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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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08ADDISABABA2157ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: UNMEE'S LIQUIDATION UNDERWAY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In the final "Friends of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)" meeting on August 4, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General Azouz Ennifar told the diplomatic community that UNMEE did not fail at its job, rather it performed its mission well [...]
2008-08-07 13:03:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
08ADDISABABA2159PRESS FREEDOM - OPPRESSIVE OR PERMISSIVE: DRL A/S
[...] (SBU) During his July 23-25 visit to Addis Ababa, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor David Kramer met with media professionals and civil society leaders on the state of press freedom in Ethiopia and engaged senior Ethiopian Government (GoE) leaders on press fre [...]
2008-08-08 06:20:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PREL ET
08ADDISABABA216ERITREAN OPPOSITION PARTIES AGREE TO FORM NEW
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On January 24, Ambassador and Embassy Officers met with the newly appointed three-man Liaison Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) Secretariat--Hussein Khalifa of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF),Mengesteab Asmerom of the Eritrean Liberation Front-Revolutionary Council (EL [...]
2008-01-29 10:19:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKDEM PREL PBTS ET ER
08ADDISABABA2162PRESS FREEDOM: CONTEMPT FOR REPORTING
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 6, the Ethiopian Federal High Court found Million Assefa (defense attorney for pop singer Teddy Afro) and Mesfin Negash (editor-in-chief of popular newspaper Addis Neger) guilty of contempt. The court ruled that a recent Addis Neger article, which quoted Million critici [...]
2008-08-08 08:31:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KPAO ET
08ADDISABABA2262FOOD CRISIS WORSENS AS RELIEF CHALLENGES PERSIST
[...] (SBU) After almost a year of sustained U.S. and donor engagement with the Ethiopian Government (GoE) to respond to the growing food crisis, the GoE appears intent on obfuscating the facts on the ground and is unable or unwilling to support the humanitarian response. Rather than openly acknowle [...]
2008-08-18 14:26:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM EAGR PGOV ET
08ADDISABABA2291AWRAMBA TIMES HIGHLIGHTS TENSION BETWEEN PRESS
[...] (C) The Editor-in-Chief of the private Amharic weekly Awramba Times met with Emboffs to provide details on what he described as a police threat to curb his newspaper's activities following the publication of stories related to the controversial new opposition movement Ginbot 7, which publicly [...]
2008-08-21 07:37:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KPAO ET
08ADDISABABA2531COMMERCE VISIT PUNCTUATED BY MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT DOING
[...] (U) U.S. Department of Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Holly Vineyard's August 17-20 visit to Ethiopia highlighted an economy offering significant opportunities as well as great challenges. While the Ethiopian economy has shown significant growth in recent years, business and developm [...]
2008-09-15 14:12:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD PREL ET
08ADDISABABA2560HAILU SHAWAL: NO NEED FOR COALITIONS FOR NOW
[...] (C) Ethiopian opposition parties should "get their own houses in order" and not form coalitions at this time, disgruntled former Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) stalwart Hailu Shawal told the Ambassador. Hailu disparaged the efforts of other opposition parties and contended that his A [...]
2008-09-17 13:03:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL PINR ET
08ADDISABABA2800ETHIOPIA SEEKING IMF FACILITY TO STEM FOREX CRISIS
[...] (SBU) The Ethiopian Government (GoE) has decided to approach the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for an emergency balance of payments loan facility to mitigate the country's foreign exchange crisis (reftel). The loan would be Ethiopia's first formal arrangement with the IMF in years. With [...]
2008-10-07 10:45:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON ETRD BEXP ET
08ADDISABABA2802ETHIOPIA'S LACKLUSTER PARLIAMENTARY AGENDA
[...] (U) Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorgis presented the Ethiopian Government's (GoE) parliamentary agenda at the October 6 opening session of Parliament. Peppered with dry calls for administrative proclamations, quality control standards and institutes, and the improvement of key sectors suc [...]
2008-10-08 07:17:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAGR ECON ET
08ADDISABABA2837BEIJING OLYMPICS IMPRESS ETHIOPIA
[...] (U) Discussions with Ethiopian officials, political opposition leaders, and professional colleagues suggest that China impressed Ethiopia by hosting one of the most precisely orchestrated and technically impressive Olympic Games in memory. While news of pre-games demonstrations did reach the E [...]
2008-10-14 13:17:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ET CH
08ADDISABABA286ETHIOPIA: ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER AND PRIME
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. On January 31, Assistant Secretary Frazer met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in a broad ranging 100 minute discussion on Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Somaliland, and the Eritrean border. Also in attendance were Ambassador Yamamoto, Ambassador Courville, Sudan S/E Will [...]
2008-02-06 07:54:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PBTS PNAT MOPS KPKO ET ER SO SU KE
08ADDISABABA3ETHIOPIA: POLITICAL TRIAL WRAPS UP, CIVIL SOCIETY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 26, the trial of civil society leaders Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie came to a conclusion after nearly two years of proceedings. In a bittersweet ending, the two remaining defendants from among the 131 originally charged in the political trial of Hailu Shawel [...]
2008-01-02 10:08:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
08ADDISABABA3050ADDIS ABABA EAC MEETING TO DISCUSS POSSIBLE THREAT
[...] (SBU) Summary: On November 5, 2008 the Addis Ababa EAC convened to discuss the heightened security posture of the Government of Ethiopia (GOE) in response to the possible threat of a terrorist attack in Ethiopia. Members present include: COM, DCM, CLO, CON, MGMT, PAO, DAO, OBO, POL/ECON, RSO, [...]
2008-11-05 15:47:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC
08ADDISABABA3060PROFILE OF ETHIOPIA'S DEBT SUSTAINABILITY
[...] (SBU) Although the government of Ethiopia (GoE) has assumed only minimal new official external bilateral and multilateral debt since completing two rounds of external debt relief, state-owned enterprises (SOE) are accumulating off-budget external (and domestic) debt at an alarming rate. The Go [...]
2008-11-10 04:31:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET
08ADDISABABA3116VOA HORN OF AFRICA SERVICE CHIEF DISCUSSES VOA
[...] (SBU) Voice of America (VOA) Horn of Africa Service Chief David Arnold met with Advisor to the Prime Minister Bereket Simon on October 23 to request the Ethiopian government (GoE) to consider favorably VOA applications for licenses for VOA reporters (local stringers) to be based outside Addis A [...]
2008-11-17 09:22:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KPAO ET
08ADDISABABA3159GOE CLAMPS DOWN ON OROMOS, OPPOSITION PARTIES
[...] (C) Over the past two weeks, the Ethiopian government (GoE) has arrested at least 53 ethnic Oromos (some reports are as high as 200) and supporters of the mainstream political opposition Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) for alleged support to the banned Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). [...]
2008-11-20 11:53:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PHUM ASEC ET
08ADDISABABA3185USAU: AU TO LEAD DELEGATION TO MAURITANIA
[...] (U) Summary: A high-level delegation from the African Union (AU) and partner international organizations will travel to Mauritania within the next three weeks to meet with ousted President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi and junta leader General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to find a way out of [...]
2008-11-24 07:26:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM UNSC EU AU
08ADDISABABA3230GROWING WAHABI INFLUENCE IN ETHIOPIA TESTS THE
[...] (SBU) Two recent Public Diplomacy programs have demonstrated the growing reach and influence of Wahabi elements in Ethiopian Muslim society. Post's efforts to translate &The Place of Tolerance in Islam8 into local languages have come to naught because no Muslim translator in Ethiopia is willi [...]
2008-11-26 09:20:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO KISL SCUL ET
08ADDISABABA3276ARAB LEAGUE MEMBERS PRESS FOR ROLE ON SOMALIA
[...] (C) Summary. In the third in a series of U.S. Embassy Addis hosted meetings with the Arab League Ambassadors (Reftel),Arab colleagues pressed for an international conference on Somalia, and a greater Arab League mediating role, including discussion on troops and financial assistance for pe [...]
2008-12-04 12:25:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KPKO SO ET XF
08ADDISABABA3298BENZENE FUEL SUPPLY BOTTLENECK SQUEEZES MARKET
[...] (SBU) The Government of Ethiopia's (GoE) decision to require regular benzene to be blended with ethanol has led to severe benzene fuel supply gaps, exacerbating an already inefficient fuel supply chain. The ethanol blending program has hampered the GoE's ability to maintain adequate benzene fu [...]
2008-12-09 14:21:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EAGR ENRG ET
08ADDISABABA3336USAU: AU HOPING TO MOBILIZE AFRICAN LEADERS
[...] (C) Summary: African Union Chairperson and President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete is going to convene certain African heads of state in Pretoria on December 14 in hopes that they can forge a strong enough message to deliver to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to pressure him to implement a pow [...]
2008-12-10 15:14:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ZI AU
08ADDISABABA3451USAU: AFRICAN UNION WARNS GUINEA COUP LEADERS OF
[...] (U) In the wake of Guinean President Lansane Conte's death and the military takeover of the country, the African Union's (AU) Peace and Security Council met December 24 in an emergency session where it warned of "stern measures" if the coup materializes. Those measures could include suspending [...]
2008-12-24 16:34:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GV AU
08ADDISABABA3460HARASSING THE OPPOSITION
[...] (SBU) In the most overt case of harassment of the political opposition since the April local elections, the Ethiopian Government (GoE) has detained Birtukan Mideksa, Chairperson of the Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) party, three times in the three weeks and today arrested her. Birtukan [...]
2008-12-29 14:36:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV KJUS PHUM ET
08ADDISABABA506ETHIOPIA/ERITREA: UNMEE OFFICE HEAD SAYS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On February 26, United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Head of Addis Ababa Office Joseph Stephanides told visiting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) POLAD and PolOff that UNMEE's relocation to Asmara was going well and that UNMEE was in no dang [...]
2008-02-27 13:50:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
08ADDISABABA596ELECTIONS HERALD 3: SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. From January 28 to February 1, Poloff and senior political FSN visited several areas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) and the southern portion of the Oromiya region, to meet with opposition leaders, government administrators and NGOs in order to [...]
2008-03-04 06:45:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
08ADDISABABA614ETHIOPIA'S SUBMISSION TO THE EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (U) Post provides the following input on trafficking in persons issues in Ethiopia. 2. (U) Embassy point of contact: Pol/Econ Officer Kimberly E. Wright, office: +251 (11) 517-4112; fax: +251 (11) 124-2405, WRIGHTKE2@STATE.GOV 3. (U) Number of hours spent in preparation of TIP report cable: [...]
2008-03-04 10:16:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG ET PRM ASEC PREL
08ADDISABABA656Post Report of Visit of IIP Speaker Elbert "Bert" Ransom to
[...] SUMMARY: IIP Speaker Rev. Dr. Elbert "Bert" Ransom completed a highly-successful, twelve-day visit to Ethiopia on the topic of "The Role of Faith Communities in Social Change: Contributions of Christians, Jews, and Muslims to the American Civil Rights Movement," as the main focus of post's Blac [...]
2008-03-06 13:41:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KIRF ET
08ADDISABABA838ETHIOPIA: CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS TO BE PARDONED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After nearly two and half years in prison, civil society leaders Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, the final two political prisoners from the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) trial, are set to be granted a pardon and released from prison. Though they are now only about [...]
2008-03-28 08:45:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
08ADDISABABA853STAFFDEL YOUNG DISCUSSES SOMALIA AND SUDAN WITH
[...] (C) Ethiopia seeks USD 17 million in funding in order to train 10,000 Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) police, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Chief of the Minister's Cabinet told StaffDel Young on March 24. Abdeta expressed confidence that the military situation is improving in [...]
2008-03-31 10:18:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ET KE
08ADDISABABA855ETHIOPIAN MFA OFFICIAL ON POLICY TOWARDS SOMALIA,
[...] (S/NF) Ethiopian MFA Chief of the Minister's Cabinet Abdeta Dribssa (strictly protect) candidly told Emboffs on March 13 that the international community must realize that Ethiopia has genuine security interests in Somalia. He noted that Ethiopia had already drawn down its forces in Somalia [...]
2008-03-31 12:32:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRET//NOFORNPREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
08ADDISABABA86UTDS -- A TIGREAN OPPOSITION EMERGES
[...] (SBU) Sixteen years after coming to power as part of the Tigrean People's Liberation Front (TPLF),six years after being ejected from the party, and two years after seeking formal registration, the Union of Tigreans for Democracy and Sovereignty (UTDS) emerged in November as Ethiopia's first r [...]
2008-01-14 04:45:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PBTS ET
08AITTAIPEI1008MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 08:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1026MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-13 22:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1030MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage July 12-14 on the alleged telephone conversation between U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and Taiwan's National Security Council Secretary-General Su Chi at the end of June; on eight Taiwan businessmen who went [...]
2008-07-14 08:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1037MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-15 08:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI104MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDUM, U.S.-TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage January 19-22 on the various steps taken by the DPP to review and remedy itself in the wake of its severe defeat in the January 12 legislative elections; on the KMT's selection of its nominee for the new deputy legislative [...]
2008-01-22 08:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1053MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S DIPLOMACY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-17 08:11:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1062MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-18 08:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1066MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS DEALS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their July 19-21 news coverage on the flash floods and landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Kalmaegi in central and southern Taiwan last Friday and the agricultural losses Taiwan has suffered; on President Ma Ying-jeou's sliding approv [...]
2008-07-21 13:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1074MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS DEALS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-22 09:48:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI11MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-03 09:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI110MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-23 09:49:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1109MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage July 26-29 on Typhoon Fung-wong, which swept across the island Monday; on the current status of the U.S.-Taiwan arms deals; on the title of Taiwan's Olympic team; and on President Ma Ying-jeou's upcoming trip to Paraguay an [...]
2008-07-29 23:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1116MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-31 07:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1138MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 2-4 news coverage on the Olympic Games in Beijing; on President Ma Ying-jeou's call for "workable diplomacy" in Taiwan's foreign relations; on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan; and on the domestic oil price adjustment policy. Several pa [...]
2008-08-04 09:11:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1143MEDIA REACTION: U.S-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-05 06:47:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1151MEDIA REACTION: BEIJING OLYMPICS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-06 07:30:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI116MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDUM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-24 09:12:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1189MEDIA REACTION: THE BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES; PRESIDENT BUSH'S
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 9-11 news coverage on the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games; on weightlifter Chen Wei-ling winning Taiwan's first medal in the Olympics; and on the conflict in South Ossetia. In terms of editorials and commentaries, a [...]
2008-08-11 09:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1201MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH OSSETIA, PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 12 news coverage on Taiwan tennis player Lu Yen-hsun, who defeated six-seeded Andy Murray of Great Britain in the first round of the Olympic tennis match Monday; on President Ma Ying-jeou's first trip overseas and his transit stops [...]
2008-08-12 10:18:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1206MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S OVERSEAS TRIP
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-13 08:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1216MEDIA REACTION: BEIJING OLYMPICS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-14 07:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1230MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-18 09:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI124MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-25 09:44:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1252MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, GEORGIA
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 20 news coverage on the continuing investigation into former President Chen Shui-bian and his family members' alleged money laundering, and on Chinese Taipei's defeat by the United States at the Beijing Olympic baseball competitio [...]
2008-08-20 09:33:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1268MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their August 23-25 news coverage on the investigation into former President Chen Shui-bian's money laundering case; on Taiwan Taekwondo athlete Su Li-wen's show of sportsmanship by sustaining injuries in a competition and fighting up to [...]
2008-08-25 09:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1290MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-28 09:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1296MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-29 07:48:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI130MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-28 08:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1300MEDIA REACTION: RUSSIA-GEORGIA SITUATION, U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 30 - September 2 news coverage on the continued investigation into former President Chen Shui-bian's money laundering case; on Saturday's mass rally targeting President Ma Ying-jeou's first one hundred days in office; and on Japan [...]
2008-09-02 08:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1311MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-03 09:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1316MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-04 08:54:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1331MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, U.S. DEFENSE
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage September 6-8 on the Ma Ying-jeou Administration's various moves to stimulate Taiwan's sluggish economy, following extensive and severe criticisms against President Ma's failure to realize his economic platform in his first [...]
2008-09-08 08:54:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1339MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-09 23:57:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1349MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S CROSS-STRAIT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-11 09:09:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1353 MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES, U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage September 13-15 on Typhoon Sinlaku's pounding of Taiwan over the weekend and the import of tainted Chinese milk powder to Taiwan. In terms of editorials and commentaries, the centrist, KMT-leaning "China Times" published a [...]
2008-09-15 06:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1370MEDIA REACTION: DECLINE OF THE UNITED STATES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-17 09:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1387MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND TAIWAN'S UN BID
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-22 06:14:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1393MEDIA REACTION: U.S. FINANCIAL CRISIS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-23 09:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI14MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-04 05:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1424MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS DEALS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage September 27-30 on Super Typhoon Jangmi, which pounded Taiwan heavily Sunday and Monday, bringing massive rains and causing considerable damage to the island; on the House of Representatives' veto of the Bush Administration [...]
2008-10-01 01:30:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1426MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN,
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their news coverage October 1 on U.S. President George W. Bush's call for Congress to pass the US$700 billion bailout bill Tuesday; on the Taiwan government's measures to prop up the Taiwan stock exchange after the House of Representativ [...]
2008-10-01 09:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1430MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage October 2 on the revamped U.S. financial bailout plan, which is scheduled for the Senate's vote Thursday morning; on rumors that a big local bank is suffering financial problems; on the probe into the alleged money-launderi [...]
2008-10-02 09:48:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1438MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN,
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage October 3 on a order by Taiwan's Department of Health Thursday to remove from shelves more dairy products from China that were found to be contaminated with melamine; on the U.S. Senate's approval of a revised US$700 billio [...]
2008-10-05 22:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1443MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage October 4-6 on the U.S. financial bailout bill, which U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law Friday; on the approved U.S. arms sales to Taiwan; and on the probe into the alleged money-laundering case involving former [...]
2008-10-06 09:49:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1450MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES, U.S.-TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage October 7 on the arrest of Yeh Sheng-mao, former Director of the Ministry of Justice's Investigation Bureau (MJIB); National Security Bureau (NSB) Director-General Henry Tsai's remarks that SARS was a bio-chemical warfare a [...]
2008-10-07 09:48:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1469MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-15 06:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1482 TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE INDIVIDUALS AND TWO
[...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following five individuals and two entities designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on September 16, 2008 pursuant to E.O. 13438 for thre [...]
2008-10-17 09:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON IZ IR SY TW
08AITTAIPEI1488MEDIA REACTION: U.S. VISA WAIVER PROGRAM, U.S. FINANCIAL
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused October 18-20 news coverage on the funeral of Formosa Plastics Group founder Wang Yung-ching; on the DPP's planned rally on October 25 to protest the Ma Ying-jeou Administration's "pro-China" policy and the upcoming visit to Taiwan by Ch [...]
2008-10-20 09:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1492MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, U.S. FINANCIAL
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their October 21 news coverage on a Taiwan Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF) and its two pilots that went missing near Penghu [Pescadores] Monday on a training mission; and on the continuing probe into former first family's money launderi [...]
2008-10-21 08:52:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1495MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-22 09:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1517MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-27 09:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1524MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, CROSS-STRAIT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused October 28 news coverage on the upcoming visit to Taiwan by China's Association for Relations across theQaiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin and planned talks between ARATS and Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF); and on Tai [...]
2008-10-28 07:11:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1528MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-29 08:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1538MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused October 30 news coverage on former Vice President Lien Chan being appointed as Taiwan's envoy to the APEC leaders' summit in late November; on President Ma Ying-jeou's remarks Wednesday that he will receive China's Association for Relati [...]
2008-10-30 09:57:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1544MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-31 09:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1550MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese- and English-language dailies gave significant straight news reporting and editorial coverage November 1-3 to the five-day Taiwan visit by China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin; the talks to be held between ARAT [...]
2008-11-03 09:25:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1561MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, CROSS-STRAIT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese and English-language dailies continued to give significant news coverage November 4 to the historic meeting between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P.K. Chiang and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Ch [...]
2008-11-04 09:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1565MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT TALKS, U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: The four agreements signed between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P.K. Chiang and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin Tuesday concerning the three links across the Taiwan Strait received extensive coverage in Tai [...]
2008-11-05 09:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1567MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese- and English-language dailies all gave significant straight news reporting and editorial coverage November 6 to the election of Democrat Barack Obama as the next U.S. president. News coverage also focused on the mass protests in Taipei Wednesday against the vis [...]
2008-11-06 09:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1578MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S. PRESIDENTIAL
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage November 7 on the violent clashes between pro-Green supporters and police on Thursday night; on the short meeting between President Ma Ying-jeou and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairma [...]
2008-11-07 08:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1587MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage November 8-10 on students' sit-in campaign in protest of the police's excessive use of force against demonstrators during the Taiwan visit of China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen [...]
2008-11-10 09:32:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1601MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their November 11-12 news coverage on former President Chen Shui-bian, who was handcuffed and taken into to court Tuesday night as prosecutors sought his detention on alleged corruption and embezzlement charges; and on the students stagi [...]
2008-11-12 09:31:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI161MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-01 08:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1616MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS, CROSS-STRAIT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused November 15-17 news coverage on former President Chen Shui-bian, who was taken to hospital Sunday evening after having been on a hunger strike since he was detained last Wednesday; on the prosecutors' questioning of Chen's family members [...]
2008-11-17 09:17:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1622MEDIA REACTION: G-20 SUMMIT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-18 08:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1637MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-23 21:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1650Media Reaction: Cross-Strait Relations
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-24 23:11:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1656MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S JUDICIAL SYSTEM, APEC
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their November 26 news coverage on the economic predicament of the world and of Taiwan; and on the probe into former President Chen Shui-bian's alleged corruption. In terms of editorials and commentaries, an op-ed in the pro-independenc [...]
2008-11-26 08:12:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1667MEDIA REACTION: HUMAN RIGHTS IN TAIWAN, CHINESE MILITARY
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage November 27-28 on the economic difficulties that Taiwan need to deal with now; on the former first family's corruption scandals; on the political confrontation in Thailand; and on the Mumbai attacks. 2. In terms of edit [...]
2008-11-28 08:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1669MEDIA REACTION: THE MUMBAI TERRORIST ATTACKS, THE U.S.
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage November 29 - December 1 on the probe into the former first family's corruption scandals; on the economic downturn in Taiwan; and on speculation about a cabinet reshuffle. 2. In terms of editorials and commentaries, rega [...]
2008-12-01 08:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1673MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S JUDICIAL SYSTEM, APEC
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their November 26 news coverage on the economic predicament of the world and of Taiwan; and on the probe into former President Chen Shui-bian's alleged corruption. In terms of editorials and commentaries, an op-ed in the pro-independenc [...]
2008-12-01 08:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1682MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE NATIONAL
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage December 3 on the Cabinet's decision to allow four days off for the New Year holiday; on the probe into former first family's money laundering; and on the safety problems of the Maokong Gondola in Taipei. 2. In terms of [...]
2008-12-03 09:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1711MEDIA REACTION: INCOMING OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-10 11:54:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1713MEDIA REACTION: U.S. FINANCIAL CRISIS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-11 07:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1716USTR VISIT FOCUSES ON AGRICULTURE ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: During December 8-9 meetings in Taipei, USTR Senior Director for China and Taiwan Affairs Tim Wineland and AIT/W Director of Trade and Commercial Programs Rick Ruzicka pressed their Taiwan interlocutors on key agricultural market access issues, including beef, pork, and rice. Winel [...]
2008-12-11 08:29:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAGR PGOV PREL TW
08AITTAIPEI1719 MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, THE FINANCIAL CRISIS,
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused December 12 news coverage on the Central Bank's biggest interest cuts in 26 years; the probe into former President Chen Shui-bian's corruption cases; and the police's surprise eviction of members of the "Wild Strawberry" Student Movement [...]
2008-12-12 07:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI172MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-04 10:39:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1735MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, OBAMA'S NOMINATION
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused December 13-15 news coverage on former President Chen Shui-bian's indictment and on the launching of the "big three links," namely, air, sea and postal service directly between Taiwan and mainland China. In terms of editorials and com [...]
2008-12-15 09:44:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1741MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT LINKS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-16 09:29:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1743MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-17 08:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1752MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-19 05:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1767MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused December 20-22 news coverage on the confirmation of the H5N2 avian flu epidemic situation in southern Taiwan; on the fourth KMT-CCP forum held in Shanghai; and on the local economic downturn. 2. Following the recently-concluded forum [...]
2008-12-22 09:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1770MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-23 07:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1773MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-24 05:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1780MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-29 08:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1784MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-30 07:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI1787MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-31 04:29:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI180MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDUM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-05 03:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI182MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDUM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-05 04:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI193MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-12 10:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI209MEDIA REACTION: CHINESE ESPIONAGE CASE IN THE U.S.
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-14 08:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI21MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-07 10:04:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI227MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDA, U.S.-CHINA
[...] Summary: As Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to report on the March presidential poll and the UN referenda, news coverage on February 16-19 also focused on the "Taiwan Goal," a defense industry company the DPP administration has recently set up to coordinate the business of U. [...]
2008-02-19 10:09:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI229MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDA, KOSOVO DECLARATION
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage February 20 on the March presidential election and the UN referenda; on Taiwan's official acknowledgement of Kosovo independence; and on the controversy regarding whether the island should continue construction of its fourt [...]
2008-02-20 04:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI23MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-08 09:01:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI244MEDIA REACTION: KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE AND TAIWAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-22 09:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI266MEDIA REACTION: KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-26 08:11:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI271MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage February 27 on the island's March presidential poll and the UN referenda; on a Taiwan policy report recently released by former U.S. officials Randall Schriver and Dan Blumenthal; on Taiwan's officials being barred from att [...]
2008-02-27 09:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI291MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDUM, NATIONAL DEFENSE
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage March 4 on the upcoming presidential poll, on the two presidential candidates' campaign platforms on cross-Strait issues, and on the Environmental Protection Administration's decision Monday to approve conditionally the con [...]
2008-03-04 09:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI299MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-05 09:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI311MEDIA REACTION: PENTAGON'S REPORT ON CHINESE MILITARY
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused March 6 news coverage on the upcoming presidential poll and the UN referenda; on the government's Wednesday announcement of incentive measures to encourage overseas Taiwan businesses to return capital to Taiwan; on the island's consumer [...]
2008-03-06 07:44:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI314MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS, TAIWAN'S UN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus news coverage March 7 on the upcoming presidential poll, on the UN referenda, and on the island's consumer price hike. In terms of editorials and commentaries, an editorial in the pro-independence "Liberty Times" discussed th [...]
2008-03-07 09:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI331MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDA, DALAI LAMA AND
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage March 11 on the upcoming presidential poll and the UN referenda, on the televised policy discussion between the two vice presidential candidates Monday, and on the baseball game between Taiwan and Canada in the 2008 Final O [...]
2008-03-11 09:47:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI337MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS, THE UN REFERENDA
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage March 12 on KMT's expected announcement on how it will handle two UN referenda held along with the presidential election; on the presidential election campaigns; and on New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's sex scandal. In ter [...]
2008-03-12 10:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI348MEDIA REACTION: THE UN REFERENDA, THE U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage March 13 on the clash outside DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh's campaign headquarters; on the presidential election campaigns; and on the Chinese Taipei baseball team beating Australia and winning a spot in the Beiji [...]
2008-03-13 09:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI353MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-14 07:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI374MEDIA REACTION: THE CHINESE CRACKDOWN ON THE DEMONSTRATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage March 15-17 on China's brutal suppression of the demonstrations in Lhasa; on the presidential election; and the DPP's and the KMT's respective campaign rallies on Sunday. Beijing's bloody suppression of demonstrations in T [...]
2008-03-17 10:29:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI38MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-10 10:06:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI383MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage March 18 on the presidential election campaigns; on various circles in Taiwan that support Tibet; and on the fall of global stocks after the sale of Bear Stearns and an emergency cut of a key lending rate by the U.S. Federa [...]
2008-03-18 09:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI390MEDIA REACTION: TIBET AND TAIWAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage March 19 on the two presidential candidates' responses to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's comment Tuesday on the demonstrations in Tibet; on the USS Kitty Hawk leaving its home base at Yokosuka, Japan Tuesday and its current w [...]
2008-03-19 09:19:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI395MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-20 09:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI4MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS, HONG KONG DEMOCRACY
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused January 1-2 news coverage on the island-wide celebrations for the New Year; on President Chen Shui-bian's New Year's address; on the upcoming legislative elections; and on the Blue camp's call on the voters to boycott the two referenda t [...]
2008-01-02 10:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI422MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, U.S.
[...] Summary: The Chinese-language and English-language dailies in Taiwan gave significant reporting and editorial coverage March 22-24 to Saturday's presidential election, in which KMT's Ma Ying-jeou won a landslide victory over DPP's Frank Hsieh. The two controversial referenda proposed by the K [...]
2008-03-24 23:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI430MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their March 25 news coverage on the aftermath of Taiwan's presidential election last Saturday, including the soaring Taiwan stock index and NT dollar appreciation Monday, the new cabinet to be formed by president-elect Ma Ying [...]
2008-03-25 08:29:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI439MEDIA REACTION: AFTERMATH OF TAIWAN'S PRESIDENTIAL
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their news coverage March 26 on the aftermath of Taiwan's presidential election last Saturday, including the caretaker government's plans before president-elect Ma Ying-jeou's inauguration on May 20; possible personnel arrangements for t [...]
2008-03-26 08:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI451MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, CROSS-STRAIT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their March 28 news coverage on U.S. President George W. Bush's call to his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao Wednesday, in which Hu mentioned that China is willing to resume dialogue with Taiwan based on the "1992 consensus;" on the chances [...]
2008-03-28 08:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI462MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their March 29-31 news coverage on their interviews with president-election Ma Ying-jeou Friday, who talked about his views on the future of cross-Strait relations, Taipei-Washington relations, and Taiwan's domestic policies; on AIT Chai [...]
2008-03-31 08:58:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI474MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language focused their April 1 news coverage on the controversy over whether the Chen Shui-bian caretaker government should raise or freeze gasoline prices; on president-elect Ma Ying-jeou's planned meeting with President Chen Shui-bian Tuesday morning; on possi [...]
2008-04-01 09:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI480MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-02 08:58:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI483MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-06 22:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI488MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-07 09:54:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI494MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their April 8 news coverage on Vice President-elect Vincent Siew's planned April 11-13 meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Boao Forum on Hainan Island (China); on the island's soaring consumer price index; on President-elect [...]
