-10 15:52:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTBS SOCI PM |
| 09PANAMA21 | EMBASSY ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING OUTREACH [...] (C) Summary: Spearheading Mission Panama's anti-money laundering outreach, Ambassador Stephenson met with Colon Free Zone (CFZ) General Manager Nilda Quijano during a December 17 visit to Colon. Quijano described the competitive advantages of the CFZ for legitimate businesses and the steps be [...] | 2009-01-08 21:03:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN SNAR KTFN PM |
| 09PANAMA216 | VP/FM LEWIS TRAVEL TO CUBA FOR TRADE AGREEMENT [...] (C) Ambassador met with Vice President/Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis on March 13 and inquired about Lewis' upcoming trip to Havana on March 16. Lewis said that he and Vice Minister of Trade Severo Sousa will sign a trade agreement entitled "acuerdo de alcance parcial." Lewis said that Panama [...] | 2009-03-13 22:27:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM |
| 09PANAMA227 | PANAMA TO SIGN FTA WITH CANADA; SIGNING AT SOTA [...] (C) Panama will conclude negotiations on a free trade treaty with Canada this week, Minister of Commerce and Industry Gisela Alvarez de Porras told the Ambassador on March 17. The GOP hopes to sign the treaty with Canada during the Summit of the Americas, continued Porras. 2. (U) Panama [...] | 2009-03-18 17:03:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA228 | PANAMA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-19 15:25:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS PBTS |
| 09PANAMA236 | PANAMA: MERIDA AND PUBLIC MESSAGING [...] (SBU) Summary: As we roll out the Merida Initiative in Panama, the Embassy has launched a public diplomacy campaign to inform Panamanians about the broad range of Merida programs, placing a special emphasis on crime prevention. Media coverage of drug-related violence in Mexico has cast Merida [...] | 2009-03-20 16:45:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SNAR KCRM KPAO PM |
| 09PANAMA237 | PANAMA: AMBASSADOR VISITS THE DARIEN [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and several members of her Country Team visited the Darien province March 10-11. During the first day of her visit she received a briefing on the security situation from Director of the National Frontier Service (SENAFRONT) Frank Abrego and met with Darien Governor Juan [...] | 2009-03-20 19:28:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO PM |
| 09PANAMA242 | PANAMA: MURCIA ACCUSATIONS UNLEASH POLITICAL [...] (C) The Panamanian Electoral Tribunal (TE) suspended the legal immunity of the leading presidential candidates Ricardo Martinelli and Balbina Herrera March 19, in addition to the front-running candidate for Mayor of Panama City, Roberto "Bobby" Velasquez and Martinelli's attorney, Alma Cortez [...] | 2009-03-20 20:29:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA252 | PANAMA: LIMITED WINDOW FOR FTA RATIFICATION [...] (S//NF) The U.S. and Panama need to resolve several complicated issues in order to meet congressional concerns associated with the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries. With three months left until the end of the Torrijos administration, it may be tempting to put negotiat [...] | 2009-03-26 19:12:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA255 | LAWYERS VS. EVERYONE ELSE - GOP STRIVES TO PREEMPT [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Panama intends to announce financial transparency measures before the April 2 G20 Meeting to ensure that Panama is not placed on the OECD Blacklist of "tax havens." In a March 25 letter to the OECD, the GOP acknowledged that it does not want its financial center [...] | 2009-03-26 20:14:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD PM PREL SNAR |
| 09PANAMA265 | PANAMA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HOYER [...] (SBU) Summary. Since the 1989 restoration of democracy, Panama has established and consolidated a democratic, stable and responsive government; accelerated economic growth through open markets; and strived to ensure that the benefits of that growth reach all citizens. While a hemispheric leader [...] | 2009-03-30 18:50:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP EWWT OVIP PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EINV PM |
| 09PANAMA290 | PANAMA: AMP SUB-ADMINISTRATOR RESIGNS, CRITICIZES [...] (C) The Maritime Authority of Panama (AMP) is in the headlines following the resignation of sub-administrator Carlos Raul Moreno, who, as he headed out the door, denounced "questionable" practices designed to generate extra revenue from maritime flagging procedures at some Panamanian consulate [...] | 2009-04-06 21:21:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PM PREL EWWT |
| 09PANAMA293 | PANAMA ANNOUNCES KEY TAX HAVEN SOLUTION - A PATH [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOP announced on April 7 that it intends to regulate bearer shares. This breakthrough, when fully executed, will solve Panama's most pressing transparency issue, fulfill the USG's most prominent financial crimes regulatory recommendation, and remedy Panama's sole grave rema [...] | 2009-04-08 14:12:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN SNAR PREL PGOV PM |
| 09PANAMA298 | (U) PANAMA AND THE 2009 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS [...] (C/NF) Panama's main priority for the 17-19 April 2009 Summit of the Americas (SOA) was addressing the global economic crisis, and Delia Villamonte, Panamanian MFA DG for International Organizations and Conferences, was optimistic that President Obama would be a positive broker for consensus. [...] | 2009-04-09 20:31:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET | PINR PGOV PREL ECON |
| 09PANAMA299 | PANAMA: TAKING IT TO THE STREETS [...] (U) Panamanians regularly take to the streets to protest a wide array of social and employment grievances. These protests mire city residents, who already spend hours in traffic due to the outdated road network and poor transit system, in horrendous traffic jams for hours. More often than n [...] | 2009-04-09 21:01:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB OTRA PGOV PHUM PM |
| 09PANAMA306 | PANAMA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LEVIN [...] (SBU) The fate of the U.S./Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will determine the trajectory of our bilateral relationship through the foreseeable future. Congressional passage and a successful implementation of the FTA would serve to maintain extraordinary, yet vulnerable, U.S. influence in Pan [...] | 2009-04-14 23:03:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP EWWT OVIP PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EINV PM |
| 09PANAMA308 | PANAMA: WITH POLLS LOCKED, MARTINELLI MAINTAINS 15 [...] (U) Democratic Change (CD) opposition presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli continues to hold a 15 point lead over Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) candidate Balbina Herrera for the third week running, according to Dichter and Neira's presidential poll for the first week of April. W [...] | 2009-04-16 17:01:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PM |
| 09PANAMA309 | SICA MULTILAT [...] (U) GOP Protocol Director Ambassador Flavio Mendez has confirmed acceptance of President Obama's invitation to attend the Sunday, April 19, 2009 SICA Multilateral. President Martin Torrijos and Vice-President Samuel Lewis Navarro will participate in the 8am meeting. STEPHENSON [...] | 2009-04-16 20:56:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AORC APER BEXP ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD KSUM |
| 09PANAMA310 | PANAMA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED- U.S. WTO RAW SUGAR [...] (U) The GOP has confirmed that Panamanian sugar mills expect to export the 9,330 tons remaining in the FY 2009 sugar quota. Furthermore, the GOP noted that they would be interested in exporting more sugar in addition to the FY 2009 quota if authorized to do so. 2. (U) The Ministry of Co [...] | 2009-04-16 20:56:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD |
| 09PANAMA316 | PANAMA: MARTINELLI PLAYS PRESIDENT TO FRIENDLY [...] (C) The Foundation for the Development of Citizen Liberty, Panama's Transparency International (TI) chapter, hosted an untelevised "Presidential Candidates Forum" on April 14. Though dubbed as a forum for both leading candidates, only Alliance for Change presidential candidate Ricardo Martinell [...] | 2009-04-20 15:36:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA320 | PANAMA: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM [...] (U) Summary: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) represent over 92% of Panamanian businesses. This cable surveys an unrepresentative sample of small businesses and attempts to get a glimpse into their experiences. The six entrepreneurs interviewed appeared confident about their businesses. Th [...] | 2009-04-21 17:45:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PM EFIN ELAB |
| 09PANAMA322 | PANAMA: DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO'S IMF AND WORLD BANK [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-21 21:32:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL KV |
| 09PANAMA323 | CODEL LEVIN DISCUSSES OVERCOMING FTA ROADBLOCKS [...] (SBU) Summary. Codel Levin, composed of Representative Sandy Levin (D-MI and Chairman of the Trade Subcommittee of the Ways & Means Committee),met with Panamanian President Martin Torrijos on April 20. The discussion centered on the U.S-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the two core issues [...] | 2009-04-22 14:54:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP OVIP ECON ETRD EFIN PM |
| 09PANAMA326 | ENDGAME: TORRIJOS'S BOTTOMLINE ON THE FTA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-22 18:44:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA329 | PANAMA: DOMESTIC POLITICS HAUNT FTA [...] (S//NF) As Panama enters the final stretch of its general election campaign season, politics has come to haunt the U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA). "Forget about the FTA," governing Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) presidential candidate Balbina Herrera declared on April 19 to law [...] | 2009-04-23 18:26:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD PM |
| 09PANAMA330 | PANAMA: POLITICAL ANALYST WARNS OF ROUGH [...] (S//NF) Ruling Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) leaders expect Alliance for Change presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli to win the May 3 presidential election, pro-PRD political commentator Jose Blandon, Sr. told POLOFFs on April 20. --The Torrijos administration's own internal PRD [...] | 2009-04-23 22:23:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA332 | PANAMA: THREE FARC MEMBERS HANDED OVER ON MATERIAL [...] (C) The GOP handed over three alleged FARC members to the U.S. April 17 for prosecution on charges of providing material support to a terrorist organization, the first time the GOP has ever agreed to material support charges as grounds for a hand-over. This precedent setting step is part of [...] | 2009-04-24 22:51:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA338 | PANAMA: FINAL POLL RESULTS: MARTINELLI HOLDING [...] (U) With Panama's May 3 elections just nine days away, Alliance for Change opposition presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli holds a twelve to sixteen point lead over Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) candidate Balbina Herrera, according to the final presidential polling data from Dich [...] | 2009-04-27 19:42:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM |
| 09PANAMA339 | PANAMA: TORRIJOS SOCIAL PROGRAMS TO CONTINUE UNDER [...] (C) Both leading presidential candidates have acknowledged the success of some social programs initiated during President Martin Torrijos' term, and have agreed to continue certain programs after the next administration is sworn in on July 1. Programs earmarked for continuity by ruling Revolu [...] | 2009-04-27 20:32:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV SOCI PM |
| 09PANAMA341 | CODEL HOYER EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR PANAMA FTA; [...] (SBU) On April 5, the members of Codel Hoyer met with President Martin Torrijos and selected members of his government to discuss continuation of what Majority Leader Hoyer described as an &extraordinarily close8 bilateral relationship, to thank President Torrijos for the cooperation that enha [...] | 2009-04-27 20:40:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFTA ELAB ETRD OREP OVIP PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA343 | GOP AUTHORIZES "GRAY HULLS" ACCESS TO PANAMA'S TTW [...] (S//NF) Panamanian President Martin Torrijos has agreed to allow U.S. Navy assets to patrol Panama's territorial waters on counter-narcotics missions. Torrijos asked the Ambassador April 15 for Embassy assistance organizing a DEA-funded "Operation Together" (Operacion Conjuntos) featuring U. [...] | 2009-04-28 18:25:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA345 | PANAMA: REQUEST FOR COAST GUARD COORDINATES [...] (U) The Embassy received a diplmatic note from the Panamanian MFA on April 14, 2009, requesting that the Embassy send the search coordinates used by the USCG during a search and rescue operation from November 29-30, 2008, following a helicopter flying off a the Venezuelan flagged tuna boat F/V [...] | 2009-04-29 15:14:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA347 | PANAMA: POLITICAL COMMENTATOR PROVIDES INSIGHT ON [...] (C) Ricardo Martinelli's Alliance for Change movement will perform well in next weekend's elections, and the PRD will be weakened but will regain strength and prepare for 2014, political commentator Alfredo Castillero told POLOFFS during lunch on April 23. Castillero noted that a Martinelli [...] | 2009-04-29 21:51:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA348 | PANAMA: MARTINELLI ADVISER WEIGHS IN ON ELECTION [...] (C) Dennis Allen, former Electoral Tribune (TE) magistrate and current "electoral process adviser" to Alliance for Change presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli ran down for the Political Section his vision of how Panama's May 3 elections will play out. Although the election would probably [...] | 2009-04-30 15:10:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA349 | PANAMA: POLITICAL COMMENTATOR PROVIDES INSIGHT ON [...] (C) Ricardo Martinelli's Alliance for Change movement will perform well in next weekend's elections, and the PRD will be weakened but will regain strength and prepare for 2014, political commentator Alfredo Castillero told POLOFFS during lunch on April 23. Castillero noted that a Martinelli [...] | 2009-04-30 15:10:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA357 | PANAMA: MARTINELLI WINS BIG [...] (SBU) The opposition's Alliance for Change presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli defeated governing Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) candidate by over twenty points and more than 300,000 votes on May 3. Martinelli also appears to have wrested gained control of the 71-seat National Asse [...] | 2009-05-05 13:16:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA366 | PANAMA: FARC MEMBER DEMOBILIZES IN DARIEN: SIXTH [...] (U) Reports indicate that a member of the FARC's 57th FRONT surrendered to members of Panama's National Frontier Service (SENAFRONT) on May 2. The event took place at the newly established SENAFRONT position in the village of Sobia Quiro, near the Colombian boarder. The temporary position was [...] | 2009-05-06 22:44:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA367 | TORRIJOS BRIEFS MARTINELLI AS TIEA THREATENS FTA [...] (SBU) Vice-President Lewis reported to the Ambassador that President Torrijos recommitted to his endgame (reftels) for the U.S.-Panama FTA (FTA) during his first meeting with President-elect Martinelli. That endgame calls for the Obama Administration to submit the FTA to Congress, after which [...] | 2009-05-06 22:58:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL PGOV EFTA EFIN SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA37 | PANAMA HOSTS QUADRILATERAL SECURITY TALKS WITH [...] (C) "We are trying to put in place information sharing and coordination mechanisms to expedite quick deportations, expulsions, and extradition of organized crime figures," First VP and FM Samuel Lewis told Ambassador on January 15 in laying out his vision for the quadrilateral Panama-Colombia- [...] | 2009-01-15 19:37:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA372 | PANAMA: MARTINELLI MAKING PROGRESS ON CABINET [...] (C) Four days after his May 3 landslide electoral victory, Panamanian President-elect Ricardo Martinelli has made significant progress naming his cabinet. On the evening of May 6, Panama's Electoral Tribunal (TE) formally declared Martinelli the victor in the May 3 after analyzing every vote [...] | 2009-05-07 22:30:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD PM |
| 09PANAMA373 | MARTINELLI'S U.S. AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE SUPPORTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Jaime Aleman, President-elect Martinelli's Ambassador-designate to Washington, told Ambassador Stephenson today (May 7) that Martinelli would support initiation of Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) negotiations with the United States soon as part of Panama's 2002 and 20 [...] | 2009-05-07 23:23:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EFTA ETRD PGOV PM PREL SNAR |
| 09PANAMA381 | PANAMA: PRD SCRAMBLING AFTER SWEEPING ELECTORAL [...] (SBU) The Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) - Panama's largest and traditionally best organized political party - is suffering immensely from its resounding May 3 electoral defeat. "Alliance for Change" candidate Ricardo Martinelli's overwhelming victory over the PRD has caused the ruling p [...] | 2009-05-12 20:34:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA384 | PANAMA TO PARTICIPATE IN MAY MEETING OF CONTACT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-12 22:35:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA406 | PANAMA: PRESIDENT OBAMA INVITED TO ATTEND [...] (U) Ambassador Stephenson received a letter addressed to President Obama from current President of Panama Martin Torrijos. The letter invited President Obama to attend the inauguration ceremonies for newly elected President of Panama Ricardo Martinelli, to be held on June 30 and July 1, 2009 [...] | 2009-05-20 15:12:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP OPDC OTRA PGOV PM |
| 09PANAMA417 | PANAMA: GOP SAYS USCG DID NOT FOLLOW SALAS-BECKER [...] (C) The GOP protested in a diplomatic note from the MFA on May 20, 2009 that the U.S. Coast Guard did not follow agreed upon procedures during the search of Panamanian flagged vessel, M/V Pollux A on April 27. Specifically, the note protested that the USCG did not share information with the [...] | 2009-05-22 22:19:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA421 | PANAMA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL THOMPSON [...] (SBU) Since the 1989 restoration of democracy, Panama has established and consolidated a democratic, stable and responsive government; accelerated economic growth through open markets; and worked to ensure that the benefits of that growth reach all citizens. While a hemispheric leader in progr [...] | 2009-05-26 22:40:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA422 | PANAMA: JULIA TAFT REFUGEE FUND NOMINATION [...] (U) Post is pleased to nominate local NGO Fundacion Calicanto for a 20,000 USD grant from the Julia Taft Refugee Fund for job training for refugees and persons under Temporary Humanitarian Protection (THP). Filling A Gap ------------- 2. (U) A critical gap in services provided to refug [...] | 2009-05-27 15:44:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF |
| 09PANAMA435 | PANAMA LAUNCHES CONTROVERSIAL FTA MEASURES AMID [...] (C) Encouraged by front-page coverage of U.S. officials noting progress on the U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA) early in the week of May 18, the current (Torrijos) and in-coming (Martinelli) governments of Panama took actions on May 20 designed to pave the way for U.S. Congressional appr [...] | 2009-06-01 17:37:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EFTA ELAB ETRD PGOV PM PREL SNAR |
| 09PANAMA439 | PANAMA: NEITHER TORRIJOS NOR MARTINELLI CAN [...] (C) While President-elect Ricardo Martinelli would very much like to secure U.S. ratification of the pending bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA),Martinelli and his closest advisors assess that President Martin Torrijos and his Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) deputies in the National Ass [...] | 2009-06-01 21:21:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EFTA PM |
| 09PANAMA454 | PANAMA LAUNCHES CONTROVERSIAL FTA MEASURES AMID [...] (C) Encouraged by front-page coverage of U.S. officials noting progress on the U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA) early in the week of May 18, the current (Torrijos) and in-coming (Martinelli) governments of Panama took actions on May 20 designed to pave the way for U.S. Congressional appr [...] | 2009-06-05 18:45:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EFTA ELAB ETRD PGOV PM PREL SNAR |
| 09PANAMA470 | PANAMA: GRAY HULL OPERATION CUTS COASTAL DRUG [...] (S//NF) "Thank you for convincing us to support this operation. It has really worked," Panamanian President Martin Torrijos told the Ambassador June 5, referring to Operation Goal Line Stance (aka Conjuntos-09). This DEA-funded maritime drug interdiction operation used JIATF-South and Panaman [...] | 2009-06-12 17:37:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA473 | PANAMA: REQUEST FOR SEARCH COORDINATES [...] (SBU) Post received a dipnote from the MFA on June 2 informing the Embassy that the Attorney General's Office was requesting the "documentation related to search operations that took place in the month of November 2009." The note refers to a USCG P-3 that responded to a Panamanian Aero-Naval [...] | 2009-06-12 21:01:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA481 | PANAMA: 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (U) Below is Embassy Panama's input for the congressionally mandated annual report on investment disputes as contemplated in Section 527 of the FY 94-95 Foreign Relations Authorizations Act. The United States is aware of one case in which United States citizens have an outstanding claim agai [...] | 2009-06-16 15:32:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC ECON EFIN ENIV KIDE PGOV PM OPIC |
| 09PANAMA490 | PANAMA FTA LABOR REFORMS: TIME IS TICKING AWAY. [...] (C) President Torrijos issued four executive decrees on June 5 to bring the Panamanian labor code into alignment with International Labor Organization (ILO) standards, as he continues his attempt to fulfill his Free Trade Agreement (FTA)-related promises to the Obama Administration. However, [...] | 2009-06-18 18:24:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EFTA ELAB ETRD PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA518 | --CORRECTED COPY--DIPLOMATIC CLEARANCE REQUESTS DURING [...] (C) Panama's next President, Ricardo Martinelli, and his cabinet will be sworn in on 01 July 2009. The current government is not approving any diplomatic clearance requests for ships or aircraft that occur on or after 01 July. Beginning on 01 July a new group of officials will be sworn in a [...] | 2009-06-29 17:13:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA519 | PRIMARY PANAMA CANAL CONTRACT TO BE AWARDED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-30 17:05:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD MARR PM EWWT |
| 09PANAMA523 | PANAMA: EARLY INDICATIONS ON SECURITY POLICY OF [...] (C) The incoming government of Panama will not/not dismantle the National Frontier Service (SENAFRONT) or the National Aero-Naval Service (SENAN),two of the key security services created by the reforms of the outgoing government of Martin Torrijos (see reftel). This is one of Post's key con [...] | 2009-06-30 21:12:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA527 | CORRECTED COPY DIPLOMATIC CLEARANCE REQUESTS [...] (C) Panama's next President, Ricardo Martinelli, and his cabinet will be sworn in on 01 July 2009. The current government is not approving any diplomatic clearance requests for ships or aircraft that occur on or after 01 July. Beginning on 01 July a new group of officials will be sworn in a [...] | 2009-07-02 15:20:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA535 | GOP SET TO LAUNCH TIEA NEGOTIATIONS WITH OECD [...] (SBU) Minister of the Economy and Finance (MEF) Alberto Vallarino will assume leadership of the Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA)/OECD-G20 transparency issues by spearheading the GOP's efforts to negotiate TIEAs with OECD nations. "Not having a TIEA could severely damage our service-b [...] | 2009-07-07 23:03:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EFTA ETRD PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA539 | SACYR WINS CANAL CONTRACT, SIGNALING BROADER [...] (C) In an elaborate ceremony attended by President Martinelli and most of the Cabinet, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) announced that the consortium led by Spanish firm Sacyr had won the $3.2 billion contract to build the third set of locks, centerpiece of the once-in-a-century Canal Expansion pro [...] | 2009-07-08 19:20:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EWWT PGOV PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA545 | PANAMA: IMPLEMENTING UN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-09 16:23:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MNUC MTCRE KN PM |
