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Identifier	Subject	Date	Office	Classification	Tags
07MARSEILLE9	HEAD OF LOCAL MUSLIM COUNCIL LOOKING FORWARD TO A PRODUCTIVE [...] (C) Summary: On January 23, 2007 Abderhammane Ghoul, (protect) President of the Regional Council of the Muslim Cult, Province Cote d'Azur Region (CRCM-PACA),discussed with Marseille Consul General his reasons for optimism about 2007. Major mosque projects in his region are advancing, and the [...]	2007-01-26 14:18:00	Consulate Marseille	CONFIDENTIAL	FR PREL PINR PGOV

07MASERU112	LESOTHO: INPUT FOR US/CHINA DIALOG ON AFRICA [...] (U) Per REFTEL request, Embassy Maseru provides the following information on the relationship between the Kingdom of Lesotho and the People's Republic of China. ----------------- Lesotho and China ----------------- 2. (SBU) Relationship: Cordial and deepening. Public Perception: M [...]	2007-03-02 12:32:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PGOV PREL EINV CH LT
07MASERU124	LESOTHO: NEW MEMBERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S CABINET [...] SUMMARY: On Friday, March 2, Lesotho's Chief Justice, in the presence of King Letsie III and Prime Minister and Mrs. Mosisili, swore in the nation's new cabinet in a lengthy ceremony at the Royal Palace. The Cabinet is composed of members of the nation's two houses of Parliament. While the [...]	2007-03-06 20:42:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM LT
07MASERU147	LESOTHO: 2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] There is no known trafficking in persons in Lesotho that meets the term as defined in REFTEL. Per REFTEL instructions, post has answered the questions 27 - 30. Post's primary sources are Inspector Masoabi Thosa, Child and Gender Protection Unit, Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS); Se [...]	2007-03-13 15:59:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF LT
07MASERU149	LESOTHO'S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER PRAISES BILATERAL [...] (C) In her first official courtesy call on the "new" Foreign Minister (FOMIN) Mohlabi Kenneth Tsekoa March 14, Ambassador Perry congratulated him on his return to the posting. The Minister graciously accepted the Ambassador's congratulations and remembered our first meeting in 2004 when he ac [...]	2007-03-14 16:09:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EAID LT
07MASERU176	GOL DEFENDS ELECTORAL PROCEDURES [...] (C) The Government of Lesotho (GOL) called an emergency donors meeting on March 21 to discuss its views of the tactics used by the opposition parties, particularly by the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party led by Thomas Thabane. The meeting was convened by the Minister in the Office of the Pr [...]	2007-03-22 15:58:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PHUM SADC ZI LT
07MASERU214	SADC EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT READOUT BY MFA [...] (C) Minister of Foreign Affairs Tsekoa invited the diplomatic corps for an April 4 briefing on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Extraordinary Summit held in Tanzania March 29. The Minister opened the meeting with an overview of political developments in Lesotho and specifical [...]	2007-04-05 13:03:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PINR SA ZI CG LT
07MASERU215	SADC EXTRAORDINARY SUMMIT READOUT BY MFA [...] (C) Minister of Foreign Affairs Tsekoa invited the diplomatic corps for an April 4 briefing on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Extraordinary Summit held in Tanzania March 29. The Minister opened the meeting with an overview of political developments in Lesotho and specifical [...]	2007-04-05 15:17:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR SA ZI CG LT
07MASERU246	LESOTHO: NEW COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER ASKS FOR HELP [...] SUMMARY: In an April 20 meeting with U.S. Ambassador June Carter Perry, Lesotho's new Minister of Communications Mothetjoa Metsing acknowledged the failure of the GOL and the governing party to properly communicate with Lesotho's public and asked the U.S. Embassy in Maseru for assistance. Un [...]	2007-04-26 13:23:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM LT
07MASERU27	"ABC 1, 2, 3": OPPOSITION LEADER CALLS ON AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Former Minister of Communications Thomas Thabane visited the Ambassador the morning of January 12 and expressed his own concerns about instability during the electoral period. The Ambassador told Thabane frankly that she was concerned about reports that the youth league of his party might [...]	2007-01-19 12:35:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC LT
07MASERU281	"THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT" -- LESOTHO'S MONARCH SPEAKS [...] (SBU) In a May 16 farewell call on Lesotho's King Letsie III, His Majesty expressly asked Ambassador Perry to convey to President Bush a sincere "Thank You" for his PEPFAR and Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) initiatives. The King stated his gratitude for the increases in PEPFAR funding to a [...]	2007-05-16 14:43:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KMCA LT
07MASERU339	LESOTHO: RADIO STATION WINS CASE AGAINST GOVERNMENT [...] SUMMARY: Harvest FM, a popular local private anti-government radio station, won a last minute court case against the GOL on Saturday, June 9. The outcome of the case overturned a Ministry of Tourism decision to deny the station the right to rent the National Convention Center to celebrate its [...]	2007-06-12 14:56:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PREL PGOV LT
07MASERU345	LESOTHO: U.S. DOD DONATIONS YIELD CELEBRATIONS [...] SUMMARY: On June 7 and 8, items procured through the Department of Defense's Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP) were delivered to the Lesotho Defense Forces (LDF) medical services and the rural Itumeleng Primary and Secondary Schools in Mohale's Hoek. The donations -- a large van to be co [...]	2007-06-13 10:05:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MOPS EAID LT
07MASERU355	LESOTHO: DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER CLAIMS ATTACKS ARE COUP [...] (C) Summary: Lesotho's Deputy Prime Minister, in a June 18 briefing for chiefs of diplomatic missions, said that the violent security environment in the capital city of Maseru, which deteriorated further following implementation of a daily curfew on June 15, had taken on "political undertones, [...]	2007-06-18 17:28:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PINS PREL PGOV LT
07MASERU370	LESOTHO: PM VISITS SOUTH AFRICA DESPITE TROUBLE AT HOME [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 18-20, the Prime Minister of Lesotho, Phakalitha Mosisili, conducted an official visit to Cape Town, South Africa. An official communiqui on the visit mentioned the signing of agreements on several bilateral issues, including the cross-border movement of citizens. In his [...]	2007-06-26 15:47:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON KMCA KDEM EAID SF LT
07MASERU371	LESOTHO: EMBATTLED RADIO PRESENTER FACES SEDITION CHARGES [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-26 17:10:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM LT
07MASERU379	LESOTHO: SADC MEDIATION SUCCESS AMID ABUSE ALLEGATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a turbulent week of negotiations (June 25-29),ongoing SADC mediation efforts between Lesotho's governing and opposition parties appear to have made progress as stakeholders have identified outside experts to evaluate Lesotho's implementation of the Mixed Member Proportion [...]	2007-06-29 12:52:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC PHUM LT
07MASERU384	LESOTHO CONTRADICTIONS: TALKS ADVANCE, OPPOSITION ANNOUNCES [...] SUMMARY: Head of the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) mediation delegation and former President of Botswana Masire successfully concluded the first round of talks between Lesotho's governing and opposition parties on July 1. On the same day, however, Lesotho's largest oppositio [...]	2007-07-02 19:51:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC PHUM LT
07MASERU401	LESOTHO: GOL APPEALS FOR HELP IN DEALING WITH OPPOSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a briefing for resident chiefs of mission on July 6, Foreign Minister Tsekoa reiterated his desire that the international community support the "government of the day" and desist from taking a neutral stance toward the political impasse between the GOL and the political oppositi [...]	2007-07-09 16:49:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM LT
07MASERU403	DISASTER DECLARATION: FOOD INSECURITY IN LESOTHO [...] This is an action cable. See paragraphs 3 and 11. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. SUMMARY: According to a variety of food experts, Lesotho government officials, and official observers -- including USAID, the World Food Programme (WFP),the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO),the GO [...]	2007-07-10 15:05:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR ECON PGOV PREL LT
07MASERU406	LESOTHO JULY 2007 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP: GOOD FISCAL POLICY BUT [...] SUMMARY: While Lesotho's growth rate remains troublingly low, the GOL's fiscal discipline has allowed the country to keep inflation under double digits, maintain sizable foreign currency reserves, and run a public sector budget which is strongly in the black. On the good news front, the Worl [...]	2007-07-10 18:21:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECIN EINV LT
07MASERU412	SCENESETTER FOR PRIME MINISTER MOSISILI'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Mosisili's imminent visit to Washington to sign a $362.5 million MCA Compact on July 23 with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) comes at a high point in the U.S.-Lesotho bilateral relationship, reflecting many shared values, mutual cooperation, successful [...]	2007-07-12 18:33:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID PGOV PREL PHUM KMCA LT
07MASERU452	LESOTHO: RSA REPORTEDLY GRANTS ASYLUM TO ACCUSED COUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Republic of South Africa has reportedly granted temporary asylum to six Basotho men accused by the GOL of involvement in alleged coup plotting. Two of the men claim torture, and in a recent press interview all denied any involvement in attacks on ministerial residences. Th [...]	2007-07-31 15:40:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC PINS LT
07MASERU476	LESOTHO: CHARGE MEETS WITH OPPOSITION, GOL ON CALL FOR AID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge met on August 7 with Lesotho's main opposition party leaders, and separately on August 8 with a key GOL minister, to discuss the opposition's recent appeal for a suspension of foreign assistance, including MCC funding, until the country returns to "proper democratic rule." [...]	2007-08-08 16:31:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PGOV PREL EAID LT
07MASERU487	THE LESOTHO LIBERATION ARMY (LLA): BACK FOR MORE? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Lesotho Liberation Army, or LLA, is an aging insurgent group dating back to the 1970's which appeared to rest in obscurity until several of its former members were recently implicated in attacks on ministerial residences. Born out of opposition to the dictatorship of post-i [...]	2007-08-14 23:01:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC PINS PTER LT
07MASERU488	THE LESOTHO LIBERATION ARMY (LLA): BACK FOR MORE? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Lesotho Liberation Army, or LLA, is an aging insurgent group dating back to the 1970's which appeared to rest in obscurity until several of its former members were recently implicated in attacks on ministerial residences. Born out of opposition to the dictatorship of post-i [...]	2007-08-14 23:01:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC PINS PTER LT
07MASERU500	LESOTHO: ALLEGED COUP PLOTTERS FREE IN SOUTH AFRICA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 14, three of the six Lesotho nationals accused of coup plotting in Lesotho, and reportedly granted political asylum in South Africa, walked free from a magistrate court in Gauteng Province after posting bail. Crowds of their supporters, bused in from Maseru, packed th [...]	2007-08-17 14:55:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC PINS SF LT
07MASERU549	LESOTHO SEPTEMBER 2007 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP: ARRESTS, ANALYSIS, [...] SUMMARY: - Fitch Puts Lesotho's Economy Under Microscope - Article IV Consultations: Good Numbers, No Poverty Impact - Principal Secretary of Justice Arrested - High-level Chinese Trade Delegation Visits Lesotho - "One Stop Shop" to Simplify Trade - Promise in the Mining Sect [...]	2007-10-01 12:13:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EMIN EFIN PGOV CH LT
07MASERU554	LESOTHO: AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW [...] In response to REFTEL, Embassy Maseru submits the following updated AGOA country eligibility information. 2. TPSC SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGOA IMPLEMENTATION COUNTRY ELIGIBILITY RECOMMENDATIONS 2007 STATE SUBMISSIONS Country: Lesotho Current AGOA Status: Eligible Country Background Summar [...]	2007-10-03 15:34:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD LT
07MASERU561	LESOTHO INTERESTED IN WIREC, VAGUELY SUPPORTIVE ON UN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 2, Poloff met Lesotho's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Europe and Americas Director P.P. Makoaholo to discuss the upcoming WIREC conference and various UN issues. Makoaholo expressed interest in recruiting a high-level delegation for the WIREC conference and was vague bu [...]	2007-10-10 14:02:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ENEG SENV TRGY UN PHUM KWMN SOCI PTER UNSC
07MASERU562	LESOTHO: AMB CHAVEAS VISITS, INJECTS REALITY INTO AFRICOM [...] (U) SUMMARY: During a September 20-23 visit to Lesotho, Director of the Department of Defense's Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) Ambassador Peter Chaveas (ret.) disseminated useful information concerning AFRICOM and ACSS to a range of high-level GOL officials. Chaveas met with the [...]	2007-10-10 15:46:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL LT
07MASERU563	LESOTHO: AMBASSADOR NOLAN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO KING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 10, Ambassador Robert B. Nolan presented his credentials to Lesotho's King Letsie III at the Royal Palace in Maseru. During their private conversation following the presentation, the King emphasized the excellent state of U.S.-Lesotho bilateral relations following th [...]	2007-10-10 16:41:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID KHIV KMCA LT
07MASERU608	LESOTHO PM TO AMBASSADOR: "THANK YOU FOR STAYING THE [...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador's November 19 initial courtesy call on Lesotho Prime Minister Mosisili, the PM expressed deep appreciation for 41 years of an uninterrupted USG presence in the mountain kingdom and for American generosity over the years, including programs in the areas of heal [...]	2007-11-20 16:19:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID LT
07MASERU623	LESOTHO DEFENCE FORCE COMMANDER: "WE SUPPORT AFRICOM" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 5, Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Lesotho Defense Force (LDF) Commander Lt. General Thuso Motanyane, during which the Commander expressed strong support for the establishment of AFRICOM and lauded growing military relations between the U.S. and Lesotho. The Amba [...]	2007-12-06 16:50:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM MARR MASS MOPS MCAP LT
07MASERU81	INITIAL POST ELECTIONS VIEWS [...] (C) In reviewing the outcome to date, Ambassador has met with counterparts in the diplomatic corps, heads of observer missions, and primary opposition leader Thabane to further analyze the implications of Lesotho's February 17 elections. The major observer groups and the Independent Electoral [...]	2007-02-20 14:48:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR LT
07MEXICO100	DEMARCHE REGARDING UNSCR 1737 DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-08 22:40:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	MNUC KNNP UNSCR MX IR
07MEXICO1041	SCENESETTER FOR AGRICULTURE SECRETARY JOHANNS [...] (SBU) Summary: We welcome your visit to Mexico City as an outstanding opportunity to demonstrate our continued interest in working with the new Mexican government on tackling the sensitive issues surrounding the bilateral agricultural relationship, which will be key to making progress on oth [...]	2007-03-01 16:44:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR BEXP ETRD ECON KJUS PREL MX
07MEXICO1102	SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO MEXICO, MARCH [...] (SBU) Mission Mexico warmly welcomes you to Merida. President Calderon recognizes the broad-ranging challenges his country faces and appears to have the vision and political will to address them strategically. Having completed three months in office, he has demonstrated resolve in tackling hi [...]	2007-03-05 19:24:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR ECON OVIP MX
07MEXICO1196	SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT- MEXICO (PA [...] (SBU) The mission's point of contact on the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Report is Poloff Walter R. Miller. He may be reached by telephone at (52) (55) 5080-2000, ext. 4806, or by fax at (52) (55) 5080-2247. Post requests that the names of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working wit [...]	2007-03-08 22:18:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM ELAB KFRD KWMN MX PHUM PREF SMIG
07MEXICO12	ISNA SANCTIONS NOTIFICATION DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-03 21:36:00	Embassy Mexico	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC MX
07MEXICO1200	SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT- MEXICO (PA [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-08 22:20:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM ELAB KFRD KWMN MX PHUM PREF SMIG
07MEXICO1209	DEMARCHE TO MEXICO ON USG PRIORITIES FOR HUMAN [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel talking points to Luis Benavides, Director of International Policy on Political and Civil Rights, and Mariana Salazar, Director of International Policy on Cultural, Social, Economic and Minority Rights, both of the Secretariat of Foreign Relations. 2. (C) Con [...]	2007-03-08 23:51:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHCR MX
07MEXICO1357	OUTCOME OF OPENING MEETING OF THE COMMUNITY OF [...] (SBU) Poloff participated in the March 12, 2007 opening meeting of the Community of Democracies (CD) working group on "poverty, development, and democratic governance" held at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE) in Mexico City. The SIPDIS working group was inaugurated by Mexican Unders [...]	2007-03-16 21:16:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PHUM PGOV PREL UNGA MX
07MEXICO1358	PRESIDENT CALDERON ALL BUT EMBRACES OPPOSITON [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-16 21:34:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI PINR MX
07MEXICO146	DEMARCHE: 2007 LIBERIA PARTNERS FORUM [...] Post delivered reftel demarche to Dr. Luis Landa Fournais, Director General for Economic Relations at the Foreign Relations Secretariat. No specific response was given. Visit Mexico City's Classified Web Site at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/mexicocity GARZA [...]	2007-01-11 21:24:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN MX
07MEXICO1466	APPROVAL FOR MILITARY INFORMATION SUPPORT TEAM [...] (U) This is an approval message. 2. (S) Ambassador approves MIST concept under USSOCOM Trans-regional PSYOP (TRP) Execution authority and Rewards Information Program (RIP),and executed through the USNORTHCOM Information Operations (J39) for planning, coordination, product development, prod [...]	2007-03-23 21:03:00	Embassy Mexico	SECRET	MARR MOPS PTER OPRC MX
07MEXICO149	MEXICO'S NEW TRADE CZAR - BEATRIZ LEYCEGUI [...] (SBU) The Secretariat of Economy's new Sub-Secretary for International Trade Negotiations, Beatriz Leycegui, is a seasoned trade hand (she was a Mexican NAFTA negotiator and has since worked in the private sector as a trade lawyer and consultant) and committed to maintaining good commercial re [...]	2007-01-11 23:27:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR PREL PINR MX VE
07MEXICO1688	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL THOMPSON, 10-11 APRIL 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Garza and Mission Mexico welcome you to Mexico City. Since his December 1 inauguration, President Felipe Calderon has taken several bold actions to confront the public security challenges facing Mexico: he has launched major military-backed surge operations against [...]	2007-04-03 19:31:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SMIG SNAR MX
07MEXICO1710	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S DEFENSE [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-04 17:57:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KNNP PARM KN IR MX
07MEXICO173	MEXICO 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- PART II [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-12 23:05:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV KTDB OPIC USTR ELAB ETRD EFIN PGOV
07MEXICO1815	MEXICO HOSTS PLAN PUEBLA-PANAMA SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: Leaders from seven Central American nations, plus Colombia, met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in Campeche April 9-10 for a two day summit aimed at revitalizing the long-stagnant Plan Puebla Panama (PPP),a regional development initiative proposed by former President Vic [...]	2007-04-12 18:03:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MX PGOV
07MEXICO185	PRESIDENT CALDERON CALLS FOR GREATER FOREIGN [...] (U) Summary: During the January 9-10 annual meeting of Mexican ambassadors and counsels, President Calderon envisioned Mexico's foreign policy as "more of Mexico in the world and more of the world in Mexico." He told his country's top diplomats to execute a "responsible and active foreign pol [...]	2007-01-13 00:27:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MX
07MEXICO1854	ONDCP WALTERS MEETINGS WITH MEXICAN OFFICIALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The February 27 visit by John Walters (ONDCP) helped initiate coordination with the newly installed Calderon Administration. In separate meetings with Attorney General Medina Mora and Public Security Secretary Garcia Luna, Director Walters emphasized the importance of information [...]	2007-04-13 22:28:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PREL MX
07MEXICO1963	DEMARCHE DELIVERED RE. PARTICIPATION IN THE FORMAL [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Secretariat of Foreign Relations (SRE) Director General for Middle East and Africa Ana Luisa Fajer Flores. Fajer was aware of the event and said Mexico would probably send its concurrent Ambassador to Egypt and Iraq, Jaime Nualart. She asked if Mexico would [...]	2007-04-20 21:23:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EFIN PGOV PREL UNAUS MX
07MEXICO212	MEXICO 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- PART I [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-16 20:50:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV KTDB OPIC USTR ELAB ETRD EFIN PGOV
07MEXICO213	MEXICO ENERGY REFORM [...] (C) Embassy Mexico is supporting the establishment of a Mexican private sector working group to promote serious, in-depth discussion of the future of energy in Mexico. Energy is at the core of debates affecting the Government of Mexico's fiscal future. President Calderon and other leaders hav [...]	2007-01-16 21:11:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EPET ECON MX
07MEXICO2202	MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, APRIL 27 - MAY 4 [...] (SBU) The Mexican senate approved a bill combating terrorist financing that will now go to the President for signature. The Bank of Mexico (BOM) raised interest rates by a quarter percent to head off inflation, and the Finance Secretariat and BOM revised this year's growth forecast SIPDIS [...]	2007-05-04 16:11:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS EFIN MX PGOV PREL
07MEXICO2219	UPDATE ON MEXICO IPR ISSUES - SOME ENCOURAGING [...] (SBU) Mexican officials responded positively to Post's 301 demarche, reflecting a growing sense of commitment to taking IPR infringement more seriously. In recent weeks, President Calderon reiterated his government's determination to combat piracy, the Mexican Senate passed a bill that would g [...]	2007-05-04 21:34:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD PINS MX CH
07MEXICO2235	SECRETARY OF DEFENSE TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 27, Secretary Guillermo Galvan spent nearly two hours fielding questions and offering comments to 19 legislators in a public hearing called by the Chamber of Deputies' Defense Committee to discuss the military's growing role in counter narcotics operations. Galvan's f [...]	2007-05-07 15:02:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL MX
07MEXICO2285	NORTHERN MEXICO: LABOR UNIONS COMPETE AMONG [...] SUMMARY: If the northern Mexican states of Nuevo Leon (which includeS the major industrial city of Monterrey) and Coahuila are any indication, labor relations in that part of Mexico are marked by a general sense of cooperation between the unions and the region,s larger private and public empl [...]	2007-05-09 11:50:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI PINR MX
07MEXICO2334	MEXICO ECONOMIC WEEKLY, MAY 4-11, 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary: Inflation fell in April, despite price increases for some commodities. President Calderon is exploring how to proceed with fiscal reform. The United States and Mexico held the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Mexico Consultative Committee on Agriculture, and discussed implementing [...]	2007-05-11 18:30:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECPS ELAB EFIN PGOV ETRD PREL MX
07MEXICO2388	INTERNATIONAL WORKERS, DAY CELEBRATIONS HIGHLIGHT [...] SUMMARY: In most countries May 1, (International Workers, Day) is viewed as a date to commemorate labor unity. That said, public events proclaiming the goal of worker unity were not much in evidence this year in Mexico. Instead, the most obvious display to come out of this year,s May 1 celeb [...]	2007-05-14 21:51:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI MX
07MEXICO2576	PRI SET TO WIN YUCATAN GOVERNORSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary. With 80% of the votes counted, it appears that PRI candidate Ivonne Ortega has won the race for Governor in the Yucatan. The elections occurred in a climate relatively free of conflict or controversy with some irregularities noted in smaller towns. The elections should not be [...]	2007-05-21 23:09:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MX
07MEXICO2651	MEXICO REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF [...] (U) Post supports continued waiver of Title III provisions of the Libertad Act for Mexico. The Mexican International Development Bank has begun the process of recovering debt from Cuba. There are small exchange programs between the two countries. Mexico continues to promote respect for human [...]	2007-05-23 22:11:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ETTC PREL CU MX
07MEXICO2653	MEXICO NOT LIKELY TO VOICE CONCERN OVER [...] (C) Summary: Political Counselor met with Mario Arriola Woog, SRE's Director General for Latin America and the Caribbean, on May 21 to emphasize that growing political, economic and commercial ties between Venezuela and Iran not only served to undermine international sanctions against the l [...]	2007-05-23 22:22:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER VE IR MX
07MEXICO279	MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, JANUARY 11 - 17 2007 [...] (U) In response to sharp increases in tortilla prices, the Calderon government has agreed to temporary price restraints with a number of producers and distributors. Finance Secretary Carstens has said he believes that the drop in oil SIPDIS prices is temporary and will not result in budget c [...]	2007-01-19 23:15:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAGR ECPS ELAB EPET ETRD PGOV MX
07MEXICO2852	PRESIDENT CALDERON UNVEILS MEXICO'S NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) Summary: President Calderon has announced a National Development Plan for Mexico. The plan calls for extensive political and economic reform covering a wide range of areas from security to competitiveness to foreign policy and the environment. Although many of the proposals have been pen [...]	2007-06-01 22:43:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON BEXP SENV EAID PGOV EFIN EINV MX
07MEXICO2886	HUMAN RIGHTS TALKS REVEAL AREAS OF AGREEMENT, [...] (C) Summary: On May 29, U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials held trilateral talks in Mexico City on human rights cooperation. This is the first of two cables summarizing the talks, and will focus on issues relating to the upcoming OAS General Assembly (OASGA); issues relating to the UN Hum [...]	2007-06-04 18:35:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC MX OAS HUMAN
07MEXICO2947	NORTH AMERICAN PARTNERS DISCUSS HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: This is the second of two cables summarizing trilateral talks on human rights cooperation with Canada and Mexico held in Mexico City on May 29. This cable focuses on issues relating to the UN system, with a particular focus on those before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC); ref [...]	2007-06-06 19:36:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC MX OAS HUMAN
07MEXICO3080	MEXICO COMMITTED TO SUCCESSFUL TRADE RELATIONSHIP, [...] (SBU) The Calderon administration recognizes the vital economic role played by a bilateral trade relationship that is, on the whole, quite healthy. Nonetheless, Mexican officials are worried about the political implications of a growing perception in Mexico that NAFTA implementation is a one- [...]	2007-06-12 22:22:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ERTD ECON MX
07MEXICO3111	NEW SLATE OF INTERPARLIAMENTARY GROUP PARTICIPANTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Focusing this year on economic competitiveness, immigration and security/law enforcement, legislators at the 46th annual Interparliamentary Groups (IPG) agreed their countries shared common stakes in economic development and improved security. Coming as it did two days afte [...]	2007-06-14 15:57:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON MX
07MEXICO3304	MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION CLAIMS - PART 2 [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-25 13:23:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX
07MEXICO3305	MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION CLAIMS - PART 2 [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-25 13:24:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX
07MEXICO3306	MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION CLAIMS - PART 2 [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-25 13:32:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX
07MEXICO3307	MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION CLAIMS - PART 2 [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-25 13:32:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX
07MEXICO3308	MEXICO 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION CLAIMS - PART 2 [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-25 13:32:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD KIDE CASC OPIC PGOV MX
07MEXICO3442	STATE GOVERNMENT AND UNION PROMOTE JOBS IN COAHULA [...] SUMMARY: The government of the northern Mexican state of Coahuila and the national union of the Mexican Workers Confederation (CTM) recently took advantage of a newly published university study positively highlighting the state,s economic growth to sign an agreement promoting job growth and c [...]	2007-07-02 15:09:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON ETRD PGOV PINR SOCI MX
07MEXICO3443	STATE GOVERNMENT AND UNION PROMOTE JOBS IN COAHULA [...] SUMMARY: The government of the northern Mexican state of Coahuila and the national union of the Mexican Workers Confederation (CTM) recently took advantage of a newly published university study positively highlighting the state,s economic growth to sign an agreement promoting job growth and c [...]	2007-07-02 15:09:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON ETRD PGOV PINR SOCI MX
07MEXICO3444	STATE GOVERNMENT AND UNION PROMOTE JOBS IN COAHULA [...] SUMMARY: The government of the northern Mexican state of Coahuila and the national union of the Mexican Workers Confederation (CTM) recently took advantage of a newly published university study positively highlighting the state,s economic growth to sign an agreement promoting job growth and c [...]	2007-07-02 15:10:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON ETRD PGOV PINR SOCI MX
07MEXICO346	SCENESETTER FOR COMMERCE SECRETARY GUITERREZ'S [...] (SBU) Summary: We welcome your visit to Mexico City as an unparalleled opportunity to set the stage and coordinate with the new Mexican government on concrete measures we can take together to move the relationship forward in many important economic areas, including improving competitiveness [...]	2007-01-23 23:05:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP ETRD ECON KJUS PREL MX
07MEXICO379	BRIDGES THAT DIVIDE US: FACILITATING US-MEXICO [...] (SBU) The overall message conveyed to Assistant Secretary of Commerce David Bohigian during his three-day, SIPDIS three-state tour of the U.S.-Mexican border was that there is much that the two federal governments can do to help improve cross-border commerce, to the benefit of consumers, b [...]	2007-01-25 16:58:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN ECON ELTN ETRD MX
07MEXICO3926	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON USG PRIORITIES FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-24 22:56:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM UNGA MX
07MEXICO3993	PETROLEOS MEXICANOS: A VERY, VERY GOOD PLACE TO [...] SUMMARY: On July 17, Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico,s national petroleum company (Pemex),and the Petroleum Workers Union (STPRM) announced an agreement on a new collective bargaining contract for 2007-2009. The current Pemex/STPRM contract was set to expire on August 31, 2007. This was report [...]	2007-07-27 21:55:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PINR MX
07MEXICO4114	AMCONSUL MATAMOROS HOSTS UNION, PRIVATE SECTOR AND [...] SUMMARY: On July 20, AmConsul Matamoros hosted a meeting aimed at opening a discussion on ways to prevent drug abuse in general and abuse in the workplace in particular. The meeting was attended by representatives of Mexico,s largest labor federations (CTM),the local president of a national [...]	2007-08-02 21:52:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR ELAB PGOV ECON PINR SOCI MX
07MEXICO4246	THE LABOR SITUATION OF THE MEXICAN TEXTILE AND [...] SUMMARY: Beginning on July 31, the Mexico office of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) foundation, a German non-profit organization, and the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation (ITGLWF) held a two day seminar on the &Future of the Textile Industry in Mexico.8 The se [...]	2007-08-09 18:24:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON ETRD KTEX PGOV PINR CH MX
07MEXICO4265	PARTIES ACCENTUATE THE NEGATIVE AFTER MIXED STATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Recriminations are raining this week across Mexico's political landscape in the wake of August 5 state and local elections in Baja California, Aguascalientes and Oaxaca. All three parties are smarting in one locale or another. In Baja California, PRI's Jorge Hank Rhon broke [...]	2007-08-09 21:16:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON MX
07MEXICO4293	FUTURE OF THE SPP AND NAFTA - MEXICAN VIEWS LEADING INTO [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 9, Econoffs met with officials from Mexico's Ministry of Economy to discuss GOM positions for the North American Leaders Meeting in Montebello August 20-21, and the NAFTA Free Trade Commission meetings in Vancouver August 13-14. Expressing concern over the downplaying [...]	2007-08-13 13:47:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV ETRD SPP MX
07MEXICO4331	CALDERON MAINTAINS HIGH APPROVAL RATING [...] President Calderon's public approval rating stands at 64%, according to a reliable Mexican poll that registered his approval at 68% in April. The four point decline falls within the poll's margin of error, and reflects the continued strong standing of the president as he prepares to give his [...]	2007-08-14 14:59:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MX
07MEXICO4334	MEXICAN TELECOMMUNICATION POLICY TARGETS TELMEX [...] (SBU) On August 3, as part of the Ninth Meeting of the High Level Consultative Commission (HLCC) on Telecommunications, Rafael del Villar, Under Secretary for Communications at the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT),briefed a small group of Department of State (DOS),Feder [...]	2007-08-14 15:31:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS ENIV PGOV MX
07MEXICO4390	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BLUNT'S AUGUST 20-21 VISIT [...] (SBU) My staff and and I warmly welcome you to Mexico City. President Calderon recognizes the broad-ranging challenges his country faces and has the vision and political will to address them strategically. Having completed his first 9 months in office, he has demonstrated resolve in implemen [...]	2007-08-16 18:31:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP ECON PGOV PREL MX OVIP BLUNT ROY
07MEXICO4460	MEXICO BORDER WORKING GROUP TOUR A SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S.-Mexico Border Facilitation Working Group (BFWG) toured points of entry (POEs) in Laredo, Nogales, and San Diego to witness first hand the bottlenecks that limit cross border trade and gain insight on possible low cost/high impact changes that could rectify the problems. [...]	2007-08-21 17:10:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN ETRD ELTN PGOV PREL MX
07MEXICO4512	ECONOMIC COSTS OF HURRICANE DEAN IN MEXICO [...] (SBU) Summary. Thirty-six hours after Hurricane Dean struck land along the southern edge of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula as a category 5 hurricane preliminary assessments show that damage is less than predicted. The tourism industry was minimally affected as the famed Riviera Maya received less [...]	2007-08-22 22:26:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EAGR ENER PGOV MX
07MEXICO4598	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF [...] (SBU) My staff and I warmly welcome you to Mexico City. President Calderon recognizes the broad-ranging challenges his country faces and has the vision and political will to address them strategically. Having completed his first 9 months in office, he has demonstrated resolve in implementing [...]	2007-08-27 20:06:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV ENRG PREL MX OVIP DANIEL SULLIVAN
07MEXICO4696	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO PRE-BRIEF MEXICO ON UNDER [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-30 19:58:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SNAR PREF PTER PARM EAID ECON OPDC CO MX
07MEXICO4816	REALISTIC VIEW OF CHALLENGES IN STATE OF UNION [...] (U) On September 2, President Calderon presented his 2007 State of the Union Address (Informe) at the Palacio National. The Informe covered rule of law and security, competitive economy and job creation, equal opportunity, sustainable development, effective democracy and responsible foreign p [...]	2007-09-06 22:32:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ELAB EFIN PINR MX
07MEXICO483	CALDERON, ON FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT TO EUROPE, STAYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This week, President Felipe Calderon wrapped up a six day official visit to Europe, his first since taking office. The visit took him to Berlin, Madrid and London and the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Calderon's team successfully used the tour to mount a major i [...]	2007-01-31 22:30:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
07MEXICO4856	EEB A/S SULLIVAN DISCUSSES MAJOR ECONOMIES MEETING [...] (SBU) A/S Dan Sullivan met with a range of senior GOM officials to encourage high-level Mexican participation from the full range of relevant ministries in the September Major Economies Meeting on Climate Change (MEM) proposed by President Bush. Upon being assured that the MEM is aimed at con [...]	2007-09-07 22:20:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG MX
07MEXICO4916	READ-OUT OF BILATERAL MEETINGS ON MEXICO'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 16-17, Department of Commerce/Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) senior technical and policy representatives participated in a bilateral technical exchange in Mexico City, Mexico. This meeting was in response to a specific request by the Mexican Government seeking a [...]	2007-09-11 21:56:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MCAP PARM PTER MX
07MEXICO4917	TOURISM UNDER SECRETARY TALKS OPEN SKIES, [...] (SBU) On September 10, EconCouns and EconOff met with Mexican Undersecretary for Tourism Operation, Francisco Madrid Flores, and Director General of Regional Programs, Juan Carlos Arnau Avila. When Econoffs noted the benefits of a U.S.-Mexico open skies deal Flores said pre-clearance for passe [...]	2007-09-11 21:58:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND EAIR ELAB PGOV MX

07MEXICO5161	FORMATION OF A SECOND MINERS UNION UNDERSCORES [...] SUMMARY: The ongoing saga of Mexico's national miners union (SNTMMSRM) took a significant but little noticed step in late 2006 when a dissident group of approximately 100 people within that labor organization formed a break-away union. Because of the lead up to and the protracted challenge [...]	2007-09-25 21:39:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM PINR MX
07MEXICO5243	MEXICAN SENATORS PLANNING U.S. VISIT TO DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Senior-level Mexican Senators are considering traveling to Washington for the purpose of meeting with their counterparts from the U.S. Congress. We understand President Calderon and PAN Party stalwarts in the Mexican Congress seek to use these trips to lay the groundwork for a [...]	2007-10-01 12:32:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM MX PGOV PREL SNAR
07MEXICO5367	MISSION MEXCIO POSTS HOLD FOLLOW-UP MEETINGS WITH [...] SUMMARY: In September, AmConsul Matamoros and Embassy Mexico City,s Labor Counselor held separate follow-up meetings aimed at coordinating actions to combat abuse in the workplace. These follow-ups were the promised next steps to a discussion began on July 20 when AmConsul Matamoros hosted [...]	2007-10-09 20:25:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB SNAR PGOV ECON PINR SOCI MX
07MEXICO5395	U.S. AND MEXICAN CONGRESSMEN SEEK COMMON GROUND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. CODEL Reyes met with representatives from Mexico's leading political parties October 8 to exchange views on enhanced USG/GOM security cooperation. Reyes understood the security package under consideration could come before the U.S. Congress within weeks but was ambivalent ab [...]	2007-10-10 22:22:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR KCRM MASS MX
07MEXICO5428	MEXICO,S RULING PARTY PROPOSES FREEDOM OF [...] SUMMARY: Mexico,s Federal Labor Law is amazingly detailed with regards to the obligations that employers have towards employees but surprisingly silent when it comes to the obligations the unions have towards their members. Mexican unions are under no obligation to their membership on such th [...]	2007-10-12 14:13:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON PHUM PGOV PINR MX
07MEXICO544	THE BRADLEY WILL CASE, AND OAXACA ITSELF, STILL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. While the streets of Oaxaca have been quiet recently, the crisis lingers on, with many underlying issues remaining unresolved. Despite consistent post pressure on both the state and federal government, the Bradley Will case remains an open investigation, with no one yet charg [...]	2007-02-03 00:13:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB PHUM MX
07MEXICO5462	LEADER OF SUGAR WORKERS UNION ENJOYS THE [...] SUMMARY: Observers of Mexico,s organized labor sector and media commentators have both reviled and hailed, Enrique Ramos Rodriguez, the leader of the country,s largest sugar workers union. In many ways Ramos typifies everything average Mexicans most sharply criticize about their country,s la [...]	2007-10-15 22:14:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EAGR ECON ENRG PGOV PINR MX
07MEXICO5466	MEXICAN CONGRESS BUILDS CONFIDENCE DURING ACTIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mexico's legislature has moved beyond its rubber stamp role of years past and begun playing a formative role in the advancement of critical bills. Strong inter-party and party-government dialogue, as well as the powerful impetus provided by the three senior party leaders in the S [...]	2007-10-16 17:08:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB ENRG PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER SENV
07MEXICO548	MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, JANUARY 25 - FEBRUARY 1 [...] (SBU) Commerce Secretary Gutierrez discussed criminalization of commercial disputes, the current tortilla crisis, conformity assessment, competitiveness, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP),and border cooperation with Secretary Sojo of Economy. Gutierriez learned of a GOM inter [...]	2007-02-06 16:44:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB ENRG MX PGOV PREL
07MEXICO5535	SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY'S TRIP TO MEXICO [...] (C) Ambassador Garza and Mission Mexico warmly welcome you to Mexico City. Your visit is an opportunity to underscore the broad, deep relationship between the U.S. and Mexico and our appreciation for Calderon's demonstrated leadership. His administration is prioritizing security and economic [...]	2007-10-20 18:09:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR PTER PINR ECON ELAB ENRG PHUM
07MEXICO5620	MIGRATION, POVERTY AND OTHER DYNAMICS IN CHIAPAS [...] (C) Summary: Poloff and Econoff explored current political, social, and economic dynamics in Chiapas during recent visits to the state, among Mexico's most culturally and geographically distinct. Although the Zaptista movement of the mid-1990s raised the profile of Chiapas and resulted in inc [...]	2007-10-26 21:38:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ELAB PHUM MX
07MEXICO5639	COMPETING TEXTILE UNIONS DRAW NAFTA COUNTRIES, [...] SUMMARY: A dispute among three labor unions for control of a collective bargaining contract in the southern Mexican state of Puebla has drawn the attention of US and Canadian NGO,s and labor unions as well as the concern of American clothing manufacturers. The dispute began this past May when [...]	2007-10-29 20:44:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON ETRD KTEX PGOV PHUM PINR MX
07MEXICO571	SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY KAREN HUGHES TRIP [...] Summary: Welcome to Mexico. Your visit comes at an important time, with the Calderon administration in only its third month in office. Notwithstanding the polarized political climate in Mexico, President Felipe Calderon is off to a strong start, demonstrating leadership at home and abroad [...]	2007-02-07 21:14:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KJUS MX
07MEXICO5773	SECURITY, MIGRATION, AND ELECTIONS IN MICHOACAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-08 18:05:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON ELAB PHUM MX
07MEXICO5846	FOREIGN SECRETARY ESPINOSA COURTS CONGRESSIONAL [...] (U) Summary: Responding to Congressional calls for the Executive to clarify the Merida Initiative, Foreign Secretary Patricia Espinosa testified before the Senate on October 22 and before the Chamber of Deputies on October 31. She was clear the Merida Initiative is not a formal accord requirin [...]	2007-11-14 22:09:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR PTER SMIL MX
07MEXICO5880	SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CODEL REID TO MEXICO, [...] Welcome to Mexico City. Mexico is key to USG success in combating the trafficking of drugs, persons, arms and precursors, terrorism, and other transnational threats. Since entering office last December, Felipe Calderon's government has moved with unprecedented speed to improve public securit [...]	2007-11-20 20:03:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON MX PGOV PREL OVIP REID HARRY
07MEXICO589	MEXICAN CONGRESS MEMBERS DISCUSS ENERGY REFORM [...] (SBU) The Mexican Autonomous Technological Institute (ITAM) January 22 hosted an energy conference on January 22. The event drew over 100 people, including representatives from all three political parties in Congress, the Mexican Council on International Affairs (Comexi),academia and policy i [...]	2007-02-07 22:46:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET ECON MX
07MEXICO5934	SONORA BRANCH OF FARM WORKERS UNION IS PLEASED [...] SUMMARY: The Hermosillo office of the CNC (National Peasants Confederation) in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora is a farm workers union that is making a positive difference in the lives of persons employed in the various sectors of Mexico,s agricultural industry. The CNC,s Hermosillo [...]	2007-11-27 15:28:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EAGR SOCI PGOV PINR MX
07MEXICO5935	SO FAR UNION DISPUTE HAS LITTLE IMPACT ON FORD [...] SUMMARY: A leadership dispute within what had been the sole union representing all of the workers at Ford Motor Co.,s three production plants in Mexico has, for the most part, had little impact on the car maker,s Mexico operations. The leadership dispute has lead to the formation of a new un [...]	2007-11-27 15:28:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON PGOV EIND EINV PINR MX
07MEXICO5964	SENATE STAFFER, GOM AUTHORITIES SHARE VIEWS ON [...] (SBU) Summary. Carl Meacham, the Senior Advisor on Western Hemisphere Affairs to the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee briefed a wide array of GOM officials November 7 on the current political environment in Washington and what to expect from the legislative process in the U.S. as t [...]	2007-11-29 17:38:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
07MEXICO5984	CALDERON EYING EXPANDED CONTROL OVER PAN [...] (C) Summary: President Calderon is poised to take control of the PAN--a party shaken by his rivalry with PAN President Manuel Espino--with the uncontested election of former cabinet member German Martinez for party president on December 8-9. Tensions between Calderon and Espino reflect a broa [...]	2007-11-30 21:00:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
07MEXICO6005	MEXICO REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF [...] (U) Post supports continued waiver of Title III provisions of the Libertad Act for Mexico. The Government of Mexico (GOM) is optimistic that a debt settlement with Cuba will be reached in the near future. There are small exchange programs between the two countries. Mexico continues to promot [...]	2007-12-03 20:17:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ETTC PREL CU MX
07MEXICO6009	RE: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON HOST GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Below please find Post's responses regarding host government's policies toward and capabilities for collection of biographic and biometric data for terrorist screening purposes. The resonses are keyed to the questions per reftel. A. Watchlisting: -- If host government maintains a "w [...]	2007-12-03 22:05:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ASEC CVIS ECON KVPR MX PGOV PINR PREL PTER
07MEXICO6024	STAFFDEL QUILTER: OPTIMISTIC, BUT ASSERTIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: A delegation from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, headed by Professional Staff Member Peter Quilter spent two days in Mexico City (November 26-28) meeting with GOM representatives, legislators, NGO representatives and Embassy officials to discuss the recently proposed Me [...]	2007-12-04 22:14:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON MX
07MEXICO6042	DEPUTY SECRETARY ENGAGES MEXICAN LEGISLATORS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: At an October 29 dinner with senior members of Mexico,s congress, Deputy Secretary had the opportunity to address some of the issues raised both in the U.S. and Mexico regarding the announced Merida Initiative. While members of the three principal parties in both chambers ind [...]	2007-12-05 21:12:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON MX
07MEXICO6043	DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE HAS CORDIAL MEETINGS [...] Summary: On October 30, Deputy Secretary Negroponte, Assistant Secretary of State Tom Shannon and party met heads of Mexico,s Secretariats of Gobernacion (Interior) and Public Security, as well as with Mexico,s Attorney General. All three GOM officials outlined steps the Calderon administra [...]	2007-12-05 21:13:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON MX
07MEXICO6045	PUBLIC OUTREACH REINFORCES MISSION PUBLIC [...] (U) Summary: The Deputy Secretary built a robust public diplomacy element into his October 29-30 visit to Mexico City. Two TV interviews and a round table with senior print and broadcast leaders (reported septel) substantially buttressed ongoing mission efforts to build public support for t [...]	2007-12-05 21:15:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON MX
07MEXICO6046	DEPUTY SECRETARY VISIT TO MEXICO DEMONSTRATES [...] (SBU) Summary: This is the first of five cables reporting on the October 29-31 visit to Mexico City by Deputy Secretary Negroponte and Assistant Secretary of State for SIPDIS Western Hemisphere Affairs Tom Shannon. In meetings with government leaders, opinion makers and members of civil [...]	2007-12-05 21:16:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON MX
07MEXICO6049	CODEL REID DISCUSSES IMMIGRATION, SECURITY, AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION WITH PRESIDENT CALDERON [...] (C) Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada),leading a bipartisan Senate delegation, met with Mexican President Felipe Calderon November 29 in Mexico City. The delegation pointed to improving U.S. Mexican relations following Calderon's election. President Calderon called immigration an "economic pheno [...]	2007-12-06 13:54:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ECON ETRD MX OVIP PGOV PREL SNAR