2008-04-08 10:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI497MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their April 9 news coverage on the speculation that incumbent Soochow University President Liu Chao-shiuan will be appointed as the next premier; on the upcoming Boao Forum hosted by China; on the international torch relay for the Beijin [...]
2008-04-09 09:48:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI50MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S REFERENDA
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave extensive reporting and editorial coverage on January 11 to the legislative elections which will be held island-wide on January 12. According to news reports, the DPP is aiming at winning 50 seats in the new 113-seat Legislature, but KMT C [...]
2008-01-11 10:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI510MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage April 11 on vice president-elect Vincent Siew's attendance at the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) and Siew's expected meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao; on the Ministry of National Defense (MND)'s alleged violation of free [...]
2008-04-11 12:37:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI514MEDIA REACTION: THE BOAO FORUM FOR ASIA (BFA)
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage April 12-14 on Taiwan Vice President-elect Vincent Siew's historic meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao. The interaction between the Chinese government and Siew's delegation was the focal of local media attention as we [...]
2008-04-14 10:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI517MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their April 15 news coverage on President-elect Ma Ying-jeou's announcement of his appointment of KMT Vice Chairman Chiang Pin-kung as the new Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman; on Ma's comments on current developments in cross- [...]
2008-04-15 09:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI532MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their April 16 news coverage on Taiwan's expected deregulation of currency exchange between the New Taiwan dollar and the Chinese yuan; on speculation over possible personnel arrangements for the new Ma Ying-jeou administration; on the a [...]
2008-04-16 11:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI535MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-17 08:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI540MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-18 07:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI550MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, TIBET
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage April 19-21 on President-elect Ma Ying-jeou's cabinet lineup; on the reform of the DPP; and on speculation over the alleged dispatch of U.S. Marines to guard AIT's new office in the future. The pro-independence "Liberty Ti [...]
2008-04-21 09:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI556MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-22 09:57:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI560MEDIA REACTION: CHINA AND TIBET, IRAQ
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their April 23 news coverage on the recent announcement of the new Cabinet appointments; on a group of Chinese real estate tycoons' visit to Taiwan; and on president-elect Ma Ying-jeou's platform to levy an energy tax in the f [...]
2008-04-23 09:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI574MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language April 25 dailies focused news coverage on Taiwan's Supreme Court not guilty verdict for President-elect Ma Ying-jeou in his special allowance case; on Taipei Deputy Mayor Samuel Wu's resignation amid allegations that he received money from an arms deale [...]
2008-04-25 07:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI580 MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS; THE CROSS-STRAIT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage April 26-28 on the amendment to Taiwan's Labor Standards Law; on the search for eight missing scuba divers in waters off southern Taiwan; and on the unexpected appointment of former Taiwan Solidarity Union Legislator Lai Sh [...]
2008-04-28 09:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI588MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage April 29 on the announcement of the second lineup of 18 Cabinet members; on the successful rescue of eight scuba divers; and a victim whose blood clot and subsequent coma are suspected of being caused by the contraceptive p [...]
2008-04-29 10:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI605MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-01 09:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI613MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-02 09:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI618MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-05 09:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI623MEDIA REACTION: SINO-JAPAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-06 08:49:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI63MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS,
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language and English-language dailies all gave significant reporting and editorial coverage January 12-14 to Saturday's island-wide legislative elections, in which the KMT scored a landslide victory over the ruling DPP, winning a two-thirds majority in the newly [...]
2008-01-15 02:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI640MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-08 10:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI645MEDIA REACTION: NEW THINKING IN TAIWAN'S DIPLOMACY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-09 09:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI654MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage May 10-12 on the continuing investigation into Taiwan's Papua New Guinea diplomatic fund scandal; on the sudden death of Taiwan's Interior Minister-designate Liao Fung-te; and on the lineup of Taiwan's President-elect Ma Yi [...]
2008-05-12 09:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI661MEDIA REACTION: NATURAL DISASTERS IN CHINA AND BURMA;
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage May 13 on the massive earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, and on the temporary shutdown of Taiwan's debt-ridden Far Eastern Air Transport Corporation (FAT). 2. In terms of editorials and commentaries, a column in the [...]
2008-05-13 09:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI669MEDIA REACTION: THE SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA; BURMA
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage May 14 on the rescue efforts in the Sichuan earthquake in China. In terms of editorials and commentaries, an editorial in the pro-unification "United Daily News" tried to shed lights on the "rise of China" from the Chinese [...]
2008-05-14 09:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI675MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-15 09:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI704MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S INAUGURAL SPEECH
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant news reporting and editorial coverage May 21 to President Ma Ying-jeou's inauguration ceremony and his inaugural speech Tuesday, in which he emphasized that both sides across the Taiwan Strait will resume dialogue based on the " [...]
2008-05-21 12:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI71MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S REFERENDA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-15 09:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI714MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S INAUGURAL SPEECH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-22 10:12:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI719MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their May 23 news coverage on Beijing's formal and positive response to President Ma Ying-jeou's inaugural speech, on the Cabinet's decision Thursday on fuel and electricity hikes, and on the opening and acceleration of exchanges across [...]
2008-05-23 09:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI725MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S.-RUSSIA-CHINA
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused May 24-27 news coverage on KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung's visit to China Monday and the new developments in cross-Strait relations, on the controversy over whether a KMT legislator still retains U.S. citizenship, on the soaring commodity p [...]
2008-05-27 10:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI735MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused May 29 news coverage on the historic meeting between KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung and his Chinese Communist Party (CCP) counterpart Hu Jintao in Beijing Wednesday; on new developments in cross-Strait relations; and on the fuel price hike i [...]
2008-05-29 09:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI744MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: On May 30, Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave extensive coverage to the resumption of talks between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS),which are scheduled to kick off on June 11. News coverage a [...]
2008-05-30 09:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI752MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, CROSS-STRAIT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language focused May 31-June 2 news coverage on various new developments in cross-Strait relations; on DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen's interview with print media Sunday, in which she expressed concern over the KMT's approach to handling cross-Strait relations; an [...]
2008-06-02 09:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI760MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-03 08:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI771MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-04 23:48:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI780MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S NOMINATION VICTORY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-05 09:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI797MEDIA REACTION: TIP REPORT, CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, OBAMA'S
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused June 6 news coverage on talks between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS),which will kick off next Wednesday; on President Ma Ying-jeou's remark Wednesday tha [...]
2008-06-06 11:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI806MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-09 09:47:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI809MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-10 09:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI81MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S FOREIGN RELATIONS, UN REFERENDUM
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage January 16 on the soaring of Taiwan's stock index and currency markets Tuesday in the wake of the KMT's victory in last Saturday's legislative elections; on KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou, who unveiled his cross-St [...]
2008-01-17 06:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI812MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT TALKS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-11 09:27:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI820Media Reaction: Cross-Strait Talks
[...] Summary: On June 12, Taiwan's print media gave extensive coverage to the historic talks between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) on improved cross-Strait relations. News coverage also focused on the aftermath of [...]
2008-06-12 07:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI830MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT TALKS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's print media June 13 gave significant coverage to the historic meetings between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) on improved cross-Strait relations Thursday. All major Taiwan dailies front-paged th [...]
2008-06-13 09:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI835MEDIA REACTION - CROSS-STRAIT TALKS, TAIWAN-JAPAN DISPUTE
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies June 14-16 gave extensive coverage to the rising diplomatic row between Taiwan and Japan over a collision between a Taiwan fishing boat and a Japanese frigate in the disputed waters around the Tiaoyutai Islands last Tuesday. News coverage also [...]
2008-06-16 10:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI845MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT TALKS, TAIWAN-JAPAN DISPUTE,
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to give extensive coverage on June 17 to the dispute between Taiwan and Japan over the Diaoyutai (generally anglicized in Taiwan as "Tiaoyutai") Islands and to the resignation of Taiwan's representative to Japan. Local newspapers devo [...]
2008-06-17 08:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI857MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus June 18 news coverage on the dispute between Taiwan and Japan over the Diaoyutai (generally anglicized in Taiwan as "Tiaoyutai") Islands; on new developments in cross-Strait relations; and on electricity price hikes in Taiwan, [...]
2008-06-18 09:54:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI866MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, TAIWAN-JAPAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused June 19 news coverage on new developments in cross-Strait relations; on speculations over the personnel reshuffle at the Control Yuan and the Examination Yuan; and on a major downsizing of the "China Times," one of the four largest Chine [...]
2008-06-19 08:47:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI875MEDIA REACTION: PERFORMANCE OF THE MA YING-JEOU
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused June 20 news coverage on President Ma Ying-jeou's nomination of Examination Yuan members Thursday, on approval ratings for the one-month-old Ma administration, and on new developments in cross-Strait relations. The pro-independence "Libe [...]
2008-06-20 06:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI886MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused June 21-23 news coverage on the peaceful resolution to a recent dispute between Taiwan and Japan, triggered by the collision between a Taiwan fishing boat and a Japanese frigate in early June; on President Ma Ying-jeou's nomination of Co [...]
2008-06-23 10:17:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI912MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused June 26 news coverage on the Ma Ying-jeou Administration's new measures to liberalize financial regulations vis-a-vis Mainland China; on China's Taiwan Affairs Office Director Wang Yi's remarks Monday regarding Taiwan's participation in [...]
2008-06-26 09:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI919MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their June 27 news coverage on the Central Bank's new measures to battle inflation and on the liberalization of financial and tourist exchanges across the Taiwan Strait. The pro-independence "Liberty Times" ran a banner headline on page [...]
2008-06-27 08:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI943MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS; ANTI-HUMAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage June 28-30 on the government's effort and incentives to boost the economy and revitalize the stock market; on the kickoff of limited conversion between the New Taiwan dollar and the Chinese Yuan (Renminbi); and on the prepa [...]
2008-06-30 09:12:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI966MEDIA REACTION: THE LAUCHING OF DIRECT CHARTER FLIGHTS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-03 09:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI98MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage January 18 on DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh's intensive campaigning in the wake of his party's severe defeat in last Saturday's legislative elections; on the March presidential poll; on President Chen Shui-bian ret [...]
2008-01-18 10:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI987MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S FOREIGN RELATIONS, CROSS-STRAIT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their July 8 news coverage on the commodity prices hike in Taiwan; on the controversy over the construction of the Suhua Freeway; and on the screening process of the Examination Yuan candidates nominated by President Ma Ying-jeou. In te [...]
2008-07-08 09:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPEI999MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their June 9 news coverage on the plummeting Taiwan stock index; on the controversy over the construction of the Suhua Freeway; and on the screening process of the Examination Yuan candidates nominated by President Ma Ying-jeou. Both the [...]
2008-07-09 09:04:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08AITTAIPIE1698MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA'S AIT APPOINTEE, THE DALAI LAMA
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused December 6-8 news coverage on the legislature passing a bill to distribute consumption vouchers; on the local economy; and on the call to amend the Assembly and Parade Law. 2. In terms of editorials and commentaries, an editorial in t [...]
2008-12-08 07:20:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
08ALGIERS1122ALGERIAN MEDIA: AFRICOM TO COUNTER GROWING CHINESE
[...] We delivered reftel demarche notifying the Algerian government of AFRICOM's official inception as a unified command to MFA North America Deputy Director Rachid Ouali on October 8. Ouali provided no substantive comment on AFRICOM. Meanwhile, Algeria's leading newspapers devoted measured cove [...]
2008-10-16 13:10:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PREL AG
08ALGIERS1124ALGERIAN MEDIA: AFRICOM TO COUNTER GROWING CHINESE
[...] We delivered reftel demarche notifying the Algerian government of AFRICOM's official inception as a unified command to MFA North America Deputy Director Rachid Ouali on October 8. Ouali provided no substantive comment on AFRICOM. Meanwhile, Algeria's leading newspapers devoted measured cove [...]
2008-10-18 06:18:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PREL AG
08ALGIERS1296ALGERIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS ON BOUTEFLIKA AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Parliamentarians told Codel Hastings on December 2 that they believed the international community must play a greater role in resolving the Western Sahara question and that a third term for President Bouteflika is necessary for the well-being of Algeria. The Minister of Parliame [...]
2008-12-15 07:56:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM OREP PBTS MO AG
08ALGIERS1319STOP THE PRESS: JOURNALISTS ON TRIAL AGAIN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH) marked its celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by voicing concern that basic freedoms in Algeria were slipping, not improving as Algeria's human rights ombudsman Farouk Ksent [...]
2008-12-20 17:22:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AG
08ALGIERS1320ALGERIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) The security situation in Algeria was marked by a decrease in the number of high profile terrorist attacks throughout the country compared with 2007, although the overall number of attacks did not decline and ongoing low-level terrorist activities continued in the countryside. In the first [...]
2008-12-20 17:23:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR PGOV AG
08ALGIERS140UNIONS PLAN NATIONWIDE PROTEST SURGE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's autonomous unions are gearing up for two nationwide strikes in February as they continue to make demands on the state. While the unions largely agree among themselves on the issues underlying the strike calls, there is less agreement on who speaks for whom, with splinte [...]
2008-02-06 17:49:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV AG
08ALGIERS191ALGERIA GOES WTO SHOPPING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the February 4 visit of European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson to Algiers, EU diplomats told us the Algerians were "forthcoming and eager" on WTO accession, but the Europeans remain skeptical of rapid progress. They felt the Algerians were shopping for the ea [...]
2008-02-20 09:38:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALETRD WTO ECON PREL AG
08ALGIERS195MGKV01: ALGERIA WILL NOT RECOGNIZE KOSOVO
[...] (C) Acting Foreign Minister Bougerra told the Ambassador February 20 that Algeria would not recognize Kosovo in the foreseeable future at least. In response to ref A points, he said that it appeared to Algiers that UNSCR 1244 was explicit that Kosovo is a part of Serbia unless Serbs and Koso [...]
2008-02-20 15:46:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL UNAUS UNMIK YI EU KVIR AG
08ALGIERS208ALGERIA: 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the 2003 enactment of TRIPs-compliant legislation, Algeria has demonstrated it is capable of active and prompt attention to intellectual property rights (IPR) disputes (ref B),but progress has been sporadic and inconsistent rather than systematic. Although some Algerian [...]
2008-02-24 14:21:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KIPR AG
08ALGIERS248GOVERNMENT ASSAULTS EMBASSY IN THE PRESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent media interest in the activities of the Ambassador and Embassy officials suddenly exploded onto the front pages March 3 when several major local newspapers featured critical remarks from Prime Minister Belkhadem and Foreign Minister Medelci. According to the papers, both [...]
2008-03-03 13:16:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM AG
08ALGIERS255GOVERNMENT ASSAULTS EMBASSY IN THE PRESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent media interest in the activities of the Ambassador and Embassy officials suddenly exploded onto the front pages March 3 when several major local newspapers featured critical remarks from Prime Minister Belkhadem and Foreign Minister Medelci. According to the papers, both [...]
2008-03-03 15:52:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM AG
08ALGIERS27THIRD TERM PUSH FOR BOUTEFLIKA STEAMROLLS FORWARD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The move to amend the constitution to allow President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run for an unprecedented third term in 2009 is now gathering steam. Almost immediately after the November 29 local elections, Prime Minister Belkhadem began painting the elections as a clear popular cal [...]
2008-01-10 11:17:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM AG
08ALGIERS274MFA OFFICIAL CALLS GOVERNMENT ATTACKS ON EMBASSY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: There was more media clamor on March 5 about the Algerian government accusations that the U.S. Embassy and the Ambassador of "interference" in internal Algerian affairs (ref A). Government spokesman Boukerzaza told the press March 4 that there was no diplomatic crisis with the Em [...]
2008-03-05 19:10:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ODIP KDEM AG
08ALGIERS28ALI BENFLIS: BOUTEFLIKA RIVAL STAYING OUT OF SIGHT
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Ali Benflis, the main challenger to President Bouteflika in the 2004 presidential election, told us that that the Algerian government is gradually throttling democracy and largely failing to address Algeria's other problems. He claimed that changes back and forth on policy iss [...]
2008-01-11 08:35:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETPGOV PINR AG
08ALGIERS293ALGERIAN OFFICIALS PRIVATELY BACKTRACK ON
[...] (C) MFA Counselor Ambassador Abdallah Baali (protect) pulled Ambassador aside after a discussion about the Western Sahara (septel) to discuss privately the Algerian government's public criticism of the American Embassy (refs). Baali said he had asked the Director General (roughly equivalent [...]
2008-03-11 12:58:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM AG
08ALGIERS317DESPERATION FUELS INCREASE IN SUICIDES
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Suicide, though a significant sin in Islam, is on the rise in Algeria. Sociologist Nacer Djabi warned that socioeconomic discontent was creating a developing "suicide mentality" in Algeria (reftel) even among young Algerians, and official statistics indicate suicide was an increa [...]
2008-03-17 10:57:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI ECON AG
08ALGIERS318AQIM DEMANDS FOR THE RELEASE OF AUSTRIAN HOSTAGES
[...] (SBU) On March 13 Al-Qaeda in the Lands of Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) posted a communique on a Jihadi website (www.shmo5alislam.net/vb/) with its conditions for the release of the two Austrian hostages Wolfgang Ebner and Andrea Kloiber (ref A). AQIM demanded the release of some of its members he [...]
2008-03-17 11:23:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALASEC PTER KISL AG
08ALGIERS333JUST IN TIME FOR EASTER: TROUBLE WITH CHRISTIANS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The controversy surrounding Christians and alleged Evangelical Christian proselytizing in Algeria continues (refs A, B). In late February Hugh Johnson, a retired American Methodist minister who has lived and worked in Algeria for 45 years, was suddenly ordered to leave the count [...]
2008-03-20 09:35:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF CASC AG
08ALGIERS334MFA BLASE ABOUT MEDIA ATTACKS ON EMBASSY AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After a period of relative calm, government use of the press to attack Embassy activities (refs A and B) heated up again on March 15 when Arabic-language daily El Khabar featured front page headlines proclaiming that the Interior ministry had issued an order forbidding NGOs to meet [...]
2008-03-20 09:51:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ODIP KDEM AG
08ALGIERS34ALGERIAN SKEPTICISM AHEAD OF AFRICOM DVC
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Despite our repeated attempts to explain and clarify U.S. plans for AFRICOM, Algerians remain critical and suspicious. Both journalists and government officials engage in heavy speculation, often making false claims and spouting baseless misinformation about the new U.S. African C [...]
2008-01-13 16:57:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAO MARR AG
08ALGIERS357DECODING PRIME MINISTER'S PRESS LEAKS ATTACKING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The publisher of an Arabic-language daily told the Ambassador on March 24 that the paper's March 22 front page story alleging that the Ambassador had refused to appear at the MFA when convoked by the Foreign Minister was printed as a result of direct pressure from the Prime Minis [...]
2008-03-26 11:01:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ODIP KDEM AG
08ALGIERS388ACCUSED JOURNALISTS SOBERED BUT UNBOWED BY
[...] (C) On March 26 Pol/Econ Chief and PAO visited the Algiers offices of the French-language daily El Watan to discuss the press defamation case against El Watan Director Omar Belhouchet and columnist Chawki Amari (ref A). Editor-in Chief Zine Cherfaoui and Amari told us that the paper was able [...]
2008-04-02 15:04:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM KPAO PGOV AG
08ALGIERS396HAMAS OFFICIAL ASKS BOUTEFLIKA'S HELP IN RESOLVING
[...] (SBU) The Algerian Arabic-language newspaper Ennahar reported April 5 that a representative from the Palestinian Hamas movement in Lebanon, Usama Hamdan, said during an April 4 press conference at the Hamas office in Algiers that he had asked the Algerian authorities to mediate between Hamas an [...]
2008-04-07 13:00:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER AG
08ALGIERS420CHRISTIAN CHURCHES WRESTLE WITH GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Using a 2006 law, the Algerian government closed some Protestant churches in March amidst constant reporting by Algerian Arabic-language papers that was intensely hostile towards the Christian community in general and towards alleged Protestant proselytizing in particular. Our co [...]
2008-04-14 14:23:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF CASC AG
08ALGIERS422MFA OFFICIAL: SAHEL HEATS UP AS MALI PLAYS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 13 meeting, MFA Director General (Assistant Secretary equivalent) for African Affairs Ismail Chergui told Ambassador that Algeria perceives that the security situation in northern Mali and Niger is deteriorating. Chergui said Algeria was frustrated by the "unhelpful" [...]
2008-04-14 17:55:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER AG
08ALGIERS427CHRISTIAN CHURCHES WRESTLE WITH GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Using a 2006 law, the Algerian government closed some Protestant churches in March amidst constant reporting by Algerian Arabic-language papers that was intensely hostile towards the Christian community in general and towards alleged Protestant proselytizing in particular. The Al [...]
2008-04-15 15:57:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF CASC AG
08ALGIERS434INTERIOR MINISTER CRITICIZES NGOS AS UNHELPFUL
[...] (C) Speaking during a parliamentary session held April 9, Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni stated that "international NGOs coming to Algeria are neither helping nor building the country." He asked MPs why they would work with such NGOs since they only came to Algeria for money. Zer [...]
2008-04-20 16:16:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS437PREPARING THE WAY FOR THE 2009 PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria is scheduled to hold its next presidential election in April 2009. Parliamentary and local elections in 2007 saw very low turnout and our contacts warn us of broad disinterest in the political system. In order to help avoid radicalization of some elements of the disench [...]
2008-04-21 16:05:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM AG
08ALGIERS448NEW AQIM VIDEOS ON THE INTERNET
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After an absence of more than nine months, the AQIM video series "Shadows of the Sword" has made a return to the jihadi website community. On April 14, AQIM released a new video showing two attacks on Algerian targets in Dellys and Boumerdes (Kabylie region),demonstrating AQIM [...]
2008-04-23 10:27:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER ASEC AG
08ALGIERS449SECURITY UPDATE: AQIM NOT GETTING STRONGER IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: According to information collected from press reporting, the number of terrorist attacks remained approximately the same in March 2008 compared to previous months but there appear to have been fewer casualties. The majority of these March attacks have been attributed to Al-Qaeda [...]
2008-04-23 10:27:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETASEC PTER AG
08ALGIERS465SLIPPING TOWARDS ADDICTION: ALGERIA'S EVOLVING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria is evolving from primarily a transit point for drugs entering Europe into a destination and producer of drugs. The first few months of 2008 have featured a wave of front-page press reports on domestic drug production, announcing that areas of the southern Sahel region ar [...]
2008-04-24 09:29:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALSNAR EAGR PREL PTER ECON AG
08ALGIERS466MUSLIM PARTY TRIES NEW APPROACH TO DECRIMINALIZE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Movement for a Society of Peace (MSP),the Muslim Brotherhood party that is one of the members of the ruling coalition in Algeria, proposed in parliament on April 22 to cancel a 2001 law that constitutes the basis for the criminalization of religious and journalistic speech. T [...]
2008-04-24 11:27:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KPAO AG
08ALGIERS492MORE GOVERNMENT VENOM DIRECTED AT NGOS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Algerian political figures continue to attack foreign NGOs working in Algeria. The April 27 press featured the head of the government's Human Rights Commission blaming Al-Jazeera TV and foreign NGOs for "threatening the country's national reconciliation program." Meanwhile, rh [...]
2008-05-01 06:22:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KDEM AG
08ALGIERS504FORM OVER FUNCTION: SURVIVING AS A NEWSPAPER IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Looking back on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's second term, many of our press contacts have told us of their concerns that press freedoms and competence are shrinking. At the time of Bouteflika's re-election in 2004, French-language daily Liberte was considered an aggressive re [...]
2008-05-05 10:13:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KDEM KPAO AG
08ALGIERS522EMBASSY URGES DECRIMINALIZATION OF PRESS DEFAMATION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day May 3, the Ambassador gave a major speech urging Algeria to decriminalize press defamation. The message received positive media coverage and was coupled with an emphasis on training to elevate the standards and ethics of responsible jou [...]
2008-05-08 10:09:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KDEM KPAO SCUL AG
08ALGIERS524REQUEST FOR SPECIAL MILAIR MEDEVAC FOR SICK
[...] A group of Algerians here in Algiers and in the USA has asked the Embassy for USG help airlifting a small child to the U.S. for medical treatment, and our doing so would be a terrific humanitarian gesture that the Algerian public would deeply appreciate. The two and one-half year old child na [...]
2008-05-09 10:43:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR AG
08ALGIERS555ALGERIANS ON MOROCCAN RAPPROCHEMENT EFFORT: CURB
[...] (C) SUMMARY: While expressing general support for dialogue and rapprochement in principle, Algerian officials from the Customs service to Prime Minister Belkhadem have voiced frustration at what they perceive as the unilateral and non-consultative manner in which Morocco launched its recent in [...]
2008-05-14 17:35:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL ECIN MO AG
08ALGIERS587ALGERIA RESPONSE ON LEBANON BUILDING ON ARAB
[...] (C) During a May 20 reception, Ambassador collared Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci and relayed reftel demarche message. Ambassador said the U.S. strongly supports the Arab league mediation of the Lebanon crisis and the agreement announced in Beirut on May 15. Medelci said that Alg [...]
2008-05-21 12:12:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL LE SY AG
08ALGIERS589MALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS ALGERIA
[...] (U) On May 20, the Algerian media reported that Malian Foreign Minister Moctar Ouane visited Algeria on May 19 to secure Algerian re-engagement on negotiations between the Malian government and Tuareg rebels in Northern Mali. According to press reports, after Ouane met with President Abdelaz [...]
2008-05-23 10:21:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL AG ML MR NG
08ALGIERS590MALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS ALGERIA
[...] (U) On May 20, the Algerian media reported that Malian Foreign Minister Moctar Ouane visited Algeria on May 19 to secure Algerian re-engagement on negotiations between the Malian government and Tuareg rebels in Northern Mali. According to press reports, after Ouane met with President Abdelaz [...]
2008-05-23 10:21:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL AG ML MR NG
08ALGIERS625JUDGE DEFERS DECISION IN HIGH-PROFILE RELIGIOUS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 30 Habiba Kouider, an Algerian who converted to Christianity approximately four years ago, was charged in the western Algerian town of Tiaret with illegally practicing a non-Muslim religion. On May 27 the Tiaret court delayed giving a final verdict in the case, choosing [...]
2008-05-30 17:49:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF KDEM PGOV AG
08ALGIERS661MOUNTING SOCIAL DISCONTENT DRIVES LATE MAY STREET
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Algeria's two biggest cities, Algiers and Oran, suffered prolonged street violence in late May at the hands of angry youths for whom disappointing soccer results were the final straw that pushed them into the streets. Parts of Algiers had to shut down each night May 20-22 due to [...]
2008-06-05 08:29:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI AG
08ALGIERS704SAHEL SECURITY: MFA SAYS ALGERIA REENGAGING ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 18 discussion with a visiting U.S. delegation led by Bureau of African Affairs Deputy Assistant Secretary Todd Moss, MFA Director General (Assistant Secretary equivalent) for African Affairs Ismail Chergui highlighted Algeria's commitment to the Algiers Accords, but onl [...]
2008-06-19 11:10:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER AG ML NG
08ALGIERS724FILLON VISIT HIGHLIGHTS DIFFERENT FRANCO-ALGERIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 20-22 visit to Algiers, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon signed bilateral cooperation agreements with the Algerian government in civilian nuclear energy development, military cooperation and financial cooperation to facilitate French investment in Algeria. Symbo [...]
2008-06-24 07:36:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP MARR FR AG
08ALGIERS728CABINET RESHUFFLE BRINGS OUYAHIA BACK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The AlgeriantopkQ/2QW]Qz&p_QQUQJune 23 a long-rumored cabinet reshuffle that catapulted Ahmed Ouyahia back into the prime minister's chair for the third time. Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem was downgraded to minister of state without portfolio, a role unlikely to represent a [...]
2008-06-24 15:42:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETPREL PGOV EAIR ECON AG
08ALGIERS75ALGERIANS VIEW POTUS TRIP WITH CAUTION, CYNICISM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Bush's recent trip to the Middle East attracted considerable if mostly cynical press coverage in Algeria, though the government issued no official statement. In general, press coverage and our MFA contacts indicate that Algerian expectations for the trip were low, speci [...]
2008-01-22 16:55:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL AG
08ALGIERS787THE HARRAGA: GIVE ME DIGNITY OR GIVE ME DEATH
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On the desolate beach of Sidi Salem, in the eastern suburbs of Annaba, a dozen young Algerian males alternate between kicking a soccer ball and working on several small, unmarked wooden boats. Each week, several boats leave from this beach, filled with a cross-section of frustrated you [...]
2008-07-13 07:11:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON SOCI AG
08ALGIERS798MFA SAYS TRIPARTITE NORTHERN MALI SECURITY TALKS
[...] (C) MFA Director General (A/S equivalent) for Africa Lounes Magramane told Charge on July 15 that although Algeria and the U.S. were on the same wavelength regarding the establishment of special security units in northern Mali, setting up a tripartite meeting in August involving Mali, Algeria [...]
2008-07-15 16:31:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR ML AG
08ALGIERS837MERKEL EXPLORES DEEPER ALGERIAN TIES - AND GAS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: German Chancellor Angela Merkel made her first visit to Algiers July 16-17 in an effort to boost natural gas supplies and promote stronger commercial ties between Germany and Algeria. Following on the heels of the Mediterranean Union Summit in Paris, Merkel's trip was also seen [...]
2008-07-28 16:06:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL EPET ETRD MARR GM AG
08ALGIERS865TEACHERS ON HUNGER STRIKE IN CONTRACT DISPUTE GET
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian teachers hired on short-term, renewable contracts are locked in a stand-off with the education ministry over demands for improved compensation and preferred consideration for permanent appointments. The teachers' demands have received steadily increasing attention in the [...]
2008-08-04 16:50:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ELAB SOCI AG
08ALGIERS904ALGERIA HAS NO GAS TO SPARE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite speculation in the press and pleas from Moroccan officials regarding new sales of Algerian natural gas to Morocco (ref A),as we have previously reported (refs B, C),Algeria will likely have little or no excess gas export capacity starting in 2009, and might face an expo [...]
2008-08-13 17:06:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALEPET ETRD ECON PREL MO AG
08ALGIERS916BOUTEFLIKA CAUTIOUSLY DEFENDS IRANIAN NUCLEAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 11 speech at an official breakfast in Tehran, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika cautiously affirmed Iran's legal right under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to develop a peaceful civilian nuclear energy program, but urged Iran to continue negotiations with the We [...]