| 09PANAMA547 | PANAMA: NEW PRESIDENT AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ASSUME [...] (U) Ricardo Martinelli became the fifth democratically elected President of Panama in the last 20 years on July 1, while Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar led a White House delegation to the inauguration ceremony. In his inaugural address Martinelli defended Panama's economic model, state [...] | 2009-07-09 21:23:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA549 | PANAMA: FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF A FRACTIOUS GOVERNMENT [...] (S//NF) After one week of the new Martinelli government, Post has some initial impressions. The government is a fractious combination of strong personalities with widely differing agendas. There are signs that some newly appointed officials have questionable backgrounds that indicate that cor [...] | 2009-07-09 21:35:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA550 | IN BARGAIN BASEMENT BID, SPANISH TO EXPAND PANAMA [...] (C) During a morning of high political theater, President Martinelli, Panama's senior government officials, consortia representatives, diplomatic corps, and the public (through live TV and an internet broadcast) witnessed the presentation of the technical scores and the opening of the financial bid [...] | 2009-07-09 21:36:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EINV ETRD MARR PM EWWT PREL |
| 09PANAMA568 | PANAMA: GREATER COORDINATION NEEDED ON TDN NOTES [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. ------------------------------ Late Dipnotes Causing Problems ------------------------------ 2. (C) The process of obtaining privileges for U.S. military forces operating on training or high value transit (HVT) missions in Panama is not f [...] | 2009-07-16 21:45:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA571 | PANAMA: EMBASSY BRIEFS INCOMING GOVERNMENT ON [...] (C) "You have saved us six months time getting started," Panama's Vice President and Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Varela told the Ambassador June 23, following a security briefing by the Embassy Law Enforcement and Security Working Group (LESWG) for the incoming GOP security leadership. Vare [...] | 2009-07-17 20:25:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA58 | PANAMA: LEFT WING DON QUIJOTE TILTS AT CLOSED [...] (C) A "symbolic" effort to open the Panamanian Political system is how Juan Jovane described his independent campaign for president. Jovane told POLOFF on November 25 that while he did not expect to be allowed to run, he wanted to open the system up to independent candidates who could mount p [...] | 2009-01-21 14:02:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA584 | PANAMA DATA FOR U.S. BIENNIAL CARIBBEAN BASIN [...] (U) This cable is in response to reftel. 2. (SBU) Post obtained from the Ministry of Commerce and Industries a list of every Panamanian business that exported under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA) as amended by the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA). All 145 bu [...] | 2009-07-23 21:17:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON OTRA PM |
| 09PANAMA61 | PANAMA POST: THE SHAKE-UP EDITION [...] (SBU) Welcome to the third edition of the Panama Post, a collaborative effort between Embassy Panama's Political Section and the Open Source Center (OSC). Having last left our readers before the holiday season lull, the Panama Post is happy to report that the politicians and those who care [...] | 2009-01-21 15:39:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM |
| 09PANAMA617 | PANAMA INFORMED OF AGREMENT FOR NEW AMBASSADOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 16:23:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP PREL PGOV PM |
| 09PANAMA625 | THE GANG THREAT ON PANAMA'S COSTA RICAN BORDER [...] (S//NF) The border between Panama and Costa Rica has been described as a "no mans' land", where drugs flow across into Costa Rica and guns and money flow back into Panama. With parallel roads along either side of the border, over 200 possible crossing points, a free trade zone town sitting on [...] | 2009-08-17 19:09:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA626 | MARTINELLI'S SECURITY LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGY [...] (S//NF) Six weeks into the Martinelli Administration, the make up of the GOP security leadership is complicated and unclear. The Minister of Government and Justice Jose Raul Mulino is exerting control over formal communications between the Embassy and the various security services, but there [...] | 2009-08-17 19:10:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ASEC PM |
| 09PANAMA639 | MARTINELLI WIRETAP QUEST SHOWS DARK SIDE OF NEW GOP [...] (S//NF) President Martinelli has reached out to the Embassy, among other actors, to request help in building infrastructure to conduct wiretaps against ostensible security threats as well as political opponents. The Ambassador has made it clear to the president that the USG will continue our succe [...] | 2009-08-22 14:46:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL SNAR KCRM PM |
| 09PANAMA640 | ONCE AGAIN, GOP SET TO LAUNCH TIEA NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) GOP Ministers informed the Ambassadors to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries that Panama will enter Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) negotiations with a sufficient number of OECD countries to prevent Panama from being blacklisted as a tax [...] | 2009-08-24 12:06:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EFTA ETRD PM PREL |
| 09PANAMA657 | AES CONCERNED ABOUT GOP ACTIONS ON PANAMA'S [...] (SBU) AES representatives informed the DCM that they are concerned that the Martinelli Administration may jeopardize their $856 million dollar investment in Panama by unilaterally changing the contracted price of water for hydroelectric generation plants owned by AES and others. The Martinell [...] | 2009-08-27 17:50:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PM EINV PGOV |
| 09PANAMA68 | MARTINELLI SECURES 12 POINT LEAD OVER RULING PARTY [...] (C) Opposition candidate Ricardo Martinelli of Democratic Change (CD) has been declared the "absolute favorite" by the Panamanian media after gaining a 12 point lead over ruling Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) candidate Balbina Herrera, according to a recent Dichter and Neira presidential [...] | 2009-01-22 19:40:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PM |
| 09PANAMA680 | PRD IN CRISIS [...] (C) After suffering a humiliating electoral defeat in the May presidential elections, leaders of the Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) have been publicly lambasting one another and fighting for control of the party amidst serious corruption allegations. President Martinelli, like a shark s [...] | 2009-09-11 13:32:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PM |
| 09PANAMA692 | MARTINELLI PRESSURES THE JUSTICE SYSTEM TO SUPPORT [...] (S//NF) Panamanian Supreme Court Justice Adan Arjona told poloffs August 26 that President Martinelli personally called each of the nine justices of the Court to pressure them to vote in favor of reopening a corruption case in which over 30 members of the Revolutonary Democratic Party (PRD) ar [...] | 2009-09-16 19:38:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA698 | MARTINELLI AND VARELA STAND BEHIND SAN JOSE ACCORD [...] (SBU) At a September 16 breakfast meeting with Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli and Vice President/Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Varela, WHA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Craig Kelly reviewed in detail the situation in Honduras, looking forward to the meeting between Costa Rican [...] | 2009-09-18 13:44:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KNNP MNUC ECON HO AA IR PM |
| 09PANAMA699 | MARTINELLI MOUNTS DOMESTIC SPY OPERATION, PUTS DEA [...] (S//NF) President Martinelli is following through on his intention to expand the duties of Panama's Council of Public Security and National Defense ("Consejo") to include spying on domestic political enemies (reftel). Martinelli has told the Ambassador that he no longer needs USG help to estab [...] | 2009-09-18 17:03:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA701 | MARTINELLI: PRESIDENTIALISM OR POPULISM? [...] (S//NF) President Ricardo Martinelli has begun his five year term by energetically taking on a number of vested interests, from powerful local businessmen perceived to be abusing state concessions, to major international businesses (ref A),civil society leaders, and officials of the former [...] | 2009-09-18 19:46:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR PM |
| 09PANAMA702 | PANAMA'S LONG FAREWELL TO PARLACEN [...] (SBU) The Government of Panama (GOP) is attempting to withdraw from the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN),a decision based exclusively on domestic politics. The departure is an easy way for President Ricardo Martinelli to make good on his campaign promise to reform Panamanian institutio [...] | 2009-09-21 11:47:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA710 | VENEZUELA DETAINS COPA AIRLINES PLANE [...] (C) Vice President and Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Varela told Ambassador September 21 that Venezuela had recently detained a COPA Airlines 737 in Maracaibo for two days, evidently in retaliation for the GOP having permitted anti-Chavez protests in Panama earlier this month. 2. (C) Varela [...] | 2009-09-22 22:41:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAIR PM VE |
| 09PANAMA713 | Commentator Urges Martinelli To Cancel 'Clownish' Panamax [...] (SBU) On September 18, in the middle of the annual Panamax exercise, leading daily La Prensa ran an op-ed by I. Roberto Eisenmann Jr. titled "An Irresponsible, Unnecessary Militaristic Stunt Returns." Eisenmann has long been an anti-military voice in Panama. He is one of the founders of La [...] | 2009-09-24 18:44:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR KPAO PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA756 | MOUNTING OPPOSITION TO MARTINELLI'S LIKELY SUPREME [...] (C) Rumors that President Martinelli intends to nominate Electoral Tribunal Magistrate Gerardo Solis and former drug prosecutor Jose Almengor to the Supreme Court this fall have been poorly received by Panamanian opinion makers. Several leading newspaper editors told the Ambassador and DCM th [...] | 2009-10-07 17:31:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA757 | MARTINELLI NOT MEETING PRO-BUSINESS RHETORIC OR [...] (C) Summary: The distinguishing feature of the Martinelli Administration's economic policy has been that there does not appear to be a coherent or consistent policy. It has made one major positive decision, which is to maintain sound macro economic policies. It has made one major negative de [...] | 2009-10-07 20:21:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV PM |
| 09PANAMA765 | POTENTIAL SCANDAL BREWING FOR MARTINELLI [...] (S//NF) Failed PRD candidate for president Balbina Herrera publicly alleged September 24 that Secretary of State for Security Jose Almengor had withheld evidence during the past presidential campaign that incriminated President Martinelli in the David Murcia scandal. That scandal contributed [...] | 2009-10-14 18:06:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA776 | ATTORNEY GENERAL UNDER PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: Attorney General Ana Matilde Gomez has reported both publicly and privately that she is receiving pressure from the GOP to prosecute former government officials, and she vows to resist the pressure and defend the independence of the AG's office. President Martinelli, frustrated b [...] | 2009-10-19 21:14:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PHUM PINR PM |
| 09PANAMA777 | PANAMANIAN INTEL DIRECTOR CONFRONTS DEA [...] (S//NF) Olmedo Alfaro, Executive Secretary of the Council of Public Security and National Defense (Consejo),engaged in two tense encounters with DEA personnel last week, indicating continued tension over the Embassy decision to remove the Matador judicialized wiretap program from the contro [...] | 2009-10-19 21:35:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA789 | MARTINELLI'S APPROVAL RATING AT 86 PERCENT AFTER 100 DAYS IN [...] (SBU) After 100 days in office, President Ricardo Martinelli's approval rating has reached historic levels. The question remains whether the numbers are the result of an optimistic interpretation of poll data by the press, or simply reflect the success of Martinelli's brand of presidential po [...] | 2009-10-22 16:43:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PM |
| 09PANAMA795 | Panama's National Assembly Debating Property Law [...] (SBU) American citizens in Panama reacted strongly to proposed legislation that would change the rules for recognizing rights of possession. As currently worded and depending upon possible implementation, domestic and foreign holders of rights of possession may have to pay the government for t [...] | 2009-10-23 17:45:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PM PGOV USTR |
| 09PANAMA797 | RE: POST INPUT TO REPORT THE OPERATION OF THE CARIBBEAN [...] Below is post's response to reftel. Economic Review --------------------- 2. (U) Panama is experiencing a period of extended economic growth, with 8.5 percent GDP growth in 2006, 11.5 percent in 2007, and 9.2 percent in 2008. However, due to the global economic crisis, its GDP gro [...] | 2009-10-23 17:52:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | USTR ETRD ECON PM |
| 09PANAMA799 | President's Top Advisor Affirms Security is GOP's Biggest [...] (S/NF) Summary: President Ricardo Martinelli's most trusted advisor, Minister of the Presidency Jimmy Papadimitriu, has appealed to the Embassy to assist him in focusing the president's attention on security issues and bringing order to the GOP's chaotic security policy apparatus. Papadimitriu [...] | 2009-10-23 18:04:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR PM |
| 09PANAMA8 | PANAMA: EMBERA INDIANS REPORT FARC TAKE OVER OF [...] (S//NF) The FARC had taken over the village of Pavarando, leading to the flight of 200 Embera, who are still displaced from their homes, Edilberto Dogirama, the President of the Council of the Embera Comarca, told EMBOFFs on December 19. He said it took over two weeks for the GOP to send for [...] | 2009-01-05 21:39:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA803 | GOP DELAYS PROPERTY RIGHTS LEGISLATION - WILL TALK WITH [...] (SBU) Ambassador Stephenson informed Vice-President and Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Varela on October 23 of the angst of American citizens in Panama over proposed law 71 (which deals with property rights),which many American citizens perceive as a form of expropriation. (See Reftel.) Varela [...] | 2009-10-27 20:04:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD USTR PREL EINV PM CASC |
| 09PANAMA807 | CONTROVERSY OVER NEW CONTROLLER GENERAL IN PANAMA [...] (SBU) The National Assembly has selected Gioconda Torres de Bianchini, a longtime associate of President Ricardo Martinelli in both his public and private incarnations, as Controller General of Panama, effective January 1, 2010. Despite de Bianchini's qualifications, her close ties to Mart [...] | 2009-10-29 21:27:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA815 | PANAMA SUPPORTS U.S. ON NO-ACTION, COUNTRY SPECIFIC [...] (U) The Director of the Office of International Organizations and Conferences at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed Post on November 2nd that she had passed a decision memo to the Foreign Minister recommending that Panama oppose "no-action" motions and support country-specific resolu [...] | 2009-11-04 16:03:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA PM |
| 09PANAMA829 | PLANS TO ESTABLISH FOUR MARITIME OPERATIONS CENTERS [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Government and Justice Jose Raul Mulino announced in late October that the GOP intended to establish four maritime operating centers to interdict narcotics and other illegal items transiting Panamanian waters. The operation centers would be jointly manned by security f [...] | 2009-11-09 23:28:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MASS PINR ASEC SNAR PM |
| 09PANAMA837 | Demarche Delivered, Panama Thanked for UNGA Votes on No [...] (C) Poloff delivered a message of thanks to the Office Director of International Organization and Conferences in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Delia Villamonte, for Panama's recent vote against no action motions and "yes" vote on country-specific human rights motions in the UN Gene [...] | 2009-11-16 16:58:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN PM |
| 09PANAMA839 | PANAMA RELUCTANT TO PROSECUTE PIRATES [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director General for Treaty and Legal Affairs Vladimir Franco October 29, following up on an informal approach on September 22, which in turn followed up on a discussion between USCG lawyers and MFA officials in September 2008. Franco said that he u [...] | 2009-11-16 19:06:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PM KPIR EWWT |
| 09PANAMA84 | PANAMA: INSIDE SCOOP ON THE QUADRILATERAL SECURITY [...] (C) The aim of the recent quadrilateral meeting of the presidents of Panama, Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala was to establish the means to quickly extradite Colombian and Mexican drug traffickers from Panama to their native countries, Panamanian National Security Advisor Marcel Salamin told P [...] | 2009-01-29 12:41:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA856 | Observers for Honduran Elections [...] (SBU) The Panamanian Electoral Tribunal is still evaluating whether it will send representatives to Honduras to provide technical assistance or serve as observers for the November 29 elections. They expect to have a final decision by November 20. 2. (SBU) A representative from t [...] | 2009-11-16 22:26:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HO PM ETRD |
| 09PANAMA859 | PANAMA CONSIDERING HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-07 21:10:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA PGOV PREL |
| 09PANAMA861 | THANKS DELIVERED TO PANAMA FOR UNGA VOTE ON DEFAMATION OF [...] (C) Per reftel, on November 30, POLOFF delivered a message of thanks to Jonattan Del Rosario, Assistant Director General of Foreign Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Relations. POLOFF expressed gratitude for Panama's vote at the UN General Assembly against the resolution on defamation of reli [...] | 2009-12-07 21:11:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA873 | ILLEGAL AFRICAN MIGRATION POSES CHALLENGE TO PANAMA [...] (U) The number of illegal African migrants smuggled through Panama has grown six-fold in 2009. Somali and other Horn of Africa migrants are a particular concern for Panama, which has shown no inclination to accept them as refugees, yet is struggling to find a humane response to the increase. [...] | 2009-12-10 20:17:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PM SO SMIG PREF |
| 09PANAMA877 | Panama: Colombian Cross-Border Offer Sows Doubt and [...] (S//NF) A Colombian offer, which appears to have been accepted by President Martinelli, to mount a cross-border operation against FARC forces in Panama's Darien province has caused confusion among the GOP's senior security team and raised concern about coordination with USG efforts in that r [...] | 2009-12-11 19:22:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA879 | Ambassador's November 25 Meetings with President, Vice [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: The Ambassador and DCM spent six hours in meetings with top government officials on November 25 to persuade them that neglecting to focus attention and resources on Panama's burgeoning crime and gang problems would be disastrous. The Martinelli Administration has taken [...] | 2009-12-15 14:48:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MASS ECON SNAR ASEC PINR PM |
| 09PANAMA88 | PANAMA TO REQUIRE NO DEATH PENALTY/LIFE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Embassy received a dip note from the Panamanian MFA on January 7 stating that the Attorney General's Office had decided to require a declaration of certificate in extradition cases on charges that might lead to a sentence of death or life imprisonment that these penalties [...] | 2009-01-29 21:37:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA881 | GOP Suspends Discussions with Security Firm Global CST [...] (S//NF) Senior GOP leaders have told the Embassy that they have suspended discussions with the Israeli security firm Global CST. Minister of the Presidency Jimmy Papadimitriu told the Ambassador on December 13 that "the issue is closed" and that the GOP would not entertain further consideration [...] | 2009-12-15 18:28:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ASEC SNAR PINR PM CO |
| 09PANAMA883 | DARIEN ACTIVITY UPDATE [...] (S/NF) Embassy Panama is advancing on many fronts in our Darien strategy to deny the FARC and other Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) safehaven in the Darien. Built around our 1207 funding request, the strategy now includes significant additional resources from SOUTHCOM, JIATF-South, and [...] | 2009-12-15 19:15:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV SNAR PTER PM |
| 09PANAMA887 | Security Dialogues with the Panamanian Government [...] (U) This cable is a response to ref A. 2. (C//NF) As Panama has no military, there are no formal POL-MIL or MIL-MIL dialogues between the GOP and the USG. Our robust security cooperation is coordinated through high level meetings between the Ambassador and various senior GOP official [...] | 2009-12-17 17:37:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA889 | Martinelli Confirms Approval of Cross-Border Attack Plan [...] (S//NF) President Martinelli told Ambassador on December 13 that he had given approval for Colombian forces to attack FARC forces that will be gathered for the holidays in Panama's Darien province (ref A). He confirmed that the plan had been discussed during a meeting on December 9 with visiti [...] | 2009-12-17 18:11:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MOPS ASEC SNAR PM CO PINR |
| 09PANAMA89 | PANAMA: COMMENT ON DOL DRAFT LIST FOR TVPRA [...] (SBU) This is an action request; see para 3. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Regarding REFTEL A, Embassy Panama concurs with DOL's assessment that coffee is a good for which there is reason to believe is produced by child labor in violation of international standards. Indeed, there is [...] | 2009-01-29 21:39:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP |
| 09PANAMA891 | Ambassador's November 25 Meetings with President, Vice [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: The Ambassador and DCM spent six hours in meetings with top government officials on November 25 to work through a number of specific security issues, as well as to agree on a structure for better coordination on security issues. End summary/ introduction. The U [...] | 2009-12-17 18:43:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MASS SNAR ASEC PINR PM |
| 09PANAMA893 | TOCUMEN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FLYING HIGH BUT CORRUPTION [...] (U) Summary: Tocumen International Airport captures the Panamanian zeitgeist in a concentrated dose. Tocumen's legitimate status as a crux of Latin America's passenger and cargo traffic is tainted by a seamy underside of alien smuggling, money laundering, narcotics trafficking and corruption. Explo [...] | 2009-12-18 18:05:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET | PREL PGOV PM CTM DEA DHS |
| 09PANAMA894 | Scenesetter for CODEL Boehner [...] (SBU) Since the restoration of democracy after Operation Just Cause twenty years ago, Panama has established and consolidated a democratic, stable government, achieving a new confidence, dynamism, and psychological sovereignty that complements the 1999 completion of its territorial sovereignty. [...] | 2009-12-03 14:17:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON SOCI ASEC SNAR PGOV KPAO CASC PM |
| 09PANAMA90 | PANAMA: 2009 CHILD LABOR REPORT [...] Panama continued its efforts to combat child labor in 2008. The GOP trained labor inspectors, prosecutors and judges, engaged in activities to increase public awareness and moved forward on its National Plan for the Eradication of Child Labor that is being implemented by an active, inter-ag [...] | 2009-01-29 21:50:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | EINT ELAB ETRD PHUM SOC PM |
| 09PANAMA901 | Intelligence Chief Proposes Reform to Severely Restrict USG [...] (U) This is an action message, see paragraph 5. 2. (S//NF) The head of Panama's Council for Public Security and National Defense (Consejo, or CSPDN),Olmedo Alfaro, has told Embassy officers that the GOP plans to introduce new legislation soon that would make it unlawful for Panamanian gover [...] | 2009-12-22 19:57:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL SNAR EAID ASEC PM PINR |
| 09PANAMA902 | Panama Environmental Team in Disaray as it Prepares for [...] (SBU) Summary: Panama's National Authority for the Environment will not lead the Panama delegation to Copenhagen and has lost the support of the Panamanian environmental NGO community. Additionally, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a new environmental point of contact who is getting up to s [...] | 2009-12-04 18:35:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG PM |
| 09PANAMA905 | Guidance Request: DEA Wiretap Program [...] (U) This is an action request, see para 8. 2. (S//NF) Since July 2009, Embassy Panama has grappled with President Martinelli's desire to involve the USG in his efforts to construct a wiretap program that would target his domestic political opponents. Refs A, B and C document the sequence of eve [...] | 2009-12-24 16:58:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV SNAR PINR ASEC KJUS PM |