07MEXICO6128	MEXICAN AND U.S. SENATORS DISCUSS MIGRATION, [...] Summary. Mexican Senate President Santiago Creel extended a bipartisan U.S. delegation headed by Senator Harry Reid an official welcome on the floor of the Mexican Senate November 29. Afterwards, over a lunch hosted by Creel, the leaders of six of Mexico's seven political parties represente [...]	2007-12-12 15:51:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ECIN ECON ETRD KCRM MX OVIP PGOV PHUM PREL
07MEXICO6184	PRESIDENT CALDERON SPEAKS TO ACHIEVEMENTS, [...] Summary. In a series of interviews commemorating his first year in office, President Calderon touted the creation of 800,000 jobs and singled out narco-trafficking as one of Mexico's biggest challenges. The U.S. was assuming greater responsibility on drugs but needed to do more to reduce de [...]	2007-12-14 22:31:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR SMIG ECON EINV KDEM PINR
07MEXICO6185	MEXICO: ITQ,S DIFFERENT ON THE BORDER [...] Summary. Deputy PolCouns recently traveled to several destinations on the Mexican border with the U.S. as part of an orientation trip. The visit reaffirmed the perception that life in the north of Mexico and, in particular on the border with the U.S., is different from any other place in Me [...]	2007-12-14 22:55:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR SMIG ECON EINV KDEM PINR
07MEXICO6218	MEXICO SUPPORTS UPDATING AGREEMENT ON NATURAL [...] The Government of Mexico welcomes the opportunity to expand bilateral cooperation to respond to natural or man-made disasters and to update the 1980 agreement entitled "Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Mexican States on Cooperat [...]	2007-12-18 22:11:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	AMEX ECON CA MX SENV
07MEXICO6255	SONORA MAQUILA UNION BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD [...] SUMMARY: In the north western Mexican state of Sonora a union affiliated with the country,s largest labor federation, the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers) finds itself in a very precarious spot. The newly elected leadership of this CTM union is struggling to balance the expectations of [...]	2007-12-21 17:57:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON SOCI PINS SNAR PHUM MX
07MEXICO6281	RECOMMENDATION TO UPGRADE CONSULATES NUEVO LAREDO, [...] Summary and action request: Mission Mexico has undertaken a thorough review of interests, missions, workloads, and staffing structures at all of its consulates. As a result we recommend that three posts -- Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros and Hermosillo -- be formally redesignated as Consulates Gener [...]	2007-12-28 13:12:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER OPDC PREL MX
07MEXICO6285	PEMEX TECHNICAL STAFF OBJECTS TO INDIVIDUAL WORK [...] SUMMARY: This past July, Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico,s national petroleum company (Pemex),and the Petroleum Workers Union (STPRM) announced an agreement on a new collective bargaining contract for 2007-2009 (REFTEL). One of the most significant elements of this contract was an agreement betw [...]	2007-12-28 19:17:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PINR MX
07MEXICO640	MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, FEBRUARY 2 - FEBRUARY 9 [...] (SBU) Although the new Mexican Undersecretary for Hydrocarbons told the Embassy he would continue working on the Mesoamerican Energy Initiative, he has not yet assigned staff to the task. Finance Secretariat Undersecretary Werner explained how Mexico could use its oil stabilization fund to [...]	2007-02-09 21:15:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL
07MEXICO656	MEXICO EAGER TO REVISE NAFTA ORIGIN RULES; STILL [...] (C) According to Mexico's top trade official, many of the NAFTA's provisions need to be updated, and she wants North American political leaders to consider re-opening the chapters dealing with market access, rules of origin, and customs treatment, despite the political challenges such an initi [...]	2007-02-12 16:37:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR ECON MX
07MEXICO719	OAXACA CRISIS FADES THOUGH TENSIONS REMAIN [...] (C) Begin Summary: Oaxaca is slowly returning to normal after more than eight months of political, social, and economic crisis, although underlying tensions--particularly in Oaxaca City--remain significant and could reignite conflict if one of the sides makes a serious miscalculation. Visible [...]	2007-02-14 17:32:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ELAB PHUM MX
07MEXICO777	MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, FEBRUARY 10 - FEBRUARY 16 [...] (U) Missouri Governor Matt Blunt promoted the Kansas City Smart Port on a visit to Mexico City February 12. The Embassy worked successfully to ensure Mexico included petroleum products when it approved a third track of NAFTA rule changes this week, thereby facilitating trade worth roughly US [...]	2007-02-16 16:25:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL
07MEXICO804	MISSOURI GOVERNOR PROMOTES SMART PORT [...] (SBU) The Governor of Missouri visited Mexico City with a delegation to discuss the Kansas City Smart Port, a proposed Mexican government customs house in Kansas City. The group met with Ambassador Garza, Embassy representatives, the Secretary of Finance accompanied by representatives from [...]	2007-02-16 20:59:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECIN ELTN ETRD EINV MX
07MEXICO859	DISSIDENTS IN SOCIAL SECURITY WORKERS, UNION RENEW [...] SUMMARY: In October 2006, the National Union of Social Security Workers (SNTSS) held a national convention to elect new union leadership. Despite obvious voting irregularities and ultimately violence, the election results were nevertheless confirmed by the administration of Mexico,s then ou [...]	2007-02-21 17:15:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON PHUM PINR MX
07MEXICO869	PRI ELECTS BEATRIZ PAREDES AS PARTY PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: As the pundits and polls predicted, Beatriz Paredes, a former PRI Secretary General, Senator, Deputy and Tlaxcala state Governor, easily defeated her rivals in the race for the PRI party presidency, with a margin of better than two-to-one over her nearest rival, former Senate P [...]	2007-02-21 21:03:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MX
07MEXICO936	MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, FEBRUARY 16 - FEBRUARY 23 [...] (SBU) The Chamber of Deputies approved a bill that provides for up to 40 years in prison for those convicted of financing terrorist activities. President Calderon tried to address criticism of the January 2008 final opening of the agricultural market under NAFTA by extending and expanding far [...]	2007-02-23 22:55:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL
07MEXICO961	TERRORIST FINANCE: EMBASSY RAISED PROBLEM OF [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-26 21:54:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER MX
07MEXICO965	DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF IN MEXICO, FEBRUARY 15-16: [...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary Chertoff's February 15 meetings with GOM Interior (Gobernacion) officials occasioned broad-ranging discussions of ongoing bilateral cooperation and yielded several specific proposals to broaden it, including: --A commitment to work together closely in shaping and [...]	2007-02-26 22:17:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER SNAR
07MEXICO983	SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S MEETINGS WITH ATTORNEY [...] (SBU) During a two-day trip to Mexico City, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff met February 16 with Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna. Secretary Chertoff and senior Department of Homeland Security SIPDIS (DHS) staff heard Medina Mora outline plans to impr [...]	2007-02-27 16:04:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTE SNAR MX
07MILAN95	MUSLIM OUTREACH STRATEGY - THE NEXT LEVEL [...] (SBU) Summary. Italy represents an opportunity for U.S. interests in promoting the integration of moderate Muslims in a Western European democracy. The level of immigration, particularly Muslim immigration, has risen steeply in recent years, and both Italy and resident Muslims are still evol [...]	2007-04-11 07:45:00	Consulate Milan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI KISL PHUM SMIG IT
07MINSK1004	KOZULIN CONTEMPLATES NEW HUNGER STRIKE [...] (C) Aleksandr Kozulin plans to begin another hunger strike in March 2008, his wife Irina told the Charge in a meeting December 7. Upset with the legitimacy that he felt Lukashenko had gained through appeals for dialogue with the regime by some opposition figures and European officials, Kozul [...]	2007-12-07 16:11:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PINR BO
07MINSK1006	OPPOSITION BPF ELECTS NEW LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) Opposition Belarusian Popular Front (BPF) Chair Vintsuk Vyachorka was unexpectedly replaced by former Acting BPF Chair Levon Barshchevskiy after Vyachorka twice fell short of the absolute majority needed for re-election at the December 8-9 BPF party conference. BPF members remain evenly [...]	2007-12-10 17:01:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
07MINSK1025	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - December 14, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - GOB Registers Pro-Regime NGO Belaya Rus (para. 2) - GOB Adopts 2008-2010 Anti-TIP Program (para. 3) - Opposition Party Receives Warning (para. 4) - Signature Campaign [...]	2007-12-14 16:20:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG KCRM BO
07MINSK1035	BELARUSIAN OPPOSITION INVIGORATED BY U.S. VISIT [...] (C) Following a Belarusian opposition delegation's December 3-8 visit to the United States, party leaders from the United Democratic Forces (UDF) met with the Ambassador December 13. All expressed gratitude for the meetings with President Bush and Secretary Rice, and said that the private co [...]	2007-12-18 16:48:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR BO
07MINSK104	BELARUS DEVELOPING PARTNERSHIP WITH IRAN: MOTIVES [...] (SBU) On January 21 and January 27, the Belarusian Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs held meetings with their Iranian counterparts and the Iranian president in Tehran. Although the Belarusian state media mysteriously ignored the trips, Iranian and independent Belarusian news sources re [...]	2007-02-02 10:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ETRD BO IR
07MINSK1059	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - December 28, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. The next weekly will come out January 11. Happy New Year! TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Authorities to Approve Undergraduate Matriculation (para. 2) - Polish Catholic Priest Expelled from Belarus ( [...]	2007-12-28 10:15:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK1060	IOM BULLISH ON GOB TIP COOPERATION [...] (SBU) DCM, USAID, and poloffs met with Dejan Keserovic, Minsk Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM),to discuss GOB cooperation with the organization's anti-trafficking efforts. Keserovic expressed a generally favorable attitude towards the GOB and government [...]	2007-12-28 13:22:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG KCRM KWMN BO
07MINSK1061	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR ON REFORM IN BELARUS: FREE [...] (C) Ambassador met December 19 with Russian Ambassador Aleksandr Surikov to compare notes on recent Presidential interactions with Belarus -- the December 7 White House meeting with a delegation of Belarusian opposition leaders and the December 13-14 visit to Minsk of Vladimir Putin. Surikov, [...]	2007-12-28 14:15:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PINR BO RS
07MINSK1064	LUKASHENKO THREATENS TO EXPEL AMBASSADOR [...] (C) While addressing the press following a holiday visit to an orphanage December 30, Belarusian head of state Aleksandr Lukashenko threatened to expel the Ambassador should the USG impose additional economic sanctions on Belarus. GOB contacts have been reached by the Embassy but have not pr [...]	2007-12-31 12:52:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ODIP OFDP APER BO
07MINSK110	LUKASHENKO'S "REACHING OUT" TO THE WEST: POSTURING [...] (U) In his latest public appearances on January 25-30, the Belarusian President slammed Russia's energy prices and indicated that his country was ready for a dialogue with the West. In usual form, Lukashenko deflected blame for poor relations with Belarus' neighbors. He admitted that Belarus' [...]	2007-02-06 12:45:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK113	EUR/UMB DIRECTOR DISCUSSES OPPOSITION CONGRESS AND [...] (C) Ambassador and visiting EUR/UMB Director Boehme recently met with several Belarusian opposition party leaders who expressed their support for holding an early March congress of pro-democracy forces. The opposition leaders generally were in favor of broadening U.S. economic sanctions agai [...]	2007-02-06 14:51:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BO
07MINSK123	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - FEBRUARY 8, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - GOB, Ukrainian Vice Premiers Hold Energy Talks (para. 2) - Ukraine Appoints New Ambassador to Belarus (para. 3) - Venezuela to Open Embassy in Belar [...]	2007-02-09 12:28:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK125	THE "GOOD FELLAS" IN LUKASHENKO'S CIRCLE [...] (C) A Russian-based internet newspaper has been publishing a series of reports on alleged criminal rackets organized and/or headed by Lukashenko's former Minister of Interior Sivakov and commander of the President's personal special forces unit Pavlichenko. Reliable Embassy contacts asserted that t [...]	2007-02-09 15:06:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
07MINSK13	LUKASHENKO GIVES RUSSIA BLACK EYE OVER BLACK GOLD [...] (C) On January 3, Belarusian PM Sergey Sidorskiy announced duties of USD 45/ton on Russian crude oil shipped via pipeline through Belarus effective from January 1. If crude shipments were to continue at their 2006 volume, Transneft would pay the GOB USD 3.1 billion in duties. Lukashenko expl [...]	2007-01-05 13:56:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV PREL BO RS
07MINSK150	MILINKEVICH AND PARTISAN LEADERS SHOWING SIGNS OF [...] (C) Since the January 14 municipal elections, the United Democratic Forces (UDF) have focused almost exclusively on organizing another democratic opposition congress, tentatively set for March 17-18. However, the coalition seems ill-prepared to hold a forum by that date. The UDF has yet to [...]	2007-02-16 17:08:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BO
07MINSK152	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - FEBRUARY 20, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - U.S. Citizens Deported from Belarus (para. 2) - Lukashenko Wants to Cooperate with Europe (para. 3) - GOB Delegation Me [...]	2007-02-20 14:57:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK160	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - FEBRUARY 22, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - French Ambassador Seeks Belarus-EU dialogue (para. 2) - Foreign Minister Martynov Visits India (para. 3) CIVIL SOCIETY ------------- - I [...]	2007-02-22 15:45:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK18	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JANUARY 5, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS ELECTIONS --------- - Prosecutor Not to Investigate Election Fraud (para. 2) DOMESTIC ECONOMY ---------------- - Finance Ministry to Adjust 2007 Budget (para. 3) - Belarus Worst Country for Ta [...]	2007-01-09 03:57:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK182	INDEPENDENT SURVEYS HAVING EFFECT ON VOTERS [...] (SBU) Independent pollsters Manaev and Vardomatskiy gave Ambassador the results of their latest polling conducted in January. Both pollsters' results indicate that public support for a union with Russia dropped by 10-15 percent to 35 percent. However, support for a closer relationship with th [...]	2007-03-02 13:09:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO
07MINSK184	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MARCH 1, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - CEI Executive Secretary DG Visits Minsk (para. 2) CIVIL SOCIETY ------------- - State Control Committee Creates Anti-Corrupt Hotline (para. 3) [...]	2007-03-02 14:18:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK204	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MARCH 9, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - GOB Security Council Denies Iran, Syria Arms Sales (para. 2) - GOB Calls ODIHR Monitoring Practices "Biased" (para. 3) CIVIL SOCIETY ------------ [...]	2007-03-09 14:12:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK206	LEADING SCIENTISTS DEBATE NECESSITY OF A NUCLEAR [...] (C) As GOB plans to build a nuclear power plant (NPP) gain steam, Pol/Econ Chief hosted a first-ever roundtable discussion with prominent scientists opposed to and supportive of an NPP in Belarus. Deputy Chair of the Belarusian National Academy of Sciences (BNAS) Timoshpolskiy promoted NPP co [...]	2007-03-09 15:30:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG TRGY PARM MNUC BO
07MINSK222	RUSSIA'S AGGRESSIVE NEW BELARUS POLICY - IS IT [...] (C) Last December, Russia delivered a body blow to the Lukashenko regime by ending years of cheap energy and easy profits. Observers here generally agree that several objectives prompted Russia to significantly raise energy prices for Belarus. First, Russia is forcing Belarus through the ne [...]	2007-03-15 13:21:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ENRG RS BO
07MINSK227	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MARCH 14, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - Belarusian Plane Attacked in Somalia (para. 2) - Lukashenko's Kyiv Visit Postponed (para. 3) - GOB Urges UN HRC to Avoid "Double Standards" (para. 4 [...]	2007-03-16 15:28:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK229	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MARCH 14, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - Belarusian Plane Attacked in Somalia (para. 2) - Lukashenko's Kyiv Visit Postponed (para. 3) - GOB Urges UN HRC to Avoid "Double Standards" (para. 4 [...]	2007-03-19 05:55:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK258	NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHAIR WELCOMES AND [...] (C) Ambassador on March 19 met with the Chair of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences (BNAS) Myasnikovich. The BNAS chair briefly criticized U.S. "isolationist" policies towards Belarus, but generally spoke about the need to increase U.S.-Belarusian bilateral cooperation in science. Myasnikovic [...]	2007-03-23 16:16:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV INR BO
07MINSK259	NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHAIR WELCOMES AND [...] (C) Ambassador on March 19 met with the Chair of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences (BNAS) Myasnikovich. The BNAS chair briefly criticized U.S. "isolationist" policies towards Belarus, but generally spoke about the need to increase U.S.-Belarusian bilateral cooperation in science. Myasnikovic [...]	2007-03-23 16:16:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV INR BO
07MINSK261	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MARCH 22, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - German MP Zapf Seeks Dialogue with Regime (para. 2) - GOB Delegation Arrives in Venezuela (para. 3) - New Ukrainian Ambassador Meets Foreign Ministe [...]	2007-03-26 11:35:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK270	DEFMIN SEEKS USG COOPERATION DESPITE THE OBSTACLES [...] (C) Defense Minister Leonid Maltsev told Ambassador during their first meeting that he would like to deepen the military's interaction with the United States, but he understands the political obstacles to high-level cooperation. The MoD benefited greatly from past USG assistance, and Maltsev [...]	2007-03-29 12:43:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK272	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MARCH 29, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - Bodies from GOB Plane Attacked in Somalia to Return (para. 2) - Venezuela Considers Buying Missiles from Belarus (para. 3) CIVIL SOCIETY -------- [...]	2007-03-30 13:55:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK273	LUKASHENKO RESURFACES AFTER SUSPICIOUS 17-DAY [...] (C) President Lukashenko made a point to quell rumors about his health after a suspicious 17-day absence from the media spotlight. On March 28, a pale and balding Lukashenko appeared at a state-owned greenhouse and livestock farm and admitted to journalists that he was a bit tired, but comple [...]	2007-03-30 13:57:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
07MINSK286	OPPOSITION PARTY DEPUTIES COMMITTED TO UNITY AND [...] (C) Following the March 25 opposition demonstration, party deputies and regional party representatives are trying to rebound with a call for unity for all. In recent discussions, they admitted to us that unanswered questions remain -- particularly regarding coalition leadership -- but they ha [...]	2007-04-04 14:18:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK29	FORMER POLITICAL PRISONERS SEEK SUPPORT, MAY [...] (C) Charge met with two recently released Belarusian political prisoners who remained politically engaged despite their isolation and substandard conditions. While downplaying the significance of Belarus' upcoming local elections and opposition congress, both emphasized the need for more pre [...]	2007-01-11 12:27:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK290	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - APRIL 05, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - Minsk Oil Extraction Deals Outside Russia-"Propaganda" (para. 2) - Latvia to Demand Compensation for Fuel Spill (para. 3) - Parliament Approves Visa [...]	2007-04-05 15:36:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK296	GOB MOVING SLOWLY TO ATTRACT INVESTMENT [...] (C) The government of Belarus announced its hopes to attract greater investment and to expand the share of foreign investment in the economy. However, the GOB has not undertaken any new initiatives to make the business climate more favorable for foreign investors. Systemic barriers and overa [...]	2007-04-06 14:01:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK304	LUKASHENKO SEEKS TO ASSUAGE CONCERNS OVER PERSONAL [...] (SBU) During his latest speeches on April 4-9, Lukashenko emphasized that he remains in firm control of the country. Lukashenko stated that while the recent oil and gas conflict had caused problems for the economy, these problems would soon be overcome and forgotten. He declared that recent e [...]	2007-04-12 08:29:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ECON BO
07MINSK307	LUKASHENKO RECONFIRMS HIS PLAN TO REMAIN PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) During a press conference with independent and state media on April 12, Lukashenko denied rumors that he was grooming one of his two legitimate sons for the presidency, stressing that he plans to remain in power for the "foreseeable future." During his most recent statements to the pres [...]	2007-04-13 15:38:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK319	RELIGIOUS MINORITIES REMAIN IMMOBILIZED [...] (SBU) GOB tactics force some churches to break the law in order to practice their religion. Hare Krishna members face ongoing harassment for fulfilling religious duties. Even "traditional" religions face restrictions. In addition, limitations on religious activity severely hamper the growth [...]	2007-04-19 15:18:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK32	ON THE EVE OF LOCAL ELECTIONS MILINKEVICH COMMENTS [...] (C) Opposition coalition leader Milinkevich on January 11 expressed to Ambassador his concern for Belarus' sovereignty in the wake of the Russian-Belarusian gas and oil crisis. Milinkevich opined Russia had given up on Lukashenko and would achieve its goals in Belarus using strong economic pre [...]	2007-01-12 14:58:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK342	DAS KRAMER ASSUAGES CONCERNS OF CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) On April 24, EUR DAS David Kramer met with representatives of Belarusian civil society NGOs during his visit to Minsk. The NGO leaders concurred that the Lukashenko regime appears anxious following the conflict with Russia over energy prices earlier in the year and seeks to better relati [...]	2007-04-26 14:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK349	LUKASHENKO'S ANNUAL SPEECH FOCUSES ON [...] (U) In his annual address to the Belarusian parliament, President Lukashenko announced plans to prevent future energy crises, which include diversifying Belarus' energy supplies, building a nuclear power plant, and encouraging Belarusians to be thriftier. Naming China as Belarus' number one i [...]	2007-04-27 18:46:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK352	VISITING DAS DELIVERS STRONG MESSAGE TO CLOSE [...] (C) Visiting EUR DAS David Kramer and Ambassador were invited to an informal meeting with Presidential Administration Deputy Head and close Lukashenko advisor Natalya Petkevich. Following a disappointing meeting with Foreign Minister Martynov and an unequivocal endorsement from the oppositio [...]	2007-04-30 09:38:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
07MINSK358	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MAY 3, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Former Political Prisoner Banned From Traveling Abroad (para. 2) - Over 4,500 Signatures Collected to Challenge the Religion Law (para. 3) - GOB to Review Former Monas [...]	2007-05-04 08:48:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK382	LUKASHENKO, PALE AND BOMBASTIC, SLAMS U.S. AT [...] (SBU) President Lukashenko on May 9 delivered a war-like Victory Day speech to WWII veterans and the diplomatic corps at Victory Square in Minsk. After leading a short march of WWII veterans and laying a wreath at the eternal flame, Lukashenko praised the heroism and sacrifice of the Belarusi [...]	2007-05-10 14:21:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR BO
07MINSK391	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MAY 11, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS International Relations ----------------------- - EC Office in Minsk Not Sign of Softness on GOB (para. 2) - Lukashenko Ratifies Kyoto Protocol (para. 3) Civil Society ------------- - Supreme [...]	2007-05-14 08:00:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK412	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MAY 18, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Activists Protest Children's Benefits Cut (para. 2) - Opposition Calls for Solidarity with Indicted Youth (para. 3) - Opposition Seeks Legal Action against P [...]	2007-05-18 08:03:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK415	BELARUSIAN NATIONAL FRONT LEADER FACES INTERNAL [...] (C) Belarusian National Front (BNF) activists in recent days have noted that BNF leader Vyachorka's support rating within his party is wavering. All agree that Vyachorka's inactivity contributes to the decrease in support, but those still backing the leader also blame the situation on party f [...]	2007-05-18 12:11:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV BO
07MINSK416	MR. AHMADINEJAD COMES TO MINSK MAY 21 [...] (C) Iranian President Ahmadinejad will pay a two-day visit Minsk starting May 21. Post understands Tehran will seek to equip its military -- through purchases of weapons and dual-use technologies, expanding the presence of Belarusian companies producing dual use manufactures, and training Ira [...]	2007-05-18 12:45:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EPET BO IR
07MINSK422	BELARUS: LIBERTAD ACT [...] (SBU) Although the frequency of high-level contacts between Belarus and Cuba has subsided in 2007, the GOB continues to hope to build economic ties with Cuba, strongly supports the Cuban government, and has no interest in promoting democracy, human rights or free market reform. End summary. [...]	2007-05-22 05:54:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ETTC PREL BO CU
07MINSK425	AHMADINEJAD IN MINSK: PARIAHS SEEK ECONOMIC TIES [...] (SBU) During President Ahmadinejad's May 21-22 visit to Minsk, Belarus and Iran signed a wide range of economic agreements. The deal with the most potential significance grants Belarus access to the Jofeir oilfield. Any arms sales were not made public. Only significant military exports from [...]	2007-05-23 10:01:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PINR ECON EPET BO IR
07MINSK431	CHARGE MEETS 16-YEAR-OLD FACING PRISON FOR [...] (C) On May 22, Charge met with 16-year-old Anastasiya Palazhanka, one of seven Malady Front (MF) members who face up to two years in prison for "running an unregistered organization" (ref A). Like her four MF compatriots with whom Charge had visited earlier (refs B and C),Palazhanka express [...]	2007-05-23 14:53:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK437	EUR DAS KRAMER'S MESSAGE RESOUNDS [...] (SBU) Local media coverage of DAS Kramer's recent visit to Minsk reflected primarily straightforward and opinion-free reporting. A bit of vituperation was thrown in by Belarusian State TV, which commented in a manner consistent with its usual anti-American sentiment. A lively element of pu [...]	2007-05-24 10:17:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO OEXC SCUL PREL BO

07MINSK438	OPPOSITION COMMUNIST LEADER ENJOYS STRONG INTERNAL [...] (C) With his recent uncontested re-election as head of the Belarusian Party of Communists (BPC),Sergey Kalyakin clearly enjoys strong support from within his party going into the May 26-27 opposition congress. According to BPC deputy Skrigana, Kalyakin and the 185 BPC delegates will defend v [...]	2007-05-24 14:43:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
07MINSK442	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - MAY 25, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - GOB Fines Third Organizer of Chernobyl March (para. 2) - Opposition Campaign to Commemorate Vitebsk Purges (para. 3) International Relations ----------------------- [...]	2007-05-25 10:57:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK463	BELARUSIAN-CHINESE RELATIONS: MORE HYPE THAN [...] (C) Lukashenko has referred to China as its most important strategic partner with increasing regularity. Not only do GOB officials routinely claim that trade between the countries is developing rapidly, they note that Beijing's ability to spur economic growth while maintaining "political sta [...]	2007-06-01 12:10:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK466	LIDA AUTHORITIES ALLOW NON-PARTY AFFILIATED [...] (C) Opposition and civil society activists in Lida are permitted to conduct most activities without hindrance and sometimes in cooperation with the local authorities so long as they refrain from organizing such events in their capacity as political party activists. The local Belarusian Nationa [...]	2007-06-04 13:17:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
07MINSK478	NEW LAW TAKES AIM AT INDEPENDENT INTERNET SITES [...] (C) The GOB lower house recently passed legislation that appears to empower the regime to further repress independent and opposition Belarusian media. Despite its laissez-faire language, independent journalists fear that the bill could permit the regime to investigate the growing number of p [...]	2007-06-06 13:44:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID BO
07MINSK484	GOB RATCHETS UP HARASSMENT OF PROTESTANTS [...] (C) The GOB recently increased its harassment of Protestants. On June 3, Protestant Pastor Bokun, who had been arrested two times in eight days, was sentenced to three days in jail for organizing an unauthorized religious service in his home. Bokun's co-pastor, Polish citizen Yaroslav Lukasi [...]	2007-06-07 14:26:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF BO
07MINSK489	MFA WARNS EMBASSY NOT TO INTERFERE IN BELARUS' [...] (C) On June 7, Deputy Foreign Minister (DFM) Viktor Gaisyonok called Ambassador to the MFA to complain that Embassy officials' regional travel was one-sided and interfered in the internal affairs of Belarus. He warned that if such activities continue, the GOB could "take appropriate measures [...]	2007-06-08 15:04:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
07MINSK490	NEW COALITION CO-CHAIRS ON OPPOSITION, POLITICAL [...] (C) The new co-chairs of the opposition coalition outlined for Ambassador their plans through the fall. The co-chairs will each take responsibility for a segment of the coalition's work but leave the door open for former presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich to become a fifth co-chair [...]	2007-06-08 15:05:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BO
07MINSK497	OSCE ACTIVELY WORKS TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY IN BELARUS [...] (C) According to Deputy Head of the OSCE Office in Minsk Vahram Abidjan, the mission's democracy promotion efforts in Belarus focus primarily on monitoring the GOB's actions to fulfill its OSCE commitments. In order to evaluate the GOB's progress, Minsk OSCE Office representatives attend tria [...]	2007-06-11 14:20:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
07MINSK508	THE SURVEY SAYS SUPPORT FOR LUKASHENKO STILL HIGH [...] (C) Independent pollster Oleg Manayev presented post the results of the latest IISEPS survey conducted May 5-15. Aleksandr Lukashenko's rating fell slightly, although support for opposition leaders remained low. Manayev's findings suggest public openness to an opposition and support for negot [...]	2007-06-14 14:25:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK52	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JANUARY 17, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. This report covers events from January 8 to January 19. TABLE OF CONTENTS GOVERNMENT ---------- - Lukashenko Appoints Son to Belarus' Security Council (para. 2) - Parliamentary Session on Election Commission (para. 3 [...]	2007-01-19 14:28:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK53	BFIF PROPOSAL FROM BELARUS [...] Embassy Minsk applies for funding under the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund for two proposals. First, post proposes hosting a professional wine tasting to build the image of American wines in Belarus. Second, post proposes funding travel for the Embassy's Pol/Econ (formerly FCS) FSN to [...]	2007-01-22 13:19:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ABUD BTIO AMGT EAGR EINV ETRD BO
07MINSK541	USG Defends Belarus TIP Ranking Despite GOB Disappointment [...] (SBU) Following the release of the Department's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, Ambassador hosted a digital video conference with G/TIP Ambassador Mark Lagon for those involved in combating TIP in Belarus. The participants discussed Belarus' Tier 2 Watch List (T2WL) placement, steps the [...]	2007-06-22 13:03:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN BO
07MINSK542	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - June 22, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS International Relations ----------------------- - South African Delegation Visits Belarus (para. 2) Civil Society ------------- - Minsk Authorities Want to Remove Small Retail Kiosks (para. 3) [...]	2007-06-22 13:38:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK551	BELARUS HOPES TO REVERSE GSP SUSPENSION [...] (U) The GOB has responded relatively tamely to the June 21 suspension of the EU's General System of Preferences (GSP) for Belarus. Although a loss to the country's budget, independent analysts doubt the annual impact will amount to more than USD 67 million. However, Belarus' image will suffe [...]	2007-06-28 09:31:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV ECON PREL PHUM BO
07MINSK561	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - June 29, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS International Relations ----------------------- - GOB and Russian FMs Discuss Union, Missile Shield (para. 2) - Official Israeli Delegation Arrives in Minsk (para. 3) - Vietnam Military Delegation V [...]	2007-06-29 14:20:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK562	POLITICAL PRISONERS GET NO AMNESTY [...] (SBU) On June 29, the conclusion of the Belarusian parliament's 2006-2007 session dashed hopes of a general amnesty that might release several Belarusian political prisoners. On June 25, GOB Interior Minister Vladimir Naumov announced that the GOB's Presidential Administration (PA) had been [...]	2007-06-29 14:50:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK57	PACE PRESIDENT MANIPULATED BY REGIME DURING VISIT [...] (C) Belarusian opposition leaders and civil society activists continue to communicate disappointment regarding the recent visit to Minsk by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Rene van der Linden. In contrast, top GOB officials and state media seem pleased with the vis [...]	2007-01-23 13:27:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK575	AMBASSADOR'S TRIP TO GOMEL STRESSFUL, REWARDING [...] (SBU) Ambassador on June 20-21 made an introductory visit to Gomel and Rechitsa to deliver a shipment of western medicines to an oncology center and meet with authorities and civil society activists. Hospitable authorities praised local economic growth and sought greater U.S. investment. Poli [...]	2007-07-06 12:20:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK576	CHAVEZ IN MINSK, THE NEW CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE [...] (C) Belarusian coverage of Hugo Chavez's visit to Minsk focused on the Venezuelan's "anti-imperialist" rhetoric. The militaristic tone of the trip lends credence to suggestions Venezuela will acquire Belarusian dual-use technologies with applications for anti-aircraft systems. As for non-mili [...]	2007-07-06 12:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV BO
07MINSK577	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - July 06, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS International Relations ----------------------- - Iranian Military Delegation Comes to Belarus (para. 2) - South Korean Trade Delegation in Minsk (para. 3) Civil Society ------------- - Opposi [...]	2007-07-06 12:57:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK578	LUKASHENKO PAYS FEALTY TO RUSSIA, DEFIES WEST [...] (C) In recent Belarusian Independence Day speeches, President Lukashenko reaffirmed the GOB's commitment to strengthening its relations with Russia and other former Soviet republics. Meanwhile, the dictator defiantly downplayed the economic consequences of the EU's recent removal of trade pr [...]	2007-07-06 13:32:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BO
07MINSK609	KOZULIN'S PARTY SPLINTERING ONE YEAR AFTER [...] (C) One year after the politically motivated imprisonment of former opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin, Kozulin's party appears to be splintering over rivalries among his party's deputies and disagreements regarding Belarusian relations with Russia and the West. These differe [...]	2007-07-16 13:14:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK635	Embassy Minsk Weekly Pol/Econ Report - July 19, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Adopts Parliamentary Elections Guidelines (para. 2) - Daughters Visit Kozulin (para. 3) - Polish Journalist Banned Entry to Belarus (para. 4) - Union of Left- [...]	2007-07-20 13:49:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK65	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - JANUARY 2617, [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS CIVIL SOCIETY ------------- - Gomel Opposition Files Suit against Election (para. 2) - GOB Detains and Drafts Youth Activists (para. 3) INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ---------------------------------- [...]	2007-01-26 13:35:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK654	Embassy Minsk Weekly Pol/Econ Report - July 26, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Solidarity Road Tour Participants Detained (para. 2) - Opposition Movement Denied Registration (para. 3) - GOB to Establish Nuclear Regulatory Agency (para. 4) - Forensi [...]	2007-07-27 09:30:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG BO
07MINSK661	AUTHORITIES DISPERSE JULY 27 DEMONSTRATIONS [...] (SBU) A large GOB security force aggressively, though non-violently, dispersed opposition demonstrations commemorating the 17th anniversary of Belarus' independence from the Soviet Union. Nine activists, including United Civic Party leader Lebedko and Belarusian National Front (BNF) Deputy Iv [...]	2007-07-30 13:45:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK681	GASTRIC REFLUX: NEAR-TERM ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL [...] (C) On August 3, Belarus made initial payment on its debt to Gazprom as ordered by Lukashenko. GOB foreign reserves remain sufficient to preserve economic stability in the short term, although Belarus likely will seek foreign credits in advance of further increases in gas prices in 2008. Poli [...]	2007-08-06 12:15:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV PREL BO RS
07MINSK685	ISA DEMARCHE: MFA FURTHER DETAILS GOB POSITION [...] (C) MFA officials presented DCM further points in response to the demarche on the Iran Sanctions Act August 7. They claimed Belarusneft's oil exploration in Iran would not violate international norms, and noted that Western investors, including oil companies, are already engaged in Iran. The [...]	2007-08-09 12:54:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL ENRG EPET IR BO
07MINSK689	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - August 10, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Malady Front Appeals Registration Denial (para. 2) - Human Rights Group to Assist Political Victims (para. 3) - Minsk Authorities Deny Application for Demonstration (pa [...]	2007-08-10 12:38:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK692	GOB THREATENS UNSPECIFIED RECIPROCAL MEASURES IN REACTION [...] (SBU) In an August 9 meeting, the MFA protested to Ambassador the expansion of categories of persons considered subject to travel restrictions under Presidential Proclamation 8015. The Ambassador reviewed the policy behind the expansion and reminded the GOB that it could hardly be described a [...]	2007-08-10 14:15:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM CVIS BO
07MINSK710	REPLACING PM SIDORSKIY EASIER SAID THAN DONE [...] (C) Once again, Belarusian Prime Minister Sergey Sidorksiy has survived rumors of his imminent political demise. Dismissing Sidorskiy with economic indicators still holding up, and with further gas negotiations with Russia just around the corner, would seem ill-timed. Instead, Lukashenko may [...]	2007-08-17 13:25:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
07MINSK711	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - August 17, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Demographic Trends (para. 2) - Entrepreneurs Resolve to Strike and Defend Rights (para. 3) - Independent Editor Faces Criminal Charges (para. 4) - Polish Officials Den [...]	2007-08-17 13:36:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK72	KEEPING THE ECONOMY AFLOAT SANS CHEAP ENERGY? [...] (C) Economists' forecasts for Belarus in the wake of significant energy import price rises vary greatly. Those most optimistic about the economy's prospects focus on the relatively benign budget implications for 2007 and the ability of Lukashenko to dictate adjustments. Pessimists note the m [...]	2007-01-30 09:28:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK724	JUDICIAL ASSAULT ON BELARUSIAN YOUTH ACTIVISTS [...] (C) On August 23, a GOB court sentenced opposition youth organization Malady Front founder Pavel Severinets to his second 15-day jail sentence since his recent release from internal exile. Severinets' deputies believe the Lukashenko regime is attempting to prevent the youth leader from organ [...]	2007-08-24 08:25:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK727	TRUSTBANK REQUESTS RECONSIDERATION BY TREASURY [...] (C) Trustbank requested a meeting with post to seek a means to remove the bank from the Department of Treasury's list of money laundering concerns. Bank officials conceded its continued profitability remained highly doubtful without rehabilitation, and they offered to consider any recommendat [...]	2007-08-24 12:46:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN PTER PREL BO
07MINSK729	BELARUSIAN BLOGGERS AND OFFICIALS COMMENT ON U.S. VISA BAN [...] (U) On August 3, the USG expanded the list of Belarusians subject to special visa review procedures under Presidential Proclamation 8015. The previous list, which cannot be made public due to the Privacy Act, contained only those individuals directly linked to human rights abuses. The new ex [...]	2007-08-27 05:55:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI BO
07MINSK730	BELARUSIAN BLOGGERS AND OFFICIALS COMMENT ON U.S. VISA BAN [...] (U) On August 3, the USG expanded the list of Belarusians subject to special visa review procedures under Presidential Proclamation 8015. The previous list, which cannot be made public due to the Privacy Act, contained only those individuals directly linked to human rights abuses. The new ex [...]	2007-08-27 06:32:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI BO
07MINSK733	VITEBSK OFFICIALS' OPTIMISM SHROUDS CONTINUED [...] (SBU) Poloffs recently traveled to two cities in Belarus' Vitebsk region to survey the local political and economic landscape. The regional authorities were generally optimistic about the region's economic performance and potential for foreign investment, particularly in its Free Economic Zo [...]	2007-08-27 13:48:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK747	YOUTH MOVEMENT CHAIR DEFIANT AHEAD OF SHOW TRIALS [...] (C) On August 31, Charge and Poloff met with opposition youth organization Malady Front (MF) Chair Dmitriy (Zmitser) Fedaruk on the eve of the trials of three MF regional leaders (ref A). When Charge pledged the Embassy's presence at the trials, Fedaruk expressed his deepest gratitude to the [...]	2007-08-31 14:16:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK768	PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR LUKASHENKO ERODING [...] (SBU) The latest independent public opinion poll confirms a trend of slowly declining support for Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko. Most respondents termed the economy as fair, but showed slightly less optimism about economic developments. Cuts in social benefits to take effect in De [...]	2007-09-07 13:16:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
07MINSK783	OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-13 07:07:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL ECON OSCE BO
07MINSK796	CHANGE COMING TO BELARUS WITH OR WITHOUT CIVIL [...] (SBU) The fledging Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS) held its inaugural conference September 10-12 in Kyiv. The conference represents the first attempt to gather the full spectrum of independent political and social analysts of Belarus, without GOB or political participants, t [...]	2007-09-17 12:01:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK8	A STIFF LUKASHENKO SENDS A MELANCHOLIC NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE [...] (SBU) An exhausted-looking Lukashenko on December 31 delivered his yearly New Year's address to Belarusians before the stroke of midnight. Standing stiffly next to a fireplace mantle and eyes noticeably shifting to the teleprompter behind the camera, Lukashenko slowly, without his infamous "ch [...]	2007-01-05 07:38:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO
07MINSK805	BELAYA RUS-IFICATION OF PARTY POLITICS? [...] (C) Belaya Rus, a group created two years ago to support Aleksandr Lukashenko, may soon formalize its status as a national social organization. Most likely, Belaya Rus will provide pro-presidential local election commission members and monitors for the 2008 parliamentary vote. Members of Bel [...]	2007-09-19 13:16:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
07MINSK808	GEORGIA ON LUKASHENKO'S MIND [...] (C) During a visit by Georgia's Minister of Defense to Minsk, Lukashenko said he wanted to make relations between the two countries "better than during the Soviet Union." While Georgian officials mostly focused on trade in public statements, the GOB most likely sought to signal independence fr [...]	2007-09-21 11:06:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BO GG
07MINSK809	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - September 21, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS International Relations ----------------------- - Syria to Open Embassy in Minsk, Expand Ties (para. 2) Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Youth Arrested, Fined, and Expelled (para. 3) - [...]	2007-09-21 11:07:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK825	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - September 28, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Leaflets against Edicts Seized at Market (para. 2) - Corruption Case Sent to Supreme Court (para. 3) - Activist Hospitalized After Arrest (para. 4) - Participants of F [...]	2007-09-27 16:33:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK849	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - October 05, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Protests Social Benefits Cuts (para. 2) - Jailed Opposition Leader's Daughter Fired (para. 3) - Parliament's Lower House Elects New Speaker (para. 4) - Loca [...]	2007-10-05 15:10:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK850	VENEZUELA ARMS SHIPMENTS DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO [...] (S) On October 2, Ambassador delivered points from reftel to Valentin Rybakov, Foreign Policy Advisor to President Lukashenko. Rybakov noted the points, and responded only by asking if the U.S. Government expresses such concerns to other governments as well, mentioning Russia in particular, o [...]	2007-10-05 16:31:00	Embassy Minsk	SECRET	PARM PREL MASS ETTC RS VE BO
07MINSK857	OPPOSITION ACTIVISTS JAILED AHEAD OF EUROPEAN [...] (U) Ahead of the democratic opposition's October 14 European March (reftel),GOB security services have detained several opposition leaders and activists. On October 8, Minsk police arrested march organizer Yevgeniy Afnagel soon after he met with authorities to discuss the European March and [...]	2007-10-10 16:16:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK858	GSP SUSPENSION NOT PRODDING GOB TO IMPROVE WORKER [...] (C) The EU's suspension of the General System of Preferences (GSP) for Belarus over the government's unwillingness to follow recommendations from the International Labor Organization (ILO) has not triggered any improvement in worker rights. To the contrary, the Presidential Administration ann [...]	2007-10-11 14:01:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM PGOV BO
07MINSK882	LUKASHENKO CRITICIZES PUTIN, BACKS [...] (U) At an October 12 press conference with Russian journalists, President Lukashenko criticized the Putin government for limiting the GOB's access to Russian mass media and stalling Belarusian-Russian integration. Lukashenko advocated a "multi-directional" GOB foreign policy emphasizing close [...]	2007-10-17 16:14:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO RS
07MINSK886	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - October 19, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Polish Minority Leaders Arrested in Grodno (para. 2) - Supreme Court Denies Leftist Union Registration (para. 3) - Milinkevich Founds European Integration Council (para [...]	2007-10-19 16:16:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK889	MFA REPLIES TO IRAN DEMARCHES (ILSA) [...] (C) Summary: On October 22, the Head of the MFA's North America Department Sergey Sergeyev met with the DCM to discuss a host of topics, chief among them issues related to Belarusian relations with Iran. While little new information was offered, Sergeyev's approach enabled the DCM to deliver [...]	2007-10-22 16:38:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC ENRG EFIN MNUC IR BO
07MINSK901	COALITION LEADERS UNITED ON MESSAGE, ELECTIONS [...] (C) The four leaders of the opposition coalition asked Ambassador to signal to the GOB that the international community would watch closely the planned November 4 Social March. They expressed relief that the recent visit by a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe official apparently [...]	2007-10-25 15:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
07MINSK904	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - October 26, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Party Establishes Youth Wing (para. 2) - Activists Protest Expulsions (para. 3) - Activist Re-Arrested Immediately Following Release (para. 4) - Commemorati [...]	2007-10-26 14:48:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK915	FORMER PRESIDENTIAL AIDE ON LUKASHENKO AND CRONIES [...] (C) Former Presidential Administration Press Advisor Aleksandr XXXXXXXXXXXXX told Pol/Econ Chief on October 23 that Lukashenko has not decided whether to run again in 2011. The dictator's inner circle does not fear a managed transition, but still wants to avoid significant steps toward democratiza [...]	2007-11-01 15:40:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
07MINSK929	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - November 09, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition to Hold 1,500 Rallies in Mid-December (para. 2) - Gomel District Court Upholds University Expulsion (para. 3) - Christian Democracy Conference Held in Minsk [...]	2007-11-08 15:47:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK944	INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT FOR BELARUS [...] This interim assessment (reftel) covers Belarus' continuing efforts against trafficking in persons (TIP) since April, 2007. GOB action on TIP has seen marked, if uneven, improvement in this period. The GOB has provided increased in-kind resources to TIP-related NGOs, and has improved relatio [...]	2007-11-15 15:33:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG KCRM KWMN BO
07MINSK946	BELARUS PROTESTS EXPANDED USG SANCTIONS [...] (SBU) Deputy FM Viktor Gaysyonok summoned Ambassador November 15 to protest the recent listing of Belarusian petrochemical giant Belneftekhim by Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC). Gaysyonok read the text of a diplomatic note (see text para 5) stating in part that the OFAC measu [...]	2007-11-15 16:26:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR ETTC BO