2008-08-19 06:12:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PINR IR AG
08ALGIERS921ALGERIA SPEAKS OUT ON MAURITANIA COUP
[...] (U) MFA Minister-Delegate for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkhader Messahel (U/S equivalent) met with Mauritanian Special Envoy General Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mohamed Ahmed during an August 13 meeting in which the General passed a letter from coup leader General Abdelaziz addressed to Presiden [...]
2008-08-20 10:37:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MG AG
08ALGIERS922ALGERIA SPEAKS OUT ON MAURITANIA COUP
[...] (U) MFA Minister-Delegate for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkhader Messahel (U/S equivalent) met with Mauritanian Special Envoy General Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mohamed Ahmed during an August 13 meeting in which the General passed a letter from coup leader General Abdelaziz addressed to Presiden [...]
2008-08-20 11:38:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MG AG
08ALGIERS926THE TROUBLED MARRIAGE OF BOUTEFLIKA AND OUYAHIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The initial fanfare surrounding the June 23 return of Ahmed Ouyahia to the prime minister's chair has given way to a period of uncertainty and rumored tension between Ouyahia and President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The atmosphere has observers suggesting that Ouyahia was not Boutefl [...]
2008-08-21 10:50:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AG
08ALGIERS930NEW FINANCE LAW MIXES PROTECTIONISM AND FITFUL
[...] SUMMARY: The 2008 supplemental finance law adopted on July 27 raised the per-barrel oil price used to calculate government revenue and included measures to stimulate business growth and develop the country's moribund agricultural sector. At the same time, the law alienated many with a contro [...]
2008-08-23 07:35:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON ETRD AG
08ALGIERS935POLISARIO COMMITTED TO NEGOTIATE BUT WITHOUT VAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to ref A demarche, Polisario Ambassador to Algeria Ibrahim Ghali told us on August 24 that the Sahrawi leadership is firmly committed to continuing negotiations with Morocco in the near future but only if a new moderator approved by the United Nations Secretary Genera [...]
2008-08-25 10:19:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PREF UNSC WI MO AG
08ALGIERS97SUPPORT FOR AQIM MAKES ALI BENHADJ ONCE AGAIN A
[...] (C) Ali Benhadj, the former leader of the outlawed Islamic Salvation Front (FIS),has lent his name and support to the recruiting efforts of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Contacts tell us that the government views Benhadj as a threat to its anti-AQIM efforts, but believes putting him [...]
2008-01-28 06:23:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPTER PINS KISL AG
08ALGIERS984THE KABYLIE: RELUCTANT REFUGE FOR TERRORISTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A string of suicide bombings just east of Algiers (ref A) has brought renewed focus on the Kabylie mountains and the disproportionate amount of terrorist activity occurring there. A fiercely independent center of Berber culture and tradition for centuries, the Kabylie region has [...]
2008-09-12 11:30:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER KISL AG
08AMMAN106WELCOME STAFFDEL THIELMANN
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Mr. Gregory Thielmann, Mr. Paul Matulic, Ms. Jacqueline Russel, Ms. Jennifer Wagner, and Lt. Col. Peter Bloom to Jordan from January 16, 2008 through January 18, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, espe [...]
2008-01-13 11:35:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AU IAEA IS LB JO
08AMMAN1083JORDAN'S ASPIRING JOURNALISTS DISCUSS BLEAK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Over two hundred aspiring young journalists discussed bleak employment prospects and fears over censorship at Jordan's first Youth Media Forum. The forum featured frank panel discussions among professional journalists, academicians, and students about issues of press freedoms in [...]
2008-04-13 14:37:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALKDEM SCUL JO
08AMMAN1142 HHS DEPUTY SECRETARY TROY VISIT TO JORDAN BOLSTERS MEDICAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Secretary Tevi Troy's March 30-April 2 visit to Jordan included the high-profile groundbreaking for the King Hussein Institute for Biotechnology and Cancer (KHIBC) with King Abdullah and Queen Rania. In other meetings, Troy discussed Jorda [...]
2008-04-17 07:26:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL TBIO ETRD KIPR JO
08AMMAN1163COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- MARKWELL
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of MSG LEE MARKWELL TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 30 APR 08 - 16 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of Stat [...]
2008-04-20 06:42:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1164COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- COSTA+3
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of COL CHRISTOPHER COSTA+3 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 26 APR 08 - 1 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department o [...]
2008-04-20 06:42:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1165COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- PRINS+7
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of MAJ FREDERICK PRINS +7 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 26 APR 08 - 1 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of [...]
2008-04-20 06:42:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1166COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- BERG+2
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of CPT CHRISTOPHER BERG +2 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 26 APR 08 - 1 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department o [...]
2008-04-20 06:42:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1167COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- MARKWELL
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of MSG LEE MARKWELL TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 30 APR 08 - 16 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of Stat [...]
2008-04-20 06:42:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1168COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- KLUCKHUHN+1
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of LCDR CHRISTOPHER KLUCKHUHN+1 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 21 APR 08 - 27 APR 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Depart [...]
2008-04-20 06:45:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1169COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- MARKWELL
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of MSG LEE MARKWELL TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 30 APR 08 - 16 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of Stat [...]
2008-04-20 06:57:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1170COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- KLUCKHUHN+1
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of LCDR CHRISTOPHER KLUCKHUHN+1 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 21 APR 08 - 27 APR 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Depart [...]
2008-04-20 06:57:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1171COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- MARKWELL
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of MSG LEE MARKWELL TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 30 APR 08 - 16 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of Stat [...]
2008-04-20 06:57:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1172COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- COSTA+3
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of COL CHRISTOPHER COSTA+3 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 26 APR 08 - 1 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department o [...]
2008-04-20 06:57:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1173COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- PRINS+7
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of MAJ FREDERICK PRINS +7 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 26 APR 08 - 1 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of [...]
2008-04-20 06:57:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1174COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL- BERG+2
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of CPT CHRISTOPHER BERG +2 TO AMMAN, DURING THE PERIOD OF 26 APR 08 - 1 MAY 08, as requested in reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department o [...]
2008-04-20 06:58:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN120JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Somnath
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Somnath Bhattacharyya to Jordan from 15 - 22 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic [...]
2008-01-13 14:55:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN121JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Robert Hays and James
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Robert Hays and James Rennie to Jordan from 29 January - 3 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of Sta [...]
2008-01-13 14:57:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN122JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Perry Tillman
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Perry Tillman to Jordan from 17 January to 5 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic c [...]
2008-01-13 14:57:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN123JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Samuel Helland + 9
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Samuel Helland, Ronald Coleman, Kevin Kelley, Rhonda Martin, Peter Dahl, Dennis Reed, Daniel Burs, Raphael Sanchez, Raymond Terlaje and Aaron Labertew to Jordan from 11 - 12 February 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully revie [...]
2008-01-13 14:58:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN124JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Mark Pruitt and Frank
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Mark Pruitt and Frank Fuller to Jordan from 20 - 25 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State elect [...]
2008-01-13 15:01:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN125JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Timothy Hill + 3
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Timothy Hill, David Baker, Hugh Sutherland and Mark Engen to Jordan from 18 - 20 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007 [...]
2008-01-13 15:01:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN131JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Edwin Kobeski
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Edwin Kobeski to Jordan from 18 - 20 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic country [...]
2008-01-14 10:02:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1329MODERATE ISLAM - PROMOTING THE AMMAN MESSAGE, FOUR
[...] (SBU) Jordanian Islamic scholars, in close cooperation with the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, continue to propagate the themes of moderation and authentic Islam represented by the Amman Message and its sequel, the Amman Interfaith Message. The Amman Message seeks to promote [...]
2008-04-30 15:36:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL JO
08AMMAN133JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Eduardo Granados + 6
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Eduardo Granado, John Fejerang, Paul Davis, Andre Sterling, Frank Shirley, John R. Smith and John L. Smith to Jordan from 9 - 14 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat asses [...]
2008-01-14 12:22:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN136JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SANA AKILI
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Department of Commerce Officer Sana Akili to Jordan from January 30 to February 03, 2008, as requested reftel. The purpose of her visit is to attend meetings with CLDP interlocutors on MEPI and Iraq programs. The travelers should carefully revie [...]
2008-01-14 14:18:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV OTRA JO
08AMMAN138JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR OPIC OFFICERS DRUMHELLER AND
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of OPIC Officers Robert Drumheller and Mary Mervenne to Jordan from January 21-25, 2008, as requested reftel. The purpose of the trip is to attend meetings with clients regarding IMMDF, and discuss potential housing finance projects for OPIC. The [...]
2008-01-14 14:20:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV OPIC OTRA JO
08AMMAN139JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Brian Kulley
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Brian Kulley to Jordan from 20 - 24 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic country c [...]
2008-01-14 14:34:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1392IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES -- JORDAN
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Jordan is a net importer of food, and the global increase in food and agricultural commodity prices could not have come at a worse time. Jordan recently embarked on an ambitious economic reform program, buying back debt to lower debt service and eliminating fuel subsidies. Add t [...]
2008-05-08 09:04:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON PGOV JO
08AMMAN1446SOMETIMES THE WEAK SURVIVE - JORDAN'S NEW
[...] (C) Summary: In the wake of a new political parties law, the number of parties in Jordan has been cut in half. The public financing envisioned by the law has yet to appear, and the parties are wary of the strings that may be attached to it. Fourteen parties remain - five liberal reformist p [...]
2008-05-12 16:29:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM JO
08AMMAN1447UNEASE IN JORDAN OVER LEBANON
[...] (C) Summary: Jordanian officials have reacted to the latest outbreak of violence in Lebanon with consternation and with a strong statement of support for the legitimate government of Lebanon. They have urged the U.S. to take a more active role in de-escalating the crisis and are ramping up t [...]
2008-05-12 16:41:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL JO LE
08AMMAN1455LAND DEALS GENERATE A DEBATE ABOUT TRANSPARENCY
[...] (C) Summary: Three recent land deals by the state to foreign investors have raised questions among the public about transparency in Jordan. The alleged sale of the King Hussein Medical Center (and an adjoining military complex),the cancellation of a deal to construct a casino on the Dead Se [...]
2008-05-13 10:55:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KCOR AE JO
08AMMAN1466CITIZENSHIP OF MANY JORDANIAN-PALESTINIANS STILL
[...] (C) Summary: Twenty years after Jordan severed its legal and administrative ties to the West Bank, the repercussions are still being felt, and not merely in the central peace process assumption that the West Bank will become the core of a Palestinian state. Through vague regulations and opaqu [...]
2008-05-14 06:33:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPAL PREF KDEM KWBG IS JO
08AMMAN1483JORDAN WORRIED MUGHRABI GATE ISSUE WILL HARM TIES
[...] (C) Summary: Director of Policy Planning and Research at the Foreign Ministry Omar Nahar - supported by representatives from the Ministry of Awqaf, Islamic Affairs and Holy Sites as well as the Department of Antiquities - briefed PolOffs May 14 on the latest developments surrounding different [...]
2008-05-14 15:33:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG JO IS
08AMMAN149JORDANIAN ELITES WELCOME PRESIDENT,S ENGAGEMENT ON
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: In the wake of President Bush's visit to Israel and the West Bank, Jordanian officials and observers have voiced what ranges between cautious optimism and tempered pessimism that the revitalized peace process will bear fruit this year. Officialdom has voiced the gre [...]
2008-01-15 15:24:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG JO IS
08AMMAN1497May 21 - Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-15 12:54:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL KPAO KDEM EUN CU JO
08AMMAN1533DEBATE OVER PUBLIC GATHERINGS LAW BALANCES CONTROL
[...] (C) Summary: Jordan's government is working on a new public gatherings law which will replace the much-criticized statute now in force. As the system currently operates, requests for demonstrations and public meetings must be approved by the regional governor. The criteria by which those re [...]
2008-05-20 12:57:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM JO
08AMMAN1534BETWEEN EXTREMISTS AND STAR ACADEMY:
[...] (C) SUMMARY: "Hayat FM" founder and chairman Musa Saket plans to expand his Islamic-oriented radio station's broadcast range from its current central Jordan media markets in Amman and Zarqa to the northern and southern parts of the country in the next few months. His station, which he founde [...]
2008-05-20 14:39:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALSCUL KISL KPAO KDEM JO
08AMMAN1549JORDAN EARTH DAY 2008 PROGRAMMING ENGAGES YOUTH, MEDIA,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Amman organized three successful events for Earth Day 2008: a high-profile April 19 beach and dive clean-up in Aqaba; speaking engagements by Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel, a renowned speaker on environmental issues from the Union of Concerned Scientists; and a regional MEPI-funde [...]
2008-05-22 09:31:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PGOV PREL KPAO JO
08AMMAN155JORDANIAN MEDIA REACTION TO THE PRESIDENT'S VISIT
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Jordanian press commentary has focused this past week on President Bush's visit to the region and his meetings with Arab and Israeli leaders. Opinions in Jordanian editorials were mixed. While there was praise for the symbolism of the President's visit, particularly to the West B [...]
2008-01-16 05:53:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDJO KPAO KMDR
08AMMAN1569PARLIAMENT'S EXTRAORDINARY SESSION - A PREVIEW
[...] (C) Summary: Jordan's parliament is expected to reconvene in mid-June for an extraordinary session following a directive from the King. Among the thirty-three laws up for consideration are a major reform of the social security system, a landmark law governing the operations of civil society, [...]
2008-05-22 16:56:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KDEM JO
08AMMAN1570THE IAF'S ENTOURAGE
[...] (C) Summary: The Higher Coordinating Committee of National Opposition Parties (HCCNOP) is a group of seven Jordanian political parties which is dominated by the Islamic Action Front (IAF),the political wing of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood. The committee, originally formed to counter Jordan's [...]
2008-05-22 17:00:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM JO
08AMMAN1579KING AND STAFFDEL DISCUSS PEACE PROCESS, LEBANON,
[...] (C) Summary: On May 26, a delegation of eleven Congressional staffers met with King Abdullah and Queen Rania as part of a trip organized by the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The King was relatively downbeat on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and Lebanon. He identified events [...]
2008-05-26 16:27:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON KDEM KWBG IS IZ LE JO
08AMMAN161JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR James Johnson + 3
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of James Johnson, Daren Baker and Wanda Bisbal to Jordan from 29 January - 3 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the De [...]
2008-01-16 13:49:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1614TRIBULATIONS OF JORDAN'S "PEACE CAMP": ISRAELI
[...] (C) Summary: Sixty years after Israel's establishment and 14 years after the formal establishment of Israeli-Jordanian peace, the Jordanian atmosphere outside government circles remains hostile to advocates of reconciliation with Israel, and to those who interact with Israelis and Israeli ins [...]
2008-05-28 09:33:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAL IS JO
08AMMAN1616JORDAN TESTING A RANGE OF PROGRAMS TO PROVIDE MORE ANIMAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Jordan's current animal feed subsidy program is based on an inaccurate count of sheep and goats, and consumes a steadily increasing share of the Government of Jordan's (GOJ) budget. An animal tagging project is expected to decrease the fodder subsidy by USD 87 million. As it mo [...]
2008-05-28 10:57:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EFIN JO
08AMMAN163JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Michael Reber, Shaun
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Michael Reber, Shaun Mahaffey and John Walmsley to Jordan from 20-21/22-24 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the De [...]
2008-01-16 13:50:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN164JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Ghassan Aldebs
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Ghassan Aldebs to Jordan from 18 - 29 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic country [...]
2008-01-16 13:51:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN1658GOJ TAKES STEPS TOWARD IRAQ, AND COMMENTARIAT ASKS
[...] (S/NF) Summary. The King's deep dismay over the absence of an effective, moderate Arab strategy to deal with Iran's manipulation of conflicts in the Arab world has focused him on improving Arab states' relations with Iraq, using Prime Minister Maliki's action against Iranian interests as cause [...]
2008-06-02 15:30:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL IZ JO
08AMMAN1666STAFFDEL DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESS, REGIONAL EVENTS,
[...] (C) Summary: During a week-long visit to Jordan organized by the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a ten-member U.S. congressional staffdel met with a variety of senior figures, including Prime Minister Nader Al-Dahabi, Royal Court Chief Bassem Awadallah, Advisor to the Chief of Defense [...]
2008-06-03 15:00:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON KIRF KPAL IS SY IZ IR LE JO
08AMMAN1731JORDAN TRANSPARENCY ROUNDUP - AS ACCOUNTABILITY
[...] (C) Summary. Institutions designed to increase transparency and accountability in Jordan are starting to flex their bureaucratic muscles. The audit bureau released a report outlining its activities in 2007, and the Anti-Corruption Commission announced that it had referred its first cases fo [...]
2008-06-10 12:09:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KCOR JO
08AMMAN1752Media Supports Launch of Harrison Ford Public Service
[...] (U) In celebration of World Environment Day, Embassy Amman, in cooperation with the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN),organized the launch of Harrison Ford's Public Service Announcements (PSAs) on wildlife trafficking at the Wild Jordan Nature Center on June 5. Forty indivi [...]
2008-06-12 05:25:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PGOV ETRD PREL KPAO JO
08AMMAN1753PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS IN JORDAN, PART 4:
[...] (SBU) Note: This is the fourth cable of a four-part series examining the world of Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps. Part one focused on the different categories of refugees, and the basic structure of the camp system as it exists in Jordan. Part two examined the isolation of the camps - h [...]
2008-06-12 06:43:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KPAL KISL KREF JO
08AMMAN1765Workshop Provides "How To" Advice on Maximizing the
[...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. Foreign Commercial Service (FCS),in coordination with the USAID-funded Jordanian Business Development Center, held a practical workshop June 3-4 for importers and exporters on how to maximize the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Approximately 120 participants f [...]
2008-06-12 14:45:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EAGR WTRO JO
08AMMAN1821JORDANIAN RESPONSE TO G/TIP REPORT: SURPISED AT
[...] (U) Summary: Following Post delivery of Ref A points and an advance copy of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report on Jordan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there has been moderate press coverage and limited civil society reaction. The general feeling among media, civil society, and go [...]
2008-06-19 11:03:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALELAB PHUM QIZ JO
08AMMAN1834CHECKS AND BALANCES IN JORDAN, PART 2 -
[...] (SBU) This cable is part two of a series which examines the peculiar system of internal checks and balances that serves as an accountability mechanism for Jordan's government. The first part looked at the Legislative Bureau, where all of Jordan's laws and regulations are written. This cable [...]
2008-06-19 14:55:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM JO
08AMMAN1859JORDANIAN RESPONSE TO G/TIP REPORT: SURPISED AT
[...] (U) Summary: Following Post delivery of Ref A points and an advance copy of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report on Jordan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there has been moderate press coverage and limited civil society reaction. The general feeling among media, civil society, and go [...]
2008-06-23 08:41:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PHUM QIZ JO
08AMMAN1871TRIBAL CONSERVATIVES PUSH PUBLIC GATHERINGS LAW
[...] (C) Summary: On the strength of a bloc of tribal conservatives, the lower house of parliament has endorsed amendments to Jordan's public gatherings law. The pro-government bloc pushed the bill through despite several attempts by a coalition of Islamists and liberals to either water it down [...]
2008-06-24 05:59:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL JO
08AMMAN1927APPLICATION FOR OPIC FINANCE: ARAB BANK PLC, CAIRO AMMAN
[...] As requested in reftel, this cable provides information on Arab Bank PLC, Cairo Amman Bank and the Housing Bank for Trade and Finance. Post is not aware of any recent events in Jordan that would prohibit OPIC from providing financing to the three banks. All three borrowers are reputable membe [...]
2008-07-01 04:33:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN JO
08AMMAN1982JORDAN NAMES AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ
[...] (C) On June 30, the GOJ swore in Nayef Fantoul al-Zeidan as Ambassador to Iraq, following through on last month's pledge to finally appoint a representative in Baghdad, after a long gap (reftel). This is the latest in a series of steps suggesting that the King is having success reorienting hi [...]
2008-07-02 14:37:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ JO
08AMMAN1984KING LASHES OUT AT CONSERVATIVE CRITICS IN A BID
[...] (C) Summary: In an extensive interview with the quasi-official Petra News Agency, King Abdullah defended Jordan's economic opening while acknowledging the squeeze it temporarily places on average citizens. Facing off against armchair critics, the King gave a detailed rationale for land sale [...]
2008-07-02 15:25:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KDEM KCOR JO
08AMMAN1992ANTI-NORMALIZERS THREATEN JORDAN MUSIC FESTIVAL,
[...] (C) Local and regional press over the past couple of weeks had reported mounting pressure on the Jordanian government to cancel the upcoming Jordan Festival, in the face of apparently unfounded accusations that a French company involved with organizing the festival also had a hand in Israel's [...]
2008-07-06 09:48:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV SCUL JO
08AMMAN2051A TWELVE YEAR OLD'S INDISCRETION LEADS TO MINOR
[...] (SBU) Limited violence, probably sectarian in nature, flared in Irbid on July 6 after some Muslims' religious sensibilities were apparently offended by a local boy. Coverage of the event, especially in the print press, has been spotty, and the Jordanian daily al-Ghad was careful to avoid ment [...]
2008-07-10 08:28:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KIRF KISL JO
08AMMAN2052ISLAMIST WEEKLY SEEKS TO CHALLENGE MUSLIM
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Fact International ("al-Haqiqa al-Duwlia") Chairman Zakaria al-Sheikh told us recently that his Islamist weekly newspaper seeks to challenge the dominance of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Islamist press. While his newspaper criticizes the Muslim Brotherhood and aims to "portray [...]
2008-07-10 10:22:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALKISL SCUL SOCI JO
08AMMAN2062PARLIAMENT PASSES LAW ON ASSOCIATIONS DESPITE
[...] (C) Summary: Jordan's lower house of parliament has passed a new law on associations which places restrictions on civil society. The law passed in spite of vocal protests from a broad spectrum of civil society leaders. In the end, tribal conservatives flexed their political muscles in parli [...]
2008-07-10 11:14:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM JO
08AMMAN210JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Ronald Oswalt + 15
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Ronald swalt, Tommy Evans, David Snodgrass, Charles Bowers, Daniel Woodward, Vickie Whiteaker, Eileen White, Lynn Burmeister, Terri Riley, Erin McCarter, Charles Pace, Romeo Victorio, Eugene O'Sullivan, Betty Taylor, Donald Clarke and Richard Wag [...]
2008-01-22 05:35:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN211JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Kabran Johnson + 5
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Kabran Johnson, Nicky Baggett, Peter Leary, Mark Decamp, Michael Keller and Lawrence Gump to Jordan from 10 - 14 February 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragrap [...]
2008-01-22 05:36:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN2133JORDAN SCENESETTER FOR JULY 22 VISIT OF CODEL REED
[...] (U) Embassy Amman welcomes the visit to Jordan of CODEL Reed. Jordan remains one of the United States' strongest partners in promoting peace and security in the Middle East, and is active in a broad range of regional engagement activities. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) King Abdullah is ap [...]
2008-07-16 13:17:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV JO
08AMMAN2139JORDAN'S FIRST INDEPENDENT TV STATION CHANGES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Nearly one year after its scheduled on-air debut, Jordan's first independent television station, ATV, has not yet begun broadcasting despite its second change of ownership in less than one year. In the midst of a week-long sit-in staged by employees complaining that they have not [...]
2008-07-17 07:09:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV KPAO KMDR JO
08AMMAN2154U.S.-Jordan Joint Committee Meeting Forms Seven Working
[...] Summary: The first meeting of Jordan-United States Joint Committee on Science and Technology Cooperation (JCM) resulted in new energy initiatives, enhanced collaboration on environmental issues, and the formation of seven separate working groups on water, environment, energy, agriculture, ed [...]
2008-07-17 11:35:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDTSPL SENV PREL EAID TBIO TPHY ETRD JO
08AMMAN2161AMMAN EAC ON 17 JULY 2008
[...] (SBU) CDA convened the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on 17 July 2008 to review the Mission's security posture in light of a shooting incident that occurred last night at Al Hashimiyah Square in Amman. All agencies and sections were represented. 2. (SBU) RSO briefed the EAC on the event [...]
2008-07-17 15:29:00Embassy AmmanSECRET//NOFORNASEC CASC PTER JO
08AMMAN2184JORDANIAN ATTENDANCE AT JUNE MEK CONFERENCE IN
[...] (C) Summary: Media in Jordan and Iran have reported the attendance of thirty-three Jordanian MPs and journalists at a Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) conference in a Paris suburb June 26-30. The incident prompted a diplomatic protest from Tehran, and an awkward response from Amman. A post contact w [...]
2008-07-21 05:41:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL FR IZ IR BE JO
08AMMAN2202GOJ: NO POLICY CHANGE ON IRAQI REFUGEES DESPITE
[...] (C) Summary: Despite a recent media report that the GOJ would no longer grant or extend residence permits to Iraqis living in Jordan, there is no indication that the GOJ has, in fact, altered its procedures, and local media subsequently reported an MOI denial of any change. In a July 20 meeti [...]
2008-07-21 15:07:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREF JO IZ
08AMMAN2206LABOR LAW: WORKER PROTECTION IMPROVED, BUT FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: Four of six proposed amendments to Jordan's Labor Law - including one expanding its coverage to domestic and agricultural workers - were endorsed by the Parliament during its special session. However, an amendment that would have allowed Jordan's legal foreign workers - 450,000 [...]
2008-07-22 11:59:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALELAB ECON ETRD KTEX PGOV JO
08AMMAN224JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Susan Myers and Kelly
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Susan Myers and Kelly Porscheke to Jordan from 2 - 9 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State ele [...]
2008-01-22 13:02:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN228 JORDAN AND SYRIA SIGN 12 AGREEMENTS TO BOOST BILATERAL
[...] (U) Jordan and Syria signed 12 agreements designed to strengthen bilateral relations following up on the 12th session of the Joint Jordanian-Syrian Higher Committee which concluded December 31. The agreements address economic integration, trade, agriculture, water, health, industry, transport [...]
2008-01-22 14:59:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECIN EAGR PREL SENV JO SY
08AMMAN2292"WHAT ABOUT OUR PRISONERS?" JORDANIANS ASK AFTER
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Jordan's front pages have been crowded over the past two weeks with demands from local figures and advocacy groups for the release of four Jordanians, currently detained in Jordanian jails, who were turned over by Israel in July of 2007 (Ref A). These groups, includi [...]
2008-07-31 13:51:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER JO IS
08AMMAN2316KING'S HOUSING INITIATIVE FOR LOW-INCOME CITIZENS ENHANCED
[...] (U) Summary: King Abdullah dubbed 2008 the "Year of Housing" for Jordan, and has launched a housing initiative with the goal of building 20,000 units per year. The initiative will include government-provided land and infrastructure, privately-constructed units, and bank-provided mortgages targ [...]
2008-08-05 10:26:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON PGOV SOCI JO
08AMMAN2337POLITICAL PARTY DEVELOPMENTS - MAJALI TRIES AGAIN,
[...] (C) Summary: Jordanian lower house of parliament speaker Abdulhadi Al-Majali has been planning for some time to transform his "National Democratic Trend" from a parliamentary bloc into a full-fledged political party. Now that the initial uncertainty surrounding Jordan's political parties law [...]
2008-08-10 06:08:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM JO
08AMMAN2369JORDAN'S INFLATION RATE FOR JULY 2008 PEAKS AT 19 PERCENT
[...] (U) Inflation in Jordan continues to rise. Jordan's Department of Statistics (DOS) reported a 2.3% increase in the monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) between June 2008 and July 2008, the largest increase since February 2008 when the cessation of fuel subsidies resulted in a 6.5% increase (reft [...]
2008-08-12 12:50:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDECON SOCI JO
08AMMAN238JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Joseph Benkert + 2
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Joseph Benkert, Melissa Henton and Jeffrey Cima to Jordan from 2 - 9 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Depa [...]
2008-01-23 08:37:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN2381AFTER IRAQ VIST, JORDAN'S KING TO PUSH PEERS TO
[...] (C) Summary: King Abdullah and the senior officials who accompanied him to Iraq on August 11 consider the visit a success, and one that will lead to intensified bilateral contacts. The King also hopes to use the example he has just set to convince other Arab leaders to follow suit. Our cont [...]
2008-08-13 16:05:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL EPET IZ JO
08AMMAN239JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Joseph Lontos + 45
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Joseph Lontos, Kimberly Mitchell, Leif Eckholm, Michael Terry, Janis Simmons, Joseph Rachal, Francis Rodriguez, Martin Shulman, Robert Neal, Kelly Porscheke, Ebert Donald, Jeffrey Mintzlaff, Steven Miller, Mary Land, William Jensen, Jerome Barret [...]
2008-01-23 08:38:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN2414IN REVERSAL, JORDAN SET TO RELEASE "QAFQAFA FOUR"
[...] (C) Summary: The Jordanian government appears set to release soon the four prisoners whom Israel turned over to Jordan in July 2007. The government justifies the move - which on the surface seems to contradict a bilateral Israeli-Jordanian understanding that they were to remain in jail for 1 [...]
2008-08-18 15:47:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER JO IS
08AMMAN2424JORDANIAN OFFICIALS MEET WITH HAMAS AND THE MUSLIM
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Jordanian media outlets have reported in recent weeks that Lieutenant General Mohammad Dahabi, the head of the General Intelligence Department (GID),has held a series of separate meetings with members of the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (JMB) and its political party [...]
2008-08-19 14:17:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPGOV PREL KISL KPAL JO
08AMMAN255JORDANIAN NGOS QUESTION THEMSELVES AND RESOLVE TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOJ withdrew two highly controversial bills on professional associations and NGOs from Parliament on January 9. Minister of State for Media Affairs Nasser Judeh told the press that the withdrawal reflected "the government's keenness to proceed with political development an [...]
2008-01-23 14:37:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM JO
08AMMAN2564UNHCR Jordan: No Plans for Large-Scale Iraqi Repatriations
[...] (SBU) Summary: A press report that Iraqi-chartered planes would fly Iraqi refugees home from Jordan before the end of Ramadan is an exaggeration. UNHCR-Jordan and the GOI discussed possible repatriation methods during a late August 2008 meeting. However, neither party committed to plans for [...]
2008-09-03 13:22:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF EAID IZ JO
08AMMAN257JORDANIAN CONDEMNATION OF AND DEMONSTRATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: Jordanian officials up through King Abdullah and the Queen have reacted with dismay - and portions of the public (egged on by the Islamic Action Front) more angrily - to the intensification of Israel's "siege" of the Gaza Strip. The government has condemned Israeli policies and d [...]