| 09PANAMA907 | Supreme Court Appointees: Panama in Mourning for Justice [...] (U) Summary: President Ricardo Martinelli and his cabinet's December 16 nomination of Alejandro Moncada Luna and Jose Abel Almengor as the two new Supreme Court justices sparked strong criticism from all major media outlets and from civil society organizations including the bar association and [...] | 2009-12-29 14:06:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KJUS PINR PM SNAR |
| 09PANAMA914 | CODEL Boehner Warmly Recieved in Panama to Discuss Security [...] (SBU) Summary. From December 11 to 14, CODEL Boehner was received like an old friend by the Government of Panama as the first U.S. Congressional delegation to visit since the July 1 inauguration of the Martinelli Administration. The message from the President and his ministers to the CODEL wa [...] | 2009-12-16 19:13:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PM ETRD PREL USTR |
| 09PANAMA94 | PANAMA ASKS ABOUT STATUS OF VICTIMS OF OPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary. The Embassy received a diplomatic note from the Panamanian MFA on January 30 asking about the "legal condition" in the U.S. of the victims of Operation Just Cause in 1989 and whether there are legal processes, administrative or judicial related to the "civil victims." The note [...] | 2009-02-02 14:26:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PANAMA97 | PANAMA: MEXICAN TAKE ON QUADRILATERAL MEETING [...] (C) While Mexico was pleased with the results of the January 16 Colombia-Guatemala-Mexico-Panama quadrilateral security talks, the Mexican delegation had also been very frustrated with the GOP's simplistic tendency to blame all its internal criminal problems on the presence of Colombians and [...] | 2009-02-03 15:05:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09PARISFR1640 | SECOND MEETING OF STATES PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON THE [...] SUMMARY: THE STATES PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON THE PROTECTION OF UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE (CONVENTION) MET DECEMBER 1-2 AT UNESCO HEADQUARTERS. THE PARTIES ELECTED A SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ADVISORY BODY, DECIDED TO SET UP AN "UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE FUND", AND ESTABLISHED A WORK [...] | 2009-12-04 13:20:00 | Mission UNESCO | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL AORC UNESCO PREL |
| 09PORTAUPRINCE318 | LEAKING LIKE A SIEVE: HAITI'S NORTHERN COASTLINE [...] Summary (C) A UN Police technical advisor working in Cap Haitien believes that clandestine boat migration is a highly-organized business and that intercepted passengers almost always try to shield captains and trip organizers from detection and capture by maritime authorities. He also repor [...] | 2009-03-20 19:35:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR HA |
| 09PORTAUPRINCE533 | HAITI ECONOMIC MONTHLY UPDATE FOR MAY 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is a monthly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. 2. (U) REMITTANCES CONTINUE SLOWDOWN. April remittances amounted to USD 81.8 million, down 16 percent compared to March. Year-to-date remittances total USD 590 [...] | 2009-06-05 16:40:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA |
| 09PORTAUPRINCE86 | 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - HAITI [...] (U) Haiti's openness to foreign investment is codified in its laws. Import and export policies are non-discriminatory and are not based upon nationality. There is no significant public opposition to foreign investment in Haiti. The Government of Haiti (GoH) has made notable progress in rece [...] | 2009-01-27 14:22:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | KIDE EINV ECON EFIN PGOV HA OPIC USTR KTDB ETRD |
| 09PORTOFSPAIN197 | CODEL Engel meets LAC leaders at Fifth Summit of the [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representative Eliot Engel, Chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led a Congressional delegation to the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago April 17-19, 2009. The delegation consisted of Representative Connie Ma [...] | 2009-04-30 22:03:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG MARR SNAR TD |
| 09PRISTINA178 | KOSOVO EFFORTS TO SECURE RECOGNITION [...] (C) Summary: Since the initial rush of recgonitions after its declaration of independence in February 2008, Kosovo has had to work intensively for each additional recognition, using all tools available to move the undecideds into the "yes" column. Support from the USG and other friendly nat [...] | 2009-05-04 10:49:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KV |
| 09QUITO1009 | UNASUR Establishes Confidence Building Mechanism [...] (C) SUMMARY: The November 27 UNASUR meeting of foreign and defense ministers managed to reach agreement on a resolution establishing a "confidence building mechanism," with provisions designed to improve transparency and information sharing, provide guarantees regarding the use and/or threat [...] | 2009-12-01 22:43:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AORC EC CO XM XR |
| 09QUITO112 | GOE REMAINS ON ATTACK AGAINST EMBASSY [...] (C) Summary: Both President Correa and Minister Carvajal condemned the Embassy's actions with regard to vetted units publicly throughout the week of February 9. The Department's February 9 statement that the USG would work through diplomatic channels to address Correa's concerns and Carvaj [...] | 2009-02-13 22:54:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR PTER KCRM EC |
| 09QUITO1148 | ATPDEA Still Key to Many Ecuadorian Industries and Jobs [...] (U) Ecuador has benefitted substantially from the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA) program since its inception in 1991. ATPA currently provides duty-free access to the U.S. market for approximately 5,600 Ecuadorian products. According to GoE estimates, approximately 350,000 jobs are tied [...] | 2009-11-30 14:04:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL EC AGR FAS EPET EMIN |
| 09QUITO178 | HIGH-LEVEL CHINESE VISIT HIGHLIGHTS CLOSER TIES [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met privately with Chinese Ambassador Cai Runguo on February 27 to discuss the February 13 visit by Vice Prime Minister Hui Liangyu in Ecuador, as well as the Ecuador-China relationship more generally. Ambassador Cai downplayed the importance of the visit, and was [...] | 2009-03-12 14:56:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EINV EAID ETRD ENRG SMIG CVIS EC CH |
| 09QUITO322 | COMBATTING ECUADOR'S INCREASING REFUGEE POPULATION [...] SUMMARY: This cable summarizes a review of the World Food Program's (WFP) assistance to Colombian refugees (defined in this cable as persons of concern) in northern Ecuador. The review was conducted by Barry Burnett, USAID/DCHA/FFP, over the period April 6 - April 10, 2009 and included field [...] | 2009-05-06 15:58:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL SMIG EC |
| 09QUITO36 | ECUADOR'S 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] In response to State 123907, Embassy Quito reports the following update for its 2009 Investment Climate Statement. This update has also been sent to EB/IFD/OIA (J. Nathaniel Hatcher) by email. Openness to Foreign Investment Ecuador can be a difficult place in which to do business, althoug [...] | 2009-01-20 21:51:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR EC |
| 09QUITO374 | ECUADOR COMMEMMORATES WORLD IP DAY WITH IP AWARENESS [...] (U) In celebration of World Intellectual Property Day (April 26),the Embassy collaborated on several events in Ecuador. Economic, Public Affairs, and Foreign Commercial Service staff obtained promotional materials from WIPO and helped organize and support an IPR awareness roundtable held by t [...] | 2009-05-21 17:00:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR ETRD EC |
| 09QUITO549 | PRESIDENT'S BROTHER INVOLVED IN PUBLIC CONTRACTING [...] (U) Summary: An Ecuadorian newspaper story on June 14 denounced President Correa's brother Fabricio for alleged corruption in public contracting, claiming he received $80 million worth of government contracts through shell companies based in Panama and other suspicious business dealings. Pre [...] | 2009-07-06 14:19:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EC |
| 09QUITO57 | GAS-AND-GO LOOKS LIKE A GO [...] (C) Summary: At a wide-ranging lunch for the Ambassador on January 26, a warm and friendly President Correa gave a firm green light for discussion and development of a gas-and-go model for anti-narcotics cooperation with the U.S., following the shutdown of the Manta Forward Operating Location [...] | 2009-01-27 12:33:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS SNAR ETRD EC |
| 09QUITO707 | SCENESETTER FOR INAUGURATION DELEGATION [...] (SBU) Embassy Quito warmly welcomes the delegation headed by Senator Bob Graham for the inauguration of President Correa on August 10, held on the 200th anniversary of Ecuador's first call for independence. While we do not agree with the Correa government on every issue, we have enjoyed stron [...] | 2009-08-07 18:05:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EAID MARR OVIP EC CO |
| 09QUITO883 | Refugees Programs in Ecuador Risk Benefitting the FARC [...] (S/NF) This is an action request. See para. 9. 2. (S/NF) Summary and Comment: Embassy Quito and the Regional Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) request guidance on how to respond to information that suspected FARC members have manipulated Ecuador's Enhanced Registration Program implemented [...] | 2009-10-15 20:44:00 | Embassy Quito | SECRET//NOFORN | PREF PHUM KCRM KWMN PGOV SMIG SNAR SOCI EC CO |
| 09RABAT195 | MOROCCO'S TALLY OF COUNTRIES REJECTING/SUPPORTING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Morocco continues to work to persuade countries around the globe to de-recognize the Polisario Front's declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, or at least freeze relations, beyond which they want countries to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Saha [...] | 2009-03-06 18:58:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV WI UNSC MO |
| 09RABAT735 | REQUEST FOR WHITE HOUSE ENDORSEMENT OF [...] Summary: This is an action request. UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Kitin Munoz Valcarcel is planning a fourth Mata-Rangi expedition -- from Tarfaya, Morocco, to Florida in 2010. Munoz has the support of King Mohammed VI of Morocco and UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura. Munoz seeks no [...] | 2009-08-31 07:11:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC PREL OPDC KISL MO |
| 09RANGOON33 | BURMA: 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Per reftel, this is Embassy Rangoon's submission for the 2009 Investment Climate Statement. Preface ------- 2. U.S. Investment Subject to Sanctions: On May 20, 1997, by Executive Order 13047, the President imposed economic sanctions prohibiting new investment by U.S. persons or entiti [...] | 2009-01-14 08:32:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED | OPIC KTDB USTR ECON EFIN EINV ETRD BM |
| 09RIGA375 | RESULTS OF BLUE LATERN APPLICATION 050177010 - PRE-LICENSE [...] Summary. On July 10, post met with Hansa Electronics SIA President Jevgenijs Orlov and Director Anatoliy Arkhipov to conduct a pre-license check for the sale of a FLIR Model SeaFlir II thermal imaging system. The Hansa officials stated they had been briefed by FLIR on USML guidelines and restr [...] | 2009-07-14 13:46:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC GV PN LG |
| 09RIODEJANEIRO400 | Media Reaction Rio de Janeiro: Honduran Saga [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-01 20:36:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR OIIP ETRD XM XR BR |
| 09SANJOSE107 | WHA/CEN DEPUTY DIRECTOR'S VISIT TO COST RICA: [...] (C) SUMMARY: A senior MFA official candidly discussed a wide range of regional issues with WHA/CEN Deputy Director David Wolfe during the latter's February 9-11 visit to Costa Rica. Wolfe's interlocutor contrasted Costa Rica's frosty Nicaraguan relations with a warming trend with Panama, and [...] | 2009-02-21 00:27:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | CS EFTA KSUM PGOV PINR PREL SNAR |
| 09SANJOSE11 | COSTA RICA CREEPS INTO CAFTA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Nearly six years after negotiations began, CAFTA-DR entered into force for Costa Rica on January 1, achieving a major policy objective of the USG, the Arias administration and the Embassy. Although the end-year holidays muted the headlines, there was some (characteristically) [...] | 2009-01-09 22:35:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CS EAGR ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV PINR PREL |
| 09SANJOSE1132 | COSTA RICAN IPR EVENT LINKS PIRATED GOODS TO ORGANIZED CRIME [...] SUMMARY: On December 2, Embassy San Jose sponsored an intellectual property rights (IPR) event featuring the screening of National Geographic's Illicit, a film about the nefarious links between pirated consumer goods and transnational crime networks. We highly recommend screening the film Ill [...] | 2009-12-11 22:33:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR PREL PGOV CS |
| 09SANJOSE1156 | Embassy San Jose: December 2009 Merida Report [...] Per Ref A, Post submits the following report detailing Embassy San Jose's Merida activities for November and December 2009. Issues for Washington 2. Post appreciates the support that we have received from NAS Mexico in their role as certifier of funds for all Merida Initiative-rel [...] | 2009-12-17 21:12:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR CS PGOV |
| 09SANJOSE1166 | COSTA RICA INCSR REPORT 2009-2010 PART II MONEY LAUNDERING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-18 21:11:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR EFIN KCRM KTFN CS |
| 09SANJOSE127 | PART 1 OF 2: COSTA RICA'S NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Part 2 of this report is being sent septel. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) The most significant progress the GOCR made since the November 2008 TIP Interim Assessment (Ref A) - and during the reporting period in general - was its February 12, 2009, passage of a Victim and Witness Pro [...] | 2009-02-27 22:07:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG KTIP ASEC CS |
| 09SANJOSE128 | PART 2 OF 2: COSTA RICA'S 9TH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) This cable is Part 2 of 2 and continues section numbering from Part 1 (septel),in according with TIP reporting instructions. --------------------------------------------- - III. INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION - CONTINUED --------------------------------------------- - E. LAW ENFORCEME [...] | 2009-02-27 23:05:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG KTIP ASEC CS |
| 09SANJOSE217 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Embassy San Jose warmly welcomes Vice President and Dr. Biden and their delegation, and provides this broad overview as requested by the OVP. The Arias administration has made progress on key elements of its 2006-2010 agenda, most notably entering the U.S.-Central America-Dominican Repub [...] | 2009-03-23 16:05:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CS ECON ETRD OTRA OVIP PREL PGOV SNAR SOCI |
| 09SANJOSE25 | HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT TOUTS NEW ERA OF HHS/FDA COOPERATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Michael Leavitt's January 7, 2009, return visit to Costa Rica to open the new regional office of the HHS Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received a warm welcome from President Oscar Arias, relevant Government Ministries, the press, [...] | 2009-01-16 18:25:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO ECON PREL PGOV SOCI OSCI OTRA OVIP CS |
| 09SANJOSE28 | NOVEMBER'S MASSIVE FLOODING IN LIMON PROVINCE [...] (U) SUMMARY. At the end of Costa Rica's rainy season late last November, a stationary storm caused massive flooding in Limon province. The Ambassador authorized his $50,000 disaster assistance authority (Ref B) and Joint Task Force Bravo (JTF-B) helicopter assets were deployed to assist both [...] | 2009-01-20 18:44:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MASS PGOV SOCI PHUM CS |
| 09SANJOSE297 | VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN'S MARCH 30 MULTILATERAL [...] (U) March 30, 2009; 1045 am; San Jose, Costa Rica. 2. (U) Participants: USG: The Vice President Ambassador Peter Cianchette Anthony Blinken, NSA to the Vice President Brian McKeon, Deputy NSA to the Vice President Dan Restrepo, Senior Director, Western Hemisphere Affairs, NSC Craig Kel [...] | 2009-04-08 21:46:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PINR PREL XK OVIP PGOV JOSEPH BIDEN |
| 09SANJOSE40 | COSTA RICA - NOMINATION FOR 2009 TIP HERO [...] (U) Embassy San Jose is pleased to nominate Mariliana Morales Berros, founder and Executive Director of the Rahab Foundation (Fundacisn Rahab) as a 2009 TIP Hero, per reftel. ------------ NOMINEE DATA ------------ 2. (U) Nominee: Mariliana Morales Berros. 3. (U) Title and Institution [...] | 2009-01-26 15:08:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KTIP CS |
| 09SANJOSE478 | COSTA RICA AND PANAMA - COOPERATION AND COMPETITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In contrast to its historically problematic relationship with Nicaragua, Costa Rica has deepening and positive political-economic ties with Panama. Both countries have abolished their militaries and are cooperating more closely on counternarcotics, law enforcement and disaster [...] | 2009-06-05 14:19:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD KDEM SNAR MASS PA CS |
| 09SANJOSE608 | TFHO1: LITTLE PROGRESS WITH SECOND ROUND OF [...] (SBU) The second round of talks to resolve Honduras' political crisis ended Sunday, July 19, with no agreement between the Zelaya and Micheletti delegations. The key issue and first point of President Arias' "Seven Points" is the return of Zelaya as President of Honduras. The Micheletti team [...] | 2009-07-20 22:59:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR AMGT PGOV PINR KDEM |
| 09SANJOSE615 | COSTA RICA'S ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE - OPPORTUNITIES AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: U.S. investors identify physical infrastructure challenges as the key hurdle for Costa Rica's development and modernization, according to the Costa Rican-U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Costa Rica provides a sometimes reliable electric power supply to over 97 percent of the country. Its [...] | 2009-07-23 19:03:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON ETRD EIND SENV EFIN EINV PREL |
| 09SANJOSE656 | TUXTLA SUMMIT FOCUSES ON HONDURAS SITUATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico, Colombia, Honduras and the Dominican Republic met July 29 in northern Costa Rica at the 11th Tuxtla Summit. The summit focused in large part on the ongoing crisis in Honduras, with all present (including Ma [...] | 2009-08-03 22:22:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PINR PREL CS |
| 09SANJOSE697 | CENTRAL AMERICANS RENEW "CONCAUSA III" PUSH FOR CLIMATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Central American environment ministers continue to seek greater U.S. cooperation with the region on climate change through a revival of the Central American-United States Joint Declaration ("CONCAUSA") process launched in 1994. As Costa Rica serves as Presiden [...] | 2009-08-17 16:31:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG CS |
| 09SANJOSE747 | COSTA RICA: BALANCING SIEPAC PROGRESS AGAINST THE [...] SUMMARY. Costa Rica struggles to complete its portion of the Panama to Guatemala power grid interconnection project (SIEPAC). The negotiation and acquisition of land consumes most of the project's time )- much more so than actual construction -- such that only approximately 60 percent of th [...] | 2009-08-28 13:50:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CS ECON ENRG KIDE PGOV PREL EINV |
| 09SANJOSE758 | U.S. BIENNIAL CARIBBEAN BASIN INVESTMENT SURVEY [...] (U) SUMMARY: With Entry Into Force (EIF) of the Dominican Republic - Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) on January 1st 2009, the reporting period 2007-2008 is the last in which the Caribbean Basin trade programs (CBI/CBERA/CBTPA) figure among Costa Rica's trade benefits. Textile [...] | 2009-09-02 15:14:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ECON ETRD OTRA XL EFIN CS |
| 09SANJOSE772 | COSTA RICA: MERIDA SPOT REPORT #1: POLICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From August 26-28, Merida Information Technology (IT) Representative Frank Swain visited Post and host nation law enforcement authorities to validate Costa Rica's Merida Initiative-related communications/police equipment requests. We also validated the police equipment list tha [...] | 2009-09-09 15:14:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR SNAR CS |
| 09SANJOSE812 | COSTA RICA'S CLOSE RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Costa Rica has an expanding political and economic relationship with Colombia, which it currently sees as its second closest partner in Latin America, behind Panama. Politically, Presidents Arias and Uribe share a warm relationship, and the two countries coordinate closely on l [...] | 2009-09-24 18:02:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL PINR ASEC PTER SNAR PREF CO CS |
| 09SANJOSE823 | COSTA RICA: POSSIBLE PATHWAYS TO REGIONAL ENERGY [...] SUMMARY. In their September 16-17 trip to Costa Rica, the Pathways to Prosperity team of WHA/EPSC Director Matt Rooney, WHA/EPSC Trade Officer Susan Garro and EEB/TPP/BT Director Robert Manogue met with three energy-sector leaders: Pedro Pablo Quiros, executive President of the Costa Rican Ins [...] | 2009-09-25 20:06:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV PREL CS |
| 09SANJOSE862 | PATHWAYS TO PROSPERITY: COSTA RICA PREPARES FOR [...] SUMMARY. Costa Rican officials are working diligently to prepare for a successful Pathways to Prosperity ministerial meeting in December, which they hope Secretary Clinton will attend. In a meeting with visiting State Department officials, they undertook to coordinate efforts to improve and [...] | 2009-10-08 15:09:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON CS HO AMGT OPDC OVIP |
| 09SANJOSE921 | COSTA RICA RESPONSE TO USTR REQUEST FOR INFO ON CBI- [...] The following is Post's response to reftel A. The text replies to specific keyed reftel questions and updates Post's 2007 submission (reftel C) to USTR's request regarding CBI beneficiary countries. Questions can be directed to Economics Specialist, Kevin Ludeke at +506 2519-22261, Fax +506 [...] | 2009-10-27 20:48:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR EINV PREL PGOV CS |
| 09SANJOSE959 | COSTA RICA: VENEZUELA'S "PEACE BASE" CAUSES CONTROVERSY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Venezuelan government's establishment in late September of an anti-US "Peace Base" in San Jose is causing continuing controversy in Costa Rica, and proving to be a large public relations misstep for the GBRV. The "Peace Base", which is billed as Hugo Chavez's response to th [...] | 2009-11-20 17:21:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL VE CS |
| 09SANJOSE978 | COSTA RICA: MERIDA 2.0 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-10 22:10:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL PINR MASS CS |
| 09SANJOSE98 | WHA/CEN DEPUTY DIRECTOR'S VISIT: MERIDA AND CAFTA [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) GOCR officials and legislators asked for additional Merida assistance for Costa Rica, and echoed the region's positive hopes for the Obama Administration in meetings with visiting WHA/CEN Deputy Director David Wolfe February 9-11. Key legislators made clear that the domestic po [...] | 2009-02-18 20:27:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CS ETRD KIPR PGOV PINR PREL SNAR |
| 09SANJOSE991 | Costa Rica's Foreign Affairs "Accomplishments" in 2009 [...] (U) Summary: The Costa Rican Ministry of Foreign Affairs presented its major accomplishments for the year to the public on December 15. Arias' foreign policy has focused on creating new political partnerships in Asia and the Middle East as well as strengthening relations with Latin American pa [...] | 2009-12-18 21:33:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM CS |
| 09SANSALVADOR1039 | ATF REGIONAL FIREARMS ADVISOR FAMILIARIZATION VISIT [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph two. 2. Mark D. Jones, ATF Regional Firearms Advisor (RFA) for Central America, proposes scheduling a familiarization visit to post the week of November 16, 2009. In addition to briefing interested parties on the role of the newly- [...] | 2009-11-04 19:59:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | ES KCRM |
| 09SANSALVADOR1057 | SALVADORAN RESPONSE TO FLOODING DISASTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Severe flooding and landslides triggered by the passing of Hurricane Ida caused significant loss of life and economic damage in El Salvador. Heavy losses in the agricultural sector have many in the GOES concerned about short-term food security. USG relief supplies have arrived [...] | 2009-11-13 11:43:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS EAID ECON ES |
| 09SANSALVADOR1184 | ELECTRICITY SECTOR REFORMS THREATEN PRIVATE SECTOR [...] SUMMARY. Proposed regulatory reforms in the electricity sector will introduce a cost-based pricing system with publicly bid long-term contracts, designed to promote transparency in energy costs, reduce price volatility, and foster healthy competition in the sector. While both private sect [...] | 2009-12-14 16:54:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EINV ECON ES |
| 09SANSALVADOR135 | EL SALVADOR: NEAR-TERM KOSOVO RECOGNITION UNLIKELY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-11 21:30:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ES KV ICJ |