07MINSK949	REGIME FAILING TO DEAL WITH POPULATION DECLINE [...] (C) A recent conference demonstrated that official Minsk recognizes that economic migration to Belarus could help counterbalance the country's significant natural population decline. Weak policies and modest goals for attracting workers from abroad suggest the GOB will continue to focus on we [...]	2007-11-16 13:10:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ELAB BO
07MINSK950	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - November 16, 2007 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - BPF Convention to Be Held in Minsk (para. 2) - Apparent Neo-Nazis Disrupt Polish Embassy Reception (para. 3) - GOB Bans Subscription to Major Russian Periodicals (para. [...]	2007-11-16 17:03:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG BO
07MINSK96	KEEPING THE ECONOMY AFLOAT SANS CHEAP ENERGY? [...] (C) Economists' forecasts for Belarus in the wake of significant energy import price rises vary greatly. Those most optimistic about the economy's prospects focus on the relatively benign budget implications for 2007 and the ability of Lukashenko to dictate adjustments. Pessimists note the m [...]	2007-02-01 19:09:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET PGOV PREL BO
07MINSK968	MESSAGE FOR BELARUSIAN OPPOSITION: UNITY, ACTION, [...] (C) An opposition visit to Washington just weeks after the OFAC listing of Belarusian petrochemical giant Belneftekhim offers an ideal opportunity both to reconfirm USG support for the opposition and to express USG expectations for 2008. The opposition will no doubt take heart from a restatem [...]	2007-11-23 16:14:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
07MINSK97	EUR/UMB DIRECTOR DISCUSSES OPPOSITION CONGRESS AND [...] (C) Ambassador and visiting EUR/UMB Director Boehme recently met with several Belarusian opposition party leaders who expressed their support for holding an early March congress of pro-democracy forces. The opposition leaders generally were in favor of broadening U.S. economic sanctions agai [...]	2007-02-01 19:09:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BO
07MINSK976	UDF FALLING BEHIND ON JOINT CANDIDATE LIST [...] (C) Belarus' United Democratic Forces (UDF) have fallen significantly behind their self-imposed timetable for formation of a unified slate of candidates for 2008 parliamentary elections. While UDF co-chairs had hoped a candidate list would be complete by mid-November (refs B, D),USAID-funded [...]	2007-11-27 15:54:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EAID BO
07MINSK984	BELARUS - LIBERTAD ACT [...] (SBU) Although the frequency of high-level contacts between Belarus and Cuba has subsided since 2006, the GOB continues to build economic relations with Cuba (ref B). It has consistently offered the Cuban regime strong support and has no interest in promoting democracy, human rights or free m [...]	2007-11-30 14:51:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC ETRD PREL BO CU
07MINSK99	MFA WARNS EUR/UMB DIRECTOR AGAINST FURTHER USG [...] (C) Visiting EUR/UMB Director Boehme and DCM met with the MFA U.S. and Canada Desk Director Sergey Sergeyev on January 26. Sergeyev expressed the GOB's concern about the potential impact of the recently passed U.S. legislation, the Belarusian Democracy Reauthorization Act, stressing that new [...]	2007-02-02 07:16:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
07MINSK992	VITAL VOICES PARTICIPANTS DISCUSS SEMINAR WITH [...] (C) Ambassador met with participants of a summit held recently by Vital Voices in Ukraine. The conference, "Vital Voices of Eurasia: A Leadership Summit for Women and Girls," took place in Kyiv October 14-18 and highlighted successful practices that women leaders have undertaken to advance the [...]	2007-12-05 14:03:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN BO
07MONROVIA1135	LIBERIA: RESULTS REPORT: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE KIMBERLEY [...] SUMMARY: UN Sanctions on the Liberian diamond sector were lifted in April of this year following the Kimberley Process 3rd Expert Review Mission findings that Liberia met the minimum requirements of the KPCS. The mission report detailed further preparations necessary to ensure that internal con [...]	2007-09-27 16:36:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED	EMIN ECON PGOV EAID LI
07MONROVIA1139	LIBERIA: RELATIONS WITH SIERRA LEONE INCREASINGLY WARM [...] (SBU) Summary: Sierra Leonean President Ernest Koroma used the opportunity of his first official visit to Liberia to strengthen ties between the neighboring democracies. End Summary. 2. (U) On his first foreign trip since taking office, Sierra Leone's newly-elected President Ernest Bai Ko [...]	2007-09-28 15:51:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SL LI
07MONROVIA1293	LIBERIA: REHABILITATING A TROUBLED BUT PROPITIOUS MARITIME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Liberian maritime sector has a unique and vibrant past, but years of war and neglect have taken a toll on the fishing industry (ref A),the port (ref B),and overall maritime control and security inside Liberia's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Although Liberia's U.S.-based [...]	2007-10-29 10:58:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EWWT EFIS PHSA SENV LI
07MONROVIA1368	EMBASSY DISCUSSES INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS WITH GOL [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador, DCM and Conoffs discussed problem areas in international adoptions and made recommendations to strengthen adoption procedures in Liberia during a luncheon hosted by the Ambassador for senior GOL officials and the UNICEF Officer-In-Charge. After an animated and frie [...]	2007-11-27 16:21:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KOCI CASC CVIS LI
07MONROVIA1393	LIBERIA: LEGISLATORS KEEN ON LIBERIA HOSTING [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador briefed Senators and Representatives serving on key legislative committees on the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM),and responded to their questions. The legislators expressed overwhelming support for the initiative and reiterated President Sirleaf's request tha [...]	2007-12-06 07:59:00	Embassy Monrovia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR AMGT ASEC PHUM LI
07MONROVIA1423	LIBERIA'S POSTAL SYSTEM GETTING BACK ON TRACK [...] (SBU) Summary: Liberia's Postal system is struggling to reconstitute itself after being totally destroyed during the 14-year civil war. There is strong commitment by the Director General of Posts to improve service and the just-announced replacement of the Minister of Post and Telecommunicat [...]	2007-12-20 13:03:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS EAID MARR MASS MOPS PREL OTRA LI
07MONROVIA1424	LIBERIA: GOL CONSULTS CITIZENS ON POVERTY [...] (U) SUMMARY. Liberians want roads, healthcare, and education, and they still don't feel secure. The GOL held two-day consultations with stakeholders in each of Liberia's 15 counties as part of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) process. For the first time, Liberians nationwide had a chanc [...]	2007-12-20 15:26:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PRGOV PREL EAID EFIN ECON LI
07MONROVIA221	LIBERIAN LEGISLATIVE CRISIS: SPEAKER SNOWE RESIGNS [...] (C) Summary. Edwin Snowe resigned as Speaker of the House of Representatives February 15, but retained his position as a member of the House. At a press conference announcing his resignation, Snowe urged the international community and the Council of Churches to investigate allegations of bri [...]	2007-02-16 17:56:00	Embassy Monrovia	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV LI
07MONROVIA282	LIBERIA: FEBRUARY 1 VISIT OF CHINESE PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Liberia for a one-day visit February 1. According to Chinese Embassy Political Counselor Gou Hao Dong, it was the first visit by a Chinese head of state to Liberia since the two countries first established diplomatic relations in 1977. Gou to [...]	2007-03-01 10:37:00	Embassy Monrovia	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL LI CH
07MONROVIA559	LIBERIA: SPAIN TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE IN HEALTH AND [...] (U) Charge d'Affaires and Poloff (notetaker) met May 14 with Cristina Diaz Fernandez-Gil, Assistant Director for Cooperation with Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Fernandez-Gil was accompanied by Spain's Honorary Consul in Liberia Manuel Cuenca, Carolina [...]	2007-05-15 08:18:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID SP LI
07MONROVIA591	LIBERIA: SCENE SETTER FOR HDAC CODEL [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes the May 31-June 2 visit of the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC) congressional delegation. Liberia is at a critical moment in its history, emerging from 14 years of civil war under a democratically elected government that has been in office a year and a half. [...]	2007-05-18 15:53:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID ECON LI
07MONROVIA666	CODEL PRICE VISIT TO LIBERIA [...] Summary. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives David Price (D-NC),Chairman of the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC),Jeff Fortenberry (R-NEB),and Gwen Moore (D-WIS),visited Liberia May 31-June 2. Their visit followed up on a July 2006 visit to the Liberian Congress by U. [...]	2007-06-06 09:30:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV OREP KDEM EAID LI
07MONROVIA864	LIBERIA: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-18 16:08:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAID LI
07MONROVIA910	LIBERIA: SCENE SETTER FOR CODEL LOWEY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes the August 16, 2007 visit of the Congressional delegation led by Representative Nita Lowey, Chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. Liberia is at a critical moment in its history, emerging from 14 years of civil war under a d [...]	2007-07-27 15:17:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PGOV PREL EAID ECON LI
07MONTERREY527	MONTERREY'S TROUBLING TRENDS - MURDER, KIDNAPPING, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Following the Mexican national model, in one week Monterrey witnessed a fierce rise in narco-related violence, including police and journalist kidnappings. Already Nuevo Leon has quickly surpassed previous records for the number of murders and kidnappings in the state. To date, [...]	2007-05-18 21:43:00	Consulate Monterrey	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SNAR PINS PGOV SOCI ASEC ELAB ECON MX
07MONTERREY775	NUEVO LEON PRD REJECTS PRESIDENT CALDERON AND SUPPORTS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Representing the hard-line faction of the PRD, Nuevo Leon party leaders continue to reject President Calderon as illegitimate, refuse to work with President Calderon, plan to denounce Calderon at his September 1 State of the Union address, and focus their efforts on recruiting l [...]	2007-08-14 21:07:00	Consulate Monterrey	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ETRD ECON SOCI MX
07MONTERREY818	MONTERREY LAW ENFORCEMENT UPDATE: AUGUST 2007 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Monterrey's law enforcement agencies remained busy during the month of August. In a victory against narco-traffickers, a Monterrey Special Agent assisted in placing three known Gulf Cartel kingpins on the U.S. Consolidated Priority Organizational Target list. Post continued [...]	2007-09-05 20:32:00	Consulate Monterrey	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ASEC KCOR KHLS KJUS PINS CASC MX
07MONTERREY828	NEW NUEVO LEON SECURITY DIRECTOR'S AMBITIOUS PLANS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a September 5 meeting with Consulate representatives, Aldo Fasci, Nuevo Leon's new Secretary of Public Security, laid out his ambitious plans to combat corruption and low morale among the state's police force. His plans include measures to augment police officers' dismally l [...]	2007-09-07 15:28:00	Consulate Monterrey	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR KCRM ASEC KCOR KHLS KJUS PHUM PINS PGOV MX
07MONTERREY934	REPORT FROM ZACATECAS: GOVERNOR SEEKS A NEW ROAD [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 17-19, Consul General and Econoff met with various political, economic, and media leaders in Zacatecas, including moderate PRD Governor Amalia Garcia Medina, Zacatecas City Mayor Cuauhtemoc Calderon, prominent businessmen, and Representatives from the Zacatecas State [...]	2007-11-09 22:59:00	Consulate Monterrey	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAGR EAID ECON EMIN SMIG SNAR SOCI MX
07MONTEVIDEO1001	CHAVEZ UNDER FIRE IN URUGUAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been a favorite subject of the media and political columnists in Uruguay, who more often than not highlight his faults. This was exemplified by a flurry of recent articles and editorials that have cast Chavez in a negative light. Several ar [...]	2007-11-27 18:57:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KPAO VE UY
07MONTEVIDEO1017	URUGUAY: SCENESETTER FOR COMMANDER, SOUTHCOM [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: The U.S. Mission in Montevideo welcomes you and your delegation's visit to Uruguay. Though led by a left-leaning government, Uruguay shares many of our values and remains an island of democratic stability and good governance in a turbulent region. Your arrival [...]	2007-12-04 16:48:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON MARR MASS UY
07MONTEVIDEO1050	SECRETARY CHAO HIGHLIGHTS GLOBAL COMPETITION FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao highlighted the critical need to create the right climate for growth in light of global competition for talent. She spoke about ways to manage emigration and provide retraining for employees affected by the opening economies. During a two-day v [...]	2007-12-19 18:09:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO ELAB ETRD UY
07MONTEVIDEO1052	URUGUAY: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNREGISTERED AGENTS [...] (C) On December 19, per instructions reftel, Charge discussed subject talking points with MFA Americas Desk Director Laura Dupuy. She listened attentively and first referred to the arrested Uruguayan citizen (Rodolfo Edgardo Wanseele Paciello) asking, "How serious are the charges against some [...]	2007-12-19 21:18:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CJAN ASEC KJUS VE AR UY
07MONTEVIDEO1053	MERCOSUR SUMMIT: POLITICAL ATMOSPHERICS IMPROVE, [...] (SBU) Summary: Presidents from the four Mercosur countries plus Chile, Bolivia and Venezuela met in Montevideo on December 18 at Mercosur%s 34th Common Market Council. Unlike in previous meetings, and contrary to pre-Summit expectations, the gathering was diplomatic and pleasant. Uruguayan Pre [...]	2007-12-19 21:37:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN ECON ETRD AR BOL BR CH PY VZ XR UY
07MONTEVIDEO189	URUGUAY: SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RICE [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: American Embassy Montevideo and I warmly welcome your participation in President Bush's historic visit to Uruguay. Though led by a left-leaning government, Uruguay shares many of our values and remains an island of democratic stability and good governance in a tu [...]	2007-02-27 14:40:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL PGOV ECON UY
07MONTEVIDEO216	LULA ATTEMPTS TO REKINDLE RELATIONSHIP WITH [...] (U) Summary: Brazil's President Lula, accompanied by a high-level delegation, came to Uruguay on February 26 for a 6-hour visit to repair a strained relationship with President Vazquez. The two presidents met in a cordial atmosphere at the presidential retreat in Anchorena, the same venue whe [...]	2007-03-05 21:02:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD UY
07MONTEVIDEO253	POTUS VISIT TO URUGUAY A RESOUNDING SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: President Bush's March 9-11 visit to Uruguay was overwhelmingly positive for our bilateral relations and we believe very successful in spreading the message that the U.S. favors good relations with governments in the region that respect democracy, the rule of law and human right [...]	2007-03-14 13:01:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP BUSH GEORGE PREL PGOV ECON UY
07MONTEVIDEO287	EX-GUERRILLA'S INVOLVEMENT IN US BUSINESS DEAL [...] (C) This telegram contains an action request for the Department in paragraphs 1 and 6. 2. (S) Summary: It has recently come to our attention that a promising counter-trade deal between the GOU and U.S. firm General Electric (GE) includes the key participation of a nefarious former Tupamaro guerri [...]	2007-03-20 19:34:00	Embassy Montevideo	SECRET	PTER PREL ETRD ASEC UY
07MONTEVIDEO345	URUGUAY ON THE PEACEKEEPING CHALLENGE AHEAD [...] (C) Summary: This telegram provides local context on the challenge of finding enough troops, military observers and police to staff new UN peacekeeping missions in Africa (ref A). Uruguay is likely to maintain its unmatched per capita contributions to PKO, and it appears well disposed to join [...]	2007-04-04 17:40:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MOPS MARR UY
07MONTEVIDEO376	THREATS HIGHLIGHT STAKES IN PULP MILL DISPUTE [...] (C) Summary. Threats against Uruguay's Botnia pulp mill were largely discounted this week, but they highlight the regional tension which surrounds upcoming mediation between Uruguay and Argentina in Madrid beginning April 17. One international bridge remains blocked since November 20 and ano [...]	2007-04-13 20:08:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SENV SOCI ETRD AR UY

07MONTEVIDEO445	URUGUAY DEMARCHED ON GROWING IRAN-VENEZUELA [...] (S) On May 8, Polcouns delivered reftel demarche to the MFA's Acting Director General for Political Affairs Gerardo Prato. Prato was keenly attentive to all of the general, political, military, economic and social points presented. He lamented that a paper copy of the demarche could not be left [...]	2007-05-09 14:16:00	Embassy Montevideo	SECRET	PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER PINS VE IR UY
07MONTEVIDEO483	SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT - URUGUAY [...] (C) Upon taking office on March 1, 2005, the left-of-center Frente Amplio government immediately renewed diplomatic relations with Cuba, which had been previously suspended by the Batlle administration. This move appears to have been a gesture by President Vazquez to the more radical elements [...]	2007-05-16 20:04:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU UY
07MONTEVIDEO611	SCENESETTER FOR U/S NICHOLAS R. BURNS' VISIT TO [...] (C) American Embassy Montevideo and I warmly welcome you, WHA A/S Thomas A. Shannon and the other members of your distinguished delegation to Uruguay. Your July 10-11 visit comes at an especially auspicious time: only three months after the historic POTUS visit and right on the eve of Secret [...]	2007-06-27 14:28:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD MARR PHUM ECON OVIP OTRA UY
07MONTEVIDEO629	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF TREASURY HENRY M. [...] (C) American Embassy Montevideo and I warmly welcome you and the other members of your distinguished delegation to Uruguay. Your July 12-13 visit comes at an especially auspicious time: only three months after the historic POTUS visit and right on the heels of U/S Burns' and A/S Shannon's po [...]	2007-07-02 19:07:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN OVIP ECON OTRA ASEC UY
07MONTEVIDEO699	CONSTRUCTIVE GOOD WILL: U/S BURNS' JULY 10-11 [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns, densely-packed visit to Uruguay substantially advanced our bilateral relations and key U.S. foreign policy objectives. Trade, the fight against poverty, UN peacekeeping operations (PKO),MERCOSUR, Venezuela, WTO, e [...]	2007-07-27 15:13:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ASEC OVIP PTER UY
07MONTEVIDEO707	SUBSTANTIVE ENGAGEMENT: A/S SHANNON JULY 10-11 [...] (C) Summary. Arriving in Montevideo several hours ahead of U/S Burns on July 10, A/S Shannon,s pre-visit to Uruguay was very successful and advanced important U.S. foreign policy objectives. The pulp mill dispute with Argentina, Uruguay,s $20 million Haiti proposal, trade, Bolivia, Venezuela [...]	2007-07-31 18:51:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ASEC OVIP PTER UY
07MONTEVIDEO846	DEAL OR NO DEAL? PULP MILL END GAME APPROACHING [...] (C) Summary. A deal may be in the offing that would finally resolve the long-running bilateral dispute between Uruguay and Argentina over the construction of a giant pulp mill on a shared river. Over the past weeks, GOU leaders have publicly and privately hinted that such an agreement was ten [...]	2007-09-25 20:01:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EINV SENV UNGA AORC UY
07MONTEVIDEO917	THE VAZQUEZ ADMINISTRATION AT THE HALFWAY MARK [...] (C) Summary: The Frente Amplio (FA) government of President Vazquez passed its halfway mark last month. This cable provides our assessment of the first half of the Vazquez administration as it relates to foreign relations, economic policy and domestic issues. Our overall assessment is posit [...]	2007-10-23 19:22:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EINV ETRD SOCI ELAB PINR UY
07MONTEVIDEO964	PULP MILL DISPUTE: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - VAZQUEZ [...] (C) Summary: On November 8, President Vazquez gave the order to allow the Botnia pulp mill plant to commence operations. The order came during the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile. During the summit, on November 7, Vazquez met with the Spanish facilitator Juan Antonio Yanez Barnuev [...]	2007-11-09 19:50:00	Embassy Montevideo	SECRET	PGOV PREL ECON EINV SENV UNGA AORC UY
07MONTEVIDEO965	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO URUGUAY: DEMOCRACY IN [...] (C) On November 9, 2007, A/DCM delivered reftel demarche to the MFA's Director of Multilateral Affairs, Ambassador Carlos Barros. He listened attentively and said that "officially" the GoU registered U.S. concerns about the anti-democratic changes in the BRV's constitutional reform package and [...]	2007-11-09 20:33:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV VE PHUM WHA EU UY
07MONTEVIDEO98	DUSTR VERONEAU SIGNS TIFA WITH URUGUAY [...] (C) Summary: DUSTR John Veroneau came to Uruguay on January 25-26 to sign a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) with Presidential Chief of Staff Gonzalo Fernandez. Accompanied by AUSTR Everett Eissenstat, Director Sue Cronin and Ambassador Frank Baxter, Veroneau met with Economy [...]	2007-01-30 13:49:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL ECIN UY
07MONTEVIDEO992	SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF LIBERTAD ACT - URUGUAY [...] (C) Upon taking office on March 1, 2005, the left-of-center Frente Amplio government immediately renewed diplomatic relations with Cuba, which had been previously suspended by the Batlle administration. This move appears to have been a gesture by President Vazquez to the more radical elements [...]	2007-11-26 15:53:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU UY
07MONTREAL132	Mosaic under pressure: Quebec's identity and religious [...] (SBU) An undercurrent of social conflict has emerged between Quebec's identity as a "secular" province and the more overt expressions of faith, particularly by immigrants whom Quebec has received in recent years. While "reasonable accommodation" originated in jurisprudence of labor relations b [...]	2007-03-19 18:43:00	Consulate Montreal	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER PHUM PINS KDEM KWMN SOCI CA
07MONTREAL137	Mosaic under pressure (part 2 of 2): Politicians Enter the [...] (SBU) This is the second part of our examination of the debate over "reasonable accommodation," the political catch-all term for the building tension between Quebec's identity as a "secular" society and the perceived need to shape its rules and values to "accommodate" religious or cultural cons [...]	2007-03-23 19:26:00	Consulate Montreal	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER PHUM PINS KDEM SOCI CA
07MOSCOW1001	U/S JOSEPH-RUSSIAN DFM KISLYAK MEETING ON [...] (C) Summary. On January 29 in Moscow, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Robert Joseph and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Kislyak co-chaired a meeting on the Strategic Security Dialogue. They discussed a range of issues, including: -- Joint Ini [...]	2007-03-09 15:07:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	IAEA KACT KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IR RS START
07MOSCOW1037	MESSAGE DELIVERD ON GLOBAL SUMMIT ON AGING [...] (SBU) We shared REFTEL information regarding the upcoming Global Summit on Aging with officials from the MFA's International Organizations Department and the Human Rights Department, the Ministry of Health and Social Development's International Relations Department (MOHSD),and the WHO's Moscow [...]	2007-03-12 15:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI ECON TBIO RS
07MOSCOW105	RUSSIA REACTS TO IRAQ STRATEGY, IRANIAN [...] (C) Summary: The GOR publicly reacted to the President's policy address by repeating the need for "broad and real" dialogue among Iraqi groups and neighboring countries, including Iran and Syria, and indicating concern over the perceived reliance on a military solution. The MFA told us it r [...]	2007-01-12 15:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MARR IZ IR
07MOSCOW1067	REGIONAL ELECTIONS: COMMUNISTS BENEFIT FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: Although final results are not yet in, the big news of the elections which took place in fourteen regions March 11 appears to be the strong showing by the Communist Party, which overcame an attempt to steal its thunder by the Kremlin-fostered For A Just Russia party to win more [...]	2007-03-13 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW1105	CSTO: RUSSIA'S COUNTER TO NATO [...] (C) Summary. Russian observers see the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) as a potential counter to NATO influence, particularly in Central Asia. The reintegration of Uzbekistan into the organization in 2006 gave it a much-needed shot in the arm. CSTO leaders, while wary of NATO [...]	2007-03-14 14:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PINR PREL MCAP MOPS NATO RS
07MOSCOW1120	OTHER SHOE DROPS: VESHNYAKOV OUT OF CEC [...] (C) Summary: Many commentators attribute President Putin's failure to re-appoint Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov to his public criticism of election law changes that were initiated by the Kremlin-backed party United Russia. Although many will miss Veshnyakov' [...]	2007-03-15 11:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM RS
07MOSCOW1144	SERGEY IVANOV'S MIXED LEGACY AS DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Minister of Defense Sergey Ivanov leaves behind a mixed legacy as Defense Minister. He can claim credit for increased defense funding and launching a multi-year modernization program for the armed forces. He also sparked some reform initiatives, like the Ministry's revi [...]	2007-03-16 13:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR MARR MCAP PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW1149	ENERGY DEPUTY SECRETARY SELL'S TRIP TO MOSCOW: [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Secretary of Energy Clay Sell visited Moscow March 11 - 14 to participate in the bilateral Energy Working Group (EWG) and to meet with U.S. energy companies as well as Lukoil and Gazprom. At the EWG, there was a good exchange of views on information exchanges, energy effi [...]	2007-03-16 15:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW1236	RUSSIAN MFA: AFGHANISTAN POST-FM VISIT; IRAN [...] (C) Summary: In a March 21 meeting, MFA Director Maryasov said Russia was evaluating further arms donations to Afghanistan, finalizing the debt relief documents, pushing for CSTO-NATO counter-narcotics cooperation, and sending a drug control official to Kabul in the "nearest future." During [...]	2007-03-22 14:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR AF IR RS
07MOSCOW1287	RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS -- PART 1 [...] (C) President Hu's upcoming visit to Russia March 26-29 will showcase a thriving bilateral relationship, with the launching of the much-hyped "Year of China" in Russia, a publicity stop at Kazan, and the decision to open another Russian consulate in Guangzhou. Moscow's China experts differ i [...]	2007-03-23 19:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW1288	RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS -- PART 2 [...] (C) Despite the positive official rhetoric from Moscow and Beijing, Russian fears of a rising China will shape the future of their relationship. Continuing areas of concern to the Russians include the lopsided trade relationship (Russia's raw materials for China's finished products),real an [...]	2007-03-23 19:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW1291	RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS -- PART 1 [...] (C) President Hu's upcoming visit to Russia March 26-29 will showcase a thriving bilateral relationship, with the launching of the much-hyped "Year of China" in Russia, a publicity stop at Kazan, and the decision to open another Russian consulate in Guangzhou. Moscow's China experts differ i [...]	2007-03-26 02:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW1292	RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS -- PART 2 [...] (C) Despite the positive official rhetoric from Moscow and Beijing, Russian fears of a rising China will shape the future of their relationship. Continuing areas of concern to the Russians include the lopsided trade relationship (Russia's raw materials for China's finished products),real an [...]	2007-03-26 02:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW1305	RUSSIAN DFM KISLYAK ON US RELATIONS, MD, IRAN, HOM [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging meeting with the Ambassador on March 23, Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak noted that a visit by U/S Edelman was delayed by the replacement of his counterpart and GOR concerns that the format did not address overarching Russian concerns over US strategic intentio [...]	2007-03-26 09:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM NATO OSCE RS
07MOSCOW1316	RUSSIA-GEORGIA, TRANSNISTRIA: TOUGH TALK FROM DFM [...] (C) DFM Grigoriy Karasin showed little flexibility when Ambassador pressed him on relations with Georgia March 26. Karasin warned that a Georgian application to the European Court of Human Rights over last autumn's deportations would lead to a sharp Russian reaction. He said no process of nor [...]	2007-03-26 13:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MOPS OSCE MD BO UP KZ GG RS
07MOSCOW1326	RUSSIA: SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES START TO STAND UP [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-27 10:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD ECON RS
07MOSCOW1354	AMBASSADOR'S 3/27 MEETING WITH FINANCE MINISTER [...] (C) In a March 27 meeting with Finance Minister Kudrin, the Ambassador pushed for Russian progress on remaining problem areas in WTO talks and raised our concern over pending legal action against PricewaterhouseCoopers. There are no plans to revoke the audit license of PricewaterhouseCoopers [...]	2007-03-28 10:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ETRD RS
07MOSCOW1367	NEW CEC CHAIR CHUROV [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 27, the Central Election Commission (CEC) elected Vladimir Churov as its new chairman. A physicist and St. Petersburg native, with long-standing ties to Putin, Churov announced that he would implement electoral law, not debate it. Duma members and civil society repr [...]	2007-03-29 06:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW1374	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: CALM BEFORE THE STORM? [...] (C) Russian non-official commentators have shown little interest in reacting to the Georgian suit against Russia in the European Court for Human Rights. Even Sergey Markov -- usually the shrillest parrot of any line the Kremlin takes -- called for handling the matter between the foreign minist [...]	2007-03-29 10:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MARR EU GG RS
07MOSCOW1377	YOUR VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) On behalf of the Ambassador, we look forward to your arrival, and offer the following overview of our commercial relationship with Russia. You may want to read also the Ambassador's scenesetter for Foreign Minister Lavrov's last visit to Washington (referenced above),which provides insig [...]	2007-03-29 11:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV OVIP
07MOSCOW1392	MIDDLE EAST: MFA ON NUG, IRAQ, LEBANON, WESTERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE MFA STRESSED IN A RECENT MEETING THAT THE FORMATION OF A PALESTINIAN NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT REPRESENTED A MILESTONE IN HAMAS' SLOW EVOLUTION AND SUGGESTED THE QUARTET SHOULD REVISIT ITS POLICIES ON CONTACTS AND ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY. MFA DIRECTOR FOR T [...]	2007-03-29 14:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS IZ LE MO WI SU RS
07MOSCOW1495	RUSSIA: MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY COMPUTER MATHEMATICS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The dean of the mathematics and computer science department of Moscow State University recently provided EST an overview of his domain. Although the level of funding for science education remains low as a percentage of the overall budget, he reported that government revenues hav [...]	2007-04-04 13:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPL TNGD RS
07MOSCOW1552	UKRAINIAN CRISIS: "NO SHARP MOVEMENT" FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) The GOR continues to keep a cautious but close watch over the unfolding crisis in Ukraine. In private, Russian leaders urge that the US and Russia advocate quietly for a constitutional resolution. DFM Karasin told the Ambassador and DAS Kramer to expect "no sharp movement" from the Russi [...]	2007-04-06 16:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW1579	EUR DAS KRAMER'S MOSCOW TALKS ON TRANSNISTRIA [...] (C) EUR DAS David Kramer held talks on Transnistria/Moldova in Moscow April 6 at the MFA with DFM Grigoriy Karasin, Ambassador-at-Large Valeriy Kenyaikin, Ambassador-at-Large Valeriy Nesterushkin; at the Security Council with Andrey Kuzin; and at the Duma with Andrey Kokoshin. Kramer stressed [...]	2007-04-09 14:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MD RS
07MOSCOW1631	UKRAINE: RUSSIAN OFFICIALS CIRCUMSPECT WHILE DUMA [...] (C) GOR officials assured the Ambassador April 10 that the Russian government would continue to be an attentive observer of the Ukrainian political crisis while avoiding direct public involvement. Russian Presidential Foreign Affairs Advisor Sergey Prikhodko told the Ambassador that Russia w [...]	2007-04-11 14:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW1634	IRAN: PUTIN FRUSTRATED WITH TEHRAN [...] (C) During an April 10 conversation with Russian Presidential Foreign Affairs Advisor Sergey Prikhodko, the Ambassador again expressed disappointment with Russia's receiving Iranian Deputy Interior Minister/IRGC General Mohammed Zolqadr, a individual designated on the UNSCR 1747 list of key [...]	2007-04-11 15:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM UNSC IR RS
07MOSCOW1653	RUSSIA-HUNGARY: WARMING TREND [...] (C) Summary: Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany's late-March visit to Moscow continued the warming trend in relations between Russia and Hungary. Strong economic interests have been sufficient to overcome the historical legacy that dominates Russia's relations with some of its former s [...]	2007-04-12 08:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG HU RS
07MOSCOW1674	OFFICIAL RUSSIA BRISTLES AT SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY REPORT [...] (C) In its April 11 reaction to the release of the 2006 Supporting Human Rights and Democracy report, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs further stoked a fire that was set by an April 7 front-page article in the national daily Kommersant and fed with criticism by State Duma Foreign Affairs Commit [...]	2007-04-12 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI RS KDMR
07MOSCOW1704	RUSSIAN SCIEN... [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a luncheon meeting with EST April 10, Kurchatov Institute Director Mikhail Koval'chuk weighed in on issues ranging from Russia's proposed floating nuclear power stations to the power struggles between the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the Ministry of Education and Science (M [...]	2007-04-14 12:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KIPR KNNP KPAO TBIO PREL RS
07MOSCOW1710	RUSSIA: AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 12 MEETING WITH UAC DG [...] (C) Summary. In a April 12 meeting with the Ambassador, Director General of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Aleksey Federov said that he had joined the industry effort to lobby GOR officials, particularly Presidential Aide Igor Shuvalov, for a "balanced" aviation policy to build good re [...]	2007-04-16 05:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON EINV PGOV PARM PINR RS
07MOSCOW1809	UKRAINE: GOR WAITING FOR COMPROMISE [...] (C) Since the early-April start of the Ukrainian government crisis, the GOR has consistently maintained that it is an internal Ukrainian affair and not amenable to Russia's overt involvement. The Ukrainian FM Yatsenyuk's April 16 visit was portrayed as "business as usual," during which the t [...]	2007-04-19 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW1866	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Sevmorneftegeofizika, Murmansk, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]	2007-04-23 12:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW1877	US-RUSSIA STRATEGIC SECURITY TALKS, APRIL 17 [...] (C) SUMMARY. Missile Defense (MD) dominated the all-day Strategic Security talks in Moscow April 17. The Russian side, led by Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak, contended that the proposed placement of MD interceptors and a radar in Poland and the Czech Republic, respectively, occurred along [...]	2007-04-23 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MARR PINS PREL PTER RS
07MOSCOW1895	KREMLIN REACTION TO YELTSIN'S DEATH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Putin publicly praised Boris Yeltsin as a leader of courage and conviction, instrumental in bringing democracy to Russia. Official media echoed these themes, focusing on the positives of Yeltsin's leadership and making little mention of economic woes and instability o [...]	2007-04-24 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW1960	RUSSIA: AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 26 MEETING WITH AUDIT [...] SUMMARY (C) In an April 26 meeting with the Ambassador, Audit Chamber Chairman Stepashin remarked that the presence of former Presidents Bush and Clinton at the Yeltsin funeral will help improve U.S.-Russian relations. He also said that problems with Iranian payments for Bushehr continue to ho [...]	2007-04-27 13:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET ETRD PGOV PINR PREL RS
07MOSCOW2086	ESTONIA: DEMONSTRATORS SHIFT FOCUS TO EC AS OIL [...] (C) Summary: The Estonian Embassy was quiet over the weekend, and Embassy officials expect their Ambassador to return to Moscow in two weeks. At the 90-minute May 4 demonstration at the European Commission offices, militia outnumbered protesters. Russian Railways has capped shipments of oil [...]	2007-05-07 11:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ENRG EN RS
07MOSCOW2128	ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (C) EUR A/S Daniel Fried and Russian DFM Grigoriy Karasin focused on Georgia and Ukraine during an April 23 discussion in Moscow lasting over an hour. Fried noted recent progress from the Georgian side (the release of an Abkhaz official arrested by the Georgians, toned-down rhetoric) and call [...]	2007-05-08 14:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV ETRD PHUM OSCE UNSC GG UP RS
07MOSCOW2166	PUTIN'S ENERGY DIPLOMACY: MAY 9-12 VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary. President Putin appears determined to come back home from his May 9-12 visit to Astana and Ashgabat with a signed document that will guarantee 25 years of Turkmen gas to Russia -- something that the history of Russian-Turkmen gas relations suggests may be a difficult task. Some [...]	2007-05-11 06:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET ENRG ECON KZ TX RS
07MOSCOW2189	SCENESETTER FOR RUSSIA CIVAIR NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Summary. This cable lays out some key U.S.-Russian bilateral aviation issues in preparation for the bilateral Civilian-Aviation Negotiations May 16-17 in Moscow. The Russians have told us they are preparing draft updates to the six annexes to our agreement, which they propose to use as t [...]	2007-05-11 12:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW2197	SLAIN BELARUSIAN JOURNALIST'S SON FLEES TO MOSCOW [...] (C) This is an action request. See paragraphs 6 and 7. 2. (C) Anton Filimonov, the 17-year-old son of slain Belarusian journalist Veronika Cherkasova, has fled to Moscow accompanied by Cherkasova's stepfather Vladimir Meleshko. Meleshko told REFCOORD that they believed Filimonov was in [...]	2007-05-11 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM RS
07MOSCOW2201	RUSSIA AND A CFE "MORATORIUM" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak reviewed with the Ambassador Putin's April 26 call for a moratorium on Russia's compliance with the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty and his insistence that all NATO Allies ratify the Adapted Treaty without linkage to the 1999 Istanbul c [...]	2007-05-11 15:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCFE OSCE PARM MARR NATO RS
07MOSCOW2205	DFM LOSYUKOV ON THE SCO, SIX-PARTY TALKS, [...] (C) Summary. In a May 10 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Losyukov promised "no surprises" at the Bishkek Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit--no membership enlargement, nor any demand for U.S. base withdrawal from the region. He predicted an SCO proposal for engagement in Afghanistan, [...]	2007-05-14 03:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KN IR AF RS
07MOSCOW2334	A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN: ESTONIA, [...] (C) EUR A/S Fried and Russian DFM Karasin's May 15 discussion focused on Estonia and Georgia. Fried assured Karasin that the U.S. supports the independence and sovereignty of Russia's neighbors and their freedom from a Russian sphere of influence -- but also urges them to develop good relatio [...]	2007-05-18 18:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ETRD UNSC OSCE AM AJ EN GG RS
07MOSCOW2356	RUSSIA-EU SUMMIT: SHARPER RHETORIC, FEWER RESULTS [...] (C) Summary: President Putin met with EU representatives near Samara May 17-18 to discuss the future of the Russia-EU relationship, Kosovo and Estonia, and trade and investment flows. Russian and EU participants had low expectations for a positive outcome; the Summit was marked by few deli [...]	2007-05-21 15:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD ENRG EU RS
07MOSCOW2383	OUTLOOK FOR RUSSIA'S NEW FINANCIAL MARKETS CHIEF [...] (SBU) On May 9, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov appointed one of his economic advisors, Vladimir Milovidov, as the new Director of the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM). Milovidov's appointment came in the immediate aftermath of outgoing FSFM chief Oleg Vyugin's announcement that he [...]	2007-05-22 13:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW2393	THE 2ND ASIAN ENERGY OFFICERS CONFERENCE -- [...] (C) Summary. On April 19-20, Embassy Moscow hosted energy officers from regional Embassies and Washington DC-based USG officials at the 2nd Asia Energy Officers Conference. The conference focused on the still nascent oil and gas linkages between energy-rich Russia and energy-hungry Asia. Rus [...]	2007-05-23 09:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW2421	RUSSIA: REORGANIZATION STALLS REVIEW OF ART [...] (SBU) Summary. Ministry of Culture Deputy Director for the Preservation of Cultural Artifacts Yuri Godovanets told us on May 17 that review of art restitution cases are at a standstill until Presidential Decree number 320, which transfers responsibility over restitution to MinCulture's Depart [...]	2007-05-24 10:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNAR PGOV PHUM PREL RS SCUL
07MOSCOW2429	RUSSIAN REACTION TO LITVINENKO MURDER CHARGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOR is highly unlikely to extradite former FSB officer Andrey Lugovoy to Britain, citing constitutional and other legal prohibitions against the extradition of Russian citizens. Official and unofficial Russian reaction to the May 22 British announcement that Lugovoy would be charge [...]	2007-05-24 12:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW2462	RUSSIA BILATERAL CIVAIR NEGOTIATIONS: FRUITFUL [...] (C) The U.S. and Russian civil aviation delegations had productive discussions May 16-17 on updates to the Annexes of our 1994 Bilateral Air Transport Agreement, but no deal was reached. On overflights, the GOR continues to bar any use of the Trans-Siberian routes without a commercial agreemen [...]	2007-05-25 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW2472	CODEL NELSON/LOTT: SCENESETTER [...] (SBU) Your visit comes at a vital juncture in Russian-American relations. As Russia moves closer to succession in March 2008, the more complicated this relationship will be to manage. There is a lot at stake: deepening cooperation in reversing North Korea's nuclear status and preventing the [...]	2007-05-25 17:19:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON PARM ENRG RS
07MOSCOW2553	BOEING RUSSIA: CHILLING THE BUBBLY FOR THE "BIG" [...] (C) Boeing Russia and Economics Minister Gref confirmed to us that preparations are underway for three contracts to be signed on June 9 on the margins of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. The contracts include the $4 billion sale of 22 787 Dreamliners to Aeroflot, an "enhanced role" for Boein [...]	2007-05-31 12:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW2563	RUSSIA ENERGY: THE BATTLE OF KOVYKTA -- MORE THAN [...] (C) Summary: Rumors are rife that TNK-BP will lose its license any day now for the development of the Kovytka gas field, but a more complicated story may be playing out instead. Senior TNK-BP management says the company has offered Gazprom good terms to get the gas monopoly into the project a [...]	2007-06-01 03:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW259	DFM SALTANOV ON QUARTET, LEBANON, SYRIA, IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 22 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Saltanov reaffirmed support for the roadmap, while expressing sympathy for Palestinian efforts to proceed to final status discussions, and flagged that FM Lavrov will resurrect the GOR proposal for a [...]	2007-01-23 10:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON RS IS IZ SY LE
07MOSCOW2590	CODEL NELSON-LOTT MEETS WITH FM LAVROV [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S.-Russian Senate-Federation Council Interparliamentary Working Group Co-Chairs Senator Ben Nelson and Senator Trent Lott, accompanied by Senators Evan Bayh, Judd Gregg, and Richard Burr, met May 29 with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to discuss current bilateral and [...]	2007-06-01 13:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR KNDP ETRD OREP NELSON LOTT RS
07MOSCOW2595	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: IF THEY CAN JUST MAKE IT TO THE [...] (C) MFA 4th CIS Department Director Kelin said May 31 that the upcoming Saakashvili-Putin meeting in St. Petersburg might serve one purpose: to overcome the legacy of bad blood left by last fall's confrontation. He warned that action on Kosovo between now and the meeting might ruin even that [...]	2007-06-01 14:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR OSCE UNSC GG RS
07MOSCOW261	RUSSIAN REGIONAL ELECTIONS PREVIEW: STAVROPOL KRAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Regional duma elections in Stavropol Kray on March 11 will likely be dominated by the United Russia party, with the Communists and the second Kremlin party "A Just Russia" fighting for second place. The Liberal Democratic party and the Union of Right Forces will struggle to pas [...]	2007-01-23 11:20:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL RS
07MOSCOW2631	P-1 REFERRAL FOR BELARUSIAN MINOR ANTON FILIMONOV [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (C) Embassy recommends Anton Filimonov, the 17-year-old son of murdered Belarusian journalist Veronika Cherkasova, for inclusion in the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). Filimonov fled Belarus on May 9 in fear of renewed police p [...]	2007-06-04 14:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM RS
07MOSCOW2658	SOFT POWER IN ACTION: MOSCOW PROMOTES RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Moscow has ramped up its efforts to promote the Russian language in both the former Soviet Union and throughout the world. Observers say the program is aimed at using "soft power" to maintain Russia's dominance in its neighborhood and underline that Russia remains a great powe [...]	2007-06-05 15:50:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW2659	LOCAL PUNDITS ON RUSSIA'S ESCALATING RHETORIC [...] (C) Summary: The latest Russian rhetoric against U.S. missile defense plans, in conjunction with last week's missile testing, is read by both pro-Kremlin and liberal analysts as further evidence of Putin's continued frustration with U.S.-Russian relations. They argue that the combative ton [...]	2007-06-05 16:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MCAP PGOV RS
07MOSCOW2682	SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION SUMMIT: RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. The GOR is planning "no surprises" at the August Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Bishkek summit, according to the MFA's SCO Coordinator. Russia's goal in Bishkek is to enhance the SCO's activity in the economic sphere. Moscow judges that the SCO is not ready for enlarg [...]	2007-06-06 11:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ECON SNAR RS
07MOSCOW2739	MOSCOW GAY RIGHTS MARCH: POLICE LOOK ON AS [...] (SBU) Summary: The May 27 gay rights demonstration and its aftermath highlight two disheartening trends in Russia: the increasing collusion between security forces and nationalist groups, and the reluctance of the human rights community to engage on an issue that has little resonance with Russi [...]	2007-06-08 11:13:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV RS
07MOSCOW2768	MISSILE DEFENSE: POSITIVE REACTION TO PUTIN'S [...] (C) Summary: Putin's offer to collaborate with the U.S. in Missile Defense at the Qabala radar site in Azerbaijan has been hailed by Russian officials and most commentators. Most argue that Moscow's offer of cooperation should be taken at face value and seriously. By proffering Russian coo [...]	2007-06-08 15:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MCAP MARR MASS MNUC RS
07MOSCOW2879	RUSSIA: PENDING CHANGES CAST ROSATOM AS CORPORATION [...] (U) SUMMARY. Over the past year and a half, Russia has been working to restructure its nuclear industry. In a June 8 meeting with EST, Natalya Klishina, head of the Bilateral Relations Division in Rosatom's Department of International Relations, clarified what these changes mean and what other [...]	2007-06-15 15:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KNNP TRGY RS
07MOSCOW2970	CODEL NELSON-LOTT: INTERPARLIAMENTARY TALKS FOCUS [...] (SBU) Summary: In May 27-28 sessions in Moscow of the U.S.-Russian Senate-Federation Council Interparliamentary Working Group, co-chairs Senators Ben Nelson and Trent Lott and Russian Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Mikhail Margelov underlined the importance of encouragin [...]	2007-06-19 14:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PARM MNUC ETRD OREP NELSON LOTT RS
07MOSCOW3011	AMBASSADOR'S LUNCH WITH METROPOLITAN KIRILL [...] (C) At a June 18 private lunch, Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Kirill related to the Ambassador his concerns about social issues, in particular the large gap between rich and poor and Russia's lagging regions. He described reaction, both in the West and in Russia, to the recent merger of the R [...]	2007-06-21 07:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3023	DFM KISLYAK ON PRE-KENNEBUNKPORT PREPARATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: In an hour-long meeting on June 20, the Ambassador and Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak reviewed preparations for the Kennebunkport meeting between the presidents. Kislyak said he was ready during his late-June Washington visit to work through outstanding issues on documents an [...]	2007-06-21 13:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM RS
07MOSCOW305	KOSOVO: RUSSIA TO BREAK WITH CONTACT GROUP [...] (C) Summary: Welcoming a proposed visit by Special Envoy Wisner, the GOR's Special Envoy on Kosovo Botsan-Karchenko warned that Russia would break the Contact Group consensus on the Ahtisaari timeline at the January 26 Vienna meeting. The GOR will reject an "artificial" timeline, propose p [...]	2007-01-25 12:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM UNMIK SR YI RS
07MOSCOW3114	SIX PARTY TALKS: GOR URGES MEASURED PACE ON NEXT [...] (U) The GOR publicly claimed credit for facilitating Monday's transfer of frozen DPRK funds to the North Korean Foreign Trade Bank's account in a Russian bank. Calling it a positive step toward the resumption of the Six-Party process, a short MFA statement said that Russia decided to accommod [...]	2007-06-27 07:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KN RS
07MOSCOW3138	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH GARRY KASPAROV: KOSOVO [...] (C) Garry Kasparov on June 26 talked with the Ambassador about the future of his Other Russia movement, the state of other political parties, the Russian presidential succession, the December Duma elections, and Russian foreign policy. He ascribed President Putin's recent hard line with the We [...]	2007-06-27 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW3139	HUGO CHAVEZ RETURNS TO RUSSIA SEEKING MORE ARMS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador expressed strong concern to Security Council Secretary Ivanov and Kremlin Foreign Policy Adviser Prikhodko over the visit of Venezuelan President Chavez to Moscow, June 28-30, on the eve of Putin's meeting with the President in Kennebunkport. Noting that the visi [...]	2007-06-27 15:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ECON RS