2008-01-23 15:00:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG JO IS
08AMMAN2585MAJALI RALLIES HIS NEW POLITICAL PARTY, AND
[...] (C) Summary: The National Trend bloc of Lower House Speaker Abdulhadi Al-Majali is now well on the road to becoming a political party. Despite some last minute defections, the group has held its organizing conference and is currently drawing up the necessary paperwork to formally register as [...]
2008-09-07 05:41:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM JO
08AMMAN2599UNHCR Jordan Budget and Program planning for
[...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR Jordan Deputy Representative Arafat Jamal told RefCoord September 3 that the UNHCR 09 budget would be approximately 44 million USD. Some of those funds, he noted, would go directly to Jordanian line ministries that provide services to Iraqi refugees. Food distribution wo [...]
2008-09-08 12:25:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF EAID JO
08AMMAN2633GOVERNMENT TO RECONSIDER LAW ON ASSOCIATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: Jordan's government announced on September 8 its intention to revisit the controversial Law on Associations (Refs A-D). PM Dahabi convened civil society leaders to manage expectations and chart a way forward. Initial indications are that civil society remains split on how far to [...]
2008-09-10 13:36:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM JO
08AMMAN2671KBR TRAFFICKING LAWSUIT GENERATING WIDE INTEREST
[...] (U) Summary: A lawsuit recently filed in California against Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc., and Jordanian firm Daoud & Partners for allegedly trafficking 13 Nepalese into Iraq has generated wide interest. Commentators are demanding that the GOJ investigate, prodded along by spurious allegations th [...]
2008-09-15 11:48:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KTIP NP IZ JO
08AMMAN2673AWADALLAH FACES MORE HITS FROM THE RUMOR MILL
[...] (C) Summary: Royal Court Chief Bassem Awadallah, long an object of anti-Palestinian, anti-reformist anger and resentment, is facing yet another round of malicious gossip and slander designed to compel his ouster. This time, the allegations focus on a guilt-by-association link between Awadall [...]
2008-09-15 12:28:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPGOV KCOR JO
08AMMAN269JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Michael Ledeboer + 6
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Michael Ledeboer, James Allen, Sheila Hansen, Tarik Samman, Jacek Stawiski, Anurag Chhabra and Thomas Cooley to Jordan from 31 January - 8 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the th [...]
2008-01-27 06:08:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN2690Amman Hosting Regional Conference on Investigative
[...] Well known Jordanian journalist Rana Sabbagh, the Executive Director of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ),is organizing a regional conference November 28 - 30 on investigative journalism which is scheduled to include big name media figures such as Yusri Foda of Al Jazeera and [...]
2008-09-17 11:33:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDJO KPAO PREL
08AMMAN27JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Alex Williams +
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Alex Williams, Keith Thompson, Dane Kaley, Alfredo Ferrer, Charles Langston, Rodney Walters and Stephen Kennedy to Jordan from 3 February through 28 March, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especiall [...]
2008-01-06 09:21:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN270JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR James Allen and
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of James Allen and Albert Rodriguez to Jordan from 23 February - 12 March, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of [...]
2008-01-27 06:08:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN2756PARLIAMENT'S FALL SESSION: A PREVIEW
[...] (SBU) Summary: Jordan's parliament will return for its ordinary session on October 5. The first order of business will be the election of the speaker, a vote that current speaker Abdulhadi Al-Majali seems to have clinched already. Economic issues are set to dominate the agenda, with complica [...]
2008-09-28 05:17:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON KDEM JO
08AMMAN2757PARLIAMENT'S FALL SESSION: A PREVIEW
[...] (SBU) Summary: Jordan's parliament will return for its ordinary session on October 5. The first order of business will be the election of the speaker, a vote that current speaker Abdulhadi Al-Majali seems to have clinched already. Economic issues are set to dominate the agenda, with complica [...]
2008-09-28 06:12:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON KDEM JO
08AMMAN2781MEDIA REPORTS FURTHER GOJ CONTACT WITH THE MUSLIM
[...] (U) Media outlets reported recently that the director of the General Intelligence Department (GID),LTG Mohammad Dahabi, held a third round of meetings with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and spoke on the phone with HAMAS Political Bureau Director Khaled Meshal in mid September. Islamist-leaning [...]
2008-09-29 14:15:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALJO KISL KPAL PGOV
08AMMAN2783FY09 PRIORITIES AND WORK-ITEMS FOR AMMAN ESTH HUB
[...] The Amman ESTH Hub for the NEA Bureau was established in 1997 and supports 17 countries in the NEA region. The current incumbent (Manu Bhalla) is the fourth Hub officer and is supported by a regional environmental specialist (currently vacant). The Amman Hub advances a wide range of regional [...]
2008-10-05 11:02:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TSPL TBIO ETRD EAID PGOV JO
08AMMAN2798KING SHUFFLES THE ROYAL COURT, CALLS PARLIAMENT TO
[...] (C) Summary: Last week saw the culmination of recent rumors as Royal Court Chief Bassem Awadallah stepped down and was replaced by East Banker Nasser Al-Lozi. In Lozi, King Abdullah has found the desired centrist, establishment figure to rebuild relationships following the departure of his c [...]
2008-10-06 14:07:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV JO
08AMMAN28JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Lovelace + 4
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of James Lovelace, William Miracle, William Huggins, Philip Archer and Shane Tuttle to Jordan from 7 - 8 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. [...]
2008-01-06 09:22:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN280JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Ghassan Aldebs
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Carl Stubbert to Jordan from 10 - 13 March, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic country cl [...]
2008-01-28 05:52:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN282JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Keith Riggle
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Keith Riggle to Jordan from 3 - 6 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic country cl [...]
2008-01-28 05:54:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN283JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Jonathan Maddock +
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Jonathan Maddock, Michael Ledeboer, Thomas Chrzanowski, Thomas Cooley, Anurag Chhabra, Sheila Hansen, James Heidt, Emaan Osman, David Prosen, Tarik Samman, Stephen Sheehy, Jacek Stawiski, Stephen Williamson, Jesse Wintjes and Alan Young to Jordan [...]
2008-01-28 05:55:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN284JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Eric Christopher
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Eric to Jordan from 1 - 8 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic country clearance [...]
2008-01-28 05:55:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN285JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Max Krupp + 11
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Max Krupp, Steven Brackin, Joshua Curtis, John Meadows, Michael Guiso, Jesse Byrd, Jimmie Cusick, Christian Wallace, Mark Watson, Jerry Wilson, Rick McIntosh and Shaun Smith to Jordan from 30 January - 29 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The [...]
2008-01-28 05:56:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN29JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR William Louden
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of William Louden to Jordan from 29 December through 4 January 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State elect [...]
2008-01-06 09:23:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN296JORDAN'S SUBSIDY-FREE 2008 BUDGET PASSES LOWER HOUSE OF
[...] (U) On January 24, Jordan's lower house of parliament approved the 2008 budget by a vote of 87-11, with three abstentions and nine absentees. Three days of discussion in the parliament focused on the impact of financial reform, particularly the end of fuel subsidies, on limited income citizens [...]
2008-01-29 05:48:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ENRG PGOV EAID JO
08AMMAN2973JORDANIAN POET ON TRIAL FOR BLASPHEMY
[...] (SBU) Charges against a Jordanian poet, Islam Samhan, for allegedly defaming and insulting religion through Quranic verses and prophets in his book of poetry, "Grace Like a Shadow," has pitted religious leaders against public calls for greater freedom of expression. Eight months after the book [...]
2008-10-29 10:54:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KIRF SOCI JO
08AMMAN30JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR James Holland and Peter
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of James Holland and Peter McGrew to Jordan from 17 January through 2 February, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Departmen [...]
2008-01-06 09:24:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN300JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Jodie Kunkel + 3
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Jodie Kunkel, Jeremy Harper, Jeffrey Patterson and Gabriel Dicola to Jordan from 9 February - 30 March, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On Oc [...]
2008-01-29 09:41:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN3002MAJALI REJECTS ELECTORAL REFORM CHATTER
[...] (SBU) Jordan's electoral system has recently emerged as a topic of discussion, first in background chatter and now in comments in the official media. Lower house speaker Abdulhadi Al-Majali offered a surprisingly blunt rejection of changes in Jordan's electoral system in a wide-ranging inter [...]
2008-11-03 07:41:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KPAL JO
08AMMAN301JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR 699 STUDENTS
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of 699 (Six Hundred and Ninety-nine) students to Jordan from 17 February - 28 March, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Depa [...]
2008-01-29 09:41:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN304JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR 699 STUDENTS
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of 699 (Six Hundred and Ninety-nine) students to Jordan from 17 February - 28 March, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Depa [...]
2008-01-29 11:25:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN3079Jordan Media Reaction to Obama Election
[...] Summary: nearly all columnists and editors writing in the Jordanian press today welcomed the election of Senator Obama as the next U.S. President, with the dominant theme being that he would bring very positive change to an America allegedly tarnished by the bush presidency. Following are exc [...]
2008-11-06 14:16:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDJO KPAO KMDR PREL
08AMMAN31JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Greenwich + 3
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Tom Greenwich, Jeffrey Platz, William Cox and Travis Riffle to Jordan from 5 - 9 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007 [...]
2008-01-06 09:25:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN3105Jordan's King Speaks Out on Press Freedom
[...] (U) Summary: In an interview conducted November 9 with the editors in chief of the four major Arabic dailies and the Jordan Times, King Abdullah II expressed his "prohibition" of imprisonment of journalists for publication crimes. The king's statements come barely a week after the detention of [...]
2008-11-12 05:19:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KMDR KPAO JO
08AMMAN3116TWO YEARS ON, PROGRESS ON DEMOCRACY GOALS FALLS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The National Agenda, issued in 2006, remains the primary guide for political and economic reform in Jordan. The agenda's 10-year vision is ambitious, tackling many structural and cultural issues to pave the way for modernizing Jordan's political system. Opposition to that vi [...]
2008-11-13 15:45:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KWMN JO
08AMMAN3120 EPA Administrator Johnson Visit to Jordan Bolsters
[...] Summary: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen L. Johnson's October 17 - 22 visit to Jordan, the first-ever such visit by an Administrator, included the high-profile signing of a Statement of Intent with Environment Minister Khaled Irani to bolster environmental enforceme [...]
2008-11-16 09:42:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPREL TBIO SENV JO
08AMMAN3122 JORDANIAN-QATARI RELATIONS START TO THAW IN BUSINESS AND
[...] (C) Prime Minister Nader Dahabi led a high-level November 8-9 delegation to Qatar which included the Ministers of Labor, Industry and Trade, and Media Affairs. According to press reports, Jordan and Qatar agreed to establish a joint investment fund, with up to $1 billion from Qatar, and to se [...]
2008-11-17 07:09:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALEINV PREL PGOV KISL KWBG JO QA
08AMMAN3125IRAQI MEDIA OUTLETS BASED IN JORDAN: PROFILES
[...] (U) A number of Iraqi satellite television channels have established operations in Amman since 2005. These channels offer news and entertainment programming aimed at primarily Sunni audiences in Iraq and in neighboring countries. Following is a profile of the major channels, based on intervie [...]
2008-11-17 12:03:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KPAO KMDR IZ JO
08AMMAN315JORDAN'S FIRST INDEPENDENT TV STATION STILL ON HOLD
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Six months after its scheduled on air debut, and two years after its initial establishment, Jordan's first independent television station, ATV, remains off the air despite new ownership. ATV's new management predicts the station will go on air "soon," perhaps by the middle of 200 [...]
2008-02-03 07:41:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV KPAO KMDR JO
08AMMAN3164JORDAN FEARS IT WILL BEAR BURDEN OF FAILURE (OR
[...] (S) Summary and Comment: With some frequency over the past several months the local commentariat has expressed anxiety that Jordan risks becoming the alternative Palestinian homeland, given Palestinian disunity and perceived Israeli and U.S. duplicity. Officials have publicly reaffirmed thei [...]
2008-11-20 13:11:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPGOV PREL PTER KWBG IS JO
08AMMAN3189GOJ LEADERS TALK AID, REFORM, PALESTINIANS, LEVANT
[...] (C) Summary: NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary of State David Hale, who was in Amman to participate in the U.S.-Jordan Political Dialogue (Ref A),spent November 18 in separate meetings with King Abdullah, Royal Court Chief Nasser Al-Lozi, Foreign Minister Salah Al-Bashir, Senate President Zeid [...]
2008-11-25 07:31:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL SY IS LE AE MO JO
08AMMAN32JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Gonzalo Gonzalez
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Gonzalo Gonzalez to Jordan from 11 - 18 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic countr [...]
2008-01-06 09:26:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN3327JORDANIAN MEDIA JOIN BANDWAGON HAILING SHOE THROWER
[...] SUMMARY: Jordan's media over the past two days have focused, like their counterparts in other Arab countries, on the shoe throwing incident against President Bush in Iraq. Daily newspapers carried front-page coverage of the incident, with an enormous number of editorial commentary, cartoons, a [...]
2008-12-16 14:02:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDJO KPAO KMDR KWBG
08AMMAN3329U.S.-JORDAN POLITICAL DIALOGUE ADDRESSES REGIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: Following the signature of a joint MOU on assistance September 22, the first session of a U.S.-Jordan political dialogue convened in Amman on November 17 (Reftel). Jordan was represented by FM Salah Al-Bashir and members of his staff, while the American side was represented by S [...]
2008-12-17 09:46:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IS JO
08AMMAN3335JORDAN: THE DAHABI GOVERNMENT, ONE YEAR ON
[...] (C) Summary. A year after taking office, Jordan's PM Nader Dahabi and his government enjoy strong support from the political elite and average Jordanians. Ongoing concerns about the economy remain, but Dahabi and his government have successfully explained the need for restructuring in the fa [...]
2008-12-17 13:49:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KDEM JO
08AMMAN3353KING'S DECENTRALIZATION PLAN HAS MANY CRITICS, BUT
[...] (C) Summary. The King is pushing the Jordanian government to revive an ambitious decentralization plan. While the plan's stated goal is to respond more effectively to local concerns, the King may also be pushing the plan for some of its political side-effects, including changes in Jordan's e [...]
2008-12-18 15:36:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KDEM KPAL JO
08AMMAN3360JORDAN: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) In its public statements and security measures, the Government of Jordan continued to place a high priority on its fight against violent extremism in 2008. This occurred against a backdrop of low support among Jordanians for terrorism. The Pew Research Center Global Attitudes survey of 200 [...]
2008-12-23 04:21:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC JO
08AMMAN3365POSSIBLE CABINET SHUFFLE WOULD CONTINUE TRADITION
[...] (C) Summary: PM Nader Dahabi has prepared a list of names for a new cabinet to discuss with the King, with the aim of announcing a new government in the coming weeks. In historical terms, the Dahabi government represents an unusual period of continuity, particularly given the cabinet's frequ [...]
2008-12-23 10:47:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM JO
08AMMAN3389JORDAN MAINTAINS STRIDENT POSITION ON MUGHRABI GATE
[...] (C) Summary: In response to the Ambassador's questions about the ongoing Jordanian-Israeli dispute over work on the Mughrabi Gate ascent to the Temple Mount/Haram Al-Sharif, the King tasked a formal white paper laying out Jordan's position on the issue. The paper underscores Jordan's position [...]
2008-12-30 04:19:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL SCUL UNESCO KWBG IS JO
08AMMAN3390JORDAN MAINTAINS STRIDENT POSITION ON MUGHRABI GATE
[...] (C) Summary: In response to the Ambassador's questions about the ongoing Jordanian-Israeli dispute over work on the Mughrabi Gate ascent to the Temple Mount/Haram Al-Sharif, the King tasked a formal white paper laying out Jordan's position on the issue. The paper underscores Jordan's position [...]
2008-12-30 04:19:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL SCUL UNESCO KWBG IS JO
08AMMAN3402JORDAN: MEDIA REACTION TO SITUATION IN GAZA
[...] SUMMARY: Since the weekend, Jordanian media outlets have focused all but exclusively on events in Gaza involving Israeli air strikes on militant positions. Coverage has been accompanied by gruesome photos taken of casualties in Gaza. Events dominate editorial commentary as well as front and i [...]
2008-12-30 12:37:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KPAO KMDR JO
08AMMAN347ISLAMISTS RAMP UP ANTI-NORMALIZATION RHETORIC TO
[...] (C) Summary: After losing two-thirds of its parliamentary representation in November's elections, the Islamic Action Front (IAF) is pulling out the stops to rebuild its base. In the past six weeks, the IAF has sought to capitalize on popular unhappiness with the situation in Gaza with a serie [...]
2008-02-04 13:55:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPAL KISL IS JO
08AMMAN390HABASH DEATH DRAWS JORDAN'S GAZE BRIEFLY; SOME SEE
[...] (C) Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine founder George Habash, whose calls for the overthrow of the Hashemites and brazen, terrorist airline hijackings here in 1970 ran afoul of the Jordanian Government and precipitated the crackdown on Palestinian groups known as Black September, d [...]
2008-02-06 13:25:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF KPAL PTER JO IS
08AMMAN41JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Ulises Calvo
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Ulises Calvo to Jordan from 5 - 9 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic country cle [...]
2008-01-06 15:16:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN42JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Saeed Sooudi and Garry
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Saeed Sooudi and Garry Scroggins to Jordan from 18 - 31 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State e [...]
2008-01-06 15:16:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN43JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Ulises Calvo
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Ulises Calvo to Jordan from 5 - 9 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic country cle [...]
2008-01-06 15:16:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN44JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Azzam Hassan
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Azzam Hassan to Jordan from 11 - 26 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic country c [...]
2008-01-06 15:16:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN527U.S. DECISION TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE -
[...] (C) In the absence from the country of Foreign Minister Bashir, Charge delivered ref A demarche to Acting Foreign Minister (and regularly, Minister of State for Media and Communication Affairs) Nasser Joudeh February 19. Joudeh said he would consult with others in the GOJ and convey any feedb [...]
2008-02-19 13:20:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNMIK YI KV JO
08AMMAN532UNHCR HIGH COMMISSIONER REVIEWS HIS TRIP TO THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNHCR High Commissioner Antonio Guterres highlighted UNHCR's pleasure with the growing "consolidation of asylum space in the region" for Iraqi refugees in a February 18 meeting with the diplomatic and donor communities in Amman. The "relation of confidence" UNHCR has developed [...]
2008-02-20 05:44:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM SOCI EAID JO IZ SY LE
08AMMAN535AS NEW POLITICAL PARTY RULES LOOM, JORDANIAN
[...] (C) Summary: In April, a new law regulating political parties will come into effect in Jordan. This law will require parties to broaden their membership in return for (still theoretical) financing, in the hope that Jordan's irrelevant political formations will become national political play [...]
2008-02-20 12:39:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV JO
08AMMAN56JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Light Ronald
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Light Ronald to Jordan from 11 - 13 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic country c [...]
2008-01-07 14:50:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN565JORDAN-KUWAIT WARMING TREND CONTINUES WITH VISIT
[...] (C) The mid-February visit to Jordan of Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah (and several other ministers) is the latest public sign of healing - at the government/royal family level, at least - of relations strained throughout the 1990s because of Kuwait's linge [...]
2008-02-21 16:35:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL EINV JO KU ETRD
08AMMAN57JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Gary Groves
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Gary Groves to Jordan from 11 - 21 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic country cl [...]
2008-01-07 14:51:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN600JORDAN-BASED PNC LEADERS SEE PLANS TO CONVENE
[...] (C) Summary: Arab media outlets have in recent weeks reported discussions in Ramallah of the possibility of convening the Palestine National Council (PNC) in the coming months, either in Ramallah, Amman, or Cairo. Post's PNC contacts including Speaker Salim al-Zanoun confirm moves are afoot, [...]
2008-02-25 15:54:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREF KPAL JO IS
08AMMAN604JORDAN'S ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION SHOWS SIGNS OF
[...] (C) Summary: Jordan's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is showing tentative signs of life. The ACC's chair told Post that the institution is now digging into casework after securing a new building and a full complement of staff. Some in the donor community, however, are deeply skeptical of t [...]
2008-02-26 06:50:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KDEM JO
08AMMAN605AS FUEL SUBSIDIES VANISH, JORDANIAN POLITICIANS
[...] (C) Summary: Now that Jordan's parliament has endorsed a budget free from fuel subsidies (Refs A & B),politicians are beginning to talk about how the decision will impact the political world. Among members of parliament, the government gets high marks for preparing public opinion for the re [...]
2008-02-26 07:05:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON JO
08AMMAN612EVANGELIZING, PROSELYTIZING, AND SHEEP-STEALING IN
[...] (C) Summary: The GOJ's recent expulsion of a number of missionaries (reftel) has provoked a media and political firestorm, exposing major rifts between the Christian communities in Jordan and generating a highly defensive tone on the part of the government. The "traditional" churches of Jorda [...]
2008-02-26 16:12:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI JO
08AMMAN62JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR OPIC OFFICERS MONTGOMERY,
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of OPIC Officers Danielle Montgomery, Nancy Rivera, Mary Boomgard and Alexander Evans to Jordan from January 10-18, 2008, as requested reftel. The purpose of the trip is to perform due diligence for the Disi project. The travelers should carefully [...]
2008-01-08 07:46:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV OPIC OTRA JO
08AMMAN626ELECTRONIC JIHAD: MAINSTREAM ISLAMIST WEBSITE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A year-old Jordanian web site, Islamouna, conveys strong criticism of U.S. foreign policy in Iraq and the Middle East, while simultaneously criticizing al-Qaeda and takfirism for "distorting Islam" and "confusing Muslims about their religion." According to Islamouna,s editor, the [...]
2008-02-27 09:35:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALKISL PTER KPAO SOCI JO
08AMMAN688JORDAN: MEDIA REACT TO EVENTS IN GAZA
[...] (U) SUMMARY: JORDANIAN MEDIA FOCUSED WITH INCREASING INTENSITY THIS PAST WEEKEND ON EVENTS IN GAZA INVOLVING CLASHES BETWEEN ISRAELI FORCES AND PALESTINIAN MILITANTS. COVERAGE OF EVENTS HAS COMPETED WITH THE KING'S U.S. VISIT FOR PRE-EMINENCE ON THE FRONT PAGES, AND HAS BEEN ACCOMPANIED BY GRA [...]
2008-03-03 15:16:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDJO KPAO KMDR KWBG
08AMMAN693JORDAN'S ISLAMISTS BEGIN INTERNAL ELECTIONS; HAWKS
[...] (C) Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has begun to conduct internal elections for its Shura Council, the MB's highest leadership body. The vote for the 50-member council lasts from late February until mid-March. The election pits "hawks" against "doves" from within the MB, though their policy [...]
2008-03-04 11:05:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM JO
08AMMAN729JORDAN: MEDIA REACT TO KING'S U.S. VISIT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Jordanian media gave high visibility to King Abdullah's working visit to the United States, focusing today and yesterday on his meetings with the President, the Vice President, and Congressional leaders. Coverage drew strictly from Government of Jordan official news accounts. Wit [...]
2008-03-06 14:38:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDJO KPAO KMDR
08AMMAN755NEW JORDANIAN WEEKLY STRESSES ITC INDEPENDENCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A new Jordanian weekly newspaper known for running feature stories and investigative reports, al-Sijjl ("The Record"),hit newsstands in November, 2007. Al-Sijjl's executive managing editor told us recently that his publication aims to provide an alternative to a Jordanian press [...]
2008-03-09 14:20:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALKPAO PTER SOCI JO
08AMMAN76STAFFDEL DIAMOND DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESS, SYRIA,
[...] (C) Summary: During the visit of Staffdel Diamond to Jordan January 6-7, the group discussed the peace process, Jordanian relations with Syria, Iraqi refugee issues, and nuclear energy with Jordanian officials. Interlocutors stressed the need for concrete steps that would create immediate t [...]
2008-01-09 07:45:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL ENRG JO IS SY
08AMMAN776JORDAN: INPUT FOR THE EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (SBU) During the preceding year, the Government of Jordan demonstrated its commitment to combating trafficking in persons (TIP) and addressing forced labor concerns related to the Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZ)s. The government drafted an anti-TIP law; increased the training for its labor [...]
2008-03-11 09:55:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB JO
08AMMAN81JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR Gregory Staton + 1
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Gregory Staton and Ranji Matthew to Jordan from 14 - 18 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State e [...]
2008-01-09 12:28:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN832ISLAMISTS PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION OF
[...] (C) Summary: The Islamic Action Front (IAF) has led a group of parliamentarians in filing a petition which suggests undoing several provisions of the political parties law passed in April 2007. The proposed amendments would allow at least some of Jordan's smaller, irrelevant political parties [...]
2008-03-17 13:13:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL JO
08AMMAN867HAWKS REPORTEDLY WIN JORDANIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
[...] (C) Muslim Brotherhood (MB) hawks have reportedly won a majority in the new MB Shura Council following internal elections. Speculation now turns to who will hold the position of MB Controller General, the top spot in the MB. Despite continuing internal fissures, the new council will work hard [...]
2008-03-19 16:59:00Embassy AmmanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM JO
08AMMAN872ROYAL COURT CHIEF AND PM DISCUSS IRAN, ECONOMY,
[...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with a visiting Senate staffdel (whose trip was arranged by the Jordanian MFA),Royal Court Chief Bassem Awadallah and Prime Minister Nader Al-Dahabi addressed Jordan's place in the regional political order, political reform, and economic issues. Awadallah reiterat [...]
2008-03-19 17:46:00Embassy AmmanSECRET//NOFORNPGOV EFIN KWBG ECON IR IS JO
08AMMAN93JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Peter Leary and
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Peter Leary and Manuel Rangel to Jordan from 18 - 23 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State elec [...]
2008-01-12 10:31:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN94JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Rodrigue Aleandre
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Rodrigue Aleandre to Jordan from 26 - 31 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State electronic countr [...]
2008-01-12 10:32:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMMAN96JORDAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR Thomas Tennant and
[...] (SBU) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes the visit of Thomas Tennant and Joseph Pestar to Jordan from 20 - 24 January, 2008, as requested reftel. The travelers should carefully review this message, especially the threat assessment at paragraph 9. 2. On October 1, 2007, the Department of State e [...]
2008-01-12 10:33:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT OTRA ASEC AFIN JO
08AMSTERDAM35ESTA OUTREACH IN THE NETHERLANDS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Since the June 3 announcement of the DHS Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) program, Consulate General Amsterdam and colleagues at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague have conducted extensive ESTA outreach activities. We have developed an action plan to continue to reac [...]
2008-07-18 15:09:00Consulate AmsterdamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS CMGT PREL KPAO PGOV NL
08ANKARA100ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-17 15:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1000ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-28 13:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1006ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-29 12:26:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1010ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-30 12:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA102TURKEY: POSITIVE ATMOSPHERE SURROUNDS KARAMANLIS
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Turkey and Greece's decade-long rapprochement will take a much awaited step forward with Greek PM Costas Karamanlis' January 23-25 trip to Ankara and Istanbul -- the first visit of a Greek prime minister to Turkey in 49 years. His meetings with high-level GOT official [...]
2008-01-18 13:23:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL TU GR
08ANKARA1022SCENESETTER FOR TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER BABACAN'S
[...] (C) Summary. FM Ali Babacan is projecting a business-as-usual image as Turkey's domestic political situation continues to roil over the fate of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). With the Prime Ministry focused on Iraq issues and the Presidency tracking Turkey's relations with A [...]
2008-06-02 14:02:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV EFIN EAID TU
08ANKARA1023ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-02 14:06:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1025EFFORTS TO PROMOTE THE BENEFITS OF AGRICULTURAL
[...] (U) This report was coordinated with FAS Ankara. 2. (C) Summary: Agricultural Biotechnology is a very sensitive subject in Turkey about which there currently is little public debate. Turkey is taking its lead on biotech policy from Europe, in part due to its desire to join the European Un [...]
2008-06-03 07:47:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO TU
08ANKARA1029ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-03 14:34:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1037ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-04 14:13:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1043TURKEY'S RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS DIRECTORATE POSTS
[...] (U) Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate's (Diyanet) guidance on "appropriate" conduct for Muslims, posted on its website, is generating considerable debate, particularly proscriptions governing "sexual life." The list attracted attention during a May Provincial Muftis Conference; Radikal d [...]
2008-06-05 06:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM TU
08ANKARA1047ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-05 13:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1048TURKEY: BUGGING INCIDENT BOOMERANGS ON OPPOSITION
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Hastily condemned as Turkey's own Watergate, an alleged government bugging incident is looking increasingly like a technical blooper by the supposed "victim". Despite evidence to the contrary, opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Deniz Baykal stands by his man, Se [...]
2008-06-05 13:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER TU
08ANKARA105ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-18 14:41:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1050THE MANY FACES OF TURKISH SECULARISM
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Differing interpretations of secularism in Turkey cloud public discussion of a concept central to the closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the struggle to modernize Turkish society. Traditional "secular" elites focus on state authority -- over r [...]
2008-06-06 03:52:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA1054ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-06 12:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1055CODELS TANNER AND LEAHY MEET WITH PM ERDOGAN,
[...] (SBU) Summary: In May 29 meetings with Codels Tanner and Leahy, President Gul and Prime Minister Erdogan lauded improved U.S.-Turkey relations and expressed gratitude for U.S. support against PKK terrorism. Erdogan complained of Congressional resolutions introduced on Cyprus and the Aegean t [...]
2008-06-06 14:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MARR PTER ENRG ETTC IR IS TU
08ANKARA1057TURKISH GENERALS SPEAK OUT ON MIDDLE EAST
[...] (C) Summary: At a June 5-6 symposium on the Middle East in Istanbul organized by the Turkish General Staff's (TGS) Strategic Studies Research Center, TGS Chief General Buyukanit provided a pessimistic outlook on the Middle East in remarks characterized by implicit criticism of the West. Buyuk [...]
2008-06-09 03:52:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU IZ IR IS SY
08ANKARA1061ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-09 13:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1074ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-10 13:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1081ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-11 13:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1088ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-12 13:49:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1090ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-12 13:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1091TURKISH PARLIAMENT PASSES LAW TO INCREASE
[...] (C) Summary. Turkey's Parliament passed a law June 11 with a provision that allows state-owned Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) to devote one of its 24-hour television channels to foreign-language broadcasting -- specifically, Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian. The bill will be sent [...]
2008-06-12 14:05:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1103TURKEY: PRIME MINISTER'S ALEVI ADVISOR RESIGNS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-16 07:28:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALOSCE PGOV PHUM PREL TU
08ANKARA1121ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-18 06:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1122TURKEY'S RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS DIRECTORATE DOWNPLAYS
[...] (C) Summary and comment: A senior official from Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) called news reports the Diyanet posted a list of sexual do's and dont's on its website (reftel) "irresponsible." The official told us reporters had cherry-picked several items out of a "quite pro [...]