| 09SANSALVADOR179 | EL SALVADOR'S PATHWAYS PREPARATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOES is pushing hard to make the next Pathways to Prosperity in the Americas (Pathways) ministerial meeting focus on concrete actions. In February 5 meetings with visiting State and USTR officials, the GOES proposed April 28-29 for the technical and ministerial meetings in [...] | 2009-02-26 20:06:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL ES |
| 09SANSALVADOR39 | FINANCIAL CRISIS ACCELERATES REDUCTION OF LENDING TO [...] SUMMARY: The construction industry has raised alarms over the impact of the global financial crisis on El Salvador's construction sector. While public funding for infrastructure and low-income housing continue, credit shortages have delayed commercial building projects. Salvadoran banks wer [...] | 2009-01-13 21:06:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ES |
| 09SANSALVADOR433 | SERVIR PROJECT SUPPORTS DISASTER RELIEF AND ENVIRONMENTAL [...] SUMMARY: The SERVIR project has closed a successful two-year global development alliance with USAID that created innovative geographic imaging tools to help manage disaster relief operations, monitor environmental trends and study the effects of climate change in Central America. In its next p [...] | 2009-05-18 13:04:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SENV EAGR SV |
| 09SANSALVADOR462 | FUNES MEETS WITH CHAVEZ, RELATIONSHIP WILL IMPROVE [...] (C) Summary: Salvadoran Foreign Minister-designate Hugo Martinez told PolCouns May 21 that he and President-elect Mauricio Funes approached their May 20 meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with trepidation, but Chavez was welcoming and respectful, and the meeting went smoothly. Marti [...] | 2009-05-22 23:09:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ES |
| 09SANSALVADOR463 | LA UNION PORT: A WHITE ELEPHANT IN THE MAKING? [...] (U) Summary. Four months after its inauguration, El Salvador's $187 million La Union port project remains in limbo due to a political deadlock over who will manage the port. The ruling ARENA party was unable to secure approval for a proposed port concession due to opposition from parties favo [...] | 2009-05-26 18:33:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EWWT ES |
| 09SANSALVADOR47 | EL SALVADOR: 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Per reftel, following is Embassy San Salvador's submission for the 2009 Investment Climate Statement. Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ 2. The Government of El Salvador views foreign investment as crucial for economic growth and development and has taken numerous [...] | 2009-01-15 22:28:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON ETRD EFIN OPIC KTDB USTR ES |
| 09SANSALVADOR494 | FUNES INAUGURAL ADDRESS PROMISES RELIEF FOR POOR, [...] (U) Summary: Mauricio Funes, of the left-wing FMLN, was sworn in as President of El Salvador on Monday, June 1. Addressing a full house of invited heads of state and government, foreign ministers, diplomats, local dignitaries, and the public, Funes announced plans for an ambitious program of " [...] | 2009-06-03 15:19:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | ES PGOV PREL |
| 09SANSALVADOR6 | OAS AND IOA HOLD REGIONAL CONFERENCES ON RENEWABLE ENERGY [...] SUMMARY: The OAS and the Institute of the Americas (IOA) organized two USG-funded regional conferences on renewable energy in San Salvador on December 11-12. At the December 11 OAS conference, delegates from Central and North America discussed their current energy matrices and policies to imp [...] | 2009-01-06 14:19:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EINV EPET ES |
| 09SANSALVADOR748 | GOES SANGUINE ON COLOMBIA DCA; FM TO HONDURAS [...] (C) Summary: Salvadoran FM Martinez welcomed reftel points on the proposed U.S.-Colombia Defense Cooperation Agreement. Separately, he has been asked by OAS SG Insulza to join the planned mission of Foreign Ministers to Honduras o/a August 21, partly as a counter-balance to Panama. End Summary [...] | 2009-08-13 22:11:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR ES CO HO |
| 09SANSALVADOR880 | LAUNCHING OF VITAL VOICES EL SALVADOR [...] Summary: On September 17, Salvadorans launched their Vital Voices Global Network Affiliate Chapter, with the goal of identifying, mentoring and developing the next generation of women leaders in business, politics, civic society and the media. The president and vice president of the Salvadora [...] | 2009-09-21 20:25:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KPAO PGOV ECON ES |
| 09SANSALVADOR980 | TACA AND AVIANCA AGREE TO MERGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 7, El Salvador's Grupo TACA announced a merger with Colombia's Avianca Airlines to form Latin America's second-largest carrier. TACA's primary short-term benefit is new long-haul routes to Europe and North America. The local American Airlines representative does not [...] | 2009-10-14 19:24:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON SOCI ES |
| 09SANTIAGO1136 | Santiago Nov. 24 Media Report [...] The dollar exchange rate dropped to 492 pesos, the lowest in the last 16 months. Meanwhile, copper reached a new record of 3.15????, the highest since September 2008 (Conservative, influential El Mercurio, 11/24). 2. U.S.-Related News 2. In his debut before the OAS Permanent Co [...] | 2009-11-24 19:31:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI |
| 09SANTIAGO1162 | Santiago Dec 2 Media Report [...] All Santiago major news dailies covered President Obama's announcement on Afghanistan. While both conservative, influential El Mercurio and conservative, independent La Tercera ran front-page headlines on the announcement, El Mercurio headline highlighted the withdrawal of troops starting [...] | 2009-12-02 13:38:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI |
| 09SANTIAGO1198 | CHILEAN REACTION TO PRESIDENT OBAMA'S ANNOUNCEMENT ON TPP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rodrigo Contreras, Director for Bilateral Relations at Chile's trade ministry equivalent (DIRECON) welcomed President Obama's announcement on joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). He though TPP could bring order to the mix of trade agreements in the Pacific reg [...] | 2009-12-10 18:38:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON CI |
| 09SANTIAGO12 | CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 6 [...] Dailies highlighted President Michelle Bachelet's announcement of a USD 4 billion program to reactivate the economy; and OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza's official statement declining to run for the presidency of Chile. U.S.-Related News ----------------------- 2. OAS Secretary [...] | 2009-01-06 18:59:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI |
| 09SANTIAGO167 | CHILE SCENESETTER FOR CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS OF [...] (C) The U.S. Mission in Santiago welcomes your visit to Chile on March 2-3. Your presence is an excellent opportunity to further strengthen military-to-military relations and to encourage Chile to exercise greater regional leadership. We have had several successful high-level defense and security-r [...] | 2009-02-24 19:45:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OVIP MASS MARR CI |
| 09SANTIAGO279 | CHILE LOOKS TOWARD SUMMIT WITH HIGH EXPECTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Chilean officials see President Obama's participation in the Summit of the Americas as a critical chance for the president to signal his re-engagement with Latin America, a region that feels jettisoned by conflicts and emerging powers in other regions. The financial crisis and [...] | 2009-03-23 20:53:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL KSUM PGOV ETRD ECON XL XM XS |
| 09SANTIAGO326 | CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 6 [...] The death of an 11-year old boy who was waiting for a heart transplant has brought to the forefront the problems with organ donations and transplants in Chile. The Llaima volcano has become active again and the Region of Araucania is on red alert. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. [...] | 2009-04-06 21:05:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI |
| 09SANTIAGO470 | TFFLU01: CHILE CONFIRMS FOUR H1N1 CASES; GOC MAINTAIN [...] According to Chilean press reports and the Ministry of Health's website (www.minsal.cl),as of May 18, Chile has four confirmed cases of H1N1 influenza. THREE CASES ON SAME VACATION TOUR, FLIGHT ----------------------------------------- 2. Three of the cases are women who arrived in San [...] | 2009-05-18 20:34:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AMED CASC TBIO KFLU KSAF KSEAO KPAO KSTH ECON |
| 09SANTIAGO537 | CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- JUNE 8 [...] A 56-year old man died from AH1N1, marking Chile's second casualty. He suffered from an array of heart and respiratory conditions due to his obesity. Chile now leads South America for AH1N1-related deaths. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Interview with Deputy Assistant Secretary [...] | 2009-06-08 20:29:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI |
| 09SANTIAGO86 | CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 27 [...] Headlines noted Minister of Interior Edmundo Perez-Yoma will testify over the 1994 Belgium sale of Mirage aircraft to Chile. Former Air Force Commander-in-Chief Ramon Vega is one of several officers arrested on suspicion of embezzlement in this case. Dailies also highlighted that Eduardo Frei [...] | 2009-01-27 20:07:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI |
| 09SANTIAGO865 | Chilean FM on Honduras, Salitre Military Exercises, [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Fernandez told PDAS Kelly that Chile strongly supports the San Jose Accord to resolve the crisis in Honduras, but noted disagreements in the international community about the most constructive way forward. Chile is trying to ease tensions with Peru, in particula [...] | 2009-10-06 20:58:00 | Embassy Santiago | SECRET | PREL PHUM MOPS UNESCO UNHRC CI HO |
| 09SANTIAGO938 | Santiago Sept. 30 Media Report [...] The Executive Office submitted a bill to Congress that creates a ministry for indigenous affairs and a new agency to implement indigenous policies (Government-owned La Nacion, 9/30). Secretary Locke -------------------- 2. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Loc [...] | 2009-09-30 16:25:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI |
| 09SANTODOMINGO1081 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - MAAG PANAMAX (2 NAMES), [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 2. 2. (U) Post requests Department's assistance in processing Leahy human rights vetting for the following 2 MAAG sponsored individuals who have been selected for Panamax training, scheduled to start 05 October. Post has no disqualifying information. [...] | 2009-09-18 19:59:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | DR MARR PGOV PHUM |
| 09SANTODOMINGO1329 | WHA P/DAS KELLY'S DISCUSSIONS WITH PRESIDENT FERNANDEZ AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a 12/10 meeting with visiting WHA P/DAS Craig Kelly, President Leonel Fernandez and Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso stated that the Government of the Dominican Republic (GoDR) shares the USGbs views on resolving the Honduran crisis, is actively seeking to facilitate [...] | 2009-12-15 15:37:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | SECRET | PREL DR HO |
| 09SANTODOMINGO156 | (U) HUMAN SMUGGLING VIA AIR APPEARS BROADER THAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) officials told EmbOffs January 28 that two recent incidents of charter flights ferrying illegal migrants into or toward the United States have revealed the existence of well-organized networks of human smugglers using Dominican airspace an [...] | 2009-02-04 10:04:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAIR KCRM DR |
| 09SANTODOMINGO1586 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] Dominican Republic Country report on terrorism submitted in compliance with reftel. 2. Begin Text. While there were no reported terrorist attacks in 2009, the Dominican Republic is considered a transit point for human trafficking and contraband, which can also be exploited by s [...] | 2009-12-21 16:26:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC DR |
| 09SANTODOMINGO610 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - MAAG PANAMAX (3 NAMES), [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 2. 2. (U) Post requests Department's assistance in processing Leahy human rights vetting for the following 3 MAAG sponsored individuals who have been selected for Panamax training, scheduled to start 08 June 2009. Post has no disqualifying informatio [...] | 2009-05-26 14:47:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MARR PGOV DR |
| 09SANTODOMINGO857 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - DHS/ICE HUMAN TRAFFICKING, [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 2. 2. (U) Post requests Department's assistance in processing Leahy human rights vetting for the following 2 ICE sponsored individuals who have been selected for Human Trafficking, Sex Tourism, Forced Child Labor training, scheduled to start 20 July 2 [...] | 2009-08-05 15:11:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | DR MARR PGOV PHUM |
| 09SECTION01OF03SANJOSE525 | COSTA RICA: MORE MEANINFUL MILITARY MISSIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Significant U.S. military humnitarian missions and training took place in Cosa Rica during April and May, continuing the strig of activities begun in late 2007. In April, oer 150 U.S. military personnel practiced disaster mnagement and recovery techniques with civilian clleagu [...] | 2009-06-25 18:47:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MASS MARR SOCI EAID CS |
| 09SEOUL1582 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; October 5, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-05 05:37:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 09SEOUL1586 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; October 6, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-06 07:55:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 09SEOUL307 | PRESS BULLETIN - February 27, 2009 [...] The Only Way Out (JoongAng Ilbo, February 27, 2009, Page 27) 2. A Part-Time Envoy for a Full-Time Task (Chosun Ilbo, February 27, 2009, Page 26) 3. Ratification of the KORUS FTA Is Urgent (Hankook Ilbo, February 27, 2009, Page 39) Features 4. Even If the U.S. Successfully Intercepts [...] | 2009-02-27 07:53:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US |
| 09SEOUL339 | PRESS BULLETIN - March 4, 2009 [...] The USTR, in a report delivered to Congress last week, said that the Bush Administration left a legacy of numerous pending free trade agreements and negotiations and that the Obama Administration will conduct extensive outreach and discourse with the public on whether these agreements appropria [...] | 2009-03-04 08:50:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US |
| 09SEOUL594 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; April 13, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-13 07:27:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 09SEOUL600 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; April 14, 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-14 07:28:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 09SEOUL85 | PRESS BULLETIN - January 16, 2009 [...] FTA Floundering (JoongAng Ilbo, January 16, 2009, Page 26) Features 2. Obama Ally Calls Korea-U.S. FTA "Unfinished Business" (Dong-a Ilbo, January 16, 2009, Page 3) 3. U.S. Embassy Provides Online Information on Visa-free U.S. Travel (Kookmin Ilbo, January 16, 2009, Page 5) 4. ROK's [...] | 2009-01-16 05:56:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US |
| 09SINGAPORE19 | SINGAPORE EYES NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN LATIN AMERICA [...] (SBU) Summary: Singapore's Prime Minister and other top officials took advantage of attendance at APEC meetings in Peru to strengthen and broaden relationships in Latin America. After years of mostly indifference to the region, Singapore is making a push to expand trade and investment in Lat [...] | 2009-01-07 00:31:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL ETRD SN |
| 09SINGAPORE51 | SINGAPORE - 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] (U) In response to reftel instructions, this message is Post's draft chapter of the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for Singapore. As requested, we have also provided via email a Microsoft Word version of the document to EB/IFD/OIA. 2. (SBU) Begin text of Statement: 2009 Investment Cli [...] | 2009-01-15 09:16:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD EFIN ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR SN |
| 09SINGAPORE603 | SINGAPORE: 220 H1N1 CASES; SLOW MOVE TO MITIGATION STRATEGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Singapore health officials have confirmed 220 cases of H1N1 influenza as of June 24, including numerous cases of local transmission. With community spread of the virus confirmed, the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced June 22 that Singapore would begin the transition from a con [...] | 2009-06-25 10:25:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAGR CASC ETRD ECON SN |
| 09STATE100087 | AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF FORCES FOR A [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPHS 2, 5 and 6. 2. DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR U.S. DOD PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA, OCTOBER 17 ) NOVEMBER 7, 2009, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A MOBILE TRAINING TEAM EXERCISE. TRAINING WILL FOCUS ON COUNTER NARCOT [...] | 2009-09-25 16:11:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 09STATE100682 | EXTRADITION: COLOMBIA: FARC MEMBERS JULIO ENRIQUE [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. THIS CABLE CONTAINS SENSITIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. THIS INFORMATION SHOULD BE RELEASED TO THE HOST GOVERNMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW. THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE. 2. (SBU) At the request of the United States [...] | 2009-09-28 14:32:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CJAN CVIS CO |
| 09STATE103113 | U/S BURNS' SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 CONVERSATION WITH [...] (U) September 25, 2009; 4:00 p.m.; New York City, NY, USA. 2. (U) Participants: UNITED STATES U/S Willian J. Burns DAS Christopher J. McMullen Sara Mangiaracina (WHA Notetaker) PERU FM Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde Luis Valdivieso, Peruvian Ambassador to the United States Luis Chavez [...] | 2009-10-02 20:43:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | BR CU HO NU OVIP PE PINS PM PREL SNAR VE OAS |
| 09STATE104391 | STATEMENT FOR SIXTH COMMITTEE ON UN [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. SUMMARY: The Sixth Committee will address the CCIT on October 6, 7 and 23. Negotiations on the CCIT have foundered for nine years on two issues: (1) the scope of an exemption for military activities and (2) exemption of national libe [...] | 2009-10-07 14:46:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER CT UNSC |
| 09STATE105342 | AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF FORCES FOR [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPHS 2, 5, AND 6. 2. DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA, FROM OCTOBER 1, 2009 TO SEPTEMBER 30, 2010, IN CONJUNCTION WITH COUNTERNARCOTICS RELATED TRAINING EXERCISES (MILIT [...] | 2009-10-08 21:48:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 09STATE110149 | FOLLOW UP: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL THREE-LICENSE [...] According to our records, we have not yet received a response to subject Blue Lantern request regarding the export of firearms to Panama. This request was sent over 45 days ago. We request an update from post regarding the status of this case. If post has already responded to subject case, [...] | 2009-10-26 13:45:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC PM |
| 09STATE110330 | FOLLOW UP: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL THREE-LICENSE [...] According to our records, we have not yet received a response to subject Blue Lantern request regarding the export of firearms to Panama. This request was sent over 45 days ago. We request an update from post regarding the status of this case. If post has already responded to subject case, [...] | 2009-10-26 19:15:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC PM |
| 09STATE11119 | OAS PERMANENT COUNCIL MEMBERS DECRY VENEZUELA [...] (U) Summary: During the Organization of American States' (OAS) regular Permanent Council meeting on February 4, seven countries spoke out about the January 30-31 synagogue attack in Caracas (see reftel). Five countries, including the United States, decried anti-Semitism in the hemisphere, d [...] | 2009-02-06 18:16:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL ASEC VE IS OAS |
| 09STATE112990 | AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF FORCES FOR [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPHS 2,5 and 6. 2. DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA, FROM JANUARY 1, 2010, TO JUNE 30, 2010, IN CONJUNCTION WITH U.S. NAVY MOBILE SECURITY DETACHMENT OPERATIONS FOR HVUT [...] | 2009-11-02 22:06:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 09STATE118799 | OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] (SBU) Posts are requested to approach the highest appropriate officials in host governments in pursuit of the following objectives: -- a reduction in the overall number of one-sided UN General Assembly resolutions on the Middle East; -- the defeat of three resolutions reaffirming the "Com [...] | 2009-11-17 23:53:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA KPAL IS SY LE |
| 09STATE122629 | A-BR ACTION REQUEST: DECEMBER VOTE ON "DEFAMATION [...] (SBU) During the week of 7-12 December, the deeply problematic "combating defamation of religions" resolution, which seeks to undermine established human rights of freedom of religion and expression, will come to the plenary session at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) for a final vote. This r [...] | 2009-11-30 20:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UN PHUM UNGA |
| 09STATE122637 | B-K ACTION REQUEST: DECEMBER VOTE ON "DEFAMATION [...] (SBU) During the week of 7-12 December, the deeply problematic "combating defamation of religions" resolution, which seeks to undermine established human rights of freedom of religion and expression, will come to the plenary session at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) for a final vote. This r [...] | 2009-11-30 20:24:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UN PHUM UNGA |
| 09STATE122638 | K-P ACTION REQUEST: DECEMBER VOTE ON "DEFAMATION [...] (SBU) During the week of 7-12 December, the deeply problematic "combating defamation of religions" resolution, which seeks to undermine established human rights of freedom of religion and expression, will come to the plenary session at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) for a final vote. This r [...] | 2009-11-30 20:26:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UN PHUM UNGA |
| 09STATE122639 | PH-UL ACTION REQUEST: DECEMBER VOTE ON [...] (SBU) During the week of 7-12 December, the deeply problematic "combating defamation of religions" resolution, which seeks to undermine established human rights of freedom of religion and expression, will come to the plenary session at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) for a final vote. This r [...] | 2009-11-30 20:27:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UN PHUM UNGA |
| 09STATE122641 | V-Y ACTION REQUEST: DECEMBER VOTE ON "DEFAMATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-30 20:27:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHUM UN |
| 09STATE124627 | (U) TENSIONS BETWEEN COLOMBIA AND VENEZUELA [...] (S/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS HAVE INTENSE INTEREST IN THE DEVELOPING CONFLICT BETWEEN COLOMBIA AND VENEZUELA. AS TIME AND RESOURCES ALLOW, WE WOULD APPRECIATE ANY INSIGHT POST COULD PROVIDE THAT MIGHT SHED LIGHT ON HOW BOGOTA IS REACTING TO THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND MILITARY STEPS CARACAS [...] | 2009-12-04 21:38:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR BEXP ECON ETRD PREL CO VE |
| 09STATE126463 | AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF FORCES FOR A [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPHS 2, 5, and 6. 2. (U) DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA FROM JANUARY 15, 2010 THROUGH JANUARY 14, 2011, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A CIVIL AFFAIRS DEPLOYMEN [...] | 2009-12-10 17:26:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 09STATE131668 | LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BAKU 992) [...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the FY09 IMET TRAINING IN THE US STARTING DEC.30, 2009. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogat [...] | 2009-12-29 20:35:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PHUM AJ |
| 09STATE15113 | REQUEST FOR INFORMATION:CRITICAL FOREIGN DEPENDENCIES (CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND KEY RESOURCES LOCATED ABROAD) [...] (U//FOUO) This is an action request; see Para. 13. 2. (U//FOUO) Under the direction of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) was written to provide the unifying structure for the integration of critical infrastructure and key resources ( [...] | 2009-02-18 23:18:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP PGOV PTER |