07MOSCOW3155	RUSSIA/MOLDOVA: PUTIN-VORONIN MEETING [...] (C) Russian Ambassador at Large for Transnistria Nesterushkin June 26 gave us a brief readout of the June 22 Putin-Voronin meeting. The meeting focused on bilateral issues, making progress on wine and natural gas prices. Putin raised Russian concerns about new Moldovan controls on imports to [...]	2007-06-28 10:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD MARR MD RS
07MOSCOW3160	NOPEC DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO MFA [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (U) We delivered reftel talking points to MFA Russia-US Bilateral Relations Head Alexander Zakharov on June 27. 3. (SBU) Zakharov expressed his understanding that taxes make up the largest part of gasoline prices (a point [...]	2007-06-28 12:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW3162	RUSSIA: DEPUTY TREASURY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a June 22 meeting with Deputy Treasury Secretary Kimmitt, Russian Deputy FM Denisov expressed SIPDIS interest in cooperating with Iraq for the long term ("we are optimists") but indicated that debt reli [...]	2007-06-28 12:48:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ENRG EIND PREL PINR IZ KN IR RS
07MOSCOW3168	AMBASSADOR'S ROUNDTABLE WITH HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS [...] (C) In a June 27 discussion, five human rights NGO activists offered the Ambassador their advice for coping with an increasingly assertive President Putin. They suggested that like-minded countries speak with one voice, that the "tools" of international organizations and agreements be used as [...]	2007-06-28 15:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3232	MAYAK TRANSPARENCY AGREEMENT: JULY ROUND POSSIBLE [...] (C) Both in the meetings of the plutonium disposition negotiations (June 19-20 in Moscow) and on their margins, Ambassador Guhin raised the Mayak transparency agreement with Rosatom Deputy Director Ivan Kamenskikh and Head of the Department of International Relations Vladimir Kuchinov, urging [...]	2007-07-02 14:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP PREL PARM TRGY RS
07MOSCOW3262	ROGOZIN ON "GREAT RUSSIA;" KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary: The charismatic and unscrupulous Dmitriy Rogozin is making another political bid to tap Russian nationalism with the attempted registration of a new political party, "Great Russia." Claiming to have siphoned off his previous Rodina supporters, dissatisfied with their merger in [...]	2007-07-03 13:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL RS
07MOSCOW3338	POSITIVE REACTION TO "LOBSTER SUMMIT" [...] (C) Summary. While extensive media coverage of the so-called "Lobster Summit" quickly gave way to euphoria over Russia's winning the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Moscow experts agreed that Putin demonstrated in Kennebunkport a desire to tone down the rhetoric and find ways [...]	2007-07-09 11:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS MNUC RS
07MOSCOW3343	RUSSIA: PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS WITHDRAWS AUDITS OF [...] (C) Summary: PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia (PwC) Managing Partner Peter Gerendasi confirmed press reports from the week of June 25 that the auditing firm had withdrawn its 1995-2004 audits for former oil giant Yukos. Gerendasi volunteered few details about the circumstances under which PwC's [...]	2007-07-09 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV ECON RS
07MOSCOW3354	RUSSIA: TATARS CALL NEW FEDERAL TREATY "SYMBOLIC" [...] (C) Tatarstani officials and academics alike told us July 6-7 that the federal treaty between Tatarstan and Russia, now before the Federation Council, is only "symbolic." The issues of practical substance -- primarily division of state property -- were settled in the original 1994 treaty, acc [...]	2007-07-09 14:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW3369	RUSSIA ENERGY: SPECIAL REP. MERMOUD'S MEETINGS [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Summary: In a July 6 meeting with Special Representative for Business and Commercial Affairs Frank Mermoud, Halliburton Russia VP Simon Turton told us he sees Russia as the most important growth market for Halliburton [...]	2007-07-10 09:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL CVIS RS
07MOSCOW3379	RUSSIAN LAB MOVES AHEAD TO BECOME REGIONAL AND WHO FLU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Russia pledged to transform the Vector State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology near Novosibirsk into a regional influenza center and ultimately a WHO Collaborating Center for avian influenza as part of its 2006 G8 Presidential focus on infectious diseases. Although [...]	2007-07-11 02:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU KSTH KPAO SENV RS
07MOSCOW3399	RUSSIAN OPPOSITION FACES MORE FRACTURE [...] (C) Summary: Other Russia's second annual conference was n... C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 MOSCOW 003399 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/07/2017 TAGS: PGOV PHUM PINR RS Â [...]	2007-07-11 12:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW3434	RUSSIA AND IRAN: MOSCOW'S SHIFTING VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: Iran's nuclear program has posed an increasing challenge to Russia's foreign policy as Moscow tries to balance its strong interest in preventing a nuclear armed Iran against the political and economic considerations that have traditionally driven relations with Tehran. However, [...]	2007-07-13 11:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP ETRD MASS IR RS
07MOSCOW3490	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: JSC [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, JSC Uzbektelecom, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The company is l [...]	2007-07-17 12:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW3495	CHECHNYA REVISITED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a recent visit by REFCOORD to Grozny, the evidence of Chechnya's economic reconstruction was striking. Scaffolding, initially seen only around government buildings, has appeared everywhere, including private homes. Minutka Square, long a symbol of the city's destructi [...]	2007-07-17 13:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM PINR EAID RS
07MOSCOW3527	LUGOVOY DISPUTE: RUSSIAN RESTRAINT FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: The British decision to expel four Russian diplomats and take other diplomatic measures in response to Moscow's refusal to extradite Lugovoy in the Litvinenko murder case has elicited sharp commentary by Russian legislators and pundits. The official Russian reaction, by contras [...]	2007-07-19 07:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM KNUC UK RS

07MOSCOW3540	HOW MUCH DO RUSSIAN DOCTORS REALLY MAKE? [...] (SBU) Summary: Although government doctors in Russia officially earn $205-$900 per month as a base salary, they frequently earn much more in reality. Physicians often supplement their base government salaries for clinical work with income from private patients, teaching positions in universiti [...]	2007-07-19 13:27:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SCUL SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3542	IGOR IVANOV OUT AT SECURITY COUNCIL; VALENTIN [...] (C) On July 18, President Putin accepted Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov's resignation, which had been pending for several weeks (reftel). Ivanov first offered to resign in February, prompted largely by differences over Russia's relations with the West and concerns about the role of [...]	2007-07-19 14:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW3567	AFGHANISTAN: MOSCOW STIRS [...] (C) Summary: Russia has sharply stepped up its engagement with the Afghan government since FM Lavrov's February visit to Kabul. Moscow intends to finalize its debt relief agreement with Kabul by the end of the month and is actively weighing increased arms supplies and initiating a program [...]	2007-07-20 12:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS EAID SNAR AF RS
07MOSCOW3581	THE SUCCESSION RACE: MEDVEDEV AND IVANOV AT THE [...] (C) Elections for President Putin's successor are slated for March 2008 and two candidates --First Deputy Prime Ministers Sergey Ivanov and Dmitriy Medvedev-- have the blessing of the Kremlin and are already campaigning feverishly. This message discusses their recent efforts, while a subseque [...]	2007-07-23 06:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW3601	PUTIN CONTINUES DRIVE TO MORE PALATABLE HISTORY [...] (SBU) Summary: President Putin's effort to inculcate Russia's children with "national pride" via appropriately written history textbooks could bear fruit at the start of the 2008 school year. The campaign, which began in 2003 with the ban of a popular history textbook and a Kremlin call for [...]	2007-07-23 14:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3625	MAYOR LUZHKOV - THE CONDUCTOR LEADS ON [...] (C) Summary: In early July, Moscow Mayor Luzhkov took the oath of office for his fifth term, bringing to a close a reported power struggle with the Kremlin. For the past fifteen years, Luzhkov's dominance of Moscow politics has made him one of the most powerful politicians in the country, and an im [...]	2007-07-24 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW366	RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL CHIEF ON U.S. RELATIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A JANUARY 30 MEETING WITH THE AMBASSADOR, IGOR IVANOV ENCOURAGED A VISIT BY DNSA HADLEY AND INCREASED CONGRESSIONAL CONTACT. HE FLAGGED THE JANUARY 31 VISITS OF BANDAR BIN SULTAN AND SAAD HARIRI TO MOSCOW, IN ORDER TO DISCUSS THE SAUDI INITIATIVE TO STABILIZE LEBANON. (BAND [...]	2007-01-30 12:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS IR LE
07MOSCOW3775	ANDREY FURSENKO: THE PHYSICIST TURNED MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY. As Minister of Science and Education since 2004, Andrey Fursenko has evoked a storm of controversy with his efforts to reform Russia's tradition-bound science and education establishments. Fursenko is passionate about modernizing Russian science to make it more competitive and m [...]	2007-08-01 13:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KPAO PGOV PINR RS SCUL SOCI TSPL
07MOSCOW3804	EAP PDAS STEPHENS JULY 27 DISCUSSIONS ON THE NORTH [...] (C) Summary. During a July 27 meeting, EAP Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Kathleen Stephens and a GOR representative for the Six-Party Working Group on Northeast Asia Peace and Security, Vladimir Rakhmanin, exchanged views on the expectations and goals for the group, including plans up [...]	2007-08-02 14:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM MNUC KNNP KN KS JA RS
07MOSCOW3808	NASHI CAMP: MOBILIZING YOUTH TO COUNTER "ORANGE FORCES" [...] (SBU) For the third year in a row, the pro-Kremlin youth group "Nashi" held its two-week summer camp from July 16 - 27 at Lake Seliger in the Tver region. A visit by First Deputy Prime Ministers Dmitriy Medvedev and Sergey Ivanov, a meeting of Nashi commissars with President Putin, and a reco [...]	2007-08-03 06:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PGOV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW381	AFGHANISTAN: TIME TO REENGAGE WITH RUSSIA? [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Lavrov's February 2-3 Washington consultations provide an opportunity to seek support for the new U.S. strategy for Afghanistan's security and reconstruction. While Moscow has been critical of U.S. and Western efforts in Afghanistan, it has also expressed inte [...]	2007-01-30 16:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ETRD SNAR AF RS
07MOSCOW382	GERMANY: BUSINESSLIKE PUTIN-MERKEL MEETING IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The January 21 meeting in Sochi between President Putin and Chancellor Merkel was businesslike but not particularly warm. There was a sharper tone in the political exchanges than there had been in the past. Putin told Merkel Russia would not accept a forced solution for Kosovo. [...]	2007-01-30 17:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EU GM RS
07MOSCOW3886	RUSSIA: NEW STRATEGIC SECTORS LAW GETS NOD FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a July 14-20 visit to Moscow, a GAO (Government Accountability Office) delegation conducted meetings with government officials (reftel),business associations, and Western companies to survey the GOR's review process for foreign direct investment in the country's strateg [...]	2007-08-08 11:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ENRG PREL RS
07MOSCOW3892	GEORGIA MISSILE INCIDENT: MOSCOW CONTINUES TO DENY [...] (C) Summary: Russia's Special Negotiator for South Ossetia, Ambassador Yuriy Popov, reiterated to Charge August 8 that Russia played "no part" in the August 6 bombing incident in Georgia. Popov emphasized that Russia did not intend to let the incident jeopardize what he characterized as the [...]	2007-08-08 14:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV RS GG
07MOSCOW3971	RUSSIANS DEBATE ROLE OF THE CHURCH [...] (SBU) The dog days of August have seen a protracted debate here about the proper role of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in a country in which church and state are officially separated. The debate was triggered by the near simultaneous expressions of unease by a member of the Public Chamber [...]	2007-08-14 12:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KIRF PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW3995	RUSSIA: POLITICS IN VORONEZH MIRRORS NATIONAL SITUATION [...] (SBU) During an August 6-8 visit to Voronezh oblast, we found a political situation very similar to the national condition. The United Russia and For a Just Russia parties dominate the political scene, opposition forces are ardent but weak, the Russian Orthodox Church plays an influential role [...]	2007-08-15 10:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF SOCI RS
07MOSCOW402	RUSSIANS DEFEND ARMS TRANSFERS TO IRAN, SYRIA [...] (S) SUMMARY: Visiting Moscow January 18-19, EUR/PRA Director Anita Friedt told Foreign Ministry officials that increased Russian transparency on arms transfers to sensitive countries could lessen the possibility of sanctions under U.S. law. Washington was willing to work with the Russian si [...]	2007-01-31 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM MCAP PREL ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4065	PUTIN-YUSCHENKO INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMISSION [...] (C) The scheduled August 15-20 meeting between Presidents Putin and Yuschenko within the framework of the Russian-Ukrainian Intergovernmental Commission was postponed to late October or early November. MFA Ukraine Desk Head Vyacheslav Yelagin told us the GOU wanted to focus on the September 3 [...]	2007-08-21 07:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO UP RS
07MOSCOW4067	BLOGGING IN RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Blogs are the fastest-growing and least constrained mass media in Russia. The popularity of blogs has increased exponentially in Russia as the internet has become more accessible, especially among people in their 20s and 30s. Although most Russian blogs do not deal with poli [...]	2007-08-21 08:50:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4088	DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH RUSSIAN AND WESTERN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In July 31-August 1 meetings, DAS Bryza's discussions with MFA, western and Russian energy officials centered on oil pipeline issues and Eurasian gas developments. Transneft head Vainshtok criticized the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, (CPC) and suggested it should only be expande [...]	2007-08-21 14:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW4111	GEORGIA MISSILE INCIDENT: RUSSIA ISSUES ITS OWN [...] (C) MFA acting Department chief Tarabrin described to us a report compiled by Russian experts "proving" that Russia had nothing to do with the August 6 missile launch on Georgia. The report is being distributed in the UNSC and OSCE. We assured Tarabrin the U.S. considers all information, but t [...]	2007-08-22 12:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MOPS OSCE UNSC GG RS
07MOSCOW4113	GEORGIA MISSILE INCIDENT: RUSSIA ISSUES ITS OWN [...] (C) MFA acting Department chief Tarabrin described to us a report compiled by Russian experts "proving" that Russia had nothing to do with the August 6 missile launch on Georgia. The report is being distributed in the UNSC and OSCE. We assured Tarabrin the U.S. considers all information, but t [...]	2007-08-22 13:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MOPS OSCE UNSC GG RS
07MOSCOW4118	U.S. NON-PAPER ON CFE DELIVERED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian MFA Officials expressed appreciation for the non-paper (timeline) on Adapted CFE ratification and fulfilling the Istanbul commitments (reftel),and agreed to review it carefully and prepare a response for the September 11 meeting between EUR A/S Fried and DFM Kislyak. The [...]	2007-08-22 15:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KCFE NATO OSCE RS
07MOSCOW4140	RUSSIA: LOCAL OFFICIALS, NGOS PREPARE FOR DUMA ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) The growing influence of United Russia and the extent to which the ruling party is pre-positioning itself for the December Duma elections was evident in Voronezh during an August 6-8 visit to the region (ref A). While the regional election commission chairman and NGOs described their work [...]	2007-08-24 02:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV RS
07MOSCOW4141	"PEACE MISSION 2007": SCO MILITARY LINKS GROWING, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Experts told us that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO) Peace Mission 2007 anti-terrorist exercises, while deemed a success by many Russians, do not necessarily point to increased integration among SCO member states. The 6,500 soldiers involved in the exercises repor [...]	2007-08-24 02:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PTER RS CH
07MOSCOW4182	KOSOVO: RUSSIAN ENVOY PESSIMISTIC, PUSHING UNION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 24th meeting, Russian Envoy Botsan-Kharchenko characterized the first round of Troika talks as satisfactory, but was pessimistic about prospects for the August 30 Vienna session, given entrenched positions over the Ahtisaari plan, which were exacerbated by Serbian and [...]	2007-08-27 13:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SR PBTS KV RS
07MOSCOW4185	SCO: NO PLANS TO EXPAND, BUT GETTING INVOLVED IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leonid Moisev, President Putin's envoy to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO),confirmed that the organization has no plans to expand any time soon and maintained that the SCO would remain an economic club, rather than a military alliance. Experts agreed, telling us that [...]	2007-08-27 14:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ENRG EPET PINR PREL
07MOSCOW4232	POLAND, LITHUANIA BREAK CONSENSUS ON EU HEADS OF [...] (C) Summary: The EU Heads of Mission Report, prepared for the informal September 7-8 EU foreign ministers meeting on EU-Russia policy, was submitted to Brussels without the endorsement of Poland and Lithuania. In an unexpected move, the Polish embassy refused to sign off on the assessment, a [...]	2007-08-29 09:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PROG PREL EUN RS
07MOSCOW4244	RUSSIA ENERGY: YUKOS REDUX FOR RUSSNEFT? [...] (C) Russneft owner Mikhail Gutseriyev has apparently fled Russia as authorities seek his arrest on charges of illegal business activities and tax-evasion. Gutseriyev may be guilty, he has a dubious track record, but this may also be yet another case of selective prosecution against an oligarch [...]	2007-08-29 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW4247	RUSSIA CALLS STATEMENTS ABOUT ITS RECONSIDERATION [...] (C) Summary: Russian Ambassador-at-large for Black Sea Fleet issues Vladimir Dorokhin told us its diplomatic spat with Ukraine over alleged statements made by a Russian diplomat regarding Russia's legal claim on the Crimea is a "dead issue." Russia characterized as a misunderstanding the Kyi [...]	2007-08-30 02:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UK RS
07MOSCOW4267	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: SPECIAL [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Special Purpose Center of FSB, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed [...]	2007-08-30 09:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4289	NEW LEGAL TROUBLES AROUND FORMER RUSSIAN-CHECHEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Regional officials in Nizhniy Novgorod are conducting investigations of organizations affiliated with Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, the head of the banned Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS),including the seizure of computers from the Nizhniy Novgorod Foundation to Support Tole [...]	2007-08-31 06:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW4305	DFM SALTANOV ON QUARTET, MIDDLE EAST CONFERENCE, [...] (C) Summary: In an August 30 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Saltanov expressed strong support for the upcoming Quartet meetings and the Middle East Peace Conference. Saltanov proposed bilateral consultations in Washington or New York following his planned Septe [...]	2007-08-31 11:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IS IZ LE PREL RS SY
07MOSCOW4307	RUSSIA/GEORGIA: BAKRADZE VISIT FAILS TO EASE [...] (C) Russian MFA South Ossetia negotiator Yuriy Popov told us August 31 that visiting Georgian State Minister Bakradze did not hit it off well with DFM Karasin. The Russians appear to take Bakradze seriously. Popov worried that the planned "Peace March" to Tskhinvali could elicit a provocativ [...]	2007-08-31 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR MOPS OSCE GG RS
07MOSCOW4309	LATVIAN BORDER TREATY: DUMA RATIFICATION IN EARLY [...] (C) Summary. The State Duma will likely ratify the border treaty with Latvia, but the MFA and the Latvian Embassy raised concerns about the treaty's passage in the Federation Council, where political grandstanding in an election year could possibly result in further delay. FM Lavrov postpon [...]	2007-08-31 15:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PGOV LG RS
07MOSCOW4315	MFA ON "SIGNIFICANT" SHIFT IN RUSSIA-BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: Newly installed MFA Belarus Section Chief Nikita Matkovskiy told us that since Russia began to "put in order" its relations with Belarus in 2006, Russia has observed "serious but necessary" changes in the behavior of the Lukashenko regime. Matkovskiy underscored Russia's determi [...]	2007-09-04 11:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR MNUC BO RU
07MOSCOW4328	DFM KARASIN ON GEORGIA AND OTHER NEIGHBORS [...] (C) Two contentious issues -- Georgia and the Russian charges against the American HOM of OSCE Moldova -- dominated the Ambassador's September 4 meeting with DFM Karasin (the latter exchange reported separately). On Georgia, Karasin said State Minister Bakradze started off on the wrong foot w [...]	2007-09-04 15:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS OSCE UNGA MD GG RS
07MOSCOW4331	SUBPRIME MORTGAGE CRISIS NOT AFFECTING RUSSIAN BANKS - SO [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The largest potential threat that the U.S. subprime mortgage-induced liquidity squeeze poses for Russian banks is higher borrowing costs, according to Moscow-based private ba [...]	2007-09-05 06:17:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON RS
07MOSCOW4345	RUSSIA: STAFFDEL ANAND EXPLORES POLITICAL SITUATION [...] (U) A four-person staff delegation from the House Committee on Foreign Affairs visited Moscow August 25-29 to explore political developments in the run-up to parliamentary elections in December and the presidential election next year. During their visit they met with a range of Russian official [...]	2007-09-05 13:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW4357	POLISH PRESIDENT REQUESTS PUTIN MEETING AT KATYN [...] (C) Polish President Kaczynski surprised the GOR on September 4 by conveying his interest in a visit to Katyn and Smolensk on September 17, the date the Soviet Red Army seized eastern Poland in 1939, and requesting a meeting with President Putin. Polish Charge d'Affaires Zbigniew Rzonca told [...]	2007-09-06 12:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PL RS
07MOSCOW4409	Russian Response to Letter Regarding U.S. Candidacy for [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-07 12:24:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPL UNESCO RS
07MOSCOW4413	RUSSIAN-ESTONIAN RELATIONS: INCHING TOWARD NORMALCY [...] (C) Summary. The MFA and Estonian Embassy suggest that Russia-Estonia relations are slowly returning to normal, despite lingering GOR ill will and unhelpful political rhetoric in both countries. Although no high-level visits are on the horizon, the two countries are closely coordinating on m [...]	2007-09-07 13:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS EN RU
07MOSCOW4420	RUSSIA WANTS A STABLE PAKISTAN BUT AVOIDS DIRECT [...] (C) Summary: Russia seeks a stable Pakistan, preferably under the leadership of President Musharraf, but is reluctant to weigh in on the country's volatile political situation. The MFA told us that the GOR considers Musharraf capable of maintaining government control of the nation's nuclear w [...]	2007-09-10 02:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IN PK RS XD
07MOSCOW4433	RUSSIA-SOUTH KOREA RELATIONS: NO FRICTION, BUT [...] (C) Summary. GOR officials characterized the August 30-31 Moscow visit by the South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-Soon as "excellent" with no notable problem areas requiring serious negotiation, except the shared concern for North Korea's nuclear programs. FM Lavrov summarized the Russia [...]	2007-09-10 11:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARMS MNUC KS RS
07MOSCOW4447	PUTIN'S INDONESIA TRIP EXPANDS RUSSIAN ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: Russian President Putin's September 6 visit to Indonesia is indicative of the Russian goal of expanding economic ties with Southeast Asia through key industries -- energy and military -- considered crucial both to Russian economic growth and to exerting influence abroad. The pre [...]	2007-09-11 02:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EINV ASEAN ID RS
07MOSCOW4483	PRIME MINISTER'S RESIGNS, FIRST DEPUTY FINANCE [...] (C) On the afternoon of September 12, Prime Minister Fradkov resigned, kicking off the long-expected next phase of Russia's succession process. Putin accepted Fradkov's resignation, which the Prime Minister said he had tendered in order to "give (Putin) full freedom in making decisions, inclu [...]	2007-09-12 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW4490	RUSSIA TO FOCUS ON BILATERAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Director of Middle East and North Africa Department Aleksandr Kinshak previewed for us preliminary GOR plans for Iraqi FM Zebari's trip to Moscow, currently scheduled for September 18-21. The GOR will seek a commitment from Zebari to reactivate the Russia-Iraq Intergo [...]	2007-09-13 05:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ECON IQ RS
07MOSCOW4505	FUNDAMENTALS OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY CONTRIBUTE [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Lavrov's strong rhetoric during his September 3 remarks on the course of Russian foreign policy, and in particular his use of the term "red lines," differs little from previous GOR statements. While Lavrov emphasized Russia's commitment to cooperation with the W [...]	2007-09-13 13:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR
07MOSCOW4538	ZUBKOV CONFIRMED; HINTS AT CABINET RE-SHUFFLE [...] (SBU) As expected, Prime Minister-designate Viktor Zubkov was easily confirmed by the Duma after a perfunctory set of questions and speeches September 14. Only the Communist Party, and perhaps some independent deputies, voted against him. Zubkov used the occasion to suggest that a cabinet re [...]	2007-09-14 15:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW4540	RUSSIA: FINMIN KUDRIN CONFIDENT ABOUT STAYING ON, [...] (C) Summary: In a September 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Finance Minister Kudrin expressed confidence that he would remain in office despite the recent change in Prime Ministers. Kudrin's self-assurance seemed to have been boosted by his meeting a little earlier on September 14 with Chief [...]	2007-09-15 07:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV RU
07MOSCOW4544	DFM LOSYUKOV ON SIX-PARTY TALKS, AFGHANISTAN AND [...] (C) Summary. In a September 12 meeting with Ambassador DFM Losyukov expressed satisfaction that the Six-Party Talks had made progress toward the ultimate goal-- the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. He believes the Six-Party Beijing Plenary is likely to start on September 19, and wi [...]	2007-09-17 04:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP ECON KN IR AF IN RS
07MOSCOW4550	MFA FRUSTRATED WITH UKRAINIAN POLITICS, SATISFIED [...] (C) Summary: MFA Director for Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova Viktor Sorokin told us that while senior-level contact with Ukraine continues, Russia is growing frustrated with the virtual paralysis in bilateral relations. Russia places most of the blame for the stagnation on the "divided and pre [...]	2007-09-17 08:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL ECON UK
07MOSCOW4584	RUSSIAN RESPONSE ON UAVS TO SYRIA AND [...] (S) Russian MFA Office of Disarmament and Security Affairs (DVBR) passed us a non-paper September 12 (faxed to EUR/RUS, informal translation in paragraph 3) in response to ref a and b demarches on the possible sale of UAVs to Syria and nanotechnology cooperation with Iran. DVBR officer Alexand [...]	2007-09-18 10:03:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	ETTC IR KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL RS SY
07MOSCOW4592	IRANIAN FM VISIT FOCUSES ON ECONOMICS [...] (C) Summary: Iranian FM Mottaki was in Moscow September 12 for what Russian officials characterized as a visit devoted to the countries' economic relationship. The GOR denied Mottaki's claim that Russia had agreed to finish construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant and supply Iran with [...]	2007-09-18 13:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP ENRG IR RS
07MOSCOW4598	Samara Oblast: New Sheriff in Town [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The shocking speed in which Yeltsin-era Governor Konstantin Titov was replaced after 16 years in power has fostered an atmosphere of nervous expectation among the political elite in Samara. In a whirlwind of events this August, Titov announced his resignation; Putin nominated Art [...]	2007-09-18 17:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI PINR RS
07MOSCOW4599	ZHIRINOVSKIYâ€™S NEW SIDEMAN: LUGOVOY [...] (C) The mercurial Vladimir Zhirinovskiy staged yet another impressive act of political theater on September 17 with the surprise announcement that the number two position on his party's ticket would be filled by Andrey Lugovoy, the former FSB officer accused by Scotland Yard of orchestrating the mu [...]	2007-09-18 18:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW4609	KASYANOV ON OPPOSITION PROSPECTS; PUTIN'S PLANS [...] (C) A relaxed, self confident ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov told Ambassador September 18 that: -- the appointment of 66-year old Viktor Zubkov as Prime Minister meant that President Putin was determined to leave office in 2008, but remained undecided about the succession; -- if Zubkov [...]	2007-09-19 06:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
07MOSCOW4625	SPANISH PRESIDENT ZAPATERO'S VISIT TO FOCUS ON [...] (C) Summary: Spanish President Zapatero's September 28 meeting with President Putin in Sochi will focus on economic cooperation and trade, concentrating on a "big push" to stimulate the interest of Spanish investors. The visit will also reinforce traditionally strong Russian-Spanish relations [...]	2007-09-19 14:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EINV ETRD SP RS
07MOSCOW4626	FEDERATION COUNCIL PASSES LATVIAN BORDER TREATY [...] (SBU) On September 19, the Russian Federation Council voted 177 to one to ratify the border treaty with Latvia. Despite fears that the Just Russia party might cater to the nationalist vote in election-year politics (reftel),they instead voted for the treaty with near unanimity in the first r [...]	2007-09-19 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS PGOV LG RS
07MOSCOW4628	DEFENSE MINISTER'S OFFER OF RESIGNATION FUELS [...] (C) Summary. Acting Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov tendered his resignation late September 18 due to his relationship to new Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, who is his father-in law. Many question whether Putin will accept Serdyukov's resignation, noting that he had just begun his effor [...]	2007-09-20 03:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR PINR RS
07MOSCOW4633	POLISH PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO KATYN "CONSTRUCTIVE" [...] (C) Summary. DFM Titov characterized President Kaczynski's visit to Katyn as "constructive," noting that Kaczynski had depicted Katyn as an historical event and focused on the future of Russian-Polish relations. Titov also said that any request by Kaczynski to meet with Putin would have been [...]	2007-09-20 08:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PL RS
07MOSCOW4634	RUSSIA-FRANCE RELATIONS: AFTER KOUCHNER, BEFORE [...] (C) Summary. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's two-day Moscow visit did not bridge the gap in the two countries' position on issues such as Kosovo and Iran. Both GOR officials and the French Embassy hope that the early October Sarkozy visit will provide an opportunity to narrow di [...]	2007-09-20 09:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNO UNMIK FR RS
07MOSCOW4669	(C) RUSSIA ENERGY: EXXONMOBIL OPTIMISTIC ON SAKH 1 [...] (C) ExxonMobil Russia claims to be closing in on a deal to sell China gas from the Sakhalin 1 project it operates. However, Gazprom publicly and privately remains opposed and can block the deal regardless of what ExxonMobil,s contract says. We would not be surprised to see a compromise emerge [...]	2007-09-21 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS CH
07MOSCOW4708	VOLGOGRAD MAYOR: YOUNG, PRAGMATIC... AND COMMUNIST (FOR [...] (SBU) The 31 year-old mayor of Volgograd, an unexpected winner in a special election held last May after his predecessor had been imprisoned on corruption charges, downplayed to us his Communist party affiliation. The mayor instead stressed his commitment to fostering a pro-business climate [...]	2007-09-25 11:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW4710	Artyakov's Avtovaz Polices Shaped Popular Opinion of New [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Popular opinion toward the newly appointed governor of Samara, Vladimir Artyakov, is likely to be shaped by perceptions of his policies while serving as general director of the region's largest industrial enterprise, Russian auto-manufacturer Avtovaz. Artyakov fought to strength [...]	2007-09-25 13:50:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW4713	PUTIN MAKES MINIMAL CHANGES TO CABINET [...] (C) Late evening September 24, President Putin announced the long-awaited cabinet re-shuffle requested by Prime Minister Zubkov. There were few structural changes to the new cabinet unveiled by Putin and much continuity, with government veterans Elvira Nabiullina and Tatyana Golikova replacin [...]	2007-09-25 15:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON RS
07MOSCOW4727	FM LAVROV UNDERSCORES ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND "NO [...] (C) Summary. The MFA told us that Lavrov's September 11-13 trip to Peru, Uruguay, and Paraguay focused on strengthening economic development of the region and projecting solidarity with countries instituting their own models of political and economic development. Lavrov stressed in his public [...]	2007-09-26 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EINV ETRD XR RS
07MOSCOW475	ITALY: PRODI AND PUTIN TALK AFGHANISTAN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. Italian Prime Minister Prodi stopped in Sochi January 23 to discuss Afghanistan and Kosovo, bilateral trade and the Russian president's March visit to Italy. On Afghanistan, Putin was critical of President Karzai's contacts with "moderate" Taliban members. Putin voiced concerns [...]	2007-02-05 13:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU IT AF
07MOSCOW476	RUSSIA: VIEWS OF TWO GOR HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: The Deputy Chairman of the Human Rights Council and the Deputy Chief of Staff to the GOR Human Rights Ombudsman described a year of democratic retrenchment, with "definite improvement, amidst profound violations," but a more positive long-term prognosis based on changes within [...]	2007-02-05 13:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR RS
07MOSCOW4772	YABLOKO PARTY LAUNCHES PARTY LIST [...] (SBU) In conversations since the September 15 - 16 Yabloko congress, Yabloko federal list number two Sergey Kovalev, party member Andrey Piontkovskiy, and a member of Yabloko's Murmansk delegation to the congress described to us a party whose continued stress on human rights, as manifested in t [...]	2007-09-28 15:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW4774	GOR PLAYS DOWN BURMA DEMONSTRATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The GOR again rejected U.S. calls for a strong UNSC response to the Burma crisis, but has urged restraint on both the Burmese government and pro-democracy demonstrators. Warning against "counterproductive" involvement by external forces, GOR officials emphasized publicly and pri [...]	2007-09-29 03:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM RS
07MOSCOW4828	RUSSIA AT A LOSS ON HOW TO BREAK IMPASSE IN [...] (C) Summary: Although Russia has observed an improvement in its bilateral ties with Moldova, the GOR remains frustrated with its inability to pressure Chisinau into a compromise on the Transnistria conflict. Russia's de facto import ban on Moldovan wine and Putin's increasingly frequent one [...]	2007-10-02 12:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PBTS MARR OSCE MD RS
07MOSCOW4831	RESPONSE TO PKK TERRORISM IN EUROPE DEMARCHE: [...] (SBU) In an October 2 meeting, we delivered reftel demarche to MFA New Threats and Challenges Senior Counselor Vladimir Prokhorov. Prokhorov expressed dismay over the flight of Riza Altun and disappointment with the lack of cooperation between France and Austria. He told us that he would pa [...]	2007-10-02 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL PGOV KTFN OSCE TU IZ EU RS
07MOSCOW4852	RUSSIA ON DEVELOPMENTS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary. On October 2, the GOR requested U.S. assistance in the release of the two South Ossetian PKF personnel in Georgian custody (non-paper emailed to EUR) and in blocking the OSCE's planned October 17 session to re-examine the August 6 South-Ossetia missile incident. GOR officials e [...]	2007-10-03 12:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW4909	PREMIER ZUBKOV'S FIRST STEPS SHOW REGIONAL EMPHASIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since Putin picked Viktor Zubkov from relative obscurity to serve as Premier, the Russian political elite have been scrambling to figure out who this new figure is and the role he is to play in Putin's plans. Our contacts among political analysts describe Zubkov as an unassuming, [...]	2007-10-05 15:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON RS
07MOSCOW4910	DUST SETTLES ON PUTIN'S SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT [...] (C) Putin's October 1 announcement that he will head the pro-Kremlin United Russia (YR) party list (reftel) has been portrayed by the opposing Kremlin party's Chairman Sergey Mironov as proof that YR had gone into receivership, and had to be bailed out by the President. In a meeting with the [...]	2007-10-05 15:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW4912	RUSSIA-ARMENIA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. According to the MFA, the September 25 visit to Moscow by Armenian Prime Minister Sarkisyan reaffirmed the historical strong ties between the two countries. Both GOR officials and the Armenian Embassy expressed satisfaction with the direction and extent of bilateral engagement. [...]	2007-10-09 03:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AM RS
07MOSCOW4931	DUMA DEPUTIES PROPOSE MISSILE DEFENSE CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: State Duma Defense Committee Advisor Valeriy Ignatiev confirmed that the Russian State Duma deputies who are members of the Inter-party conference on foreign policy proposed on September 26 that members of the U.S. Congress and parliamentarians from the Czech Republic and Poland [...]	2007-10-10 07:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS PREL
07MOSCOW4932	WINTER CUTOFFS OF RUSSIAN GAS LESS LIKELY THIS YEAR [...] (C) Despite the noise created by the press, Russia seems to have learned from the PR blunder of shutting off gas to Ukraine in the winter of 2006 (ref D) and we expect a relatively quiet winter this year with respect to gas supplies. The immediate resolution of the recent mini-dispute over an [...]	2007-10-10 07:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW4939	RUSSIAN EXPERTS ON MOSCOW'S APPROACH TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: "Balance" is the word used to describe Russia's Iran policy by Moscow's leading Iran watchers. Putin is sufficiently concerned about Iran's nuclear program to keep Russia engaged on the issue. According to the MFA, he will reinforce the point with Ahmadinejad in Tehran October 1 [...]	2007-10-10 11:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP MASS ETRD IR RS
07MOSCOW4949	SIX-PARTY TALKS: VIEWS FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary. The Russian Government welcomed the October 3 Six-Party Agreement, terming it the best outcome possible at this stage, although DFM Kislyak cautioned about further "bumps in the road" given the nature of the DPRK regime. Moscow experts largely echoed the official view and encour [...]	2007-10-11 05:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM MNUC KNNP ECON KN KS JA RS
07MOSCOW4960	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: (A) AND (B) [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, (A) and (B) Kalibr 2001, Vidnoe City, Moscow, Russia. The company is [...]	2007-10-11 12:11:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
07MOSCOW4967	SPS CHAIRMAN STAYS OPTIMISTIC ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) In an October 10 conversation with the Ambassador, Union of Right Forces (SPS) Chairman Nikita Belykh reacted complacently to the effect President Putin's decision to head the pro-Kremlin United Russia list might have on his party's chances to cross the seven-percent threshold into the Duma [...]	2007-10-12 08:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR PREL RS
07MOSCOW4968	DUMA DEPUTY RYZHKOV ON HIS FUTURE WITHOUT A PARTY, [...] (C) Outgoing Duma Deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov told the Ambassador October 7 that he, unusually for him, backed the GOR's resistance to independence for Kosovo and further NATO expansion, which he termed "real" foreign policy problems. The dispute over anti-missile defenses was for Ryzhkov a "virtu [...]	2007-10-12 08:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5028	A/S FRIED - DFM KARASIN, DUMA COMMITTEE CHAIR KOKOSHIN DISCUSSIONS ON UKRAINE AND FROZEN CONFLICTS [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-16 13:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	GG MARR MD MOPS OSCE PREL RS UNGA
07MOSCOW5030	EMBASSY'S MEETING WITH UNITED CIVIC FRONT ACTIVIST [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 15, Embassy met with Larissa Arap immediately after her return from the United States, in order to discuss problems that she and her family were reportedly facing in Murmansk and the case she has brought against the psychiatric hospital that had held her against her [...]	2007-10-17 04:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW5039	GERMAN POLITICAL DIRECTOR IN MOSCOW: IRAN, MD, AND [...] (C) Summary: German Political Director Stanzel's October 9 visit to Moscow touched on most major international issues, including Iran, missile defense, and CFE. During his meeting with Stanzel, DFM Kislyak reaffirmed Russia's interest in maintaining a united front with the EC 3 on Iran. Kisl [...]	2007-10-17 11:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PGOV GM AF EU IR RS
07MOSCOW5051	RUSSIA COURTS ASIA AND VICE VERSA [...] (C) Summary: Russia continues to expand its influence in Asia by taking advantage of Asian eagerness to improve relations with a politically and economically resurgent Russia. Both the Prime Minister of Vietnam and Foreign Minister of Bangladesh visited Moscow recently, seeking to increase b [...]	2007-10-18 10:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EINV ENRG BG VM RS
07MOSCOW5059	RUSSIA-US MISSILE DEFENSE NEGOTIATIONS, OCTOBER [...] (S) Summary. In extensive discussions in Moscow October 10, U.S. and Russian delegations, led by Acting Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Rood and Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak discussed the U.S. plans to place a missile defense system (MD) in Easter [...]	2007-10-18 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	MARR PARM PREL KNNP IR RS
07MOSCOW5060	ACTING U/S ROODâ€™S MEETING WITH DFM KISLYAK: [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting October 11 on the margins of the missile defense and 2 2 discussions in Moscow, Acting Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security John Rood and Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak agreed on the need to encourage key countries to join the Global Initiative to Co [...]	2007-10-18 13:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR MNUC KACT KNNP IR RS
07MOSCOW508	RUSSIAN ENERGY: SHELL TALKS ABOUT SAKHALIN-2 [...] (C) Summary: On January 25, we met with Alf D'Souza, Shell's External Affairs VP, and Bibi Bautleuova, a Shell government affairs rep, to talk about the Sakhalin-2 deal that Shell and its partners (Japan's Mitsubishi and Mitsui) reached last month with Gazprom. D'Souza said that they got the [...]	2007-02-06 11:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5092	DUMA READY TO BACK CFE SUSPENSION, CHAIRMAN SAYS [...] (SBU) In a meeting with NSC Senior Director Warlick and EUR DAS Kramer, International Affairs Committee Chairman Kosachev underscored the Duma's support for the suspension of CFE on December 12, absent a change in the U.S. position and reiterated GOR opposition to any linkage to Istanbul commi [...]	2007-10-22 10:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KCFE PARM MARR WTRO IR KV RS
07MOSCOW51	RUSSIA REACTS NEGATIVELY TO IMPOSITION OF ISNPA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russia's first official public reaction was calmly negative to the December 28 imposition of sanctions against four Russian entities under the Iran-Syria Non-Proliferation Act. The Foreign Ministry characterized the U.S. action as an "illegal" effort to extend U.S. law to the a [...]	2007-01-10 13:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC RS
07MOSCOW5101	ULAN UDE, WHERE BEING ASIAN WORKS [...] (C) Summary. During an October 15-19 trip to the Republic of Buryatia, squeezed between Lake Baikal and Mongolia, local government officials, political party representatives, and civil society leaders shared with us their views on the political, economic, and social development of the region [...]	2007-10-22 15:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF ECON ETRD PINR MG RS
07MOSCOW5103	RUSSIA - MONGOLIA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. The October 3 visit to Moscow by Mongolian Foreign Minister Enkhbold reaffirmed the historically good relations between Russia and Mongolia. GOR officials, the Mongolian Embassy, and the Mongolian Consulate General in Ulan Ude expressed satisfaction with the state of the relatio [...]	2007-10-23 06:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON MG RS
07MOSCOW5117	LOOKING AHEAD TO THE EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: Russia has set a low bar for the EU-Russia summit, and will go to Lisbon prepared to push back on criticism of its human rights and democracy record, as well as to press for clarity on the implications of EU reform. With the continued stand-off over Polish meat, the Russians see " [...]	2007-10-23 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU WTRO ETRD ENRG KO RS
07MOSCOW5153	PUTIN'S PROBLEM [...] (C) Summary: Putin's problem is that there is no political or honorific perch that will ensure his ability to check the powers granted by the constitution to his successor and, by ruling out a constitutional amendment allowing a third term, some observers believe that he has boxed himself in [...]	2007-10-25 14:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5154	ADDRESSING RUSSIAN ARMS SALES [...] (C) Summary: FM Lavrov's disinterest in establishing an expert level dialogue on arms sales begs the question of how best to address our concerns over Russia's arms export policy. Russian officials are deeply cynical about our motives in seeking to curtail Russian arms exports to countries of conce [...]	2007-10-26 02:25:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL ECON MARR MASS PARM PINR PINS RS
07MOSCOW5162	LUKOIL VP PREDICTS CHINESE DOMINANCE AND SUGGESTS [...] (SBU) At an October 22 conference session on "U.S.-Russian Relations and Energy Security," Lukoil V.P. Leonid Fedun strongly criticized the U.S. for treating Russia as a "defeated nation." He nonetheless called for more dialogue as "equal partners," and portrayed China as a common threat, pre [...]	2007-10-26 09:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL PINR RS
07MOSCOW5176	RUSSIA'S SOBER OUTLOOK ON UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) Summary: Russia's official reaction to the results of the Ukrainian parliamentary elections and the likely formation of an orange coalition has been cool, but an MFA official and experts told us that Russia can hardly be satisfied with the developments. Even more worrisome for Russia is [...]	2007-10-26 15:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ECON UK RS

07MOSCOW5177	RUSSIA'S SLOW RETURN TO SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: [...] (C) Summary. In a series of meetings with a visiting INR analyst, Russian experts and MFA officials stressed that Russia is gaining ground slowly in Africa after its post-Cold War retrenchment. Russia is a firmly established player in the mining sector, where its advanced mining technology is [...]	2007-10-26 15:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EMIN XA RS
07MOSCOW5182	GOR INTERPRETS BURMA DIFFERENTLY [...] (C) On October 25, MFA Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand Division Second Secretary Aleksey Semenikhin provided a more nuanced GOR position on recent events in Burma (refs B and C). Displaying refreshing honesty, he acknowledged that earlier claims the GOR had limited information on the Bur [...]	2007-10-29 08:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CVIS ETRD BM RS
07MOSCOW5192	TOMSK OBLAST GOVERNOR ON ELECTIONS, RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) Tomsk Governor Viktor Kress enjoys strong support from the regional population as well as the Moscow elite because he, somewhat like Putin, is seen as a competent steward of his region's economic resources and as a capable manager of the local political system. During discussions with the [...]	2007-10-29 17:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5208	RUSSIAN NATIONALIST GOES TO NATO: OFFERS [...] (C) Summary: Russia's charismatic nationalist politician, Dmitriy Rogozin, confirmed press reports that he will be appointed the GOR's next Ambassador to NATO and expects to arrive in Brussels by late November. Claiming that his appointment is a Putin initiative, Rogozin candidly described [...]	2007-10-30 16:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR
07MOSCOW5218	MFA IRAN DESK ON CASPIAN SUMMIT, ECONOMIC [...] (C) In an October 30 meeting, MFA Iran Desk Head Maxim Baranov indicated the Caspian Summit and bilateral meetings in Tehran resulted only in generic progress on economic cooperation. He described active engagement with Iran, however, including an upcoming 7th session of the "Joint Commission [...]	2007-10-31 12:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL PINR RS IR
07MOSCOW5225	RUSSIAN DFM TITOV ON BOSNIA, KOSOVO, AND POLAND [...] (C) Comment: In an October 31 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Titov reiterated Russian complaints over High Representative Lajcak's invocation of Bosnia powers, which ran counter to assurances given during his Moscow consultations, but stressed Russian support for the D [...]	2007-10-31 15:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BK RS
07MOSCOW5230	CORRECTED COPY: RUSSIAN NATIONALIST GOES TO NATO: [...] (C) Summary: Russia's charismatic nationalist politician, Dmitriy Rogozin, confirmed press reports that he will be appointed the GOR's next Ambassador to NATO and expects to arrive in Brussels by late November. Claiming that his appointment is a Putin initiative, Rogozin candidly described [...]	2007-11-01 08:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR NATO RS
07MOSCOW5231	RUSSIA'S NORTH-SOUTH ENERGY STRATEGY: A KNIFE, A [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian activism in recent years to strengthen the "north-south" energy corridor suggests an intention to slice through the conceptual "east-west" corridor, to reassert Central Asia's dependence on Russian energy routes, and to repair Russia's own fumbling gas balance. Russia ap [...]	2007-11-01 09:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5246	AMBASSADOR RAISES OBSTACLES ENCOUNTERED BY NGOS [...] (C) Ambassador on November 1 raised with Deputy Foreign Minister Yakovenko problems encountered by Russian and U.S. NGOS as the Duma elections approach, and voiced concerns over the number of ODIHR monitors to be invited to the December 2 Duma election. The Ambassador described to Yakovenko re [...]	2007-11-01 17:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM SOCI OSCE RS