2008-06-18 07:52:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1132TURKEY'S PARTY CLOSURE CASE BARRELS TO CONCLUSION
[...] (c) Summary: It is increasingly expected in Turkey that the Constitutional Court will close the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and ban a range of its leaders, especially PM Erdogan. In the wake of a ruling that could occur this autumn or possibly sooner, the AKP plans to re-form [...]
2008-06-18 13:51:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL US TU
08ANKARA1134ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-18 14:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1139TURKISH COURT ORDERS CLOSURE OF GAY-LESBIAN
[...] (C) Summary and comment. An Istanbul court ruled May 29 that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual (LGBTT) advocacy organization "Lambda Istanbul" be closed for violating the "general moral rules" of society. Lambda, which appealed to the Court of Cassation (and is allowed to [...]
2008-06-19 05:51:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1142TURKEY: MOJ SAYS COURT ERRED IN FIRST ARTICLE 301
[...] (U) Summary and comment: In the first high-profile verdict to be handed down since parliament amended controversial Penal Code Article 301 (insulting "Turkishness"),an Istanbul court sentenced Armenian-British publisher Ragip Zarakolu to pay a fine of 1400 YTL (USD 1100),for publishing a bo [...]
2008-06-19 09:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1145ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-19 12:32:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1149ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-20 12:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1150TURKEY: ISRAEL-SYRIA PEACE TALKS' DOMESTIC
[...] (C) Summary: Since the media began reporting on the latest round of Israel-Syria peace talks, Turkey's regional leadership role has resonated particularly well with its domestic audience, at a time when the government could use a foreign policy success. The talks are the first major victory f [...]
2008-06-20 13:24:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL IS SY TU
08ANKARA1156ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-23 13:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1158ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-24 13:12:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1167TURKEY: BUREAUCRATIC ELITES CAUGHT HOLDING HANDS IN THE DARK
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Evidence of secret alliances among Turkey's unelected elites, including elements of the military, judiciary, and bureaucracy, emerged in recent days. Although Turks have long accepted as fact the existence of an alleged "deep state" network pulling strings behind the scenes, conc [...]
2008-06-25 12:23:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA1170TURKEY: MILITARY MACHINATIONS ALLEGED, CRITICIZED
[...] (C) Chastened by the unintended consequences of its April 2007 "e-memorandum," Turkey's military has refrained from publicly commenting on politics for well over a year. However, a series of media reports suggest the brass has been busy behind the scenes seeking to influence key institutions a [...]
2008-06-26 03:51:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR TU
08ANKARA1173ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-26 11:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1175ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-26 12:27:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1179ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-27 13:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1187ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-30 14:20:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA119ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-22 15:15:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1193ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-01 12:34:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1194TURKEY: GOVERNMENT COUNTERSTROKE AGAINST DEEP
[...] (C) Summary: On the morning of July 1, Turkish police arrested up to 24 individuals associated with the so-called "Ergenekon gang," under investigation for conspiring to topple the government. Among those arrested are two retired four-star Army generals: Hursit Tolon, former First Army Comman [...]
2008-07-01 14:17:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPGOV PHUM TU
08ANKARA12ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-03 14:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1202ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-02 14:12:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1206TURKEY: OPPOSITION CHP UNDER ATTACK ON TWO FRONTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) is under scrutiny both within Socialist International (SI) and by Turkey's Constitutional Court in unrelated developments that highlight the party's feckless leadership and the lack of meaningful alternatives on the left. CH [...]
2008-07-02 15:16:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA1215ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-03 13:38:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1217TURKEY: COUP THWARTED OR REVENGE TAKEN?
[...] (C) Summary. As the shock wanes over the July 1 detention of over 20 people, including two senior retired military officers, in connection with the year-old Ergenekon investigation (reftel),most Turks view the developments as a worrisome escalation of the struggle between Kemalist ultranatio [...]
2008-07-07 11:26:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA1224ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-08 03:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1226ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-08 13:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1239ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-09 14:10:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1242TURKEY: REACTIONS TO ATTACK ON ISTANBUL CONSULATE
[...] (U) Following the attack in front of Consulate General Istanbul at approximately 1100 on July 9, at 15:28 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released the following statement (unofficial Embassy translation): "We strongly denounce the heinous armed attack that occurred in front of the US Consulate [...]
2008-07-09 16:12:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKPAO PGOV PREL PTER TU
08ANKARA1248ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 13:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1255ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-11 12:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA126ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-23 13:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1264ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-14 14:24:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1265SCENESETTER FOR NSA HADLEY'S VISIT TO TURKEY
[...] (C) Summary. US-Turkish relations have been transformed in the nearly three years since your last visit in 2005. You come right after Erdogan's visit to Baghdad (July 10),Boyden Gray's visit here (July 11) and President Bush's July 11 condolence call to President Gul over the Istanbul consul [...]
2008-07-14 16:55:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV ENRG ECON IZ SY IS IR AF PK CY TU
08ANKARA1283ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-16 13:40:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1288ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-17 13:43:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1289TURKEY: COURT RAPPORTEUR RECOMMENDS NON-CLOSURE OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Constitutional Court's rapporteur July 16 submitted a non-binding recommendation against closing the ruling AKP or banning any of its MPs from politics. The Court has ignored the rapporteur's views in the past, when it voted unanimously to accept the AKP closure case and whe [...]
2008-07-17 13:57:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV TU
08ANKARA1293TURKEY APPROACHES MEDITERRANEAN UNION WITH CAUTION
[...] (C) Summary: Despite PM Erdogan's last minute decision to attend the Mediterranean Union Summit July 13-14, the GOT remains highly skeptical of the organization's viability, as well as French intentions. Turkey's MFA successfully negotiated a series of concessions in the final communiqu to e [...]
2008-07-18 13:19:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR TU IS SY
08ANKARA1296ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-18 14:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1301ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-21 13:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1303TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY SO FAR UNHINDERED BY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Domestic political uncertainty arising from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) closure case and Ergenekon prosecution (reftel) has not constrained PM Erdogan from painting himself the statesman through bold foreign policy activism. Turkey's foreign and security appa [...]
2008-07-21 15:27:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU
08ANKARA1304TURKEY: DTP'S YEAR OF MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
[...] (C) Summary and comment. The results of the 2007 parliamentary elections raised hopes that Turkey could achieve progress on the Kurdish issue. Some 20 pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) MPs, elected as independents in districts throughout the Southeast, gave the party parliamentary r [...]
2008-07-22 09:02:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER TU
08ANKARA1312ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-23 11:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1325TURKEY: MEDIA SUPPORT FOR ARMENIA TALKS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Turkish media have reported "secret," high-level Turkey-Armenia talks on normalizing bilateral relations with little fanfare, but positively; the political opposition and their media outlets have not objected. Nor has the military. The media's approach suggests broad public [...]
2008-07-24 11:49:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV OPRC AM TU
08ANKARA1326BAKU-TBILISI-KARS RAILWAY GROUNDBREAKING; GOAJ
[...] (C) SUMMARY. President Gul traveled to the ancient Armenian capital of Ani July 23 before joining Georgian President Saakashvili and Azerbaijani President Aliyev for a groundbreaking ceremony in Kars, Turkey on the Turkish leg of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) railway, July 24. The bilateral m [...]
2008-07-24 12:01:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV AJ AM GG TU
08ANKARA1327ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-24 12:26:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1337ERGENEKON INDICTMENT STILL MURKY BUT PROCESS ALONE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Istanbul's Heavy Penal Court decided July 25 to accept the indictment filed in the Ergenekon case and proceed to prosecution (ref A). The 2,500 page indictment has clarified little about the case. Some Turks see the indictment as a courageous step toward bringing Turkey's stat [...]
2008-07-25 13:42:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PREL TU
08ANKARA1348ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-28 14:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1352TURKEY: SOUTHEAST LEADERS SAY AKP CLOSURE UNLIKELY TO SPUR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During recent visits to the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) stronghold in Eastern Anatolia, contacts from diverse political persuasions told us AKP's closure would set back Turkey's democratization and send the wrong message to the international community. Citing [...]
2008-07-29 09:44:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV TU
08ANKARA1359ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-29 13:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1368TURKEY: POTENTIAL VISIT BY AHMADINEJAD TO TURKEY
[...] (C) We spoke with Turkish MFA U/S Apakan and separately with the MFA Iran Desk July 30 about extensive media reporting indicating GOT preparations for a possible visit by Iranian President Ahmadinejad to Istanbul on August 14. We made the following points: -- With the deadline for an Irania [...]
2008-07-30 13:35:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL IR TU
08ANKARA1369ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-30 14:13:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1370ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-30 14:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1371LOVE FOR SALE - THE TAUDRY TALE OF TURKISH MEDIA OWNERSHIP
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-30 14:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO PGOV PHUM KDEM TU
08ANKARA1377ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-31 13:12:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1383ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-04 08:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1390ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-04 13:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1391TURKEY: SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL RESULTS
[...] (U) Turkey's Supreme Military Council (YAS) announced on August 4 the results of its annual meeting to determine new assignments, promotions, and dismissals. As expected, Turkish Land Forces Commander (TLFC) GEN Ilker Basbug (bio info reported septel) was named the new chief of the Turkish G [...]
2008-08-04 13:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINS MARR TU
08ANKARA1392TURKEY'S NEW CHOD: GENERAL ILKER BASBUG
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkish Land Forces Commander General Ilker Basbug (pronounced BAHSH-boo) was named as Turkey's next CHOD at the Turkey's Supreme Military Council (YAS) that concluded on August 4 (full YAS results reported septel). Despite some shifts in civil-military relations, the [...]
2008-08-04 15:06:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV PINS PINR TU
08ANKARA1402ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-05 14:23:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1405TURKEY: GOT OUTLINES AHMADINEJAD VISIT
[...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY. Iranian President Ahmadinejad will visit Turkey August 14, in what the GOT is describing to us as a "working visit." He will travel only to Istanbul -- not Ankara -- where he will meet with President Gul and, most likely, PM Erdogan. The visit has not been officially anno [...]
2008-08-06 14:17:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR TU
08ANKARA1410ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-07 13:27:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1415ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-08 13:31:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1424ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-11 13:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1446TURKEY: ISRAELI CONCERNS ON AHMEDINEJAD VISIT
[...] (C) The Israeli Government voiced its concerns to the GOT regarding Iranian President Ahmedinejad's August 14-15 Istanbul visit in both Ankara and Tel Aviv, August 7 (reftel). Israeli Embassy Spokesman Amit Zarouk told us Israeli Ambassador Gaby Levy underscored in his meeting with MFA Deputy [...]
2008-08-12 12:38:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPROG PREL TU IS IR
08ANKARA1448ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-12 14:34:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1451TURKEY: TEMPEST IN ACADEMIC TEAPOT
[...] (C) Summary and comment: President Abdullah Gul's August 5 appointment of 21 university rectors brought little joy to AKP's opponents. As one of the first high-profile selection procedures following the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) narrow escape from being banned for anti-sec [...]
2008-08-13 06:56:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1452Update on PKK Violence (July 24-31, 2008)
[...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the July 24-31, 2008 reporting period, five security [...]
2008-08-13 08:31:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
08ANKARA1453Update on PKK Violence (August 1-7, 2008)
[...] (SBU) This is another in a series of weekly reports on PKK violence in Turkey. Our primary source is the Turkish General Staff (TGS) website, which documents contacts and clashes with the PKK, as well as casualties incurred. 2. (U) During the August 1-7, 2008 reporting period, five village [...]
2008-08-13 08:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PGOV TU IZ
08ANKARA1458ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-13 11:38:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA146ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-24 14:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1465TURKEY: AHMADINEJAD VISIT SCHEDULE STILL FLUID
[...] (C) President Gul's Foreign Policy Advisor Amb. Gurcan Turkoglu characterized Iranian President Ahmedinejad's August 14-15 Istanbul trip to CDA as a "political necessity" to maintain good bilateral relations. It is impossible for Turkey to ignore Iran, he said. Given the nuclear issue's grow [...]
2008-08-13 15:44:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR TU
08ANKARA1475ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-15 13:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA148TURKEY: SUDANESE PRESIDENT'S VISITS GARNERS HARSH
[...] (C) Summary: Sudanese President Bashir met with President Gul and Energy Minister Guler during his controversial January 21 trip to Ankara. President Gul urged Sudan to cooperate with the international community to find a solution to Darfur, pushing Bashir to make the United Nations-African U [...]
2008-01-24 16:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL TU SU
08ANKARA1494ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-18 14:07:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1498ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-19 13:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1504ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-20 13:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1508HOW TURKEY'S YOUTH VIEW THE US: LOSING A
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. Turkey faces a "demographic window of opportunity," with 60% of its population under the age of 30. Politically disengaged and generally neglected as a resource by political parties (refA),young Turks face high unemployment and a country struggling to balance tradit [...]
2008-08-21 09:15:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA151TURKISH COURTS BLOCK ACCESS TO "YOUTUBE" WEBSITE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish courts banned access to the immensely popular "YouTube" website for five days beginning January 17, to block a picture with swear words imposed over Turkey's founding father, Ataturk, and the Turkish flag. The GOT maintains the courts are properly implementing a new In [...]
2008-01-25 11:06:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1512ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-21 14:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1519ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-22 14:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1532ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-25 14:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1541ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-26 14:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1549ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-27 13:10:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1550TURKEY-AU SUMMIT OVERSHADOWED BY BASHIR'S
[...] (C) Summary: The GOT-hosted Turkey-African Union (AU) Cooperation Summit, August 18-21, rendered no surprises. During the sessions, the GOT focused on developing good will, expanding trade ties, and lobbying for African support of Turkey's UNSC bid. Overall, the GOT was pleased with both atte [...]
2008-08-27 13:57:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV XA TU
08ANKARA1553TURKEY SUPPORTS GEORGIA'S SOVEREIGNTY AND
[...] (C) We delivered ref A points to MFA South Caucasus Department Head Firat Sunel, urging a clear statement rejecting Russia's recognition of Abkhaz and South Ossetian independence. Sunel noted the August 26 MFA statement (see paragraph 6),calling it a short but clear message of concern, and [...]
2008-08-27 16:06:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GG RU TU
08ANKARA1559ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-28 14:34:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA156ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-25 15:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1563ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-29 10:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1575ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-02 11:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1584TURKISH MFA ON LAVROV TALKS, BURNS VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA U/S Apakan briefed Ambassador September 2 regarding FM Babacan's talks with Russian FM Lavrov the same day in Istanbul. Babacan reportedly emphasized that Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia contradicts international law; associated Turkey with the st [...]
2008-09-03 13:14:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL RU TU
08ANKARA1586ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-03 14:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1595ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-04 10:55:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1596TURKEY: NEW MILITARY CHIEF'S FIRST POLICY SPEECH
[...] (C) Summary: During new Turkish General Staff (TGS) Chief Ikler Basbug,s nationally televised speech at his August 28 change of command ceremony, Basbug: -- Highlighted the importance of US-Turkey bilateral relations and preserving the "perfect level of cooperation" against the PKK; -- Vo [...]
2008-09-04 14:21:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR TU
08ANKARA1597TURKEY ENTHUSIASTIC ON EVE OF GUL VISIT TO ARMENIA
[...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: Turkey is abuzz only two days ahead of a now-confirmed visit by President Gul to Yerevan September 6 to attend a Turkey-Armenia World Cup qualifier. Viewing the visit as a powerful Turkish contribution to promoting peace and stability in the Caucasus and to solving the Na [...]
2008-09-04 14:58:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AM TU
08ANKARA1600ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-05 11:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1602BABACAN/LAVROV IN ISTANBUL: "FRIENDS CAN DISAGREE"
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkey underscored its support for Georgia's territorial integrity during FM Babacan's September 2 meeting with Russian FM Lavrov in Istanbul, MFA DDG for Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova Murat Burhan told us September 4. However, Lavrov called the decision to recognize Abkh [...]
2008-09-05 13:18:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL RU TU
08ANKARA1604TURKEY: STAFFDEL MAKOVSKY IN ANKARA, SEPT. 1-2
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 1-2 September a House Foreign Relations Committee Staff delegation led by Alan Makovsky discussed the situation in Georgia, energy issues, and the ongoing Israel-Syria talks with senior Turkish government officials at the Presidency, Prime Ministry, and Ministry of Foreign Af [...]
2008-09-05 14:16:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA1607ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-08 14:12:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1613TURKEY: MUNICIPAL POLICE BEAT ANKARA SHOPOWNER FOR
[...] (C) Summary and comment: A security camera captured two municipal policemen beating a shop owner with wooden sticks in the conservative Ankara district of Kecioren August 14 for allegedly violating the ban on alcohol sales after 11 p.m. Opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Ankara MP Yilm [...]
2008-09-09 10:38:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1625ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-10 13:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1626TURKEY: RULING AKP AIMING HIGH IN MARCH 2009
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Showing signs of the political prowess that led to its political dominance, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is astutely gearing up for March 2009 local elections well before its opponents. AKP hopes to demonstrate it is "the party of all Turkey" by [...]
2008-09-10 15:57:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1627U.S.-TURKEY STRATEGIC DIALOGUE TALKS, SEPTEMBER 5
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a four-hour meeting and working dinner with Under Secretary Burns September 5, Turkish MFA Under Secretary Apakan: -- underscored Turkey's desire for close cooperation with the U.S.; -- called for new impetus on the Nabucco pipeline; -- stated that Ankara seeks to strengt [...]
2008-09-10 16:40:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALTU AM GG IR IZ KNNP PREL RU US NATO
08ANKARA1628U.S.-TURKEY STRATEGIC DIALOGUE TALKS, SEPTEMBER 5
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a four-hour meeting and working dinner with Under Secretary Burns September 5, Turkish MFA Under Secretary Apakan: -- underscored Turkey's desire for close cooperation with the U.S.; -- called for new impetus on the Nabucco pipeline; -- stated that Ankara seeks to strengt [...]
2008-09-10 22:15:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALTU AM GG IR IZ KNNP PREL RU US NATO
08ANKARA1634ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-11 14:23:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA164ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-28 15:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1640ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-12 13:38:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1642GUL IN BAKU AND YEREVAN; GEORGIAN PM IN ISTANBUL
[...] (C) MFA South Caucasus Section Head Firat Sunel briefed us September 11 on President Gul's September 10 visit to Baku. Despite criticism in the Azerbaijani media and some Turkish outlets of Gul's September 6 trip to Yerevan, President Aliyev gave Gul and the visiting Turkish side the impression [...]
2008-09-12 15:47:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AM AJ GG TU
08ANKARA1643TURKEY: CHARITY FUND SCANDAL PROMPTS PM ERDOGAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A very public and ugly battle has erupted between Prime Minister Erdogan and the Dogan Group. The conflict dominated the news this week after Erdogan lashed out at business and media mogul Aydin Dogan for reporting on allegations in a German court that the German-based Deniz Feneri Cha [...]
2008-09-15 04:27:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV SCUL TU
08ANKARA1651TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DTP SPEAKS OUT AGAINST CLOSURE
[...] (C) Summary: On the ropes in its Constitutional Court closure case, pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) is staging "awareness-raising" walks, and reaching out to any who will listen to garner much-needed support. In his September 16 oral defense on behalf of the party, DTP Chairman Ah [...]
2008-09-15 13:48:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1652ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-15 13:58:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1657ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-16 11:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1660ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-17 13:38:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1664ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-18 10:49:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1667TURKEY: OPPONENTS SEE CHINKS IN AKP'S ARMOR AMID
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Critics of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) point to a recent SONAR company poll showing a decline in AKP's popularity to 32 percent as a sign voters are souring on the party. Opposition politicians, journalists, and analysts believe a struggling econom [...]
2008-09-18 14:53:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1675ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-19 14:03:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1676TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DTP DEFENDS ITSELF BEFORE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a two-hour verbal defense presented to the Constitutional Court September 16, Pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) Co-Chairman Ahmet Turk urged the Court not to close DTP and ban 220 of its members from politics. Turk claimed DTP has been working diligently to find a p [...]
2008-09-19 14:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1686ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-22 14:05:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA169ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-29 15:15:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1693ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-23 13:49:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA170ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-30 13:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1700ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-24 14:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1701TURKEY: MORE ARRESTED IN ERGENEKON INVESTIGATION;
[...] (C) Summary: As many as 17 more suspects were detained on September 23 in the latest round of police action in the investigation of the alleged anti-government Ergenekon organization. Detainees included a former Istanbul district mayor, a former senior police official, a prominent journalis [...]
2008-09-24 15:41:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PHUM TU
08ANKARA1709TURKEY/TIP: NEW PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The GOT has launched a media campaign, including posters, TV and radio spots, to raise public awareness of TIP and promote the "157" hotline, and is taking additional steps to generate public support in the fight against TIP. A draft GOT-commissioned report on demand for TIP i [...]
2008-09-25 12:17:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTIP SMIG PHUM KWMN KFRD ASEC ELAB TU
08ANKARA1711ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-25 13:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1716NATIONAL SECURITY AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) We passed the non-paper contained in reftel and a copy of the publicly-released paper to MFA Disarmament and Nonproliferation Deputy Director General Ahmet Gun on September 25. Gun welcomed the information and confirmed that the Turkish defense attache in Washington has received a brief [...]
2008-09-26 11:15:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PREL PARM
08ANKARA1719ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-26 13:02:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1723TURKEY: CORRUPTION DEBATE FORESHADOWS A TENSE
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Following a week of fast-flying accusations during which opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) whip Kemal Kilicdaroglu accused ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Vice Chairman Dengir Mir Firat of being a "drug baron" and Firat called Kilicdaroglu a "sland [...]
2008-09-26 15:56:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA173TURKEY: KARAMANLIS VISIT PAVES WAY FOR IMPROVED
[...] (C) Summary: Greek Prime Minister Karamanlis' January 23-25 trip to Turkey symbolizes the improved state of Turkish-Greek relations. During his meeting with PM Erdogan, the two Prime Ministers focused on how to overcome the three most contentious bilateral issues -- Cyprus, the Aegean, and mi [...]
2008-01-30 14:59:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL TU GR
08ANKARA1738ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-06 14:38:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1760ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-09 14:31:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1762ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-10 04:23:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1766ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-10 14:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1767TURKEY: PARLIAMENT PLAUGED BY POLARIZATION AND
[...] (C) Summary and comment: A climate of polarization fueled by allegations of corruption against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is expected to distract Parliament during the fall term that officially began October 1. The situation will likely be inflamed further by wrangling ove [...]
2008-10-10 14:22:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1779TURKEY: GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY LEADERSHIP'S
[...] (C) Summary: A consensus appears to be emerging on the elements needed to defeat the PKK and the GOT and Turkish military are collaborating closely, according to several well-placed sources. These elements include: denying PKK safe havens in northern Iraq; granting security forces additional [...]
2008-10-14 13:45:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS TU IZ
08ANKARA1781ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-14 14:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1786ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-15 13:23:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1792DRUNKEN PASSENGER DISRUPTS TURKISH AIR FLIGHT, BUT
[...] (U) Turkish and international media reported October 15 that a Turkish Airlines flight from Antalya, Turkey to St Petersburg, Russia had been hijacked during flight. Subsequent press reports said the hijacker had been subdued and that the flight was continuing on to St Petersburg. Still later [...]
2008-10-16 04:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR TU RU
08ANKARA180TURKEY: ERDOGAN'S CRITICISM OF ISRAEL SPARKS
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish/Israeli relations became tenser following Prime Minister Erdogan's January 23 comments criticizing the GOI for its siege of Gaza. In remarks to his party's parliamentary caucus, Erdogan called the Gaza Strip an "open air prison" and blamed Israel for this "humanitarian tr [...]
2008-01-31 14:42:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL TU IS
08ANKARA1801ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-16 14:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1806TURKEY: PKK ATTACK PUTS MILITARY UNDER A MICROSCOPE
[...] (C) Since the October 3-4 PKK attack on the Aktutun military outpost, Turkey's military has come under unprecedented press criticism. This included calls for the resignation of the Deputy Chief of Staff (for failing to prevent the attack) and of the Chief of Turkey's Air Force (for being caug [...]
2008-10-17 04:25:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU
08ANKARA1809ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-17 11:39:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1824ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-20 13:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1831TURKEY: AKP EYES SECULAR STRONGHOLD OF IZMIR IN
[...] (C) Summary and comment: The Aegean jewel of Izmir, Turkey's third largest city, is at the heart of the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP's) quest to dominate March 2009 local elections by besting its July 2007 parliamentary election performance, when it captured 47 percent of the [...]
2008-10-21 07:28:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1839ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-21 14:33:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1840ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-22 12:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1843PJAK STATEMENT ACCUSES U.S. OF SUPPORTING
[...] (U) The Freedom Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK),the terrorist, anti-Iran affiliate of the PKK, released a statement threatening U.S. interests on October 18. It claims that U.S.-Turkey intelligence cooperation has prompted Turkey-Iran cooperation and coordinated joint attacks on "libertarian [...]
2008-10-22 14:20:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPTER PINR PINS PROP MOPS IR IZ TU
08ANKARA1850ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-23 14:12:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1857ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-24 13:34:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1871ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-27 14:56:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1879ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-28 12:10:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1881TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT ISSUES DETAILED
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Following closely on the heels of its October 22 verdict in the headscarf case (ref A),Turkey's Constitutional Court October 24 issued its detailed verdict fleshing out its July 30 ruling not to close the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) for alleged anti-se [...]
2008-10-28 13:30:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1882PERSONNEL SHUFFLES ROCK STATE MEDIA GIANT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-30 05:37:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKPAO PHUM PGOV OSCE EU OIIP TU
08ANKARA1885TURKEY: MFA DISCUSSES UNSC PREPARATIONS
[...] (C) This is an action request for the Department. Please see para 4 below. 2. (C) MFA Director General for Multilateral Political Affairs Hasan Gogus told DCM October 26 the GOT has begun initial preparations for Turkey's 2009-2011 non-permanent UNSC tenure. Gogus reported MFA has yet to de [...]
2008-10-30 10:42:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC TU
08ANKARA1888ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-30 15:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA189ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-01 14:31:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1897ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-31 15:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA190TURKEY: UPDATE ON AVIAN INFLUENZA
[...] There have been no new outbreaks since the small one reported in Zonguldak province on January 19th; however, the incubation period is not over. 2. According to a representative of the European UnionQs (EU) Technical Assistance team in Turkey, the Turkish Ministry of AgricultureQs General [...]
2008-02-01 15:02:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU ETRD EAGR KPAO TBIO AMED CASC EAID SENV TU
08ANKARA1904ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-03 15:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1905TURKEY: UNPRECEDENTED MILITARY BRIEFING TO COUNCIL
[...] (SBU) At the military's request, the Chief of Turkish General Staff (TGS) Ilker Basbug briefed the Council of Ministers on Monday, October 27 on the military's counterterrorism efforts. This reportedly marked the first time the head of the Turkish military briefed the Council of Ministers and [...]
2008-11-03 15:28:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS TU
08ANKARA1911ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-04 14:41:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1917FM BABACAN IN AFGHANISTAN; GILLANI, KARZAI IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Babacan stressed Turkey's commitment to Afghanistan during his October 26-27 visit to Kabul, Wardak and northern Afghanistan. The Turks are pressing forward on infrastructure and education projects, but face obstacles from local and national authorities in Kabul. Turkey has [...]
2008-11-05 14:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS PTER MARR EAID EINV AF PK TU
08ANKARA1918ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-05 15:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1922ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-06 14:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1928DRAFT NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-07 05:02:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EFIN EINV TU
08ANKARA1932ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-07 13:43:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1935TURKEY: PKK SUCCEEDING IN DRIVING WEDGE BETWEEN
[...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) Summary: During one week of meetings in southeastern Turkey, PolOff met with political figures, writers and NGOs to discuss the Kurdish issue, growing regional tension, and upcoming local elections. Contacts said the PKK is using the pro-Kurdish [...]
2008-11-07 16:40:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1938HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG: TURKEY'S NEW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Bureaucratic turf battles and finger pointing continue to frame Ankara's recent announcement of a new civilian structure to manage GoT efforts against the PKK in southeastern Turkey. That announcement came after extensive discussion on a new counterterrorism approach, amid mount [...]
2008-11-07 17:16:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PINR TU
08ANKARA1939HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG: TURKEY'S NEW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Bureaucratic turf battles and finger pointing continue to frame Ankara's recent announcement of a new civilian structure to manage GoT efforts against the PKK in southeastern Turkey. That announcement came after extensive discussion on a new counterterrorism approach, amid mount [...]
2008-11-10 05:19:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PINR TU
08ANKARA1943TURKEY: RESIGNATION OF POLITICAL HEAVYWEIGHT
[...] (C) Summary and comment: The November 7 resignation of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Vice Chairman and party co-founder Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat surprised Ankara's political establishment and engendered immediate waves of speculation. Political circles dismissed Firat's stated re [...]
2008-11-10 12:07:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1950ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-10 15:40:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1956COMBATING TIP IN TURKEY: UNEVEN PROGRESS TOWARD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey is facing a number of deadlines in 2009 in achieving long-term and sustainable support for core aspects of its anti-trafficking program: the TIP shelters and the "157" hotline. Our EU, NGO and GOT contacts remain confident that Turkey will do so, but the effort has take [...]
2008-11-12 15:44:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALTIP SMIG PHUM KWMN KFRD ASEC ELAB TU
08ANKARA1957ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-12 15:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA196ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-04 15:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1965ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-13 12:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1967TURKEY: MFA ASSERTS EU MOMENTUM CONTINUES, BUT
[...] (C) MFA European Union Political Affairs Section Head Yaprak Alp told us that the pace of EU reform in Turkey has not slowed. As the focus shifts from controversial political reforms to more technical aspects, Turkey's EU accession bid simply is no longer front page news and thus many believe [...]
2008-11-13 13:51:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL EUN TU
08ANKARA1984TURKEY: MOVIE DEPICTING "REAL" ATATURK EVOKES
[...] (C) Summary: Turkey's current box-office leader "Mustafa" is stirring emotions due to its portrayal of the modern Turkish Republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as a lonely, hard-drinking man beset by doubts. After opening to sold out shows and rave reviews, hard-line Kemalist critics launc [...]
2008-11-14 15:07:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA1985ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-14 15:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1991ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-17 14:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA1996ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-18 13:56:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2002TURKEY: WHIRLING ISSUES BYPASS KONYA
[...] (C) Summary and comment: The central Anatolian city of Konya has a rich history and unique modern-day economic and political importance to Turkey. In the past decade, this "Anatolian Tiger" of 1 million people has built a dynamic economy centered on industrial agriculture but expanding rapid [...]