| 09STATE1730 | REQUEST FOR COMMENT ON DOL DRAFT LIST FOR TVPRA [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see summary paragraph (para. 2) and paras. 6 through 10 for specific information requested. 2. (SBU) Summary: This is a request for comment on the Department of Labor,s (DOL) draft list of goods from countries that the Bureau of International Labor [...] | 2009-01-08 15:32:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP |
| 09STATE26136 | PSI: MAY 2009 PSI OUTREACH MEETING - OFFICIAL [...] The U.S. will host a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Operational Experts Group (OEG) meeting and a PSI Outreach meeting on May 12-14, 2009 in Miami, FL. The OEG meeting for PSI participating countries will take place on May 12-13, and the Outreach meeting for Western Hemisphere coun [...] | 2009-03-18 21:16:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC PARM PHSA PREL KNNP XL XM |
| 09STATE26152 | PSI: MAY 2009 PSI OPERATIONAL EXPERTS GROUP AND [...] As promised in REFTEL, below is the official U.S. invitation to the events the U.S. will host May 12-14 in Miami for the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Operational Experts Group (OEG) and Outreach meetings. 2. Addressees are requested to deliver the invitation letter under appro [...] | 2009-03-18 23:22:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL |
| 09STATE26174 | PSI: MAY 2009 PSI OPERATIONAL EXPERTS GROUP AND [...] As promised in REFTEL, below is the official U.S. invitation to the events the U.S. will host May 12-14 in Miami for the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Operational Experts Group (OEG) and Outreach meetings. 2. Since this OEG meeting will have a Western Hemisphere focus, the U.S. [...] | 2009-03-19 00:19:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL |
| 09STATE29186 | AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF FORCES FOR A [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPHS 2, 5, & 6. 2. DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA, FROM APRIL 11 - 25, 2009, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A MEDICAL READINESS TRAINING EXERCISE. POST IS REQUESTED TO IMMEDIAT [...] | 2009-03-26 16:36:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 09STATE29290 | AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF FORCES FOR A [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPHS 2, 5, & 6. 2. DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA, FROM APRIL 11 - 25, 2009, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A MEDICAL READINESS TRAINING EXERCISE. POST IS REQUESTED TO IMMEDIAT [...] | 2009-03-26 18:34:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 09STATE32018 | FY2010 DEMARCHE/OBJECTIVES FOR THE MAJORS LIST [...] This message is an action request (Paragraphs 7, 8 and 9). 2. Summary and Action Requested. This message provides guidance for posts to engage the host country through a demarche on USG narcotics control objectives. This process is in connection with the State Department coordinated ann [...] | 2009-04-02 17:15:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PE PGOV PREL SNAR |
| 09STATE322 | ANNOUNCING RATIFICATION OF THE U.S.-IAEA [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 15-17. ------- Summary ------- 2. Summary: On December 30, 2008, the President signed the instrument of ratification for the Protocol Additional to the Agreement Between the United States of America and the International Atomic Energy [...] | 2009-01-03 03:47:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IAEA ENRG NPT PREL KNNP TRGY KTIA |
| 09STATE33629 | DEMARCHE IN SUPPORT OF KOSOVO'S IMF AND WORLD [...] (SBU) This is a time-sensitive action request for addressee posts. Given the importance of these IMF and World Bank votes, Department asks that the demarche be delivered at the highest appropriate level, preferably by Chief of Mission or DCM (please see paragraphs 2-5),with reports by April [...] | 2009-04-07 11:44:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL KV |
| 09STATE34680 | (U) SECRETARY CLINTON'S APRIL 6 MEETING WITH [...] (U) APRIL 6, 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM 2. (U) PARTICIPANTS: UNITED STATES The Secretary WHA A/S Thomas Shannon PA Spokesperson Robert Wood S Staff Dorothy Ngutter (WHA notetaker) PERU Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde Ambassador Luis Valdivieso (Appointed) DCM Manuel Talaver [...] | 2009-04-09 01:32:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | OVIP HILLARY CLINTON PREL PTER SNAR ECON |
| 09STATE35122 | ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENT AND CARGO SECURITY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Top-level port officials met in Buenos Aires, March 23-27, for the Tenth Executive Board Meeting of the Organization of American States' Inter-American Committee on Ports (CIP). The Maritime Administration led the U.S. delegation, which included USOAS and Coast Guard officials. Th [...] | 2009-04-09 20:12:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT PHSA PREL SENV SOCI OAS |
| 09STATE40824 | HCOC - ENCOURAGING INDIA TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE HCOC [...] (C) Summary: Department requests Embassy to encourage India to subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC). This overture is consistent with India's positive efforts related to preventing the spread of ballistic missiles via harmonization and adherenc [...] | 2009-04-23 16:49:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA |
| 09STATE42235 | AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF FORCES FOR A [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPHS 2, 5, & 6. 2. DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA, FROM MAY 8 - 24, 2009, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A MEDICAL READINESS TRAINING EXERCISE. POST IS REQUESTED TO IMMEDIATELY [...] | 2009-04-27 19:51:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 09STATE44996 | HCOC - ENCOURAGING ADDITIONAL COUNTRIES TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Background: Per reftels, the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC; also known as the International Code of Conduct, or ICOC; text at para 5) was formally brought into effect on November 25, 2002 at [...] | 2009-05-04 15:34:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA |
| 09STATE44998 | HCOC - ENCOURAGING ADDITIONAL COUNTRIES TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Background: Per reftels, the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC; also known as the International Code of Conduct, or ICOC; text at para 5) was formally brought into effect on November 25, 2002 at [...] | 2009-05-04 15:35:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA |
| 09STATE45157 | ACTION REQUEST: URGENT MEETING OF CONTACT GROUP [...] The United States will host an urgent meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on May 29, 2009. Posts and missions are requested to deliver the talking points in paragraph 2 and encourage active participation [...] | 2009-05-04 19:52:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR ECON POL |
| 09STATE47202 | ECUADOR: "GAS AND GO" NON PAPER AND DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) Reftels A and B noted GOE willingness to consider a "Gas and Go" civilian counter-narcotics air interdiction program in the Eastern Pacific, in the wake of the pending U.S. withdrawal from Manta Forward Operating Location (FOL) later this year. This cable provides Embassy Quito with a non [...] | 2009-05-08 18:08:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS SNAR EC |
| 09STATE47360 | KUDOS AND ACTION REQUEST: VOTING FOR KOSOVO'S [...] (SBU) On May 6, Kosovo,s membership in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was accepted overwhelmingly with 96 countries voting in favor of membership and another 32 casting abstentions. Kosovo,s membership received significant support throughout the world, but especially in the Arab world [...] | 2009-05-08 21:42:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KV |
| 09STATE47369 | KUDOS AND ACTION REQUEST: VOTING FOR KOSOVO'S [...] (SBU) On May 6, Kosovo,s membership in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was accepted overwhelmingly with 96 countries voting in favor of membership and another 32 casting abstentions. Kosovo,s membership received significant support throughout the world, but especially in the Arab world [...] | 2009-05-08 22:10:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KV |
| 09STATE47372 | KUDOS AND ACTION REQUEST: VOTING FOR KOSOVO'S [...] (SBU) On May 6, Kosovo,s membership in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was accepted overwhelmingly with 96 countries voting in favor of membership and another 32 casting abstentions. Kosovo,s membership received significant support throughout the world, but especially in the Arab world [...] | 2009-05-08 22:24:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KV |
| 09STATE49477 | 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] This is an action request. -------------------------- SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST -------------------------- 2. Action Request: Pursuant to the requirements of Section 527 of the FY 94-95 Foreign Relations Authorization Act (FRAA),the Department must prepare an annual, non-public rep [...] | 2009-05-14 18:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV |
| 09STATE50101 | LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE PANAMA 364 [...] (SBU) As of May 14, 2009 the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed. MARIN PEREIRA, Abdiel DOB: 20 AUG 1965 POB: Panama RANK: Sub-Comisionado UNIT: SENAN GARCIA-TOVAR, Tomas DOB: 25 JUL 1955 POB: Panama RANK: D [...] | 2009-05-15 18:33:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PHUM PREL SNAR PM |
| 09STATE50181 | 2009 AUTOMATED MUTUAL-ASSISTANCE VESSEL RESCUE (AMVER) AWARDS [...] This is an action request, please see para 2 and 10. 2. Posts in or responsible for the following countries/entities are requested to assist in the annual presentation of awards to owners of vessels participating in the U.S. Coast Guard's Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue (AMVER) shi [...] | 2009-05-15 20:07:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT ECON ETRD ELTN ATRN PREL |
| 09STATE50240 | GUIDANCE ON RESPONSE TO DIPNOTE 231/09 ON VICTIMS [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request. This cable provides guidance, as requested in reftel, for Embassy Panama to respond to Diplomatic Note 231/09 from the Panamanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Please deliver the followingresponse to the MFA. 2. (SBU) Begin text: (Complimentary [...] | 2009-05-15 21:14:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09STATE50285 | H1N1 -- UPDATE AND GUIDANCE [...] Summary: This is a joint cable to provide an update and guidance regarding the H1N1 situation from USAID's Global Health Bureau's Avian and Pandemic Influenza Unit and the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance. 2. The ident [...] | 2009-05-16 01:56:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | REF SOCI EAID |
| 09STATE52512 | GOI'S RELEASE OF IRANIAN-ORIGIN TACTICAL VEHICLES [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The USG received information on 18 May that the GOI had released a cargo of Iranian-origin tactical vehicles, destined for Syria, that Italian customs officials had seized in 2006. The vehicles were suspected of being part of a ground-based electronic warfare system. When ap [...] | 2009-05-21 21:29:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | EUR ISN NEA |
| 09STATE54322 | LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE PANAMA 335 (NAS 026-09) [...] (SBU) As of May 11, 2009 the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individual listed. BEJARANO ANDRADE, Julio DOB: 04 APR 1961 POB: Panama RANK: Captain UNIT: PNP DIAZ HERRERA, Alberto DOB: 09 JUL 1973 POB: Panama RANK: Sergeant [...] | 2009-05-27 20:09:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PHUM PREL SNAR PM |
| 09STATE54335 | LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE PANAMA 399, (ODC-033-09) [...] (SBU) As of May 27, 2009 the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed. CHANIS FOSTER, Nemesio Ricardo DOB: 09 SEPT 1976 POB: Panama RANK: Taniento UNIT: SENAN 2. (U) Post is therefore authorized to provide t [...] | 2009-05-27 20:18:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PHUM PREL SNAR PM |
| 09STATE54778 | LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE PANAMA 398, 400, 401, 402 [...] (SBU) As of May 27, 2009 the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the Panamanian Public Force individuals listed. MENDEZ JARAMILLO, Gilberto DOB: 25 NOV 1966 POB: Panama RANK: SUBCOMANDOR UNIT: SENAN SAMANIEGO MONTENEGRO, Jose Man [...] | 2009-05-28 18:48:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PHUM PREL SNAR PM |
| 09STATE55181 | AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF FORCES FOR A [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 2. 2. DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR U.S. DOD PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA, JUNE 6 ) 20, 2009, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A MOBILE TRAINING TEAM EXERCISE. TRAINING WILL FOCUS ON COUNTER NARCOTICS ASSISTANCE BY AS [...] | 2009-05-29 14:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 09STATE57016 | (S/NF) KUDOS FOR REPORTING IN ADVANCE OF 5TH [...] (S/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS GREATLY APPRECIATE HIGH-QUALITY REPORTING, BOTH IN RESPONSE TO REF A AND THOSE PREPARED SEPARATELY, FROM POSTS ON US-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS AND REGIONAL PREPARATIONS IN THE MONTHS PRECEEDING THE 5TH SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS. WHILE MANY MORE CABLES WERE ALSO HIGHLY [...] | 2009-06-03 14:41:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PREL AC AR BB BF BH BL BR CI CO CS CU DO DR |
| 09STATE58376 | LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE PANAMA 425 AIRCRAFT [...] (SBU) As of June 2, 2009 the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed. SAVAL ZAMBRANO, Nicolas DOB: 5 MAY 1966 POB: Panama RANK: N.A. UNIT: SENAN 2. (U) Post is therefore authorized to provide the following [...] | 2009-06-05 20:48:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PHUM PREL SNAR PM |
| 09STATE59193 | RESPONSE TO DIPNOTE ON SALAS BECKER PROTOCOL [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request. This cable provides guidance, as requested in reftel, for Embassy Panama to respond to Diplomatic Note 231/09 from the Panamanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Please deliver the following response to the MFA. 2. (SBU) Begin text: The Department [...] | 2009-06-09 16:42:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PM |
| 09STATE60546 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC -- 2009 TIP REPORT: PRESS [...] This is an action cable; see paras 5 through 7 and 10. 2. On June 16, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Secretary will release the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at a press conference in the Department's press briefing room. This release will receive substantial coverage in domestic an [...] | 2009-06-11 22:43:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG DR |
| 09STATE60610 | COLOMBIA -- 2009 TIP REPORT: PRESS GUIDANCE AND [...] This is an action cable; see paras 5 through 7 and 10. 2. On June 16, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Secretary will release the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at a press conference in the Department's press briefing room. This release will receive substantial coverage in domestic an [...] | 2009-06-12 00:19:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG CO |
| 09STATE60629 | NICARAGUA -- 2009 TIP REPORT: PRESS GUIDANCE AND [...] This is an action cable; see paras 5 through 7 and 10. 2. On June 16, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Secretary will release the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at a press conference in the Department's press briefing room. This release will receive substantial coverage in domestic an [...] | 2009-06-12 01:02:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG NU |
| 09STATE61640 | LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE PANAMA 438,(ODC #047-09) [...] (SBU) As of June 4, 2009 the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed. RODRIGUEZ SANCHEZ, Javier DOB: 11 JUNE 1968 POB: Panama RANK: N.A. UNIT: PNP RODRIGUEZ MORALES, Boris DOB: 25 APR 1977 POB: Chiriqui, Pa [...] | 2009-06-15 17:48:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PHUM PREL SNAR PM |
| 09STATE63883 | PANAMA 447 LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (NAS #030-09); [...] (SBU) As of June 18, 2009 the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed. AGRAZAL CHEN, Iraida DOB: 15 MAR 1975 POB: Cocle, Panama RANK: Sergeant UNIT: DIJ ALTAMIRANDA AROSEMENA, Hermelo DOB: 4 AUG 1967 POB: P [...] | 2009-06-19 17:57:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PHUM PREL SNAR PM |
| 09STATE64090 | ALLOWANCE AND POST DIFFERENTIAL [...] Effective June 21, 2009, unless otherwise noted, allowances and/or post differential rates are revised as shown. These changes are issued under TL:SR-710. 2. Please inform local offices of all U.S. government agencies at the posts listed in this cable. 3. Important: Read this entire m [...] | 2009-06-19 23:54:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ALOW AMGT APER AFIN |
| 09STATE64493 | SUBJECT: AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 2. 2. DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA FROM JULY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2009, IN CONJUNCTION WITH U.S. NAVY MOBILE SECURITY DETACHMENT OPERATIONS FOR HIGH VALUE UNIT TRA [...] | 2009-06-22 19:40:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 09STATE64971 | 2009 OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY WRAP-UP REPORT [...] (U) This cable is from the U.S. Permanent Mission to the Organization of American States. 2. (U) Note: This cable reports on activities at the Organization of American States General Assembly (OASGA) in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. We report on other OASGA decisions on Cuba in SEPTEL. Info [...] | 2009-06-23 16:53:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD KSUM PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI XM OAS |
| 09STATE66632 | CONTACT GROUP FOR PIRACY OFF THE COAST OF [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 7. ----------------- OBJECTIVE ----------------- 2. Post,s objective is to gain agreement by current CGPCS participants on the participation of aspirant countries Canada, Cyprus, Liberia, Malaysia, Panama, and Singapore, and potentially other [...] | 2009-06-26 19:26:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL |
| 09STATE68170 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests the assistance of Embassy Conakry, Embassy Panama and Embassy Riga in conducting a pre-license check on application 050177010 for the export of Sea FLIR II Ther [...] | 2009-07-01 14:12:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC GV PN LG |
| 09STATE68619 | UNGA ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON HONDURAS; PRESIDENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 29, President of the General Assembly (PGA) D'Escoto convened a meeting on the situation in Honduras, calling on the UNGA to join many countries in issuing a universal condemnation of the June 28 coup. Honduran PermRep Reina called the situation a tragic but transitional [...] | 2009-07-02 01:55:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MOPS XK XM HO |
| 09STATE68878 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: ENSURING FAIRNESS BY BIDDERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary and action request. Please see para 2 for action request. Response requested by July 7. The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) is expected to announce next week the winner of the nearly $4 billion third set of locks contract. This project is the centerpiece of the Canal,s overa [...] | 2009-07-02 15:56:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT BEXP ECON EFIN ETRD PM SP FR IT |
| 09STATE69224 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: ENSURING FAIRNESS BY BIDDERS IN [...] 1. (SBU) Summary and action request. Please see para 2 for action request. The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) is expected to announce next week the winner of the nearly $4 billion third set of locks contract. This project is the centerpiece of the Canal,s overall expansion plan. The thre [...] | 2009-07-02 22:33:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT BEXP ECON EFIN ETRD PM SP FR IT |
| 09STATE70111 | LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE PANAMA 501 [...] (SBU) As of July 6, 2009 the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed. HERNANDEZ, Molluk Jairo DOB: 18 JAN 1977 POB: Veraguas, Panama RANK: 0-2 UNIT: UMOF CASTRO RODRIGUEZ, Jose DOB: 4 APR 1982 POB: Panama [...] | 2009-07-07 18:14:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PHUM PREL SNAR PM |
| 09STATE71171 | LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE PANAMA 503 (NAS #058-09); [...] (SBU) As of July 7, 2009 the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed. CASTILLO AVLARADO, Mario DOB: 12 MAY 1973 POB: Chiriqui, Panama RANK: Captain UNIT: DIJ CORREA SANCHEZ, Alberto Antonio DOB: 28 JUNE 1971 P [...] | 2009-07-09 18:50:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PHUM PREL SNAR PM |
| 09STATE72101 | LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE PANAMA 478 (RSO 050-09) [...] (SBU) As of June 25, 2009 the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed. HERNANDEZ JURADO, Jose DOB: 5 AUG 1970 POB: Panama RANK: N.A. UNIT: PNP CANAL MORALES AVILA, Luis DOB: 20 JAN 1982 POB: Panama RANK: N [...] | 2009-07-10 22:03:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PHUM PREL SNAR PM |
| 09STATE77440 | AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF FORCES FOR [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 2, 5 AND 6. 2. DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA FROM AUGUST 31 TO SEPTEMBER 27, 2009, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A TRAINING EXERCISE, FUERZAS ALIADAS PANAMAX. POST IS REQU [...] | 2009-07-24 14:17:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 09STATE81650 | PANAMA 585 LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR ACCUSATORY [...] (SBU) As of August 5, 2009 the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individual listed. 2. Names of the proposed candidates are as follows: CHEN MONROY, Moises Alfonso DOB: 11 JUNE 1975 POB: Panama RANK: Lieutenant UNIT: DIJ [...] | 2009-08-05 19:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PHUM PREL SNAR PM |
| 09STATE85140 | Allowance and Post Differential [...] Effective August 16, 2009, unless otherwise noted, allowances and/or post differential rates are revised as shown. These changes are issued under TL:SR-714. 2. Please inform local offices of all U.S. government agencies at the posts listed in this cable. 3. Important: Read this entire [...] | 2009-08-14 22:37:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ALOW AMGT APER AFIN |
| 09STATE89300 | Career Opportunities in the Bureau of [...] The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) offers unique opportunities at the senior and mid levels to manage some of the State Department's largest and most critical programs, many of which are at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy. INL positions offer the ch [...] | 2009-08-26 22:10:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM AMGT APER |
| 09STATE89930 | THE SECRETARY'S GREENING DIPLOMACY INITIATIVE [...] This is an action request. Please see para 6. 2. On Earth Day, April 22, 2009, the Secretary launched the Greening Diplomacy Initiative (GDI),a new commitment to lead by example and improve the sustainability of the State Department's facilities and operations. The GDI will: -- Develo [...] | 2009-08-28 14:11:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT |
| 09STATE92560 | DEPARTMENT OF LABOR LIST OF GOODS PRODUCED BY [...] (SBU) This is an action request; see paras.8-11. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 10, 2009, the Department of Labor (DOL) will release 3 items related to child labor and/or forced labor in numerous countries. (1) DOL will release a report containing its initial "list of goods from countries [...] | 2009-09-04 19:36:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI |
| 09STATE93874 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraph 4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a pre-license check on license 050188191 for the export of handguns to Panama. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lantern chec [...] | 2009-09-09 21:45:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC PM |
| 09STATE98892 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as muc [...] | 2009-09-23 18:03:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL POLM |
| 09STATE99783 | US PARTICIPATION IN JOINT DEMARCHE TO ICELAND ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is an action request. Post is requested TO participate in a joint demarche to the Government of Iceland concerning their recent decisions regarding whaling activities. The text of the demarche is contained in paragraph 5. The United Kingdom has agreed to lead the demarc [...] | 2009-09-24 21:22:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIS IC KSCA PGOV SENV IWC |
| 09TAIPEI197 | FM OU ON BILATERAL RELATIONS, TRA ANNIVERSARY [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Ou assured the Director on February 18 that the Foreign Ministry will keep AIT fully abreast of its planning for events related to the 30th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) and said no events are being planned on or around April 3, the anniversary of [...] | 2009-02-20 09:14:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AMGT ABLD CVIS CH TW |