07MOSCOW5266	PUTIN'S EU SPECIAL ADVISOR ON EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT, [...] (C) Summary: In a November 1 meeting with the Ambassador, Putin's EU Special Advisor Sergey Yastrzhembskiy characterized the Mafra EU-Russia Summit in generally positive terms. Yastrzhembskiy argued that the summit was a step forward and that EU-Russia relations are "evolving," citing the tw [...]	2007-11-02 17:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BK RS
07MOSCOW5292	ROSCOSMOS ON SPACE COOPERATION WITH KAZAKHSTAN, [...] (SBU) Russian officials regard space cooperation with Kazakhstan as on track, despite reported disputes over leasing arrangements for the Baikonur cosmodrome and compensation for damages caused by a recent rocket explosion at the site. Plans for the construction in the Russian Far East of a [...]	2007-11-07 06:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPA TSPL NASA PREL PGOV KZ RS
07MOSCOW5311	RUSSIA: NO POSTPONEMENT OF NEW STATE FLIGHTS [...] (C) The GOR has decided to implement the pre-payment scheme for USG "state" flights despite previous indications from the MFA that last week's informal bilateral discussions might stave off the November 1 implementation of these new rules. Because U.S. policy is neither to pay nor charge for [...]	2007-11-07 14:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAIR PREL RS
07MOSCOW5336	RUSSIA EXPELS THREE GEORGIAN DIPLOMATS IN RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary. On November 8, Russia declared persona non grata two senior counselors and one counselor in the Georgian Embassy in Moscow, in a tit-for-tat response to Georgia's recall of its Ambassador from Moscow and expulsion of three Russian diplomats. While the MFA issued two harshly cri [...]	2007-11-08 18:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW5339	STATE DUMA VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO SUSPEND CFE TREATY [...] (C) Summary: On November 7 the State Duma unanimously approved a draft law to suspend participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty. The law will come into effect on December 12, pending approval by the Federation Council and President Putin's signature. Objections to the C [...]	2007-11-09 07:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PGOV PREL
07MOSCOW5354	DFM KARASIN URGES TOUGHER U.S. POSTURE ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Prior to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister's November 9 meeting with GOG DFM Vashakidze, the Ambassador reinforced U.S. expectations that Russia would do all it could to de-escalate and calm the situation in Tbilisi. Karasin said the U.S. should not underestimate how upset Russia w [...]	2007-11-10 08:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW5365	RUSSIA'S LATEST CULTURE WAR [...] (C) A paean to President Putin on his 55th birthday by one of culture's grand old men, film director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov, has revealed fault lines in the cultural community similar to those that are all too apparent among the country's political classes. Mikhalkov's film hagiography of [...]	2007-11-13 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCUL KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5370	INITIAL GROUP OF RUSSIAN DUMA ELECTION OBSERVERS [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Yakovenko claimed to Ambassador November 12 that the GOR would invite the 70 ODIHR observers as it had promised and in the timeframe promised, and would expedite visa issuance. In a November 13 conversation (septel),Presidential Administration Deputy Vladislav Surk [...]	2007-11-13 16:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM OSCE RS
07MOSCOW5371	MFA ON POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 conversation, the Ambassador reinforced with DFM Denisov U.S. efforts in Tbilisi and urged GOR restraint. In a separate meeting, MFA Fourth CIS Department Director Kelin welcomed EUR DAS Bryza's statements encouraging the Georgian leadership to restore the polit [...]	2007-11-13 17:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW5373	RUSSIA - THE POLITICS OF INFLATION [...] (SBU) In a campaign that many here characterize as a referendum on Putin and his policies, few expected that the problem of inflation would emerge to distract the public's attention from the broader economic stabilization that has succored the president's popularity. Putin's team, which was a [...]	2007-11-14 04:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON EFIN PGOV PINR RS EINV
07MOSCOW5378	MFA: "NON-CONFRONTATION" WILL GUIDE IRAN STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Director for Iran and Afghanistan Ali Mustafabeli told us that the MFA has yet to hear from Tehran after Ahmadenijad assured FM Lavrov on October 30 that he would think about the P5 1 proposal to halt uranium enrichment. Mustafabeli predicted that the November IAEA re [...]	2007-11-14 11:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM ETRD AF IR RS
07MOSCOW5399	MFA ON RUSSIAN-EU ENERGY RELATIONS REF: A. MOSCOW 5266 B. MOSCOW 4932 Classified By: Econ MC Eric Schultz for Reasons 1.4 (b/d) [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-15 13:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5412	GOR SYMPATHIZES WITH MUSHARRAF [...] (C) Summary: The MFA tells us that the deteriorating domestic situation and limited political options "understandably" forced Musharraf to declare a state of emergency in Pakistan. MFA Pakistan Desk Chief Andrey Starkov argued that Musharraf had to prevent the invalidation of his re-election [...]	2007-11-16 11:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IN PK RS
07MOSCOW5425	MFA UPBEAT ON IRAQ NEIGHBORS MINISTERIAL, DEBT [...] (C) Summary: On November 15, MFA Deputy Director for Iraq Aleksandr Kinshak told us that Russia considered the Iraq Neighbors Expanded Ministerial in Istanbul "very successful," noting that the atmosphere was more positive in Istanbul than at the previous ministerial in Sharm el Sheikh. Kinsh [...]	2007-11-16 14:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IS IZ LE PREL RS SY
07MOSCOW5429	CHINESE PREMIER WEN VISITS MOSCOW; FOCUS ON [...] (C) Summary. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in Moscow November 5-6 to close the "Year of China" in Russia. His visit focused on trade and energy. While the Russian MFA portrayed the visit as a successful expression of flourishing economic relations, the Chinese Embassy cautioned that the agreem [...]	2007-11-16 15:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW5431	CALM CAMPAIGN IN RUSSIAN REGION [...] (C) Changes in election law have created a "calm" campaign atmosphere in Voronezh, a city south of Moscow where during a November 14-15 visit we found scant evidence that a parliamentary election is about to take place. Local party representatives said the lack of single-mandate candidates ha [...]	2007-11-16 16:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5433	THE WEEK IN POLITICS: PUTIN STUMPS FOR, STOMPS [...] (SBU) With just over two weeks remaining until the December 2 Duma elections, Putin, during a visit to Krasnoyarsk, at last began actively stumping for the United Russia party. On November 15, in Tver, about 700 delegates from 79 of Russia's regions returned the favor by actively stumping for [...]	2007-11-17 12:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5435	PM SINGH'S VISIT HIGHLIGHTS THE LIMITS OF [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Losyukov told the Ambassador that Indian Prime Minister Singh's November 11-12 trip to Moscow was a "useful visit" that saw progress on a potential agreement for Russia to sell four additional nuclear reactors to India. The visit included the si [...]	2007-11-17 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG MASS IN RS
07MOSCOW5451	DFM DENISOV LAUDS ECON DIALOGUE, WELCOMES JANUARY [...] (SBU) In a November 19 meeting with DFM Denisov, the Ambassador raised Undersecretary Jeffery's proposal for a preliminary meeting in Moscow in January at which the two could discuss establishing a low-key, informal but regular economic dialogue. Denisov responded that he welcomed the propose [...]	2007-11-19 16:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG RS
07MOSCOW5478	DFM KARASIN ON UKRAINE, BELARUS, GEORGIA, MOLDOVA [...] (C) Summary. In a November 21 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Karasin requested the USG's understanding of the "erroneous" Ukrainian interpretation of "Holodomor (1932-33 famine)" and other events that happened during WW2. He urged that the USG lift the sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasur [...]	2007-11-21 19:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW5505	GAMING RUSSIA'S REACTION TO A KOSOVO UDI [...] (C) Summary: The fact that Russia has not confronted the U.S. at the most senior levels over the possibility of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence does not mean that Putin and his advisers are resigned to the outcome. Russian diplomatic self-confidence flows from its sense of E [...]	2007-11-23 15:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW5512	RUSSIA AND INDIA SEEK TO IMPROVE ECONOMIC TIES; [...] (SBU) Summary: In official briefings on Indian Prime Minister Singh's November 11-12 visit, Russian and Indian diplomats confirmed reftel assessment of bilateral relations as politically healthy but in danger of appearing "emaciated" should the countries fail to expand economic ties. The dip [...]	2007-11-26 07:58:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECIN ENRG MASS IN RS
07MOSCOW5518	MOD SERDYUKOV VISITS CENTRAL ASIA [...] (C) Summary: Russian Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov's visits to Uzbekistan and Armenia October 29-30 were part of Russian efforts to strengthen ties with CIS member states. (Note: Serdyukov also made an unofficial trip to Kyrgyzstan. End Note.) Serdyukov and his Uzbek counterpart s [...]	2007-11-26 12:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PREL SENV
07MOSCOW5548	UNITED RUSSIA EXPECTS BIG THINGS FROM ROSTOV-ON-DON [...] (C) The Ambassador's November 19-20 visit to Rostov-on-Don revealed that Russia's fifth most populous region falls squarely in the ruling party vote bank. Governor Vladimir Chub, who has ruled Rostov for sixteen years, appears too busy opening shopping centers and meeting trade delegations to [...]	2007-11-28 08:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM ECON SOCI EAGR RS
07MOSCOW5551	DEMARCHE ON U.S.-IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-28 11:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ RS
07MOSCOW5584	HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND THREE JOURNALISTS BEATEN [...] (C) Summary: In the Ingushetia capital of Nazran on November 24, masked gunmen abducted a human rights worker and three Moscow television journalists from their hotel rooms, robbed them of their equipment and notebooks, and threatened them with execution. The gunmen then took the four victims [...]	2007-11-29 15:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAO RS
07MOSCOW5585	"SECURE GAS SUPPLY FOR EUROPE" -- NORD STREAM MOVING FORWARD REF: A. THE HAGUE 1999 B. MOSCOW 5399 C. TALLINN 737 D. HELSINKI 785 E. WARSAW 1975 F. RIGA 430 Classified By: Ambassador William J. Burns for Reasons 1.4 (b/d) [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-29 15:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL PINR RS
07MOSCOW5600	CIVIC FORCE: A KREMLIN EXPERIMENT GONE NOWHERE [...] (C) The political party Civic Force (GS) began life as a Kremlin project and has enjoyed the freedom of action and access to the media that come with that status. Unlike other small, right-wing parties (such as Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces (SPS)),who have encountered problems in cond [...]	2007-11-30 12:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5612	FOREIGN POLICY, RHETORIC AND ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: International issues have received little attention in the run-up to the December 2 Duma elections, reflecting broad consensus behind Putin's foreign policy. Russia's positions on the top issues that do resonate with the Russian public - Kosovo, NATO enlargement, missile defense, [...]	2007-11-30 14:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR RS
07MOSCOW5627	MORE BUSINESS VIEWS ON PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [...] (C) Boris Jordan, a well-known American businessman of Russian ancestry, said the December 2 parliamentary elections should be seen as part of President Putin's plan to continue to exercise influence after his current term expires, preferably from the sidelines. Jordan expressed hope that bil [...]	2007-11-30 15:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EINV RS
07MOSCOW564	RUSSIA-AZERBAIJAN DYSPEPSIA: EAT TOMATOES AND GET [...] (C) Russian press articles and Embassy Baku's interlocutors have played up deteriorating Russian-Azerbaijani relations. They cite Gazprom's increase in the price of gas deliveries to Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan's refusal to send crude oil via the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline; and the Russian ban on [...]	2007-02-08 12:42:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL ETRD PREF AJ AM GG RS
07MOSCOW5681	RUSSIA SEEKS IMPROVED TIES WITH GULF STATES [...] (C) Summary: Russia continues to court the Persian Gulf States in its quest to expand economic ties with the region and improve political relations with the Muslim world. Saudi Crown Prince and Defense Minister Sultan bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud's November 21-23 Moscow visit was the latest in a se [...]	2007-12-03 15:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD MASS SA TC RS
07MOSCOW57	RUSSIAN ENERGY: THE RUSSIA-BELARUS OIL STANDOFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russia and Belarus have not yet found a solution to their row over oil volumes through the Druzhba pipeline. Over the last three days each party has cast blame on the other for initiating the confrontation, with the Russians claiming that the Belarusian transit duty was illegal u [...]	2007-01-10 15:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW5702	DFM SALTANOV ON POST-ANNAPOLIS, LEBANON, IRAQI [...] (C) Summary: In a December 4 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Saltanov underscored Putin's positive assessment of Annapolis, praised the Secretary for her "tireless" efforts, and highlighted Russia's interest in discussing a post-Annapolis meeting in Moscow during the December 17 Quartet meet [...]	2007-12-04 15:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IS IZ LE PREL RS SY
07MOSCOW5720	RUSSIA-GEORGIA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Russia is in no hurry to re-evaluate its bilateral relations with Georgia, with the MFA issuing repeated statements slamming Saakashvili's anti-Russia tactics as a "farce." MFA officials confirm that Saakashvili is persona non grata in Moscow, while Duma Chairman Gryzlov raised [...]	2007-12-06 10:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
07MOSCOW5734	CHECHEN PRESIDENT REACHES OUT TO THE MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Summary: Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov is looking to the Middle East to finance the reconstruction of Chechnya. Kadyrov met recently in Moscow with the visiting Saudi Crown Prince and traveled to Saudi Arabia and Jordan earlier this year. Kadyrov plans to visit Mecca in December, part [...]	2007-12-06 16:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SOCI JO SA RS
07MOSCOW5735	RUSSIAN GOALS FOR NATO-RUSSIA MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Summary. Russia will use the December 7 NATO-Russia Council (NRC) Ministerial as an opportunity to reiterate its views on suspension of the CFE Treaty, opposition to U.S. plans to deploy a missile defense (MD) system in Poland and the Czech Republic, opposition to a Kosovo Unilateral Dec [...]	2007-12-06 16:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MARR RS
07MOSCOW5738	WFP PLANNING CY08 NORTH CAUCASUS DEPARTURE DESPITE [...] Summary: The UN World Food Program will extend its current North Caucasus operation into 2008, but unless it observes deterioration in the food security status of the IDP population it plans to terminate all its direct food aid in the region within the next year. End summary. -------------- [...]	2007-12-07 06:48:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PGOV EAID EAGR SOCI RS
07MOSCOW5761	RUSSIA HOPEFUL BUT CAUTIOUS ABOUT A BREAKTHROUGH [...] Summary: The MFA told us that new Polish PM Tusk's pro-European stance, positive statements about Russia-Poland bilateral ties, his decision to remove Poland's veto on Russia's OECD accession, and recent efforts to address Russian concerns about Polish meat were clearly steps in the right dir [...]	2007-12-07 15:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PL RS
07MOSCOW5763	RUSSIAN CONDEMNATION OF KOSOVO UDI WIDENS [...] (C) Summary. At a December 5 press conference, FM Lavrov criticized "Western partners" for undermining the Troika's efforts to find a negotiated solution by continuing to support Kosovo's "inevitable" independence. Memorial, a Russian human rights organization often critical of the GOR, iss [...]	2007-12-07 16:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KV RS
07MOSCOW5781	NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR'S MEETING WITH FEDERAL COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: Federation Council International Relations Committee Chairman Margelov told visiting NSC Senior Director Mary Warlick on December 11 that he was very satisfied with Putin's selection of First Deputy PM Medvedev as his successor. Margelov described Medvedev as the "best case scen [...]	2007-12-11 15:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW5782	MEDVEDEV'S CAMPAIGN STRATEGY - PUTIN [...] (C) Less than a day after Putin came out in support of Dmitriy Medvedev's candidacy for President, Medvedev revealed his campaign strategy: to run on the promise of picking Putin to serve as Premier. Endorsements of a host of regional authorities, as well as representatives of the President's [...]	2007-12-11 16:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW5784	GREF CENTER'S VIEWS ON RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC DIRECTION [...] (C) In a December 6 meeting, Ksenia Yudaeva, Director of Research at the Center for Strategic Research (CSR or the Gref Center),the economic brain trust for the GOR's economic reforms in the early years of President Putin's administration, told econoff that while reform momentum has slowed th [...]	2007-12-12 04:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND PREL RS
07MOSCOW579	RUSSIAN FEDERATION COUNCIL MEMBER ON IRAN, MIDDLE [...] (C) Summary: Federation Council Member Margelov briefed the Ambassador on efforts to deepen engagement with the U.S. Senate, including reaching out to GOR critics. He flagged his upcoming trip to Tehran and said that Iranian duplicity and obduracy were making it difficult to defend the regi [...]	2007-02-09 08:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OREP RS IR
07MOSCOW5794	UNION STATE PRESIDENCY NOT ON PUTIN'S AGENDA IN [...] (C) Summary. The MFA strongly denied press rumors that Putin's December 13-14 trip to Minsk would create him president of a Russia-Belarus Union State, making it clear that Belarus had a long way to travel before it would be a partner for Russia. Putin's trip will focus on reviewing 2007's " [...]	2007-12-12 15:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD MARR PARM BO RS
07MOSCOW5800	THE MEASURE OF THE MAN - "WHO IS MR. MEDVEDEV?" [...] (C) Despite his prominence as First Deputy Premier, Gazprom Board Chair, and earlier as Head of the Presidential Administration, Medvedev remains only somewhat less an enigma than his mentor Putin was when the latter was picked as Yeltsin's successor eight years ago. In the near unanimous app [...]	2007-12-13 13:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	RS PINR PGOV
07MOSCOW5824	U.S., RUSSIA, AND EUROPEAN COOPERATION: FIRST WE [...] (C) Summary. MFA European Cooperation Director Ryabkov offered only partial reassurance on prospects for cooperation on European issues after a "stormy" round of international meetings, including strong disagreements on Kosovo and the OSCE. The MFA expected similar restrictions to be placed [...]	2007-12-14 15:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KV EU OSCE GG RS
07MOSCOW5825	RUSSIAN ELITES AHEAD OF RULING PARTY CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: A cross-section of establishment analysts and Putin critics approach the ruling party's December 17 convention convinced that it is time for liberals, the Kremlin, and the West to come to grips with the changed political landscape following the December 2 Duma elections. With t [...]	2007-12-14 15:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ECON RS
07MOSCOW5828	CSTO TO FUNNEL RUSSIAN AID TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Russia has made the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) a key vehicle in expanding assistance to Afghanistan by committing itself to providing several hundred million dollars in military aid entirely via the CSTO. Russia's main priorities vis--vis Afghanistan are prev [...]	2007-12-17 09:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR NATO PREL MASS AF RS
07MOSCOW584	UNHCR COMPLETES INTERVIEWS OF NORTH KOREANS [...] (S) UNHCR has completed its interviews of the North Koreans asylum seekers that arrived in Moscow in January and is finalizing its assessments of their cases (reftel). UNHCR Senior Protection Officer Gang Li said that all of them had indicated they had wanted to be resettled to the United Sta [...]	2007-02-09 11:17:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREF PREL PHUM PGOV RS KN
07MOSCOW5848	GOR NOT DISAPPOINTED WITH TYMOSHENKO'S COMEBACK [...] (C) Summary. Within a few hours after the election of Yulia Tymoshenko as Ukraine's new Prime Minister, MFA officials welcomed her "return", while expressing relief that many bilateral decisions put on hold in the absence of a "functioning" government in Ukraine could be made and implemented [...]	2007-12-18 16:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW5849	UNITED RUSSIA ACCEPTS MEDVEDEV AS CANDIDATE FOR [...] (C) Summary: The 511 delegates at the pro-Kremlin United Russia party's December 17 party congress performed to expectations, when they chose First Deputy Prime Minister Medvedev as their candidate for President. Putin confounded the expectations of some commentators by agreeing, after a wee [...]	2007-12-19 04:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
07MOSCOW5869	GOR EFFORTS TO ADVANCE MULTIPOLAR WORLD IN [...] Summary: While Russian officials view the October ministerial in Harbin as a "pivotal event" in accelerating the formation of a Russia, India, and China (RIC) triangle, fundamental differences in strategic vision, mutual distrust, and differing relations with the U.S. significantly limit Russ [...]	2007-12-19 15:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON RS
07MOSCOW5879	MFA DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR ON IRAN, AFGHANISTAN, [...] (C) Summary: In a December 18 meeting, MFA Second Asia Department Director Maryasov reviewed the results of Iranian FM Mottaki's December 13-14 trip to Moscow, noting bilateral agreements on trade and cooperation, confirming the sale of 130 civilian aircraft was possible but premature, and re [...]	2007-12-20 07:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR AF RS
07MOSCOW5898	RUSSIA-MOLDOVA RELATIONS: BACK ON TRACK? [...] (C) Summary. While evaluating Russia-Moldova relations without the Transnistria conflict is difficult, there are a few signs that the GOR is continuing its efforts to "mend" the bilateral relationship through economic and other means. The MFA told us that Russia is hopeful that frequent high [...]	2007-12-20 15:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON MD RS
07MOSCOW5899	RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. The pragmatic pursuit of economic growth and political stability, and a determined effort to avoid "interfering" with each other's domestic political developments have brought an improvement in ties between Russia and China. The conclusion of two "national years" created a stro [...]	2007-12-20 15:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG CH RS
07MOSCOW5971	DEMARCHES ON POTENTIAL S-300 SALE TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: In response to multiple demarches from the DCM, senior MFA officials have alluded to, but not confirmed a potential sale of the S-300 air defense system to Iran based on an unspecified contract which predated UNSCR 1737. When challenged that a Russian Government agency has publicly [...]	2007-12-31 11:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR RS
07MOSCOW601	RUSSIA-JAPAN RELATIONSHIP: NOT YET A NEW CHAPTER [...] (C) Summary. Despite growing economic ties and a newly launched strategic dialogue, improvements in Russian-Japanese bilateral relations will likely continue to move at a glacial pace. The disputed Kurile Islands remain a sticking point; oil-rich and confident Russians see little gain in mak [...]	2007-02-09 15:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON JA RS
07MOSCOW610	PUTIN WILL GO [...] (C) Although rumors swirl after each major public appearance, even diehard skeptics now agree that President Putin will leave office when his second term expires in May 2008. With each passing month the conspiracy theories, which most recently crested in the wake of the Litvinenko assassinati [...]	2007-02-12 13:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM PREL RS
07MOSCOW613	PUTIN IN MUNICH: SHARP TONE, BUT FAMILIAR [...] (C) Summary: Putin's February 10 remarks to the Munich Conference on Security Policy were a familiar litany of complaints about Russia's treatment by the West, and particularly the U.S. The substance of his critique of the dangers of unilateral U.S. actions, NATO enlargement, and ballistic [...]	2007-02-12 15:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW627	KOSOVO: DFM TITOV DETAILS PRINCIPLED DIFFERENCES [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Titov told Special Envoy Wisner on February 8 that Russia's differences with the U.S. over Kosovo were strategic, not simply tactical, but should not color the broader bilateral relationship. Russia's vote at the UN would be predicated on whether Belgrad [...]	2007-02-13 14:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW628	KOSOVO: SPECIAL ENVOY WISNER HEARS RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fresh from meetings in Pristina, Belgrade and Vienna, Special Envoy for Kosovo Final Status Frank Wisner held consultations in Moscow on February 9 to gauge Russian opinion on Kosovo's independence and emphasize the need for Contact Group unity. In meetings with DFM Titov (septel) [...]	2007-02-13 14:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
07MOSCOW644	RUSSIA: LIBERAL PARTIES STRUGGLE TO STAY IN GAME [...] (C) Political observers believe that the prospect of a liberal political party winning representation in the State Duma is slim, but statistically possible. However, local efforts by ruling party officials to remove the liberal-minded Union of Rightist Forces and Yabloko from some ballots in [...]	2007-02-14 12:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW648	RUSSIA AND INDIA: MAKE NEW FRIENDS, BUT DON'T [...] (C) Summary: Russia's goal is to "revitalize" its ties to India by concentrating on energy security and hi-tech joint projects according to the MFA, which provided a readout on Putin's trip to India and a look ahead at high-level meetings in February. Moscow heralded an agreement to sell f [...]	2007-02-14 13:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG KNNP MASS ETRD IN RS
07MOSCOW655	HAITI: RUSSIA SUPPORTS SIX-MONTH MINUSTAH MANDATE [...] (C) We raised reftel points on February 13 with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department, who told us that Russia would support only a six-month extension of the MINUSTAH mandate. He argued that a mandate of six months [...]	2007-02-14 14:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO HA RS
07MOSCOW656	OREL: VULNERABLE GOVERNOR CREATES OPPORTUNITIES [...] (SBU) Meetings during an early-February visit to Orel region suggested that a variety of factors could combine to make the March 11 regional elections very competitive. Rumored infighting in United Russia (YR) and an unpopular YR-affiliated governor have allowed the Communist Party (KPRF) to [...]	2007-02-14 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW66	RUSSIAN ENERGY: UPDATE ON BELARUS-RUSSIA OIL ROW [...] (SBU) On January 11, Econoff spoke to Shawn McCormick (please protect),head of government relations at TNK-BP, who confirmed press reports that Russian crude is flowing again through Belarus along the Druzhba pipeline and his company was sending their "normal" volumes through and was not requ [...]	2007-01-11 12:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
07MOSCOW674	RUSSIA-MOLDOVA: TIME OUT ON TRANSNISTRIA [...] (C) Russia and Moldova began negotiating a package in secret after the reconciliation last August between SIPDIS Presidents Putin and Voronin. The package included the status of Transnistria within a neutral Moldova, the modalities of governance and peacekeeping, and assurances that Transn [...]	2007-02-15 14:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MARR OSCE MD RS
07MOSCOW692	RE-SHUFFLE ADVANCES SUCCESSION PROCESS [...] (C) President Putin's late February 15 government re-shuffle has brought presidential contender Sergey Ivanov to the same starting line as his rival Dmitriy Medvedev, relieved him of the albatross that is the Ministry of Defense, and given him issues that could potentially resonate with the Ru [...]	2007-02-16 12:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
07MOSCOW697	RUSSIA: KHODORKOVSKIY/LEBEDEV CHARGES DETAILED [...] (C) Summary. Russia's Attorney General has charged Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and Platon Lebedev with two counts of embezzlement and two counts of money-laundering (under Articles 160 and 174 of the Russian Criminal Code),which carry a maximum sentence of 15 and 10 years, respectively. The case i [...]	2007-02-16 12:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV RS
07MOSCOW749	CONGRESSMAN LANTOS' MEETING WITH FM LAVROV [...] (SBU) Summary: Congressman Tom Lantos, meeting with FM Lavrov February 19, underlined the importance of building strong ties between Russia and the U.S. by reinvigorating links between legislators and working together on issues like nuclear nonproliferation. Lavrov welcomed closer legislati [...]	2007-02-21 11:34:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV OREP RS
07MOSCOW753	HIRC Chairman Lantos Meeting with Russian Security Council [...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 19 meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Ivanov, HIRC Chairman Lantos announced his intent to introduce legislation repealing Jackson-Vanik and inaugurate a formal congressional working group with Russian Duma Chairman of the International Relations Com [...]	2007-02-21 12:47:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV OREP RS
07MOSCOW81	RUSSIA ENERGY: PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS' TAX CASE [...] (SBU) The Moscow Arbitration Court judge in the PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Yukos case reftel has twice in two days delayed a ruling on PWC's request for extension. At a January 10 hearing, the judge postponed by one day a decision on the extension, as well as a request for arbitration by P [...]	2007-01-11 16:20:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV RS
07MOSCOW825	RUSSIAN MFA CITES DIP NOTE ON SMUGGLED HEU SAMPLE [...] (S) As instructed by REF A, we met February 26 with Mikhail Kondratenkov, of the MFA's Department of Disarmament and Security Affairs (DVBR),and asked him to clarify Moscow's purported request to the Georgian Government for an additional sample of the HEU that was seized in Georgia in Februa [...]	2007-02-27 15:10:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KNNP MNUC ENRG PARM ASEC
07MOSCOW827	RUSSIA: THE CASE FOR LIMITED U.S. FUNDING OF RFFE [...] (C) The U.S. Mission strongly supports continued limited USG funding for the Russian Foundation for Free Elections (RFFE) under its existing grant. U.S. monies would be used only to train election observers and to operate a voter hotline. While RFFE does receive some government support, cont [...]	2007-02-27 16:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID KDEM PREL PGOV PHUM RS
07MOSCOW828	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HAMAS VISIT, SYRIA, AND IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Saltanov told the Ambassador February 27 that the MFA saw Hamas as evolving in its views on Israel following a February 26-27 Moscow visit by Hamas Politburo Chief Mishal. While Mishal was not willing to directly address publicly the question of recogni [...]	2007-02-27 16:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL EAID IS LE SY IZ SA RS
07MOSCOW849	DPRK: MOSCOW REACTS TO SIX-PARTY RESULTS [...] (C) Moscow's North Korea hands -- both official and unofficial --- welcomed the results of the February Six-Party Talks but remained critical of U.S. policies towards the DPRK. While the MFA's terse announcement summarized the decisions made in Beijing, Foreign Minister Lavrov was more expan [...]	2007-02-28 17:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP KN RS
07MOSCOW85	RUSSIA'S VNESHTORGBANK AND EADS (C-RE6-01894) [...] (C) Summary. A Senior Vneshtorgbank (VTB) official tells us VTB's decision in early summer to purchase 5.38 percent of EADS stock was made for investment/financial reasons alone, and without GOR political interference. The public announcement September 12 by Presidential Advisor Sergey Prihod [...]	2007-01-12 08:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR ECIN EINV PGOV RS
07MOSCOW871	MOSCOW MAYOR IN SEVASTOPOL: MFA DISTANCES ITSELF [...] (C) Moscow Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov's February 21 rant in Sevastopol about Russian interests in Crimea merited modest coverage on the major evening television news programs, but did not have much resonance in GOR official circles. The GOR continues to emphasize the "new maturity" in Russian-Ukrai [...]	2007-03-01 13:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
07MOSCOW966	OTHER RUSSIA'S BOUNCE FROM GOR OVERREACTION [...] (C) An adviser to ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, United Civil Front leader Garry Kasparov, and Yabloko Deputy Chairman Sergey Ivanenko told us in the wake of the March 3 Other Russia demonstration in St. Petersburg (reftel) that: -- While reports of violence were overblown, St. Petersbu [...]	2007-03-07 12:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR PHUM SOCI RS
07MOSCOW978	MUCH SPECULATION, LITTLE PUBLICALLY-AVAILABLE [...] (C) The March 2 death of veteran Kommersant military correspondent Ivan Safronov has sent shock waves through Moscow's journalistic community. Investigations by the Prosecutor General's office and the Kommersant staff have to date produced no serious evidence that would point to suicide, forc [...]	2007-03-07 16:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI PINR RS
07MUMBAI195	CODEL LOWEY SIGNALS CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT FOR NUCLEAR DEAL [...] (SBU) In a meeting with the Nuclear Power Corp. of India (NPCIL),Codel Lowey expressed general support for the planned U.S.-India civil nuclear cooperation, yet cited concerns that members of Congress still have about the deal. Congressman Edward Royce told the NPCIL leadership that India mus [...]	2007-04-12 11:21:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
07MUMBAI200	DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1747 [...] (C) ConGen Mumbai contacted the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to determine what steps it had taken pursuant to India's obligations under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1747 - to freeze the assets of Bank Sepah (Iran). Prashant Saran, the RBI's Chief General Manager, told us that RBI [...]	2007-04-13 10:53:00	Consulate Mumbai	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KNNP PARM IR IN
07MUMBAI38	MUMBAI GOES TO THE POLLS ON FEBRUARY 1 [...] (SBU) Residents of Mumbai and several other cities in Maharashtra will go to the polls on Feb. 1 to elect the 277 members of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC),the city's main municipal body. As in the past, the urban poor, swayed by opportunistic politicians who deliver the pork sh [...]	2007-01-23 05:53:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER KDEM KISL IN
07MUMBAI649	SECRETARY PAULSON SPEAKS AT INDIAN INFRASTRUCTURE CONFERENCE [...] (U) Summary: At an Infrastructure Conference in Mumbai on October 29, 2007, visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson encouraged continued economic reforms in India, especially transparent and independent regulatory frameworks. He underscored India's need to develop a domestic corporate bond [...]	2007-11-07 13:36:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ENRG PREL IN
07MUMBAI651	CHURCH ADVOCACY RESULTS IN ACTION BY RELUCTANT POLICE AFTER [...] Summary: On October 25, 15 to 20 members of a right- wing Hindu group allegedly assaulted and injured five nuns of the Franciscan Clarist order near Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Christian sources told us that the Indore police were initially reluctant to register a complaint against the Hindu att [...]	2007-11-08 07:11:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM IN
07MUNICH196	CRISIS AT SIEMENS - JUST HOW BAD IS IT? [...] Manufacturing giant Siemens, a household name in Germany and in much of the world, has become embroiled in a recent string of scandals ranging from "outsourced" job losses to accusations of bribery of customers and unions that have tarnished the firm's reputation. Even before the March 27 ar [...]	2007-04-03 14:40:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN GM
07MUNICH21	BAVARIAN MINISTER-PRESIDENT STOIBER TO STEP-DOWN [...] Bavarian Minister-President Edmund Stoiber announced January 18 he will resign his posts as Minister-President and Christian Social Union (CSU) Party Chairman by September 30, 2007. Bavarian State Parliament (Landtag) President Alois Glueck confirmed to the Consul General shortly after Stoibe [...]	2007-01-19 13:04:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV GM
07MUNICH28	BAVARIA'S NEXT MINISTER-PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Bavarian Interior Minister Guenther Beckstein is expected to be elected Bavarian Minister-President in early October 2007, succeeding Edmund Stoiber. Beckstein is the longest-serving and best-known of Germany's state interior ministers. His "law and order" approach has provided Bavaria [...]	2007-01-19 18:24:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV GM
07MUNICH325	MUNICH G-8 JUSTICE AND INTERIOR MINISTERS MEETING [...] The below text is the concluding declaration from the G-8 Justice and Interior Ministers Meeting held in Munich May 23-25. The U.S. was represented at the meeting by Attorney General Gonzales and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Jackson. 2. Begin text: During our meeting in Munich on [...]	2007-05-25 15:24:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER KCRM KISL GM
07MUNICH560	CSU PARTY CONVENTION USHERS-IN POST-STOIBER ERA [...] (SBU) At the annual CSU party convention, Erwin Huber decisively defeated Horst Seehofer and Gabrielle Pauli in the race to lead his party forward. Delegates also overwhelmingly endorsed Guenther Beckstein as the CSU's candidate for Bavarian Minister-President, all but ensuring his election o [...]	2007-10-02 15:55:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV GM

07MUNICH573	BLUE LANTERN PRE-CHECK LICENCE END-USE CHECK ON APPLICATION [...] ConGen Munich contact Josef Priller, of Sitec's sales department, regarding the questions outlined in reftel. Priller provided the following answers: a) Sitec's customers: Sitec's typical customers are commercial aircraft manufacturers located worldwide. b) Ties to China: Sitec has no [...]	2007-10-12 15:45:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC GM
07MUNICH636	FILLING BIG SHOES: BAVARIA'S NEW INTERIOR MINISTER [...] (SBU) The recent selection of Joachim Herrmann to be Bavaria's new Interior Minister, after 14 years of Bavarian Minister-President Guenther Beckstein holding that office, caught nearly everyone by surprise. Herrmann not only has no background in law enforcement, but appeared content to remai [...]	2007-12-03 16:50:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV GM
07MUNICH652	GALILEO AND THE EU -- NAVIGATING THE PORK BARREL [...] (SBU) EADS-Astrium officials told Embassy Berlin EMIN and ConGen Munich that the Galileo satellite navigation project is proceeding under its new EU funding mechanism, albeit well behind schedule. The officials expressed frustration at the Byzantine web of EU politics and blatant promotion of [...]	2007-12-21 10:53:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON TSPA EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM
07MUNICH81	PUTIN AND GATES DOMINATE MUNICH SECURITY [...] (SBU) The February 9-11 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy (formerly known as "Wehrkunde") on "Global Crises - Global Responsibilities" was dominated by differing visions of the Transatlantic role in global security. Chancellor Merkel, Secretary Gates, Senators McCain and Lieberman, a [...]	2007-02-12 17:28:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	NATO OSCE PARM PREL GM IR AF RS
07MUSCAT1014	RESOURCE NATIONALISM NOT EVIDENT IN OMAN [...] (C) The growth of resource nationalism is not evident in Oman. The government controls majority stakes in Oman's primary energy production companies in long-term partnerships with foreign firms, and actively seeks further foreign investment to augment output in both the oil and gas sectors. [...]	2007-11-04 06:44:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV MU
07MUSCAT1027	DRAFT MOU ON GAS PRODUCTION WEIGHTED TOWARD IRAN [...] (S) Embassy has obtained a draft working copy (used by an Iranian delegation visiting Muscat) of the May 14, 2007, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and the Oman Oil Company (OOC),which outlines the scope of bilateral cooperation on natural gas. [...]	2007-11-07 12:23:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	PREL ECON EPET IR MU
07MUSCAT1061	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MORAN'S VISIT TO OMAN [...] (U) Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you and your delegation to Oman. We look forward to your arrival on November 25 to discuss regional stability and economic development issues in the context of our overall bilateral relationship. In order to fulfill these objectives, we are seeking an [...]	2007-11-19 12:06:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PGOV PREL ECON ETRD ELAB PHUM MU
07MUSCAT1065	OCTOBER 31 U.S.-OMAN GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (S/NF) During the October 31 U.S.-Oman Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) in Muscat, Omani officials -- led by MFA Secretary General Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi -- claimed that SIPDIS current U.S. policy towards Iran, including the use of sanctions, was pushing the region into a crisis and emboldenin [...]	2007-11-20 14:23:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL PTER MASS KNNP MU
07MUSCAT1079	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT GATES' [...] (SBU) Secretary Gates: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. We have requested an audience for you with Sultan Qaboos bin Said, Oman's head of state, as well as a meeting with your Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr bin Saud bin Harib al-Busaidi, Minister Responsible for Defense Affa [...]	2007-11-27 10:14:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL PTER MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP KNNP
07MUSCAT1091	OMANI COMMERCE MINISTER TALKS UP FTA BENEFITS WITH [...] (SBU) Oman's Commerce and Industry Minister spoke highly of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement's (FTA) potential to strengthen bilateral economic relations during a November 26 visit to Muscat by a U.S. Congressional delegation. The Agreement, according to the Minister, would assist government [...]	2007-12-04 07:39:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL MU
07MUSCAT1092	OMAN CLOSE TO ESTABLISHING FIU, IMPLEMENTING [...] (SBU) Oman continues to move closer toward the formal establishment of a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and the promulgation of a new "Law to Combat Terrorism Financing." Both initiatives are part of the government's broader efforts to strengthen its anti-money laundering and counter-terrori [...]	2007-12-04 07:44:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL PTER MU
07MUSCAT1096	CODEL MORAN MEETING WITH OMANI DEPUTY PRIME [...] (C) In an October 26 meeting with a visiting U.S. Congressional delegation, the Omani Deputy Prime Minister praised U.S.-Oman relations and welcomed U.S. engagement in the region. He characterized Iran as a country determined to win respect from the international community and discounted inf [...]	2007-12-05 06:31:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP KPAL ECON ENRG IR MU
07MUSCAT1098	JUSTIFICATION FOR ARMY TACTICAL MISSILE SYSTEM [...] (C) The Embassy Muscat Country Team continues to strongly support and recommend approval of the request for ATACMS for the Royal Army of Oman (RAO). Based on concerns raised during ENDP process, Embassy Muscat has discussed this subject further with Omani officials -- who remain intent on acq [...]	2007-12-05 11:35:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	MARR MASS MOPS MU
07MUSCAT1126	THE ROYAL GUESSING GAME: THE NEXT GENERATION [...] (S) SUMMARY: The question of the royal succession is an exquisitely sensitive one in Oman. When the topic arises as to who might follow Sultan Qaboos, a common reaction is a conversation-ending "may he live forever." The Sultanate has historically lacked a crown prince system like many of i [...]	2007-12-15 07:12:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	PINR PREL MU
07MUSCAT1139	OMANI FM PROMOTES STRONGER COMMERCIAL TIES [...] (U) In a December 25 interview with private Arabic-language daily "al-Shabiba," Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi stressed the importance of improving commercial ties with regional partners to stimulate both trade and foreign direct investment. He cited the govern [...]	2007-12-29 14:08:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV PREL MU
07MUSCAT129	SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER GENERAL JOHN P. [...] (S) General Abizaid: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. Sultan Qaboos and your colleagues in the Omani armed forces look forward to seeing you and hearing your perspective on activities in the region, especially in Iraq and Iran. Oman remains a strong friend and ally in [...]	2007-02-06 15:15:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP
07MUSCAT152	OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS DAMASCUS; PLANNING [...] (C) Summary: Oman's Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs reported that Syrian officials were preoccupied with the large number of Iraqi refugees in Syria during his recent visit to Damascus. The Syrians, he contended, were hopeful for an amicable resolution to the political crisis in Beir [...]	2007-02-14 13:54:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PTER IR IZ LE MU
07MUSCAT154	OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER TO ISRAELI MINISTER LIVNI: [...] (C) Summary: Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi met privately this week with Israeli Foreign Minister Livni in Madrid. Their brief talks focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the announcement of a Palestinian national unity government, which Oman sees a [...]	2007-02-14 14:12:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS MU
07MUSCAT155	SCENESETTER FOR NAVCENT COMMANDER VADM PATRICK [...] (S) Vice Admiral Walsh: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. Oman remains a strong friend and ally in the Global War on Terrorism. Like other GCC countries, it is becoming increasingly concerned with Iranian intentions in the Gulf. Oman expressed high-level interest i [...]	2007-02-18 08:41:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP
07MUSCAT167	SCENESETTER FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO OMAN [...] (S) Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. Oman remains a strong friend and ally in the Global War on Terrorism. Regional threat issues continue to be a prominent concern for Oman's leadership. Oman is disturbed by Iran's growing influence in the region and its inability to come to [...]	2007-02-20 07:33:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	OVIP PREL ECON MU
07MUSCAT207	COMMERCE DEPUTY SECRETARY HEARS OMANI FRUSTRATION [...] (C) Commerce Deputy Secretary David Sampson called for forging stronger commercial ties in anticipation of the implementation of the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) during February 6 meetings with Omani government and business leaders. Oman's business community expressed its eagerness to [...]	2007-03-03 09:59:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL MU
07MUSCAT234	OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER PROVIDES READOUT FROM MARCH [...] (C) Summary: Oman's Foreign Minister told the Ambassador on March 10 that Iranian officials during his most recent trip to Tehran were eager to restart negotiations to resolve concerns over Iran's nuclear program. They asserted, however, that suspension of uranium enrichment activities could [...]	2007-03-11 04:38:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	PREL IR LE MU
07MUSCAT263	WELCOME MESSAGE FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL [...] (S) Admiral, I warmly welcome you in your new command. Though I know your immediate attention will be focused on critical issues elsewhere in the region, I want to take this opportunity to highlight some issues related to one of our longest standing and most reliable allies in the region. [...]	2007-03-14 05:23:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	MARR MASS MNUC MOPS PARM PREL PTER KNNP MU
07MUSCAT27	TRIPARTITE VIEWS ON LABOR REFORMS IN OMAN [...] (C) Summary: Local contacts in business, labor and government are responding with uncertainty to Oman's recent and rapid labor reforms in connection with the U.S.- Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Business is concerned that workers immediately will strike or bargain for higher wages, upsettin [...]	2007-01-09 11:17:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM ELAB ETRD KMPI MU
07MUSCAT281	UPDATE ON OMAN'S PARTICIPATION IN MEFTA CONFERENCE [...] Building on information reported ref B, Embassy has received updated information regarding the composition of the Omani delegation to the Middle East Free Trade Agreement Trade and Investment Conference. The delegation will now be headed by Dr. Salem bin Nasser al-Ismaily, Chief Executive Off [...]	2007-03-20 06:16:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETRD BEXP MU
07MUSCAT298	MINISTER OF MANPOWER OUTLINES ANTI-TIP ACTIONS; [...] (U) This message contains an Action Request (see paragraph 8). ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) During a meeting in early March with the Ambassador, Minister of Manpower Juma bin ali al-Juma shared elements of his Ministry's initial plans to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). In ad [...]	2007-03-25 11:31:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KMPI MU
07MUSCAT344	OMANI RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-09 10:12:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR MU
07MUSCAT351	OMAN FY07 BFIF REQUEST [...] Following a successful FY06 Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) program, continued BFIF assistance will be essential in helping us implement the recently ratified U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA). We plan to use the BFIF program to strengthen our relationship with our Commercial S [...]	2007-04-10 06:04:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ECON MU
07MUSCAT359	BRITISH AMBASSADOR LAUDS OMANI ROLE IN IRANâ€™S [...] (C) During a May 11 meeting with the Ambassador, British Ambassador Noel Guckian expressed great satisfaction with Oman's efforts to facilitate the release of the 15 members of the British Royal Navy seized by Iranian forces on March 23. Guckian stated that he had been in near daily contact with Om [...]	2007-04-11 12:57:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR MU
07MUSCAT368	FORMER IRAQI PM SHARES VIEWS DURING VISIT TO OMAN [...] (C) On April 14, the Ambassador discussed the April 8 visit of Iraq's former premier Iyad Allawi with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi. Per bin Alawi, the Omani government welcomed Allawi to Muscat as part of its efforts to strengthen relations with Iraq, as requested [...]	2007-04-16 12:58:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ MU
07MUSCAT370	FOREIGN MINISTER PLANNING MAY VISIT TO THE U.S. [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) During an April 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi indicated he wished to travel to Washington, DC in May to meet with senior USG officials. He noted that his travel dates wo [...]	2007-04-16 13:24:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP MU
07MUSCAT38	SCENESETTER: VISIT OF DEPUTY SECRETARY OF COMMERCE [...] (U) Greetings and welcome to Oman. The Embassy staff and I look forward to your arrival on February 5 to promote the U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement in the context of our overall bilateral relationship. In addition to your planned participation as the keynote speaker at an Oman Chamber of Com [...]	2007-01-14 14:25:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP ECON ETRD EAIR EIND PGOV PREL OTRA MU
07MUSCAT414	OMANIS TELL IRAQI PRIME MINISTER MALIKI "LEAD ALL [...] (C) Summary: Sultan Qaboos in his two-hour meeting with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister (PM) Nouri al-Maliki told the visitor that he should set aside parochial and personal interests to "govern all Iraqis." The PM reviewed current challenges facing his government, highlighting the challenges [...]	2007-04-29 11:20:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR IZ MU