2008-11-19 12:53:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA2004ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-19 15:15:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2005OBAMA SPELLS HOPE FOR TURKEY'S HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) Summary and comment: An array of Turkey's most prominent human rights defenders hailed the election of Barack Obama as the beginning of a new era for the advancement of human rights in Turkey and the world. In the eyes of these activists, the European Union's ability to influence the GOT [...]
2008-11-19 15:53:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA2008HOLY TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT! IT'S BATMAN VS. BATMAN
[...] SUMMARY. In a story that received a great deal of play in the blogosphere and in both the U.S. and Turkish press (including mention on CNN and in Variety),Huseyin Kalkan, mayor of the small Turkish city of Batman, has announced plans to sue Warner Brothers and director Christopher Nolan for u [...]
2008-11-20 06:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR PHUM KCRM TU
08ANKARA2012TURKEY: PM ERDOGAN'S PASSAGE TO INDIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Eight years after the last visit to New Delhi by a Turkish Government leader, Prime Minister Erdogan departs November 20 for a four-day trip to India. Both the MFA and Indian Embassy in Ankara describe the visit as "overdue," but emphasize that it reflects a healthy bilateral r [...]
2008-11-20 13:35:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALETRD PGOV PREL TU IN AF PK
08ANKARA2013ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-20 14:03:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2025ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-21 16:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA203TURKEY: POSITIVE SHIFTS IN PUBLIC OPINION
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. The overwhelmingly positive reaction of political leaders to US-Turkey cooperation against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is now also being reflected in public opinion. Recent polls indicate that the US has reversed the downward trend in public opinion that had U [...]
2008-02-05 09:22:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA2038ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-24 14:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2041TURKEY: POLICE LIFT CURTAIN ON ERGENEKON PROBE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkish National Police on November 21 gave the Embassy an extensive briefing on their investigation into Ergenekon, the shadowy group alleged to have plotted an overthrow of the AKP government. The briefing presented a seamless informational overview, underscoring that Ergeneko [...]
2008-11-24 15:48:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV TU
08ANKARA2049TURKEY: PKK LEADER OCALAN MAY GET COMPANY
[...] (U) This is an AmConsulate Adana message. 2. (SBU) Summary: Acting on a year-old rebuke from the Council of Europe's Committee (COE) for the Prevention of Torture (CPT),the GOT has announced potential plans to modify the conditions of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has been in solitary c [...]
2008-11-25 13:53:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA2051ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-25 14:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2056ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-26 13:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA206ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-05 13:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2063ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-28 12:39:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2066TURKISH WOMEN TOO FIGHT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's young but steadily growing women's rights movement can claim progress in recent years. A handful of committed NGO's pushed the GOT to make women's rights one of the centerpieces of the government's 2003-2004 effort to accelerate EU-related reforms. They succeeded: the [...]
2008-11-28 15:23:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA2069ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-01 14:05:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2070TURKEY: PREMIER THINK TANK ASAM CLOSES ITS DOORS
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: One of Turkey's premier think tanks the Eurasian Strategic Research Center (ASAM) unexpectedly closed in November after losing its main corporate sponsor. The Ulker Group pulled its funding on short notice. While neither ASAM nor Ulker have publicly addressed the re [...]
2008-12-01 14:59:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL TU
08ANKARA2077ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-03 13:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2078ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-03 13:15:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2086TURKEY: ERDOGAN SHIFTS INTO NATIONALIST GEAR
[...] (C) Summary: Islamist columnist Fehmi Koru's November 6 comment that Prime Minister Erdogan came to power in 2002 as an "Obama-like personality but came to resemble President Bush" drew an aggressive reaction from Erdogan and generated a groundswell of commentary. Many who had once supported [...]
2008-12-04 12:15:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA2088SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF UNDER SECRETARY
[...] (C) MFA Under Secretary Apakan's December 8-9 visit will be the fifth iteration of the "Shared Vision and Structured Dialogue" agreed upon by Secretary Rice and then-FM Gul in July 2006. Knowing it will take some time for the new administration to have its new team in place, U/S Apakan presse [...]
2008-12-04 14:55:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPREL TU
08ANKARA2089TURKEY: ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
[...] (U) Summary: To respond to the Department's call for action in recognition of November 25 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the United Nations' "16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence" (ref A),Embassy Ankara: --engaged with a diverse array of ci [...]
2008-12-04 14:55:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PREL KPAO PHUM TU
08ANKARA2109TURKEY: DIYARBAKIR MAYOR ENVISIONS 2009 PROGRESS
[...] (U) This is a Consulate Adana cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Diyarbakir mayor Osman Baydemir voiced hope that the incoming Obama administration will address Turkey's Kurdish issue by mediating a dialogue that would result in an end to violence by the PKK and an expansion of Kurdish political righ [...]
2008-12-12 15:03:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA2119ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-16 14:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA212ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-06 15:26:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA213TURKEY: TOP COURTS DEFEND POLITICAL ROLE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Two of Turkey's highest courts are publicly and privately signaling an intention to play an interventionist role in constraining government efforts to lift the headscarf ban at universities -- a proxy for what they view as the larger struggle for the Republic's soul. Court of App [...]
2008-02-06 15:34:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
08ANKARA2140TURKEY WELCOMES OPENING OF EU CHAPTERS
[...] (C) The GOT readily welcomed the European Union's decision to open two accession chapters, "free movement of capital" and "information, society, and media," following the 6th Turkey-EU Accession Conference in Brussels. This brings the total number of opened chapters to ten. (Note: The EU froz [...]
2008-12-19 15:27:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL EUN TU
08ANKARA2147ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-22 11:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2148ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-22 11:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2156TURKEY: RESPONSE TO NOBLE ARCHER LIMITED TO
[...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General for Maritime and Aviation Affairs Basat Ozturk told Pol-Mil Couns on December 22 that Turkey's response to Noble Archer is complete; it was limited to three letters: From Turkey's NATO PermRep to the NATO SecGen, from Turkey' Military Representative at SHAPE to [...]
2008-12-22 16:53:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO GR TU
08ANKARA2172ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-24 14:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2174TURKEY/ISRAEL/SYRIA: OLMERT REMAINS POSITIVE ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Israeli PM Olmert visited Ankara December 22 in what was billed a "farewell" call, meeting privately with PM Erdogan (we believe PM foreign policy advisor Davutoglu translated) and, with delegations, President Gul. Syria and Gaza dominated the agenda. According to Israeli Embass [...]
2008-12-24 15:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PGOV PTER IS SY TU
08ANKARA2177ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-29 12:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2190TURKEY CONDEMNS GAZA ATTACKS
[...] (U) Turkey has reacted strongly to Israeli attacks in Gaza. PM Erdogan has called the attacks a "crime against humanity," a "blow to world peace," and complained they showed a "lack of respect" for Turkey, which has been exerting great efforts to restore peace in the region. President Gul wa [...]
2008-12-30 17:31:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PBTS PGOV PTER IS TU
08ANKARA2192ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-31 06:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA2194TURKEY/TIP: STRONG COMMITMENT, UNEVEN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: GOT, NGO, and IOM experts discussed with visiting G/TIP Foreign Affairs Officer Jennifer Donnelly December 15-17 the considerable progress Turkey has made in the fight against trafficking in persons (TIP) sin [...]
2008-12-31 14:05:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG
08ANKARA2195ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-31 14:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA22ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-04 14:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA224ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-07 15:20:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA24TURKEY'S ULTRANATIONALIST "VALLEY OF THE WOLVES"
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Turkey's popular television drama "Valley of the Wolves" is back on the air and setting new records in its fourth season. "Show TV" temporarily canceled the program in February 2007 due to government pressure and viewer complaints over the show's violence. Television [...]
2008-01-04 16:36:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA242ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-11 07:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA248ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-11 13:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA264ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-12 15:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA266TURKEY: SE KURDS SKEPTICAL OF ANKARA'S NEWFOUND
[...] (U) This is an AmConsul Adana cable. 2. (C) Summary. Despite increasing hints in Ankara that the GOT is considering proposals to start addressing the root causes of the Kurdish issue, leaders in southeastern Turkey are skeptical the GOT is committed to the reforms needed for a lasting solut [...]
2008-02-13 07:48:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL TU IZ
08ANKARA273ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-13 15:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA285TURKEY: ANKARA CONFERENCE DISCUSSES HOW TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-15 09:10:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA289ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-15 13:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA30ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-07 15:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA307MGKV01: TURKEY SWIFTLY RECOGNIZES KOSOVO
[...] (U) At approximately 19:30 local time, February 18, the GOT formally recognized Kosovo's independence. FM Babacan's statement (see paragraph 4) emphasized the importance Turkey attaches to peace and stability in the Balkans. The statement also noted Turkey's historical and cultural ties to [...]
2008-02-19 12:06:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL TU YI ZL
08ANKARA309ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-19 14:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA31TURKEY: GOT ON NON-MILITARY SOLUTIONS TO PKK
[...] (C) Summary and comment. The GOT is taking preliminary steps to address the political and economic demands of its Kurdish population, in conjunction with recent military attacks against terrorist PKK targets in northern Iraq. Both PM Erdogan's government and the Turkish General Staff (TGS) u [...]
2008-01-08 06:59:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV IZ TU
08ANKARA313TURKEY: SOLDIERS CAPTURED BY PKK ON TRIAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The trial of the eight Turkish soldiers captured and subsequently released by the PKK in October 2007 began on February 1 in the Jandarma Command Military Court in Van. Following the hearing, the soldiers were released and will return to court April 25. The trial has been belo [...]
2008-02-19 15:14:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PTER TU
08ANKARA319ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-20 15:13:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA320TURKEY: HEADSCARF DEBATE REVEALS FISSURES
[...] (C) Turkey again finds itself in a state of domestic tension and polarization. Among politicians, the debate over the headscarf (whether or not to allow girls who cover their heads into universities) has degenerated into a series of sophomoric arguments. They're not battling it out on the st [...]
2008-02-20 15:30:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV TU
08ANKARA328ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-21 14:34:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA331TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 1: TURKEY LAUNCHES GROUND
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The Turkish General Staff (TGS) has publicly announced that Turkish forces have launched a ground operation into northern Iraq, which began at 1700 hours Zulu on February 21. Predator imagery has identified two columns of approximately 800 dismounted infantry six kilometers in [...]
2008-02-22 10:24:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA335ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-22 15:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA34ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-08 13:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA341TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 3: GROUND OPERATION CONTINUES,
[...] (U) Turkish ground operations inside of northern Iraq continue, with Turkish troops supported by artillery and air strikes as well as helicopter gunships. 2. (U) In a public announcement late on February 22, the Turkish General Staff (TGS) reported that operations are being carried out by J [...]
2008-02-23 12:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA342TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 3: GROUND OPERATION CONTINUES,
[...] (U) Turkish ground operations inside of northern Iraq continue, with Turkish troops supported by artillery and air strikes as well as helicopter gunships. 2. (U) In a public announcement late on February 22, the Turkish General Staff (TGS) reported that operations are being carried out by J [...]
2008-02-23 12:17:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA343TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 3: GROUND OPERATION CONTINUES,
[...] (U) Turkish ground operations inside of northern Iraq continue, with Turkish troops supported by artillery and air strikes as well as helicopter gunships. 2. (U) In a public announcement late on February 22, the Turkish General Staff (TGS) reported that operations are being carried out by J [...]
2008-02-23 12:17:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA349TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP: January 2008
[...] Turkey carried out air strikes against PKK terrorist positions in northern Iraq on January 15. Turkish General Staff (TGS) announced that over 60 targets were hit. Counter-terrorism operations within Southeast Turkey against PKK terrorists continued during month. TGS reported that 36 terrori [...]
2008-02-25 08:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL IZ IT UK MK QA GR TU
08ANKARA350TURKEY'S PRESIDENT APPROVES CONSTITUTIONAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Turkish President Abdullah Gul signed two constitutional amendments February 22, laying the groundwork for lifting Turkey's headscarf ban at universities. Opposition parties plan to file a challenge in the Constitutional Court on Wednesday. Heated debate continues over whethe [...]
2008-02-25 09:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM TU
08ANKARA354TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 4: GROUND OPERATIONS, MILITARY
[...] (SBU) Turkish ground operations in the Zap-Metina area of northern Iraq continue, with Turkish troops supported by artillery and air strikes as well as helicopter gunships. Weather in the objective area is expected to deteriorate significantly over the next 24-48 hours, limiting air operations [...]
2008-02-25 12:18:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA356ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-25 14:27:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA357TURKEY: DPM CICEK,S HARSH RHETORIC SETS BACK CT
[...] (C) Summary. In separate February 19 meetings with the Belgian Ministers of Justice and the Interior, Turkey's DPM Cemil Cicek used very blunt language to insist that Belgium crack down on terrorism, according to both Turkish MFA and Belgian Embassy sources. Cicek implied Belgium should not [...]
2008-02-25 14:51:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL BE TU
08ANKARA366TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 5: GROUND OPERATIONS CONTINUE,
[...] (C) Turkish ground forces continue to engage PKK terrorists in the Zap Metina region of northern Iraq, supported by air and artillery strikes. Deteriorating weather conditions in the objective area will likely hamper operations over the next 24 hours. Normal logistics and customs operations [...]
2008-02-26 12:10:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA369ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-26 15:13:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA371TURKEY: DOSTUM UNWELCOME IN TURKEY, STAND-OFF
[...] (C) The Dostum stand-off continues, MFA South Asia DDG Babur Hizlan told us February 26. Hizlan had phoned us on February 25 to relate that Dostum wants security guarantees to leave Kabul and go to the north, and the ten days on the Chief Prosecutor's order to Dostum to turn himself in or le [...]
2008-02-26 15:35:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AF TU
08ANKARA376TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 6: DAY 5 OF GROUND OPERATIONS
[...] (C) Turkish ground troops continued to receive air and artillery support on February 26, despite poor weather conditions. Weather in the objective area is expected to improve over the next 24-48 hours. Normal logistics and customs operations continue at Habur Gate. 2. (U) A Turkish Genera [...]
2008-02-27 11:27:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA378ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-27 12:32:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA381TURKEY: OPPOSITION CHALLENGES HEADSCARF AMENDMENTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Opposition parties applied to Turkey's Constitutional Court February 27 to stay implementation and ultimately annul constitutional amendments designed to lift the headscarf ban at universities. The court is expected to rule quickly on the stay motion; a decision on annulling the [...]
2008-02-27 14:13:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
08ANKARA389TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 7: DAY 6 OF GROUND OPERATIONS
[...] (C) Turkish forces continued to engage PKK in the Zap Metina region of northern Iraq, backed by close air support and artillery. Operations at the Habur Gate crossing remained normal. 2. (U) A Turkish General Staff (TGS) statement on February 27 reported 77 terrorists and 5 Turkish soldier [...]
2008-02-28 09:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA392ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-28 14:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA393TURKEY-RUSSIA RELATIONS REMAIN ON TRACK DESPITE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The atmosphere was surprisingly positive during Turkish FM Babacan's February 19-20 visit to Moscow, MFA Russia and Eastern Europe Department Head Meltem Buyukkarakas told us February 26. Trade and investment continue to drive relations, though the Turks are dissatisfied with a [...]
2008-02-28 15:45:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RU TU
08ANKARA398TURKEY/IRAQ SITREP 8: DAY 7 OF GROUND OPERATIONS
[...] (S//REL TO USA, GBR) Although we have received no formal TGS notification, elements of the Turkish forces involved in the cross-border operation in northern Iraq appear to have begun withdrawing from their forward operating bases. Turkish air force and artillery units conducted cross-border C [...]
2008-02-29 11:46:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA405ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-29 15:15:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA416ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-03 14:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA417TURKEY: MEDIA COVERAGE OF MILITARY OPERATION IN
[...] (U) Summary: Civilian and military officials have had to respond to criticism from the opposition, reflected both in the mainstream and opposition press, that Turkey bowed to U.S. pressure to withdraw its troops from northern Iraq. The withdrawal occurred the day after Defense Secretary Gates' [...]
2008-03-03 14:58:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MOPS MARR PTER TU IZ
08ANKARA423ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-04 14:28:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA424TURKEY: 8TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: OVERVIEW AND
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to reftel A questions. This is part 1 of 3 (septels). Embassy point of contact is Anthony Renzulli, telephone 90-312-457-7178, fax 90-312-468-4775. Renzulli (FS-03) spent approximately 90 hou [...]
2008-03-04 15:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU
08ANKARA425TURKEY: 8TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: INVESTIGATION AND
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to reftel questions. This is part 2 of 3 (septels). INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF TRAFFICKERS -------------------------------------------- A. (U) Chapter 1, Article 80 of the Turkish Pen [...]
2008-03-04 15:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU
08ANKARA43ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-09 15:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA430TURKEY: MILITARY LASHES OUT AT OPPOSITION IN
[...] (C) Summary: In an ironic twist, controversy over the Turkish military's pull-out from Iraq has pitted the Turkish General Staff (TGS) against its erstwhile political allies, the Republican People's Party (CHP),and has driven the TGS closer to PM Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) [...]
2008-03-05 13:00:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS TU IZ
08ANKARA435ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-05 15:26:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA436TURKEY: KURDISH REACTIONS TO THE CROSS-BORDER
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-06 05:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PTER OSCE TU IZ
08ANKARA444ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-06 14:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA452ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-07 14:02:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA456TURKEY TO FULLY IMPLEMENT UNSCR 1803, DENIES
[...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA Acting Deputy Undersecretary Haydar Berk, Deputy Director General (DDG) for South Asia Babur Hizlan, and DDG for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Ahmet Gun. We highlighted the resolution's call on states to exercise vigilance in dealing with Iranian ban [...]
2008-03-07 14:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM PREL IR TU
08ANKARA463GOT RECTIFIES ERRONEOUS VAT TAX COLLECTIONS FROM FREE TRADE
[...] (U) On February 27, the Ministry of Finance ended the collection of additional value-added (VAT) tax levied on Free Trade Zones (FTZs) operating in Turkey. Companies operating in FTZs were blindsided by a Turkish Customs Undersecretariat circular issued on January 21 (Reftel) requiring them to [...]
2008-03-10 13:02:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV ECON TU
08ANKARA464ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-10 14:40:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA465TURKEY ADVOCATES DIALOGUE, UNDERSTANDING IN MIDST
[...] (C) Summary: In the months following Annapolis, Turkey has adopted an increasingly responsible and constructive tone in its engagement with Israel and Palestine. The Justice and Development Party (AKP)-led government has reduced its casual use of anti-Israel rhetoric and added a more conciliat [...]
2008-03-10 15:03:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL TU IS
08ANKARA468YOUNG TURKS VISIT ARMENIA: BUILDING TIES THAT BIND
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY. Several Turkish alumni of British universities who visited Armenia January 20-25 shared with us a taste of their unique experience and the favorable impressions made by their Armenian contacts. The realization [...]
2008-03-10 15:20:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SCUL OPRC AM TU
08ANKARA471ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-11 15:02:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA481ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-12 14:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA484TURKEY: 8TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: PROSECUTION:
[...] (U) The Turkish Ministry of Justice (MOJ),through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),sent us, March 10, supplemental information on prosecutions and convictions of traffickers, including of two GOT officials, and also provided clarification on the law governing legal prostitution and the [...]
2008-03-12 14:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU
08ANKARA489TURKEY: NO PLANS TO SELL ARMS TO SUDAN;
[...] (C) In the read-out of Sudanese President al-Bashir's January 21 visit to Ankara (reftel),MFA Africa Section Chief Aykut Kumaroglu denied media reports that Turkey has any immediate plans to supply Sudan with military equipment. Kumaroglu did acknowledge that the two sides are seeking to expa [...]
2008-03-13 08:11:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALAA PGOV PREL SU TU
08ANKARA497ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-13 15:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA502TURKEY'S TOP COURTS IN THE THICK OF POLITICS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. As the power struggle continues between forces of change and the status quo, Turkey's top courts are playing an increasingly prominent role as de facto opposition. This prominence is in part a predictable outgrowth of the cases brought before them -- and underscores GOT determin [...]
2008-03-14 10:57:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA508ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-14 14:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA513THE STATE STRIKES BACK: CLOSURE CASE FILED AGAINST
[...] (C) Summary and comment: The closure case filed March 14 against PM Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is a body blow to Turkey's political and economic stability. Turkey's entrenched secular establishment establishment has chosen to try to fight the AKP where the inept pol [...]
2008-03-17 13:42:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON TU
08ANKARA514ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-17 15:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA518TURKEY: AKP CLOSURE CASE UPDATE (3/18)
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Forceful reactions to the closure case against ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) continue. Politicians and media are connecting the closure case with the government's crackdown on the Ergenekon gang (a band of retired military and others charged with assassi [...]
2008-03-18 10:40:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON TU
08ANKARA522ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-18 14:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA526TURKEY: AKP CLOSURE CASE UPDATE (3/19)
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: As everyone awaits the Constitutional Court rapporteur's opinion on whether the closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is technically complete, some are urging AKP to press forward with reforms of the judiciary, the political parties law, [...]
2008-03-19 13:21:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON TU
08ANKARA529ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-19 14:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA54ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-10 15:24:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA541TURKEY: AKP CLOSURE CASE UPDATE (3/20)
[...] (C) Summary and comment. While the embattled Justice and Development Party (AKP) squares off to fight its closure case tooth and nail, it is also redoubling its efforts to push forward EU-oriented reforms. One AKP MP reflected on the party's past shortcomings, and opposition parties criticize [...]
2008-03-20 12:50:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA543ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-20 14:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA550TURKEY: AKP CLOSURE CASE UPDATE (3/21)
[...] (C) SUMMARY. "Rule of law" is the watch phrase for one key retired general, who defends the case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) by arguing that they were acting outside the bounds of legitimacy. His views illustrate the strain between the military and its traditional [...]
2008-03-21 13:20:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA552ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-21 14:17:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA561TURKEY: AKP CLOSURE CASE UPDATE (3/24)
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. In the wake of several detentions of prominent individuals on March 21, the focus is on connections between the closure case against ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the crackdown on the Ergenekon gang, a shady collection of leftist ultra-nationalists wh [...]
2008-03-24 13:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA562ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-24 15:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA563TURKEY: AKP CLOSURE CASE UPDATE (3/25)
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: PM Erdogan, initially quick to claim that the closure case against his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was a reaction against the government crackdown on the Ergenekon gang, has begun to defer to the prosecutor,s denials as media increasingly portray the ne [...]
2008-03-25 12:58:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA564ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-25 15:17:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA568ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-26 14:41:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA575TURKEY: PRESIDENT GUL'S NEW TAKE ON ACTIVISM
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Six months into his tenure as Turkey's president, Abdullah Gul was striding confidently across the world stage while walking more carefully on the domestic tightrope. It is an image that encapsulated his presidency up to March 14, 2008, the day the chief public prosecutor filed [...]
2008-03-27 15:30:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA579ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-28 06:06:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA583ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-28 12:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA598ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-31 13:01:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA605TURKEY: REALITY TV SHOW RATINGS ON THE RISE
[...] (U) As the Turkish public grows weary of the complicated and discouraging political developments dominating the news and talk shows, they are turning increasingly to reality TV shows for entertainment. TRT Program Director Nisan Budalalik has seen a marked increase in viewership of American-s [...]
2008-04-01 12:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA611ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-01 14:13:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA62ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-11 15:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA620ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-02 14:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA629ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-03 14:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA630TURKEY/TURKMENISTAN: BILATERAL TIES INCH AHEAD ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite media reports to the contrary, Turkmen President Berdimuhamedov discussed energy matters in some detail with President Gul and PM Erdogan during his March 24-25 visit to Turkey, MFA Central Asia Department Head Sule Gurel and Energy Department Head Berris Ekinci told us [...]
2008-04-03 14:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EPET ENRG TU TX
08ANKARA640ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-04 13:40:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA643TURKEY ENCOURAGED BY SAAKASHVILI'S ABKHAZ AUTONOMY
[...] (C) The GOT believes Georgian President Saakashvili's March 28 proposals offering significant autonomy to Abkhazia are important, South Caucasus Section Head Yavuz Kul told us April 2. Turkey remains prepared to play a "facilitating" role with the Abkhaz if Georgia allows it, according to Kul [...]
2008-04-04 14:29:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GG TU
08ANKARA659ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-07 12:51:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA670ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-08 14:12:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA671TURKEY'S RULING PARTY MAKES ITS FIRST MOVE
[...] (C) Summary and comment. Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) revealed the first moves in its strategy to survive the party closure case now pending in the constitutional court. Following AKP's April 7 Central Decision Making and Administrative Board meeting, party officials a [...]
2008-04-08 14:13:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV TU
08ANKARA672TURKEY: VIOLENT CLASHES CAST SHADOWS OF PAST COUPS
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Violent clashes at universities around Turkey over the last several weeks, while small in scale, are being widely identified as deliberate provocations to polarize and destabilize the country. In the back of everyone's mind is clashes as prelude to a possible coup. I [...]
2008-04-08 14:17:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA673ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-09 13:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA680TURKEY: ERGENEKON INVESTIGATION INEXTRICABLY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Alleged links between the investigation into the Ergenekon deep state gang (ref A) and the chief public prosecutor's closure case against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are both difficult to prove and impossible to ignore. Although evidence of a direct link remai [...]
2008-04-10 10:44:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA684ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-10 14:38:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA690TURKEY: NGO'S PRESENT KURDISH SOLUTIONS TO A
[...] (C) A broad coalition of Diyarbakir civil society organizations sent a delegation to Ankara this week to present a series of recommendations on how the government can address the Southeast's socio-economic problems. On the economic side, the recommendations focus on improving the effectivenes [...]
2008-04-11 11:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA7ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-02 15:24:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA700ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-14 12:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA708ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-15 14:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA709TURKEY: UN USYG PASCOE CONSULTS MFA ON CYPRUS
[...] (C) Summary: Following consultations in Nicosia and Athens, UN Under Secretary General for Political Affairs Pascoe visited Ankara April 8 to discuss the UN's proposal for the next round of comprehensive Cyprus settlement talks. MFA sources report the GOT is pleased with the details Pascoe lai [...]
2008-04-15 14:46:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CY TU
08ANKARA712ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-16 13:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA714TURKEY: RULING PARTY STILL WORKING OUT "ARTICLE
[...] (C) Summary: As a bill to amend controversial Turkish Penal Code Article 301 (criminalizing insulting "Turkishness") inches its way toward the floor of Turkish Parliament, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) members remain divided on the key issue of who should review cases to [...]
2008-04-16 14:51:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA72ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-14 14:26:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA721ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-17 13:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA727ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-18 12:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA728EU PRESIDENT BARROSO GOES "BACK TO BASICS" IN
[...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Ankara - Consulate Istanbul cable. 2. (C) Summary and comment: European Union President Jose Manuel Barroso's April 11-12 visit to Turkey coincided with intense national debate and polarization over the March 14 indictment to close the ruling Justice and Develop [...]
2008-04-18 12:38:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA73TURKEY: MAIN ALEVI ORGANIZATIONS BOYCOTT PM
[...] (C) Summary: Turkey's main Alevi organizations boycotted a January 11 Muharram iftar organized by Justice and Development Party (AKP) MPs as outreach to Alevi communities. They saw the event as "Sunni-centric", aimed at assimilating Alevis into mainstream Sunni society, and demonstrated their [...]
2008-01-14 14:30:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
08ANKARA742ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-21 13:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA752ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-22 13:57:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA753ABKHAZIA/SOUTH OSSETIA: TURKEY CONCERNED ABOUT
[...] (C) Turkey shares our concerns about the new presidential instructions to the Russian government to create "mechanisms" to protect the rights of Russian citizens in Abkhazia and South Ossetia (reftel),MFA Deputy DG for South Caucasus and Central Asia Umit Yardim and South Caucasus Department [...]
2008-04-22 13:58:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL GG RS TU
08ANKARA755TURKEY: SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS WITH ISRAEL AND THE
[...] (U) This cable is in response to ref a request. 2. (C) Summary: The GOT supports the Annapolis process and the Road Map, and increasingly sees itself as an impartial regional facilitator, capable of playing a constructive role in the Middle East peace process. Ankara hosted PA President A [...]
2008-04-22 14:31:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG IS KPAL TU
08ANKARA767TURKEY-AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN: SUMMIT DATES BEING FINALIZED; DOSTUM ARREST WOULD THREATEN TURKISH-AFGHAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-24 12:11:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETAF PGOV PK PREL TU
08ANKARA770ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-24 14:03:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA781ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-25 13:34:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA795TURKEY: RIVALS FIND COMMON CAUSE IN CONSTITUTIONAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Long-standing civil society rivals have linked arms to press politicians to resuscitate efforts for comprehensive constitutional reform -- this time in a fashion that draws on a broad base. Two top business organizations, TUSIAD and TOBB, have quietly pitched to the major parties [...]
2008-04-28 12:48:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA797ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-28 14:16:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA799TURKEY: GOT CONGRATULATES NEW ARMENIAN
[...] (U) PM Erdogan congratulated newly-appointed Armenian PM Tigran Sarkissian on his assignment in an April 22 letter in which he called on the two "neighborly countries" to take concrete steps to find lasting solutions to their existing problems through dialogue and establishing good neighborly [...]
2008-04-28 15:27:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AM TU
08ANKARA817ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-29 13:58:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA825TURKEY-IRAQ: SPRING WEATHER BRINGS UPSWING IN
[...] (S) Summary: Turkish security operations against PKK terrorists in Turkey and in northern Iraq have increased with the onset of spring. Meanwhile, clashes within Turkey have occurred as far north as Kars and have claimed up to eleven Turkish dead this month. Turkish forces conducted the lar [...]
2008-04-30 07:25:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR MOPS PTER IZ TU
08ANKARA834IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - TURKEY
[...] This report was coordinated with FAS Ankara. 2. SUMMARY: Turkey has the highest per capita wheat consumption in the world, and in a normal year is not only self-sufficient but exports wheat flour to neighboring countries. Severe drought in 2007 slashed Turkish crop yields, and commodity pri [...]
2008-04-30 14:10:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA843ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-01 13:22:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA853ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-02 14:04:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA860ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-05 14:15:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA873ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-06 13:43:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA879ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-07 12:05:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA89TURKEY RE-LAUNCHES BID TO WIN CENTRAL ASIAN HEARTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkish President Abdullah Gul is spearheading a renewed GOT effort to strengthen Turkish-Central Asian relations through visit diplomacy. Unlike Turkey's initial, post-Soviet era approach to the region, the Turks are viewing Central Asia as a partner not a patron, and offering [...]