| 09TAIPEI301 | AIT CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT'S MARCH 18 MEETING WITH [...] (C) The Obama administration views progress in cross-Strait relations in very positive terms, visiting AIT Chairman Burghardt told President Ma Ying-jeou during their March 18 meeting. U.S. officials have made clear both publicly and in private with Chinese officials that the United States re [...] | 2009-03-19 02:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GPGOV ECON ETRD EAGR MARR WHO CH TW |
| 09TAIPEI320 | AIT CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT AND FM OU DISCUSS BILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Extradition, an FTA and visa waiver are Taiwan's top bilateral priorities, FM Ou told AIT Chairman Burghardt during their March 18 meeting. Although the leadership in Beijing has tacitly accepted Taiwan's diplomatic truce and mutual non-denial, this is not the case at lower lev [...] | 2009-03-20 09:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW CH ES PM |
| 09TBILISI1587 | GEORGIAN COAST GUARD CRACKS DOWN ON ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. On August 15 and 18 the Georgian Coast Guard detained two vessels for violations of the Law on Occupied Territories and other infractions, including for traveling in restricted Black Sea waters off the coast of Abkhazia. Although both vessels were stopped more than [...] | 2009-08-24 14:48:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA PGOV EWWT ETRD CB FR PM RS |
| 09TBILISI1602 | GEORGIA SEEKS U.S. HELP IN PROMOTING UNGA IDP [...] (SBU) Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department Sergi Kapanadze told emboffs on August 25 that the EU has decided to support the draft UN General Assembly resolution entitled "Status of Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia a [...] | 2009-08-25 14:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF UNGA RS GG |
| 09TBILISI1627 | GEORGIA: LEGAL QUESTIONS SURROUNDING OCCUPIED AREAS [...] (U) This is an action message; please see paragraphs 9-11. 2. (C) Summary. Recent seizures by the Georgian Coast Guard of Black Sea vessels suspected of violating various Georgian laws, including the Law on Occupied Territories, have raised questions about the legal basis for Georgia's enf [...] | 2009-08-27 14:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA ETRD ETTC EWWT RS GG |
| 09TBILISI1729 | GEORGIA: QUAD DEMARCHE ON GEORGIAN SHIP SEIZURES [...] (C) As requested, Charge joined the German, French and UK Ambassadors in a September 16 meeting to deliver the points contained ref a to Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze. The Quad group reviewed the points and stressed that the decision to deliver this demarche jointly was intended [...] | 2009-09-16 14:08:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL GG RS |
| 09TBILISI2240 | GEORGIA DOWNPLAYS NAURU'S RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. Georgian officials downplayed the significance of Nauru's apparent December 14 recognition of Abkhazia's "independence," which Russia reportedly encouraged with an offer of $50 million to the island nation. Although officials are discussing with Australian counterpa [...] | 2009-12-16 13:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS XM AS NR RS GG |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA1002 | CODEL ROS-LEHTINEN (OCTOBER 5-6) [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy welcomes the October 5-6 visit of Codel Ros-Lehtinen to Honduras. Honduras, a close ally of the United States, is currently in the throes of a severe political crisis. Honduran society is severely polarized and reconciliation of the Honduran people will be essential fo [...] | 2009-10-02 15:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM EAID ECON CASC ASEC |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA103 | HONDURAN PREPARATIONS FOR PATHWAYS MINISTERIAL IN [...] (U) Summary: The GOH now has a good understanding of the role of the the Pathways to Prosperty working group on spreading the benefits of trade that it agreed to coordinate. Its proposal is to focus the Pillar I work plan on policies to assist small and medium enterprises, in order to highligh [...] | 2009-02-18 19:37:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA1231 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT PEPE LOBO [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and President-elect Lobo met on November 30. Both discussed the positive results of the elections. The Ambassador briefed Lobo on the continued U.S. approach post-election that included implementation of the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord. They reviewed prospects fo [...] | 2009-12-01 00:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA1244 | TFH01: SPEAKING TO PRESIDENT-ELECT LOBO [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador spoke to President-elect Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo on November 3. They discussed the results of the congressional vote rejecting President Zelaya's restoration. Both agreed that the process, despite U.S. disappintment, was done in a transparent and open way. Lobo cite [...] | 2009-12-03 20:31:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA1253 | THE AMBASSADOR AND PRESIDENT-ELECT LOBO DISCUSS [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador and President-elect Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo met on November 4 to discuss the situation in the wake of the elections and the congressional vote rejecting President Manual "Mel" Zelaya's restitution. Lobo discussed his support for the full implementation of the Tegucig [...] | 2009-12-04 20:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA1264 | TFH01: THE AMBASSADOR AND PRESIDENT-ELECT LOBO [...] (S) The Ambassador discussed the latest political developments with President-elect Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo on December 7. Lobo confirmed to the Ambassador that he will be traveling to San Jose at the invitation of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias tomorrow, December 8. Lobo said he would be tr [...] | 2009-12-07 22:54:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA1265 | TFH01: THE AMBASSADOR AND PRESIDENT ARIAS DISCUSS [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador and Arias discussed the Honduran situation on December 7. Arias remains committed to a negotiated solution to the Honduran crisis and expressed his willingness to stay engaged and provide leadership. He added that the holding of free and fair elections provides a [...] | 2009-12-08 17:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA1270 | TFH01: THE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HONDURAN SITUATION [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador held a series of conversations with President Arias, President Zelaya and President-elect Lobo. Arias provided a briefing on the results of Lobo's visit to San Jose. Arias stressed that he and Martinelli had a common vision -- consistent with the U.S. position. Th [...] | 2009-12-09 21:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA181 | Scenesetter for Assistant Secretary Shannon's Visit to [...] (SBU) Summary: We warmly welcome you to Tegucigalpa. Your visit provides an excellent opportunity to hold substantive discussions with President Zelaya, senior GOH officials, as well as with the two leading presidential candidates. The political situation continues to be stable as we move for [...] | 2009-03-17 01:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON SOCI OVIP HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA249 | Drug confiscations in Honduras for 2009 already exceed 2008 [...] (SBU) Summary: During the first quarter of 2009 USG-supported joint Honduran antinarcotics forces have confiscated more drugs and vehicles than in all of calendar year 2008. Many of the cases have garnered broad press attention, and have sparked increased discussion of the trafficking issue in [...] | 2009-04-06 11:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL PGOV KJUS EAID MOPS MARR HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA250 | HONDURAS: March 2009 INL Monthly Report [...] The following summarizes Post's INL-supported activities in March 2009. 2. Donations: Four hard drives and cartridges were donated to the Polygraph Unit to increase their memory capacity to store polygraph sessions. Two air conditioners were donated to the San Pedro Sula Prison, one for t [...] | 2009-04-06 11:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS EAID PREL HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA353 | Mission Integrated Strategy to Fight Crime and Illicit [...] Summary and Background: The Mosquitia is a huge swath of territory accounting for nearly 20 percent of Honduras' land mass on the eastern border with Nicaragua. The area is swampy, undeveloped, difficult to access and virtually uninhabited (only 60,000 people),which over the centuries has mad [...] | 2009-05-15 00:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SNAR PREL SOCI KCRM KJUS EAID MOPS MARR HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA379 | YOUR TRIP TO SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS, FOR THE OAS [...] (C) Summary: We warmly welcome you to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. San Pedro is the business capital of the country, but not the seat of government, so both the Government of Honduras and the U.S. Embassy will be working out of temporary facilities there. Your visit provides an excellent opport [...] | 2009-05-22 20:01:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR ECON EAID KCRM KCOR HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA438 | ZELAYA AND THE FOURTH URN [...] (U) This is an action request message. Please see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: In a lengthy meeting on June 7, the Ambassador conveyed our concerns to President Manuel &Mel8 Zelaya over the increasingly polarized political situation in Honduras, attributing much of the blame on his recent actio [...] | 2009-06-09 23:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA439 | ZELAYA AND THE FOURTH URN [...] (U) This is an action request message. Please see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: In a lengthy meeting on June 7, the Ambassador conveyed our concerns to President Manuel &Mel8 Zelaya over the increasingly polarized political situation in Honduras, attributing much of the blame on his recent actio [...] | 2009-06-09 23:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL OAS KSUM CU HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA662 | TFH01: HONDURAN COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/27/09 [...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. --------------------------------------- Zelaya Spends the Weekend at the Border ------------------ [...] | 2009-07-28 00:41:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA696 | TFH01: HONDURAS COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 08/03/09 [...] (U) This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. -------------------------------------- CONGRESS CONSIDERING POLITICAL AMNESTY -------------------------------------- 2 [...] | 2009-08-03 23:54:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KDEM HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA717 | TFH01: HONDURAN COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/27/09 [...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. --------------------------------------- Zelaya Spends the Weekend at the Border ------------------ [...] | 2009-08-10 18:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA741 | TFH01: STATUS OF USG ASSISTANCE TO HONDURAS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Following the events of June 28 the United States Government has halted communications with high-level GOH officials and has been steadily suspending programs with the GOH in compliance with USG policy guidance. The following is a summary of the current status of actions taken b [...] | 2009-08-13 18:58:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EAGR ETRD MASS OEXC PGOV PREL SCUL |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA809 | TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #49 08/24/2009 AS OF [...] (SBU) At approximately 0830 local (1030 EDT),the Organization of American States group of Foreign Ministers arrived in Tegucigalpa. The delegation included Argentinean Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, Canadian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Peter Kent, Costa Rican Foreign Minister Bruno [...] | 2009-08-24 23:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA811 | TFH01: MEDIA REACTION OAS FOREIGN MINISTERS VISIT [...] (U)Editorial in the San Pedro Sula-based conservative paper La Prensa (8-24-09): "The arrival... of seven Hispanic-American foreign Ministers is announced for today; perhaps they will listen and later ponder on the situation as the Inter-American Human Rights Commission did that stuck to an ag [...] | 2009-08-24 23:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA813 | TFH01: MEDIA REACTION OAS FOREIGN MINISTERS VISIT [...] (U)Editorial in the San Pedro Sula-based conservative paper La Prensa (8-24-09): "The arrival... of seven Hispanic-American foreign Ministers is announced for today; perhaps they will listen and later ponder on the situation as the Inter-American Human Rights Commission did that stuck to an ag [...] | 2009-08-25 13:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA831 | TFH01: FOREIGN MINISTER DELEGATION FACES DE FACTO [...] (C) Summary: The OAS delegation of foreign ministers and OAS Secretary General which visited Honduras August 24-25 to press all parties to accept the San Jose Accord as the peaceful solution to the current political crisis concluded without a concrete result, due primarily to inflexibility on [...] | 2009-08-27 02:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA887 | TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP: LOCAL PRESS WRAP-UP [...] (U) Summary. This is a round-up of local news reported in major Honduran dailies on September 2. End Summary. 2. (U) "La Tribuna," "El Heraldo," and "La Prensa" September 2 carry headlines reporting that Honduras will not be excluded from an Association Agreement between Central America and [...] | 2009-09-03 23:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA945 | TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #55 09/21/2009 AS OF [...] (U) At 1300 local (1500 EDT),President Zelaya appeared on a balcony before a crowd of over 5,000 supporters who had gathered outside the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, but made no statement. Earlier via radio and television channel 36, Zelaya publicly stated he was ready to sign the San Jo [...] | 2009-09-21 22:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA947 | TFH01: NEED FOR COMMISSION [...] (C) Honduran authorities can no longer handle their deteriorating political situation and need the intervention of an international commission, preferably headed by senior UN and OAS officials accompanied by regional foreign ministers. The current situation is rapidly deteriorating. There is [...] | 2009-09-22 15:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL SOCI HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA948 | TFH01: NEED FOR COMMISSION - CORRECTED CABLE [...] (C) Summary: Honduran authorities may no longer be able to handle their deteriorating political situation and need the intervention of an international commission, preferably headed by senior UN and OAS officials accompanied by regional foreign ministers. The current situation is rapidly dete [...] | 2009-09-22 16:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL SOCI HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA949 | TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #56 09/22/2009 AS OF [...] (U) Security forces removed protesters from the Brazilian Embassy in the early morning hours, employing tear gas, according to Brazilian Embassy sources. Estimates on the number of protestors removed range from 500 to 1,000, depending on the source. According to a televised police announceme [...] | 2009-09-22 19:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO |
| 09TEGUCIGALPA967 | TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #62 09/24/2009 AS OF [...] (U) The Executive Director of the Center for the Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture (CPTRT),a Honduran human rights NGO, sent a letter on September 22 to the President of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly requesting that the UN send a medical and human right [...] | 2009-09-25 00:55:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CASC MARR KDEM PHUM ASEC HO |
| 09TELAVIV2164 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the deal reportedly brokered by Germany and Egypt, in which Hamas will give Israel tomorrow a video recording proving that Gilad Shalit is alive. In exchange Israel will [...] | 2009-10-01 11:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 09TELAVIV2377 | ISRAEL INCSR 2009 PART I [...] (U) Israel is not a significant producer of or trafficking point for illicit narcotics. However, domestic demand fuels a diverse local drug market that relies on smuggling from both neighboring and more distant countries. Imported marijuana, hashish, ecstasy, heroin, cocaine, and LSD are all [...] | 2009-10-28 14:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR IS |
| 09TELAVIV2499 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that yesterday the Jerusalem Municipal Planning Committee approved a plan to build 900 housing units in the cityQs southeastern neighborhood of Gilo. Leading media repor [...] | 2009-11-18 11:53:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 09THEHAGUE296 | CWC: EC-56 DONORS MEETING AND DESTRUCTION INFORMALS [...] (SBU) On the day before the formal opening of the 56th session of the Executive Council (EC),U.S. Del participated in the Donor Coordination Meeting (hosted by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and the Destruction Informals (chaired by EC Chairperson Amb. Oksana Tomova). The Donors Mee [...] | 2009-05-08 18:51:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC |
| 09THEHAGUE462 | CWC: DESTRUCTION INFORMALS, JULY 13, 2009 (EC-57) [...] (SBU) On July 13 before the formal opening of the Executive Council (EC),the new EC Chairperson, Ambassador Jorge Lomonaco (Mexico),convened the customary informal consultations on chemical weapons destruction issues. In addition to the usual presentations by the Technical Secretariat (TS) [...] | 2009-07-30 07:43:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC |
| 09THEHAGUE463 | CWC: DESTRUCTION INFORMALS, JULY 13, 2009 (EC-57) [...] (SBU) On July 13 before the formal opening of the Executive Council (EC),the new EC Chairperson, Ambassador Jorge Lomonaco (Mexico),convened the customary informal consultations on chemical weapons destruction issues. In addition to the usual presentations by the Technical Secretariat (TS) [...] | 2009-07-30 07:43:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC |
| 09THEHAGUE628 | CWC: DESTRUCTION INFORMALS, DONOR COORDINATION [...] (SBU) On October 12 before the formal opening of the 58th Session of the Executive Council (EC-58),the EC Chairman, Ambassador Jorge Lomonaco (Mexico),convened the customary informal consultations on chemical weapons (CW) destruction issues. In addition to the usual presentations by the Te [...] | 2009-10-21 17:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC |
| 09TOKYO128 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 1/22/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-22 04:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO2860 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/14/09-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-14 23:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09TOKYO588 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/17/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-17 07:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09UNROME22 | FAO 125TH FINANCE COMMITTEE HIGHLIGHTS: FUNDING FOR REFORM [...] (SBU) Member representatives of the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Finance Committee (FC) met in Rome on March 9-10 to discuss funding for FAO's ambitious new reform program and to review the agency's human resource management strategy. Noting a shortfall in voluntary financial contr [...] | 2009-03-27 11:44:00 | UN Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | FAO EFIN AORC EAGR EAID KUNR UN |
| 09UNROME38 | FAO 126TH FINANCE COMMITTEE OUTCOMES: FUNDING FOR FOOD [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and for official use only; not for transmission outside USG channels. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The Finance Committee (FC) of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) held its 126th session from May 11-15 in Rome, concurrent with FAO' [...] | 2009-05-21 16:15:00 | UN Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | FAO UN EFIN EAID |
| 09UNROME54 | RECOMMENDED STRATEGY ON FAO DRAFT BUDGET [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The FAO Director General distributed on September 1 a revised draft Program of Work and Budget (PWB) for the 2010-11 biennium that proposes a significant 7.1 percent increase over the cur [...] | 2009-09-03 16:36:00 | UN Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | FAO EFIN AORC EAGR EAID KUNR UN |
| 09UNROME78 | ROME FOLLOW-UP MEETING TO L'AQUILA FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVE [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 3 and 4, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome co-hosted the third follow-up to the G8 `plus' meeting on global food security held i [...] | 2009-12-11 16:51:00 | UN Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAGR EAID FAO WFP IT |
| 09UNVIEVIENNA5 | IAEA/RANF: DG CAUTIOUS ON NUCLEAR FUEL ASSURANCE [...] (U) Embassy Tokyo's ref (a) provides useful information on Japan's preparation of a full-day Seminar on Global Nuclear Fuel Supply, which will take place in the IAEA Board Room Monday, January 26. Mission provided the invitation and first notional program to DOS and DOE offices in mid-December [...] | 2009-01-09 15:15:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA |
| 09USUNNEWYORK1008 | UNGA PASSES CONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION SUPPORTING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The UN General Assembly met in plenary on November 4th and 5th to discuss the Report of the Human Rights Council (HRC) on the report on the UN fact-finding mission on the Gaza Conflict (the Goldstone Report). A draft resolution endorsing the report passed with 118 for, 18 against [...] | 2009-11-09 21:45:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UN UNGA IS |
| 09USUNNEWYORK1060 | SINGAPORE ON MODERATE NAM MEMBERS AND NPT/NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-21 00:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | CI CO GT JM MG PARM PREL SN |
| 09USUNNEWYORK1114 | SIXTH COMMITTEE RECONVENES ON OBSERVER STATUS ONLY [...] Summary: On December 9, the Sixth Committee reconvened to consider agenda items 169: Observer status for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) in the General Assembly and 171: Observer status in the General Assembly for the Council of Presidents of the General Assembly. The [...] | 2009-12-11 21:59:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UNGA |
| 09USUNNEWYORK1129 | 64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC [...] (U) This cable was prepared by Ambassador Joan Plaisted, who served as Senior Area Adviser for East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) to the 64th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). 2. (U) EAP countries in general welcomed the new era of U.S. engagement and partnership this 64th General Assemb [...] | 2009-12-18 01:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | BP BX CB CH ECON FJ FM ID JA KR KS LA MG |
| 09USUNNEWYORK1133 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE DELEGATIONS AT THE 64TH UNGA [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Obama's speech was the high point of the UNGA's opening session. WHA and other delegations warmly welcomed his call for a "new era of engagement." One of the most striking expressions of this sentiment came later in the session when the Third Committee erupted into appl [...] | 2009-12-18 17:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA XK XL XM |
| 09USUNNEWYORK208 | KOSOVO: PRESIDENT SEJDIU MEETS AMBASSADOR RICE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The President of Kosovo, Fatmir Sejdiu, asked Ambassador Rice on March 2 to help Kosovo obtain recognition from additional states, particularly from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Pakistan and OIC members; and to help ensure that like-minded states, including non-European states, s [...] | 2009-03-04 22:37:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ICJ UNSC SR KV |
| 09USUNNEWYORK230 | UNGA: UNSC REFORM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The informal plenary of the General Assembly met March 4 and 5 to begin the substantive phase of intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council expansion. 80 delegations spoke during the day and a half discussion on "categories of membership." A core group of states suppo [...] | 2009-03-10 00:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN |
| 09USUNNEWYORK544 | ECOSOC ELECTIONS TO 21 UN BODIES [...] SUMMARY: ECOSOC elected membership to 21 of its subsidiary bodies on May 18. The United States was elected to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. Balloting was necessary for only the International Narcotics Control Board; elected were experts from India, France, Thailand [...] | 2009-06-01 14:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ECOSOC UN AORC INCB |