07MUSCAT416	SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL WILLIAM [...] (S) Admiral Fallon: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you and your wife to Oman. Sultan Qaboos and your colleagues in the Omani armed forces look forward to meeting you and hearing your perspective on events in the region, especially in Iraq and Iran. As one of our oldest allies in the Mid [...]	2007-04-29 13:11:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP
07MUSCAT42	LEBANESE PM SINIORA IN MUSCAT: REQUESTS ADDITIONAL [...] (C) In a January 15 meeting with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi to discuss U.S. policy on Iraq (septel),Ambassador inquired about the visit of Lebanese PM Siniora the previous day (January 14) to Muscat. Bin Alawi replied that Siniora's meeting with Sultan Qaboos h [...]	2007-01-15 14:17:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID LE MU
07MUSCAT426	MEDIA REACTION: OMANI VIEW OF SYRIA AND IRAN, MAJLIS [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-01 07:51:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU
07MUSCAT43	MEDIA REACTION: NEW IRAQ STRATEGY, ARAB-ISRAELI CRISIS [...] SUMMARY: Privately owned "Al-Watan" accuses America of giving "false promises" to Arabs when it needs their support, and also posits that the crises facing America and Israel in the Middle East are increasing as time goes by. Government-owned "Oman" thinks Democrats' objections to a troop inc [...]	2007-01-16 06:04:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU
07MUSCAT441	IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS MUSCAT [...] (C) Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki visited Muscat from May 1-2 to attend the Oman-Iran Joint Economic Committee. While in Oman, he met briefly with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi (reftel) and was received by Sultan Qaboos, who reportedly extended an inv [...]	2007-05-06 13:30:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD IR MU
07MUSCAT452	MEDIA REACTION: SHARM EL-SHEIKH IRAQ SUMMIT, HAMAS [...] SUMMARY: Government-owned "Oman" says that regional cooperation is "vital" to stop violence in Iraq, and said that lifting the "blockade against the Palestinians" can advance the Peace Process. Privately owned "Al-Watan" calls on the EU to be "more understanding" of Arab political concerns, mor [...]	2007-05-08 09:33:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU
07MUSCAT461	OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER ON UPCOMING VISIT OF [...] (C) The principal reasons for the visit of Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadi-Nejad to Muscat are to give the Sultan an opportunity to meet and talk to the president and to discuss "Iran's image in the international community," according to Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bi [...]	2007-05-11 10:31:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR MU
07MUSCAT467	OMAN'S ALI MAJID COMMENTS ON IRAQ, UPCOMING VISIT [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad visit's to Muscat, General Ali bin Majid al-Ma'amari, Minister of the Royal Office and head of the Office of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, told me that he had become very pessimistic about Iraq's future. Nevertheless, Om [...]	2007-05-13 12:44:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR MU
07MUSCAT473	STRIKE AT PORT OF SALALAH [...] (SBU) Summary: Workers at Port of Salalah, Oman's primary transshipment port, went on strike May 11. The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) declared the strike illegal under recently issued regulations covering work stoppages, and the private company that manages the port suspended many of the strike [...]	2007-05-14 10:31:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ELAB ETRD KMPI MU
07MUSCAT474	MEDIA REACTION: IRANIAN PREMIER VISITS MUSCAT, DEMOCRACY [...] SUMMARY: In the leadup to this week's visit by Iranian President Ahmadinejad, Iran's ambassador to Oman calls their bilateral relations "exemplary," adding that American "ships and war fleets" are the real danger to the environment and regional stability, and that he supports a GCC nuclear pro [...]	2007-05-14 12:18:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU
07MUSCAT484	IRANIAN PRESIDENT VISITS MUSCAT [...] (U) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Muscat from the UAE on the afternoon of May 14 for a two-day official visit to Oman. He was accompanied by a delegation of ten Iranian officials, including Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, Minister of Labor Mohammed Jahromi and Ministe [...]	2007-05-15 14:18:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR MU
07MUSCAT488	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER TO [...] (C) Summary: Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi is looking forward to his visit to Washington, and particularly to his meeting with the Secretary. As the long-time de facto Foreign Minister for SIPDIS one of our oldest and most reliable friends in the Gulf, he [...]	2007-05-16 11:36:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KNNP KPAL IR IZ MU
07MUSCAT493	AHMADINEJAD VISIT TO MUSCAT "SHORT ON SUBSTANCE" [...] (C) In the late evening of May 16, the Deputy Chief of Mission received a readout of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's May 14-15 visit to Muscat from Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi. Bin Alawi characterized Ahmadinejad's visit as "rather short," noting that the [...]	2007-05-17 09:43:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON MU
07MUSCAT503	CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL FALLON MEETING WITH [...] (C) Admiral Fallon, Commander of USCENTCOM, received a warm welcome during his first office call with Lieutenant General Nabhani, Chief of Staff of the Sultan's Armed Forces (COSSAF). The COSSAF expressed a strong desire to continue Oman's close working relationship with the U.S. Armed Forces [...]	2007-05-20 12:34:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS IZ MU
07MUSCAT504	CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL WILLIAM J. FALLON [...] (C) Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin-Said met May 12 with Admiral William Fallon, commander of U.S. CENTCOM. On Iraq, the Sultan spoke positively about Prime Minister Maliki, but noted that Maliki and his ministers needed to do more to govern for "all Iraqis." He also indirectly criticized the atti [...]	2007-05-20 12:45:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KISL IR IZ MU
07MUSCAT512	MEDIA REACTION: IRANIAN-OMANI RELATIONS, AMBASSADOR [...] SUMMARY: Iranian President's visit to Muscat garners heavy local media coverage; Ambassador Grappo's op-ed on trafficking published in two local dailies; Ambassador Grappo visit to Dhofar University; president of International Republican Institute visit to Muscat. State-run "Oman" newspaper sa [...]	2007-05-21 12:59:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU
07MUSCAT531	NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE OVER PORT OF SALALAH STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: Officials from the Port of Salalah are close to reaching an agreement with relevant government ministries and institutions over outstanding issues stemming from the recent strike at the port. Port management has taken steps to protect itself from future work stoppages and assur [...]	2007-05-29 10:35:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB ETRD KMPI MU
07MUSCAT536	MEDIA REACTION: ISRAELI MILITARY OPERATIONS IN PALESTINE, [...] SUMMARY: Government-run daily "Oman" says Israel is the sole beneficiary of inter-Arab strife, whether in Lebanon or Palestine; privately owned "Al-Watan" worries that Likud's "weakness" spawns Israeli military operations in Palestine; "Oman" says that there is a "mutual responsibility" to achi [...]	2007-05-30 07:43:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU
07MUSCAT545	RARE OMANI CANDOR: AMBASSADOR HEARS LOCAL VIEWS OF [...] (SBU) From May 16-22, the Ambassador traveled overland from Muscat to Salalah and on to the Yemeni border - a trip of more than 1,300 kilometers - meeting with tribal sheikhs and other local officials along the way. The trip provided a unique opportunity to reach out to Omanis at the grassroot [...]	2007-05-30 12:50:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PREL KPAO KISL IR IS IZ MU
07MUSCAT559	OMAN DOWNPLAYS ISA IMPORTANCE AMIDST GAS CONCERNS [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) On June 2, the Ambassador raised ref A concerns with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi. Bin Alawi responded that the Sultanate was in critical need of gas supplies to fuel its ambitious industrialization [...]	2007-06-03 12:23:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECON EINV PREL MU
07MUSCAT570	MEDIA REACTION: REGIONAL CONFLICTS, LEBANON VIOLENCE, OMAN [...] SUMMARY: "Oman" government daily compares crises in Somalia and Sudan to violence in Palestine and Iraq; also says national reconciliation in Lebanon is more vital than ever; privately owned "al Watan" says that election Majlis al Shura candidates on a tribal basis is not a solution to challeng [...]	2007-06-05 11:27:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU
07MUSCAT580	NOMINATION FOR CORPORATE EXCELLENCE AWARD: [...] Embassy Muscat is pleased to nominate Microsoft Oman for the Secretary's 2007 Award for Corporate Excellence. Microsoft Oman's strong commitment to actively supporting government efforts to promote greater computer literacy in the Sultanate makes this company the right choice for the 2007 Corp [...]	2007-06-09 12:37:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON BEXP ELAB ENRG KSEP AMGT MU
07MUSCAT587	OMANI MEDIA CHALLENGED BY CYCLONE REPORTING [...] (SBU) The profound limitations of Oman's media, public and private, have been thrown into high relief by the challenge of reporting the approach, onset, and aftermath of Cyclone Gonu between June 4 and the present. While basic information regarding the storm's arrival was disseminated on a re [...]	2007-06-11 12:33:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OIIP KPAO PREL PGOV KMDR MU
07MUSCAT61	OMANI DEFENSE AND INTELLIGENCE CHIEF WARNS OF [...] (C) Summary: Iran has embarked on a policy of expansionism in the Arab and Muslim world, using religion to divide Arab Muslims, destabilize the region and threaten U.S. interests, according to Gen. Ali bin Majid al-Ma'amari, Minister of the Royal Office and Supreme Commander of the Armed Fo [...]	2007-01-22 12:04:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV IR MU
07MUSCAT613	OMAN UPDATE TO SABIEX REQUEST [...] (SBU) On June 16, Econoff met with Global Channels' Military Equipment Manager Hamed Salim al-Hakmani to discuss ref B request. Hakmani prefaced the conversation by noting that the company established itself in the spare parts business in September 2005. Its only client in the parts divisio [...]	2007-06-16 13:38:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC MU BE
07MUSCAT624	OMAN REACHES OUT TO ASIAN TRADE PARTNERS [...] The Ministers of National Economy and Commerce & Industry recently staged a four-nation Asian tour to strengthen Oman's economic relationships with key energy importers. During the trip to South Korea, Japan, China, and Vietnam, the ministers concluded agreements for joint ventures in the pro [...]	2007-06-17 06:21:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV PREL MU
07MUSCAT651	SPONSORSHIP SYSTEM CONTRIBUTES TO TRAFFICKING, [...] (SBU) Summary: Contacts claim that the sponsorship system of recruiting and hiring low-skilled and domestic foreign workers contributes to trafficking in persons (TIP) in Oman. The system establishes conditions conducive to exploitation by making many workers dependent on their sponsors for the [...]	2007-06-26 12:59:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG MU
07MUSCAT652	OMANI GOVERNMENT AND PRESS QUIET ABOUT POSSIBLE [...] (SBU) The Omani government and local press has provided scant details on Minister of Commerce and Industry Maqbool Ali Sultan's current visit to Tehran and meetings with Iranian officials. Oman's Ministry of Information reported simply that Maqbool and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mott [...]	2007-06-27 12:33:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ECON EINV MU
07MUSCAT718	DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS CONTINUE IN WAKE OF GONU [...] (C) The Omani government continues its efforts to assess the damage caused by tropical cyclone Gonu. Construction work remains on track, though questions have arisen regarding the supply of cement. Businesses remain committed to reopening in heavily damaged areas, and the environment appears [...]	2007-07-28 07:05:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV MU
07MUSCAT72	LABOR PROGRAMMING NEEDS IN OMAN [...] Summary: The recently signed U.S.)Oman Free Trade Agreement (FTA) presents numerous opportunities for the USG to build the capacity of unions, promote worker rights, encourage greater activity on the part of women, and support our democratization goals. Labor unions likely will be, for the fo [...]	2007-01-24 15:31:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ELAB ETRD KMPI MU
07MUSCAT73	C-NE6-02218: OMAN-ISRAEL RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Oman maintains contacts with the Israeli government and has quietly welcomed official Israeli visitors. Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi has spoken to Israeli Foreign Minister Livni on several occasions, and met with an Israeli delegation in Muscat in D [...]	2007-01-24 15:50:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR PREL IS MU
07MUSCAT782	UN AGENCIES FOCUS ON IMPROVING HEALTHCARE IN OMAN [...] Three UN agencies have established constructive working relationships with the Omani government in efforts to promote better healthcare through educational initiatives. Aside from highlighting the importance of child nutrition, the organizations are also raising awareness of community involve [...]	2007-08-14 06:28:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SOCI KOCI MU
07MUSCAT786	SCENESETTER FOR NEA A/S WELCH VISIT TO MUSCAT (AUG [...] (C) Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. Omani officials look forward to meeting with you to receive updates on issues concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iraq, and Iran. While Oman remains a strong friend and ally and cooperates with us on a wide range of subject [...]	2007-08-15 13:35:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL KNNP ECON PDEM MU
07MUSCAT870	SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL WILLIAM [...] (C) Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. Since your visit here four months ago, Oman continues to be concerned with regional issues, especially events in Iraq and Iran, participated in the June Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) meeting in Washington, D.C., and was struck by a m [...]	2007-09-11 12:22:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL PTER MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP KNNP
07MUSCAT915	ADMIRAL WILLIAM J. FALLON MEETINGS WITH OMANI [...] (C) Admiral Fallon, USCENTCOM Commander, met with Lieutenant General (LTG) Ahmed bin Harith Nabhani, Chief of Staff of the Sultan's Armed Forces (COSSAF) and with Minister Responsible for Defense Affairs Sayyid Badr bin Saud bin Harib al-Busaidi on 19 September in Muscat. Both the COSSAF and [...]	2007-09-29 05:50:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS IR IZ MU
07MUSCAT916	MEDIA REACTION: TIP INTERVIEW, HUMAN RIGHTS AS "AMERICAN [...] SUMMARY: "Times of Oman" and "Al-Shabiba" highlight G/TIP Ambassador Mark Lagon's interview on trafficking; "Al-Watan" criticizes Ambassador Grappo's defense of the Trafficking in Persons report and calls the report part of "American Blackmail." Other "Al-Watan" editorials criticize human ri [...]	2007-09-29 06:42:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU
07MUSCAT919	ADMIRAL WILLIAM J. FALLON MEETING WITH OMANI [...] (C) Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi discussed both Iraq and Iran during a September 19 meeting with CENTCOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon. Bin Alawi noted the many challenges facing efforts to stabilize Iraq, including competing factions and militia groups, but [...]	2007-09-29 07:07:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR IZ MU
07MUSCAT938	MICROSOFT SETTLES WITH OMANI SOFTWARE PIRATES [...] (U) On October 7, Econoff discussed Microsoft's conclusion of an out-of-court settlement with four Omani companies engaged in software piracy with Jawad al-Redha, Microsoft's Gulf Anti-Piracy Manager and Co-Chair of the Business Software Alliance. Redha noted that the settlement was the produ [...]	2007-10-08 06:22:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR MU
07MUSCAT949	UPDATED DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY FOR OMAN [...] (C) As reported ref B, Oman represents a challenging environment for U.S. efforts to directly promote democracy. Civil society is under-developed and the registration of new non-governmental organizations and associations (which are limited in their areas of activity) can literally take years. [...]	2007-10-10 10:25:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KMPI KWMN PGOV PREL MU
07MUSCAT97	OMAN 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Per reftel request, Embassy submits the following Investment Climate Statement for 2007. 2. Begin text of Investment Climate Statement: Economic Overview Oman's economy is based primarily on petroleum and natural gas, which are expected to account for 79% of the government's revenue [...]	2007-01-30 13:25:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB ENRG KTDB OPIC PGOV USTR
07MUSCAT970	UNIONS INCREASING IN NUMBER BUT LACKING IN STRENGTH [...] (C) Summary: The number of labor unions in Oman increased substantially during the second and third quarters of 2007. Contacts claim, however, that despite a few isolated examples, unions remain weak and continue to lack effective organization or leadership. The General Federation of Oman's L [...]	2007-10-22 12:41:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB ETRD KMPI MU
07MUSCAT972	OMAN GRAPPLES WITH TELECOM LIBERALIZATION [...] (SBU) The Omani government is wrestling with the issue of telecommunications liberalization in the wake of the FTA implementation process and a recent managerial shakeup at Omantel, the majority government-owned fixed line monopoly. The changes at Omantel signify the government's willingness t [...]	2007-10-22 13:32:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD ECPS MU
07MUSCAT984	SCENESETTER FOR U.S.-OMAN GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (U) Embassy Muscat warmly welcomes Ambassador Mull and the U.S. delegation to the next round of the U.S.-Oman Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) in Muscat. Post expects that the meeting will increase understanding and strengthen bilateral cooperation on mutual security issues facing the Gulf region [...]	2007-10-24 12:40:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	PARM PREL PTER MASS KNNP MU
07NAHA21	COURTESY CALL BY TOP US COMMANDING GENERAL IN OKINAWA ON [...] (C) Summary: The tone of the January 26 courtesy call by the senior US military official in Okinawa on the new governor of Okinawa Prefecture was warm and friendly. In a break from previous administrations, Governor Hirokazu NAKAIMA refrained from lecturing LtGen Joseph Weber on Okinawan his [...]	2007-01-30 08:52:00	Consulate Naha	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PINS JA
07NAHA49	WEATHER GIVES OKINAWA GOVERNOR OPTION OF SIDE-STEPPING [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-16 04:01:00	Consulate Naha	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL JA CH TW
07NAIROBI1002	China in Kenya: No Appetite for Investment, But a Thirst [...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese companies appear to have little appetite for making significant investments in Kenya. One reason: Kenya's investment climate still leaves a lot to be desired. Another: Chinese companies probably figure it's easier to export goods efficiently made in China than it is to [...]	2007-03-02 08:02:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EPET EINV ENRG KE CH
07NAIROBI1009	U.S./CHINA DIALOGUE - KENYA RESPONSE [...] (SBU) In response to ref B, Embassy Nairobi directs Washington to refs A, C, and D. Ref D is a baseline cable on the economic dimensions of the China-Kenya relationship. Refs A and C contain additional new information on the same topic, and in so doing responds to many of the issues raised r [...]	2007-03-02 09:14:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG EFIN PREL PGOV KE CH
07NAIROBI1077	FEWSNET REGIONAL FOOD SECURITY PRESENTATION [...] USAID/East Africa Regional Economic Growth and Integration (REGI) and Regional Food for Peace (FFP) Offices have cultivated a productive relationship with the regional FEWSNET Office. In that light, FEWSNET has been holding periodic briefings for USAID's offices (USAID/EA, Kenya, Somalia, Su [...]	2007-03-07 08:31:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID XA ZI KPRP
07NAIROBI1093	POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE IN KALONZO COUNTRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Officials and local leaders in Machakos, a medium-sized Kenyan city, are no less engaged in the current general elections debate than their counterparts in the capital, but have a cooler view of what the next 10 months hold. Overwhelmingly populated by members of the Kamba tri [...]	2007-03-07 13:29:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KE
07NAIROBI1135	SOMALIA EMBASSY MEDIA OUTREACH [...] (U) On March 7 the Embassy of the Somali Republic in Nairobi held a media conference and issued the following statement. Begin Text: Embassy of the Somali Republic Nairobi -Kenya GOOD MORNING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MEMBERS OF THE PRESS: First I would like to take this opportunity t [...]	2007-03-09 10:30:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET
07NAIROBI1136	KENYA SUBMISSION FOR THE SEVENTH ANNUAL [...] (U) The following is Embassy Nairobi's submission for the Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP). Information is keyed to the format provided in reftel. 2. (SBU) STATUS AND EXTENT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN KENYA I. Overview A. Origin, Transit, and Destination Origin [...]	2007-03-09 10:57:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF KE
07NAIROBI1150	COASTAL MUSLIM LEADERSHIP VIEWS: SHEIKH DOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Sheikh Dor, a vocal leader of Kenya's coastal Muslim community, harangues the USG and GoK, cites some legitimate grievances concerning biased treatment of his community by the GoK, praises the American people and threatens to disrupt the World Cross Country Championship in Momb [...]	2007-03-12 12:26:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC KE KISL KPAO PGOV PHUM
07NAIROBI1221	KENYA'S FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES, DIPLOMATIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya has ambitious plans to open a number of diplomatic missions around the world. The overriding goal of Kenyan diplomacy is to promote economic development through greater market access and increased investment and remittances. Africa has replaced Europe as the chief preocc [...]	2007-03-15 11:54:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KE PREL SENV
07NAIROBI1286	Somalia's Labor Sector Needs [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 15, Mr. Abdi Abdille, Technical Advisor to Somalia's Labor Minister, gave LabAtt the following priorities for Somalia's labor sector and asked for assistance in addressing them: Creating jobs quickly through labor intensive projects; rebuilding both vocational and academ [...]	2007-03-20 13:32:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PHUM PGOV SO
07NAIROBI1389	QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - NAIROBI (CORRECTED COPY) [...] (U) Summary. The following report replies to Ref G reinstitution of the quarterly fraud report covering the current condition of consular fraud in Kenya, with specific reference to fraud trends in non-immigrant visa, immigrant visa, and diversity visa applications as well as cases of American [...]	2007-03-28 07:04:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM KE
07NAIROBI1775	Kenya: TIP Project Proposal Solicitation For G/Tip-Managed [...] Kenya is a tier two watch list country because it is a source, destination and transit country for trafficking in persons (TIP). The GOK is making efforts to address most aspects of TIP, but suffers from resource constraints, both financial and human. It therefore relies heavily on internation [...]	2007-04-20 09:35:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KE
07NAIROBI1792	KENYA ELECTIONS: ELECTORAL COMMISSION UPDATE [...] (U) SUMMARY: On April 19, the DCM and the German and Swiss Ambassadors called on Commissioners of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) to discuss the ECK's administration of Kenya's next general election, expected in December. Among the topics discussed were: presentation of a non-paper de [...]	2007-04-24 13:57:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI1905	Somalia--TFG/Hawiye Talks and Appointments [...] (SBU) On April 29, Transitional Federal Government (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf met with members of the Hawiye Leadership Committee in his headquarters, Villa Somalia. The meeting was initiated by Ethiopian military commanders and included TFG Prime Minster Ali Gedi and Ethiopian General [...]	2007-05-02 15:43:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET
07NAIROBI1930	Somalia-Ambassador's Telecon with Hawiye Elder [...] (U) On May 2, the Ambassador spoke with Haji Abdi Iman (Imaam) Omar, chairman of the Hawiye Leadership Committee. The Ambassador contacted Omar because of the leadership role he and his colleagues are playing in discussions with the Ethiopians and, most recently, with President Abdullahi Yusu [...]	2007-05-04 09:24:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SO ET
07NAIROBI1981	KENYA'S VISION 2030: THINKING BIG, BUT IS IT REALISTIC? [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya has unveiled Vision 2030, an audacious national development plan whose goal is middle-income status for the country by 2030. The Vision calls for 10% GDP growth annually over the next 25 years (up from the current 6%),allowing Kenya to multiply per capita income by six t [...]	2007-05-09 14:27:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EFIN PGOV KE
07NAIROBI200	UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR REPORT FOR KENYA [...] The following is the updated text of the worst forms of child labor report for Kenya for 2006, as required under the Trade Act, for Department of Labor. Kenya Selected Child Labor Measures Adopted by Governments Ratified Convention 138 4/9/1979 U Ratified Convention 182 5/7/2001 U ILO-IP [...]	2007-01-10 14:00:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON PHUM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI2072	KENYA & ETHIOPIA ENHANCE BORDER COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya and Ethiopia are enhancing coordination at the local level in the border region to better manage cross-border security issues involving the Borana/Oromo and Gabra communities. End Summary. 2. (SBU) PolCouns met with Sheikh Abdinassir, a former International Visitor g [...]	2007-05-16 05:03:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC ET KE KPAO PGOV PHUM PINR
07NAIROBI216	PARTNERSHIP PRESENTATION TO PRESIDENT KIBAKI [...] As previously reported, on November 21 the Ambassador delivered a major speech on U.S.-Kenyan relations which noted the important democratic progress that Kenya is making, but also talked frankly about the persistent problems of corruption and tribalism. Delivery of the speech was part of a b [...]	2007-01-12 07:30:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID ECON ETRD EFIN KE
07NAIROBI2281	Meeting with Former Foreign Minister Hurreh [...] (C) Summary. At a meeting with the Ambassador, Somali Education Minister Hurreh discussed the milieu of the upcoming National Reconciliation Congress and confirmed that the pressure to remove Prime Minister Gedi from office is building. The Ambassador emphasized that the Congress must inclu [...]	2007-05-30 14:21:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SCUL SO ET
07NAIROBI2307	FPU NAIROBI: FRAUD, FRAUD, EVERYWHERE [...] Summary: Nairobi's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) sees a wide variety of NIV, IV, and ACS fraud on a daily basis. May 15, 2007 proved to be an excellent example of the depth and breadth of fraud encountered over and beyond the normal workload, and is illustrative of a day in the life of our FPU [...]	2007-06-04 12:12:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM KE
07NAIROBI2330	KENYA: PROVINCIAL COMMISSIONER ON RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Enhanced Kenyan-Ethiopian security and administrative coordination at the regional/provincial level is lowering tensions between the feuding Gabra and Borana (Oromo) communities and improving relations at border crossing points. However, Kenya's Provincial Commissioner for Easter [...]	2007-06-05 12:52:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KE ET
07NAIROBI2385	EMBU BISHOP: MPS WANT TO KEEP 'EM POOR & IGNORANT [...] (C) Summary: The Bishop of Embu Diocese maintains that Mbere District's Members of Parliament purposely undermine efforts to raise educational standards and to develop the economy of the area so as to keep the population poor, dependent and easily manipulated. They also stymie projects with w [...]	2007-06-07 13:33:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	KE PGOV PHUM

07NAIROBI2449	LAND REFORM IN KENYA: TRYING TO RIGHT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The combination of an ever-expanding population, settler legacy, poverty, corruption, elite impunity, and an inadequate land law system make the ownership, tenure, and use of land one of the most volatile questions in Kenya today and one of the most serious impediments to econo [...]	2007-06-12 13:18:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EINV EAID ETRD PGOV KCOR KE
07NAIROBI2525	MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KIBAKI [...] (SBU) Summary: During a June 9 meeting, the Ambassador discussed with President Kibaki the expanding bilateral partnership, the problem of insecurity, governance issues, the elections set for later this year, and regional issues (Somalia and Sudan). Kibaki emphasized his desire to work closel [...]	2007-06-18 12:17:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR EFIN KCRM KE PINR PREL PTER SO SU
07NAIROBI2606	Tour d'Horizon with Prime Minister Gedi [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador and Special Envoy John Yates met Prime Minister Ali Gedi on June 21 to discuss the June 18 announcement of a general amnesty, preparations for the National Reconciliation Congress, the current security situation, and the PM's upcoming travel to Washington and New Y [...]	2007-06-22 13:06:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET
07NAIROBI2687	MANDERA LAUNCH OF KENYA-SOMALIA CROSS-BORDER [...] USAID/East Africa representatives, accompanied by representatives of USAID contractor Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI),recently visited Kenya?s conflict-prone northeast province of Mandera. The two- night, three-day trip culminated in an event to launch the expansion of the Kenya-Somalia [...]	2007-06-29 07:05:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KE
07NAIROBI2764	KENYA & SOMALIA SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ADMIRAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to Kenya, a stable, dynamic democracy and a key regional partner for the United States. Our partnership with Kenya focuses on five major goals: cooperate to fight insecurity and terrorism; combat disease and save lives; promote prosperity, fight poverty and invest in [...]	2007-07-06 05:02:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM KE PGOV PREL
07NAIROBI2771	QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - NAIROBI [...] (U) Summary. The following report replies to Ref I reinstitution of the quarterly fraud report covering the current condition of consular fraud in Kenya, with specific reference to fraud trends in non-immigrant visa, immigrant visa, and diversity visa applications as well as cases of American [...]	2007-07-06 06:56:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM KE
07NAIROBI294	SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 4 ? FOOD AID [...] The 2007 UN Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) for Somalia estimates that 1.4 million people are food insecure. In response, the UN World Food Program (WFP) plans to deliver 114,000 metric tons (MT) to more than 1 million people, and CARE plans to distribute food to approximately 400,000 oth [...]	2007-01-17 13:23:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF PHUM PREL EAGR SO
07NAIROBI2974	KENYA POLICE: REFORMS APLENTY, BUT PERFORMANCE LAGS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kibaki administration has implemented significant reforms of the Kenya Police Service and greatly increased its resources. The worst police abuses of the Moi-era have been eradicated. However, reforms and increased resources have not yet yielded a dramatic rise in police [...]	2007-07-19 12:45:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASIG KCRM KE PREL PTER
07NAIROBI3093	ADMIRAL FALLON MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KIBAKI [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a July 19 meeting with visiting CENTCOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon and the Charge, Kenyan President Kibaki praised the U.S. Kenya partnership, while encouraging greater U.S. attention to the region. With respect to Kenya, Kibaki appealed for greater U.S. assistance f [...]	2007-07-30 07:16:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MASS PGOV KE
07NAIROBI3227	SUDAN - MOI AS SPECIAL ENVOY, IGAD SUMMIT, AND [...] (C) Summary. This message responds to reftel. It reports on the role ex-President Moi wants to play as the newly appointed Special Envoy on Sudan and discusses possible next steps, including the proposed IGAD summit. These steps could include mobilizing U.S. and international support for t [...]	2007-08-10 08:25:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KE SU
07NAIROBI3257	Somalia - PM Gedi on Reconciliation [...] (SBU) See para 15 for action recommended. The Ambassador met August 11 with Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Prime Minister Ali Gedi to discuss reconciliation efforts, security in Mogadishu, and TFG efforts to secure Arab support. End Summary. -------------------------------- [...]	2007-08-13 13:06:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PTER SO ET
07NAIROBI3373	Somaliland -- Foreign Minister on the Way Forward [...] (C) Summary. On August 20, the Ambassador held consultations with Somaliland Foreign Minister Abdillahi Mohamed Duale (at his request) to discuss the full range of issues in the U.S.-Somaliland relationship. Topics included the arrest of opposition political leaders, elections and recognition [...]	2007-08-22 09:11:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET
07NAIROBI3440	SUDAN SPECIAL ENVOY MOI ON HIS ROLE AND NEXT STEPS [...] (C) See para 7 for action request. The Ambassador met with ex-President Moi, now Kenya,s Special Envoy on Sudan, to raise the points in ref D, to obtain a readout of his visit to Khartoum, and to discuss next steps. 2. (C) Moi said that his meeting with Sudanese President Bashir focused exc [...]	2007-08-28 06:58:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	CA IT NL PHUM PREL SU UK NT KE
07NAIROBI3664	Somalia: Alleged Assassination Threat [...] (S/NF) Summary: Somalia Transitional Federal Government President Abdullahi Yusuf allegedly told Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles in Addis that he intends to remove Somalia TFG Prime Minister Gedi on October 14 or 15. Meles warned Yusuf against doing so, and told Yusuf to maintain the current TF [...]	2007-09-14 11:02:00	Embassy Nairobi	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET
07NAIROBI3761	KENYA ELECTIONS: ONE-THIRD OF CONSTITUENCIES [...] (SBU) Summary & Introduction: Kenya's first two multiparty elections, in '92 and '97, were marred by widespread violence, most of it organized by the government. The 2002 election was much less violent and the November 2005 referendum was even less violent. This year, we predict little organ [...]	2007-09-21 10:41:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC KDEM KE PGOV PHUM
07NAIROBI3797	Puntland/Somaliland Border Fighting [...] (SBU) On September 24, InterPeace, a U.S. funded peace-building and reconciliation NGO, alerted supporters within the international community in Nairobi that the long-standing conflict between sub-clans in the Las Anod region of western Somaliland appeared likely to escalate into open fighting [...]	2007-09-25 15:09:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET
07NAIROBI3991	KENYA ELECTIONS: MAIN OPPOSITION CANDIDATE ODINGA [...] (C) SUMMARY: During lunch on October 1, the Ambassador discussed the electoral process with Raila Odinga, the main presidential opposition candidate. A relaxed Odinga was looking and sounding presidential, though he professed not to be overly confident. Odinga described the political strategy [...]	2007-10-09 09:27:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM KE
07NAIROBI3993	KENYA ELECTIONS: INTERNAL SECURITY MINISTER [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: On October 8, the Political Counselor met with Minister of State for Internal Security John Michuki over lunch at Michuki's swank hotel and country club on the outskirts of Nairobi. PolCouns had planned to have lunch with Michuki's son Francis when Michuki unexpec [...]	2007-10-09 11:46:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV PHUM KE
07NAIROBI4045	QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - NAIROBI [...] (U) Summary. The following report replies to Ref J reinstitution of the quarterly fraud report covering the current condition of consular fraud in Kenya, with specific reference to fraud trends in non-immigrant visa, immigrant visa, and diversity visa applications as well as cases of American [...]	2007-10-11 11:55:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM KE
07NAIROBI4050	QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - NAIROBI [...] (U) Summary. The following report replies to Ref J reinstitution of the quarterly fraud report covering the current condition of consular fraud in Kenya, with specific reference to fraud trends in non-immigrant visa, immigrant visa, and diversity visa applications as well as cases of American [...]	2007-10-11 11:59:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM KE
07NAIROBI4232	KENYA ELECTIONS: WOMEN CANDIDATES INTIMIDATED BUT NOT DEFEATED [...] (SBU) Summary: In the last two months, at least six women candidates for local office and Parliamentary seats have been physically attacked in attempts to intimidate them into dropping out of the race. On October 7, Asha Ali became the latest victim of such an attack. Ali, who is running fo [...]	2007-10-26 09:27:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL
07NAIROBI4237	Kenya-U.S. Foreign Service Institutes Video Conference [...] On October 25, Kenya's new Foreign Service Institute (FSI) Director, Ambassador Kipyego Cheluget, and his staff consulted with State Department FSI Director Ruth Whiteside, Executive Development Division Director Christine Powers, and Orientation Division Director Bruce Donahue. Director Chel [...]	2007-10-26 15:11:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KE
07NAIROBI4246	KENYA - DOING BUSINESS THE CHINESE WAY [...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese firms selling into Kenya's information and communications technologies (ICT) sector are throwing a lot of money around, according to industry contacts. Indeed, Chinese influence may be so great that it is distorting important investment decisions in the country. Puttin [...]	2007-10-30 08:13:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS EFIN KCOR CH KE
07NAIROBI4252	Open Skies on GOK Agenda for Air Services Negotiations [...] (SBU) Summary: Ministry of Transport officials confirmed Kenya is ready to negotiate an Open Skies Agreement with the U.S. and requests confirmation of the proposed dates so it can complete its internal consultations and provide proposals on the model Open Skies text. Ikiara also suggested Nai [...]	2007-10-30 12:30:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR KTIA ECON KE
07NAIROBI4427	KENYA ELECTIONS: Presidential Candidate Kalonzo Musyoka on the Elections [...] (C) Summary. Kalonzo Musyoka, one of the three principal presidential candidates, recently laid out to the Ambassador his campaign strategy and views on the upcoming elections. The bottom line is that Musyoka realizes he has no chance to win the election this round and sees his campaign as a [...]	2007-11-13 14:43:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL
07NAIROBI4428	KENYA ELECTIONS: Presidential Candidate Kalonzo Musyoka on the Elections [...] (C) Summary. Kalonzo Musyoka, one of the three principal presidential candidates, recently laid out to the Ambassador his campaign strategy and views on the upcoming elections. The bottom line is that Musyoka realizes he has no chance to win the election this round and sees his campaign as a [...]	2007-11-13 14:43:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KE PHUM PREL
07NAIROBI4483	NINTH PARLIAMENT WRAP UP (CORRECTED FORMAT) [...] (U) President Kibaki dissolved the Ninth Parliament of Kenya on October 22, 2007, ending its five year term. Overall, its record was mixed. Parliament made strides strengthening its role as an independent branch of government. At times Parliament served as an effective counterweight to the his [...]	2007-11-19 12:00:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI4550	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON HOST [...] (SBU) U.S. Mission Kenya provides the following on host government practices in response to REFTEL. A. Watchlisting: -- If host government maintains a "watchlist," how many records does the watchlist contain, and how many are terrorist-related? Answer: The GoK/Immigration has approximate [...]	2007-11-23 11:08:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS KE
07NAIROBI4804	MEDIA COVERAGE OF KENYAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN: REASONABLE [...] Summary: A UNDP-funded, independent assessment of Kenyan mainstream media coverage in the run-up to the December 27 general election indicated that, from November 10 to December 10, media coverage was generally balanced and accurate, with a few notable exceptions. This coincided with US Embas [...]	2007-12-18 12:59:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PREL OPRC PHUM KPAO KE
07NAIROBI4812	KENYA AVIATION AGENCIES PICK UP THE BALL TO MOVE TOWARDS [...] (SBU) Summary: During December 6-7 meetings in Nairobi, Kenyan aviation officials and officials from the U.S. DOT and FAA committed to renewed close cooperation to enable Kenya to meet ICAO requirements for Category 1 within 18 months. They also agreed to work with the resident U.S. Transporta [...]	2007-12-20 03:46:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PTER ETRD PGOV KE
07NAIROBI5403	SOMALIA - SHEIKH SHARIF AND THE FUTURE ROLE OF [...] Although Sheikh Sharif, the head of the Islamic Courts, executive branch has sometimes made harsh public statements, he is considered by most knowledgeable observers to be a moderate (the Ambassador took away that impression from his late August 2006 meeting with Sharif). Sharif is a respected [...]	2007-01-02 10:24:00	Embassy Nairobi	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE
07NAIROBI5406	"CORRECTED COPY TO INCLUDE PARAGRAPH [...] (S) Although Sheikh Sharif, the head of the Islamic Courts, executive branch has sometimes made harsh public statements, he is considered by most knowledgeable observers to be a moderate (the Ambassador took away that impression from his late August 2006 meeting with Sharif). Sharif is a resp [...]	2007-01-02 11:07:00	Embassy Nairobi	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC MOPS SO ET KE
07NAIROBI598	Kenyan Implementation of Decent Work Agenda [...] (U) Summary: The Government of Kenya (GOK) is working with the ILO to develop an action plan to implement the Decent Work Program included in the September 9, 2004 African Union declaration in Ouagadougou on employment and poverty alleviation. The GOK hopes its new Ksh 1 billion (USD 14.5 mill [...]	2007-02-06 06:07:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON KE
07NAIROBI720	SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 13 - CHOLERA [...] A suspected cholera outbreak has affected more than 600 people and resulted in as many as 40 deaths in southern and central Somalia. UN and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the health sector have responded to the outbreak quickly, collecting biological samples to confirm the [...]	2007-02-12 10:19:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO
07NAIROBI75	Kenya and China: Stronger Economic Ties Driven by Growing [...] (SBU) Summary: Economic ties between Kenya and China are growing stronger, a trend being driven primarily by greater bilateral trade and, more precisely, by a rapid increase in Chinese exports to Kenya. While trade with China is increasingly important to Kenya, it still accounts for only 3% o [...]	2007-01-05 07:43:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR KE CH
07NAIROBI759	SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT #14 [...] As the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) expands its administrative reach in southern and central Somalia, humanitarian agencies have begun to engage with relevant TFG ministries and Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs). USAID's implementing partners in Somalia interact with l [...]	2007-02-14 12:44:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO
07NAIROBI828	SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 15 - THE CLUSTER [...] OCHA and UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) principals endorsed a cluster approach to international responses to humanitarian crises in 2005. The UN cluster system was designed as a global mechanism to address and identify gaps in response efforts and enhance the quality of humanitari [...]	2007-02-21 07:53:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PHUM PREL SO
07NAIROBI870	SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 16 - THE IMPACT [...] Continuing insecurity and political uncertainty in Somalia are displacing some populations from Mogadishu and impeding humanitarian operations in Lower Juba Region and Mogadishu. USAID's partners continue to operate under extremely difficult circumstances, but the populations that remain ina [...]	2007-02-23 09:30:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO
07NAIROBI924	KENYA MAKES STEADY PROGRESS COMBATING COUNTERFEITING AND [...] Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Although the Kenyan Minister of Trade himself admits that his country is the "dumping ground in East Africa for substandard goods" from China and India, Kenya in fact made steady progress in 2006 [...]	2007-02-27 10:51:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD EINV EFIN ECON PGOV KE
07NAIROBI927	KENYA & SOMALIA SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF A/S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to Kenya, a stable, dynamic democracy and a key regional partner for the United States. Our partnership with Kenya focuses on five major goals: cooperate to fight insecurity and terrorism; combat disease and save lives; promote prosperity, fight poverty and invest in [...]	2007-02-27 11:49:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NAIROBI973	KENYA & SOMALIA SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF S/WCI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to Kenya, a stable, dynamic democracy and a key regional partner for the United States. Our partnership with Kenya focuses on five major goals: cooperate to fight insecurity and terrorism; combat disease and save lives; promote prosperity, fight poverty and invest in [...]	2007-03-01 06:42:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KE
07NASSAU1196	OPPOSITION LEADERSHIP SEEKS CONTINUED DIALOGUE [...] (C) Former Prime Minister Perry Christie hosted a working lunch for the Charge and Embassy senior staff September 24 to exchange views on current bilateral issues and domestic Bahamian politics. Christie, who remains as Leader of the Opposition, emphasized his party's commitment throughout t [...]	2007-09-26 19:16:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR ETRD BF
07NASSAU137	WHTI IMPLEMENTED SMOOTHLY, BUT MINISTER TAKES [...] (U) Following predictions that the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) would be a "category six hurricane" for The Bahamas (reftel),implementation of WHTI on January 23 came and went with little fanfare and no noticeable change in the normal flow of tourists to The Bahamas. In its fi [...]	2007-01-30 21:47:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CPAS PREL ECON BF
07NASSAU1399	AMBASSADOR SIEGEL PRESENTS CREDENTIALS [...] Summary: Ambassador Siegel presented his credentials to Governor General Arthur Dion Hanna on November 14 in a ceremony at Government House. Prior to the ceremony, the Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Brent Symonette, who affirmed the government's desire to maintain the best possible rel [...]	2007-11-16 22:10:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED	APER PREL PTER UNGA BF
07NASSAU231	DEFENSE FORCE SEEKS TO EXPAND REGIONAL INFLUENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 9, Ambassador met with Royal Bahamas Defense Force (RBDF) Commodore Clifford Scavella to discuss the bilateral military relationship. Scavella wants to expand the RBDF's international role, and improve its migrant interdiction capabilities. He expressed interest in [...]	2007-02-27 12:14:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP SMIG PREL KPKO BF HA
07NASSAU239	BAHAMAS: SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) A: There have been substantiated reports indicating that The Bahamas is a country of destination for trafficking in persons, particularly labor trafficking, but the extent of the problem is unknown. There have been no substantiated reports of The Bahamas as a country of origin or transi [...]	2007-02-27 22:13:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWNM ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF BF
07NASSAU273	CABINET MINISTER RESIGNS OVER PHOTOS WITH ANNA [...] (U) SUMMARY. Bahamian Minister of Immigration Shane Gibson resigned February 18 following publication of photographs of Gibson embracing Smith in her bed. The photos, which also appeared to show an exchange of gifts, created additional press and opposition scrutiny of potential irregularities in Sm [...]	2007-03-06 15:13:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCOR BF
07NASSAU413	DELAYS IN BUILDING OF NEW CHINESE EMBASSY AND [...] (C) During Ambassador Rood's farewell call with Chinese Ambassador Li March 27, Poloff met with Dong Sheng, Cultural and Protocol Officer for the Chinese Embassy to The Bahamas. Asked about plans for a new Chinese embassy building in Nassau, Sheng said that a site had been purchased on Village [...]	2007-03-30 20:52:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR CH BF
07NASSAU414	OPPOSITION LEADER INGRAHAM SUPPORTS US ON AVIATION [...] (C) Summary: In a final courtesy call, Ambassador Rood and Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Hubert Ingraham discussed aviation issues, judicial reform, educational initiatives, bilateral cooperation and upcoming elections. Ingraham promised to work closely with the FAA on aviation issues i [...]	2007-04-02 11:24:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR EAIR BF
07NASSAU435	PM CHRISTIE CALLS MAY 2 ELECTIONS; TIGHT RACE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 4, Prime Minister Perry Christie dissolved parliament and announced that elections will be held May 2. At present, the race is too close to call, and neither party is likely to enjoy the same parliamentary majority now held by the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP). The key [...]	2007-04-04 21:10:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM
07NASSAU550	PRE-ELECTION ROUNDUP: MOMENTUM TO FNM AS PARTIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the final run up to May 2 elections, violence has faded, replaced with isolated vote-buying allegations, though these are not expected to compromise outcomes. In its recently released party platform, the opposition Free National Movement (FNM) has promised to restrict foreig [...]	2007-04-30 21:12:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR BF
07NASSAU559	INGRAHAM AND FREE NATIONAL MOVEMENT WIN BAHAMIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to still unofficial counts, The Free National Movement (FNM) captured 24 of 41 parliamentary seats in Bahamian elections May 2. Hubert Ingraham, who served as Prime Minister from 1992-2002, returns to office and is expected to name his cabinet in the coming week. Desp [...]	2007-05-03 20:43:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KCOR BF
07NASSAU579	BRENT SYMONETTE NAMED BAHAMIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham tapped Free National Movement (FNM) Deputy Party Leader Brent Symonette as The Bahamas' new Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs May 4. Symonette is a successful businessman and a former Attorney General and Minister of Tourism in [...]	2007-05-07 22:31:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ETRD BF
07NASSAU608	NEW BAHAMIAN CABINET BUILT FOR ACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham made his initial cabinet appointments May 7, with others following in subsequent days. With few exceptions, the new Ministers are experienced and well-suited to their portfolios, having served in Ingraham's previous government. Ingraham r [...]	2007-05-15 19:10:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EAIR BF
07NASSAU610	FOREIGN MINISTER SYMONETTE PLEDGES NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge paid his first official courtesy call on new Bahamian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Brent Symonette May 13, outlining U.S. priorities including the upcoming Conference on the Caribbean, elections to the UN Human Rights Council, a Proliferation Security Agreem [...]	2007-05-15 22:08:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHRC EAIR ETRD PTER BF