2008-01-16 13:58:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ENRG EPET EINV KZ KG TI TX
08ANKARA891ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-08 12:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA899ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-09 13:18:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA90ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-16 14:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA909TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT CHIEF'S SURPRISINGLY
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Constitutional Court Chairman Hasim Kilic candidly acknowledged tensions between law and politics in Turkey, noting a serious crisis of confidence within society in April 25 remarks marking the Court's 46th anniversary. Kilic challenged all players, the judiciary inc [...]
2008-05-12 13:30:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TU
08ANKARA91ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-16 14:09:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA910ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-12 14:20:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA911TURKEY-IRAQ: TURKEY RETALIATES AGAINST PKK ATTACK
[...] (S) Following a May 9 PKK attack against a Turkish jandarma border post in Hakkari province that killed several Turkish soldiers, Turkish artillery and warplanes launched strikes on May 10 targeting suspected PKK facilities and PKK elements fleeing into northern Iraq following the attack. Turk [...]
2008-05-12 14:41:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR MOPS PTER IZ TU
08ANKARA922 Turkey: FY 2009 IVLP Nomination Slate
[...] Ahmed Arpat, News Reporter/Editor, Kanal D television European Regional Project, Current Social, Political, and Economic Issues for Young European Leaders I (October 20 - November 7, 2008) (Alternate: Ozan Acar, Research Associate at the Turkish Economic Policy Foundation) 2. Orhan Kema [...]
2008-05-13 10:04:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC KPAO SCUL TU
08ANKARA924TURKEY: POLLS PUT RESPONSIBILITY FOR TENSIONS AT
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Turks hold the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) responsible for current political tensions, with mixed consequences for party support, according to recent surveys by rival polling companies A&G and Metropoll. A&G's April poll showed voter support for AKP sl [...]
2008-05-13 11:29:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV TU
08ANKARA925ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-13 14:24:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA926TURKEY-IRAQ: TURKEY RETALIATES AGAINST PKK ATTACK
[...] (S) Following a May 9 PKK attack against a Turkish jandarma border post in Hakkari province that killed several Turkish soldiers, Turkish artillery and warplanes launched strikes on May 10 targeting PKK elements fleeing into northern Iraq following the attack and other suspected PKK facilities [...]
2008-05-13 14:43:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR MOPS PTER IZ TU
08ANKARA931ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-14 14:05:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA937TURKEY: EU TROIKA, IN ANKARA, FOCUSES ON NEED FOR
[...] (C) Summary and comment: The EU continued its intense engagement with Turkey (following EC President Barroso's recent visit) with a May 6 EU Troika meeting in Ankara. The EU delegation stressed the accession door remains very much open for Turkey, but reforms must be reinvigorated. Turkish [...]
2008-05-15 05:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU EUN
08ANKARA940ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-15 13:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA952ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-16 12:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA953AFRICA: TURKEY'S NEXT FRONTIER?
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Like China and India, Turkey has joined the rush to forge relations with sub-Saharan Africa. The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has raised Turkey's political profile since coming to power in 2002 -- declaring 2005 the "Year of Africa" and announcing plans to open 1 [...]
2008-05-16 12:44:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON TU AF
08ANKARA958ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-20 12:06:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA964TURKEY: PRO-KURDISH DTP LEADER AHMET TURK
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-21 13:23:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ TU
08ANKARA965TURKEY: STOPPING THE FLOW OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS TO
[...] (C) Summary. Turkey is acutely aware of the Al Qaeda Network (AQN) threat and is actively collecting against it, an MFA official told us May 20. Turkey cannot, however, engage in broad "profiling" of young male travelers. Urged to consider new border security and information-sharing arrange [...]
2008-05-21 13:35:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL ASEC IZ SY TU
08ANKARA966ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-21 14:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA975ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-22 13:17:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA982ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-23 11:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANKARA999ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT - TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-28 13:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
08ANTANANARIVO138PROPOSED U.S. STATEMENT ON COMOROS
[...] (SBU) As noted Reftel, the French Government has issued a strong statement of support for the Union of the Comoros and a condemnation of the illegitimate authorities governing the island of Anjouan. A rough translation follows in Paragraph Two. This comes in advance of French (and U.S.) part [...]
2008-02-19 12:42:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS ASEC FR CN
08ANTANANARIVO164 MADAGASCAR 2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Madagascar is not a country of origin, transit or destination for internationally trafficked men and women. During the year, there were reports of labor and sex trafficking in persons (TIP) within the country's borders. Cultural values; poverty; low-level corruption; lack of a [...]
2008-02-29 11:52:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB MA
08ANTANANARIVO179 ISLANDS TENSELY AWAIT MILITARY ACTION
[...] (U) The three islands in the Union of the Comoros tensely await impending military action. African Union (AU) Representative Mourad Taiati told international reporters in Moroni on March 4 that, "Today, everyone has taken our [AU] position. [Mohamed Bacar] is isolated and the military operati [...]
2008-03-06 14:13:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS KDEM PHUM PINR CN
08ANTANANARIVO192Comoros: Colonel Bacar Letter to Secretary Rice
[...] (SBU) In an apparent response to the Ambassador's March 7 op-ed in the Comoran media endorsing Union and African Union actions, Anjouan's Colonel Bacar sent Post a letter for Secretary Rice on March 11. In it, Bacar repeats the same legal-constitutional arguments he made during 2007 in Cape T [...]
2008-03-12 09:26:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS KDEM PHUM PINR CN
08ANTANANARIVO212 "RAIDS" ESCALATE TO ARMED CONFLICT ON ANJOUAN
[...] (SBU) Contacts in the Comoros report a Union Army (AND) "raid" on Anjouan beginning March 15 has turned into a series of battles. Having reportedly freed eight prisoners and taken two minor casualties, part of the AND landing force returned to its staging point in Moheli. However, a small AND [...]
2008-03-17 14:06:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS KDEM PHUM PINR CN
08ANTANANARIVO228 SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON ANJOUAN
[...] (SBU) Actions Requested: Post recommends the Department issue a statement setting the record straight on the Anjouan problem in the Comoros. Suggested points in para 4. Post also recommends the Department pursue efforts to support Comoros' request that the UN Security Council not take up th [...]
2008-03-20 12:24:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS KDEM PHUM PINR CN
08ANTANANARIVO230 FORMER COMORAN PRESIDENT AZALI POSITIONS HIMSELF
[...] (SBU) With increasing political and military activity in the Union of the Comoros (REFTEL),former Union President Assoumani Azali has stepped up his communication with Embassy Antananarivo. The latest was a statement from his political party, the Convention for the Renewal of the Comoros (CRC) [...]
2008-03-20 12:30:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS KDEM PHUM PINR CN
08ANTANANARIVO39MALAGASY MFA VIEWS ON COMORAN IMPASSE
[...] (SBU) Malagasy Foreign Affairs Secretary General Mboara Andriarimanana and Cabinet Director Michel Martin Rajoelina shared their views on the current Comoros impasse with the Ambassador January 16. Both were very well "read-in" on the Comoran state of play, having followed reports from the Ma [...]
2008-01-16 14:12:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID MOPS PINR CN MA
08ANTANANARIVO440 GOM WELCOMES MADAGASCAR'S TIER ONE TIP STATUS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 12, in conjunction with the World Day Against Child Labor, Embassy Antananarivo organized a digital videoconference (DVC) featuring Ambassador Mark Lagon and Director of the Office for East Africa James Knight from Washington with high-level representatives from the Gover [...]
2008-06-19 14:21:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN ASEC ELAB EAID MA
08ANTANANARIVO443COMORAN PRESIDENT VISITS IRAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 14, Union of the Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi and a high-ranking political and economic Comoran delegation arrived in Tehran for a three-day visit that included meetings with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Foreign Minis [...]
2008-06-20 10:14:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID IR CN
08ANTANANARIVO591 Comoran Dialogue Process Stumbles Out Of The Gate
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following a week of intense negotiations with Union of the Comoros officials and other stakeholders, African Union Special Envoy Madeira succeeded September 1 in achieving an agreement in principle for modalities to set up a preparatory committee for the long-awaited Inter-Como [...]
2008-09-03 08:33:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL ECON ASEC CN PGOV
08ANTANANARIVO606 Comorans Disagree On How (And If) To Talk
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After two weeks of intense mediation efforts by African Union Special Envoy Madeira, the Comorans are scarcely closer to sitting down to plan for inter-island talks. President Sambi showed his cards September 5, indicating to diplomats he will hold a referendum to "fix institu [...]
2008-09-08 07:16:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL ECON ASEC CN
08ANTANANARIVO644GROWING OPPOSITION FOCUSED ON CAPITAL FEUD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prompted by the recent involvement of increasingly higher-profile opposition leaders, President Ravalomanana and his allies have been forced to publicly confront growing discontent with the administration, if not address its causes. In the capital, a nine-month battle between t [...]
2008-09-24 09:16:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM MA XW
08ANTANANARIVO691MAYOR TO PRESIDENT: JUST LET ME DO MY JOB
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting between Antananarivo Mayor Andry Rajoelina and Ambassador Marquardt, the Mayor outlined his ongoing difficulties with President Ravalomanana and his party, TIM, painting himself as an eager but frustrated reformer who wants nothing more than to do his job. While he b [...]
2008-10-09 13:19:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPGOV MA
08ANTANANARIVO849MADAGASCAR: PRESIDENT AND MAYOR TAKING THEIR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The year-long feud between Antananarivo Mayor Andry Rajoelina and President Marc Ravalomanana entered a new and more volatile chapter on the one year anniversary of Rajoelina's 2007 election. Following the GOM's surprise closure on December 13 of VIVA TV, owned by Rajoelina, the [...]
2008-12-19 07:51:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MA
08ANTANANARIVO852 MADAGASCAR: GOM (AGAIN) DENIES DAEWOO LAND DEAL
[...] (U) The following diplomatic note dated December 12 was delivered to Post in response to recent media reports concerning a major agricultural investment by South Korea's Daewoo Logistics (reftel). The story was reported on extensively in both foreign and domestic media despite an immediate deni [...]
2008-12-19 09:14:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON EINV EAGR MA
08ANTANANARIVO879IMF DISPLEASED OVER GOM POLICY DECISIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Responding to open source reports concerning several recent GOM economic policy decisions, IMF and World Bank officials raised their concerns in a 12 December letter to Minister of Finance and Budget Haja Nirina Razafinjatovo. In the last month, the government has purchased an [...]
2008-12-30 13:48:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL PGOV MA
08APIA58PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION AT EMBASSY OVER ARREST OF ASSOCIATE
[...] Summary: At 10:00am November 10 approximately 2,000 peaceful protesters marched to the Embassy to deliver a petition for the release of Associate Cabinet Minister and prominent businessman Hans Joachim (Joe) Keil. Mr. Keil was arrested in September in the U.S. on suspicion of passport fraud. [...]
2008-11-13 05:04:00Embassy ApiaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ASEC WS
08ASHGABAT1007TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CSTC-A
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to continue our bilateral dialogue in the area of security cooperation. Your first visit to Turkmenistan follows the outgoing [...]
2008-08-04 10:18:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MARR EPET ECON SCUL SOCI SNAR KDEM
08ASHGABAT1008TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to continue our bilateral dialogue in the area of security cooperation. Your first visit to Turkmenistan follows the outgoing [...]
2008-08-04 10:19:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MARR EPET ECON SCUL SOCI SNAR KDEM
08ASHGABAT1049TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE SEPTEMBER 6-9
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to advance our bilateral dialogue on energy. President Bush met briefly with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on April 3 [...]
2008-08-12 14:04:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EPET ECON KDEM MARR SCUL SOCI SNAR
08ASHGABAT1051TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF DEPUTY
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to advance our continuing bilateral dialogue. President Bush met briefly with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on April 3 [...]
2008-08-13 06:33:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON EPET SCUL SOCI KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT1062 TURKMENISTAN: ONLY SMALL MENTION OF GEORGIA IN TURKMEN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) In line with usual practices, Turkmenistan's state-controlled news media has been almost entirely silent on the war in Georgia. However, the August 14 edition of the Turkmen language "Watan" newspaper carried a short artic [...]
2008-08-14 13:33:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT1066TURKMENISTAN: GTZ LEGAL REFORM SEMNAR FEATURED ON
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) The typical front page of the official Neutralniy Turkmenistan newspaper features the activities of President Berdimuhamedov, including Cabinet of Ministers' meetings and the president's meetings with foreign dignitaries. [...]
2008-08-15 13:33:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM EAID KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT1076TURKMENISTAN: CITIZENS SIDE WITH RUSSIA ON
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The events in Georgia remain a hot topic of discussion for many Turkmen. The predominance of Russian media continues to color people's perception of the conflict. And, not surprisingly, many locals take a decided [...]
2008-08-18 12:52:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SCUL SOCI TX
08ASHGABAT1087INSIDE TURKMENISTAN'S DISCOTHEQUES -- HITCH UP
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's clubs represent an opportunity for young people to dress and act more liberally. At the same time, youth maintain a sense of modesty and do not seriously challenge cultural traditions. Many Turkme [...]
2008-08-19 13:05:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SCUL SOCI TX
08ASHGABAT1092TURKMENISTAN'S GAY UNDERGROUND: HIDDEN, GROWING
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Officially nonexistent and a taboo topic, Turkmenistan's gay population is finding partners with greater frequency. Men will first meet in public places and then clandestinely continue seeing each other, although [...]
2008-08-20 13:47:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SCUL SOCI TX
08ASHGABAT1095TURKMENISTAN'S GAY UNDERGROUND: HIDDEN, GROWING
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Officially nonexistent and a taboo topic, Turkmenistan's gay population is finding partners with greater frequency. Men will first meet in public places and then secretly continue seeing each other, although the s [...]
2008-08-21 04:08:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SCUL SOCI TX
08ASHGABAT1100TURKMENISTAN: INTERNATIONALS GIVE COMMENTS ON
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 12, diplomats from various Western embassies met at a UN-hosted roundtable to provide comments to Turkmenistan's draft constitution. On August 20, the UN resident coordinator "informally" passed those co [...]
2008-08-22 04:52:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL SOCI TX
08ASHGABAT1102 TURKMENISTAN'S MEDIA: WHAT DOES THE PRESIDENT WANT?
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Recently, President Berdimuhamedov again called for the state-controlled mass media to improve and to project Turkmenistan's image abroad and reflect the age of revival better. In addition, he has reprimanded a ma [...]
2008-08-22 12:49:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT1103TURKMENISTAN: TURKMENISTAN NOW HAS A NEW
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's long-awaited new petroleum law entered into force on August 20, and all Turkmenistan's newsapers published a copy of the law in full on August 21. Embassy is passing an unofficial translation to the [...]
2008-08-22 13:07:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EPET TX
08ASHGABAT1119 TURKMENISTAN: RUSSIAN MEDIA'S HEAVY INFLUENCE ON LOCAL
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In an informal, unscientific survey of local citizens, post found general public support (approx. 75%) for Russia's point of view in the conflict with Georgia. There is a distinction between those who watch Russi [...]
2008-08-26 12:28:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT1139TURKMENISTAN: CHEVRON PREPARING FOR NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chevron has received two letters from Minister of Oil and Gas Baymurat Hojamuhammedov stating that Turkmenistan is ready to open negotiations on the company's proposal to work natural gas onshore. The country manager talked with both Hojamuhammedov and the Executive Director of [...]
2008-08-28 13:20:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EPET TX
08ASHGABAT1168TURKMENISTAN: FOREIGN ENERGY COMPANIES PRESS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the summer, some foreign oil and gas companies, hoping to make progress on proposals they submitted to the government months ago, were in a "wait and see" mode, after Turkmenistan's hydrocarbon officials gave them subtle hints that responses could be forthcoming or policie [...]
2008-09-04 16:29:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EPET TX
08ASHGABAT1170CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT IN TURKMENISTAN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In response to the 2003 Law on NGO Registration, which required all existing NGOs to re-register, USAID changed the focus of its civil society development program to work more closely with communities. This grass-ro [...]
2008-09-05 04:20:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT1173 TURKMENISTAN: NGO ROUNDTABLE REVEALS CONTINUED OBSTACLES
[...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol's meeting with NGO representatives revealed continued concerns about registration and government attitudes towards civil society activity. Most groups expressed hope that N [...]
2008-09-05 07:26:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT1176TURKEMINSTAN: DAS KROL MEETS WITH MEJLIS SPEAKER
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a September 3 meeting with visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for South Central Asia (SCA) George Krol, Mejlis (Parliament) Speaker Akja Nurberdiyeva repeatedly lauded President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov' [...]
2008-09-05 08:06:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT1187TURKMENISTAN: FM MEREDOV DISCUSSES BILATERAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a two-hour meeting on September 2 and a three-hour private lunch on September 4 that included Charge, Deputy Chairman/Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov expressed appreciation for cooperation with the United States and dialogue with the embassy. He underscored Turkmenistan's [...]
2008-09-09 06:38:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ECON EPET SOCI TX
08ASHGABAT1192TURKMENISTAN: AMBASSADOR KROL MEETS WITH DIRECTOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 4, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia George Krol met with Shirin Akhmedova, Director of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDHR) and one the most reform-minded high-ranking Turkmenistan government officials. Akhmedova affirmed President [...]
2008-09-09 11:48:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT1206TURKMENISTAN: ABA-CEELI WILL TRY A NEW APPROACH
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) ABA-CEELI Country Director told Charge September 11 that he plans to refocus the group's activities in Turkmenistan. However, he has heard indirectly from a number of sources that the Turkmenistan government wants to work w [...]
2008-09-11 11:27:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL TX
08ASHGABAT1209TURKMENISTAN: SHOOTING INCIDENT IN KHITROVKA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Late on September 9, two men, one armed with an AK-47, killed a soldier in a three-person foot patrol and wounded another soldier and the policeman with him. The suspects escaped. Police sources claim the suspects were extremists or at least influenced by outsiders. It is unc [...]
2008-09-11 14:12:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER SOCI KCRM TX
08ASHGABAT122TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT CREATES NEW
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) During a January 18 meeting of Turkmenistan's National Security Council, President Berdimuhamedov signed a decree establishing a new State Agency for Combating Narcotics. The president said that he had made this decision "t [...]
2008-01-24 09:11:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SNAR TX
08ASHGABAT1229TURKMENISTAN: KHITROVKA - - INITIAL HOTWASH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Police were in a gun battle September 12 at a bottled water factory north of town with a group of men linked to the two suspects who escaped following the shooting of peace officers on September 8. Starting late on September 12 and extending until the afternoon of September 13, po [...]
2008-09-15 13:02:00Embassy AshgabatSECRETPGOV PTER KCRM KISL SOCI TX
08ASHGABAT1233 TURKMENISTAN: GRAY/MANN VISIT EXTENDS ACCURATE STATE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Following DAS Krol's successful visit and media coverage (reftel),state media favorably covered Energy Envoys C. Boyden Gray and Steven Mann's September 7-8 visit to Turkmenistan, their meeting with President Gurb [...]
2008-09-16 11:38:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT1273BACK TO SCHOOL IN TURKMENISTAN: SOME PROGRESS BUT PROBLEMS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: September 1 marked the beginning of the school year in Turkmenistan. This new school year brought more reforms, particularly expansions to the educational system that was decimated under the country's first presiden [...]
2008-09-26 03:50:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT1398TURKMENISTAN: REVISED PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION LAW
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Turkmenistan's revised Law on Elections of Mejlis (parliament) Deputies, published without fanfare on October 15, contains a range of changes that will affect the election process, candidates, potential election observers, [...]
2008-10-23 12:18:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT143 TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA HIGHLIGHT USCENTCOM ADMIRAL
[...] (U) On January 25, the government-run website "Turkmenistan Golden Age" (www.turkmenistan.gov.tm) (Turkmen, Russian and English) reported on Admiral Fallon's arrival in Turkmenistan, giving accurate details about his planned meetings in the country. Similar reports appeared on the same day on [...]
2008-01-30 10:22:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID ECON KPAO MARR OIIP TX
08ASHGABAT1468TURKMENISTAN/CHINA: BILATERAL RELATIONS ARE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Recently arrived Chinese ambassador Wu Hongbin describes bilateral relations as positive because of mutual respect and understanding between the two nations. He underscored that China's chief interest in Turkmenistan is energy and that his country's pipeline project serves as a c [...]
2008-11-07 03:54:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EPET TX
08ASHGABAT1470TURKMENISTAN: U.S. ELECTION EXCITEMENT IN THE MORNING FAILS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On the morning of November 5, Post hosted a well-attended U.S. election reception. Due to the time difference, attendees were able to track election results as polling stations closed across the United States. Pres [...]
2008-11-07 05:38:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SCUL OIIP KDEM KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT1475TURKMEN STATE TV COVERAGE OF ELECTION RECEPTION
[...] (C) Although a TV crew from the state-controlled "Watan" TV channel eagerly attended and filmed parts of post's election reception on November 5 (reftel),coverage of the event was entirely absent from that evening,s broadcast, which was instead filled with typical, boring state media stories. [...]
2008-11-07 11:27:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT1476 TURKMENISTAN: UNEVEN MEDIA COVERAGE OF EMBASSY EVENTS IN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Coverage of Embassy events by state-controlled media was uneven during this two-month period. A state media journalist's questions at a press conference for a visiting commerce delegation in September were an une [...]
2008-11-07 11:36:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT1480TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to advance our bilateral dialogue in the area of military cooperation. Your visit to Turkmenistan follows Department of Comme [...]
2008-11-10 11:26:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL ECON EPET SNAR SOCI MARR TX
08ASHGABAT1484TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan during the 13th Turkmenistan International Oil and Gas Conference as an important opportunity to advance our bilateral dialogue concerning the further d [...]
2008-11-12 06:47:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EPET PHUM TX
08ASHGABAT15 TURKMENISTAN 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPORT
[...] (U) Text of Embassy Ashgabat's Investment Climate Statement for 2008 is as follows: BEGIN TEXT OF PART II OF II: RIGHT TO PRIVATE OWNERSHIP AND ESTABLISHMENT Foreign and domestic private entities in Turkmenistan have the right to establish and own business enterprises, though this is as [...]
2008-01-04 11:31:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN OPIC KTDB USTR TX
08ASHGABAT1512TURKMEN PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMEDOV: "WE'LL DO IT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov, accompanied by Foreign Minister Meredov, received U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Issues, Ambassador Mann, accompanied by Charge Miles, for an hour and a half conversation touching on Berdimuhamedov,s just concluded trip to Korea, Germany a [...]
2008-11-21 13:52:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALECON EPET PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL TX
08ASHGABAT153TURKMENISTAN: "WARMING OF A PRODUCTIVE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: "Neytralniy Turkmenistan," the official Russian-language government newspaper, published an article summarizing Senator Richard Lugar's Janury 24 letter to President Berdimuhamedov. The article mentioned Lugar's [...]
2008-01-31 10:29:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EAID EAGR EPET KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT1544 AMBASSADOR MANN: A WELCOME FIGURE IN TURKMEN STATE MEDIA -
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's state media widely reported on U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Steven Mann's November 20 meeting with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. The same day, media sources accurately carried [...]
2008-11-28 13:18:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID ECON EPET KPAO OIIP RS TX
08ASHGABAT1589TURKMENISTAN: ELECTION PREPARATIONS IN BALKAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a pre-election visit to two cities in Balkan province, poloff met with two groups of election officials eager to answer questions and show-off their preparations for election day. Each of the 11 seats in the province are contested by two or three candidates. The candidate [...]
2008-12-08 12:12:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PHUM SOCI TX
08ASHGABAT1592CIS ELECTION OBSERVATION MISSION IN TURKMENISTAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A 40-member CIS election observation mission will monitor the December 14 Parliamentary elections. A group of six observers have been in Turkmenistan since November 25 to view election preparations. The remaining members, including many election officials from CIS countries, [...]
2008-12-08 12:33:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PHUM TX
08ASHGABAT1610 TURKMENISTAN: NOVEMBER MEDIA REACTION - LESS GENEROUS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: State media carried a number of favorable stories on several Embassy events or visitors. Other events were covered but never carried, or were misleading in their final versions. There appears to be a negative trend [...]
2008-12-17 12:21:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT1616 TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA HIGHLIGHT IFES PRE-ELECTION
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's state media and some international news agencies highlighted U.S. International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) early December visit to Turkmenistan. Although this was a visit that post did [...]
2008-12-18 10:00:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID ECON EPET KPAO OIIP RS TX
08ASHGABAT162 TURKMENISTAN: MEDIA HIGHLIGHT VISIT BY U.S. COORDINATOR
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's state media highlighted U.S. Coordinator for Eurasian Energy Diplomacy Steven Mann's January 29 visit to Turkmenistan. Mann's meeting with Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received wide state media coverage. Some international media sources char [...]
2008-02-01 15:23:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID ECON EPET KPAO OIIP RS TX
08ASHGABAT1636TURKMENISTAN GOVERNMENT RELEASES INFLATED COTTON PRODUCTION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 15 President Berdimuhamedov released a final (unrealistic) figure for this year's cotton crop and commended provincial Governors on the successful harvest. In addition, while the President stated that the government paid farmers in full at the newly-introduced, hig [...]
2008-12-24 15:25:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EIND ECON TX
08ASHGABAT1649 TURKMENISTAN: COUNTERNARCOTICS OFFICIALS CONDUCT PUBLIC
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 20, the State Counter Narcotics Service hosted a drug burning ceremony near Ashgabat. It was the third such event this year. The consignment of narcotics had been seized by Turkmenistan's law-enforce [...]
2008-12-30 10:30:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM SOCI TX
08ASHGABAT1654 TURKMENISTAN: COUNTERNARCOTICS OFFICIALS CONDUCT PUBLIC
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 20, the State Counter Narcotics Service hosted a drug burning ceremony near Ashgabat. It was the third such event this year. The consignment of narcotics had been seized by Turkmenistan's law-enforce [...]
2008-12-30 12:08:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM SOCI TX
08ASHGABAT1656 UN INTERVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CASE PROMPTS POSITIVE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Ayjemal Berdiyeva, a Niyazov era torture victim, recently informed post that she received a letter from a UN agency in Geneva, presumably the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR),that obliges the Govern [...]
2008-12-31 07:51:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT169 TURKMENISTAN: MIDLAND OIL SEEKS HYDROCARBON DEAL
[...] (C) The Chairman of the Board and President of the U.S.-based Midland Oil and Gas Company Robert Murphy visited Ashgabat January 29-February 2 with a delegation of consortium members to see whether he could work out a hydrocarbon deal. Murphy met on January 30 with President Berdimuhamedov, [...]
2008-02-04 10:49:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL EPET EINV TX
08ASHGABAT199 TURKMENISTAN EMERGING AS PRAGMATIC REGIONAL PLAYER
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The delivery of a significant amount of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and enhanced provision of electricity to Tajikistan, combined with intensified economic cooperation and diplomatic activity in the region, [...]
2008-02-08 09:39:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON ENRG IR AF UZ TI TX
08ASHGABAT203 TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV'S NEW SPEECH WRITER
[...] (C) During a February 6 meeting, Ministry of Culture International Relations Department Head Gulmurad Myradov (strictly protect) revealed to EmbOff he has been writing some of President's Berdimuhamedov recent speeches, including the "Cultural Revival" and "New Ideology" policy addresses. In [...]
2008-02-08 11:45:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT206 TURKMENISTAN: INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 7, USAID Country Representative met with the Director of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights to discuss areas of potential cooperation outlined in the letter received from the Ministry of Forei [...]
2008-02-11 03:11:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT213TURKMENISTAN: GAS PRICE HIKE TAKES CITIZENS BY
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Following reports on state media of an introduction of market prices for automobile gasoline the evening of February 8, drivers descended upon gas stations in Ashgabat for one last go at unlimited subsidized petro [...]
2008-02-12 04:30:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EPET EFIN TX
08ASHGABAT219 TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV'S FIRST YEAR IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his first year in office, Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has delivered more change than most here expected or even thought was realistically possible for immediate post-Niyazov Turkmenistan. Spurred by a wish to make Turkmenistan a respected member [...]
2008-02-12 10:25:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ECON SNAR SOCI KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT223 TURKMENISTAN'S BERDIMUHAMEDOV ONE YEAR ON: LET'S
[...] (C) When "The Eternally Great Saparmurat Turkmenbashi" Niyazov died on December 21, 2006, U.S. foreign policy took the opportunity to approach Turkmenistan's soon-to-be new president, offering to "turn the page" in our bilateral relations. To the extent Turkmenistan was ready to engage with [...]
2008-02-12 10:51:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TX
08ASHGABAT250 TURKMENISTAN COOPERATING WITH IAEA EFFORTS TO
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: An IAEA delegation met with government officials in Ashgabat in mid-February to assist Turkmenistan's efforts to achieve compliance with nuclear-related international conventions to which it is a signatory. Tu [...]
2008-02-20 08:45:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV IAEA TX
08ASHGABAT254TURKMENISTAN: WHY BURIED HILL FOR SERDAR? WHY NOW?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Canadian petroleum company Buried Hill signed a contract in December 2007 to work Caspian Block III -- a key area disputed by Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan -- but the deal was not announced until after a February 12 meeting between the company's CEO, Roger Haines, board member form [...]
2008-02-20 10:56:00Embassy AshgabatSECRETPREL PGOV EPET AJ TX
08ASHGABAT255TURKMENISTAN'S FLAG DAY: ANOTHER NIYAZOV DOG
[...] (SBU) Turkmenistan celebrated February 19 as Flag Day, a new national holiday previously marked as former President Niyazov's birthday. As usual for public holidays in Turkmenistan, multiple elaborate public events were scheduled the day before and the actual day of the holiday, and rehearse [...]
2008-02-20 11:40:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI TX
08ASHGABAT279 TURKMENISTAN: COCKROACH OR NOT - OPPOSITION DISCREDITS
[...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: "Kronika Turkmenistana," an opposition website based in Bulgaria, recently carried an unlikely story that Turkmenistan TV's "Watan" newscast showed a cockroach walking across the news desk, which led to the firi [...]
2008-02-27 12:36:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PROP PHUM SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT300 TURKMENISTAN: UKRAINIAN INDUSTRIALIST MENDS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: With a series of diplomatic and commercial forays in January and February, the Ukrainian government appeared to be aggressively working to resolve contractual issues that have stalled its relations with Turkmen [...]
2008-03-04 11:38:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EINV UP TX
08ASHGABAT301 TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT FIRES PROSECUTOR
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a series of three meetings -- a meeting of the National Security Council, an expanded meeting of the National Security Council and a Cabinet of Ministers meeting -- on March 3, Turkmenistan's President Be [...]