| 09USUNNEWYORK645 | UNGA ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON HONDURAS; PRESIDENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 29, President of the General Assembly (PGA) D'Escoto convened a meeting on the situation in Honduras, calling on the UNGA to join many countries in issuing a universal condemnation of the June 28 coup. Honduran PermRep Reina called the situation a tragic but transitional [...] | 2009-07-02 00:02:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV MOPS XK XM HO |
| 09USUNNEWYORK651 | UN: FIFTH COMMITTEE ADOPTS PEACEKEEPING MISSION [...] Summary: Following weeks of sometimes contentious negotiations, the Fifth Committee, on June 23rd, reached agreement on the 14 peacekeeping operation (PKO) budgets financed under the peacekeeping scale of assessments and on other peacekeeping-related requirements for the UN peacekeeping fina [...] | 2009-07-03 00:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IS LE PREL UNGA YI |
| 09USUNNEWYORK69 | UNGA: UNSC REFORM: PGA BRIEFS INFORMAL PLENARY OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The President of the General Assembly (PGA) presented the results of the Open-ended Working Group's consultations on framework and modalities of Security Council expansion negotiations in an informal session of the General Assembly on January 29, in line with General Assembly D [...] | 2009-01-30 18:55:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN |
| 09USUNNEWYORK885 | UN GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES (SEPT. 24 A.M.) [...] SUMMARY: During the September 24 morning meeting of the UNGA General Debate, heads of state or governments from Comoros, Ghana, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, Lithuania, Cyprus, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Panama, Switzerland, Spain, Japan, Turkey, and Israel spoke. Common themes we [...] | 2009-10-09 18:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA AORC PGOV CN GH BK RW LH CY TP SL PM |
| 09USUNNEWYORK893 | SECRETARY CLINTON CHAIRS UNANIMOUS ADOPTION OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Secretary of State Clinton chaired the unanimous adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1888 on conflict-related sexual violence which was co-sponsored by 68 UN member states including 10 members of the Security Council. Russia, China, Libya, Uganda and Vietnam did not co- [...] | 2009-10-13 20:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM SOCI KPKO KWMN UNSC CG |
| 09VALLETTA490 | MALTA 2009-10 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Malta's 2009-10 INCSR Part I is submitted in response to reftel. 2. Text follows: I. Summary The Republic of Malta does not play a significant role in the transit, processing or production of narcotics and psychotropic drugs and other controlled substances. Surveys indicate that illici [...] | 2009-11-06 10:09:00 | Embassy Valletta | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR MT |
| 09VIENTIANE67 | 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR LAOS [...] The Lao government is open to foreign investment as a matter of policy. It allows 100% foreign ownership of investments. The overall investment climate is poor but improving. Laos rates very low in international indices of transparency and ease of doing business. 2. The economic reform [...] | 2009-02-10 07:56:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV OPIC USTR KTDB LA |
| 10ABUDHABI89 | PROGRESS MADE WITH THE INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary: At the third Preparatory Commission (Prep Com) of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in Abu Dhabi, critical progress was achieved on a number of programmatic, administrative and legal fronts related to establishing a transparent, progressive and efficient internati [...] | 2010-02-21 11:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | SENV KGHG ENRG PGOV AE |
| 10ASTANA44 | KAZAKHSTAN: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-19 01:00:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EINV ELAB EPET ETRD KTDB KZ OPIC PGOV USTR |
| 10BERLIN166 | Germany - REVISED Investment Climate Statement [...] In response to reftel, the following is the 2010 Investment Climate Statement for Germany. This is the revised version of the statement. A previous version was sent on January 15, 2010. 2. Begin Text: GERMANY: 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT ---------------------------------------- [...] | 2010-02-05 16:41:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC GM |
| 10BERLIN209 | MEDIA REACTION: AFGHANISTAN, NATO, MIDEAST, U.S.-CLIMATE, [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (Afghanistan) Karzai takes Control over Electoral Watchdog 3. (NATO) New Strategic Concept 4. (Mideast) Peace Process 5. (U.S.) Climate Policy 6. (Western Hemisphere) Summit of the Americas 7. (Turkey) Alleged Coup Plot 8. (EU-Greece [...] | 2010-02-24 13:28:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR AF NATO XF KGHG XM TK EMS XT |
| 10BOGOTA103 | COLOMBIAN TEXTILE INDUSTRY: DYING OR JUST DOWNSIZING? [...] (U) SUMMARY. Long a cornerstone of Colombia's industrial base, the textile/apparel industry has declined in recent years. Industry experts point to four primary reasons for the sector's dismal performance in 2009: 1) decreased exports, particularly to Venezuela; 2) short-term U.S. trade prefe [...] | 2010-01-28 21:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL EIND KTEX CO |
| 10BOGOTA11 | SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S JAN 11-13 VISIT [...] (C) Your visit is an opportunity to focus U.S. and Colombian efforts to consolidate Colombia's gains as the country enters a transition year. President Uribe will seek your reassurance of our commitment to their fight against illegal drugs and illegal armed groups. His decision on whether to [...] | 2010-01-06 23:01:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL OVIP PGOV PHUM PTER ECON ETRD EAID SNAR MOPS CO |
| 10BOGOTA141 | TAKING A LEAD IN THE ENERGY AND CLIMATE PARTNERSHIP OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary. Colombia plans to host the first regional Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) meeting in Bogota on February 26 in preparation for the April ECPA ministerial. Department of Energy officials visited Bogota to assist the GOC's planning efforts. The regional mee [...] | 2010-02-03 16:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON PREL KSUM |
| 10BOGOTA198 | Haiti Reporting from Colombia [...] (U) SUMMARY. All leading national and regional newspapers in Colombia continue their extensive coverage of the events in Haiti, and have highlighted the USG's quick response to the crisis. Post has closely followed the overwhelmingly positive coverage of the U.S. role in Haiti disaster assista [...] | 2010-01-21 18:43:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KDEM OIIP HA CO |
| 10BOGOTA214 | AIR BRIDGE DENIAL: NOVEMBER 2009 PROGRAM UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is the monthly Air Bridge Denial (ABD) activity report for November, 2009, as required by Reftel. The Government of Colombia (GOC) sorted 2,808 tracks during November. There were three Unknown, Assumed Suspect (UAS) for the month. END SUMMARY. ------- Tracks [...] | 2010-01-21 21:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL MOPS MASS PGOV CO |
| 10BOGOTA231 | COLOMBIA'S 2010 ECONOMIC FORECAST: POSITIVE GROWTH, BUT SLOW [...] (SBU) Colombian Finance Minister Oscar Zuluaga projects a 2.5 percent GDP growth rate for 2010, which is supported by both local and international analysts. Zuluaga, however, told us that Colombia's economic recovery will be slow and behind those of Brazil, Chile, and Peru on account of Colomb [...] | 2010-02-12 14:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINT PGOV CO |
| 10BOGOTA235 | THAW WITH ECUADOR EVIDENT AT HAITI SUMMIT [...] (SBU) The Government of Colombia (GOC) continued its leadership in the Haiti relief effort at a February 9 UNASUR (Union of South American Countries) meeting in Quito, Ecuador. At the summit, President Uribe expressed his support for the summit's reconstruction initiatives, including reducing [...] | 2010-02-12 17:01:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS PTER ETRD OAS CO EC EAID HA |
| 10BOGOTA237 | INFORMATION ON CHILD LABOR AND FORCED LABOR FOR DOL [...] Per reftel a, post submits the following information for the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Congressional Reporting Requirements related to forced and child labor. 2. The following is new information relevant to tasking 1: The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) [...] | 2010-02-12 17:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EAID ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL USTR LAB CO |
| 10BOGOTA238 | CODEL ENGEL DISCUSSES FTA AND DCA, ENCOURAGES COLOMBIAN [...] (SBU) House Foreign Affairs Committee Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Chairman Eliot Engel led a Congressional delegation to Cartagena and Monteria, Colombia from January 7-10, 2010. At his private ranch in Monteria, President Uribe outlined Colombia's progress, with U.S. support, on counterna [...] | 2010-01-22 18:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SNAR EAID ETRD PHUM MOPS OREP CO |
| 10BOGOTA244 | NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR DECEMBER 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The aerial eradication team reached its CY-2009 goal of 100,000 hectares (ha) of coca sprayed, with a total True Ground Area Coverage of 101,573 ha for the year. Manual eradication of coca for 2009 totaled approximately 61,000 ha, short of the goal of 70,000 ha; total eradicati [...] | 2010-01-22 21:32:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
| 10BOGOTA258 | Haiti Reporting from Colombia (January 22-25, 2010) [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post continues to closely follow the Colombian media coverage of the U.S. role in Haiti disaster assistance. Though Colombian coverage of the earthquake aftermath is beginning to diminish, reporting on the U.S. role in providing sweeping disaster and humanitarian assistance continu [...] | 2010-01-26 13:00:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KDEM OIIP HA CO |
| 10BOGOTA264 | CONSOLIDATION PROGRESS IN FORMER FARC STRONGHOLD IMPRESSIVE, [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite notable progress, including marked gains in public security, reduction of coca cultivation, and winning support of the local population for governmental institutions, the overall situation is fragile in the Macarena area of Meta Department -- the former heartland of the [...] | 2010-01-26 21:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER PGOV CO |
| 10BOGOTA276 | EX-IM BANK CHAIRMAN HIGHLIGHTS TRADE AND EXPORT OPPORTUNTIES [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank Chairman Fred Hochberg announced a $1 billion Preliminary Commitment to Colombia's state-owned petroleum company, Ecopetrol, for the purchase of U.S. goods and services during a visit to Bogota and Cartagena on January 18-21. Ecopetrol's goals [...] | 2010-01-27 17:31:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON ENRG EAID PGOV CO |
| 10BOGOTA337 | WHY FEW COLOMBIAN COMPANIES ARE LISTED ON NYSE [...] (U) Summary. Only seven Latin American countries have companies listed on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange). Brazil leads with 33 companies, followed by Mexico (19),Chile (12),Argentina (11),Panama (3),Peru (2),and Colombia (2). Ecopetrol (oil and gas) and Bancolombia (financial servi [...] | 2010-02-24 18:27:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV CO |
| 10BOGOTA93 | BLUE LANTERN RESPONSE: TAA 0361-04F AND TAA 4140-08D [...] (S//NF) Summary. Blue Lantern Officer consulted with the Defense Attache Office, US MilitaryGroup (MILGROUP),FBI and DEA regarding the accuracy of intelligence reports listed in ref A. DEA confirmed the derogatory information in ref A, linking Vertical de Aviacion to Helitaxi, [...] | 2010-01-27 18:09:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC KOMC SNAR CO TH PM |
| 10BOGOTA95 | EX-IM BANK CHAIRMAN HIGHLIGHTS EXPORT AND TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank Chairman Fred Hochberg announced a $1 billion Preliminary Commitment to Colombia's state-owned petroleum company, Ecopetrol, for the purchase of U.S. goods and services during a visit to Bogota and Cartagena on January 18-21. Ecopetrol's goals a [...] | 2010-01-27 19:16:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON ENRG EAID PGOV CO |
| 10BUENOSAIRES5 | ZA-09-0007/YAZ1K MARTINETTI, JULIO et al/ OPERATION HEART OF [...] (SBU/NF) Reference is made to a classified cable, written under ZA-09-0007/YAZ1K; MARTINETTI, Julio et al/Operation Heart of Stone on October 27, 2009 by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent (SA) Russell Baer titled: OPERATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF BANCO AMAMBAY MONEY LAUNDERING INVES [...] | 2010-01-05 17:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | STAG DEA |
| 10CARACAS155 | VENEZUELA: PDVSA Official's Comments on Bariven and PDVSA [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to George Kabboul, the former President of PDVSA procurement subsidiary Bariven, the Venezuelan national oil company continues to be concerned that the USG might decide to close down its Houston operations. Kabboul maintains that Bariven provides procurement services for [...] | 2010-02-05 22:47:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE |
| 10GUATEMALA1 | Guatemala Response: Blue Lantern Level 3: [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel, EmbOffs conducted an interview with the arms import company Proximidad, S.A. At the time of the interview, and per reftel, Proximidad, S.A. was not able to provide a contract from the Guatemala's National Civil Police (PNC). As a result of the invest [...] | 2010-01-08 16:07:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC GT |
| 10ISLAMABAD332 | U.S.-PAKISTAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT: A POTENTIAL GAME CHANGER [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: President Zardari, Prime Minister Gilani and Finance Minister Tarin, like many Pakistanis before them, have pleaded with the USG for "trade, not aid." A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Pakistan holds substantial opportunity for the Pakistani economy, with small, [...] | 2010-02-11 14:30:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR EINV ENRG PK PREL |
| 10ISLAMABAD441 | PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 24, 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-24 09:43:00 | Embassy Islamabad | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK |
| 10KINGSTON214 | JAMAICA LOOKS TO THE EAST [...] (SBU) Jamaica's relationship with China has continued to blossom after Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding led a delegation to Beijing from January 30 to February 6 (Reftel A). The delegation, which also included three government ministers as well as several public sector officials, discussed a [...] | 2010-02-10 20:41:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | BTIO BEXP ECIN ECON EAIR EIND EINV EMIN ETRD ELTN |
| 10KINGSTON46 | JAMAICA: POSSIBLE HOST COUNTRY AID TO HAITI; POSSIBLE [...] This is an action request; please see paragraph four. 2. Despite Jamaica's extreme financial difficulties, the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) currently are developing courses of action (COAs) to provide up to a company of engineers [...] | 2010-01-13 20:49:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR ASEC CASC MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA JM XL |
| 10KINGSTON60 | JAMAICA / HAITI / CARICOM: RESPONSE TO EARTHQUAKE DISASTER [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-15 16:55:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR ASEC CASC MARR PREL PINR AMGT SOCI OVIP EAID |
| 10LAPAZ90 | Bolivia CN Update December 09 [...] SUMMARY: * Interdiction: Seizures of cocaine HCl and coca leaf declined significantly in 2009 compared to the previous year. Seizures of solid and liquid precursor chemicals, and cocaine recycling and HCl labs rose dramatically. (paras 2-6). * Era [...] | 2010-01-20 13:47:00 | Embassy La Paz | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR BL KJUS PHUM |
| 10LIMA272 | CIVAIR: PERU RESPONSE TO IATA'S "AGENDA FOR FREEDOM" [...] Summary. The Peruvian aviation authority indicated that Peru will not be interested in endorsing reftel policy statement. The policy of the Peruvian government is to enter into bilateral aviation agreements instead of general agreements. Peru has bilateral aviation agreements with thirty coun [...] | 2010-02-10 20:24:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ETRD ECON PGOV PE |
| 10LIMA99 | Peruvian Banking Superintendent Talks about Future of FIU [...] (SBU) Summary: Peru's Superintendent of Banking Felipe outlined his vision for the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) moving forward and discussed his priorities as the new chairman of GAFISUD (spell out first usage) in a January 22 meeting with Emboffs. Accompanied by International Affairs Mana [...] | 2010-01-28 20:52:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC EFIN SNAR PE KCRM KTFN |
| 10LONDON92 | United Kingdom: Investment Climate Statement 2010 [...] In response to reftel, the following is the 2010 Investment Climate Statement for the United Kingdom. The information is updated as of January 1, 2010. UNITED KINGDOM: 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT --------------------------------------------- ---- A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment [...] | 2010-01-15 17:27:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV OPIC KTDB USTR UK |
| 10MADRID179 | SPAIN IPR: AUSTR WILSON'S MEETINGS WITH GOS, OPPOSITION, [...] (SBU) During a February 4-5 visit to Madrid, Assistant USTR for Europe met with government officials, private sector representatives, and an opposition politician to discuss USG concerns over Internet piracy in Spain and the government's legislative proposal. Content industry representatives d [...] | 2010-02-16 07:09:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD EUN SP |
| 10MADRID203 | SPAIN CONTINUES TO LEAD HAITI ASSISTANCE EFFORTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Spanish assistance to Haiti in the wake of the January 12 earthquake has been swift and generous. As of February 18, Spain had sent 26 planes bearing humanitarian supplies, and deployed a total of 450 including physicians, nurses, and engineers as well as security forces aboar [...] | 2010-02-23 17:30:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HA MARR EAID |
| 10MANAGUA93 | CODEL Dodd: Scenesetter for Nicaragua [...] (C) Senator Dodd, Senator Corker, your visit to Nicaragua comes as we face exceptional challenges in the political environment here with a government that is suspicious and critical of the United States Government (USG),even as the Nicaraguan public remains fundamentally pro-U.S. and increasin [...] | 2010-02-16 21:48:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP PREL PGOV NU |
| 10MONTEVIDEO26 | URUGUAY - INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2010 [...] The Government of Uruguay recognizes the important role foreign investment plays in economic development and works to maintain a favorable investment climate. Aside from a few sectors in which foreign investment is not permitted, there is neither de jure nor de facto discrimination toward inv [...] | 2010-01-15 17:13:00 | Embassy Montevideo | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ELAB ETRD KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR UY |
| 10MUSCAT35 | TFHA01: OMAN'S RELIEF ASSISTANCE TO HAITI [...] (SBU) In response to ref A, Embassy contacted Ali bin Ibrahim bin Shenon al Ra'isi, CEO of the Oman Charitable Organization (OCO),which is the Government of Oman's aid and development organization. Per ref A, we expressed the USG's appreciation for Oman's rapid response to support the humanit [...] | 2010-01-20 05:32:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID AEMR PREF PREL HA MU |
| 10PANAMA1 | Senior GOP Officials Express Doubts About Contractor for [...] (C) Senior GOP Officials have expressed doubts to the Embassy and to members of a visiting U.S. Congressional delegation about the ability of the GUPC Consortium led by Spanish and Italian firms Sacyr and Impregilo to carry out the work on the expansion of the Panama Canal. 2. (C) At a December 2 [...] | 2010-01-08 17:19:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EWWT EINV PM |
| 10PANAMA11 | Demarche Response: Panama Passes On UN Human Rights Council [...] (C) Panama will not run for the UN Human Rights Council in 2010, according to Tomas Guardia, the Director of International Organizations and Conferences at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Guardia stated to Poloff that Panama did not have the resources in Geneva necessary to participate in the [...] | 2010-01-20 13:42:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UN |
| 10PANAMA134 | Blue Lantern: Response to end use check on license GC [...] (SBU) Per STATE 3402 (Blue Lantern level 3: Post-shipment end use check on license GC 0706-08),below is the requested information. All answers (A) are direct responses from Terry Holowach, a representative of Cargo Three Inc., in this case, the purchaser of the three aircraft. For the recor [...] | 2010-02-23 18:03:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC PM |
| 10PANAMA15 | Demarche Response: Panama Will Not Accept Resettlement of [...] (C) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed post that Panama is not willing to resettle Cuban national Santiago Alvarez Fernandez Magrina. Citing the UN Convention on Refugees and the Inter-American Convention on Political Asylum, the ministry suggested that the United States seek resett [...] | 2010-01-20 22:55:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SMIG |
| 10PANAMA29 | Martinelli Ratchets Up Pressure on Attorney General [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-26 21:33:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PINR PM |
| 10PANAMA41 | Confrontation with the FARC Rattles GOP [...] (S//NF) Three members of the FARC were killed in Panama's Darien province and two were captured on January 27, apparently after a Panamanian National Frontier Service (SENAFRONT) patrol stumbled upon the guerrillas traveling in a boat on the Tuira river. Reports indicate the guerrillas opened [...] | 2010-02-01 22:55:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER SNAR PGOV PREL PM CO |
| 10PANAMA43 | Martinelli's Wish is Supreme Court's Command: Attorney [...] (C) Panama's Supreme Court has voted 5-4 to temporarily suspend Attorney General Ana Matilde Gomez pending trial on a charge of abuse of authority. Removing Gomez became feasible only after President Martinelli appointed two new justices to the court last month who were widely viewed as persona [...] | 2010-02-01 23:11:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PM KJUS |
| 10PANAMA50 | Panama Request for FY 2010 Biotechnology Outreach Support [...] (SBU) Summary. Agricultural producers, the Ministry of Agricultural Development of Panama, and the Agricultural Research Institute of Panama are interested in developing programs to research and produce genetically modified crops, such as: rice, maize, sorghum, and sugar cane. The goals would [...] | 2010-01-14 22:13:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR FAS PM |
| 10PANAMA54 | Panama: 2010 Investment Climate Statement [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-19 16:23:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON USTR OPIC KTDB PM |
| 10PANAMA61 | Alleged Kidnap Plot Shows Intel Chief's Hostile Intent, [...] (S//NF) Summary: The head of Panama's intelligence service, Olmedo Alfaro, has again demonstrated his anti-U.S. bias in his handling of an alleged kidnapping attempt against President Ricardo Martinelli. Although Martinelli requested the Embassy's help in the investigation, Alfaro refused assi [...] | 2010-02-09 21:45:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ASEC SNAR PINR KCRM PM CASC |
| 10PANAMA69 | Terrorism Finance: Pre-Notification for UN 1267 Designation [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-10 21:57:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET | EFIN PM KTFN PTER |
| 10PANAMA7 | Supreme Court Turnover Consolidates Presidential Power [...] (C) On January 4 the Supreme Court elected longtime member Anibal Salas as president and chose recent appointee and former drug prosecutor Jose Almengor as president of the court's criminal chamber. Salas won six votes for president, including those of Alberto Cigarruista and Winston Spadafora [...] | 2010-01-19 19:01:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KDEM PINR PM |
| 10PANAMA71 | Deterioration of Panama's Business Climate Under President [...] (C) The Government of Panama (GOP) disadvantaged at least two American companies in a $55.5 million dollar improperly implemented emergency licitation procedures for electrical generators to fortify Panama's electrical generation capacity in anticipation of El Nino. This improper licitation in [...] | 2010-02-10 22:44:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PM COM EINV ENRG |
| 10PANAMA87 | No Recognition for PRC Anytime Soon - Panama Sticks with [...] (U) The GOP has renewed its commitment to Panama's longstanding relationship with Taiwan, despite public statements by President Ricardo Martinelli in 2009 that Panama would opt for formal diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Martinelli attempted to follow through with his [...] | 2010-02-23 19:07:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PM CH TW ECON |