07NASSAU630	BAHAMAS REVIEW FOR TITLE III SUSPENSION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post recommends waiver of the provisions of Title III of the Libertad Act for The Bahamas. The Bahamas has had a cordial relationship with Cuba, has supported Cuba in international fora, and has engaged in both cultural and economic exchanges with Cuba, including promotion of Cub [...]	2007-05-21 17:12:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU BF
07NASSAU664	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GROWING IRAN-VENEZUELA [...] (C) Pol chief delivered reftel (a) demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Permanent Secretary Marilyn Zonicle. Zonicle appreciated the USG's points regarding the growing security concerns resulting from the close cooperation between Venezuela and Iran. Zonicle indicated that The Baham [...]	2007-05-30 11:24:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PHUM BF IR VZ
07NASSAU753	PRIME MINISTER INGRAHAM SEEKS CLOSE TIES WITH U.S. [...] (C) On June 13, the Charge called on Prime Minister Ingraham to congratulate him on his recent election and to review U.S. and Bahamian priorities in advance of the June 18-21 Conference on the Caribbean. In a productive 45-minute meeting, Ingraham promised to consider a Proliferation Securi [...]	2007-06-15 22:49:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAIR PTER MCAP PHUM CU VE BF
07NASSAU939	BAHAMAS ENERGY MINISTER CONFIRMS PETROCARIBE ON [...] (C) Summary: During a courtesy call with the Charge' and PolChief, Minister of State for Public Utilities Phenton Neymour confirmed that Petrocaribe was not and would not be a priority for the new Bahamian government. He also indicated that the government had not had time to assess the Liquef [...]	2007-07-31 18:57:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ENRG SENV BF VZ
07NASSAU94	BAHAMAS MASS MIGRATION CONTINGENCY ASSESSMENT [...] (C) The following information is provided in response to reftel request, tracked to reftel questions: a. (C) Would your host government be willing to establish a camp to house at least 1,000 migrants interdicted by the U.S. during a mass migration? Would they be willing if the U.S. paid t [...]	2007-01-24 21:54:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	SMIG PREF PREL HA CU BF
07NDJAMENA167	EXPLAINING UN FORCE TO PRESIDENT DEBY:FRENCH ADVICE [...] (C) Summary. Chad's unqualified support for UN operation in eastern Chad should not be assumed, according to French Ambassador Foucher. In a meeting with the Ambassador, Foucher emphasized that the UN peacekeeping operation needed to be carefully explained to President Deby as humanitarian i [...]	2007-02-26 09:11:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC SU CD
07NDJAMENA171	EXPLAINING UN FORCE TO PRESIDENT DEBY:FRENCH ADVICE [...] (C) Summary. Chad's unqualified support for UN operation in eastern Chad should not be assumed, according to French Ambassador Foucher. In a meeting with the Ambassador, Foucher emphasized that the UN peacekeeping operation needed to be carefully explained to President Deby as humanitarian i [...]	2007-02-26 14:17:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC SU CD
07NDJAMENA245	CHAD EXPLAINS RESERVATIONS ON UN BORDER FORCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chad supports a UN force of police and gendarmes to protect refugees, displaced Chadians, and humanitarian workers on its border with Sudan, but not proposals for a much larger military force, Chad's Foreign Minister told the Ambassador March 20. He said a "massive" force ra [...]	2007-03-20 16:46:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC CD
07NDJAMENA251	AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE IN SUPPORT OF HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) The Ambassador presented points in ref to Foreign Minister Allam-mi in a meeting on March 20. 2. (S) The Foreign Minister responded that the United States will require Libya's approval for the request for overflights even before Chad's. He said Chad prefers to solve its problems wit [...]	2007-03-21 16:14:00	Embassy Ndjamena	SECRET	MARR PBTS PINR PREL GR LI SU CD
07NDJAMENA258	CHAD: MEETING WITH AHMED DIRAIJ [...] (SBU) Summary. Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance (SFDA) leader Ahmed Diraij shared his impressions of diplomatic moves and countermoves by Chad, Sudan and Eritrea relative to the Darfur conflict with the Ambassador March 21. He expected continuing jockeying for position in the week ahead amo [...]	2007-03-26 12:32:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SU CD
07NDJAMENA302	CHAD SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE [...] (C) Summary: United States interests in Chad have evolved over the last seven years. Highlights of the new relationship include U.S. humanitarian support for the Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad and U.S. political leadership in seeking a resolution of the Darfur conflict, U.S./Chad coopera [...]	2007-04-06 11:01:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF OTRA SU CD
07NDJAMENA309	CHAD PRIME MINISTER MEETS WITH CODEL MCGOVERN [...] (SBU) Summary: Massachusetts Congressman James P. McGovern, Ranking Minrity Member of the House Subcommittee on Rules mt on April 5 with Chad Prime Minister Nouradine elwa Kassire Koumakoye. Kassire spoke at length about his countr's relationship with the U.S. and fforts to resolve the Darf [...]	2007-04-10 11:06:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM CD
07NDJAMENA318	CODEL MCGOVERN VISITS EASTERN CHAD, MEETS SUDAN REBELS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Rep. James McGovern and staffers, plus Ambassador and Emboffs, visited the Abeche area on 6-7 April, meeting with local Chadian authorities, UN officials, NGO workers, and Sudanese rebel leaders. The group drove to Gaga camp to meet with Sudanese refugees. In a meeting with Rep [...]	2007-04-12 10:40:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV PHUM KCRS CD SU OVIP OTRA
07NDJAMENA325	CLASHES CONTINUE, IDP SITUATION WORSENS IN EASTERN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over the last two weeks the security and humanitarian situation in eastern Chad has taken a dangerous turn for the worse. The Dar Sila region near the border with Sudan south of Abeche has been the scene of attacks by janjaweed militias, an upsurge in new Internally Displaced [...]	2007-04-13 08:14:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC CD SU
07NDJAMENA341	DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE MEETS CHADIAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Deputy Secretary Negroponte met President Idriss Deby Itno and Foreign Minister (FM) Alam-mi late Monday afternoon April 16, in the Chadian capital of N'Djamena. In both meetings the Deputy Secretary discussed regional peace and stability, the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur [...]	2007-04-20 11:34:00	Embassy Ndjamena	SECRET	PGOV OVIP PREL PREF UNSC CD SU
07NDJAMENA396	SUDAN REBEL LEADER SEEKS DARFUR PEACE TALKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) is ready to start Darfur peace talks tomorrow and wants to cooperate with the United States, JEM Chairman Khalil Ibrahim stressed in a meeting on May 5. Khalil expressed support for the United Nation's mediation effort, a Darfur ceasefire [...]	2007-05-08 16:59:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC CD
07NDJAMENA410	CHADIAN TROOP BUILD-UP UNDERWAY; ALL QUIET, FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Chad (GOC) is ready to launch a major attack against Chadian rebels if the rebels cross over from Sudan for one last offensive before the rainy season -- or if they are expelled by Sudan. Embassy sources do not put much weight in the Saudi-brokered accord between [...]	2007-05-11 12:18:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CD SU
07NDJAMENA42	NEW CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO CHAD [...] (SBU) Summary: Capping the reestablishment of relations with Chad, China's foreign minister visited N'Djamena January 6-7. China,s new envoy to Chad told the Ambassador that China recognizes that development in Chad and the region requires peace and stability. He noted China's interest in C [...]	2007-01-12 10:41:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EPET MOPS PREF PREL CD
07NDJAMENA457	CHAD: PRESIDENT DEBY ON UNFORCE ND DIALOGUE [...] Summary: President Deb, in a meeting with the Ambassador June 4, welcoed the announcement by the United States of additonal sanctions on Sudan. He continuedto resist the idea of an international force in Chad. Money for such an expensive project, he said, would be better spent moving refug [...]	2007-06-05 10:00:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL HUM CD SU
07NDJAMENA462	SLM LEADER COMMENTS ON UNIFICATION EFFORTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The prospects for leaders within the Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM) to unify appear to be dim and getting dimmer. During a recent meeting with SLM leader Adam Shogar, he expressed dismay with recent unification efforts, and was focused on the differences between the vari [...]	2007-06-05 16:20:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL UNSC SU CD
07NDJAMENA468	KOME OILFIELD SECURITY [...] (SBU) After receiving tearline information that suspected extremists had allegedly conducted surveillance on the Doba Oil facility in Chad, on May 24, 2007 the Regional Security Officer was invited to review the oilfield security operation in the Kome region of Chad near the city of Doba by the [...]	2007-06-06 13:53:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC CD EPET PGOV PREL
07NDJAMENA477	CHAD: FOREIGN MINISTER ON REBELS AND PEACEKEEPING [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador June 7, Foreign Minister Allam-Mi said that both Sudan and Chad were adequately abiding by the Riyadh accord's requirement to rein in each other's rebels. Greater calm had prevailed in eastern Chad as a result. Allam-mi hardened his verbiage op [...]	2007-06-07 15:56:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CH SU
07NDJAMENA506	ISLAM IN SOUTHERN CHAD [...] (SBU) Summary: What is the status of Islam in southern Chad, a relatively densely populated area but traditionally largely Christian or animist? Embassy NQDjamena PAO and Arabic/Muslim Outreach Specialist set out to answer this question, at least anecdotally, during two trips over a three- [...]	2007-06-19 16:13:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL OIIP KPAO KIRF PHUM CD
07NDJAMENA508	CORRECTED VERSION: ISLAM IN SOUTHERN CHAD [...] (SBU) Summary: What is the status of Islam in southern Chad, a relatively densely populated area but traditionally largely Christian or animist? Embassy N'Djamena PAO and Arabic/Muslim Outreach Specialist set out to answer this question, at least anecdotally, during two trips over a three- [...]	2007-06-20 06:43:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL OIIP KPAO KIRF PHUM CD
07NDJAMENA517	CHAD/SUDAN: JEM PERSPECTIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Taljadine Niam, JEM representative in Chad, met the Ambassador June 20 at his request, seeking to maintain contact despite sanctions on JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim. Khalil, he claimed, had departed Chad for Darfur with "all" the JEM forces. He said JEM (contrary to its blockin [...]	2007-06-21 18:57:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM CD SU
07NDJAMENA546	CHAD OIL: GOVERNMENT WAVES THE CARROTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Working relations between the Government of Chad and the Esso-led oil consortium continue to improve. It appears that the President has been persuaded that taking too aggressive an approach at a time when the Consortium is weighing future investment decisions could jeopardize [...]	2007-07-02 16:08:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
07NDJAMENA553	TRANSFORMING CHAD: A CAUTIONARY TALE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the last three years the United States has devoted more attention and resources to Chad than at any time since the joint fight against Libyan aggression in the 1980's. Chad is a major beneficiary of the Trans Saharan Counter-Terrorism Partnership initiative. It receive [...]	2007-07-03 20:54:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EFIN EPET KDEM KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
07NDJAMENA555	CHAD: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR YOUNOUSMI ON SUDAN, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Deby's close advisor Adoum Younousmi told the Ambassador July 3 that, during his trip to Khartoum the previous week, he had found the Sudanese leaders "lacking in vision" in their objectives in Darfur, but "evolving." They had asked for Chadian mediation with the Da [...]	2007-07-04 10:32:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV CD SU
07NDJAMENA618	CHAD FOREIGN MINISTER ON ARUSHA MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: Chad Foreign Minister Allam-mi stressed to Charge that Chad would do all it could to ensure a successful meeting in Arusha. Referring to Embassy demarches concerning the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue's aborted meeting in Mombasa, he stated that Chad did not want to have a bi [...]	2007-07-25 16:39:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV SU CD
07NDJAMENA637	SCENESTTER FOR GENERAL WARD [...] (C) General Ward: Your first visit to Chad will highlight for President Idriss Deby Itno the importance the United States attaches to the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) and U.S. appreciation for Chad's support on counter-terrorism issues. We anticipate that the President [...]	2007-08-03 12:19:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CD
07NDJAMENA657	GUINNESS TESTS THE WATERS IN CHAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 26, Chad's only brewery, Les Brasseries du Tchad (BDT),announced the addition of Guinness to its existing product line. Chad's neighbor, Cameroon, has produced Guinness for years and some Cameroonian Guinness was imported to Chad both legally and clandestinely. By pr [...]	2007-08-13 12:59:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CD ETRD ECON PGOV PREL
07NDJAMENA665	GENERAL WARD,S MEETING WITH CHAD PRESIDENT, [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Commander of the European Military Command General William Ward met President Deby August 8 in Chad in a meeting primarily focused on aircraft sales. While arguing the case for Chad's need for C-130's, President Deby also expressed interest in learning more about the C-2 [...]	2007-08-14 13:28:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL	CD PGOV PREL
07NDJAMENA666	CHINA'S RETURN TO CHAD: ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a nine-year hiatus, China (PRC) and Chad renewed diplomatic relations in 2006. According to the Chinese Embassy's Economic and Commercial Counselor, China is adhering to all Chinese and Chadian environmental and social laws as it enters the energy and agricultural sectors [...]	2007-08-15 08:48:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CD CH ECON EINV SENV PHUM
07NDJAMENA674	EASTERN CHAD - USAID FIELD VISIT TO DOGDORE IDP [...] The week of August 13, a USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) field officer based in eastern Chad traveled to the internally displaced person (IDP) site of Dogdore, the largest IDP site in eastern Chad. Dogdore's proximity to the Chad-Sudan border and the [...]	2007-08-16 16:37:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREF PREL CD
07NDJAMENA676	CHINA IN CHAD: AN ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mr. Huang Mingyuan, Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Chinese (PRC) Embassy in Chad, provided an overview of the current state of China's activities here. Since reopening its embassy in N'djamena in 2006, China has responded to a variety of needs expressed by the Chad [...]	2007-08-17 10:47:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CD CH ECON ETRD PREL ENRG EPET
07NDJAMENA689	CHAD SCENESETTER FOR CODEL JACKSON LEE [...] (U) U.S. Embassy N'Djamena warmly welcomes CODEL Jackson Lee to Chad August 26-27, 2007. Chad is a landlocked, impoverished nation situated in the geographical "heart" of Africa. Violent regime change has been the rule since independence in 1960. Chad's estimated 9.4 million people are prim [...]	2007-08-23 09:01:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CD
07NDJAMENA70	SPECIAL ENVOY NATSIOS TO REBELS: TIME IS NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his meeting with DPA non- signatory groups, Presidential Special Envoy Andrew Natsios delivered a clear message to rebel leaders gathered in eastern Chad that the only solution to the Darfur crisis was through negotiation. He informed them that the USG supported an all-incl [...]	2007-01-24 17:47:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF CD SU
07NDJAMENA711	CONTACT INFORMATION FOR EMBASSY NDJAMENA AND [...] Listed below is contact information for Heads of Sections, U.S. Embassy Ndjamena. All personnel may be contacted via the switchboard 24/7. Embassy telnos: Country Code: 235 Switchboard: 251-7009/251-6211/251-9233/251-9218/251-4727/ 251-4296 Switchboard cell: (235) 679-0978/679-0979 IVG: [...]	2007-09-06 16:12:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT PGOV CD
07NDJAMENA712	CHAD:EU TEAM ASKS HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT PROPOSED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After the week-long visit of a European Commission Technical Assessment Team, many questions were still unanswered as to how a possible multidimensional UN/EU force would go about protecting refugees, IDPs and humanitarian workers in eastern Chad given the complex political an [...]	2007-09-07 15:32:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CD PGOV PHUM PREF PREL
07NDJAMENA755	SUDAN REBEL ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING IN CHAD [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN/AU organized September 19-20 meeting in N'Djamena was billed as an opportunity to organize Sudan rebel movement delegations and positions before the October 27, 2007 negotiation in Tripoli, but from most accounts it was inconclusive on all fronts and lacked the presenc [...]	2007-09-27 15:53:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF CD SU
07NDJAMENA784	SUDAN REBELS IN CHAD REPORT JEM SPLIT [...] (SBU) Summary: JEM representatives informed Emboffs that a split has taken place within the movement, pitting Chairman Khalil Ibrahim on one side against his former Vice-Chair Bahar and field Commander Banda on the other. JEM "Chief Negotiator" Ahmed Tugod Lissan accused JEM/Bahar of perpetrat [...]	2007-10-10 08:52:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF CD SU
07NDJAMENA792	PEACE ACCORDS MULTIPLY WITH FRINGE CHAD REBEL [...] (SBU) Summary. Five minor Chadian rebel/exile groups have signed generic peace agreements with the Government of Chad (GOC) in the last two weeks. The agreements include amnesty for rebels and a commitment to integrate rebel forces into the Chadian army and civil service. Negotiations in Trip [...]	2007-10-12 10:52:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL LY GB BN CD
07NDJAMENA849	CHAD: GODBOLD UPDATE 10/30 [...] (SBU) Summary: Seized Amcit Cash Steve Godbold has been moved to a location deeper in the heart of the Tibesti, but his colleagues in N'Djamena are still confident that he is in good health and being well treated. The Red Cross has been contacted and is ready to facilitate his release, but t [...]	2007-10-31 18:14:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PTER LY CD
07NDJAMENA870	CHAD: ZOE'S ARK AND THE ALLEGED CHILD SMUGGLING [...] (SBU) Nine Europeans and four Chadians remain in Government of Chad (GOC) custody in the widely-publicized and bizarre case in which a French NGO, Zoe's Ark, attempted to ferry 103 Chadian/Sudanese children to Europe in a chartered Spanish plane. Personal diplomacy by French President Sarkozy [...]	2007-11-07 16:07:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CD PHUM KTIP
07NDJAMENA903	CHAD: JEM EXPLAINS ARAB ALLIANCE AND WARNS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of the Khalil Ibrahim-led wing of the Sudan Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) met with Emboffs November 19 to announce a new JEM/Arab alliance, explain the defects of the Sirte meeting and warn of future armed conflict in Darfur and Kordofan. End summary. JE [...]	2007-11-21 13:51:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PGOV PHUM CD SU

07NDJAMENA920	CHAD: FIGHTING CONTINUES, DEFENSE MINISTER FIRED [...] (SBU) Summary: Heaving fighting continues between the government and rebel factions in eastern Chad, with significant casualties among the President's clan. President Deby returned to N'Djamena on December 1 to commemorate 17 years in power and to fire the Defense Minister (former FUC rebel M [...]	2007-12-02 12:51:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREF PREL CD SU
07NDJAMENA951	CHAD: EUFOR PROSPECTS GLOOMY [...] (SBU) Summary: Cancellation or postponement of EUFOR due to resource and logistics constraints is a possibility according to EUFOR's General Gannacia. Nonetheless, EUFOR and MINURCAT advance teams continue to lay the groundwork for eventual deployment. MINURCAT may request assistance from do [...]	2007-12-13 16:14:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNSC PGOV PREL PREF CD CR
07NEWDELHI1009	AMBASSADOR PUSHES FOR DEFENSE SALES AND [...] (C) Summary: In a February 27 call on Minister of Defense A.K. Antony, the Ambassador: -- emphasized the commitment the USG and American companies have demonstrated toward India's defense trade; -- pressed for a level playing field for American defense companies seeking business in India; [...]	2007-02-28 13:16:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ETRD MOPS IN
07NEWDELHI1050	INDIA AND U.S. HOLD COUNTER-TERRORISM JOINT [...] (C) SUMMARY: MEA Additional Secretary (International Organizations) K.C. Singh and Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Frank Urbancic chaired the 8th U.S.-India Counter-Terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG) on February 28th in New Delhi. Calling the timing "late, but better late than ne [...]	2007-03-02 14:30:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK
07NEWDELHI1051	INDIANS OFFER BLEAK ASSESSMENT OF AFGHANISTAN AND [...] (S) Summary: During the February 28, 2007 session of the U.S.-India Counter-Terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG),the Indian delegation gave a tour d'horizon of developments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal to help set the stage for the day's discussions (reported Septel). Indian int [...]	2007-03-02 14:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV EFIN PINR MOPS KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI1101	CONGRESS LEADERS CRITICIZE NUCLEAR DEAL AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a string of electoral defeats in Bihar, Mumbai, Uttarakhand, and Punjab, the most influential voices in the Delhi cocktail circuit as well as some of our most insightful political contacts in the states are telling us with one voice that Sonia Gandhi and her personal ad [...]	2007-03-06 16:38:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ECON KISL KDEM KNNP PARM IN
07NEWDELHI1218	SCENESETTER FOR DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SECRETARY SAMUEL W. BODMAN'S MARCH 2007 VISIT TO INDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Secretary Bodman, the members of the Country Team warmly welcome you to New Delhi and Mumbai and look forward to your arrival on March 19. You are visiting at a crucial time in Indo-U.S. relations and are positioned to significantly advance our growing government-to-government, commer [...]	2007-03-13 13:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG TRGY EPET EAID SENV PREL PGOV IN
07NEWDELHI1248	US PARTICIPATION IN AMAN 07 "SURPRISES" AND [...] (C) PolCouns was summoned to the Ministry of External Affairs by Joint Secretary (Americas) Gaitri Kumar on 12 March for an urgent meeting to discuss the USG's participation in the multinational joint naval exercise "Aman 07." Kumar delivered the non-paper in para. 4 to Polcouns as directed [...]	2007-03-14 12:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS CH PK IN
07NEWDELHI1250	INDO-FIJIAN RELATIONS GOOD DESPITE MILITARY COUP [...] (C) Summary: Fiji's interim Foreign Affairs and External Trade Minister, Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, visited New Delhi March 3-4 (reftel). He met with both Ambika Soni, Indian Minister of Tourism and Culture, and Pranab Mukherjee, Minister of External Affairs, from whom Nailatikau reportedly re [...]	2007-03-14 13:40:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FJ IN PBTS PGOV PINR
07NEWDELHI1302	GOI "VERY UNEASY" ABOUT RECENT EVENTS IN BANGLADESH [...] (C) SUMMARY: External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's recent visit to Dhaka was "excellent," according to Joint Secretary Mohan Kumar. Chief Adviser of the Caretaker Government Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed received high marks from the GOI with Kumar noting that, "He talks like us. He's brillian [...]	2007-03-19 06:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BG CE IN
07NEWDELHI1325	INDIA FALLING SHORT OF POTENTIAL IN AFRICA, [...] (C) Summary. Indian strategic thinkers agree that China is leading India in involvement with Africa by almost all economic and political measures. Not only does China have a greater volume of bilateral trade with Africa, but China is also pouring development aid and concessional loans into [...]	2007-03-19 12:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IN CH ECON ENRG EPET EAGR
07NEWDELHI1328	PRIME MINISTER WARM ON U.S.-INDIA-JAPAN TRILATERAL [...] (C) Summary. PM Singh told Ashley Tellis he hoped a U.S.-India-Japan trilateral dialogue could become official at the Foreign Secretary level. The PM's comment seems to reflect a fairly broad sentiment in New Delhi, as recent public speakers have come out in support of closer trilateral ties [...]	2007-03-19 13:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IN JA
07NEWDELHI1383	AMBASSADOR TAHIR-KHELI DISCUSSES PAKISTAN, WOMEN'S [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings with Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon and Prime Minister Media Advisor Sanjaya Baru, Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli: -- discussed Indo-Pakistan relations, agreeing that the relationship is in relatively good shape at this time; -- urged her interlocutors [...]	2007-03-22 12:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWMN PK IN
07NEWDELHI139	MINISTER OF STATE SHARMA: 123 AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary. In a January 9 meeting, Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma told the Ambassador: - India has "too much political capital invested" in the civil-nuclear agreement to allow for 123 Agreement talks to languish, adding a successful 123 conclusion is "imperative;" [...]	2007-01-10 13:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KNNP EAGR SOCI IN
07NEWDELHI1401	AMBASSADOR TAHIR-KHELI ENCOURAGES INDO-US [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings, Senior Adviser to the Secretary Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli met with Ministry of SIPDIS External Affairs (MEA) officials March 22 to discuss a number of UN-related issues, including: - India's role on the UN Human Rights Council - Secretary General Ban [...]	2007-03-22 13:43:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN
07NEWDELHI1485	OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIAN SOFT POWER IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: As requested, this cable contains specific, concrete ideas for opportunities for India to use soft power in helping Afghanistan's reconstruction, with the broader objective of seeking ways for the U.S. to synergize its efforts with Afghanistan's "natural ally." Some of the ideas are ne [...]	2007-03-28 12:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID ECON ENRG SCUL SOCI AF IN
07NEWDELHI1488	A SNAPSHOT OF INDIAN THOUGHTS ON IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In various meetings over the last few weeks, Post has been taking stock of what Indian analysts, professors, lawmakers and journalists are thinking about Iran. This cable is a summary of those conversations. Interlocutors agreed that, while Indians do not want a nuclear Iran, t [...]	2007-03-28 13:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EPET ELTN IR IN
07NEWDELHI1509	DELHI DIARY, MARCH 8-29 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for March 8-29, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting. Former Iranian President Gets a Warm Reception in India ------ 2. (SBU) The mostly Indian audience at the India Today annual "conclave" March 23 h [...]	2007-03-29 14:34:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIRF KNNP IR BT KZ
07NEWDELHI1517	INDIA "WILL CONSIDER" IRAN REQUEST TO BECOME SAARC [...] (U) This is an action request for the Department - please see paragraph six. 2. (C) Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon announced on March 28 that the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Council of Ministers, during its April 2 meeting in New Delhi, will conside [...]	2007-03-30 10:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR IN
07NEWDELHI1532	DCM REVIEWS FULL SLATE OF BILATERAL COOPERATION [...] (C) In a courtesy call on new Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta on March 30, the DCM recalled their long-standing friendship, briefed Gupta on the many ways that the USG works with the Home Ministry to advance our bilateral agenda, and sought Gupta's help to improve Embassy interactions with his M [...]	2007-03-30 12:43:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PHUM
07NEWDELHI1676	CODEL LOWEY DISCUSSES 123 AGREEMENT, CONGRESSIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a joint meeting with Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon and Special Envoy to the Prime Minister Shyam Saran, Codel Lowey outlined their concerns on the civil-nuclear agreement, including fears that the Government of India (GOI) had come to the conclusion that the U.S. Congre [...]	2007-04-09 14:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
07NEWDELHI1698	INDIA DID NOT ATTEND IRAN'S NATANZ RIBBON-CUTTING [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel points to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan) Dilip Sinha April 9. Amandeep Singh Gill, Director of MEA Disarmament and International Security Affairs, told PolOff April 10 that the MEA had instructed its Embassy i [...]	2007-04-10 13:13:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP IAEA PARM MNUC TRGY AORC UNSC
07NEWDELHI1704	INDO-PAK DISCUSSIONS ON SAARC SIDELINES HINT AT [...] (C) Summary: The recently concluded SAARC Summit (April 3-4) was notable for its lack of major tension over the perennially contentious issues between India and Pakistan. Indo-Pak experts on the sidelines of SAARC saw signals that a proposal may be just around the corner to try to resolve l [...]	2007-04-11 09:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI1720	DELHI DIARY, MARCH 29-APRIL 11 [...] (C) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for March 8-29, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Naxalites Looking to Join the Fray in Kashmir -- BJP Coalesces Its Strategy of Attack on Congress -- Civil Society Holds SAARC Accountabl [...]	2007-04-11 12:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PK IR JA IN
07NEWDELHI1723	ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER AND GAITRI KUMAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: South and Central Asian Affairs Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher met Ministry of External Affairs SIPDIS Joint Secretary Gaitri Kumar April 5 to review progress and obstacles on key U.S.- India bilateral issues, including defense, military relations, education, the Agricult [...]	2007-04-11 12:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ETRD MOPS KPAO ENRG PARM PTER
07NEWDELHI1827	INDIA OFFERS CREW LIST EXEMPTION [...] This is an action request for the Department - please see paragraphs 4 and 5. 2. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs has presented a Diplomatic Note (No. 794/JS/AMS/2007, dated April 11, 2007) offering a bilateral resolution of the outstanding "crew list" issue, proposing exemption of t [...]	2007-04-17 12:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV MARR MOPS PBTS KREC KTIA IN
07NEWDELHI1866	DELHI DIARY, APRIL 12-19 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for April 12-19, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Third Phase of the Uttar Pradesh Election Completed -- The Saffron Crowd Finding a Home in the BJP Again -- Chief of Naval Operations Vi [...]	2007-04-19 08:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MNUC KUNR ETRD EPET KWMN BR
07NEWDELHI1915	RAHUL GANDHI JUMPS INTO THE U.P. ELECTORAL FRAY [...] (C) Summary: Rahul Gandhi, the heir apparent of the Gandhi family dynasty, has made a number of gaffes, suggesting an uneven start to his active political career. During a series of ""roadshows"" meant to jump-start the Congress campaign in ongoing Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections, Rahul made ellipti [...]	2007-04-23 11:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN PK
07NEWDELHI1921	HINDU RIGHT WING PLANNING AN ANTI-MAOIST COALITION [...] (C) Former Commerce, Law and Justice Minister Dr. Subramanian Swamy, President of the Janata Party, told DepPolCouns April 23 that he is headed to Nepal April 26 to meet "secretly" with King Gyanendra and publicly with Prime Minister Koirala, whom he described as "an old friend." Swamy was a m [...]	2007-04-23 13:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR NP IN
07NEWDELHI193	IRAQ: GUIDANCE DELIVERED TO GOVERNMENT OF INDIA [...] (C) As the DCM was delivering reftel demarche to the Indian government (see below),in a visit to broadcaster CNN-IBN, Ambassador briefed the entire editorial team on bilateral relations and specifically addressed the President's new initiative on Iraq. In an subsequent interview, Ambassador [...]	2007-01-12 12:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PGOV IZ IN
07NEWDELHI1938	BRINGING SHAME ON FEMALE FETICIDE IN RAJASTHAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On an April 10-14 trip to Rajasthan, Poloff met with government officials, NGO's and others combating female feticide. They outlined hopeful new steps they are taking. Although only in the early stages, such programs hold promise in making inroads against female feticide and [...]	2007-04-24 11:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KWMN ECON PREL SOCI IN
07NEWDELHI1971	GOI JOINT SECRETARY (EAST ASIA): CHINA BORDER [...] (C) Summary. In an April 25 discussion, new MEA JS (East Asia) Vijay Gokhale: -- briefed PolCouns on the latest round of India-China border talks, saying little progress was made; -- downplayed the May 1 visit by North Korean Vice-Foreign Minister Kim Hyong Jun, stating such a meeting was a [...]	2007-04-25 12:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH KN JA IN
07NEWDELHI2037	INDIAN OFFICIAL SEES BANGLADESH AT CROSSROADS, SRI [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with PolCouns on April 26, MEA Joint Secretary Mohan Kumar: -- said that the caretaker government in Bangladesh has reached a crossroads by allowing Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia to return, stating such a move weakens the government and will force it to reassert itself in [...]	2007-04-27 12:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BG BM CE IN
07NEWDELHI2056	BIOGRAPHY: MEA JOINT SECRETARY GAITRI KUMAR [...] (C) Gaitri Kumar replaced Subrahmanyam Jaishankar as Ministry for External Affairs (MEA),Joint Secretary (Americas) in January. She joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1986. Prior to her current assignment, her career trajectory is as follows: --1987-1989 - Third Secretary/Second Secreta [...]	2007-04-30 11:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IN
07NEWDELHI2067	BIOGRAPHY: RAJASTHAN CHIEF MINISTER VASUNDHARA RAJE [...] (C) On an April 10-14 trip to Rajasthan, PolOff met with politicians, journalists, NGOs, and academicians to get a fix on the current state of affairs. This cable is largely derived from conversations during this trip about Chief Minister (CM) Vasundhara Raje. A POLITICAL MAHARANI ------- [...]	2007-04-30 13:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KWMN IN
07NEWDELHI2070	RAJASTHAN STRUGGLES TO ESCAPE FROM THE HINDI BELT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rajasthan, located in North India and bordering Pakistan, is the country's largest state and embodies numerous contradictions. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Minister (CM) Vasundhara Raje (ref A),although extremely popular, is heavily criticized and not expected to win the [...]	2007-05-01 06:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL PINR SOCI ECON KWMN KIRF
07NEWDELHI2072	G-8 SEEKING IMPROVED CT COOPERATION WITH INDIA [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns attended a meeting of the G-8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) in New Delhi, which is now chaired by the German Political Counselor. The group attempts to coordinate G-8 efforts to partner with the Indian government against terrorism. The group discussed each coun [...]	2007-05-01 08:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI2092	LATEST UTTAR PRADESH POLL CONFIRMS CONTINUED [...] (C) Summary: The fifth phase of seven phases of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) election concluded on April 28, with a growing consensus that this election will likely spell the end of SP rule. An effective Election Commission has prevented the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) from using dirty tricks to [...]	2007-05-02 11:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI210	COMMUNISTS COPECETIC WITH UPA REGIONAL APPROACH, [...] (C) Summary: The Left Front (LF) and UPA are locked in agreement when it comes to South Asian regional policy, but differ sharply when it comes to the US and countries with which the US has disputes, such as Iran. In preparation for his January 13-14 Pakistan visit, External Affairs Minister [...]	2007-01-16 11:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF PINR KDEM IN PK BT BG
07NEWDELHI2101	TOUR D'HORIZON WITH INCOMING MEA JOINT SECRETARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A TOUR D'HORIZON WITH INCOMING MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN AND IRAN) JOINT SECRETARY T.C.A. RAGHAVAN MAY 1, POLCOUNS RAISED PETROLEUM SIPDIS AND NATURAL GAS MINISTER MURLI DEORA'S RECENT STOPOVER IN TEHRAN. RAGHAVAN SAID HE HAD NOT RECEIVED DETAILS, [...]	2007-05-02 12:44:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EPET ETRD MARR PINR MOPS IR
07NEWDELHI2177	NEW PUNJABI LEADERSHIP SEEKS EDUCATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: During a May 2 meeting with POLCOUNS in Chandigarh, Punjab Chief Secretary Ramesh Inder Singh and Principal Secretary to the Punjab Chief Minister D.S. Guru discussed opportunities for India/U.S. education cooperation, water and electricity subsidies, relations with Pakistan, and [...]	2007-05-07 13:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR SCUL IN PK
07NEWDELHI2192	IRAN ENCOURAGES INDIAN ELITE TO GET BACK TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Left-wing think-tanker Professor S.D. Muni told PolCouns May 7 about his trip to Iran, fully paid for and sponsored by the Government of Iran, in which he and 13 Indian academics, former diplomats, journalists and scientists visited the Arak heavy water complex and met the Minis [...]	2007-05-08 13:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ENRG EPET MNUC IR IN
07NEWDELHI2201	INDIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON TRANSIT OF UNSCR [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche -- requesting stronger vigilance and restraint when considering travel of UNSCR designated Iranians -- to Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (Americas) Gaitri Kumar. JS Kumar, who had been unaware of the Zolqadr incident described in reftel, to [...]	2007-05-09 06:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM IR IN
07NEWDELHI2230	PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS AMIDST CHAOS: US LAWMAKERS' [...] (C) Summary: May 7 marked another day of shouting and chaos in both houses of the Indian Parliament. Congress went after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the fake encounter killings of Muslims in Gujarat, demanding the resignation of Gujarat Chief Minister (CM) Narendra Modi for his alleged [...]	2007-05-09 13:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR ENRG IN IR
07NEWDELHI2246	BILDT IN INDIA: REBUILDING TRADE TIES AND MORE [...] (C) Summary. In his May 2-4 visit to India, Swedish Foreign Minister Bildt, accompanied by an impressive business delegation, brought a message that Sweden will aggressively pursue its share of India's bulging consumer market. Also aiming for a stake in the lucrative Indian defense market, B [...]	2007-05-10 11:24:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD MARR KNNP IN
07NEWDELHI2254	GOI REMAINS SKEPTICAL ON IRANIAN GAS PIPELINE AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: EconMinCouns delivered to Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MPNG) Secretary M.S. Srinivasan on May 9 information that he had requested (ref A) confirming that -- contrary to top Iranian officials' claims to Srinivasan -- Iran does not have domestic engineering and technologi [...]	2007-05-10 12:05:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	EPET ELTN PREL EINV PGOV IN PK IR
07NEWDELHI2268	MAYAWATI VICTORY IN UTTAR PRADESH ELECTION [...] (C) Mayawati's decisive victory in the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections will reverberate throughout India and has serious implications for the UPA government in New Delhi and for India/US relations. Projections now place her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) party just a hair's breath away [...]	2007-05-11 08:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PTER SCUL KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI2360	DELHI DIARY, MAY 10-17 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for May 10-17, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Handicapping the Presidential Race -- The Mysterious Process of Indian Presidential Elections -- Next Phase of India-Pakistan Composite Di [...]	2007-05-17 14:13:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MASS PINR SOCI PK IN
07NEWDELHI2370	REQUEST FOR BUSH-SINGH MEETING AT G-8 SUMMIT [...] This is an action request for the Department. Please see paragraph three. 2. Post received on May 18 from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs a diplomatic note requesting a bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Singh and President Bush to take place during the G-8 Summit in Germany [...]	2007-05-18 10:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV IN
07NEWDELHI2390	TOUR D'HORIZON WITH CPI-M POLITBURO CHIEF SITARAM [...] SUMMARY (C) On May 17, PolCouns met with Sitaram Yechury, a Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) Member of Parliament (MP),member of the politburo and editor of the party journal "People's Democracy." Yechury welcomed the outcome of the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections a [...]	2007-05-18 13:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN
07NEWDELHI2433	BIOGRAPHY: UTTAR PRADESH CHIEF MINISTER MAYAWATI: [...] (C) On May 13, 2007, Kumari Mayawati, commonly referred to as Mayawati or Bhenji (sister),was sworn in as Chief Minister (CM) of Uttar Pradesh (UP),India's most populous state. President of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP),a party created to represent low caste voters, Mayawati has long been [...]	2007-05-22 12:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN
07NEWDELHI2449	NEW INDIAN DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary. In an initial courtesy call on incoming Deputy National Security Advisor L.K. Ponappa, Charge highlighted U.S. priorities for the bilateral security relationship and invited Ponappa to visit Washington at the earliest convenience to begin building contacts with USG counterparts. [...]	2007-05-23 10:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IN
07NEWDELHI2475	THE UPA AT THREE YEARS - MIRED IN MEDIOCRITY [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released a "Report to the People" on May 22, outlining the achievements of his UPA government at the three year point. The PM acknowledged that inflation is a problem, providing assurances that his government would take measures to keep it from hur [...]	2007-05-24 10:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM PINR PTER KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI2722	INDIA ENHANCING TIES WITH LIBYA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of External Affairs Director for West Africa and North Africa N.J. Gangte characterized External Affairs Minister (EAM) Pranab Mukherjee's 26-28 May visit to Tripoli as "a political blessing to the bilateral economic activity." Mukherjee and Libyan FM Abul Rehman S [...]	2007-06-12 05:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN LY ENRG KPET ECON
07NEWDELHI2766	DELHI DIARY, JUNE 6 - 13 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for June 6 - 13, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: POL-MIL: -- India, China announce joint military exercises -- Russian Ground Force commander visits India -- Russia continues to gouge I [...]	2007-06-13 13:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM PGOV MASS MARR KOMC KSTC RS
07NEWDELHI2816	AMBASSADOR AND NGO LEADERS DISCUSS TIP [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Mulford met New Delhi's leading NGOs and UN Agencies that work on trafficking in persons (TIP) and bonded labor on June 14 to solicit their reaction to the TIP Report and Action Plan and ask for their frank assessments of the TIP situation in India. Largely thanks [...]	2007-06-18 00:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM KWMN ELAB KCRM SOCI IN
07NEWDELHI2836	INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS PART ONE - BUDDING MIL-MIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Army Chief General and Chairman of Staffs Committee (COSC) J.J. Singh led a delegation of army, navy, and air force officers on a five-day visit to China in an effort to expand military relations. Highlights of the visit included: -an agreement to conduct periodic joint [...]	2007-06-19 03:47:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH IN
07NEWDELHI2840	THE NEW UTTAR PRADESH GOVERNMENT WANTS CLOSE U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-19 05:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SCUL SOCI EIND EINV ENRG
07NEWDELHI2918	INDIAN OFFICIALS PRESS PDAS WARLICK ON UN REFORM, [...] (C) Summary. In side meetings around the U.S.-India Peacekeeping Joint Working Group, Indian officials: -- pressed PDAS Warlick to support India's bid for a permanent UN Security Council; -- briefed on India's efforts within the G4 and the wider UN membership for the perm seat; -- agreed o [...]	2007-06-25 01:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KUNR IN
07NEWDELHI2991	DELHI DIARY, JUNE 20-27 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for June 20-27, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- KK Katyal: Potential for South Asian Parliament -- Tawang Residents Speak Out Against China's Territorial Claims -- Controversy Continue [...]	2007-06-27 12:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN
07NEWDELHI3134	INDO-PAK TALKS ON TERRORISM AND NARCOTICS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Indian Home Minister Madhukar Gupta and Pakistani Secretary of the Interior, Syed Kmal Shah, met July 2-3 for the fourth round of Home Secretary-level talks on Terrorism and Drug Trafficking as part of the continuing Composite Dialogue process. Major topics were an exchange of [...]	2007-07-09 11:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER SNAR PINR PK IN
07NEWDELHI3248	DELHI DIARY, JULY 6-16 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for July 6-16, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Sweet Success in Ethiopia: India Invests in Ethiopian Sugar and Wins African Support for a Security Council Seat -- India Looks East with [...]	2007-07-16 11:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS MARR KUNR EINV PTER MCAP AS
07NEWDELHI3318	U.N. ADVISOR ON BURMA ENCOURAGES INDIA TO PROMOTE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, met with Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon during a July 10-12 visit to New Delhi. According to the MEA, Gambari recognized India's ability to influence Burma, and expresse [...]	2007-07-20 13:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MARR MASS PGOV PHUM BM IN
07NEWDELHI3383	DELHI DIARY, JULY 17-25 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for July 17-25, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- MEA Questions General Toolan on China and Nepal -- Australia and India Raising the Bar on Defense Cooperation -- Indian Vice-Presidential [...]	2007-07-25 11:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS MARR MCAP MASS KPKO PBTS
07NEWDELHI342	BJP DOWNPLAYS IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The UPA's January 3 luncheon meeting with the BJP leadership proved to be largely a flash in the pan. Subsequent events and statements by BJP insiders confirm that little of substance took place at the meeting, which consisted primarily of a briefing by Minister of External Affa [...]	2007-01-22 13:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF PINR PTER KDEM IN PK BT
07NEWDELHI3429	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of July 23 - 27, 2007. POSITIVE GOI NOISES ON DOW AND MCDERMOTT ---------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) There are indications that the legacy issues of Dow and McDermott may be moving closer [...]	2007-07-27 11:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EFIN EINV ETRD ENRG SENV IN
07NEWDELHI346	UTTAR PRADESH MUSLIMS - DISILLUSIONED AND MORE [...] (C) Summary: The Muslims of Uttar Pradesh (UP) are increasingly fed-up with the corruption and poor governance of the Samajwadi Party (SP) government of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, with many ready to desert to Congress and the rival BSP. Lucknow's Shias have historic and cultural tie [...]	2007-01-23 06:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PTER KDEM KISL SCUL IN IZ IR
07NEWDELHI3462	INDIA'S LEFT FRONT (C-NE7-01274) [...] (C) Summary: In response to reftel's request for reporting on the Left Front in India, Post has compiled below a list of reporting out of Chennai, Kolkata, and New Delhi on the Left from the past year. There is a negligible Left presence in the Mumbai Consulate district. The cables below re [...]	2007-07-31 09:20:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN
07NEWDELHI3603	INDIA: REMOVING CLEAN TECHNOLOGY BARRIERS [...] (SBU) Summary: Clean technology transfer to India faces several market and policy challenges. (Ref A) By raising awareness on the anthropogenic causes of climate change via television and reviving eco-labeling, a viable market can be created. In addition, manufacturers should look to partner [...]	2007-08-08 05:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON ENRG TSPL TRGY EFIN BEXP IN
07NEWDELHI362	INDIAN AND CHINESE OFFICIALS MUM ON BORDER TALKS [...] SUMMARY: (C) Indian and Chinese officials are adhering to a joint "gag rule" regarding their ninth round of border talks held on 17-18 January, probably exercising understandable caution after Chinese Ambassador Sun Yaxi's brash claims to the state of Arunachal Pradesh cast a pall over Pre [...]	2007-01-23 11:58:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PBTS IN CH
07NEWDELHI3633	COMMUNIST LEADER YECHURY: PARTY WILL NOT BLOCK 123 [...] (C) Summary. In an August 9 meeting, Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) Polit Bureau member and Head of the International Department Sitaram Yechury told PolCouns: -- The Left will not join the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in demanding a vote in next week's Parliament dis [...]	2007-08-09 11:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IN
07NEWDELHI364	INDIA CHOOSES NATIONAL INTERESTS OVER HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee visited Burma on January 19-22 to enlist the junta's help in India's counterterrorism efforts in the Northeast, to cooperate on the erection of border fences, and to attempt to secure a natural gas supply. The visit was trumpeted as a su [...]	2007-01-23 12:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IN CE
07NEWDELHI3654	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS AUGUST 6-10 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of August 6-10, 2007. KERALA RE-TENDERS $580 MILLION PORTIMPROVEMENT PROJECT AFTER CHINESE BID REJECTED ----------------------- 2. (U) Kerala has re-invited global bids for a $580 million project to [...]	2007-08-10 11:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EFIN EINV ETRD ENRG SENV IN
07NEWDELHI3657	VICTORY PREDICTED FOR VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (C) Our contacts, media reports, and senior FSNs are confident that Ambassador Mohammad Hamid Ansari, the vice presidential nominee of the ruling UPA coalition and Left parties, will emerge victorious from today's contest in the electoral college comprising of members of Parliament. "The Hi [...]	2007-08-10 12:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI3664	HAL CHIEF ASSERTS U.S. LICENSING, VISA PROCEDURES [...] (C) This is an action request for the Department. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary. Charge agreed to meet with the Chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at the latter's request on the margins of a visit to Bangalore to accompany U.S. Senator John Ensign. After briefing Cha [...]	2007-08-13 06:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ETRD CVIS IN
07NEWDELHI3691	NUCLEAR DEAL REACTION: LOTS OF NOISE, SOME HURT [...] (C) Summary. Opposition parties loudly shouted protest slogans during Prime Minister Singh's August 13 suo moto speech in the lower house on the civil-nuclear agreement, and the reaction is expected to grow more boisterous as parliamentary debate continues the week of August 20. The Congress [...]	2007-08-14 12:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
07NEWDELHI3844	DELHI DIARY, AUG 04-22 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for August 4-22, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- MEA Opens a 22-year-old "Rulebook" to Keep Other Government Entities Out of Foreign Affairs -- Indo-Pak Border to Open for Trade October [...]	2007-08-22 12:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR KISL KWBG KPAL ELTN AS