2008-03-04 12:25:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAGR EPET MARR TX
08ASHGABAT309 TURKMENISTAN: PROGRESS TOWARD CURRENCY RATE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) It appears that Turkmen government officials have decided to slow down progress toward the planned 2009 unification of the country's dual exchange rate. Resident Deutsche Bank Head told UK Charge that he had been informed [...]
2008-03-06 10:29:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EFIN TX
08ASHGABAT323 TURKMENISTAN: ANOTHER NEW IDEOLOGY? WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In January, President Berdimuhamedov announced his new "Great Revival Epoch" ideology, based on the principle of "government for the people." The new ideology claims to guide developmental reforms that Berdimuha [...]
2008-03-10 10:24:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT327 TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT VISITS SOUTH YOLOTEN AND OSMAN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 4 President Berdimuhamedov visited the South Yoloten and Osman onshore oil and gas fields. According to Turkmenistan media reports, the field has a potential of 3 trillion cubic meters of gas. The timin [...]
2008-03-10 13:06:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EPET PGOV TX
08ASHGABAT334 TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV BONDS WITH KARIMOV
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: According to official press reports, President Berdimuhamedov's official visit to Uzbekistan was a foreign policy success, during which he established a positive working relationship with President Karimov. The [...]
2008-03-12 12:01:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ETRD TX UZ
08ASHGABAT336 TURKMENISTAN: FALSE STORY ON IRC FURTHER REDUCES OPPO
[...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian-language opposition website that originated the now infamous cockroach-results-in-mass-firings story (reftel),"Kronika Turkmenistana," has now featured the Embassy's Information Resource Center (IRC [...]
2008-03-12 12:51:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PROP KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT338 TURKMENISTAN: CHEVRON SUBMITS DETAILED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chevron Country Manager Doug Uchikura told the Charge during a March 11 meeting that he had delivered a 200-plus page detailed "indicative offer" earlier that morning to the office of the Executive Director of the State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources. The [...]
2008-03-13 10:31:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV EPET EINV TX
08ASHGABAT355 TURKMENISTAN: POSITIVE TRENDS IN STATE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT
[...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU). SUMMARY: State Media's coverage of Embassy events and visitors has become almost routine with levels of propaganda or pro-regime "spin" dropping slowly over the last year. Recent coverage is evidence of this continuing trend [...]
2008-03-18 12:37:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT373 TURKMENISTAN: AMCIT EVANGELICAL GROUP BRINGS
[...] (C) The AmCit Evangelical group, Friends of the Turkmen, has returned to Ashgabat for its semi-annual visit. This time the group included one of the officials from the International Foundation, the DC-area organization that does the administrative work for the 2009 National Prayer Breakfast [...]
2008-03-25 12:02:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON KIRF TX
08ASHGABAT383 TURKMENISTAN: WESTERN CULTURE RETURNS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: To enforce his vision of "positive neutrality" in Turkmenistan and the uniqueness of Turkmen culture, former President Niyazov severely limited public expression of international culture, including the Russian (Sov [...]
2008-03-27 09:55:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT388 TURKMENISTAN/TURKEY: ENERGY WAS THE KEY ISSUE
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Turkish Ambassador Hakki Akil told the Charge on March 28, -- the key issue discussed during President Berdimuhamedov's March 24-25 visit to Turkey was energy, both with President Gul and Prime Minister Erdogan; -- Berdimuhamedov is prepared to sell to Turkey up to 20 bcm/y [...]
2008-03-28 10:44:00Embassy AshgabatSECRETPGOV PREL EPET RS AJ TU TX
08ASHGABAT390 TURKMENISTAN'S RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOCUSES ON
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The long-awaited National Program on Rural Development finally became public in March 2008. The Government of Turkmenistan plans to spend $3.661 billion on development in the provinces between 2008-2020. Each prov [...]
2008-03-28 12:28:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON TX
08ASHGABAT396 TURKMENISTAN: GOOD TONE IN MEETING WITH EDUCATION
[...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Charge's March 25 meeting with Minster of Education Muhammetgeldi Annaamanov, although cordial and cooperative in tone, did not result in any breakthroughs for education cooperation. Although there was ampl [...]
2008-03-28 13:48:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT412 TURKMENISTAN'S GAS CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION FAILS TO
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Acting on President Berdimuhamedov's instruction to have more exhibitions, Turkmenistani state petroleum agencies decided to hold three separate events in 2008 -- on gas, on oil, and one comprehensive exhibition an [...]
2008-04-02 09:32:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EPET TX
08ASHGABAT435 TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMEDOV MAKES THE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov's trip to Bucharest April 2-3 for the NATO summit appears to have been a success, both in terms of promoting Turkmenistan's image as an engaged player on the world stage, and in confirmi [...]
2008-04-07 12:30:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON MARR NATO TX
08ASHGABAT438 TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA HIGHLIGHT BUSH-BERDIMUHAMEDOV
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: State media prominently highlighted the April 3 meeting between President Bush and Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at the NATO Summit in Bucharest to demonstrate Turkmenistan's growing internation [...]
2008-04-08 12:52:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT439 TURKMENISTAN: INDIA SEEKING TO REINVIGORATE ITS
[...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: India and Turkmenistan took yet another step toward reenergizing their bilateral relationship with the April 4-6 visit of India's Vice President Hamid Ansari to Turkmenistan. During the visit, Turkmenistan's P [...]
2008-04-09 06:28:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EPET IN TX
08ASHGABAT440 TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA COVER U.S. EXCHANGE PROGRAMS,
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Recent state media coverage of Embassy-sponsored events or programs continues to improve with relatively better coverage of U.S. Government programs and activities in Turkmenistan with slightly better success than b [...]
2008-04-09 09:05:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT455 TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR U/S REUBEN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to advance our bilateral dialogue on energy and economic reform issues. President Bush met briefly with President Gurbanguly [...]
2008-04-11 12:07:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EPET TX
08ASHGABAT457 TURKMENISTAN: THE FIELD OF POTENTIAL FOREIGN OIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: With two exceptions, Turkmenistan's record of dealing with foreign petroleum companies remains sharply bifurcated between the second-tier companies present in Turkmenistan since former President Niyazov's time and the others that are standing in line to complete new agreements n [...]
2008-04-11 13:14:00Embassy AshgabatSECRETPREL PGOV EINV EPET TX
08ASHGABAT458 TURKMENISTAN: OMV REP ASSERTS NABUCCO IS THE EC
[...] (SBU) Charge met April 11 with Baku-based Austrian Energy firm OMV Caspian Region Country Manager Wolfgang Sporrer who also introduced himself as the Nabucco representative for Turkmenistan. He was in Ashgabat for the April 9-10 EU Troika Central Asian Ministerial, and for the next-day Turkm [...]
2008-04-14 04:09:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL EPET EU AU RS IR TX
08ASHGABAT472 EC TROIKA IN TURKMENISTAN: THE HEADLINE WAS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The April 9-10 EU Troika-Central Asia Ministerial added to Turkmenistan's international and regional credentials. The media headline from the event was Turkmenistan guarantees at least 10 bcm/y natural gas for Europe/Nabucco, although it took a while for media commentators to r [...]
2008-04-15 11:24:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EAID EPET KG KZ TI TX UZ EU
08ASHGABAT474 TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT TRIES TO KICK-START
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on April 14 held a marathon cabinet meeting at which he announced a number of new initiatives in the economic/financial, media, and construction sectors directed toward accelerating reform. Most significantly, he ordered a one-year process [...]
2008-04-15 12:32:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID ECON EFIN SCUL TX
08ASHGABAT482TURKMENISTAN/EU TROIKA-CENTRAL ASIA: BEHIND THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Briefing on the April 9-10 EU Troika-Central Asia Ministerial in Ashgabat, French Ambassador Christian Lechervy (strictly protect throughout) -- lamented the region's lack of cohesion and common interests, as well as Kazakhstan's "arrogance"; -- criticized EU Commissioner fo [...]
2008-04-17 08:33:00Embassy AshgabatSECRETPREL PHUM PINR EPET RS FR IR ZK TX
08ASHGABAT485 TURKMENISTAN'S CURRENCY RE-DENOMINATION; EXCHANGE RATE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On April 14 President Berdimuhamedov signed a decree that spells out more details about the forthcoming re-denomination of Turkmenistan's currency -- the manat - first announced on September 11, 2007. The re-denomin [...]
2008-04-17 11:42:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV TX
08ASHGABAT5 TURKMENISTAN: ARRANGED MARRIAGES MAKE A COMEBACK, BUT
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In Turkmenistan, a traditional country where most women still marry rather than face the social stigma from remaining single, women's rights are closely linked to marriage customs. Although the pre-Soviet custom of [...]
2008-01-02 12:46:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ECON SOCI TX
08ASHGABAT524TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA UNSURE HOW TO MEET THE
[...] (C) President Berdimuhamedov gave state media a May deadline to make significant improvements in the quality of its broadcasting. Despite the president's calls for creativity and higher quality news and programming, it appears state media is not able at this stage to meet these demands. In [...]
2008-04-28 04:05:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL EAID SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT525TURKMENISTAN: INTERBUDMONTAZH
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 22, 2008 Turkmenistan announced its intention to take Ukrainian construction company Interbudmontazh to court for failing to fulfill the terms of a major tunnel construction contract. President Berdimuha [...]
2008-04-28 06:05:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV BEXP PGOV TX
08ASHGABAT526 TURKMENISTAN: MEDIA COVERAGE OF UNDER SECRETARY REUBEN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: International and domestic state media accurately covered Under Secretary of State Reuben Jeffery's April 21-22 visit to Turkmenistan. The accurate state media coverage reflects the Turkmen government's continued c [...]
2008-04-28 06:44:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT527TURKMENISTAN'S PRESIDENT TO VISIT BAKU, SEEK
[...] (S) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov has asked the United States to play a watchful and helpful role as he negotiates with Azerbaijan's President Aliyev to establish a bilateral Caspian Sea commercial venture that would allow Turkmenistan's natural gas to flow Westward to Europe, bypassing [...]
2008-04-28 08:02:00Embassy AshgabatSECRETPGOV PREL EPET RS AJ TX
08ASHGABAT565 TURKMENISTAN: RESPONSE ON OUTREACH TO ACTIVISTS AND
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Turkmenistan is a tightly-controlled dictatorship where citizens are not permitted to engage in direct human rights advocacy work. There are no international human rights organizations present, including from United Natio [...]
2008-05-05 12:19:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KIRF TX
08ASHGABAT587TURKMENISTAN: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM GETS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Observers and citizens alike were caught off-guard when Turkmen television reported April 18 that the government had kicked off an effort to revise the national constitution. Although authorities want to presen [...]
2008-05-07 07:21:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM EAID KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT6 TURKMENISTAN 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPORT
[...] (U) Text of Embassy Ashgabat's Investment Climate Statement for 2008 is as follows: BEGIN TEXT: OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT Turkmenistan is a relatively large but sparsely inhabited country (about five million) with abundant hydrocarbon resources. The government regularly proclaims [...]
2008-01-02 12:46:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN OPIC KTDB USTR TX
08ASHGABAT606 TURKMENISTAN: GOVERNMENT EXHIBITION SHOWCASES CHANGING
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Turkmenistan's first ever International Exhibition and Conference of Education, Science, Sports and Tourism in the Epoch of Great Revival took place in Ashgabat May 1-3. The exhibition provided additional hope that [...]
2008-05-13 03:04:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT63 TURKMENISTAN: SERIOUS ABOUT CHANGE IN NEWS MEDIA
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During a January 10 meeting with a Public Affairs Section (PAS) assistant, a Ministry of Culture official expressed a desire for greater reform of state news media and increased support for more exchanges with the Un [...]
2008-01-14 12:40:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EAID SCUL KDEM KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT647 TURKMENISTAN: DONORS COMPARE NOTES ON HUMAN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Representatives from several Western embassies and international organizations met May 16 at the British embassy to compare notes on current and planned projects that focus on human rights and the rule of law. [...]
2008-05-20 07:34:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EAID KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT653TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to advance our bilateral dialogue in the areas of education and the human dimension. President Bush met briefly with Preside [...]
2008-05-21 09:46:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON SCUL SOCI SNAR KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT66 TURKMENISTAN: STATE MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS VISIT OF SENATOR
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) On January 11, the Russian-language, government-operated website "Turkmenistan Golden Age" reported on Senator Lugar's arrival in Turkmenistan, giving accurate details on his planned schedule. Similar reports on the same day [...]
2008-01-15 08:53:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PINR EPET KPAO OIIP TX
08ASHGABAT670 TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT BY SPECIAL
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to advance our bilateral dialogue on energy. President Bush met briefly with President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on April 3 [...]
2008-05-27 12:52:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON EPET TX
08ASHGABAT673 TURKMENISTAN'S CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION UNVEILS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 22, President Berdimuhamedov delivered a speech, then sat in on a televised constitutional commission meeting where some 10-12 proposals for revision were publicly unveiled for the first time since the pr [...]
2008-05-27 13:08:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT681 TURKMENISTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER TO BOUCHER:
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a May 28 meeting with Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher, Turkmenistan's Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov welcomed broader cooperation in the education sector, especially in exchange programs. He did not rule out [...]
2008-05-29 11:35:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EPET SCUL AF TX
08ASHGABAT688TURKMENISTAN: BOUCHER MEETS OFFICIALS ON
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 28, Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher had separate meetings focusing on Democracy/Human Rights and Education. In the meeting with the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, Institute Director Shirin [...]
2008-05-29 13:25:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT710 TURKMENISTAN: SUPREME COUNCIL APPROVES INTERNATIONAL
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 26, Turkmenistan's Supreme Council on Science and Technology formally approved a proposal from the International Research and Exchanges Board to develop the use of technology for education, science, and rese [...]
2008-06-03 12:25:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID TX
08ASHGABAT712TURKMENISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF NAVCENT
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit to Turkmenistan as an important opportunity to advance our bilateral dialogue in the area of security cooperation. Your second visit to Turkmenistan follows Assist [...]
2008-06-04 04:08:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EPET MARR SCUL SNAR SOCI KDEM
08ASHGABAT718 TURKMENISTAN: INTERNATIONAL AND STATE MEDIA HIGHLIGHT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Boucher's May 27-30 visit to Turkmenistan received wide media coverage. International media gave positive coverage to Boucher's statements on both economic and human rights issues. State media focused on his remarks of economic progress and U.S. assistance to [...]
2008-06-05 12:47:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT722 TURKMENISTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER OPEN-MINDED ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a nearly two-hour meeting on June 4 with U.S. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy C. Boyden Gray, Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov: -- praised U.S.-Turkmenistan energy cooperation; -- expressed cautious interest in an idea that could by-pass the cur [...]
2008-06-06 08:35:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EPET AJ TX
08ASHGABAT726 TURKMENISTAN: RADIO LIBERTY REPORTERS FACING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Four RFE/RL reporters are attempting to travel out of Turkmenistan for training and meetings. One of the reporters was already prevented from leaving for training on April 24, but all believe they might be barred from traveling between now and June 15. Post delivered points to [...]
2008-06-06 12:41:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT727 TURKMENISTAN: NEGOTIATIONS ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: High-level representatives from Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India met in Ashgabat in late May to resolve some issues that continue to stand in the way of more substantive negotiations on the envisa [...]
2008-06-06 12:58:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EPET ECON ETRD IN PK AF TX
08ASHGABAT748 TURKMENISTAN: BERDIMUHAMEDOV FOLLOWS HIS OWN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: At the June 6 CIS Summit in St. Petersburg, President Berdimuhamedov reaffirmed Turkmenistan's neutrality and held bilateral meetings. While expressing support for the relatively new goal of expanding economic ties among the CIS states, he again reminded attendees and observer [...]
2008-06-12 06:42:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EINV KCIS RS UP TX
08ASHGABAT763 TURKMENISTAN: STRIKE CONFIRMED AT BURREN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Deutsche Welle reported June 10 that there had been a violent demonstration by up to 600 workers at the field just south of Balkanabat (formerly Nebitdag) whose production sharing agreement Italian oil company Eni had purchased in November 2007 from Burren Energy. According to [...]
2008-06-16 12:25:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ELAB EPET SOCI TX
08ASHGABAT77CENTRAL ASIAN NORTH-SOUTH RAILWAY LINE: A LOT OF
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. GREAT HOPES RESTING ON NORTH-SOUTH LINE 2. (SBU) Head of the Ministry of Railway Transportation International Affairs Department Annamurat Horantsanliyev met january 7 with EconOff to discuss the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran Nort [...]
2008-01-15 11:58:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON ELTN IR KZ TX
08ASHGABAT783TURKMENISTAN: CUSTOMS CHIEF FIRED AMID REPORTS OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following briefings from senior officials of military and law enforcement agencies, President Berdimuhamedov fired Turkmenistan's Chief of the State Customs Service and reshuffled State Customs Service and State Immigration Service personnel during a June 19, 2008, meeting of [...]
2008-06-20 10:39:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV ETRD KCRM TX
08ASHGABAT789 TURKMENISTAN: POST INPUT TO OSCE PRE-HDIM
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) In response to reftel request, post provides the following input for the pre-HDIM demarche to the Turkmen government: BEGIN DEMARCHE TEXT: 3. (SBU) The Government of the United Sta [...]
2008-06-23 12:41:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TX
08ASHGABAT798 TURKMENISTAN: DIPLOMATIC CORPS WITNESSES
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a public relations move, not coincidentally taking place during the visit to Turkmenistan of a European Union human rights delegation, the Government of Turkmenistan on June 25 invited members of the diplomati [...]
2008-06-26 12:26:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM TX
08ASHGABAT801 TURKMENISTAN: ENGAGE, ENGAGE, ENGAGE
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the fundamentals of U.S. policy in Central Asia have remained consistent and on-target: to advocate political and economic reform as the keystone of America's strategic interests. After [...]
2008-06-27 04:01:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM RS CH TX
08ASHGABAT812 TURKMENISTAN: CABINET OF MINISTERS AGAIN PUSHES EDUCATION
[...] (SBU) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In an extended meeting on June 23, the Cabinet of Ministers discussed, at length, education reform, including planned increases for matriculation into higher education and vocational schools and state support of [...]
2008-06-30 12:25:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT820 TURKMENISTAN: EMBASSY REJECTS MFA "CORRECTION"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In responding to the Embassy's demarche on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty contributor Sazak Durdymuradov, First Deputy Foreign Ministery Wepa Hajiyev characterized the case as an internal affair about student-teacher ethics and professional responsibilities. The Charge rejected [...]
2008-07-02 09:37:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT824 TURKMENISTAN: EU RAISES HUMAN RIGHTS CASES OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: An EU delegation met for nine hours with Government of Turkmenistan officials on June 24, discussing steps the government could take to improve civil, religious, media, and other rights in the country. In the course of the meeting, the delegation also passed an EU-vetted list o [...]
2008-07-02 10:50:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM EU TX
08ASHGABAT848 TURKMENISTAN: MEMBER OF OLD INTELLIGENTSIA SITS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The son of a man imprisoned in fall 2006 on corruption charges has approached the Embassy for advice on how to get his father freed. The son has told the Embassy that the corruption charges against the father, who tried to found a political party in Turkmenistan in 1991, were f [...]
2008-07-08 04:43:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM TX
08ASHGABAT871 TURKMENISTAN/HUNGARY: PM GYURCSANY PUSHES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Hungarian ambassador Gyorgy Busztin, resident in Tehran, told Charge and DCM July 10 that Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany's eight hours with President Berdimuhamedov on July 9 was dominated by a single issue: the Nabucco pipeline. While Busztin indicated that Berdimu [...]
2008-07-11 07:18:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL EPET HU TX
08ASHGABAT872 TURKMENISTAN: GOVERNMENT STILL MAKES FARMERS GROW WHEAT,
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Lack of precipitation this spring and shortage of irrigation water has led to lower crop yields. The government has not released any statistics on the harvest, but the overall production is expected to be lower tha [...]
2008-07-11 09:00:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAGR ECON SENV SOCI TX
08ASHGABAT925 TURKMENISTAN: DELUGE OF ACCURATE STATE MEDIA COVERAGE OF
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During the 46 day period between June 1 and July 16, 2008, there were no less than 27 stories - all favorable -- broadcast or printed in Turkmenistan's state news media on the U.S. Embassy, its visitors, or progra [...]
2008-07-21 12:33:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SCUL KPAO TX
08ASHGABAT958TURKMENISTAN/AZERBAIJAN: GAC MARINE OFFERS DETAIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The country manager of GAC Marine, the company that was providing towing services for the rig intercepted by Azeri border guard vessels on April 11 told A/DCM on July 24 that the rig and vessels were at no time anywhere close to the median line that Azerbaijan claims at its bord [...]
2008-07-24 14:03:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EPET AJ TX
08ASHGABAT963TURKMENISTAN PUBLISHES DRAFT CONSTITUTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 22, state media published the new draft constitution, now under consideration by the parliament. Post's initial examination of the draft seems to indicate that while a few minor tweaks and some rewording have taken place, the draft largely resembles the country's 1992 [...]
2008-07-25 13:38:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT964TURKMENISTAN/AZERBAIJAN: SUMMER OF DISCONTENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: While commercial contacts between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan apparently have continued to expand, the two countries' budding political dialogue by all accounts has taken a nosedive. While not solely responsible for the cooling of efforts to find a political resolution of the [...]
2008-07-25 14:21:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EPET AJ TX
08ASHGABAT973TURKMENISTAN: BURIED HILL SAYS IT IS UNFAZED BY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Canadian oil firm Buried Hill, which has a contract from the Government of Turkmenistan to develop hydrocarbons in the Serdar/Kyapaz field in block III, is moving forward very slowly in its plans. It concluded 2-D seismic imaging in February, and hopes to drill three explorator [...]
2008-07-28 12:25:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EPET AJ TX
08ASHGABAT99 TURKMENISTAN: INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On January 16, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivered a positive reply to USAID's October 29 proposal for cooperation with the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights. Areas for cooperation included information e [...]
2008-01-18 12:00:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM TX
08ASHGABAT997TURKMENISTAN: GAZPROM REACHES AGREEMENT WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite much hype in the Russian media that Gazprom has locked in its monopoly on Turkmenistan's gas, it appears that, during a July 25 visit to Turkmenistan, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller reportedly reached agreement only on a pricing formula for Turkmenistan's natural gas exports i [...]
2008-07-31 12:22:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EPET RU CH TX
08ASMARA158SPLM OFFICIAL: ARREST, TORTURE AND POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: On March 13, DCM met with Amar Najm Eddine al-Jak (Amar),a Khartoum spokesman for the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM),who had been spirited from Sudan to Asmara by the SPLM after being arrested and tortured by Sudanese National Security services (reftel). Amar relay [...]
2008-03-25 11:16:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM PREF SU ER
08ASMARA227DJIBOUTI AMBASSADOR ON BORDER TENSION
[...] (C) Somalia and the Eritrea)Djibouti Border: --------------------------------------------- --- "The Somali problem is not foreign to the border issue," claims Djibouti's ambassador to Eritrea. Ambassador Ahmed Issa Gabobeh, the dean of Asmara's diplomatic corps, warned against applying rat [...]
2008-04-23 13:08:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS ER DJ
08ASMARA236RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - ERITREA
[...] (SBU) The following answers are keyed to reftel. Point of contact is Brian Shelbourn, shelbournbl@state.gov, 291-1-120004. ---------------- 2. (SBU) DEMAND ---------------- Wheat, sorghum, and teff are the most important agricultural commodities in Eritrea and are extremely scarce. W [...]
2008-04-29 13:10:00Embassy AsmaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR PGOV ER
08ASMARA240RESPONSE: CHINA'S ENGAGEMENT IN ERITREA
[...] (SBU) CHINESE ENGAGEMENT IN ERITREA --------------------------------------- The relationship between the Government of China (GOC) and the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) is strong. President Isaias visited President Hu during the China-Africa Summit in November 2006. During a Ja [...]
2008-05-02 09:52:00Embassy AsmaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EFIN EMIN PREL ER
08ASMARA266ANOTHER ASMARA LIBERATION DAY: ROUND-UPS AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Within the last two weeks, Embassy Asmara has noticed a substantial increase in military presence and citizen round-ups, as well as anti-U.S. sentiments voiced by President Isaias Afwerki in the lead-up to the May 24 Liberation Day celebration. End Summary. NO ID EQUALS "VERY [...]
2008-05-15 14:23:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPHUM PROP PGOV ER
08ASMARA275 ISAIAS VISITS IRAN; GARNERS ECONOMIC AGREEMENTS
[...] (SBU) President Isaias Afwerki's May 19-20 state visit to Tehran and meetings with Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have received front page coverage in the Eritrean government-controlled media. President Isaias' visit included an interview with Iran's Press TV, the ful [...]
2008-05-22 14:07:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR IR ER
08ASMARA311BORDER CLASH - MUM'S THE WORD IN ASMARA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Eritrean government, party, media, and military officials are maintaining complete silence on the June 10-11 border clashes with Djibouti. No Eritrean media outlets have reported the incidents and the citizenry of Asmara are going about their daily routines in grim normalcy. Th [...]
2008-06-11 13:28:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PBTS ER DJ
08ASMARA328ERITREA GARNERS MORE MONEY FROM THE EC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 15, President Isaias Afwerki met with Louis Michel, European Commission (EC) Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, to discuss plans for further development aid to Eritrea. Michel reportedly broached several topics of humanitarian and diplomatic concern with a [...]
2008-06-19 08:30:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALECON EAID PREL PHUM ER DJ
08ASMARA368ARS HARDLINERS SELECT SHEIKH AWEYS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Members of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation for Somalia (ARS) who oppose the June 9 Djibouti reconciliation accords met in Asmara July 3 - 22. Claiming to represent the ARS Central Committee, the militant ARS faction selected Sheikh Aweys as its leader, purported to have expell [...]
2008-07-23 13:46:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPREL ER SO
08ASMARA430GSE CLAMPS DOWN ON VOA
[...] (C) The international supervisor for Voice of America's (VOA) Horn of Africa broadcasting, confided that the Asmara stringer, Ms. Senait Habtu (protect),has been forced to discontinue reporting. According to VOA, Minister of Information Ali Abdu warned her to stop reporting for VOA. The gove [...]
2008-08-28 08:02:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PROP PGOV ER
08ASMARA454 ISAIAS ADDRESSES DAKAR AGREEMENT CONTACT GROUP
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Isaias made a two-hour appearance on September 12 at the fifth meeting of the Dakar Agreement Contact Group. Appearing physically fit and mentally sharp, Isaias delivered in good English a constructive speech supportive of the Contact Group's efforts to reconcile Ch [...]
2008-09-16 09:31:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ER
08ASMARA465UPDATE ON ERITREANS DEPORTED FROM EGYPT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-18 11:12:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV SOCI ER EG
08ASMARA494 A SORDID TALE OF UNMEE CORRUPTION
[...] (C) Summary: A well-placed UNMEE contact recounted a long and twisted tale of personal empire building and corruption during UNMEE's presence in Eritrea. High-ranking UNMEE officials enhanced their careers at the expense of the mission and personally profited from their positions. The cont [...]
2008-10-08 14:14:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO ER
08ASMARA525ISAIAS AND PFDJ OFFICIAL MEET WITH PUBLIC DISSENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Both President Isaias Afwerki and the ruling party's political chief Yemane Ghebreab faced strong dissent during their respective meetings with the Eritrean populace, contrary to glowing reviews plastered across the state-owned media outlets. An unusually feisty expatriate crowd in [...]
2008-10-30 10:07:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALSOCI PGOV ER
08ASMARA529ERITREAN TROOPS SENT TO HARVEST GRAIN
[...] (C) Rifles Swapped for Sickles ---------------------------------- Troops from Eritrea's large standing army have been deployed to grain-producing areas to harvest the country's sparse barley and sorghum crops. Emboffs have witnessed units of uniformed soldiers harvesting barley with small s [...]
2008-11-03 13:04:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAGR MOPS ER
08ASMARA532ERITREA: A WEAK PARTNER FOR SOUTHERN SUDAN
[...] (C) Summary. Despite goodwill on both sides, strong political and economic ties between southern Sudan and Eritrea have been slow to develop, according to the Government of Southern Sudan's liaison mission chief in Asmara, Phillip Natana. Although Darfur is an issue where the GSE could pote [...]
2008-11-04 13:31:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPREL SU ER
08ASMARA534OLF CHAIRMAN SURVIVES "COUP ATTEMPT"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Asmara-based chairman of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF),Daawud Ibsa, claims to have consolidated control of the party after a failed takeover attempt by General Kamal Galchuu, a deserter from the Ethiopian army who reputedly wanted to launch the OLF on a more militant traj [...]
2008-11-05 11:46:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PREF ER ET
08ASMARA543BIO NOTES ON ERITREAN PRESIDENT ISAIAS AFWERKI
[...] (C) Summary: Isaias is an austere and narcissistic dictator whose political ballast derives from Maoist ideology fine-tuned during Eritrea's 30-year war for independence. He is paranoid and believes Ethiopian PM Meles tried to kill him and that the United States will attempt to assassinate him. [...]
2008-11-12 10:55:00Embassy AsmaraSECRET//NOFORNPINR ER
08ASMARA586ASMARA ANGST
[...] (C) Asmara is awash in speculation about domestic instability stemming from food shortages, economic decline, and stepped-up repression from the Isaias regime. In an isolated society with no media freedoms, Eritreans depend on "bado seleste," (akin to the grapevine or bush telegraph) for info [...]
2008-12-11 04:57:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV SOCI ASEC ER
08ASTANA1007KAZAKHSTAN - ALMATY NOTES, MAY 12 - MAY 23, 2008
[...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital," following the move of the Embassy to Astana. National Social Democratic Party Initiates Coalition --------------------- --------------- [...]
2008-05-29 12:18:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KZ
08ASTANA1072KAZAKHSTAN: ALMATY NOTES, MAY 27 - JUNE 6, 2008
[...] The "Almaty Notes" series is intended to maintain focus on developments in civil society, the media, and the opposition in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" following the move of the Embassy to Astana. Hunger Strike Against Property Seizures --------------------------------------- 2. On [...]
2008-06-09 13:01:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL KZ
08ASTANA1107KAZAKHSTAN - CHANGES MADE TO RELIGION LAW
[...] (C) The Mazhilis passed on first reading a revised text of amendments to Kazakhstan's religion law. Some of the most problematic provisions were removed from this latest version, though at the same time, new provisions were added which raise concerns. The amendments must go through a second [...]
2008-06-12 11:44:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF KDEM KZ
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