| 10PANAMA89 | No Recognition for PRC Anytime Soon - Panama Sticks with [...] (U) The GOP has renewed its commitment to Panama's longstanding relationship with Taiwan, despite public statements by President Ricardo Martinelli in 2009 that Panama would opt for formal diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Martinelli attempted to follow through with his [...] | 2010-02-23 21:02:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PM CH TW ECON |
| 10PANAMA92 | Embassy Panama's Energy Team - Response to 2010 State 9572 [...] (U) The information below is in response to 2010 State 9572 (Developing a Community of Energy Officers). 2. (U) Jim Bangert (bangertj@state.gov Country Code 507, 207-7237) covers energy issues at Embassy Panama. Jim will handle Energy Portal submissions until he departs post [...] | 2010-02-04 22:36:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG PM |
| 10PORTAUPRINCE80 | HAITI EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART HUMANITARIAN SITUATION UPDATE [...] (U) Summary. Despite U.N. and media reports noting that the Government of Haiti (GoH) declared the end of the search and rescue phase on January 22, urban search and rescue (USAR) teams responded to a request for assistance that resulted in a live rescue on January 23. On January 22, the GoH [...] | 2010-01-24 03:08:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PREF HA |
| 10QUITO45 | GOE Expectations for Secretary Meeting with Correa as UNASUR [...] (C) Summary: The Secretary's January 15 letter to President Correa in his capacity as interim leader of UNASUR was portrayed by the Ecuadorian press and GOE as the Secretary agreeing to meet with UNASUR on the U.S.-Colombia Defense Cooperation Agreement. Assistant Secretary Valenzuela's comme [...] | 2010-01-27 23:14:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR KTIA EC CO XR |
| 10QUITO53 | Ecuador Rebuffs International Companies on Balance of [...] (C) Three of the most recognizable companies in the world, Apple, RIM (Blackberry),and Nokia, concluded a three-day visit to Ecuador in January with the impression that they have limited to no ability to influence GoE trade and investment decisions. In attempting to convince GoE officials to [...] | 2010-02-02 14:38:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EFIN COM USTR ECPS PREL EC |
| 10ROME82 | INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2010 - ITALY [...] SUMMARY: Following is Post's submission for 2010 Investment Climate Statement for Italy. End Summary. OVERVIEW AND UPDATE ------------------- 2. The Government of Italy (GOI) maintains a welcoming posture to foreign investment and has made modest progress in addressing the structural e [...] | 2010-01-21 14:06:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB OPIC KTDB USTR PGOV IT |
| 10SANJOSE130 | COSTA RICA 2009 END-USE MONITORING (EUM) REPORT [...] Per Ref A, Embassy San Jose provides the following information regarding EUM of resources acquired with U.S. Department of State International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) funds. 2. EUM Program Coordinator: NAO Robert B. Andrew, IVG 220-2253, andrewrb@state.gov. The NAO i [...] | 2010-02-02 19:34:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR AMGT PGOV PINR PREL AFIN CS |
| 10SANJOSE182 | COSTA RICA: Merida Monthly Report January 2010 [...] (U) Per Ref A, Post submits the following report detailing Embassy San Jose's Merida activities for January 2010. Issues for Washington 2. (U) Due to the amount of preparation and work that goes into producing the annual End-Use Monitoring (EUM) Report, due on February 1 (see Ref [...] | 2010-02-09 19:38:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR MASS PGOV PREL CS |
| 10SANJOSE23 | CHINCHILLA WINS: COSTA RICANS CHOOSE CONTINUITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Laura Chinchilla won Costa Rica's February 7 presidential election, promising continuity and consolidation of the Arias Administration's agenda. The USG's top notch collaboration with Costa Rica will continue with the new government, as Chinchilla's policy goals coincide with o [...] | 2010-02-08 16:13:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL PINR PLN CS CH CU VE KWMN |
| 10SANSALVADOR5 | El Salvador December Merida Initiative Implementation Report [...] The following summarizes El Salvador Merida Initiative implementation activities for December 2009. 2. Prison Security Upgrades: In December INL San Salvador completed installation of twelve body orifice scanning system (i.e. BOSS) chairs in eight correctional centers that house the m [...] | 2010-01-06 14:27:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SNAR PINS ES KCRM KHLS XK |
| 10SANSALVADOR65 | FUNES WORKING WITH LIKEMINDED LEADERS TO RECOGNIZE PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Funes told visiting EEB Assistant Secretary Jose Fernandez that he, President Colom of Guatemala, and President Fernandez of the Dominican Republic are working on building consensus among Central American leaders to publically recognize the Government of Honduras. Assist [...] | 2010-02-05 15:56:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ECON ES |
| 10SANTIAGO206 | Santiago Feb. 11 Media Report [...] President-elect Pi????era instructed his new cabinet members to resign from any company boards and foundations to which they belong by February 28. He also instructed them to sell their shares in companies that could in any way lead to a conflict of interest or that are supervised by thei [...] | 2010-02-11 19:09:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI |
| 10SANTODOMINGO124 | DR: 2010 Investment Climate Statement [...] While the Dominican government welcomes foreign investment, significant systemic problems can make investing in the country a risky undertaking. Foreign investors cite a lack of clear, standardized rules by which to compete and a lack of enforcement of existing rules. Complaints have included [...] | 2010-01-20 12:00:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV OPIC KTDB USTR DR |
| 10SEOUL135 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; JANUARY 29, 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-29 06:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 10SEOUL141 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; FEBRUARY 1, 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-01 07:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 10SEOUL146 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; FEBRUARY 2, 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-02 07:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 10SEOUL205 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; FEBRUARY 10, 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-10 07:47:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 10SEOUL226 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; FEBRUARY 12, 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-12 05:35:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 10SEOUL311 | SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; FEBRUARY 25, 2010 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-24 08:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US |
| 10SINGAPORE67 | SINGAPORE - 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] (U) In response to reftel instructions, this message is Post's draft chapter of the 2010 Investment Climate Statement for Singapore. As requested, we have also provided via email a Microsoft Word version of the document to EB/IFD/OIA. 2. (SBU) Begin text of Statement: 2010 Investment C [...] | 2010-01-19 00:42:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD EFIN ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR SN |
| 10STATE11133 | AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF FORCES FOR A [...] 1. (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPHS 2, 5, and 6. 2. (U) DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR DOD PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA FROM APRIL 4 TO APRIL 23, 2010, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A FUERZAS ALIADAS HUMANITARIAS EXERCISE. POST IS REQUESTED IM [...] | 2010-02-03 21:21:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 10STATE12414 | MEXICO CITY AVIATION SECURITY CONFERENCE: [...] (U) This is background and guidance sent in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security. Summary and Guidance -------------------- 2. (SBU) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano will travel to Mexico City on February 16-18, 2010 to attend a conferenc [...] | 2010-02-09 19:48:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EAIR ECON PREL PTER |
| 10STATE15151 | AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF FORCES FOR A [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPHS 2, 5, and 6. 2. (U) DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR DOD PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA FROM MARCH 5, 2010, TO APRIL 3, 2010, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A LANDING ATTACK AND SUBSEQUENT OPERATIONS TRAINING EXERCI [...] | 2010-02-19 15:22:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 10STATE15157 | AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF FORCES FOR A [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPHS 2, 5, and 6. 2. (U) DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA FROM MAY 1, 2010, TO OCTOBER 17, 2010, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A NEW HORIZONS EXERCISE. POST IS REQUESTED IM [...] | 2010-02-19 15:26:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 10STATE15722 | GOLDSTONE FOLLOW-UP ACTION [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. Embassy Suva for Fiji, Tonga, Nauru, Kiribati and Tuvalu. Embassy Libreville for Gabon and Sao Tome. Embassy Port Moresby for Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. Embassy Port Louis for Seychelles only. Embassy Koror for Palau only. Embas [...] | 2010-02-22 00:27:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IO PHUM UNGA |
| 10STATE16555 | HCOC - ENCOURAGING SINGAPORE TO SUBSCRIBE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. OBJECTIVE AND ACTION REQUEST ---------------------------- 2. (U) Objective: We want Singapore to subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC). 3. (SBU) Action Request: Drawing on the ta [...] | 2010-02-23 19:26:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA SN |
| 10STATE17168 | AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF FORCES FOR A [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPHS 2, 5, and 6. 2. (U) DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA FROM MAY 1, 2010, TO OCTOBER 17, 2010, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A NEW HORIZONS EXERCISE. POST IS REQUESTED IM [...] | 2010-02-24 20:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 10STATE2021 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-LICENSE/PRE-SHIPMENT [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraph 4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-license/pre-shipment check on license 050206440 for the export of firearms to Panama. Post is requested to complete this Blu [...] | 2010-01-08 21:15:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC PM |
| 10STATE2353 | LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BAKU 975) [...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the HRV REQUEST FOR MEMBERS OF FOREIGN ARMED FORCES TO ATTEND FY10 IMET TRAINING IN THE US. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reft [...] | 2010-01-11 16:43:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PHUM AJ |
| 10STATE2370 | AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA ON STATUS OF FORCES FOR A [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPHS 2, 5, and 6. 2. (U) DOD HAS ASKED THE DEPARTMENT TO SECURE STATUS PROTECTIONS FOR U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO WILL BE PRESENT IN PANAMA FROM MARCH 13, 2010, TO JUNE 19, 2010, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A BEYOND THE HORIZONS EXERCISE. POST IS REQUE [...] | 2010-01-11 17:03:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MOPS PM PREL US |
| 10STATE3402 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on license 050114240 for the export of three (3) International Traffic in Arms (ITAR)-controlled Canadair [...] | 2010-01-13 18:25:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC PM |
| 10STATE369 | (U) BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON [...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraphs 2-9. 2. (U) The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post assistance in conducting a pre-license check on two amendments to previously approved Technical Assistance Agreements (TAAs). Post is requested [...] | 2010-01-04 21:34:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | CO ETTC KOMC PM SNAR TH |
| 10STATE4749 | THANK YOU FOR VOTES ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] (U) This is an action message for action addressees. See para 5. 2. (U) Summary: Efforts to reach out to host countries, at all levels, paid off on December 18, 2009 as the votes in favor of the Defamation of Religions resolution at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) declined by six votes ( [...] | 2010-01-16 01:53:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNGA OPDC KIRF KISL |
| 10STATE7254 | TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) Panamanian President Martinelli is scheduled to arrive in Port-au-Prince January 25 at 2100 EST. (TF1/Embassy Panama City e-mail) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (U) No updates at this time. COMMODITY FLOW -------------- 3. (SBU) Water continues to b [...] | 2010-01-25 17:16:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA |
| 10STATE7506 | TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) While Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) continues to plan to travel to Haiti, her staff cannot confirm flight information, itinerary, or her current location. (TF1/House staff e-mail) 2. (SBU) Panamanian President Martinelli's planned arrival in Port-au-Prince January 25 has been [...] | 2010-01-26 03:57:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA |
| 10STATE7843 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 2: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] (U) This is an Action Request. See paragraph 4. 2. (U) The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on licenses 050020587 for the export of riot control grenades to Guatemala. Post is requested to comp [...] | 2010-01-26 21:30:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC GT |
| 10TBILISI198 | GEORGIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR 2010 [...] Per reftel, below is Embassy TbilisiQs Investment Climate Statement for submission for 2009. Introduction Since 2004,, the Georgian Government has undertaken an ambitious program to modernize and liberalize its economy. Institutional reforms include restructuring and downsizing governmen [...] | 2010-02-17 07:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV |
| 10TEGUCIGALPA13 | NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN ON MINIMUM WAGE [...] (U) Summary: A tripartite commission of public, private, and labor sector representatives has begun discussions on raising the minimum wage, attempting to find a compromise between widely diverging demands. Any wage hike will be a strain on both public and private employers, since the minim [...] | 2010-01-08 18:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EIND ELAB HO |
| 10TEGUCIGALPA137 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LEMIEUX [...] (SBU) Embassy Tegucigalpa warmly welcomes the February 15-16 visit of Codel Lemieux. Your visit comes at a historic moment. President Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo assumed office on January 27, 2010 as the chief executive elected with the greatest number of votes in Honduran history. The United Sta [...] | 2010-02-11 23:04:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC CASC ECON EAID MARR |
| 10TEGUCIGALPA151 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DODD [...] (SBU) Embassy Tegucigalpa warmly welcomes the February 15-16 visit of Codel Dodd. Your visit comes at a historic moment. President Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo assumed office on January 27, 2010 as the chief executive elected with the greatest number of votes in Honduran history. The United States [...] | 2010-02-18 23:07:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC CASC ECON EAID MARR |
| 10TEGUCIGALPA34 | ATTENDANCE AT INAUGURATION OF PEPE LOBO [...] (SBU) Summary: Planning has begun for the January 27 inauguration of president-elect Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo. Lobo has called for the inauguration ceremony to have a Honduran flavor. The Honduran public does not expect that large numbers of high-level foreign dignitaries will attend Lobo's ina [...] | 2010-01-13 23:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
| 10TEGUCIGALPA66 | SCENESETTER FOR USG DELEGATION TO PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) We warmly welcome you and the delegation to Tegucigalpa January 26-27 to attend the January 27 inaugural ceremonies of the newly-elected Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo. The inauguration is an historical event, bringing back democratic and constitutional rule after a seven-month hiatus. The comi [...] | 2010-01-26 01:27:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC CASC ECON EAID MARR KCRM |
| 10TEGUCIGALPA88 | INAGURATION OF PRESIDENT LOBO AND DEPARTURE OF [...] (U) Summary: President Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo was sworn in on January 27 in Tegucigalpa. During his inaugural address, President Lobo thanked the US and others for their help during the political crisis and paused during his speech to sign an amnesty law that had been passed by Congress late on [...] | 2010-01-28 01:22:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM HO |
| 10UNROME23 | HAITI: FEEDING HAITIANS: SEEDS FOR SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary. Since the first days after the earthquake in Haiti, there has been concern - and considerable confusion - regarding the need for internationally sourced seed to meet the needs of the upcoming planting season. Haiti's Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Development [...] | 2010-02-19 17:52:00 | UN Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | FAO IFAD WFP UN EAID EAGR HA BTIO |
| 85LIMA5526 | SENDERO CELEBRATES FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF [...] I... id: 61 date: 5/17/1985 20:17 refid: 85LIMA5526 origin: Embassy Lima classification: CONFIDENTIAL destination: 85LIMA5476 header: O 172017Z MAY 85 FM AMEMBASSY LIMA TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 3881 INFO DIA WASHDC AMEMBASSY LA PAZ AMEMBASSY QUITO AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO USCINCSO QUARRY HEIGHTS PN [...] | 1985-05-17 20:17:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PE |
| 87BOGOTA7890 | THE GUERRILLA SITUATION: PREPARING FOR WAR? [...] (C) SUMMARY. COLOMBIA'S GUERRILLA WAR HAS BEEN QUIESCENT THE LAST FEW WEEKS. THOUGH ARMED CONTACTS BETWEEN THE VARIOUS GUERRILLA GROUPS AND THE MILITARY CONTINUE, THE PACE OF MAJOR CONFRONTATIONS HAS SLACKENED. THE MAIN ARENA OF CONFRONTATION HAS BEEN THE MEDIA, WHERE THE UNION PATRIOTICA ( [...] | 1987-06-09 22:18:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | KPRP PINS MILI PTER CO |
| 89PANAMA8545 | PANAMANIANS HOPE FOR A SUCCESSFUL COUP [...] SECRET - ENTIRE TEXT. -------------------------------- SUMMARY -------------------------------- 2. THROUGHOUT 1989, RAPIDLY UNFOLDING POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS HELD OUT HOPE TO MANY PANAMANIANS FOR A RESOLUTION TO PANAMA'S POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS: THE ELECTION OF MAY 7, THE SUBSEQUENT O [...] | 1989-12-13 19:14:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET | PGOV PREL PM US |
| 89PANAMA8558 | PANAMA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE APPEALS FOR [...] IN FACE OF WHAT IT DESCRIBED AS "THE RULE OF INJUSTICE AND VIOLENCE" IN PANAMA, THE PANAMANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE (CPDH) HAS ISSUED AN URGENT INTERNATIONAL CALL ASKING THE NATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS OF THE WORLD TO BRING PRESSURE ON THE NORIEGA REGIME, PARTICULARLY TO SECURE THE RELEASE O [...] | 1989-12-13 20:45:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PINR PGOV PREF PREL PM |
| 89PANAMA8566 | OPPOSITION ACTIVIST GIVES ACCOUNT OF [...] SECRET - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. SUMMARY. CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT GUSTAVO CEDENO (STRICTLY PROTECT),WAS ARRESTED BY REGIME AUTHORITIES ON DECEMBER 5, DETAINED FOR 21 HOURS, BEATEN, AND QUESTIONED ABOUT A POSSIBLE NEW COUP ATTEMPT. HE WAS FORCED TO SIGN STATEMENTS AGAINST THE CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN D [...] | 1989-12-13 22:21:00 | Embassy Panama | SECRET | PHUM PINR PGOV PREF PREL PM |
| 89STATE401887 | PANAMA: SHARING THE FACTS ON ATTACKS BY NORIEGA [...] (LOU) THERE FOLLOWS AN ACCOUNTING OF BASIC FACTS CONCERNING THE DECEMBER 16-17 INCIDENTS IN PANAMA IN WHICH A U.S. MILITARY OFFICER WAS SHOT AND KILLED AND ANOTHER BEATEN BY THE PANAMA DEFENSE FORCES (PDF). THE NORIEGA REGIME IS ALREADY EMBARKED ON A CAMPAIGN OF DISINFORMATION WHICH THE U. [...] | 1989-12-19 02:43:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS MARR PREL PM |
| 89STATE403378 | TFPM02: PANAMA: REQUEST FOR IMMEDIATE DEMARCHE [...] (C) THIS CABLE IS INFO FOR MEXICO CITY CARACAS, SAN JOSE, KINGSTON, BUENOS AIRES, BOGOTA, TOKYO, SAN SALVADOR, LIMA, LA PAZ, BRASILIA, QUITO, MADRID, LONDON, PARIS, OTTAWA, BONN, MOSCOW, CANBERRA, AND USUN. FOR ALL INFO ADDRESSEES EXCEPT MOSCOW: THE PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT OR SECRETARY [...] | 1989-12-20 14:05:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PM |
| 89STATE404719 | U.S. PRESENTS ITS CASE ON PANAMA TO THE ORGANIZATION OF [...] SUMMARY: THE PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS) MET IN SPECIAL SESSION DECEMBER 20, AT THE REQUEST OF NORIEGA'S OAS AMBASSADOR. (CONTRARY TO THE IMPRESSION CONVEYED BY MEDIA ACCOUNTS, THERE WAS NO VOTE ACCEPTING CREDENTIALS OF THE NORIEGA REPRESENTATIVE, WHO HAS [...] | 1989-12-21 02:50:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV US XM PM OAS |
| 89STATE404914 | TF/PM02: HISTORY OF DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO [...] No summary [...] | 1989-12-21 05:18:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PM US PREL |
| 89STATE405134 | TFPM02: SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON PANAMA [...] (U) SUMMARY: SECURITY COUNCIL MET EVENING DEC. 20 TO CONSIDER THE SITUATION IN PANAMA. SOVIET, CHINESE AND NICARAGUAN DELEGATIONS CONDEMNED U.S. INTERVENTION. FRANCE, UK AND CANADA FOCUSED ON THE NEED TO UPHOLD THE WILL OF THE PANAMANIAN PEOPLE AND SUPPORTED U.S. ACTIONS. AMB. PICKERING M [...] | 1989-12-21 09:35:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN OAS XM |
| 89STATE406652 | OAS "REGRETS" U.S. ACTION: INDIVIDUAL COUNTRY REPORTS [...] No summary [...] | 1989-12-22 18:14:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PM OAS |
| 89STATE406844 | OAS "REGRETS" U. S. ACTION [...] (U) THE PERMANENT COUNCIL OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATE (OAS),IN A MARATHON SPECIAL SESSION, ADOPTED BY A VOTE OF 20 - 1 (US),WITH 6 ABSTENTIONS (ANTIGUA, COSTA RICA, EL SALVADOR, HONDURAS, GUATEMALA, AND VENEZUELA) A RESOLUTION THAT: --"DEEPLY REGRETS" THE MILITARY INTERVENTION I [...] | 1989-12-22 22:13:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PM OAS |
| 89USUNNEWYORK3978 | TFPM02: MEETING WITH SC PRESIDENT ON PANAMA [...] (CONFIDENTIAL - ENTIRE TEXT) 2. SUMMARY. AMB PICKERING MET WITH SC PRESIDENT (COLOMBIA) DEC 20 TO ASK THAT A LETTER SETTING FORTH THE REASONS FOR U.S. ACTIONS IN PANAMA AND A COPY OF PRESIDENT BUSH'S STATEMENT BE CIRCULATED AS OFFICIAL UN DOCUMENTS. PICKERING ALSO ARGUED AGAINST PREMATU [...] | 1989-12-20 18:53:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL XK UNSC OAS PM |
| 90USUNNEWYORK2143 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION [...] (U) SUMMARY. THE SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTED BY A VOTE OF 14-0-0 WITH ONE MEMBER, YEMEN, NOT PARTICIPATING, A RESOLUTION (SC RES 660) CONDEMNING THE IRAQI INVASION OF KUWAIT. THE ALL-NIGHT SC SESSION, CALLED BY THE U.S. AND KUWAIT, HEARD THE KUWAITI PERMREP EXPRESS SHOCK AND "BITTERNESS" OVER [...] | 1990-08-02 17:53:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IZ UNSC PINS |
| 91BOGOTA8074 | UPDATE ON FARC "EXECUTION" GRAVEYARD [...] CONFIDENTIAL -- ENTIRE TEXT. 2. DURING A MAY 20 CONVERSATION WITH CHARGE AND POLOFF, PRESIDENTIAL HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISOR JORGE ORLANDO MELO DISCUSSED THE FARC GRAVEYARD UNCOVERED BY THE ARMY IN LA URIBE, META DEPARTMENT EARLIER THIS YEAR (REFTEL). MELO SAID HIS INFORMATION WAS NOT FIRST-HA [...] | 1991-05-29 14:38:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PHUM PTER PINS CO |
| 97COLOMBO3477 | LTTE ATTACKS SHIP CHARTERED BY US [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY: MICHAEL OWEN, ECONOMIC COUNSELOR. REASON 1.5 (D) 2. (C) INITIAL REPORTS INDICATE THAT AT APPROXIMATELY 0100 LOCAL TIME SEPTEMBER 9, THE LIBERATION TIGERS OF TAMIL EELAM (LTTE) ATTACKED THE MERCHANT VESSEL "CORDIALITY" WHICH WAS ANCHORED OFF THE NORTHEAST COAST OF S [...] | 1997-09-09 10:25:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER PREF PGOV EWWT CE |
| 97MADRID11809 | SPAIN: 1997 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] THE ONLY TERRORIST GROUP OPERATING IN SPAIN IS THE BASQUE TERRORIST GROUP ETA (FATHERLAND AND LIBERTY),WHICH CONTINUED IN 1997 ITS CAMPAIGN OF MURDER, BOMBINGS, KIDNAPPINGS, AND STREET VIOLENCE. THE GOVERNMENT HAD SOME SUCCESS AGAINST ETA DURING THE YEAR, WITH KEY ARRESTS IN SPAIN AND FRANCE [...] | 1997-12-02 08:32:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER SP |