07NEWDELHI3907	NEW DELHI ESTH OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF August 20 [...] Summary: This week the ESTH office met with representatives of the Wildlife Protection Society of India regarding a wildlife crime workshop; met with the Nature Publishing Group to discuss the launch of a web portal dedicated to Indian science; and noted the Delhi government's push to impleme [...]	2007-08-27 12:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TSPL TBIO ECON SOCI KSCA IN
07NEWDELHI3909	JAPANESE PM ABE TAKES ECONOMIC & SECURITY TIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Calling Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's August 21-23 visit to New Delhi a "historic milestone" which witnessed the elevation of the Indo-Japan Global and Strategic Partnership, Japanese Embassy colleagues in New Delhi claimed to be "very happy" with the trip. Ministry of External Af [...]	2007-08-27 14:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD ECON MARR JA IN
07NEWDELHI406	INDIA MULLING TALKS WITH KASHMIRI SEPARATISTS [...] (S) Summary. Deputy PolCouns met with one of India's chief negotiators with the Kashmiri separatists, Union Cabinet Minister for Water Resources Professor Saifuddin Soz, himself a Kashmiri, to discuss Mirwaiz Omar Farooq's visit to Pakistan, New Delhi's response to the Mirwaiz's statements de [...]	2007-01-25 11:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI4095	DEHI DIARY, AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 7 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for August 31-September 7, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Chennai Yawns through New President's First Visit -- Playing the Muslim Card: Congress Prepares for Possible Mid-term Electio [...]	2007-09-07 10:43:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KIRF KISL PHUM ENRG IN
07NEWDELHI4212	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of September 10-14, 2007. NEW MORE LIBERAL AND RATIONAL FDI POLICY IN OCTOBER ------------------------- 2. (U) Director Gauri Singh in the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion at Ministry of [...]	2007-09-14 10:13:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV EPET ETRD SENV IN
07NEWDELHI4224	DELHI DIARY, SEPTEMBER 8-14 [...] (U) This week's product is a joint effort of Embassy New Delhi and Consulate General Mumbai. Below is a compilation of political highlights for September 8-14, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Senior Nuclear Scientist Speaks in Support of Nuclear Deal -- BJP [...]	2007-09-14 12:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MNUC KNNP KISL IR PK BU IN
07NEWDELHI4253	INDIA AND BHUTAN IRF REPORT: DELIVERY, POSTING AND [...] (U) Per Reftel, Post is pleased to report that the International Religious Freedom Report's Introduction, Executive Summary and individual country reports for India and Bhutan were posted in English on the Embassy's website immediately upon release and clearance from the Department. PolOff als [...]	2007-09-17 12:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KDEM PGOV KIRF IN
07NEWDELHI4254	INDIA AND THE COMPLEMENTARY NATURE OF ISLAM AND [...] (C) PolOff spoke with Ministry of External Affairs Under Secretary for United Nations Political Affairs Vishwas Nagee SIPDIS September 10, who stated that the Government of India has not yet decided who will represent India at the Ministerial Meeting of Communities of Democracies in Bamako [...]	2007-09-17 12:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KISL IN
07NEWDELHI4272	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CEO FORUM ISSUES WITH PLANNING [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met September 14 with Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Ahluwalia to discuss the upcoming CEO Forum, mid-October visit to India by Energy Deputy Secretary Sell for the APP and Energy Dialogue, and the end of October visit by Treasury Secretary Paulson and [...]	2007-09-18 12:16:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV EPET ETRD SENV PREL PARM TSPL KNNP TRGY IN
07NEWDELHI4336	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR SEPTEMBER [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of September 17-21, 2007. GOI ANNOUNCES REFUND OF SPECIAL ADDITIONAL DUTY FOR IMPORTS THAT PAY STATE VAT ----------------- 2. (U) The Indian government on September 14 notified a refund facility with [...]	2007-09-21 12:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV EPET ETRD SENV IN
07NEWDELHI4377	IRAN AND THE NUCLEAR DEAL ARE NOT ELECTION ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an Iran roundtable event hosted by PolCouns September 19, a group of Indian analysts, journalists and diplomats agreed that, while the Government of India (GOI) was struggling to live down the perception that it took orders from Washington, neither the nuclear deal nor Ir [...]	2007-09-26 01:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MNUC KNNP MOPS ENRG EPET PINR KISL
07NEWDELHI439	ACQUISITIONS DIRECTOR GENERAL SUGGESTS BELL [...] (SBU) Contains proprietary information. Please protect accordingly 2. (SBU) Summary. Ministry of Defense Director General (Acquisitions) Banerjee told DCM that Bell Helicopter had been disqualified from the 197 Army helicopters competition, due to non-compliance with two essential paramet [...]	2007-01-29 12:51:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL ETRD IN
07NEWDELHI4396	UTTAR PRADESH POLITICIANS DISSECT US-INDIA [...] (C) Summary: On September 6, PolCouns met with a cross section of political leaders in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (UP). As the group did not feel comfortable publicly critiquing the new government established under the leadership of Chief Minister Mayawati, the conversation quickly turned to Indo- [...]	2007-09-26 13:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN
07NEWDELHI4414	DELHI DIARY, SEPTEMBER 15-27 [...] (U) This week's product is a joint effort of Embassy New Delhi and Consulate General Mumbai in conveying items of interest for September 15-26, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- India to Launch Israeli Spy Satellite? -- BJP President Urges UN Resolution 1373 Sa [...]	2007-09-28 05:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL PTER MARR MOPS PHUM IS PK TI
07NEWDELHI4450	MWCD SECRETARY TO G/TIP - NEW INITIATIVES WILL [...] Summary: On September 17, Ambassador Mark Lagon, Coordinator of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),met with Deepa Jain Singh, Secretary of the Ministry for Women and Child Development (MWCD). Ambassador Lagon presented Singh with the latest version of the Traffic [...]	2007-10-01 08:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KWMN PREL PHUM OTRA SOCI IN
07NEWDELHI4469	NEW DELHI ESTH OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER [...] Scioffs attended a National Mercury Workshop September 27 - 28 hosted by the Indian NGO, Toxics Link. The workshop focused on mercury usage, processes, and impacts in India. SciOffs met with representatives from numerous environmental NGOs, academics, medical professionals, the World Bank, t [...]	2007-10-03 11:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TSPL TBIO ECON SOCI KSCA IN
07NEWDELHI4487	DELHI DIARY, SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 4 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for September 28-October 4, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Trucks Cross Indo-Pak Border for the First Time in 60 Years -- New Army Chief Assumes Office -- Protests and Rallies Portend [...]	2007-10-04 10:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ELTN MARR MOPS PHUM PK IN
07NEWDELHI4493	NEPAL ELECTIONS - NOW OR NEVER ACCORDING TO THE MEA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary for Nepal and Bhutan Preeti Saran told PolCouns October 3 that it would be difficult for the Government of Nepal to switch to a proportional representation system now, as the Maoists are demanding, but that the Interim Parliament might [...]	2007-10-04 10:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS NP CH IN
07NEWDELHI4537	UTTAR PRADESH: MAYAWATI HAS LITTLE TO SHOW FOR [...] (C) Summary: A recent visit by Emboffs to Uttar Pradesh (UP) revealed that newly elected Chief Minister Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has left a trail of governance and policy missteps in her first 100 days in office but continues to engender hope and confidence in many sections of [...]	2007-10-09 12:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR PARM IN
07NEWDELHI456	INDIAN EXPERTS VOICE CONCERN ABOUT MIDEAST AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a January 24th roundtable on the Middle East, aka &West Asia8, Indian experts and Emboffs and PolCouns discussed the U.S. and Indian roles in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Israel and the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Gulf. The Indian experts urged greater [...]	2007-01-30 11:58:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IN
07NEWDELHI4659	HIGHLIGHTS OF NIH DIRECTOR'S OCTOBER VISIT TO INDIA [...] (U) Summary: The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS),National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni and his delegation came at an opportune time to India as India announced plans to establish a new Department of Health Research within the Ministry of Health and [...]	2007-10-19 04:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA IN
07NEWDELHI4714	EMBASSY PLANS TO OBSERVE BHUTAN'S FIRST ELECTION [...] (U) Summary: Marking the transition from absolute monarchy to democracy, the Kingdom of Bhutan will hold its first national elections in December 2007 and March 2008. Though the USG has no formal diplomatic relations with the Bhutanese government, the Bhutanese have welcomed Embassy observers [...]	2007-10-24 11:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PHUM PREL PINR PGOV IN
07NEWDELHI4756	NEW DELHI NERVOUSLY WATCHING DEVELOPMENTS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: India-Pakistan relations continue to exude positive vibrations, but officials in New Delhi are closely watching developments in Pakistan for storm clouds on the diplomatic horizon. The Composite Dialogue process continues unabated despite distractions at the political level in [...]	2007-10-26 11:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PTER PK IN

07NEWDELHI4761	INDIAN DEFENSE MINISTER CHIDES RUSSIANS ON ARMS [...] (U) SUMMARY: While meeting with his Russian counterparts for high-level military discussions in Moscow October 16 ) 20, Indian Defense Minister Antony signed an agreement with Russia to co-develop a fifth generation fighter jet intended to rival the F/A-22 Raptor and the F-35 Joint Strike Figh [...]	2007-10-26 11:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MASS MARR KOMC KSTC IN RS
07NEWDELHI4801	OUTLOOK POSITIVE FOR ORGANIZED RETAIL IN INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite a series of protests and a lack of political support for corporate retailers in a number of states, the corporations themselves, as well as industry groups, analysts, and government officials, remain optimistic that organized retail will grow and thrive in India. Spence [...]	2007-10-31 08:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BTIO EAGR ECON EINV ETRD IN
07NEWDELHI4803	BJP LEADERS RESPOND POSITIVELY TO AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) Summary: During a series of separate meetings October 24-30, the Ambassador encouraged senior BJP leaders Brajesh Mishra, L.K. Advani and Rajnath Singh to set aside their political differences with the ruling Congress Party and recognize that the civil nuclear cooperation initiative was fi [...]	2007-10-31 10:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
07NEWDELHI4822	MEA SLAMS UNMIN, URGES ELECTIONS AT THE SOONEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary (for Nepal and Bhutan) Preeti Saran conveyed in an SIPDIS October 30 meeting with Acting PolCouns her government's disappointment with the electoral delay in Nepal, emphasized the need for New Delhi and Washington to pressure [...]	2007-10-31 13:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PREF KDEM UN BT NP IN
07NEWDELHI4830	MTAG INDIA: MAYURAKSHI IS NOT INVOLVED IN [...] (C) Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for Disarmament and International Security (DISA) Under Secretary Jayant Khobargade provided a nonpaper to PolOff October 26 in response to reftel demarches. Khobargade noted that three issues concerning the Indian firm Mayurakshi had been resolved: [...]	2007-11-01 12:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC MTCR KSCA IR BU IN
07NEWDELHI4831	MTAG INDIA: TITANIUM TANTALUM DOES NOT HAVE AN [...] (C) Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for Disarmament and International Security (DISA) Under Secretary Jayant Khobargade provided a nonpaper to PolOff October 26 in response to reftel demarche regarding the Indian firm Titanium Tantalum having an Iranian representative or agent. Khobargade [...]	2007-11-01 12:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC MTCR KSCA IR IN
07NEWDELHI4832	AMBASSADOR, INDIAN DEFENSE MINISTER DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. In a November 1 meeting between Ambassador Mulford and Minister of Defense A.K. Antony, the Ambassador: -- stressed the probity and accountability of American business practices in the context of defense sales to India, providing Antony with a copy of the Foreign Corrupt Practic [...]	2007-11-01 13:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PARM MNUC ECPS BEXP ENRG PK IN
07NEWDELHI4855	DELHI DIARY, OCT 27-NOV 2 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for October 27-November 2, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- March of the Landless -- Tehelka Expos of Modi Role in 2002 Gujarat Riots -- Bhutan Takes Out the Trash -- Indian Military to [...]	2007-11-05 13:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS BT IN
07NEWDELHI4857	JASWANT SINGH SUPPORTS THE NUCLEAR DEAL BUT [...] (C) Summary: In separate November 5 meetings with senior BJP leaders and former Foreign Ministers Yashwant Sinha and Jaswant Singh, the Ambassador argued that the 123 Agreement and Hyde Act had no impact on India's strategic program and urged them to take a statesmanlike attitude towards the n [...]	2007-11-05 14:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
07NEWDELHI4897	MTAG INDIA: GROW-ON-EXPORTS AND PHULCHAND EXPORTS [...] (C) Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for Disarmament and International Security (DISA) Under Secretary Jayant Khobargade provided a nonpaper to PolOff October 26 in response to requests for information passed to the GOI in June 2007 by Assistant Secretary of State for International Security [...]	2007-11-07 13:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL PARM KN IN
07NEWDELHI4898	MEA SILENT REGARDING PUBLIC DECLARATION OF BAN ON [...] (C)SUMMARY: MEA Joint Secretary T.S. Tirumurti acknowledged that the Government of India (GOI) denied a Burmese request for military equipment but did not comment on PolCouns' suggestion that the GOI announce the decision publicly. Tirumurti reported that three Burmese recently arrested in Manipur [...]	2007-11-07 13:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM IN
07NEWDELHI4925	BHUTANESE REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT - GOI TELLS A/S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary for Bhutan and Nepal Preeti Saran and MEA Joint SIPDIS Secretary for Americas Gaitri Kumar told Assistant Secretary SIPDIS for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Ellen Sauerbrey November 8 that the Government of Indi [...]	2007-11-08 13:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM NP BT IN
07NEWDELHI4932	BANGLADESH HIGH COMMISSION REFUTES MEA CLAIMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bangladesh Political Minister in Delhi dismissed as untrue Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) claims that Bangladesh is unwilling to ensure security of the "Friendship Train" operations. She asserted that the two sides continue to search for a mutually acceptable solu [...]	2007-11-13 04:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BG IN
07NEWDELHI4989	DELHI DIARY, NOVEMBER 3-15 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi, in coordination with Consulate Chennai, for November 3-15, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Indo-Japan Relations Expected to Continue Positive Trend, But On Hold While Fukuda Gets Settl [...]	2007-11-15 12:16:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CH JA IN
07NEWDELHI5026	INDIA WANTS TO STAY QUIET ON ITS WESTERN (IRAN AND [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told the Ambassador November 19 that the Indian government had not yet determined how it would express its concern about the IAEA Director General's Iran report. Although he conveyed the Indian government's continuing concern with the lack of t [...]	2007-11-20 11:51:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR EPET ENRG EINV IR PK IN
07NEWDELHI5053	SUGGESTIONS FOR AREAS OF FOCUSED COOPERATION IN [...] (C) Summary. In preparation for Assistant Secretary Silverberg's November 30 meeting with Additional Secretary K.C. Singh, Post would like to suggest several UN-related issues ripe for closer collaboration with the GOI. These include peacekeeping, religious freedom, UN budget reform, energy [...]	2007-11-21 12:43:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO KUNR USUN IN
07NEWDELHI5059	MOHAMMAD SALIM SPOUTS COMMUNIST LINE ON NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) Member of Parliament Mohammad Salim justified the violence in Nandrigram to PolCouns November 20 by claiming that the Communists drove out violent Maoists and restored law and order in the area. Now, he asserted, the CPM will prioritize pe [...]	2007-11-21 13:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
07NEWDELHI51	LIMP GOI RESPONSE TO SADDAM EXECUTION DICTATED BY [...] (C) Summary: The GOI issued a tepid if not unhelpful response to the December 30 execution of Saddam Hussein. This was dictated by Congress concerns regarding the sensibilities of India's Muslims. Congress faces a crucial election in Uttar Pradesh (UP) later this year and the state's Muslim [...]	2007-01-04 13:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC KDEM KISL SCUL PGOV IN IZ
07NEWDELHI5118	NEW INDIAN AMBASSADOR TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has announced that Jayant Prasad, presently serving as India's PermRep in Geneva, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Afghanistan, succeeding Rakesh Sood. 2. (SBU) COMMENT: U.S. diplomats who worked with him say Prasad is an ent [...]	2007-11-28 13:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR IN AF
07NEWDELHI5119	AUTHOR TASLIMA NASREEN: PAWN IN POLITICAL WEB [...] (SBU) Summary: Claiming that the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) pushed her to leave Kolkata (ref A),controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen finally settled in a "safe place" in Delhi under the security of the Indian central government. Her flight from Kolkata sparked a po [...]	2007-11-28 13:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL KISL ASEC BG IN
07NEWDELHI5139	INDIA MAINTAINS MODEST RELATIONS WITH CUBA [...] (SBU) In response to the request for information on India's relations with Cuba set out in ref a, Embassy New Delhi provides the following assessment based on the most recent and readily available information. Indo-Cuban Relations Mostly Symbolic Legacy of NAM ------------------------------ [...]	2007-11-30 06:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU IN
07NEWDELHI5158	TERRORISTS USE U.P. NODES TO SWIFTLY REACT TO [...] (C) Summary: The November 23 terrorist bombings in Varanasi, Lucknow and Faizabad in response to the arrests of three alleged Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) members seeking to kidnap Rahul Gandhi killed at least thirteen people and injured many more (Ref A). Politicians quickly scrambled to blame e [...]	2007-12-03 01:12:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER AESC PGOV CASC PREL KISL IN
07NEWDELHI5240	A/S SAUERBREY MEETS THE DALAI LAMA [...] Summary: On November 10, Population, Refugee, and Migration Assistant Secretary Ellen Sauerbrey met His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. The Dalai Lama shared his favorable views on resettling Tibetan refugees in Western countries, which differs from those of some members of the Tibetan [...]	2007-12-07 13:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM KIRF PINR IN
07NEWDELHI5243	A/S SAUERBREY DISCUSSES REFUGEE PROBLEM WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: On a November 4-7 trip to Bhutan, Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugee, and Migration (PRM) Ellen SIPDIS Sauerbrey met with the Fourth and former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, and the Managing Director of Kuensel, the national n [...]	2007-12-07 14:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN BT
07NEWDELHI5258	DOMICHI AFFIRMS CONTINUED CLOSE U.S-JAPAN [...] (C) Summary. Japanese Ambassador-Designate Domichi, in an initial courtesy call on Ambassador: -- hinted that Japan will likely support the civil-nuclear deal in the IAEA and NSG, while expressing his hope that the U.S. will understands Japan's sensitivities on nuclear issues; -- said he [...]	2007-12-10 12:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KNUC KNNP JA IN
07NEWDELHI5278	BJP TO FIGHT NEXT ELECTION UNDER ADVANI LEADERSHIP [...] (U) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced on December 10 that former Party President, former Deputy Prime Minister and longtime party heavyweight Lal Krishan Advani would be its candidate for Prime Minister going into the next national elections. In a show of party unity, BJP President [...]	2007-12-11 13:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN
07NEWDELHI5280	RAILWAY MINISTER LALU REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR NUCLEAR DEAL BUT WANTS POLITICAL CONSENSUS [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Railways and key government ally Lalu Prasad Yadav told the Ambassador December 7 that he sought to convince the Left of the benefits of implementing the U.S.-India civil nuclear cooperation initiative. Yadav said that he saw the need for energy as a major challenge facing [...]	2007-12-11 14:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN
07NEWDELHI5290	USG SHOULD GIVE BHUTAN BACK FROZEN DRUK AIR FUNDS [...] (C) I would like to bring to your personal attention the long-standing unresolved matter of Bhutanese government funds frozen due to USG economic sanctions against Burma. I want to offer a way forward for resolving this bilateral irritant with the Bhutanese and thereby send a message that the [...]	2007-12-12 10:43:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN EAIR IN BT
07NEWDELHI5299	BHUTAN EXPERIENCING GROWING PAINS IN ITS [...] (C) Summary: In November, Poloff accompanied Population, Refugee, and Migration (PRM) A/S Ellen Sauerbrey to Bhutan to discuss resolution of the protracted Bhutanese refugee crisis in Nepal (ref A). During this visit, interlocutors including the former King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, Prime Minis [...]	2007-12-13 09:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KDEM KWMN IN BT
07NEWDELHI5306	INDIA CONTINUES "CLOSE AND NEIGHBORLY" TIES WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced that Deputy Minister in Burma's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kyaw Thu visited Delhi on December 11-12 for regularly scheduled Foreign Office consultations. Thu met with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Foreign Sec [...]	2007-12-13 12:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM IN
07NEWDELHI5318	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of December 10-14, 2007. DETAILS LEAKED ON LONG-AWAITED RETAIL REPORT ------------- 2. (U) Several Indian dailies, most extensively Mint, reported on details from the overdue study by the Indian Counci [...]	2007-12-14 12:24:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV EPET ETRD SENV IN
07NEWDELHI5327	INDIAN DEFENSE SECRETARY TO GC HAYNES: TIES [...] (C) Summary. In a December 14 meeting among Department of Defense General Counsel William J. Haynes, Indian Defense Secretary Vijay Singh, and Integrated Defense Staff Chief SIPDIS General Hardev Singh Lidder, Singh and Lidder: -- Accepted responsibility on India for failure to complete [...]	2007-12-17 10:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR IN
07NEWDELHI5364	NEW DELHI WEEKLY ECON OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of December 17-20, 2007. FDI RESTRICTIONS IN RETAIL TO CHANGE? ------------- 2. (SBU) Food Processing Industries Minister Subodh Kant said Monday that the GOI may ease its restrictions on foreign dire [...]	2007-12-20 05:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV EPET ETRD SENV IN
07NEWDELHI5380	DELHI DIARY, DEC 17-21 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for Decemebr 17-21, 2007, that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Court Orders Reopening Riots Case Against Congress Leader Jagdish Tytler -- Rajasthan Gujjars Threaten Warpath Again -- India-China [...]	2007-12-20 12:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF CVIS PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM SOCI NP VM CH
07NEWDELHI5392	INDIAN OBSERVERS (MOSTLY) THINK NUCLEAR DEAL WILL [...] (SBU) Summary: Gathered at a December 26 roundtable, politicians and journalists largely agreed that the UPA government will still complete the nuclear deal despite the Congress Party's overwhelming loss in the Gujarat state elections, but differed on the process and reasoning. Member of Parl [...]	2007-12-26 12:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY IN IR AF
07NEWDELHI5418	SCENESETTER PART I: THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary Leavitt, your visit to India comes at a difficult juncture in what has been a time of deep transformation in Indo-U.S. relations. Just as we were poised to accelerate and expand ties between our two democracies into a more comprehensive relationship, the ruling coalit [...]	2007-12-28 10:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA IN
07NEWDELHI5422	INDIAN REACTION TO BHUTTO ASSASSINATION: UNIVERSAL CONDEMNATION, AND WORRY OVER CONTROL OF PAK-BASED TERRORISTS [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-28 12:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC IN KISL PGOV PK PREL PTER
07NEWDELHI658	INDIA COMPLETES PLANS TO BUY FORTY MORE SUKHOI 30S [...] (U) Reporting from Aero India in Bangalore, Indian media quoted Chief of Air Staff S.P. Tyagi on February 8 as saying India would soon sign a deal to import 40 more Sukhoi-30 planes from Russia. The news, which was overshadowed in morning papers by multi-billionaire Ratan Tata's "exhilarating [...]	2007-02-09 12:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR ETRD PINR IN
07NEWDELHI659	THE UTTARAKHAND ELECTION: A SMALL CONTEST WITH [...] (C) Summary: Uttarakhand had the good sense in 2000 to break away from Uttar Pradesh (UP). This has spared the state from the chaotic and criminal regional parties that continue to destroy UP. Instead, Uttarakhand has a political system dominated by the two national parties - Congress and [...]	2007-02-09 13:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI661	PUNJAB'S ELECTION OUTCOME REMAINS MURKY [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-09 13:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KDEM IN
07NEWDELHI663	MUKHERJEE TREADS CAREFULLY IN IRAN, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Foreign Minister Mukherjee tried to steer clear of controversy in a February 6-7 visit to Tehran, according to MEA Joint Secretary Dilip Sinha. Emphasizing that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must play a central role, and that the nuclear issue must be resol [...]	2007-02-12 01:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KISL PGOV ENRG EPET ETTC IR
07NEWDELHI664	MUKHERJEE TREADS CAREFULLY IN IRAN, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indian Foreign Minister Mukherjee tried to steer clear of controversy in a February 6-7 visit to Tehran, according to MEA Joint Secretary Dilip Sinha. Emphasizing that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must play a central role, and that the nuclear issue must be resol [...]	2007-02-12 01:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KISL PGOV ENRG EPET ETTC IR
07NEWDELHI701	INDIAN NSA NARAYANAN DISCUSSES RUSSIAN MIG-35, [...] (S) Summary: Lieutenant General Maples, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, met with Indian National Security Advisor MK Narayanan on February 8th to discuss joint efforts to increase U.S.-India defense cooperation. NSA Narayanan explained India's longstanding concern about Chinese d [...]	2007-02-12 14:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI729	AFGHAN AMBASSADOR OPEN TO INCREASED INDIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Afghan Ambassador to India, Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen, told Ambassador Mulford February 12 that India and Afghanistan had a strong relationship, and that Indian help in strengthening Afghanistan's infrastructure was welcome. He said that Pakistan is overly sensitive about India [...]	2007-02-13 11:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS ELTN AF PK IR IN
07NEWDELHI752	BOTH SIDES VICTORIOUS IN BAGLIHAR VERDICT, INDIA [...] (C) Summary. The World Bank-appointed neutral expert announced his ruling on February 12 regarding the controversial Baglihar dam project, which both Pakistan and India claimed as a victory. Several specifications contested by Pakistan are being addressed, but the overall design of the dam [...]	2007-02-14 13:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWWT ECON PBTS ENRG ECIN KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI768	PM TELLS SECRETARY GUTIERREZ U.S.-INDIA RELATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh February 14. The two agreed to explore means to strengthen cooperation in science and technology, clean energy and education, and with regards to education, the Secretary mentioned his initiatives an [...]	2007-02-15 09:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AF BEXP EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD IN KPAO MASS PK
07NEWDELHI783	GUTIERREZ WEIGHS IN WITH FM MUKHERJEE ON BELL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Even while extolling the significant growth in U.S. ) India economic and political ties and assuring the GOI,s continued support, Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee stubbornly defended to Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez, Under Secretary Frank Lavin, and Ambas [...]	2007-02-15 13:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI786	INDIA APPEASES LEFT AND MUSLIMS WITH TEHRAN VISIT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: "Times of India" diplomatic correspondent Indrani Bagchi, who accompanied Foreign Minister Mukherjee on his visit to Tehran February 6-7, told Deputy PolCouns that the visit had been an exercise by the government of India (GOI) to garner headlines that would please the Indian Mus [...]	2007-02-15 13:48:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET PARM KNNP IR PK IN
07NEWDELHI816	INDIA, RUSSIA, AND CHINA TRILATERAL MEETING [...] (C) Summary. In their seventh trilateral meeting, the foreign ministers of India, Russia, and China discussed substantive issues including cooperation on terrorism, crime, trade, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and UN reform. Deliverables were few; however, the meetings have served to institutional [...]	2007-02-16 12:22:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS CH IN
07NEWDELHI847	GOI EXPOUNDS UPON ITS BURMA POLICY AFTER RECEIVING [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary (Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka and the Maldives) Mohan Kumar. Kumar made the following points regarding the GOI's current Burma policy: -After a period of limited interaction with Burma because of its po [...]	2007-02-20 13:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM BM IN
07NEWDELHI849	SAMJHAUTA EXPRESS TRAIN BOMBINGS UNEXPECTEDLY [...] (C) Summary: Indian and Pakistani officials rushed to mobilize joint efforts in response to the February 18th attack on the New Delhi to Lahore Samjhauta ("friendship") Express train, which killed 67 Indian and Pakistani nationals. Indian press reports point out that this may be the first ti [...]	2007-02-20 14:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
07NEWDELHI870	ITALIAN PM PRODI HAS "SATISFYING" TRIP TO INDIA [...] (C) Summary. Italian Prime Minister Prodi and his 400-person entourage wrapped up their five-day trip to India on February 15 in New Delhi. The trip was marked by a heavy emphasis on business opportunities between the two countries (reftel) and personal rapport between Prodi and Prime Mini [...]	2007-02-21 12:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP PARM TSPL ECON IT IN
07NEWDELHI871	SAMAJWADI PARTY PULLS SUPPORT FROM UPA GOVERNMENT, [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-21 14:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KISL IN
07NEWDELHI909	SCENESETTER: INDIA COUNTER-TERRORISM JOINT WORKING [...] (S) Summary: Embassy New Delhi warmly welcomes the visit of Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism Frank Urbancic, and looks forward to adding dynamism to the India-U.S. Counter-Terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG) and developing an atmosphere where ideas and information are easily exchanged by b [...]	2007-02-23 11:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL KTFN
07NEWDELHI945	STAFFDEL FARKAS DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, [...] (C) On February 23, Senate/House Armed Services Committee staffdel Farkas met with Dilip Sinha, Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, then separately with Brigadier AS Nundal, MEA Director for Military Affairs, and Avinash Pandey, MEA Director for Co [...]	2007-02-26 14:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AF IR PK IN
07NEWDELHI946	STAFFDEL FARKAS DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, [...] (C) On February 23, Senate/House Armed Services Committee staffdel Farkas met with Dilip Sinha, Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, then separately with Brigadier AS Nundal, MEA Director for Military Affairs, and Avinash Pandey, MEA Director for Co [...]	2007-02-26 14:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PTER NATO IN
07NEWDELHI976	UTTAR PRADESH FACES A LONG BITTER ELECTION SEASON [...] (C) Summary. The protracted drama of Uttar Pradesh (UP) politics is likely to go on throughout a long grueling election campaign, and may not even be resolved after the election results are out. Despite growing opposition against SP misrule, the crafty UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav [...]	2007-02-27 12:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KISL IN
07NIAMEY1112	NIGER: TANDJA DECLARES "STATE OF ALERT" IN AGADEZ [...] On August 24, President Tandja declared a "State of Alert" for three months in the Agadez region plagued by armed conflict between the Niger Movement for Justice (MNJ) and government forces. Prime Minister Seini Oumarou undertook a regional diplomatic outreach to seek regional support in resolv [...]	2007-08-28 09:40:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC MARR CASC PINR NG
07NIAMEY123	ISLAM IN NIGER (3): FAITH FOLLOWS THE DOLLAR IN [...] (C) NOTE: This is the third in a series of cables (reftels A&B) reporting on the changing nature of Islam in Niger. END NOTE During recent travel to Agadez, Poloff and AIDoff tried to square an interesting circle. Traditional authorities - the Sultan and Grand Mosque Imam - claimed that the Nig [...]	2007-02-12 10:00:00	Embassy Niamey	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR EAID SOCI KDEM NG
07NIAMEY1301	NIGERIEN PRIME MINISTER ADDRESSES DONOR CONCERNS [...] (SBU) The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister addressed donor concerns about the situation in the north and press freedom in an October 19 meeting with diplomats and foreign aid officials. The Prime Minister called the meeting to discuss these issue in Niamey, rather than in the upcoming dono [...]	2007-10-22 13:29:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS EAID NG
07NIAMEY1359	A BRIDGE FROM CHINA TO NIGER [...] Summary. The November 5, 2007 groundbreaking and laying of the first stone for a long-awaited second bridge in the capital city of Niamey symbolizes an increasingly closer relationship between two friends, the Republic of Niger (RON) and the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). Exchanges between [...]	2007-11-08 15:40:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ENRG EPET SOCI NG CH
07NIAMEY23	NIGER: THREE PILLARS OF TRADITIONAL SLAVERY - AND [...] Traditional caste-based servitude in Niger has always rested on three pillars: a lack of economic options for slaves, who tend to live in the least developed regions of the world's least developed country; a lack of social mobility in slaves' typically small, isolated, nomadic communities; an [...]	2007-01-10 15:19:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM SOCI ELAB NG
07NIAMEY62	NORTHERN NIGER POST KIDAL: UN STAFF / VOLUNTEERS [...] (C) During recent travel to Tahoua, a city in north-central Niger, Poloff interacted with several United Nations Volunteers (UNVs) who work with Tuareg and Arab ex-combatants in the country's northern Azaouagh region. The Azaouagh borders Mali's Kidal region, and is an area of concern for sev [...]	2007-01-24 11:20:00	Embassy Niamey	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV PTER NG
07NIAMEY625	NIGER: A PESSIMISTIC ASSESSMENT OF GON-TUAREG [...] (C) Summary: Mohamed Anacko, the man responsible for implementing the 1995 agreement ending the Tuareg rebellion, fears that President Tandja's desire for a military solution to the recent Tuareg uprising risks turning it into a full fledged rebellion that could affect the entire region. He [...]	2007-05-03 12:06:00	Embassy Niamey	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PGOV PREL CASC EMIN NG
07NIAMEY641	NIGER PROFITS FROM URANIUM IN REVITALIZED MARKET [...] (C) For the first time since 1983, the Government of Niger (GON) will exercise its right to purchase and sell some of the country's uranium production this year. Moreover, it may sell its share (anticipated to be 300 tons this year and as much as 1,045 tons/year from 2008) to an American power [...]	2007-05-08 16:33:00	Embassy Niamey	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL NG BBSR BTIO
07NIAMEY646	NIGER: MINISTER OF DEFENSE ASKS USG NOT TO ABANDON [...] (C) Summary. Government of Niger (GON) Defense Minister (DefMin),Hassane Souley, requested a meeting with Ambassador Allen to ask for USG support of GON military efforts to deal with Tuareg dissidents in the North. The GON seeks military support, especially intelligence assistance. The DefMi [...]	2007-05-09 16:29:00	Embassy Niamey	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL NG
07NIAMEY739	ISLAM IN NIGER (4): ATTITUDES TOWARD IZALA IN [...] (U) NOTE: This is the fourth in a series of cables (reftels A,B,C) reporting on the changing nature of Islam in Niger. END NOTE ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Previous cables in this series examined the rise, in Niger, of a Wahhabist-inspired form of Islamic fundamentalism from the Sha [...]	2007-05-29 15:48:00	Embassy Niamey	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID KDEM PGOV PINR PTER SOCI KISL NG
07NIAMEY742	ALIVE AND WELL: PROFILES OF TRADITIONAL [...] During recent travel Poloff examined the role of traditional chiefs in Niger. Characterized since colonialism by a highly-centralized state that often undercut traditional rulers, Niger has recently embraced a system of political decentralization based on democratically elected local governme [...]	2007-05-30 16:04:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI NG
07NIAMEY76	ISLAM IN NIGER (2): STUMBLING BLOCKS FOR IZALA IN [...] (C) Reftel offered several themes to be examined in a series of cables on Islam in Niger. In this edition, Poloff reports on conversations with a prominent Imam that illuminate the extent of fundamentalist penetration into the central Nigerien region of Tahoua - an area linked by proximity and [...]	2007-01-26 08:52:00	Embassy Niamey	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR EAID SOCI KDEM NG
07NIAMEY783	NIGER: PRESIDENT TANDJA NAMES NEW PRIME MINISTER TO [...] President Tandja appointed Seini Oumarou as Prime Minister to replace Hama Amadou, who was removed by the National Assembly's no confidence vote. The National Assembly's removal of the Prime Minister through constitutional means is a positive sign that Niger's relatively new democratic culture [...]	2007-06-07 10:35:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM KCOR NG
07NICOSIA1002	FM LAVROV DELIVERS SUPPORT FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greek Cypriot opinion leaders characterized Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's December 9-10 visit to the island as "Russia Riding to the Rescue." Lavrov's timing was impeccable, and seemingly too providential (for the G/C cause) to be coincidental. He arrived shortly before two [...]	2007-12-19 14:52:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY RU SE
07NICOSIA103	INTERNAL, EXTERNAL WOES THREATEN T/C "STATE U" [...] (C) SUMMARY: North Cyprus's Eastern Mediterranean University is "in dire trouble," worries Vice Rector for Student Affairs Samil Ergodan and Senior Advisor to the Rector Johann Pillai. Beset by labor strife, empty "government" funding commitments, and cronyism at home, the "TRNC's state" univ [...]	2007-02-02 15:24:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV OEXC PREL KPAO CY TU
07NICOSIA115	ARMENIANS IN CYPRUS: FITTING IN BEATS FALLING OUT [...] SUMMARY: Successful for four hundred years in maintaining their unique culture, language and religion, Cyprus's Armenians -- who enjoy "official religious group" status under the Republic's 1960 convention -- nonetheless seek closer ties to the majority Greek Cypriot population. As such, Arm [...]	2007-02-07 09:12:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF CY TU
07NICOSIA126	NEW TURKISH ENGAGEMENT REGS; LIVE FIRE IN BUFFER [...] (U) UN Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) military informed Embassy DAO January 31 that Turkish Forces (TF) a day earlier had fired on Greek Cypriot farmers in or near the Buffer Zone (BZ). Two separate incidents had occurred, in Astromeritis, west of Nicosia and the site of a BZ crossing point, and i [...]	2007-02-13 10:27:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP MOPS CY TU
07NICOSIA140	CYPRUS: CIV-MIL RELATIONS HIT NEW LOW, TALAT [...] (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Relations between the increasingly assertive Turkish military and the increasingly hesitant Turkish Cypriot civilian leadership have taken a definite turn for the worse in recent months. The January contest of wills between "TRNC President" Talat and the generals ove [...]	2007-02-14 13:55:00	Embassy Nicosia	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM UNFICYP MOPS TU CY
07NICOSIA168	REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS -- SEVENTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] (U) Paras 3-6 are sensitive but unclassified --not/not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) Embassy Nicosia hereby submits information for the April 2006 - March 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Embassy point of contact is Terry Steers-Gonzalez, Political Section, Tel: (357) 22-39-336 [...]	2007-03-01 14:39:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM CY PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
07NICOSIA197	COMMUNIST CHIEF UNDECIDED ON PRESIDENTIAL RUN [...] (C) SUMMARY: AKEL desires continued cooperation with coalition mates DIKO and EDEK, Secretary General Dimitris Christofias informed the Ambassador March 5. Nonetheless, party leaders have not yet determined whether to support a re-election bid by President Tassos Papadopoulos, urge the coal [...]	2007-03-07 15:54:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CY TU
07NICOSIA213	Cyprus Steps Up Anti-Trafficking Efforts [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent meetings with authorities and NGO representatives involved in the fight against trafficking in persons (TIP),EmbOffs and visiting Desk Officer witnessed increased efforts and new initiatives. In the south, the GOC has taken concrete steps to fulfill the "Three P's" -- [...]	2007-03-13 11:25:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM CY
07NICOSIA282	ARCHBISHOP TAKING STEPS ON INTER-FAITH TALKS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent Cyprus developments on inter-faith dialogue, Church re-organization, and the fight against trafficking in persons (TIP) dominated discussion at a March 22 meeting between Poloff and Archbishopric official Bishop Vasilios. In a pleasant surprise, new Archbishop Chrysostom [...]	2007-04-02 13:32:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM CY
07NICOSIA301	NATIONALISTS AND DEEP STATE STIRRING THE "TRNC" POT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In recent months, nationalist elements in the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" appear to be manufacturing and/or exploiting events in order to pressure pro-solution "President" Mehmet Ali Talat and "Prime Minister" Ferdi Soyer to toe a harder line more consistent with polici [...]	2007-04-05 07:57:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU
07NICOSIA340	IN TOURING IRANIAN FACILITY SANS INSTRUCTIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: RoC Ambassador to Iran Charalambos Kapsos, acting without instructions from Nicosia, defied European Union counsel and attended the April 9 ribbon-cutting of Iran's Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant, according to April 16 local media accounts. A Foreign Ministry official subsequentl [...]	2007-04-18 11:55:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM MNUC TRGY AORC PREL CY
07NICOSIA365	T/C LABOR UNIONS DISAPPOINTED WITH "GOVERNMENT" [...] Summary: Turkish Cypriot (T/C) labor union leaders are voicing growing disappointment with the performance of the current "TRNC government." The Republican Turkish Party (CTP) came to power in 2005 with overwhelming labor support, union representatives told us in a series of recent meetings; [...]	2007-04-26 13:31:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ELAB PHUM CY
07NICOSIA45	CYPRUS: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-12 15:19:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON ETRD ELAB OPIC KTDB USTR CY
07NICOSIA489	FRINGE CANDIDATE SUPPORTS ANNAN PLAN REVIVAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Costas Themistocleous, a former Minister of Agriculture in the Glafkos Clerides administration (1998-2003),will run in next year's presidential elections, "not to win, but to tell Cypriots my version of the 'truth' about the Cyprus problem." Themistocleous warns that Cyprus is [...]	2007-06-05 12:12:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL CY
07NICOSIA506	MISSING PERSONS COMMITTEE'S FIRST REMAINS HANDOVER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Genetics testing and anthropological investigations have positively identified the remains of 29 Cypriots who went missing between 1963 and 1974, according to UN Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) International Member Christophe Girod. CMP staff will notify families beginning [...]	2007-06-12 14:06:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV UN CY TU
07NICOSIA514	CYPRUS TO BE HELPFUL WITHIN EU ON FURTHER [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-14 14:45:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM IR CY PHUM EUN
07NICOSIA52	ASSIMILATION, AGING THREATEN CYPRUS MARONITES [...] SUMMARY: The Maronite community -- self-described as 6,000-strong but likely half that -- enjoys "official religious group" status under Cyprus's 1960 constitution. Concentrated historically in four villages south and west of Kyrenia, the Catholic Maronites endured near-total dislocation aft [...]	2007-01-16 15:26:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL UNFICYP PHUM PREF TU CY
07NICOSIA521	SOUTH'S TURKISH CYPRIOTS CITE DISCRIMINATION, NEEDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Perhaps 1500 Turkish Cypriots reside in the government-controlled areas of Cyprus. Like the enclaved Greek Cypriots of the Karpass peninsula, the T/C community, centered in second-city Limassol, endures isolation and depends heavily on Republic of Cyprus handouts for its exist [...]	2007-06-18 14:03:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV CY TU
07NICOSIA525	FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER KASOULIDES ENTERS THE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ioannis Kasoulides, the Cypriot foreign minister during the second Glafcos Clerides administration (1998-2003) and a leading member of the Democratic Rally party (DISY),announced June 13 that he would run as an independent in the February 2008 presidential elections. Before a [...]	2007-06-19 11:49:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL CY
07NICOSIA56	CYPRUS' PROPOSAL FOR BFIF FUNDS [...] Summary: Embassy Nicosia requests BFIF funding to: 1) enable interoperability with Department of Commerce computer systems. Part of the funding would cover travel expenses for the FCS Athens computer expert to come to Cyprus to connect Nicosia to the FCS computer system and train Embassy perso [...]	2007-01-18 12:03:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ABUD AMGT ETRD ECON EINV BTIO CY
07NICOSIA57	MINISTER'S DEATH MAY HARM BILAT COOPERATION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Education and Culture Pefkios Georgiades, a childhood friend of RoC President Tassos Papadopoulos, died suddenly January 17 from cardiac arrest; he was 72. An internationally renowned architect whose works are prominent in Nicosia, Georgiades, a former participant i [...]	2007-01-18 15:08:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAO OEXC CY
07NICOSIA594	TURKEY'S ELECTIONS AS SEEN FROM THE "TRNC" [...] (SBU) With only six days until Turkey goes to the polls, the July 22 election is, perhaps surprisingly, not at the forefront of everyone's minds in Cyprus's north, the self-proclaimed, unrecognized "TRNC." This is partly because ongoing domestic issues, including a "government" financial scan [...]	2007-07-16 10:45:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CY
07NICOSIA620	PRESIDENT PAPADOPOULOS OFFICIALLY ENTERS PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 24, the last of the three main contenders for the presidency, incumbent Tassos Papadopoulos, officially confirmed that he will seek reelection. The main themes of his televised announcement were the rejection of the Annan Plan and support of the subsequent July 8 process [...]	2007-07-27 14:11:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL CY
07NICOSIA622	BIOTECH: PRESIDENT REFERS BIOTECH SEGREGATION BILL TO [...] (SBU) Summary. On July 25, President Papadopoulos refused to sign the biotech segregation bill (ref A),and, on the advice of the Attorney General, referred it to the Supreme Court on procedural and constitutional grounds. It is unclear how the Supreme Court may rule, and a decision by the [...]	2007-07-30 10:53:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR TBIO ECON ETRD SENV EUN CY
07NICOSIA640	YOUTH POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS: CYPRUS'S FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: Every major political party in the Republic of Cyprus has a youth branch. The two largest and most significant are EDON and NEDISY, affiliates of Cyprus's largest political organizations, AKEL and DISY, respectively. Though distinct from the mother parties, these Greek Cyprio [...]	2007-08-07 11:16:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL CY
07NICOSIA685	TALAT WILL MEET, BUT IS WARY OF PAPADAPOULOS'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Domestic political concerns -- mainly the need to show Greek Cypriot voters that their president sought a Cyprus Problem solution -- was driving Tassos Papadopoulos's push for a meeting of community leaders, "TRNC President" Mehmet Ali Talat told the Ambassador August 20. Despite [...]	2007-08-22 15:34:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU
07NICOSIA691	THE CYPRIOT PATH FROM JUNIOR OFFICER TO AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Cypriot Foreign Ministry is a relatively small institution, accepting a dozen new professionals per year; most are among Cyprus's best and brightest. New diplomats enter the corps through a hiring process lasting seven months. Once on board, an A100-like (but shorter) ori [...]	2007-08-24 10:40:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OFDP PGOV PREL CY
07NICOSIA696	RUMORS OF DEVELOPMENT SHAKE CYPRUS'S KARPASS [...] (U) Summary: The pristine Karpass peninsula, the long finger of land stretching northeast "like a dagger toward the heart of Anatolia," has dominated north Cyprus newscasts nightly this summer. A sleepy corner of the island known more for its turtle hatcheries and unbroken surf, Karpass has [...]	2007-08-27 11:56:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM SENV CY TU
07NICOSIA701	NOT RENDERING UNTO CAESAR THAT WHICH IS CAESAR'S: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Never one to shy from cameras or controversy, Archbishop Chrysostomos II's latest political interventions have brought vociferous reactions from the political opposition and sectors of the Greek Cypriot media, and left thoughtful pundits questioning the ostensible separation of c [...]	2007-08-28 12:57:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CY
07NICOSIA729	LEADERS' MEETING BRINGS NO BREAKTHROUGHS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Fourteen months after concluding a framework arrangement to restart stalled Cyprus Problem negotiations -- the July 8 or Gambari Agreement, which envisioned regular tete-a-tetes of the island's community leaders -- RoC President Tassos Papadopoulos and Turkish Cypriot "President [...]	2007-09-06 13:59:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP CY TU

07NICOSIA74	MISSING PERSONS COMMITTEE OPTIMISTIC ON RETURN OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Tripartite Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is making steady progress exhuming and identifying Greek and Turkish Cypriots missing since 1963-1974. Pledges from the USG and other donors have ensured sufficient funding for operations to continue well into 2008, and CMP member [...]	2007-01-25 13:43:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM UNFICYP TU CY

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